You want to really frighten them insist on cameras in every corner of the police station, everywhere an arrestee can 'fall down the stairs', 'slip', 'hit his head'. etc.. Then wait for the howls over rights and actions by the police union.
I suppose it's possible but I don't see what additional explanatory power is gained. Leave the 'guiding hand' in or remove it, no difference. For all its utility might as well credit Slarty Bartfast. It's only utility is to those with a vested emotional attachment to certain concepts.
Certainly they knew how to farm, but employing methods sufficient to feed a population which increased from 30 to 76 million between 1960 and 1995? The last figure I found for annual growth rate as 2.5%. Like nations before them Vietnam would seem to be transitioning from a rural to an urban culture, and as in the past there will be companies across the globe looking to make a buck from it.
I'm the last to argue the American experience has been beneficial to the country - it's been disasterous and a stain on their history - but drawing them as the eternal boogyman makes no sense. From the CIA fact book regarding one aspect of Vietnam's challenges:
"logging and slash-and-burn agricultural practices contribute to deforestation and soil degradation; water pollution and overfishing threaten marine life populations; groundwater contamination limits potable water supply; growing urban industrialization and population migration are rapidly degrading environment in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City"
"Go ahead, GIMP-fans, do your worst to my karma - I have plenty.
What a laugh, anyone with experience watching the usual Slashdot Gimp-slamfest knows that has a much chance as a winter rain of toads. Lets compare Gimp with the most used sotware on the planet, MS Office. Context sensitive menu right click? No, Gimp and Office. Context sensitive pull down. No again. Tab box? Gimp developers are to force what everyone deems sensible, or just you? I find them fine, it takes a second or two to change and the setting holds across session. Less than a minute to set your preference for the life of the software, how does this make it the "Worst...Interface...Ever" again? You were shown to be wrong on the floating toolbar, it can be skipped. And I love this line from someone defending software using a GUI completely different than the standard operating paradigm for the last ten years:"...and everybody else is wrong."
Including Office, the software you used to type your post, and pretty much every other piece of Windows software written this century are 'wrong'? Photoshop zealots as a class would probably say 'yes'. There's a stronger case to be made that Adobe has has held back GUI development in the photo ediitng field by training an entire generation of workers in a dead GUI style. You don't read audio professionals beratng every editing package not identical to Protools as the "Worst...Interface...Ever", nor engineers do same to users of alternate Spice packages, or in pretty much any other professional field do you see the same kind of ossified elitism that common in the photo editing field. But then again, "...everybody else is wrong."
Correct if you mean 'Mozilla the foundation'. The Mozilla suite is dead and will see no further development by the Mozilla foundation. It's now an independent community project called Seamonkey. If I read the news groups correctly the team is substanitally the same one responsible for the old suite. See: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ The best bet is one of the nightly build releases under the 'contrib' branch of the trunk tree. Gecko/20060116 SeaMonkey/1.0b is working well for me.
"No one can argue, this group pushes back so hard against the government even when it comes to something like domestic spying on a relatively small part of the population."
You really have no idea why your Founding Fathers established a democratic republic with a separate judiciary, do you?
Instead of countering every unfounded assertion in this post, I suggest readers instead perform a simple search on the estimated sale value of a major metropolitan station. Or compare radio listenership against web stream statistics. Or satellite. Like the product or not, radio continues to make obscene amounts of money based solely on listenership numbers generating ad revenue. Sales reps at top stations draw hundreds of thousand in commissions annually on millions in sales. The three properties in the ~million population market where I work expect about $40 mill in revenue for 2005. dada21's unsatisfactory experience (with a low-end AM station) isn't unusual but it's far from typical. Radio is as dead as BSD.
This is probably/. suicide, but my Apple Optical does the job perfectly. One button, centre click, and a clickable scroller. It even works on sandwiches.
If you find yourself needing a two side button, left and right click, and a clickable roller mouse then you are taking it too seriously.
"FM radio seems to be falling out of favor, with many stations putting their streams online."
Uh-huh. Tell that to radio sales department where I work, I'm sure they'll get a kick out of hearing the service they give away as added value is supplanting the over-the-air signal which pays everyone's mortgage. Streaming has been a burden for most radio stations which make little, is any, money from it. FM is a highly efficient and cost effective means honed over decades to distribute 'music-data' from a single point to many destinations. Don't expect to see the transmitters turned off any time soon.
Completely off-topic but it's ironic to see piano rolls mentioned in a data archival list. Recently I was introduced to a series of modern recordings made from running piano scrolls through a specially modified pneumatic player piano. At the start of the 20th century a type of player piano existed worlds apart from the upright made famous in B&W western movies. It was obscenely expensive and only the likes of the Rockefellers or Rothschilds had the discretionary income to own one. The scrolls had multiple tracks designed to capture not just the notes but the nuances of live performance. The recordings are spectacular.
The 'performing' artists on these scrolls are some of the greatest minds of classical music. Strauss and Rachmaninoff for example, artists performing during the earliest and crudest years of audio reproduction. The irony here is that arguably the best, most accurate and robust representation of their performing art was captured by the crudest, pre-electronic technology of holes in paper. Musical punchcards.
"Maybe so, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to purchase new mainstream titles on VHS. And as for the niche releases on a smaller scale, you've no chance."
That's a major factor, best illustrated by the transition from LP to CD. Media companies simply, as a group, stopped distributing LPs in favour of high-margin CDs. They forced the decision. At the time hundreds of millions of homes were estimated to have a record player. The market was still strong, the supply side dried up making it extremely inconvenient and expensive not to buy a CD player. No reason they can't do it again.
"Reiser4..... it's the best choice if data integrity is important."
Any time I've lost a drive to data corruption it was formatted Reiser, every attempt at using Reiser eventually resulted in massive data corruption. This was various hardware and distros. I don't know about the newest version but trice bitten forever XFS for me.
And it also illustrates the ridiculousness of the core plot elements. (SPOILER ALERT) A clone is an individual distinct from its donor. It's not a 'second life'. The movie treats clones as both depending the requirements of the plot. Time is spent explaining how the two leaders 'taught' their clones their memories but gives no reason why the general population who are unaware of being clones would experience the same past-life memories (or the Oedipal complexities of teaching his 'son' romantic love for his dead wife!)
"If you found yourself bored and not at all involved within the first 10 minutes, blame it on your lack of imagination."
Bored? I was laughing to hard too be bored. That movie was a collision between a Grade B music video and a runway show. The 'fight' scenes were closely shot and rapidly edited to hide the fact the main characters naturally moved in bullet time. Eveyone dressed coutire, every line meant to be poinient or intense to the MTV/Hallmark crowd. This movie is the strongest argument against DRM yet. The Filthy Critic nails it:
The board certified several voting machine manufacturers even though none of the manufacturers would comply with the state law (passed unanimously) that the machine code be kept in escrow. Not because.
I eagerly look forward to the next genre of scrawny First Person Accountants bravely against their pantheon of mortal enemies: Year-end Deadline, Reconciling the GL, and the evil Capital Projection. Screw Battlefield 2!
If I recall sheet music was the major issue for music publishers until the electronic reporduction of music (think Edison cylinders and Victorolas) took the focus. I'm more curious how much longer we're going to let this tiny minority of artist-abusing, zero-value ratfucks demand how society be run. Make no mistake about it, their demands determine how all information is shared in an information age. Next stop: mandatory DRM in printers.
In my youth there was a common sentiment, expressed in Hollywood movies and television as "I don't agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." Interesting how that's not only disappeared as a moral imperative, when present it's treated as simplistic, too idealistic now that 'everything's changed' or against the nation's values (depending on speaker.)
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You want to really frighten them insist on cameras in every corner of the police station, everywhere an arrestee can 'fall down the stairs', 'slip', 'hit his head'. etc.. Then wait for the howls over rights and actions by the police union.
You mean they currently aren't? How have they become so masterful at side stepping them then?
I suppose it's possible but I don't see what additional explanatory power is gained. Leave the 'guiding hand' in or remove it, no difference. For all its utility might as well credit Slarty Bartfast. It's only utility is to those with a vested emotional attachment to certain concepts.
The more things change: http://hir.harvard.edu/articles/961/
I'm the last to argue the American experience has been beneficial to the country - it's been disasterous and a stain on their history - but drawing them as the eternal boogyman makes no sense. From the CIA fact book regarding one aspect of Vietnam's challenges:
"logging and slash-and-burn agricultural practices contribute to deforestation and soil degradation; water pollution and overfishing threaten marine life populations; groundwater contamination limits potable water supply; growing urban industrialization and population migration are rapidly degrading environment in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City"
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
Exactly. Looks like the Solar System could, barring a most unexpected surprise, finally be achievable. The stars? Not on the basis of this discovery.
I dodged taxi fare by buying a car.
I dodged restaraunt bills by cooking my meals.
I dodged cleaning bills by doing laundry
No, sorry, not working for me.
What a laugh, anyone with experience watching the usual Slashdot Gimp-slamfest knows that has a much chance as a winter rain of toads. Lets compare Gimp with the most used sotware on the planet, MS Office. Context sensitive menu right click? No, Gimp and Office. Context sensitive pull down. No again. Tab box? Gimp developers are to force what everyone deems sensible, or just you? I find them fine, it takes a second or two to change and the setting holds across session. Less than a minute to set your preference for the life of the software, how does this make it the "Worst...Interface...Ever" again? You were shown to be wrong on the floating toolbar, it can be skipped. And I love this line from someone defending software using a GUI completely different than the standard operating paradigm for the last ten years:"...and everybody else is wrong."
Including Office, the software you used to type your post, and pretty much every other piece of Windows software written this century are 'wrong'? Photoshop zealots as a class would probably say 'yes'. There's a stronger case to be made that Adobe has has held back GUI development in the photo ediitng field by training an entire generation of workers in a dead GUI style. You don't read audio professionals beratng every editing package not identical to Protools as the "Worst...Interface...Ever", nor engineers do same to users of alternate Spice packages, or in pretty much any other professional field do you see the same kind of ossified elitism that common in the photo editing field. But then again, "...everybody else is wrong."
Correct if you mean 'Mozilla the foundation'. The Mozilla suite is dead and will see no further development by the Mozilla foundation. It's now an independent community project called Seamonkey. If I read the news groups correctly the team is substanitally the same one responsible for the old suite. See: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ The best bet is one of the nightly build releases under the 'contrib' branch of the trunk tree. Gecko/20060116 SeaMonkey/1.0b is working well for me.
You really have no idea why your Founding Fathers established a democratic republic with a separate judiciary, do you?
Instead of countering every unfounded assertion in this post, I suggest readers instead perform a simple search on the estimated sale value of a major metropolitan station. Or compare radio listenership against web stream statistics. Or satellite. Like the product or not, radio continues to make obscene amounts of money based solely on listenership numbers generating ad revenue. Sales reps at top stations draw hundreds of thousand in commissions annually on millions in sales. The three properties in the ~million population market where I work expect about $40 mill in revenue for 2005. dada21's unsatisfactory experience (with a low-end AM station) isn't unusual but it's far from typical. Radio is as dead as BSD.
This is probably /. suicide, but my Apple Optical does the job perfectly. One button, centre click, and a clickable scroller. It even works on sandwiches.
If you find yourself needing a two side button, left and right click, and a clickable roller mouse then you are taking it too seriously.
Uh-huh. Tell that to radio sales department where I work, I'm sure they'll get a kick out of hearing the service they give away as added value is supplanting the over-the-air signal which pays everyone's mortgage. Streaming has been a burden for most radio stations which make little, is any, money from it. FM is a highly efficient and cost effective means honed over decades to distribute 'music-data' from a single point to many destinations. Don't expect to see the transmitters turned off any time soon.
The 'performing' artists on these scrolls are some of the greatest minds of classical music. Strauss and Rachmaninoff for example, artists performing during the earliest and crudest years of audio reproduction. The irony here is that arguably the best, most accurate and robust representation of their performing art was captured by the crudest, pre-electronic technology of holes in paper. Musical punchcards.
That's a major factor, best illustrated by the transition from LP to CD. Media companies simply, as a group, stopped distributing LPs in favour of high-margin CDs. They forced the decision. At the time hundreds of millions of homes were estimated to have a record player. The market was still strong, the supply side dried up making it extremely inconvenient and expensive not to buy a CD player. No reason they can't do it again.
Any time I've lost a drive to data corruption it was formatted Reiser, every attempt at using Reiser eventually resulted in massive data corruption. This was various hardware and distros. I don't know about the newest version but trice bitten forever XFS for me.
Jackson's films are best viewed under the influence of Fosters?
Buy our new and improved Windows, now with enhanced security protecting you from foreign movies! Sure, that's the ticket.
And it also illustrates the ridiculousness of the core plot elements. (SPOILER ALERT) A clone is an individual distinct from its donor. It's not a 'second life'. The movie treats clones as both depending the requirements of the plot. Time is spent explaining how the two leaders 'taught' their clones their memories but gives no reason why the general population who are unaware of being clones would experience the same past-life memories (or the Oedipal complexities of teaching his 'son' romantic love for his dead wife!)
Bored? I was laughing to hard too be bored. That movie was a collision between a Grade B music video and a runway show. The 'fight' scenes were closely shot and rapidly edited to hide the fact the main characters naturally moved in bullet time. Eveyone dressed coutire, every line meant to be poinient or intense to the MTV/Hallmark crowd. This movie is the strongest argument against DRM yet. The Filthy Critic nails it:
http://www.filthycritic.com/filthy/
The board certified several voting machine manufacturers even though none of the manufacturers would comply with the state law (passed unanimously) that the machine code be kept in escrow. Not because.
I eagerly look forward to the next genre of scrawny First Person Accountants bravely against their pantheon of mortal enemies: Year-end Deadline, Reconciling the GL, and the evil Capital Projection. Screw Battlefield 2!
If I recall sheet music was the major issue for music publishers until the electronic reporduction of music (think Edison cylinders and Victorolas) took the focus. I'm more curious how much longer we're going to let this tiny minority of artist-abusing, zero-value ratfucks demand how society be run. Make no mistake about it, their demands determine how all information is shared in an information age. Next stop: mandatory DRM in printers.
In my youth there was a common sentiment, expressed in Hollywood movies and television as "I don't agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." Interesting how that's not only disappeared as a moral imperative, when present it's treated as simplistic, too idealistic now that 'everything's changed' or against the nation's values (depending on speaker.)