"People have yet to offer a valid legal or moral justification for ripping artists off."
I'm waiting for the RIAA members to offer their justification for ripping artists off.
The implication here that is fundamentally wrong is that somehow downloading music without paying the artist is justified since it also screws the RIAA, an evil organization.
Regardless of whether or not you like the RIAA, screwing the artist to screw them just doesn't sense.
If I could find some to hibernate betwen now and 17 December, I think I'd be a whole lot better off.
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Calling Exchange/Outlook a "tough niche" is like calling the Grand Canyon a "ditch".
This is a huge segment of the functionality required of many businesses. Its an enormous revenue stream for Micro$oft and a major resource drain for many companies. It is a big problem for anyone trying to go away from MSFT on the server side, let alone the client.
There's an old saying that if you want to be happy you need three things.
1. Something to do - Usually translates to some sort of job. You'll never be happy if you don't contribute to society and waste the gifts you've been given.
2. Someone to Love - Go ahead never take a risk because it ends in tears. Marriage also ends in tears of laughter. I've shed tears in my marriage but I can't imagine my life without her.
3. Something to look forward to - Without hope, life is pointless. You sound like you need something to look forward to.
A couple of more thoughts on your less salient points.
E.g. if you become the head of a medium-sized business selling widgets worldwide then you have "succeeded". Big Fucking Deal
I hate to break the news to you but the Big Fucking Deal of being the head of the medium-sized business isn't the glamorous challenge of selling widgets, its the lifestyle which such a position would afford you. It means a comfortable house, a car more enjoyable than a used Hyundai, and the resources to travel and enjoy a few vacations.
The point of life is to have fun. That's it.
If you think thats the entire point of life, you're missing the point. Perhaps the point is making a difference in the lives of others. That head of a business employs other people and in a small mundane way, probably makes the world a better place.
Having fun is much easier with a job. I enjoy skiing. Lift tickets cost money. I enjoy gadgets. Gadgets costs money. The irony is that if you make money your goal, you're doomed to unhappiness and you won't have any fun. A money centered or self centered life will guaranteee very little fun and very little joy.
I choose joy.
Try it - Don't worry
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I've been homebrewing for nearly 10 years now. Although the homebrewing fad has passed, there's still some folks out there seriously dedicated to the art.
rec.crafts.homebrewing is a great place to visit to ask questions once you've got the basics down. Brewing beer is not really all that complicated with the quality ingredients available today.
A few tips:
1. Sanitize - You must sterilize anything that touches the beer after its done boiling. Don't go crazy on this just wash your hands and arms and keep some weak bleach solution handy.
2. Ferment Cool - For ales, anything over 68-70F is too warm. Basements work great for this and constant temperatures are important.
3. Don't Worry - 9 times out of 10, whatever you're worrying about won't affect your beer.
4. Wait - Homebrew less than 1-2 months old is almost never (some styles excepted) as tasty as it will be later.
5. Moderate - Both in recipe's and drinking. If you're shooting for a high alchohol beer to get you drunk faster, it will probably be nasty. Same goes for hops. Keep it in the moderate range (20-35 HBU's for your first beer)
Get some good equipment and try it. If you're spending $200 on a video card, you can afford $150 on a good setup that includes a wort chiller and a nice big pot to boil.
You'll never want to go back to commercial brew again (those living in many places in Europe can ignore the last sentence).
Of course, during the Gulf War we had a big Reserves call-up to get to the 900,000 figure (so demobilizing them shrunk the military back down to normal).
This is absolutely untrue. The force levels of Active Duty Army prior to the Gulf war was around 875K. Afterwards (during Bush I as well as Clinton) the active duty forces drew down to 490K and then down as low as 470K.
This isn't about peacetime and wartime strength levels. The active Army has been cut nearly in half while the obligations against which those forces have been used against have increased dramatically, particularly under Clinton.
find this out? I have this vision of some soldier in a fox hole wrapping his feet with duct tape and suddenly realizing that all his skin (including some offending wart) had just sloughed off his feet.
Seriously though. Where do they come up with this stuff?
The point of all this is simple. It may actually make the Internet somewhat safer. But the real purpose of this stuff, I fear, is to take technology owned by nobody (TCP/IP) and replace it with technology owned by Redmond. That's taking the Internet and turning it into MSN. Oh, and we'll all have to buy new computers.
Considering the the hard drive card alone is currently running about $350 (cheapest pricewatch price at a place called Googlegear), its hard to argue with the value of this device.
Buy it for value of the hard drive alone. The MP3 player is a bonus.
You're correct, the US military does encrypt virtually all of its communications.
Video feeds require high speed encryptors becasue of the bandwidth involved. Its likely there were insufficient devices necessary to equip all the forces so they defaulted to an insecure mode. Much of the US crypto gear is US-only and not releaseable even to NATO nations.
As a Christian, I believe that the entire Bible is true.
That said, I reconcile creationism and evolution through a very simple statement.
It took God 7 days to create the universe. No one can presume to know how long one of God's days lasted. Plenty of time in one of God's days for evolution to occur.
My impression was that the author made some pretty poignant points but he blasted them at you so quickly they didn't always resonate. I was struck by some of his descriptions his status as a "slacker"
I do many things, but none particularly well. It is the art of not applying yourself, the only craft I have studied my entire life. Like so many others of my generation, I cherish the delusion that I have superpowers buried deep inside me. They're awaiting the perfect trigger -- radiation, a child in danger -- and in that defining moment I will finally know my birthright.
Not quite enough to entice me to buy the book but obviously a talented guy nonetheless.
Blame my typing teacher? If I could find that little old lady who used a drumstick to beat out a cadence and called out the letters in typing class in high school I'd kiss her on the lips. Of course that's dating me a bit since typing class was taught on IBM electric typewriters.
My ability to quickly get my thoughts into a word processor, email, or code is one of the most important skills I learned in high school. Maybe I'm not disciplined enough to keep my hands at the unnatural angle but (thank goodness), I've never had a problem.
To this day, being able to type over 70 words a minute has saved me absolutely countless hours and made me more productive at work and when working at home.
That old bat deserves a Thank You note, not blame.
I think for a living. I do not find the idea of being told I can't think for myself at all appealing. So I don't do it.
Yet another fallacy associated with military service.
The point of the US Army's training methods isn't that you don't think for yourself. Rather, it is to learn fundamental skills to develop a framework of discipline and excellence and then empower leaders at all levels to think for themselves and exercise initiative.
It was a Russian General who once noted that he know American military doctrine better than most American generals, he just couldn't depend on the American's following their own doctrine. That doesn't reflect a lack of free thinking but rather the encouragement of it.
I was attending a graduate computer science program full time as an active duty Army officer when one of my instructors commented that I appeared at ease presenting a topic to the class. I responded that I should since I did it all the time in the Army. He answered "I've never met anyone in the Army with a brain before".
Not of the DC cameras but of a similar system in Germany.
When I received a ticket for my wife's vehicle running a red light, I was pretty upset with her. It was a brand new red sports car and she was obviously driving recklessly. The ticket arrived with a 500DM fine (about $350 at the time) and did not include a copy of the picture.
I was livid so I called the telephone number on the ticket and spoke with the clerk. She verified the license plates and the type of vehicle. Sending out a copy of the picture would have cost an extra 30DM so I asked her to describe the driver.
Sure enough, it was me behind the wheel and I was taking it in for a service that day. Damn.
Bottom Line: The cameras work. I deserved the ticket and it always reminded me to drive more carefully. Very few mistakes. They even use them in Germany to measure following distance and speeds on the Autobahn and send out ENORMOUS tickets.
3D Labs was recently purchased. I won't bore you with the details but the purchasing company was none other than Creative Labs. Creative Labs' focus has not historically been the professional workstation, it has been mainstream consumers.
Although the initial cards brought to market will be targetted to the workstation market, it is highly likely that Creative Labs will leverage this technology to produce a card targeted to the gamers market. One of the benefits of the architecture is that it can achieve a larger number of textures with a more limited amount of memory through caching. This will allow Creative Labs to trade off memory size for memory speed in the gamers market.
Others would argue that testing alone may not suffice. Particularly for these kinds of mission critical applications, nothing short of formal methods of software engineering will suffice. Formal as opposed to natural language specifications can reduce ambiguity. Safety conditions can then be derived and verified through rigourous mathematical proofs.
Of course none of this obviates the need for testing but it can lead to a more predictable system.
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"People have yet to offer a valid legal or moral justification for ripping artists off."
I'm waiting for the RIAA members to offer their justification for ripping artists off.
The implication here that is fundamentally wrong is that somehow downloading music without paying the artist is justified since it also screws the RIAA, an evil organization.
Regardless of whether or not you like the RIAA, screwing the artist to screw them just doesn't sense.
Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait.
If I could find some to hibernate betwen now and 17 December, I think I'd be a whole lot better off.
Calling Exchange/Outlook a "tough niche" is like calling the Grand Canyon a "ditch".
This is a huge segment of the functionality required of many businesses. Its an enormous revenue stream for Micro$oft and a major resource drain for many companies. It is a big problem for anyone trying to go away from MSFT on the server side, let alone the client.
Good hobby with obvious side benefits.
Involves chemistry and the challenge of making lots of brewing gadgets.
Quick check of Crucial shows RAM costs at about
... Uh .... nevermind. If you'll excuse me I'm going to buy more Dell stock.
$130 for a 512MB DIMM.
I thinks its absolutely reasonable to charge almost $400 to install the RAM
Nerds are boring people.
They're just people who get excited about boring things.
Ok, I'll bite.
There's an old saying that if you want to be happy you need three things.
1. Something to do - Usually translates to some sort of job. You'll never be happy if you don't contribute to society and waste the gifts you've been given.
2. Someone to Love - Go ahead never take a risk because it ends in tears. Marriage also ends in tears of laughter. I've shed tears in my marriage but I can't imagine my life without her.
3. Something to look forward to - Without hope, life is pointless. You sound like you need something to look forward to.
A couple of more thoughts on your less salient points.
E.g. if you become the head of a medium-sized business selling widgets worldwide then you have "succeeded". Big Fucking Deal
I hate to break the news to you but the Big Fucking Deal of being the head of the medium-sized business isn't the glamorous challenge of selling widgets, its the lifestyle which such a position would afford you. It means a comfortable house, a car more enjoyable than a used Hyundai, and the resources to travel and enjoy a few vacations.
The point of life is to have fun. That's it.
If you think thats the entire point of life, you're missing the point. Perhaps the point is making a difference in the lives of others. That head of a business employs other people and in a small mundane way, probably makes the world a better place.
Having fun is much easier with a job. I enjoy skiing. Lift tickets cost money. I enjoy gadgets. Gadgets costs money. The irony is that if you make money your goal, you're doomed to unhappiness and you won't have any fun. A money centered or self centered life will guaranteee very little fun and very little joy.
I choose joy.
I've been homebrewing for nearly 10 years now. Although the homebrewing fad has passed, there's still some folks out there seriously dedicated to the art.
rec.crafts.homebrewing is a great place to visit to ask questions once you've got the basics down. Brewing beer is not really all that complicated with the quality ingredients available today.
A few tips:
1. Sanitize - You must sterilize anything that touches the beer after its done boiling. Don't go crazy on this just wash your hands and arms and keep some weak bleach solution handy.
2. Ferment Cool - For ales, anything over 68-70F is too warm. Basements work great for this and constant temperatures are important.
3. Don't Worry - 9 times out of 10, whatever you're worrying about won't affect your beer.
4. Wait - Homebrew less than 1-2 months old is almost never (some styles excepted) as tasty as it will be later.
5. Moderate - Both in recipe's and drinking. If you're shooting for a high alchohol beer to get you drunk faster, it will probably be nasty. Same goes for hops. Keep it in the moderate range (20-35 HBU's for your first beer)
Get some good equipment and try it. If you're spending $200 on a video card, you can afford $150 on a good setup that includes a wort chiller and a nice big pot to boil.
You'll never want to go back to commercial brew again (those living in many places in Europe can ignore the last sentence).
Of course, during the Gulf War we had a big Reserves call-up to get to the 900,000 figure (so demobilizing them shrunk the military back down to normal).
This is absolutely untrue. The force levels of Active Duty Army prior to the Gulf war was around 875K. Afterwards (during Bush I as well as Clinton) the active duty forces drew down to 490K and then down as low as 470K.
This isn't about peacetime and wartime strength levels. The active Army has been cut nearly in half while the obligations against which those forces have been used against have increased dramatically, particularly under Clinton.
Well, Sirius is only offering to bring audio noise 1-way down from the satellite. No full duplex!
If duplex lost, simplex can't hope to win!
Nice reasoning. Maybe you missed the point that radio is inherently one way communication!!! Its a broadcast.
Similar reasoning would argue that all broadcast television stations are doomed to failure because they're simplex.
find this out? I have this vision of some soldier in a fox hole wrapping his feet with duct tape and suddenly realizing that all his skin (including some offending wart) had just sloughed off his feet.
Seriously though. Where do they come up with this stuff?
Significant increase in demand.
Redhat 8.0 ISO's
Mandrake 9.0 ISO's
UT 2003
Anyways I hate to make a post that's largely a sales pitch for a DVD,
The whole story is a sales pitch for the DVD. Don't hide your light under a bushel barrel. Its the only +5 post that wasn't moderated "funny".
"so get out their and send an e-mail."
Ok, let me guess, you work for which party?
Bob said it much better than I can.
You said it Bob. Thank you.
Considering the the hard drive card alone is currently running about $350 (cheapest pricewatch price at a place called Googlegear), its hard to argue with the value of this device.
Buy it for value of the hard drive alone. The MP3 player is a bonus.
Its times like this, when I really *HATE* having Dial-Up,
You mean every time you turn your computer on?
Notice that this is NATO as opposed to the US.
You're correct, the US military does encrypt virtually all of its communications.
Video feeds require high speed encryptors becasue of the bandwidth involved. Its likely there were insufficient devices necessary to equip all the forces so they defaulted to an insecure mode. Much of the US crypto gear is US-only and not releaseable even to NATO nations.
As a Christian, I believe that the entire Bible is true.
That said, I reconcile creationism and evolution through a very simple statement.
It took God 7 days to create the universe. No one can presume to know how long one of God's days lasted. Plenty of time in one of God's days for evolution to occur.
No contradiction at all.
You can get the entire first chapter off Barnes and Noble.
My impression was that the author made some pretty poignant points but he blasted them at you so quickly they didn't always resonate. I was struck by some of his descriptions his status as a "slacker"
I do many things, but none particularly well. It is the art of not applying yourself, the only craft I have studied my entire life. Like so many others of my generation, I cherish the delusion that I have superpowers buried deep inside me. They're awaiting the perfect trigger -- radiation, a child in danger -- and in that defining moment I will finally know my birthright.
Not quite enough to entice me to buy the book but obviously a talented guy nonetheless.
Blame my typing teacher? If I could find that little old lady who used a drumstick to beat out a cadence and called out the letters in typing class in high school I'd kiss her on the lips. Of course that's dating me a bit since typing class was taught on IBM electric typewriters.
My ability to quickly get my thoughts into a word processor, email, or code is one of the most important skills I learned in high school. Maybe I'm not disciplined enough to keep my hands at the unnatural angle but (thank goodness), I've never had a problem.
To this day, being able to type over 70 words a minute has saved me absolutely countless hours and made me more productive at work and when working at home.
That old bat deserves a Thank You note, not blame.
I think for a living. I do not find the idea of being told I can't think for myself at all appealing. So I don't do it.
Yet another fallacy associated with military service.
The point of the US Army's training methods isn't that you don't think for yourself. Rather, it is to learn fundamental skills to develop a framework of discipline and excellence and then empower leaders at all levels to think for themselves and exercise initiative.
It was a Russian General who once noted that he know American military doctrine better than most American generals, he just couldn't depend on the American's following their own doctrine. That doesn't reflect a lack of free thinking but rather the encouragement of it.
I was attending a graduate computer science program full time as an active duty Army officer when one of my instructors commented that I appeared at ease presenting a topic to the class. I responded that I should since I did it all the time in the Army. He answered "I've never met anyone in the Army with a brain before".
Get over it. I think for a living too.
Not of the DC cameras but of a similar system in Germany.
When I received a ticket for my wife's vehicle running a red light, I was pretty upset with her. It was a brand new red sports car and she was obviously driving recklessly. The ticket arrived with a 500DM fine (about $350 at the time) and did not include a copy of the picture.
I was livid so I called the telephone number on the ticket and spoke with the clerk. She verified the license plates and the type of vehicle. Sending out a copy of the picture would have cost an extra 30DM so I asked her to describe the driver.
Sure enough, it was me behind the wheel and I was taking it in for a service that day. Damn.
Bottom Line: The cameras work. I deserved the ticket and it always reminded me to drive more carefully. Very few mistakes. They even use them in Germany to measure following distance and speeds on the Autobahn and send out ENORMOUS tickets.
Sometimes you have to read between the lines.
3D Labs was recently purchased. I won't bore you with the details but the purchasing company was none other than Creative Labs. Creative Labs' focus has not historically been the professional workstation, it has been mainstream consumers.
Although the initial cards brought to market will be targetted to the workstation market, it is highly likely that Creative Labs will leverage this technology to produce a card targeted to the gamers market. One of the benefits of the architecture is that it can achieve a larger number of textures with a more limited amount of memory through caching. This will allow Creative Labs to trade off memory size for memory speed in the gamers market.
Testing is critical.
Others would argue that testing alone may not suffice. Particularly for these kinds of mission critical applications, nothing short of formal methods of software engineering will suffice. Formal as opposed to natural language specifications can reduce ambiguity. Safety conditions can then be derived and verified through rigourous mathematical proofs.
Of course none of this obviates the need for testing but it can lead to a more predictable system.