Yes, you _can_ download all you want. They're going after the people who _upload_ files.
This hardly seems reasonable: if you're uploading, for all you know, your downloaders are legitimate users who have damaged their own copy of the CD. Only the downloader knows whether they are infringing copyright.
Yup, my housemate has the iMP-550, and I can vouch for it. In addition to looking great and having an excellent UI, they just recently released a beta Ogg Vorbis firmware for it. If it played DVD-R, I'd buy it in a second.
I just swapped my old Palm Pro for an M505. I miss the Palm Pro horribly. It actually worked, and never once suffered an electrostatic-discharge refusal to sync or a "dreaded green-light crash." Not once in five years.
As far as handhelds go, reliability is the most important feature. That's an excellent reason to go with a stable but modifiable platform, if you ask me.
Actually I was looking for personal recommendations on starter kits. Something with a chip included. I'm not much for "feeling lucky" on hardware purchases that are going to involve dozens of hours invested.
I've kept a kettle at my desk in several workplaces with shitty cafeteria coffee, and I heartily second this recommendation with one minor variation: throw the french press in the garbage where it belongs, and buy a #2 drip cone and a pack of filters.
The Joy of Coffee recommends this process over normal drip coffeemakers in any case, as there is no boiler apparatus to get gummed up and fill your coffee-water with smelly scum. The only things in actual contact with your coffee are an easily cleanable cone, a disposable filter, and your kettle.
If you're having trouble imagining what I'm talking about, imagine a standard drip coffeemaker with a cone-shaped basket, and throw away everything except the cone and the carafe. Now replace the carafe with your mug, and pour hot water directly into the top.
Most linguists would suggest that "correct" usage is the most common one. It's a sad state of affairs, but that's why we're not speaking the indo-european root tongue right now. Or grunting like cavemen, for that matter.
That's probably the whole point: that the crew compartment could be designed to decelerate to a sane velocity just like a splashdown capsule. At that point a bailout would be possible.
I once thought as you did. I desoldered the snooze button from my clock.
I soon found that I would turn it off instead, and immediately go back to sleep. I also disabled the off switch. I would unplug it, and THEN go back to sleep. Switching to a battery-clock didn't help either.
The only thing I can think of that would help is a clock with microswitches under the feet of the bed, so it _knows_ when I get up.
There are lots of situations covered in private-pilot ground school where the Pilot-In-Command is fully entitled to take appropriate action to ensure the safety of his/her aircraft -- up to and including telling Air Traffic Control to take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.
It's a big deal to refuse a controller's instructions, but the ultimate authority _does_ rest with the pilot. The reason for this is that nobody on the ground has the same immediacy of perspective as the person at the controls.
Having spent my hours in the circuit, I'm here to tell you that I trust pilots' accident avoidance reactions MUCH more than I trust those of controllers safely on the ground. The guy programming the no-fly-zone circuitry, or encoding the parameters of a given no-fly-zone is far enough removed from the situation that I don't trust him at all.
Oddly, I find it much easier to simply stop talking to a passenger when driving requires my full attention.
Perhaps it's because a passenger is more intimately acquainted with the fact that I am doing something a little more important than talking to them -- and has something invested in my safe driving.
Bounce every offending email to all of the marketing addresses you can find at that company, along with a polite request that you not receive any more.
Do not leave a copy in your inbox.
Build a cheap custom AC unit out of a window unit.
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Hire your friendly local HVAC mechanic to cut the condenser coil off a big window A/C unit, and install it with a fan in your server room. The compressor and evaporator coil go in your storage room. A couple little 1/4" refrigerant pipes going through the wall and you're set.
You would probably be surprised how little a small custom cooling setup like this will end up being.
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This is a rephrased repost, the slashtrolls seem to have eaten my first attempt.
Imagine you want to make a personal copy of something from my collection. "OK," say I, "take it off the CD rack over there."
This is legal and correct.
You're trying to tell me that it magically becomes different in principle if my entire collection is in a compressed format on my hard drive?
How about if my entire collection is in it's original format, but in my net-accessible SCSI jukebox?
Perhaps you feel that I have to have that access password-protected? How difficult does the password have to be?
I'm just trying to establish that there seems to be a very arbitrary and ill-defined line between what's OK and what's not.
It's much easier, not to mention faster, to respond to the question "May I ask your name / phone number / whatever" with a simple, polite,
"Nope."
I have only ever once had this devolve into a discussion of why.
Yes, you _can_ download all you want. They're going after the people who _upload_ files.
This hardly seems reasonable: if you're uploading, for all you know, your downloaders are legitimate users who have damaged their own copy of the CD. Only the downloader knows whether they are infringing copyright.
Yup, my housemate has the iMP-550, and I can vouch for it. In addition to looking great and having an excellent UI, they just recently released a beta Ogg Vorbis firmware for it. If it played DVD-R, I'd buy it in a second.
I know this isn't exactly what you had in mind, but you should consider a nice, flexible AssAuger.
Rather than helping you clean up afterwards, it simple helps you avoid the need for taking a messy old-style dump in the first place.
No, the speech was _given_ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. It was _written_ by Mary Schmich, a Chicago Tribune columnist.
I just swapped my old Palm Pro for an M505. I miss the Palm Pro horribly. It actually worked, and never once suffered an electrostatic-discharge refusal to sync or a "dreaded green-light crash." Not once in five years.
As far as handhelds go, reliability is the most important feature. That's an excellent reason to go with a stable but modifiable platform, if you ask me.
Actually I was looking for personal recommendations on starter kits. Something with a chip included. I'm not much for "feeling lucky" on hardware purchases that are going to involve dozens of hours invested.
But thanks for the book recommendation.
Anybody seen something similar, but for USB? I.e., if you want to build an embedded USB slave device?
I've kept a kettle at my desk in several workplaces with shitty cafeteria coffee, and I heartily second this recommendation with one minor variation: throw the french press in the garbage where it belongs, and buy a #2 drip cone and a pack of filters.
The Joy of Coffee recommends this process over normal drip coffeemakers in any case, as there is no boiler apparatus to get gummed up and fill your coffee-water with smelly scum. The only things in actual contact with your coffee are an easily cleanable cone, a disposable filter, and your kettle.
If you're having trouble imagining what I'm talking about, imagine a standard drip coffeemaker with a cone-shaped basket, and throw away everything except the cone and the carafe. Now replace the carafe with your mug, and pour hot water directly into the top.
They also add chicory to their coffee. It makes it taste richer and more full-bodied, but at the expense of making it much more acidic.
I love it, but it gives me heartburn.
Bjarne Stroustroup, the inventor of C++, is credited with having said:
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
Be careful what you wish for.
Most linguists would suggest that "correct" usage is the most common one. It's a sad state of affairs, but that's why we're not speaking the indo-european root tongue right now. Or grunting like cavemen, for that matter.
That's probably the whole point: that the crew compartment could be designed to decelerate to a sane velocity just like a splashdown capsule. At that point a bailout would be possible.
Nice, but doesn't add much to an info: url in Konq...
I once thought as you did. I desoldered the snooze button from my clock.
I soon found that I would turn it off instead, and immediately go back to sleep. I also disabled the off switch. I would unplug it, and THEN go back to sleep. Switching to a battery-clock didn't help either.
The only thing I can think of that would help is a clock with microswitches under the feet of the bed, so it _knows_ when I get up.
> KDE will never be the dominant desktop.
Care to substantiate that is not _currently_ the dominant desktop?
There are lots of situations covered in private-pilot ground school where the Pilot-In-Command is fully entitled to take appropriate action to ensure the safety of his/her aircraft -- up to and including telling Air Traffic Control to take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.
It's a big deal to refuse a controller's instructions, but the ultimate authority _does_ rest with the pilot. The reason for this is that nobody on the ground has the same immediacy of perspective as the person at the controls.
Having spent my hours in the circuit, I'm here to tell you that I trust pilots' accident avoidance reactions MUCH more than I trust those of controllers safely on the ground. The guy programming the no-fly-zone circuitry, or encoding the parameters of a given no-fly-zone is far enough removed from the situation that I don't trust him at all.
Seems more likely to me that the stupid folks are outbreeding the smart folks. That's the way it is in my hometown, anyhow.
Oddly, I find it much easier to simply stop talking to a passenger when driving requires my full attention.
Perhaps it's because a passenger is more intimately acquainted with the fact that I am doing something a little more important than talking to them -- and has something invested in my safe driving.
Just get an old 400 baud acoustic coupler-style modem. Put it right next to the condenser mike on your ghettoblaster, and you're good to go.
Or maybe you can find a low-baud-rate emulator somewhere.
80% of people believe they are in the top 20% of any given category.
I wish I had data to back up this assertion, but if anything, that 80% seems a little low.
Lends a whole new meaning to the term "eavesdropping".
Bounce every offending email to all of the marketing addresses you can find at that company, along with a polite request that you not receive any more.
Do not leave a copy in your inbox.
Hire your friendly local HVAC mechanic to cut the condenser coil off a big window A/C unit, and install it with a fan in your server room. The compressor and evaporator coil go in your storage room. A couple little 1/4" refrigerant pipes going through the wall and you're set.
You would probably be surprised how little a small custom cooling setup like this will end up being.