I live in a state with something like quadruple the population of WA, and liquor stores have mandated hours: They have to close by 9 PM, be closed all day Sunday, not open before some time in the morning. I'm just glad that I can still buy normal beer or wine at the grocery stores until midnight. Some states will only allow half-strength beer in grocery stores. They have enough of a market where the national breweries make special watered down versions of their products specially for them.
I'm not sure what the OP was on about "incumbents" though, these regulations affect all the liquor stores - old, new, big, small. Some countries like Finland have government-run liquor stores that hold a legal monopoly, that seems more about protecting the incumbents. The US laws are in contrast misguided attempts at legislating morality, and completely ineffective to boot. Any serious drinker here knows the store hours and they just stock up earlier in the day or earlier in the week.
What I've been picking up is something of a schism within the Catholic church. You've had the pope give speeches about accepting gays, then all the bishops overrule him. So it seems that even if there are elements of the church that want to advance into the year 2000, by and large it still consists of a mound of idiots.
After thinking about this for the past 10 or 15 minutes, I believe they are trying to suggest birthing then abandoning unwanted children is a favorable alternative to wearing a condom. I suppose "abstinence" wasn't gaining much traction.
OS X may be stable but it has a short shelf life. You might find your hardware unsupported in 3 or 4 years. We're seeing MS take a page out of their book now and speed up the upgrade treadmill, too. At least they tell you in advance the date they'll stop supporting you. I would plug Linux here but hardware support has never been its strong point. Specifically, I would plug Debian stable (plus the backports repo as necessary) but some of their recent design changes have been questionable. Plus there's a new release a few months down the pipe, and now a fork, and it's not clear yet what the impact will be. CentOS seems reasonable but I've never worked with it extensively.
Also, if your main draw to *nix is Bash and GNU tools, you can get that with Cygwin on Windows. I took a day to set it up this week, and realized Linux and Windows actually work decently together - remote X11 and everything. I've got apps running on my Debian box being drawn on my Windows 7 gaming rig when I'm sitting there. I've got Windows' backup utility sending system images to Tux via SMB. Despite OS X's development lineage, enough things like the windowing system have been swapped out so that you're still installing piles of addons to get interoperability with Linux. Apple's liking for proprietary systems and walled gardens doesn't help either.
If your player died, you'd be transferring the files again anyway. Encoding audio is typically fast these days and won't add much more time. I'm running an 8-year-old processor and can get 20x to 100x realtime encoding speeds depending on the encoder and settings. It's easy to parallelize, you can start up a separate instance of the encoder on each core. (Some crappy software might not do this and rob you of speed.) Hell, the software I use to manage my portable will automatically recode the files over X kb/s in the same click you use to sync. foobar2000, but I believe even iTunes has this capability now. Once you have it set up, it's zero effort.
And... why on earth would you want to store your music collection on someone else's server, where it's subject to corporate whims? Streaming music to your phone is one thing, of course you want higher compression levels in bandwidth-limited situations. That's not what FLAC is about. FLAC is about maintaining an archive of your music, allowing you the freedom to transcode to whichever format/bit rate you may need for a specific application. Without generation loss, which is way worse than a single encode. Or if you do any kind of production work: DJing, remixes, video production, etc. it is *essential* to have a lossless copy to avoid generation loss. And yes, they work great for listening to as well, when you aren't streaming over WAN.
That's why you keep the FLACs archived on a hard disk and use lossy compression for your portable. As an added benefit, if better lossy formats/encoders come along, or you want to change bit rates, you have the original FLACs to go back to and re-encode. If you only have an MP3 copy, you'll be up the creek if you need to re-encode, that incurs generation loss that's much audibly worse than 1 round of compression.
http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Transcoding
FLAC is common, not just among torrents anymore, but also with download services. It's not ubiquitous, but it's common. An uncommon format would be, say, Musepack, TAK, Monkey's Audio, etc.
You were on the right track with "80s and 90s", it's just an issue of things being done the legacy way. When the internet was developing, it could be reasonably assumed that anyone on the network was "legitimate" since it was highly specialized. Even so, secure data transmission was still done by physical delivery, phone, or fax. That's why none of the old-school protocols like email or FTP were developed with security features.
Then, once the masses hit the internet, they treat it like they did their phones. The phone didn't need any configuration to be secure, so they don't think to secure the computer. Public perception of computer security has been rising recently, but people who grew up pre-dragnet-surveillance will find it difficult to adjust to a life where all their figurative mail is being opened and their phones tapped. So they'll do the easier thing and ignore it, going with the default, which is non-secure.
If you want to have good security across the board, it needs to be the default option. Some organizations have moved toward this, for example Gmail defaulting to HTTPS. But in Google's case, the government already has direct access to their server anyway. Or, the recipient of the message might not be checking mail securely. Not to mention it gets passed along as plaintext by SMTP.
We wouldnt have lights or A/C for a week, maybe two, in regions of the country...maybe.
You may underestimate the time it would take to repair an entire country's electrical system. After Hurricane Ike blew through, I was without power for nearly two weeks. This is in the middle of the suburbs, not some far-flung rural location. This is with electricians from across the country being brought in to repair just the damage path of one hurricane. An EMP strike(s) that affects more area than a hurricane would easily overwhelm both the manpower and equipment we have on hand to deal with it. Yes, we could rebuild - but not in a couple of weeks.
In New Orleans specifically, the problem was with the levee system, not housing construction. Some of those levees had lasted 200 years and through two wars, so citizens and home builders had a reasonable expectation that the city would not be underwater. Full blame goes to the government agency which did not maintain and upgrade the levees as they should have. Elsewhere on the Gulf Coast, houses are built raised up. These are typically waterfront properties, which are more expensive to start with
"Bleeding over" is the old paradigm where you could choose not to discuss certain things at work, and they would generally remain outside the workplace. These days, many companies are getting out the needles and actively sucking the blood from wherever it can be found. If you haven't noticed this at your own company, you are either lucky to work at one of the few business with integrity, or you have spent your life very effectively keeping your head down, way down, into the sand. Even just here on Slashdot, there are stories about employers searching around social media and other sites for dirt to dig up. Sometimes it happens by chance as people at the company surf the web, sometimes it's done deliberately by someone who wants to get rid of you, sometimes it's done as part of a background check.
Situations where you don't want your employer to have access to your social media accounts:
You're gay or have undergone a sex change.
You've smoked a joint or drank a beer.
You have political/social/philosophical views that someone above you doesn't like.
You work as a dancer or stripper for extra income.
You link to a song or poem that gets misinterpreted and offends a Professionally Offended manager.
Do I need to continue? I've seen people being terminated for all of these things in news reports, and I've witnessed it happen to several people I know personally.
Unlike hand-held devices which get reoriented regularly by design, I can't think of many cases where monitors would be frequently turned. You'd have to be:
(1) A coder, newspaper layout designer, or similar guy with a need for portrait screens.
(2) Someone who also games or watches movies, on their work machine, necessitating a landscape screen too.
(3) Someone who has not realized you can have a multi-monitor setup with both portrait and landscape screens.
You're probably doing something wrong if you flip monitors daily. If you have a legit reason to do it, it would be an edge case. If you are also too lazy to use a three-finger keystroke after already physically rotating the monitor, well that's an extreme edge case. It's certainly nothing that a manufacturer is going to cater to.
I don't remember the last time I've had the Firefox process crash. FF does have a separate process for plugins - the Flash plugin has crashed many times and taken that out, while not interrupting the browser itself. Process-per-tab isn't necessary unless some core browser component is going to crash. Even if Firefox were to crash, or the power gets cut to your PC, you still have the "Restore previous session" option which has saved me during more than one storm.
Well, one issue is that the people who HAVE been living here getting displaced, due to rocketing rents, and being forced to move out of the city.
Sounds like an issue of economy, not so much race. You might make the point that some races are economically disadvantaged, and provide justification for that - but you didn't. You made a point about rent, which equally affects poor of all races.
"Race" doesn't exist, btw. You're talking about cultural background & skin color. There is only one human race.
The article/summary specifically mentioned skin color, so that is why it's the topic of discussion. Looks like the writer's trolling was a success.
"...browsing the web sans-flash is still a pain..." Is it? Which sites now require Flash? I recently reinstalled my OS and decided to forgo adding Flash as a little experiment to see how well it would work. I've managed 3 weeks so far without it.
Positives: YouTube works better in HTML5. Flash-based ads do not appear in uTorrent.
Negatives: There was some news site where the video wouldn't play, but it's a 50/50 chance whether that was due to Flash or Noscript. In any case, I'm used to those not working, and had no problem passing it by.
I have a netbook ca. 2009 that shipped with XP. It has 1 GB of memory and an Atom N270 - 32-bit, single core, single thread. Linux isn't an option due to the wireless drivers being horribly broken in Linux. Vista and Win 7 aren't options since the hardware would choke under the weight. Eventually what I did was turn the the thing into a low-powered, headless Debian server - I can run that off Ethernet. It should be noted that it was somewhat difficult to even find a distro for it - I was going with Ubuntu Server first, then found out it's only available in 64-bit.
IIRC there was a man in the US who owned a business whose market niche(s) were potentially threatened by hemp. (Whether the threat was real or perceived, I'm not sure.) Being one of the "job creators" with connections, he was influential in getting the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 passed which marked the beginning of marijuana prohibition. So, even if the industry has advanced past the interest in hemp over 80 years - it's still correct to list industrial opposition along with racism and moral panic as forces that catalyzed prohibition.
Lol, what's this, someone trying to post something useful on Twitter? People still use that site? Jesus, even Facebook is a better medium for disseminating information. When Facebook has a leg up on you, that's just sad. Please, let's let Twitter and all the twits on it go the way of MySpace.
Too many Americans these days are without nuclear war and exploding aircraft protection! I have a brilliant plan to resolve the issue - simply mandate every homeowner to build a shelter at their own expense! For those who can't afford it, we will impose a fine of $4000 annually until the cheapskates cough up the full cost of a shelter! The fastest path to universal coverage!
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I live in a state with something like quadruple the population of WA, and liquor stores have mandated hours: They have to close by 9 PM, be closed all day Sunday, not open before some time in the morning. I'm just glad that I can still buy normal beer or wine at the grocery stores until midnight. Some states will only allow half-strength beer in grocery stores. They have enough of a market where the national breweries make special watered down versions of their products specially for them.
I'm not sure what the OP was on about "incumbents" though, these regulations affect all the liquor stores - old, new, big, small. Some countries like Finland have government-run liquor stores that hold a legal monopoly, that seems more about protecting the incumbents. The US laws are in contrast misguided attempts at legislating morality, and completely ineffective to boot. Any serious drinker here knows the store hours and they just stock up earlier in the day or earlier in the week.
What I've been picking up is something of a schism within the Catholic church. You've had the pope give speeches about accepting gays, then all the bishops overrule him. So it seems that even if there are elements of the church that want to advance into the year 2000, by and large it still consists of a mound of idiots.
After thinking about this for the past 10 or 15 minutes, I believe they are trying to suggest birthing then abandoning unwanted children is a favorable alternative to wearing a condom. I suppose "abstinence" wasn't gaining much traction.
I get depressed when the days get continually longer, robbing me of progressively more sleep, and sending temps into the triple digits.
OS X may be stable but it has a short shelf life. You might find your hardware unsupported in 3 or 4 years. We're seeing MS take a page out of their book now and speed up the upgrade treadmill, too. At least they tell you in advance the date they'll stop supporting you. I would plug Linux here but hardware support has never been its strong point. Specifically, I would plug Debian stable (plus the backports repo as necessary) but some of their recent design changes have been questionable. Plus there's a new release a few months down the pipe, and now a fork, and it's not clear yet what the impact will be. CentOS seems reasonable but I've never worked with it extensively.
Also, if your main draw to *nix is Bash and GNU tools, you can get that with Cygwin on Windows. I took a day to set it up this week, and realized Linux and Windows actually work decently together - remote X11 and everything. I've got apps running on my Debian box being drawn on my Windows 7 gaming rig when I'm sitting there. I've got Windows' backup utility sending system images to Tux via SMB. Despite OS X's development lineage, enough things like the windowing system have been swapped out so that you're still installing piles of addons to get interoperability with Linux. Apple's liking for proprietary systems and walled gardens doesn't help either.
Who's that Pokemon??
If your player died, you'd be transferring the files again anyway. Encoding audio is typically fast these days and won't add much more time. I'm running an 8-year-old processor and can get 20x to 100x realtime encoding speeds depending on the encoder and settings. It's easy to parallelize, you can start up a separate instance of the encoder on each core. (Some crappy software might not do this and rob you of speed.) Hell, the software I use to manage my portable will automatically recode the files over X kb/s in the same click you use to sync. foobar2000, but I believe even iTunes has this capability now. Once you have it set up, it's zero effort.
And... why on earth would you want to store your music collection on someone else's server, where it's subject to corporate whims? Streaming music to your phone is one thing, of course you want higher compression levels in bandwidth-limited situations. That's not what FLAC is about. FLAC is about maintaining an archive of your music, allowing you the freedom to transcode to whichever format/bit rate you may need for a specific application. Without generation loss, which is way worse than a single encode. Or if you do any kind of production work: DJing, remixes, video production, etc. it is *essential* to have a lossless copy to avoid generation loss. And yes, they work great for listening to as well, when you aren't streaming over WAN.
That's why you keep the FLACs archived on a hard disk and use lossy compression for your portable. As an added benefit, if better lossy formats/encoders come along, or you want to change bit rates, you have the original FLACs to go back to and re-encode. If you only have an MP3 copy, you'll be up the creek if you need to re-encode, that incurs generation loss that's much audibly worse than 1 round of compression.
http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Transcoding
FLAC is common, not just among torrents anymore, but also with download services. It's not ubiquitous, but it's common. An uncommon format would be, say, Musepack, TAK, Monkey's Audio, etc.
You were on the right track with "80s and 90s", it's just an issue of things being done the legacy way. When the internet was developing, it could be reasonably assumed that anyone on the network was "legitimate" since it was highly specialized. Even so, secure data transmission was still done by physical delivery, phone, or fax. That's why none of the old-school protocols like email or FTP were developed with security features.
Then, once the masses hit the internet, they treat it like they did their phones. The phone didn't need any configuration to be secure, so they don't think to secure the computer. Public perception of computer security has been rising recently, but people who grew up pre-dragnet-surveillance will find it difficult to adjust to a life where all their figurative mail is being opened and their phones tapped. So they'll do the easier thing and ignore it, going with the default, which is non-secure.
If you want to have good security across the board, it needs to be the default option. Some organizations have moved toward this, for example Gmail defaulting to HTTPS. But in Google's case, the government already has direct access to their server anyway. Or, the recipient of the message might not be checking mail securely. Not to mention it gets passed along as plaintext by SMTP.
We wouldnt have lights or A/C for a week, maybe two, in regions of the country...maybe.
You may underestimate the time it would take to repair an entire country's electrical system. After Hurricane Ike blew through, I was without power for nearly two weeks. This is in the middle of the suburbs, not some far-flung rural location. This is with electricians from across the country being brought in to repair just the damage path of one hurricane. An EMP strike(s) that affects more area than a hurricane would easily overwhelm both the manpower and equipment we have on hand to deal with it. Yes, we could rebuild - but not in a couple of weeks.
In New Orleans specifically, the problem was with the levee system, not housing construction. Some of those levees had lasted 200 years and through two wars, so citizens and home builders had a reasonable expectation that the city would not be underwater. Full blame goes to the government agency which did not maintain and upgrade the levees as they should have.
Elsewhere on the Gulf Coast, houses are built raised up. These are typically waterfront properties, which are more expensive to start with
"Bleeding over" is the old paradigm where you could choose not to discuss certain things at work, and they would generally remain outside the workplace. These days, many companies are getting out the needles and actively sucking the blood from wherever it can be found. If you haven't noticed this at your own company, you are either lucky to work at one of the few business with integrity, or you have spent your life very effectively keeping your head down, way down, into the sand. Even just here on Slashdot, there are stories about employers searching around social media and other sites for dirt to dig up. Sometimes it happens by chance as people at the company surf the web, sometimes it's done deliberately by someone who wants to get rid of you, sometimes it's done as part of a background check.
Situations where you don't want your employer to have access to your social media accounts:
You're gay or have undergone a sex change.
You've smoked a joint or drank a beer.
You have political/social/philosophical views that someone above you doesn't like.
You work as a dancer or stripper for extra income.
You link to a song or poem that gets misinterpreted and offends a Professionally Offended manager.
Do I need to continue? I've seen people being terminated for all of these things in news reports, and I've witnessed it happen to several people I know personally.
It's a "scandal" that has "embroiled" the community!
Depends on the monitor - of the 4 I have available to me now, only one pivots. Coincidentally, it's the closest to square as well. 5:4 ratio.
Unlike hand-held devices which get reoriented regularly by design, I can't think of many cases where monitors would be frequently turned. You'd have to be:
(1) A coder, newspaper layout designer, or similar guy with a need for portrait screens.
(2) Someone who also games or watches movies, on their work machine, necessitating a landscape screen too.
(3) Someone who has not realized you can have a multi-monitor setup with both portrait and landscape screens.
You're probably doing something wrong if you flip monitors daily. If you have a legit reason to do it, it would be an edge case. If you are also too lazy to use a three-finger keystroke after already physically rotating the monitor, well that's an extreme edge case. It's certainly nothing that a manufacturer is going to cater to.
I don't remember the last time I've had the Firefox process crash. FF does have a separate process for plugins - the Flash plugin has crashed many times and taken that out, while not interrupting the browser itself. Process-per-tab isn't necessary unless some core browser component is going to crash. Even if Firefox were to crash, or the power gets cut to your PC, you still have the "Restore previous session" option which has saved me during more than one storm.
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Well, one issue is that the people who HAVE been living here getting displaced, due to rocketing rents, and being forced to move out of the city.
Sounds like an issue of economy, not so much race. You might make the point that some races are economically disadvantaged, and provide justification for that - but you didn't. You made a point about rent, which equally affects poor of all races.
"Race" doesn't exist, btw. You're talking about cultural background & skin color. There is only one human race.
The article/summary specifically mentioned skin color, so that is why it's the topic of discussion. Looks like the writer's trolling was a success.
"...browsing the web sans-flash is still a pain..." Is it? Which sites now require Flash? I recently reinstalled my OS and decided to forgo adding Flash as a little experiment to see how well it would work. I've managed 3 weeks so far without it.
Positives: YouTube works better in HTML5. Flash-based ads do not appear in uTorrent.
Negatives: There was some news site where the video wouldn't play, but it's a 50/50 chance whether that was due to Flash or Noscript. In any case, I'm used to those not working, and had no problem passing it by.
I have a netbook ca. 2009 that shipped with XP. It has 1 GB of memory and an Atom N270 - 32-bit, single core, single thread. Linux isn't an option due to the wireless drivers being horribly broken in Linux. Vista and Win 7 aren't options since the hardware would choke under the weight.
Eventually what I did was turn the the thing into a low-powered, headless Debian server - I can run that off Ethernet. It should be noted that it was somewhat difficult to even find a distro for it - I was going with Ubuntu Server first, then found out it's only available in 64-bit.
IIRC there was a man in the US who owned a business whose market niche(s) were potentially threatened by hemp. (Whether the threat was real or perceived, I'm not sure.) Being one of the "job creators" with connections, he was influential in getting the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 passed which marked the beginning of marijuana prohibition. So, even if the industry has advanced past the interest in hemp over 80 years - it's still correct to list industrial opposition along with racism and moral panic as forces that catalyzed prohibition.
Lol, what's this, someone trying to post something useful on Twitter? People still use that site? Jesus, even Facebook is a better medium for disseminating information. When Facebook has a leg up on you, that's just sad. Please, let's let Twitter and all the twits on it go the way of MySpace.
Too many Americans these days are without nuclear war and exploding aircraft protection! I have a brilliant plan to resolve the issue - simply mandate every homeowner to build a shelter at their own expense! For those who can't afford it, we will impose a fine of $4000 annually until the cheapskates cough up the full cost of a shelter! The fastest path to universal coverage!