Attendance is not a law, but there are in-house punishments for skipping class or being tardy. While detention makes sense and suspension for class-skipping definitely doesn't, that is not my point. You cannot graduate from many schools if you miss too many days of school. If you're over the age of 18 and enrolled in high school you will not be arrested if caught skipping school, but you will be kept from graduating if you do so often enough.
Being proud to have attended a prestigious private school is ok I suppose. Thinking private schools are worth the cost is ok too. Saying you like them better for "MANY" reasons makes you sound like you'd rather the public not be educated the same as you. Public education allows (most of) our country to function at or above the level of a 16-year old pupil who has attended some 10 years of school.
On topic, however, US schools in addition to educating act as a day care of sorts for mostly minors. They are liable for the students' physical and mental well-being during school hours. Even if a few students are 18 years old or more, the school is required to protect the rest of the students from information deemed illegal for minors. If the intent of the proxy was to circumvent a firewall blocking websites on the topics of pornography and tobacco then the guy who ran the proxy was encouraging illegal actions. If the proxy allowed access to time-wasting websites such as homestar runner or myspace then he was probably circumventing school rules that tried to protect the students' best interests and have them use computers for educational purposes. While somewhat put-off by the fact that I was unable to download music illegally or chat on IRC or set the school computer's desktop background to nude pictures of girls with big floppy titties, I understand that there were valid reasons for preventing such actions.
LCDs, for the most part, do not have great internal algorithms for scaling from arbitrary resolutions to actual pixels. Particularly with laptops, where screen adjustment is done through software rather than buttons on the screen, different resolutions are displayed letterboxed or cropped. On a 1024x768 screen, one can play a game at 1024x576 using the middle 576 rows of the screen while leaving the top 106 rows and bottom 106 rows black. My 1280x1024 Sony LCD monitor displays all resolutions as actual pixels rather than scaling and making things look shitty.
Sign me up! Next time I want to give a girl something shiny I'll just find another girl with something shiny and let the shiny-breeding do its thing. Tons cheaper than buying jewelry!
Motorola RAZR v3 dimensions (from Motorola US website): 3.86 x 2.08 x 0.54 inches so its volume is 4.34 cubic inches
Nokida 6230 dimensions (from Nokia US website): 4.10 x 1.70 x 0.79 inches so its volume is 5.51 cubic inches
Despite this being a 27% increase in volume, it is hardly a problem when each aspect differs by 0.38 inches or less. A cost increase of roughly $100 dollars is a problem. If you're in for form over function then you can justify that cost. I cannot.
Why do I think iTunes means a limited number of songs? Because it does. The ROKR iTunes phone only allows you to carry 100 songs at a time.
For what you pay for a Motorola phone you could have another brand's bluetooth-capable phone and a USB bluetooth adapter. Motorola and Apple both make aesthetically-pleasing hardware. Apple has been an innovative software company for years, but Motorola simply can't cut the muster. My Nokia 6230 supports mp3 natively and has an MMC card reader that can handle up to 1 GB. I can have as many songs as I want, never use jukebox software such as iTunes, and transfer to and from any PC that recognizes my bluetooth adapter. My mother's Motorola phone supports mp3 natively, has bluetooth, and costs a fair deal more than my phone, yet Motorola charges its customers for PC software to connect via bluetooth.
When choosing a device that has several functions, the ease of using these functions and the added costs of using all of the functions should play a major role. If you want a camera and a phone and a music player, you should buy something that can be used for all three out of the box with no extra gimmicks.
This is a very modifiable "biometric." I lost a little piece of my nose in a nasty bicycle accident. Some people get facelifts, nosejobs, and botox injections. Many men have differing amounts of facial hair on a day-to-day basis. People who fly infrequently could gain or lose a good deal of weight between flights and have different facial dimensions. The error tolerances that would have to be built into an automated face scanner would have to be large. I would rather have a human check my ID in a few milliseconds more than have an inaccurate system for verification. Show me a 40 millisecond thumbprint scanner with an international database and we'll talk.
SI units are not used for storage. Electrical and computing applications have prefixes corresponding to increases of 2^10 rather than 10^3 as they have had for years.
I can't speak for the other models, but the Grados are only uncomfortable in their shipped shape. You will not break the headband if you flex it to make it wider, and the headphones will be infinitely more comfortable with a normal-sized head after a little bending than before. Regarding portability, the Grado headphones are bulky but damn near bombproof. I have bicycled in the rain with them around my neck and listened to them as soon as I was back indoors. I have thrown them into my backpack between books, and after the foam on the earpieces relaxed back to its normal shape they were ready to go again. I have caught the cord on a door and ripped the earcups clean off of the headband and simply snapped it all back together. Comfort is not a concern if you take the appropriate measures, and if you have sufficient space to transport them they are plenty sturdy to travel.
Entirely offtopic, but as a waiter the only person to ever completely stiff me on a tip was an episcopalian priest. A priest said my service was "unforgivable." In a restaurant with a hostess to seat customers, he seated himself at a closed table in my section of the restaurant. I waited on him attentively from the first harumph, roughly 5 minutes after he seated himself, and that was not good enough to get a tip. If I had to place a bet on who would be a jerk with the options of a complete stranger or a reverend, I'd take the reverend every time.
I won't argue that artifacts can be magically fixed through manual or automated processes, but people make careers of restoring old media. Fixing thousands of frames in movies would definitely be harder than fixing faded and cracked old pictures, and fixing audio would make my head spin. The automated processes used to digitally "restore" movies have been known to occasionally blur out things that are not artifacts or leave some artifacts behind. Removing hiss from audio is likely complicated as well and may lose some (hopefully unimportant) sounds. The Criterion Collection has fabulous restorations of actual classics on DVD. With any restoration youll have errors still. If a majority of the viewing area is improved or maintained with a major increase in resolution people will prefer the new high definition format. If analog-sourced audio is converted to digital at a higher sampling frequency the sound will be reproduced more accurately than previous digital formats and people who think they can hear the difference will prefer the new high definition format.
I will agree with you, however, that improvement in audio and video quality could never make a bad movie magically turn good.
Betamax in no way died. It was used in the television industry for sure, last time i checked (although many networks are likely to have moved to digital HD-quality recording by now.) It may not have been able to win the consumer standards war, but its superiority lead professionals to prefer and use it.
Ice melting is not the real problem here. The bears are simply swimming in the wrong direction because the change in position of the Magnetic North Pole combined with the accumulation of too many Leap Seconds has screwed up the BearSUV's latest Navigation Package. Fix the SUV software, sell more BearSUVs with good software to bears, and forget that "global warming" mumbo jumbo.
gave me cirrhosis of the eye. If people were buying Kool Keith instead of Young Wizzle Pizzle and actually enjoying their music for a longer period that the gap between album releases by a given artist CD sales would skyrocket. As it is now, people are only buying what is popular and (hopefully) becoming disillusioned as you said. Fuck it he's dead.
Then NY Times has placed you on a list of people who read the articles that may go against the ideas of the current ruling party. Then your IP may be traced from each location in which you use your NY Times account and this data can be used to triangulate your expected position. The men in black will come snatch your body next time you're on wireless network X in your favorite internet cafe. You will disappear without a trace, and so mandatory registration to read articles will once again serve its purpose.
If that doesn't happen before you get this, could you post some of the wording in the manual for the less google-savvy types such as myself to read?
Cheers
Home PCs, unless they are fairly new, are unlikely to include SATA. The addition of a SATA card to an old home PC could cause the price to rise. When my Intel 845 motherboard blew and I upgraded to a 915 chipset board I had to buy an ATA card because only one ATA connection was on the board. The cost associated with the drives is not the only reason one option will be more or less expensive.
Hamburger University. Lots of McDonalds employees go to this business-oriented school. Then again, lots are still in high school and are unlikely to get degrees in high-schoolin' so you do have a good point.
HBO makes a few good TV shows. The topic of this discussion is not movies but television shows which incorporate product placement. Other than attempting to annoy me to death with Andrea Bocelli's performance of "Con Te Partiro" the Sopranos has consistently been an interesting show lacking in product placement. Mr. Show never had product placement to my knowledge. Movies are not the only reason to have HBO, and although it is unfortunate a large part of HBO's viewer demographic may enjoy *cringe* The Last Samurai.
I don't necessarily agree with the parent, but it would be great to work in some product placement in this death-a-thon. I have not heard a single plug for a common product in the last 6 hours of bumbleheads debating the pros and cons of a death penalty. Clearly the product placement people went to bed early tonight.
No worries. Most AC comments are scored 0 or -1 so nobody reads that doodle anyway. I peed myself laughing at the garden hose dilemma and nearly formed a new ocean in my chair, but I guess I wasn't hydrated well enough.
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Attendance is not a law, but there are in-house punishments for skipping class or being tardy. While detention makes sense and suspension for class-skipping definitely doesn't, that is not my point. You cannot graduate from many schools if you miss too many days of school. If you're over the age of 18 and enrolled in high school you will not be arrested if caught skipping school, but you will be kept from graduating if you do so often enough.
Being proud to have attended a prestigious private school is ok I suppose. Thinking private schools are worth the cost is ok too. Saying you like them better for "MANY" reasons makes you sound like you'd rather the public not be educated the same as you. Public education allows (most of) our country to function at or above the level of a 16-year old pupil who has attended some 10 years of school.
On topic, however, US schools in addition to educating act as a day care of sorts for mostly minors. They are liable for the students' physical and mental well-being during school hours. Even if a few students are 18 years old or more, the school is required to protect the rest of the students from information deemed illegal for minors. If the intent of the proxy was to circumvent a firewall blocking websites on the topics of pornography and tobacco then the guy who ran the proxy was encouraging illegal actions. If the proxy allowed access to time-wasting websites such as homestar runner or myspace then he was probably circumventing school rules that tried to protect the students' best interests and have them use computers for educational purposes. While somewhat put-off by the fact that I was unable to download music illegally or chat on IRC or set the school computer's desktop background to nude pictures of girls with big floppy titties, I understand that there were valid reasons for preventing such actions.
I guess I misread the title when I first thought of:
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http://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/temporary/PBF014B
LCDs, for the most part, do not have great internal algorithms for scaling from arbitrary resolutions to actual pixels. Particularly with laptops, where screen adjustment is done through software rather than buttons on the screen, different resolutions are displayed letterboxed or cropped. On a 1024x768 screen, one can play a game at 1024x576 using the middle 576 rows of the screen while leaving the top 106 rows and bottom 106 rows black. My 1280x1024 Sony LCD monitor displays all resolutions as actual pixels rather than scaling and making things look shitty.
the presence of jewelry increases jewelry
Sign me up! Next time I want to give a girl something shiny I'll just find another girl with something shiny and let the shiny-breeding do its thing. Tons cheaper than buying jewelry!
Motorola RAZR v3 dimensions (from Motorola US website):
3.86 x 2.08 x 0.54 inches
so its volume is
4.34 cubic inches
Nokida 6230 dimensions (from Nokia US website):
4.10 x 1.70 x 0.79 inches
so its volume is
5.51 cubic inches
Despite this being a 27% increase in volume, it is hardly a problem when each aspect differs by 0.38 inches or less. A cost increase of roughly $100 dollars is a problem. If you're in for form over function then you can justify that cost. I cannot.
Why do I think iTunes means a limited number of songs? Because it does. The ROKR iTunes phone only allows you to carry 100 songs at a time.
For what you pay for a Motorola phone you could have another brand's bluetooth-capable phone and a USB bluetooth adapter. Motorola and Apple both make aesthetically-pleasing hardware. Apple has been an innovative software company for years, but Motorola simply can't cut the muster. My Nokia 6230 supports mp3 natively and has an MMC card reader that can handle up to 1 GB. I can have as many songs as I want, never use jukebox software such as iTunes, and transfer to and from any PC that recognizes my bluetooth adapter. My mother's Motorola phone supports mp3 natively, has bluetooth, and costs a fair deal more than my phone, yet Motorola charges its customers for PC software to connect via bluetooth.
When choosing a device that has several functions, the ease of using these functions and the added costs of using all of the functions should play a major role. If you want a camera and a phone and a music player, you should buy something that can be used for all three out of the box with no extra gimmicks.
This is a very modifiable "biometric." I lost a little piece of my nose in a nasty bicycle accident. Some people get facelifts, nosejobs, and botox injections. Many men have differing amounts of facial hair on a day-to-day basis. People who fly infrequently could gain or lose a good deal of weight between flights and have different facial dimensions.
The error tolerances that would have to be built into an automated face scanner would have to be large. I would rather have a human check my ID in a few milliseconds more than have an inaccurate system for verification. Show me a 40 millisecond thumbprint scanner with an international database and we'll talk.
SI units are not used for storage. Electrical and computing applications have prefixes corresponding to increases of 2^10 rather than 10^3 as they have had for years.
People need to get the silly notion out of their heads that hydrogen is always made by splitting water. The parent poster is informative.
I can't speak for the other models, but the Grados are only uncomfortable in their shipped shape. You will not break the headband if you flex it to make it wider, and the headphones will be infinitely more comfortable with a normal-sized head after a little bending than before. Regarding portability, the Grado headphones are bulky but damn near bombproof. I have bicycled in the rain with them around my neck and listened to them as soon as I was back indoors. I have thrown them into my backpack between books, and after the foam on the earpieces relaxed back to its normal shape they were ready to go again. I have caught the cord on a door and ripped the earcups clean off of the headband and simply snapped it all back together. Comfort is not a concern if you take the appropriate measures, and if you have sufficient space to transport them they are plenty sturdy to travel.
Entirely offtopic, but as a waiter the only person to ever completely stiff me on a tip was an episcopalian priest. A priest said my service was "unforgivable." In a restaurant with a hostess to seat customers, he seated himself at a closed table in my section of the restaurant. I waited on him attentively from the first harumph, roughly 5 minutes after he seated himself, and that was not good enough to get a tip. If I had to place a bet on who would be a jerk with the options of a complete stranger or a reverend, I'd take the reverend every time.
Cheers!
I won't argue that artifacts can be magically fixed through manual or automated processes, but people make careers of restoring old media. Fixing thousands of frames in movies would definitely be harder than fixing faded and cracked old pictures, and fixing audio would make my head spin. The automated processes used to digitally "restore" movies have been known to occasionally blur out things that are not artifacts or leave some artifacts behind. Removing hiss from audio is likely complicated as well and may lose some (hopefully unimportant) sounds. The Criterion Collection has fabulous restorations of actual classics on DVD. With any restoration youll have errors still. If a majority of the viewing area is improved or maintained with a major increase in resolution people will prefer the new high definition format. If analog-sourced audio is converted to digital at a higher sampling frequency the sound will be reproduced more accurately than previous digital formats and people who think they can hear the difference will prefer the new high definition format.
I will agree with you, however, that improvement in audio and video quality could never make a bad movie magically turn good.
Betamax in no way died. It was used in the television industry for sure, last time i checked (although many networks are likely to have moved to digital HD-quality recording by now.) It may not have been able to win the consumer standards war, but its superiority lead professionals to prefer and use it.
Ice melting is not the real problem here. The bears are simply swimming in the wrong direction because the change in position of the Magnetic North Pole combined with the accumulation of too many Leap Seconds has screwed up the BearSUV's latest Navigation Package. Fix the SUV software, sell more BearSUVs with good software to bears, and forget that "global warming" mumbo jumbo.
gave me cirrhosis of the eye. If people were buying Kool Keith instead of Young Wizzle Pizzle and actually enjoying their music for a longer period that the gap between album releases by a given artist CD sales would skyrocket. As it is now, people are only buying what is popular and (hopefully) becoming disillusioned as you said. Fuck it he's dead.
Then NY Times has placed you on a list of people who read the articles that may go against the ideas of the current ruling party. Then your IP may be traced from each location in which you use your NY Times account and this data can be used to triangulate your expected position. The men in black will come snatch your body next time you're on wireless network X in your favorite internet cafe. You will disappear without a trace, and so mandatory registration to read articles will once again serve its purpose.
If that doesn't happen before you get this, could you post some of the wording in the manual for the less google-savvy types such as myself to read? Cheers
You redundant so-and-so. I wish I had a karma bonus. :-P
Home PCs, unless they are fairly new, are unlikely to include SATA. The addition of a SATA card to an old home PC could cause the price to rise. When my Intel 845 motherboard blew and I upgraded to a 915 chipset board I had to buy an ATA card because only one ATA connection was on the board. The cost associated with the drives is not the only reason one option will be more or less expensive.
Hamburger University. Lots of McDonalds employees go to this business-oriented school. Then again, lots are still in high school and are unlikely to get degrees in high-schoolin' so you do have a good point.
HBO makes a few good TV shows. The topic of this discussion is not movies but television shows which incorporate product placement. Other than attempting to annoy me to death with Andrea Bocelli's performance of "Con Te Partiro" the Sopranos has consistently been an interesting show lacking in product placement. Mr. Show never had product placement to my knowledge. Movies are not the only reason to have HBO, and although it is unfortunate a large part of HBO's viewer demographic may enjoy *cringe* The Last Samurai.
I don't necessarily agree with the parent, but it would be great to work in some product placement in this death-a-thon. I have not heard a single plug for a common product in the last 6 hours of bumbleheads debating the pros and cons of a death penalty. Clearly the product placement people went to bed early tonight.
If you pay more you get more. HBO costs extra on top of the basic cable package, but it is worth every penny.
No worries. Most AC comments are scored 0 or -1 so nobody reads that doodle anyway. I peed myself laughing at the garden hose dilemma and nearly formed a new ocean in my chair, but I guess I wasn't hydrated well enough.
I tried to turn off the tracking features in my phone and a text message popped up:
lol i'm not tracking you