Well there's a lot of dead space inside a dvd player too. Digital has replaced cds for most of us. It just seems very strange to me that there is no mp3 "component" for stereos. They could even build a CF/SD slot directly into the receivers.
I suspect there's also a feeling with manufacturers that by selling you a portable they can get you to keep upgrading it, whereas a component is something you tend to buy once. Still, with the ipod dominating the market you'd think somebody would try to carve out their own niche.
Okay that's encouraging. I had a razor with a dying battery so I started using it plugged into the wall. That worked for a while but after a month or so it wouldn't run from ac either. I assumed the same thing would happen with an ipod.
For years now every so often I take a look to try to find an mp3 player that natively runs off AC power. Everything is either designed to run off batteries, stream from a pc, or plays off a cd. I want to have an mp3 player in my woodworking shop. The life expectancy of a cd player in there is about 3 months. I don't particular want to try a pc there either, and it's completely overkill - I use enough juice in there as it is. Running 8-10 hrs a day every day constantly recharging a battery is going to kill the battery. Why isn't anyone making a simple mp3 player that just has a hdd or flash storage that is designed to be a stereo component? When I search all I find is people like me looking for the same thing.
It's a speed limit, it's not a guarantee that you can travel at that speed. If you get stuck in traffic you don't get a refund of your taxes. If the road is closed you don't get a refund of your taxes. And while you do have "unlimited" access to the roads when everyone tries to use them all at once the system breaks down. That is the nature of infrastructure.
You haven't paid for that much bandwidth anymore than you have paid for the right to travel on any public road as fast as the speed limit 100% of the time by paying gas tax. If you want your own personal road everywhere you want to go it's going to cost you a little more than that and if you want your own personal lane to the internet that's going to cost you a little more too.
At some point in my life, I'm gonna find a place to live that's 50 miles from anywhere And then I'm going to put up some big ass flood lights. I tell ya it's scary out there alone.
The warhead is on the inside. But surely there is some indication on the outside. Otherwise you'd be accidentally nuking things left and right. Whether it be different color paint, tags, or the nice fellows with m16s following it around all the time, there's gotta be some way to tell without taking it apart that it's a nuke.
You don't think that a B-52 can take off with six nuclear missiles when it isn't supposed to is a big deal?
I'm confused as to the details here. It says the "missiles" were being decommissioned. Is that the missile itself or the warhead? If it's the missile, first off why the hell are we decommissioning cruise missiles, and second how did the pilots not notice the nuclear warheads on the missiles they were carrying when they did their preflight inspection? If it was the warheads, then it would seem like someone further up the chain is to blame and the crews were just following orders.
Isn't the whole justification for manned missions that people can react and do a lot more than robots, at least at this point in time? And yet we're afraid to let them out the door to actually do anything. Time and again when people are given the chance to perform they rise to the occasion and exceed expectations.
Remind me, how many astronauts have we lost on spacewalks?
Obviously, dumping billions of tons of Greenhouse Gases into the atmosphere is not a good idea, period. Well gosh, I was really on the fence about this whole global warming thing, but since you've enclosed your hypothesis with 'Obviously' and 'period' I really have no choice but to accept it as fact, do I? 'Obviously' has got to be one of the worst words in the English language. It can only be used to preach to the choir or if you think you're infinitely smarter than your audience. It's the sort of word you'd expect Bush to use to tell us why we need to nuke Belgium, not talk about climate change. Sorry, just a little personal pet peeve of mine...
Let's looks at the choices. You've got the republicans, can't vote for them, they were in favor of the war. However to vote against them is to vote for the incompetent democrats who rolled over and voted for the war too. No one else has a shot at winning, unless some celebrity decides to run as an independent and then we're really in trouble. As it stands now, we have (too much) food on the tables, roofs over our heads, and all the pr0n we want a few mouse clicks away. That the people were in favor of the war when they thought it would be easy but against after it turned out not to be is unfortunately not surprising, but shows that we have the government that we deserve. Things are going to have to get a lot worse before they can get better, and those in power are smart enough not to let things get bad enough.
It sounds like they turned them off at the end of their window over Russia and will go back to work on them when it comes back around, not that it crashed again.
Someone should mod you "-1, idiot talking out of his ass". It doesn't sound like you even watched the videos. The first video isn't "edited" beyond the minor addition of footage, in the form of black screens with white text explaining the context of the video. Are you kidding me? We see 5 seconds of what the cops are doing, then it cuts to black for a little editorializing, then we come back and the cops are in different places for a few seconds more and on like that it goes. You don't know what's been cut out of it and the text most certainly does not provide "context". Regardless of whether anything is being hidden, it would be a much more powerful video without the edits and assumption that the viewer is idiot and needs an explanation every 5 seconds.
So what you are saying is rather than try to work it out with him they should have just sent the lawyers after him immediately? What I see in the emails is M$ bending over backwards to avoid that but growing completely exasperated by this guy going back on what he said he would do, twice. Obviously the guy knows he hacked his way around something Microsoft doesn't want him to do, Microsoft asked him to stop it. But he basically begs them to sick a lawyer on him and finally gets his wish.
My reply to him would be that if every single spam received in his district resulted in a claim landing on his desk I could make the same argument back to him about just ignoring them. I wouldn't presume to try to tell him what is and isn't a waste of the courts time, he shouldn't presume to understand the implications spam has on IT without, you know, actually being interested in any of the facts, which he clearly wasn't. A spammer can, with minimal effort, inflict such a waste on the world and never have anything ever come back to him. Even if the spammer doesn't bother to show up for court and never actually pays a nickel, he's at least had to receive the claim and ignore it. Unfortunately you have to waste some other people's time in order to waste the spammers time, but unless the judge would prefer vigilante justice against spammers perhaps he should just shut up and do his job. But instead he felt the need to waste even more of his own time harassing the guy.
On his website, Dyson claims to have invented the concept in 1978. Cyclones have been used in industrial applications for a century, according to one of the most respected names in the industry, Bill Pentz, though I'm having a hard time googling anything to back him up. They began in agriculture for things like separating grain, and were adapted for dust collection some fifty years ago. Bill's been giving away his research and plans since 2001, and his page is well worth a read if you do any woodworking at home.
I sent you an email offering you just this very thing the other day. My uncle, the prince of Nigeria, has been mortified by all the spam and phishing scams occuring all over the world. He set aside $100,000,000 dollars into a fund for those most affected. He asked me to track them down for him. Given the sensitive nature of this program we are delivering the funds strictly in cash. All we need for you is to send your car keys and the location where it is parked to this PO Box, and in a few days you will find a large suitcase in the truck.
Is the value that supposed "real" fans give to their unsigned "real" bands just because they are the only ones who know about them. The second the band makes it big these fans lament how the band sold out and disown them. There is no light without darkness and there are no cool indie bands without the RIAA.
People seem to want the labels to disappear and the marketing to disappear. Okay, poof. All gone. You walk into a music store and find a billion songs/albums individually wrapped in brown paper. Where do you start?
I'd like to think that every band has a potential audience out there somewhere. Connecting the band to the audience is always going to be something of value. I'm not saying the system we have had is the best one, it was just the easiest and most profitable one for the labels in the past. But we need some sort of system, or else you're replacing the RIAA with rand()%NUMBER_OF_BANDS_IN_WORLD.
It isn't good for the customers and I wouldn't really call it good for you either. Convenient when times are good perhaps. You don't have to worry about the guy down the street undercutting you and getting into a price war with him that hurts your bottom line. But if the biggest brand names in the industry aren't moving off the shelves during the season then maybe there's some other factors going on. Like the weather hasn't been favorable, or something else. And the guy down the street is in the same predicament, but you both have to get creative to get around this agreement.
I can't remember now whether this was in the Senate or House, but I clearly remember one of the panel members saying how everyone agreed that seeing violence was dangerous for children, and no one objected. And then going on to say how he had seven tvs in his house and when his grandchildren came over he couldn't possibly be expected to know what was appearing on all of them at once.
With the one hand they talk about it as if it's a loaded gun pointed at their kids, and yet you wouldn't catch them saying I have seven guns in my house, you can't expect me to know where they all are. There is a disconnect between what they say and what they do. If you really believed it was bad for your children you'd run right home and find a way to control what they were watching right away. But they don't, because they know it's BS.
But it's not like Congress would ever approve anything they know is BS, right? So we have nothing to worry about.
People essentially just sit down and tweak the models until they get the results they expect, then use them to generate best case and worst case analysis. That folks, is hardly science.
Hey, we got the global climate model to compile finally! Ship it.
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Well there's a lot of dead space inside a dvd player too. Digital has replaced cds for most of us. It just seems very strange to me that there is no mp3 "component" for stereos. They could even build a CF/SD slot directly into the receivers.
I suspect there's also a feeling with manufacturers that by selling you a portable they can get you to keep upgrading it, whereas a component is something you tend to buy once. Still, with the ipod dominating the market you'd think somebody would try to carve out their own niche.
Okay that's encouraging. I had a razor with a dying battery so I started using it plugged into the wall. That worked for a while but after a month or so it wouldn't run from ac either. I assumed the same thing would happen with an ipod.
For years now every so often I take a look to try to find an mp3 player that natively runs off AC power. Everything is either designed to run off batteries, stream from a pc, or plays off a cd. I want to have an mp3 player in my woodworking shop. The life expectancy of a cd player in there is about 3 months. I don't particular want to try a pc there either, and it's completely overkill - I use enough juice in there as it is. Running 8-10 hrs a day every day constantly recharging a battery is going to kill the battery. Why isn't anyone making a simple mp3 player that just has a hdd or flash storage that is designed to be a stereo component? When I search all I find is people like me looking for the same thing.
It's a speed limit, it's not a guarantee that you can travel at that speed. If you get stuck in traffic you don't get a refund of your taxes. If the road is closed you don't get a refund of your taxes. And while you do have "unlimited" access to the roads when everyone tries to use them all at once the system breaks down. That is the nature of infrastructure.
You haven't paid for that much bandwidth anymore than you have paid for the right to travel on any public road as fast as the speed limit 100% of the time by paying gas tax. If you want your own personal road everywhere you want to go it's going to cost you a little more than that and if you want your own personal lane to the internet that's going to cost you a little more too.
You don't think that a B-52 can take off with six nuclear missiles when it isn't supposed to is a big deal?
I'm confused as to the details here. It says the "missiles" were being decommissioned. Is that the missile itself or the warhead? If it's the missile, first off why the hell are we decommissioning cruise missiles, and second how did the pilots not notice the nuclear warheads on the missiles they were carrying when they did their preflight inspection? If it was the warheads, then it would seem like someone further up the chain is to blame and the crews were just following orders.
Isn't the whole justification for manned missions that people can react and do a lot more than robots, at least at this point in time? And yet we're afraid to let them out the door to actually do anything. Time and again when people are given the chance to perform they rise to the occasion and exceed expectations.
Remind me, how many astronauts have we lost on spacewalks?
Let's looks at the choices. You've got the republicans, can't vote for them, they were in favor of the war. However to vote against them is to vote for the incompetent democrats who rolled over and voted for the war too. No one else has a shot at winning, unless some celebrity decides to run as an independent and then we're really in trouble. As it stands now, we have (too much) food on the tables, roofs over our heads, and all the pr0n we want a few mouse clicks away. That the people were in favor of the war when they thought it would be easy but against after it turned out not to be is unfortunately not surprising, but shows that we have the government that we deserve. Things are going to have to get a lot worse before they can get better, and those in power are smart enough not to let things get bad enough.
It sounds like they turned them off at the end of their window over Russia and will go back to work on them when it comes back around, not that it crashed again.
So what you are saying is rather than try to work it out with him they should have just sent the lawyers after him immediately? What I see in the emails is M$ bending over backwards to avoid that but growing completely exasperated by this guy going back on what he said he would do, twice. Obviously the guy knows he hacked his way around something Microsoft doesn't want him to do, Microsoft asked him to stop it. But he basically begs them to sick a lawyer on him and finally gets his wish.
Do you have any idea how much mercury is released to the atmosphere to produce one lollipop?
...I'm sure someone will be along to calculate this in a minute or two
My reply to him would be that if every single spam received in his district resulted in a claim landing on his desk I could make the same argument back to him about just ignoring them. I wouldn't presume to try to tell him what is and isn't a waste of the courts time, he shouldn't presume to understand the implications spam has on IT without, you know, actually being interested in any of the facts, which he clearly wasn't. A spammer can, with minimal effort, inflict such a waste on the world and never have anything ever come back to him. Even if the spammer doesn't bother to show up for court and never actually pays a nickel, he's at least had to receive the claim and ignore it. Unfortunately you have to waste some other people's time in order to waste the spammers time, but unless the judge would prefer vigilante justice against spammers perhaps he should just shut up and do his job. But instead he felt the need to waste even more of his own time harassing the guy.
Except that iBOT came before the segway.
On his website, Dyson claims to have invented the concept in 1978. Cyclones have been used in industrial applications for a century, according to one of the most respected names in the industry, Bill Pentz, though I'm having a hard time googling anything to back him up. They began in agriculture for things like separating grain, and were adapted for dust collection some fifty years ago. Bill's been giving away his research and plans since 2001, and his page is well worth a read if you do any woodworking at home.
I sent you an email offering you just this very thing the other day. My uncle, the prince of Nigeria, has been mortified by all the spam and phishing scams occuring all over the world. He set aside $100,000,000 dollars into a fund for those most affected. He asked me to track them down for him. Given the sensitive nature of this program we are delivering the funds strictly in cash. All we need for you is to send your car keys and the location where it is parked to this PO Box, and in a few days you will find a large suitcase in the truck.
Is the value that supposed "real" fans give to their unsigned "real" bands just because they are the only ones who know about them. The second the band makes it big these fans lament how the band sold out and disown them. There is no light without darkness and there are no cool indie bands without the RIAA.
People seem to want the labels to disappear and the marketing to disappear. Okay, poof. All gone. You walk into a music store and find a billion songs/albums individually wrapped in brown paper. Where do you start?
I'd like to think that every band has a potential audience out there somewhere. Connecting the band to the audience is always going to be something of value. I'm not saying the system we have had is the best one, it was just the easiest and most profitable one for the labels in the past. But we need some sort of system, or else you're replacing the RIAA with rand()%NUMBER_OF_BANDS_IN_WORLD.
It isn't good for the customers and I wouldn't really call it good for you either. Convenient when times are good perhaps. You don't have to worry about the guy down the street undercutting you and getting into a price war with him that hurts your bottom line. But if the biggest brand names in the industry aren't moving off the shelves during the season then maybe there's some other factors going on. Like the weather hasn't been favorable, or something else. And the guy down the street is in the same predicament, but you both have to get creative to get around this agreement.
Think how much better the mileage will be without that 175 lbs of dead weight.
I can't remember now whether this was in the Senate or House, but I clearly remember one of the panel members saying how everyone agreed that seeing violence was dangerous for children, and no one objected. And then going on to say how he had seven tvs in his house and when his grandchildren came over he couldn't possibly be expected to know what was appearing on all of them at once.
With the one hand they talk about it as if it's a loaded gun pointed at their kids, and yet you wouldn't catch them saying I have seven guns in my house, you can't expect me to know where they all are. There is a disconnect between what they say and what they do. If you really believed it was bad for your children you'd run right home and find a way to control what they were watching right away. But they don't, because they know it's BS.
But it's not like Congress would ever approve anything they know is BS, right? So we have nothing to worry about.
Hey, we got the global climate model to compile finally! Ship it.