NO, EMP only destroys semiconductors. Won't bother resistors, coils, capacitors, or vaccuum tubes. If you want an EMP-proof circut, use tubes rather than semiconductors and you're good to go.
To me, The Hobbit left more of an impression on me than Lord of the Rings. Maybe because I was younger when I read it, but it always came off more mystical to me.
I was an adult when I read them, and although I don't think The Hobbit was more mystical, it was IMO a better book.
Yes, there are tie ins to the Lord of the Rings
No tie ins, rather LOTR was a sequel to The Hobbit.
No, they're right, the world will end next December -- but only as I know it. I'm eligible to retire then. Goodbye cubicle hell, hello retirement heaven!
Believe me, my retirement won't affect The Hobbit. Hell, I don't even work in the industry.
The Rankin/Bass one, while nice, cut approximately 2/3 of the original story out.
How old were you when you saw that cartoon? I thought it was terrible, but I've never been a fan of that particular cartoon house. Having grown up on the old Warner Brothers cartoons, Rankin/Bass just looks cheesy and cheap. ALL their cartoons.
Did you see the Ralph Bakshi version of LOTR? Not bad, but they left out WAY too much... and were planning a sequel but the original movie bombed.
Have you ever seen a single movie that followed the book more than rudimentarily? I don't think one exists. Look at True Grit -- two movies from the same book, mostly following the book's dialogue, both lacking elements and inserting elements that weren't in the book (for example, in the book Rooster only had one eye, but he didn't wear an eye patch).
Or worse, look at I, Robot. A hot Susan Calvin? WTF? It kinda sorta a little bit copied (kinda) one of the stories in the book ("Little Lost Robot"), but GEES.
It had probably been five or more years since I'd read the books, but I was happy. No, I didn't like "Nobody tosses a dwarf!" and missed Tom Bombadil, and thought it was insane that Gimli and the elf went with Aragorn into the cave, and that the book left what happened there to the imagination, but mostly the movies looked like the images I had in my head while reading the book.
It was closer to its book than any other I've read and seen. I was happy with it.
Same drug, only difference is whether you want to ruin your lungs or your nasal passaages (or if you're hard core, your veins).
No matter how you ingest it, cocaine is a NASTY drug that will ruin most users' lives. Mind you, I think it should be legal; you should have the right to screw your life up any way you want.
By "well off" you mean "not destitute and living in an impoverished country." I know somwone with HIV, and she's dirt-poor, living in government-supported housing and eating from a LINK card. Medicaid pays for the drugs. In most other countries, all health care is government-sponsored. People only die of AIDS in war torn hell holes.
The AC's against circumcision because he's an antitheist, and to an antitheist, anything a religion, like Judism or Islam insists on must be bad (Christians don't have to be circumcised).
The anticircumcision crowd is batshit insane with no facts to back them up, only bald faced lies. For instance, they insist the foreskin makes sex better, while 60% men who were circumcised as an adult say the sex is BETTER after surgery -- inlcuding the one guy I knew in the USAF in Thailand. The poor guy got jungle rot on his foreskin, and boy was I glad I'd been circumcised! He had to carry around amyl nitrate poppers in case of erection. He woke me up screaming one night -- he'd gotten an erection in his sleep.
From my experience, and considering that circumcision lessens the chance of contracting HIV or other STDs, I'd say that NOT circumcising your son is child abuse.
"Female circumcision" is a completely different matter. It is a mutilation, and is not circumcision.
Libreoffice, stupid name aside, seems to do everything that people want and more or less all the developers jumped ship for it a long time ago.
Calc needs some work. I was trying to think of an easy way to get all my music into a single playlist and came up with (on the Windows machine) dir/s > everything.m3u, then edit in a text editor. But there was way too much stuff in the file that needed to be deleted, so I thought "hmmm, I'll import it into a spreadsheet and I can simply delete columns.
Calc won't import a text file. If you try to, it opens in the word processor. This is a HUGE drawback, and I really wish they'd fix it.
I did get my m3u file -- just drop the music's root directory into the MP3 player. Lots easier than the spreadsheet method. But still, there's no reason why calc can't open a text file and have user-selectable cell/field delimiters. I do this at work all the time to get text data into an Access database, import to Excel, do a few operations that Access can't (although it should be able to) and paste into the Access table.
I'm now going to have to stop evangelizing Open/Libre office, I guess, until they finish building the sucker. I wonder how Oo's database program is? I'll have to screw around with it a little.
Hmmm, I haven't ried any FLAC files on it (and won't be able to until I replace the hard drive), but that may be the probem. Oggs, WAVs, and MP3s play gaplessly for me. I surmise that the gap may be caused by decoding the entire file before playing it, or at least decoding the first part ("Buffering"). Maybe they'll fix it in the next release. Meanwhile, it doesn't sound like it suits your purposes.
When I replace the drive I'll try some of the music I have in FLAC format (mostly still stored on backup CDs), and SHN as well, and see how it goes.
That is one disadvantage to Audacity; it only rips to wav or ogg. To make a FLAC you'd have to rip to wav and convert the file.
I'm still looking for a good recording program. The best I've found so far that will run under Linux is Audacity; not a bad program, but it's lacking some features that EAC (Windows only, unfortunately, and won't run on a machine without an optical drive) has. The biggie is tracks -- I can sample an album, remove the silences at the beginning, middle (when I turn the record over) and end, then tell it where tracks start and it will burn a music CD without having to cut each song out of the sampled file and then reassemble in a burning program.
Pedantery is a nerdy trait, especially in conversation with other nerds. It doesn't matter if you're an engineer, a programmer, or a scientist, most things nerdy require accuracy, so nerds are mostly pedantic by nature.
Same here, even though the drive in my main box has been trying to die for months (just went fully titsup over the weekend). I'll still wait, I have a couple of old, small spares that will do until production and prices are normal again.
Libraries have permission to lend books from the copyright holders.
Wrong. They OWN the copies of the books on their shelves, bought and paid for, and they're legally free to lend them, resell them, tear out pages, or burn them, despite what the author wants (although an author who didn't want his books in libraries would be a fool). Where did you get the crazy idea that a library needed an author's permission to lend books?
However, you miss the point. Hell, you seem to be trying to avoid the point at all costs.
Back in 1971 I got the only flu shot I'll ever have, it gave me the worst case of the flu I ever had before or since -- but that was when they were using live vaccines. Do they even use live viruses for vaccines these days at all?
...quite British but I'm sure an American wouldn't be too put off by anything in there.
I'm American, and I've always enjoyed British writing. In fact, Pratchett is my favorite living author right now; so many of my old favorites have died.
If I could download all of Cory Doctorow's work for free, why would I then go and buy any of his books?
I don't know, maybe because you're not a cheap bastard? If you can check his books out at the library for free why buy them? Despite (Doctorow says "because of") the fact that he gives his books away for free, he's a New York Times best seller, which kind of belies your "if I can get content for free I won't pay".
The fact is most people aren't cheap bastards and will buy works from artists they enjoy, even if they can get them for free. Only the dishonest person thinks piracy hurts sales. Warren Marshall, head of Electronic Arts, stated on Planet Crap ten or so years ago that the reason he had so much DRM on his games is because he was a pirate in college. Again, the dishonest people like him (like you?) are the ones who think piracy hurts sales.
You do know that music pirates spend more on music than non-pirates, right?
It's not a deadly virus, it's a dead virus. Only a live virus can infect you. Yes, a non-live virus can be toxic, but deaths from non-live viruses are extremely rare.
Your immune system doesn't really go after viruses and bacteria, it targets enzymes and other chemicals produced by your injured or ill cells.
No, it means you have successfully applied the double standard that men cannot be sluts.
It would be nice if the double standard would go away (again -- in the '70s the word "slut" was pretty much extinct outside of church circles), but it's there. The episode of The Big Bang Theory where they shoot a laser at the moon and Penny's new boyfriend says "aren't you afraid you'll blow the moon up?" is a good example of that very double standard.
A better example of a double standard? Visit any family court or divorce proceeding. The double standards seem to be encoded in law, and most of it goes against men. For example, we have no reproductive rights whatever, a woman has ALL the reproductive rights. She wants an abortion, she gets an abortion, even if he wants to raise the kid. She wants the kid? He pays for it even if a kid is the last thing he wanted. That's far worse a double standard than the word "slut" applying only to females.
He's not being close minded, he's being realistic. When this vaccine is perfected, I predict that "slut" will go away like it did in the period between Roe v Wade and AIDS.
So will you take that dispassionate viewpoint if your wife/gf/mother/father dropped dead suddenly?
No, but I wouldn't expect comments about it to be posted to slashdot without being modded "offtopic". because if my (very aged) parents died, it would be meaningless to anyone who doesn't know them.
Unless you know them personally, the 600 dead isn't news, it's gossip. The price of hard drives affects all of us.
You are, in fact, the one without a sense of perspective. What about the hundreds that die every day from hunger? Yep, they're offtopic, too.
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NO, EMP only destroys semiconductors. Won't bother resistors, coils, capacitors, or vaccuum tubes. If you want an EMP-proof circut, use tubes rather than semiconductors and you're good to go.
To me, The Hobbit left more of an impression on me than Lord of the Rings. Maybe because I was younger when I read it, but it always came off more mystical to me.
I was an adult when I read them, and although I don't think The Hobbit was more mystical, it was IMO a better book.
Yes, there are tie ins to the Lord of the Rings
No tie ins, rather LOTR was a sequel to The Hobbit.
No, they're right, the world will end next December -- but only as I know it. I'm eligible to retire then. Goodbye cubicle hell, hello retirement heaven!
Believe me, my retirement won't affect The Hobbit. Hell, I don't even work in the industry.
The Rankin/Bass one, while nice, cut approximately 2/3 of the original story out.
How old were you when you saw that cartoon? I thought it was terrible, but I've never been a fan of that particular cartoon house. Having grown up on the old Warner Brothers cartoons, Rankin/Bass just looks cheesy and cheap. ALL their cartoons.
Did you see the Ralph Bakshi version of LOTR? Not bad, but they left out WAY too much... and were planning a sequel but the original movie bombed.
Have you ever seen a single movie that followed the book more than rudimentarily? I don't think one exists. Look at True Grit -- two movies from the same book, mostly following the book's dialogue, both lacking elements and inserting elements that weren't in the book (for example, in the book Rooster only had one eye, but he didn't wear an eye patch).
Or worse, look at I, Robot. A hot Susan Calvin? WTF? It kinda sorta a little bit copied (kinda) one of the stories in the book ("Little Lost Robot"), but GEES.
It had probably been five or more years since I'd read the books, but I was happy. No, I didn't like "Nobody tosses a dwarf!" and missed Tom Bombadil, and thought it was insane that Gimli and the elf went with Aragorn into the cave, and that the book left what happened there to the imagination, but mostly the movies looked like the images I had in my head while reading the book.
It was closer to its book than any other I've read and seen. I was happy with it.
Same drug, only difference is whether you want to ruin your lungs or your nasal passaages (or if you're hard core, your veins).
No matter how you ingest it, cocaine is a NASTY drug that will ruin most users' lives. Mind you, I think it should be legal; you should have the right to screw your life up any way you want.
The guy on TV last night said if the trials go well, we'll have the vaccine in 5 years.
The film, due December 14, 2012, is subtitled "An Unexpected Journey"
Odd, so was the book.
By "well off" you mean "not destitute and living in an impoverished country." I know somwone with HIV, and she's dirt-poor, living in government-supported housing and eating from a LINK card. Medicaid pays for the drugs. In most other countries, all health care is government-sponsored. People only die of AIDS in war torn hell holes.
The AC's against circumcision because he's an antitheist, and to an antitheist, anything a religion, like Judism or Islam insists on must be bad (Christians don't have to be circumcised).
The anticircumcision crowd is batshit insane with no facts to back them up, only bald faced lies. For instance, they insist the foreskin makes sex better, while 60% men who were circumcised as an adult say the sex is BETTER after surgery -- inlcuding the one guy I knew in the USAF in Thailand. The poor guy got jungle rot on his foreskin, and boy was I glad I'd been circumcised! He had to carry around amyl nitrate poppers in case of erection. He woke me up screaming one night -- he'd gotten an erection in his sleep.
From my experience, and considering that circumcision lessens the chance of contracting HIV or other STDs, I'd say that NOT circumcising your son is child abuse.
"Female circumcision" is a completely different matter. It is a mutilation, and is not circumcision.
Libreoffice, stupid name aside, seems to do everything that people want and more or less all the developers jumped ship for it a long time ago.
/s > everything.m3u, then edit in a text editor. But there was way too much stuff in the file that needed to be deleted, so I thought "hmmm, I'll import it into a spreadsheet and I can simply delete columns.
Calc needs some work. I was trying to think of an easy way to get all my music into a single playlist and came up with (on the Windows machine) dir
Calc won't import a text file. If you try to, it opens in the word processor. This is a HUGE drawback, and I really wish they'd fix it.
I did get my m3u file -- just drop the music's root directory into the MP3 player. Lots easier than the spreadsheet method. But still, there's no reason why calc can't open a text file and have user-selectable cell/field delimiters. I do this at work all the time to get text data into an Access database, import to Excel, do a few operations that Access can't (although it should be able to) and paste into the Access table.
I'm now going to have to stop evangelizing Open/Libre office, I guess, until they finish building the sucker. I wonder how Oo's database program is? I'll have to screw around with it a little.
Great movie. Naming the EPA head "Cargill" was a stroke of genius.
Hmmm, I haven't ried any FLAC files on it (and won't be able to until I replace the hard drive), but that may be the probem. Oggs, WAVs, and MP3s play gaplessly for me. I surmise that the gap may be caused by decoding the entire file before playing it, or at least decoding the first part ("Buffering"). Maybe they'll fix it in the next release. Meanwhile, it doesn't sound like it suits your purposes.
When I replace the drive I'll try some of the music I have in FLAC format (mostly still stored on backup CDs), and SHN as well, and see how it goes.
That is one disadvantage to Audacity; it only rips to wav or ogg. To make a FLAC you'd have to rip to wav and convert the file.
I'm still looking for a good recording program. The best I've found so far that will run under Linux is Audacity; not a bad program, but it's lacking some features that EAC (Windows only, unfortunately, and won't run on a machine without an optical drive) has. The biggie is tracks -- I can sample an album, remove the silences at the beginning, middle (when I turn the record over) and end, then tell it where tracks start and it will burn a music CD without having to cut each song out of the sampled file and then reassemble in a burning program.
Pedantery is a nerdy trait, especially in conversation with other nerds. It doesn't matter if you're an engineer, a programmer, or a scientist, most things nerdy require accuracy, so nerds are mostly pedantic by nature.
I simply held off buying any hard drives.
Same here, even though the drive in my main box has been trying to die for months (just went fully titsup over the weekend). I'll still wait, I have a couple of old, small spares that will do until production and prices are normal again.
What, pray tell, is a "semi-expendable person"? You sound like the folks who owned the Upper Big Branch coal mine.
There is no such thing as a semi-expendable person unless you're some kind of damned monster.
Libraries have permission to lend books from the copyright holders.
Wrong. They OWN the copies of the books on their shelves, bought and paid for, and they're legally free to lend them, resell them, tear out pages, or burn them, despite what the author wants (although an author who didn't want his books in libraries would be a fool). Where did you get the crazy idea that a library needed an author's permission to lend books?
However, you miss the point. Hell, you seem to be trying to avoid the point at all costs.
Back in 1971 I got the only flu shot I'll ever have, it gave me the worst case of the flu I ever had before or since -- but that was when they were using live vaccines. Do they even use live viruses for vaccines these days at all?
...quite British but I'm sure an American wouldn't be too put off by anything in there.
I'm American, and I've always enjoyed British writing. In fact, Pratchett is my favorite living author right now; so many of my old favorites have died.
If I could download all of Cory Doctorow's work for free, why would I then go and buy any of his books?
I don't know, maybe because you're not a cheap bastard? If you can check his books out at the library for free why buy them? Despite (Doctorow says "because of") the fact that he gives his books away for free, he's a New York Times best seller, which kind of belies your "if I can get content for free I won't pay".
The fact is most people aren't cheap bastards and will buy works from artists they enjoy, even if they can get them for free. Only the dishonest person thinks piracy hurts sales. Warren Marshall, head of Electronic Arts, stated on Planet Crap ten or so years ago that the reason he had so much DRM on his games is because he was a pirate in college. Again, the dishonest people like him (like you?) are the ones who think piracy hurts sales.
You do know that music pirates spend more on music than non-pirates, right?
In an older or low cost movie, yes. But Avatar is neither.
It's not a deadly virus, it's a dead virus. Only a live virus can infect you. Yes, a non-live virus can be toxic, but deaths from non-live viruses are extremely rare.
Your immune system doesn't really go after viruses and bacteria, it targets enzymes and other chemicals produced by your injured or ill cells.
No, it means you have successfully applied the double standard that men cannot be sluts.
It would be nice if the double standard would go away (again -- in the '70s the word "slut" was pretty much extinct outside of church circles), but it's there. The episode of The Big Bang Theory where they shoot a laser at the moon and Penny's new boyfriend says "aren't you afraid you'll blow the moon up?" is a good example of that very double standard.
A better example of a double standard? Visit any family court or divorce proceeding. The double standards seem to be encoded in law, and most of it goes against men. For example, we have no reproductive rights whatever, a woman has ALL the reproductive rights. She wants an abortion, she gets an abortion, even if he wants to raise the kid. She wants the kid? He pays for it even if a kid is the last thing he wanted. That's far worse a double standard than the word "slut" applying only to females.
He's not being close minded, he's being realistic. When this vaccine is perfected, I predict that "slut" will go away like it did in the period between Roe v Wade and AIDS.
So will you take that dispassionate viewpoint if your wife/gf/mother/father dropped dead suddenly?
No, but I wouldn't expect comments about it to be posted to slashdot without being modded "offtopic". because if my (very aged) parents died, it would be meaningless to anyone who doesn't know them.
Unless you know them personally, the 600 dead isn't news, it's gossip. The price of hard drives affects all of us.
You are, in fact, the one without a sense of perspective. What about the hundreds that die every day from hunger? Yep, they're offtopic, too.
They're virtually invisible no matter what you're driving. Sure are a lot of idiots on the road.