aha! heres the problem, you and i both agree that freedom of speech is a fundamental human right. the us legal system interprets the constitution as valid only for us citizens.
No it doesn't.
There have been issues of deportment without a trial, but deportment != punishment in the eyes of the law. But otherwise, yes, foreigners are entitled to all the rights set forth in the Bill of Rights.
But I don't think you need a codefork. Most of the games these days have controls for level of detail, etc. that you you can tweak for your desired performance/image quality trade-off. In this case, nudging down the pixel shader quality a notch could be a slider thing. The only question is whether game companies will bother to support 1.4 at all if only a very small subset of game buyers have a graphics card that can make effective use of it. Most likely what will happen is that a few games, especially ones with a little funding help from ATI, will support the new features. It's happened a number of times before.
Can you imagine the public outcry if McVeigh had been let free because of some minor mistake on the FBI's part? Would it have been right?
Is it right that Stalin and Mao died natural deaths? Tyrannical governments have killed far, far more than a few crazed bombers. And while no one has shot OJ (yet), I wouldn't have bet a plugged nickel on the Oklahoma City bomber surviving a year if he had been released on a technicality. There's a reason the cops put bulletproof jackets on some suspects when moving them.
And in the long run, the Exclusionary Rule has worked to help make police forces more rule-abiding, which I think is even more important than the possibility of a few criminals getting off. 50% of murders go unresolved, after all.
So when these things are pretty much in every house with a TV in the world (or part of the TV), how are networks (including cable networks) going to raise revenue if no one is watching commercials.
According to the article (I know, actually reading it before posting is so passe':-), only 25% of the PVR users are actually skipping the commercials. And many of the users are watching substantially more television. So laziness in using the commercial skip button may actually make total commercial watching go *up*, mind-boggling as that may seem.
This is a thing I've never understood in the US legislation. Here in Finland a court has to consider any evidence, even if obtained by illegal means. This just means that the person who used illegal means will also be prosecuted.
The Supreme Court in the U.S. (in Weeks vs. the United States in 1914, I think) observed that having law enforcement prosecute itself was ineffective, and the Exclusionary Rule was the only way to give the Fourth Amendment any real teeth.
How many cops are in Jail for gathering evidence illegally in Finland?
The only thing I can think of is Intel hopes this will put pressure on Rambus to lower prices, that a lot of people will only pay attention to the CPU clockspeed and price in purchasing, so once that starts affecting RDRAM sales, Rambus will reduce its margins. But DDR RAM isn't that much more expensive than SDR, so skimping on the tech doesn't make that much sense. Maybe it did when they were designing the chipset, and wanted it out as fast as possible?
A used PII-400 system would run Linux just great, and only cost a fraction of what a new system costs, maybe even the same as a PS2!
Maybe so, but it would be noisy, (most likely) bulky, it would probably not play DVDs (and a remote is extremely unlikely), and it would not play PS2 games. It would require time and effort to figure out drivers and configuration issues, whereas PS2Linux is probably an upcoming distribution with few options needed.
My PC won't run Tux Racer. What are the odds a PS2 wouldn't run a version made especially for it?
This would rock for controlling your mp3 box in the trunk of the car...
What is really needed for a car is voice input. Put an activation button on the wheel to enable the microphone, then speak what you want to do. That way you're not looking at the display when you should be looking at the road. If you have enough of a computer to decode compressed audio, you should have enough power to interpret voice input.
If HP didn't put up half the funding, it might not ever get developed and they wouldn't get to sell it.
So how about the gummint doing half as many projects , funding them fully, and getting the IP results for the public? Then HP can fund its own projects, and get hte IP for that. Just as much research money spent, but the public doesn't pay for IP development they're restricted in using.
I wonder how they'll feel about stopping recording of shows when the growing block of TiVo viewers simply refuses to watch anything they can't record.
Remember, they care diddlysquat whether you actually watch a show; it's your eyeballs on the commercials they actually care about. If you're using TiVo, then you probably aren't watching too many.
however, I'm not gonna buy a whole dexy's midnight runners album just cos I like come on eileen:)
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=HCO ME |ON|EILEEN lists 52 different albums with "Come On Eileen" on it, various hits records, one-hit wonder collections, a soundtrack, and so on. Perhaps you should consider buying one of those, which may have other songs on it you like?
Like what? Napster? That's the only thing I can think of that you could have meant by that.
Given that this guy is from mp3.com, it seems rather more likely that he's talking about mymp3.com, the service where -- once you proved you had access to a particular CD -- you could access the MP3s to match.
just b/c we are altering the state of the earth does not mean that we will 'destroy it' 'kill it' 'kill ourselves off' etc.
No, we may just starve a few billion, set back the progress of humanity a hundred years, incite warfare over the diminished world resources, etc. Nothing serious at all. Don't worry, be happy!
And no, my simple birth and living here to not imply agreement.
Sure it does. You can't claim ignorance, nor that you don't know how to avoid it. You want to keep standing on my land (me being the gov't)? Here's the rules, leave if you don't like 'em. Moreover, you don't generally pay taxes towards education unless you own land, and there was most certainly a contract, registry of deed, etc. Ignorance of the details is no excuse.
I used the term Libertarian since you espoused the majority of their philosophy, not because I do. And by Libertarian logic (or at the very least, Objectivist), taxes are most certainly permissible -- most Libertarians just can't admit it (although I've gotten several to do so, much to their discomfit.)
And what of it? If I sublet from a guy paying HOA dues, those HOA dues will likewise be included in my rent. It's all contractual, all quite acceptable under Libertarian philosophy.
You claim you are forced to pay, but you are not. If you wish not to pay taxes, simply leave the country. It's not immoral for someone to enforce a contract (in the end, at gunpoint) if you fail to live up to your end.
You are, of course, more than welcome to try and change the terms of the contract.
It has nothing to do with being cheap or an elitist, it has to do with responsibility. If you can be made to pay for other's kids' education, why not pay for their food, clothing, and entertainment while we're at it?
Because paying for education is part of the "HOA" (Home Owner's Association) for where you live. If you don't own property in my state, you don't need to pay "HOA" dues (property taxes.) All very Libertarian.
You really wanna use a single button mouse in the X Window environment?
Believe it or not, you can actually buy a three button mouse for an iBook. (Anything USB, really.) For rather less than the price difference.
Admittedly, the screen isn't as high-res, the HD space isn't as large, and the 3-D capabilities are way behind, but it's significantly lighter than the Dell. Different computers for different needs. (An alternative to the Dell is to have the iBook and a separate desktop, which can have the big hard drives, the CD-RW (available for the iBook anyway), and the uber-3D card.)
It's almost certainly a file translation issue. What's missing aren't commas, they're dashes. Rather like the ? we sometimes see for apostrophes, except they disappeared completely.
The paranoid amongst us might wonder if the book is deliberately obfuscated to keep out the competition. More reasonably, though, it's in Loki's best interest to expand the number of Linux games available and thus make it more attractive to the potential consumer, as well as system builders.
Currently you can buy such devices. if your willing to pay 30 thousand for a 2 gig drive.
What's the power consumption of PC100/133 SDRAM? Seems to me one could get a few DIMM slots and some control logic, and create a solid state drive for perhaps $100 more than the cost of the RAM. Only problem is it would need to be on all the time toi refresh (thus the power consumption relevance) or used for things like swap (which, if your main memory is RAMBUS or your system has a relatively low max RAM, isn't a bad idea.)
Also with underground lines, even though there are backhoes and tree roots that will take them out on occasion, you don't get huge areas with lost power during bad weather (unless the substations go). So they should be able to get a crew out quickly and get your service back.
As for trees growing deformed, that's nothing compared to the hacking that power company saws do to the trees to try and minimize the risk of branches taking out the lines.
I have buried lines in my neighborhood and I love them.
Be sure to check the size of your box. CDs do _not_ fit easily in our box, because of a lip on the top of the box.
If that is a problem, you may want to hunt down the smaller size CD-Rs (80mm?) and use those for backups. Not as capacious (and more expensive), but presumably your porn video collection isn't your most important data.
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aha! heres the problem, you and i both agree that freedom of speech is a fundamental human right. the us legal system interprets the constitution as valid only for us citizens.
No it doesn't.
There have been issues of deportment without a trial, but deportment != punishment in the eyes of the law. But otherwise, yes, foreigners are entitled to all the rights set forth in the Bill of Rights.
On the part about Linux in Mexico, I have to wonder what part would not run on their systems.
No drivers for Winmodems. (Some of us actually read the article...;-)
But I don't think you need a codefork. Most of the games these days have controls for level of detail, etc. that you you can tweak for your desired performance/image quality trade-off. In this case, nudging down the pixel shader quality a notch could be a slider thing. The only question is whether game companies will bother to support 1.4 at all if only a very small subset of game buyers have a graphics card that can make effective use of it. Most likely what will happen is that a few games, especially ones with a little funding help from ATI, will support the new features. It's happened a number of times before.
Can you imagine the public outcry if McVeigh had been let free because of some minor mistake on the FBI's part? Would it have been right?
Is it right that Stalin and Mao died natural deaths? Tyrannical governments have killed far, far more than a few crazed bombers. And while no one has shot OJ (yet), I wouldn't have bet a plugged nickel on the Oklahoma City bomber surviving a year if he had been released on a technicality. There's a reason the cops put bulletproof jackets on some suspects when moving them.
And in the long run, the Exclusionary Rule has worked to help make police forces more rule-abiding, which I think is even more important than the possibility of a few criminals getting off. 50% of murders go unresolved, after all.
So when these things are pretty much in every house with a TV in the world (or part of the TV), how are networks (including cable networks) going to raise revenue if no one is watching commercials.
:-), only 25% of the PVR users are actually skipping the commercials. And many of the users are watching substantially more television. So laziness in using the commercial skip button may actually make total commercial watching go *up*, mind-boggling as that may seem.
According to the article (I know, actually reading it before posting is so passe'
This is a thing I've never understood in the US legislation. Here in Finland a court has to consider any evidence, even if obtained by illegal means. This just means that the person who used illegal means will also be prosecuted.
The Supreme Court in the U.S. (in Weeks vs. the United States in 1914, I think) observed that having law enforcement prosecute itself was ineffective, and the Exclusionary Rule was the only way to give the Fourth Amendment any real teeth.
How many cops are in Jail for gathering evidence illegally in Finland?
did they find the killer?
No, but OJ is looking for him...
The only thing I can think of is Intel hopes this will put pressure on Rambus to lower prices, that a lot of people will only pay attention to the CPU clockspeed and price in purchasing, so once that starts affecting RDRAM sales, Rambus will reduce its margins. But DDR RAM isn't that much more expensive than SDR, so skimping on the tech doesn't make that much sense. Maybe it did when they were designing the chipset, and wanted it out as fast as possible?
A used PII-400 system would run Linux just great, and only cost a fraction of what a new system costs, maybe even the same as a PS2!
Maybe so, but it would be noisy, (most likely) bulky, it would probably not play DVDs (and a remote is extremely unlikely), and it would not play PS2 games. It would require time and effort to figure out drivers and configuration issues, whereas PS2Linux is probably an upcoming distribution with few options needed.
My PC won't run Tux Racer. What are the odds a PS2 wouldn't run a version made especially for it?
This would rock for controlling your mp3 box in the trunk of the car...
What is really needed for a car is voice input. Put an activation button on the wheel to enable the microphone, then speak what you want to do. That way you're not looking at the display when you should be looking at the road. If you have enough of a computer to decode compressed audio, you should have enough power to interpret voice input.
If HP didn't put up half the funding, it might not ever get developed and they wouldn't get to sell it.
So how about the gummint doing half as many projects , funding them fully, and getting the IP results for the public? Then HP can fund its own projects, and get hte IP for that. Just as much research money spent, but the public doesn't pay for IP development they're restricted in using.
I wonder how they'll feel about stopping recording of shows when the growing block of TiVo viewers simply refuses to watch anything they can't record.
Remember, they care diddlysquat whether you actually watch a show; it's your eyeballs on the commercials they actually care about. If you're using TiVo, then you probably aren't watching too many.
however, I'm not gonna buy a whole dexy's midnight runners album just cos I like come on eileen :)
O ME |ON|EILEEN lists 52 different albums with "Come On Eileen" on it, various hits records, one-hit wonder collections, a soundtrack, and so on. Perhaps you should consider buying one of those, which may have other songs on it you like?
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=HC
Like what? Napster? That's the only thing I can think of that you could have meant by that.
Given that this guy is from mp3.com, it seems rather more likely that he's talking about mymp3.com, the service where -- once you proved you had access to a particular CD -- you could access the MP3s to match.
Everyone Is Replacable
Or, a similar sentiment:
The graveyards are full of indispensible men.--Charles de Gaulle
(Who is himself in a graveyard now, so...)
just b/c we are altering the state of the earth does not mean that we will 'destroy it' 'kill it' 'kill ourselves off' etc.
No, we may just starve a few billion, set back the progress of humanity a hundred years, incite warfare over the diminished world resources, etc. Nothing serious at all. Don't worry, be happy!
And no, my simple birth and living here to not imply agreement.
Sure it does. You can't claim ignorance, nor that you don't know how to avoid it. You want to keep standing on my land (me being the gov't)? Here's the rules, leave if you don't like 'em. Moreover, you don't generally pay taxes towards education unless you own land, and there was most certainly a contract, registry of deed, etc. Ignorance of the details is no excuse.
I used the term Libertarian since you espoused the majority of their philosophy, not because I do. And by Libertarian logic (or at the very least, Objectivist), taxes are most certainly permissible -- most Libertarians just can't admit it (although I've gotten several to do so, much to their discomfit.)
And what of it? If I sublet from a guy paying HOA dues, those HOA dues will likewise be included in my rent. It's all contractual, all quite acceptable under Libertarian philosophy.
You claim you are forced to pay, but you are not. If you wish not to pay taxes, simply leave the country. It's not immoral for someone to enforce a contract (in the end, at gunpoint) if you fail to live up to your end.
You are, of course, more than welcome to try and change the terms of the contract.
It has nothing to do with being cheap or an elitist, it has to do with responsibility. If you can be made to pay for other's kids' education, why not pay for their food, clothing, and entertainment while we're at it?
Because paying for education is part of the "HOA" (Home Owner's Association) for where you live. If you don't own property in my state, you don't need to pay "HOA" dues (property taxes.) All very Libertarian.
You really wanna use a single button mouse in the X Window environment?
Believe it or not, you can actually buy a three button mouse for an iBook. (Anything USB, really.) For rather less than the price difference.
Admittedly, the screen isn't as high-res, the HD space isn't as large, and the 3-D capabilities are way behind, but it's significantly lighter than the Dell. Different computers for different needs. (An alternative to the Dell is to have the iBook and a separate desktop, which can have the big hard drives, the CD-RW (available for the iBook anyway), and the uber-3D card.)
It's almost certainly a file translation issue. What's missing aren't commas, they're dashes. Rather like the ? we sometimes see for apostrophes, except they disappeared completely.
The paranoid amongst us might wonder if the book is deliberately obfuscated to keep out the competition. More reasonably, though, it's in Loki's best interest to expand the number of Linux games available and thus make it more attractive to the potential consumer, as well as system builders.
Currently you can buy such devices. if your willing to pay 30 thousand for a 2 gig drive.
What's the power consumption of PC100/133 SDRAM? Seems to me one could get a few DIMM slots and some control logic, and create a solid state drive for perhaps $100 more than the cost of the RAM. Only problem is it would need to be on all the time toi refresh (thus the power consumption relevance) or used for things like swap (which, if your main memory is RAMBUS or your system has a relatively low max RAM, isn't a bad idea.)
Also with underground lines, even though there are backhoes and tree roots that will take them out on occasion, you don't get huge areas with lost power during bad weather (unless the substations go). So they should be able to get a crew out quickly and get your service back.
As for trees growing deformed, that's nothing compared to the hacking that power company saws do to the trees to try and minimize the risk of branches taking out the lines.
I have buried lines in my neighborhood and I love them.
Be sure to check the size of your box. CDs do _not_ fit easily in our box, because of a lip on the top of the box. If that is a problem, you may want to hunt down the smaller size CD-Rs (80mm?) and use those for backups. Not as capacious (and more expensive), but presumably your porn video collection isn't your most important data.