This is akin to you inviting me to your wedding, and during the toast going into glorious detail about all your past sexual exploits or the details of the bachelor party.
It's more akin to me inviting you to my wedding even though you're President of my country and have rapidly diminished my rights as an American citizen and have gotten thousands of my fellow citizens killed in an illegal war.
Nah, maybe that's just a really bad analogy.
Bush is a public figure with the extraordinary power (being President) to affect all of us (and our future generations). The event was a Press dinner, where politics are almost surely always involved. He may not have made any friends there, but I think he cares more about his country and their negative influence on it than he does about them or their dinner.
I blame MS for the recent adoption of FLV on the web. H.264 is a great format for high-quality, low-quality, and streaming. Also many webhosts offer Darwin Streaming Server, which is free.
It's built-in to Quicktime, but it's *not* built-in to WMP. WMP users have to install ffdshow to watch H.264 video. If MS would just include it in WMP (for free), we'd have a perfect codec for the web.
Yeah I should be working too, yet I find myself slacking on Slashdot.;-)
I just happened to be looking at both of those cards online to put in my old beast. Someone, somewhere, mentioned that the 6200 was recognized right away by SuSE, for what its worth. Should work right out of the box on most distros. You'll need the nVidia binary module for fast 3D acceleration though.
I'm mostly considering the 6200. It's so cheap. AGP is dying anyway, so I don't want to put a lot into it. I just need a card for Oblivion. Besides newegg, check out ebay. I think I might be outbid to higher than newegg's prices, but it's worth giving it a shot.
Good luck finding a cheap card. If you get one too good, you'll never study, lol.
And then ask yourself, why select such a slanted site to present it? I mean, as someone else pointed out, it's not even the complete video - the complete video is available elsewhere. But then you wouldn't have the commentary.
AFAICT, C&L was one of the first sources to have the video, Saturday evening. Most people don't sit around ripping from C-SPAN, so it was the second run that was ripped I believe. It was linked to on another site I frequent later that night. The better quality versions have come since. In fact, I'm encoding an mp4 version of it now.
To me your post sounds like you'd basically just want him to shut up.
We've heard that a lot in the past 5 years we've been at war. That it's not politically correct or "in keeping with the...theme of the event" to express disagreement with the President's actions.
What's significant is that he actually had the balls not to shut up, and furthermore to blame the press for their silence, while he had all of them in the same room.
One of the only sincere lines Colbert had in his speech was when he talking about how he was perfect for Press Secretary, and said something along the lines of: "I'd be perfect for the job. I have nothing but contempt for these people."
He disguised it as a joke, hidden among all his sarcastic remarks, but he was being honest at that moment. He absolutely despises them for giving the President a free ride for the past 5 years without serious questioning of his actions.
I think he couldn't believe that they'd actually invite him to an event like that, and rather than attempt to win a few hundred press people as fans, instead took the opportunity to use satire to tell them how he really feels. About them. To their face. Which is that we have a weak press (outright lying in the case of FNC) and a corrupt government.
For a good reference for just how "managed" mainstream news networks are, check out Media Matters.
Especially interesting is the false claims made by the administration in the lead up to the Iraq war. They have a great section detailing several media personalities.
Also, most on topic, the search results for their domestic spying topic.
I'd rather see a project that attempts to standardize aspects of social networking and then works with the different CMS and blog projects to ensure they are compatible with each other.
I'm a big fan of drupal, which has many contributed modules that attempt to tackle the same thing. I'm sure the other projects do as well. There will always be advantages to using one project or another, so it makes more sense to make them work together.
I'm trying to picture someone on Slashdot talking about how Dell "engineers their systems," referring to the assembling of cheap, off-the-shelf components.
If you're saying that you don't like Inverted Pyramid style, I'd have to disagree with you. Even more than in print, online I just want them to get to the point of the article. They can put their quotes from an eyewitness' brother's second cousin at the end of the story.
It is possible to write an inverted pyramid story that still flows.
As far as SEO, inverted pyramid style helps that too. The closer your keywords are to the start of the page, the better they'll work.
Google Video doesn't recompress to a "low-bandwidth Flash format." You can download their videos as DivX. The bandwidth for some videos is enough to saturate my medium-bandwidth DSL connection with some videos.
It can't be that bad. A quick look at some of my files looks like 700 kbps, but some files I've seen, but didn't keep, are better than that.
They're still recompressed, sure, but if you want to distribute perfect bit-for-bit copies you should host them yourself or use bittorrent.
It is annoying, but not quite as annoying as you suggest. As the other poster said, Run As... works without logging out. You can also change shortcuts for badly-designed programs to "Run with different credentials" in the properties. But that still means you have to login each time you run the program, even if the program was intended to be a user program not a system one.
The badly-designed programs usually try to store settings in a.ini file next to the program, which doesn't work if you can't write to that directory. If you have the Pro version of Windows, you can usually fix those by changing your permissions for that directory as well.
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Or maybe it shouldn't have been a story at all.
You've made the assumption that the GP cares about the ethics of eating/not eating meat.
Certainly not all vegetarians care about that. They may just care about their health and how their diet makes them feel.
In that case, who cares what happens to the calves?
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lacto-ovo veg.
This is akin to you inviting me to your wedding, and during the toast going into glorious detail about all your past sexual exploits or the details of the bachelor party.
It's more akin to me inviting you to my wedding even though you're President of my country and have rapidly diminished my rights as an American citizen and have gotten thousands of my fellow citizens killed in an illegal war.
Nah, maybe that's just a really bad analogy.
Bush is a public figure with the extraordinary power (being President) to affect all of us (and our future generations). The event was a Press dinner, where politics are almost surely always involved. He may not have made any friends there, but I think he cares more about his country and their negative influence on it than he does about them or their dinner.
I blame MS for the recent adoption of FLV on the web. H.264 is a great format for high-quality, low-quality, and streaming. Also many webhosts offer Darwin Streaming Server, which is free.
It's built-in to Quicktime, but it's *not* built-in to WMP. WMP users have to install ffdshow to watch H.264 video. If MS would just include it in WMP (for free), we'd have a perfect codec for the web.
Or if you're on Windows, import the FLV to the stage in Flash, then export a movie in whichever codecs you have on your system (i.e. Xvid, x264).
Yeah I should be working too, yet I find myself slacking on Slashdot. ;-)
I just happened to be looking at both of those cards online to put in my old beast. Someone, somewhere, mentioned that the 6200 was recognized right away by SuSE, for what its worth. Should work right out of the box on most distros. You'll need the nVidia binary module for fast 3D acceleration though.
I'm mostly considering the 6200. It's so cheap. AGP is dying anyway, so I don't want to put a lot into it. I just need a card for Oblivion. Besides newegg, check out ebay. I think I might be outbid to higher than newegg's prices, but it's worth giving it a shot.
Good luck finding a cheap card. If you get one too good, you'll never study, lol.
And then ask yourself, why select such a slanted site to present it? I mean, as someone else pointed out, it's not even the complete video - the complete video is available elsewhere. But then you wouldn't have the commentary.
AFAICT, C&L was one of the first sources to have the video, Saturday evening. Most people don't sit around ripping from C-SPAN, so it was the second run that was ripped I believe. It was linked to on another site I frequent later that night. The better quality versions have come since. In fact, I'm encoding an mp4 version of it now.
To me your post sounds like you'd basically just want him to shut up.
We've heard that a lot in the past 5 years we've been at war. That it's not politically correct or "in keeping with the...theme of the event" to express disagreement with the President's actions.
What's significant is that he actually had the balls not to shut up, and furthermore to blame the press for their silence, while he had all of them in the same room.
Bush's permanent red face was priceless.
Did you even listen to Colbert?
Or just the Bush impersonator?
One of the only sincere lines Colbert had in his speech was when he talking about how he was perfect for Press Secretary, and said something along the lines of: "I'd be perfect for the job. I have nothing but contempt for these people." He disguised it as a joke, hidden among all his sarcastic remarks, but he was being honest at that moment. He absolutely despises them for giving the President a free ride for the past 5 years without serious questioning of his actions. I think he couldn't believe that they'd actually invite him to an event like that, and rather than attempt to win a few hundred press people as fans, instead took the opportunity to use satire to tell them how he really feels. About them. To their face. Which is that we have a weak press (outright lying in the case of FNC) and a corrupt government.
The whole speech wasn't designed so much to be funny. It was designed to wake the country, and especially the press, the fsck up.
You can get an nVidia 6200 for ~$40 or a 6600 for ~$100 on newegg.
Pretty sure you can't replace your AGP MX4 with that PCI Express x16 card, in case you were actually considering buying it.
I agree with most of your analysis of what was picked. The winners were kinda boring, kinda unprofessional, compared to some of the others.
My favorites were:
For a good reference for just how "managed" mainstream news networks are, check out Media Matters.
Especially interesting is the false claims made by the administration in the lead up to the Iraq war. They have a great section detailing several media personalities.
Also, most on topic, the search results for their domestic spying topic.
I'd rather see a project that attempts to standardize aspects of social networking and then works with the different CMS and blog projects to ensure they are compatible with each other.
I'm a big fan of drupal, which has many contributed modules that attempt to tackle the same thing. I'm sure the other projects do as well. There will always be advantages to using one project or another, so it makes more sense to make them work together.
Well than they must use different videos for download and their player program than they do for embedded viewing.
All the Google videos I've downloaded appear to be DivX. I don't think they have a bitrate limit.
I think if you encode directly to DivX yourself, quality will probably not suffer as much from their recompression process.
I'm trying to picture someone on Slashdot talking about how Dell "engineers their systems," referring to the assembling of cheap, off-the-shelf components.
Nope, would never happen.
Asa Dotzler had the same problem.
It is more of an issue when you want a laptop without using a mouse, like his case.
I use a 12-button wireless mouse with my desktop, and would consider a single mouse button complete hell.
If you're saying that you don't like Inverted Pyramid style, I'd have to disagree with you. Even more than in print, online I just want them to get to the point of the article. They can put their quotes from an eyewitness' brother's second cousin at the end of the story.
It is possible to write an inverted pyramid story that still flows.
As far as SEO, inverted pyramid style helps that too. The closer your keywords are to the start of the page, the better they'll work.
Google Video doesn't recompress to a "low-bandwidth Flash format." You can download their videos as DivX. The bandwidth for some videos is enough to saturate my medium-bandwidth DSL connection with some videos.
It can't be that bad. A quick look at some of my files looks like 700 kbps, but some files I've seen, but didn't keep, are better than that.
They're still recompressed, sure, but if you want to distribute perfect bit-for-bit copies you should host them yourself or use bittorrent.
Couldn't you just put it behind a firewall and wipe the hard drive? Cost: $0 (assuming you already own the firewall)
It is annoying, but not quite as annoying as you suggest. As the other poster said, Run As... works without logging out. You can also change shortcuts for badly-designed programs to "Run with different credentials" in the properties. But that still means you have to login each time you run the program, even if the program was intended to be a user program not a system one.
.ini file next to the program, which doesn't work if you can't write to that directory. If you have the Pro version of Windows, you can usually fix those by changing your permissions for that directory as well.
The badly-designed programs usually try to store settings in a
The account that is setup by default is Admin, but it only takes a quick trip to the Users control panel to add another (limited-access) user.
That said, most Windows users don't know even how to do that.