An increasingly disturbing trend are these arbitary laws where there is no set standard. The recent decency laws for broadcast Television are very similar. The real goal is to promote a climate of fear and force self regulation. The laws effectively say there's a speed limit but we aren't naming an actual speed the maximum speed will be determined by individual officers. How can you possibly stay legal under those conditions? Say a kid buys a deer hunting game. A judge declares it violent and fines the store inspite of the fact it's perfectly legal for the same boy to go hunt actual deer. It's an arbitary moral standard that punishes anyone that strays into the gray zone. We are being driven back to the "good ole days" of the Hayes Comission when entertainment was afraid of saying or doing anything the least bit off color.
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In all these law suits there is one clear winner, the lawyers.
Over the years I've tried to install three versions of Linux. So far I haven't gotten a single one to run properly on a machine. I've been working with computers for twenty years and have built dozens so I'm not a novice. Everytime it's been a different issue. The last was a week ago I was given a copy of Ubuntu Live. On my main system it claimed my CD drive was defective. It's a brand new top of the line Plexor DVD drive and works perfectly so I tried it on another machine. That one it didn't like the processor, complained about it not supporting Long Page. I tried Mandrake a couple of years ago and inspite of it claiming it shipped with driver support for my video card it didn't. It just flashed at me until it locked up. There seemed to be no mode for installing drivers even if I could find them. I never once got tech support or help from a forum inspite of numerous posts. Could I eventually get a copy of Linux installed on a machine if I tried hard enough? I'm sure I could be the point is I've never had this much trouble with Windows going back preWindows to DOS. The joy should be from using the operating system not from the sense of accomplishment after spending days installing and configuring it. Each machine also seems to have it's own challenges and it never appears to have the same issue with two different machines. I've checked into prebuilt machines, only interested in professional level ones. Most seem to cost more inspite of having a basically free, at least cheap, operating system. Until I can drop a disk into the drive and get Linux to install with minimal hassles it's just not practical and most people will have the same issue with it. If they can't get Linux down to an easy install on 90% of the machines out there it will remain in the realm of tinkerers and companies with the time and money to deal with the issues.
There's already evidence that it's happening. More and more birds are either showing up in the wrong place or are being found in areas they aren't native to. We aren't talking large numbers yet but there's been a weakening of the magnetic field for hundreds of years and some birds seem to be having trouble following the weaker field. Birds will compensate since it's a gradual process but it may result in some non native species establishing themselves in new areas. Nature tends to taske care of itself but electronics will be at risk. Apparently there's a mechanism to compensate for the lack of a magnetic field so there won't be a dramatic increase in solar radiation. The world has been through this process for millions of years and life goes on. I think it's avoiding the end of the world doom and gloom in large part due to how slow it happens. I've heard estimates of four hundred to a thousand years for the poles to reverse. Probably be 4,000 or 5,000 AD before we have a proper magnetic field again. It's no fun if you can't put an actual date to the end of the world.
Can they sniff out bad movies? A lot of sequels and Adam Sandler films are sneaking past customs. If they can train them to sniff out copies of Basic Instinct II a lot of needless suffering could be avoided. As bad as some of these stinkers smell a dog with a headcold should be able to sniff them out from across the street.
Walmart files trademarks on the terms "Low Prices", "Lowest Price" and "Rock Bottom Price" as well as "Low Price Guarantee". In ironic news they also plan to file for trademark status on the term "Made In America". Given their lack of American made products the last trademark is some what in doubt.
Sounds similar to what Tesla was doing. His power transmition system was sold to Hearst as a means of communication but Hearst scrapped it when he found Tesla intended to use it to provide free electricity. Most people think Tesla was transmiting power through the air but it was actually using the ground as a conductor.
Do you have to present that license when asked any time other than when you are actually in a vehicle?
Actually yes. I lived in California for 25 years. If the police asked for ID you were required to provide either a drivers license or an ID card, even if you were just walking down the street. As I remember it doesn't qualify as a search so they could do it at any time for most any reason. It's not generally enforced except when they are talking to a witness or suspect.
The scary thing about ID cards is most of the national card proposals I've heard involve some form of tracking. People would be shocked to find how much personal info is stored on a Califronia drivers license. You don't have to be George Orwell to get nervous when the government is pushing hard for tracking technology in every car and everyone having ID cards. How much harm can it do? Debateable. What it boils down to is they have to right to the information and it's none of their damn business where I've been and what I've bought unless I commit a crime. They can't preemptively track everyone "incase" they commit a crime. We have a little thing called innocent until proven guilty.
I was walking by the White House and my detector exploded. I called the manufacturer and they said there's a warning in the instructions about coming within a hundred yards of a government building. There's a ten mile safe zone for any agency dealing with climate or energy. Teach me for not reading the instructions.
On the downside history books stop at 2005. If they can't make money at it there'll be no new books. If people stop paying they'll simply stop making new ones. This isn't a matter of free education it's a matter of all reference books disappearing if there's no financial incentive to produce them. Text books and reference books are far more expensive to produce and tend to have less of a market than fictional books. It won't take much of a hit to kill them off completely. It's extremely expensive to produce a reference or text book below 10,000 copies. If they can't sell well north of that number the book won't be printed. If eBooks can be easily pirated then there's no incentive to release them that way since the bulk of the cost is still in the research and not the printing. Open source everything? There's tens of thousands of reference books printed each year. It would be impossible to coordinate that many different projects. What the end result will be is not more information availible but drastically less. Capitalism works. You want or need it you pay for it and the company can aford to make more. Don't want to pay the price? Don't buy it. If people don't buy then the company either drops the price or if they can't aford to the demand wasn't high enough and the product will go away. The system is the best working yet and it worked well up until piracy threatened it's survival. Claiming companies make too much money selling copyrighted works isn't a reason for piracy but a rationalization.
I'm starting a big rendering job and this type of chip would be perfect. I've been using dual chip motherboards for years and started recently using multicore chips. The best I've ever gotten is 1.5X for any dial chip configuration and generally it's much less. On rare occasions I've had dual systems run slower but that hasn't happened too often. The only reason they are practicle is the software is so bloody expensive it makes since. Most people get no benefit off dual chip configurations since very few softwares can use more than one processor. Renderers are the exception. Even things like Maya can only use multicore or chips in rendering. All other functions use one processor. This type of intergrated chip should solve the problem. Now how many CPUs can you cram on a chip? Personally I'd like to see one the size of a dinner plate. Alright it might have to have it's own 220 line but I can work with that. Neighbors might get annoyed when I start a render and their lights dim though.
Make it too small with two few buttons, it's too hard and not worthwhile for people to pick it up and learn.
This is the difference between pro and consumer cameras. Pro cameras have buttons consumer ones have menus. I can figure out most pro cameras in minutes and they are easy to use. Consumer cameras are tough to figure out and slow to set and use. They do it in part to keep cost down but it's also because the normal point and shoot consumer doesn't want to set a lot of controls and get confused by all the buttons so they keep it simple.
When I was growing up I saw catfish in a zoo pond climb completely out of the water and go as much as a foot to retrieve popcorn. Most catfish can leave the water to got after food. I think the unique thing about this catfish wasn't leaving the water but the way it pounched on the food. It would raise up and strike. They aren't fish but something as large as an orca will leave the water to go after food. I've seen medium sized sharks scramble half out of the water going after food. Catfish seem to be the record holders for actually completely leaving the water to search for food.
I experienced P2P token ring back in college. Here's how it worked: a group of peers arranged in a circular manner would pass around a named pipe. Each peer would hit the pipe, a process known as token. After a while, the pipe would be cached, and a designated peer reloaded the pipe.
We tended to be a little more technically oriented where I went to school and used a water cooled device.
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Either that you're a twelve year old boy or a Catholic Priest.
An increasingly disturbing trend are these arbitary laws where there is no set standard. The recent decency laws for broadcast Television are very similar. The real goal is to promote a climate of fear and force self regulation. The laws effectively say there's a speed limit but we aren't naming an actual speed the maximum speed will be determined by individual officers. How can you possibly stay legal under those conditions? Say a kid buys a deer hunting game. A judge declares it violent and fines the store inspite of the fact it's perfectly legal for the same boy to go hunt actual deer. It's an arbitary moral standard that punishes anyone that strays into the gray zone. We are being driven back to the "good ole days" of the Hayes Comission when entertainment was afraid of saying or doing anything the least bit off color.
In all these law suits there is one clear winner, the lawyers.
Over the years I've tried to install three versions of Linux. So far I haven't gotten a single one to run properly on a machine. I've been working with computers for twenty years and have built dozens so I'm not a novice. Everytime it's been a different issue. The last was a week ago I was given a copy of Ubuntu Live. On my main system it claimed my CD drive was defective. It's a brand new top of the line Plexor DVD drive and works perfectly so I tried it on another machine. That one it didn't like the processor, complained about it not supporting Long Page. I tried Mandrake a couple of years ago and inspite of it claiming it shipped with driver support for my video card it didn't. It just flashed at me until it locked up. There seemed to be no mode for installing drivers even if I could find them. I never once got tech support or help from a forum inspite of numerous posts. Could I eventually get a copy of Linux installed on a machine if I tried hard enough? I'm sure I could be the point is I've never had this much trouble with Windows going back preWindows to DOS. The joy should be from using the operating system not from the sense of accomplishment after spending days installing and configuring it. Each machine also seems to have it's own challenges and it never appears to have the same issue with two different machines. I've checked into prebuilt machines, only interested in professional level ones. Most seem to cost more inspite of having a basically free, at least cheap, operating system. Until I can drop a disk into the drive and get Linux to install with minimal hassles it's just not practical and most people will have the same issue with it. If they can't get Linux down to an easy install on 90% of the machines out there it will remain in the realm of tinkerers and companies with the time and money to deal with the issues.
There's already evidence that it's happening. More and more birds are either showing up in the wrong place or are being found in areas they aren't native to. We aren't talking large numbers yet but there's been a weakening of the magnetic field for hundreds of years and some birds seem to be having trouble following the weaker field. Birds will compensate since it's a gradual process but it may result in some non native species establishing themselves in new areas. Nature tends to taske care of itself but electronics will be at risk. Apparently there's a mechanism to compensate for the lack of a magnetic field so there won't be a dramatic increase in solar radiation. The world has been through this process for millions of years and life goes on. I think it's avoiding the end of the world doom and gloom in large part due to how slow it happens. I've heard estimates of four hundred to a thousand years for the poles to reverse. Probably be 4,000 or 5,000 AD before we have a proper magnetic field again. It's no fun if you can't put an actual date to the end of the world.
One of the wost movies ever made but he set a standard for chewing on the furniture performances.
Can they sniff out bad movies? A lot of sequels and Adam Sandler films are sneaking past customs. If they can train them to sniff out copies of Basic Instinct II a lot of needless suffering could be avoided. As bad as some of these stinkers smell a dog with a headcold should be able to sniff them out from across the street.
Nice to see some one other than Slashdot kill a website.
Walmart files trademarks on the terms "Low Prices", "Lowest Price" and "Rock Bottom Price" as well as "Low Price Guarantee". In ironic news they also plan to file for trademark status on the term "Made In America". Given their lack of American made products the last trademark is some what in doubt.
There's a blanket term for this, we're called Irish.
Sounds similar to what Tesla was doing. His power transmition system was sold to Hearst as a means of communication but Hearst scrapped it when he found Tesla intended to use it to provide free electricity. Most people think Tesla was transmiting power through the air but it was actually using the ground as a conductor.
How about a dinosaur with it's legs straight up in the air? If they are still aware that the dinosaurs died out it should give them pause.
You know you're having a bad day in the army when they take away your budgle and hand you a rifle.
Actually yes. I lived in California for 25 years. If the police asked for ID you were required to provide either a drivers license or an ID card, even if you were just walking down the street. As I remember it doesn't qualify as a search so they could do it at any time for most any reason. It's not generally enforced except when they are talking to a witness or suspect.
The scary thing about ID cards is most of the national card proposals I've heard involve some form of tracking. People would be shocked to find how much personal info is stored on a Califronia drivers license. You don't have to be George Orwell to get nervous when the government is pushing hard for tracking technology in every car and everyone having ID cards. How much harm can it do? Debateable. What it boils down to is they have to right to the information and it's none of their damn business where I've been and what I've bought unless I commit a crime. They can't preemptively track everyone "incase" they commit a crime. We have a little thing called innocent until proven guilty.
They are using one as a server while they watch a movie?
I was walking by the White House and my detector exploded. I called the manufacturer and they said there's a warning in the instructions about coming within a hundred yards of a government building. There's a ten mile safe zone for any agency dealing with climate or energy. Teach me for not reading the instructions.
On the downside history books stop at 2005. If they can't make money at it there'll be no new books. If people stop paying they'll simply stop making new ones. This isn't a matter of free education it's a matter of all reference books disappearing if there's no financial incentive to produce them. Text books and reference books are far more expensive to produce and tend to have less of a market than fictional books. It won't take much of a hit to kill them off completely. It's extremely expensive to produce a reference or text book below 10,000 copies. If they can't sell well north of that number the book won't be printed. If eBooks can be easily pirated then there's no incentive to release them that way since the bulk of the cost is still in the research and not the printing. Open source everything? There's tens of thousands of reference books printed each year. It would be impossible to coordinate that many different projects. What the end result will be is not more information availible but drastically less. Capitalism works. You want or need it you pay for it and the company can aford to make more. Don't want to pay the price? Don't buy it. If people don't buy then the company either drops the price or if they can't aford to the demand wasn't high enough and the product will go away. The system is the best working yet and it worked well up until piracy threatened it's survival. Claiming companies make too much money selling copyrighted works isn't a reason for piracy but a rationalization.
Isn't that like throwing out a few key pieces of a puzzle then adding a few from another puzzle?
Funny my wife runs on a credit as well.
I'm starting a big rendering job and this type of chip would be perfect. I've been using dual chip motherboards for years and started recently using multicore chips. The best I've ever gotten is 1.5X for any dial chip configuration and generally it's much less. On rare occasions I've had dual systems run slower but that hasn't happened too often. The only reason they are practicle is the software is so bloody expensive it makes since. Most people get no benefit off dual chip configurations since very few softwares can use more than one processor. Renderers are the exception. Even things like Maya can only use multicore or chips in rendering. All other functions use one processor. This type of intergrated chip should solve the problem. Now how many CPUs can you cram on a chip? Personally I'd like to see one the size of a dinner plate. Alright it might have to have it's own 220 line but I can work with that. Neighbors might get annoyed when I start a render and their lights dim though.
If you haven't had three heads at once don't knock it.
This is the difference between pro and consumer cameras. Pro cameras have buttons consumer ones have menus. I can figure out most pro cameras in minutes and they are easy to use. Consumer cameras are tough to figure out and slow to set and use. They do it in part to keep cost down but it's also because the normal point and shoot consumer doesn't want to set a lot of controls and get confused by all the buttons so they keep it simple.
When I was growing up I saw catfish in a zoo pond climb completely out of the water and go as much as a foot to retrieve popcorn. Most catfish can leave the water to got after food. I think the unique thing about this catfish wasn't leaving the water but the way it pounched on the food. It would raise up and strike. They aren't fish but something as large as an orca will leave the water to go after food. I've seen medium sized sharks scramble half out of the water going after food. Catfish seem to be the record holders for actually completely leaving the water to search for food.
We tended to be a little more technically oriented where I went to school and used a water cooled device.
Living in the United States we have people here able to carry an extra 400lbs, we call them morbidly obese.