Agreed. I spent good money on decent analog speakers and a decent audio card, and picked up (really, really) nice 15' TRS cables from Monoprice for a whole 10USD.
I can hear a difference if the DACs are crap, or the speakers are crap, or the analog cabling is *really* crap.
But you can use crappy RCA cable for SPDIF and never have any issues. Why spend thousands on cables for digital? It makes no sense!
No. Peace was the farce they used to invade various "barbarian nations" so they could tax their citizens, set up their industries and take their resources back to Rome for the rich roman citizenry. All roads lead to Rome, for good reason.
Not entirely unlike the empires from the last 3-4 centuries, or the ones from more ancient times.
Well, no. They're throwing out the concept of ex-post-facto but not the letter of the law. More specifically, you cannot charge someone after the law was created. It says nothing about so-called "reinterpretation" of a law at the time of filing.
What it will come down to is intelligent individuals on the jury (I'm not sure...is this a jury trial?) who can argue that this should be thrown out. It'll be hard since most of the public probably is totally for hanging the woman and anyone else involved. The whole thing is emotionally charged. The mother was on GMA the other morning very vengefully claiming the woman ought to be locked up for "much longer than 20 years."
They're grasping at straws for using an act designed to combat cracking. The really fucked up thing about this is that it'll probably work and the media won't ever cover the fact that the law wasn't built for this and doesn't even remotely apply.
The courts are designed and setup to combat bogus charges. People aren't being tried for what they did wrong as much as for what the law says they did wrong. These charge amount to say "She's a bad person, lock her up!" with no real crim having be committed. When you turn something like this into a witch hunt justice gets tossed out the window for a popular verdict.
I agree that the whole thing is pretty fucked up. Telling an apparently mentally unstable, emotionally screwy 13 year-old girl she's not welcome on this planet rates really low on the dumbshit scale. Charging her with this is just stupid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
Photoshop might be the shizzle, but it can't do that. No one's that good.
There's a higher-quality original out there that was used to construct the fake. Through various workings the AP managed to get a hold of a very low res version. Probably a thumbnail of some sort. My guess would be that the DoD got lazy and didn't scrub the metadata and left the original JPEG thumbnail from the camera in the file. I've had that issue before myself.
No, onboard audio is still terrible shite compared to almost any other implementation. Poor quality circuit design combined with cheap DACs will get you all kinds of noise in your analog channels.
That and a lot of onboard implementations tend to mess around with your SPDIF output as well. Often times bad drivers and/or firmware will leave the PCM output open and will feed garbage to your amp causing odd noises.
AFAIK there is no EAX support in any of their Linux drivers or specifications. EAX is the only thing that separates Creative from the better (sound) quality, vendors out there.
Way to go chief. Read the entire post before you shoot your mouth off.
Then the Saudis should lobby their government to ask the americans to leave rather than building a new air base for them. Oh, that's right the Saudis would first have to change their govt to be able to petition said govt.,
I know you're trolling but I run the compositor with no issues on my Dell Mini 9. Yes, with shitty integrated graphics. That's on 8.04, to boot.
Maybe you have shitty card readers because all of mine are detected as, well, usb drives when something gets plugged in. In fact it detects them as CF, SD etc.
A) The idiots in the Army are incompetent and really haven't thought this through as well as you have. They're just blowing enough sunshine up their superior's rear ends to get another promotion. This happens with quite a bit of frequency no matter where you're employed.
B) The guys in the Army are much smarter than we give them credit for and they're just using this to scare people into further believing in some vague terrorist threat and we need to further monitor all communication platforms for said threat. Then they can find the "real" terrorists like Hippys, Liberals, Ron Paul drones and other "Anti-American" types. Not that twitter is a decent communications platform for anything other than 144 character introspective, self-indulgent bullshit.
I have the feeling that DRM isn't so much about stopping so-called piracy as it is in setting up a walled-garden. It's about vendor lock-in and requiring you to purchase the same shit a dozen times.
Take Verizon for instance. They lock their phones down pretty hard core. This isn't DRM as it were, but the concept of saying "this is our phone, not yours, even though you're paying through the nose for it" is ever present.
I just bought a new phone a week ago and loading custom ringtones is about 10 times more difficult than it was with my last phone, which was really weird to begin with. With my old phone all I needed to do was drop some mp3 files, renamed to.mid files into the my_sounds folder on a miniSD card. That doesn't work with my new one. Now I have to use Bluetooth or a USB cable, go into a hidden menu of the phone, set the data/diag stuff to a port, connect to it using some not-so-legally-acquired developer software, edit a filesystem database, upload the ringtone to a certain directory and restart the phone.
All because they want me buy the ringtones through their store. I already pay shitloads of money to them I'm not going to pay a monthly fee for some poorly encoded ringtone. Most of the time there store doesn't have what I'm looking for anyway.
To make matter worse when I bought the phone the rather rude lady behind the counter couldn't move my 60+ contacts from my old phone to the new one since the hardware didn't exist for this yet. Verizon fucks up the phone so much that the Samsung PC software won't even connect the phone so I can put my contacts on to the new one. Bitpim worked for my old phone, so I at least had those. I still had to hand enter all my contacts again on the new phone.
Verizon is the only usable carrier in this area, save Sprint which is only marginally worse.
I bought this, it's my hardware. So why has it turned me in Verizon's bitch?
I use Hulu to watch stuff on my lunch hour. But half the time it feels more like Real than Youtube.
They claim that their contracts with the industry only allow 5 seconds of buffering. Nothing like a lawyer or a PHB to screw up something with such potential. It's so bad anymore I can't watch anything for more than a few minutes before it either starts stuttering badly or crashes the browser because the script in Flash stops.
Yet another token effort by the industry so it claim that Internet video "doesn't work."
I have a friend that owns a (new) Mini Cooper and having been on a run with the local Mini group one of the leaders had his central brake light replaced with a slick LED unit that blinked a couple of times every time he hit the brakes. Under the physical and mental strain of doing 30 MPH around multiple hairpin turns down hill this can help quite a bit in knowing he's braking while still using your peripheral vision as you follow the outside or inside curve of the road.
And believe me, these guys *stand* on the brakes going into the corner and then the accelerator coming out.
I wish Ron Paul would've come up with his own party rather than running as a Republican. I would've at least had someone to vote for this year. I'll probably write him in anyway.
I sincerely hope our next president doesn't fuck things up. If he does maybe it'll provoke the American public into giving a shit things again.
I agree whole-heatedly. A few others that are a bit more modern than the one's you've listed are great too. The Elder Scrolls series, particularly Morrowind and Oblivion both have incredible scores. Assassin's Creed was great too, in that the music and visual appearance of a given city reflected the culture and mood of that city.
An interesting note about the Call of Duty series of games was made by one of the composers. He stated that the feel of COD4 (set in modern times) was quite different from the sweeping scores of the previous games in that COD4 contained more electronic elements and used electric guitars. The effect he said was to remove or lessen the feeling that this was the ultimate fight between good and evil and replace it with a more vague feeling of relativity. He compared the music to Black Hawk Down or the Bourne series of films that depicted a slightly less "pure" war.
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Agreed. I spent good money on decent analog speakers and a decent audio card, and picked up (really, really) nice 15' TRS cables from Monoprice for a whole 10USD.
I can hear a difference if the DACs are crap, or the speakers are crap, or the analog cabling is *really* crap.
But you can use crappy RCA cable for SPDIF and never have any issues. Why spend thousands on cables for digital? It makes no sense!
Naw, you just need to do it from a Xen hypervisor.
OK, OK, I'll shut up now.
No. Peace was the farce they used to invade various "barbarian nations" so they could tax their citizens, set up their industries and take their resources back to Rome for the rich roman citizenry. All roads lead to Rome, for good reason.
Not entirely unlike the empires from the last 3-4 centuries, or the ones from more ancient times.
You don't have a job do you?
Well, no. They're throwing out the concept of ex-post-facto but not the letter of the law. More specifically, you cannot charge someone after the law was created. It says nothing about so-called "reinterpretation" of a law at the time of filing.
What it will come down to is intelligent individuals on the jury (I'm not sure...is this a jury trial?) who can argue that this should be thrown out. It'll be hard since most of the public probably is totally for hanging the woman and anyone else involved. The whole thing is emotionally charged. The mother was on GMA the other morning very vengefully claiming the woman ought to be locked up for "much longer than 20 years."
They're grasping at straws for using an act designed to combat cracking. The really fucked up thing about this is that it'll probably work and the media won't ever cover the fact that the law wasn't built for this and doesn't even remotely apply.
The courts are designed and setup to combat bogus charges. People aren't being tried for what they did wrong as much as for what the law says they did wrong. These charge amount to say "She's a bad person, lock her up!" with no real crim having be committed. When you turn something like this into a witch hunt justice gets tossed out the window for a popular verdict.
I agree that the whole thing is pretty fucked up. Telling an apparently mentally unstable, emotionally screwy 13 year-old girl she's not welcome on this planet rates really low on the dumbshit scale. Charging her with this is just stupid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
Photoshop might be the shizzle, but it can't do that. No one's that good.
There's a higher-quality original out there that was used to construct the fake. Through various workings the AP managed to get a hold of a very low res version. Probably a thumbnail of some sort. My guess would be that the DoD got lazy and didn't scrub the metadata and left the original JPEG thumbnail from the camera in the file. I've had that issue before myself.
I don't think that word means what you think it means...
No, onboard audio is still terrible shite compared to almost any other implementation. Poor quality circuit design combined with cheap DACs will get you all kinds of noise in your analog channels.
That and a lot of onboard implementations tend to mess around with your SPDIF output as well. Often times bad drivers and/or firmware will leave the PCM output open and will feed garbage to your amp causing odd noises.
AFAIK there is no EAX support in any of their Linux drivers or specifications. EAX is the only thing that separates Creative from the better (sound) quality, vendors out there.
Windex is a lot less bad for you than cat piss. Believe me.
Of course ingesting either one is a seriously FUBUAR proposition, but I digress.
The GP said "change" as in "(violent) revolution."
Way to go chief. Read the entire post before you shoot your mouth off.
I know you're trolling but I run the compositor with no issues on my Dell Mini 9. Yes, with shitty integrated graphics. That's on 8.04, to boot.
Maybe you have shitty card readers because all of mine are detected as, well, usb drives when something gets plugged in. In fact it detects them as CF, SD etc.
Two options.
A) The idiots in the Army are incompetent and really haven't thought this through as well as you have. They're just blowing enough sunshine up their superior's rear ends to get another promotion. This happens with quite a bit of frequency no matter where you're employed.
B) The guys in the Army are much smarter than we give them credit for and they're just using this to scare people into further believing in some vague terrorist threat and we need to further monitor all communication platforms for said threat. Then they can find the "real" terrorists like Hippys, Liberals, Ron Paul drones and other "Anti-American" types. Not that twitter is a decent communications platform for anything other than 144 character introspective, self-indulgent bullshit.
Yes because bleeding someone to deathâ"on purpose mind youâ"was "rarely harmful."
I have the feeling that DRM isn't so much about stopping so-called piracy as it is in setting up a walled-garden. It's about vendor lock-in and requiring you to purchase the same shit a dozen times.
Take Verizon for instance. They lock their phones down pretty hard core. This isn't DRM as it were, but the concept of saying "this is our phone, not yours, even though you're paying through the nose for it" is ever present.
I just bought a new phone a week ago and loading custom ringtones is about 10 times more difficult than it was with my last phone, which was really weird to begin with. With my old phone all I needed to do was drop some mp3 files, renamed to .mid files into the my_sounds folder on a miniSD card. That doesn't work with my new one. Now I have to use Bluetooth or a USB cable, go into a hidden menu of the phone, set the data/diag stuff to a port, connect to it using some not-so-legally-acquired developer software, edit a filesystem database, upload the ringtone to a certain directory and restart the phone.
All because they want me buy the ringtones through their store. I already pay shitloads of money to them I'm not going to pay a monthly fee for some poorly encoded ringtone. Most of the time there store doesn't have what I'm looking for anyway.
To make matter worse when I bought the phone the rather rude lady behind the counter couldn't move my 60+ contacts from my old phone to the new one since the hardware didn't exist for this yet. Verizon fucks up the phone so much that the Samsung PC software won't even connect the phone so I can put my contacts on to the new one. Bitpim worked for my old phone, so I at least had those. I still had to hand enter all my contacts again on the new phone.
Verizon is the only usable carrier in this area, save Sprint which is only marginally worse.
I bought this, it's my hardware. So why has it turned me in Verizon's bitch?
I see what you did there.
E3 is for suits. You want this.
I use Hulu to watch stuff on my lunch hour. But half the time it feels more like Real than Youtube.
They claim that their contracts with the industry only allow 5 seconds of buffering. Nothing like a lawyer or a PHB to screw up something with such potential. It's so bad anymore I can't watch anything for more than a few minutes before it either starts stuttering badly or crashes the browser because the script in Flash stops.
Yet another token effort by the industry so it claim that Internet video "doesn't work."
No, that's Satan's rectum poised over the face of the world.
I have a friend that owns a (new) Mini Cooper and having been on a run with the local Mini group one of the leaders had his central brake light replaced with a slick LED unit that blinked a couple of times every time he hit the brakes. Under the physical and mental strain of doing 30 MPH around multiple hairpin turns down hill this can help quite a bit in knowing he's braking while still using your peripheral vision as you follow the outside or inside curve of the road.
And believe me, these guys *stand* on the brakes going into the corner and then the accelerator coming out.
I wish Ron Paul would've come up with his own party rather than running as a Republican. I would've at least had someone to vote for this year. I'll probably write him in anyway.
I sincerely hope our next president doesn't fuck things up. If he does maybe it'll provoke the American public into giving a shit things again.
I agree whole-heatedly. A few others that are a bit more modern than the one's you've listed are great too. The Elder Scrolls series, particularly Morrowind and Oblivion both have incredible scores. Assassin's Creed was great too, in that the music and visual appearance of a given city reflected the culture and mood of that city.
An interesting note about the Call of Duty series of games was made by one of the composers. He stated that the feel of COD4 (set in modern times) was quite different from the sweeping scores of the previous games in that COD4 contained more electronic elements and used electric guitars. The effect he said was to remove or lessen the feeling that this was the ultimate fight between good and evil and replace it with a more vague feeling of relativity. He compared the music to Black Hawk Down or the Bourne series of films that depicted a slightly less "pure" war.
Maple leaf? Oh yeah, maple leaf. Right. Japanese maple leaf. Gotcha. *wink*
Is he really? 'Cause that shit wouldn't surprise me.