I mean, I guess we could bomb it, but that would accomplish nothing beyond tarnishing our international standing even further Something which the current administration have demonstrated they really don't care about. "You're with us or you're against us" seems to be their stance.
and I don't see a draft being a very popular option It will happen, I'm almost certain. Wrapped up in homeland security, protecting the state, etc etc kids will be drafted. Sure it will be unpopular in manhy areas, but Bush is unpopular in many areas yet he still won the election. At this point in the term, the President can do whatever he wants. In 4 years time everyone will have forgotten.
And exactly how does that correlate with freedom of speech? Sure it's unacceptable to make threats (if they did), and you may consider it unacceptable to raise money for certain groups (although, personally, I don't have a problem provided those donating know what it's being used for), simply reporting their opinions and views surely should be protected.
All of which might make some kind of sense if the people in question (inmates at Abu Garib) were actually terrorists. They're not. Even by the US governments own admission these are people arrested for things like looting, stealing food, maybe being friends with someone the US doesn't like. Just imagine, if you will, being in their situation. Some other country has invaded your country, supposedly to "liberate" you. But your family is short of food so you go and take some from a burnt out supermarket down the street. The soldiers arrest you, and you vanish to this hell hols jail. Where a bunch of uniformed kids entertain themselves by abusing you.
How do you feel? Pretty pissed I would imagine. What the US is doing is wrong, plain and simple. Even if these people are involved with fighting (and I repeat, the US has itself admitted most are not) then they deserve a trial. What happened to justice? What happened to innocent until proven guilty IN A COURT OF LAW? Doesn't that apply to people with brown skin? Not to mention that the US has basically turned the whole of Iraq into one big terriorist recruitment camp. Don't you see how you're sealing your own fate to be fighting the absurd and useless war forever?
You sicken me, and I am ashamed to be part of the same species as you.
Which is why you use noise-isolating canal phones. I ride the NY subway every day with my Shure e3's and I can barely hear the train with the music turned off - when music is on I can't hear anything around me.
"mp3" is not a word, it's a file extension. In most cases, a file with the mp3 extention contains data in a format officially known as "Motion Picture Expert Group Standard 11172 Audio Layer 3".
"ogg" is not a word, it's a file extension. In most cases, a file with the ogg extention contains data in a format officially known as "Ogg Vorbis".
On a serious note, am I the only one here who thinks a world in which no one questions a policy like that is insane?
You're kidding right?
We've had critical, and I mean critical, servers that have uptimes measured in years
Well good for you. But when (not if) one of those boxes gets a hardware fault, or a power problem, what do you do? Do you have ANY confidence that it will come up properly? If you rebooted that thing every x (day/week/month whatever) then that answer would be YES, you know that if you have to bring it up it will come up.
Number one rule of high availability systems: NO SINGLE POINTS OF FAILURE. You need a hot backup for EVERYTHING. Provided you have that, then regular reboots are not a problem, as each box cycles the others take up the slack. If you don't have that, then you don't have a reliable system, you have a timebomb.
Hell we even do regular cable pull tests. Someone will walk through one of the server rooms and yank a cable or three, could be power, could be network, whatever. If your system is properly put together nothing (or no-one) except your monitoring systems should notice.
You can switch between all 4 inputs with a button on the front. So you can have desktop on DVI, laptop on VGA, TV on composite and DVD on SVideo - if you wanted!
There are good deals to be had. I just got a Dell 2001FP (20.1", 1600x1280) which rates pretty highly amongst reviewers for $640 shipped (inc tax). Great screen, perfectly good for gaming (UT2004) and everything else.
You're both breaking different laws. He's breaking the law by posessing/using an unlicensed copy, you're breaking the law by distributing a copyright work without permission.
Not true (well it depends on your class of visa). I am neither a permament resident nor a citizen, but I arrive on the back leg of return trips (i.e. no outbound ticket) a few times a year.
Of course firmware won't stop me from laughing at someone who paid $1000 for a piece of plastic with some 10D guts.
The digital rebel/300d is a nice camera, it basically created the market for affordable dSLRs. Sure there are other better cameras, but they cost considerably more. Knocking it makes you look like an idiot I'm afraid. (Speaking as an ex-dRebel owner and new 20D owner).
The 20D and 1DmkII are different animals, there are things the 20D can do which the 1D can't, and vice versa, and not just in software, in hardware too.
Even in the digital SLR market, the manufacturers still have not introduced replaceable "film" backs that allow consumers to upgrade the CMOS sensors as higher resolution comes out. And that's probably why the digital SLR market is not taking off faster. No one wants to spend over a grand on a digital SLR and then, a year later, find that $300 point-and-shoot cameras have double the resolution.
Well frankly, I think you're overstating it a little:) A Canon digital rebel will set you back about $800, and has ~6MP. $300 cameras will _not_ have 12MP in a year, that I am pretty sure of. Even if they did, pixel count is not the only useful measure of a camera's greatness. Once you get to about 6 (for most people) or 10 (for pros) you're good, then it comes down to optics, ease of use, reliability, speed, battery life, metering, AF, choice of lenses etc etc.
Manually control shutter speed, zoom, all kind of settings, instead of those "easy to use" scenery settings in modern camera's (read: we know you are a moron, just let us decide for you what's the best setting).
Any decent camera already has manual controls. Hell, even most crappy ones do.
Because you want to reprogram it to take a snapshot whenever the image changes suddenly Interesting, but would require way more general processing power than any camera has. Get a webcam designed for the job.
Because you want to save images as PNG. Again, interesting. But with JPG for lossy and TIFF or even RAW for lossless, why?
Or simply because hackers enjoy hacking stuff?
Now that's a good reason. But surely these people enjoy a challenge...so making it easy would spoil the fun;)
Not usually (but sometimes). There's rarely any difference between a card reader connection and a USB connection. With my cameras (a collection of Canons) you can edit some camera settings via USB, and also do things like remote triggering.
You mean the 10D. The 20D hardware is significantly ahead of the 300D/Rebel (I had/have both). Bigger buffer & faster CF gives amazing burst rates, new AF arrangement & sensors, new Digic II processor gives excellent noise reduction (usable images at 1600!), etc etc.
The rebel is really nice, but even with the hacked firmware it's not really a 10D, never mind a 20D.
You can get a hacked bios for the dRebel, and some of the missing features are added. Many of the interesting ones aren't though, because the hardware is not the same, regardless of what some people may have you believe.
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If you want your opinion to be taken seriously you may want to lose the fricking ponzi-pyramid-scheme free crap scam in your sig.
Just a thought.
I mean, I guess we could bomb it, but that would accomplish nothing beyond tarnishing our international standing even further
Something which the current administration have demonstrated they really don't care about. "You're with us or you're against us" seems to be their stance.
and I don't see a draft being a very popular option
It will happen, I'm almost certain. Wrapped up in homeland security, protecting the state, etc etc kids will be drafted. Sure it will be unpopular in manhy areas, but Bush is unpopular in many areas yet he still won the election. At this point in the term, the President can do whatever he wants. In 4 years time everyone will have forgotten.
And exactly how does that correlate with freedom of speech? Sure it's unacceptable to make threats (if they did), and you may consider it unacceptable to raise money for certain groups (although, personally, I don't have a problem provided those donating know what it's being used for), simply reporting their opinions and views surely should be protected.
All of which might make some kind of sense if the people in question (inmates at Abu Garib) were actually terrorists. They're not. Even by the US governments own admission these are people arrested for things like looting, stealing food, maybe being friends with someone the US doesn't like. Just imagine, if you will, being in their situation. Some other country has invaded your country, supposedly to "liberate" you. But your family is short of food so you go and take some from a burnt out supermarket down the street. The soldiers arrest you, and you vanish to this hell hols jail. Where a bunch of uniformed kids entertain themselves by abusing you.
How do you feel? Pretty pissed I would imagine. What the US is doing is wrong, plain and simple. Even if these people are involved with fighting (and I repeat, the US has itself admitted most are not) then they deserve a trial. What happened to justice? What happened to innocent until proven guilty IN A COURT OF LAW? Doesn't that apply to people with brown skin? Not to mention that the US has basically turned the whole of Iraq into one big terriorist recruitment camp. Don't you see how you're sealing your own fate to be fighting the absurd and useless war forever?
You sicken me, and I am ashamed to be part of the same species as you.
Well Shure and Etymotic do some canal phones with pretty impressive bass, I like my e3's but I hear the e2's actually have louder bass.
Which is why you use noise-isolating canal phones. I ride the NY subway every day with my Shure e3's and I can barely hear the train with the music turned off - when music is on I can't hear anything around me.
Good head/ear phones can do bass very well. SO if the player can't, then yes, it's a problem.
"mp3" is not a word, it's a file extension. In most cases, a file with the mp3 extention contains data in a format officially known as "Motion Picture Expert Group Standard 11172 Audio Layer 3".
"ogg" is not a word, it's a file extension. In most cases, a file with the ogg extention contains data in a format officially known as "Ogg Vorbis".
Now which is long winded again?
LiveJournal got hit the hardest, they had some IDE drives on their servers, doh!
I was unaware that SCSI drives had the ability to run without power - thanks for the info!
On a serious note, am I the only one here who thinks a world in which no one questions a policy like that is insane?
You're kidding right?
We've had critical, and I mean critical, servers that have uptimes measured in years
Well good for you. But when (not if) one of those boxes gets a hardware fault, or a power problem, what do you do? Do you have ANY confidence that it will come up properly? If you rebooted that thing every x (day/week/month whatever) then that answer would be YES, you know that if you have to bring it up it will come up.
Number one rule of high availability systems: NO SINGLE POINTS OF FAILURE. You need a hot backup for EVERYTHING. Provided you have that, then regular reboots are not a problem, as each box cycles the others take up the slack. If you don't have that, then you don't have a reliable system, you have a timebomb.
Hell we even do regular cable pull tests. Someone will walk through one of the server rooms and yank a cable or three, could be power, could be network, whatever. If your system is properly put together nothing (or no-one) except your monitoring systems should notice.
I was going to get 2, but honestly, they are huge. I just haven't got space on my desk....unless I throw some things away :)
Also, putting 2 side by side means you can't (easily) pivot. Switching to portrait is very cool for document editing.
You can switch between all 4 inputs with a button on the front. So you can have desktop on DVI, laptop on VGA, TV on composite and DVD on SVideo - if you wanted!
Dell 2001FP. 20" display, 1600x1280 res, supports VGA, DVI, Composite & Svideo input with PiP. USB hub, adjustable stand with pivot.
Consistently good reviews (try anandtech for a detailed one), excellent image quality & response times.
If you get lucky with a discount (Dell frequently run them) you can get it, like I did, for around $650 shipped.
There are good deals to be had. I just got a Dell 2001FP (20.1", 1600x1280) which rates pretty highly amongst reviewers for $640 shipped (inc tax). Great screen, perfectly good for gaming (UT2004) and everything else.
You're both breaking different laws. He's breaking the law by posessing/using an unlicensed copy, you're breaking the law by distributing a copyright work without permission.
Of course the immigration people want to know, that's fine. But it's no business of the airline.
Not true (well it depends on your class of visa). I am neither a permament resident nor a citizen, but I arrive on the back leg of return trips (i.e. no outbound ticket) a few times a year.
Thanks, but I already had it installed on mine. Like I said, useful, but it doesn't do everything.
Of course firmware won't stop me from laughing at someone who paid $1000 for a piece of plastic with some 10D guts.
The digital rebel/300d is a nice camera, it basically created the market for affordable dSLRs. Sure there are other better cameras, but they cost considerably more. Knocking it makes you look like an idiot I'm afraid. (Speaking as an ex-dRebel owner and new 20D owner).
The 20D and 1DmkII are different animals, there are things the 20D can do which the 1D can't, and vice versa, and not just in software, in hardware too.
Even in the digital SLR market, the manufacturers still have not introduced replaceable "film" backs that allow consumers to upgrade the CMOS sensors as higher resolution comes out. And that's probably why the digital SLR market is not taking off faster. No one wants to spend over a grand on a digital SLR and then, a year later, find that $300 point-and-shoot cameras have double the resolution.
:) A Canon digital rebel will set you back about $800, and has ~6MP. $300 cameras will _not_ have 12MP in a year, that I am pretty sure of. Even if they did, pixel count is not the only useful measure of a camera's greatness. Once you get to about 6 (for most people) or 10 (for pros) you're good, then it comes down to optics, ease of use, reliability, speed, battery life, metering, AF, choice of lenses etc etc.
Well frankly, I think you're overstating it a little
Manually control shutter speed, zoom, all kind of settings, instead of those "easy to use" scenery settings in modern camera's (read: we know you are a moron, just let us decide for you what's the best setting).
;)
Any decent camera already has manual controls. Hell, even most crappy ones do.
Because you want to reprogram it to take a snapshot whenever the image changes suddenly
Interesting, but would require way more general processing power than any camera has. Get a webcam designed for the job.
Because you want to save images as PNG.
Again, interesting. But with JPG for lossy and TIFF or even RAW for lossless, why?
Or simply because hackers enjoy hacking stuff?
Now that's a good reason. But surely these people enjoy a challenge...so making it easy would spoil the fun
Not usually (but sometimes). There's rarely any difference between a card reader connection and a USB connection. With my cameras (a collection of Canons) you can edit some camera settings via USB, and also do things like remote triggering.
You mean the 10D. The 20D hardware is significantly ahead of the 300D/Rebel (I had/have both). Bigger buffer & faster CF gives amazing burst rates, new AF arrangement & sensors, new Digic II processor gives excellent noise reduction (usable images at 1600!), etc etc.
The rebel is really nice, but even with the hacked firmware it's not really a 10D, never mind a 20D.
You can get a hacked bios for the dRebel, and some of the missing features are added. Many of the interesting ones aren't though, because the hardware is not the same, regardless of what some people may have you believe.