Sine the word 'deserve' is going to be used a lot in this one, I'll note that if you purposely watch the Oscars, you 'deserve' whatever lunatic ramblings you are exposed to.
And I'm sure that several dozen poor people were tasered on the same day, for doing the same thing (struggling with the police), and not a single on of them gets front page Slashdot.
If any of them got 3 lines on the online edition of their hometown paper, I'd be surpised.
Having to wait for the menu video intro to play and then shift the cursor around to "play" every time I stick the disk in is not as convenient Yeah, you're telling me.
The average movie is what, 2 hours or so? Figure if you went on a movie watching marathon you'd have to do this inconvenient cursor shuffling 12 times a day. That would have to be like 30, maybe as many as 40, remote button presses in a day. How on earth 'they' expect the average consumer to put up with that level of atrocity is beyond me.
That is not even considering the wear and tear such a thing would put on my fingertips. And how much life it takes off my AAA batteries.
This was one of the better ones, and reads like it was written by a professional marketing person.
But that could always backfire, since the Slashdot crowd has strong anti-marketing leanings you have to be pretty careful. The thing that impressed me about the iPhone Slashvertisement barrage was that a good many of the 'submissions' came off as amateur, which I think you'd pretty much have to do if you are buying two front page stories a day, every day, for a month.
But it was refreshing to read this one and it more or less confirms that advertisers are taking this place seriously. I always found the "Ruby on Rails" Slashvertisements a little worrying because they were so obviously paid ads, and not even good ones. They read like they were tossed together by some Ruby programming consultant with halfway marginal skill with prose.
four major branches to be exact: Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Air Force As a currently inactive member of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit I'd like to deliver you a beating for snubbing us in favor of the Coast Guard.
You are probably thinking of the Civilian Marksmanship Program.
They sell M1 Garands, M1 carbines, 1903s, and some surplus 22LR bolt guns directly to the public. Shipped straight to you via FedEx.
Their requirements are that a person be a member of an affiliated shooting club and either have participated in a sanctioned match or be over the age of 60 (I think it is 60). They have a specific exemption that allows them to ship directly to non-FFL'd individuals and clubs as long as the customer meets the requirements and passes the usual NICS background check.
Otherwise sales of long gungs between individuals that cross state lines, face to face or online, have to be transferred through FFLs. All handguns have to go. But of course, individuals can hold an FFL without necessarily engaging in the business of dealing firearms.
I don't know when they were nationwide, but it was available around here in mid 2005. June maybe. I know they had service around Denver in very early 2005 but that was a test market.
My brother's shop was, according to the installer, the customer he'd done in the area. I had both of my locations done in August of 2005.
Unless the business has a strict need for high upload speed, why not satellite?
My house and my studio are outside the reach of cable and DSL and I've been using Wild Blue's service at both locations for about 2 years. My brother's business uses it as well.
Granted, costs aren't competitive with DSL or cable at a given bandwidth, but it is a lot less expensive than a $450/month T1. The package I have at my studio is advertised at 1.5Mbps down and 256kbps up. Overall it is just as reliable as the cable connection I had when I lived in the city.
Wild Blue and a couple of other providers cover pretty much everywhere in the US, including Gilsum, New Hampshire.
I do agree with the point of the article, that rural areas need better service. I wish BPL was available at my studio's location, just for its up/down parity, but isn't quite the dire straits it is made out to be. That is particuarly true if we are talking about 'households' that don't likely need a lot of upload bandwidth.
Poor products or not it looks like they invested $50k to cement their format as a standard. Considering they stand to make billions from that, it was a wise investment. It is the people who designed a system that could so easily be bought who should be ashamed, if that wasn't their intended outcome in the first place. A company can't deny its nature.
That depends entirely on where you are. In the US laws that coverdefenses relating to culpability vary by state.
Here in Indiana and in most other forward thinking states there is no requirement that a person be in fear of his life before employing deadly force when faced with a threat inside his own home.
Has not worked in Darfur, for some reason, has it? Because someone else got the upper hand there, and the oil flows the other direction. Do you think people see the "Made in China" stamp just before bullet goes through their heads? Think they care?
I don't know about that. As I've been through Kenya and most of the surrounding area a few times it seem to me that the best solution would be the opposite of what most Slashdotters are proposing here.
I say the Kenyan government should give the monkeys full human rights. Set aside an area of the country designated a monkey habitat and enshrine in law the monkeys' collective ownership of that land.
Then announce to the Western world that a routine governmental survey has found something of great value on the monkey-land. Gold, oil, rhodium, manganese, pretty flowers. Anything that can be collected and sold will do. The rest will take care of itself.
Before long armored divisions will start showing up to keep the peace. Machine gun bunkers will be built. Far overhead, out of sight of the monkeys, billion dollar airplanes will peer down throught their bombsights, trying to locate the laser the ground team is shining on a mudpile monkey hut so the bomber crew can precisely deliver a million dollar payload of explosives to eradicate the hut and all its occupants from the face of the earth.
An opposing monkey faction would be developed by dangling the carrot of power in front of an influential but well liked monkey leader of a monkey splinter group. To this faction the West could provide weapons, in return for assurances that when power was consolidated the weapon providers could expect the favor to be repaid. We just want to see an end to the monkey terror, you see.
But, with the other hand, the West could make sure that power never was consolidated. This way the monkeys would set themselves to the task of continually collecting whatever natural resource it was the West wanted, so they could afford a continual supply of weapons to fight a war that would never end.
If that isn't a time and again proven effective method of monkey subordination I don't know what is.
I believe the record bench press is better than 1000 lbs. The person who pressed that has used steriods, for sure, and wore a bench shirt. There are dozens of non-tested guys pressing 800+ pounds, and there are several in the drug tested 700 lb class.
A guy named Nick Winters shows up every so often at the gym where I lift. He is a drug tested competitor and I've seen him press 650 4 or 5 times without wearing a bench shirt. I'm told 700 lbs for 2 or 3 reps is a regular thing for him when he is working up to a competition.
Your reference to light and shade provides me the operning to point out that, in photography, there is a trend toward oversaturating color in all shots.
Velvia used to be a moderately popular film that was used my photographers to make some kind of artistic statement through oversaturation. You usually saw it used when someone wanted to emphasize some garish contrast in colors. These days oversaturation is standard practice for some people, for every photo they make. Every photo looks like a Nickelodeon commercial.
To flip the analogy around, the visual noise in the photos blares out at you the entire time, and you leave the gallery with your eyes ringing, desensitized to stuff like stoplights. Subtle contrast is overpowered and lost.
I think people in general are just getting more used to noise, all the time, and to get their attention you have to keep stepping it up.
But boxing isn't a strength contest. Nor is fighting in general.
It is demonstrable that at a given body weight the average male will have more upper body muscle mass than the average female. Women also have a higher minimum safe body fat percentage. Among those who specifically train for strength, the difference is magnified. To use the overemphasized metric of flat barbell bench press, 400 lbs is a rarity among women and anything over 300 likely involves genetic freakiness or steroids.
With men, if you aren't benching 700 pounds you really don't stand out from the crowd. And there are multiple guys who are just trying to stay in shape pressing 300 lbs in every gym in the world.
This is why most jobs that require some demonstration of strength (police, firefighters and such) have different standards for men and women. That ultimately makes no sense to me but it must be necessary to meet gender related employment requirements.
And those who came before you were complaining that stupid Music Television was wrecking their stupid channel with stupid cartoons. They just wanted music videos.
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Sine the word 'deserve' is going to be used a lot in this one, I'll note that if you purposely watch the Oscars, you 'deserve' whatever lunatic ramblings you are exposed to.
And I'm sure that several dozen poor people were tasered on the same day, for doing the same thing (struggling with the police), and not a single on of them gets front page Slashdot.
If any of them got 3 lines on the online edition of their hometown paper, I'd be surpised.
The average movie is what, 2 hours or so? Figure if you went on a movie watching marathon you'd have to do this inconvenient cursor shuffling 12 times a day. That would have to be like 30, maybe as many as 40, remote button presses in a day. How on earth 'they' expect the average consumer to put up with that level of atrocity is beyond me.
That is not even considering the wear and tear such a thing would put on my fingertips. And how much life it takes off my AAA batteries.
This was one of the better ones, and reads like it was written by a professional marketing person.
But that could always backfire, since the Slashdot crowd has strong anti-marketing leanings you have to be pretty careful. The thing that impressed me about the iPhone Slashvertisement barrage was that a good many of the 'submissions' came off as amateur, which I think you'd pretty much have to do if you are buying two front page stories a day, every day, for a month.
But it was refreshing to read this one and it more or less confirms that advertisers are taking this place seriously. I always found the "Ruby on Rails" Slashvertisements a little worrying because they were so obviously paid ads, and not even good ones. They read like they were tossed together by some Ruby programming consultant with halfway marginal skill with prose.
The most recent release (2007) will handle 2^14 columns.
You are probably thinking of the Civilian Marksmanship Program.
They sell M1 Garands, M1 carbines, 1903s, and some surplus 22LR bolt guns directly to the public. Shipped straight to you via FedEx.
Their requirements are that a person be a member of an affiliated shooting club and either have participated in a sanctioned match or be over the age of 60 (I think it is 60). They have a specific exemption that allows them to ship directly to non-FFL'd individuals and clubs as long as the customer meets the requirements and passes the usual NICS background check.
Otherwise sales of long gungs between individuals that cross state lines, face to face or online, have to be transferred through FFLs. All handguns have to go. But of course, individuals can hold an FFL without necessarily engaging in the business of dealing firearms.
Are you making the case that chickens are actively monitoring our egg eating habits?
No.
I don't know when they were nationwide, but it was available around here in mid 2005. June maybe. I know they had service around Denver in very early 2005 but that was a test market.
My brother's shop was, according to the installer, the customer he'd done in the area. I had both of my locations done in August of 2005.
Unless the business has a strict need for high upload speed, why not satellite? My house and my studio are outside the reach of cable and DSL and I've been using Wild Blue's service at both locations for about 2 years. My brother's business uses it as well. Granted, costs aren't competitive with DSL or cable at a given bandwidth, but it is a lot less expensive than a $450/month T1. The package I have at my studio is advertised at 1.5Mbps down and 256kbps up. Overall it is just as reliable as the cable connection I had when I lived in the city. Wild Blue and a couple of other providers cover pretty much everywhere in the US, including Gilsum, New Hampshire. I do agree with the point of the article, that rural areas need better service. I wish BPL was available at my studio's location, just for its up/down parity, but isn't quite the dire straits it is made out to be. That is particuarly true if we are talking about 'households' that don't likely need a lot of upload bandwidth.
Why should they?
Poor products or not it looks like they invested $50k to cement their format as a standard. Considering they stand to make billions from that, it was a wise investment. It is the people who designed a system that could so easily be bought who should be ashamed, if that wasn't their intended outcome in the first place. A company can't deny its nature.
That depends entirely on where you are. In the US laws that coverdefenses relating to culpability vary by state.
Here in Indiana and in most other forward thinking states there is no requirement that a person be in fear of his life before employing deadly force when faced with a threat inside his own home.
Lets do Nigeria next. Or the DRC, you pick.
I don't know about that. As I've been through Kenya and most of the surrounding area a few times it seem to me that the best solution would be the opposite of what most Slashdotters are proposing here.
I say the Kenyan government should give the monkeys full human rights. Set aside an area of the country designated a monkey habitat and enshrine in law the monkeys' collective ownership of that land.
Then announce to the Western world that a routine governmental survey has found something of great value on the monkey-land. Gold, oil, rhodium, manganese, pretty flowers. Anything that can be collected and sold will do. The rest will take care of itself.
Before long armored divisions will start showing up to keep the peace. Machine gun bunkers will be built. Far overhead, out of sight of the monkeys, billion dollar airplanes will peer down throught their bombsights, trying to locate the laser the ground team is shining on a mudpile monkey hut so the bomber crew can precisely deliver a million dollar payload of explosives to eradicate the hut and all its occupants from the face of the earth.
An opposing monkey faction would be developed by dangling the carrot of power in front of an influential but well liked monkey leader of a monkey splinter group. To this faction the West could provide weapons, in return for assurances that when power was consolidated the weapon providers could expect the favor to be repaid. We just want to see an end to the monkey terror, you see.
But, with the other hand, the West could make sure that power never was consolidated. This way the monkeys would set themselves to the task of continually collecting whatever natural resource it was the West wanted, so they could afford a continual supply of weapons to fight a war that would never end.
If that isn't a time and again proven effective method of monkey subordination I don't know what is.
Good call.
I believe the record bench press is better than 1000 lbs. The person who pressed that has used steriods, for sure, and wore a bench shirt. There are dozens of non-tested guys pressing 800+ pounds, and there are several in the drug tested 700 lb class.
A guy named Nick Winters shows up every so often at the gym where I lift. He is a drug tested competitor and I've seen him press 650 4 or 5 times without wearing a bench shirt. I'm told 700 lbs for 2 or 3 reps is a regular thing for him when he is working up to a competition.
Which doesn't mean that it wouldn't be useful to hear more fine detail on Otis Taylor's latest album.
Your reference to light and shade provides me the operning to point out that, in photography, there is a trend toward oversaturating color in all shots.
Velvia used to be a moderately popular film that was used my photographers to make some kind of artistic statement through oversaturation. You usually saw it used when someone wanted to emphasize some garish contrast in colors. These days oversaturation is standard practice for some people, for every photo they make. Every photo looks like a Nickelodeon commercial.
To flip the analogy around, the visual noise in the photos blares out at you the entire time, and you leave the gallery with your eyes ringing, desensitized to stuff like stoplights. Subtle contrast is overpowered and lost.
I think people in general are just getting more used to noise, all the time, and to get their attention you have to keep stepping it up.
But boxing isn't a strength contest. Nor is fighting in general.
It is demonstrable that at a given body weight the average male will have more upper body muscle mass than the average female. Women also have a higher minimum safe body fat percentage. Among those who specifically train for strength, the difference is magnified. To use the overemphasized metric of flat barbell bench press, 400 lbs is a rarity among women and anything over 300 likely involves genetic freakiness or steroids.
With men, if you aren't benching 700 pounds you really don't stand out from the crowd. And there are multiple guys who are just trying to stay in shape pressing 300 lbs in every gym in the world.
This is why most jobs that require some demonstration of strength (police, firefighters and such) have different standards for men and women. That ultimately makes no sense to me but it must be necessary to meet gender related employment requirements.
You should just blame the UBB developers. Their decision to replace perfectly good HTML tags with nearly identical ones is unforgiveable.
Suitably configured, Cisco Security Agent will prevent executables on removable media from executing.
That, and unapproved apps are generally forbidden by your average corporate IT policy whether they need be installed or not.
Lets hope that Tanya Anderson doesn't have a brother in Sicily.
I Tap, Rack, Bang.
And those who came before you were complaining that stupid Music Television was wrecking their stupid channel with stupid cartoons. They just wanted music videos.
Back in about 15 minutes ago I used Photoshop on OSX.
So yeah, it appears to be possible to get it to work on OSs other than Windows.