Edison was more ahead of his time than we thought...he invented the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit.

I wish Alter Relationship would stop replying to himself.

He's almost as bad as that other troll, Friend of a Friend.

It's great if it works for you, but we in the U.S. have a long history of disasterous social programs, social security being a prime example. Our country in the coming decade will have to make a choice between cutting benefits of these programs (which many of us have been paying for all of our working lives with a negative expected return), ridiculously high inflation that will drastically affect living standards, or defaulting on the national debt.

Thinking about adding ANOTHER social program at this time is nothing short of insanity.

No, when an organization is investigating it is staff, there perfectly reasonable to do it in lieu of.

Even at the bare minimum sampling rate, this would cause a sudden spike for 1/22,000th of a second, and an equally sudden return to the "appropriate" level. This is an extremely high frequency artifact, which would likely get filtered out by any number of low-pass filters or by the speaker cones themselves.

You can try this yourself: find a .wav file and change one byte of it in a hex editor. Try to hear the difference between that and the original.

And even then none of this matters because the delay would have to be so long as to introduce error in the eventual conversion by the DAC, which is clocked at a MUCH slower rate, and low-pass filtered to remove any high frequency artifacts from the signal.

And that's only if they're transmitting raw data instead of packets, which would be monumentally stupid.

I'll bet he's a Mormon.

Yeah, we could make 12" female dolls to sell to the vibrating Nazis!

Or they'll switch to using opaque screens, which will be the new hotness.

I think you're right, but Bob-taro's Law just isn't catchy enough to make you famous.

Now I'm going to have to wait in the long line to buy Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

An entity can take a public domain work, make changes, and copyright the result preventing others from using the changes. This possibility doesn't exist when no copyright law is enforced. The GPL prevents this eventuality.

It's actually a rather brilliant hack for those who believe the copyright system is a detriment to society. The more things that are GPL, the closer you get to a non-copyright society.

Whether you think that's a good thing is up to you, but you can't help but respect the logic of it.

I don't know the original intention of the legislation, but I use the driver side mirror for its intended purpose -- to remove the blind spot when changing lanes or turning right. I position it so that if a car is passing me on the left, I can see it leave the view of the rear-view mirror and enter the driver side mirror, until I can see it with peripheral vision. I usually have the driver side mirror angled way out.

There isn't a reason (to me) to see more with that mirror; if I could see cars further to the left of me, it would only be confusing when trying to switch lanes quickly. (Is that car immediately left of me, or is it two lanes over?)

M-x viper-mode

That's the only emacs command string you ever need to know.

"Obama Presides Over Cancer Cure."