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Ack, maybe you where referring to the actual journal entry i had IN my journal. That was posted years ago which is totally irrelevant to this case where i actually trolled. Btw, i was referring to meatball by faggot. http://www.hellward.dsl.pipex.com/Faggots2.jpg

given the popularity of digital music and mp3 its not surprising that lots of competing formats should emerge, but as far as i'm concerned they're not a great deal better than mp3. if you really do need better sound then look to your setup and enhance that first of all. http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/audiophile.htm might help you on your way.

that's true

Wikipedia isn't my source of info in such matters, just a convenient place to link to, though I did read it first to see if it concurred with my opinion/bias.

The Luddite movement started here in my home town, Nottingham, so I have some personal attachment to the subject. I also have the modern industrial world's first factory near by in Matlock

http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com/matlock/mil ls.htm

As to what the /. world thinks of me, it is meaningless.

Here are a few possible designs:

xbox
xbox
joke
xbox

And, a portable gamecube:
gamecube

It's hard to see from the CNN photo, but you can see the major design fault regarding the placement of the gas bottle here. It makes me cross my legs just thinking about the things that could go wrong!

Anyway, there's nothing to see here, they were racing rocket bikes in the 1920's! Move along, move along...

Haydn.

I find your lack of froth disturbing.

I find you knack with bass disturbing.

I find your rack of spice disturbing.

Ahhh.... but from what I've heard, WE DID IT !! www-pm.larc.nasa.gov/sass/scitech.2.html and this.. http://www.aqvc39.dsl.pipex.com/2005/04/get-this-a ircraft-are-contributing-to.html this too.. http://www.globalwarming.net/index.php?option=com_ content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=1

You guys are pikers. Haven't you heard about the $30,000 dollar speaker cables?

Thats $ US, by the way.

Were I a betting man, I would bet this is an elaborate scheme to separate the investor from his money, rather like the "Holman Locomotive Speeding Truck Company".

The Holman Horror

Interestingly enough, their stock (at least the certificates for same) is worth more today than it ever was when the company existed!

I'll see your $500, and I'll raise you $1000
http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/audiophile.htm

Shift-0? What kind of stone age are you living in, man?

Remap your keyboard so the parentheses replace the (mostly useless?) square brackets.

Kind of like http://www.asl.dsl.pipex.com/symbolics/photos/IO/.

The first thought that came to mind was the Dynosphere.

More monowheels. The patriot monowheel, and the industrial V8 version.

The first thought that came to mind was the Dynosphere.

More monowheels. The patriot monowheel, and the industrial V8 version.

The first thought that came to mind was the Dynosphere.

More monowheels. The patriot monowheel, and the industrial V8 version.

The first thought that came to mind was the Dynosphere.

More monowheels. The patriot monowheel, and the industrial V8 version.

DXQuake3 : http://www.dxquake3.dsl.pipex.com/
DXQuake3 features : http://www.dxquake3.dsl.pipex.com/dxquake3_feature s.htm

DXQuake3 : http://www.dxquake3.dsl.pipex.com/
DXQuake3 features : http://www.dxquake3.dsl.pipex.com/dxquake3_feature s.htm

Ah, but does it conform to The infinite monkey protocol?

"Macro" evolution is nothing but a large number of "micro" evolution steps piled together.

Most creationist will agree that this butterfly "anomaly" when the butterfly becomes a bird

Standard rediculous creationist claim. Under evolution nothing can become anything other than a variation of what it already was. For example cats: house cats, lions, tigers, pathers, lynx, cheetah, jaguar, puma, they are all cats. Across the entire cat family they are clearly separated by nothing but a bunch of "micro" evolutions. Lions and tigers are seperated by different hair patterns and a handful of other trivial differences. In fact lions and tigers can even interbreed. A house cat is seperated from the cheetah merely by a larger number of "micro" evolutions. They are simply a diverging branching tree from some original cat. The entire existing cat tree converges on a single ancestor roughtly 10 million years ago. A cat cannot become a dog. Working backwards over a far longer time span, the cat family and dog family and bear family and raccoon family are all branches from a common carnovour ancestor around 40 or 50 million years ago. There are merely four or five times as many "micro" evolutions between cats and dogs as there are between house cats and cheetahs. Again woring backwards cats and cows and dolphins and humans are all mammals. They are simply a diverging branching tree from some original mammal roughly 220 million years ago.

A butterfly cannot become a bird any more than a dolphin can become a fish. However dolphins are a perfect examply of just how far one one thing (a mammal) can diverge into something that "completely different" and look a lot like a fish after 220 million years of "micro" evolutions. Given 220 million years worth of "micro" evolution, yes some butterfly will become something extremely "macro" different, it might even resemble a bird in the way a dolphin resembles a fish, but it will never be a bird.

Macro evolution is just a meaningless creationist term to wave away the mountain of scientific evidence that they can no longer deny. It's like attacking the theory of gravity because we have not yet seen Pluto make a full orbit. We first discovered pluto in 1930, and we will not see it complete an orbit until the year 2278. We will not see the Milky Way galaxy complete an orbit for about 228 million years. None of this weakens the theory of gravity.

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i thought alanis was god, or maybe this is him , or was it george? one tricky deity.

Well, if you want something with a similarly hellish scent and appearance but of a slightly smaller stature, maybe you should try one of these

You've modified c three times without any intervening sequence points, which gives undefined behavior. See http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/green/gfd34/art/ and click on "bloopers", or just Google for "nasal demons" (honest!)

Also note that if you don't insert spaces yourself, "c+++++c" is NOT tokenized as "c++ + ++c" either -- it's tokenized as "c++ ++" and then lexing will normally stop because what you have is illegal. Google for "maximum munch".

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The universe is a figment of its own imagination.

While we're on the subject of the Mac Mini... ASoTV, what is your view on the story/theory that the mini was almost designed with an integrated iPod dock?: http://www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com/macmini/macmini_i pod.html The hardware evidence looks convincing and it seems like a winner of an idea, the question is; did apple change their minds on this at the last minute and why? Your insight would be appreciated on this one...

I guess you won't enjoy this paper then.

http://www.quicknet.software.dsl.pipex.com/two.avi
http://www.quicknet.software.dsl.pipex.com/atat.av i

http://www.quicknet.software.dsl.pipex.com/two.avi
http://www.quicknet.software.dsl.pipex.com/atat.av i

I found this sometime aeons ago and just Google'd a copy of it online here...

http://www.mipmip.dsl.pipex.com/tidbits/pronunciat ion.shtml

it's not literally a FireWire plug, but an unused connector on a card near the back of the Mac Mini... and the Mini already has FW on the back.

here are some pictures and info.....
http://www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com/macmini/macmini_i pod.html

i have one of the G4 Sawtooth machines with the odd FW plug on the motherboard. if i did not have my machine sideways on my desk i would have run a little extension to put the port on the front panel (i don't have the internal Zip drive in the extra bay). i guess it was never officially explained, but i guess Apple thought internal FW drives might catch on or something.

[..] none of those 13+ organizations you rattled off has been able to stop genocide in [..]

You never hear the small, positive stories. The media want to see blood. It sells.

Nothing happens unless there is a UN member or a coalition of UN members that has the means and the willingness to interfere. Other countries than the US do take on missions if they feel they have the means to pull it off.

What about France on the Ivory Coast? A quote:

"Without France, we would find ourselves in a second Rwanda," claimed Ibrahim Coulibaly, one of the rebels who took control of the north in September 2002, in an interview with Courrier International (Nov 17).

Or the UNMEE force in Ethiopia and Eritrea, where the Netherlands and Canada initially volunteered, but only after explicit assurances by the US through the media that they could call in US air support from bases in Saudi Arabia if needed. The force now mostly consists of troops from India, Jordania, and Kenya.

65,000 UN soldiers (excluding forces like the French one on the Ivory Coast) are currently serving in 16 UN operations worldwide, and most of those are succesful.

Srebrenica is a good example of what happens if you are willing but do not really have the means to pull it off yourself (and your 'ally' the US is secretly arming the side you are supposed to disarm according to your UN mandate). The Netherlands' force mistakenly assumed it could rely on air support by allies if needed, and the small force didn't have the means to take out Serbian tanks. The Serbs blocked munitions and arms supplies over the road for months before they attacked the enclave.

The US is the only country with a network of air force bases all over the world, and even the US would probably have had problems providing sufficient air lift and air support quickly in Rwanda. For smaller countries involvement in Rwanda could only have ended in embarassment.

All of this has hardly any bearing on the functioning of the UN bureaucracy. It is about cynical international diplomacy.

Since so many media outlets are covering this, now would be the perfect time for some ambitious person to change the lokitorrent.com website to display this image and with this quote:

"The more you tighten you grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

A $1000 OpenPower server would be nice, though. So would a Cray that fits in my pocket that costs $25.

Sadly, it costs $40 plus shipping on ebay, but it'll come down soon.

Not relevant, but highly amusing. And yes, I know the C1 has archetechtural advantages over the Zire 21 (parrelelism, floating point...). It'll happen to the OpenPower servers too.

These pins have internal pull-up resistors so the CPU clock in practice is set by leaving each pin either floating or grounded with zero Ohm resistor (call them jumpers if you wish).

Um, yeah.

So, you are going to keep these around long enough without losing them so you can put them back? Good luck.

I also found that this picture makes a great desktop wallpaper...

Kudos to the guy photographing this stuff.. He took some pretty good shots!

Erm, no. The warranty is never valid if YOU break it, only if it breaks because it's faulty. If YOU break it, it's insurance that comes to the rescue, maybe. :)

You're right, and I also think that removing soldered jumpers from the motherboard will definitely void your warranty.

Did you see the size of the jumpers?!?!?! Crazy small...

Did you check the jumpers? Good luck while playing with them.

Is it right for you? I have no idea, but I know someone who can advise you :)

Its already generated several hundred ideas using Adam Sandler alone.

The fact that the data format is documented (and the commitment to keep it so) is what's important.

I would still fear working with binary formats (not that the example I cite is properly documented, but the bits people have figured out give me nightmares).

http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/haha.txt

Well .... it's actually pretty funny that you would mention that. After my own statement about what color the Cray-1 was I decided to run around the net like a mad hen ..... which is where I started finding pics ..... nothing like seeing a Cray-1 in Lemon Yellow. Anyway ....

From: http://www.spikynorman.dsl.pipex.com/CrayWWWStuff/ Cfaqp3.html#TOC19

Could you choose the colour of your Cray machine ? In the early days of the company yes, there was even rumour of a cowhide covered XMP delivered to a Houston oil company. As time went on colouring your computer was dropped as a customer option. Well almost - when there is that much money changing hands, if enough fuss is made, the exterior panels would revisit the paint shop. This did not apply to Els which were all black and red. Well almost - one customer which had just upgraded a pair of YMPs (one green, one blue) for a C90 and an EL did manage to get the EL painted a rather fetching sky blue colour.

As for XMP/EA, sn501 an internal contact reports "We lobbied to have it done up in denim (like the denim Jeans) & have a little red Levis tag attached. ... Management was not amused & it never happened."

One second user customer did have a bit of a surprise when their second user C90 arrived in a lurid deep rose/pink colour. The top of the C90, being a convex shape happened to sit just a couple of feet under a set of strip lights and resulted in lovely pink glow over a whole section of the machine room. Rumour has it that the colour matched the previous owners, girlfriends' nail varnish.

The Bell Labs Cray (XMP) was a wallpapered IC design.

I wonder if DS9000 would be any better reference either..

As many people have told you, you are in fact the evil twin. Don't feel too bad though, you're just "evil" in the nominal sense. Your clean shaven, "good" twin is an utter bastard.

As Stan told Evil Cartman in the Spooky Fish episode of South Park, "You know Evil Cartman, I like you better than our Cartman.".

I[f] you have a goatee, *you're* the evil twin. Your cleanshaven counterpart is the good guy.

Just because he's the "evil twin" doesn't mean, that his cleanshaven counterpart is a good guy. See the Spooky Fish episode of South Park. As Stan said to the the goateed Evil Cartman, "You know Evil Cartman, I like you better than our Cartman.".

"Linux wil run on most, if not all desktop computers currently running Windows."

In fact, Linux runs on about 23 additional architectures that Microsoft can't even remotely support with their most-flexible embedded target.

• Diverse PDA / embedded / microcontroller / router devices:
  • Advanced RISC Machines, Ltd. ARM family (StrongARM SA-1110, XScale, ARM6, ARM7, ARM2, ARM250, ARM3i, ARM610, ARM710, ARM720T, and ARM920T)
  • Analog Devices, Inc.'s Blackfin DSP
  • Axis Communications ETRAX series ("CRIS" = Code Reduced Instruction Set RISC architecture)
  • Elan SC520 and SC300
  • Fujitsu FR-V
  • Hitachi H8 series
  • Intel i960
  • Intel IA32-compatibles (Cyrix MediaGX, STMicroelectronics STPC, ZF Micro ZFx86)
  • Matsushita AM3x
  • MIPS-compatibles (Toshiba TMPRxxxx / TXnnnn, NEC VR series, Realtek 8181)
  • Motorola 680x0-based machines (Motorola VMEbus boards, ISICAD Prisma machines, and Motorola Dragonball & ColdFire CPUs, and Cisco 2500/3000/4000 series routers)
  • Motorola embedded PowerPC (including MPC / PowerQUICC I, II, III families)
  • NEC V850E
  • Renesas Technology (formerly Hitachi) SH3/SH4 (SuperH: link1 link2)
  • Samsung CalmRISC
  • Texas Instruments's DM64x and C54x DSP families
• Intel 8086 / 80286 .
• Intel IA32 family: i386, i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Xeon, and Pentium IV processors, as well as IA32 clones from AMD, Cyrix, VIA, IDT, Winchip, NexGen, Transmeta, VIA C3 Ezra "CentaurHauls", and others.
• Intel/HP IA64: Trillian/Itanium/Itanium2
• AMD x86-64 Hammer family (including AMD Opteron)
• Motorola 68020-68040 series (with MMU): m68k Mac, Amiga, Atari ST/TT/Medusa/Falcon, HP/Apollo Domain, HP9000/300, sun3, and Sinclair Q40.
• Motorola/IBM PowerPC family: Most PowerMac (including G3/G4/G5) / CHRP / PReP / POP, Amiga PowerUP System, and IBM PPC64 (AS/400, RS/6000).
• MIPS

Technology demonstrated by a university student for probably a fraction of that: http://www.dgraham.dsl.pipex.com/dmist/home.html

See the South Park episode on this.

Cartman: I learned somethin' today. This country was founded by some of the smartest thinkers the world has ever seen. And they knew one thing: that a truely great country can go to war, and at the same time, act like it doesn't want to. [a shot of the crowd] You people who are for the war, you need the protesters. Because they make the country look like it's made of sane, caring individuals. And you people who are anti-war, you need these flag-wavers, because, if our whole country was made up of nothing but soft pussy protesters, we'd get taken down in a second. That's why the founding fathers decided we should have both. It's called "having your cake and eating it too."

Randy: He's right. The strength of this country is the ability to do one thing and say another.

I see.
If it was house you were playing I would have said to go here and listen to my mix.
But you don't, so I won't.
And yet I just did.