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A foghorn leghorn sample.

If you live in or visit NYC, there's a venue that sort of specializes in experimental instruments and music, some free jazz and other stuff. It's Tonic, on Norfolk in the Lower East Side, and they've earned a solid reputation for hosting some great musicians of lesser known genres. John Zorn has played there many times.

One night I saw a guy put a cello bow to a tiny wooden contraption with audio pickups attached. He proceeded to produce some eerie and beautiful music. Others followed with homebrew synthesizers. Weird, intriguing night.

Columbia University has a computer music program, and some of the students there host a monthly demo called dorkbot, for people making experimental music, audio, video, robots etc.. It's held in a dozen other cities, check the website.

Two radio stations that carry new and experimental music programs are WFMU and WNYC. FMU has numerous programs which spotlight other music, while WNYC carries a single show, quite good, called New Sounds, hosted by John Schaefer. It's a bit on the pedigreed end of the spectrum, and although John Zorn is a frequent reference point, I haven't heard him as a guest on the show, though I'm not a regular listener. Most definitely worth a listen, it's on each night at 11pm ET.

Both can be heard online, and both stations maintain archives of their shows.

At UTDallas every freshman says they are studying Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. By sophomore year its more like this:
I was a Computer Science major, but then I hate programming, only playing Counterstrike. Now I am a Business major. But wait I hate accounting. Now I am a (insert easy major) major.
It's easy to tell the real CS majors (When do we learn Perl?) from the wannabes (Why would I take UNIX if it's not required?).

At UTDallas every freshman says they are studying Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. By sophomore year its more like this:
I was a Computer Science major, but then I hate programming, only playing Counterstrike. Now I am a Business major. But wait I hate accounting. Now I am a (insert easy major) major.
It's easy to tell the real CS majors (When do we learn Perl?) from the wannabes (Why would I take UNIX if it's not required?).

I'm somewhat happy with my programmer/analyst job. I cannot be plain happy, that would tend to balance the equation and thus make The Architect quite unpleased + side-effect me awakening inside a pod with fuschia colored ooze and a serious need for a sun tan.

Seriously, I try to balance my g33kiness with other activities, such as reading tech-related-but-not-directly stuff and playing the bass in a traditional ska band.

He needs to hit his bandwidth cap. http://members.tripod.com/~videtur/ thanks!

http://members.tripod.com/~videtur/k5screw.txt

RAW 12-bit (which the 1Ds captures) is a lossless representation of a bitmap with 24 or 32 bit color. RAW is the raw data from the CCDs of the camera itself, with a much higher color range. They capture 12bit Bayer patern, IIRC.

The RAW files are saved, to be converted into CMYK for printing, not RGB colorspace that PNG, JPEG and other monitor-centric display technologies use. The JPEGs are merely for previewing on a monitor.

RAW and JPEG are captured because that's the two formats the cameras they use spit out.

More details here.

Sorry, it's just the way this is phrased brings to mind this.

MS Uber Alles!

As the AC above noted, there is a bug report and the left to right problems will be resolved. Stick that in your $40,000,000,000 account and smoke it.

The Internet, and spam, is just providing an unfortunately convenient way for him to acquire these purchases.

The article explains that he used to hunt rummage sales, thift stores, and flea markets, then turned to the Internet after hurting his back. He buys on eBay, and via spam. Spam is just one part of his disease, and it made an interesting story. From the tour his wife gave of their apartment, it sounds like he doesn't need most of the stuff he buys--a typical symptom of hoarding.

Another symptom will be that he is unable to throw away things that he has purchased (like those boxes of vitamins), even if he doesn't need them or they are no longer of value.

OCD medication is usually ineffective for hoarding, but counseling can help.

At any rate, he does not respresent a typical email user, but at the same time, he is not alone. It is unfortunate, but there are people with these kinds of disorders out there, and they play right into the hands of spammers and telemarketers. The sad thing is when people take advantage of them.

So George eastman of Eastman Kodak counter signed the dodgy patent perhaps kodak are trying to honour him with there own dodgy patent?

to late!

I've never used it, just know of its existence (shareware)

What if I don't want to give another corporation information about what I'm trading... [And several
other, equally valid points]

I want to expand on this, just a bit, to highlight the problem here.

It seems highly unlikely that the RIAA would allow the end-user to download their database of "song signatures" or hashes or whatever implements this, so that the end-user could filter songs locally, deleting unauthorized songs on the honor system. After all, if the RIAA trusted its customers -- and if the customers were trustworthy -- but that's all water over the dam, isn't it?

So clearly this means uploading either the whole song, or some derived signature, to RIAA, every time you want to trade the file. This means uploading not just music, but any traded file.

And this introduces a chilling effect on free speech. Because the files I might be trading -- or the samizdat that secret Falun Gong supporter Won Ma might be sending to his fellow Chinese dissidents -- might not belong to the RIAA, but might invite government scrutiny for being unpopular dissent.

Certainly, knowing that everything that was traded, from bootleg Pete Seeger protest songs to homemade iMovies juxtaposing images of George Bush and chimpanzees to recordings of parody songs about John Ashcroft's resemblance to Darth Vader, was reported to a central repository -- the RIAA copyright detecting server -- could make that repository an irresistible target of monitoring by unscrupulous government agencies interested in tracking dissent -- whether those agencies are in Beijing or Washington D.C.

Would a government employee or contractor, worried about maintaining a security clearance, feel as free to engage in lawful and even patriotic dissent if he was worried his bosses might be able to monitor the his trading, from his home, excerpts from the documentary Guns & Mothers to which the he had added his own commentary defending his Second Amendment rights? Of course he'd worry -- and thus be discouraged from exercising his constitutional rights under not only the Second but the First Amendment as well!

Might a closeted homosexual worry that trading documentary films about Mattachine Society founder Harry Hay could reveal his sexual orientation and make him subject to blackmail?

Might Christians living in a Muslim theocracy fear persecution for trading Bibles or Christian devotional music?

Having any central server aware of all file trading gives whoever controls -- or can subvert the security of -- that central server a far too broad window into the demographics, politics, proclivities, and beliefs of anyone trading files. While this would be a boon to marketeers, governments, and anyone else whose goal is manipulation and control, it must be anathema to anyone who values privacy and liberty -- from left wing "hippie" to right wing "gun-nut", from closted homosexual to crypto-Christian.

Whatever your politics, whether you trade files or not -- and, no, I don't --, this is something you must oppose, for it threatens the liberty of all of us.

It reminds be of my original compaq sewing machine sized computer - 26 pounds or so.
http://members.tripod.com/~net2000plus/compaq.htm
I would strap it on the back of my bike when I rode home - hoping not to tip over.

He is... Tuxedo Mask!

Does this mean that Ballmer is in line for gender reassignment? What does Bill say? Will they be able to work so closely after Ballmer goes under the knife? Will he be moving to Colorado?

The peasants weren't allowed to carry weapons. The only possible result was the appearance of fighting techniques not relying on weapons per se, but either using bare hands and feet, or using agricultural equipment as weapons. Nunchaku being a prime example what can be done with a farmer's tool. A scythe can become a formidable weapon as well, as many government goons found out when facing a peasant uprising.

Affirmative action is strictly followed by public institutions (like universities and govt organizations.) It is easier for somebody from a lower-caste to get admitted to univs and get promoted in jobs in the govt institutions. That's because there are not enough lower-caste people competing for the reserved positions; and the competition for the open positions is cut-throat. Goes to show that the lower-caste population is still lagging statistically.

The population of India being more than 1 billion, there would be plenty of exceptions-- there are many poor upper-caste people and lots of rich/powerful families are from lower castes. Most notably, govts in many states are by political parties representing the lower-castes.

Private companies do not care-- they will hire you based on your qualifications. Most people in urban areas won't care either, until it is time to marry off their kids.

This site gives a good overview of the caste system in modern India.

Here are about the only ones I could find. He's not as funny as Scotty.
Tasha: They make love at the drop of a hat.
Geordi: Any hat. --Justice
Data: Sensors show nothing out there. Absolutely nothing.
Geordi: Sure is a damned ugly nothing! --Where Silence has Lease
"Like the rat said, keep the cheese, I just want out of the trap." --Where Silence Has Lease
"I never lie when I've got sand in my shoes." --The Enemy
After saving a Romulan: "Welcome to Galordon Core, where no good deed goes unpunished." --The Enemy
"At first I thought the catwalk was spinning. As it turns out, it was me." --Cause and Effect
"Is there a runaway cadet in here?" --Journey's End
"We seem to have more than one mystery here." --Emergence
http://tvsothertenpercent.tripod.com/startrek/geor di.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/9038/tngquo tes.html
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Interestingly, the Etats-Unis has had this in place for a long time. Saudi Arabians and South Americans have long been coming to the U.S.A. for major surgical procedures. These people pay cash, rent out (or buy) entire hotels or apartment complexes for their entourage, keep flying back for follow-up care, and often purchase second (third, seventeenth...) homes in the area. This is very common not just in Los Angeles and Miami and Boston, but even places like Cleveland (but then again, they've got the Cleveland Clinic.) A lot of these places have been hit very badly by the changes in visa regulations limiting travel into the USA and have seen severe cashflow disruptions. I tried to find the link I read about the Cleveland Clinic, but can't right now. International patients like to come to the USA (warning tripod popup link ) but when they can't easily do it, Indian medical centers can easily jump up, especially since they have US trained doctors available too.

Paraphrased:

• "The definition you like is Not Scottish!"
• "My definition is Scottish!"

(What? What do you mean "I wasn't trying for parody"?)

I'm starting college next year, and for less than the price of a tablet i'm getting a killer desktop and i already have a $200 laptop(p1-233mhz, 64mb ram, 4gb hd...) that i dont really care if it gets lost, broken or stolen. Desktop for power/gaming etc, and my tiny 3lb laptop for portability. Those and a wireless router for my dorm (laptop on lap in bed while watching a dvd or tv on the desktop...) total less than $3000, which i've seen as the average price for a tablet pc.

Pfft. What they *didn't* tell you is that this galaxy was identified by Hubble's imaging of an ice-cold bottle of Colt 45 Malt Liquor.

An okay list.. Here's some dead fscking brilliant bands including recommended songs.

Cuff the Duke Ballad of a Lonely Construction Worker

Julie Doiron Gone Gone, The Longest Winter

Eric's Trip Anytime You Want, Behind the Garage, Frame, Follow, Girlfriend, My Chest is Empty, Spring, Viewmaster

The Flashing Lights A Day Like That, Friends You Learn to Hate, High School, Keep It To Yourself, Where do the Days Go?

Jale Not Happy, Over You

Joel Plaskett Come On Teacher, Mystery and Crime, True Patriot Love, Unconditional Love

The New Pornographers Letter From an Occupant, The Body Says No

The Salteens Let Go of Your Bad Days, Kelly Nicoll, Nice Day, The Best Thought

Sloan Autobiography, C'mon C'mon, Coax Me, G Turns To D, Gimmie That, I Hate My Generation, On The Horizon, People of the Sky, Take Good Care of the Poor Boy, The Good in Everyone, The Line You Amend, The Rest of My Life

Thrush Hermit At My Expense, Before You Leave, Darling Don't Worry, From the Back of the Film, Songs for the Gang, The Day We Hit The Coast

Weakerthans Leash, Watermark

Young and Sexy Ella, The City You Live in is Ugly

Zumpano Behind the Beehive, The Party Rages On

Never look back on computer hardware you bought. I'm working on a killer gaming/multimedia rig to last me through college. Already the prices i got a week ago are down by as much as $5 on some parts(video card).

Not another open source propaganda fest. *yawn*

Open source is so '03 man.

This year I wanna hear: "Hey slashdotters, I'm a low paid inexperienced geek working in a super huge investment bank thingy and my IT director is obsessed with open source applications as a way to cut costs. Yet I've estimated that the constant upgrades, lack of support and general misconceptions could actually drive costs through the roof, not to mention the effects on my project risk matrix. So dudes, how do I convince this open source zealot that proprietary is the only way to go?"

C'mon people, how many times does this question need to be answered? Why not devote an entire section of Slashdot. What about
Conversion: bringing open source to the masses.
Learn the skills you'll need to convince everyone that community is more important that individuality.
Today's top stories: Profit is evil!

And so on and so forth...

Patent everything and let God decide.

I'm just foolin', y'all. Those were just jokes! You know I love you Slashdot.

When falling, keen can shoot down. Sometimes, when you shoot carefully, keen will surf down on his bullet. When he hits the ground, he will actually land on his bullet, thus standing in the air. When "standing on a bullet", keen can shoot up and, voila! Keen flies into the air. No cheating involved!

How wonderful that for such a popular game, it took 10 years before somebody's little brother found it out and the information made it way to the internet...!

The computer science department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK has been working on aerobot research for several years now.. There have also been similar robots sent to Venus.

Evidently, DeLoreans have been snorting up all the white lines on the roads. (For you young'ens, John DeLorean was busted for putting up $1.8 million to bring 100 kilos of cocaine into the US. It was a funny joke in the '80s, I swear!)

Well, they can always rebrand the mail client as "thunderfox"; the only software I can find that goes that by name is for old 8-bit Ataris.

Oh, and this classic movies.

They should have used Red Mercury !

I've played Magic tournaments off and on for 6 or 7 years. I've played in the Pro Tour. I still play the occasional limited tourney. Limited means that you dont bring along your expensive cards to play. You open brand new randomized packs like everyone else, and make a deck.

99.995% of those who attempt or think they can make a living playing Magic, are dreaming. The prizes are very top-heavy, so that only the top 4 players per Pro Tour event (6 per year) can even hope to turn a decent profit.

And that's only for one year! Next year they have to manage an insane finish once again. Rarely do "name" players actually make repeat Top 4's in Pro Tours. I could count on 1.5 hands the number of players that are making a good living (i.e. 30K/yr) off this game.

I even made a nice little chart: http://goa_entranced.tripod.com/pic/protour.jpg (damn filter refuses an underscore in the URL.)

And yet, there are hundreds of thousands of players who chase the illusion of making a living playing Magic.

You've got to hand it to Wizards, they have hit a goldmine of addicts.

If you do need to modify the support libraries, the Rabbit Dynamic C source code is available, but the TINI Java library source code is not.

Anyone remember the old Macintosh magazines that had those in the back and you scanned them in for free programs?

I think you're talking about the Cauzin Softstrip.

You could get the latest shareware in your magazines, print your own barcodes and mail software to your friends. Interesting concept for a time when CD-ROMs didn't exist, a box of floppies cost $50 and the Internet was more like a strand than a web. Plus, it was easier than trying to use Kermit.

Okay, it's fully functional, but is it programmed with multiple techniques?

I got bochs v2.1 to run Windows XP without any problems. The trick is to configure bochs with --enable-cpu-level=5 --disable-sse.

Here are some screenshots and a howto

I had never heard of LHA until recently, when my GF started writing "dollz." Gnome KISS is a KISS doll viewer, and they are all the rage in Asia (or were last year, anyway). KISS is like paper dolls that you dress up. You can see some of my GFs work at the bottom of this page. There are actually some fairly sexy ones, but I can't find any on a quick google. Anyway, these dollz sets use LHA compression, and finding a copy that would even compile on my machine took days, and sometimes things still don't work correctly. LHA is a PITA for me. P.S. A javascript version of a doll is here.

I had never heard of LHA until recently, when my GF started writing "dollz." Gnome KISS is a KISS doll viewer, and they are all the rage in Asia (or were last year, anyway). KISS is like paper dolls that you dress up. You can see some of my GFs work at the bottom of this page. There are actually some fairly sexy ones, but I can't find any on a quick google. Anyway, these dollz sets use LHA compression, and finding a copy that would even compile on my machine took days, and sometimes things still don't work correctly. LHA is a PITA for me. P.S. A javascript version of a doll is here.

I had never heard of LHA until recently, when my GF started writing "dollz." Gnome KISS is a KISS doll viewer, and they are all the rage in Asia (or were last year, anyway). KISS is like paper dolls that you dress up. You can see some of my GFs work at the bottom of this page. There are actually some fairly sexy ones, but I can't find any on a quick google. Anyway, these dollz sets use LHA compression, and finding a copy that would even compile on my machine took days, and sometimes things still don't work correctly. LHA is a PITA for me. P.S. A javascript version of a doll is here.

I had never heard of LHA until recently, when my GF started writing "dollz." Gnome KISS is a KISS doll viewer, and they are all the rage in Asia (or were last year, anyway). KISS is like paper dolls that you dress up. You can see some of my GFs work at the bottom of this page. There are actually some fairly sexy ones, but I can't find any on a quick google. Anyway, these dollz sets use LHA compression, and finding a copy that would even compile on my machine took days, and sometimes things still don't work correctly. LHA is a PITA for me. P.S. A javascript version of a doll is here.

If it was the design of the car you liked, have you ever seen a Honda del Sol? I bought a low-mileage '95 del Sol a few years ago and I love it. It's a two-seater like the Fiero, but I've had 0 problems with it after 60,000 miles except for the roof squeeking occasionally and recently the fan speed dial on the A/C came loose. It's a great little car and the top comes off! (It stores in the trunk.)

The trouble is that the gospels don't all agree with each other on key details, and some, like John, were clearly written with selling Christianity to the Romans in mind, with some fairly blatant jew-baiting in there to leave them with someone to throw to the lions.

For an overview of Jewish problems with the gospel of John, read here. Even if you disagree (and the author is admittedly kind of hyperbolic and off-putting), it may open your eyes to the idea that it's not a political correctness issue, but a textual interpretation one: How do the makers of the film choose to render key events which are described multiple times in the New Testament in incompatible ways? What does this say about their views and agenda?

When the Pope comments on such a work, public evaluation and criticism of his statements is most certainly valid.

Interestingly, there was a proposed amendment that would have automatically stripped the citizenship of any American who accepted such a title. Some conspiracy theorists claim that the amendment was, in fact, ratified in 1819; however, that notion has been pretty thoroughly debunked.

I built some of the buildings.
Lots of pictures.

If there is profit in it, your rights will be steamrolled.

First the cases will be tagged, then the products.

If WalMart cared about rights, they would pay employees what they owe them

Anybody besides me remember these dinosaurs?

Elven reverie anyone? ^_^

I'm just wondering. It'd be awfully funny if it is.

It would appear it isn't.