Here at Bowling Green State University, we have a rather large music archive (I may be wrong, but I think they bill it a the largest in the country) And during a tour the head guy showed a large cylinder that was probably large enough in diameter for a CD to physically fit inside of it. The guy said they were really rare and they didn't have a machine that could play it, but this is proof that there were longer playing cylinders.
It's also interestin that the cylinders operated on an up and down motion rather than the side to side of the record (although he did show us a record that worded on up and down as well).
Yea, ribbon microphones aren't that hard to come by. I was sort of struck by that as well. They tend to be big and not used for live work, but pretty much every recording studio use them and a decent music store probably has one in stock or wouldn't look at you nearly as weird as if you went into a computer store and asked for a copy of wordstar.
My parents ( and where I grew up) have used the local independently owned telephone company since before I was born ('73). Sunman Telephone Company (www.nalu.net) has local calls (we used to have a party line when I was in grade school!), long distance, cellular, internet acces, and cable. They have also just begun offering DSL although I haven't been able to convince my dad to get it. So not everyone has to deal with the baby bells. Of course Sunman has a local monopoly over mass media service, but what are you gonna do?
According to the FAQ at fictavia.com, he diesd of, "heart complications arising from extensive use of drugs."
Also in reference to an earlier post, I think Do Androids... came out several years before his death (1968 i think), so I would be surprized if there was a version like the one described.
>it seems odd that we have a lot of trouble repeating their endeavours.
I don't know. I think if we wanted to get together HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of people and spend DECADES doing it, I think we could come up with a pretty decent pyramid. OF course we may not get it right on the first try, but niether did the egyptians. There are lots of pyramids in Egypt than just the three everyone talks about.
The ancient vikings did pretty darn well traveling across the ocean without building monuments. So I guess that ancient vikings were more advanced than aliens because the vikings could navigate using the stars...
The pyramids in meso-America were built in completely different ways than the Egyptian ones. They have found that some of them were built around other older buildings. One was found to have, I believe, seven different layers within it.
So how does one go about verifying this? Wouldn't they have to reproduce it? Since Pi is non-repeating, non-terminating, how else could you do it? IF you had to verify it, couldn't you just go one digit more and thus steal the thunder of anyone?
As a hoosier I feel nessesary to qualify this. That did happen, but back in 1897!! So its not as if we're idiots. Our great grandparents were the idiots.
"Newest HPs and Compaqs have USB ports in little lidded bays on the front of the machine. With so many digital cameras and other 'guest' devices like these, it's a great idea."
Just like much maligned eMachines have always had...
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Back in '96, Discover magazine did an article on the electoral college that said that it actually made your vote more likely to be the deciding vote. It was some pretty high level math that I didn't really grasp (even though I got a minor in math, and I didn't spend that much time studying the article). Here's a link: http://208.245.156.153/archive/output.cfm?ID=907
They also have an interesting article that says basically our idea of one person one vote is not the best idea, which in interesting. Here's that link: http://www.discover.com/nov_00/gthere.html?article =featbestman.html
similarly, I've had my credit card company call me and ask me if I would like a credic card from them. When I told them I already had thier card, the person on the line paused for a minute and asked me if I would like another one. I told them, no I don't want any of thier cards and cut up the one from them (that wasn't the only reason of course). A few months later I got a new card because apparently the old one had expired. IT had a sticker on it that said I needed to call to activate it. I just cut it up and didn't bother calling. Six months later they sent me a bill for an anual fee (which they never had back when I used the card). I called them and they didn't seem to understand that I had never even activated their card I had to talk to a supervisor before they would drop the bill.
I'm not sure I understand the concept here. I've read these articles about "Open source books" before, but not sure what exactly is so open to them. The actual "source" to books is already open. The words are there, if you disagree or wish to rephrase it, you can use citation, or you can write a paper about it.
Or are we talking about online books? Those are coming, I agree with those that say our decendants will fail to see the big deal we are making about paper. Sure there is a certain feel and comfort to paper, but if books were engraved on thin sheets of metal we would have a certain atachment to them. Once the right price and form factor comes along, they will become more popular. Just as many authors have switched from composing by hand to composing on the computer screen so to will the readers (of course there are still writers who swear by pen [or pencil or marker or crayon or whatever] and paper, and so too will there be those who stick to paper books).
Or are we talking about free books? Well as an writer of course the question of, "how does one make money off of this?" is a concern. Certainly, there is a nobility and a generosity in giving away works for free and I have done this myself. To do this as a matter of course rather than an exception, would seemingly preclude any sort of income from this lifestyle and thus one would have to be not just a writer, but a writer and something that gets you a paycheck.
I can definately see the uses of a text book that someone (presumably a teacher or group of teachers) writes in their (somewhat mythical) spare time and is given away for free. And I can see the benefits of allowing anyone to change things, but I can't see the benifits of this for fiction. If I write a piece of fiction, it is my personal vision. I don't want someone mucking about with the story (and of course I don't have to let anyone do that if I don't want to.) I find it hard to imagine that anyone would want that to happen (again, I can see this being a fun exercise to release one story to a group and see how they change it, but to make this a regular thing? I would not want to do it).
So what are "open source books"?
The athletes should have had some guts and published anyway. Can you imagine the media coverage of an athlete being stripped of their medal because they published something in their hometown paper? It would be on every news cast on every channel. They would be forced to change their rules.
I'm of German decent. If I say someone from Germany can't speak very good english and that their "communication skills are bad," how is that racist? One person of european decent calling someone who still lives in the same country a poor communicator is racist? I don't think so. It may be narrow minded or just plain wrong, but it has nothing to do with race, it has to to with language.
I'm sure that there are "white" people who have been born and raised in Japan and speak very little english. If I said they had bad communication skills because they speak poor english, would that be racist? No.
>And it's not just california. When I was in >pennsylvania there were two towns in my area >that was about 90% spanish.. it's easy when you >move to a new country to move to an area where >people are "like you". That's not the american >spirit..
Ummmmm yeah, it is. I live in southen Indiana. Everyone in my town has German names. Do you think that is coincidence? No, back in the 1800's when my ancestors moved here they moved to an area with Germans in it. Ever hear of Little Italy or Chinatown? When you are moving to a totally new culture why not make an easy transition by surrounding themselves with people who share your values?
Sorry dude, but that is just the way rural utilities operate. My land goes up to the highway but my driveway is on a county road. When I decided to get city water they charged me to lay the water line the hundred yards from the highway to my house and then two years later tore it all out to lay pipe all the way down the road for the next two miles.
Then I decided to get natural gas. They charged me to lay the pipe and guess what, two years later they decided to tear it all up and lay pipe all the way down the road. At least the gas company agreed to dig a line out to the garage and put a meter out there for free. (even though they did cut the phone line. -- which reminds me, fifteen or twenty years ago the phone company asked if we wanted to go from a party line to private lines. Everyone on the party line said no, but the phone campany switched anyway and raised our rates.OF course the remenants of that party line are why I am lucky to get above a 28.8 connection.)
So although I wouldn't move to town for anything, they will always find a way to screw you out here.
Just to clarify, ZDTV is no longer owned by ZDnet. At the beginning of the year Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures bought ZDTV. As for viewers, I watch ZDTV every day. The only Cnet show I ever see anymore is one about investing. Do they still have a big block of shows on sci fi in on the weekends? Also remember that ZDTV is a network that has new shows daily while Cnet only does shows that are on once a week.
AC current is like saying "car door door" AC is alternating current. Tesla was grosly overlooked and it shocks (sorry) me to see that the Smithsonian of all places doesn't acknowledge his acomplishments. Or those of the band.
Weren't the stealth planes first developed in the mid 80's? That was more than a decade ago. Undoubtably the Skunkworks has developed something better than what we know about. Just because someone has the ability to detect stealth does not mean that they will detect it. It would take a fairly large undertaking to canvas the entire country of China to detect the few stealth aircraft. I think China has bigger problems to worry about than the US.
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Here at Bowling Green State University, we have a rather large music archive (I may be wrong, but I think they bill it a the largest in the country) And during a tour the head guy showed a large cylinder that was probably large enough in diameter for a CD to physically fit inside of it. The guy said they were really rare and they didn't have a machine that could play it, but this is proof that there were longer playing cylinders.
It's also interestin that the cylinders operated on an up and down motion rather than the side to side of the record (although he did show us a record that worded on up and down as well).
Yea, ribbon microphones aren't that hard to come by. I was sort of struck by that as well. They tend to be big and not used for live work, but pretty much every recording studio use them and a decent music store probably has one in stock or wouldn't look at you nearly as weird as if you went into a computer store and asked for a copy of wordstar.
My parents ( and where I grew up) have used the local independently owned telephone company since before I was born ('73). Sunman Telephone Company (www.nalu.net) has local calls (we used to have a party line when I was in grade school!), long distance, cellular, internet acces, and cable. They have also just begun offering DSL although I haven't been able to convince my dad to get it. So not everyone has to deal with the baby bells. Of course Sunman has a local monopoly over mass media service, but what are you gonna do?
>4) No waiting for the next night's episode.
;-) Is the DVD release gauranteed anyway?
So we just have to wait for the DVD. That's better?
According to the FAQ at fictavia.com, he diesd of, "heart complications arising from extensive use of drugs."
Also in reference to an earlier post, I think Do Androids... came out several years before his death (1968 i think), so I would be surprized if there was a version like the one described.
>it seems odd that we have a lot of trouble repeating their endeavours.
I don't know. I think if we wanted to get together HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of people and spend DECADES doing it, I think we could come up with a pretty decent pyramid. OF course we may not get it right on the first try, but niether did the egyptians. There are lots of pyramids in Egypt than just the three everyone talks about.
The ancient vikings did pretty darn well traveling across the ocean without building monuments. So I guess that ancient vikings were more advanced than aliens because the vikings could navigate using the stars...
The pyramids in meso-America were built in completely different ways than the Egyptian ones. They have found that some of them were built around other older buildings. One was found to have, I believe, seven different layers within it.
I can't wait untill the CoS finds out about this thread and bombards it with their propaganda.
Ask and you shall recieve! http://www.asuko.isfnet.ad.jp/English/frmain.htm. I originally saw it on (what was then called) ZDTV (now known as Techtv). It's only $4000! http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/story/ 0,3656,2115139,00.html
So how does one go about verifying this? Wouldn't they have to reproduce it? Since Pi is non-repeating, non-terminating, how else could you do it? IF you had to verify it, couldn't you just go one digit more and thus steal the thunder of anyone?
As a hoosier I feel nessesary to qualify this. That did happen, but back in 1897!! So its not as if we're idiots. Our great grandparents were the idiots.
"Newest HPs and Compaqs have USB ports in little lidded bays on the front of the machine. With so many digital cameras and other 'guest' devices like these, it's a great idea." Just like much maligned eMachines have always had...
Back in '96, Discover magazine did an article on the electoral college that said that it actually made your vote more likely to be the deciding vote. It was some pretty high level math that I didn't really grasp (even though I got a minor in math, and I didn't spend that much time studying the article). Here's a link: http://208.245.156.153/archive/output.cfm?ID=907 They also have an interesting article that says basically our idea of one person one vote is not the best idea, which in interesting. Here's that link: http://www.discover.com/nov_00/gthere.html?article =featbestman.html
similarly, I've had my credit card company call me and ask me if I would like a credic card from them. When I told them I already had thier card, the person on the line paused for a minute and asked me if I would like another one. I told them, no I don't want any of thier cards and cut up the one from them (that wasn't the only reason of course). A few months later I got a new card because apparently the old one had expired. IT had a sticker on it that said I needed to call to activate it. I just cut it up and didn't bother calling. Six months later they sent me a bill for an anual fee (which they never had back when I used the card). I called them and they didn't seem to understand that I had never even activated their card I had to talk to a supervisor before they would drop the bill.
I'm not sure I understand the concept here. I've read these articles about "Open source books" before, but not sure what exactly is so open to them. The actual "source" to books is already open. The words are there, if you disagree or wish to rephrase it, you can use citation, or you can write a paper about it.
Or are we talking about online books? Those are coming, I agree with those that say our decendants will fail to see the big deal we are making about paper. Sure there is a certain feel and comfort to paper, but if books were engraved on thin sheets of metal we would have a certain atachment to them. Once the right price and form factor comes along, they will become more popular. Just as many authors have switched from composing by hand to composing on the computer screen so to will the readers (of course there are still writers who swear by pen [or pencil or marker or crayon or whatever] and paper, and so too will there be those who stick to paper books).
Or are we talking about free books? Well as an writer of course the question of, "how does one make money off of this?" is a concern. Certainly, there is a nobility and a generosity in giving away works for free and I have done this myself. To do this as a matter of course rather than an exception, would seemingly preclude any sort of income from this lifestyle and thus one would have to be not just a writer, but a writer and something that gets you a paycheck.
I can definately see the uses of a text book that someone (presumably a teacher or group of teachers) writes in their (somewhat mythical) spare time and is given away for free. And I can see the benefits of allowing anyone to change things, but I can't see the benifits of this for fiction. If I write a piece of fiction, it is my personal vision. I don't want someone mucking about with the story (and of course I don't have to let anyone do that if I don't want to.) I find it hard to imagine that anyone would want that to happen (again, I can see this being a fun exercise to release one story to a group and see how they change it, but to make this a regular thing? I would not want to do it).
So what are "open source books"?
The athletes should have had some guts and published anyway. Can you imagine the media coverage of an athlete being stripped of their medal because they published something in their hometown paper? It would be on every news cast on every channel. They would be forced to change their rules.
I'm of German decent. If I say someone from Germany can't speak very good english and that their "communication skills are bad," how is that racist? One person of european decent calling someone who still lives in the same country a poor communicator is racist? I don't think so. It may be narrow minded or just plain wrong, but it has nothing to do with race, it has to to with language. I'm sure that there are "white" people who have been born and raised in Japan and speak very little english. If I said they had bad communication skills because they speak poor english, would that be racist? No.
>And it's not just california. When I was in >pennsylvania there were two towns in my area >that was about 90% spanish.. it's easy when you >move to a new country to move to an area where >people are "like you". That's not the american >spirit.. Ummmmm yeah, it is. I live in southen Indiana. Everyone in my town has German names. Do you think that is coincidence? No, back in the 1800's when my ancestors moved here they moved to an area with Germans in it. Ever hear of Little Italy or Chinatown? When you are moving to a totally new culture why not make an easy transition by surrounding themselves with people who share your values?
Sorry dude, but that is just the way rural utilities operate. My land goes up to the highway but my driveway is on a county road. When I decided to get city water they charged me to lay the water line the hundred yards from the highway to my house and then two years later tore it all out to lay pipe all the way down the road for the next two miles.
Then I decided to get natural gas. They charged me to lay the pipe and guess what, two years later they decided to tear it all up and lay pipe all the way down the road. At least the gas company agreed to dig a line out to the garage and put a meter out there for free. (even though they did cut the phone line. -- which reminds me, fifteen or twenty years ago the phone company asked if we wanted to go from a party line to private lines. Everyone on the party line said no, but the phone campany switched anyway and raised our rates.OF course the remenants of that party line are why I am lucky to get above a 28.8 connection.)
So although I wouldn't move to town for anything, they will always find a way to screw you out here.
Just to clarify, ZDTV is no longer owned by ZDnet. At the beginning of the year Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures bought ZDTV. As for viewers, I watch ZDTV every day. The only Cnet show I ever see anymore is one about investing. Do they still have a big block of shows on sci fi in on the weekends? Also remember that ZDTV is a network that has new shows daily while Cnet only does shows that are on once a week.
AC current is like saying "car door door" AC is alternating current. Tesla was grosly overlooked and it shocks (sorry) me to see that the Smithsonian of all places doesn't acknowledge his acomplishments. Or those of the band.
Weren't the stealth planes first developed in the mid 80's? That was more than a decade ago. Undoubtably the Skunkworks has developed something better than what we know about. Just because someone has the ability to detect stealth does not mean that they will detect it. It would take a fairly large undertaking to canvas the entire country of China to detect the few stealth aircraft. I think China has bigger problems to worry about than the US.