'Remember that as you begin to play music with others its will become important to tune in settings that are loud. Your banjo is a cannon and you stand behind it. If you sence that you are out of tune turn away from the group and face into a corner or wall. This will allow the sound to bounce back toward you. Another easy way to tune in a loud environment is to use a battery powered digital tuners. A fiddle tuner pickup is available which will plug into the tuner input jack and clip on the bridge of your banjo. This tool allows you to tune in the most loud environment without any interference or even the need to hear precisely the string note. You simply tune according to the digital devise display. Most music stores stock these devices and will be happy to demonstrate them for you.'
Does this mean the constant requests for my personal information (a la the NYT article linked to in the story) may have been at a different frequency in the past?
God, can you imagine hockey on the Red Planet? Apart from the need to wear oxygen tanks and a spacesuit, the lower gravity and air friction would make it an insanely fast game!
Sure, they can put a man on Mars for $500 million. Those are U.S. dollars, so it's worth at least $3 billion Candian. Also, they'll use Tom Green, and nobody'll care if they bring him back.;-)
Well, good luck to our friendly neighbors to the north! If their spiffy 20-year-old robot arm is any indication, they should have the makings of a complete spacecraft by, say, 2101.;-)
(Disclaimer: this is humor. I love hockey and Tim Horton's.:)
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First time a server crashes, though, they'll hold it for questioning -- claiming it violated Chinese airspace -- and demand that AOL apologize.;-)
Dictionaries and that telepathic thing IBM was working on, the one that would send a painful electrical pulse into the brainstem of anybody being stupid online.
>When you filter out the trolls and the dogmatists... most technical articles have maybe 20-35 responses.
That's a very *good* thing. Sort of a meta-moderation concept that works quite well. It of course works just as well in real life. If somebody is blabbing on at you, just say something like "Also included is sshd which is the server side of the package, and the other basic utilities like ssh-add, ssh-agent, and ssh-keygen." This shuts them up immediately.:)
Imagine: MacWorld SF 2001, just before the keynote. Curtain parts, music comes down, hot lights glimmering in the plastic of several bottles of water on stage. Everyone expects Steve Jobs to appear. To the shock of everyone, Bill Gates shuffles onstage. There is a collective gasp. Bill's suit is rumpled, his hair mussed, his glasses askew. A stagehand rushes up to help him affix a microphone to his crooked lapel.
Bill clears his throat and glances around the hall nervously. Hundreds of Mac users stare aghast. What could he possibly say? Whispered speculation flies around -- has Microsoft finally bought Apple?
Wiping a bony hand across his sweaty forehead, Bill speaks with a quaver to his voice: "Good morning. I would like to introduce the new iCEO of Microsoft and Intel." He waves his hand in the air.
On the giant screen behind Bill, there suddenly shimmers to life a huge image of a smiling Steve Jobs, with the caption "Live from Redmond" underneath. After a moment of silence, the entire room erupts into thunderous screams and applause.
Once the elation dies back several minutes later, Steve reveals that due to the recent plummeting in Microsoft's and Intel's stock prices -- due to lackluster OS/chip performance and a virtual halt of all PC sales -- Apple has used their several billion-dollar cash reserve to buy the suddenly bereft, former industry powerhouses. He also announces the following:
Apple will develop and ship future versions of its popular OS X and AppleWorks for the Intel platform. All development on WIndows as an operating system will cease.
Microsoft will bundle the new CyberDogX browser with the current batch of Windows ME, making it the default browser in future operating system software releases.
To further support its relationship with Microsoft, Apple will invest $150 million into buying Bill Gates' mansion for use as a landing strip and maintenance facility for Steve Jobs' new 747.
Later, a pair of press releases emerged:
"In 1985, Bill Gates and I stood together when Microsoft announced Microsoft Excel, an application that is widely credited with helping to define the potential of the Mac as a great applications platform," said Jobs. "While this has been proven B.S. by millions of AppleWorks users, today's announcements underscore our continued belief in Intel as a platform for applications and leading-edge Internet technologies. Microsoft has millions of customers who rely on Macintosh technology and they can be assured that Apple products for Pentium processors will be made available."
"We are thrilled at the prospect of working more closely with Apple on applications and Internet software" said Gates. "We are confident that this much closer relationship between the two companies will greatly benefit our common customers. I'm just sorry I won't be around to reap the rewards."
Human troops is desperate combat with the machines for possession of the dead Earth. The humans are a ragtag guerrilla army. Skynet's weapons consist of Sony SDR-3X and P3 Hondas (human-like robots), four-legged gun-dogs called Aibos, and airborne PlayStation 2's.
SEQUENCE OF RAPID CUTS:
Explosions! Beam-weapons firing like searing strobe-light.
A gunner is an armored personnel carrier fires a LAW rocket at a pursuing Aibo, bringing the dog to its knees in a fiery explosion.
A TEAM OF GUERRILLAS in a intense fire-fight with Sony and Honda endoskeletons in the ruins of a building. Three Sonys advance, firing rapidly. A Honda P3, with flesh ripped open and back broken, gropes for a rifle on the ground.
A PlayStation 2 overruns a human firing position. Soldiers are cut down as they run. Fiery explosions light the ranks of advancing machines.
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Erm, this word 'rational' you use -- I do not think it means what you think it means. Up until that point, I agreed with you. :)
And on a lighter note...
User: "Offer me everything I ask for."
Bill: "Anything you want."
User: "I want my desktop back, you son of a bitch."
(With apologies to PB)
When can we expect mini hockey rinks and nanobots to play on them? ;-)
Just in case things go awry:
http://www.wiredweb.com/~banjoboyd/tuning.html
'Remember that as you begin to play music with others its will become important to tune in settings that are loud. Your banjo is a cannon and you stand behind it. If you sence that you are out of tune turn away from the group and face into a corner or wall. This will allow the sound to bounce back toward you. Another easy way to tune in a loud environment is to use a battery powered digital tuners. A fiddle tuner pickup is available which will plug into the tuner input jack and clip on the bridge of your banjo. This tool allows you to tune in the most loud environment without any interference or even the need to hear precisely the string note. You simply tune according to the digital devise display. Most music stores stock these devices and will be happy to demonstrate them for you.'
Tux is definitely the winner in the sheer cuteness department, but I bet Opus could take him in a deathmatch! ;-)
Does this mean the constant requests for my personal information (a la the NYT article linked to in the story) may have been at a different frequency in the past?
http://www.apple.com/keyboard/
According to the report, Mark Wahlberg emerged from the 'object.'
Quick! Somebody download some Slim Whitman MP3's!!!
Well, this certainly changes the H.M.$. for ship designations now! ;-)
Neo-Canada, eh? This must be after the Canadian World Domination Front worked out. ;)
God, can you imagine hockey on the Red Planet? Apart from the need to wear oxygen tanks and a spacesuit, the lower gravity and air friction would make it an insanely fast game!
Sure, they can put a man on Mars for $500 million. Those are U.S. dollars, so it's worth at least $3 billion Candian. Also, they'll use Tom Green, and nobody'll care if they bring him back. ;-)
Hmm... two arms, now. I wonder if there's a giant Canadian robot on the way! Oooooh. Sneaky!
Also, another erratum: My disclaimer should have said "This is humour."
LOL :) Actually, my family's from Canada a handful of generations back, so I'll be cheering along with everybody else. :)
Well, good luck to our friendly neighbors to the north! If their spiffy 20-year-old robot arm is any indication, they should have the makings of a complete spacecraft by, say, 2101. ;-)
:)
(Disclaimer: this is humor. I love hockey and Tim Horton's.
First time a server crashes, though, they'll hold it for questioning -- claiming it violated Chinese airspace -- and demand that AOL apologize. ;-)
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Blame Acme. They're the real culprits. ;)
...I suppose they weren't satisfied with only *one* controlled crash landing. ;-)
See what I mean? If IBM had worked that thing out, this AC would be writhing on the floor in utter agony right now. Sheesh.
Dictionaries and that telepathic thing IBM was working on, the one that would send a painful electrical pulse into the brainstem of anybody being stupid online.
>When you filter out the trolls and the dogmatists ... most technical articles have maybe 20-35 responses.
:)
That's a very *good* thing. Sort of a meta-moderation concept that works quite well. It of course works just as well in real life. If somebody is blabbing on at you, just say something like "Also included is sshd which is the server side of the package, and the other basic utilities like ssh-add, ssh-agent, and ssh-keygen." This shuts them up immediately.
I guess Kubrick was wrong: there's no sign of the black monoliths.
Bill clears his throat and glances around the hall nervously. Hundreds of Mac users stare aghast. What could he possibly say? Whispered speculation flies around -- has Microsoft finally bought Apple?
Wiping a bony hand across his sweaty forehead, Bill speaks with a quaver to his voice: "Good morning. I would like to introduce the new iCEO of Microsoft and Intel." He waves his hand in the air.
On the giant screen behind Bill, there suddenly shimmers to life a huge image of a smiling Steve Jobs, with the caption "Live from Redmond" underneath. After a moment of silence, the entire room erupts into thunderous screams and applause.
Once the elation dies back several minutes later, Steve reveals that due to the recent plummeting in Microsoft's and Intel's stock prices -- due to lackluster OS/chip performance and a virtual halt of all PC sales -- Apple has used their several billion-dollar cash reserve to buy the suddenly bereft, former industry powerhouses. He also announces the following:
Later, a pair of press releases emerged:
"In 1985, Bill Gates and I stood together when Microsoft announced Microsoft Excel, an application that is widely credited with helping to define the potential of the Mac as a great applications platform," said Jobs. "While this has been proven B.S. by millions of AppleWorks users, today's announcements underscore our continued belief in Intel as a platform for applications and leading-edge Internet technologies. Microsoft has millions of customers who rely on Macintosh technology and they can be assured that Apple products for Pentium processors will be made available."
"We are thrilled at the prospect of working more closely with Apple on applications and Internet software" said Gates. "We are confident that this much closer relationship between the two companies will greatly benefit our common customers. I'm just sorry I won't be around to reap the rewards."
(With apologies to the real press release. :)
EXT. BATTLEFIELD - NIGHT
Human troops is desperate combat with the machines for possession of the dead Earth. The humans are a ragtag guerrilla army. Skynet's weapons consist of Sony SDR-3X and P3 Hondas (human-like robots), four-legged gun-dogs called Aibos, and airborne PlayStation 2's.
SEQUENCE OF RAPID CUTS:
Explosions! Beam-weapons firing like searing strobe-light.
A gunner is an armored personnel carrier fires a LAW rocket at a pursuing Aibo, bringing the dog to its knees in a fiery explosion.
A TEAM OF GUERRILLAS in a intense fire-fight with Sony and Honda endoskeletons in the ruins of a building. Three Sonys advance, firing rapidly. A Honda P3, with flesh ripped open and back broken, gropes for a rifle on the ground.
A PlayStation 2 overruns a human firing position. Soldiers are cut down as they run. Fiery explosions light the ranks of advancing machines.