That's an interesting point;
I know it's kind of late to get a response to this thread, but with the advent of USB, I wonder if someone could hack together a driver to simultaneously run two mice - then a person could run more than one control simultaneously, switch to others while modulating one - a peice of software that could support that might become the next sound mixing killer app!
that's really just such an excellent analogy that I can't even begin to explain why.
There's tons of guys out there making "badass texas chili" and there are tons of big restaurant chains serving crappy bland "badass texas chili".
We all know, when we have a summer neighborhood barbequeue, who's really the best.
But when it's "date night", we go to that restaurant and fork over our $20.
and only you and your little clique of wannabes will ever hear it. And your music will fade into obscurity along with the other millions and millions of other kids who do beats and rhymes, and have a few thousand bucks.
Not to be mean - I'm not saying your music isn't any good - but for you and your kind, it will serve as sort of a tribal glue, the original purpose of music. It will be your "local" subculture.
Unless you're totally great, like virtuoso great, like Stevie Ray Vaughn great.
Then, and only then, will you gain noteriety, and achieve mass-market success, and take advantages of economies of scale so you can get rich.
Unfortunately, there will always be a market for crap from the record companies, so for people willing to go that route, you still have a chance to sell your souls.
w/o record companies, no music is ever going to "get famous" no musician is ever going to "make it big".
Unless the music is just earth-shatteringly great.
IOW - I won't be wasting $20 on some crap. Unless it's a local band I know and like. Reviewers will have millions of bands to listen to, and of course a corrupt system of bribes and kickbacks will have to grow to replace the one we have today - but mostly, on the word of music reviewers, word of mouth, etc. these new musicians of the future will gain hold like this, or perish into obscurity. But only the truly great ones will make it.
heh - Pacific Bell treats me a bit more nicely. They freaked out when I told them I was connecting through a LinkSys router - and made me take it out of the equation, and I had to install PPPoE Enternet back on my machine, a Macintosh (another "hairy scary" deal) - and they also didn't like me running Mac OS X; but by the time I had set things up the way that made support happy, THEIR server problem mysteriously went away, and I was able to connect. I uninstalled Enternet, and reconnected the router, and had it connect to PPPoE again, and it worked, after 3 solid days of not working, tweaking, resetting, firmware updating, etc. So the problem was not on my end.
I've done software phone support for 9 years, and I've learned that the first thing you do is figure out the technical level of the customer before you say or do ANYTHING. And if they're competent, don't fuck with them.
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IDSL isn't really DSL now, is it.
It's some fucked-up ISDN hack designed to help DSL grab marketshare. But they can't charge DSL prices for it, because it's ISDN.
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No, we need DSL to stay, as an alternative to the other VERY SUCKY technologies currently available.
1. Dialup is just plain useless.
2. Cable is fast becoming a monopoly nightmare - I refuse to have anything to do with Cable companies because of the way they've handled my TV service in the past, obnoxious bundling, etc. that and the shared bandwidth, and security issues crap.
3. Satelite - obnoxiously expensive, high latency.
4. ISDN - astronomically expensive.
DSL CAN be done, cheaply and well. It's probably more of a regulatory problem now, than technical. It is the future of internet access, as far as I'm concerned. Yes, the teeming masses need something like cable. It's gotta be there, and frankly, it's nice that there's something that keeps the DSL people at least attempting to be on their toes. Eventually, this will work out, and we'll have a variety of decent, mature technologies to choose from.
The alternative was the nonsense we used to have, where it used to be cheaper to get a T1 than ISDN, and dialup was the only real alternative for people who weren't independently wealthy. And as I said before, dialup is completely useless. If there's a technology that NEEDS to go away, it's dialup. I can't believe I'm expected to pay $30 a month for the privilege of waiting 30-60 seconds to establish a connection that's slow and unstable as hell. Just fuck that.
Bulldogs often have severe respiratory problems.
German Shepards often have bad hip problems.
Greyhounds have issues with their teeth as they age past 3 years.
Persian cats don't seem to clean themselves after they poop.
My advice to you if you want to get a dog; go to an animal shelter, pick up a mutt about 1 year old. (go to a college town - you're much more likely to find abandoned pets, college freshmen living away from home for the first time, get lonely, buy a puppy or kitten, then when they have to go home for the summer, they usually abandon the pet - sad but all too common scenario).
Benefits - less likelyhood of genetic disorder. Mutts are often very cute, just as smart as purebreds for your standard sit/stay/roll over tricks, 1 year olds are already potty trained, and unless you know what you're doing, trust me, you do NOT want to get into that.
Re:Genetic engineering, the media, and 42.
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funny thing is, we're *NOT* playing God. Those religious folks who actually have read the Bible know that God gave us this earth, and all the plants and animals on it to do whatever we like with. (about the only laws God later passes on the treatments of Animals regard specific regulations for sacrifice, eating of "unclean" animals, having sex with animals, drinking blood, and cooking a baby goat in it's mother's milk. Not a whole lot in there about genetic engineering. In fact, Jacob does this crafty little breeding trick, and he's actually BLESSED because he was so smart.)
Now, there is the implied directive that we not be idiots and abuse it to the point where we threaten our own existence, but then, most people don't appear to "get" that.
Well, I, for one, would advocate breeding a genetic cross of hemp and marijuana, so one CAN get high off the stuff. Makes no sense to be growing all that dope and nobody getting stoned. . .
Re:Get used to it. We're in for a wild ride.
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Don't we also collect urine from pregnant horses to gather some unique protien?
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sounds good to me.
mmmmmmm. steaaaaaaak.
Also - no antibiotics = no eating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Much better control of growth hormone residue. . . no parasites, so you can eat it fucking RAW if that's how you get your jollies.
That was about exactly what I would say- and I would make the point that Stalin's orders were ALSO religiously based. The religion of Athiest Humanism.
Our ethics, our morality, our laws, are based on these arbitrary "labels".
It's okay to eat a cow, but it's not okay to eat a dog. (in American culture). It's okay to kill bacteria by immersing them in a caustic toxic solution, but poisoning someone's cat is wrong, and illegal. You shoot a deer in the head with a rifle, but you can't legally shoot a human in the head.
So we've got these rules based on these labels, but then we've got to explore what label we slap onto a goat with spider silk genes. Worse still, what is a cow with a human heart? Cut it up and transplant that heart - it's okay, it's not cruel to the cow - or whatever that was.
Again, I don't want this thought to be misinterpreted as ludditeism, but maybe we need to collectively think these things through. What happens when we've got cows with a complete set of human parts inside their chest cavities - including a brain. (for partial brain tissue transplants, say - you could restore a person with severe brain damage, not their memories or personality maybe, but at least you could get them to a state where therapy could restore them to become a useful member of society again instead of a vegetable) would that brain be considered a human life? Would it be wrong to "kill" it by cutting it out of it's cow-body? This stuff sounds ridiculous, but as new things become possible, you need to "go there" - and we're laying the potential foundation for that now. ..
Well, there's the disagreement on the notion between the various people responsible for the film (Ridley Scott was not solely responsible for the film) - the fact that, after all, it WAS a film, not reality, so Deckard could not REALLY have been a replicant.
So, ONE person on the crew indended for the audience to believe Deckard was a replicant - but was that in the ORIGINAL story? Yes, no, it moved around so much, who knows? I think the replicant theory is just a matter of opinion. Just because Ridley Scott says so, doesn't make it so. He's ONLY the director.
Now, if the movie were say, like Yentl, where it was basically all done by one person (Written, produced, directed, starring, blah blah blah), then I could say maybe Barbara Striesand WAS INDEED a replicant. . .
Oh, I know about the "Deckard was a replicant" theory, and that is the only plausible thing that makes sense as far as the unicorn goes - but there were other origami things Gaff made. I was just wondering if there was some supposed symbolism to the unicorn - I mean, a unicorn is kind of a symbol of virginity, virtue, and also, extinct mythology, but I can't figure out what that has to do with the story in Blade Runner.
My house's "great room" is over 1000 square feet, but due to the layout, windows, doors, fireplace, and limited ways to arrange the furniture, there is NO room for a TV of reasonable size, UNLESS it's a flatscreen.
IOW, there are only two walls that don't already have a door, window, or fireplace, one of those walls you can't face the couch towards, (and is our dining area anyway), and the other wall is very narrow, and leads to the bottom of a staircase. Hanging a large flatscreen on that wall would be fine, but a big box on the floor would obstruct traffic from the staircase.
I've shopped for these flatscreen TV's and yes, they're either obnoxiously expensive (>$15,000), or, not to put too fine a point on it, CRAPPY picture quality, in the under $8,000 range.
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That's an interesting point;
I know it's kind of late to get a response to this thread, but with the advent of USB, I wonder if someone could hack together a driver to simultaneously run two mice - then a person could run more than one control simultaneously, switch to others while modulating one - a peice of software that could support that might become the next sound mixing killer app!
Exactly.
Blair Witch Project cost what, $60k to make?
And $10 million in marketing.
that's really just such an excellent analogy that I can't even begin to explain why.
There's tons of guys out there making "badass texas chili" and there are tons of big restaurant chains serving crappy bland "badass texas chili".
We all know, when we have a summer neighborhood barbequeue, who's really the best.
But when it's "date night", we go to that restaurant and fork over our $20.
and only you and your little clique of wannabes will ever hear it. And your music will fade into obscurity along with the other millions and millions of other kids who do beats and rhymes, and have a few thousand bucks.
Not to be mean - I'm not saying your music isn't any good - but for you and your kind, it will serve as sort of a tribal glue, the original purpose of music. It will be your "local" subculture.
Unless you're totally great, like virtuoso great, like Stevie Ray Vaughn great.
Then, and only then, will you gain noteriety, and achieve mass-market success, and take advantages of economies of scale so you can get rich.
Unfortunately, there will always be a market for crap from the record companies, so for people willing to go that route, you still have a chance to sell your souls.
w/o record companies, no music is ever going to "get famous" no musician is ever going to "make it big".
Unless the music is just earth-shatteringly great.
IOW - I won't be wasting $20 on some crap. Unless it's a local band I know and like. Reviewers will have millions of bands to listen to, and of course a corrupt system of bribes and kickbacks will have to grow to replace the one we have today - but mostly, on the word of music reviewers, word of mouth, etc. these new musicians of the future will gain hold like this, or perish into obscurity. But only the truly great ones will make it.
Isn't that how it should be?
heh - Pacific Bell treats me a bit more nicely. They freaked out when I told them I was connecting through a LinkSys router - and made me take it out of the equation, and I had to install PPPoE Enternet back on my machine, a Macintosh (another "hairy scary" deal) - and they also didn't like me running Mac OS X; but by the time I had set things up the way that made support happy, THEIR server problem mysteriously went away, and I was able to connect. I uninstalled Enternet, and reconnected the router, and had it connect to PPPoE again, and it worked, after 3 solid days of not working, tweaking, resetting, firmware updating, etc. So the problem was not on my end.
I've done software phone support for 9 years, and I've learned that the first thing you do is figure out the technical level of the customer before you say or do ANYTHING. And if they're competent, don't fuck with them.
IDSL isn't really DSL now, is it.
It's some fucked-up ISDN hack designed to help DSL grab marketshare. But they can't charge DSL prices for it, because it's ISDN.
No, we need DSL to stay, as an alternative to the other VERY SUCKY technologies currently available.
1. Dialup is just plain useless.
2. Cable is fast becoming a monopoly nightmare - I refuse to have anything to do with Cable companies because of the way they've handled my TV service in the past, obnoxious bundling, etc. that and the shared bandwidth, and security issues crap.
3. Satelite - obnoxiously expensive, high latency.
4. ISDN - astronomically expensive.
DSL CAN be done, cheaply and well. It's probably more of a regulatory problem now, than technical. It is the future of internet access, as far as I'm concerned. Yes, the teeming masses need something like cable. It's gotta be there, and frankly, it's nice that there's something that keeps the DSL people at least attempting to be on their toes. Eventually, this will work out, and we'll have a variety of decent, mature technologies to choose from.
The alternative was the nonsense we used to have, where it used to be cheaper to get a T1 than ISDN, and dialup was the only real alternative for people who weren't independently wealthy. And as I said before, dialup is completely useless. If there's a technology that NEEDS to go away, it's dialup. I can't believe I'm expected to pay $30 a month for the privilege of waiting 30-60 seconds to establish a connection that's slow and unstable as hell. Just fuck that.
Bulldogs often have severe respiratory problems.
German Shepards often have bad hip problems.
Greyhounds have issues with their teeth as they age past 3 years.
Persian cats don't seem to clean themselves after they poop.
My advice to you if you want to get a dog; go to an animal shelter, pick up a mutt about 1 year old. (go to a college town - you're much more likely to find abandoned pets, college freshmen living away from home for the first time, get lonely, buy a puppy or kitten, then when they have to go home for the summer, they usually abandon the pet - sad but all too common scenario).
Benefits - less likelyhood of genetic disorder. Mutts are often very cute, just as smart as purebreds for your standard sit/stay/roll over tricks, 1 year olds are already potty trained, and unless you know what you're doing, trust me, you do NOT want to get into that.
funny thing is, we're *NOT* playing God. Those religious folks who actually have read the Bible know that God gave us this earth, and all the plants and animals on it to do whatever we like with. (about the only laws God later passes on the treatments of Animals regard specific regulations for sacrifice, eating of "unclean" animals, having sex with animals, drinking blood, and cooking a baby goat in it's mother's milk. Not a whole lot in there about genetic engineering. In fact, Jacob does this crafty little breeding trick, and he's actually BLESSED because he was so smart.)
Now, there is the implied directive that we not be idiots and abuse it to the point where we threaten our own existence, but then, most people don't appear to "get" that.
Well, I, for one, would advocate breeding a genetic cross of hemp and marijuana, so one CAN get high off the stuff. Makes no sense to be growing all that dope and nobody getting stoned. . .
yes. Industrial Hemp is the gateway fiber!
Don't we also collect urine from pregnant horses to gather some unique protien?
sounds good to me.
mmmmmmm. steaaaaaaak.
Also - no antibiotics = no eating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Much better control of growth hormone residue. . . no parasites, so you can eat it fucking RAW if that's how you get your jollies.
That would be fucking awesome.
Hatfields and McCoys.
Perhaps the REAL problem isn't religion. Perhaps the REAL problem is human nature.
That was about exactly what I would say- and I would make the point that Stalin's orders were ALSO religiously based. The religion of Athiest Humanism.
yeah, but what is it?
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Our ethics, our morality, our laws, are based on these arbitrary "labels".
It's okay to eat a cow, but it's not okay to eat a dog. (in American culture). It's okay to kill bacteria by immersing them in a caustic toxic solution, but poisoning someone's cat is wrong, and illegal. You shoot a deer in the head with a rifle, but you can't legally shoot a human in the head.
So we've got these rules based on these labels, but then we've got to explore what label we slap onto a goat with spider silk genes. Worse still, what is a cow with a human heart? Cut it up and transplant that heart - it's okay, it's not cruel to the cow - or whatever that was.
Again, I don't want this thought to be misinterpreted as ludditeism, but maybe we need to collectively think these things through. What happens when we've got cows with a complete set of human parts inside their chest cavities - including a brain. (for partial brain tissue transplants, say - you could restore a person with severe brain damage, not their memories or personality maybe, but at least you could get them to a state where therapy could restore them to become a useful member of society again instead of a vegetable) would that brain be considered a human life? Would it be wrong to "kill" it by cutting it out of it's cow-body? This stuff sounds ridiculous, but as new things become possible, you need to "go there" - and we're laying the potential foundation for that now. .
Well, there's the disagreement on the notion between the various people responsible for the film (Ridley Scott was not solely responsible for the film) - the fact that, after all, it WAS a film, not reality, so Deckard could not REALLY have been a replicant.
So, ONE person on the crew indended for the audience to believe Deckard was a replicant - but was that in the ORIGINAL story? Yes, no, it moved around so much, who knows? I think the replicant theory is just a matter of opinion. Just because Ridley Scott says so, doesn't make it so. He's ONLY the director.
Now, if the movie were say, like Yentl, where it was basically all done by one person (Written, produced, directed, starring, blah blah blah), then I could say maybe Barbara Striesand WAS INDEED a replicant. . .
I thought a virgin could capture a unicorn.
Oh, I know about the "Deckard was a replicant" theory, and that is the only plausible thing that makes sense as far as the unicorn goes - but there were other origami things Gaff made. I was just wondering if there was some supposed symbolism to the unicorn - I mean, a unicorn is kind of a symbol of virginity, virtue, and also, extinct mythology, but I can't figure out what that has to do with the story in Blade Runner.
My house's "great room" is over 1000 square feet, but due to the layout, windows, doors, fireplace, and limited ways to arrange the furniture, there is NO room for a TV of reasonable size, UNLESS it's a flatscreen.
IOW, there are only two walls that don't already have a door, window, or fireplace, one of those walls you can't face the couch towards, (and is our dining area anyway), and the other wall is very narrow, and leads to the bottom of a staircase. Hanging a large flatscreen on that wall would be fine, but a big box on the floor would obstruct traffic from the staircase.
I've shopped for these flatscreen TV's and yes, they're either obnoxiously expensive (>$15,000), or, not to put too fine a point on it, CRAPPY picture quality, in the under $8,000 range.
. . . and you won't be able to buy one at any price.
"I'm fully functional, and programmed in multiple techniques. . ."
Blade Runner ; .
Explain to me wtf the unicorn dream had to do with Deckard's true nature. .
IEEE 1394, ilink, firewire, you say potAto,