P.S. - No one said ANYWHERE the story shouldn't exist. It's a follow-up from a story two years ago, it SHOULD exist. All I said this was the first time/. editors noticed a duplicate story, which has been happening less and less lately.
The only thing that makes my humor worse than it already is: having to explain myself to hungover AC trolls at 5AM.
Collect Underpants.
Make anonymous derogitory posts about my obvious joke to make me look bad and get me modded down.
Laugh as my karma plummets from "Excellent" to "Fucking shitty."
????
Profit!
And just to be on topic: I have never used any of the mentioned libraries because I never had the need to make my code cross-platform. If I did, I'd probably choose QT or Tk, as I have heard lots about them, and KDE 3.0, which, I'm told, is based around QT, and I find it quite impressive.
Seems there might be other reasons besides economic situation for not having a cel phone (dead battery, burning in the fire you're trying ot report, stolen when you got mugged, etc.)
Perhaps it would be a good idea to have an auto-dial "hotline" handset at each access point for emergencies, similar to the "Police call boxes" located on college campuses and downtown areas?
It may not be the most gramatically correct, but the point is one that should be heard loud and clear:
Linux has had the power for so long, and the time is right to strike. Polish up a nice GUI which makes 95% of the command line unessesary and let's hit'em where it hurts most before they have a chance to try and bury us.
Unlike every Linux and Windows, MacOS is still not capable of being themed by 3rd parties (unless you consider a grey version of the default a "theme").
Duality 3.1 - "Scheme" switcher for MacOS X (you say theme, we say scheme, I have no idea why)
CandyBar - from Panic and the IconFactory, allows you to customize any and all system icons, including the toolbar, the trash icon, the default folder icon, etc.
So I'd say we're pretty much covered. I'm sure it won't be long before someone writes an app that will replace Dock.app to do something different, even if Apple tries to sue the bejesus out of them.
Hmm, now that I've compiled this list (and I'm sure I missed a bunch of stuff), why haven't I installed any of this on my OS X machine? *off to download:-)*
Exactly. I might be a little off-topic for this, but with all that India has been in the news for lately, I have to say I really admire their progress. Everyone pictures countries like India as nothing but desert and curry-flavored foods, but now India is really showing what their made of. Let's hope help the world out of the funk it's in.
BTW: Clit.exe, that's a classic. I can't wait until the court reporter has to read back something to the jury regarding "clit.exe":-D
2 years ago every moron who had ever heard of a web site was about to graduate college with a associates in computer science because that was the "hot industry" and if you didnt know what you where doing you could design web sites or program something for computers, which where going to take over the freaking world. yeah.
Sit back and just think about all the HORRIBLE HORRIBLE software you've seen in say the last 5 or 6 years. Those aren't the geeks who took apart their tape decks and wired them with variable speed controls at age 5, they're not the geeks who wrote BASIC programs on their Apple ][ or C64 (or both) when they where 7.
These are the people who saw their geek friends website, and then heard how much he could make with a decent tech job. These are the same people who could be pumping your gas if they had heard how neat this gas pump was and how much they could make 3rd shift at a gas station. (OK I exaggerate to clarify...) You've met these people. You probably have worked with these people. But they will go away, when the next big "hot industry" comes along, and it will. Natural selection still applies to industry, so just know what you're doing and soon enough all the morons will flee for "easier" things to do. I hope.
I'd believe it. I have a friend who is in a nursing program right now and she maybe gets 4 hours of sleep every couple days between all her work shifts at all hours of the day, plus classes, homework, other errands, and the few times she gets to hang out with friends.
It's going to kill her slowly but I gotta commend the effort. Godspeed, Elissa...
Not only the laser, but the disc itself can't wobble too much, or crack, distort, or break from the pressure of rotating so fast. If the manufacturing process makes the disc unstable in any way at those speeds to th epoint of not being reliable, it doesn't matter how good of a laser you have.
It's like trying to read the newspaper while driving in Boston: Not only do you have to keep read the same word over and over just to get it, but you're just askng to crash;-)
Pumping that much green into a space program and supporting programs (like EDUCATION) can fuel a renaissance in science and buck up the economy, realise orbital microwave power stations, and will spawn countless spin-off technologies.
Find me a man who realizes that, who is willing to run for office in the United States, and my vote is already cast.
It wouldn't suprise me. However, I don't believe they can tell specifically who is wathcing what, just how many are watching. While not as valuable as demographic information, "How many people saw this" is still worth quite a lot.
...you can reliably do branch prediction, very time. Otherwise, refilling a 40-50 stage pipeline every couple of cycles wont get you very far. Here's to good compilers and risky-yet-hopefully-profitable design desisions.
That isn't bad if you need a pro setup, although the 60Hz-12kHz was a bit disappointing, I would have hoped for something with at least a lower bottem-end, 33Hz if not lower for that deep deep deep bass (remember, in the club you can still *feel* it below hearing range:-) ).
Anyways if you're looking for a quick and dirty dubplate cutter, Kingston makes one for about $5000 US:
It requires a Technics or equally high-torque direct drive turntable to attach to, but if you're a DJ you'd have those already for practice (unless you're like me and bought el cheapo Numark TT-1520s). I didn't really check on the current availibility of this thing, but it was new in 2001, so here is the link, enjoy.
I DJ a bit, techno/house/jungle/hardcore etc. and even with all this hype about CD turntables and "iPod DJs", vinyl is the choice medium. Most promos and singles are released on 12" long before CDs, and definately long before they are included on any album.
Besides, digital cannot reproduce the rich fullness of broken-in vinyl basslines, especially at high volume. Needle wear, and even the initial recording process produce extra curves in the recorded sounds, whereas digital picks up every single square corner of the wave accurately and completely, which gives it that "clear but cold" sound which so many audiophiles complain of. Vinyl adds some smoothing to the process. Worn midrange-highend also adds a bit of character (not too worn, mind you, there is definately a cutoff point), as the slight distortion not only gives the impression that the sound is louder than it really is but helps clarify it amongst the heavy low-end.
That, and it's just not as much fun to spin a plastic controller wheel to align beats as it is to actually spin the platter with your hand. Vinyl is a truely interactive medium. A CD turntable is just that: a CD player with advanced fast forward/rewind, but a turntable is like dragging a bow across a string, you are actually the generating vibrations, not some DAC in a black box.
It is for these reasons I believe vinyl will never die. However, I don't believe it will ever be anything but a niche market.
Slashdot Mirror
It's that a new Ja Rule song?
...hack the Gibson?
It was a joke.
Laugh.
P.S. - No one said ANYWHERE the story shouldn't exist. It's a follow-up from a story two years ago, it SHOULD exist. All I said this was the first time
The only thing that makes my humor worse than it already is: having to explain myself to hungover AC trolls at 5AM.
And just to be on topic: I have never used any of the mentioned libraries because I never had the need to make my code cross-platform. If I did, I'd probably choose QT or Tk, as I have heard lots about them, and KDE 3.0, which, I'm told, is based around QT, and I find it quite impressive.
...I believe this is the first time
*ducks*
No, if the situation requires. Sometimes time is a little more critical, you want to be able to go straight to a phone.
Seems there might be other reasons besides economic situation for not having a cel phone (dead battery, burning in the fire you're trying ot report, stolen when you got mugged, etc.)
Perhaps it would be a good idea to have an auto-dial "hotline" handset at each access point for emergencies, similar to the "Police call boxes" located on college campuses and downtown areas?
Look at me! Look at me! I'm #2
...and with good reason.
- Duality 3.1 - "Scheme" switcher for MacOS X (you say theme, we say scheme, I have no idea why)
- IHeartNY - Custom icons and dock skins.
- CandyBar - from Panic and the IconFactory, allows you to customize any and all system icons, including the toolbar, the trash icon, the default folder icon, etc.
So I'd say we're pretty much covered. I'm sure it won't be long before someone writes an app that will replace Dock.app to do something different, even if Apple tries to sue the bejesus out of them.Hmm, now that I've compiled this list (and I'm sure I missed a bunch of stuff), why haven't I installed any of this on my OS X machine? *off to download
Exactly. I might be a little off-topic for this, but with all that India has been in the news for lately, I have to say I really admire their progress. Everyone pictures countries like India as nothing but desert and curry-flavored foods, but now India is really showing what their made of. Let's hope help the world out of the funk it's in.
BTW: Clit.exe, that's a classic. I can't wait until the court reporter has to read back something to the jury regarding "clit.exe"
2 years ago every moron who had ever heard of a web site was about to graduate college with a associates in computer science because that was the "hot industry" and if you didnt know what you where doing you could design web sites or program something for computers, which where going to take over the freaking world. yeah.
Sit back and just think about all the HORRIBLE HORRIBLE software you've seen in say the last 5 or 6 years. Those aren't the geeks who took apart their tape decks and wired them with variable speed controls at age 5, they're not the geeks who wrote BASIC programs on their Apple ][ or C64 (or both) when they where 7.
These are the people who saw their geek friends website, and then heard how much he could make with a decent tech job. These are the same people who could be pumping your gas if they had heard how neat this gas pump was and how much they could make 3rd shift at a gas station. (OK I exaggerate to clarify...) You've met these people. You probably have worked with these people. But they will go away, when the next big "hot industry" comes along, and it will. Natural selection still applies to industry, so just know what you're doing and soon enough all the morons will flee for "easier" things to do. I hope.
I'm told the one they call RMS never showers, though. ;-)
I'd believe it. I have a friend who is in a nursing program right now and she maybe gets 4 hours of sleep every couple days between all her work shifts at all hours of the day, plus classes, homework, other errands, and the few times she gets to hang out with friends.
It's going to kill her slowly but I gotta commend the effort. Godspeed, Elissa...
Louie:Heyyyyy FRANK! Whacha got over THERE?
Frank:Hahaha Louie, ha ha, I've got CLAM DIP!
Louie: I WANNA DIP MY BALLS IN IT!
*SPLAT*
*Double BSOD*
Louie (crying):AH hah hah hahhhh my balls are ruined....
Mod parent up + Funny. Please. It's 6:40AM and I haven't slept in 2 days, and that still made me laugh.
..is wonderful how I can, IN PUBLIC, come and learn Apple's new trade secrets! Alas I did not undershtand von word he was talking about.
Oh and for the record, what does this incident have to do with COOTYS RAT SEMEN? I never was good with anagrams...
My art teacher caught me doing that once and told me it was against the law because you get high from sniffing GNU.
*rimshot*
Not only the laser, but the disc itself can't wobble too much, or crack, distort, or break from the pressure of rotating so fast. If the manufacturing process makes the disc unstable in any way at those speeds to th epoint of not being reliable, it doesn't matter how good of a laser you have.
It's like trying to read the newspaper while driving in Boston: Not only do you have to keep read the same word over and over just to get it, but you're just askng to crash
Pumping that much green into a space program and supporting programs (like EDUCATION) can fuel a renaissance in science and buck up the economy, realise orbital microwave power stations, and will spawn countless spin-off technologies.
Find me a man who realizes that, who is willing to run for office in the United States, and my vote is already cast.
+1 Informative
It wouldn't suprise me. However, I don't believe they can tell specifically who is wathcing what, just how many are watching. While not as valuable as demographic information, "How many people saw this" is still worth quite a lot.
...you can reliably do branch prediction, very time. Otherwise, refilling a 40-50 stage pipeline every couple of cycles wont get you very far. Here's to good compilers and risky-yet-hopefully-profitable design desisions.
Anyways if you're looking for a quick and dirty dubplate cutter, Kingston makes one for about $5000 US:It requires a Technics or equally high-torque direct drive turntable to attach to, but if you're a DJ you'd have those already for practice (unless you're like me and bought el cheapo Numark TT-1520s). I didn't really check on the current availibility of this thing, but it was new in 2001, so here is the link, enjoy.
I DJ a bit, techno/house/jungle/hardcore etc. and even with all this hype about CD turntables and "iPod DJs", vinyl is the choice medium. Most promos and singles are released on 12" long before CDs, and definately long before they are included on any album.
Besides, digital cannot reproduce the rich fullness of broken-in vinyl basslines, especially at high volume. Needle wear, and even the initial recording process produce extra curves in the recorded sounds, whereas digital picks up every single square corner of the wave accurately and completely, which gives it that "clear but cold" sound which so many audiophiles complain of. Vinyl adds some smoothing to the process. Worn midrange-highend also adds a bit of character (not too worn, mind you, there is definately a cutoff point), as the slight distortion not only gives the impression that the sound is louder than it really is but helps clarify it amongst the heavy low-end.
That, and it's just not as much fun to spin a plastic controller wheel to align beats as it is to actually spin the platter with your hand. Vinyl is a truely interactive medium. A CD turntable is just that: a CD player with advanced fast forward/rewind, but a turntable is like dragging a bow across a string, you are actually the generating vibrations, not some DAC in a black box.
It is for these reasons I believe vinyl will never die. However, I don't believe it will ever be anything but a niche market.
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