Unfortunately somehow I really doubt that the number of albums that are great all the way through is equal to the number of albums with just a couple of good tracks. Albums that work all the way through seem more memorable to me somehow, so maybe it is just easier to remember them than all of those albums that have filler?
Anyway, a "good" versus "bad" track/album is subjective anyway.
Okay, I studied Greek Archaeology in Athens for a semester. The current top contender for the Atlantis place is the island of Thera now called Santorini. The place blew up due to a volcanic eruption around the time of the Minoan civilization (around 1500 BCE). The town of Akrotiri on the island was completely buried in volcanic ash and a formerly round large isalnd turned into a cresent remnant. Most valuable items had been removed and few remains were found, so it seems that people had time to get away (unlike Pompei).
Currently Santorini is an overly touristy destination with fabulous views over the flooded caldera of the volcano. Said volcano is still active and there was a large earthquake in the 1950's.
Anyway, both articles (actually really just news teasers) are VERY light on details. Why does the Cyprus location scream out Atlantis? Is the any evidence of manmade artifacts? City structures? What does a "sunken" land mass mean?
In the fine tradtion of Heinrich Schleiman (sp) discover of the Tomb of Atreus and the Lion Gate at Mycenae, I think this "scientist" is trying to hype his research into getting better funding/research money. But hey, maybe he has found it. We'll see.
Sure, the touring was hard on Jerry, and I think that this new revenue stream places more emphasis on touring. But some bands LIKE to tour. The Grateful Dead was certainly one of them. I'm sure Jerry had a lot of pressure, but he did not HAVE to go on tour.
However, this model really doesn't work for studio projects or groups/people that don't like to tour. I sort of enjoy Enya's music, but I doubt her live show is much of an event as she created her sound through lots of overdubbing and effects.
PS check out nugs.net for free streams and downloads of jam bands, including GD and Phish.
Moving one box of books is fun. I have been lugging my 30+ boxes of books through 7 moves in the past 6 years. And that doesn't include the boxes from my children's books.
That said, there is a reason that I can't get rid of them, and I doubt that a e-book will have the same emotional pull.
Good point. Just because a masterpiece hasn't been written in "IF" doesn't mean it can't happen. It probably will knowing human nature to keep trying. There really aren't that many masterpieces that appeal to the broad OR high-brow markets anyway, so give the makers some time. Others, of course, may feel like such a masterpiece has been written.
Yes. I am a computer reseller, and I sell everything: Dell, Apple, Compaq, IBM, etc. I get everything at wholsale rates plus some special deals. Believe it or not, but I bought my Compaq Presario 2190US from Best Buy as a "Joe Walkin" last Dec for $649 (after $450 in VERY tricky rebate forms to fill out and send in, but they did give me my money even though I was 2 days late on sending it in, kudos to Best Buy). End-consumer deals are often hard to beat because they are loss leaders to get stuff off the shelves. The hard part would be getting them to honor the rebates, etc. Also, you still haven't gotten over the customs hurdle.
Just one bit of advice. Never pay $2000 or $3000 for a laptop unless you ABSOLUTELY need all those features/speed. Buy a serviceable one for $1000-$1500 and then buy another in 1.5 years for the same price that beats the pants off the one that is $3000 today.
As a parent who spends some time at the local hang out spot for 18 month olds (day-care) I know a bit from first hand experience. Almost anything could be said to be the range of expectations for that age group. Some kids can speak better than most grown ups, others can only say "Mommy, daddy, doggy." All are still considered normal as far as the docs and parents are concerned. Still it is the most impressive report about AI that I have heard.
-A
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Also, with Yahoo mail you can use any real (non-web based) email client to download your mail so you don't have to use their interface, then when you go on vaction you turn your automatic email collection off and you can access your email from any device which allows you to surf the web. Just go to the options page and find out your incoming and outgoing SMTP and their POP stuff.
-A
Ok, here is the deal in a nutshell.
1) DirecTV sells you the receiver. You can hack it all you want. They "loan" you the use of the card which contains ID and software controls, but maintain ownership.
2) Most crakers alter the code on the card. This allows you to get all the channels but you have to alter/deface their property to do so.
3) They sent out a nifty multi-sectioned piece of code which fried a lot of the illegally altered cards out there.
4) Presumably a third party could come out with a decoder (with some other putative purpose) which you could buy and use to pick up the signal and descramble it since they are sending the signal without asking if you want to recieve it.
Personal Experience
5) Someone asked me right before the new software scrambling if I wanted to buy a cracked card for $100. I said no, after thinking long and hard about the NBA Rockets games that I couldn't get without paying $179. My conscience won due to the fact that it is wrong to alter their card for personal gain (not civil disobedience or speeding, which is much more dangerous...).
6) Currently still can't get ABC or PBS because of local reception laws ( I live where there is 1 channel of reception, CBS, but they gave me dispensation to get it but not the others, go figure...)
7)Stopped getting the main package due to time wasted/cost but for 3 bucks a month you can order pay-per view movies, which is convenient.
-Anson
Ok here goes my attempt to resolve the nature v. nurture debate.
1) Think of Nurture (environment) as a bullet through your brain.
2) Think of yourself (Nature) as being a Pea Plant instead of a human being (assuming you are one).
Either case means that you don't go to Harvard, get married or act nice to your dog. Neither circumstance is more important than the other. If you don't have the right genes, you are not a human, if your environment can't support life, you are dead.
Yup, that's a lot of people. According to the SciFi Channel's Website (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2000 -12/05/12.00.sfc )the 3.06 was just for the first night alone. I seem remember that good mini-series usually gain audience as the move along.
I have read all of the books many times and thought that overall this adaptation was very successful. Clearly, it was more theater style than feature filmish (all those really flat places in a desert? sometimes cheesy FX and occasional flat acting, etc.) but I really liked the mood of the piece. Lynch had better film quality in his movie, and his stillsuits looked much cooler (instead of robes with painters masks, and no goggles? remember this is a place with little water but lots of wind and sand) buthe didn't really get the crux of the story across, and I feel that this production did.
I just spent 2+ hours on hold and working my way up the NetSol hierarchy to try and buy a domain name that had expired a month ago. The First Level Supervisor that I spoke to wouldn't give me his last name (just Tom C., and he not-so-politely explained that he was the only Tom C.) Basically, they didn't mention anything about the auction deal, and explained that when a domain name "expires" as it says in Whois, it doesn't really expire. They give a non-defined grace period, and then when that is up put the domain into a pool that is then batch processed to be released. (Although maybe now they will try and squeeze me for everything that they can get with this auction stuff) Their customer service has been consistently the worst I have ever dealt with. I had to transfer a domain name, and by the time the person who had it previously had the official Internic (NetSol's previous incarnation)documents notarized and sent in, they had changed the forms and rejected it. Now I know how the Russians felt under the Soviets Note:Most of the underlings I dealt with are nice, but ineffectual.
Dear Jon, Please stop posting to your own article thread. I tried reading the article, I really tried, as I work at a "New Media" company where local voices are used to interact with the local communities that they live in. However, one point that must be made is this: news is about communicating. While you might have some interesting and valid points, you have to write to your audience AND the medium in which they will be accessing that information./. readers are by definition reading on some type of monitor (unless someone prints out the whole thread....) and when our eyes hurt, we don't give our best effort to the import of what people are saying. Think Haiku instead of Epic Poem. -A
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Well, Return of the Jedi was a bit of a disappointment after Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, IMHO
Unfortunately somehow I really doubt that the number of albums that are great all the way through is equal to the number of albums with just a couple of good tracks. Albums that work all the way through seem more memorable to me somehow, so maybe it is just easier to remember them than all of those albums that have filler?
Anyway, a "good" versus "bad" track/album is subjective anyway.
So you can read and post on Slashdot without getting busted by your boss? ;-)
The island used to be called Thera, as well as the town. I have been there many times. Skip Thera and go to Oia.
Okay, I studied Greek Archaeology in Athens for a semester. The current top contender for the Atlantis place is the island of Thera now called Santorini. The place blew up due to a volcanic eruption around the time of the Minoan civilization (around 1500 BCE). The town of Akrotiri on the island was completely buried in volcanic ash and a formerly round large isalnd turned into a cresent remnant. Most valuable items had been removed and few remains were found, so it seems that people had time to get away (unlike Pompei).
Currently Santorini is an overly touristy destination with fabulous views over the flooded caldera of the volcano. Said volcano is still active and there was a large earthquake in the 1950's.
Anyway, both articles (actually really just news teasers) are VERY light on details. Why does the Cyprus location scream out Atlantis? Is the any evidence of manmade artifacts? City structures? What does a "sunken" land mass mean?
In the fine tradtion of Heinrich Schleiman (sp) discover of the Tomb of Atreus and the Lion Gate at Mycenae, I think this "scientist" is trying to hype his research into getting better funding/research money. But hey, maybe he has found it. We'll see.
Sure, the touring was hard on Jerry, and I think that this new revenue stream places more emphasis on touring. But some bands LIKE to tour. The Grateful Dead was certainly one of them. I'm sure Jerry had a lot of pressure, but he did not HAVE to go on tour.
However, this model really doesn't work for studio projects or groups/people that don't like to tour. I sort of enjoy Enya's music, but I doubt her live show is much of an event as she created her sound through lots of overdubbing and effects.
PS check out nugs.net for free streams and downloads of jam bands, including GD and Phish.
Moving one box of books is fun. I have been lugging my 30+ boxes of books through 7 moves in the past 6 years. And that doesn't include the boxes from my children's books.
That said, there is a reason that I can't get rid of them, and I doubt that a e-book will have the same emotional pull.
On macs it is CMD+Click.
-A
Actually, the biggest Frat secret is the "Tell frat secrets for sex trick." Shh.
IANAFB (Fraternity Brother)
Good point. Just because a masterpiece hasn't been written in "IF" doesn't mean it can't happen. It probably will knowing human nature to keep trying. There really aren't that many masterpieces that appeal to the broad OR high-brow markets anyway, so give the makers some time. Others, of course, may feel like such a masterpiece has been written.
Dr. Ditto
Yes. I am a computer reseller, and I sell everything: Dell, Apple, Compaq, IBM, etc. I get everything at wholsale rates plus some special deals. Believe it or not, but I bought my Compaq Presario 2190US from Best Buy as a "Joe Walkin" last Dec for $649 (after $450 in VERY tricky rebate forms to fill out and send in, but they did give me my money even though I was 2 days late on sending it in, kudos to Best Buy). End-consumer deals are often hard to beat because they are loss leaders to get stuff off the shelves. The hard part would be getting them to honor the rebates, etc. Also, you still haven't gotten over the customs hurdle.
Just one bit of advice. Never pay $2000 or $3000 for a laptop unless you ABSOLUTELY need all those features/speed. Buy a serviceable one for $1000-$1500 and then buy another in 1.5 years for the same price that beats the pants off the one that is $3000 today.
So true, I got stuck at that point for about 10 years before moving onwards and finding the rest of the series wonderful.
-A
OT Also, I never was able to read those Thomas Covenant books that people kept giving me
As a parent who spends some time at the local hang out spot for 18 month olds (day-care) I know a bit from first hand experience. Almost anything could be said to be the range of expectations for that age group. Some kids can speak better than most grown ups, others can only say "Mommy, daddy, doggy." All are still considered normal as far as the docs and parents are concerned. Still it is the most impressive report about AI that I have heard.
-A
Also, with Yahoo mail you can use any real (non-web based) email client to download your mail so you don't have to use their interface, then when you go on vaction you turn your automatic email collection off and you can access your email from any device which allows you to surf the web. Just go to the options page and find out your incoming and outgoing SMTP and their POP stuff.
-A
Ok, here is the deal in a nutshell. 1) DirecTV sells you the receiver. You can hack it all you want. They "loan" you the use of the card which contains ID and software controls, but maintain ownership. 2) Most crakers alter the code on the card. This allows you to get all the channels but you have to alter/deface their property to do so. 3) They sent out a nifty multi-sectioned piece of code which fried a lot of the illegally altered cards out there. 4) Presumably a third party could come out with a decoder (with some other putative purpose) which you could buy and use to pick up the signal and descramble it since they are sending the signal without asking if you want to recieve it. Personal Experience 5) Someone asked me right before the new software scrambling if I wanted to buy a cracked card for $100. I said no, after thinking long and hard about the NBA Rockets games that I couldn't get without paying $179. My conscience won due to the fact that it is wrong to alter their card for personal gain (not civil disobedience or speeding, which is much more dangerous...). 6) Currently still can't get ABC or PBS because of local reception laws ( I live where there is 1 channel of reception, CBS, but they gave me dispensation to get it but not the others, go figure...) 7)Stopped getting the main package due to time wasted/cost but for 3 bucks a month you can order pay-per view movies, which is convenient. -Anson
Ok here goes my attempt to resolve the nature v. nurture debate. 1) Think of Nurture (environment) as a bullet through your brain. 2) Think of yourself (Nature) as being a Pea Plant instead of a human being (assuming you are one). Either case means that you don't go to Harvard, get married or act nice to your dog. Neither circumstance is more important than the other. If you don't have the right genes, you are not a human, if your environment can't support life, you are dead.
Yup, that's a lot of people. According to the SciFi Channel's Website (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2000 -12/05/12.00.sfc )the 3.06 was just for the first night alone. I seem remember that good mini-series usually gain audience as the move along.
I have read all of the books many times and thought that overall this adaptation was very successful. Clearly, it was more theater style than feature filmish (all those really flat places in a desert? sometimes cheesy FX and occasional flat acting, etc.) but I really liked the mood of the piece. Lynch had better film quality in his movie, and his stillsuits looked much cooler (instead of robes with painters masks, and no goggles? remember this is a place with little water but lots of wind and sand) buthe didn't really get the crux of the story across, and I feel that this production did.
I just spent 2+ hours on hold and working my way up the NetSol hierarchy to try and buy a domain name that had expired a month ago. The First Level Supervisor that I spoke to wouldn't give me his last name (just Tom C., and he not-so-politely explained that he was the only Tom C.) Basically, they didn't mention anything about the auction deal, and explained that when a domain name "expires" as it says in Whois, it doesn't really expire. They give a non-defined grace period, and then when that is up put the domain into a pool that is then batch processed to be released. (Although maybe now they will try and squeeze me for everything that they can get with this auction stuff) Their customer service has been consistently the worst I have ever dealt with. I had to transfer a domain name, and by the time the person who had it previously had the official Internic (NetSol's previous incarnation)documents notarized and sent in, they had changed the forms and rejected it. Now I know how the Russians felt under the Soviets Note:Most of the underlings I dealt with are nice, but ineffectual.
Dear Jon, Please stop posting to your own article thread. I tried reading the article, I really tried, as I work at a "New Media" company where local voices are used to interact with the local communities that they live in. However, one point that must be made is this: news is about communicating. While you might have some interesting and valid points, you have to write to your audience AND the medium in which they will be accessing that information. /. readers are by definition reading on some type of monitor (unless someone prints out the whole thread....) and when our eyes hurt, we don't give our best effort to the import of what people are saying. Think Haiku instead of Epic Poem. -A
Now you can say "Hey that porn link was put there by a virus. I wasn't really looking at www.mypeepeesneezed.com"
Still Sun is a BIG company. Props to those who make the top 10 as individuals. -A