These victrolas definitely have speed control; as for the preamp, that might make it sound better, but unless you're remixing these songs, it's a lot of extra work to adjust each song every time you play it, and they still sound like old-ass recordings when you're done adjusting. I'm sure it takes the edge off the more unlistenable ones but I kind of like the sound of the big gold horn.
Yeah you don't want to use a needle on more than half a dozen records. And they do break easy. I have a few of them that actually say "unbreakable" on them (some with cracks in them of course). Some of the old ones are really heavy too, they're full of something that looks like concrete.
It's true, the blowhards in the entertainment industry confirm it. So just put your entire DVD collection into a box and send it to me; I'm working on a museum exhibit. Yeah, *DVD is dead at 55, found in its home choked to death with a pretzel. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Truly an American icon.
If you mean 78 RPM, it is very much alive, if gasping for air. I have an old wind-up Victrola and about 250 78s of old blues and jazz that I still crank up from time to time. The sound is crap for an audiophile of course but it has its own rickety charm. The best thing is you don't have to plug a damn thing in. Came in handy when there was a blackout - I'm also into candles; half the neighborhood showed up at my place with booze because it was the only place on the block with light and music. When the power came back on, we continued to party, but I admit we did switch back to 33.3 RPM for the music:)
It will just be Steve Ballmer chanting maniacally "I repeat myself when under stress! I repeat myself when under stress!" over and over until you restart the machine.
Can you please point to the part of my post that said Russia's actions were not opportunistic? It doesn't make the facts any different. My point was not to praise or give credit to the Russians for anything; rather it was to call attention to how bizarre and hypocritical this whole silly who-saved-who-in-world-war-two debate is.
Perhaps someone who thinks this or any similar rearrangement of wikipedia content would be a good idea could take a look at the free content license and put together a more useful version of what's available there. That, I think, is the true future of wikipedia, and what makes it an important landmark in the history of knowledge. Any given article may be crap at any given time, but the open source model allows wikipedia content to become a grab bag of tools available to anyone with an idea for editing it and incorporating it into some other project. I can think of any number of projects involving specialized encyclopedias (online or hardbound and printed) based on wikipedia content that has undergone a more rigorous editing process.
Yes - though the problem is there's not yet any easy way to hilight the relevant or interesting parts of the discussions -- if you look at the first page of a discussion with several archives you are only getting the last week of discussion or so, which may be a silly rehash of an annoying revert war rather than anything useful. It would be nice if there was a moderation system in the discussion forum that allowed readers to use the discussion area to learn more about a topic rather than to just see what editors are fighting about lately.... though I fear such a system would be used instead as a gauge of who is winning these debates.
"We find zat ze browser le 'Fire fox' combined with le "open office org" provides ze police with ze web-browsing et productivity tools necessary to put down riots in Muslim neighborhoods in a manner zat is both extensible and, uuhh, how you say? ruthless."
It's amazing that the people who whine that we saved France in WWII so conveniently forget that Soviet Russia saved our asses in that same war... If it wasn't for the 20 million Russians who died fighting Hitler, who knows how much more bloody that war would have been for Americans.
He means terrorists who threaten the US. Giving money to Palestinian terrorists is de riguer in the Arab world; by that measure, Saudi Arabia was way more guilty of supporting terrorism than Saddam ever could have been. The real issue is whether Saddam supported terrorists such as al Qaeda, which he did not.
I'm not the original poster but my reading of that is, what he thought was amazing was not the 2%, but the fact that of the entire Apple product line, that was the only instance of an over 2% failure rate. It's not that 2% is spectacular but that Apple only had one item come close to that.
The point is, the person who runs the server can replace that code with whatever code he wants. It would be interesting to see the script post messages about the evils of the RIAA rather than an IP address...
I'm serious folks; never drive with a cell phone. With one hand on your cell phone and the other on the steering wheel, how the hell are you supposed to hold your beer?
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These victrolas definitely have speed control; as for the preamp, that might make it sound better, but unless you're remixing these songs, it's a lot of extra work to adjust each song every time you play it, and they still sound like old-ass recordings when you're done adjusting. I'm sure it takes the edge off the more unlistenable ones but I kind of like the sound of the big gold horn.
Yeah you don't want to use a needle on more than half a dozen records. And they do break easy. I have a few of them that actually say "unbreakable" on them (some with cracks in them of course). Some of the old ones are really heavy too, they're full of something that looks like concrete.
Nope but my old ones didn't stop working when the format "died." Of course, you can still buy used ones, but I don't know of anyone making new ones.
I mean, come on, this whole story is a troll!
If you mean 78 RPM, it is very much alive, if gasping for air. I have an old wind-up Victrola and about 250 78s of old blues and jazz that I still crank up from time to time. The sound is crap for an audiophile of course but it has its own rickety charm. The best thing is you don't have to plug a damn thing in. Came in handy when there was a blackout - I'm also into candles; half the neighborhood showed up at my place with booze because it was the only place on the block with light and music. When the power came back on, we continued to party, but I admit we did switch back to 33.3 RPM for the music :)
It will just be Steve Ballmer chanting maniacally "I repeat myself when under stress! I repeat myself when under stress!" over and over until you restart the machine.
But nobody could see it so it didn't sell very well.
Ahhh - I was under the impression on your original post that this service was native in OS X. Thanks for the pointer!
Forgive my ignorance, but what key combination do you hit to automatically translate stuff in OSX?
Can you please point to the part of my post that said Russia's actions were not opportunistic? It doesn't make the facts any different. My point was not to praise or give credit to the Russians for anything; rather it was to call attention to how bizarre and hypocritical this whole silly who-saved-who-in-world-war-two debate is.
Perhaps someone who thinks this or any similar rearrangement of wikipedia content would be a good idea could take a look at the free content license and put together a more useful version of what's available there. That, I think, is the true future of wikipedia, and what makes it an important landmark in the history of knowledge. Any given article may be crap at any given time, but the open source model allows wikipedia content to become a grab bag of tools available to anyone with an idea for editing it and incorporating it into some other project. I can think of any number of projects involving specialized encyclopedias (online or hardbound and printed) based on wikipedia content that has undergone a more rigorous editing process.
Yes - though the problem is there's not yet any easy way to hilight the relevant or interesting parts of the discussions -- if you look at the first page of a discussion with several archives you are only getting the last week of discussion or so, which may be a silly rehash of an annoying revert war rather than anything useful. It would be nice if there was a moderation system in the discussion forum that allowed readers to use the discussion area to learn more about a topic rather than to just see what editors are fighting about lately.... though I fear such a system would be used instead as a gauge of who is winning these debates.
"We find zat ze browser le 'Fire fox' combined with le "open office org" provides ze police with ze web-browsing et productivity tools necessary to put down riots in Muslim neighborhoods in a manner zat is both extensible and, uuhh, how you say? ruthless."
It's amazing that the people who whine that we saved France in WWII so conveniently forget that Soviet Russia saved our asses in that same war... If it wasn't for the 20 million Russians who died fighting Hitler, who knows how much more bloody that war would have been for Americans.
He means terrorists who threaten the US. Giving money to Palestinian terrorists is de riguer in the Arab world; by that measure, Saudi Arabia was way more guilty of supporting terrorism than Saddam ever could have been. The real issue is whether Saddam supported terrorists such as al Qaeda, which he did not.
Seriously. It's about time someone challenges the propaganda surrounding OFF.
I'm not the original poster but my reading of that is, what he thought was amazing was not the 2%, but the fact that of the entire Apple product line, that was the only instance of an over 2% failure rate. It's not that 2% is spectacular but that Apple only had one item come close to that.
Are you kidding? The south park guys would love the Large Hardon Collider.
erm, what?
Only Apple servers will do the job when the South Park guys decide it's time to play "kick the server."
it kills kenny faster and more efficiently.
The point is, the person who runs the server can replace that code with whatever code he wants. It would be interesting to see the script post messages about the evils of the RIAA rather than an IP address...
Isn't it 1 Infinite Loop; Cupertino, CA 95014?
You remember Netwofive? This is one more.
I'm serious folks; never drive with a cell phone. With one hand on your cell phone and the other on the steering wheel, how the hell are you supposed to hold your beer?