Every Belgian citizen has been given a new computer thanks to minister Miss Laurette Onkelinx's campaign for equality however many of them are not using them for their intended purpose.
One Belgian used his as a stepping stool while cleaning his windows. "I powered the [darn] thing up and played around with it for a few minutes but I couldn't get anything done," said Hermsh Obernikle, "then the bulb in the hallway went out and so I toted the box over then to stand on, it works great!"
One homemaker, who asked not to be identified, was at home testing out her new computer when a bandwidth crazed crimi-geek broke into her house. "Thank goodness my new computer had linux on it", she said, "the [intruder] was so mesmerized that he stayed on the computer for hours doing something with the [kernel] thing until the police arrived." She went on to say that she was glad that linux saved her life but was unsure what she was going to do with it after that.
Of course, that could make life easier for you too. What if your state/national ID card was your passport as well as your drivers' license? What if you could do your taxes at an ATM -- and then withdraw your refund? Or what if your national ID card was your ATM card, and your credit card, and your HMO card and your work ID and the passkey to your maximum-security apartment, all at once? There's the freedom to continue to come and go as you please, in (relative) anonymity, and there's the freedom to carry a dozen different cards and identifications around with you wherever you go.
Excellent! Someone can steal my ID card and go buy booze, withdraw my cash, purchase lottery tickets on my credit, get into x-rated clubs as my age, purchase firearms with my clean slate, shoot someone, and then leave the country..... all as "me". Then one day I'm buying groceries that happens in include beer and the grocery store reports my wearabouts to the cops who arrest me outside for things I didn't do.
I just got (on Saturday) a new Sony 16:9 HDTV (57") TV and got Cable installed yesterday. The TV cost me $3000.
I mostly watch DVDs and that is my target. DVDs look awesome on this TV BTW. However I also wanted to get a TV that would last me many years to come.
If you think that you might get some use out of HDTV and you are planning to buy a new TV now, I say spring for the HDTV now and then later you will have it when you need it.
Buy quality, get the features you want. The TV will last a long time and in the long run you will spend less.
Using a proton beam from the university's TRIUMF cyclotron directed by giant electromagnets, the team accelerated the radioactive isotope sodium 21 in a recreation of the explosive death of a star eight times the size of our own sun.
So let me get this straight. They made a small supernova? They made a supernova the size of a sodium isotope?
I've actually been hit with some virii spread in e-mail because of MS Exchange automatically viewing the file as HTML. The "re-typed" content type is often of the music variety ".wav" with an executable payload that does malicious things.
Thankfully I have the security screws tightened down as far as they go in MS Exchange and the virii have never done anything to my computer or spread beyond me. (At least to the best of my knowledge)
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I have a database.
Each song has several datapoints known about it.
Mood, Tempo, Genre, Situation, LastPlayed, Preference, Album, Artist, TimesPlayed, TimesRequested
Randomly pick the first song.
Then when it is done, choose the next song based on a fitting algorithm. That algorithm should be based on how "close" one song is to another. Closeness is defined as how many of the traits are similar. Measure this distance for all songs and sort them. Choose one that is near the front of the list.
My algorithms are getting actually pretty complex for doing this and I want to keep them to myself somewhat for now. But that is the general way that things work.
The effect is that of wandering around a hyperspace of your music. Each song lives in one location based on its properties and you are limited in how far you can wander in any one step. But over all you can eventually get from "Pink Floyd -- Shine on you crazy Diamond" to "The Beatles -- Love Me Do" without any jarring transitions. In fact, that happened today with my software in 8 songs.
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I've done exactly this. Rolled my own player in Java (still in experimental phase, but 100% functional).
Currently I am listening to "Hey Jude". It was last played on 10/20/2001 at 8:02:08 PM. In fact, according to my Database the song that I haven't heard in the longest time was last played on 10/11/2001 at 6:44:01 AM.
Since I leave the player running 24 hours a day 7 days a week I don't always hear every song that gets played, but I assure you that I always have good music playing.
And you won't ever hear "Rage Against The Machine" followed by "I Shot The Sheriff". It is smart enough to avoid songs that are that dissimilar.
<muttering to self>Never listen to all my music... yeah right</muttering to self>
http://www.ntrak.org
For those who want to do model trains but feel they don't have the space or money for a full blown train setup.
Modular train setups where several dozen scale miles of track are routinely set up and dozens of trains run simultaneously with sometimes a hundred or more cars in the consist.
Check it out.
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If they had no case why would Microsoft think about settling it out of court?
Oh wait, I forgot, they wanted to get a new generation of kids addicted to Windows.
"Only two industries call their customers Users" --Unknown.
Every Belgian citizen has been given a new computer thanks to minister Miss Laurette Onkelinx's campaign for equality however many of them are not using them for their intended purpose.
One Belgian used his as a stepping stool while cleaning his windows. "I powered the [darn] thing up and played around with it for a few minutes but I couldn't get anything done," said Hermsh Obernikle, "then the bulb in the hallway went out and so I toted the box over then to stand on, it works great!"
One homemaker, who asked not to be identified, was at home testing out her new computer when a bandwidth crazed crimi-geek broke into her house. "Thank goodness my new computer had linux on it", she said, "the [intruder] was so mesmerized that he stayed on the computer for hours doing something with the [kernel] thing until the police arrived." She went on to say that she was glad that linux saved her life but was unsure what she was going to do with it after that.
Of course, that could make life easier for you too. What if your state/national ID card was your passport as well as your drivers' license? What if you could do your taxes at an ATM -- and then withdraw your refund? Or what if your national ID card was your ATM card, and your credit card, and your HMO card and your work ID and the passkey to your maximum-security apartment, all at once? There's the freedom to continue to come and go as you please, in (relative) anonymity, and there's the freedom to carry a dozen different cards and identifications around with you wherever you go.
Excellent! Someone can steal my ID card and go buy booze, withdraw my cash, purchase lottery tickets on my credit, get into x-rated clubs as my age, purchase firearms with my clean slate, shoot someone, and then leave the country..... all as "me". Then one day I'm buying groceries that happens in include beer and the grocery store reports my wearabouts to the cops who arrest me outside for things I didn't do.
Sounds like its FULL of benefits.
Do you send royalty checks to the RIAA when you play an MP3 file on your computer?
I just got (on Saturday) a new Sony 16:9 HDTV (57") TV and got Cable installed yesterday. The TV cost me $3000.
I mostly watch DVDs and that is my target. DVDs look awesome on this TV BTW. However I also wanted to get a TV that would last me many years to come.
If you think that you might get some use out of HDTV and you are planning to buy a new TV now, I say spring for the HDTV now and then later you will have it when you need it.
Buy quality, get the features you want. The TV will last a long time and in the long run you will spend less.
Joe
Put it in your children, it'll keep them from being kidnapped or running away from home.
Then it just stays there.
I think I need a new keyboard now.... don't say funny stuff like that without warning me next time!
The Ethnologue language name index list the 6,800 (not a typo) langauges in use today.
Check it out.
As a counter point.... I can't recall how many times I've wished I could FTP or Telnet into my Windows NT (Win2K) boxes.
That which is present and strong in one OS is not present (or not strong) in the other.
This is the first time in Game Console history that a company has maintained market leadership through two generations of console technology.
I think the term is "nanonova".
Brings to mind Jumbo Shrimp, doesn't it?
Using a proton beam from the university's TRIUMF cyclotron directed by giant electromagnets, the team accelerated the radioactive isotope sodium 21 in a recreation of the explosive death of a star eight times the size of our own sun.
So let me get this straight. They made a small supernova? They made a supernova the size of a sodium isotope?
Would that be a Supernovetta?
I had a look at the latest CD that I purchased from Universal. It was not copy protected.
It also did NOT carry the CDDA logo.
Will it output a digital signal and an analog one at the same time? Currently the SB Live only does one or the other.
What about the Audigy?
I've actually been hit with some virii spread in e-mail because of MS Exchange automatically viewing the file as HTML. The "re-typed" content type is often of the music variety ".wav" with an executable payload that does malicious things.
Thankfully I have the security screws tightened down as far as they go in MS Exchange and the virii have never done anything to my computer or spread beyond me. (At least to the best of my knowledge)
You mean 1984.
I have a database.
Each song has several datapoints known about it.
Mood, Tempo, Genre, Situation, LastPlayed, Preference, Album, Artist, TimesPlayed, TimesRequested
Randomly pick the first song.
Then when it is done, choose the next song based on a fitting algorithm. That algorithm should be based on how "close" one song is to another. Closeness is defined as how many of the traits are similar. Measure this distance for all songs and sort them. Choose one that is near the front of the list.
My algorithms are getting actually pretty complex for doing this and I want to keep them to myself somewhat for now. But that is the general way that things work.
The effect is that of wandering around a hyperspace of your music. Each song lives in one location based on its properties and you are limited in how far you can wander in any one step. But over all you can eventually get from "Pink Floyd -- Shine on you crazy Diamond" to "The Beatles -- Love Me Do" without any jarring transitions. In fact, that happened today with my software in 8 songs.
I've done exactly this. Rolled my own player in Java (still in experimental phase, but 100% functional).
Currently I am listening to "Hey Jude". It was last played on 10/20/2001 at 8:02:08 PM. In fact, according to my Database the song that I haven't heard in the longest time was last played on 10/11/2001 at 6:44:01 AM.
Since I leave the player running 24 hours a day 7 days a week I don't always hear every song that gets played, but I assure you that I always have good music playing.
And you won't ever hear "Rage Against The Machine" followed by "I Shot The Sheriff". It is smart enough to avoid songs that are that dissimilar.
<muttering to self>Never listen to all my music... yeah right</muttering to self>
it's great that MS finally has a NT-based, stable OS for the home user
I don't know, I've been using Win2K at home for a year now. Isn't that a stable NT-based OS?</tounge-in-cheek>
Read Cryptonomicon Joe H.
Imagine running dozens of trains at different speeds and different directions at the same time on that large layout.
Thats what DCC makes possible.
http://www.ntrak.org
For those who want to do model trains but feel they don't have the space or money for a full blown train setup.
Modular train setups where several dozen scale miles of track are routinely set up and dozens of trains run simultaneously with sometimes a hundred or more cars in the consist.
Check it out.