This type of action makes me wonder about the sincerity of the music you have been making all these years. How can a band that raged aginst the money hungrey "power wolves" abusing justice suddenly become that exact thing? Was it all a lie , have you changed, or is this something that the record company is pushing on you.
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By the way, Galileo never did drop balls off the leaning tower of pisa. In fact, if he did it would have created the opposite conclusion than what he came up with. What he did was a thought experiment; he imagined balls of different weights attached along a rope. This rope was then dropped. He deducted, rightly, that if objects of different weights fell at different speeds the rope would be pulled apart by the balls. Since that cannot, and does not, happen Galileo came to the correct conclusion. The whole Tower of pisa thing is a popular myth.
The ignorance level is very high when the topic of nuclear reactors come up. As an earlier post mentioned, it takes a special type of reactor to produce plutonium. This type of reactor is called a fast breeder, and is very popular in places like china. The CANDU reactor is NOT a fast breeder reactor and does not produce Plutonium. Contrary to the previous statement, the reactor produces radioactive cobalt with no plutonium. The Spent fuel cannot be used in bombs but it is used in radiation treatment for cancer patients. I know this because my father has worked in the pickering Nuclear Generating station, in ontario, for the last twenty years. I have had access to all the good text books.
The thumbless bar cord is possible on a classical guitar. They have lower string tension, and you are sitting with the guitar solid aginst your body, meaning you can push on the neck without the whole guitar moving. One an electric the string tension is much higher(especially if you use 12's like I do) and it is generally played standing up. When you push on the neck, the whole guitar just swings freely away from your hand.
I can just see it now. Montag comes home to find his wife had just installed the newest software for the TV room, windows:leathal enforcer. The versions that allows leathal deterant against any anti-microsoft activity. "Dear, why the heck did you do that?" "The TV family told me to do it."
Monopoly joined with monopoly, until there is only ONE big company. Hey, what do you know, we're communists.
Am I the only one here who feels that Canada is becoming the Oceania of 1984? We have a monopoly for cable TV and broadband internet access (which you cannot get without having cable TV) joining forces with Microsoft's monopoly. Soon we shall have those little set top boxes provided from microsoft recording everything that we watch and do, remember Gates and Co. plan to have these replace the PC. Soon we shall have the M$ thoughtpolice breaking into our homes in the middle of the night and re-educating us on the glorys of microsoft. "Thoughtcrime does not entail death, thoughtcrime is death."
Currently the fastest supercomputer available, according to an article posted here a few days ago, is the ASCI RED from Intel. It proforms 1.6 trillion calculations per second. That means if you are trying to multiply matricies, do vector math, or any other type of calculation, it would be at or below this mark. If this new technology can achieve 100 trillion calculations per second, by any specialized means, it is still near 100 times faster than the ASCI RED is specific tasks.
On a different note, their website lists the possible tasks of this hypercomputer to be "ultra-fast scalar processing, digital, broadband signal processing and high-speed, low-latency switching and routing." Funny, no mention of vector processing. Without that it will never kill the modern supercomputer. The web site uses too many buzz words for my likeing as well "massively-parallel, reconfigurable, third-order programmable, ultra-tightly-coupled, fully linearly-scaleable, evolvable, asymmetrical multi-processors. They are plug-compatible"
If it works, this is a huge step forward, if not, it is a lot of hype.
Yes, I mentioned the VW, which is the fastest 3d graphics PC available. Since the discussion seemed to be Wintel PC vs. Playstation2 I thought I would name the fastest intel based graphics workstation.
when the ps2 is claiming 2.4 Billion pixels fill rate and the SGI visual workstation peaks at 176 Million. There is no way a $400 gaming platform will out preform a SGI workstation, especially not by a factor of 13.
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This type of action makes me wonder about the sincerity of the music you have been making all these years. How can a band that raged aginst the money hungrey "power wolves" abusing justice suddenly become that exact thing? Was it all a lie , have you changed, or is this something that the record company is pushing on you.
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"bow to the leper messiah"
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By the way, Galileo never did drop balls off the leaning tower of pisa. In fact, if he did it would have created the opposite conclusion than what he came up with. What he did was a thought experiment; he imagined balls of different weights attached along a rope. This rope was then dropped. He deducted, rightly, that if objects of different weights fell at different speeds the rope would be pulled apart by the balls. Since that cannot, and does not, happen Galileo came to the correct conclusion. The whole Tower of pisa thing is a popular myth.
The ignorance level is very high when the topic of nuclear reactors come up. As an earlier post mentioned, it takes a special type of reactor to produce plutonium. This type of reactor is called a fast breeder, and is very popular in places like china. The CANDU reactor is NOT a fast breeder reactor and does not produce Plutonium. Contrary to the previous statement, the reactor produces radioactive cobalt with no plutonium. The Spent fuel cannot be used in bombs but it is used in radiation treatment for cancer patients. I know this because my father has worked in the pickering Nuclear Generating station, in ontario, for the last twenty years. I have had access to all the good text books.
Off topic, sorry, but....
The thumbless bar cord is possible on a classical guitar. They have lower string tension, and you are sitting with the guitar solid aginst your body, meaning you can push on the neck without the whole guitar moving. One an electric the string tension is much higher(especially if you use 12's like I do) and it is generally played standing up. When you push on the neck, the whole guitar just swings freely away from your hand.
I can just see it now. Montag comes home to find his wife had just installed the newest software for the TV room, windows:leathal enforcer. The versions that allows leathal deterant against any anti-microsoft activity.
"Dear, why the heck did you do that?"
"The TV family told me to do it."
Monopoly joined with monopoly, until there is only ONE big company. Hey, what do you know, we're communists.
Am I the only one here who feels that Canada is becoming the Oceania of 1984? We have a monopoly for cable TV and broadband internet access (which you cannot get without having cable TV) joining forces with Microsoft's monopoly. Soon we shall have those little set top boxes provided from microsoft recording everything that we watch and do, remember Gates and Co. plan to have these replace the PC. Soon we shall have the M$ thoughtpolice breaking into our homes in the middle of the night and re-educating us on the glorys of microsoft.
"Thoughtcrime does not entail death, thoughtcrime is death."
"10 gig + per 1cm x 1cm x 3cm cube"
Hate to nit pick....but
Cube means all sides the same length.
That quote is from 1984, it was spoken by O'Brian as he is torturing Winston.
"Imagine a boot stomping on a human face, for ever. That is the future."
Currently the fastest supercomputer available, according to an article posted here a few days ago, is the ASCI RED from Intel. It proforms 1.6 trillion calculations per second. That means if you are trying to multiply matricies, do vector math, or any other type of calculation, it would be at or below this mark. If this new technology can achieve 100 trillion calculations per second, by any specialized means, it is still near 100 times faster than the ASCI RED is specific tasks.
On a different note, their website lists the possible tasks of this hypercomputer to be "ultra-fast scalar processing, digital, broadband signal processing and high-speed, low-latency switching and routing." Funny, no mention of vector processing. Without that it will never kill the modern supercomputer. The web site uses too many buzz words for my likeing as well
"massively-parallel, reconfigurable, third-order
programmable, ultra-tightly-coupled, fully linearly-scaleable, evolvable, asymmetrical multi-processors. They are plug-compatible"
If it works, this is a huge step forward, if not, it is a lot of hype.
Yes, I mentioned the VW, which is the fastest 3d graphics PC available. Since the discussion seemed to be Wintel PC vs. Playstation2 I thought I would name the fastest intel based graphics workstation.
when the ps2 is claiming 2.4 Billion pixels fill rate and the SGI visual workstation peaks at 176 Million. There is no way a $400 gaming platform will out preform a SGI workstation, especially not by a factor of 13.