Amazing how on top of the latest trends in people abusing public places, spamming, etc. the chinese police are. Granted, they have a tradition of being viewed as repressive in the US, I was impressed with a small matter I had with a Hong Kong seller not delivering the goods and how they hauled the guy in and grilled him (not literally.) After he scampered home he sent me an email faster than the investigating detective. I get a hit and run in San Jose, CA, and the cops have better things to do... Probably explains a lot of why obvious crime efforts in Spam go unpunished.
I'm sure the answer exists somewhere in the middle... it just seems I was lead to believe in a different future by Adam-12 and Dragnet.
Don't forget "Remedial Accounting for Remedial Accountants" Skills that come in handy, whether making a fortune investing in Daddy's friend's companies or planning them "Don't Tax and Spend" budgits!
Hey, guess what, technology has lowered the bar for many things, but also for revealing the extent and depravity of human behaviour. These bottom-feeders complain about being treated unfairly when they want to behave unethically, the same as telemarketers and spammers. The real savings in their schemes is in passing the costs on the recipients, wasting time, wasting resources, tying up paid-for resources. It's a bit of a downer to see how many people, when they can commit such acts with anonymity will resort to such.
Small wonder that sh!t-heads like Alan Ralsky prize their privacy all the more once they've been revealed.
After a couple days recording I zipped off to the local electronics store for a cable. The sound, going into the Mic. was horrible, overdriven. Too bad I didn't realize there was level adjustment on the taskbar sound thing. First cable was wrong, as it's not a CD connector on the ATI 9700 card, so the CD-CD wire I got ($2.00) was wrong and resulted in another session of bad sound. I went back and bought the right cable ($2.00, also) and sound is great. Now all I need to do is clean some of this stuff up. I'm gonna need diskspace, soon, too. Fortunately I can stall that a little, with my USB 40GB HDD, but just for a while. Yikes.
I wonder if they used stock photography again this time?
Of what? Hackers? Maybe a scratch and sniff...
"...smells like b.o. and day old pizza..."
Seriously.. the coalition is buzy taking out a regime which shamelessly employs propaganda to control public thought. I wonder if Bill's compound is one of many 'presidential palaces' to be built. Not really intended as a troll, but the parallels are there, cult of personality and all.
If you can avoid it, don't use the line-in passthrough. Instead use CD-audio passthrough.
I just used the line cable that came with it, as I was scrambling to get it hooked up. Bummer. Guess there's a trip to the electronics shop in this morning's errand run. (I'm at home, sick, and running out of food, feed a cold sorta thing.)
Also make sure you have the latest drivers for your sound card, and that your computer is not under high load. Audio sampling is very timing-sensitive
Latest drivers, check. Tho I'm using the onboard audio which came with the ASUS A7V8X. I'm running a 2600+ w/768MB, I hope that's enough, but have noticed anything running at the same time moves like a snail through sand.
I taped the first few nights coverage of Desert Storm and the tapes are still fine. I've lent them to a couple veterans who served in the conflict and they were grateful to see how it appeared on the home front. It's pretty surreal to watch, today, but it's history.
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I don't think the guy is naive at all.
Thanks for your consideration.
In the US, we have a multiplicity of news sources, not all coming from the boob tube. Our wide access to the Internet itself pretty much guarantees that many Americans have a good handle on what's really happening in the world.
I do happen to live in the US and follow world news from sources outside the US frequently, for the following reasons:
Different perspective
News the US outlets don't consider/realize is important.
I have satellite in the p/u and listen to the BBC regularly, which has been airing opinions severly questioning Blair's wisdom. The US media haven't been so tough on Bush, too bad really.
Last night, when the attacks started, the media were pretty much caught off guard and weren't properly spinning news for domestic pablum. I see this morning it has changed and the spin is a terrible thing to behold.
With the Dixie Chick and Sen. Tom Daschle, these first statements out of their mouths are honest and should be respected. I feel if it weren't for what I agree with the senator (Bush's ineptitude at foreign policy) the ineptitude may have been a guise, to get us into a war. As we can see by the comments of world leaders and sages, this is an undesirable situation, as if 9/11 taught Bush and his supporters nothing.
On the tapes, I have shared my 1991 tapes with friends whom had served in the conflict and they were grateful to see how it played back home. They had no idea and found the coverage interesting.
I heard that civilian use of GPS may become less acurate, during war. This morning I fired mine up and it says: "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."
This is so timely, I could just gasp in astonishment.
I bought an AIW 9700 yesterday, getting home and installing it, just in time to miss the first couple minutes, but able to capture about 3 hours, before it became seriously rehashed news. On the spur of the moment I saved the TV as mpeg and tried it this morning. The picture is find, but sound is horrible. Any suggestions?
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At least I have the freedom to record and review the news, which is actually pretty objective, as news goes in the USA.
(just got the video card for tv and recording for this occasion. screw video tapes. I have the last war, first days, on VHS and will attempt to digitize.)
One remake, or follow-up, I didn't care for was Impossible Mission II. The original Epyx game of Impossible Mission was downright amazing for the tiny piece of hardware and humble 3 voice synthesizer it employed very well. I used to finish the game on a regular basis and it was one of the very few I worked at bettering my score (less time to solve) at. The II version came out for the Amiga and was immediately a disappointment.
Was this game really that good, or do we just remember it as being great.
It was good. I've lamented over the years why EA hasn't acted to reissue this game, but when I look at it... If they did it would probably be as some horribly delayed, then ultimately released as a pile of crap game. The simple formula worked. And it's probably best to just stick with playing the old C64 and Atari versions on emulators.
BTW, as testament to it's goodness, you see original copies of M.U.L.E. clear $35 on eBay. I've tried to get a copy, just for the manual and been outbid a number of times.
Sadly... Dani[formerly Dan] Bunten died before a re-issue of M.U.L.E.
As I recall, this was referred to as Edu-Tainment, which fell out of favor when faced by the likes of first person shooters and one-on-one combat games. I still play M.U.L.E. on a 64 emulator and have hacked it various times over the past 15 years. I've had it play as many months as I like, usually by 18 you can see some actualy economic cycles develop, though in the c64 version there's some issues with the money cap. I don't recall which one, but one value rolls over at 32678, the other value does at 65536, which can make for some radical changes in ranking:-)
Still, it's one of my all time favorites. And it Dani was ahead of her time, then those who enjoyed the game, like I did, were also.
If they slapped a digitized face on a CGI character, why would they need the actor at all? Eventually they could just generate faces. And the actors union wouldn't be very happy about that.
If they paid him his 11 million pounds, I'm sure the union would be left hemming and hawing.
You're the third post pointing this out! You win 11 million Flainian Pobble Beads!
Actually, I wonder why they don't just slap his digitized face onto some CGI character. Most of the action scenes in the movie were CGI, and could use some tweeking, at that, as they looked toy-like.
So what you're saying is, people shouldn't have asked Trent Lott to apologize for his racist remarks?
No, not what I said. Trent said what he meant, all the ugliness (beyond racism) was the transparent CYA activity. You think that's pretty? The man should have admitted his mistake and taken his lumps. All that CYA crap just aggrevated the situation, as it always does.
More on topic, Australian radio is abuzz now Mr. Bush has finally "officially" asked us for help. It will be interesting to see how this war is presented to us. I'm sure it will depend on whether we commit troops or not.
It was a sad moment in my travels when I met an aussie in Athens, back on New Years in 1993. He had lost brothers in Vietnam. It was a little known fact , in the states, that the US wasn't the only country getting a bloody nose in that fray. Hopefully the aussie PM has the good sense to say, "logistical support, mind you, George!"
Frites, as I recall and some belgians will back up, were a belgian invention. My expectation is that 'French Fries', as a name, originated in the US, in that time honored tradition of 'getting things utterly fucking wrong', probably by some mixed up journalist at a worlds fair.
Another great journalistic fuck-up was attributing the phrase, "there's a sucker born every minute", to P.T. Barnum. People willingly question the integrity of politicians, but as Bullwinkle said, "if it's in the newspaper, it must be true."
And now we have Satellite to bring the errors to you real-time! Yow!
Honestly never heard them, myself. I just hate when some public person makes an honest, heartfelt statement, then has to recant themselves to save career. Hopefully those who threaten to make anti-war statements during the Oscars show more spine.
Take a long hard look at yourself. What are you doing on slashdot if you have to ask that?
Didn't read books until a couple months ago. Spent last 20 years coding, reading H2G2, playing BattleTech, mountain biking, accumulating more toys than you could shake an electronic sausage at, and burning out my retinas playing video games.
To be honest, LOTR is good, but I've been mired in BattleTech fiction for the last 10 years, now it's pretty poor stuff, but the early books were pretty good stuff.
Oh, and I have two sparc IPX boxen (one solaris, one RH Linux), and Amiga 2000, a laptop on loan to friends in Oz, and I'm typing on a home-made Athlon 2600+ system w/768MB (which oughta be enough for somebody) I figure I owe nobody an explanation (though I probably just gave one..) I'm easily the loser you are!
I wish I could remember whom to attribute the observation to, (Lenin? Stalin?) but ~~ control the press and you control the people.
No so meaning you prevent the press from distributing the truth, but you load it up with propaganda and all this jingoism and, well, next thing you know some Dixie Chick makes a horrible mistake, apologizing for an honest statement. That's control.
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I'm sure the answer exists somewhere in the middle ... it just seems I was lead to believe in a different future by Adam-12 and Dragnet.
Don't forget "Remedial Accounting for Remedial Accountants" Skills that come in handy, whether making a fortune investing in Daddy's friend's companies or planning them "Don't Tax and Spend" budgits!
Small wonder that sh!t-heads like Alan Ralsky prize their privacy all the more once they've been revealed.
After a couple days recording I zipped off to the local electronics store for a cable. The sound, going into the Mic. was horrible, overdriven. Too bad I didn't realize there was level adjustment on the taskbar sound thing. First cable was wrong, as it's not a CD connector on the ATI 9700 card, so the CD-CD wire I got ($2.00) was wrong and resulted in another session of bad sound. I went back and bought the right cable ($2.00, also) and sound is great. Now all I need to do is clean some of this stuff up. I'm gonna need diskspace, soon, too. Fortunately I can stall that a little, with my USB 40GB HDD, but just for a while. Yikes.
I'm curious what might be upgradable from the 5500 to 5600. Any ideas?
Of what? Hackers? Maybe a scratch and sniff...
"...smells like b.o. and day old pizza..."
Seriously.. the coalition is buzy taking out a regime which shamelessly employs propaganda to control public thought. I wonder if Bill's compound is one of many 'presidential palaces' to be built. Not really intended as a troll, but the parallels are there, cult of personality and all.
I just used the line cable that came with it, as I was scrambling to get it hooked up. Bummer. Guess there's a trip to the electronics shop in this morning's errand run. (I'm at home, sick, and running out of food, feed a cold sorta thing.)
Also make sure you have the latest drivers for your sound card, and that your computer is not under high load. Audio sampling is very timing-sensitive
Latest drivers, check. Tho I'm using the onboard audio which came with the ASUS A7V8X. I'm running a 2600+ w/768MB, I hope that's enough, but have noticed anything running at the same time moves like a snail through sand.
I taped the first few nights coverage of Desert Storm and the tapes are still fine. I've lent them to a couple veterans who served in the conflict and they were grateful to see how it appeared on the home front. It's pretty surreal to watch, today, but it's history.
Thanks for your consideration.
In the US, we have a multiplicity of news sources, not all coming from the boob tube. Our wide access to the Internet itself pretty much guarantees that many Americans have a good handle on what's really happening in the world.
I do happen to live in the US and follow world news from sources outside the US frequently, for the following reasons:
Different perspective
News the US outlets don't consider/realize is important.
I have satellite in the p/u and listen to the BBC regularly, which has been airing opinions severly questioning Blair's wisdom. The US media haven't been so tough on Bush, too bad really.
Last night, when the attacks started, the media were pretty much caught off guard and weren't properly spinning news for domestic pablum. I see this morning it has changed and the spin is a terrible thing to behold.
With the Dixie Chick and Sen. Tom Daschle, these first statements out of their mouths are honest and should be respected. I feel if it weren't for what I agree with the senator (Bush's ineptitude at foreign policy) the ineptitude may have been a guise, to get us into a war. As we can see by the comments of world leaders and sages, this is an undesirable situation, as if 9/11 taught Bush and his supporters nothing.
On the tapes, I have shared my 1991 tapes with friends whom had served in the conflict and they were grateful to see how it played back home. They had no idea and found the coverage interesting.
I heard that civilian use of GPS may become less acurate, during war. This morning I fired mine up and it says: "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."
I bought an AIW 9700 yesterday, getting home and installing it, just in time to miss the first couple minutes, but able to capture about 3 hours, before it became seriously rehashed news. On the spur of the moment I saved the TV as mpeg and tried it this morning. The picture is find, but sound is horrible. Any suggestions?
(just got the video card for tv and recording for this occasion. screw video tapes. I have the last war, first days, on VHS and will attempt to digitize.)
One remake, or follow-up, I didn't care for was Impossible Mission II. The original Epyx game of Impossible Mission was downright amazing for the tiny piece of hardware and humble 3 voice synthesizer it employed very well. I used to finish the game on a regular basis and it was one of the very few I worked at bettering my score (less time to solve) at. The II version came out for the Amiga and was immediately a disappointment.
The theme to M.U.L.E. was also very catchy, and garnered some award(s). I still find myself humming it from time to time.
It was good. I've lamented over the years why EA hasn't acted to reissue this game, but when I look at it... If they did it would probably be as some horribly delayed, then ultimately released as a pile of crap game. The simple formula worked. And it's probably best to just stick with playing the old C64 and Atari versions on emulators.
BTW, as testament to it's goodness, you see original copies of M.U.L.E. clear $35 on eBay. I've tried to get a copy, just for the manual and been outbid a number of times.
As I recall, this was referred to as Edu-Tainment, which fell out of favor when faced by the likes of first person shooters and one-on-one combat games. I still play M.U.L.E. on a 64 emulator and have hacked it various times over the past 15 years. I've had it play as many months as I like, usually by 18 you can see some actualy economic cycles develop, though in the c64 version there's some issues with the money cap. I don't recall which one, but one value rolls over at 32678, the other value does at 65536, which can make for some radical changes in ranking :-)
Still, it's one of my all time favorites. And it Dani was ahead of her time, then those who enjoyed the game, like I did, were also.
If they paid him his 11 million pounds, I'm sure the union would be left hemming and hawing.
Actually, I wonder why they don't just slap his digitized face onto some CGI character. Most of the action scenes in the movie were CGI, and could use some tweeking, at that, as they looked toy-like.
No, not what I said. Trent said what he meant, all the ugliness (beyond racism) was the transparent CYA activity. You think that's pretty? The man should have admitted his mistake and taken his lumps. All that CYA crap just aggrevated the situation, as it always does.
It was a sad moment in my travels when I met an aussie in Athens, back on New Years in 1993. He had lost brothers in Vietnam. It was a little known fact , in the states, that the US wasn't the only country getting a bloody nose in that fray. Hopefully the aussie PM has the good sense to say, "logistical support, mind you, George!"
Another great journalistic fuck-up was attributing the phrase, "there's a sucker born every minute", to P.T. Barnum. People willingly question the integrity of politicians, but as Bullwinkle said, "if it's in the newspaper, it must be true."
And now we have Satellite to bring the errors to you real-time! Yow!
Honestly never heard them, myself. I just hate when some public person makes an honest, heartfelt statement, then has to recant themselves to save career. Hopefully those who threaten to make anti-war statements during the Oscars show more spine.
Didn't read books until a couple months ago. Spent last 20 years coding, reading H2G2, playing BattleTech, mountain biking, accumulating more toys than you could shake an electronic sausage at, and burning out my retinas playing video games.
To be honest, LOTR is good, but I've been mired in BattleTech fiction for the last 10 years, now it's pretty poor stuff, but the early books were pretty good stuff.
Oh, and I have two sparc IPX boxen (one solaris, one RH Linux), and Amiga 2000, a laptop on loan to friends in Oz, and I'm typing on a home-made Athlon 2600+ system w/768MB (which oughta be enough for somebody) I figure I owe nobody an explanation (though I probably just gave one..) I'm easily the loser you are!
uh.. wait a sec.. whad i say?
No so meaning you prevent the press from distributing the truth, but you load it up with propaganda and all this jingoism and, well, next thing you know some Dixie Chick makes a horrible mistake, apologizing for an honest statement. That's control.
Ok, it's bugging me, I should know this, but my Zarus isn't hear yet (to keep track of things, ya know) What is this from? Lord of the Rings?