We expected to bully katie.com away from Katie Jones, but all our efforts failed, including bringing out Jabba the Lawyer [aftab.com].
Thanks. You'll be receiving a call from my lawyer for the ensuing damage that was caused to my monitor by my spit-take of Diet Coke after reading the above sentence...
...but a little different. I want to create a audio/video presentation on something like a DVD or a video file to play on a small screen inside a cabinet when someone pushes a button on the outside. Anyone done anything like this?
We did something similar to a co-worker's office with packing peanuts. Not quite filling it up, be we made it LOOK like it was filled to the brim. The door to the office was a french window door with many small panes of glass. We draped a black plastic bag over the back of the door, made a pocket out of it surrounding the windows, and filled it with peanuts. From the outside, it definately LOOKED like the room was filled with peanuts - we even shoved a good number of peanuts underneath the door to make it look like the room was bulging out. No pics unfortunately, but it was a good laugh...
At my parent's lake house in Marble Falls, Texas, there is a stump in the cove that usually sits about a foot under the surface, and has caused many a boater to lose props or get holes punched in their boats. Usually someone in the area will mark it with a floater, so it's easy to avoid, but that hasn't stopped the faithful from trying to get rid of the hazard alltogether.
One weekend while up there, I had friends of mine who are Scuba divers don their gear, and try to use a large hacksaw to try and remove it. They came back with 5 chewed up hacksaw blades, and low on air.
About every few years or so, the LCRA will let the lake level down (it's a constant level lake, a dam on each end) so that homeowners can go out and clear out their lakefront property where the lake usually would be. Over the years we've seen folks try chainsaws, winches, fire, and even explosives to get rid of that hard Cypress stump, to no avail.
So, to this day, that stump remains vigilant and intact.
I run a small (~200 user) mailing list for my homeowner's association, and I've been fighting the AOL Spam filters for years. From what I can tell, the process of notifying AOL that your email is indeed something that users have signed up for and WANT is near impossible. I'm almost to the point of telling the HOA that we can't accept AOL accounts any more, as nothing gets through. I've also had the same experience with Time Warner Roadrunner, EarthLink and others as well... What I find MOST disturbing is that on AOL the user NEVER receives the email, nor a notification that something was rejected. Ignorance is bliss as far as AOL is concerned, and they like keeping their users in the dark.
Only this time, they've decided not to label the new CD with a warning. "We can't put a sticker that says no computers were used in the making of this record," he said. "It'd really make us look like jerks, but there's not going to be any of that."
Why not? Tom Scholz of Boston has been putting the "no synthesizers or computers used" on Boston albums since Don't Look Back, their second album.
One of the funniest things I've ever heard of was from my Uncles in Wisconsin. They gathered together with about 5-6 other people who all played accordians, and they would go out on "Hit and Run Accordian" nights. Basically, they would all be drunk as skunks, barge into a restraunt or bar, play 2-3 songs all on the accoridan, and then split. Remember, this was the 1950's, and they were all from small towns where everyone knew who they were anyhow, but the thought of all those accordians together playing just cracks me up!
I for one think this is a step in the right direction...
(wait wait, put down those torches and pitchforks while I explain!)
Now they're bringing their issues to the mainstream public. I think what they'll find is that they are going to alienate the general public, and causing the public to think twice about what they buy and who they support by buying it.
According to the website, their "Warranty" on this item is:
Warranty
Waiver: The failure of either party to require performance by the other party of any provision of this agreement shall not affect in any way the first party's right to require such performance at any time thereafter. Any waiver by either party of a breach of any provision in this agreement shall not be taken or held by the other party to be a continuing waiver of that provision unless such waiver is made in writing.
Yup. I've got my AMEX out right now and putting in an order for 10 of them!
Phillipe Hurbain, a fellow panoramic/spherical panoramic photographer in France, has a site up on how he took a full-spherical panoramic picture from a kite. He's obviously much braver than me to put a $800 camera hanging underneath a kite!
Pretty cool, and the panoramas are literally like you're floating in mid-air.
I did pretty much the same thing, instead using a cheap "Webplayer" Internet Appliance I bought from uBid.com. It interfaces with my Gallery (gallery.sourceforge.net) server, pulling a random picture every 5 minutes. I also loaded some caller-id software on it, so that it displays and speaks the caller-id information when a phone call is received. Best thing is that there are no moving parts, no hard drive or anything. Nice, quiet, useful recycling of some old equipment!
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We expected to bully katie.com away from Katie Jones, but all our efforts failed, including bringing out Jabba the Lawyer [aftab.com].
Thanks. You'll be receiving a call from my lawyer for the ensuing damage that was caused to my monitor by my spit-take of Diet Coke after reading the above sentence...
...based on a routine I heard from a stand-up comic once:
"Every car should be required to have a cell phone, and the license plate is the phone number".
I can just imagine what kind of chaos that would cause...
On a Cruise Ship between Ketchican, Alaska and Skagway, Alaska.
And yes, I was on my honeymoon.
...on musical plants...
...trying to keep his server from spontanieously bursting into flames....
...on their current technology first.
I still can't get DSL at my house, one that was built 7 years ago in a new neighborhood. The cable company had no problem getting it out here though.
Sorry, but availability rules over bandwidth. The bandwidth of a non-existant connection is 0mps.
Hmmm. My '03 Murano is getting right at the EPA MPG rating for City driving, 20city/25highway.
I can deal with that.
...but a little different. I want to create a audio/video presentation on something like a DVD or a video file to play on a small screen inside a cabinet when someone pushes a button on the outside. Anyone done anything like this?
Hey, I've already found Atlantis! It was during the "Submarine Voyage" at Disneyland! I have a whole submarine of witnesses too!
We did something similar to a co-worker's office with packing peanuts. Not quite filling it up, be we made it LOOK like it was filled to the brim. The door to the office was a french window door with many small panes of glass. We draped a black plastic bag over the back of the door, made a pocket out of it surrounding the windows, and filled it with peanuts. From the outside, it definately LOOKED like the room was filled with peanuts - we even shoved a good number of peanuts underneath the door to make it look like the room was bulging out. No pics unfortunately, but it was a good laugh...
At my parent's lake house in Marble Falls, Texas, there is a stump in the cove that usually sits about a foot under the surface, and has caused many a boater to lose props or get holes punched in their boats. Usually someone in the area will mark it with a floater, so it's easy to avoid, but that hasn't stopped the faithful from trying to get rid of the hazard alltogether.
One weekend while up there, I had friends of mine who are Scuba divers don their gear, and try to use a large hacksaw to try and remove it. They came back with 5 chewed up hacksaw blades, and low on air.
About every few years or so, the LCRA will let the lake level down (it's a constant level lake, a dam on each end) so that homeowners can go out and clear out their lakefront property where the lake usually would be. Over the years we've seen folks try chainsaws, winches, fire, and even explosives to get rid of that hard Cypress stump, to no avail.
So, to this day, that stump remains vigilant and intact.
I run a small (~200 user) mailing list for my homeowner's association, and I've been fighting the AOL Spam filters for years. From what I can tell, the process of notifying AOL that your email is indeed something that users have signed up for and WANT is near impossible. I'm almost to the point of telling the HOA that we can't accept AOL accounts any more, as nothing gets through. I've also had the same experience with Time Warner Roadrunner, EarthLink and others as well... What I find MOST disturbing is that on AOL the user NEVER receives the email, nor a notification that something was rejected. Ignorance is bliss as far as AOL is concerned, and they like keeping their users in the dark.
....I saw a bumper sticker on the back of a car in the parking lot today that said:
LOAD "*",8,1
I giggled most of the way home over that one...
...is doing a Spherical panoramic picture from a kite, ala my friend and hero Philo.
...the sounds and images of a University webserver slowing being Slashdotted to death....
Only this time, they've decided not to label the new CD with a warning. "We can't put a sticker that says no computers were used in the making of this record," he said. "It'd really make us look like jerks, but there's not going to be any of that."
Why not? Tom Scholz of Boston has been putting the "no synthesizers or computers used" on Boston albums since Don't Look Back, their second album.
Then again, I don't know what exactly he calls his racks and racks of Rockman sound processing equipment, but they sure look like computers to me!
....we get to see how "Deep Thought" handles the Slashdot effect!
That's pretty cool, but check out Kite Aerial Panoramic Photography from one of my heros, Philo!
One of the funniest things I've ever heard of was from my Uncles in Wisconsin. They gathered together with about 5-6 other people who all played accordians, and they would go out on "Hit and Run Accordian" nights. Basically, they would all be drunk as skunks, barge into a restraunt or bar, play 2-3 songs all on the accoridan, and then split. Remember, this was the 1950's, and they were all from small towns where everyone knew who they were anyhow, but the thought of all those accordians together playing just cracks me up!
I for one think this is a step in the right direction...
(wait wait, put down those torches and pitchforks while I explain!)
Now they're bringing their issues to the mainstream public. I think what they'll find is that they are going to alienate the general public, and causing the public to think twice about what they buy and who they support by buying it.
0 posts and the site is already /.'d.
According to the website, their "Warranty" on this item is:
Warranty
Waiver: The failure of either party to require performance by the other party of any provision of this agreement shall not affect in any way the first party's right to require such performance at any time thereafter. Any waiver by either party of a breach of any provision in this agreement shall not be taken or held by the other party to be a continuing waiver of that provision unless such waiver is made in writing.
Yup. I've got my AMEX out right now and putting in an order for 10 of them!
Phillipe Hurbain, a fellow panoramic/spherical panoramic photographer in France, has a site up on how he took a full-spherical panoramic picture from a kite. He's obviously much braver than me to put a $800 camera hanging underneath a kite!
Pretty cool, and the panoramas are literally like you're floating in mid-air.
http://philohome.free.fr/kitephoto/kapp.htm
I did pretty much the same thing, instead using a cheap "Webplayer" Internet Appliance I bought from uBid.com. It interfaces with my Gallery (gallery.sourceforge.net) server, pulling a random picture every 5 minutes. I also loaded some caller-id software on it, so that it displays and speaks the caller-id information when a phone call is received. Best thing is that there are no moving parts, no hard drive or anything. Nice, quiet, useful recycling of some old equipment!
...does an interplotation of images to sound produce regular friction noise? (The background noise that has a regular beat to it).
C'mon. There's lots of filters out there that will introduce these types of effects into a sound file.
Hoax.