It appears that many people, even here, fail to understand that the songs you sing are "songs that [you are] performing as an actor" (from the Onion AV Club interview). You seem to have a lot of fun with them, and I can personally say that your cameo on the Fear of Pop album with Ben Folds was the highlight of the record. Do you plan on popping up in more "underground" recordings and continuing to confuse people? I hope so.
Apparently you've never heard of Harry Potter. This series has brought more people [back] to reading than any other. I almost never read books and I've read Harry Potter. I can name about 10 adults and even more kids with the same experience.
Incorrect. Many people share your assumption.
The Harry Potter books have brought many people back to reading Harry Potter. There is a marked difference, and being that the books are not particularly well written, I'm not really sure how this is commendable in any sense of the word.
According to that spec sheet of yours, that subwoofer is terrible! I hope you didn't spend a whole lot of money on it, because about all it's good for is impressing people by telling them it has four drivers in it.
Lowest frequency at 45Hz? Are you kidding? Any shoddy, thrown together homebuilt sub can handle at least 35, and ones like this guy has built can hit low 20's and high teens without a lot of effort.
Maybe you haven't been to a university, uh, ever? But colleges function as one hell of a money-making institution. As if state and federal grants, tuition, and student fees don't more than adequately cover costs, they then pull in sometimes insane amounts of alumni donations and other contributions.
This isn't a troll, or flamebait, or anything. It's fact.
The last time this was posted, there were a flurry of links and mentionings of it being fake. Mostly they dealt with the fact that there was no way the amount of materials he supposedly smuggled from antiques would be sufficient to do what he was doing.
It was quickly identified as a fake story, although if news sources keep posting it as fact who knows, people might actually believe it.
Yes, the reasons are called "compatibility" and "proper heat dissipation".
I know far too many people who have built AMD boxes - people who certainly know what they are doing - to have them crash and burn on a number of applications and games. The problem is so widespread across the AMD platform that the processor is the only logical point of failure.
Plus, I don't think I need to bring up the issue of the flaming AMD Athlon in too much detail to get everybody's minds on that Toms Hardware video. There have been rebuttals and claims of inaccuracy from the AMD camp, but for the record:
Removing the heatsink/fan from a P4 chip caused the machine to BSOD.
Removing the heatsink/fan from an Athlon caused it to BURST INTO FLAMES AND MELT
I don't care what the details of the situation were, I have absolutely zero desire to run a chip that has the possibility of catching fire. There's an old saying that I'm rather fond of, it goes "The bitterness of poor quality lasts much longer than the sweetness of low cost." If you buy AMD simply because it's cheaper... eh. Your machine, your loss.
If your computer is so loud that even a freaking/water//pump/ is quieter, the fault is entirely yours to begin with.
No one, and I mean no one, needs a 10k RPM Delta fan in their box. No processor gets hot enough to need it, and if ever one does you've got a whole other set of problems to deal with.
It's rediculous to think that you require some sort of noise to get to sleep, and even moreso to subject a child to that sort of thing. You've conditioned yourself to accepting it there when you try to sleep, and so without it you have a harder time. Fine. Your child hasn't! Given more than a week, I bet you any amount of money that you'll be sleeping just fine.
Those people who say that they/need/ white noise to get to sleep, and always have, are fooling themselves. How did you get to sleep before you had a computer?
IE is about the only browser that does adhere to standards, but even then there are some discrepancies. Have you seen Moz's version of "standards"? Hint: they're not.
Yep. This one fits your specs exactly, although it takes some weird new Mini-ITX motherboard that VIA's developing. They make a P3 version, though.
Cheers,
levine
He speaks the truth. Probably less than 5% of students entering college do so without any form of a computer. Lots of colleges already have laptop-for-every-student mandations, and plenty more are getting them soon (mine being an example). Most students prefer laptops.
Another source of cutsey names that can (theoretically) serve a purpose are those of philosophers. For example, my P1-133 MP3 server box is named Thales, after the Greek philsopher with a fairly oversimplified view of the world: "All Is Water". I also have boxes named Nietzsche, Spinoza, Aristotle, Plato, etc. etc., each of which has some sort of tie-in with the name it has been given.
There's a fairly long list of philosophers here; more can easily be identified with a little bit of searching.
I recently installed Debian on a firewall for a home network, and it clocked in with the entire base system, firewall packages, apache, sshd, etc. etc. at 120 megs. It did not install telnetd out of the box; 'apt-get install apache' did it for apache.
Maybe you should take a look at some newer versions of Debian. Net-install is a Godsend.
What exactly is wrong with buying gifts for the people you care about? I'm not trying to argue that Christmas hasn't been commercialized to a point of abstraction, because it has, but is there something fundamentally wrong with contributing to the economy?
It seems that some people spend so much time complaining about the commercial nature of the holidays that they too, like the people they complain about, miss out on the good parts of the season.
And certainly now, more than ever before, it would do the country some good to have some money put into it, yes?
What's interesting about The Screen Savers is that almost on a daily basis, the entire cast of the show admits to/talks about breaking the DMCA. How the producers allow this to happen is beyond me, and how the government hasn't picked up on it yet is even further beyond me.
You'd think they would tone it down or something, considering that they are/national television/, but no:
"Why, Patrick, doesn't that violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?"
"Canada is now the world leader in this research," TRIUMF director Alan Shotter said after the breakthrough experiment
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"We are pushing this technology to the absolute limits of what's possible."
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With the completion of ISAC in 1999, TRIUMF became unequalled in the world in its ability to study nuclear astrophysics and element synthesis in the universe. The only other facility of its kind, in Geneva, sent congratulations Monday to the ISAC team that beat it to the finish line.
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"The Americans are planning a similar facility and they expect it to cost $800 million US and take 10 years to build. So we're 10 years ahead," Schmor said.
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"Canada is now leading the world in the field of nuclear astrophysics.
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"We have bragging rights."
I swear, this article had more to say about Canada than the actual process or what it means. Okay, Canada! We get it! You guys rock! Next time we want some space magnesium, we'll know where to look. In the meantime, keep planting those trees.
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Gamers have been using a utility called Roger Wilco for some time to do basically exactly this over the Internet. Windows-only, I think.
http://rogerwilco.gamespy.com
levine
It appears that many people, even here, fail to understand that the songs you sing are "songs that [you are] performing as an actor" (from the Onion AV Club interview). You seem to have a lot of fun with them, and I can personally say that your cameo on the Fear of Pop album with Ben Folds was the highlight of the record. Do you plan on popping up in more "underground" recordings and continuing to confuse people? I hope so.
levine
The Harry Potter books have brought many people back to reading Harry Potter. There is a marked difference, and being that the books are not particularly well written, I'm not really sure how this is commendable in any sense of the word.
levine
No, but try this -1 Geeky on for size...
levine
According to that spec sheet of yours, that subwoofer is terrible! I hope you didn't spend a whole lot of money on it, because about all it's good for is impressing people by telling them it has four drivers in it.
Lowest frequency at 45Hz? Are you kidding? Any shoddy, thrown together homebuilt sub can handle at least 35, and ones like this guy has built can hit low 20's and high teens without a lot of effort.
Regards,
levine
Maybe you haven't been to a university, uh, ever? But colleges function as one hell of a money-making institution. As if state and federal grants, tuition, and student fees don't more than adequately cover costs, they then pull in sometimes insane amounts of alumni donations and other contributions.
Try some research.
Regards,
levine
So, if the musicians don't like them, and we don't like them... why do they still exist?
levine
This isn't a troll, or flamebait, or anything. It's fact.
The last time this was posted, there were a flurry of links and mentionings of it being fake. Mostly they dealt with the fact that there was no way the amount of materials he supposedly smuggled from antiques would be sufficient to do what he was doing.
It was quickly identified as a fake story, although if news sources keep posting it as fact who knows, people might actually believe it.
Regards,
levine
Yes, the reasons are called "compatibility" and "proper heat dissipation".
I know far too many people who have built AMD boxes - people who certainly know what they are doing - to have them crash and burn on a number of applications and games. The problem is so widespread across the AMD platform that the processor is the only logical point of failure.
Plus, I don't think I need to bring up the issue of the flaming AMD Athlon in too much detail to get everybody's minds on that Toms Hardware video. There have been rebuttals and claims of inaccuracy from the AMD camp, but for the record:
Removing the heatsink/fan from a P4 chip caused the machine to BSOD.
Removing the heatsink/fan from an Athlon caused it to BURST INTO FLAMES AND MELT
I don't care what the details of the situation were, I have absolutely zero desire to run a chip that has the possibility of catching fire. There's an old saying that I'm rather fond of, it goes "The bitterness of poor quality lasts much longer than the sweetness of low cost." If you buy AMD simply because it's cheaper... eh. Your machine, your loss.
Cheers,
levine
If your computer is so loud that even a freaking /water/ /pump/ is quieter, the fault is entirely yours to begin with.
No one, and I mean no one, needs a 10k RPM Delta fan in their box. No processor gets hot enough to need it, and if ever one does you've got a whole other set of problems to deal with.
levine
It's rediculous to think that you require some sort of noise to get to sleep, and even moreso to subject a child to that sort of thing. You've conditioned yourself to accepting it there when you try to sleep, and so without it you have a harder time. Fine. Your child hasn't! Given more than a week, I bet you any amount of money that you'll be sleeping just fine.
/need/ white noise to get to sleep, and always have, are fooling themselves. How did you get to sleep before you had a computer?
Those people who say that they
levine
IE is about the only browser that does adhere to standards, but even then there are some discrepancies. Have you seen Moz's version of "standards"? Hint: they're not.
Regards,
levine
Yep. This one fits your specs exactly, although it takes some weird new Mini-ITX motherboard that VIA's developing. They make a P3 version, though. Cheers, levine
Thank goodness I don't live or work in California anymore!
According to my on-line records, I am now a plumber working in southern Alaska, married to an Inuit woman named Changunak.
Better get packing.
levine
Uh, what?
Regards,
levine
He speaks the truth. Probably less than 5% of students entering college do so without any form of a computer. Lots of colleges already have laptop-for-every-student mandations, and plenty more are getting them soon (mine being an example). Most students prefer laptops.
Cheers,
levine
Another source of cutsey names that can (theoretically) serve a purpose are those of philosophers. For example, my P1-133 MP3 server box is named Thales, after the Greek philsopher with a fairly oversimplified view of the world: "All Is Water". I also have boxes named Nietzsche, Spinoza, Aristotle, Plato, etc. etc., each of which has some sort of tie-in with the name it has been given.
There's a fairly long list of philosophers here; more can easily be identified with a little bit of searching.
Regards,
levine
My machines have done very similar things in the past. You need a new BIOS battery, that's all. Radio Shack carries them for around $4.
Cheers,
levine
Cheers,
levine
I recently installed Debian on a firewall for a home network, and it clocked in with the entire base system, firewall packages, apache, sshd, etc. etc. at 120 megs. It did not install telnetd out of the box; 'apt-get install apache' did it for apache.
Maybe you should take a look at some newer versions of Debian. Net-install is a Godsend.
Cheers,
levine
What exactly is wrong with buying gifts for the people you care about? I'm not trying to argue that Christmas hasn't been commercialized to a point of abstraction, because it has, but is there something fundamentally wrong with contributing to the economy?
It seems that some people spend so much time complaining about the commercial nature of the holidays that they too, like the people they complain about, miss out on the good parts of the season.
And certainly now, more than ever before, it would do the country some good to have some money put into it, yes?
Regards,
levine
What's interesting about The Screen Savers is that almost on a daily basis, the entire cast of the show admits to/talks about breaking the DMCA. How the producers allow this to happen is beyond me, and how the government hasn't picked up on it yet is even further beyond me.
/national television/, but no:
You'd think they would tone it down or something, considering that they are
"Why, Patrick, doesn't that violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?"
"Yes, Leo, but I won't tell anyone if you won't!"
Cheers,
levine
To the naysayers amongst you, I'm actually Canadian born and a dual citizen, so this is just a poke in the ribs, really.
Cheers,
levine
Cheers,
levine
Okay, it sounds like you know what you're talking about with regards to this subject, but please:
What the hell did you just say?
This isn't a troll; I'd honestly like to gain a little insight into... whatever it is you wrote about.
Cheers,
levine