Wow, I wish I had access to one of those. I can think of at least a hundred things I'd like to toss in and see what happens. Lots of man-hours would be wasted playing with... "The Disintegrator" (insert scary music and thunder here)
Some brands of reels had aluminum hubs weighing a few ounces a piece. We would break them out from the retired tapes with a hammer and give them to a homeless guy that dug through our garbage for cans.
Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races.
I can hear Chubby Checker signing "Come on everybody, let's do the 9-track twist!"
was to go to the various data-centers for oil companies, etc. around town and load up my truck with boxes of these tapes. Then I would drive back to the office, unload them and take a rag saturated with some Evil Orange Crap(tm) and wipe it all over the labels on the reels. This stuff would soak into the paper labels and soften the glue, but not before it has caused severe drying and burns on my hands.
Once the reels soaked long enough, I would take a razor and start scraping the labels, also subjecting my hands to more EOC(tm) and possible razor cuts. Then I would have to clean the EOC(tm) off the tapes, which incidentally, the EOC(tm) can remove almost anything, but you can't remove the EOC(tm). then I would put the tapes into a machine that would basically do the equivalent of a low-level format and check for bad tracks/sectors.
If a tape had fewer than x number of bad sectors, then it would be fit for resale. My boss would sell these tapes back to the same companies we bought them from for a few dollars less than they paid for them.
Of course, this all came to an end when (a) people started switching to other backup media and (b) hard drives started getting cheaper. Needless to say, I was happy when we stopped refurbing the tapes. Hooray for their demise!!!!!
The post was meant as a joke, but since you mentioned "hip-hop" and "rap", which are crap no matter how they are played/recorded...
I just don't think you can obtain the same level of feeling and emotion with synthesized instruments as you can with physical instruments. For instance, listen to Coltrane when he plays "Spiritual" on "Live at the Village Vanguard", Hendrix playing the "Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock or Pink Floyd, Les Claypool, Miles Davis, etc. etc. I could go on and on.
I guess I'm just a purist when it comes to music. After MTV commercialized the Alternative music genre, the "state of the art" of music has fallen into a Dark Age. Music needs another "Rennaisance" and I don't think electronic music is going to cut it. Just my opinion.
I have been in the IT field for more than 15 years with nothing more than hands-on experience and a high school education. I use to have recruiters begging me to go on interviews, offering me more than my salary at the time to take one position or another. Nobody ever once had an issue with my education, they paid more attention to my experience.
And then the economy went sour, and everybody and their neighbor's dog got their MCSE's, CCNA's, etc. from some fast-track cert class. Retain the info just long enough to spit it out on the exam. Now, when I really do need to change jobs, nobody wants me because I don't have that magical degree that supposedly makes you so much better than someone with nearly 2 decades of real-world experience. I've seen jobs posted on Monster.com, Dice.com, etc. for Help Desk positions requiring a bachelor's in CS! What's wrong with this picture?
I asked a recruiter guy about the sudden requirement for degreed techs, his answer: When you have 300 or so resumes for one position, you can eliminate 80-90% just by removing the ones without degrees. It's not that the position requires it, or even that the employer requires it, it's simply a method of elimination used by the headhunters. They don't have to actually read the resumes or think too hard about your skillset, just plug in the parameters and see who matches.
Of course, when the economy gets back on track and all those college kids have jobs, this won't be an issue anymore.
I agree with Wind_Walker, if I'm going to pay $200 - $300 for a mobo and CPU I'd like to keep it more than a year or so. I don't care about voiding warranties, especially with CPU's since the vendor usually only gives you 30 days to return it as DOA, I just don't want to damage a piece of equipment I spent money on.
I understand the 'social' reasons for OC'ing your 'tricked out box', but do you really get a noticeable difference, or do you have to run some benchmark app to prove how much faster it is? Yeah, yeah, you can OC the old Celeron 300a's up to 450mhz... oh whoopie! and you don't have all that unsightly L2 cache to get in the way! Oh my!
With all the cash spent on cooling apparatii, wouldn't it make more sense to just buy the faster CPU?
This is slightly off-topic, but... I had one of those snow globes on top of my TV, except this one had glitter in it instead of snow...
Anyway, one of my bastard cats knocked it off the back of the TV one night and it shattered and leaked all the water, glitter and glass down the back of the TV and onto an old power strip on the floor. The wierd thing is, even though the TV was off, the power strip was still on and nothing was damaged as far as I can tell. I figured all that glitter mixed with water would have started a nice little fire or at least blown a few breakers.
I seem to remember when fuel cells just started to become "popular" news fodder that they were supposed to use water. What happened to that? Now they all require gasoline or methanol or some other combustible.
Does anyone know if it would be possible to use fuel cells in place of large diesel enigines?
For example: Locomotive engines use a giant diesel engine to power a generator, the generator in turn powers electric motors that turn the wheels. If you replaced the diesel engine with a shit-load of fuel cells, you lose the weight of the engine and generator and have no emissions, but would there be sufficient torque to pull several thousand tons of rail cars?
Another use would be for industrial UPS's or maybe even larger fuel cell plants to supply residential electricity.
I had an uncle that would drink the methanol fuel out of the torpedoes when he was in the Navy.
It never made him blind but he was definitely only operating on 3 cylinders most of the time.
With that kind of mentality you would fit to join the Taleban... or maybe the Louisiana Highway Patrol.
I don't know why I am responding to a fucking troll's post but, I really felt it neccessary to tell you that you're a fucking moron! Besides the obvious human rights violations, this little plan of yours would end costing you millions in tax dollars... oh, wait, our wonderful judicial system in America is already costing us millions in unlawful or unneccessary arrests and court proceedings.
A guy I know used the 'gaming addiction' argument to make his girlfriend stop playing EQ and play a different online game he was into. Pretty low if you ask me. But as with most things, it's hype, plain and simple. It's like 'road rage' and 'air rage'... I mean, are we to believe people never got pissed off before the media created a buzzword? The main thing is that if it's something that a group of very vocal people don't like or are not into then you're an addict/heathen/etc.
When personal aircraft enter a heavily populated region an autopilot can take over and merge you into these "pipes" you speak of. Your skycar will have a source and destination code that is transmitted out to the main traffic controller for that city (and possibly other skycars) so that you will be flown automatically to your landing site. Much the same way packets are handled on networks.
Of course, once I'm out in the rural areas, I'd want to be able to fly my skycar freely and maybe buzz some cattle!
Well, I can't get DSL or cable internet access at my apartment. I'm happy with my trusty 128k ISDN. It's kinda expensive, not as fast as I would like, but rarely goes down. If I was down to my last penny, I'm not sure if I would go back to analog. I remember slow connections, line noise, busy signals, etc. and besides, 56k (actually 38k +/- 5k) will definitely make EQ suck donkey balls!
Now if I can only talk my ISP into letting me have static IP's, I could rule the world! MUAHAHAHAHA!.... or at least a small portion of it.
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Wow, I wish I had access to one of those. I can think of at least a hundred things I'd like to toss in and see what happens. Lots of man-hours would be wasted playing with...
"The Disintegrator" (insert scary music and thunder here)
Some brands of reels had aluminum hubs weighing a few ounces a piece. We would break them out from the retired tapes with a hammer and give them to a homeless guy that dug through our garbage for cans.
I took one and tied an end to a lamppost and put the reel on my side view mirror and drove down the street.
I wanted to see if it really was 2400 feet but all I ended up doing was scratch the paint on my truck where the reel was spinning.
Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races.
I can hear Chubby Checker signing "Come on everybody, let's do the 9-track twist!"
It depends, there were various sizes:
300, 600, 1200, 2400, 3600 and 6000 foot sizes. I'm not sure what the bpi was for them, 8 or 12 or something.. anyone?
was to go to the various data-centers for oil companies, etc. around town and load up my truck with boxes of these tapes. Then I would drive back to the office, unload them and take a rag saturated with some Evil Orange Crap(tm) and wipe it all over the labels on the reels. This stuff would soak into the paper labels and soften the glue, but not before it has caused severe drying and burns on my hands.
Once the reels soaked long enough, I would take a razor and start scraping the labels, also subjecting my hands to more EOC(tm) and possible razor cuts. Then I would have to clean the EOC(tm) off the tapes, which incidentally, the EOC(tm) can remove almost anything, but you can't remove the EOC(tm). then I would put the tapes into a machine that would basically do the equivalent of a low-level format and check for bad tracks/sectors.
If a tape had fewer than x number of bad sectors, then it would be fit for resale. My boss would sell these tapes back to the same companies we bought them from for a few dollars less than they paid for them.
Of course, this all came to an end when (a) people started switching to other backup media and (b) hard drives started getting cheaper.
Needless to say, I was happy when we stopped refurbing the tapes. Hooray for their demise!!!!!
I'd better stop using /. polls for my government research!
Nice monologue, but you miss the point. Try reading one of the parent posts:
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Smartass, you know what I meant!
Physical string, brass, percussion, etc. instruments as opposed to synthesized.
The post was meant as a joke, but since you mentioned "hip-hop" and "rap", which are crap no matter how they are played/recorded...
I just don't think you can obtain the same level of feeling and emotion with synthesized instruments as you can with physical instruments.
For instance, listen to Coltrane when he plays "Spiritual" on "Live at the Village Vanguard", Hendrix playing the "Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock or Pink Floyd, Les Claypool, Miles Davis, etc. etc. I could go on and on.
I guess I'm just a purist when it comes to music. After MTV commercialized the Alternative music genre, the "state of the art" of music has fallen into a Dark Age. Music needs another "Rennaisance" and I don't think electronic music is going to cut it. Just my opinion.
Seriously though, what the heck is a "PC-based musician" ?
Easy, that's someone who makes crappy electronic disco music with their PC instead of playing a real instrument like a MAN!!!
I have been in the IT field for more than 15 years with nothing more than hands-on experience and a high school education. I use to have recruiters begging me to go on interviews, offering me more than my salary at the time to take one position or another. Nobody ever once had an issue with my education, they paid more attention to my experience.
And then the economy went sour, and everybody and their neighbor's dog got their MCSE's, CCNA's, etc. from some fast-track cert class. Retain the info just long enough to spit it out on the exam. Now, when I really do need to change jobs, nobody wants me because I don't have that magical degree that supposedly makes you so much better than someone with nearly 2 decades of real-world experience. I've seen jobs posted on Monster.com, Dice.com, etc. for Help Desk positions requiring a bachelor's in CS! What's wrong with this picture?
I asked a recruiter guy about the sudden requirement for degreed techs, his answer: When you have 300 or so resumes for one position, you can eliminate 80-90% just by removing the ones without degrees. It's not that the position requires it, or even that the employer requires it, it's simply a method of elimination used by the headhunters. They don't have to actually read the resumes or think too hard about your skillset, just plug in the parameters and see who matches.
Of course, when the economy gets back on track and all those college kids have jobs, this won't be an issue anymore.
I agree with Wind_Walker, if I'm going to pay $200 - $300 for a mobo and CPU I'd like to keep it more than a year or so. I don't care about voiding warranties, especially with CPU's since the vendor usually only gives you 30 days to return it as DOA, I just don't want to damage a piece of equipment I spent money on.
I understand the 'social' reasons for OC'ing your 'tricked out box', but do you really get a noticeable difference, or do you have to run some benchmark app to prove how much faster it is? Yeah, yeah, you can OC the old Celeron 300a's up to 450mhz... oh whoopie! and you don't have all that unsightly L2 cache to get in the way! Oh my!
With all the cash spent on cooling apparatii, wouldn't it make more sense to just buy the faster CPU?
This is slightly off-topic, but... I had one of those snow globes on top of my TV, except this one had glitter in it instead of snow...
Anyway, one of my bastard cats knocked it off the back of the TV one night and it shattered and leaked all the water, glitter and glass down the back of the TV and onto an old power strip on the floor. The wierd thing is, even though the TV was off, the power strip was still on and nothing was damaged as far as I can tell. I figured all that glitter mixed with water would have started a nice little fire or at least blown a few breakers.
I seem to remember when fuel cells just started to become "popular" news fodder that they were supposed to use water. What happened to that? Now they all require gasoline or methanol or some other combustible.
Does anyone know if it would be possible to use fuel cells in place of large diesel enigines?
For example: Locomotive engines use a giant diesel engine to power a generator, the generator in turn powers electric motors that turn the wheels. If you replaced the diesel engine with a shit-load of fuel cells, you lose the weight of the engine and generator and have no emissions, but would there be sufficient torque to pull several thousand tons of rail cars?
Another use would be for industrial UPS's or maybe even larger fuel cell plants to supply residential electricity.
Would any of this be practical?
I had an uncle that would drink the methanol fuel out of the torpedoes when he was in the Navy.
It never made him blind but he was definitely only operating on 3 cylinders most of the time.
With that kind of mentality you would fit to join the Taleban... or maybe the Louisiana Highway Patrol.
I don't know why I am responding to a fucking troll's post but, I really felt it neccessary to tell you that you're a fucking moron!
Besides the obvious human rights violations, this little plan of yours would end costing you millions in tax dollars...
oh, wait, our wonderful judicial system in America is already costing us millions in unlawful or unneccessary arrests and court proceedings.
Why is this flamebait?
This is the second flamebait mod abuse I've seen today!
but, what in the hell is a "Ostfriesen"?
A guy I know used the 'gaming addiction' argument to make his girlfriend stop playing EQ and play a different online game he was into. Pretty low if you ask me.
But as with most things, it's hype, plain and simple. It's like 'road rage' and 'air rage'... I mean, are we to believe people never got pissed off before the media created a buzzword?
The main thing is that if it's something that a group of very vocal people don't like or are not into then you're an addict/heathen/etc.
Now unemployed network admins can be roadies!
It's actually quite simple...
When personal aircraft enter a heavily populated region an autopilot can take over and merge you into these "pipes" you speak of. Your skycar will have a source and destination code that is transmitted out to the main traffic controller for that city (and possibly other skycars) so that you will be flown automatically to your landing site. Much the same way packets are handled on networks.
Of course, once I'm out in the rural areas, I'd want to be able to fly my skycar freely and maybe buzz some cattle!
Well, I can't get DSL or cable internet access at my apartment. I'm happy with my trusty 128k ISDN. It's kinda expensive, not as fast as I would like, but rarely goes down.
.... or at least a small portion of it.
If I was down to my last penny, I'm not sure if I would go back to analog. I remember slow connections, line noise, busy signals, etc. and besides, 56k (actually 38k +/- 5k) will definitely make EQ suck donkey balls!
Now if I can only talk my ISP into letting me have static IP's, I could rule the world! MUAHAHAHAHA!
this better not be another Krasnoconv with that hoax SETI-accellerator card!
I don't know if I can take another disappointment like that.