"Do you ever get the feeling that you're being followed?
Are you not familiar with the book of Revelations of St. John, the final book of the Bible prophesying the Apocalypse? They forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead so that no one shall be able to buy or sell unless he has the mark, which is the name of the Beast or the number of his name, and the number of the Beast is 6-6-6.
What can such a specific prophecy mean? What is the mark?
Well, the mark is the bar code, the ubiquitous bar code that you'll find on every bog roll and every packet of Johnny's and every poxy pork pie and every bar code is divided into two parts by three markers and those three markers are always represented by the numbers 6... 6-6-6!
Now what does it say? No one shall be able to buy or sell without that mark. And now what they're planning to do in order to eradicate all credit card fraud and in order to precipitate a totally cashless society - what they're planning to do, what they've already tested on the American troops - they're gonna subcutaneously laser tattoo that mark onto your right hand or onto your forehead. They're gonna replace plastic with flesh!
FACT!
In the same book of Revelation when the seven seals are broken open on the Day of Judgement, and the seven angels blow their trumpets - when the third angel blows her bugle, wormwood will fall from the sky, wormwood will poison a third part of all the waters and a third part of all the land, and many many many people will die. Now, do you know what the Russian translation for 'wormwood' is?
'Chernobyl'!
FACT!
On August the 18th, 1999, the planets of our solar system are gonna line up into the shape of a cross. They're gonna line up in the fixed signs of Aquarius, Leo, Taurus and Scorpio, which just happen to correspond to the four beasts of the Apocalypse as mentioned in the book of Daniel!
Another FACT!
Do you think that the amoeba ever dreamed that it would evolve into the frog? And when that first frog shimmied out of the water and employed its vocal chords in order to attract a mate or to deter a predator, do you think that that frog ever imagined that that insipient croak would evolve into all the languages of the world, into all the literature of the world? And just as that froggy could never possibly have conceived of Shakespeare so we can never possibly imagine our destiny. Look, if you take the whole of time represented by one year, we're only in the first few moments of the first of January. There's a long way to go. Only now we're not gonna sprout extra limbs and wings and things because evolution itself is evolving. When it comes, the Apocalypse itself will be part of the process of that leap of evolution. By the very definition of Apocalypse mankind will cease to exist, at least in a material form. Well, he'll evolve into something that transcends matter, into a species of pure thought, you with me?"
[...]like if you get slapped, turn the other cheek, as Jesus once said...[...]
Yeah, but Jesus never had to fix a LAN.
Boss: "My Lord, could you get our 250-node token ring VAX LAN back online? You'll need to check every inch of the coax cable, duct-taping nicked insulation as needed." Jesus: "Fuck that!"
I'm waiting for one of the standards to go away or both to merge in all drives (betamax-fobia).
Sony has a DVD-RW/+RW unit coming out next month. The positive reviews, speedy 4x DVD+RW write speed, and a pretty good pricepoint ($350) might make this a popular unit VERY quickly.
I used those guys for a dupe job once, the dude Jules that is the customer rep is one crazy mofo. He made me redo the cover design because it was 1/16" larger than spec. He is scary sounding and I think he drinks. But they do good work.
I'm just bitter because I don't have my own CD pressing plant.
Since Cubase was mentioned, I really doubt that Steinberg will ever shift in the direction of open source OS's in regards to their marquee products (Cubase, Nuendo, Wavelab, etc.) simply because they are moving towards a hardware based solution in the future, following Digidesign.
Steinberg (or any other sequencing software company for that matter) aren't moving to hardware replacements for their products. What they are doing is coming up with some pretty rad hardware to control the software.
It's an odd thought, controlling a software program with an outboard piece of hardware but if you think about it, it makes sense. As computers get more and more powerful, only the software that records,renders,manipulates,and,masters the audio needs change. Virually replacing an entire studio's worth of gear is a matter of a:\install.exe. Steinberg, Cakewalk, Logic, et al, all know this and will continue to push for a software-based studio.
Skinner: Superintendent, I hope you're ready for mouth-watering hamburgers. Chalmers: I thought we were having steamed clams. Skinner: Oh, no, I said, "steamed hams." That's what I call hamburgers. Chalmers: You call hamburgers steamed hams. Skinner: Yes, it's a regional dialect. Chalmers: Uh-huh. What region? Skinner: Uh, upstate New York. Chalmers: Really. Well, I'm from Utica and I never heard anyone use the phrase, "steamed hams." Skinner: Oh, not in Utica, no; it's an Albany expression. Chalmers: I see.
Hopefully we'll get a story about the Northern Lights so I can finish quoting the scene.
This is a stupid reason. If I moved to Russia, I would EXPECT to have to learn Russian for news and emergency information. Same if I moved to Mexico or Spain.
Why is it so different here. You move here, learn to SPEAK our language or MOVE BACK!
Easier said than done. Since it takes some time to learn a new language (especially one so ass-backward as English), keeping emergency broadcasts in an immigrant's native tongue makes sense. How would a foreigner know how to understand "massive volcanic eruption" if they hadn't got that far in their English book?
It's easy to say "learn the language or get out," but imagine yourself dropped into say, China, for the next five years. Or Germany. Or Nigeria. Wherever you land, it'll take time to learn the language.
I work in the lighting industry with conventional means of producing light (florescent, incandescent, etc) and have done some testing on LEDs. The most important thing to realize is that the light being produced is not a pure "white" light.
Typically the manufacturer will use a blue LED and coat the outside of the lens with a yellow broadband phosphor, which when the blue light is filtered through it, appears white. True white is extremely difficult (and expensive) to produce; it's still years away and it has to do with the ability of the diodes to produce certain wavelengths of light.
As far as efficiency, yes, LEDs are quite effecient at producing light at a given (low) wattage but they are still not as bright as conventional light sources. The rating of an LEDs efficiency is measured in lumens per watt; a bulb with a higher lumen per watt rating is more efficient than that of a lower one. At this point, red LEDs are the most efficient, which is why many applications that use LEDs (exit signs, car turn signals, etc) are red.
Manufacurers claim a 100,000 hour life span of LEDs. What most of them fail to mention is that to acheive this, the power supply that the LEDs are attached to has to be set at a low current. Low current means decreased brightness. If the current is increased past the manufacurers recommended setting, you will get higher brightess but the lifespan will be cut short severely. Not to mention the fact that many LED applications where companies are touting 100,000 hour lifetimes (approximately 10 years) haven't been around that long to confirm or deny it.
LEDs are not going away, however. It's not a question of if they go mainstream, it's when. And I have no problem with that, it's just that from what I have observed, the manufacurers are dispensing half-truths and outright lies about this stuff. People take it for gospel because big companies are developing the technology (GE and HP-funded Agilent come to mind) so they figure it must be true.
Whatever. It's reall not going to make that much difference in the long run. Just want people to know there's more behind it.
Spidey had a short-lived live-action series in the 1970's. Overall it tunk, but it had its points...
On a completely-useless-trivia note, the guy who played Spiderman in that series, Nicholas Hammond, was in an episode of the Brady Bunch; the infamous one where Peter throws a football and accidentally hits Marcia in the face. Hammond has the hots for her at the beginning of the show, and then she gets the swollen nose, so he drops her like a bad habit. Superhero, indeed.
See if you can get everyone in the theater to start chanting "Oh, my nose!" during the trailers.
Read whatever psycological significance you want into the above. I'm merely an observer. I will say, however, that for Kathleen's sake, hopefully Taco is just spending lots of time in the pool.
Batteries exist that last 100x longer than ones on the market right now and are fully compatible with current devices. Problem is, when the technology to do so becomes known, the big battery producers buy up all the patents for the technology from the (mostly) small independent research labs that come up with it in the first place.
Same reason why we don't have cars that get 300 mpg and lightbulbs that last 60 years. How would these companies stay in business if everyone bought a 10 pack of AA batteries and didn't have to buy any more for 5 years? It's all trickle-down economics.
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"Do you ever get the feeling that you're being followed?
Are you not familiar with the book of Revelations of St. John, the final book of the Bible prophesying the Apocalypse? They forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead so that no one shall be able to buy or sell unless he has the mark, which is the name of the Beast or the number of his name, and the number of the Beast is 6-6-6.
What can such a specific prophecy mean? What is the mark?
Well, the mark is the bar code, the ubiquitous bar code that you'll find on every bog roll and every packet of Johnny's and every poxy pork pie and every bar code is divided into two parts by three markers and those three markers are always represented by the numbers 6... 6-6-6!
Now what does it say? No one shall be able to buy or sell without that mark. And now what they're planning to do in order to eradicate all credit card fraud and in order to precipitate a totally cashless society - what they're planning to do, what they've already tested on the American troops - they're gonna subcutaneously laser tattoo that mark onto your right hand or onto your forehead. They're gonna replace plastic with flesh!
FACT!
In the same book of Revelation when the seven seals are broken open on the Day of Judgement, and the seven angels blow their trumpets - when the third angel blows her bugle, wormwood will fall from the sky, wormwood will poison a third part of all the waters and a third part of all the land, and many many many people will die. Now, do you know what the Russian translation for 'wormwood' is?
'Chernobyl'!
FACT!
On August the 18th, 1999, the planets of our solar system are gonna line up into the shape of a cross. They're gonna line up in the fixed signs of Aquarius, Leo, Taurus and Scorpio, which just happen to correspond to the four beasts of the Apocalypse as mentioned in the book of Daniel!
Another FACT!
Do you think that the amoeba ever dreamed that it would evolve into the frog? And when that first frog shimmied out of the water and employed its vocal chords in order to attract a mate or to deter a predator, do you think that that frog ever imagined that that insipient croak would evolve into all the languages of the world, into all the literature of the world? And just as that froggy could never possibly have conceived of Shakespeare so we can never possibly imagine our destiny. Look, if you take the whole of time represented by one year, we're only in the first few moments of the first of January. There's a long way to go. Only now we're not gonna sprout extra limbs and wings and things because evolution itself is evolving. When it comes, the Apocalypse itself will be part of the process of that leap of evolution. By the very definition of Apocalypse mankind will cease to exist, at least in a material form. Well, he'll evolve into something that transcends matter, into a species of pure thought, you with me?"
Maybe it's just me, but every other invention and discovery means, along the other things, smaller cellphones.
[Will Ferrell, playing the ultra-hip proprietor of Jeffery's clothing shop on SNL, pulls out an enormous brick-sized cell phone]
Employee: What is that?!
Boss: Don't you know? Big is the new small! Cammy Diaz has a phone twice this big.
A: We are Devo!
Looking for a friend but don't have her phone number with you?
"friend?" "her?" This is slashdot, buddy. Our dear readers are gonna think yer talkin' about their moms.
Check out the download size of the Google API samples file...
Better read *all* the fine print in the EULA, son.
...so there is certainly a possibility that this is a hoax, or a less than watertight proof...
I'd be leary of any proof discovered accidentally while trying to crack secret Russian codes embedded in "Ladies Home Journal."
...You slashdotted line6's site!
Tomorrow you will find a new tone in their database available for download, called "Slashdot," when you pluck a string, nothing happens.
[...]like if you get slapped, turn the other cheek, as Jesus once said...[...]
Yeah, but Jesus never had to fix a LAN.
Boss: "My Lord, could you get our 250-node token ring VAX LAN back online? You'll need to check every inch of the coax cable, duct-taping nicked insulation as needed."
Jesus: "Fuck that!"
waiting to get smited,
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Does it support both +R and -R discs?
I'm waiting for one of the standards to go away or both to merge in all drives (betamax-fobia).
Sony has a DVD-RW/+RW unit coming out next month. The positive reviews, speedy 4x DVD+RW write speed, and a pretty good pricepoint ($350) might make this a popular unit VERY quickly.
"I got a piece of mail that was vague that the assertion is some marketing person did something that was not entirely straightforward," Ballmer said.
This guy makes about as much sense as Pootie Tang.
From the all-knowing Internet Movie Database's Simpsons trivia section:
The primary cast all have agreements in their contracts that hold them to doing three movies based on the show in the future.
or...
Gun Shop Owner: Sorry, the law requires a five-day waiting period. We've got to run a background check.
Homer: Five days? But I'm mad now!
costs for 1000 cds burned will 640 bucks bullk, ~1200 w/ packaging(full retail). does it, and no i don't work for them just used them
I used those guys for a dupe job once, the dude Jules that is the customer rep is one crazy mofo. He made me redo the cover design because it was 1/16" larger than spec. He is scary sounding and I think he drinks. But they do good work.
I'm just bitter because I don't have my own CD pressing plant.
Since Cubase was mentioned, I really doubt that Steinberg will ever shift in the direction of open source OS's in regards to their marquee products (Cubase, Nuendo, Wavelab, etc.) simply because they are moving towards a hardware based solution in the future, following Digidesign.
Steinberg (or any other sequencing software company for that matter) aren't moving to hardware replacements for their products. What they are doing is coming up with some pretty rad hardware to control the software.
It's an odd thought, controlling a software program with an outboard piece of hardware but if you think about it, it makes sense. As computers get more and more powerful, only the software that records,renders,manipulates,and,masters the audio needs change. Virually replacing an entire studio's worth of gear is a matter of a:\install.exe. Steinberg, Cakewalk, Logic, et al, all know this and will continue to push for a software-based studio.
Skinner: Superintendent, I hope you're ready for mouth-watering hamburgers.
Chalmers: I thought we were having steamed clams.
Skinner: Oh, no, I said, "steamed hams." That's what I call hamburgers.
Chalmers: You call hamburgers steamed hams.
Skinner: Yes, it's a regional dialect.
Chalmers: Uh-huh. What region?
Skinner: Uh, upstate New York.
Chalmers: Really. Well, I'm from Utica and I never heard anyone use the phrase, "steamed hams."
Skinner: Oh, not in Utica, no; it's an Albany expression.
Chalmers: I see.
Hopefully we'll get a story about the Northern Lights so I can finish quoting the scene.
I looked at the title of the article and I thought, "God, Linus, is a guy in parachute pants that important to you?"
This is a stupid reason. If I moved to Russia, I would EXPECT to have to learn Russian for news and emergency information. Same if I moved to Mexico or Spain.
Why is it so different here. You move here, learn to SPEAK our language or MOVE BACK!
Easier said than done. Since it takes some time to learn a new language (especially one so ass-backward as English), keeping emergency broadcasts in an immigrant's native tongue makes sense. How would a foreigner know how to understand "massive volcanic eruption" if they hadn't got that far in their English book?
It's easy to say "learn the language or get out," but imagine yourself dropped into say, China, for the next five years. Or Germany. Or Nigeria. Wherever you land, it'll take time to learn the language.
I work in the lighting industry with conventional means of producing light (florescent, incandescent, etc) and have done some testing on LEDs. The most important thing to realize is that the light being produced is not a pure "white" light.
Typically the manufacturer will use a blue LED and coat the outside of the lens with a yellow broadband phosphor, which when the blue light is filtered through it, appears white. True white is extremely difficult (and expensive) to produce; it's still years away and it has to do with the ability of the diodes to produce certain wavelengths of light.
As far as efficiency, yes, LEDs are quite effecient at producing light at a given (low) wattage but they are still not as bright as conventional light sources. The rating of an LEDs efficiency is measured in lumens per watt; a bulb with a higher lumen per watt rating is more efficient than that of a lower one. At this point, red LEDs are the most efficient, which is why many applications that use LEDs (exit signs, car turn signals, etc) are red.
Manufacurers claim a 100,000 hour life span of LEDs. What most of them fail to mention is that to acheive this, the power supply that the LEDs are attached to has to be set at a low current. Low current means decreased brightness. If the current is increased past the manufacurers recommended setting, you will get higher brightess but the lifespan will be cut short severely. Not to mention the fact that many LED applications where companies are touting 100,000 hour lifetimes (approximately 10 years) haven't been around that long to confirm or deny it.
LEDs are not going away, however. It's not a question of if they go mainstream, it's when. And I have no problem with that, it's just that from what I have observed, the manufacurers are dispensing half-truths and outright lies about this stuff. People take it for gospel because big companies are developing the technology (GE and HP-funded Agilent come to mind) so they figure it must be true.
Whatever. It's reall not going to make that much difference in the long run. Just want people to know there's more behind it.
Spidey had a short-lived live-action series in the 1970's. Overall it tunk, but it had its points...
On a completely-useless-trivia note, the guy who played Spiderman in that series, Nicholas Hammond, was in an episode of the Brady Bunch; the infamous one where Peter throws a football and accidentally hits Marcia in the face. Hammond has the hots for her at the beginning of the show, and then she gets the swollen nose, so he drops her like a bad habit. Superhero, indeed.
See if you can get everyone in the theater to start chanting "Oh, my nose!" during the trailers.
...when aliens kidnapped then-presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Bob Dole and stored them in a cylindrical glass casing.
"What the hell is this... some kind of nanotube?"
Topic: The Incredible Shrinking Antenna
Dept: from the two-inches-is-plenty dept.
and here
Read whatever psycological significance you want into the above. I'm merely an observer. I will say, however, that for Kathleen's sake, hopefully Taco is just spending lots of time in the pool.
A little too much X-Files in your diet, Johnny. Time for some Prozac....
Don't you know the Smoking Man is part owner of Duracell?
Batteries exist that last 100x longer than ones on the market right now and are fully compatible with current devices. Problem is, when the technology to do so becomes known, the big battery producers buy up all the patents for the technology from the (mostly) small independent research labs that come up with it in the first place.
Same reason why we don't have cars that get 300 mpg and lightbulbs that last 60 years. How would these companies stay in business if everyone bought a 10 pack of AA batteries and didn't have to buy any more for 5 years? It's all trickle-down economics.
I have got to stop reading Robert Anton Wilson.
"I once thought I had mono for an entire year... turns out I was just really bored."
--Mike Myers, Wayne's World
I have three Palms [...]
Wow, that must be great for pr0n!