A McDonald's near me runs off the teenagers with a ~60db loop of the 1812 Overture. I love watchin' em try to talk on the cell outside with an index finger jammed in their other ear up to the second knuckle.
Near Halloween they switch it to Bach's Toccatta and Fuge in D Minor. Really cool for 90 seconds and then you know what Manuel Noriega must have felt like and need to flee.
I should mention that you'll have to uninstall firefox first in order for me to eat. Won't blow away your config if you don't delete the mozilla directory. Easy as pie...mmmm...pie...
---JT
You said it. Just as my school's website was made to recognize Mozilla as an acceptable user agent I switched to Firefox and the website pretends to be broken again and you get a "continue at your peril" screen. One of the developers told me that building the sight for IE was metioned explicitly in the specs for the project. Funny thing is that it Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, et al, have functioned correctly from the begining but the school refuses to "officialy" recognize support of user-agents past IE and Mozilla. Go figure.
Version 2, the "Waksoffaru" model, is supposed to include features like a demure female voice and a vibrating "massage" hands. As an added bonus it will vacuum continuosly.
... maybe something like rubbing aluminum foil together could do it.
So if I rub tinfoil together moths will fall from the sky...or is this a "pulled-from-my-ass-and-you'll-just-look-like-a-fo ol-if-you try-it" type example?
Just curious.
'Cause I got plenty of foil and some time on my hands.
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Go one better and adjust fuel trims and the like on the fly with this http://dsmlink.com/($$$)
Set up preset fuel maps and go from economy to full battle mode with a key press. Logs everything, too.
Sorry, no Linux version:(
Back in my day we didn't have a Ctrl key. You had to hold down C-T-R-L all at the same time as the the A, the X, and the V. Then you had to run the deck and check back with operator in a few hours to see your paste ran ok.
I realize that your post was meant to be a joke, but I have to point out that spelling errors and grammar mistakes do nothing to instill confidence in the reader. It seems unlikley that any of the information in the book was verified, nor the sources checked, if no none could bother to run the text past a spell checking program.
> "...it's the same as taping the CD, photocopying the book, copying the video, you're a thief."
Careful with the rhetoric there, Cowboy. You're not a thief nor a pirate. You're a copyright infringer.
And another thing: there wasn't near this much crying and screaming going on when people did copy CDs to tape and "wander off". Many of us never thought twice about doing that and it didn't kill the music recording industry as predicted.
I don't mean to post a "me too" but I was just discussing with my roomie the fact that "decimate" is used wrongly all too often. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. I'm glad to see that didn't fly with this crowd. Now if we just address that word "penultimate"....
> At least with sysadmin, I would think the chances of having your job outsourced to India or somewhere else are less, at least some on site presence is still required.
Sure. Then they move all of the machines to India.
Not that I was serious but ripping and encoding are both CPU intensive tasks. The processing doesn't keep up with the I/O rates of an average CDROM or HDD. Moving bits through the processor in larger batches should speed things up even if the clock speed remains the same.
> "Perhaps if I ran Windoze, where my machine would be largely useless until the program finishes..."
I do most mp3 stuff on a dual celery 466 box w/Win2k and Audiocatalyst. I get 10.??x rip+encode speed most of the time. OCing that to 546 gets me 13-14x speeds (bsod by the 3rd track, though) so that leads me to believe that the processors are the bottleneck. I'd love to test that theory with with 64 bits:-)
> "...thinking about what kinds of applications I may want to put to the test on one of these when we get a box in the office.
I bet it rips mp3s like a motherscratcher. Oh, you said "office"...
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A McDonald's near me runs off the teenagers with a ~60db loop of the 1812 Overture. I love watchin' em try to talk on the cell outside with an index finger jammed in their other ear up to the second knuckle.
Near Halloween they switch it to Bach's Toccatta and Fuge in D Minor. Really cool for 90 seconds and then you know what Manuel Noriega must have felt like and need to flee.
I should mention that you'll have to uninstall firefox first in order for me to eat. Won't blow away your config if you don't delete the mozilla directory. Easy as pie...mmmm...pie... ---JT
Grab Firefox via the link in my sig...
I get a dollar and you get a great browser w/google toolbar built right in
I'm almost out of Ramen please help --teaserX
You said it. Just as my school's website was made to recognize Mozilla as an acceptable user agent I switched to Firefox and the website pretends to be broken again and you get a "continue at your peril" screen. One of the developers told me that building the sight for IE was metioned explicitly in the specs for the project. Funny thing is that it Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, et al, have functioned correctly from the begining but the school refuses to "officialy" recognize support of user-agents past IE and Mozilla. Go figure.
Well, I am French, therefore ...
Dude, your car's on fire...
neocon? hey, did he say "neocon"? Wtf does neocon mean?...No, seriously, what the hell does that mean...I wanna know...
/me mutters ...hmmm...NEocon...neoCON....hrumph...
Someone please grep fuck slashdot_achives | wc -w I'm dying to know.
Version 2, the "Waksoffaru" model, is supposed to include features like a demure female voice and a vibrating "massage" hands. As an added bonus it will vacuum continuosly.
Back in college we had to scramble to get the card punch system that had a ribbon that was legible Dad...Is that you?
Seriously...heard the same thing from my dad.
... maybe something like rubbing aluminum foil together could do it. So if I rub tinfoil together moths will fall from the sky...or is this a "pulled-from-my-ass-and-you'll-just-look-like-a-fo ol-if-you try-it" type example?
Just curious.
'Cause I got plenty of foil and some time on my hands.
Go one better and adjust fuel trims and the like on the fly with this http://dsmlink.com/($$$) Set up preset fuel maps and go from economy to full battle mode with a key press. Logs everything, too. Sorry, no Linux version :(
Dad? Is that you?
...by Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X, Tab, Ctrl-V (a real pain)
Back in my day we didn't have a Ctrl key. You had to hold down C-T-R-L all at the same time as the the A, the X, and the V. Then you had to run the deck and check back with operator in a few hours to see your paste ran ok.
Cocaine and hookers.
I realize that your post was meant to be a joke, but I have to point out that spelling errors and grammar mistakes do nothing to instill confidence in the reader. It seems unlikley that any of the information in the book was verified, nor the sources checked, if no none could bother to run the text past a spell checking program.
I dare ya to leave your dynamite vest at home and come say that to my face...pussy.
Careful with the rhetoric there, Cowboy. You're not a thief nor a pirate. You're a copyright infringer.
And another thing: there wasn't near this much crying and screaming going on when people did copy CDs to tape and "wander off". Many of us never thought twice about doing that and it didn't kill the music recording industry as predicted.
I don't mean to post a "me too" but I was just discussing with my roomie the fact that "decimate" is used wrongly all too often. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. I'm glad to see that didn't fly with this crowd. Now if we just address that word "penultimate"....
Sure. Then they move all of the machines to India.
Just like Global Crossing did.
> "Perhaps if I ran Windoze, where my machine would be largely useless until the program finishes..." :-)
I do most mp3 stuff on a dual celery 466 box w/Win2k and Audiocatalyst. I get 10.??x rip+encode speed most of the time. OCing that to 546 gets me 13-14x speeds (bsod by the 3rd track, though) so that leads me to believe that the processors are the bottleneck. I'd love to test that theory with with 64 bits
> "...thinking about what kinds of applications I may want to put to the test on one of these when we get a box in the office.
I bet it rips mp3s like a motherscratcher. Oh, you said "office"...
Talk about "Batman Factor". These go to 11!
Sorry...Ammonium Nitrate
Just to pick a nit...
OK City was a truck full of Ammonium Chloride plus fuel. Still fertilizer but it packs more of a punch that the regular "shit".