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Face it, most of what people want to do is eat. And breathe. Socializing or other carnal-knowledge-acquiring endeavours are fringe activities for the large non-geek population. That being said, when technology becomes mass produced and sold to people in order to eat, that lowers the cost and makes the socializing much cheaper to pursue.
I say make eating mostly a entertainment/reality-show-stunt industry for now. As the general public finances it, there will be investment and competition by private industry. The cost of eating will become so cheap that it will be feasible to manufacture while socializing (fern bars and such), and also to throw a few social encounters up there.
Forget about the social friends-oriented utopia promised us by tabloid magazines. As a general rule, people want bread. and air. It would be much more effecient to throw a few kitchen gossip encounters in the fern bars than the way it's currently being financed.
So, in summary, no more gettin' it on unless it involves food production in some way. Because making friends just for friendship's sake isn't enough.
Wish I could mod you up... your post is much more entertaining!
I originally thought of some more obscure functions, like fout(x)=sin(int(x) * 2*pi), or even fout(x) = (2*x) - x - x , but thank god I used the simpler math.
ATD worked without the "T" for touch-tone. My modem would dial one touch tone digit, wait and see if the phone company recognized it (to see if you had paid the touch-tone fee), and then either continue dialing with tones, or re-dial with pulses.
There were a bunch of tweaks to timing that was possible (maybe AT@0) . I made the dial speed really short and lowered the "time from off-hook to first digit dialed" to the minimum possible. I wrote a program to auto-dial every time I pressed the space bar and won a couple of radio contests because I could call in 2x-3x more often than others.
It's not just fans... inductors can make noise too. On most laptops, you can hear the pitch of the power supply's whine as the processor's current needs change.
Inductors generate magnetic fields, and those fields react against other fields to generate a force -- no matter how well potted, there is just a little bit of movement..
As a motorcyclist, I routinely wear unseasonably warm jackets (heavy and fully armored) in the summer time. It's a lot better to be slightly hot than missing skin. A 50 mph breeze does wonders to keep you cool when on the bike. But when I'm off of it, all I can do is unzip it - it very heavy to carry on my arm, and even if I wanted to, the armor plates keep it from folding. Plus, the armor is sensitive - it could break if bumped against in a way it wasn't meant to bend.
However, the band makes no apologies for this complicated procedure and blame it all on Apple! (see last paragraph). Somehow I don't think they grasp the fact that Apple is standards-compliant, and that their label is selling broken cds to their fans.
That's great reasoning for a home stereo, but hiss isn't as much of a problem in cars because there is so much other background noise... engine, wind, wheels. Yep, you're still limited to a range of inputs, but I was lucky and found maximum-volume works with my line-in adapter.
The ipod doesn't have a digital audio out. I don't see why you think the icelink has this. I'm not saying it couldn't -- it could mount the ipod as a drive and do its own mp3 playback of the data files -- but that's not the intuitive approach.
A lot of my memories of visiting New Orleans included visiting the great cemeteries there. St Roch and St Vincent De Paul both look flooded. Obviously the living people in the city are more important, but the great landmarks still have a lot of meaning.
If you want to build your own hardware TB-303 clone (and plus some), check out Ladyada's open-source x0b0x kit. (cached). The documentation is excellent, even for a beginner builder. And, they've gone and painstakingly measured all the transistors from an original TB-303 to accurately recreate the sound. It's a steal at $300.
Uh, excuse me, there is me. I thought I was in the clear, but today I've been reading up on this to see if this will affect people who do the reverse engineering and publish it. Hopefully it's still allowable - by all reasonable measures, it should be. I've had my fuji E-6 film developed by kodak for a long time.
cool. I do that, too, but I only use one laptop:-)
Actually, I haven't tried cracking wep, but I've got kismac and it's neat to see what's out there... especially seeing my own clear-text password every now and then.
I've carried a dell and a sparcbook on trips before. And a mac and a dell. But now I've got the serial port on VirtualPC working well on the mac so that's all I carry. All I know is that when Mac OS x86 comes out, virtual PC better run really fast.
As long as the system can distinguish what is running into the street ahead of you if you're boxed in and the vehicle behind you is tailgating (or its driver isn't paying attention). If it's a dog, the the answer is to hit it instead of risking getting run over yourself. If it's a kid, then slam on the brakes and get rear ended.(*)
Also, the price target of $1,830 seems a little optimistic. That's close to the cost of a nav system, but will require more components.
(* Alternate answer: deploy the tire spikes and drag chain to force the car behind to stop)
Thanks! I still got a little soul suckage from that site, though. Check out the EULA - talk about broad (luckily I can do these things once I'm no longer using the site):
Prohibited Conduct Following acts are not allowed when using this Web Site: (1) Infringing the legal rights (including, but not limited to, the rights of privacy and publicity) of SCEI and/or others (2) Causing any damages or disadvantage to SCEI and/or others (3) Disturbing public order (4) Criminal act (5) Defaming, disgracing or libeling SCEI and/or others (6) Uploading files that contain viruses or corrupted files that may damage the operation of SCEI's and/or others' computers (7) Activities that are unlawful or prohibited by any applicable laws (8) Any other activities that SCEI deems inappropriate
There was some really bad movie that I went to, and the only thing that made it bearable was the crowd of obnoxious guys in the front offering their commentary. There was one guy who was a little slow at the jokes, and about 4 seconds after some of the stupider ones (which no one laughed), he'd laugh out loud, and then shout out why it's funny ("that's his girlfriend locked in the portajohn!"), and then everyone else would laugh at him.
Of course, the opposite is true - there was the lady who got a phone call during "blair witch project" and then had to call a friend to describe it.
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Face it, most of what people want to do is eat. And breathe. Socializing or other carnal-knowledge-acquiring endeavours are fringe activities for the large non-geek population. That being said, when technology becomes mass produced and sold to people in order to eat, that lowers the cost and makes the socializing much cheaper to pursue.
I say make eating mostly a entertainment/reality-show-stunt industry for now. As the general public finances it, there will be investment and competition by private industry. The cost of eating will become so cheap that it will be feasible to manufacture while socializing (fern bars and such), and also to throw a few social encounters up there.
Forget about the social friends-oriented utopia promised us by tabloid magazines. As a general rule, people want bread. and air. It would be much more effecient to throw a few kitchen gossip encounters in the fern bars than the way it's currently being financed.
So, in summary, no more gettin' it on unless it involves food production in some way. Because making friends just for friendship's sake isn't enough.
Thanks!
Wish I could mod you up... your post is much more entertaining!
I originally thought of some more obscure functions, like fout(x)=sin(int(x) * 2*pi), or even fout(x) = (2*x) - x - x , but thank god I used the simpler math.
- Mo
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level?
Just screen the posts.
I am sure. It will screen out. Dudes at low grades.
It is fairly easy to make an algorithm to improve the quality of losslessly-encoded sound.
In fact, I just came up with two genre-specific filters:
Rock music*: fout(x) = x * 1.1
Rap music: fout(x) = x * 0.0
(* preliminary research on the rock music filter was done by Spinal Tap Ltd, et al)
A/ - repeat last command (?)
ATA - answer
ATD worked without the "T" for touch-tone. My modem would dial one touch tone digit, wait and see if the phone company recognized it (to see if you had paid the touch-tone fee), and then either continue dialing with tones, or re-dial with pulses.
There were a bunch of tweaks to timing that was possible (maybe AT@0) . I made the dial speed really short and lowered the "time from off-hook to first digit dialed" to the minimum possible. I wrote a program to auto-dial every time I pressed the space bar and won a couple of radio contests because I could call in 2x-3x more often than others.
And, 64 bits gives you two more clips. It looks like you'd need an 80-bit processor to get the full 4 clips. I can only dream...
It's not just fans... inductors can make noise too. On most laptops, you can hear the pitch of the power supply's whine as the processor's current needs change.
Inductors generate magnetic fields, and those fields react against other fields to generate a force -- no matter how well potted, there is just a little bit of movement..
As a motorcyclist, I routinely wear unseasonably warm jackets (heavy and fully armored) in the summer time. It's a lot better to be slightly hot than missing skin. A 50 mph breeze does wonders to keep you cool when on the bike. But when I'm off of it, all I can do is unzip it - it very heavy to carry on my arm, and even if I wanted to, the armor plates keep it from folding. Plus, the armor is sensitive - it could break if bumped against in a way it wasn't meant to bend.
I carry a backpack, too.
Extra large silicone censors, I think. There very sensitive, but prone to jitter.
The DMB also posted information on how to beat their copy protection to enable fair use. The CD won't read into iTunes, so it can't be listened to on an iPod. Basically the procedure is to burn a copy of the WMA files to a CD and then rip that.
However, the band makes no apologies for this complicated procedure and blame it all on Apple! (see last paragraph). Somehow I don't think they grasp the fact that Apple is standards-compliant, and that their label is selling broken cds to their fans.
That's great reasoning for a home stereo, but hiss isn't as much of a problem in cars because there is so much other background noise... engine, wind, wheels. Yep, you're still limited to a range of inputs, but I was lucky and found maximum-volume works with my line-in adapter.
The ipod doesn't have a digital audio out. I don't see why you think the icelink has this. I'm not saying it couldn't -- it could mount the ipod as a drive and do its own mp3 playback of the data files -- but that's not the intuitive approach.
That article mentions the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey... good comparison. If you scaled it, it's pretty close:
nano dimensions: 3.5 x 1.6 x 0.27
monolith ratio: 9 x 4 x 1
scaled 0.4x: 3.6 x 1.6 x 0.4
So, it's a slightly (3%) taller and 2/3rds the thickness of a monolith.
You've skipped over the 64-bit processor generation directly to a 96-bit processor!
A lot of my memories of visiting New Orleans included visiting the great cemeteries there. St Roch and St Vincent De Paul both look flooded. Obviously the living people in the city are more important, but the great landmarks still have a lot of meaning.
If you want to build your own hardware TB-303 clone (and plus some), check out Ladyada's open-source x0b0x kit. (cached). The documentation is excellent, even for a beginner builder. And, they've gone and painstakingly measured all the transistors from an original TB-303 to accurately recreate the sound. It's a steal at $300.
I was tongue-in-cheek -- no offense taken. But, I still worry, and it worries me that people should even worry. (can you tell I worry a lot? :-))
I enjoy your posts. Plus, I used to do a little computer graphics, too.
Uh, excuse me, there is me. I thought I was in the clear, but today I've been reading up on this to see if this will affect people who do the reverse engineering and publish it. Hopefully it's still allowable - by all reasonable measures, it should be. I've had my fuji E-6 film developed by kodak for a long time.
cool. I do that, too, but I only use one laptop :-)
Actually, I haven't tried cracking wep, but I've got kismac and it's neat to see what's out there... especially seeing my own clear-text password every now and then.
Just curious, what's the second laptop for?
I've carried a dell and a sparcbook on trips before. And a mac and a dell. But now I've got the serial port on VirtualPC working well on the mac so that's all I carry. All I know is that when Mac OS x86 comes out, virtual PC better run really fast.
Houston, we've got a vector. Good thing it's just a concept car.
If people don't have to work to drive, do you think they'll give a second thought to making an unnecessary trip?
As long as the system can distinguish what is running into the street ahead of you if you're boxed in and the vehicle behind you is tailgating (or its driver isn't paying attention). If it's a dog, the the answer is to hit it instead of risking getting run over yourself. If it's a kid, then slam on the brakes and get rear ended.(*)
Also, the price target of $1,830 seems a little optimistic. That's close to the cost of a nav system, but will require more components.
(* Alternate answer: deploy the tire spikes and drag chain to force the car behind to stop)
You could have the codes uploaded to your mobile phone. Or the RFID embedded in your hand.
Tere tulemast !
Thanks! I still got a little soul suckage from that site, though. Check out the EULA - talk about broad (luckily I can do these things once I'm no longer using the site):
Prohibited Conduct
Following acts are not allowed when using this Web Site:
(1) Infringing the legal rights (including, but not limited to, the rights of privacy and publicity) of SCEI and/or others
(2) Causing any damages or disadvantage to SCEI and/or others
(3) Disturbing public order
(4) Criminal act
(5) Defaming, disgracing or libeling SCEI and/or others
(6) Uploading files that contain viruses or corrupted files that may damage the operation of SCEI's and/or others' computers
(7) Activities that are unlawful or prohibited by any applicable laws
(8) Any other activities that SCEI deems inappropriate
There was some really bad movie that I went to, and the only thing that made it bearable was the crowd of obnoxious guys in the front offering their commentary. There was one guy who was a little slow at the jokes, and about 4 seconds after some of the stupider ones (which no one laughed), he'd laugh out loud, and then shout out why it's funny ("that's his girlfriend locked in the portajohn!"), and then everyone else would laugh at him.
Of course, the opposite is true - there was the lady who got a phone call during "blair witch project" and then had to call a friend to describe it.