Actually Townsend played a variety of axes. Fender Strats, and Gibson SG's and Les Pauls. You can find pics and or video's of him playing those plus a few others. These days though he mostly plays Gibson Les Paul models.
I have a Commodore 64 that still works. Also an Amiga 1000 and an Amiga 2000 in working order. All three are currently in storage in my garage. The place were I work has a Intel 286 or 386 (not sure which) server running a custom pricing program under some ancient version of Novell Netware. It has a 25MB (yes megabyte) RLL 5.25 inch hard drive in it and token ring through a coax to a satellite driveless workstation which loads up the OS from the server and runs the pricing program remotely. Runs every day.
You can best bet that if the person had made multimillion dollar donatations to the University that that article would disappear and never EVER see the light of day again.
Except for one small problem. YOU can be arrested for loitering if an officer of the law sees you and is so inclined. Or if the owner of the house files a police report against you.
because your going to need it with all the head injuries you will receive from banging your head against a brick wall known as user reluctance to change.
2ndly you sound like an idiot who has never read a history book. All populations that have had the right to defend itself against it's own government taken away have eventually fallen under a tyrannical and/or repressive government or religious entity. Flapping your jaw is no defense.
This is because ATT realizes just what the iPhone is... An apple fanboi toy. It never caught on with the general public. Parts are very difficult up to impossible to get replaced without loosing your data. NO SPARE BATTERY possible. Come on every other Cell Phone on the planet has easily user replaceable or spare battery capability. A less than stellar relationship with application developers. Last but not least piss poor service from Apple. Now why do you wonder that ATT is looking for a replacement?
Oh yeah and I never owned one. I just listened to the bitching of the few I knew who did.
You seem to be missing his point. His point is that an infrastructure has been created in the bio-medical research system that make it impossible or near impossible for breakthroughs to be made. The raw research potential is there it is that it is being stifled.
I think you have this all backward. The newest stuff should go to the testers you know new code testing on new hardware to TEST for flaws. Stable code and hardware belong in the production department. The OLD crap goes to the development department to keep them from using new features in hardware that would break on current stable systems.
Forcing me to pay again for something that I have already paid for gets me PISSED. No one that I personally know is in need of the "extra" software. Seeing as all my geek friends already have the same set of games. It's still a rip off no matter how they try to candy coat it. All I really cared about was episode 2.
Remember Carmageddon? The highest scoring hit was the evasive little old lady with the walker for 300 points. Hours of pedestrian squashing fun. Sadly later versions of this game removed the running over of pedestrians for points. Though the multiplayer in later versions was entertaining.
Please don't speak of something you know not. Printing presses capable of printing those nice glossy full color inserts are WAY expensive. The RIAA nor any of the major labels prints their own. It is all contracted out to the BIG commercial printing houses who can afford the 6 or 7 million dollar presses to do the work. (that number represents one mid size 4 color web press less inline attachements to cut, perf and stack the inserts). How do I know this. I work in a small commercial shop that can just afford the half million dollar 4 color sheet fed press that enables us to do work for some small indie labels localy. We have to do the work requiered afterwords with offline machines that are also NOT CHEAP. I also read the trade press and talk to press equipment salesmen and the like. Also paper is not cheap by any means. To a small indie record/CD production $1.00 to $2.00 and up per set of inserts is not a small cost.
Say you want 500 CD's and the cheapest possible with a nice picture of your artist and some cool looking art with song list and credits for the back. Thats 2 pages automaticly, cover and back cover inserts. Estimating that on the low end at 1.00 per CD thats $500 just in printing costs less art, prep work and finishing, bringing your total fairly close to $1000. Then price blank CD jewel cases the single CD thick type. Then the printed and duplicated CD's themselves. Then the cost to put them all together and shrink wrap them. An indie band that wants to put out a CD has to scrape up close to 2 grand in pre sales media production costs just to put out 500 CD's.
Then there is the recording/mixing/mastering of the content on the CD. Ka-ching add another few thousand if done somewhat professionaly or cheaper if jonnie band member has a rich daddy or a damn good job to afford the recording/mixing equipment. Now we're getting close to $4000.
Oh you want to sell those CD's too. Now we're talking about time and effort of shopping your CD to agents to get the gigs to play live for people in order to get your stuff out there. Most indie bands I know charge around $10 for a CD and it may take them 6 months to a year just to sell the original lot of 500 and thats if it's a GOOD CD ie quality music. Travel costs and staying up till god knows when to break down your set after the show. Then on to the next bar/venue. So at $4000 production costs for your CD's you might just barely be able to break even or just eek out a profit of a few hundred dollars.
Glad I'm not a musician but know a few and do work for others.
Making music into a distributable CD is not cheap if done in small quantities. Electronic Distribuition is far easier and cheaper even with the costs associated with a website/shopping cart system.
You must be off your feed, Doom III was an awesome SciFi horror game. The lighting & graphics, sound and monsters popping up in your face made this a must have game. Open a door and the holy shit make the hair stand up on the back of your neck monster in your face fright was intense.
When you have clogged pipes you need something a wee bit stronger. Say like a fat pipe and a SERVER THAT CAN HANDLE IT. HINT. Someone up this months server meltdown count by one please.
The most extreme box I have ever built uses Slackware 8.0 the most recent 2.2 kernel and upgraded apache,ssl,ssh, mysql, php and mod perl. On a P2 300mhz 256MB memory and 1 8 gig hard drive. System is an email server (qmail) with pop3 and clamAV for virus scanning, a web server (LAMP) with large 100MB file uploading, a file server with Samba and NETATALK for access to uploaded files from the local net, an ssh and webmin server for remote management, a DHCP server for local network, an ntp time server for local network. It is also the firewall/NAT box for the internal network.
Why all this on one underpowered box? It is in a small business with limited resources and was the only box not used for anything. It has been in use for 3.5 years so far with a max continuous uptime of 9 months. Box has come fairly close to 9 9's uptime. As of the first of the year I get to move it to a 1.2GHZ P3. When first putting this box together I chose Slackware due to it's very straight forward and simple bootup scripts. The fact that it starts out as a fairly light weight system when first installed and started allows for easy customization.
So Yes Slackware matters to me. I use it on just about every box I build. It also runs my personal systems. I have tried others but I always seem to wind up using Slackware.
Speaking of the 1541. I remember some enterprising drive destroyer made a program that took control of the drive and then proceeded to vibrate the head off the cam stop at a high rate. This produced a tune of sorts. Can't for the life of me remember what song it was though. Probably violated the copyright too.
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Actually Townsend played a variety of axes. Fender Strats, and Gibson SG's and Les Pauls.
You can find pics and or video's of him playing those plus a few others.
These days though he mostly plays Gibson Les Paul models.
And we have always been at war with East Anglia.
I have a Commodore 64 that still works. Also an Amiga 1000 and an Amiga 2000 in working order. All three are currently in storage in my garage. The place were I work has a Intel 286 or 386 (not sure which) server running a custom pricing program under some ancient version of Novell Netware. It has a 25MB (yes megabyte) RLL 5.25 inch hard drive in it and token ring through a coax to a satellite driveless workstation which loads up the OS from the server and runs the pricing program remotely. Runs every day.
You can best bet that if the person had made multimillion dollar donatations to the University that that article would disappear and never EVER see the light of day again.
Except for one small problem. YOU can be arrested for loitering if an officer of the law sees you and is so inclined. Or if the owner of the house files a police report against you.
handkerchief so you can wipe Steve Jobs fecal matter off of your nose.
because your going to need it with all the head injuries you will receive from banging your head against a brick wall known as user
reluctance to change.
2ndly you sound like an idiot who has never read a history book. All populations that have had the right to defend itself against it's own government taken away have eventually fallen under a tyrannical and/or repressive government or religious entity. Flapping your jaw is no defense.
This is because ATT realizes just what the iPhone is ... An apple fanboi toy. It never caught on with the general public. Parts are very difficult up to impossible to get replaced without loosing your data. NO SPARE BATTERY possible. Come on every other Cell Phone on the planet has easily user replaceable or spare battery capability. A less than stellar relationship with application developers. Last but not least piss poor service from Apple. Now why do you wonder that ATT is looking for a replacement?
Oh yeah and I never owned one. I just listened to the bitching of the few I knew who did.
Watch me pull a statistic out of my ass.
Fat bald guys running around screaming developers at the top of their lungs.
iptables -A INPUT -s 134.17.0.0/16 -j DROP
all gone.
You seem to be missing his point. His point is that an infrastructure has been created in the
bio-medical research system that make it impossible or near impossible for breakthroughs to be
made. The raw research potential is there it is that it is being stifled.
I think you have this all backward. The newest stuff should go to the testers you know new code testing on new hardware to TEST for flaws. Stable code and hardware belong in the production department. The OLD crap goes to the development department to keep them from using new features in hardware that would break on current stable systems.
Forcing me to pay again for something that I have already paid for gets me PISSED.
No one that I personally know is in need of the "extra" software. Seeing as all my geek friends already
have the same set of games. It's still a rip off no matter how they try to candy coat it. All I really cared about
was episode 2.
Syncronicity in full effect. I just finished reading (well ok rereading) Whipping Star just a day or so ago.
Remember Carmageddon? The highest scoring hit was the evasive little old lady with the walker for 300 points. Hours of pedestrian squashing fun.
Sadly later versions of this game removed the running over of pedestrians for points. Though the multiplayer in later versions was entertaining.
Please don't speak of something you know not. Printing presses capable of printing those nice glossy full color inserts are WAY expensive. The RIAA nor any of the major labels prints their own. It is all contracted out to the BIG commercial printing houses who can afford the 6 or 7 million dollar presses to do the work. (that number represents one mid size 4 color web press less inline attachements to cut, perf and stack the inserts). How do I know this. I work in a small commercial shop that can just afford the half million dollar 4 color sheet fed press that enables us to do work for some small indie labels localy. We have to do the work requiered afterwords with offline machines that are also NOT CHEAP. I also read the trade press and talk to press equipment salesmen and the like. Also paper is not cheap by any means. To a small indie record/CD production $1.00 to $2.00 and up per set of inserts is not a small cost.
Say you want 500 CD's and the cheapest possible with a nice picture of your artist and some cool looking art with song list and credits for the back. Thats 2 pages automaticly, cover and back cover inserts. Estimating that on the low end at 1.00 per CD thats $500 just in printing costs less art, prep work and finishing, bringing your total fairly close to $1000. Then price blank CD jewel cases the single CD thick type. Then the printed and duplicated CD's themselves. Then the cost to put them all together and shrink wrap them. An indie band that wants to put out a CD has to scrape up close to 2 grand in pre sales media production costs just to put out 500 CD's.
Then there is the recording/mixing/mastering of the content on the CD. Ka-ching add another few thousand if done somewhat professionaly or cheaper if jonnie band member has a rich daddy or a damn good job to afford the recording/mixing equipment. Now we're getting close to $4000.
Oh you want to sell those CD's too. Now we're talking about time and effort of shopping your CD to agents to get the gigs to play live for people in order to get your stuff out there. Most indie bands I know charge around $10 for a CD and it may take them 6 months to a year just to sell the original lot of 500 and thats if it's a GOOD CD ie quality music. Travel costs and staying up till god knows when to break down your set after the show. Then on to the next bar/venue. So at $4000 production costs for your CD's you might just barely be able to break even or just eek out a profit of a few hundred dollars.
Glad I'm not a musician but know a few and do work for others.
Making music into a distributable CD is not cheap if done in small quantities. Electronic Distribuition is far easier and cheaper even with the costs associated with a website/shopping cart system.
You must be off your feed, Doom III was an awesome SciFi horror game. The lighting & graphics, sound and monsters popping up in your face made this a must have game. Open a door and the holy shit make the hair stand up on the back of your neck monster in your face fright was intense.
When you have clogged pipes you need something a wee bit stronger.
Say like a fat pipe and a SERVER THAT CAN HANDLE IT. HINT.
Someone up this months server meltdown count by one please.
The loud bang you just heard was my head exploding
in all directions simultainiously, after reading that.
It's as if the rustle of a million sheets of tin foil
cried out as one and all it said was hat's.
The most extreme box I have ever built uses Slackware 8.0 the most recent 2.2 kernel and upgraded apache,ssl,ssh, mysql, php and mod perl. On a P2 300mhz 256MB memory and 1 8 gig hard drive.
System is an email server (qmail) with pop3 and clamAV for virus scanning, a web server (LAMP) with large 100MB file uploading,
a file server with Samba and NETATALK for access to uploaded files from the local net, an ssh and webmin server for remote management, a DHCP server for local network, an ntp time server for local network. It is also the firewall/NAT box for the internal network.
Why all this on one underpowered box? It is in a small business with limited resources and was the only box not used for anything.
It has been in use for 3.5 years so far with a max continuous uptime of 9 months. Box has come fairly close to 9 9's uptime. As of the first of the year I get to move it to a 1.2GHZ P3.
When first putting this box together I chose Slackware due to it's very straight forward and simple bootup scripts.
The fact that it starts out as a fairly light weight system when first installed and started allows for easy customization.
So Yes Slackware matters to me. I use it on just about every box I build. It also runs my personal systems.
I have tried others but I always seem to wind up using Slackware.
Speaking of the 1541. I remember some enterprising drive destroyer made
a program that took control of the drive and then proceeded to vibrate the
head off the cam stop at a high rate. This produced a tune of sorts. Can't for the life of me
remember what song it was though. Probably violated the copyright too.
It's as if I felt the rustle of a Million rolls of tin foil
being used all at once.