A quick google search turned up a single usenet post where someone mentions the same story... I couldn't find any webpages in a couple minutes of looking.
The references I found were in a journal paper and a book, both again 50+ years old, dug out of, if I recall correctly, one of the UMass Amherst libraries.
That was almost ten years ago, and I've done a goodly number of brain-cell-killing things since then;-)
Actually, when I was in school doing some research on human evolution, I ran across several very old (ie, pre-revolution) references to experiments in China that had "unexpected results"... the story I read repeatedly was that the new government came in, executed everyone involved and destroyed the research material.
Sounded like an urban legend to me, but if it is, its one that dates back at least 50 years, since IIRC, the sources I had dug up were around that old.
No verifiable sources, though. I did always think it was an interesting story, though.
I've used mine perhaps 20 times since I bought it, and it has a lot of problems now. Sometimes it just stops in the middle of the room and beeps its "I'm stuck" sound, even though its not. The battery has basically died to where it might run ten minutes on a full charge.
Its an interesting device, but I've not been terribly happy about how its aged in the six months I've had it...
Pulling wire is the most fulfilling home improvement project you can undertank until you discover there are two sandwiched 2x12's serving as headers between the floors of your condo, making it right on the edge of impossible to drill through them.
I gave up and bought WEP11's.
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I have to admit, I had no recollection of him being in The Last Starfighter... so I went to IMDB. Says he was in the movie, but his scenes were deleted.
What part of the movie was he still in? I may have to dig out the old video tape and go looking...
I gotta stop switching between message boards this quickly... I was just reading about open-source ECU projects for cars, and thought one of them ran AMD chips, and you managed to get your car working with one and ABS still functioned normally...
If you are doing the same job for less money now than during the tech bubble, you're not being underpayed now, you were being overpayed then.
People who were ligitimately qualified for the jobs they were in seem to still have no real problem finding and keeping jobs at the same pay scale they were at two or three years ago. The recession has kept raises pretty small, but they're still there.
The problem is there are a quarter of a million underqualified tech workers who think they deserved $75k a year for their two years of experience and no interpersonal skills... and when they find themselves being payed $40k a year, they think they're getting screwed. The people who found themselves forced to pay them $75k a year were the ones getting screwed.
Anyone seen real specs for Apple's format?
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I spent some time last night playing around with the new Music Store feature in iTunes 4. Besides the fact that iTunes crashed on me twice, and 3 never crashed on me, it seems like a very well put together feature.
What kept me from buying the dozen or so tracks I found that I thought were worth a buck a pop was the fact that my Rio Receivers need MP3 or, via "upgraded" software, FLAC, etc... Although the AAC->CD->MP3 route is possible, and I intended to buy a track and see how the quality comes out, has anyone seen anything about how the DRM works on the Apple files?
I'm wondering if there are any libraries out there for decoding them, even within the confines of the DRM... just so I can get them into either a raw data stream or something so I can play them on my Rio Receivers... I'd probably switch to buying all my music (where possible) from them, if thats the case... but if I can't get them into a format I can play using my existing equipment, I'll have to pay the five buck "CD"-tax to get them in a format I can rip to high-bitrate MP3.
That link comes up a lot when people are asking about the Ionic Breeze and the like online. FWIW, I have four of them on 24/7 in my house to manage dust and allergens until I pony up the cash to put one in the HVAC system directly.
That article talks about air cleaners, not air filters. These are ozone generating machines you'd use if, for example, someone took an explosive dump in your car. It uses very high amounts of ozone to physically removed odors and clean the air in there.
Ionic Breeze's are electrostatic air filters, totally different beast. An electric potential between two ionizing wires in the back and three collector rods in the front pulls air through without any noise, and the dust picks up a static charge and sticks to the collector rods. Thats it. In terms of controlling dust, one big thing that Sharper Image doesn't mention, which may counterindicate their use in a computer lab, is that if your air is fairly dry, it puts a slight static charge on every damn thing in the room. Fantastic for controlling dust, because you can just vacuum it off the couch, but you're always zapping yourself.
Anyway, my point is, there's nothing in common between these filters and what ALA is talking about.
I think very few people are anxious for Apple to jump ahead of the game. Contrary to what the/. crowd makes the tech marketplace look like, very few people want plexiglass windows, neon green alien decals, hard drive cables that glow under blacklights, the latest 7ghz processor and a $400 video card.
I think everyone(*) wants their computer to be able to take care of what they want it to, and everyone(**) is probably pretty happy with where Apple's hardware is right now, because everyone(***) knows how much more efficient they are on those computers.
(* everyone except the vocal minority of computer users represented on/.) (** everyone who isn't in college living off Mom and Dad's money so they've got cash to burn on the latest and greatest hardware) (*** everyone who's actually used a modern Mac day-to-day, and just smiles knowingly when they see stories talking about how Macs are overpriced, underpowered, or destined to fail when Linux wins the desktop on Slashdot)
Lawrence of Arabia, for example, is an absolutely incredible film in its original 70mm. Movies like Baraka were also shot in 70mm, and deserve to be seen that way. At least one of the Indiana Jones movies was shot at least in part in 70mm, and so was Titanic.
Just because you don't tend to see movies in 70mm doesn't mean they're not shot that way... Titanic, for example, showed in 70mm in less than ten theaters worldwide on its initial run, and eventually was shown in 70mm in a reasonable number of art houses in second run showings.
70mm is very cost-feasable for the resulting experience, the reason its not done more often is because there are so few theaters today as compared to thirty years ago equipped to show them. I'd bet that the increase in long-play IMAX-equipped theaters will cause a resurgance in filming in 70mm, since you can take advantage of that higher resolution in later IMAX presentations, as well as special 70mm engagements. The increase in frame size helps to reduce noise as a result of film grain in film eventually destined for 1080i, as well.
Having seen Star Wars: Episode 2 in DLP, Imax and plain film, I'd greatly disagree. Imax was FAR superior in quality of the image, and overall cinematic experience than DLP.
Episode II was projected at 1280x1024, stretched to the normal aspect ratio by a 1.9X anamorphic lens to stretch the image back to its correct resolution...
Thats not a lot of pixels for a full-size screen. Pixelation was very noticable. Color saturation and consistancy was somewhat better, but not enough to say its superior to the Imax experience.
Given the choice I'd rather see any action movie in the Imax format, seconded with DLP, and then film... Dramatic movies, I'd probably swap DLP and Imax in favor of not pan-n-scanning, but one could just as easily use the 70mm IMAX frame with cropped images, or an anamorphic lens to get the full-size image as well.
So making people write good code isn't impacting people's civil liberties? Considering most of the developers I know, that'd put most of them out of work...
I think it depends what version you initially got. I seem to remember seeing a "free upgrade" certificate in the box of crap that came with my iMac two months ago... (which had 10.2.4)... so I'm guessing that means I can get 10.3 for free.
Other than that, I'd bet it costs...
Almost 50% of the *voting* public voted for Bush..
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And you're worried about 80% of people not reading novels?
Yeah I'm sure... the torque difference stock to stock makes a huge difference in "street" racing... running from a rolling start, etc... They may be closely matched up top, but if I pull two or three lengths before the WRX gets its wind, it'll never get that back.
An STi produces 50 horsepower more than a stock S4, but there's not that many stock S4's out there... 320hp and 390ft/lbs torque is not too shabby, and thats a $600 chip change... throw in race gas and that number starts to soar!
The weight thing is an issue, an S4 is a real pig, but its nothing some money can't fix. Easier to make a relatively luxurious pig go fast than to make a fast car relatively luxurious.
I'd love to have a WRX, though, to throw around on dirt roads, something Audi's just aren't too good at these days.
I'll tell you why I did the Linux/BSD on Dreamcast thing... (which never worked out anyway, unfortunately)... I liked the idea of a multi-use unit in my entertainment center that didn't have a fan, didn't look like ass, and could do reasonable streaming MP3's. As it turned out last time I looked no one had gotten a decent streaming MP3 player running DC native or Linux/BSD, so its been sitting in a box in my closet for the last year.
Nope, got an S4 with lots of of secret sauce, it'd be a heck of a WRX to be much of a concern... STi'd make for a fun drive up a winding mountain road, but he wouldn't have a prayer in the long run.
Of course, since all told it cost closer to twice what an STi costs, I'd hope it was faster...
I don't care what you have in your computer. If its got a window, neon, chrome, UV glowing hard drive cables, or even a g*ddamn sticker on it, I will mock you mercilessly.
Cars are another matter. I'll just whip your ass in a straight line or the twisties, doesn't matter to me. Riceboy huntin' is one of my favorite summer pasttimes.:) (AWD and snow tires makes it like kicking a baby in the winter -- no fun at all)
Am I the only one who didn't think it was all that good? It definitely looked well below the quality of a good DVD, even if the resolution was higher. It was blurry, expecially with much motion.
I was much more impressed with the quality of the Matrix trailer on my iMac...
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A quick google search turned up a single usenet post where someone mentions the same story... I couldn't find any webpages in a couple minutes of looking.
;-)
The references I found were in a journal paper and a book, both again 50+ years old, dug out of, if I recall correctly, one of the UMass Amherst libraries.
That was almost ten years ago, and I've done a goodly number of brain-cell-killing things since then
Actually, when I was in school doing some research on human evolution, I ran across several very old (ie, pre-revolution) references to experiments in China that had "unexpected results"... the story I read repeatedly was that the new government came in, executed everyone involved and destroyed the research material.
Sounded like an urban legend to me, but if it is, its one that dates back at least 50 years, since IIRC, the sources I had dug up were around that old.
No verifiable sources, though. I did always think it was an interesting story, though.
For a while I had a busted up DEC RA-81... that was well over 100lbs, although it was a whopping 480meg or something like that...
I've used mine perhaps 20 times since I bought it, and it has a lot of problems now. Sometimes it just stops in the middle of the room and beeps its "I'm stuck" sound, even though its not. The battery has basically died to where it might run ten minutes on a full charge.
Its an interesting device, but I've not been terribly happy about how its aged in the six months I've had it...
Pulling wire is the most fulfilling home improvement project you can undertank until you discover there are two sandwiched 2x12's serving as headers between the floors of your condo, making it right on the edge of impossible to drill through them.
I gave up and bought WEP11's.
I have to admit, I had no recollection of him being in The Last Starfighter... so I went to IMDB. Says he was in the movie, but his scenes were deleted.
What part of the movie was he still in? I may have to dig out the old video tape and go looking...
I don't get it.
I gotta stop switching between message boards this quickly... I was just reading about open-source ECU projects for cars, and thought one of them ran AMD chips, and you managed to get your car working with one and ABS still functioned normally...
ack!
Coffee....
If you are doing the same job for less money now than during the tech bubble, you're not being underpayed now, you were being overpayed then.
People who were ligitimately qualified for the jobs they were in seem to still have no real problem finding and keeping jobs at the same pay scale they were at two or three years ago. The recession has kept raises pretty small, but they're still there.
The problem is there are a quarter of a million underqualified tech workers who think they deserved $75k a year for their two years of experience and no interpersonal skills... and when they find themselves being payed $40k a year, they think they're getting screwed. The people who found themselves forced to pay them $75k a year were the ones getting screwed.
I spent some time last night playing around with the new Music Store feature in iTunes 4. Besides the fact that iTunes crashed on me twice, and 3 never crashed on me, it seems like a very well put together feature.
What kept me from buying the dozen or so tracks I found that I thought were worth a buck a pop was the fact that my Rio Receivers need MP3 or, via "upgraded" software, FLAC, etc... Although the AAC->CD->MP3 route is possible, and I intended to buy a track and see how the quality comes out, has anyone seen anything about how the DRM works on the Apple files?
I'm wondering if there are any libraries out there for decoding them, even within the confines of the DRM... just so I can get them into either a raw data stream or something so I can play them on my Rio Receivers... I'd probably switch to buying all my music (where possible) from them, if thats the case... but if I can't get them into a format I can play using my existing equipment, I'll have to pay the five buck "CD"-tax to get them in a format I can rip to high-bitrate MP3.
That link comes up a lot when people are asking about the Ionic Breeze and the like online. FWIW, I have four of them on 24/7 in my house to manage dust and allergens until I pony up the cash to put one in the HVAC system directly.
That article talks about air cleaners, not air filters. These are ozone generating machines you'd use if, for example, someone took an explosive dump in your car. It uses very high amounts of ozone to physically removed odors and clean the air in there.
Ionic Breeze's are electrostatic air filters, totally different beast. An electric potential between two ionizing wires in the back and three collector rods in the front pulls air through without any noise, and the dust picks up a static charge and sticks to the collector rods. Thats it. In terms of controlling dust, one big thing that Sharper Image doesn't mention, which may counterindicate their use in a computer lab, is that if your air is fairly dry, it puts a slight static charge on every damn thing in the room. Fantastic for controlling dust, because you can just vacuum it off the couch, but you're always zapping yourself.
Anyway, my point is, there's nothing in common between these filters and what ALA is talking about.
I think very few people are anxious for Apple to jump ahead of the game. Contrary to what the /. crowd makes the tech marketplace look like, very few people want plexiglass windows, neon green alien decals, hard drive cables that glow under blacklights, the latest 7ghz processor and a $400 video card.
/.)
I think everyone(*) wants their computer to be able to take care of what they want it to, and everyone(**) is probably pretty happy with where Apple's hardware is right now, because everyone(***) knows how much more efficient they are on those computers.
(* everyone except the vocal minority of computer users represented on
(** everyone who isn't in college living off Mom and Dad's money so they've got cash to burn on the latest and greatest hardware)
(*** everyone who's actually used a modern Mac day-to-day, and just smiles knowingly when they see stories talking about how Macs are overpriced, underpowered, or destined to fail when Linux wins the desktop on Slashdot)
This site I found has a lot of good information about it.
a good number of modern movies.
Lawrence of Arabia, for example, is an absolutely incredible film in its original 70mm. Movies like Baraka were also shot in 70mm, and deserve to be seen that way. At least one of the Indiana Jones movies was shot at least in part in 70mm, and so was Titanic.
Just because you don't tend to see movies in 70mm doesn't mean they're not shot that way... Titanic, for example, showed in 70mm in less than ten theaters worldwide on its initial run, and eventually was shown in 70mm in a reasonable number of art houses in second run showings.
70mm is very cost-feasable for the resulting experience, the reason its not done more often is because there are so few theaters today as compared to thirty years ago equipped to show them. I'd bet that the increase in long-play IMAX-equipped theaters will cause a resurgance in filming in 70mm, since you can take advantage of that higher resolution in later IMAX presentations, as well as special 70mm engagements. The increase in frame size helps to reduce noise as a result of film grain in film eventually destined for 1080i, as well.
Having seen Star Wars: Episode 2 in DLP, Imax and plain film, I'd greatly disagree. Imax was FAR superior in quality of the image, and overall cinematic experience than DLP.
Episode II was projected at 1280x1024, stretched to the normal aspect ratio by a 1.9X anamorphic lens to stretch the image back to its correct resolution...
Thats not a lot of pixels for a full-size screen. Pixelation was very noticable. Color saturation and consistancy was somewhat better, but not enough to say its superior to the Imax experience.
Given the choice I'd rather see any action movie in the Imax format, seconded with DLP, and then film... Dramatic movies, I'd probably swap DLP and Imax in favor of not pan-n-scanning, but one could just as easily use the 70mm IMAX frame with cropped images, or an anamorphic lens to get the full-size image as well.
So making people write good code isn't impacting people's civil liberties? Considering most of the developers I know, that'd put most of them out of work...
So what happens when you find yourself living in a Super-DMCA state, and you have no choice?
I think it depends what version you initially got. I seem to remember seeing a "free upgrade" certificate in the box of crap that came with my iMac two months ago... (which had 10.2.4)... so I'm guessing that means I can get 10.3 for free.
Other than that, I'd bet it costs...
And you're worried about 80% of people not reading novels?
Yeah I'm sure... the torque difference stock to stock makes a huge difference in "street" racing... running from a rolling start, etc... They may be closely matched up top, but if I pull two or three lengths before the WRX gets its wind, it'll never get that back.
An STi produces 50 horsepower more than a stock S4, but there's not that many stock S4's out there... 320hp and 390ft/lbs torque is not too shabby, and thats a $600 chip change... throw in race gas and that number starts to soar!
The weight thing is an issue, an S4 is a real pig, but its nothing some money can't fix. Easier to make a relatively luxurious pig go fast than to make a fast car relatively luxurious.
I'd love to have a WRX, though, to throw around on dirt roads, something Audi's just aren't too good at these days.
I'll tell you why I did the Linux/BSD on Dreamcast thing... (which never worked out anyway, unfortunately)... I liked the idea of a multi-use unit in my entertainment center that didn't have a fan, didn't look like ass, and could do reasonable streaming MP3's. As it turned out last time I looked no one had gotten a decent streaming MP3 player running DC native or Linux/BSD, so its been sitting in a box in my closet for the last year.
My RIO Player works fine now...
WRX? Bah...
Nope, got an S4 with lots of of secret sauce, it'd be a heck of a WRX to be much of a concern... STi'd make for a fun drive up a winding mountain road, but he wouldn't have a prayer in the long run.
Of course, since all told it cost closer to twice what an STi costs, I'd hope it was faster...
Umm... you do realize that 10-20w on your skull is the leading cause of skin cancer, right?
I don't care what you have in your computer. If its got a window, neon, chrome, UV glowing hard drive cables, or even a g*ddamn sticker on it, I will mock you mercilessly.
:) (AWD and snow tires makes it like kicking a baby in the winter -- no fun at all)
Cars are another matter. I'll just whip your ass in a straight line or the twisties, doesn't matter to me. Riceboy huntin' is one of my favorite summer pasttimes.
Am I the only one who didn't think it was all that good? It definitely looked well below the quality of a good DVD, even if the resolution was higher. It was blurry, expecially with much motion.
I was much more impressed with the quality of the Matrix trailer on my iMac...