While we're at it, I think he also made fun of Americans, of all people, with "From the Earth To The Moon". I only read the Classics Illustrated Version of that so I'm kind of guessing, but even in the "Classics Illustrated" version both Texas and Florida offered sites and the Texans were refused because they offered a lot of sites and Barbicane was afraid they'd fight over who got the honor.
Carl Barks wrote and drew the Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics from the late 40s to the early 60s, he also contributed stories to Walt Disney's Comics and stories. There are some differences from real life of course. Billionaires don't keep their money locked up in a money bin like Uncle Scrooge. But it always seemed to me the conflicts among the Duck Clan between greed, pride, angry temper, remorse, were more solid real, complex and funny than any superhero story. I have to admit there was at least one really good Captain Marvel yarn (from before the Stan Lee era), it was a 2nd anniversary special which I read in "The Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics" and is by far the best story in the collection, better even than the Carl Barks story in there.
The Barks stories seemed to appeal to people who went on to become scientists (somebody tried to patent a method for raising sunken vessels and it was refused because the idea had already been used in a Donald Duck story).
Steven Spielberg was an admirer too of Barks also.
It's a poor analogy. A musical score is SUPPOSED
to be performed, not a book, though nowadays many
novelists have the big screen in mind while they
write. You might have used the analogy of a
Shakespeare Play rather than musical composition.
But really, novels and movies are different forms
of entertainment. A poor novel could be the
basis of a good movie.
Well, I for one think Sourceror is a pretty cool
name.
Good luck.
As for Ralf's project, being a slackware guy,
I am kind of interested in finding easier ways
to get all them rpm packages installed, maybe
this'll help.
Reading the follow up on SW that stinks reminded of an anecdote in "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman". Feynman spoke of an incident when a he was working on the Manhattan Project and a couple of Chemical Engineers were explaining their design for a new chemical processing plant. They had lots of blueprints and Feynman was saturated and overwhelmed and not even sure what a certain diagram meant. He thought it was a vent (as I recall) and so, to see if he was right, at one point he pointed at one of the symbols and said what about this vent here. The two CEs started tracing and rustling through the pages of their blueprints and suddently their jaws dropped and they said, "You're absolutely right Sir! We'll get on it right away." That of course, could never happen in a code review.
I saw a documentary about robots one time. Some Japanese company spent a lot of money and developed a hydraulic robot modeled on the human body. If they had tried to use it in a Hollywood movie it would have been rejected because it looked and moved so much like a cheap effect of a man in a robot suit.
I was in that courtroom this morning, and the prosecutor was the first one to speak about the bail to the judge and said that he and defense council had been negotiating this and he, the prosecutor thought $50K was sufficient. They already had the money there and the 3rd party custodian was there and came up when the defense gestured to him. I got the feeling that the prosecutor was trying to be as quiet and low key about the thing as possible. He didn't look all that proud to me. But then, this is the first time I've been to one of these things, maybe that's just normal.
If I remember right, massless particles, like photons, travel at the speed of light, and so neutrinos, when they were believed to be massless, must have traveled at the speed of light. Now, presumably they travel a little slower, right? I saw a TV documentary about the recent Supernova detected in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and one of the things the astro-physicists were really happy about was that a wave of neutrinos was detected passing through earth at just the right time. What gives? How fast do neutrinos travel or is my knowledge of physics wrong and out of date.
It always came out of my mouth as
"Battlestar Ponderosa" for some reason.
I bet a legos built scanner wouldn't watermark
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Check out the followups to the legos Toy of the Century piece. Now somebody just has to figure out how to build a lego printer. As provided there, the link is: http://www.mop.no/~simen/legoscan.htm
Why I will never be addicted to eBay
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I was considering buying a digital camera. My brother suggested I check out eBay and sure enough, someone was auctioning off a model I was considering. But I did a little search and found a price for the the thing on Buycomp. More net research showed this was an older model that had been much more expensive 6 mos previously. The guy on eBay ended up selling 2 of these things at auction for more than the NEW price at Buycomp. Moral: You really have to know what you're doing or else you're a sucker.
Gosh, I'm going to get nostalgic here. I started reading usenet back in the mid-80s, and I remember a sure way to start a long flame war in the audio newsgroups was to say "digital's better than analog" (or vice versa) or "solid state's better than vacuum tubes" (or vice versa). The way I see it, the only real way to test is to have LIVE performers in a room to be listened to, then listen to recordings made by different equipment and or methods and see which sounds most like the LIVE recording.
While I'm not an advocate of analog in particular I always found one flaw in the sampling rates proposed on the basis that humans can only hear up to 20K cps, and that is that presumably a human can hear beat frequencies generated by sounds above 20K Hz. I.e. a 22KHz and 22.5KHz sound would produce an audible beat frequency of.5KHz.
You can hook up your outputs to your soundcard and use something like wavrecord (I use it with its X GUI wrapper xltwavplay) to record the tracks into a WAV file, and encode that.
You're going to have to go through an analog to digital stage no matter what, and presumably that will be with your soundcard.
According to the article, this gene produces a protein that is in effect for young mice and makes the mice stay 'young brained'. OK, it's particularly important for young animals to be able to pick things up quickly, but why stop there? Presumably there is selection pressure of some kind to 'lose' some of that intelligence as one gets older and they are defeating the evolutionary pressure. Maybe it's just metabolic effort to keep effect going, but I wonder.
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I have heard that Stallman has or had problems due to repetitive stress injury or carpal tunnel syndrome. I cannot help but wonder if his terse style might not be a result of that. Think of Kirk Douglas at the Oscars a few years ago, recovering from a stroke, with speech impediment he was the most concise, eloquent person out there ("I see my four sons over there, they're proud of their old man...my wife...I love you very much") How much would he have talked if he hadn't had a handicap? There is a book about human vision called "Vision". I haven't read it but David Ruelle (one of the creators of Chaos Theory) commented that it forewent all the usual blather scientists put in their books and got straight to the point about human vision because the author (can't remember his name) was dying of cancer and didn't have much time. Makes you wonder how much energy we waste simply because we're able to!
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I don't know that much about NT, but someone commented somewhere (maybe on Slashdot, maybe on Usenet) that there are web servers geared for speed (Boa?). Shouldn't one of them have been used instead? After all, Apache's not built for speed. What was the NT server built for?
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Yeah, I did read something about it in a book called Printer's Pal or something like that but... Isn't Photoshop or whatever supposed to be able to do CMYK? How does that work?
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Is there some good documentation, a good book or website that really explains well CMYK vs RBG? Sometimes the hardest part of writing a piece of software is getting a good spec.
I had a subscription to BYTE in the 70s, my younger brother threw them all out while I was in the Navy I think, arrgh! the Ads, from places like Smoke Signal that had a 6800 based CPU! There was one issue in particular with a picture of Babbage's Machine on the cover with a historical article by Sol Libes that I wished he'd preserved. Yes, they were looking back even then, to the days of spare Minuteman missle parts for homebrews, etc.
I don't know about the wav to mp3 encoder, (I'm actually ignorant about mp3 myself, haven't gotten around to studying up on it yet, but I will when I get bored or annoyed enough at not understanding half of what people are talking about) but I record to wav format from line in on my sound card using wavplay, usually through it's X-window front end xltwavplay. Use 16 bit, stereo, 44100 samples to cut old sytle audio CD.
and 'wierd' is actually spelled 'weird'
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He must have taken the advice "'i' before 'e' except after 'c' or when sounding like 'ay' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'" too literally.
Slashdot Mirror
While we're at it, I think he also made fun of Americans, of all people, with "From the Earth To The Moon". I only read the Classics Illustrated Version of that so I'm kind of guessing, but even in the "Classics Illustrated" version both Texas and Florida offered sites and the Texans were refused because they offered a lot of sites and Barbicane was afraid they'd fight over who got the honor.
Carl Barks wrote and drew the Donald Duck and
Uncle Scrooge comics from the late 40s to the
early 60s, he also contributed stories to
Walt Disney's Comics and stories. There are
some differences from real life of course.
Billionaires don't keep their money locked up
in a money bin like Uncle Scrooge. But it
always seemed to me the conflicts among the
Duck Clan between greed, pride, angry temper,
remorse, were more solid real, complex and
funny than any superhero story. I have to
admit there was at least one really good
Captain Marvel yarn (from before the Stan Lee
era), it was a 2nd anniversary special which
I read in "The Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book
Comics" and is by far the best story in the
collection, better even than the Carl Barks
story in there.
The Barks stories seemed to appeal to people
who went on to become scientists (somebody
tried to patent a method for raising sunken
vessels and it was refused because the idea
had already been used in a Donald Duck story).
Steven Spielberg was an admirer too of Barks
also.
It's a poor analogy. A musical score is SUPPOSED
to be performed, not a book, though nowadays many
novelists have the big screen in mind while they
write. You might have used the analogy of a
Shakespeare Play rather than musical composition.
But really, novels and movies are different forms
of entertainment. A poor novel could be the
basis of a good movie.
My television viewing will be OK.
Unless... do you think they'd do this to old
Perry Mason episodes?
Well, I for one think Sourceror is a pretty cool
name.
Good luck.
As for Ralf's project, being a slackware guy,
I am kind of interested in finding easier ways
to get all them rpm packages installed, maybe
this'll help.
Reading the follow up on SW that stinks reminded of an anecdote in "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman". Feynman spoke of an incident when a he was working on the Manhattan Project and a couple of Chemical Engineers were explaining their design for a new chemical processing plant. They had lots of blueprints and Feynman was saturated and overwhelmed and not even sure what a certain diagram meant. He thought it was a vent (as I recall) and so, to see if he was right, at one point he pointed at one of the symbols and said what about this vent here. The two CEs started tracing and rustling through the pages of their blueprints and suddently their jaws dropped and they said, "You're absolutely right Sir! We'll get on it right away." That of course, could never happen in a code review.
I saw a documentary about robots one time. Some Japanese company spent a lot of money and developed a hydraulic robot modeled on the human body. If they had tried to use it in a Hollywood movie it would have been rejected because it looked and moved so much like a cheap effect of a man in a robot suit.
I was in that courtroom this morning, and the prosecutor was the first one to speak about the bail to the judge and said that he and defense council had been negotiating this and he, the prosecutor thought $50K was sufficient. They already had the money there and the 3rd party custodian was there and came up when the defense gestured to him. I got the feeling that the prosecutor was trying to be as quiet and low key about the thing as possible. He didn't look all that proud to me. But then, this is the first time I've been to one of these things, maybe that's just normal.
If I remember right, massless particles, like photons, travel at the speed of light, and so neutrinos, when they were believed to be massless, must have traveled at the speed of light. Now, presumably they travel a little slower, right? I saw a TV documentary about the recent Supernova detected in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and one of the things the astro-physicists were really happy about was that a wave of neutrinos was detected passing through earth at just the right time. What gives? How fast do neutrinos travel or is my knowledge of physics wrong and out of date.
I think you've got it wrong. The linux users are
precisely the NON-copyright infringers. The
copyright infringers pirate Microsoft OS's
and use them.
I suppose Public Television would have no reason to put any restrictions on their broadcasts. Of course, it seems they could use more funding.
It always came out of my mouth as
"Battlestar Ponderosa" for some reason.
Check out the followups to the legos Toy of the
Century piece. Now somebody just has to figure
out how to build a lego printer. As provided
there, the link is:
http://www.mop.no/~simen/legoscan.htm
I was considering buying a digital camera. My
brother suggested I check out eBay and sure
enough, someone was auctioning off a model I was
considering. But I did a little search and found
a price for the the thing on Buycomp. More net
research showed this was an older model that had
been much more expensive 6 mos previously. The
guy on eBay ended up selling 2 of these things at
auction for more than the NEW price at Buycomp.
Moral: You really have to know what you're doing
or else you're a sucker.
Gosh, I'm going to get nostalgic here. I started
.5KHz.
reading usenet back in the mid-80s, and I remember
a sure way to start a long flame war in the audio
newsgroups was to say "digital's better than
analog" (or vice versa) or "solid state's better
than vacuum tubes" (or vice versa). The way I see
it, the only real way to test is to have LIVE
performers in a room to be listened to, then
listen to recordings made by different equipment
and or methods and see which sounds most like the
LIVE recording.
While I'm not an advocate of analog in particular
I always found one flaw in the sampling rates
proposed on the basis that humans can only hear
up to 20K cps, and that is that presumably a human
can hear beat frequencies generated by sounds above 20K Hz. I.e. a 22KHz and 22.5KHz sound
would produce an audible beat frequency of
You can hook up your outputs to your soundcard
and use something like wavrecord (I use it
with its X GUI wrapper xltwavplay) to record
the tracks into a WAV file, and encode that.
You're going to have to go through an analog to
digital stage no matter what, and presumably
that will be with your soundcard.
According to the article, this gene produces a
protein that is in effect for young mice and
makes the mice stay 'young brained'. OK, it's
particularly important for young animals to be
able to pick things up quickly, but why stop
there? Presumably there is selection pressure
of some kind to 'lose' some of that intelligence
as one gets older and they are defeating the
evolutionary pressure. Maybe it's just metabolic
effort to keep effect going, but I wonder.
Female penguins don't have breasts.
I have heard that Stallman has or had problems due to repetitive stress injury or carpal tunnel syndrome. I cannot help but wonder if his terse style might not be a result of that. Think of Kirk Douglas at the Oscars a few years ago, recovering from a stroke, with speech impediment he was the most concise, eloquent person out there ("I see my four sons over there, they're proud of their old man...my wife...I love you very much") How much would he have talked if he hadn't had a handicap? There is a book about human vision called "Vision". I haven't read it but David Ruelle (one of the creators of Chaos Theory) commented that it forewent all the usual blather scientists put in their books and got straight to the point about human vision because the author (can't remember his name) was dying of cancer and didn't have much time. Makes you wonder how much energy we waste simply because we're able to!
I don't know that much about NT, but someone
commented somewhere (maybe on Slashdot, maybe
on Usenet) that there are web servers geared for
speed (Boa?). Shouldn't one of them have been
used instead? After all, Apache's not built for
speed. What was the NT server built for?
Yeah, I did read something about it in a book
called Printer's Pal or something like that but...
Isn't Photoshop or whatever supposed to be able
to do CMYK? How does that work?
Is there some good documentation, a good book or
website that really explains well CMYK vs RBG?
Sometimes the hardest part of writing a piece of
software is getting a good spec.
I had a subscription to BYTE in the 70s, my younger brother threw them all out while I was in the Navy I think, arrgh! the Ads, from places like Smoke Signal that had a 6800 based CPU! There was one issue in particular with a picture of Babbage's Machine on the cover with a historical article by Sol Libes that I wished he'd preserved. Yes, they were looking back even then,
to the days of spare Minuteman missle parts for
homebrews, etc.
I don't know about the wav to mp3 encoder,
(I'm actually ignorant about mp3 myself, haven't
gotten around to studying up on it yet, but I
will when I get bored or annoyed enough at not
understanding half of what people are talking
about) but I record to wav format from line in
on my sound card using wavplay, usually through
it's X-window front end xltwavplay. Use 16 bit,
stereo, 44100 samples to cut old sytle audio CD.
He must have taken the advice "'i' before 'e'
except after 'c' or when sounding like 'ay' as
in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'" too literally.