If you are a telephone monkey or a cashier, I extend my condolences.
As to your remarks, I am far from an "elitist prick", although I am willing to guess that you have a HOT water HEATER in your domocile, don't you? Asswiper...I'd give you more rebuttal if you had enough spine to post when logged in...as if you had the spine to even qualify...
Using facial biometrics provides an added, more accurate level of verification than such systems as an ID card (which can be lost or stolen) or a pin number (which can be forgotten or used fraudulently).
Am I the only one in the WORLD who knows what the "N" in "PIN" stands for?
Jeez...and I wanted to think that the lack of knowledge was limited to telephone monkeys and cashiers...
I clicked on the link...twice even...now I'm earmarked for Federal Investigation, like I need that in my humble, growing-something-in-the-basement life I try to live.
I actually used (for fun and profit) my Atari ST with 1MB RAM to emulate a PC (33% of the 8 MHz clock) and ran ProComm with a script to capture transactions via 2400 baud modem from a fueling center in a nearby town. Can't remember the name of the emulator.
The process - albeit pokey - ran flawlessly, and was used as a backup to the crap Comm library we'd bought to do it within FoxBase. Yes, I said FoxBase. Pre-M$.
Fond Memories Indeed.
To be also noted was that the same script choked on a 286-12 clone when deployed onsite at the fuel company's site, so it was back to the coding room...got it working somehow.
Me, I'm already out of money, but have excess time. As it is, I should have played 20 miles away tonight, but the economy has made bar owners a little skittish, and we took tonight off. I'm bored shitless...:-(
Anyway, if you have faster than dial-up, I'll email you a link to listen to what we do, and ask for reciprocal access to mp3s of your stuff?
I'll give you the link anyway, WTF...but not here. I'll try your email.
the band was "Electric Monk", and they really sucked (sorry Bob), not that they weren't trying real hard, but this was back in the 80's (I didn't actually hear them play live, but worked with a coder [VB] that I'd known since DOS 2.0 named Bob whose band it was - I heard the cassette to which I had to politely nod and say things like "Cool" and "Interesting")
To their credit, they did only originals, I understand. Seven years or so after Bob divorced his *babe* wife, and I'd lost touch with both of them, I'd gotten together with her and we agreed that the band sucked...especially after she heard my band.
No pointers to that, as we are an acoustic cover trio, doing CSN&Y, S&G, Eagles, Jackson Browne, Springsteen, all old fart music (which we are)
It sounds like your band is going to have some acoustic flavor to it?;-))
...with Samba to copy shit off a dead-in-the-water winderz 98 box. Pest Patrol had found 3,212 nasties on the box in question. I retrieved enough data to not worry about a crash on a re-install of winderz 98. I'm thinkin' of puttin' them up to win2k, but WTF, they're not payin' that much. (they have an XP License, FWIW)
Tbe Knoppix Distro has been helpful at this point - and I'm glad that I kept it around, because I needed to get these people's email transferred without much hassle
No problem; I knew when you wrote "Fred" you were making a point - but the subject I used was to perhaps bring on such a discussion as this.
I agree that Google (my research bastion of survival:) should not break up contiguous results - as I've just adapted to the ellipsis-separated phrases in skimming through results. Often I've wished that there were more tricks to use in trimming the "fat" off the result set of data. Perhaps I'll invest some time to try the Advanced Search - but I don't like interfaces with lots of fields (I'm not a data entry person).
However, in my stated opinion of the CPA attitudes that seem to have pervaded (perverted?) that industry, I was able to spout off about a subject that still bothers me...and I concur that Mark Maughan deserves nothing but a spanking for his efforts - in fact he's dropped his ability to be taken seriously even further than SCO has by even becoming a litigant here.
The summary using the same search without quotes has no mention of any "Mike", just "Mark Maughan" - and it floats to the top, from which I drilled into the same page you cite. Yes, the guy and his firm FSCK'd up, and that's just too bad. Like Rolling Stone, all the the news that's fit...
FWIW, CPAs are increasingly getting on my list on the same level as ambulance chasing (well, let's just say all...) lawyers, greedy doctors (most of them), county officials, DUHbya and his admin...
It's just that my first client from my start in the early 80s working on computers hired me to start a computer division - which seemed to go well until I turned over all my business clients to them and then they raised rates, started charging the inflated rates for hours NOT spent ("we'll base our billing on PERCEIVED VALUE!"), and I wrote the bastards off as greedy beyond reproach.
I don't usually reply to ACs, but here's a blanket response to those that have commented on my comment...
First of all, the Paris-Dakar race (gotta leave the "h" out or Google doesn't find anything) is 6,500 miles, and it's more understandable that mechanical failures would become a factor, ESPECIALLY with humans at the controls. I don't even want to count the times I've fsck'ed a vehicle out of desire to get where I need to go vs. thinking about that "noise" coming from the engine, etc. - and I'm actually a pretty good mechanic, qualified to rebuild a V-8 small block chevy as well as a 472 cu Cadillac monster - both of which still run today...(rebuilt in 1972 and 1995 respectively).
As to the prohibitive cost and person-hours involved in autonomous *anything* I can't help but agree. And yes, seven miles is better than crashing outta the gate...but from engine failure? My heart goes out to the Red Team, even though there were more impressive entries with a paltry fraction of the funding CMU's team was able to garner. Hats off to all who tried, and why wait until 2006? As far as I can tell, the concepts are maturing as we speak, and they could probably do this thing again this fall...?
The Washington Post has a good set of pix and video (Flash involved). FWIW, I was figuring that the Red Team's Humvee might make it. What did they do, forget to check the oil? Or perhaps the software went bonkers and left the engine at or over redline with no load?
Ya well, we're playing tonight, and I'll relay the info from this thread. I sent him (and all the guitarists I know) the info on the link to the story's subject, and I think I'll also send them a link to the entire/. story as well.
As it is, it could very well be the problem you described with the nut. I think the strings are beyond the initial stretching, and since he's a veteran of 35 years with guitars, he'd know if that were the case. I played it when he first got it a month or two ago, and noticed that the action itself was stiffer than his old Alvarez, and nowhere near as easy to play as his GF's Martin D-20.
I'll (exercising diplomacy) suggest that he check the nut out; he's actually done similar setup work before as well as intonation, fret jobs, etc. I really want him to take the thing to a Gibson cert'd shop nearby and get a $150 installation of a better pickup - like he has had in other guitars. There's no comparison in the sound quality...we could then run his channel on the board almost flat instead of rolling off all that midrange:))
Yup. Like I said, this is a brand new Hummingbird. This guy has been playing professionally since his mid-teens, and besides his original Les Paul, he's got a Strat, a Tele, an Alvarez acoustic, and ends up trading a couple of extra guitars here and there.
I was of the mindset that the pickups are similar to electromagnets in that the coils generate a small magnetic field as the electricity is produced (or modulated), but not enough to pull on the string any more than the pressure of the fingers near a fret.
If that's not the reason for the frequent need to tune, it's still possible that Gibson "don't make 'em like they used to!"...but as you noted, it's unlikely the tuners are worn or defective.
I'm a keyboard player, and nothing irks me more than having my ears "hurt" through a song while the guitar is out of tune. It certainly is more than distracting while doing a Beatles or Simon & Garfunkle cover and trying to sing properly.
My partner in a Thursday night duo at a local tavern has a sweet new Gibson Hummingbird...but for some reason he has to touch up the tuning every couple of songs. The pickup he uses for now is the type that goes in the "sound hole", and he thinks it's the magnetic pull of the coils that cause the problem. I don't see how, as the pickup should be passive with very little magnetic effect?
I for one, and probably thousands, don't want to see the election between two Yale Skull and Bones (do your own googleing, you'll see what I mean) persons.
People, we have to take this country back. Period, Exclamation Point.
How we actually let it become Dubya's playground is one thing...how we get back to *sane* rule in the US is up to US - yes - U an uS.
Sorry, but a rant was in order. Kerry is also a Skull and Bones member, and those SOBs are interested in a "New World Order" which pretty much means we are still under the influence of the British Crown! Worse than that, it's caused most of the wars we've had in the last 40 years. Read up on it?
I hate Real, and I hate Quicktime. I'd ask that they both die a slow miserable death, but I honestly want them both out of the way so that more open standards will take their place faster.
I Agree wholeheartedly. I had to install from an old copy of RP8 just to watch video from washingtonpost.com because of the inability of RP10 to install properly on my box. I consider myself lucky to have found the install file on another box in my office. They and QT both suck, but they are necessary evils to get the multimedia off the web that most of us have become accustomed to.
To QT's credit, at least it doesn't default to hijack all my extensions to run with it, but it's still slow, annoying, and pisses me off. For AVI files, I've found that Crystal Player works best on my old, crusty PII machine, where MS's player as well as the Divx player are worthless as of the codecs v.4 and up.
Screw real, but I still want my news videos (who watches TV, and if so, why?).
Realistically, unless I spill/spew beer in this model M (and have to get one online for $15) I can deal with absent-mindedly setting caps on when cutting or pasting...I've had to deal with it for 7-8 yrs now.
Ooops! That just gave it away - my main box runs win2k...I'm soooo ashamed!
As far as not having the Fkeys on the left, the weaning period was about that long ago, when I was still using WordPerfect 5.1!
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As to your remarks, I am far from an "elitist prick", although I am willing to guess that you have a HOT water HEATER in your domocile, don't you? Asswiper...I'd give you more rebuttal if you had enough spine to post when logged in...as if you had the spine to even qualify...
Using facial biometrics provides an added, more accurate level of verification than such systems as an ID card (which can be lost or stolen) or a pin number (which can be forgotten or used fraudulently).
Am I the only one in the WORLD who knows what the "N" in "PIN" stands for?
Jeez...and I wanted to think that the lack of knowledge was limited to telephone monkeys and cashiers...
Pardon me, but I think you meant to say:"just like that wonderful nail-biting excrement of 2000"
This explanation is available at the bottom of the page you referenced.
FWIW, there's a good analysis coming from the Brits...
Shame on you, Slashdot!.
My life is in despair because of you!
The process - albeit pokey - ran flawlessly, and was used as a backup to the crap Comm library we'd bought to do it within FoxBase. Yes, I said FoxBase. Pre-M$.
Fond Memories Indeed.
To be also noted was that the same script choked on a 286-12 clone when deployed onsite at the fuel company's site, so it was back to the coding room...got it working somehow.
Good Jibe. Too me, better luck next thyme.
Eff their were no such dings as hypo-Graflex eras, wheat oils wood wee be abel two polk fawn at hear on Dash-Dot? ;-))
Anyway, if you have faster than dial-up, I'll email you a link to listen to what we do, and ask for reciprocal access to mp3s of your stuff?
I'll give you the link anyway, WTF...but not here. I'll try your email.
To their credit, they did only originals, I understand. Seven years or so after Bob divorced his *babe* wife, and I'd lost touch with both of them, I'd gotten together with her and we agreed that the band sucked...especially after she heard my band.
No pointers to that, as we are an acoustic cover trio, doing CSN&Y, S&G, Eagles, Jackson Browne, Springsteen, all old fart music (which we are)
It sounds like your band is going to have some acoustic flavor to it? ;-))
RE: your handle...were you in a band with a similar name? Bob, is that you? Trying a whois on your domain...
When you check out my sig, you'll know where I got it from...
Tbe Knoppix Distro has been helpful at this point - and I'm glad that I kept it around, because I needed to get these people's email transferred without much hassle
I second that! It looks like a faded photo, that wasn't in the "soup" long enough, or washed so that the fixer was still active. Please Fix.!
Prior art is what's needed here, and apple zealots can suck eggs...if it's really them who caused this mis-moderation.
I agree that Google (my research bastion of survival :) should not break up contiguous results - as I've just adapted to the ellipsis-separated phrases in skimming through results. Often I've wished that there were more tricks to use in trimming the "fat" off the result set of data. Perhaps I'll invest some time to try the Advanced Search - but I don't like interfaces with lots of fields (I'm not a data entry person).
However, in my stated opinion of the CPA attitudes that seem to have pervaded (perverted?) that industry, I was able to spout off about a subject that still bothers me...and I concur that Mark Maughan deserves nothing but a spanking for his efforts - in fact he's dropped his ability to be taken seriously even further than SCO has by even becoming a litigant here.
FWIW, CPAs are increasingly getting on my list on the same level as ambulance chasing (well, let's just say all...) lawyers, greedy doctors (most of them), county officials, DUHbya and his admin...
It's just that my first client from my start in the early 80s working on computers hired me to start a computer division - which seemed to go well until I turned over all my business clients to them and then they raised rates, started charging the inflated rates for hours NOT spent ("we'll base our billing on PERCEIVED VALUE!"), and I wrote the bastards off as greedy beyond reproach.
They all suck green donkey...eggs...
My Papa told me when I had a little minibike not to let the thing rev too high without a load...it stuck with me for over 40 years...
First of all, the Paris-Dakar race (gotta leave the "h" out or Google doesn't find anything) is 6,500 miles, and it's more understandable that mechanical failures would become a factor, ESPECIALLY with humans at the controls. I don't even want to count the times I've fsck'ed a vehicle out of desire to get where I need to go vs. thinking about that "noise" coming from the engine, etc. - and I'm actually a pretty good mechanic, qualified to rebuild a V-8 small block chevy as well as a 472 cu Cadillac monster - both of which still run today...(rebuilt in 1972 and 1995 respectively).
As to the prohibitive cost and person-hours involved in autonomous *anything* I can't help but agree. And yes, seven miles is better than crashing outta the gate...but from engine failure? My heart goes out to the Red Team, even though there were more impressive entries with a paltry fraction of the funding CMU's team was able to garner. Hats off to all who tried, and why wait until 2006? As far as I can tell, the concepts are maturing as we speak, and they could probably do this thing again this fall...?
The Washington Post has a good set of pix and video (Flash involved). FWIW, I was figuring that the Red Team's Humvee might make it. What did they do, forget to check the oil? Or perhaps the software went bonkers and left the engine at or over redline with no load?
At nearly the same time, I started reading that by April, the 8.5gb dual layer media and at least two brands of burners will be available.
As it is, it could very well be the problem you described with the nut. I think the strings are beyond the initial stretching, and since he's a veteran of 35 years with guitars, he'd know if that were the case. I played it when he first got it a month or two ago, and noticed that the action itself was stiffer than his old Alvarez, and nowhere near as easy to play as his GF's Martin D-20.
I'll (exercising diplomacy) suggest that he check the nut out; he's actually done similar setup work before as well as intonation, fret jobs, etc. I really want him to take the thing to a Gibson cert'd shop nearby and get a $150 installation of a better pickup - like he has had in other guitars. There's no comparison in the sound quality...we could then run his channel on the board almost flat instead of rolling off all that midrange :))
I was of the mindset that the pickups are similar to electromagnets in that the coils generate a small magnetic field as the electricity is produced (or modulated), but not enough to pull on the string any more than the pressure of the fingers near a fret.
If that's not the reason for the frequent need to tune, it's still possible that Gibson "don't make 'em like they used to!"...but as you noted, it's unlikely the tuners are worn or defective.
My partner in a Thursday night duo at a local tavern has a sweet new Gibson Hummingbird...but for some reason he has to touch up the tuning every couple of songs. The pickup he uses for now is the type that goes in the "sound hole", and he thinks it's the magnetic pull of the coils that cause the problem. I don't see how, as the pickup should be passive with very little magnetic effect?
People, we have to take this country back. Period, Exclamation Point.
How we actually let it become Dubya's playground is one thing...how we get back to *sane* rule in the US is up to US - yes - U an uS.
Sorry, but a rant was in order. Kerry is also a Skull and Bones member, and those SOBs are interested in a "New World Order" which pretty much means we are still under the influence of the British Crown! Worse than that, it's caused most of the wars we've had in the last 40 years. Read up on it?
I Agree wholeheartedly. I had to install from an old copy of RP8 just to watch video from washingtonpost.com because of the inability of RP10 to install properly on my box. I consider myself lucky to have found the install file on another box in my office. They and QT both suck, but they are necessary evils to get the multimedia off the web that most of us have become accustomed to.
To QT's credit, at least it doesn't default to hijack all my extensions to run with it, but it's still slow, annoying, and pisses me off. For AVI files, I've found that Crystal Player works best on my old, crusty PII machine, where MS's player as well as the Divx player are worthless as of the codecs v.4 and up.
Screw real, but I still want my news videos (who watches TV, and if so, why?).
Ooops! That just gave it away - my main box runs win2k...I'm soooo ashamed!
As far as not having the Fkeys on the left, the weaning period was about that long ago, when I was still using WordPerfect 5.1!