Yes, along with nessie and Bigfoot and Elvis who dines at Burger King. Also, if you go to the Smithsonian vaults, you will find The One Ring, The Lost Ark, and Thor's Hammer.
and that the government is great and noble? No?
No. It does not logically follow that mocking hoaxes means that the government is great and noble.
Heh, This guy will soon end up in the oil company holding cell with the guy trying to make a porcelain engine that runs on water...down the hall from the vault containing the Skynet microchips from the future, all those Tesla inventions that the government has been sitting on, alien car motors from Roswell, turbines that run on Orgone energy, and real working cold fusion.
By the way, the porcelain engine with water? I've got one in my bathroom. It turns on when you flip a metal lever.
The smaller (physically) and the bigger (data capacity) that magnetic media gets, the harder it is to destroy (by magnetic field).....until you get ultra-tiny media that is nearly impervious. I think I have one of those 33-gig Hitachi bean-drives around here somewhere... Hold on a sec....
Damn, I think it rolled into that crack in the floorboard.
My wording could have been more clear. The 1541 ACTED like it formatted a paper plate. You'd have to cut the plate, or other piece of cardboard to size, place it in the drive, and then run the format operation. This would proceed and conclude with no error message. This does not mean that the resulting paper disc was ready for Commodore data storage!
You know, we could use this things to determine who wins an election! It would be foolproof: no one would arguing over where the holes are and if they are punched out or not. The possibilities are boundless.
Has anyone posted an item recently on the latest audio encoding advances which make it difficult to make digital copies?
The music industry is working on a new type of CD. It is not that compact, actually: I am guessing that the "medium pizza" size is to make it difficult to actually steal from music stores.
The discs are black, and instead of being encoded with laser-readable bits, the surface is covered with one very long spiralled indentation (or groove). Information engraved in this indentation can be read through a tiny stylus and converted into sound.
To further thwart the digital p2p "rip and post it on Kazaa" world, the audio technology is actually analog instead of digital.
The technology required to burn these things is rather bulky and expensive. Prototypes have been produced by a new audio company called "Decca" (Digital Encoding Concern Company - Advanced), some of the prototypes have turned up at garage sales. These are typically stamped with very old dates (1938? 1941?) to confuse people.
Sony may be on to something here. Imagine encoding information onto the paper using some sort of symbol system that humans could be taught to interpret just by looking at the sheets? No computer necessary?
Sheets of paper encoded like this could be cut square (most efficient use of space) and then bound by the edge so datasets larger than one-sheet's-worth could be looked at in a sequential fashion.
These things are likely to be kind of bulky; if it ever takes off, there might be public buildings where people could borrow from a large repository of these paper-encoded datasets.
This is kind of mind-boggling; it is likely to be years before Sony or anyone else takes it to this next step.
Fines are often too low all-around. Look at the rich Porsche driver. He can easily afford to pay those speeding tickets, can't he?
Now, if Microsoft could be made to pay, let's say, in free goods. Imagine if the government could force them, say, to actually GIVE AWAY an internet browser and also a media/sound file player with Windows. That would really show 'em, right?
Ah, an efficient solar cell. This is the last you will hear of this! Halliburton and Big Oil will immediately buy the patent and sit on it, just like they did the antigravity saucer, the 300 mph carburetor, cold fusion, and Skynet microchips from the future. Save your cache while you can!
There was a company called Apple. Ever hear of them? They went out of business in the early 1980s when the "Apple III" was a sales failure. I've heard of something called Linux, but as far as I know, no-one uses it outside of Finland. "Sun" is rumored to be developing something called OpenOffice, but this is not expected to be released until 2011.
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Can you prove that stuff doesn't exist
Yes, along with nessie and Bigfoot and Elvis who dines at Burger King. Also, if you go to the Smithsonian vaults, you will find The One Ring, The Lost Ark, and Thor's Hammer.
and that the government is great and noble? No?
No. It does not logically follow that mocking hoaxes means that the government is great and noble.
...does it run on water?
Finally, a car designed for Ted Kennedy!
Heh, This guy will soon end up in the oil company holding cell with the guy trying to make a porcelain engine that runs on water ...down the hall from the vault containing the Skynet microchips from the future, all those Tesla inventions that the government has been sitting on, alien car motors from Roswell, turbines that run on Orgone energy, and real working cold fusion.
By the way, the porcelain engine with water? I've got one in my bathroom. It turns on when you flip a metal lever.
Which would still be susceptible to moisture wicking and bloating.
Microsoft Office has been succeptible to bloat for many years now. This wicking thing, that will be a new phenomemon.
The smaller (physically) and the bigger (data capacity) that magnetic media gets, the harder it is to destroy (by magnetic field). ....until you get ultra-tiny media that is nearly impervious. I think I have one of those 33-gig Hitachi bean-drives around here somewhere... Hold on a sec....
Damn, I think it rolled into that crack in the floorboard.
but it doesn't record to paper plates
My wording could have been more clear. The 1541 ACTED like it formatted a paper plate. You'd have to cut the plate, or other piece of cardboard to size, place it in the drive, and then run the format operation. This would proceed and conclude with no error message. This does not mean that the resulting paper disc was ready for Commodore data storage!
You know, we could use this things to determine who wins an election! It would be foolproof: no one would arguing over where the holes are and if they are punched out or not. The possibilities are boundless.
Has anyone posted an item recently on the latest audio encoding advances which make it difficult to make digital copies?
The music industry is working on a new type of CD. It is not that compact, actually: I am guessing that the "medium pizza" size is to make it difficult to actually steal from music stores.
The discs are black, and instead of being encoded with laser-readable bits, the surface is covered with one very long spiralled indentation (or groove). Information engraved in this indentation can be read through a tiny stylus and converted into sound.
To further thwart the digital p2p "rip and post it on Kazaa" world, the audio technology is actually analog instead of digital.
The technology required to burn these things is rather bulky and expensive. Prototypes have been produced by a new audio company called "Decca" (Digital Encoding Concern Company - Advanced), some of the prototypes have turned up at garage sales. These are typically stamped with very old dates (1938? 1941?) to confuse people.
Great idea. I'll get ready right now to file the patent for "encoding data into paper using symbols that can be interpreted by looking at the paper."
It's spelled sarcasm, genius
We would have never known this. Thanks, hero!
Sony may be on to something here. Imagine encoding information onto the paper using some sort of symbol system that humans could be taught to interpret just by looking at the sheets? No computer necessary?
Sheets of paper encoded like this could be cut square (most efficient use of space) and then bound by the edge so datasets larger than one-sheet's-worth could be looked at in a sequential fashion.
These things are likely to be kind of bulky; if it ever takes off, there might be public buildings where people could borrow from a large repository of these paper-encoded datasets.
This is kind of mind-boggling; it is likely to be years before Sony or anyone else takes it to this next step.
Then, if you get raided by "the man" your can simply ignite them like a magician. *POOF* No more incriminating evidence!
You mean.... your illicit copy of "Cheech and Chong Up in Smoke"... up in smoke?
true 25GB isn't enought space for the LoTR super-extended-extra-long-aren't-you-glad-you can-pause-it-to-go-to-the-bathroom edition
There is no need to get up to go; as the movie is printed on its own toilet paper.
I'm reminded of the old Commodore 1541 5.25" floppy disk drive, that could format a paper plate without errors.
George W Bush: "The Internet? What's that?"
Albert W Gore: "I created it"
John F Kerry: "I voted for it, and I voted against it"
Pat Buchanan: "If we stop illegal immigration, the spam and pop-up problem will be taken care of".
"They are giving away Internet browsers and media players, dumbass."
Captain Obvious has saved the day! Thanks! None of us ever knew this.
"He probably heard about it from Rush"
Yes. It is buried somewhere in one of the later stanzas of their hit song "Tom Sawyer". As I recall,
"Today's tom sawyer,
He gets high on you,
And the space he invades
He gets by on you.
No, his mind is not for rent
Ted Kennedy swam in Chappaquiddick
in Cape Code, yet discontent,
He knows changes aren't permanent,
But change is....."
Fines are often too low all-around. Look at the rich Porsche driver. He can easily afford to pay those speeding tickets, can't he?
Now, if Microsoft could be made to pay, let's say, in free goods. Imagine if the government could force them, say, to actually GIVE AWAY an internet browser and also a media/sound file player with Windows. That would really show 'em, right?
If they could make this available on Cape Cod, Ted Kennedy would not have to worry about explaining his drenched suits after he goes driving.
If you consider genie pigs
Oh Genie! Grant me now my 3 wishes:
1. Bacon
2. Pork
3. More pork
Ah, an efficient solar cell. This is the last you will hear of this! Halliburton and Big Oil will immediately buy the patent and sit on it, just like they did the antigravity saucer, the 300 mph carburetor, cold fusion, and Skynet microchips from the future. Save your cache while you can!
Look at it this way. The pilots will be happy because they won't have those annoying "fly the plane" tasks interfering with their drinking schedule.
That's one milestone down. Now the airline can move forward with plans for training koala bears to fly the planes.
What if the guy loses the suit and pays for it with his American Express card?
Microsoft has competitors? Where?
There was a company called Apple. Ever hear of them? They went out of business in the early 1980s when the "Apple III" was a sales failure. I've heard of something called Linux, but as far as I know, no-one uses it outside of Finland. "Sun" is rumored to be developing something called OpenOffice, but this is not expected to be released until 2011.