I got my second-hand sl5500 for US$150. This is a fair price for one, if you can find someone willing to sell.. not easy, because a fully tweaked/config'ed sl5500 is sweet computing goodness..
Personalyl, I'm trying to save for/justify a sl6000..
Rubbish. You can iron the wrinkles out of plastic money far better than you can with paper money.
Plastic money starts brand new, almost immediately becomes significantly worn, and then stays there long after paper money would have dissolved to shreds.
I call bullshit. I've got, in front of me right now, my last US$20 and my last AUS$20, which I've had floating around my wallet as 'souvenirs' for the last 2 years. Guess which one is more worn, and which one still looks exactly the way it did when I got it, crisp from the bank down under?
How do you know it is more robust? Have you used both currencies?
Why yes, I have. Aussie money I can go surfing with, diving, swim all day, enter the desert, no problems. Get back to the beach, buy my mates beer. Money is fully intact.
You've got it backwards. The manipulation of minds is just a tool to them, the people in power who seek to stay in power. Politicians have been messing with people's heads since before anyone ever heard of "psychology".
Yeah, well, 'psychology' is something thats been around for a long time, in one form or another.
Always beware the men behind the curtain, 'telling people how to think about the world'! Study History if you want to know more of how insidious it is! As a virulent meme, it is truly insidious in todays society!
I just liked the fact that I turned on CNN that day, its 2004, and I saw a flying saucer-like object plummeting out of control and smash into the ground, along with a whole nation (or so)...
Its 2004! Yay for the plummeting space saucers falling out of the sky!
Why do you trust the people at the FBI more than you trust yourself and the other civilians that the people at the FBI are employed as servants of?
Because he doesn't trust himself? Because he doesn't trust any other civilian members of society?
Because he has been brain-washed into thinking that "Them" are high and mighty, and because "He" is just a me-me-me consumerican bot, worshipful of none but Self?
Americans do not see just how much they (the public) have been 'manipulated' into the position they're currently in, through Psychological programs designed to create a society and order that is more malleable and responsive to mass media and 'the mob mind'. These programs have been in effect, in the American system, for over 50 years now, and they have worked. Bush is evidence of that. PNAC is evidence of that.
Psychologists have, for years, been driving campaigns to 'mold' the public mindset for their political masters, and shape a society that is more directly malleable. It has been a fact in American politics since the first so-called "Doctors of Psychology" have held positions in the U.S. Government, as 'advisors'.
The Anthrax psy-op. The Be-headings psy-op. The 9/11 coverup. PATRIOT Act is a blatant psy-op (when did it get passed, again, and by who? And how?).. FOX News is a tool of the Psychological Order of High Priests.
Americans are Victims of their own Strict Subservience to Thinking The Way You're Supposed To, granted to them by High Priests of Psychology, through their manipulation of pop culture.
Psychology is a weapon! It has been used against you!
Weed out this insidious cult, Americans! The organized movements of Pscyhology which have your government in their grips are Working Against The American Public. It may 'seem fantastic' to you, but just look at the reality. The reality is, a very significant portion of America has been converted into a nation of subservient victims of psychology and so-called 'religious thinking' (Christian cults are Psy-op Wastelands already), sheep ready and willing to 'go with the mob' and 'be part of society' in ways that only give the ruling class even more control...
"There is nothing you can do about it" == psy-op product.
"The powers that be know what they're doing" == psy-op product.
&etc.
America's true enemy are the ones you cannot see, the 'obvious' advisors and 'leaders of opinion' who use their position behind-the-ear of government leaders to manipulate mass opinion and perspective...
The Mega-Plugin packs are pretty interesting, but if nothing else (I hate using computers for music) it demonstrates just how fun it is to write software to do specific things, when things are set up for you, and you need only focus on finite things.
Synth plugin developers are starting to become a dime a dozen, just like PHP monkeys and C junkies in the 90's and 80's.. so I'm not *so* nervy about all the Logic features.
Be interesting to see where Apple take the hardware side of this 'synthesizer' train they're on, and somehow own, now...
If they're going to use "Ads" to generate "revenue" from what should, in all conscience, be considered a public resource (since its public news, from public sources), then they ought to -really- sell Ads.
What I mean is, open the Ad-space to *all*, not just multi-million-dollar accounts.
If the only $-proposition to be made from Google harvesting and data-crunching publicly sourced material is founded in their unique ability to go from "idea -> Working System -> Cultural Meme -> Brand Reality", then they ought to be being really agressive about it, and working out how to use the culture of their audience, to exploit the Ad-space.
Give me the ability to easily push a message to a few million users on a Friday afternoon, give me good stats about it and reasons to want to use Google to push that message a couple times a day. I'd use that, hell yeah. (I'm an active online artist.. a guaranteed audience of 10,000 people around the world on a Friday afternoon is a serious reason to write a new song..)
All Google need do is implement a "no single Ad twice in the same 24 hours" (or less) and open up a no-nonsense portion of their massaged content to a public RSS-style feed, and they've got a money-maker...
errmm.. its a bit more than just 'names and numbers' sonny boy. its also organized, pre-culled, ripe. it could be used, in the hands of terrorists, for ill gain!
i can think of ways to use it harmfully, and i swear: i'm not a ter'rist.. i'm not even clever or smart! imagine what those brainiacs in al-q'aeda are capable of, fer cryin' out loud..
yeah and in the meantime everything decays into fascist dictatorships and military governments, millions of people die, the end of 'modern culture' as it is known, and a period, literally, of new dark ages..
wonder what would happen to those future societies that survive whatever happens to the human social order through all that, only to 're-discover' dormant nuclear and other scientific facilities under all that dust.. we simply don't take enough responsibility for the fate of the future, let alone our own, but i can't help think that the two are connected.
bah. on one hand, your 'sense of history' fashions the statement 'represented a unique channel of distribution' as a lecture of pre-modern 'media'.
on the other hand, your flimsy argument dismisses all that implies, entirely, when applied to 'back of the DVD scan-in' "alternative-channel" video games/hacks.
the point is, video games mfr's have "MORE CHANNELS THAN THEY KNOW", in that they can create a sub-market/culture/environment with sneaky 'B-side' style thinking in their box delivery channel. do for videogame/packaging/ (the ony bit that differentiates the company from its pirates) what kelloggs did for corn-flakes; made the box more interesting!
In other words, put stuff physically *ON* the DVD which makes it more valuable, so that its not so 'readily' depreciable by online content delivery systems.
this is 'B-side' thinking.
It's even kind of interesting. But I don't see how it would do anything for resurrecting "innovation in gaming" any more than new channels of distribution (e.g. the Internet) are already doing.
In the eyes of a media person, the notion of 'unique channel' is an interesting one. What I hope comes of this is renewed thinking on the part of 'media giants' on the values of independent channels, created at will by any group who wills it.
This is the lesson of the Internet, after all, that it is groups of people, organized, who get things done/make things happen/blow big bubbles... if they create a 'counter-culture' B-side media channel on their boxes and in their games packages, I could see there being a lot of interest in actually buying these things at retail.
Bar-code videogames/cheat-codes that work with Nintendo and are printed on my XBox game CD might make for some interesting 'warfare' among the media giants..
What is this obsessive-compulsive devaluation that you must cater to?
Okay, today its a 'sub-orbital' rocket, but thats still better than yesterday. And maybe tomorrow he'll build a bus that can take 30 people up there and bring them safely again.... what then, naysayer? "oh, but orbit is crass, the 'real' space challenge is on the moon'..
Freakin' negative people. I swear. They are so noisy...
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I got my second-hand sl5500 for US$150. This is a fair price for one, if you can find someone willing to sell .. not easy, because a fully tweaked/config'ed sl5500 is sweet computing goodness..
..
Personalyl, I'm trying to save for/justify a sl6000
He's not trying to take over the world or whatever nefarious deeds you've conjured up in your imaginations.
Umm.. yes he is. I can't believe you don't think that he is.
Afghanistan, Iraq == "Two Shining Examples of Western Democracy In the Middle East"
My ass he's not trying!
Yes, but Australia's polymer banknotes have been copied
.. I suppose you've never heard of the "Super Dollar", eh?
Yes, but
Rubbish. You can iron the wrinkles out of plastic money far better than you can with paper money.
Plastic money starts brand new, almost immediately becomes significantly worn, and then stays there long after paper money would have dissolved to shreds.
I call bullshit. I've got, in front of me right now, my last US$20 and my last AUS$20, which I've had floating around my wallet as 'souvenirs' for the last 2 years. Guess which one is more worn, and which one still looks exactly the way it did when I got it, crisp from the bank down under?
How do you know it is more robust? Have you used both currencies?
.. erm .. no.
..)
Why yes, I have. Aussie money I can go surfing with, diving, swim all day, enter the desert, no problems. Get back to the beach, buy my mates beer. Money is fully intact.
U.S. greenbacks, even the new ones
(Aussie dollars are plastic, though, so
I'd like to wise up and stop, like, now.
Cool. Go look at the stars then, and think about your life.
you want indestructible? try aussie currency .. the requirements for aussie $ are much more demanding than for Greenback$ ..
(its got holograms.)
Yeah, that .. umm .. "Psychology PhD" is useless, dude. You're a plebe.
You've got it backwards. The manipulation of minds is just a tool to them, the people in power who seek to stay in power. Politicians have been messing with people's heads since before anyone ever heard of "psychology".
Yeah, well, 'psychology' is something thats been around for a long time, in one form or another.
Always beware the men behind the curtain, 'telling people how to think about the world'! Study History if you want to know more of how insidious it is! As a virulent meme, it is truly insidious in todays society!
Ha ha, no!
But thats a 'nice' response to my post, though.. sure, why not, go ahead and 'belittle me' instead of actually looking at the facts.
American Psychology isn't!
I just liked the fact that I turned on CNN that day, its 2004, and I saw a flying saucer-like object plummeting out of control and smash into the ground, along with a whole nation (or so)...
Its 2004! Yay for the plummeting space saucers falling out of the sky!
It is *you* who are wrapped in shiny tin foil, made for you by your Madison Avenue masters ...
Why do you trust the people at the FBI more than you trust yourself and the other civilians that the people at the FBI are employed as servants of?
Because he doesn't trust himself? Because he doesn't trust any other civilian members of society?
Because he has been brain-washed into thinking that "Them" are high and mighty, and because "He" is just a me-me-me consumerican bot, worshipful of none but Self?
Americans do not see just how much they (the public) have been 'manipulated' into the position they're currently in, through Psychological programs designed to create a society and order that is more malleable and responsive to mass media and 'the mob mind'. These programs have been in effect, in the American system, for over 50 years now, and they have worked. Bush is evidence of that. PNAC is evidence of that.
.. FOX News is a tool of the Psychological Order of High Priests.
Psychologists have, for years, been driving campaigns to 'mold' the public mindset for their political masters, and shape a society that is more directly malleable. It has been a fact in American politics since the first so-called "Doctors of Psychology" have held positions in the U.S. Government, as 'advisors'.
The Anthrax psy-op. The Be-headings psy-op. The 9/11 coverup. PATRIOT Act is a blatant psy-op (when did it get passed, again, and by who? And how?)
Americans are Victims of their own Strict Subservience to Thinking The Way You're Supposed To, granted to them by High Priests of Psychology, through their manipulation of pop culture.
Psychology is a weapon! It has been used against you!
Weed out this insidious cult, Americans! The organized movements of Pscyhology which have your government in their grips are Working Against The American Public. It may 'seem fantastic' to you, but just look at the reality. The reality is, a very significant portion of America has been converted into a nation of subservient victims of psychology and so-called 'religious thinking' (Christian cults are Psy-op Wastelands already), sheep ready and willing to 'go with the mob' and 'be part of society' in ways that only give the ruling class even more control...
"There is nothing you can do about it" == psy-op product.
"The powers that be know what they're doing" == psy-op product.
&etc.
America's true enemy are the ones you cannot see, the 'obvious' advisors and 'leaders of opinion' who use their position behind-the-ear of government leaders to manipulate mass opinion and perspective...
The Mega-Plugin packs are pretty interesting, but if nothing else (I hate using computers for music) it demonstrates just how fun it is to write software to do specific things, when things are set up for you, and you need only focus on finite things.
.. so I'm not *so* nervy about all the Logic features.
...
Synth plugin developers are starting to become a dime a dozen, just like PHP monkeys and C junkies in the 90's and 80's
Be interesting to see where Apple take the hardware side of this 'synthesizer' train they're on, and somehow own, now
[x] Java Programmer.
If they're going to use "Ads" to generate "revenue" from what should, in all conscience, be considered a public resource (since its public news, from public sources), then they ought to -really- sell Ads.
What I mean is, open the Ad-space to *all*, not just multi-million-dollar accounts.
If the only $-proposition to be made from Google harvesting and data-crunching publicly sourced material is founded in their unique ability to go from "idea -> Working System -> Cultural Meme -> Brand Reality", then they ought to be being really agressive about it, and working out how to use the culture of their audience, to exploit the Ad-space.
Give me the ability to easily push a message to a few million users on a Friday afternoon, give me good stats about it and reasons to want to use Google to push that message a couple times a day. I'd use that, hell yeah. (I'm an active online artist
All Google need do is implement a "no single Ad twice in the same 24 hours" (or less) and open up a no-nonsense portion of their massaged content to a public RSS-style feed, and they've got a money-maker
[jib]
errmm.. its a bit more than just 'names and numbers' sonny boy. its also organized, pre-culled, ripe. it could be used, in the hands of terrorists, for ill gain!
i can think of ways to use it harmfully, and i swear: i'm not a ter'rist.. i'm not even clever or smart! imagine what those brainiacs in al-q'aeda are capable of, fer cryin' out loud..
[/jib]
Yeah. I'm sorry. But if this isn't a major national security threat, then what is?
Lets see if the DHS has any interest in this? They ought to, right?
wake me up when larry (as in flynt) is using it..
'fluid' is not a part.
yeah and in the meantime everything decays into fascist dictatorships and military governments, millions of people die, the end of 'modern culture' as it is known, and a period, literally, of new dark ages
wonder what would happen to those future societies that survive whatever happens to the human social order through all that, only to 're-discover' dormant nuclear and other scientific facilities under all that dust
bah. on one hand, your 'sense of history' fashions the statement 'represented a unique channel of distribution' as a lecture of pre-modern 'media'.
on the other hand, your flimsy argument dismisses all that implies, entirely, when applied to 'back of the DVD scan-in' "alternative-channel" video games/hacks.
the point is, video games mfr's have "MORE CHANNELS THAN THEY KNOW", in that they can create a sub-market/culture/environment with sneaky 'B-side' style thinking in their box delivery channel. do for videogame
In other words, put stuff physically *ON* the DVD which makes it more valuable, so that its not so 'readily' depreciable by online content delivery systems.
this is 'B-side' thinking.
It's even kind of interesting. But I don't see how it would do anything for resurrecting "innovation in gaming" any more than new channels of distribution (e.g. the Internet) are already doing.
In the eyes of a media person, the notion of 'unique channel' is an interesting one. What I hope comes of this is renewed thinking on the part of 'media giants' on the values of independent channels, created at will by any group who wills it.
This is the lesson of the Internet, after all, that it is groups of people, organized, who get things done/make things happen/blow big bubbles... if they create a 'counter-culture' B-side media channel on their boxes and in their games packages, I could see there being a lot of interest in actually buying these things at retail.
Bar-code videogames/cheat-codes that work with Nintendo and are printed on my XBox game CD might make for some interesting 'warfare' among the media giants..
What is this obsessive-compulsive devaluation that you must cater to?
.. .. what then, naysayer? "oh, but orbit is crass, the 'real' space challenge is on the moon' ..
Okay, today its a 'sub-orbital' rocket, but thats still better than yesterday. And maybe tomorrow he'll build a bus that can take 30 people up there and bring them safely again
Freakin' negative people. I swear. They are so noisy...
1GB means it'll be a LONG time before you run out.
.. ;)
hah hah! you haven't been around the computer industry long, have you sonny boy