I mean come on. We all saw this coming...when the iPod came out and took over the world. We had a iPod, a cell phone, one if not two other pagers and a Palm...all clipped to our belts along with our shoulder slung notebook. That is the neo-pocket protector. A bunch of techno-gadgets.
The marriage of all these devices was going to happen sooner or later. So here it is and the "folding table in the mall computer club" morons are saying how it is a just a pop culture fad and cannot possibly be as amazing as the Amiga.
Like the Macintosh and iPod that ushered in radcial change so too will the iPhone change the way we work, play, live and communicate. I for one will probably buy one. I held off on buying an iPod because I already carry a pager and a cell phone and wish to limit number amount of "crap that beeps". I stopped lugging a notebook around. And now I will glad the day comes I can say fuggit to a pager, and cellphone, dropping everything I am doing to find a computer that I can access work with to fix junk.
The iPhone will be "Lord of the bling."
Be the security Nazi...watch how fast you get promoted and lavished with praise and money. Here is a template.
In still fear by over promoting the risk.
Hire a aduiting firm to tell you what to do.
Install keyloggers on each workstation and create the corporation's largest database. Then implement a sexy program to find "bad thoughts"
Fire a few people and put the fear in your employees.
Who cares if it has nothing to do with the business...we at war.
I enjoy the stammering non-overlapped, halting, jerky conversations on cell phones it is soooo modern. We might as well of gone back to hitting each other the face with sticks.
"HI" - long pause - "hey". "where - WHERE ARE YOU are you at?"
WHAT?
Vertical Take off and landing. Notice the lack of heat, that is simple escaping gas, notice the lake of "smoke" or product of a oxygen reaction, the liquid and frost?...Some compressed gas propellent in the form of pressurized liquid was used to propel this "pod". Probably a test of the computer controls required to do a vertical landing.
The pod will probably be deployed atop a conventional rocket to shoot tourists into low earth orbit, take some snaps, puke in zero G then fall to earth, chute deploys then the last 5000 feet or so the landing "spray" take over with non-explosive propellent...for a safe, soft touch down.
Makes perfect sense, it is safer than splatting craft on the ground like the Russians do, and craft recovery is much cheaper with a soft touch landing than a splash down. Aircraft carriers are expensive.
I could be way off base...but don't expect any "secret amazing" drive technology out of commercial space vehicles. It is really about making space tourism, safe, repeatable and profitable.
We are not in front, behind or anywhere...we simply are part of a wiggling, vibrating universe that has been fooling our simple brains. What did the electromagnetic energy of the big bang pass through?
I think we are wrong about the big bang....and about time. We operating on an assumption that "time" is real. If you take time out of astronomy then the big bang falls apart. "We" perceive the constant vibration of the universe has the passage of time because that is how our brains cope with our existence. There is a growing movement of people who are starting to look at time, how we measure it how we assume that it is a constant. For the most part time is defined in the boundaries of our ability see, hear, feel...we see time from the result of movement or change, the decay of atoms the result of potential energy on a spring, a flow of elections, the spinning of earth. Is that time?
We cannot break free of this except when we are unconscious or "zoned out". Nothing will come of our research into the origins of the universe until we ourselves transcend conventional thinking. It won't be science alone that allows us to discover and understand the universe. It will be mostly evolution. At some moment there will be an explosion of awareness and the universe as we have come to to believe will not be the same as our brains will evolve to a point where we will easily see beyond the "facade" of the universe. We will be aware of how we are not "in" the universe but part of it in a very profound way and we will see that the universe is not complicated, mysterious or grand. When we do that we will be able to do things unimaginable in our current plane of existence.
Proof? None needed. Faith? Not required. Being?....that is a good start.
Get over it. It is coming....soon every sq foot of new space created will require a proportionate amount square footage of solar panels "somewhere". If not on the roof then it will be someone else's existing roof.
If someone is building a high rise or apartment, office building they will figure out how to fulfill as much of that as possible...if they can't then they pay into a fund that retrofits existing LOW INCOME inner city roof tops with panels and storage equipment. Basically it will become a requirement. And we will be generating electricity from countless millions of solar panels all across this country in 50 years.
Energy solutions in the future will require a broad range of technologies and Solar panels on every available roof top is one of them. Think of our rooftops....like a vast untapped oil field waiting to be drilled....there is huge money to be made for sure that will drive help drive the economy for decades, And help reduce our fossil fuel consumption and green house gas production.
We would be generating an amazing amount of electricity in a few years. Solar Panels even if 10% efficient are still valuable even in northern areas....
But the McMansion new home builders would rather give you vaulted three story ceilings and giant windows, rather than a few solar panels...
What is the opposite, earth destroying selfish bonehead?
The fact you pointed out that fossil fuels are going to run out is key. If we don't start to change our behavior in regards to fossil fuel consumption (which we "freaks" are already doing) then the earth destroying selfish boneheads are in for a shock. So are we to provide exceptions for those fools who believe that they deserve to consume more than a fair share of global resources?
Think about how to balance fuel consumption and global warming while you row your boat down fifth avenue to work.
Global warming minimizers are quick to forget that a huge percentage of the earth's population live not far above sea level. And it seems possible that those levels are going to be significantly higher in the coming century at our present rate of consumption.
Do what you can do now. Reduce, recycle, buy more efficient transportation or use mass transit when possible, use renewable energy sources...is this so difficult to do? Make plans for the future, set an example for children to follow. Living heavy with all the toys and the lights on does not set the example.
At MIlwaukee's big music festival, Summerfest on the lake front people try to find each other by navigating on the phone...it is hilarious trying to find someone in a crowd via cell phone.
I, Loyal Citizen of the Republic, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Ummmmm where does it say I pledge to Protect the President from crimes committed while in Office?
That is the difference between CD and Analog. Analog is continuous and smooth it is real sound. Digital to Analog Converters (DACs) attempt to introduce and smooth the digital approximation...really good quality DACs are constantly being developed and there are many really cheap, bad sounding ones out there.
For vinyl, how fequency range is a factor of how tight the track is cut. Packing more time onto a disk results in a narrower frequency range. Also how much surface area is used for a given period of time of music. 15" 45 rpm disk sound fantastic on my vintage pioneer stereo.
Having engineered both digital and analog music recordings certain aspects of analog are *STILL* trying to be replicated in the digital environment. Hence the oodles of plugins, pre-amps and all sort of gadgets to saturate the digital info with a facade of analog tone.
The biggest influence on vintage analog recordings presented on vinyl is that the entrie process was done from start to finish to produce a vinyl product. the recording process, artist performance, mixing, editing, mastering all contribute to the sound. Digital recordings are awesome and have brought the capabilities of recording ot millions of musicians. ONe thing is for sure the 7" revival is a product of nostalgia and cetainly is promoted by labels becasue they still have the technology and talent to produce vinyl well. Artists like the White Stripes have long used "low tech" analog recording techniques (8-track analog tape ) So presenting the that recording is well suited to a vinyl product. Mastering for vinyl is a black art that few really know how to do well...
On my bands CD we recorded digitally. In the mastering process we bounced the 24 bit 48 Khz multitrack mix with mastering plugins on master faders, to 1/4 analog tape. Then brought that back into two track, 24 bit 48 KHz digital, one more EQ touch and the two track master was all dumbed down to 16 bit 41 KHz and dithered.
We made side by side blind comparisons listening to a burned CD and picked the tape bounced version for it's musicality and smoothness...it simply sounded better when the music had some true tape saturation introduced.
As long as musicians and recording artists care about the virtues of analog. It will be around. I for one sometime feel I can here the stuttering steps of a digital approximation of a sine wave. Certainly our brains are hearing it and that translates into listening fatigue. Common in CDs....
I think it is great to have new 7" vinyl around still. I have a 7" of a band I was in the 80's somewhere....I haven't listened to it in ages...hmmmmm....gonna have to dig around, I forgot completly about that...
Sail.
It makes so much sence to incorporate sail technology back into shipping. Wind after all is free. The only reason sail was abandoned was because diesel became so cheap, ships faster and larger that sail became too costly.
...sail's last hurrah...
1949 - "316-foot, four-masted square-rigger Pamir on the last voyage around Cape Horn by a freight-carrying sailing ship, a passage from Australia to England that marked the end of the Great Age of Sail."
Under new "laws" (decrees) being drafted by Bush minions they can simply declare him a enemy combatant, torture him and the find him guilty in a secret military tribunal.
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I mean come on. We all saw this coming...when the iPod came out and took over the world. We had a iPod, a cell phone, one if not two other pagers and a Palm...all clipped to our belts along with our shoulder slung notebook. That is the neo-pocket protector. A bunch of techno-gadgets.
The marriage of all these devices was going to happen sooner or later. So here it is and the "folding table in the mall computer club" morons are saying how it is a just a pop culture fad and cannot possibly be as amazing as the Amiga.
Like the Macintosh and iPod that ushered in radcial change so too will the iPhone change the way we work, play, live and communicate. I for one will probably buy one. I held off on buying an iPod because I already carry a pager and a cell phone and wish to limit number amount of "crap that beeps". I stopped lugging a notebook around. And now I will glad the day comes I can say fuggit to a pager, and cellphone, dropping everything I am doing to find a computer that I can access work with to fix junk.
The iPhone will be "Lord of the bling."
Be the security Nazi...watch how fast you get promoted and lavished with praise and money. Here is a template.
In still fear by over promoting the risk.
Hire a aduiting firm to tell you what to do.
Install keyloggers on each workstation and create the corporation's largest database. Then implement a sexy program to find "bad thoughts"
Fire a few people and put the fear in your employees.
Who cares if it has nothing to do with the business...we at war.
I mean come on...what good are multiple cores if you are still thunking the video display.
Global warming is a lie...and I was attacked by pirates.
I enjoy the stammering non-overlapped, halting, jerky conversations on cell phones it is soooo modern. We might as well of gone back to hitting each other the face with sticks.
"HI" - long pause - "hey". "where - WHERE ARE YOU are you at?"
WHAT?
long pause - "you there?" - long pause - "YES"
I guess I will go back to watching TV..now there is a activity that extends the human condition.
:snark:
Yes but the tough part is writing it so you can manipulate the results with out detection....using a JET engine...sheesh...
Vertical Take off and landing. Notice the lack of heat, that is simple escaping gas, notice the lake of "smoke" or product of a oxygen reaction, the liquid and frost?...Some compressed gas propellent in the form of pressurized liquid was used to propel this "pod". Probably a test of the computer controls required to do a vertical landing.
The pod will probably be deployed atop a conventional rocket to shoot tourists into low earth orbit, take some snaps, puke in zero G then fall to earth, chute deploys then the last 5000 feet or so the landing "spray" take over with non-explosive propellent...for a safe, soft touch down.
Makes perfect sense, it is safer than splatting craft on the ground like the Russians do, and craft recovery is much cheaper with a soft touch landing than a splash down. Aircraft carriers are expensive.
I could be way off base...but don't expect any "secret amazing" drive technology out of commercial space vehicles. It is really about making space tourism, safe, repeatable and profitable.
-=Space Pod=- coming to a Six Flags near you.....
::barf::
Worst AND most annoying song of 2006.
We are not in front, behind or anywhere...we simply are part of a wiggling, vibrating universe that has been fooling our simple brains. What did the electromagnetic energy of the big bang pass through?
I think we are wrong about the big bang....and about time. We operating on an assumption that "time" is real. If you take time out of astronomy then the big bang falls apart. "We" perceive the constant vibration of the universe has the passage of time because that is how our brains cope with our existence. There is a growing movement of people who are starting to look at time, how we measure it how we assume that it is a constant. For the most part time is defined in the boundaries of our ability see, hear, feel...we see time from the result of movement or change, the decay of atoms the result of potential energy on a spring, a flow of elections, the spinning of earth. Is that time?
We cannot break free of this except when we are unconscious or "zoned out". Nothing will come of our research into the origins of the universe until we ourselves transcend conventional thinking. It won't be science alone that allows us to discover and understand the universe. It will be mostly evolution. At some moment there will be an explosion of awareness and the universe as we have come to to believe will not be the same as our brains will evolve to a point where we will easily see beyond the "facade" of the universe. We will be aware of how we are not "in" the universe but part of it in a very profound way and we will see that the universe is not complicated, mysterious or grand. When we do that we will be able to do things unimaginable in our current plane of existence.
Proof? None needed. Faith? Not required. Being?....that is a good start.
How many lines does this post have?
fragging and gibbing all day...those were the days.
Get over it. It is coming....soon every sq foot of new space created will require a proportionate amount square footage of solar panels "somewhere". If not on the roof then it will be someone else's existing roof.
If someone is building a high rise or apartment, office building they will figure out how to fulfill as much of that as possible...if they can't then they pay into a fund that retrofits existing LOW INCOME inner city roof tops with panels and storage equipment. Basically it will become a requirement. And we will be generating electricity from countless millions of solar panels all across this country in 50 years.
Energy solutions in the future will require a broad range of technologies and Solar panels on every available roof top is one of them. Think of our rooftops....like a vast untapped oil field waiting to be drilled....there is huge money to be made for sure that will drive help drive the economy for decades, And help reduce our fossil fuel consumption and green house gas production.
We would be generating an amazing amount of electricity in a few years. Solar Panels even if 10% efficient are still valuable even in northern areas....
But the McMansion new home builders would rather give you vaulted three story ceilings and giant windows, rather than a few solar panels...
So I tipped back in my chair and put my feet on the desk. Now all I have to do is convince the ergo department to tell my boss it is okay.
What is a global warming freak?
What is the opposite, earth destroying selfish bonehead?
The fact you pointed out that fossil fuels are going to run out is key. If we don't start to change our behavior in regards to fossil fuel consumption (which we "freaks" are already doing) then the earth destroying selfish boneheads are in for a shock. So are we to provide exceptions for those fools who believe that they deserve to consume more than a fair share of global resources?
Think about how to balance fuel consumption and global warming while you row your boat down fifth avenue to work.
Global warming minimizers are quick to forget that a huge percentage of the earth's population live not far above sea level. And it seems possible that those levels are going to be significantly higher in the coming century at our present rate of consumption.
Do what you can do now. Reduce, recycle, buy more efficient transportation or use mass transit when possible, use renewable energy sources...is this so difficult to do? Make plans for the future, set an example for children to follow. Living heavy with all the toys and the lights on does not set the example.
If I was a defense contractor reading that I would say..."Hmmm can we make it portable, about the size of a rifle?"
At MIlwaukee's big music festival, Summerfest on the lake front people try to find each other by navigating on the phone...it is hilarious trying to find someone in a crowd via cell phone.
After being told to "Let them eat cake."
Does that make me a crumudgeon?
I, Loyal Citizen of the Republic, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Ummmmm where does it say I pledge to Protect the President from crimes committed while in Office?
Oops 12" not 15"....fat finger
That is the difference between CD and Analog. Analog is continuous and smooth it is real sound. Digital to Analog Converters (DACs) attempt to introduce and smooth the digital approximation...really good quality DACs are constantly being developed and there are many really cheap, bad sounding ones out there.
For vinyl, how fequency range is a factor of how tight the track is cut. Packing more time onto a disk results in a narrower frequency range. Also how much surface area is used for a given period of time of music. 15" 45 rpm disk sound fantastic on my vintage pioneer stereo.
Having engineered both digital and analog music recordings certain aspects of analog are *STILL* trying to be replicated in the digital environment. Hence the oodles of plugins, pre-amps and all sort of gadgets to saturate the digital info with a facade of analog tone.
The biggest influence on vintage analog recordings presented on vinyl is that the entrie process was done from start to finish to produce a vinyl product. the recording process, artist performance, mixing, editing, mastering all contribute to the sound. Digital recordings are awesome and have brought the capabilities of recording ot millions of musicians. ONe thing is for sure the 7" revival is a product of nostalgia and cetainly is promoted by labels becasue they still have the technology and talent to produce vinyl well. Artists like the White Stripes have long used "low tech" analog recording techniques (8-track analog tape ) So presenting the that recording is well suited to a vinyl product. Mastering for vinyl is a black art that few really know how to do well...
On my bands CD we recorded digitally. In the mastering process we bounced the 24 bit 48 Khz multitrack mix with mastering plugins on master faders, to 1/4 analog tape. Then brought that back into two track, 24 bit 48 KHz digital, one more EQ touch and the two track master was all dumbed down to 16 bit 41 KHz and dithered.
We made side by side blind comparisons listening to a burned CD and picked the tape bounced version for it's musicality and smoothness...it simply sounded better when the music had some true tape saturation introduced.
As long as musicians and recording artists care about the virtues of analog. It will be around. I for one sometime feel I can here the stuttering steps of a digital approximation of a sine wave. Certainly our brains are hearing it and that translates into listening fatigue. Common in CDs....
I think it is great to have new 7" vinyl around still. I have a 7" of a band I was in the 80's somewhere....I haven't listened to it in ages...hmmmmm....gonna have to dig around, I forgot completly about that...
http://soul-amp.com/
Sail. It makes so much sence to incorporate sail technology back into shipping. Wind after all is free. The only reason sail was abandoned was because diesel became so cheap, ships faster and larger that sail became too costly.
...sail's last hurrah...
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1949 - "316-foot, four-masted square-rigger Pamir on the last voyage around Cape Horn by a freight-carrying sailing ship, a passage from Australia to England that marked the end of the Great Age of Sail."
http://www.sailingmagazine.net/fullby0104.html
Seems someone has the idea...of using wind to aid ship propulsion.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13325827/site/newswee
http://www.skysails.info/
Under new "laws" (decrees) being drafted by Bush minions they can simply declare him a enemy combatant, torture him and the find him guilty in a secret military tribunal.