kazaa functionality with K++ tidiness
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there is also an alternative to the adware/spyware-free K++. diet kazaa is an add-on for kazaa that strips it of adware and spyware. so who really needs K++ anymore?
heh, glad to see/. is up to date. this was on metafilter yesterday. and they included a link to a site that still has K++ for download. you can find it here.
this is the fourth article in three days that i've read on mefi before slashdot. if this is a continuing trend, there's no need to be a subscriber. mefi is free.
fortunately, there was no beer shortage this weekend, as the abc filled all orders from last week. but if this isn't fixed soon, we could have shortages for the next three home games. and if we have no beer when lsu fans start to roll in, there may actually be a war. oh wait, maybe their won't be. maybe the lack of alcohol will actually make the lsu fans bearable....nahhhh
Infected computers were programmed to automatically launch an attack on a Web site operated by Microsoft, which the software maker easily blunted. The site, windowsupdate.com, is used to deliver repairing software patches to Microsoft customers to prevent against these types of infections.
uh, yeah, if you mean by blunted they took the site down. i can block the worm from my computer too! just let me pull this power cor/
i had one of these pens, MANY years ago. and you can still get them. see here for at least one option. the barrels used to say that they were made of corn, and were biodegradable. they used to come in yellow bodies with green caps. not the prettiest pen, but at least it was environmentally friendly.
(a terrible name for a game since you can't search on it)
can't search on it? has everyone forgotten the tried and true url name game? you simply type www.'whateveryouaresearchingfor'.com and see if it pops up. i thought everybody did this...
and, of course, if.com doesn't bring up anything, you proceed on to.org and.net, and any others you thing might pop up. this works great for business urls, like airlines and such.
actually, the nasdaq halted trading this morning on worldcom and mci stock. see here. so current prices are $.83 for worldcom, down $.08, and $1.68 for mci, down $.13. and why is it now that everyone's recommending bankruptcy? shouldn't they have thought about that earlier?
heh, so when are we going to be able to threaten the world saying, 'hey, give us your oil/money/bombs/women or we'll teleport laser beams to hit your leaders' heads.'
talk about stealth assasination. maybe we could even teleport the beam in, let it do it's job, then teleport it out. all this, of course, in a fraction of a second. and no trace!
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actually, the eno recording you are referring to is called discreet music, from 1975. from the liner notes:
"In January this year I had an accident. I was not seriously hurt, but I was confined to bed in a stiff and static position. My friend Judy Nylon visited me and brought me a record of 18th century harp music. After she had gone, and with some considerable difficulty, I put on the Record. Having laid down, I realized that the amplifier was set at an extremely low level, and that one channel of the stereo had failed completely. Since I hadn't the energy to get up and improve matters, the record played on almost inaudibly. This presented what was for me a new way of hearing music - as part of the ambience of the environment just as the colour of the light and the sound of the rain were parts of that ambience. It is for this reason that I suggest listening to the piece at comparatively low levels, even to the extent that it frequently falls below the threshold of audibility."
i have to agree, "silent music" is nothing new or groundbreaking. also of note are ambient masters moby (yes moby--check out the album "ambient"), orb, orbital, and aphex twin. and not to forget matthew herbert, using everyday environmental sounds and bodily functions as the basis of composition.
"With the money we saved from not buying proprietary licenses, the school district purchased additional resources that directly effected the learning experience of our students and brought us into the 21st century."
now, from the original post:
"With the money we saved from not buying proprietary licenses, the school district purchased additional resources that directly [a]ffected the learning experience of our students and brought us into the 21st century."
i'm not sure if bc90021 made the edit, or if jamie made the edit, but effect is the correct word in this case. i'm pretty sure the learning experience didn't get all choked up because of those resources.
hmmm, let's see, yeah, opera does something almost just like that. ctrl+n opens a new window within opera, and you can toggle through them with ctrl+tab. to close one, ctrl+w. and if i remember correctly, opera was 'tab browsing' before mozilla. still, i'm glad mozilla made that adaptation. i just wish java would work better with both of them. this is my only complaint: opera is horrible in this aspect. but, i've had opera crash about 3 times in the past 4 months, and i've only had moz.9.9 on for a couple weeks and it's closed itself at least 6 or 7 times. looks like i'll be sticking with opera until i have sufficient reason to switch.
Actually, I'm sure many astronauts are interested in sports. They do have to be in shape to even be in the program, meaning they work out, run, probably do some time of 'joe sixpack' activity. When was the last time you saw a frail, withering and feeble astronaut? Also, spending long periods of time in space will cause the body to atrophy if no exercise is done. A fat lot of good your mind does when its transport ceases to function. Sports may become an integral and vital part of long term space visits, ie space station, for just that reason. Besides, wasn't it Neil Armstrong that played golf on the moon?
You can wither away in front of your monitor. I'm going to play frisbee golf.
well, if you remember, isolinear chips didn't come around till star trek:tng. the episode "relics" even brings this up. that's the episode with scotty and the dyson sphere. getting off the transporter pad, scotty asks a question about one of the panels, and giordi says they replaced the old crystal memory cards with isolinear chips. so according to the trek timeline, those are another 300 years off.
just out of curiousity, why on earth would you EVER want an even crappier analogue copy of something you could just as easily have a digital copy of? most stand-alone cd players, including many portables (like my sony d-ej915) have a digital out, whether that be coax or fiber optic. i'm not sure how many of these players have SCMS (serial copy management system) enabled (as most sony DAT recorders do; this prevents more than one digital copy from an original source) but i'm sure there are several brands out there that don't have it. so do yourself a favor and get a digital sound card with a digital input.
as for the numerous references to 'cheesy bubblegum pop,' this has and will always exist. even if it doesn't appeal to you, the fact that millions and millions of albums have sold means it does appeal to someone. lots of someones. admittedly, the audience is mostly teens and pre-teens. but there has been and always will be "crap". the reasons we consider beethoven, brahms, strauss, etc. to be greats are because 1)they truly wrote great, meaningful, talent-based music, and 2)they had a wasteland full of crap to stand out against. and in more modern times, out of all the bands from the 50's and 60's, can you name more than a handful of them that had at least 5 memorable songs? to sum this up, one man's trash is another man's treasure. sure, insert random boy/girl band here's lyrics/music may lack "substance", whatever that means, but does that mean that dreamtheater must have substance? bottom line, music sells because someone likes it, not because someone told them to buy it.
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there is also an alternative to the adware/spyware-free K++. diet kazaa is an add-on for kazaa that strips it of adware and spyware. so who really needs K++ anymore?
heh, glad to see /. is up to date. this was on metafilter yesterday. and they included a link to a site that still has K++ for download. you can find it here.
this is the fourth article in three days that i've read on mefi before slashdot. if this is a continuing trend, there's no need to be a subscriber. mefi is free.
dig one up? hell, they have one sitting out front of the houston space center.
oh, wait, i bet it has one of those tags that says, "for display purposes only." leave it to nasa to built a multi-million dollar model.
fortunately, there was no beer shortage this weekend, as the abc filled all orders from last week. but if this isn't fixed soon, we could have shortages for the next three home games. and if we have no beer when lsu fans start to roll in, there may actually be a war. oh wait, maybe their won't be. maybe the lack of alcohol will actually make the lsu fans bearable....nahhhh
um, but there are some parts of china where dog is eaten. i have a friend in china right now teaching english, and he's had dog, twice.
uni-ball gel impact, 1.0mm. in black, blue and red.
Infected computers were programmed to automatically launch an attack on a Web site operated by Microsoft, which the software maker easily blunted. The site, windowsupdate.com, is used to deliver repairing software patches to Microsoft customers to prevent against these types of infections.
uh, yeah, if you mean by blunted they took the site down. i can block the worm from my computer too! just let me pull this power cor/
i had one of these pens, MANY years ago. and you can still get them. see here for at least one option. the barrels used to say that they were made of corn, and were biodegradable. they used to come in yellow bodies with green caps. not the prettiest pen, but at least it was environmentally friendly.
(a terrible name for a game since you can't search on it)
.com doesn't bring up anything, you proceed on to .org and .net, and any others you thing might pop up. this works great for business urls, like airlines and such.
can't search on it? has everyone forgotten the tried and true url name game? you simply type www.'whateveryouaresearchingfor'.com and see if it pops up. i thought everybody did this...
and, of course, if
actually, the nasdaq halted trading this morning on worldcom and mci stock. see here. so current prices are $.83 for worldcom, down $.08, and $1.68 for mci, down $.13. and why is it now that everyone's recommending bankruptcy? shouldn't they have thought about that earlier?
sorry, my porn collection would be about $10. only a gig of porn? are you a girl?
heh, so when are we going to be able to threaten the world saying, 'hey, give us your oil/money/bombs/women or we'll teleport laser beams to hit your leaders' heads.'
talk about stealth assasination. maybe we could even teleport the beam in, let it do it's job, then teleport it out. all this, of course, in a fraction of a second. and no trace!
actually, the eno recording you are referring to is called discreet music, from 1975. from the liner notes:
"In January this year I had an accident. I was not seriously hurt, but I was confined to bed in a stiff and static position. My friend Judy Nylon visited me and brought me a record of 18th century harp music. After she had gone, and with some considerable difficulty, I put on the Record. Having laid down, I realized that the amplifier was set at an extremely low level, and that one channel of the stereo had failed completely. Since I hadn't the energy to get up and improve matters, the record played on almost inaudibly. This presented what was for me a new way of hearing music - as part of the ambience of the environment just as the colour of the light and the sound of the rain were parts of that ambience. It is for this reason that I suggest listening to the piece at comparatively low levels, even to the extent that it frequently falls below the threshold of audibility."
i have to agree, "silent music" is nothing new or groundbreaking. also of note are ambient masters moby (yes moby--check out the album "ambient"), orb, orbital, and aphex twin. and not to forget matthew herbert, using everyday environmental sounds and bodily functions as the basis of composition.
it seems to be an emotional experience.
from the linux pilot program article:
"With the money we saved from not buying proprietary licenses, the school district purchased additional resources that directly effected the learning experience of our students and brought us into the 21st century."
now, from the original post:
"With the money we saved from not buying proprietary licenses, the school district purchased additional resources that directly [a]ffected the learning experience of our students and brought us into the 21st century."
i'm not sure if bc90021 made the edit, or if jamie made the edit, but effect is the correct word in this case. i'm pretty sure the learning experience didn't get all choked up because of those resources.
next time remember merriam webster online is an invaluable resource.
just don't buy an Audrey II, they have a nasty habit of trying to eat their owners, not to mention the rest of the planet.
silicone is not an element, it's a polymer.
hmmm, let's see, yeah, opera does something almost just like that. ctrl+n opens a new window within opera, and you can toggle through them with ctrl+tab. to close one, ctrl+w. and if i remember correctly, opera was 'tab browsing' before mozilla. still, i'm glad mozilla made that adaptation. i just wish java would work better with both of them. this is my only complaint: opera is horrible in this aspect. but, i've had opera crash about 3 times in the past 4 months, and i've only had moz .9.9 on for a couple weeks and it's closed itself at least 6 or 7 times. looks like i'll be sticking with opera until i have sufficient reason to switch.
Actually, I'm sure many astronauts are interested in sports. They do have to be in shape to even be in the program, meaning they work out, run, probably do some time of 'joe sixpack' activity. When was the last time you saw a frail, withering and feeble astronaut? Also, spending long periods of time in space will cause the body to atrophy if no exercise is done. A fat lot of good your mind does when its transport ceases to function. Sports may become an integral and vital part of long term space visits, ie space station, for just that reason. Besides, wasn't it Neil Armstrong that played golf on the moon?
You can wither away in front of your monitor. I'm going to play frisbee golf.
well, if you remember, isolinear chips didn't come around till star trek:tng. the episode "relics" even brings this up. that's the episode with scotty and the dyson sphere. getting off the transporter pad, scotty asks a question about one of the panels, and giordi says they replaced the old crystal memory cards with isolinear chips. so according to the trek timeline, those are another 300 years off.
wow, i'm a dork
The topic? The Evil Empire's court settlement.
Wow, I had no idea that the former Soviet Union had even sued anyone.
just out of curiousity, why on earth would you EVER want an even crappier analogue copy of something you could just as easily have a digital copy of? most stand-alone cd players, including many portables (like my sony d-ej915) have a digital out, whether that be coax or fiber optic. i'm not sure how many of these players have SCMS (serial copy management system) enabled (as most sony DAT recorders do; this prevents more than one digital copy from an original source) but i'm sure there are several brands out there that don't have it. so do yourself a favor and get a digital sound card with a digital input.
as for the numerous references to 'cheesy bubblegum pop,' this has and will always exist. even if it doesn't appeal to you, the fact that millions and millions of albums have sold means it does appeal to someone. lots of someones. admittedly, the audience is mostly teens and pre-teens. but there has been and always will be "crap". the reasons we consider beethoven, brahms, strauss, etc. to be greats are because 1)they truly wrote great, meaningful, talent-based music, and 2)they had a wasteland full of crap to stand out against. and in more modern times, out of all the bands from the 50's and 60's, can you name more than a handful of them that had at least 5 memorable songs? to sum this up, one man's trash is another man's treasure. sure, insert random boy/girl band here's lyrics/music may lack "substance", whatever that means, but does that mean that dreamtheater must have substance? bottom line, music sells because someone likes it, not because someone told them to buy it.
and stop ogling at the 13 year olds on trl
--igor