It is disturbing that they had not caught this earlier
How so? I mean, they went and got the stuff tested. How strict QC do you need on some stupid paste? What, weekly lab tests? I'd have done exactly what they did: test it once and go with it. Who would've thought the suppliers would switch the formula?
You had nothing? We didn't even have nothing. In fact, we didn't even not have it, because there was nothing to not have. And we didn't even know we didn't have it, because no one else didn't have it either!
I think Zen is about freedom -- freedom from thought, desire, emotions, dualities (good/bad, for instance), etc. I think the reasoning is, if you're not overly concerned with the minutae of the day, you'll have a much better time of it. Which may or may not be what you were saying, I'm not exactly sure.
"To keep our mind free from defilement under all circumstances is called 'Idea-lessness'. Our mind should stand aloof from circumstances, and on no account should we allow them to influence the function of our mind. But it is a great mistake to suppress our mind from all thinking; for even if we succeed in getting rid of all thoughts, and die immediately thereafter, still we shall be reincarnated elsewhere..."
Meaning (I suppose), if you stop thinking, by definition, you're dead, and you'll just come back as something else, b/c you haven't hit Nirvana yet.
By replacing the stock HD with a Seagate Barracuda V 120gb ($130) and the fan with a Papst fan ($15), I've made it so the the only audible noise my g4 makes comes from the PSU. Pretty quiet and pretty cheap, considering I needed a bigger HD anyway.
But I want it dead quiet, since I use it to record music, and I hate computer noise anyway. So next step is to replace the PSU, probably with one of these ($80). The only problem is, Apple doesn't follow ATX guidelines with its power supplies, but lucky for me some guy's already figured out the differences. Unfortunately, that's only for the Sawtooth g4s, those of you who have something else may be SOL. But there's no reason why you couldn't find out the pinouts of your own particular g4's PSU and match it to the ATX standard.
Only thing is, I'm never going to want to buy a newer machine, b/c my current one rocks so hard (or rather, so softly). So I started looking into g4upgradecards (more). I'm probably going to try and hold out till they come out with something that lets me upgrade to a g5, but i figure an upgrade card with the heatsink replaced with something more like this, perhaps with a fan controller, might be the way to go. Anyone know if it's possible to use a heatsink like that on an apple chip?
Of course, if I've got a heatsink like that, I'm going to have to cut a window into the case to show it off. Anyone know anything about how much EM shielding the case offers, and if cutting a big hole in it is a bad idea? I mean, I see all-plexiglass cases around, how do they get around the EMI problem?
This is the sort of service I've been waiting for.
It sure is. I'm this close to blowing my next paycheck on Warp's back catalog. But the thing I just can't get over -- the reason I'm so hesitant to buy anything in download format -- what if my hard drive dies? I think I might have to wait till I get a DVD burner. That way, I can backup my music collection without too much fuss. Or maybe just another HD. I mean, what are the chances of both dying at the same time?
if there were an option for downloading the music in a lossless format
So you want 24-bit, 96khz? Or the original tape masters?
Now the only question is, is there anything there that I want to listen to?
Oh, there is. Try
- Boards of Canada: In a beautiful place out in the country
- Nightmares on Wax: Carboot Soul
to get you started.
1. A kick in the head.
2. Finding your girlfriend in bed with those twins that ride tiny motorcycles and hold the guiness record for the world's fattest men.
3. Poop.
4. Cleaning all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station, but only if all you had was a toothbrush.
5. Contracting one of those tiny fish parasites that swims up your stream of urine if you're peeing into the Amazon and lays eggs in your joystick.
6. Working in sales.
the list goes on...
As for your other part, AAC isn't strictly DRM. It's mp4, with the ability to slap DRM on it when it's made. A normal AAC extension is ".m4a," and a DRM one is ".m4p." I'm guessing they stand for "Mp4 Aac" and "Mp4 Protected."
I just ripped nearly all my CD's to 192 AAC. The general consensus seems to be that the sound quality is indistinguishable from the CD, and damned if I can tell a difference.
I see your reasoning, but instead of expressing it in bytes (which would just confuse people more), the most useful unit would be "albums." After all, pretty much all CDs are between 40 and 80 min. long, and probably average out to 60.
At least, that'd be good if they're targeting people who are into fitting their whole CD collection on the iPod. "It holds 400 albums? I only have 350!"
If they're targetting the people that just have a lot of songs sitting in iTunes already, then I agree with their current strategy, because it says right at the bottom how many songs you have.
I'd start with b, and if the service pays for itself (ie, if people are cool about the tip jar), upgrade to g later, and put a sign up like "the program's a success, so I upgraded!" That way people'll feel like their tips are really contributing.
Seriously, take advantage of the situation to have some fun. If someone is talking on a cell phone during a movie, I guarantee that if you throw some at them, everyone else in the theater will cheer. Even other people who forgot to turn off their own cell phones.
Or even better, kindly walk over to them and ask if they'd stop talking. If they apologise, your date will be impressed that you took charge of the situation. If they get rowdy, you'll have the rest of the theater to back you up, and your date'll be impressed that you have a pair.
The complete first season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force is available for $30, and if you buy it from adultswim.com, you get a free t-shirt to boot. It's 2 DVDs -- like 8 gigs of media. I think it's priced perfectly.
What pisses me off is that while I can get 18 episodes (the equivalent of 9 normal-length eps) of Aqua Teen for $30, they -- "they" being a bald aryan giant of a man who sits on top of a mountain of doom and inflates the price of anime DVDs, pumping them with empty space like a goddam ICEE -- expect me to pay nearly that much for 2 episodes of FLCL. Okay, the DVD is like half full! It's only got 2 gigs! You could fit at least 2 more episodes on it! And you want $25 for it? When I can get like 18,000 hours of the Fellowship of the fucking Ring for a couple bucks more? Take off, hoser.
My bro-in-law just took a class where the professor asked a question like that: "You're driving in the rain, and you see 3 people waiting at a bus stop looking cold and wet: your best friend, an old lady, and a beautiful woman. Unfortunately, you're driving a sporty 2-seater. What do you do?"
He said "Well, the answer you're looking for is 'loan the car to your best friend, tell him to drive the old lady home, and walk to the nearest coffee shop with the woman.' But in real life, women like assholes. So I'd pound my beer, throw the can at the old lady, tell my friend to hop in the car, and yell to the woman 'I'll be back for you after we get back from the bar!"
Because TV is flat and smallish, while real life is big and intrusive, and generally less interesting. It's okay -- sometimes I have trouble telling them apart too.
My father works on the electronics systems on the latest military aircraft, and he mentioned once, a year or so ago, that one had a box that would report on all the different signals coming in through the air -- radio, TV, cell phones, whatever; and when he turned it on without any filters, the screen just kept scrolling. He couldn't believe how many there were.
I have to wonder that if someone evolved to be able to percieve more than just the visible light spectrum or regular sound waves, they'd go crazy, thinking they heard voices in their head. Then I have to wonder if at least some people who are "crazy" don't simply percieve some of these signals, and their brains don't know how to process the information.
Very true. But I was under the impression that it only appeared in Software Update a couple days after it was released, I assume for that exact reason. Of course, I could be wrong.
Yeah, and how come people gloss over it when Spider-man illegaly snaps photos of bad guys without their permisssion and sells them, yet they come down so hard on Doc Ock when he does something illegal to make a buck?
Oh yeah that's right, because he's an EVIL SUPERVILLAN BENT ON CONTROLLING THE WORLD, while Spider-man is just a guy with a little power trying to do something cool and make a living at it. So hmm, I guess that's a perfectly normal and appropriate response.
Dude, you Had It Coming. Should Apple pay for repairs if you install an ice cube as a heat sink and it shorts the mobo? I installed a new fan on my g4/450, and you better believe I kept checking the temp. It went from 25 C to 35 C (this was winter), and now it's about 45 C. Which is apparently alright, since it's not crashing any more than normal.
Anyone know what's a dangerous temp for a proc to be running at?
When are people going to learn to wait a few days before doing an upgrade? How many times do you have to read about people getting burned?
Um, actually, if everyone waits, there'll be nobody to play the guinea pigs. Forget what I just said, unenlightened masses -- download immediately, for my benefit!
Let's say we got a secure electronic voting system working that people could use over the internet, maybe it mapped to your social or something. Well, now you don't have to wait till election day to vote on stuff. Should we go to war? Let's vote on it. Should we raise taxes? Let's vote on it. It could pave the way for something that has never happened before in history -- a true rule by the people.
... but I have to comment on this. I didn't realise it myself until recently -- "wherefore" means "why," not "where." And duh, Romeo's like right in front of her, why would she say "where are you?"
That's what I'm saying -- fucking around with lab mice is a Good Thing, because it lets us better all mankind. But we need to keep in mind that at the end of the day, we're still (sometimes, at least) killing things, and it should be done with reverence and maybe a little regret. Making messing-around-with-rodent-lives a contest with prize money seems a little in bad taste, to me.
This is what I thought abortion was about too, but it turns out I was wrong. Abortion is legal not because the line is drawn at birth -- apparently everyone concerned agrees that the fetus is a living human being, but because it was decided that a woman can't be forced to incubate against her will.
AFAIK, your description of the issues in stem cell research was spot-on though.
So what's the worse things that's going to happen?
The worst thing is that you shouldn't be fucking around with life unless you're very serious about doing it for the express purpose of helping other, better (arguably), kinds of life. I can't stand PETA as much as the next guy, but shooting a mouse full of cells just to see what happens is irresponsible, and downright mean.
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Why would you give them your business as opposed to the manufacturers who have actually had substantial amounts of silver in their product all along?
Because now you know, if your order is fucked, you can count on them to do the right thing. That's worth a lot in my book.
It is disturbing that they had not caught this earlier
How so? I mean, they went and got the stuff tested. How strict QC do you need on some stupid paste? What, weekly lab tests? I'd have done exactly what they did: test it once and go with it. Who would've thought the suppliers would switch the formula?
You had nothing? We didn't even have nothing. In fact, we didn't even not have it, because there was nothing to not have. And we didn't even know we didn't have it, because no one else didn't have it either!
*sniff*... times were so much easier then...
I think Zen is about freedom -- freedom from thought, desire, emotions, dualities (good/bad, for instance), etc. I think the reasoning is, if you're not overly concerned with the minutae of the day, you'll have a much better time of it. Which may or may not be what you were saying, I'm not exactly sure.
From The Sutra of Hui-neng, Chapter 4:
"To keep our mind free from defilement under all circumstances is called 'Idea-lessness'. Our mind should stand aloof from circumstances, and on no account should we allow them to influence the function of our mind. But it is a great mistake to suppress our mind from all thinking; for even if we succeed in getting rid of all thoughts, and die immediately thereafter, still we shall be reincarnated elsewhere..."
Meaning (I suppose), if you stop thinking, by definition, you're dead, and you'll just come back as something else, b/c you haven't hit Nirvana yet.
By replacing the stock HD with a Seagate Barracuda V 120gb ($130) and the fan with a Papst fan ($15), I've made it so the the only audible noise my g4 makes comes from the PSU. Pretty quiet and pretty cheap, considering I needed a bigger HD anyway.
But I want it dead quiet, since I use it to record music, and I hate computer noise anyway. So next step is to replace the PSU, probably with one of these ($80). The only problem is, Apple doesn't follow ATX guidelines with its power supplies, but lucky for me some guy's already figured out the differences. Unfortunately, that's only for the Sawtooth g4s, those of you who have something else may be SOL. But there's no reason why you couldn't find out the pinouts of your own particular g4's PSU and match it to the ATX standard.
Only thing is, I'm never going to want to buy a newer machine, b/c my current one rocks so hard (or rather, so softly). So I started looking into g4 upgrade cards (more). I'm probably going to try and hold out till they come out with something that lets me upgrade to a g5, but i figure an upgrade card with the heatsink replaced with something more like this, perhaps with a fan controller, might be the way to go. Anyone know if it's possible to use a heatsink like that on an apple chip?
Of course, if I've got a heatsink like that, I'm going to have to cut a window into the case to show it off. Anyone know anything about how much EM shielding the case offers, and if cutting a big hole in it is a bad idea? I mean, I see all-plexiglass cases around, how do they get around the EMI problem?
This is the sort of service I've been waiting for.
It sure is. I'm this close to blowing my next paycheck on Warp's back catalog. But the thing I just can't get over -- the reason I'm so hesitant to buy anything in download format -- what if my hard drive dies? I think I might have to wait till I get a DVD burner. That way, I can backup my music collection without too much fuss. Or maybe just another HD. I mean, what are the chances of both dying at the same time?
if there were an option for downloading the music in a lossless format
So you want 24-bit, 96khz? Or the original tape masters?
Now the only question is, is there anything there that I want to listen to?
Oh, there is. Try
- Boards of Canada: In a beautiful place out in the country
- Nightmares on Wax: Carboot Soul
to get you started.
...on how long till it becomes self aware?
first of all - superior to what?
1. A kick in the head.
2. Finding your girlfriend in bed with those twins that ride tiny motorcycles and hold the guiness record for the world's fattest men.
3. Poop.
4. Cleaning all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station, but only if all you had was a toothbrush.
5. Contracting one of those tiny fish parasites that swims up your stream of urine if you're peeing into the Amazon and lays eggs in your joystick.
6. Working in sales.
the list goes on...
As for your other part, AAC isn't strictly DRM. It's mp4, with the ability to slap DRM on it when it's made. A normal AAC extension is ".m4a," and a DRM one is ".m4p." I'm guessing they stand for "Mp4 Aac" and "Mp4 Protected."
I just ripped nearly all my CD's to 192 AAC. The general consensus seems to be that the sound quality is indistinguishable from the CD, and damned if I can tell a difference.
I see your reasoning, but instead of expressing it in bytes (which would just confuse people more), the most useful unit would be "albums." After all, pretty much all CDs are between 40 and 80 min. long, and probably average out to 60.
At least, that'd be good if they're targeting people who are into fitting their whole CD collection on the iPod. "It holds 400 albums? I only have 350!"
If they're targetting the people that just have a lot of songs sitting in iTunes already, then I agree with their current strategy, because it says right at the bottom how many songs you have.
I'd start with b, and if the service pays for itself (ie, if people are cool about the tip jar), upgrade to g later, and put a sign up like "the program's a success, so I upgraded!" That way people'll feel like their tips are really contributing.
Seen on someone's sig: "If videogames really affected your behavior, we'd all be popping pills and listening to repetitive music."
Seriously, take advantage of the situation to have some fun. If someone is talking on a cell phone during a movie, I guarantee that if you throw some at them, everyone else in the theater will cheer. Even other people who forgot to turn off their own cell phones.
Or even better, kindly walk over to them and ask if they'd stop talking. If they apologise, your date will be impressed that you took charge of the situation. If they get rowdy, you'll have the rest of the theater to back you up, and your date'll be impressed that you have a pair.
The complete first season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force is available for $30, and if you buy it from adultswim.com, you get a free t-shirt to boot. It's 2 DVDs -- like 8 gigs of media. I think it's priced perfectly.
What pisses me off is that while I can get 18 episodes (the equivalent of 9 normal-length eps) of Aqua Teen for $30, they -- "they" being a bald aryan giant of a man who sits on top of a mountain of doom and inflates the price of anime DVDs, pumping them with empty space like a goddam ICEE -- expect me to pay nearly that much for 2 episodes of FLCL. Okay, the DVD is like half full! It's only got 2 gigs! You could fit at least 2 more episodes on it! And you want $25 for it? When I can get like 18,000 hours of the Fellowship of the fucking Ring for a couple bucks more? Take off, hoser.
That's the cause of piracy right there: greed.
My bro-in-law just took a class where the professor asked a question like that: "You're driving in the rain, and you see 3 people waiting at a bus stop looking cold and wet: your best friend, an old lady, and a beautiful woman. Unfortunately, you're driving a sporty 2-seater. What do you do?"
He said "Well, the answer you're looking for is 'loan the car to your best friend, tell him to drive the old lady home, and walk to the nearest coffee shop with the woman.' But in real life, women like assholes. So I'd pound my beer, throw the can at the old lady, tell my friend to hop in the car, and yell to the woman 'I'll be back for you after we get back from the bar!"
Because TV is flat and smallish, while real life is big and intrusive, and generally less interesting. It's okay -- sometimes I have trouble telling them apart too.
My father works on the electronics systems on the latest military aircraft, and he mentioned once, a year or so ago, that one had a box that would report on all the different signals coming in through the air -- radio, TV, cell phones, whatever; and when he turned it on without any filters, the screen just kept scrolling. He couldn't believe how many there were.
I have to wonder that if someone evolved to be able to percieve more than just the visible light spectrum or regular sound waves, they'd go crazy, thinking they heard voices in their head. Then I have to wonder if at least some people who are "crazy" don't simply percieve some of these signals, and their brains don't know how to process the information.
Very true. But I was under the impression that it only appeared in Software Update a couple days after it was released, I assume for that exact reason. Of course, I could be wrong.
Yeah, and how come people gloss over it when Spider-man illegaly snaps photos of bad guys without their permisssion and sells them, yet they come down so hard on Doc Ock when he does something illegal to make a buck?
Oh yeah that's right, because he's an EVIL SUPERVILLAN BENT ON CONTROLLING THE WORLD, while Spider-man is just a guy with a little power trying to do something cool and make a living at it. So hmm, I guess that's a perfectly normal and appropriate response.
Dude, you Had It Coming. Should Apple pay for repairs if you install an ice cube as a heat sink and it shorts the mobo? I installed a new fan on my g4/450, and you better believe I kept checking the temp. It went from 25 C to 35 C (this was winter), and now it's about 45 C. Which is apparently alright, since it's not crashing any more than normal.
Anyone know what's a dangerous temp for a proc to be running at?
When are people going to learn to wait a few days before doing an upgrade? How many times do you have to read about people getting burned?
Um, actually, if everyone waits, there'll be nobody to play the guinea pigs. Forget what I just said, unenlightened masses -- download immediately, for my benefit!
Let's say we got a secure electronic voting system working that people could use over the internet, maybe it mapped to your social or something. Well, now you don't have to wait till election day to vote on stuff. Should we go to war? Let's vote on it. Should we raise taxes? Let's vote on it. It could pave the way for something that has never happened before in history -- a true rule by the people.
... but I have to comment on this. I didn't realise it myself until recently -- "wherefore" means "why," not "where." And duh, Romeo's like right in front of her, why would she say "where are you?"
That's what I'm saying -- fucking around with lab mice is a Good Thing, because it lets us better all mankind. But we need to keep in mind that at the end of the day, we're still (sometimes, at least) killing things, and it should be done with reverence and maybe a little regret. Making messing-around-with-rodent-lives a contest with prize money seems a little in bad taste, to me.
This is what I thought abortion was about too, but it turns out I was wrong. Abortion is legal not because the line is drawn at birth -- apparently everyone concerned agrees that the fetus is a living human being, but because it was decided that a woman can't be forced to incubate against her will.
AFAIK, your description of the issues in stem cell research was spot-on though.
So what's the worse things that's going to happen?
The worst thing is that you shouldn't be fucking around with life unless you're very serious about doing it for the express purpose of helping other, better (arguably), kinds of life. I can't stand PETA as much as the next guy, but shooting a mouse full of cells just to see what happens is irresponsible, and downright mean.