I believe in the Holocaust. However, I think it would be possible to not believe in it even if you were jewish; people make up their own minds what to believe in. Millions of people believe Angels let a father throw his daughters to a crowd of rapists in their place, and that it was a GOOD thing.
sigh. if you have a digital step before the sound gets to the equipment in question, then you should by all means stay digital, it doesn't flippin' matter; the analog playback may fill in a few holes (warmth), but thats about it.
If, however, you are listening to something played, and then recorded, then mass produced, then handed to you using analog format, it will sound better played on analog equipment than it will on pure digital equipment, especially if the original artist knew how to take advantage of the peculiarities(?) of the equipment he or she was using.
SO, you would rather have a machine tooled, computer designed violin that will sound EXACTLY like every other one than a stradivarius? I would assume you would argue that either A) the violinists and other music enthusiasts are just mistaked, they don't sound better than a computer synthesized violin B) the unintended harmonics created by the craftsman, materials & age have nothing to with music, they just get in the way.
I know one or two things about music from being raised in a professional music family, and maybe a little about electronics, digital signal reproduction, harmonics, etc from having been employed as a Electronics Engineer or Technician for companies like Hughes Aerospace, Nortel, Bellsouth, etc. one thing I can say with total certainty is that you can not be certain digital equipment will properly emulate analog equipment in every circumstance; usually it will do good enough, which is why we use it (it's cheaper and easier) but for situations where it is NOT good enough, we don't.
My position: Making good sound come out of a musical instrument is not science, it's art, and therefore not constrained by logic. A tube amp is as much a instrument as a guitar is; if you know how to "play" your tube amp, it enhances the music. With a pure digital amp, thats just not going to happen.
sort of.
if you are talking dial-up, then it's going to take a while for your node to
learn the neighborhood; you would probably want to turn it on and run
FROST for about an hour; you
still are going to have problems getting to some freesites. You will also want
to go into your default.ini file and change transient=false to true.
BTW, when people are saying FREENET is not searchable, they are mainly wrong;
the Internet isn't searchable, or at least most search engines don't search it
the way it would be searchable, by hitting every IP address. It's searchable
because search engines go to known sites, index those, and follow the links it
just found to other sites, rinse, wash, repeat. You have the same thing going on
in freenet, with tools like
spider.
If you are expecting freenet to act like emule or gnutella, don't. it's not.
If you mainly want to trade files, run frost, it's sort of like using USENET.
Freenet is actually still working pretty well, BTW.
The developers have a nasty tendency to come out with a working build, wait
about 2-4 weeks, then come out with a non-working build. the last 6 stable
releases have all worked about as well as any have in the past, and we are WAY
overdue for the must upgrade non-working build.
Frost is even working pretty good; it has unnecessary libraries (why, exactly,
do you need to format the messages in XML? what was wrong with TXT?), and is
about 2mb more bloated than the
may 9th, 2003
build which worked better, but it DOES work.
I alpha and early beta tested it. officially even. I've used it. I don't have any problems with people using Xp pro, unless they are working in a high security needs environment. it's just not as good as win2k.
Well, they did ship it, just not retail. I'm not saying I would still be using it or anything, just like I don't use Win98se for anything but hardware that requires it for proper function. But it was really, really, cool.
as to WinXp pro. hah. ahahha. There is no added "stability". there is no added "functionability". they did the same thing with WinXP as they did with WinME; screwed up a decent operating system by adding components that are unstable, un-necessary, and insecure.
I've seen people claim that XP runs faster than win2k. this is possible in one way, and one way only; if the software is optimized for XP. this has been verified multiple times.
WIn2k. I reboot it every six months, whether it needs it or not. the only excellent products to come out of redmond are Dos 4, Win98se and win2k; everything lese deserves the scorn that is heaped upon it.
Huh? go to ebay. Get a Matrox Marvel 200 or 400, probably can get one under $50. put it on a 600-1000mhz machine, with about 128mb of ram, 40gb or so of IDE drive. run Win98se. Do not use it for ANYTHING ELSE except processing video. not even solitare, and it will stay up indefintely (I would reboot once a month just for the heck of it); the bundled matrox software will allow you to capture by timer, will listen to closed captioning for keywords and record on specified hits, and will do 720x480 30fps 4:3 or 16:9 mjpeg OR 352x240 mpeg (VCD) capture all you want, and will video output your recordings either in s-vid or standard. you can even run it from linux if you want, but mandrake doesn't like the hardware, slackware gets along ok. only drawback: no remote.
Have they illegalized Jammers for this yet? If not, someone send me the frequency specs, i'll be able to whip one up pretty quick.
As would any serious criminal equipment supplier, after they are illegalized...yet one more way to make sure everyone is a criminal, or can easily be proven to be one.
I think you have a very good point. TO help you understand why some otherwise relatively sane people wouldn't agree with you (such as myself, aside from the sane part), here is my position. The 2nd amendment, which establishes the individual right to bear arms, is the doomsday clause in the U.S. government, and was intended to be thta from the beginning; in case the fed becomes a tyranny, we're supposed to pick up our squirrel guns and kick them out. Without this specific right, none of the other civil liberties have any teeth, because we the people can not assure they will continue to exist, we can only "ask" that the fed doesn't infringe.
analogy: you are on a slowly sinking ship. one group of passengers forms a committee to assure the lifeboats are stocked with provisions, maps, survival gear, etc. another, smaller group of passengers forms a committee to assure the ships crew doesn't take off with all the lifeboats. which committee deserves your support more? sorry. I love analogies. I had a good one involving dairy cows.
I talk to myself all the time. Besides, I've been there, I'd rather work there than Cabrini Greene; a white person there, on foot, would have a life expectancy measured in seconds.
Old news, dude. works better with a old microwave oven klystron and a trunk full of major caps & coils... none of this stun shit, more like disentegration. hypothetically, of course.
Seems like they might be rushing this a little too much; hopefully, this will get a gradual adoption that will allow some of the first-gen bugs to be worked out before serious implementation. (where can I pre-order?)
I was never comfortable with that one; it just sounds too designed, not something that anyone naturally said. Besides, isn't Godwin a distant relative of Hess or something?
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sounds like a democrat.
I believe in the Holocaust.
However, I think it would be possible to not believe in it even if you were jewish; people make up their own minds what to believe in.
Millions of people believe Angels let a father throw his daughters to a crowd of rapists in their place, and that it was a GOOD thing.
close, but no cigar.
where at? I could swear I've seen one of those in the states myself.
And a top secret Navy facility I used to work at...
god, I hated living out there. kingsburg and visalia are sort of nice.
sigh.
if you have a digital step before the sound gets to the equipment in question, then you should by all means stay digital, it doesn't flippin' matter; the analog playback may fill in a few holes (warmth), but thats about it.
If, however, you are listening to something played, and then recorded, then mass produced, then handed to you using analog format, it will sound better played on analog equipment than it will on pure digital equipment, especially if the original artist knew how to take advantage of the peculiarities(?) of the equipment he or she was using.
Huh. I live in a country where the police honk at the end of your driveway for permission to approach, then are very, very polite.
Unless the BATFE is involved, of course.
Nothing quite like living in extreme rural Tennessee or Kentucky.
You are such a nice, friendly guy.
SO, you would rather have a machine tooled, computer designed violin that will sound EXACTLY like every other one than a stradivarius? I would assume you would argue that either A) the violinists and other music enthusiasts are just mistaked, they don't sound better than a computer synthesized violin B) the unintended harmonics created by the craftsman, materials & age have nothing to with music, they just get in the way.
I know one or two things about music from being raised in a professional music family, and maybe a little about electronics, digital signal reproduction, harmonics, etc from having been employed as a Electronics Engineer or Technician for companies like Hughes Aerospace, Nortel, Bellsouth, etc. one thing I can say with total certainty is that you can not be certain digital equipment will properly emulate analog equipment in every circumstance; usually it will do good enough, which is why we use it (it's cheaper and easier) but for situations where it is NOT good enough, we don't.
So i'm guessing you are a 11th grade student?
My position: Making good sound come out of a musical instrument is not science, it's art, and therefore not constrained by logic.
A tube amp is as much a instrument as a guitar is; if you know how to "play" your tube amp, it enhances the music. With a pure digital amp, thats just not going to happen.
sort of.
if you are talking dial-up, then it's going to take a while for your node to learn the neighborhood; you would probably want to turn it on and run FROST for about an hour; you still are going to have problems getting to some freesites. You will also want to go into your default.ini file and change transient=false to true.
BTW, when people are saying FREENET is not searchable, they are mainly wrong; the Internet isn't searchable, or at least most search engines don't search it the way it would be searchable, by hitting every IP address. It's searchable because search engines go to known sites, index those, and follow the links it just found to other sites, rinse, wash, repeat. You have the same thing going on in freenet, with tools like spider.
If you are expecting freenet to act like emule or gnutella, don't. it's not. If you mainly want to trade files, run frost, it's sort of like using USENET.
Freenet is actually still working pretty well, BTW.
The developers have a nasty tendency to come out with a working build, wait about 2-4 weeks, then come out with a non-working build. the last 6 stable releases have all worked about as well as any have in the past, and we are WAY overdue for the must upgrade non-working build.
Frost is even working pretty good; it has unnecessary libraries (why, exactly, do you need to format the messages in XML? what was wrong with TXT?), and is about 2mb more bloated than the may 9th, 2003 build which worked better, but it DOES work.
I alpha and early beta tested it. officially even.
I've used it. I don't have any problems with people using Xp pro, unless they are working in a high security needs environment.
it's just not as good as win2k.
Well, they did ship it, just not retail.
I'm not saying I would still be using it or anything, just like I don't use Win98se for anything but hardware that requires it for proper function. But it was really, really, cool.
as to WinXp pro. hah. ahahha.
There is no added "stability". there is no added "functionability". they did the same thing with WinXP as they did with WinME; screwed up a decent operating system by adding components that are unstable, un-necessary, and insecure.
I've seen people claim that XP runs faster than win2k. this is possible in one way, and one way only; if the software is optimized for XP.
this has been verified multiple times.
WIn2k.
I reboot it every six months, whether it needs it or not.
the only excellent products to come out of redmond are Dos 4, Win98se and win2k; everything lese deserves the scorn that is heaped upon it.
Huh?
go to ebay.
Get a Matrox Marvel 200 or 400, probably can get one under $50.
put it on a 600-1000mhz machine, with about 128mb of ram, 40gb or so of IDE drive. run Win98se.
Do not use it for ANYTHING ELSE except processing video. not even solitare, and it will stay up indefintely (I would reboot once a month just for the heck of it); the bundled matrox software will allow you to capture by timer, will listen to closed captioning for keywords and record on specified hits, and will do 720x480 30fps 4:3 or 16:9 mjpeg OR 352x240 mpeg (VCD) capture all you want, and will video output your recordings either in s-vid or standard.
you can even run it from linux if you want, but mandrake doesn't like the hardware, slackware gets along ok.
only drawback: no remote.
Thats MORMON, not moron.
sheesh, kids today.
Have they illegalized Jammers for this yet?
If not, someone send me the frequency specs, i'll be able to whip one up pretty quick.
As would any serious criminal equipment supplier, after they are illegalized...yet one more way to make sure everyone is a criminal, or can easily be proven to be one.
I think you have a very good point.
TO help you understand why some otherwise relatively sane people wouldn't agree with you (such as myself, aside from the sane part), here is my position.
The 2nd amendment, which establishes the individual right to bear arms, is the doomsday clause in the U.S. government, and was intended to be thta from the beginning; in case the fed becomes a tyranny, we're supposed to pick up our squirrel guns and kick them out.
Without this specific right, none of the other civil liberties have any teeth, because we the people can not assure they will continue to exist, we can only "ask" that the fed doesn't infringe.
analogy: you are on a slowly sinking ship. one group of passengers forms a committee to assure the lifeboats are stocked with provisions, maps, survival gear, etc. another, smaller group of passengers forms a committee to assure the ships crew doesn't take off with all the lifeboats.
which committee deserves your support more?
sorry. I love analogies. I had a good one involving dairy cows.
any chance you could rephrase that? i'm missing something.
I talk to myself all the time.
Besides, I've been there, I'd rather work there than Cabrini Greene; a white person there, on foot, would have a life expectancy measured in seconds.
zero chance?
lets just says it's highly unlikely.
Old news, dude.
works better with a old microwave oven klystron and a trunk full of major caps & coils... none of this stun shit, more like disentegration.
hypothetically, of course.
Not redundant.
I thought for sure I had first post.
Seems like they might be rushing this a little too much; hopefully, this will get a gradual adoption that will allow some of the first-gen bugs to be worked out before serious implementation.
(where can I pre-order?)
I was never comfortable with that one; it just sounds too designed, not something that anyone naturally said.
Besides, isn't Godwin a distant relative of Hess or something?
While I think you may be a little off track, That is one HELL of a quotable statement.