There are various apps out there (and websites) that will show you what your pages will look like in several browser/platform configurations. Someone more immediately familiar with them them than I am will surely (hint, hint) provide you with some useful URLs.
The "novel asteroid" distance determination technique:
If it's a popular novel:
Under a hundred-thousand miles away...and on a collision course with Earth!
If it's a science-fiction novel:
Under a hundred parsecs away...and on a collision course with Terra!
If it's a Carl Sagan novel:
Over a billion, billion kilometers away...and even if it were to enter the solar system, it would probably be overcome by Jupiter's powerful gravitational field.
It's called MagicCitizen.com. (And it won't be ready for another two weeks!!) The idea is to draw people with an event calendar driven by user submissions, provide a discussion board for them to talk on, and a friend list where users can add people, and it generates an Amazon-ish 'You might also like...' list, based on their friends' taste in friends.
Unfortunately, the fact that the events are posted by anonymous users pretty much guarantees that many of them will be bogus, and the discussion boards... well, just try browsing at -1 here. Does anyone know how I can protect myself from being sued by people who are offended by user posts or who show up to an event that isn't really happening?
Hear, hear! A comedy about a team of space pirates who steal from the evil empire's shipments of the most valuable substance in the galaxy - water - while braving the hazards of time-warps, jive-talking robots, and Space Herpes.
So, why did we leave Hussein in power after the Gulf War? A lot of Iraqi civilans died in that one, but we did not kill, or even depose, the one responsible. Seriously, does anyone know why we did this?
With Slashdot, you can judge between the opinions of a readership that is probably more informed than average. Networks, however, want to tell their viewers things they already agree with.
I tend to agree. First of all, who betrays their friend by releasing job-endangering material to the public? Then, in the entire e-mail, there is no cryptic shorthand, no inside references, no chit-chat, no familiarity at all besides that of an informal style of journalism. Who is this person to get invited into the smoky room and hear information not intended for journalists? And does the list of the world's 5000 most powerful politicians really include the CEO of Heineken? Rich, I'm sure, but among the world's richest? How about the representative of Amnesty International? How did they get invited to a jam session between kings and politicos? I don't know...
I've always had problems with the gas grill spark-maker not generating a strong enough spark. A Coleman flint-and-steel lantern lighter is a very reliable spark maker, and is perfectly designed for installation in a potato gun. When you drill the hole to install it in, make sure you seal the edges securely around the lighter, or you'll burn your fingers with escaping gas.
For even more dangerous experiments, check out this guy's page.
A lot of people on the Logic and Cubase boards have been having problems with USB audio in 10.2. I've been having a problem in which an audio recording in Logic 5.5 in OS X 10.2.2 will accumulate loud, robotic distortion after a few minutes, and only restarting Logic or Core Audio (through a Logic menu option) will fix it.
This patch has fixed my issue completely, and will probably fix it with Cubase as well. Merry Christmas, Mac audio people!
Re:Proof of Elvis
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Starcraft
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· Score: 5, Funny
Here is the logical proof:
1. Elvis is Big. (given, observation) 2. Big is Beautiful. (given, cliche) 3. Elvis is Beautiful. (Transitive Property, 1, 2) 4. Beauty is Truth. (given, poetry) 5. Elvis is Truth. (Transitive Property, 3, 4) 6. The Truth is Out There. (given, The X Files) 7. Elvis is Out There. (Transitive Property, 5, 6)
Linux: Customer Review: * * * * * Linux is the most advanced operating system on Earth!!! And I just loved figuring out how to compile the source code for my keyboard driver!!!
Macintosh: Customer Review: * - 1/2 Who the hell makes a computer with just one mouse button? And only 60 frames per second in Quake III? I require at least 850.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Customer Review: * * - 1/2 I liked George Lucas' old stuff. You know, before he sold out to Hollywood.*
*Dow Jones/Australia disclaimer: No claim is made that George Lucas is any better or worse than other overrated sci-fi directors.
...that includes it - but it has not fixed the audio problems I'm having with Logic 5.5 on OS X 10.2.2 (flat-panel iMac, USB M-Audio Quattro.)
The Cubase discussion boards mention a similar problem with Cubase SX - a metallic, staticky, robot-reverb sound that gradually starts a few minutes into a recording session. It seems to hit people with USB interfaces. Anyone else have this problem? Or better yet, a fix?
The manufacturing industry would disappear overnight if we had universal assemblers. It would collapse to nothing but programmers for the assemblers, and/or engineers and machinists whose job it is to make the first copy of widget X.
There would be no more assembly-line jobs, and intellectual property would become a real bitch, if everyone has the capability of copying the latest N'Sync album atom by atom.
Maybe manufacturing jobs would be replaced with jobs fetching and purifying the raw materials.
Re:Didn't he get his start...
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Einstein Unveiled
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· Score: 5, Funny
Actually:
Ein = one
Stein = beer mug
Einstein = one beer mug?
Anyone here speak fluent enough German to tell me whether this has significance?
I didn't mean that seriously. DeCSS is only a few lines long, and Photoshop, at least, is hundreds of megabytes. It would be far from simple to find a prime number that represents it.
The prime number thing for DeCSS is real, though. Don't have the link, but it was a previous story on Slashdot.
What it boils down to is that we anti-copyright crusaders have always maintained that digital "media" is just a bunch of 1's and 0's. A file is no more than a certain number, and how can one person or corporation own a number?
Someone has recently discovered that there exists a prime number which, when parsed in a certain way, yields the source code to DeCSS. Since it is illegal to distribute DeCSS, people have begun distributing the prime number.
If it becomes a passable defense that distributing a prime number can not be illegal, then all the P2P haxxors have to do is find prime numbers which can be parsed to yield Adobe Photoshop, Maya, Quake 3, or whatever.
As much as I'd like an influx of 20,000 libertarians in my home state of Alabama, I think the most logical choice would be Nevada. They have a relatively low population, which would make the "freedom" voting block count more, and they already have a good reason (gaming income) to vote against vice laws. I hear they've also recently jumped on the marijuana-decriminalization bandwagon, and it would be nice to start with a state that seems kind of libertarian in the first place.
Caveat: I don't know how much federal support they accept. Anyone here from Nevada?
This is a valid point. The NRA is very popular and very powerful, and dedicated entirely to defending the second amendment. It makes more sense for the ACLU to focus on the more poorly defended amendments rather than duplicating the efforts of an organization that absolutely pours money into the defense of just one.
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There are various apps out there (and websites) that will show you what your pages will look like in several browser/platform configurations. Someone more immediately familiar with them them than I am will surely (hint, hint) provide you with some useful URLs.
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
The "novel asteroid" distance determination technique:
If it's a popular novel:
Under a hundred-thousand miles away...and on a collision course with Earth!
If it's a science-fiction novel:
Under a hundred parsecs away...and on a collision course with Terra!
If it's a Carl Sagan novel:
Over a billion, billion kilometers away...and even if it were to enter the solar system, it would probably be overcome by Jupiter's powerful gravitational field.
It's called MagicCitizen.com. (And it won't be ready for another two weeks!!) The idea is to draw people with an event calendar driven by user submissions, provide a discussion board for them to talk on, and a friend list where users can add people, and it generates an Amazon-ish 'You might also like...' list, based on their friends' taste in friends.
Unfortunately, the fact that the events are posted by anonymous users pretty much guarantees that many of them will be bogus, and the discussion boards... well, just try browsing at -1 here. Does anyone know how I can protect myself from being sued by people who are offended by user posts or who show up to an event that isn't really happening?
Hear, hear! A comedy about a team of space pirates who steal from the evil empire's shipments of the most valuable substance in the galaxy - water - while braving the hazards of time-warps, jive-talking robots, and Space Herpes.
I haven't been able to find it anywhere.
So, why did we leave Hussein in power after the Gulf War? A lot of Iraqi civilans died in that one, but we did not kill, or even depose, the one responsible. Seriously, does anyone know why we did this?
With Slashdot, you can judge between the opinions of a readership that is probably more informed than average. Networks, however, want to tell their viewers things they already agree with.
Of course, no one will care about that once you cash in on the Nigerian bank account and marry Beautiful Russian Girl.
I tend to agree. First of all, who betrays their friend by releasing job-endangering material to the public? Then, in the entire e-mail, there is no cryptic shorthand, no inside references, no chit-chat, no familiarity at all besides that of an informal style of journalism. Who is this person to get invited into the smoky room and hear information not intended for journalists? And does the list of the world's 5000 most powerful politicians really include the CEO of Heineken? Rich, I'm sure, but among the world's richest? How about the representative of Amnesty International? How did they get invited to a jam session between kings and politicos? I don't know...
I've always had problems with the gas grill spark-maker not generating a strong enough spark. A Coleman flint-and-steel lantern lighter is a very reliable spark maker, and is perfectly designed for installation in a potato gun. When you drill the hole to install it in, make sure you seal the edges securely around the lighter, or you'll burn your fingers with escaping gas.
For even more dangerous experiments, check out this guy's page.
A lot of people on the Logic and Cubase boards have been having problems with USB audio in 10.2. I've been having a problem in which an audio recording in Logic 5.5 in OS X 10.2.2 will accumulate loud, robotic distortion after a few minutes, and only restarting Logic or Core Audio (through a Logic menu option) will fix it.
This patch has fixed my issue completely, and will probably fix it with Cubase as well. Merry Christmas, Mac audio people!
Here is the logical proof:
1. Elvis is Big. (given, observation)
2. Big is Beautiful. (given, cliche)
3. Elvis is Beautiful. (Transitive Property, 1, 2)
4. Beauty is Truth. (given, poetry)
5. Elvis is Truth. (Transitive Property, 3, 4)
6. The Truth is Out There. (given, The X Files)
7. Elvis is Out There. (Transitive Property, 5, 6)
Slashdot's version:
Linux: Customer Review: * * * * *
Linux is the most advanced operating system on Earth!!! And I just loved figuring out how to compile the source code for my keyboard driver!!!
Macintosh: Customer Review: * - 1/2
Who the hell makes a computer with just one mouse button? And only 60 frames per second in Quake III? I require at least 850.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Customer Review: * * - 1/2
I liked George Lucas' old stuff. You know, before he sold out to Hollywood.*
*Dow Jones/Australia disclaimer: No claim is made that George Lucas is any better or worse than other overrated sci-fi directors.
Loan Shark: You're gonna give me my money by the end of the week, see? Or me and the boys are gonna powder your nose!
Hapless Gambler: Hmmm... That doesn't sound so bad...
"The Boys":
...that includes it - but it has not fixed the audio problems I'm having with Logic 5.5 on OS X 10.2.2 (flat-panel iMac, USB M-Audio Quattro.)
The Cubase discussion boards mention a similar problem with Cubase SX - a metallic, staticky, robot-reverb sound that gradually starts a few minutes into a recording session. It seems to hit people with USB interfaces. Anyone else have this problem? Or better yet, a fix?
The manufacturing industry would disappear overnight if we had universal assemblers. It would collapse to nothing but programmers for the assemblers, and/or engineers and machinists whose job it is to make the first copy of widget X.
There would be no more assembly-line jobs, and intellectual property would become a real bitch, if everyone has the capability of copying the latest N'Sync album atom by atom.
Maybe manufacturing jobs would be replaced with jobs fetching and purifying the raw materials.
Actually:
Ein = one
Stein = beer mug
Einstein = one beer mug?
Anyone here speak fluent enough German to tell me whether this has significance?
...where will I find a
we wouldn't say, "Oh, don't blame him, blame neo-nazism!"
:-)
No, we would blame trenchcoats.
I think this do-it-yourself helicopter "kit" will provide amazing new opportunities for natural selection.
Can't follow instructions? Plummet, then, to your death!
just a smidge to the left of Salon.
:-)
This strikes me as funny. Like "Just a smidge to the right of The 700 Club."
No flames, please. I like Salon, too.
Me too. My mother gave me an 3l33t blood-cooled system. I haven't overclocked it, though, 'cause I'm afraid to open the case!
I didn't mean that seriously. DeCSS is only a few lines long, and Photoshop, at least, is hundreds of megabytes. It would be far from simple to find a prime number that represents it.
The prime number thing for DeCSS is real, though. Don't have the link, but it was a previous story on Slashdot.
What it boils down to is that we anti-copyright crusaders have always maintained that digital "media" is just a bunch of 1's and 0's. A file is no more than a certain number, and how can one person or corporation own a number?
Someone has recently discovered that there exists a prime number which, when parsed in a certain way, yields the source code to DeCSS. Since it is illegal to distribute DeCSS, people have begun distributing the prime number.
If it becomes a passable defense that distributing a prime number can not be illegal, then all the P2P haxxors have to do is find prime numbers which can be parsed to yield Adobe Photoshop, Maya, Quake 3, or whatever.
Simple.
As much as I'd like an influx of 20,000 libertarians in my home state of Alabama, I think the most logical choice would be Nevada. They have a relatively low population, which would make the "freedom" voting block count more, and they already have a good reason (gaming income) to vote against vice laws. I hear they've also recently jumped on the marijuana-decriminalization bandwagon, and it would be nice to start with a state that seems kind of libertarian in the first place.
Caveat: I don't know how much federal support they accept. Anyone here from Nevada?
This is a valid point. The NRA is very popular and very powerful, and dedicated entirely to defending the second amendment. It makes more sense for the ACLU to focus on the more poorly defended amendments rather than duplicating the efforts of an organization that absolutely pours money into the defense of just one.