A guy on alt.audio.pro or rec.audio.somethingortheother had a sig that said that recording companies are concerned about artists the way that ranchers are concerned about cattle.
I would rather see the election run where, the most votes wins the presidency, the second most wins the vice presidency.
Been there, done that (see Article II, Section 1 of The Constitution), changed that (see 12th Amendment to that same Constitution).
As The Constitution doesn't specifically require that Vice-Presidential candidates run on a ticket with Presidential candidates, Colbert should mount an independent campaign for the Vice-Presidency.
A significant portion of people wanted Nader but voted for Gore because they really didn't want Bush to be President.
Which is why we should do things my way. Let people vote "Yes" or "No" on every candidate. Subtract each candidate's "No" votes from their "Yes" votes. Compare the remaining "Yes" votes.
This would have allowed people to vote for both Bush and Buchanan or for both Gore and Nader or whatever combination they wished. They could even vote "No" on every candidate and have a greater effect on the outcome than just writing in "none of the above".
They could choose their candidates by lottery if they wanted, or by caucus (as some states do), or simply executive decision.
But instead they (and the Republicans) prefer to sucker the taxpayers into financing the process, and they and the Republicans rig the laws to keep third party and independant candidates out of the primaries that are payed for by everyone's taxes.
Of course having a USA PATRIOT act that, effectively allows the electoral college to seize ballot boxes, without scrutiny or explanation, helps a real lot.
This is the first I'm hearing about anything in the USA PATRIOT act that has anything to do with the Electoral College. Would you have any links to a fuller explanation of these added powers you seem to think the College has been given?
So, Home Depot is a NASA subcontractor now.... That explains things.
Of course if those were space shuttle tiles in that WD box then he got more than his money's worth and that idiot store manager is going "Damn, I coulda made a fortune selling those on eBay!":-)
If you talk about polishing in the context of a discussion about vinyl, please mention that you're talking about a CD right at the start. That really freaked me out.
Sorry 'bout that, chief!
Speaking of polishing vinyl, anybody have any experience with, if I remember the name correctly, Soundguard? It was a groove "dry" lubricant made by Ball, the same people who made lids for Mason jars for home canning.
Polish in line with the data tracks, not inside to outside.
You want to avoid polishing in the same direction as the temporal flow of the data. As you go around the disc in a circle you are moving ahead through time relative to what chunk of data correlates to how far along in the music you are. If you polish at right angles (from the hole in the center out to the outer edge and back) to the concentric rings of lands and pits (okay maybe it's just one long spiral like a record) any scratching you do (and that's what polishing is, replacing big scratches with much smaller ones) will not obscure sequential data bits, which means that the error correcting mechanism has a much better chance of working, whereas polishing along the same path which the laser beam will take risks obscuring several consecutive milliseconds worth of data.
For polishing CDs I recommend Wright's Silver Cream (originally intended for polishing silverware and probably available at your local grocery store).
Vinyl is not as easily damaged as one would think.
Actually it's damaged much more easily than you think. That 2 grams or less of tracking force translates into tens of thousands of pounds per square inch and a lot of heat from friction because the contact area of the stylus with the groove wall is so very small.
When you play a record the area contacted by the stylus gets deformed because it is softened by the heat and squeezed by the pressure. The vinyl is supposed to have a "memory" and return to its original state after maybe an hour or so, but of course it doesn't recover absolutely completely, and this damage is cumulative. If you replay the record within a few minutes then the deformed area gets deformed even further and can't recover fully from both the deformation to the original deformation and the original deformation itself. Also any teeny little speck of dust gets "welded" into the groove wall by the stylus, further altering the wiggles in the groove from their original form.
The ability to hear this damage varies from one person to another.
No, this is just a way for them to be able to re-sell you the same content you already have.
They already did that. Plenty of album collections that were built one $5 purchase at a time were duplicated at $20 or so a pop.
I wonder, though, whether they could have developed an analog Compact Disc instead of the digital one. Motion pictures have had optical soundtracks for ages, although they were read with a lightbulb and photocell. Seems like they could have done something where the variation in time for the laser signal to bounce back from the disk could have represented the variation in the analog signal. This would have resulted in a disk that had the same information (i.e., quality) as the phonograph record but one that wasn't subject to physical wear. This would have been no more (or less) "piratable" than the phonograph record.
How much for the Otari? E-mail me at "myslashdotusername"@coastalnet.com, please. I've got a lot of tapes of radio spots I did (most of them on a 2 track Otari) back in the day and nothing on which to play them back. Thanks in advance.
The Windows 3.1 install disks would attempt to write to the first floppy, and, if the disk was write-protected, the install process stalled right there and wouldn't proceed any further until you let it write to the floppy.
The thing to do, of course, was make copies of the floppies before installing Windows and then install from the copies and then go back and copy Disc 1 over the copy again to "re-virginize" it. Although the thing to really do was copy all the disks onto the hard drive and install from there.
The thing that occurred to me is if the manager of the Best Buy could cancel a refund in progress that easily...
Re-read the original FA. The return and refund had already occurred. He bought another of the same model drive and opened it in front of the store employees to make sure that he hadn't bought another box of tiles. It was at that point that the manager came up and stole from the customer what his store had just sold to the customer.
it also says the paper was a month old. so the switcheroo could have happened anytime int he last month.. kind of making the manufacturer date irrelevant?
Unless they kept the hard drive (or the empty box) at the factory in Malaysia for two weeks waiting for that particular day's NY Post to use to keep the tiles from rattling around, I'd say it indicates a strong likelihood that the paper and tiles were put in the box sometime after it arrived stateside.
Now if it had been a Malaysian newspaper I'd be more inclined to suspect someone at the factory.
He would be the winner of the popular vote and thus could select a majority of electors.
The Electors for any particular state are appointed by whatever method the legislature of that state has decided upon. They don't have to allow any of the candidates any say in who gets appointed at all if they don't want to.
Then since the Constitution would override any law passed by Congress Bill CLinton would become the Elected President even though Congress passed a law that disallows a person from serving a third term as President.
Not quite. The Twenty-Second Amendment to The Constitution, and not legislation, is what prohibits Bill Clinton, and anyone else who has already served at least one and one-half terms as President, from being eligible for election to another term.
And by the way, Colbert isn't running for President, he's running for the nomination of either party (in just one state) to be their candidate to run for President.
So... I should turn in Ronald McDonald to Homeland Security? Yes, please do. He scares me.
He may be a little scary, but that frozen-faced Burger King in their TV ads just plain creeps me out. The only thing that makes me faster to reach for the remote is any mention whatsoever of Donald Trump.
It has nothing to do with sarcasm when it's modded insightful.
So if you think that the original poster (who was probably going for "funny") somehow fell short of a moderation (insightful) done later by someone else that it's the original poster who should be blamed?
Summary: You have to do a bunch of math, like, real fast, and it might not even work if all the signals don't go through the same thingy.
If I hadn't already posted to this story I'd be trying right now to figure out how to use my two remaining mod points to mod you both funny and insightful.
...but I finally realized around age 16 that I was never, ever going to understand how the little minuses got over to the big plus terminal...
Can any EEs shed some light on this?
Don't know if you want to ask an EE. They still get taught that the little plusses get over to the big minus terminal.:-)
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I'm pretty sure that the 5400/7400 series chips pre-date the Evil Bit RFC.
A guy on alt.audio.pro or rec.audio.somethingortheother had a sig that said that recording companies are concerned about artists the way that ranchers are concerned about cattle.
Been there, done that (see Article II, Section 1 of The Constitution), changed that (see 12th Amendment to that same Constitution).
As The Constitution doesn't specifically require that Vice-Presidential candidates run on a ticket with Presidential candidates, Colbert should mount an independent campaign for the Vice-Presidency.
Which is why we should do things my way. Let people vote "Yes" or "No" on every candidate. Subtract each candidate's "No" votes from their "Yes" votes. Compare the remaining "Yes" votes.
This would have allowed people to vote for both Bush and Buchanan or for both Gore and Nader or whatever combination they wished. They could even vote "No" on every candidate and have a greater effect on the outcome than just writing in "none of the above".
But instead they (and the Republicans) prefer to sucker the taxpayers into financing the process, and they and the Republicans rig the laws to keep third party and independant candidates out of the primaries that are payed for by everyone's taxes.
Good! Let's fire Diebold and hire them to count the ballots instead.
This is the first I'm hearing about anything in the USA PATRIOT act that has anything to do with the Electoral College. Would you have any links to a fuller explanation of these added powers you seem to think the College has been given?
Of course if those were space shuttle tiles in that WD box then he got more than his money's worth and that idiot store manager is going "Damn, I coulda made a fortune selling those on eBay!" :-)
Sorry 'bout that, chief!
Speaking of polishing vinyl, anybody have any experience with, if I remember the name correctly, Soundguard? It was a groove "dry" lubricant made by Ball, the same people who made lids for Mason jars for home canning.
You want to avoid polishing in the same direction as the temporal flow of the data. As you go around the disc in a circle you are moving ahead through time relative to what chunk of data correlates to how far along in the music you are. If you polish at right angles (from the hole in the center out to the outer edge and back) to the concentric rings of lands and pits (okay maybe it's just one long spiral like a record) any scratching you do (and that's what polishing is, replacing big scratches with much smaller ones) will not obscure sequential data bits, which means that the error correcting mechanism has a much better chance of working, whereas polishing along the same path which the laser beam will take risks obscuring several consecutive milliseconds worth of data.
For polishing CDs I recommend Wright's Silver Cream (originally intended for polishing silverware and probably available at your local grocery store).
Actually it's damaged much more easily than you think. That 2 grams or less of tracking force translates into tens of thousands of pounds per square inch and a lot of heat from friction because the contact area of the stylus with the groove wall is so very small.
When you play a record the area contacted by the stylus gets deformed because it is softened by the heat and squeezed by the pressure. The vinyl is supposed to have a "memory" and return to its original state after maybe an hour or so, but of course it doesn't recover absolutely completely, and this damage is cumulative. If you replay the record within a few minutes then the deformed area gets deformed even further and can't recover fully from both the deformation to the original deformation and the original deformation itself. Also any teeny little speck of dust gets "welded" into the groove wall by the stylus, further altering the wiggles in the groove from their original form.
The ability to hear this damage varies from one person to another.
They already did that. Plenty of album collections that were built one $5 purchase at a time were duplicated at $20 or so a pop.
I wonder, though, whether they could have developed an analog Compact Disc instead of the digital one. Motion pictures have had optical soundtracks for ages, although they were read with a lightbulb and photocell. Seems like they could have done something where the variation in time for the laser signal to bounce back from the disk could have represented the variation in the analog signal. This would have resulted in a disk that had the same information (i.e., quality) as the phonograph record but one that wasn't subject to physical wear. This would have been no more (or less) "piratable" than the phonograph record.
How much for the Otari? E-mail me at "myslashdotusername"@coastalnet.com, please. I've got a lot of tapes of radio spots I did (most of them on a 2 track Otari) back in the day and nothing on which to play them back. Thanks in advance.
The thing to do, of course, was make copies of the floppies before installing Windows and then install from the copies and then go back and copy Disc 1 over the copy again to "re-virginize" it. Although the thing to really do was copy all the disks onto the hard drive and install from there.
Re-read the original FA. The return and refund had already occurred. He bought another of the same model drive and opened it in front of the store employees to make sure that he hadn't bought another box of tiles. It was at that point that the manager came up and stole from the customer what his store had just sold to the customer.
Unless they kept the hard drive (or the empty box) at the factory in Malaysia for two weeks waiting for that particular day's NY Post to use to keep the tiles from rattling around, I'd say it indicates a strong likelihood that the paper and tiles were put in the box sometime after it arrived stateside.
Now if it had been a Malaysian newspaper I'd be more inclined to suspect someone at the factory.
He should have gone with the old Socket 4 Pentiums instead and he would have had a wall-mounted space heater for those frosty mornings.
Of course even with Socket 8 walls he's got a very limited upgrade path.
You're the wife and you have the lower (by around a quarter of a million) user id number?
The Electors for any particular state are appointed by whatever method the legislature of that state has decided upon. They don't have to allow any of the candidates any say in who gets appointed at all if they don't want to.
Then since the Constitution would override any law passed by Congress Bill CLinton would become the Elected President even though Congress passed a law that disallows a person from serving a third term as President.Not quite. The Twenty-Second Amendment to The Constitution, and not legislation, is what prohibits Bill Clinton, and anyone else who has already served at least one and one-half terms as President, from being eligible for election to another term.
And by the way, Colbert isn't running for President, he's running for the nomination of either party (in just one state) to be their candidate to run for President.
...but there is not enough space in the margin of the post to include them.
He may be a little scary, but that frozen-faced Burger King in their TV ads just plain creeps me out. The only thing that makes me faster to reach for the remote is any mention whatsoever of Donald Trump.
So if you think that the original poster (who was probably going for "funny") somehow fell short of a moderation (insightful) done later by someone else that it's the original poster who should be blamed?
If the drywall wasn't in the way you should have "future-proofed" the house by installing conduit.
If I hadn't already posted to this story I'd be trying right now to figure out how to use my two remaining mod points to mod you both funny and insightful.
...but I finally realized around age 16 that I was never, ever going to understand how the little minuses got over to the big plus terminal... Can any EEs shed some light on this?Don't know if you want to ask an EE. They still get taught that the little plusses get over to the big minus terminal. :-)