"A country with vast oil wealth, run by a tyrant, who openly hates America. What kind of idiot would think such a place is "no threat whatsoever" to Americans?"
That's okay, all those countries with vast oil wealth, run by tyrants, who openly love America will more than offset any threat.:-)
"But the smiley face has been around since before I was born and Wal-Mart is younger than I am."
Apparently Wal-Mart was founded in 1962 and incorporated in 1969, so while the smiley face may be slightly older than the corporation , it's slightly younger than the business.
It is, however, considerably older than Wal-Mart's use of it.
"No. They go to the Google page, type gibberish and hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button to randomly find a cute name that hasn't been taken. This also works for finding baby names.:P"
Insert remark about recent births to celebrities here.
Okay, but I'm drawing the line at "healthy" versus "healthful".
Once something moves into the "food" category its days of health are pretty much all over, no matter how much it might do for the health of the consumer.
BSW and the other broadcast parts houses have good stuff (or did the last time I was on the air, 'bout a decade ago) but if it isn't absolutely broadcast only (say mics or Henry boxes rather than xmitters or exciters or Optimods) it's usually available elsewhere with a lot less markup.
Notice the part of the article that cites another article from 1999?
Back then they were talking about how wonderful it was to spy on everyone so some internet traffic could be charged a higher rate to be passed along.
Nearer the top of the page it mentions that previous to September 11, 2001 they wanted to analyze everything to prevent "revenue leakage", which I take to be the industry term of art meaning "a failure to exploit loopholes and monopolies to screw everyone out of every last penny".
Do you understand tempered tuning? Put simplistically, it's a system where every note is equally out of tune (except out at the ends of a keyboard where there's even more "fudging").
On a piano or fretted string instrument notes like C sharp and D flat are the same frequency. On a violin you may well find that a C sharp is a few cycles per second higher than a D flat. Unless you're trying to play along with a piano or a fretted instrument, in which case you may need to "cheat" on your fingering.
Even if you start with the standard of A=440 cycles per second (Hertz) or halves or doubles thereof, the frequencies of the other 11 notes may vary depending upon in which key you are playing. You should take care to understand whether the software is saying what you think it is regarding the pitch (frequency) of particular notes.
"...when the Sony name wasn't covered in enough red tape to fill the Grand Canyon.'"
One can be covered in red tape, i.e., bureaucracy, as well as red ink, i.e., financial losses, and theoretically there could be enough of either to fill the Grand Canyon.
Sony, nowadays, is probably wrestling with plenty of both.
As I have pointed out elsewhere, by trying to be both a hardware company and a "content" company they have brought this upon themselves.
"Instead we got Mr. White of the "Progress and Freedom Foundation" repeatedly telling the committee that the electromagnetic spectrum is just like real estate."
From one point of view it is--'they ain't makin' any more of it'.
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"Which is completely unrelated to the OP, which was asking for the *technical* skills and tools required..."
User 213492, rblancarte, claimed that DJ'ing is just "...learning to mix/blend songs...", when it is actually much, much more. I pointed that out to rblancarte and anyone else who might have been misled by his/her post.
That's why I replied to rblancarte's post and not one at a higher level.
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"...he is looking to DJ, which, when you break it down, it just learning to mix/blend songs as you go from one song to the next."
Even assuming that we're talking non-broadcast, there's a lot more to it than that. Specifically, the audience. You have to be able to read and work the crowd, even if you never say a word. You have to know which song to play when. A smooth segue ain't worth much if you choose the wrong music for the moment.
You aren't really playing music, you're using the music to play the crowd.
"The 6U8A that drives the sound went out, and I don't have a glass blowing kit to make a new one."
You can make a new electrolytic out of Cut-Rite and Reynolds Wrap but you couldn't use the old tube base, stick in a dropping resistor for the filament string and an FET and some resistors for the triode?:-)
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What kind of idiot would think such a place is "no threat whatsoever" to Americans?"
That's okay, all those countries with vast oil wealth, run by tyrants, who openly love America will more than offset any threat. :-)
Apparently Wal-Mart was founded in 1962 and incorporated in 1969, so while the smiley face may be slightly older than the corporation , it's slightly younger than the business.
It is, however, considerably older than Wal-Mart's use of it.
Insert remark about recent births to celebrities here.
Once something moves into the "food" category its days of health are pretty much all over, no matter how much it might do for the health of the consumer.
I've Always Found Helpful...comic books, graphic novels, and Bazooka Joe rappers to be a mollifying affect with my written skills."
Rappers with turtleneck sweaters pulled up over the lower half of their faces?
This has promise. One can't make out most of the lyrics anyway, so anything that muffles the volume as well gets my vote.
In other words, passive is "mistakes were made (and we're saying it this way to try to duck the blame)", and active is "we made mistakes"?
Wouldn't it be more correct to say "As a (former, and, I hope, future) writing instructor"? as "hopefully" is an (almost universally mis-used) adverb?
You know those plastic crates the dairy industry uses? There's a reason God saw to it that they're just the right size for phonograph albums.
It's certainly got more media mileage than anything else he's done recently.
Xix."
"The purpose of the office of the president is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it" Douglas Adams
BSW and the other broadcast parts houses have good stuff (or did the last time I was on the air, 'bout a decade ago) but if it isn't absolutely broadcast only (say mics or Henry boxes rather than xmitters or exciters or Optimods) it's usually available elsewhere with a lot less markup.
When will they be getting around to the rest of the artificial insect?
I was just impressed that he knew that "penultimate" means "next to last".
Of course not, that's what the steering wheel was for.
Back then they were talking about how wonderful it was to spy on everyone so some internet traffic could be charged a higher rate to be passed along.
Nearer the top of the page it mentions that previous to September 11, 2001 they wanted to analyze everything to prevent "revenue leakage", which I take to be the industry term of art meaning "a failure to exploit loopholes and monopolies to screw everyone out of every last penny".
Now they can be greedy and "patriotic".
On a piano or fretted string instrument notes like C sharp and D flat are the same frequency. On a violin you may well find that a C sharp is a few cycles per second higher than a D flat. Unless you're trying to play along with a piano or a fretted instrument, in which case you may need to "cheat" on your fingering.
Even if you start with the standard of A=440 cycles per second (Hertz) or halves or doubles thereof, the frequencies of the other 11 notes may vary depending upon in which key you are playing. You should take care to understand whether the software is saying what you think it is regarding the pitch (frequency) of particular notes.
One can be covered in red tape, i.e., bureaucracy, as well as red ink, i.e., financial losses, and theoretically there could be enough of either to fill the Grand Canyon.
Sony, nowadays, is probably wrestling with plenty of both.
As I have pointed out elsewhere, by trying to be both a hardware company and a "content" company they have brought this upon themselves.
Speaking of off-topic, if my emails about that Series 1 for sale didn't get through email me slashdotusername@coastalnet.com
As a matter of fact the monkeys at Duke learned to do it from watching Jesse Helms campaign ads.
Is the above a comment about
(a) The poo-flinging robot arm story?
(b)Krzyzewskiville and the Cameron Crazies?
(c) Their lacrosse team?
It's the bomb er s that are well fed, the bomb ee s are the ones upon whom the bombs are dropped.
From one point of view it is--'they ain't makin' any more of it'.
User 213492, rblancarte, claimed that DJ'ing is just "...learning to mix/blend songs...", when it is actually much, much more. I pointed that out to rblancarte and anyone else who might have been misled by his/her post.
That's why I replied to rblancarte's post and not one at a higher level.
Even assuming that we're talking non-broadcast, there's a lot more to it than that. Specifically, the audience. You have to be able to read and work the crowd, even if you never say a word. You have to know which song to play when. A smooth segue ain't worth much if you choose the wrong music for the moment.
You aren't really playing music, you're using the music to play the crowd.
Yeah, well that, some acting ability, a decent script, and an un-cheesy sountrack. :-)
You can make a new electrolytic out of Cut-Rite and Reynolds Wrap but you couldn't use the old tube base, stick in a dropping resistor for the filament string and an FET and some resistors for the triode? :-)