I believe that should read 1337-meters (unless 7331 is the new uber 1337 version of 1337);-)
Alternately 7331 may be something related to the article rather than a script kiddie hieroglyph
NZ did a variant that tasted like this a year ago
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A local brewer (Dominion Breweries) launched a range of fruit beers to attract women and young people to beer. At some of the launches at bars, they had cheap stuff, so a table of us bought a few bottles and tried it.
It tasted like someone had put chuppa chupp lollipops into a blender and added some vodka (couldn't taste the alcohol, but it sure wasn't beer tasting) to bring it up to 5%. I couldn't bring myself to abuse my tastebuds (there was other beer on offer) and liver with the stuff, so left it after a couple of mouthfuls.
beer is meant to have a bitterness to it. Deal with it, or drink something else.
I have to agree with this post. I spent more on my two channel stereo system (NAD amplifier, B&W speakers, nice sony cd player, than I did on my first car. This is not to start a competition in willy measuring though).
When I went shopping for my CD player I brought along a Creed CD that I had played a lot for the previous year or so. When played through a decent cd player, there were nuances and details in the music that I had never heard before. It was noticeable, and not a subtle difference.
I know that there is a lot of audiophile BS out there, but until you have played your favourite CD through a system that costs about US$2000 or so (to pick a number that while not priced in the "the emporer has no clothes" zone, is enough more than most people would customarily pay) there will be an audible difference.
Just as wine lovers have a vocabulary to describe the characteristics of a particular bottle (and I will grant that they too get a little effusive at times), there is a vocabulary for describing the characteristics of a sound system (as the post above put so well).
What bugs me is that on a typical music CD, even very recent releases, there is no track titling put on the disc to identify track names.
It would cost nothing to put on there, would be of (some) value to people with more recent CD players. As it stands the copied CDs where I put track titling on them are of more use as I don't have to find the jewel box to see what the track title is, as most burning software is intelligent enough to look it up and put it there.
If we can't get basic value added items on our music discs, what hope is there of competing with DVDs where there is more "bonus features" (subtitles, translations, extra scenes)? (rhetorical)
You could always take the simple road and get yourself the "go-faster" speed stripes favoured by drivers of preludes, or alternately paint it red, because red cars go faster.
Geeks, already used to chipping their playstations will take with glee to the project of modding segways for speed.
Wait for the segway case mods to come into vogue at lan parties
This brings a whole new meaning
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This brings a whole new level to the concept of starting a flame war or having a heated discussion on the phone.
It also opens up the potential for cellphones to be sold as firestarters for campers outside of the transmission range, a wholly untapped market.
Confession: I am a cheap b@st@rd with my home PC. It is a P-100 running Win98, and it does all I ask of it - IRC, web surfing, and occassional light MS office work.
Why does a text based chat program have a recommended system that is at least a Pentium running at 500MHz+?
If it was doing PGP encryption on the chatting, or was doing something more impressive than parsing text at a rate far less than 100 words per minute I could see the need for some processing power, but this looks like (yet another) bloat for no great increase in utility.
System Requirements for Version 6.0Minimum System Requirements:
Multimedia PC with 233MHz processor or faster (500MHz recommended)
Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Millenium, or Windows XP operating system
Minimum 64MB of RAM (128MB recommended)
Up to 50MB of hard disk space needed to install -- after install, up to 15MB may be needed
256-color VGA or higher resolution graphics card (SVGA recommended)
Minimum 800x600 screen resolution
Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer version 5.01 or later must be installed on your computer, though it does not need to be your default browser
From another civil engineer: I agree entirely. I own both a 48G and a 32SII and the 32 gets most of teh action as the equation solver is quicker to kick into life than on the 48G and for the really complex calculations that the 48 can do, others will want to see the working (vis a vis excel printouts or mathcad printouts) rather than trusting it to a black box solution.
i only hope that they bring out a 32SII replacement as it was a sad day that they finished producing non graphing RPN calculators
I only wish that I had done the same with the 32SII before they discontinued it. I also own a 48G, but my weapon of choice is the 32SII as for day to day engineering calcs I find the 32SII a faster device to use.
Bring back the HPs of old with the large "Enter" button halfway up the keyboard, rather than a little one in the bottom corner.
Nah - surely as long as the poster who got hijacked by the evil swiss hax0rs posted at least 101 seconds after the article was posted, rather than 13 seconds after the posting we can't eliminate the fact that the/. *.nix server got hacked this way;)
Are we talking of the same Radiohead, whose latest album (Hail to the thief) takes great pains to not call itself a CD, as its copy protection system puts it beyond the working definition of a compact disc, and will not play happily in a PC, and under duress in many other machines?
The linked Register article on Radiohead is 3 years old, and well out of date.
that would require admitting that the rest of the world might have been on to a good thing after all for the last - oh - fify or so years though.
Can't see the yanks ever admitting that
As a practicing structural engineer, I would have to oject to the inclusion of software as an engineering entity. Nasty things happen to us if our buildings EVER fall down, leak or wobble. Our designs are meant to be robust enough to withstand whatever nature can throw at it (short of the unfortunate events of 9-11-01)
And yet it is considered perfectly acceptable for software to crash regularly, lose data, allow dodgy persons to steal data, or generally aggravate the user to the point of distraction.
If software is to be considered a real engineering product let it perform to the same standards that other engineering fields have to - with failure being the very rare exception rather than the expectation.
.... and confiscate your ears if they have been exposed to pirated and unlicensed music;-)
Re:Even if the physics are out of this world...
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I agree whole-heartedly. The way that it was done was far more polished and consistent within itself in how the physics worked within the movie.
Movies probably go off the rails when they try to exagerate the physics of real life (vis a vis bullet flashes, momentum mistakes) rather than create a whole new consistent paradigm (leaping over buildings as in crouching tiger.
I realise that there is tons of rivalry between HP and TI users (and not wanting to incite a flame war), but the HP48 has a really large enter button - about two buttons wide, lacking in the HP49 (the enter button is there, but like the TI, it's small and in the corner rather than in the middle of the keypad)
O yes they do - they are still churning out the HP48 and HP49s, and a cluster of low grade calculaors aimed more at the school market than serious engineering
They have lost thei way in discontinuing the lower spec Reverse Polish Notation calculators (the ones without the equals key).
HP do (or rather did) make the best engineering calculators out. I own both an HP32Sii calculator and a HP48G and love them both dearly.
The latest offering by HP (I haven't played with it, this is just the feedback from the collective wisdom of HP users) - the HP49 - has gone away from what the core of HP users really want - a big "Enter" button, a consistent pressure needed for keystrokes, and a clear display.
It was a truly sad day for me when I heard that the HP32Sii was discontinued and wasn't going to be replaced.
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I believe that should read 1337-meters (unless 7331 is the new uber 1337 version of 1337) ;-)
Alternately 7331 may be something related to the article rather than a script kiddie hieroglyph
A local brewer (Dominion Breweries) launched a range of fruit beers to attract women and young people to beer. At some of the launches at bars, they had cheap stuff, so a table of us bought a few bottles and tried it.
It tasted like someone had put chuppa chupp lollipops into a blender and added some vodka (couldn't taste the alcohol, but it sure wasn't beer tasting) to bring it up to 5%. I couldn't bring myself to abuse my tastebuds (there was other beer on offer) and liver with the stuff, so left it after a couple of mouthfuls.
beer is meant to have a bitterness to it. Deal with it, or drink something else.
I have to agree with this post. I spent more on my two channel stereo system (NAD amplifier, B&W speakers, nice sony cd player, than I did on my first car. This is not to start a competition in willy measuring though).
When I went shopping for my CD player I brought along a Creed CD that I had played a lot for the previous year or so. When played through a decent cd player, there were nuances and details in the music that I had never heard before. It was noticeable, and not a subtle difference.
I know that there is a lot of audiophile BS out there, but until you have played your favourite CD through a system that costs about US$2000 or so (to pick a number that while not priced in the "the emporer has no clothes" zone, is enough more than most people would customarily pay) there will be an audible difference.
Just as wine lovers have a vocabulary to describe the characteristics of a particular bottle (and I will grant that they too get a little effusive at times), there is a vocabulary for describing the characteristics of a sound system (as the post above put so well).
And they could have used a colour chart from a paint store with a digital watch taped to the side for the same effect.
Occam's (spelling?) razor, people. Go for the simplest solution.
"you can have it in any colour you like, as long as it is black" (Ford - about 1928 or so)
"you can have linux in any flavour you like as long as it is Redhat (or Suse)" (Ford - 2003)
What bugs me is that on a typical music CD, even very recent releases, there is no track titling put on the disc to identify track names.
It would cost nothing to put on there, would be of (some) value to people with more recent CD players. As it stands the copied CDs where I put track titling on them are of more use as I don't have to find the jewel box to see what the track title is, as most burning software is intelligent enough to look it up and put it there.
If we can't get basic value added items on our music discs, what hope is there of competing with DVDs where there is more "bonus features" (subtitles, translations, extra scenes)? (rhetorical)
Quantum physics may or may not exist, but if you happen to look at it, a cat may or may not die.
Do you really want to take that chance?
Think of the kittens.
You could always take the simple road and get yourself the "go-faster" speed stripes favoured by drivers of preludes, or alternately paint it red, because red cars go faster.
Geeks, already used to chipping their playstations will take with glee to the project of modding segways for speed.
Wait for the segway case mods to come into vogue at lan parties
This brings a whole new level to the concept of starting a flame war or having a heated discussion on the phone.
It also opens up the potential for cellphones to be sold as firestarters for campers outside of the transmission range, a wholly untapped market.
Confession: I am a cheap b@st@rd with my home PC. It is a P-100 running Win98, and it does all I ask of it - IRC, web surfing, and occassional light MS office work.
Why does a text based chat program have a recommended system that is at least a Pentium running at 500MHz+?
If it was doing PGP encryption on the chatting, or was doing something more impressive than parsing text at a rate far less than 100 words per minute I could see the need for some processing power, but this looks like (yet another) bloat for no great increase in utility.
System Requirements for Version 6.0Minimum System Requirements:
Multimedia PC with 233MHz processor or faster (500MHz recommended)
Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Millenium, or Windows XP operating system
Minimum 64MB of RAM (128MB recommended)
Up to 50MB of hard disk space needed to install -- after install, up to 15MB may be needed
256-color VGA or higher resolution graphics card (SVGA recommended)
Minimum 800x600 screen resolution
Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer version 5.01 or later must be installed on your computer, though it does not need to be your default browser
i only hope that they bring out a 32SII replacement as it was a sad day that they finished producing non graphing RPN calculators
Bring back the HPs of old with the large "Enter" button halfway up the keyboard, rather than a little one in the bottom corner.
Nah - surely as long as the poster who got hijacked by the evil swiss hax0rs posted at least 101 seconds after the article was posted, rather than 13 seconds after the posting we can't eliminate the fact that the /. *.nix server got hacked this way ;)
The linked Register article on Radiohead is 3 years old, and well out of date.
that would require admitting that the rest of the world might have been on to a good thing after all for the last - oh - fify or so years though. Can't see the yanks ever admitting that
As a practicing structural engineer, I would have to oject to the inclusion of software as an engineering entity. Nasty things happen to us if our buildings EVER fall down, leak or wobble. Our designs are meant to be robust enough to withstand whatever nature can throw at it (short of the unfortunate events of 9-11-01) And yet it is considered perfectly acceptable for software to crash regularly, lose data, allow dodgy persons to steal data, or generally aggravate the user to the point of distraction. If software is to be considered a real engineering product let it perform to the same standards that other engineering fields have to - with failure being the very rare exception rather than the expectation.
.... and confiscate your ears if they have been exposed to pirated and unlicensed music ;-)
I agree whole-heartedly. The way that it was done was far more polished and consistent within itself in how the physics worked within the movie. Movies probably go off the rails when they try to exagerate the physics of real life (vis a vis bullet flashes, momentum mistakes) rather than create a whole new consistent paradigm (leaping over buildings as in crouching tiger.
I realise that there is tons of rivalry between HP and TI users (and not wanting to incite a flame war), but the HP48 has a really large enter button - about two buttons wide, lacking in the HP49 (the enter button is there, but like the TI, it's small and in the corner rather than in the middle of the keypad)
O yes they do - they are still churning out the HP48 and HP49s, and a cluster of low grade calculaors aimed more at the school market than serious engineering They have lost thei way in discontinuing the lower spec Reverse Polish Notation calculators (the ones without the equals key).
HP do (or rather did) make the best engineering calculators out. I own both an HP32Sii calculator and a HP48G and love them both dearly.
The latest offering by HP (I haven't played with it, this is just the feedback from the collective wisdom of HP users) - the HP49 - has gone away from what the core of HP users really want - a big "Enter" button, a consistent pressure needed for keystrokes, and a clear display.
It was a truly sad day for me when I heard that the HP32Sii was discontinued and wasn't going to be replaced.
Real calculators don't need an equals button!