It's a 1950s model tube oscilloscope I dumpster dived from the University of Virginia and it is usually hooked up to the right audio channel of my PC (some sort of year-old Athlon with 700+ megs of RAM). It makes nice visuals without using any CPU power, although things tend to drift around the green circular screen as it gets warm. The fumes from the tubes also makes my laboratory smell like a 1950s recording studio, minus the cigarettes.
Remember the Y2K "bug"? Well before 1999 came along, I had some code to automatically update a website every morning promptly at midnight. It worked flawlessly until the morning of January 1, 1999, when the version displayed on the site was the earliest version available in the file system, not the version for January 1st. My code was evidently ignoring years entirely, something that I hadn't caught in debugging - but in those go-go days of the dotcom boom, all that mattered was that it ran successfully for a few months.
Telecommuting is where it's at! One would think that outer space would be a perfect place for astronauts to telecommute. The only reason we still send people into space is to put a human face on billions of dollars - which works well until things start going wrong (an interesting parallel with Iraq).
that part of my sig is supposed to draw attention to how ridiculous this whole God thing has become in this nation of selfish fatcats wrapped in flags while getting their cocks sucked by Arnold Schwartzenegger's cocksucker
1. Be really small and run on almost no power.
(Screw 70 Watt processors, gimme something i can implant!)
2. Automatically negotiate ad hoc networks with passersby, immediately establishing whether or not they are similar or dissimilar to you based on MP3 collections, web bookmarks, etc.
3. Thereby facilitating a new form of social selection in humans, whereby our computers automatically figure out whether we are meant to fall in love, be friends, etc.
i did this with a quantum fireball too!
check it out here
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when they start selling those guys for $10 then I agree - we have a changed world. just think what that technology will do to the RIAA - i'll start carrying my MP3s everywhere i go and sharing them with random people on the subway.
I don't think I've ever seen a recently-made hard drive being sold for less than $100. I think the precision of the components requires a certain minimum manufacturing expense. If you can get a used hard drive for $10, remember that at one time it was sold for (or available for sale for) at least $100.
Sadly, it doesn't seem that any manufacturers make routine use of old-technology hard drives in today's computers - doing so would keep the prices lower.
for recreational motivational purposes, i prefer dextromethorphan, the active ingredient in robotussin. see this page for details:
http://www.spies.com/~gus/musings/tussin/
Sure, exercise is good for getting the juices flowing, but how about a little throwdown with the old wifey-wife/girlfriend/boyfriend? I find it particularly helpful for motivation if I take charge sexually and do something very male and agressive. I don't think I could have built the Vodkatea ( http://www.vodkatea.com/g ) glossary system were it not for Doggy Style.
It's interesting that the press isn't stressing that YOU ARE SAFE if you disable sharing to others. The FUD here is that "if you use Kazaa you might be caught."
Remember - people in other countries are not being targeted, so if you MUST download copyrighted material, there will still be plenty available from Kazaa users in Canada, land of sodomite marriage and soon-to-be-legalized marijuana, where the air blows cold but free.
I've noticed that no one is willing to bet the company on the dancing paperclip anymore. I remember when conventional wisdom was all about that paperclip and how it was going to be next big thing, a cautious step into a future filled with punch-me-I'm-Jar-Jar-Binks avatars.
Most non-spam Outlook users send HTML messages that lack tables, iframes, and other post-Mosaic formatting tricks. I think if one were to bounce email that contained these useless HTML entities, you'd still be able to get your precious email from your long-lost Outlook-using girlfriend.
Flash (and SVG) are extremely powerful and obviously people can abuse the way they work on the web. Remember when people used to put rainbow dividers on web pages? We didn't outlaw 256 color GIFs!
Without Flash (or SVG) there would be no way to mathematically create plots from data on the client-side. This is an extremely useful feature.
I have a project where I'm tasked with generating plots - I could do it on the server side but this would require clunky Apache graphics plugins and negotiation with my web host. Plus they would download much more slowly and come at a fixed resolution. By plotting client side using XML data - I just create new XML files when I need to make a new graph.
See examples here:
http://www.spies.com/~gus/forests/soiltemperatures /
1. Ripping MP3s of your music is fair use.
2. Occasionally CDs are lost or stolen.
Thus: no one but the computer operator of any particular PC can know the true legitimacy of MP3s on that computer.
Don't allow anyone to convince you that you can be busted for the MP3s on your computer. You cannot be.
Would it be okay for a library to use a filter designed by an open source development team? To survive under this crazy fascist new paradigm, it stands to reason that the only effective solution is for libraries to adopt the use of open-source filters with open-source block lists.
Would any developers care to take on this project?
you can always tell when people who make drug references don't actually take drugs.
if the guys handling the marketing for USB actually took speed, they'd be atypical. Most of these marketing hacks get pumped up on cocaine or smoke a few bowls of marijuana before settling down for a big day of product branding.
Say what you want to about the utility of digital music over short-wave, I think it's a fascinating development. It's just another big application of Peer to Peer technology, one completely bypasses the internet. It's not just music that can be broadcasted this way - files can be sent and they could contain anything - newspapers, video, software, worms - and they could come from anyone with enough power to broadcast them. If the use of such technology becomes widespread enough - look for this becoming just another way to suck data into your computer, no matter how isolated you happen to be.
I've been around the block a few times when it comes to media players, and the Real brand leaves me cold. Every time I think about Real, my mind is once again filled with the idea of having to go to their website, re-enter all my bogus information, and get the latest version of their player. (They're like the Radio Shack of media players!) I'd be afraid to join a Real subscription service - since they'd probably change the file format of the download on a weekly basis, necessitating constant player updates. In this respect, they're much worse than Microsoft.
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It's a 1950s model tube oscilloscope I dumpster dived from the University of Virginia and it is usually hooked up to the right audio channel of my PC (some sort of year-old Athlon with 700+ megs of RAM). It makes nice visuals without using any CPU power, although things tend to drift around the green circular screen as it gets warm. The fumes from the tubes also makes my laboratory smell like a 1950s recording studio, minus the cigarettes.
Remember the Y2K "bug"? Well before 1999 came along, I had some code to automatically update a website every morning promptly at midnight. It worked flawlessly until the morning of January 1, 1999, when the version displayed on the site was the earliest version available in the file system, not the version for January 1st. My code was evidently ignoring years entirely, something that I hadn't caught in debugging - but in those go-go days of the dotcom boom, all that mattered was that it ran successfully for a few months.
Telecommuting is where it's at! One would think that outer space would be a perfect place for astronauts to telecommute. The only reason we still send people into space is to put a human face on billions of dollars - which works well until things start going wrong (an interesting parallel with Iraq).
that part of my sig is supposed to draw attention to how ridiculous this whole God thing has become in this nation of selfish fatcats wrapped in flags while getting their cocks sucked by Arnold Schwartzenegger's cocksucker
1. Be really small and run on almost no power. (Screw 70 Watt processors, gimme something i can implant!) 2. Automatically negotiate ad hoc networks with passersby, immediately establishing whether or not they are similar or dissimilar to you based on MP3 collections, web bookmarks, etc. 3. Thereby facilitating a new form of social selection in humans, whereby our computers automatically figure out whether we are meant to fall in love, be friends, etc.
An electric eel could do cool things like power the idiotic glowing cables that hardcore case modders buy from TigerDirect.
if it's running a microsoft OS, particularly Windows Millennium Edition, how about a Bug Farm?
i did this with a quantum fireball too! check it out here
when they start selling those guys for $10 then I agree - we have a changed world. just think what that technology will do to the RIAA - i'll start carrying my MP3s everywhere i go and sharing them with random people on the subway.
I don't think I've ever seen a recently-made hard drive being sold for less than $100. I think the precision of the components requires a certain minimum manufacturing expense. If you can get a used hard drive for $10, remember that at one time it was sold for (or available for sale for) at least $100. Sadly, it doesn't seem that any manufacturers make routine use of old-technology hard drives in today's computers - doing so would keep the prices lower.
for recreational motivational purposes, i prefer dextromethorphan, the active ingredient in robotussin. see this page for details: http://www.spies.com/~gus/musings/tussin/
Sure, exercise is good for getting the juices flowing, but how about a little throwdown with the old wifey-wife/girlfriend/boyfriend? I find it particularly helpful for motivation if I take charge sexually and do something very male and agressive. I don't think I could have built the Vodkatea ( http://www.vodkatea.com/g ) glossary system were it not for Doggy Style.
I doubt there's much of an ongoing crackdown in Russia. Remember when they were the ones who hated freedom?
It's interesting that the press isn't stressing that YOU ARE SAFE if you disable sharing to others. The FUD here is that "if you use Kazaa you might be caught." Remember - people in other countries are not being targeted, so if you MUST download copyrighted material, there will still be plenty available from Kazaa users in Canada, land of sodomite marriage and soon-to-be-legalized marijuana, where the air blows cold but free.
I've noticed that no one is willing to bet the company on the dancing paperclip anymore. I remember when conventional wisdom was all about that paperclip and how it was going to be next big thing, a cautious step into a future filled with punch-me-I'm-Jar-Jar-Binks avatars.
This form allows you to send your comments to the SEC without having to fill in all the boring details:
http://www.vodkatea.com/sec.html
Most non-spam Outlook users send HTML messages that lack tables, iframes, and other post-Mosaic formatting tricks. I think if one were to bounce email that contained these useless HTML entities, you'd still be able to get your precious email from your long-lost Outlook-using girlfriend.
Flash (and SVG) are extremely powerful and obviously people can abuse the way they work on the web. Remember when people used to put rainbow dividers on web pages? We didn't outlaw 256 color GIFs! Without Flash (or SVG) there would be no way to mathematically create plots from data on the client-side. This is an extremely useful feature. I have a project where I'm tasked with generating plots - I could do it on the server side but this would require clunky Apache graphics plugins and negotiation with my web host. Plus they would download much more slowly and come at a fixed resolution. By plotting client side using XML data - I just create new XML files when I need to make a new graph. See examples here: http://www.spies.com/~gus/forests/soiltemperatures /
1. Ripping MP3s of your music is fair use. 2. Occasionally CDs are lost or stolen. Thus: no one but the computer operator of any particular PC can know the true legitimacy of MP3s on that computer. Don't allow anyone to convince you that you can be busted for the MP3s on your computer. You cannot be.
Here's an . Evidently there are a few open source filters available: Dan's Guardian squidGuard My thinking is that -in the present environment- people should lobby their libraries to only use open source web filters - anything else is basically just government-sanctioned mind control. And if the only platform for opensource filters is open source itself, well, this could get interesting.
Would it be okay for a library to use a filter designed by an open source development team? To survive under this crazy fascist new paradigm, it stands to reason that the only effective solution is for libraries to adopt the use of open-source filters with open-source block lists. Would any developers care to take on this project?
you can always tell when people who make drug references don't actually take drugs. if the guys handling the marketing for USB actually took speed, they'd be atypical. Most of these marketing hacks get pumped up on cocaine or smoke a few bowls of marijuana before settling down for a big day of product branding.
definitely there would have to be new protocols. how about one in which a file is "healed" over the course of several rebroadcasts?
Say what you want to about the utility of digital music over short-wave, I think it's a fascinating development. It's just another big application of Peer to Peer technology, one completely bypasses the internet. It's not just music that can be broadcasted this way - files can be sent and they could contain anything - newspapers, video, software, worms - and they could come from anyone with enough power to broadcast them. If the use of such technology becomes widespread enough - look for this becoming just another way to suck data into your computer, no matter how isolated you happen to be.
I've been around the block a few times when it comes to media players, and the Real brand leaves me cold. Every time I think about Real, my mind is once again filled with the idea of having to go to their website, re-enter all my bogus information, and get the latest version of their player. (They're like the Radio Shack of media players!) I'd be afraid to join a Real subscription service - since they'd probably change the file format of the download on a weekly basis, necessitating constant player updates. In this respect, they're much worse than Microsoft.