this is the code which is invariably used even today.
Not invariably. Last I heard there were still some amateur radio nets for people who enjoy using American Morse code. They're probably few and far between, though, and getting fewer and farther as time goes on.
Elements of American Morse still pepper ham radio procedure today, actually. Probably the most widespread example is the signoff code "didididahdit daaaaaaaah", often incorrectly transliterated into International Morse as "SK" because those are the characters it sounds the most like. In reality that last dah is supposed to be a longer than normal one, and the symbol is American Morse for "30", which in early telegraph procedure meant "end of message. (This is also the origin of the mark "# # # 30 # # #" you often see at the bottom of press releases and similar documents.)
The CEO of Lycoris (which is also sold preinstalled by machines from walmart.com) said last month that the web site is basically a test, to see if there's enough interest in the Lindows/Lycoris/Mandrake/nonWin machines to warrant thinking about putting them in the retail stores.
IIRC part of the problem apparently is that some of the machine manufacturers are having trouble keeping up with demand. I suspect machines won't go into stores until this particular problem is solved.
'and yo did take her, the first time in my life, sobra mi genu and poner mi mano sub her jupes and toca su thigh, which did hazer me great pleasure.'
Unique personal porno style, my left hind foot. My friend Stan sounds just like this after he's finished off the night's second bottle of Mother Goose's Sweet Potato Sparkling Wine.
Speaking from experience, I think something extraordinary may need to happen before you can remember anything at age 3. I have three brief memories from age 3, all of which would have happened within about a month's time: one of scattering my toys all over the front bedroom fo the house we had just moved into, although I don't remember anything of the apartment we lived in before that or what those toys were (other than, for some reason, a drafting triangle); one of my mother holding my baby sister in the house (I've always just presumed she was the reason we moved); and one of speaking to my grandmother, who died shortly after we moved into that house. I remember asking her why she was wearing a surgical mask, but I don't remember her reply.
These memories are quite real, although I don't know how you would go about proving that they were real and not somehow implanted or made up. However, it's odd that other than these three memories, and a couple of other vague snippets (reading, a couple of events at preschool) there's really nothing else until I started attending kindergarten. I suspect those three memories stuck around because they somehow made such an impression on my small mind (new house, new sister, grandmother wearing the mask).
So the next time you think that the public doesn't care about issues, watch the ratings for the nightly news, Bill O'Reily, and CNN.
People who really care about the issues will do some digging and get some information rather than sitting there like a lump letting the nightly news, Bill O'Reilly, and CNN tell them what to think.
Schickele's stuff isn't really a derivation, although it's funny as hell. It's more of a musical parody of the Baroque style. Some of it is pretty close to the mark -- if you squinted your ears a little you could almost imagine "Iphegenia in Brooklyn" being performed at the Thomaskirche. Almost.:)
I've heard of people creating "new" Stephen Foster songs or Mozart piano pieces based on the body of their work, but I'm afraid I don't know anything about these projects or whether they're really anything more than urban legends.
Would AI get bent out of shape if China started using Free/Open Source software extensively in its filtering and blocking efforts? If so, why? By its nature free software is free for anyone to use, even totalitarian regimes who want to use the software to limit the freedom of those they rule.
This whole thing sounds a lot like the old "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument.
The current Seattle monorail system is profitable.
Of course it costs a dollar or so and takes you a distance you can comfortably walk (basically from the Space Needle to Nordstrom's headquarters, a distance of maybe a half mile), and is a tourist attraction to boot. We locals occasionally refer to it as the "Train To Nowhere" (after a cabaret skit in which it was featured). (To be fair, they have a deal where you can park at the Seattle Center parking center and commute into downtown on the monorail, thereby avoiding downtown traffic. I'm sure it makes a fair amount of money this way.)
Whether anyone uses it will depend on whether it ends up going where people want to go at an attractive price.
Great funny dialog... poor science... (Still using gunpowder, but somehow they have excellent gravity generators and inertial dampeners)
Slugthrowers are cheap, not that it matters. Anyone who doesn't know "Firefly" is just a horse opera with the sci-fi stuff bolted on isn't watching the show.
My wife just reminded me of the "Groundhog Day"-esque episode where the scientists figured out what was going on when O'Neill started spouting technobabble about their predicament.
"You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may think it's a movement."
He's talking about fighting the draft but the logic applies to overthrowing the DCMA as well. If enough people got together (the more the merrier), copied a single file, and turned themselves in en masse at the local police station, people would start to notice. Especially if the protesters alerted the media beforehand.
and just call my system "Red Hat." Then I can get into arguments with the Mandrake and Red Hat People instead of the Star Bellied GNU/Linux people and the Linux people who have none upon thars.
Forget money. Time is more expensive to a spammer. If the default on mail systems were set to only send one email every fifteen seconds for any given connection, it wouldn't affect normal users who just want to mail something to a dozen people, it might allow a sysadmin to stop someone from sending that really funny joke to "all@mybigcorp.com", and it would make spam prohibitive because a million-piece run would take over three months to send.
That or the spammer would have to make a million connections to send a million mails in a short period of time. Someone would notice.
You have to remember that 100 watts is the final output of the transmitter. It takes more than that to run the transmitter because amplifiers are not 100% efficient. (This is also why they heat your house in the winter, and not only that, they heat your house in the summer. That loss gets translated to heat.)
Plus you have non-transmitter equipment -- lights and your computer, and the fridge for the beer, if nothing else.
As for the range, it really depends on where your transmitter is located. As an example, here in the Seattle area there are several 2-meter ham radio repeaters in the Cascades that cover the Puget Sound area from Everett to Tacoma. (The 2-meter ham band is in the same general frequency band as FM radio.) Where your antenna is located and how efficient it is are as important as how much power your transmitter is cranking out, maybe more so.
These people are trying to set one up. They're affiliated with the American Open Technology Consortium. If I understand the relationships, it's sort of like the Sierra Club's political wing as opposed to their lobbying/educational wing.
Unfortunately they don't seem to have their act together yet. For instance, I sent the AOTC some seed money about three months ago and the check hasn't been cashed yet. Their manifesto shows them only having received three pledges, which I think means it hasn't been updated in several months. GeekPAC is still working on authority to operate as a political action committee (there's a lot of legal mumbo-jumbo involved), but is taking donations on the assumption that approval will be granted.
And, my final gripe is, the name GeekPAC has to go. It's fine as a nickname among geeks, but outside the community the name "geek" carries some prett negative connotations. Might as well call it "WeirdoPAC" or "GoonPAC" or something.
Don't get me wrong, I hope these are just growing pains on the way to an organization that can play with the big boys and occasionally win.
I don't know if you ever noticed, but postage stamps in every country in the world carry the name of that country somewhere on the stamp, except for one. Which one? The UK. Why? Because they were first with adhesive postage stamps as we now know them and started the tradition.
I don't have any more of a problem with the US not having to tag.us onto its domain names than I do with the UK not putting its name on its postage stamps.
Hollywood oughtta make him Perry White, Clark Kent's editor, in the new Superman pic. They owe him.
At first blush I don't agree. In my mind Perry White should be old school. Lane Smith (in Lois & Clark) was sort of like that, but not quite what I had in mind. Maybe someone with the demeanor of Lou Grant, but with some hair.
But, I agree with the point of your article. If anyone could pull it off against expectations, it would be Keaton.
Oh, as for Superman . . . he would have to have a pretty super mental makeup to overcome all those problems you mention. It would be hard to pull that off as an actor as well. I don't know about the milquetoast part, but I think Reeve playing Clark Kent as a bit of a, well, buffoon for want of a better word, is a definite plus. Part of the Clark Kent persona is, even if the guy looks a little like Superman and maybe even sounds a little like him, you have to come off thinking, "No way could this yutz be Superman."
Then how about trying to get on as a technology advisor for an influential Congresscritter, or better yet, with a think tank that Congresscritters might listen to?
But if your wife hates the weather in DC, that could be a problem (although it shows her to be a rather sensible gal, IMHO).
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this is the code which is invariably used even today.
Not invariably. Last I heard there were still some amateur radio nets for people who enjoy using American Morse code. They're probably few and far between, though, and getting fewer and farther as time goes on.
Elements of American Morse still pepper ham radio procedure today, actually. Probably the most widespread example is the signoff code "didididahdit daaaaaaaah", often incorrectly transliterated into International Morse as "SK" because those are the characters it sounds the most like. In reality that last dah is supposed to be a longer than normal one, and the symbol is American Morse for "30", which in early telegraph procedure meant "end of message. (This is also the origin of the mark "# # # 30 # # #" you often see at the bottom of press releases and similar documents.)
The CEO of Lycoris (which is also sold preinstalled by machines from walmart.com) said last month that the web site is basically a test, to see if there's enough interest in the Lindows/Lycoris/Mandrake/nonWin machines to warrant thinking about putting them in the retail stores.
IIRC part of the problem apparently is that some of the machine manufacturers are having trouble keeping up with demand. I suspect machines won't go into stores until this particular problem is solved.
'and yo did take her, the first time in my life, sobra mi genu and poner mi mano sub her jupes and toca su thigh, which did hazer me great pleasure.'
Unique personal porno style, my left hind foot. My friend Stan sounds just like this after he's finished off the night's second bottle of Mother Goose's Sweet Potato Sparkling Wine.
You think that's weird. Here's what I found in my Christmas cracker:
If you're in a car that's going at the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
Speaking from experience, I think something extraordinary may need to happen before you can remember anything at age 3. I have three brief memories from age 3, all of which would have happened within about a month's time: one of scattering my toys all over the front bedroom fo the house we had just moved into, although I don't remember anything of the apartment we lived in before that or what those toys were (other than, for some reason, a drafting triangle); one of my mother holding my baby sister in the house (I've always just presumed she was the reason we moved); and one of speaking to my grandmother, who died shortly after we moved into that house. I remember asking her why she was wearing a surgical mask, but I don't remember her reply.
These memories are quite real, although I don't know how you would go about proving that they were real and not somehow implanted or made up. However, it's odd that other than these three memories, and a couple of other vague snippets (reading, a couple of events at preschool) there's really nothing else until I started attending kindergarten. I suspect those three memories stuck around because they somehow made such an impression on my small mind (new house, new sister, grandmother wearing the mask).
Hanging the turntable from the ceiling from chains and springs, so you and your friends could dance without making the needle skip.
How about hanging the dancers from the ceiling with chains and springs so the needle won't skip?
Er, not that I would know about clubs like that, of course.
OK, cool, but what would the average MAD Magazine reader use to play it?
Well, that's because he is a radical. But, radicals are occasionally right.
So the next time you think that the public doesn't care about issues, watch the ratings for the nightly news, Bill O'Reily, and CNN.
People who really care about the issues will do some digging and get some information rather than sitting there like a lump letting the nightly news, Bill O'Reilly, and CNN tell them what to think.
Schickele's stuff isn't really a derivation, although it's funny as hell. It's more of a musical parody of the Baroque style. Some of it is pretty close to the mark -- if you squinted your ears a little you could almost imagine "Iphegenia in Brooklyn" being performed at the Thomaskirche. Almost. :)
I've heard of people creating "new" Stephen Foster songs or Mozart piano pieces based on the body of their work, but I'm afraid I don't know anything about these projects or whether they're really anything more than urban legends.
Would AI get bent out of shape if China started using Free/Open Source software extensively in its filtering and blocking efforts? If so, why? By its nature free software is free for anyone to use, even totalitarian regimes who want to use the software to limit the freedom of those they rule.
This whole thing sounds a lot like the old "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument.
The current Seattle monorail system is profitable.
Of course it costs a dollar or so and takes you a distance you can comfortably walk (basically from the Space Needle to Nordstrom's headquarters, a distance of maybe a half mile), and is a tourist attraction to boot. We locals occasionally refer to it as the "Train To Nowhere" (after a cabaret skit in which it was featured). (To be fair, they have a deal where you can park at the Seattle Center parking center and commute into downtown on the monorail, thereby avoiding downtown traffic. I'm sure it makes a fair amount of money this way.)
Whether anyone uses it will depend on whether it ends up going where people want to go at an attractive price.
Great funny dialog... poor science... (Still using gunpowder, but somehow they have excellent gravity generators and inertial dampeners)
Slugthrowers are cheap, not that it matters. Anyone who doesn't know "Firefly" is just a horse opera with the sci-fi stuff bolted on isn't watching the show.
My wife just reminded me of the "Groundhog Day"-esque episode where the scientists figured out what was going on when O'Neill started spouting technobabble about their predicament.
It's still a cool discovery.
Apparently it's a completely frozen discovery.
(Sorry, couldn't resist . . . I'll mod myself down now.)
You forget the immortal words of Arlo Guthrie:
"You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may think it's a movement."
He's talking about fighting the draft but the logic applies to overthrowing the DCMA as well. If enough people got together (the more the merrier), copied a single file, and turned themselves in en masse at the local police station, people would start to notice. Especially if the protesters alerted the media beforehand.
and just call my system "Red Hat." Then I can get into arguments with the Mandrake and Red Hat People instead of the Star Bellied GNU/Linux people and the Linux people who have none upon thars.
Forget money. Time is more expensive to a spammer. If the default on mail systems were set to only send one email every fifteen seconds for any given connection, it wouldn't affect normal users who just want to mail something to a dozen people, it might allow a sysadmin to stop someone from sending that really funny joke to "all@mybigcorp.com", and it would make spam prohibitive because a million-piece run would take over three months to send.
That or the spammer would have to make a million connections to send a million mails in a short period of time. Someone would notice.
You have to remember that 100 watts is the final output of the transmitter. It takes more than that to run the transmitter because amplifiers are not 100% efficient. (This is also why they heat your house in the winter, and not only that, they heat your house in the summer. That loss gets translated to heat.)
Plus you have non-transmitter equipment -- lights and your computer, and the fridge for the beer, if nothing else.
As for the range, it really depends on where your transmitter is located. As an example, here in the Seattle area there are several 2-meter ham radio repeaters in the Cascades that cover the Puget Sound area from Everett to Tacoma. (The 2-meter ham band is in the same general frequency band as FM radio.) Where your antenna is located and how efficient it is are as important as how much power your transmitter is cranking out, maybe more so.
I don't know what posseses these people to be so obnoxious.
This.
You can't fill out the form properly so the station can charge the advertisers for your eardrums unless you know what stations you're listening to.
These people are trying to set one up. They're affiliated with the American Open Technology Consortium. If I understand the relationships, it's sort of like the Sierra Club's political wing as opposed to their lobbying/educational wing.
Unfortunately they don't seem to have their act together yet. For instance, I sent the AOTC some seed money about three months ago and the check hasn't been cashed yet. Their manifesto shows them only having received three pledges, which I think means it hasn't been updated in several months. GeekPAC is still working on authority to operate as a political action committee (there's a lot of legal mumbo-jumbo involved), but is taking donations on the assumption that approval will be granted.
And, my final gripe is, the name GeekPAC has to go. It's fine as a nickname among geeks, but outside the community the name "geek" carries some prett negative connotations. Might as well call it "WeirdoPAC" or "GoonPAC" or something.
Don't get me wrong, I hope these are just growing pains on the way to an organization that can play with the big boys and occasionally win.
If "TLD" means "Two Level Domain" yes there is. :)
.us onto its domain names than I do with the UK not putting its name on its postage stamps.
I don't know if you ever noticed, but postage stamps in every country in the world carry the name of that country somewhere on the stamp, except for one. Which one? The UK. Why? Because they were first with adhesive postage stamps as we now know them and started the tradition.
I don't have any more of a problem with the US not having to tag
Hollywood oughtta make him Perry White, Clark Kent's editor, in the new Superman pic. They owe him.
At first blush I don't agree. In my mind Perry White should be old school. Lane Smith (in Lois & Clark) was sort of like that, but not quite what I had in mind. Maybe someone with the demeanor of Lou Grant, but with some hair.
But, I agree with the point of your article. If anyone could pull it off against expectations, it would be Keaton.
Oh, as for Superman . . . he would have to have a pretty super mental makeup to overcome all those problems you mention. It would be hard to pull that off as an actor as well. I don't know about the milquetoast part, but I think Reeve playing Clark Kent as a bit of a, well, buffoon for want of a better word, is a definite plus. Part of the Clark Kent persona is, even if the guy looks a little like Superman and maybe even sounds a little like him, you have to come off thinking, "No way could this yutz be Superman."
it'll be his birthday in 10 days (the 25th).
Gimme a break here, Christopher Reeve is older than 25.
Then how about trying to get on as a technology advisor for an influential Congresscritter, or better yet, with a think tank that Congresscritters might listen to?
But if your wife hates the weather in DC, that could be a problem (although it shows her to be a rather sensible gal, IMHO).