Talking of nuclear explosions, anyone have an AIFF (or WAV) of a nuke going off? I heard there were a couple of high quality recordings taken of a few in Nevada when they used to do them. I wanna hear what one sounds like.
"This will kill innovation," said Ross Anderson, a computer security expert at Cambridge University....
But that's what Microsoft is all about right, killing innovation. The last thing any monopolist wants is a bunch of innovators running around innovating.
I'd like to see a subweb-type topology taking place in my apartment building. The other night I made way too much mashed potato and thought about how cool it would be to post a note about the availability of said food on some kind of chat room/intranet within the building for tenants only. How about "Need Garlic Press" for example, or "Need WD40", just post it on the Wanted list, or better still take look through the inventory of what everbody has in their apartments and cross check this with the Calendar to see who is at home. Maybe even let neighboring apartment buildings cross over into our space and vice versa.
I was in a band (The Bolshoi) that put out three albums in four years back in the 80's and a Best Of compilation ten years after we split. We could have put out six albums, each with five songs on it, but this would have screwed up our touring schedule which needed a release to justify itself. It also wasn't that easy to get into a studio when touring to promote your album(s) so that's just the way it was done, and besides ten four minute songs fits well on an LP, Cassette and CD. But that was then, before super fast G4 laptops capable of running ProTools hooked up to an audio interface the size of Cryptonomicon. It was also before you could hit export and save your new song as an AAC and upload straight to a server ready for someone to buy it within a seconds. So all in all I think the new way is the best.
Thanks for the clarification. You hit the nail on the head. I unfortunately snapped into spam rant mode and didn't take that magic moment to lean back, take a breath and pick my nose for a few seconds before posting.
Spam already is at the virus stage - it's completely out of control. I'm guessing if everyone stopped sending spam today there'd still be scripts out there on badly administered PC's pumping it out in ever increasing numbers for the rest of time. It's an ultra big problem already.
Makes sense, and power supply is going to be really flaky too so whatever they decide on will need at least the same $ amount spending on heavy duty UPS units and maybe even generators too. No doubt Microsoft will be able to include that kind of stuff in with all the crates of free software they'll be dropping by parachute into areas without runways.
I was thinking more along the lines of software licensing cost reductions that would be realised compared to a Microsoft based solution, and although I am fully aware that Apple's hardware is not the cheapest out there in my experience when it comes to reliability and durability I don't think any other manufacturer out there can touch them.
Seeing as the United Nations and World Bank are suggesting developing nations would be better advised to stick to open source operating systems I think Apple is sitting pretty when it comes time to migrate to an OS with similar underpinnings but a better GUI.
Yeah, if "The Worm" thought those two Tomahawk missiles that slammed into the roof of the Information Ministry and took out their satellite dishes were a little hairy just wait until Sen. Hatch finds out about their "bootlegged software" and sets his Destructo Bots on their "black market hardware".
I still can't believe Bank Of America here in Seattle is still using Mac SE's. They are slowly being phased out (after what, 15 yrs) in favor of PC's but who could possibly argue that those particular Mac's weren't a good deal?!
Key problem with MSFT these days is right here....Microsoft will have to do a better job of persuading customers it has something they need. Why didn't Balmer say Microsoft will have to do a better job of making new products that customers need. I think people are ready to start rebelling against the whole MSFT, Clear Channel model of devouring competition and forcing their empty products down peoples throats by moving to vastly superior alternatives.
I'd suggest screwing a 5" x 3/4" strip of wood to the underside of each end of the door to attach the threaded metal plumbing things to and then screw the pipes (1 1/4" x 30" Steel Pipe Nipple) into them. I also use the threaded metal plumbing things as feet, so four pipes and eight threaded metal plumbing things.
OK so some may acuse me of still being stuck in.com land but I'll tell ya there's nothing can touch a door desk. Just get a plain old door from Lowes or wherever and put some of those 2' plumbing things on each corner for legs (a threaded mounting type metal thing with a threaded metal pipe screwed into it) and hey presto - big cheap cool looking table. You can even get the type with the door handle hole already drilled and use it to feed wires through. Amazing.
I'm wondering what makes the most sense. Someone at the sound desk live encoding an aac file with drm and serving it up to one of Apple's servers, or a truck full of CD recorders parked out back of a venue producing, hmm exactly how many do they produce? 50, 100, 1000? and then running around to the main gate and selling them as people are leaving the show.
Don't know about you but I get goosebumps imagining being able to download last nights Yes concert somewhere in Europe for $9.99 while I get ready to go to work here in Seattle, WA.
So if you lose your Car you'll just go steal another one? Music is a product dude, just like anything you buy. If you lose it, or whatever, you have the option to buy another one. What is soooo difficult to understand.
I was thinking the same thing then checked out the $ situation of desktop G4 systems at the apple store and....wow. the base system - 1GHz proc - is only around $1500 - not bad if you ask me.
I saw the space shuttle/space station combo about 2 months ago flying over my apt in Seattle, WA., USA at about 6:45PM one night. VERY impressive site. Was watching Nasa TV and saw that it's track was headed towards the NW USA. At the time it was just passing over Japan. About 15 minutes later there it was. Super bright light moving quite swiftly through the sky, it was catching the setting Sun's rays full on and headed over towards the approaching darkness in the East. SUPER COOL.
I agree - if someone builds a multiplex and starts showing pirated movies to paying patrons I think that's screwed up, but someone watching a bit of Twin Towers while having a shit is NOT an issue
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Talking of nuclear explosions, anyone have an AIFF (or WAV) of a nuke going off? I heard there were a couple of high quality recordings taken of a few in Nevada when they used to do them. I wanna hear what one sounds like.
"This will kill innovation," said Ross Anderson, a computer security expert at Cambridge University....
But that's what Microsoft is all about right, killing innovation. The last thing any monopolist wants is a bunch of innovators running around innovating.
Fuck John Peel!
"Awesome logic"
Exactly
Hey, there's no ELP on the iTunes Music Store! What's up with that?
Patience glasshopper
I'd like to see a subweb-type topology taking place in my apartment building.
The other night I made way too much mashed potato and thought about how cool it would be to post a note about the availability of said food on some kind of chat room/intranet within the building for tenants only.
How about "Need Garlic Press" for example, or "Need WD40", just post it on the Wanted list, or better still take look through the inventory of what everbody has in their apartments and cross check this with the Calendar to see who is at home.
Maybe even let neighboring apartment buildings cross over into our space and vice versa.
I was in a band (The Bolshoi) that put out three albums in four years back in the 80's and a Best Of compilation ten years after we split. We could have put out six albums, each with five songs on it, but this would have screwed up our touring schedule which needed a release to justify itself. It also wasn't that easy to get into a studio when touring to promote your album(s) so that's just the way it was done, and besides ten four minute songs fits well on an LP, Cassette and CD. But that was then, before super fast G4 laptops capable of running ProTools hooked up to an audio interface the size of Cryptonomicon. It was also before you could hit export and save your new song as an AAC and upload straight to a server ready for someone to buy it within a seconds. So all in all I think the new way is the best.
Thanks for the clarification. You hit the nail on the head. I unfortunately snapped into spam rant mode and didn't take that magic moment to lean back, take a breath and pick my nose for a few seconds before posting.
Spam already is at the virus stage - it's completely out of control. I'm guessing if everyone stopped sending spam today there'd still be scripts out there on badly administered PC's pumping it out in ever increasing numbers for the rest of time. It's an ultra big problem already.
Makes sense, and power supply is going to be really flaky too so whatever they decide on will need at least the same $ amount spending on heavy duty UPS units and maybe even generators too. No doubt Microsoft will be able to include that kind of stuff in with all the crates of free software they'll be dropping by parachute into areas without runways.
I was thinking more along the lines of software licensing cost reductions that would be realised compared to a Microsoft based solution, and although I am fully aware that Apple's hardware is not the cheapest out there in my experience when it comes to reliability and durability I don't think any other manufacturer out there can touch them.
Seeing as the United Nations and World Bank are suggesting developing nations would be better advised to stick to open source operating systems I think Apple is sitting pretty when it comes time to migrate to an OS with similar underpinnings but a better GUI.
Yeah, if "The Worm" thought those two Tomahawk missiles that slammed into the roof of the Information Ministry and took out their satellite dishes were a little hairy just wait until Sen. Hatch finds out about their "bootlegged software" and sets his Destructo Bots on their "black market hardware".
I still can't believe Bank Of America here in Seattle is still using Mac SE's. They are slowly being phased out (after what, 15 yrs) in favor of PC's but who could possibly argue that those particular Mac's weren't a good deal?!
Key problem with MSFT these days is right here....Microsoft will have to do a better job of persuading customers it has something they need. Why didn't Balmer say Microsoft will have to do a better job of making new products that customers need. I think people are ready to start rebelling against the whole MSFT, Clear Channel model of devouring competition and forcing their empty products down peoples throats by moving to vastly superior alternatives.
I'd suggest screwing a 5" x 3/4" strip of wood to the underside of each end of the door to attach the threaded metal plumbing things to and then screw the pipes (1 1/4" x 30" Steel Pipe Nipple) into them. I also use the threaded metal plumbing things as feet, so four pipes and eight threaded metal plumbing things.
OK so some may acuse me of still being stuck in .com land but I'll tell ya there's nothing can touch a door desk. Just get a plain old door from Lowes or wherever and put some of those 2' plumbing things on each corner for legs (a threaded mounting type metal thing with a threaded metal pipe screwed into it) and hey presto - big cheap cool looking table. You can even get the type with the door handle hole already drilled and use it to feed wires through. Amazing.
I'm wondering what makes the most sense. Someone at the sound desk live encoding an aac file with drm and serving it up to one of Apple's servers, or a truck full of CD recorders parked out back of a venue producing, hmm exactly how many do they produce? 50, 100, 1000? and then running around to the main gate and selling them as people are leaving the show. Don't know about you but I get goosebumps imagining being able to download last nights Yes concert somewhere in Europe for $9.99 while I get ready to go to work here in Seattle, WA.
So if you lose your Car you'll just go steal another one? Music is a product dude, just like anything you buy. If you lose it, or whatever, you have the option to buy another one. What is soooo difficult to understand.
Yeah, Apple are just using CompUSA like musicians use record companies these days, as marketing devices.
I was thinking the same thing then checked out the $ situation of desktop G4 systems at the apple store and....wow. the base system - 1GHz proc - is only around $1500 - not bad if you ask me.
yeah - study health care or go into government
I saw the space shuttle/space station combo about 2 months ago flying over my apt in Seattle, WA., USA at about 6:45PM one night. VERY impressive site. Was watching Nasa TV and saw that it's track was headed towards the NW USA. At the time it was just passing over Japan. About 15 minutes later there it was. Super bright light moving quite swiftly through the sky, it was catching the setting Sun's rays full on and headed over towards the approaching darkness in the East. SUPER COOL.
I agree - if someone builds a multiplex and starts showing pirated movies to paying patrons I think that's screwed up, but someone watching a bit of Twin Towers while having a shit is NOT an issue