I see only one tube and, considering the specs mention 5.1 surround sound, I can't see how this tube could be part of the pre-amp/power amp signal chain. I've owned a few tube amps in my time (stereo, guitar, and bass) and usually there's a couple of 12AX7s in the pre-amp stage and a few 6L6s or EL-34s in the power amp stage per channel. This is one small tube for six channels.
Although the charge for photo radar will be dropped if you are not in the picture are you saying that a car that is owned, regestered, and insured by you speeding or running a red light not evidence enough to atleast bring you up on charges.
Was that an 8 on that license plate or was it a 3? Sure, they're both Ford Tauruses (Tauri?), but you own a red one and this one is...well, it's hard to tell with monochrome film.
Sure you are inosent until proven guilty, but you also have the responsibilty of personal accountablity, and you may need to defend yourself if need be.
But then the prosecution introduces a series of expert witnesses (at $10K per appearance) who will swear that the system is infallible and that it's an 8 on the license plate, while you've had to take a second mortgage on your home just to be able to afford a semi-competent defense attorney (while your tax dollars pay the District Attorney's salary as well as the cost of that photo radar that nailed you).
On top of this, I've found that Hotmail is broken in that any outgoing message over 16K of text hangs/cgi-bin/premail/xxxx and times out after five minutes.
It starts with the baseball cards taped to the frame that make the BRRRRRRR sound in the spokes.
Next thing you know you've got an oxy-acetalyne torch in your hand and you're welding a sissy bar to the frame and extending the front forks for that low-rent low-rider look.
Ask the people at Fat City or Rivendell how they got started.
Do the FM radio stations that I listen to pay the artists for playing their music?
Yes and no.
Yes, stations pay something called "performance royalties". These royalties are administered by "performing rights organizations" (BMI, ASCAP, SECAM) and are disbursed via a complex schedule that takes into account the medium of distribution (e.g., radio, TV, jukebox) and the number of times a work is played.
No, these royalties do not go to the artist. They go to the songwriter. Sometimes they are the same, sometimes not.
3. Prohibit any corporation from owning a copyright. Corporations create nothing; they're consensual hallucinations and exist at our pleasure.
Certain works of art are only made possible through a collective effort rather than an individual's labor (e.g., motion pictures, television programs, orchestral recordings). Sometimes these collective efforts are organized as corporations.
More important is the impact this would have on individual artists and writers: if a corporation can't hold a copyright there would be no reason for Miramax to option a book or buy a screenplay.
I'm no fan of Disney, but why should Pixar be punished for Mickey Rat's actions?
I get about 10 spam mails a day. It takes about 1/2 a second to read the subject, realize it's spam, and hit the delete button.
Only 10 a day? You must be new.
One of my mail accounts, a Hotmail address I've had since before the MSFT buyout, seems to show up on every single "20,000,000 Guaranteed E-mail Addresses!" CD-ROM out there. Hang on, I'll open it up...
1513 junk e-mail messages since 28 Feb. 1513 in a week.. On top of this, there are at least 150 that have bypassed the junk filter. MSFT regularly shuts down this account because the volume of spam puts it over quota. Because of spam, this account is effectively trashed.
If you cut through the hype and punditry that Mr. Katz is so fond of, and you just look at traffic patterns (i.e., top search engine queries, Usenet posts, credit card transactions, etc.), a plausible case can be made that pornography is the "heart of the net".
Of course, even Jon acknowledges the fallacy of looking for a "heart" in a decentralized system with this sentence in his opening paragraph:
Then hackers in suburban bedrooms all over the country became the epicenter...
I submit that the "net" has no heart. Instead, it has millions of sweaty crotches.
I would suggest Hosa [hosatech.com] cables, or, if you have extra cash, Monster [monstercable.com] cables.
I think you bracketed the solution here. I've found Hosa cables, particularly their snakes, cheap, noisy, and prone to failure. Conversely, the Monster stuff is expensive and overkill. I'm not sure their buzzword-laden technology even works as they claim.
My advice would be to seek a middle ground: buy Belden cable and good connectors (Neutrik or Switchcraft) in bulk and get a good soldering iron. Knowing how to solder is pretty a useful skill for a recording engineer. You'll also save money, for a small tradeoff of time and effort. Plus, when your bassist trips over his cable and rips the jack out of his instrument, you'll get to be a hero.
So far as snakes go, Whirlwind makes pretty good gear. I've built my own snakes and they're a pain in the ass to do. If your setup is small enough, you can even get by without one. Just keep your runs short and don't bundle the cables too tight.
Like the second ammendment. The NRA has it all wrong; the second ammentment is meant to back up these ways. Remember; in the days of the Revolution, there were hand arms and cannons. That was it.
Actually, the government had two huge advantages:
The means with which to raise a standing army and keep them paid, fed, and supplied in the field. A citizens' militia lacked these logistics and would have dispersed as soon as it was time to harvest their crops.
A navy. Blockades, bombardments, secure logistic trains, etc: this is a qualitative difference. Until the invention of the atomic bomb, naval assets were "ultimate weapons", regulated by various treaties as late as 1936.
Not much a "well-regulated militia" could do about that. I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but I believe the 2nd Amendment was driven by the authors' aversion to having a permanent standing army, then regarded as a tool of tyranny.
At the time the bomb was dropped there were two amphibious operations planned: OLYMPIC, the invasion of southern Japan in late 1945, and CORONET, the invasion of Kyushu, Spring 1946. Preparatory carrier air strikes were already being done.
Allied casualties (US/UK/Commonwealth) were projected in the tens of thousands. Japanese civilians were being instructed in the use of satchel charges and sharpened bamboo sticks for use in repelling the invaders.
I didn't ask how you could get my phone number. I asked how the spammer got his phone number. Let's backtrack a bit...
However, the spammer had access to his email address, which would make things much easier.
How did the spammer get his e-mail address? Did he actually CC: the spammer in the complaint he sent to the spammer's ISP? Did the spammer's ISP forward the complaint to the spammer with his address intact? In my opinion, the former would be stupid (like walking around with a "KICK ME" sign, or in this case, "MAILBOMB ME"), the latter irresponsible. Aren't TOS/AUP complaints confidential?
That's what I wanted to know.
Besides, you could have saved four or five steps by typing "ktakki" into Google, the Stalker's Best Friend.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. military officials are tracking Santa's travel path and reporting the latest data on his location on a Web site.
"If he deviates from his filed flight plan or turns off his transponder, we're prepared to scramble F-15s from Langley AFB, Eglin AFB, Mountain Home AFB, Elmendorf AFB, Tyndall AFB, and Nellis AFB, and blow that fat bastard out of the skies," said NORAD spokesman Gen. Buck Turgidson.
In addition, Gen. Turgidson stated that there would be a limited test of National Missile Defense (NMD) tracking assets at various locations around the country. "Santa can deploy all the decoys he wants. We'll find him, we'll track him, we'll get him," Gen. Turgidson added.
Military analysts have mentioned possible countermeasures Santa Claus might take to avoid NORAD radar, including a low-altitude, terrain-masking flight profile, radar-absorbant coating on his sleigh, and multiple layers of metal foil on Rudolph's nose to lessen the infrared signature.
Bayer lost its trademark for acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) as part of German war reparations at the end of World War I (c.f., Treaty of Versailles). Thus, in France, Russia, the US, and the UK, aspirin is not a trademark of Bayer.
Note that Bayer also held another trademark at that time: Heroin. But I digress.
Bayer still holds the trademark aspirin in countries that were not signatories to the Treaty of Versailles.
On one hand, Bayer's aspirin is not a good example of trademark abandonment because of the Treaty. On the other hand, at the turn of the last century, Bayer was the pharma equivalent of Microsoft (600 kilo gorilla).
What I'd like to know is why there's no namespace conflict between Windows and X-Windows. Was there a deal done at some point?
Presumably I can use sound recorder to rip from the line in port to a WAV.
You do know that you can't just patch the turntable into the card's line in. You need a pre-amp to boost (and equalize) the turntable's output to line level. Patching the turntable into an amp and taking the signal from the tape outputs should suffice.
In addition to pops and clicks, keep an ear out for subsonic artifacts (rumble) and make sure your turntable is physically isolated from the speakers to prevent feedback.
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"Sedacious" is a perfectly cromulent word.
You should embiggen your vocabulary.
I see only one tube and, considering the specs mention 5.1 surround sound, I can't see how this tube could be part of the pre-amp/power amp signal chain. I've owned a few tube amps in my time (stereo, guitar, and bass) and usually there's a couple of 12AX7s in the pre-amp stage and a few 6L6s or EL-34s in the power amp stage per channel. This is one small tube for six channels.
k.
Was that an 8 on that license plate or was it a 3? Sure, they're both Ford Tauruses (Tauri?), but you own a red one and this one is...well, it's hard to tell with monochrome film.
But then the prosecution introduces a series of expert witnesses (at $10K per appearance) who will swear that the system is infallible and that it's an 8 on the license plate, while you've had to take a second mortgage on your home just to be able to afford a semi-competent defense attorney (while your tax dollars pay the District Attorney's salary as well as the cost of that photo radar that nailed you).
k.
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the test tubes of the night,
What immortal laborat'ry
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Sorry.
k.
On top of this, I've found that Hotmail is broken in that any outgoing message over 16K of text hangs /cgi-bin/premail/xxxx and times out after five minutes.
Never did this when the site ran BSD. Ever.
Big win for Microsoft. Woo hoo.
k.
Nothing to hack? Hah!
It starts with the baseball cards taped to the frame that make the BRRRRRRR sound in the spokes.
Next thing you know you've got an oxy-acetalyne torch in your hand and you're welding a sissy bar to the frame and extending the front forks for that low-rent low-rider look.
Ask the people at Fat City or Rivendell how they got started.
k.
Yes and no.
Yes, stations pay something called "performance royalties". These royalties are administered by "performing rights organizations" (BMI, ASCAP, SECAM) and are disbursed via a complex schedule that takes into account the medium of distribution (e.g., radio, TV, jukebox) and the number of times a work is played.
No, these royalties do not go to the artist. They go to the songwriter. Sometimes they are the same, sometimes not.
k.
Certain works of art are only made possible through a collective effort rather than an individual's labor (e.g., motion pictures, television programs, orchestral recordings). Sometimes these collective efforts are organized as corporations.
More important is the impact this would have on individual artists and writers: if a corporation can't hold a copyright there would be no reason for Miramax to option a book or buy a screenplay.
I'm no fan of Disney, but why should Pixar be punished for Mickey Rat's actions?
k.
Monsanto Roundup.
k.
Only 10 a day? You must be new.
One of my mail accounts, a Hotmail address I've had since before the MSFT buyout, seems to show up on every single "20,000,000 Guaranteed E-mail Addresses!" CD-ROM out there. Hang on, I'll open it up...
1513 junk e-mail messages since 28 Feb. 1513 in a week.. On top of this, there are at least 150 that have bypassed the junk filter. MSFT regularly shuts down this account because the volume of spam puts it over quota. Because of spam, this account is effectively trashed.
Just hit delete. Just kiss my shiny metal...
k.
If you cut through the hype and punditry that Mr. Katz is so fond of, and you just look at traffic patterns (i.e., top search engine queries, Usenet posts, credit card transactions, etc.), a plausible case can be made that pornography is the "heart of the net".
Of course, even Jon acknowledges the fallacy of looking for a "heart" in a decentralized system with this sentence in his opening paragraph:
I submit that the "net" has no heart. Instead, it has millions of sweaty crotches.
k.
But...
I think you bracketed the solution here. I've found Hosa cables, particularly their snakes, cheap, noisy, and prone to failure. Conversely, the Monster stuff is expensive and overkill. I'm not sure their buzzword-laden technology even works as they claim.
My advice would be to seek a middle ground: buy Belden cable and good connectors (Neutrik or Switchcraft) in bulk and get a good soldering iron. Knowing how to solder is pretty a useful skill for a recording engineer. You'll also save money, for a small tradeoff of time and effort. Plus, when your bassist trips over his cable and rips the jack out of his instrument, you'll get to be a hero.
So far as snakes go, Whirlwind makes pretty good gear. I've built my own snakes and they're a pain in the ass to do. If your setup is small enough, you can even get by without one. Just keep your runs short and don't bundle the cables too tight.
k.
Domo arigato, mr. roboto.
I've always wanted to say this. How sad is that?
k.
Actually, the government had two huge advantages:
Not much a "well-regulated militia" could do about that. I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but I believe the 2nd Amendment was driven by the authors' aversion to having a permanent standing army, then regarded as a tool of tyranny.
k.
At the time the bomb was dropped there were two amphibious operations planned: OLYMPIC, the invasion of southern Japan in late 1945, and CORONET, the invasion of Kyushu, Spring 1946. Preparatory carrier air strikes were already being done.
Allied casualties (US/UK/Commonwealth) were projected in the tens of thousands. Japanese civilians were being instructed in the use of satchel charges and sharpened bamboo sticks for use in repelling the invaders.
k.
Yeah. Dave Rhodes wrote Make Atomic Bombs Fast!.
Sorry.
k.
How did the spammer get his e-mail address? Did he actually CC: the spammer in the complaint he sent to the spammer's ISP? Did the spammer's ISP forward the complaint to the spammer with his address intact? In my opinion, the former would be stupid (like walking around with a "KICK ME" sign, or in this case, "MAILBOMB ME"), the latter irresponsible. Aren't TOS/AUP complaints confidential?
That's what I wanted to know.
Besides, you could have saved four or five steps by typing "ktakki" into Google, the Stalker's Best Friend.
k.
How did the spammer get your phone number?
k.
John Walker Lindh? Is that you?
k.
From CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. military officials are tracking Santa's travel path and reporting the latest data on his location on a Web site.
"If he deviates from his filed flight plan or turns off his transponder, we're prepared to scramble F-15s from Langley AFB, Eglin AFB, Mountain Home AFB, Elmendorf AFB, Tyndall AFB, and Nellis AFB, and blow that fat bastard out of the skies," said NORAD spokesman Gen. Buck Turgidson.
In addition, Gen. Turgidson stated that there would be a limited test of National Missile Defense (NMD) tracking assets at various locations around the country. "Santa can deploy all the decoys he wants. We'll find him, we'll track him, we'll get him," Gen. Turgidson added.
Military analysts have mentioned possible countermeasures Santa Claus might take to avoid NORAD radar, including a low-altitude, terrain-masking flight profile, radar-absorbant coating on his sleigh, and multiple layers of metal foil on Rudolph's nose to lessen the infrared signature.
k.
So, how's that command-line version of Photoshop working out for you?
k.
Bayer lost its trademark for acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) as part of German war reparations at the end of World War I (c.f., Treaty of Versailles). Thus, in France, Russia, the US, and the UK, aspirin is not a trademark of Bayer.
Note that Bayer also held another trademark at that time: Heroin. But I digress.
Bayer still holds the trademark aspirin in countries that were not signatories to the Treaty of Versailles.
On one hand, Bayer's aspirin is not a good example of trademark abandonment because of the Treaty. On the other hand, at the turn of the last century, Bayer was the pharma equivalent of Microsoft (600 kilo gorilla).
What I'd like to know is why there's no namespace conflict between Windows and X-Windows. Was there a deal done at some point?
k.
Kibo was the first net.god.
He would grep the local Usenet spool for mentions of his name and add a message to the relevant thread, giving him the appearance of omniscience.
Read the net.legends FAQ for the whole story.
k., Reformed Kibologist.
You do know that you can't just patch the turntable into the card's line in. You need a pre-amp to boost (and equalize) the turntable's output to line level. Patching the turntable into an amp and taking the signal from the tape outputs should suffice.
In addition to pops and clicks, keep an ear out for subsonic artifacts (rumble) and make sure your turntable is physically isolated from the speakers to prevent feedback.
k.
The Z-80 was also used in some mid-80s electronic musical instruments, like the LinnDrum and the Oberheim DMX drum machines.
IIRC, the Oberheim DX and Ensoniq Mirage had 6502s and Emu prefered M68000s.
k.