Re:Mac's Milk - Bloody Zit Froster
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Where may one aquire a bloody zit?
Well, either by eating too much sweets and greasy foods. 8)
Or, in Ontario, Canada at Mac's Milk convenient stores.
Not sure about the rest of Canada. Though the logo has changed from a cat to an owl which reminds me of the Quebec based Provigo convenience store chain's logo in Quebec... and as a previous message from Quebec mentioned, they had it first.
Re:Mac's Milk - Bloody Zit Froster
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Not the pimple popping into a cup, but equally as gross, here's a link for a tv commercial that likely aired on after school and Saturday morning cartoon time....
I gotta say that being a life long fan of flavoured slush drinks, that it didn't get any better than the Bloody Zit!.
Ad campaign-wise, with the bus shelter posters of a kid trying to pop a pimple into a cup of blood red sour cherry slush.
Just infront of the machine, are shakers of candy bits. Oily black head bits, green flesh eating bacteria, pus powder and dried scabs.
Wish I had a link to put up....
If you could get over the imagery, those candy bits really helped balance out the sourness of the cherry slush but I've lately found it a great thing to mix into coke slush to give you cherry coke slush.
Happy birthday Slurpee and hats off to all the drinks spawned after it.
Also, note that any accounting package is pretty much like any other accounting package, since they are all machine implementations of paper ledgers. Accountants switch between accounting programs as easily as typists switch typewriters.
That may be true but each one has its own quirks and specific feature nested within their menus.
My accountant and I have a number of mutual clients. They are both afraid of computers and book keeping. Mr. or Ms. Entrepreneur wants to make money and do so with as much ease as possible. Severely changing their established systems (ie. productivity software and OS) isn't conducive to ease.
Also, let's not forget about the custom rolled applications and databases that niche software authors wrote for these small businesses which won't likely transition well to work under FOSS OS's.
I worked with a client a month ago who's running NT4 and 98 on P4 machines because later versions of Windows just caused them headaches since they didn't work with their custom made CRM/inventory/payroll software.
Although they are willing to migrate, nobody so far, has been able to come around and do it, preserving 20 years of company history.
So use Gimp and SQL Ledger. If you go to the bother of switching to a better OS, you should also consider switching to better applications. What is the point to keep running the same old shit?
My accountant and book keeper run Quickbooks.
Sure, I may be a freelance IT guy, but I'm not about to nor expect my accountant and book keeper to switch OS's and applications for my sake and orphan all their other customers. Nor would I expect to make it my business to migrate everyone they deal with to go over to FOSS.
Until someone comes up with a way to make all those POS (point of sale), custom database/CRM apps and every little thing you can find in the SME environment, don't expect Linux to catch on.
How long will it be before one of these player, just trying to have fun, will be arrested for suspicious behavior around public transportation? The times we live in are sad.
With a big X on a red shirt and a D on a yellow shirt....
The location looks very much like the heart of downtown Toronto. I think they'll fit right in with University of Toronto engineering students doing goofy things and looking like a sore thumb.
Ahh... there isn't a manufacturer associated with the first one so I don't know.
But the MAM-A looks to have just came out the end of June this year.
The Mitsui (MAM) label gold CD-R's are the gold standard for archival CD-R's that have lives of hundreds of years. Time will tell for the DVD-R disks.
I also peruse cdfreaks.com and the general consensus is that DVD-R archivability seems to be measured in months and occasionally years rather than decades and centuries and that medium is still too young for disk manufacturers to have figured out what's best for archiving.
Two years ago, we got a MiniDV camcorder. I got burned on some early DVD+-R disks but fortunately had them still on the HDD. All I've been doing since then is dilligently copying files around to new HDDs. But the more events and videos of my kid that I make, the more difficult it is to keep up with HDDs.
Neither one of those projects was supposed to be a new project; on the contrary, they were homework assignments that the students turned in for their classes. Most engineering colleges have classes that turn out machines like this every single year, and none of them claim to be innovating; it's just to teach students the basics of engineering.
Me thinks the title of the article about robots replacing musicians soon is what got alot of people worked up. Otherwise, if it were just about an engineering project, I doubt anyone would've thought to comment.
((Insert Pro-business/anti non-profit name here)) research group reports a study that shows that ((insert activity)) is not well suited for municipally started or community based operation as such activity will ultimately cost its members far more than what privately funded and operated ((activity)) could ever do it for.
NB. Send in the lobbyists to make sure laws are enacted to protect businesses from these rabid hippies.
> research group reports a study that shows that > is not well suited for municipally started or community based operation as such activity will ultimately cost its members far more than what privately funded and operated > could ever do it for.
NB. Send in the lobbyists to make sure laws are enacted to protect businesses from these rabid hippies.
If the robot is always perfectly in time and can't improvise, it won't be replacing good guitarists anytime soon.
Totally agreed.
Did anyone notice the pluck sounds pretty much the same?
I have a guitar and know a few things but not enough to call myself an expert. The thing I find is that depending on how your hand or fingers attack the string, the sound is different.
From the downloads, I don't get the impression that Crazy J has got it right.....
protesters complaining about the windfarms ruining the appearance of the habitat, killing birds, killing bats, making noise, and requiring thousands of miles of new cables to be stretched across the countryside
Here in southern Ontario, Canada, they're referred to as rich cottagers.
At the risk of offending the anti-afterlife believers and continuing the threads on heaven, hell, souls and the afterlife in general...
I'd agree with the poster about someone going through this procedure and not having any memory of it since there's no brain activity to store anything.
But let's say there is some sort of energy that isn't measureable by the tools we have now that you could call a "soul" (tm). Maybe it's bound to the body until cellular decay occurs.
Besides, what ever happened with those studies where researchers put notes up on ceilings of operating rooms to see if there were any NDE's that actually found themselves floating up to the ceiling to see what was written on these notes?
because it wouldn't run {insert name of favourite Windows application here}. (Although of course it would if you tried hard enough.)
The first part is true. The second part would likely be true for me too if I didn't have to use my time to do the $ong and dan$e to make ends meet and my living wasn't so closely tied to those Windows applications working.
I'd assume that unlike with the free OS', there was a good assortment of software that's well polished, have easy to use interfaces and easy to install for the Mac that does the same job as my favourite Windows apps.
Hence, I figure I wouldn't have the same problems with OS X as I did with the previous two.
Also Apple is at heart a hardware company. If they start using off the shelf PC type architecture why buy a Mac when all you need is the O/S?
The Ipod has countless competitors yet it still holds the crown. I'd think that Apple would innovate with their PC design (that'll run Windows too) and also offer an alternate OS to the masses.
I Tried BSD with KDE and Afterstep and then Linux with KDE and GNOME. I went with my tail between my legs back to Windows.
If, say, a copy of OS X for Intel 'landed in my lap', it worked on my plane Jane vanilla clone box, and it's as good as I hear it is and then reasonably priced, I would eventually buy it.
Are you suggesting that the content of a BA has change over the past many years or that the world has changed? I don't think that a BA has ever trained you to actually do anything specific.
Probably more that the world has changed.
I stumbled into a liberal arts program myself so I don't have first hand experience of going through "general arts and sciences" stream. But hearing from those that did, I got the impression that the requirement for a BA was just like high school where you take a wide breadth of courses.
At the end of my BA as well as friends in the gen. arts and sci, I found many ended up going back to college (Canadian definition) to pick up a skill so they could make a living.
I went into IT and became a sysadmin partly because messing around the insides of a computer was a hobby throughout the years and 'cause I started from the ground up as a tech support rep in the hey day of TSR-dom where things weren't scripted.
I'm not sure anymore but I think I might be kidding myself when I tell people that my liberal arts education helps me think outside of the box. My thoughts on advising anyone about post secondary are leaning towards advocating much less expensive college (or whatever it is that teaches trades and skills) over going into major debt through University.
IMHO, before too long, you will need a Master's degree in order to get a good job.
I think there are alot of things in the world and society that will break and prevent that from happening.
Time, for one. We might be living longer, but we already spend about 21 or 22 years of our lives getting that BA.
BA educated folks dominate the cubicle jockey jobs out there in the world. Inactivity, poor eating habits result in poor lifestyle and health runs rampant in that part of the population.
How many white collar workers can the economy sustain? Fine if you got the BA first and then jumped into something else but I'd hope that eventually, if there were a shortage of skilled workers, a university BA wouldn't be mandatory for a contruction worker, maechanic, law enforcement, food service person or garbage collector. Hell, even a TSR or CSR that follows scripted troubleshooting.
I guess, to bring my rambling to a conclusion. University isn't and shouldn't be for everyone.
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Where may one aquire a bloody zit?
Well, either by eating too much sweets and greasy foods. 8)
Or, in Ontario, Canada at Mac's Milk convenient stores.
Not sure about the rest of Canada. Though the logo has changed from a cat to an owl which reminds me of the Quebec based Provigo convenience store chain's logo in Quebec... and as a previous message from Quebec mentioned, they had it first.
Not the pimple popping into a cup, but equally as gross, here's a link for a tv commercial that likely aired on after school and Saturday morning cartoon time....
Zit Licking
I gotta say that being a life long fan of flavoured slush drinks, that it didn't get any better than the Bloody Zit!.
Ad campaign-wise, with the bus shelter posters of a kid trying to pop a pimple into a cup of blood red sour cherry slush.
Just infront of the machine, are shakers of candy bits. Oily black head bits, green flesh eating bacteria, pus powder and dried scabs.
Wish I had a link to put up....
If you could get over the imagery, those candy bits really helped balance out the sourness of the cherry slush but I've lately found it a great thing to mix into coke slush to give you cherry coke slush.
Happy birthday Slurpee and hats off to all the drinks spawned after it.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. 8)
Also, note that any accounting package is pretty much like any other accounting package, since they are all machine implementations of paper ledgers. Accountants switch between accounting programs as easily as typists switch typewriters.
That may be true but each one has its own quirks and specific feature nested within their menus.
My accountant and I have a number of mutual clients. They are both afraid of computers and book keeping. Mr. or Ms. Entrepreneur wants to make money and do so with as much ease as possible. Severely changing their established systems (ie. productivity software and OS) isn't conducive to ease.
Also, let's not forget about the custom rolled applications and databases that niche software authors wrote for these small businesses which won't likely transition well to work under FOSS OS's.
I worked with a client a month ago who's running NT4 and 98 on P4 machines because later versions of Windows just caused them headaches since they didn't work with their custom made CRM/inventory/payroll software.
Although they are willing to migrate, nobody so far, has been able to come around and do it, preserving 20 years of company history.
So use Gimp and SQL Ledger. If you go to the bother of switching to a better OS, you should also consider switching to better applications. What is the point to keep running the same old shit?
My accountant and book keeper run Quickbooks.
Sure, I may be a freelance IT guy, but I'm not about to nor expect my accountant and book keeper to switch OS's and applications for my sake and orphan all their other customers. Nor would I expect to make it my business to migrate everyone they deal with to go over to FOSS.
Until someone comes up with a way to make all those POS (point of sale), custom database/CRM apps and every little thing you can find in the SME environment, don't expect Linux to catch on.
I see now the error of my post, of course plants do not emit CO2.
Er, don't they emit CO2 at night when there's no light for photosynthesis to occur?
How long will it be before one of these player, just trying to have fun, will be arrested for suspicious behavior around public transportation? The times we live in are sad.
With a big X on a red shirt and a D on a yellow shirt....
The location looks very much like the heart of downtown Toronto. I think they'll fit right in with University of Toronto engineering students doing goofy things and looking like a sore thumb.
Anything wrong with these, or these?
Ahh... there isn't a manufacturer associated with the first one so I don't know.
But the MAM-A looks to have just came out the end of June this year.
The Mitsui (MAM) label gold CD-R's are the gold standard for archival CD-R's that have lives of hundreds of years. Time will tell for the DVD-R disks.
I also peruse cdfreaks.com and the general consensus is that DVD-R archivability seems to be measured in months and occasionally years rather than decades and centuries and that medium is still too young for disk manufacturers to have figured out what's best for archiving.
Two years ago, we got a MiniDV camcorder. I got burned on some early DVD+-R disks but fortunately had them still on the HDD. All I've been doing since then is dilligently copying files around to new HDDs. But the more events and videos of my kid that I make, the more difficult it is to keep up with HDDs.
Besides, if there's a market for archive quality gold CD-Rs then there's a market for archive quality gold DVD-Rs.
Unless things have changed in the last two months, I don't believe there's a DVD equivalent of the gold CD-Rs that last for hundreds of years.
If I'm wrong... someone please please please correct me and let mw know what it is and where I can get it.
Well, with rewriteable DVD prices approaching that cost I'd say the age of CD drives on computers is numbered.
Show me a DVD-R that'll archive data as well as gold CD-R's and I'll agree with that one.
Neither one of those projects was supposed to be a new project; on the contrary, they were homework assignments that the students turned in for their classes. Most engineering colleges have classes that turn out machines like this every single year, and none of them claim to be innovating; it's just to teach students the basics of engineering.
Me thinks the title of the article about robots replacing musicians soon is what got alot of people worked up. Otherwise, if it were just about an engineering project, I doubt anyone would've thought to comment.
Doh! Shouldn't have used arrow brackets....
Generic News Flash Template:
((Insert Pro-business/anti non-profit name here)) research group reports a study that shows that ((insert activity)) is not well suited for municipally started or community based operation as such activity will ultimately cost its members far more than what privately funded and operated ((activity)) could ever do it for.
NB. Send in the lobbyists to make sure laws are enacted to protect businesses from these rabid hippies.
Generic News Flash Template:
> research group reports a study that shows that > is not well suited for municipally started or community based operation as such activity will ultimately cost its members far more than what privately funded and operated > could ever do it for.
NB. Send in the lobbyists to make sure laws are enacted to protect businesses from these rabid hippies.
All the notes are played with the same emphasis.
Layla and First Noel by Crazy J especially since I've heard them played live by musiciain friends who actually make them sound good.
PLAYER PIANOS AND CRAZY J PLAY JUST LIKE ME WRITING MY POST IN ALL CAPS. DULL AND MONOTONOUS.
If the robot is always perfectly in time and can't improvise, it won't be replacing good guitarists anytime soon.
Totally agreed.
Did anyone notice the pluck sounds pretty much the same?
I have a guitar and know a few things but not enough to call myself an expert. The thing I find is that depending on how your hand or fingers attack the string, the sound is different.
From the downloads, I don't get the impression that Crazy J has got it right.....
FPS games make me nauseous. I stopped playing them when Quake 2 was the rage.
/.-er).
The only games I'm into when/if I have time besides wife, kids and work. (Yep... I'm a married family man
RTS - Starcraft, WC3, Homeworld
Turn based strategy - X-com TFTD, Scorched Earth and Scorched Earth 3d.
Plain jane multiplayer shoot 'em up. GTA 2.
Over here they're Nimbys
That too but fortunately or unfortunately, not all NIMBYs have political clout.
protesters complaining about the windfarms ruining the appearance of the habitat, killing birds, killing bats, making noise, and requiring thousands of miles of new cables to be stretched across the countryside
Here in southern Ontario, Canada, they're referred to as rich cottagers.
Might as well add PETA to the list.
So has hot fusion actually produced surplus energy?
At the risk of offending the anti-afterlife believers and continuing the threads on heaven, hell, souls and the afterlife in general...
I'd agree with the poster about someone going through this procedure and not having any memory of it since there's no brain activity to store anything.
But let's say there is some sort of energy that isn't measureable by the tools we have now that you could call a "soul" (tm). Maybe it's bound to the body until cellular decay occurs.
Besides, what ever happened with those studies where researchers put notes up on ceilings of operating rooms to see if there were any NDE's that actually found themselves floating up to the ceiling to see what was written on these notes?
because it wouldn't run {insert name of favourite Windows application here}. (Although of course it would if you tried hard enough.)
The first part is true. The second part would likely be true for me too if I didn't have to use my time to do the $ong and dan$e to make ends meet and my living wasn't so closely tied to those Windows applications working.
I'd assume that unlike with the free OS', there was a good assortment of software that's well polished, have easy to use interfaces and easy to install for the Mac that does the same job as my favourite Windows apps.
Hence, I figure I wouldn't have the same problems with OS X as I did with the previous two.
Also Apple is at heart a hardware company. If they start using off the shelf PC type architecture why buy a Mac when all you need is the O/S?
The Ipod has countless competitors yet it still holds the crown. I'd think that Apple would innovate with their PC design (that'll run Windows too) and also offer an alternate OS to the masses.
I Tried BSD with KDE and Afterstep and then Linux with KDE and GNOME. I went with my tail between my legs back to Windows. If, say, a copy of OS X for Intel 'landed in my lap', it worked on my plane Jane vanilla clone box, and it's as good as I hear it is and then reasonably priced, I would eventually buy it.
Are you suggesting that the content of a BA has change over the past many years or that the world has changed? I don't think that a BA has ever trained you to actually do anything specific.
Probably more that the world has changed.
I stumbled into a liberal arts program myself so I don't have first hand experience of going through "general arts and sciences" stream. But hearing from those that did, I got the impression that the requirement for a BA was just like high school where you take a wide breadth of courses.
At the end of my BA as well as friends in the gen. arts and sci, I found many ended up going back to college (Canadian definition) to pick up a skill so they could make a living.
I went into IT and became a sysadmin partly because messing around the insides of a computer was a hobby throughout the years and 'cause I started from the ground up as a tech support rep in the hey day of TSR-dom where things weren't scripted.
I'm not sure anymore but I think I might be kidding myself when I tell people that my liberal arts education helps me think outside of the box. My thoughts on advising anyone about post secondary are leaning towards advocating much less expensive college (or whatever it is that teaches trades and skills) over going into major debt through University.
IMHO, before too long, you will need a Master's degree in order to get a good job.
I think there are alot of things in the world and society that will break and prevent that from happening.
Time, for one. We might be living longer, but we already spend about 21 or 22 years of our lives getting that BA.
BA educated folks dominate the cubicle jockey jobs out there in the world. Inactivity, poor eating habits result in poor lifestyle and health runs rampant in that part of the population.
How many white collar workers can the economy sustain? Fine if you got the BA first and then jumped into something else but I'd hope that eventually, if there were a shortage of skilled workers, a university BA wouldn't be mandatory for a contruction worker, maechanic, law enforcement, food service person or garbage collector. Hell, even a TSR or CSR that follows scripted troubleshooting.
I guess, to bring my rambling to a conclusion. University isn't and shouldn't be for everyone.