The following week, he put on a CD by Nine Inch Nails and found that it would not play properly because fungus had grown on it.
But the fungus had not ruined the disc.
Indeed, I think NIN ruined the disk.
Seriously, though, I cannot be alone in having stumbled upon these effects by accident myself.
Although it was interesting to learn the difference in growth patterns between fungus and bacteria, I can in no way see what is "pioneering," or even interesting, about this.
Well, this is not what you asked for, but the Advanced Book Exchange has a textbooks site. Personally, I love abebooks, since I can usually find whatever I am looking for, and often in a local (or at least nearby) bookstore.
I am well aware that everyone involved in any way with computers at sometime needs new software and hardware. Hence, I agree in general with the concept of enhanced and protected consumer rights. It seems, however, that buying new soft/hardware simply opens each of us to a further and further erosion of privacy. I think then that the most prudent course of action is not merely to demand more rights, but rather to curtail our purchases and live with older software. For new rights come with new interpretations, and these interpretations may not be as intended.
You're right re: the publicity, but Google still caved in. The general trend of considering search terms as copywritable is frightening, and no silver lining or accidental benefit can justify this course of action.
for those who don't know about scientology's manipulation of google, check this link out: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article. php/2164661
also on/., of course:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/12/17 42220&mode=thread&tid=153
When i was at Univ. of Waterloo in 1988, I had to write essays on a vm/cms machine with BookMaster because that`s what ibm wrote its manuals on. Let me tell you, that sucked, esp. since wysiwyg text editors were already popular then. My degree program was more or less a feeder program for their IT dept. in Toronto.
Ironically, I find the only thing that makes IE usable at all for me is the current Google toolbar, which implements the popup-blocking that Microsoft neglected to include in their user-hostile browser. With no popup blocking, simple everyday computer tasks like surfing for porn are like walking in quicksand.
My friend, use Proxomitron and get rid of that google toolbar! (http://www.proxomitron.info/)I avoid google cuz of the scientology debacle (i use alltheweb).
Well, call me insensitive, but mugging / raping would not change ecological makeup of the (un)illuminated area, which I took to be the point of the story. Safety is another issue.
i can agree only with your last paragraph. i myself am a scholar, and i would never dream of publishing on a text that i cannot read in the original. and i certainly would not read anyone who would.
cheers, p.
Firstly we could consider the enormous body of work currently available in other languages. Having this able to be translated into English or other languages could be very valuable for scholars.
Nope. Scholars do not need translations: the only people who truly contribute to a field do so in the primary language(s) of the text.
here's the horace:
'Naturam expelles furca tamen usque recurret
et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix'
(Ep. I, x, 24)
yeah, i have a bit of a classics background.
cheers, p.
there's a big difference; one group is describing sound, and the other is describing music. i would say that the davis review is evocative, but that the audiophiles sound like morons (but that's just me...).
btw, that tom waits quotation originally comes from horace... (which i bet you already knew)
I can already do this in Belgium. I can pay for anything through my ATM, or through my computer, for that matter. Bank transfers are a normal way of paying for things over here, and ATM allow for such, as does my homebanking software. Most sellers on ebay.be will give you their bank account number, and you just transfer the money. C'est simple! Zo gemakkelijk is dat!
I would have thought that a geek would understand the concept of false dilemma:
This would mean that if by some chance that there were lifeforms elsewhere in the galaxy that they would have to be perfect beings or destined for Hell.
Recent economic theory[6] asserts that the emergence of a dominant platform from a number of competing alternatives is the result of random events.
[6] W. Brian Arthur, Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy, 1994.
discovery.com is just now reporting a new problem with the shuttles; the force of the exploding bolts that detach the boosters has been found to be too close to the strength of the dome that catches them. they predict that this will ground them further.
Slashdot Mirror
don't joke? i predict soon sco will go after those of you who use their trademarked name in /. jokes.
of course we must joke.
Seriously, though, I cannot be alone in having stumbled upon these effects by accident myself.
Although it was interesting to learn the difference in growth patterns between fungus and bacteria, I can in no way see what is "pioneering," or even interesting, about this.
http://www.abebooks.com/
I am well aware that everyone involved in any way with computers at sometime needs new software and hardware. Hence, I agree in general with the concept of enhanced and protected consumer rights. It seems, however, that buying new soft/hardware simply opens each of us to a further and further erosion of privacy. I think then that the most prudent course of action is not merely to demand more rights, but rather to curtail our purchases and live with older software. For new rights come with new interpretations, and these interpretations may not be as intended.
use www.alltheweb.com
for those who don't know about scientology's manipulation of google, check this link out: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article. php/2164661
also on /., of course:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/12/17 42220&mode=thread&tid=153
When i was at Univ. of Waterloo in 1988, I had to write essays on a vm/cms machine with BookMaster because that`s what ibm wrote its manuals on. Let me tell you, that sucked, esp. since wysiwyg text editors were already popular then. My degree program was more or less a feeder program for their IT dept. in Toronto.
... all we need to do is hook them up to thinking machines too. Or at least something that can drive a car for them.
of the dictum that if you make enough laws then everyone can be a criminal
Well, call me insensitive, but mugging / raping would not change ecological makeup of the (un)illuminated area, which I took to be the point of the story. Safety is another issue.
cheers.
I saw Titania Nanotubes sensing Hyde Rogen on www.newgals.com last week.
when did real become a verb? (i know, no one is more boring than a grammar cop)
i can agree only with your last paragraph. i myself am a scholar, and i would never dream of publishing on a text that i cannot read in the original. and i certainly would not read anyone who would. cheers, p.
You are right to some extent, but do you think that the Italians and Greeks are different races?
Nope. Scholars do not need translations: the only people who truly contribute to a field do so in the primary language(s) of the text.
here's the horace: 'Naturam expelles furca tamen usque recurret et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix' (Ep. I, x, 24) yeah, i have a bit of a classics background. cheers, p.
there's a big difference; one group is describing sound, and the other is describing music. i would say that the davis review is evocative, but that the audiophiles sound like morons (but that's just me ...).
btw, that tom waits quotation originally comes from horace ... (which i bet you already knew)
however, all of those quotations you've 'collected' are found at http://home.cfl.rr.com/happysurfer/audio_bs.htm
I can already do this in Belgium. I can pay for anything through my ATM, or through my computer, for that matter. Bank transfers are a normal way of paying for things over here, and ATM allow for such, as does my homebanking software. Most sellers on ebay.be will give you their bank account number, and you just transfer the money. C'est simple! Zo gemakkelijk is dat!
discovery.com is just now reporting a new problem with the shuttles; the force of the exploding bolts that detach the boosters has been found to be too close to the strength of the dome that catches them. they predict that this will ground them further.
slow you down?