Actually, when I read the summary, I thought, "Aha, Slashdotters will love this, because they'll imagine themselves as the monks who save the world". Keep working on those Wikipedia pages, guys, because SOME DAY extraterrestrials will appear and demand, on the threat of utter annihilation, to know the exact episode in which Lieutenant Data first got his cat, and then the world will know how important you really were all along.
Guaranteed portable implementation? Where? The only implementation I see is in Java...
Java's portability promises and $5 will get you a cuppa at Starbucks.
Wake me when there's actual information to fight totalitarian governments being spread on Freenet, instead of just child porn and UFO conspiracy theories (I guess they'd be WTC conspiracy theories now).
Shows how much you know. "Heavy thunderstorms expected in the Sierra Nevadas with potential hail" is actually code for "Execute Plan Alpha; bomb Beijing immediately."
Ah, Pandora. I used it quite a lot last summer. The main problem was that it eventually decided I really liked Bob Dylans "Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again", which is a pretty good song but I don't need to hear it every hour. It also thought that I'd love various other crap like The White Stripes... voting all of that down merely meant that I got even worse music instead.
Thanks, but no thanks. I prefer to control the horizontal and the vertical.
Anybody who does real computing (Yeah, your Alienware is cool, I'm not talking about that) probably wants RS232. I use it all the time to get console on a variety of devices. You all may be familiar with the BlueGene supercomputers? The development board I use to test things for that platform uses RS232 for a console.
USB to RS232 is crap.
Remote energy is cool, but people are afraid of plain old data being sent through the air, much less millions of watts broadcast everywhere. I haven't really looked into Tesla's stuff since about 8th grade so I don't remember much of his specific plans.
I remember being led from Tesla to some huge Free Energy website with hundreds schemes to get free energy, communicate with aliens, keep out the mind control rays, etc.; I'm pretty sure even back then I was able to spot the scientific problems with most of the stuff, but it was cool anyway. They did have some valid things, like running your car on filtered cooking oil and the fact that you *can* get small amounts of electricity from the air with an antenna. There were also a lot of the more typical things, like how to make your car run on liquid water. Anybody else know of that site and if it's still around? Hours of fun:)
My life has been empty without the ability to switch between slides in STUNNING 3-D! I seriously just peed a little in excitement.
Come on; there's not even a reason to have *any* transitions between slides. Nothing says "Oh god, what an amateur" than seeing slide after slide spiral into another one, or slowly dissolve, etc. Transitions are just a way to waste your time trying out different possibilities instead of polishing your content or doing something else useful.
He did a lot of cool stuff, like AC, the Tesla coil, etc., but people really hype him too much. He didn't unlock the Secrets of the Universe; those collections of "Tesla's Notes" you buy at Barnes and Noble for $40 will not help you build a flying saucer. Cue 1,000 Free Energy idiots telling me about how Tesla's Crystal Hydrologic Generator or whatever used the power of magnetic fields and crystals to get unlimited energy from regular water. The people who really pump Tesla are also the people who think they can generate unlimited energy through electrolysis of some water, then burning the resulting hydrogen/oxygen mix to get more electricity with which to crack more water, ad infinitum. Yes, I have heard someone tell me all about how he just bought this great book about Tesla and now had plans to do exactly what I just described, and how so many other people had done it but the Evil Oil Companies had sued them/burned down their houses/killed them.
Unfortunately you only read part of TFA, stopping as soon as you saw that juicy bit to post on here. The next paragraph says that since the laptop rests against the dashboard, you can only use it while stationary.
It's time for my slide rule user's group meeting, don't want to be late! I knew those newfangled calculating devices would never catch on!
Yes, I do own a few slide rules, and yes, I use them in class from time to time.
Hippies are... incredibly backwards. I don't think you can *be* a hippie without a certain predilection to believe dumb crap merely because it goes against conventional science. I have had a hippie tell me that moles are actually colonies of microscopic robots that the U.S. government drops into the jet stream, where they fly around for a while before finally settling on our skin and in our bodies. Hippies believe in the healing power of crystals, they believe that hemp makes the strongest, most durable *anything*, they believe in astral projection, they believe the government is working tirelessly day and night to shut them up because they know the truth.
In short, the fact that hippies are even more anti-science, anti-rational, etc. comes as no surprise to me.
Rasputin Music here in the S.F. bay area is great... I've been able to get lots of my music quite cheaply (used) and in almost pristine condition.
To me, to define music as "indie" is to declare, "Our only good point is that we're not signed to a record label", rather than calling it just rock or what-have-you. Indie music fans have not helped this perception, because as I said earlier, they seem to only like something when it's under a critical mass of fans; once a band gets too popular, they decide it's lame and move on to another indistinguishable set. And no, I didn't need that karma after all.
You know, for great justice, you would have linked this as an example of older music, thus Rickrolling me at the same time.
Hell, I'd be half willing to go back to tapes if we'd be looking at a sufficiently low price... my only concern would be if I could rip to mp3 at a decent quality; I've only tried this with a rather jerry-rigged setup and a very old tape, so I don't know how it would sound after doing it properly with a fresh tape.
Anybody with experience in copying lots of tapes to mp3?
Walmart isn't selling albums made by people in their basement with a laptop.
Walmart is selling albums made by people in a big recording studio with many paid-by-the-hour technicians and other people who actually do useful work and do it a lot better than Jimmy McEmo who happens to have a guitar, a Mac, and a microphone. Now, after you get out of the studio, there are a lot of people pushing papers, pitching the music to XYZ, and of course being the guy at the top of the pyramid sitting in a big leather chair and smoking a cigar (that's what record company CEOs do, right?).
Myself, I'd rather buy indie music on CD from the bands themselves.
Ahh, would that there existed decent "indie" music. Unfortunately, my tastes run to older classics, which I'm sure brands me as a "sheep", a "tool of the Man", etc. And no, I don't need a Slashdot List(tm) of all the great indie bands that will be great until they get a record contract, at which point it will be time to abandon them for somebody that isn't popular yet.
Beowulf clusters should die a slow painful death. There's nothing special about a Beowulf cluster; the "inventor" just came up with a name to describe a bunch of PC's running Unix with MPI or PVM. OpenMOSIX was far far far more interesting.
How about build the world's largest supercomputer? BlueGene/L has held that position for years now, and the new BlueGene/P should outstrip even that. It's a great machine, I was just working on it last week.
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Actually, when I read the summary, I thought, "Aha, Slashdotters will love this, because they'll imagine themselves as the monks who save the world". Keep working on those Wikipedia pages, guys, because SOME DAY extraterrestrials will appear and demand, on the threat of utter annihilation, to know the exact episode in which Lieutenant Data first got his cat, and then the world will know how important you really were all along.
Guaranteed portable implementation? Where? The only implementation I see is in Java...
Java's portability promises and $5 will get you a cuppa at Starbucks.
Wake me when there's actual information to fight totalitarian governments being spread on Freenet, instead of just child porn and UFO conspiracy theories (I guess they'd be WTC conspiracy theories now).
Shows how much you know. "Heavy thunderstorms expected in the Sierra Nevadas with potential hail" is actually code for "Execute Plan Alpha; bomb Beijing immediately."
Ah, Pandora. I used it quite a lot last summer. The main problem was that it eventually decided I really liked Bob Dylans "Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again", which is a pretty good song but I don't need to hear it every hour. It also thought that I'd love various other crap like The White Stripes... voting all of that down merely meant that I got even worse music instead.
Thanks, but no thanks. I prefer to control the horizontal and the vertical.
If you want to talk about formulaic music, look no further than blues...
Mod parent up, "+5 Sees to core of indie mindset"
Anybody who does real computing (Yeah, your Alienware is cool, I'm not talking about that) probably wants RS232. I use it all the time to get console on a variety of devices. You all may be familiar with the BlueGene supercomputers? The development board I use to test things for that platform uses RS232 for a console.
USB to RS232 is crap.
Remote energy is cool, but people are afraid of plain old data being sent through the air, much less millions of watts broadcast everywhere. I haven't really looked into Tesla's stuff since about 8th grade so I don't remember much of his specific plans. :)
I remember being led from Tesla to some huge Free Energy website with hundreds schemes to get free energy, communicate with aliens, keep out the mind control rays, etc.; I'm pretty sure even back then I was able to spot the scientific problems with most of the stuff, but it was cool anyway. They did have some valid things, like running your car on filtered cooking oil and the fact that you *can* get small amounts of electricity from the air with an antenna. There were also a lot of the more typical things, like how to make your car run on liquid water. Anybody else know of that site and if it's still around? Hours of fun
My life has been empty without the ability to switch between slides in STUNNING 3-D! I seriously just peed a little in excitement.
Come on; there's not even a reason to have *any* transitions between slides. Nothing says "Oh god, what an amateur" than seeing slide after slide spiral into another one, or slowly dissolve, etc. Transitions are just a way to waste your time trying out different possibilities instead of polishing your content or doing something else useful.
He did a lot of cool stuff, like AC, the Tesla coil, etc., but people really hype him too much. He didn't unlock the Secrets of the Universe; those collections of "Tesla's Notes" you buy at Barnes and Noble for $40 will not help you build a flying saucer. Cue 1,000 Free Energy idiots telling me about how Tesla's Crystal Hydrologic Generator or whatever used the power of magnetic fields and crystals to get unlimited energy from regular water. The people who really pump Tesla are also the people who think they can generate unlimited energy through electrolysis of some water, then burning the resulting hydrogen/oxygen mix to get more electricity with which to crack more water, ad infinitum. Yes, I have heard someone tell me all about how he just bought this great book about Tesla and now had plans to do exactly what I just described, and how so many other people had done it but the Evil Oil Companies had sued them/burned down their houses/killed them.
Unfortunately you only read part of TFA, stopping as soon as you saw that juicy bit to post on here. The next paragraph says that since the laptop rests against the dashboard, you can only use it while stationary.
It's time for my slide rule user's group meeting, don't want to be late! I knew those newfangled calculating devices would never catch on!
Yes, I do own a few slide rules, and yes, I use them in class from time to time.
The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings
Hippies are... incredibly backwards. I don't think you can *be* a hippie without a certain predilection to believe dumb crap merely because it goes against conventional science. I have had a hippie tell me that moles are actually colonies of microscopic robots that the U.S. government drops into the jet stream, where they fly around for a while before finally settling on our skin and in our bodies. Hippies believe in the healing power of crystals, they believe that hemp makes the strongest, most durable *anything*, they believe in astral projection, they believe the government is working tirelessly day and night to shut them up because they know the truth.
In short, the fact that hippies are even more anti-science, anti-rational, etc. comes as no surprise to me.
Rasputin Music here in the S.F. bay area is great... I've been able to get lots of my music quite cheaply (used) and in almost pristine condition.
To me, to define music as "indie" is to declare, "Our only good point is that we're not signed to a record label", rather than calling it just rock or what-have-you. Indie music fans have not helped this perception, because as I said earlier, they seem to only like something when it's under a critical mass of fans; once a band gets too popular, they decide it's lame and move on to another indistinguishable set. And no, I didn't need that karma after all.
You know, for great justice, you would have linked this as an example of older music, thus Rickrolling me at the same time.
Hell, I'd be half willing to go back to tapes if we'd be looking at a sufficiently low price... my only concern would be if I could rip to mp3 at a decent quality; I've only tried this with a rather jerry-rigged setup and a very old tape, so I don't know how it would sound after doing it properly with a fresh tape.
Anybody with experience in copying lots of tapes to mp3?
Walmart isn't selling albums made by people in their basement with a laptop.
Walmart is selling albums made by people in a big recording studio with many paid-by-the-hour technicians and other people who actually do useful work and do it a lot better than Jimmy McEmo who happens to have a guitar, a Mac, and a microphone. Now, after you get out of the studio, there are a lot of people pushing papers, pitching the music to XYZ, and of course being the guy at the top of the pyramid sitting in a big leather chair and smoking a cigar (that's what record company CEOs do, right?).
Myself, I'd rather buy indie music on CD from the bands themselves.
Ahh, would that there existed decent "indie" music. Unfortunately, my tastes run to older classics, which I'm sure brands me as a "sheep", a "tool of the Man", etc. And no, I don't need a Slashdot List(tm) of all the great indie bands that will be great until they get a record contract, at which point it will be time to abandon them for somebody that isn't popular yet.
Beowulf clusters should die a slow painful death. There's nothing special about a Beowulf cluster; the "inventor" just came up with a name to describe a bunch of PC's running Unix with MPI or PVM. OpenMOSIX was far far far more interesting.
I love Google so it couldn't be Google's fault! Here is an anecdote that proves it couldn't have been the Google software!
How about build the world's largest supercomputer? BlueGene/L has held that position for years now, and the new BlueGene/P should outstrip even that. It's a great machine, I was just working on it last week.
This just in: older programs often must be cut to provide money for newer things. More on this strange "economic" theory at 11.
300 scientists you say? I picture them standing in front of Mission Control to fend off budget cuts, screaming "THIS IS NASAAAAAAAA"
yes, sTeganogRaphy seems like a good idea to me... perhaps we coUld even embed SecreTs iN Our messages ON slashdot or somEthing...