It is more than just the money. The RIAA represents "old energy" that is stagnate and therefore it will not be able to survive in the lighter energies of today and even more so... of the tomorrows. Each day the differential becomes greater and each day the RIAA becomes more like a dinosaur in our modern day. (The comparison to SCO is more than coincidental)
I believe that we will see many infrastructures such as the **AA crack and fall apart in a similar way. The next major demise will be "Insurance". Watch for it. It is old energy and regardless of what resources are put into it to ensure survival... it will still fail and crumble... simply because it is old energy.
Even if the RIAA reinvented itself in some manner... the energies would still be inappropriate for today environment and so it could not survive. Good or great management would only prolong its existence but in the end it is still doomed.
Most here are too young to remember Senator Joe McCarthy and his need to find "Commies" under every rock in America. I watched it on an Admiral black and white TV in the 50's and yet even as a child I sensed something was wrong with what was being done to the common person for the sake of power.
I see a great similarity between the RIAA and McCarthyism.
Joe McCarthy was banished finally when what he would say and do got so outlandish that his own party members could no longer stomach it. A totally despised individual universally.
Meanwhile many innocent individuals suffered a black mark for the rest of their lives. this is very similar to what the RIAA is perpetrating and just like ole Joe they too will fail. The despising part is already in place... eventually even those in power will no longer want to be known as "One who stands behind the RIAA".
Like those who suffered Joe, there are those who are now suffering the repercussions of the RIAA. To those I send my moral support.
It wasn't courageous... it was foolish... I knew better yet I felt compelled to do it. I always follow those compelling tugging energies and usually they land me in a pot of hot stew (which I have not been able to walk out of as yet).
Yet, who knows where it will all settle out.
Perhaps one day PI will equal 4 when "intent" is used... meanwhile it stays at 3.141592...
File this note away for 10 years and revisit it then.
"I can't write a law saying gravity doesn't exist."
Science has not yet learned the use of "intent". If you intend to accomplish something and you are in balance with self then it will occur.
Example was Peter walking on the water with Jesus. When his mental mind told him it was impossible to walk on water then he began to sink.
My personal experience was walking on hot coals that were hot enough to melt an aluminum can. I walked for 40 feet through the oak coals and not a burn on my feet.
As a side note... the coals were so hot that you had to stand back about 6 feet or so to be comfortable... but when I began to walk I superseded the physical law of my feet getting burned.
Further use of intent is if you wanted to measure light as a particle then it would be a particle. If you wanted light to be a wave then it would be so.
These types of things work from an interdimensional energy that science has not yet grasped. Eventually they will from observation of things like firewalks or handling hot iron without being burned and understanding that intent is the power behind things occurring.
In the old AA5 All american five radio's there was a #47 6 volt lamp used to illuminate the dial in parallel with 1/2 of the filament of the rectifier... usually a 35Z5. Also the DC voltage (B+)ran through this lamp too If the lamp burns out then that upsets the voltage distribution and will burn out the rectifier tube.
I started my computer career in 1962 working as a systems analyst. Later in 1970 worked with the CDC 3200 mainframe. The basic timing mechanism was a delay line that sent a "0" down it with various taps for read, write, gating, etc that the magnetic core memory and associated electronics required.
We would run margins on the computer by setting the voltage low and test it then setting the voltage high and retest to verify that it would pass diagnostics under both conditions.
The toughest thing i ever did was rewire a memory board by hand to replace a broken ferrite core. It required unlacing the diagonal "Z" sense wire and then removing the x and y wires plus the inhibit x wire and then reinstalling the wiring. Fortunately I was nearsighted and could see the fine wires but today I would have problems even seeing a core since I am now very far sighted.
Every job that I have ever had was like a game for me. I would have paid someone to allow me to do what i got paid to do. that sure makes time fly though.
I worked with Dr. Wang at Wang Laboratories and traveled to China with him to meet his siblings. While there I installed some of the very first mini-computers/mainframe for China. We slowed the rpm of the disk drives down from 3600 to 2400 and then installed high altitude heads to keep the disk's heads from crashing. Also the seek flip-flop in the logic had a bigger capacitor on it so that after the heads settled from moving then the read/write cycle could occur. By adding the extra capacitance slowed the access time down greatly so that China would not be on parity with us,
That has been a career of 45 years which is far older than most individual who read Slashdot. My 4H project when I was 13 or 14 was building a ham transmitter and modulator. That was back in the 50's.
I was one of the original geeks and today could not stay up with what the average individual on slashdot needs to know... it is just too much information now, but I do enjoy those that post here and those that actually enjoy the coding and the fixing of equipment for it shows in your posts.
My team saw a YF-12 land at a non regular air base in 1965 or so. The next day we saw it take off and once it cleared the runway then it went straight up until it was out of sight. I was a systems analyst for the minuteman missile system and as so was not an expert on aircraft even though there was a fighter wing and heavy bomber wing stationed at the base. I knew i saw something special that day.
It was very impressive to watch that aircraft disappear from sight in mere seconds.
In truth, time is an illusion, however in the Earth plane we use it as a point of reference
About 15 years ago my friend Rick and I were out deer hunting and both of us got big deer (Missouri corn fed ones) and we were hauling them out of the valley on a 4 wheeler. They were tied on the front carrier.
There is one point where the edge of the bedrock stick out and it is always wet and icy in that vicinity. I told Rick that we better walk the 4-wheeler out in this area but he is one of those large barrel chested men with mammoth arms and he just put his hand on the front of the 4 wheeler and held the front down as i was cautiously driving up the steep slope. I had gone about 15 feet when he slipped on the ice and let go and the 4 wheeler immediately flipped backward throwing me down 15 feet onto my back with a 4 wheeler and an additional 450 lbs of deer tied on falling toward me.
Suddenly everything moved in very slow motion as it came towards me ( just as you experienced with your shot) and I merely lifted my legs up and positioned them and had plenty of time to catch the 4 wheeler's seat with my legs and toss it about 20 feet away.
To my perception all of this took about 10 seconds to accomplish. To Rick's eyes it happened in a flash and he could not comprehend how my reflexes were so quick... in reality they were not. I simply was on a different timeline than he during that moment.
"That's a pretty poor debacle compared to, say installing an accelerometer upside down"
We fired a missile out of Vandenburg a few years ago that had the angular accelerometer wires color coded backwards. The test coil was wired correctly so all diagnostics passed.
When the missile was fired and cleared the underground silo it was normal for the missile to pitch towards 70 degrees. As it approached that angle the the speed of pitching is reduced to zero, however if the accelerometer is reverse wired then the missile pitches faster instead of slower and the missile simply cleared the silo wall and pitched level to the ground shooting across the fields at what seemed to be a thousand miles an hour and it started a couple of fires and also caused a lot of scrambling of onlookers until the range officer was able to destruct it.
We were out with our field jackets extinguishing the fires and then had to pick up all of the unburned propellant (green solid fuel).
Of course, we kept some propellant back and would ignited it in ashtrays and stuff like that as practical jokes. I wonder how I survived some of the stuff I was involved with in those days.
I felt that the mis-use of words might have been a language barrier situation rather than a deliberate ironic statement. His English though did seem equal or better than mine so the play on words should have occurred to me.
"You mean, if they detect penguin genes in your cells?"
Reminds me of the story of Tux the penguin who took his truck in to have it fixed.
He had to wait for the repair to be made so decided to grab a snack and ate some ice cream. Since penguins don't have hands he got some ice cream on his face while eating his snack.
He returned to the mechanic and asked what the mechanic found. The mechanic said "Looks like you blew a seal"
You may have stumbled on to something. Perhaps it is steam that pushes the rock upwards and reduces the apparent weight so that the wind can push nearly a weightless object. A magic combination of temperature and wind. Good thinking!
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It is more than just the money. The RIAA represents "old energy" that is stagnate and therefore it will not be able to survive in the lighter energies of today and even more so... of the tomorrows. Each day the differential becomes greater and each day the RIAA becomes more like a dinosaur in our modern day. (The comparison to SCO is more than coincidental)
I believe that we will see many infrastructures such as the **AA crack and fall apart in a similar way. The next major demise will be "Insurance". Watch for it. It is old energy and regardless of what resources are put into it to ensure survival... it will still fail and crumble... simply because it is old energy.
Even if the RIAA reinvented itself in some manner... the energies would still be inappropriate for today environment and so it could not survive. Good or great management would only prolong its existence but in the end it is still doomed.
Most here are too young to remember Senator Joe McCarthy and his need to find "Commies" under every rock in America. I watched it on an Admiral black and white TV in the 50's and yet even as a child I sensed something was wrong with what was being done to the common person for the sake of power.
I see a great similarity between the RIAA and McCarthyism.
Joe McCarthy was banished finally when what he would say and do got so outlandish that his own party members could no longer stomach it. A totally despised individual universally.
Meanwhile many innocent individuals suffered a black mark for the rest of their lives. this is very similar to what the RIAA is perpetrating and just like ole Joe they too will fail. The despising part is already in place... eventually even those in power will no longer want to be known as "One who stands behind the RIAA".
Like those who suffered Joe, there are those who are now suffering the repercussions of the RIAA. To those I send my moral support.
how they once stood outside a door pushing on it for 10 minutes when the door was labeled "pull"
You mean like this guy?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/166869/pull_dude_pull/
Back in those days 64 bits were half-fast.
It wasn't courageous... it was foolish... I knew better yet I felt compelled to do it. I always follow those compelling tugging energies and usually they land me in a pot of hot stew (which I have not been able to walk out of as yet).
Yet, who knows where it will all settle out.
Perhaps one day PI will equal 4 when "intent" is used... meanwhile it stays at 3.141592...
File this note away for 10 years and revisit it then.
"I can't write a law saying gravity doesn't exist."
Science has not yet learned the use of "intent". If you intend to accomplish something and you are in balance with self then it will occur.
Example was Peter walking on the water with Jesus. When his mental mind told him it was impossible to walk on water then he began to sink.
My personal experience was walking on hot coals that were hot enough to melt an aluminum can. I walked for 40 feet through the oak coals and not a burn on my feet.
As a side note... the coals were so hot that you had to stand back about 6 feet or so to be comfortable... but when I began to walk I superseded the physical law of my feet getting burned.
Further use of intent is if you wanted to measure light as a particle then it would be a particle. If you wanted light to be a wave then it would be so.
These types of things work from an interdimensional energy that science has not yet grasped. Eventually they will from observation of things like firewalks or handling hot iron without being burned and understanding that intent is the power behind things occurring.
In the old AA5 All american five radio's there was a #47 6 volt lamp used to illuminate the dial in parallel with 1/2 of the filament of the rectifier... usually a 35Z5. Also the DC voltage (B+)ran through this lamp too If the lamp burns out then that upsets the voltage distribution and will burn out the rectifier tube.
I'm near Burr Oak... no cell phone service yet. don't own a TV. Most people here use DirectTV that do own own one.
I started my computer career in 1962 working as a systems analyst. Later in 1970 worked with the CDC 3200 mainframe. The basic timing mechanism was a delay line that sent a "0" down it with various taps for read, write, gating, etc that the magnetic core memory and associated electronics required.
We would run margins on the computer by setting the voltage low and test it then setting the voltage high and retest to verify that it would pass diagnostics under both conditions.
The toughest thing i ever did was rewire a memory board by hand to replace a broken ferrite core. It required unlacing the diagonal "Z" sense wire and then removing the x and y wires plus the inhibit x wire and then reinstalling the wiring. Fortunately I was nearsighted and could see the fine wires but today I would have problems even seeing a core since I am now very far sighted.
Every job that I have ever had was like a game for me. I would have paid someone to allow me to do what i got paid to do. that sure makes time fly though.
I worked with Dr. Wang at Wang Laboratories and traveled to China with him to meet his siblings. While there I installed some of the very first mini-computers/mainframe for China. We slowed the rpm of the disk drives down from 3600 to 2400 and then installed high altitude heads to keep the disk's heads from crashing. Also the seek flip-flop in the logic had a bigger capacitor on it so that after the heads settled from moving then the read/write cycle could occur. By adding the extra capacitance slowed the access time down greatly so that China would not be on parity with us,
That has been a career of 45 years which is far older than most individual who read Slashdot. My 4H project when I was 13 or 14 was building a ham transmitter and modulator. That was back in the 50's.
I was one of the original geeks and today could not stay up with what the average individual on slashdot needs to know... it is just too much information now, but I do enjoy those that post here and those that actually enjoy the coding and the fixing of equipment for it shows in your posts.
Whooosh
My team saw a YF-12 land at a non regular air base in 1965 or so. The next day we saw it take off and once it cleared the runway then it went straight up until it was out of sight. I was a systems analyst for the minuteman missile system and as so was not an expert on aircraft even though there was a fighter wing and heavy bomber wing stationed at the base. I knew i saw something special that day.
It was very impressive to watch that aircraft disappear from sight in mere seconds.
The goggles, they do nothing.
In truth, time is an illusion, however in the Earth plane we use it as a point of reference
About 15 years ago my friend Rick and I were out deer hunting and both of us got big deer (Missouri corn fed ones) and we were hauling them out of the valley on a 4 wheeler. They were tied on the front carrier.
There is one point where the edge of the bedrock stick out and it is always wet and icy in that vicinity. I told Rick that we better walk the 4-wheeler out in this area but he is one of those large barrel chested men with mammoth arms and he just put his hand on the front of the 4 wheeler and held the front down as i was cautiously driving up the steep slope. I had gone about 15 feet when he slipped on the ice and let go and the 4 wheeler immediately flipped backward throwing me down 15 feet onto my back with a 4 wheeler and an additional 450 lbs of deer tied on falling toward me.
Suddenly everything moved in very slow motion as it came towards me ( just as you experienced with your shot) and I merely lifted my legs up and positioned them and had plenty of time to catch the 4 wheeler's seat with my legs and toss it about 20 feet away.
To my perception all of this took about 10 seconds to accomplish. To Rick's eyes it happened in a flash and he could not comprehend how my reflexes were so quick... in reality they were not. I simply was on a different timeline than he during that moment.
I agree that Time is only a perception.
"That's a pretty poor debacle compared to, say installing an accelerometer upside down"
We fired a missile out of Vandenburg a few years ago that had the angular accelerometer wires color coded backwards. The test coil was wired correctly so all diagnostics passed.
When the missile was fired and cleared the underground silo it was normal for the missile to pitch towards 70 degrees. As it approached that angle the the speed of pitching is reduced to zero, however if the accelerometer is reverse wired then the missile pitches faster instead of slower and the missile simply cleared the silo wall and pitched level to the ground shooting across the fields at what seemed to be a thousand miles an hour and it started a couple of fires and also caused a lot of scrambling of onlookers until the range officer was able to destruct it.
We were out with our field jackets extinguishing the fires and then had to pick up all of the unburned propellant (green solid fuel).
Of course, we kept some propellant back and would ignited it in ashtrays and stuff like that as practical jokes. I wonder how I survived some of the stuff I was involved with in those days.
I felt that the mis-use of words might have been a language barrier situation rather than a deliberate ironic statement. His English though did seem equal or better than mine so the play on words should have occurred to me.
Your post is really interesting, however I feel that I am missing at least one of the points you made in it.
Nice 132 joke. If you got'em, show'em
Not sure anyone still works in binary except for the "There are 10 kinds of people in the world" guy
I thought your post was really humorous.
I'll make you my friend... apparently we are the only two who thought this post was funny and so we better stick together
Is this a "jump the shark" moment by posting this story?
Or perhaps just a new low... apparently the old low was defective and replaced.
"You mean, if they detect penguin genes in your cells?"
Reminds me of the story of Tux the penguin who took his truck in to have it fixed.
He had to wait for the repair to be made so decided to grab a snack and ate some ice cream. Since penguins don't have hands he got some ice cream on his face while eating his snack.
He returned to the mechanic and asked what the mechanic found. The mechanic said "Looks like you blew a seal"
Tux said "No! it's ice cream."
That's P^HFunny
"the name alone raised red flags"
Was this an intentional pun or one that just happened?
Exactly... a cushion of air that helps to float the stone just like in air hockey. Thanks for the link.
You may have stumbled on to something. Perhaps it is steam that pushes the rock upwards and reduces the apparent weight so that the wind can push nearly a weightless object. A magic combination of temperature and wind. Good thinking!
spooky, some of those rocks looked real