...unfortunately good 8-track recorders weren't so easy to find. However, a good 8-track recording with Dolby B sounded far better than a Compact Cassette with Dolby recording at the time. (Wow and flutter was not much more than the LP source, while cassettes had ridiculously high % figures.) Well, for the first few dozen or hundred plays. Then the lubricant left and serious wear due to friction set in. Cassettes were originally dictating media, not designed for high fidelity. Enthusiasts at places like Nakamichi made them work well anyhow. But not even Alex with his ultraviolence could convince people to record music on microcassettes!
As far as Beta/VHS, just as Sony's licensing killed Beta by not spreading it widely enough across manufacturers, JVCs very loose licensing of VHS ensured that only a few premium VCRs reached the (still poor) claimed resolution, etc., because most manufacturers just deleted circuits that added to cost. "HQ" tried to rein that in, but it wasn't in any form the advance over regular VHS that SuperBeta was over Beta. Even SVHS, OK as it was, fell way short of the advance made by ED Beta. But I never met anyone with a home ED Beta machine. I suspect none made it to the U.S. Please correct me here.
The only things of which I'm aware lacking from CDs are standard caddies or hard envelopes and floating point. Integer sampling was something of a screw-up, seriously limiting dynamic range (to about 90dB, good but not great).
This way, lots of people will get practice making license plates and be already trained when they get to prison. Now if we could just train them ahead of time to clean the highways...
The Martians have been successful in destroying two thirds of the visiting spacecraft. They've had trouble, however, locating the relatively small rovers on the surface without observation satellites of their own, which Earthlings might easily spot. They're becoming increasingly concerned that one will happen upon something they've made in the recent past or some anomaly that might indicate their locations. Under the assumption that the rovers might be solar powered, they began spooling up a massive dust storm to deprive them of power and possibly freeze them permanently. They know we're coming, but wish to delay the inevitable by keeping us from finding anything that would trigger a massive investment in Mars expoloration.
If the H-1B and offshoring continue, resulting lower pay for all necessarily creates more incentive for programmers to insert "flaws" and then auction off information about them to get a little more cash on the side, not to mention revenge. Perhaps the existence of open markets for flaws will cause vendors to spend more on development in more than one way. If one does not want the cook spitting in one's food, one does not insult the cook.
I agree with some of the posts that an alien craft built to navigate an atmosphere and a crew expecting something similar to Earth traveling all the way here and crashing seems unlikely, but traveling through mostly empty space is nothing like traveling through a layer of mixed gases with turbulence, wandering vapor clouds, hurricanes, lightning, hail, etc., and how likely is it that the crew knew exactly what to expect when they arrived or had a choice about entering the atmosphere upon arriving? We live very close to Mars and are still frequently surprised when a new probe arrives there. Besides, what if there've been a million sorties over the last few centuries or millenia. Wasn't it about time for a mechanical failure or for a drunk Klingon to fly a little too low?
But let's assume there really have been no ETs here. Perhaps Lt. Haut took advantage of his former position and had the last laugh on the UFOlogists. Maybe he owed someone a favor and that someone decided to ask for this. Or... he's not dead. Whose body was really buried/cremated/dropped into the sea? If I were leaving my lifelong identity permanently for a new one, I would want to go out in style. How better for him to get his name splattered all over the web? By denying UFOs existed? I think not.
Isn't there a cheaper way to get rid of these things?
What if the vehicle somehow gets pulled out of Earth's gravity and eventually lands on an inhabited planet? Won't the residents be pissed and decide to annihilate Earth to rid the galaxy of free-square roaches?
Many libraries have become locked in to the sometimes severely lacking systems of a particular vendor and have little control over the interface (in a wider sense). Really this speech needs to be made to the leading vendors.
Yes, ALL, and all contractors (including lawyers, lobbyists, PR firms) and board members, too. That way it would be much easier to identify the attendees of secret energy meetings with the VP and secret meetings between HP board members and the press.
The quickest way to stop induced implantation is to make it mandatory for all including CEOs and board members. Just watch how fast such a ban gets passed. Anyone notice the outrage in Congress when the FBI searched William Jefferson's office?
Neutrino detection experiments are typically housed in mines maybe two miles underground in order to prevent cosmic rays from interfering. Perhaps one could pay the experiment sponsors enough to store the film there, maintain freezing temperatures by using their electricity source (a bit more difficult as the ambient temperature is higher that deep underground), and surround the freezer with a barrier to any nearby radioactive sources. Maybe you have a cousin involved in such a project!
The incidence of cosmic particles is related to their energy - higher energy particles are rarer (and harder to stop). Consider a shielding strategy short of a deep salt mine but don't stack the film so that an incoming particle blasts through the entire batch. You can test a stack by developing the top sheet of a short stack. Put a sheet of something you care less about on top. Can you find several freezers in isolated spots in the bottom levels of basement parking garages?
Bow until heads touch... much more sonically conductive path than through a handshake. Substitute head lice for viruses transmitted. Thicker skulls probably work better. As usual, those with the least information share the most.
the National Enquirer report on quantum entanglement? What a bunch of hype. I'm happy about what they accomplished, but it's just another small step of which we'll need many.
...we all love shopping at Wal-Mart so much.
New Dell-Mart product lines to include the Double-Wide (2.67:1 screen aspect ratio), the RFD (includes special modem suitable for use on party lines and terminals for jumper cable power connections), Distressed (case already has buckshot pellet holes), and of course the American Traditions (deep woods camo case with storage for ammo and lures).
Without any empirical evidence whatsoever, I conjecture that this move will benefit those who buy such papers. Large mills may not show up at the top of search results as often as before, so consumers may be more likely to buy from a larger pool of producers, lessening the chances of getting caught by someone noticing similarities between papers.
After having read some posts about this activity creating jobs, I have to agree. In the short run, it provides work for those in fields for which there is otherwise low demand. Which also tends to encourage teachers of such to assign more papers, providing more work for their community.
Good point, but... this isn't the same world that it was 37 years ago. Spreading music person-to-person is so much easier now, for example; it wasn't even cheap to copy an album to tape back then, cassettes not having taken hold, most 8-track machines not being recorders, and open-reel machines not found so often in teenagers' bedrooms. So even though the Clear Channel et al play the same 13 songs from the same 6 "artists," people are (or at least can easily be) exposed to a much wider range today without any trouble on their part. I just don't see that kind of demand from listeners happening now, though I expect there'll be plenty of shady deals between promoters and station/network personnel.
I wouldn't mind seeing the rate lowered to 1 Mbps down, but add 1 Mbps minimum up as well and make the rates "as tested, minimum" by some consumer advocate-developed standard, not the advertised jokes. I suspect a lot of people with "3 Mbps cable modems" would find better performance with a T1. Furthermore, it doesn't count as broadband if there's a limit on usage. 1Mbps means the same as 2.6 Tb per month!
Should have said: "Owners of first-generation Intel Macs that used (32-bit only) Core Duo CPUs may be thrilled knowing that Vista will be the last Windows they will be asked to run."
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sometimes the outrageous things he predicts don't occur because he predicted them.
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Whose ancestors do you think burned the library at Alexandria?
He should have utilized that ftp to sneak in some real news. What a disaster that would have been.
...unfortunately good 8-track recorders weren't so easy to find. However, a good 8-track recording with Dolby B sounded far better than a Compact Cassette with Dolby recording at the time. (Wow and flutter was not much more than the LP source, while cassettes had ridiculously high % figures.) Well, for the first few dozen or hundred plays. Then the lubricant left and serious wear due to friction set in. Cassettes were originally dictating media, not designed for high fidelity. Enthusiasts at places like Nakamichi made them work well anyhow. But not even Alex with his ultraviolence could convince people to record music on microcassettes!
As far as Beta/VHS, just as Sony's licensing killed Beta by not spreading it widely enough across manufacturers, JVCs very loose licensing of VHS ensured that only a few premium VCRs reached the (still poor) claimed resolution, etc., because most manufacturers just deleted circuits that added to cost. "HQ" tried to rein that in, but it wasn't in any form the advance over regular VHS that SuperBeta was over Beta. Even SVHS, OK as it was, fell way short of the advance made by ED Beta. But I never met anyone with a home ED Beta machine. I suspect none made it to the U.S. Please correct me here.
The only things of which I'm aware lacking from CDs are standard caddies or hard envelopes and floating point. Integer sampling was something of a screw-up, seriously limiting dynamic range (to about 90dB, good but not great).
This way, lots of people will get practice making license plates and be already trained when they get to prison. Now if we could just train them ahead of time to clean the highways...
The Martians have been successful in destroying two thirds of the visiting spacecraft. They've had trouble, however, locating the relatively small rovers on the surface without observation satellites of their own, which Earthlings might easily spot. They're becoming increasingly concerned that one will happen upon something they've made in the recent past or some anomaly that might indicate their locations. Under the assumption that the rovers might be solar powered, they began spooling up a massive dust storm to deprive them of power and possibly freeze them permanently. They know we're coming, but wish to delay the inevitable by keeping us from finding anything that would trigger a massive investment in Mars expoloration.
If the H-1B and offshoring continue, resulting lower pay for all necessarily creates more incentive for programmers to insert "flaws" and then auction off information about them to get a little more cash on the side, not to mention revenge. Perhaps the existence of open markets for flaws will cause vendors to spend more on development in more than one way. If one does not want the cook spitting in one's food, one does not insult the cook.
have they been testing this thing in UK crop fields? It makes mighty elaborate geometric shapes. And to think people blamed "aliens."
I agree with some of the posts that an alien craft built to navigate an atmosphere and a crew expecting something similar to Earth traveling all the way here and crashing seems unlikely, but traveling through mostly empty space is nothing like traveling through a layer of mixed gases with turbulence, wandering vapor clouds, hurricanes, lightning, hail, etc., and how likely is it that the crew knew exactly what to expect when they arrived or had a choice about entering the atmosphere upon arriving? We live very close to Mars and are still frequently surprised when a new probe arrives there. Besides, what if there've been a million sorties over the last few centuries or millenia. Wasn't it about time for a mechanical failure or for a drunk Klingon to fly a little too low?
But let's assume there really have been no ETs here. Perhaps Lt. Haut took advantage of his former position and had the last laugh on the UFOlogists. Maybe he owed someone a favor and that someone decided to ask for this. Or... he's not dead. Whose body was really buried/cremated/dropped into the sea? If I were leaving my lifelong identity permanently for a new one, I would want to go out in style. How better for him to get his name splattered all over the web? By denying UFOs existed? I think not.
Isn't there a cheaper way to get rid of these things?
What if the vehicle somehow gets pulled out of Earth's gravity and eventually lands on an inhabited planet? Won't the residents be pissed and decide to annihilate Earth to rid the galaxy of free-square roaches?
Many libraries have become locked in to the sometimes severely lacking systems of a particular vendor and have little control over the interface (in a wider sense). Really this speech needs to be made to the leading vendors.
Yes, ALL, and all contractors (including lawyers, lobbyists, PR firms) and board members, too. That way it would be much easier to identify the attendees of secret energy meetings with the VP and secret meetings between HP board members and the press.
The quickest way to stop induced implantation is to make it mandatory for all including CEOs and board members. Just watch how fast such a ban gets passed. Anyone notice the outrage in Congress when the FBI searched William Jefferson's office?
Neutrino detection experiments are typically housed in mines maybe two miles underground in order to prevent cosmic rays from interfering. Perhaps one could pay the experiment sponsors enough to store the film there, maintain freezing temperatures by using their electricity source (a bit more difficult as the ambient temperature is higher that deep underground), and surround the freezer with a barrier to any nearby radioactive sources. Maybe you have a cousin involved in such a project!
The incidence of cosmic particles is related to their energy - higher energy particles are rarer (and harder to stop). Consider a shielding strategy short of a deep salt mine but don't stack the film so that an incoming particle blasts through the entire batch. You can test a stack by developing the top sheet of a short stack. Put a sheet of something you care less about on top. Can you find several freezers in isolated spots in the bottom levels of basement parking garages?
Bow until heads touch... much more sonically conductive path than through a handshake. Substitute head lice for viruses transmitted. Thicker skulls probably work better. As usual, those with the least information share the most.
the National Enquirer report on quantum entanglement? What a bunch of hype. I'm happy about what they accomplished, but it's just another small step of which we'll need many.
Would anyone be annoyed if I said the code can be found without making such a call?
I remember that... it apparently set an example for our cable tv company, which had a channel demonstrating how to connect the cable box...
...we all love shopping at Wal-Mart so much. New Dell-Mart product lines to include the Double-Wide (2.67:1 screen aspect ratio), the RFD (includes special modem suitable for use on party lines and terminals for jumper cable power connections), Distressed (case already has buckshot pellet holes), and of course the American Traditions (deep woods camo case with storage for ammo and lures).
Without any empirical evidence whatsoever, I conjecture that this move will benefit those who buy such papers. Large mills may not show up at the top of search results as often as before, so consumers may be more likely to buy from a larger pool of producers, lessening the chances of getting caught by someone noticing similarities between papers.
After having read some posts about this activity creating jobs, I have to agree. In the short run, it provides work for those in fields for which there is otherwise low demand. Which also tends to encourage teachers of such to assign more papers, providing more work for their community.
Good point, but... this isn't the same world that it was 37 years ago. Spreading music person-to-person is so much easier now, for example; it wasn't even cheap to copy an album to tape back then, cassettes not having taken hold, most 8-track machines not being recorders, and open-reel machines not found so often in teenagers' bedrooms. So even though the Clear Channel et al play the same 13 songs from the same 6 "artists," people are (or at least can easily be) exposed to a much wider range today without any trouble on their part. I just don't see that kind of demand from listeners happening now, though I expect there'll be plenty of shady deals between promoters and station/network personnel.
I wouldn't mind seeing the rate lowered to 1 Mbps down, but add 1 Mbps minimum up as well and make the rates "as tested, minimum" by some consumer advocate-developed standard, not the advertised jokes. I suspect a lot of people with "3 Mbps cable modems" would find better performance with a T1. Furthermore, it doesn't count as broadband if there's a limit on usage. 1Mbps means the same as 2.6 Tb per month!
2 years? For the equivalent of making closed caption files?
I am always reminded of the rules applicable to Commonwealth of Virginia employees when I was one.
An employee could be fired for one instance of a level 3 offense immediately. It took more than one level 2 offense to be fired.
Punching one's boss was a level 2. Sleeping on the job was a level 3.
Sleeping while driving a bus might be worse than punching a boss, but most of the time this seemed upside-down and backwards to me.
Should have said: "Owners of first-generation Intel Macs that used (32-bit only) Core Duo CPUs may be thrilled knowing that Vista will be the last Windows they will be asked to run."
why wasn't Crawford removed from IDG's employ, period?