The only thing "incredible" about that "Stephen Colbert impersonation" is how bad it was.
HAH!
Thank You!- that's exactly what I wanted to say; glad that it got addressed right at the top. I'm even venturing to say that -- being this was broadcast on a 24 hour news channel, rather than a 24 hour comedy channel -- his saying "I didn't even need to read the article" is just fucking scary...
Though somewhat less frightening than when the highest-appointed officials of the most powerful nation in the world start proudly proclaiming they don't read the papers... sigh.
And even if some (or many) of those users ultimately decide not to use os x in the long run (hey, it can -- theoretically -- happen!) apple has still made a hardware sale... I mean, even Linus runs Linux on Apple hardware, coz it's a nice looking piece of kit.;-)
Let's not forget that there's also editing performed to get an audio sample to be appropriate for usage as a ringtone... Most songs don't start at the chorus, or any other particularly interesting point, so you'll need to fire up an application like Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ to edit it down to a usable ringtone. You'd also need to get a part of the song with a good amount of treble, so you can actually potentially hear the bloody thing ring, if say you're outdoors or in a public space such as a store. It'd also be a good idea to downsample the audio, since the speaker used for the ringtone doesn't really sound much different at 196 or 32.
Point is, it's real work to get a really good ringtone out of your favorite MP3 track.
I've created five ringtones for my Nokia 6620, and it's damned fun. Each ringtone takes me about 20 mins to sort out, though... but I'd never buy any ringtones online because:
I have more interesting music than that top 40 horse shit available as downloadable ringtones, and
because I actually enjoy doing it.
That said, I could sure as hell understand why someone might want to forego the process of editing down their MP3s and just shell out a couple bucks for a professionally edited ring-tone... anyhow, I feel like this is particularly true of anyone who actually likes all that top-40 horse shit available for download...;-)
Whole music tracks, though... that's just absurd when they're available for cheaper elsewhere. That said, however, let's see what prices the farken music industry tries to push down consumers' throats with that variable pricing scheme they've forced iTMS to adopt; in my cynical mind, I see the potential of $2.49 sounding like quite a deal in three years' time.....:-)
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I've been a relatively long-time listener of Coast to Coast (the show is no longer named after Art Bell), and I've heard about a dozen different guests speak on the topic of what HAARP "actually is"... and while your explanation is more than possible, it doesn't seem to hold water particularly better than a number of other explanations I've heard.
I'd remind you that there is no complete official explanation to what HAARP does (it is after all largely classified), so you can really just stop thinking you know "why the Pentagon is interested in this thing."
Point is, we don't know.
Now, since it's "kookery," you might get a kick out of discovering that there is a UN treaty -- ratified in the 1977 -- that makes specific stipulations about forbidding the use of weather modification tactics (and earthquake weaponry) in international warfare. The treaty is called "Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques."
Not to be overly sarcastic about this, but notice the absolute lack of any international treaties regarding the uses of teleport chambers, portals, and care bear stares.... It's a serious treaty.
I would like to follow this up with Senate Bill S. 517, introduced by Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX] in March of 2005. Funny that HAARP's suddenly getting larger in the very same year, isn't it?
While weather modification has yet to be completely openly demonstrated, there *is* plenty of public record that weather modification isn't exactly seen as a joke by people spending our tax dollars.
On a related note, Nikola Tesla accidentally caused an earthquake in New York, experimenting with his Tesla Coil (it's why he had to shut that lab down and move it out of the city). Before I go too far with this, let me tie up the Tesla tangent by noting that anyone seriously thinking about what HAARP could be would find more detailed information about Tesla's work very, very interesting; there is more than a little that HAARP and the Tesla coil have in common. (Tesla himself seemed sure he would be able to manipulate all sorts of natural phenomena, but that's another story.)
Quickly about the HAARP ideas you've dismissed:
1 - Mind Control. This idea comes from the fact that ELF (extremely low frequency) waves have allegedly been found to make humans more complacent, or agreeable. I have no specific evidence to point anyone to confirming or denying this. Though I will say that you all have a Mind Control device in your living room called a "television" that operates at 60 Hz and sends you consumeristic and/or propagandistic messages all the time... I don't see how HAARP can be more effective, but I suppose my point is you never know!;-)
2 - Weather Modification. This is the most plausible of the three ideas you suggested as being silly. I don't see why not, really.
3 - Ray Gun. Never heard that one before from any guests; though more than one caller to the show has suggested it. Also, I just started listening 3 years ago, so there's plenty of past material I've missed.
Ultimately, I'm not trying to convince you (or anyone) about what HAARP *is*. Rather my point here is that *you just don't know* what it is, and there's *plenty* of room for speculation about it, including the speculation that the "Art Bell posters" have to share.
As parting thoughts, I'd like to remind readers that there weren't aviation laws until the airplane was invented.
Blah, blah, Oracle is hard. Get a DBA and a real developer. This is what they're paid for.
Oh, that's right, you want us to get rid of the people with a clue, because you have to pay them. Brilliant! So I guess we'll call you at 3am on Sunday morning when our servers crashed, we have to restore from rollback segments on our failover cluster... oh wait. MySQL can't do that.
Please understand I have the utmost regard for craftsmanship and specialized professionals... in part because I am a specialized professional with a craft, myself. DBAs... in-house programmers... honestly, these professionals are very, very expensive. If using MySQL means I can save (between the DBA and programmer) well over $100,000 a year, I'm afraid market realities make my choice an easy one.
It might help to think of the matter in non-IT terms: some companies have lawyers on payroll; the majority of companies don't. The same is true of DBAs and Programmers... these are tasks that are largely outsourced to consultants.
Also consider that advancements in technology (including software) generally wind up obsolescing (to varying degrees) the roles of specialized professionals.
Where's your neighborhood printer? In the corner, at the other end of a USB cable. In industrial design shops, 3D printers are starting to do the same to sculptors.
Returning to the actual software in quesiton, MySQL is nice. It's not amazing, but it doesn't by any means suck. If using MySQL can save you some bucks, time, and effort, go for it. Postgres is fine, too... especially now that VACUUM() operations are configurable in the db's conf files... still waiting for it to be 99.999% transparent issue, however (eg, when someone that uses postgres might actually find themselves asking at an odd moment, "vacuum? what's that good for?")... it'll be for postgres' own good, I assure you!
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HAH!
Thank You!- that's exactly what I wanted to say; glad that it got addressed right at the top. I'm even venturing to say that -- being this was broadcast on a 24 hour news channel, rather than a 24 hour comedy channel -- his saying "I didn't even need to read the article" is just fucking scary...
Though somewhat less frightening than when the highest-appointed officials of the most powerful nation in the world start proudly proclaiming they don't read the papers... sigh.
And even if some (or many) of those users ultimately decide not to use os x in the long run (hey, it can -- theoretically -- happen!) apple has still made a hardware sale... I mean, even Linus runs Linux on Apple hardware, coz it's a nice looking piece of kit. ;-)
Let's not forget that there's also editing performed to get an audio sample to be appropriate for usage as a ringtone... Most songs don't start at the chorus, or any other particularly interesting point, so you'll need to fire up an application like Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ to edit it down to a usable ringtone. You'd also need to get a part of the song with a good amount of treble, so you can actually potentially hear the bloody thing ring, if say you're outdoors or in a public space such as a store. It'd also be a good idea to downsample the audio, since the speaker used for the ringtone doesn't really sound much different at 196 or 32.
Point is, it's real work to get a really good ringtone out of your favorite MP3 track.
I've created five ringtones for my Nokia 6620, and it's damned fun. Each ringtone takes me about 20 mins to sort out, though... but I'd never buy any ringtones online because:
That said, I could sure as hell understand why someone might want to forego the process of editing down their MP3s and just shell out a couple bucks for a professionally edited ring-tone... anyhow, I feel like this is particularly true of anyone who actually likes all that top-40 horse shit available for download... ;-)
Whole music tracks, though... that's just absurd when they're available for cheaper elsewhere. That said, however, let's see what prices the farken music industry tries to push down consumers' throats with that variable pricing scheme they've forced iTMS to adopt; in my cynical mind, I see the potential of $2.49 sounding like quite a deal in three years' time..... :-)
I've been a relatively long-time listener of Coast to Coast (the show is no longer named after Art Bell), and I've heard about a dozen different guests speak on the topic of what HAARP "actually is"... and while your explanation is more than possible, it doesn't seem to hold water particularly better than a number of other explanations I've heard.
;-)
I'd remind you that there is no complete official explanation to what HAARP does (it is after all largely classified), so you can really just stop thinking you know "why the Pentagon is interested in this thing."
Point is, we don't know.
Now, since it's "kookery," you might get a kick out of discovering that there is a UN treaty -- ratified in the 1977 -- that makes specific stipulations about forbidding the use of weather modification tactics (and earthquake weaponry) in international warfare. The treaty is called "Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques."
Find the whole treaty text here:
+ http://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/4783.htm
Not to be overly sarcastic about this, but notice the absolute lack of any international treaties regarding the uses of teleport chambers, portals, and care bear stares.... It's a serious treaty.
I would like to follow this up with Senate Bill S. 517, introduced by Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX] in March of 2005. Funny that HAARP's suddenly getting larger in the very same year, isn't it?
While weather modification has yet to be completely openly demonstrated, there *is* plenty of public record that weather modification isn't exactly seen as a joke by people spending our tax dollars.
On a related note, Nikola Tesla accidentally caused an earthquake in New York, experimenting with his Tesla Coil (it's why he had to shut that lab down and move it out of the city). Before I go too far with this, let me tie up the Tesla tangent by noting that anyone seriously thinking about what HAARP could be would find more detailed information about Tesla's work very, very interesting; there is more than a little that HAARP and the Tesla coil have in common. (Tesla himself seemed sure he would be able to manipulate all sorts of natural phenomena, but that's another story.)
Quickly about the HAARP ideas you've dismissed:
1 - Mind Control. This idea comes from the fact that ELF (extremely low frequency) waves have allegedly been found to make humans more complacent, or agreeable. I have no specific evidence to point anyone to confirming or denying this. Though I will say that you all have a Mind Control device in your living room called a "television" that operates at 60 Hz and sends you consumeristic and/or propagandistic messages all the time... I don't see how HAARP can be more effective, but I suppose my point is you never know!
2 - Weather Modification. This is the most plausible of the three ideas you suggested as being silly. I don't see why not, really.
3 - Ray Gun. Never heard that one before from any guests; though more than one caller to the show has suggested it. Also, I just started listening 3 years ago, so there's plenty of past material I've missed.
Ultimately, I'm not trying to convince you (or anyone) about what HAARP *is*. Rather my point here is that *you just don't know* what it is, and there's *plenty* of room for speculation about it, including the speculation that the "Art Bell posters" have to share.
As parting thoughts, I'd like to remind readers that there weren't aviation laws until the airplane was invented.
... by Joseph Goebbels [Wikipedia link]. He'd be very proud of the masterful progress made atop his work by Murdoch's little propaganda machine.
Please understand I have the utmost regard for craftsmanship and specialized professionals... in part because I am a specialized professional with a craft, myself. DBAs... in-house programmers... honestly, these professionals are very, very expensive. If using MySQL means I can save (between the DBA and programmer) well over $100,000 a year, I'm afraid market realities make my choice an easy one.
It might help to think of the matter in non-IT terms: some companies have lawyers on payroll; the majority of companies don't. The same is true of DBAs and Programmers... these are tasks that are largely outsourced to consultants.
Also consider that advancements in technology (including software) generally wind up obsolescing (to varying degrees) the roles of specialized professionals.
Where's your neighborhood printer? In the corner, at the other end of a USB cable. In industrial design shops, 3D printers are starting to do the same to sculptors.
Returning to the actual software in quesiton, MySQL is nice. It's not amazing, but it doesn't by any means suck. If using MySQL can save you some bucks, time, and effort, go for it. Postgres is fine, too... especially now that VACUUM() operations are configurable in the db's conf files... still waiting for it to be 99.999% transparent issue, however (eg, when someone that uses postgres might actually find themselves asking at an odd moment, "vacuum? what's that good for?")... it'll be for postgres' own good, I assure you!