Be sure to give your vinyl a good cleaning, that often helps tremendously. I just use warm soapy water and a new, clean toothbrush, and try not to get the label wet. Esp the ones you pick up at the Salvation Army store usually need crap cleaned out of the grooves.
People, at least the more picky hi-fi ones, used to buy a record, and 1st thing record it onto open reel tape, file the record away and listen to the tape.
BION I found a 78, yes, a shellack 78rpm disk in my collection that sounds like it's never been played. it's a shame the song basically stinks but the 1st time I put it on it stood out from all the rest for sheer lack of surface noise, and it sounds damn good.
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The age of the nucleus is yet to come - perhaps not in our lifetime either.
Seriously, think about how people get all irrational over ANYTHING with 'nuke' in it, they're in complete denial, so badly you can't even hold a conversation - it's really like the superstitious, demon haunted people of the middle ages church persecuting Galileo for building a telescope, a 'diabolical instrument' for peering into the heavens. Don't think a vast majority of people today are modern thinkers just because they yak on a cell phone. They still want to blame the ruling authorities for bad weather, that's how much superstition and irrational fears still haunt the masses.
Because it's a screwup by the richest folks in the world. They keep telling us they have such a monopoly because the educated consumer market freely choose their products as 'better' than alternatives. We keep insisting they keep their cash cow monopoly because their products are automatically bundled in with each and every Intel PC sold, whether the customer wants it or not, and that just gets the foot in the door so they can lead the gullible by the nose down the primrose path to the rest of their crappy, insecure offerings.
Anyway, hopefully this is yet another incident that tips a few more to 'switch'.
Yeah, just think of all the progress in physics that could have happened long ago if it weren't for the standard kilogram, meter, second...
But seriously
They probably mean the term 'innovation' in the Msft sense of the word: "something used to confuse and frighten customers into buying your version of a product that someone else already makes".
People have been refering to large quantities of software in 'tons' for a long time - they could simply make that an official quantity and derive the other units from that. Being digital, it would be easy to reproduce and measure, and any problems with unauthorized copies would be prevented by the DMCA. I'll nominate a forward looking quantity of 10 DVD's FULL as 'one ton' of software, or 47Gb.
The year: 2045. A grandfather, not long for this world, is handing over the family server to his children.
"Son, this here Petabyte array is the digital recording of my entire life. I've been building it, expanding it, adding to it and migrating data onto it since 1996, when it started out as a single 200Mb disk in a Win95 box running dbaseII. Thankfully it survived those dark days, those hard times. Now, it contains every digital photo I've ever took, every file I've ever downloaded, every mp3, avi, and mov I have seen. The entire family financial history in on there, including the papers from when William almost had to file for chapter 11 protection in 2021. All your baby pictures, all my grandchildren's schoolwork are stored in the hierarchy somewhere, those I've recently reviewed on are fresh on disk, those I haven't seen in 20 years are archived in the tape library. Every plane flight booked, every libraray book checked out, every speeding ticket, it's all there. Now, Son, I give you the key to the tape library and the root password. Promise me you won't let the UPS batteries fail, and check the RAMArray for cell errors periodically. If you do these things diligently, may your life's image merge into the family database tree, and when the time comes you will join me in cyberspace as your children tend the server farm. Bless you.
200 years after people stop raiding other people at sea,
But they haven't stopped - trying to uncouple IP theft from Blackbeard doesn't make it less of a crime than it was before. It is the meaning of the word: Piracy 2. The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material: software piracy.
Hume methodically, scientifically, and ruthlessly tears down the relation between cause and effect that we human beings are almost hard-wired to believe in.
Re:OSI Papers notwithstanding...
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Well, XP was a nice dream for about 1.5 yrs for me - recently it's turned to crap reinstalling every couple of weeks. Wasted 1.5 hrs on it this morning instead of doing something productive and lowering my TCO. Maybe it's the disk drive going flaky, but it bsod'd with a stop code about a month ago, "unmountable disk" - which I was able to mount with Linux ntfs fs module in ro mode w/ no problem and could at least save the data that running the msft 'recovery' process wouldn't touch. After a complete reinstall, recently it started getting a different stop code, hard error on c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll. But this time it could log onto the disk doing a 'recovery' setup, did chkdsk which found a few errors and rebooted ok. Then it did it again last night - exact same bsod, ntdll.dll. This morning I waited thru the cd loading a recovery setup/again/, chkdsk found no problem, chkdsk/p did, rebooted but still craps out. SO, my XP is getting reinstalled AGAIN (3rd strike) onto a different disk, a SCSI UW160 I surplused from work, this time. Same system runs Win98 (bletch, for my 3D glasses, games and older stuff only) and of course Linux with Q3A just fine.
Now here's a monetary system for ya'
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Old British monetary system
pence written called usage and notes
0.25 1/4d farthing before Edward I, this was usually a penny cut into four pieces; farthing coin discontinued in 1956
0.5 1/2d half penny, ha'penny until Edward I this was usually a penny cut in half; ha'penny coin discontinued in 1971
1 1d penny penny coin discontinued in 1971
2 2d two pence, tuppence 2d coin was made briefly in the 18th century
3 3d three pence, threpney bit 3d coin was silver until 1944, then brass; discontinued in 1971
3.75 33/4d thruppence three farthing
4 4d groats coin made for large part of 19th century
4.5 41/2d fourpence-ha'penny
6 6d sixpence, tanner 6d coin discontinued in 1971
12 1s shilling, bob shilling coin discontinued in 1971
24 2/- or 2s two shillings, two bob, florin florin is 1/10 of a ppound, issued in 1849 to begin transition to decimal money system; florin coin discontinued in 1971
30 2s6d half crown coin discontinued in 1971
48 4s double florin coin made briefly in late 19th century
57 4s9d dollar re-struck Spanish or American dollar, worth 4s9d because of their weight in silver
60 5s crown
65 5s3d quarter guinea coin made up until George III
100 8/4 or 8s4d eight and fourpence
120 10s half sovereign gold coin
130 10s6d half-guinea coin made up until George III
240 £1 pound, sovereign, quid "quid" for "pound" in use 1688-present. "sovereign" for "coin valued at £1" in use 1817-present.
260 21s or £1 1s guinea "guinea" for "coin valued at 21s" in use 1717-1832. Used in auctions (buyer pays 7 guineas, seller gets 7 pounds, auctioneer keeps the difference of 7 shillings)
286 22s6d sovereign (obs.) "sovereign" for "coin valued at 22s" in use 1503-1660
If it's done by an 'official' security agency with govt. approval then it's ethical, if it's done by a netizen vigilante group then it's not ethical - just like if a fireman pulls a victim from a burning building s/he's a hero, but if John Q. Passerby tries to help he's arrested for tresspassing.
Unfortunately, not everyone has upgraded beyond win98 - bletch, my company still has lots of them. You could go so far as to say they (mgmt) were so disappointed by the quality, stability and security of that line that they just don't want to invest much more $$$ into all that 'pc crap', at least not untill they' just have to be replaced. So, the line around here is still "Reboot cures 99% of all your computer problems".
The "always willing to computerize things altho we don't fullt understand it" accounting dept where I work recently installed this thing where you 'clock in' and out in a computer app window. Since I had to put it on a terminal server for a remote building, and since I can access TS from home - I can punch the time clock from home now. Sweet.
FPS desperately need another element of realism: the buildings should get shot up as well as the players.
I've been playing Doom, Quake for years and during a 3D session of QII the other day it hit me: you can shoot the biggest gun at the littlest thing and it just bounces off. The plasma gun at least leaves burn marks in the wall but they quickly 'heal' - seems like a really awesome addition to the game would be walls that collapse when a stray rockets hits them - the game world should start out like a well kept castle or building, but as the game goes on it slowly turns into rubble as it gets shot up.
Once you reduce an artform to some kind of 'formula' you no longer get creativity, just doggerel. If this guy actually produced films you could probably say of them, if you've seen one you've seen them all. Everyone know that pundits merely classify, catalog and explain. It's the job of the true artist to create something that breaks that mold, pushes the envelope and makes something actually new.
When you come to it, very little is actually 'new'. I think that's why our fashion leaders keep the masses focused on the 'now' - what's new, supposedly improved, etc., instead of what is 'good'. Not only does it keep them distracted from the fact that 99% of most new stuff is something from a generation or more ago, repackaged in a modern genre or idiom and presented as something 'new', when it's merely 'forgotten', but it keeps otherwise unemployable production line artists on the gravy train.
Interestingly I was just playing with old media this last rainy weekend, and a 1983 copy of MultiMate (Word processor) run just fine on an 180Mhz pentium once I put the 1.2Mb 5.25" floppy disk in. It had no idea of the 'fixed' disk, kept asking to insert disk for drive b: etc.
I'd love to find: PL/M-8 (pl/m for the 8008) and a SCELBAL book.
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Instead of a specific figure, just call it "For A Limited Fee" and then keep increasing it every few years.
Be sure to give your vinyl a good cleaning, that often helps tremendously. I just use warm soapy water and a new, clean toothbrush, and try not to get the label wet. Esp the ones you pick up at the Salvation Army store usually need crap cleaned out of the grooves.
People, at least the more picky hi-fi ones, used to buy a record, and 1st thing record it onto open reel tape, file the record away and listen to the tape.
BION I found a 78, yes, a shellack 78rpm disk in my collection that sounds like it's never been played. it's a shame the song basically stinks but the 1st time I put it on it stood out from all the rest for sheer lack of surface noise, and it sounds damn good.
Actually, it's not the folks but the microbes that live in them.
Funny quote from the above link:
In human hospitals, there have been many explosions in the colon triggered by use of electrocautery performed through a proctosigmoidoscope.
So be careful out there.
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3,000 megawatt
Why don't power engineers use something like 3 gigawatt?
The age of the nucleus is yet to come - perhaps not in our lifetime either.
Seriously, think about how people get all irrational over ANYTHING with 'nuke' in it, they're in complete denial, so badly you can't even hold a conversation - it's really like the superstitious, demon haunted people of the middle ages church persecuting Galileo for building a telescope, a 'diabolical instrument' for peering into the heavens. Don't think a vast majority of people today are modern thinkers just because they yak on a cell phone. They still want to blame the ruling authorities for bad weather, that's how much superstition and irrational fears still haunt the masses.
Because it's a screwup by the richest folks in the world. They keep telling us they have such a monopoly because the educated consumer market freely choose their products as 'better' than alternatives. We keep insisting they keep their cash cow monopoly because their products are automatically bundled in with each and every Intel PC sold, whether the customer wants it or not, and that just gets the foot in the door so they can lead the gullible by the nose down the primrose path to the rest of their crappy, insecure offerings.
Anyway, hopefully this is yet another incident that tips a few more to 'switch'.
Yeah, just think of all the progress in physics that could have happened long ago if it weren't for the standard kilogram, meter, second...
But seriously
They probably mean the term 'innovation' in the Msft sense of the word: "something used to confuse and frighten customers into buying your version of a product that someone else already makes".
People have been refering to large quantities of software in 'tons' for a long time - they could simply make that an official quantity and derive the other units from that. Being digital, it would be easy to reproduce and measure, and any problems with unauthorized copies would be prevented by the DMCA. I'll nominate a forward looking quantity of 10 DVD's FULL as 'one ton' of software, or 47Gb.
The year: 2045. A grandfather, not long for this world, is handing over the family server to his children.
"Son, this here Petabyte array is the digital recording of my entire life. I've been building it, expanding it, adding to it and migrating data onto it since 1996, when it started out as a single 200Mb disk in a Win95 box running dbaseII. Thankfully it survived those dark days, those hard times. Now, it contains every digital photo I've ever took, every file I've ever downloaded, every mp3, avi, and mov I have seen. The entire family financial history in on there, including the papers from when William almost had to file for chapter 11 protection in 2021. All your baby pictures, all my grandchildren's schoolwork are stored in the hierarchy somewhere, those I've recently reviewed on are fresh on disk, those I haven't seen in 20 years are archived in the tape library. Every plane flight booked, every libraray book checked out, every speeding ticket, it's all there. Now, Son, I give you the key to the tape library and the root password. Promise me you won't let the UPS batteries fail, and check the RAMArray for cell errors periodically. If you do these things diligently, may your life's image merge into the family database tree, and when the time comes you will join me in cyberspace as your children tend the server farm. Bless you.
200 years after people stop raiding other people at sea,
But they haven't stopped - trying to uncouple IP theft from Blackbeard doesn't make it less of a crime than it was before. It is the meaning of the word: Piracy 2. The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material: software piracy.
Hume methodically, scientifically, and ruthlessly tears down the relation between cause and effect that we human beings are almost hard-wired to believe in.
Oh boy, do I wish MORE people would understand that!! You can see it in operation ALL THE TIME dealing with computer users: something Bad© happens, and they link it with all kinds of weird things they just happened to be doing, especially the upper lvl mgmt that reads PCWorld once a month and fancies themselves 'experts' - "The computer went blue just when I tried to save the file on the server, I think the server has a problem", etc etc etc.
Well, XP was a nice dream for about 1.5 yrs for me - recently it's turned to crap reinstalling every couple of weeks. Wasted 1.5 hrs on it this morning instead of doing something productive and lowering my TCO. Maybe it's the disk drive going flaky, but it bsod'd with a stop code about a month ago, "unmountable disk" - which I was able to mount with Linux ntfs fs module in ro mode w/ no problem and could at least save the data that running the msft 'recovery' process wouldn't touch. After a complete reinstall, recently it started getting a different stop code, hard error on c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll. But this time it could log onto the disk doing a 'recovery' setup, did chkdsk which found a few errors and rebooted ok. Then it did it again last night - exact same bsod, ntdll.dll. This morning I waited thru the cd loading a recovery setup /again/, chkdsk found no problem, chkdsk /p did, rebooted but still craps out. SO, my XP is getting reinstalled AGAIN (3rd strike) onto a different disk, a SCSI UW160 I surplused from work, this time. Same system runs Win98 (bletch, for my 3D glasses, games and older stuff only) and of course Linux with Q3A just fine.
Old British monetary system
pence written called usage and notes
0.25 1/4d farthing before Edward I, this was usually a penny cut into four pieces; farthing coin discontinued in 1956
0.5 1/2d half penny, ha'penny until Edward I this was usually a penny cut in half; ha'penny coin discontinued in 1971
1 1d penny penny coin discontinued in 1971
2 2d two pence, tuppence 2d coin was made briefly in the 18th century
3 3d three pence, threpney bit 3d coin was silver until 1944, then brass; discontinued in 1971
3.75 33/4d thruppence three farthing
4 4d groats coin made for large part of 19th century
4.5 41/2d fourpence-ha'penny
6 6d sixpence, tanner 6d coin discontinued in 1971
12 1s shilling, bob shilling coin discontinued in 1971
24 2/- or 2s two shillings, two bob, florin florin is 1/10 of a ppound, issued in 1849 to begin transition to decimal money system; florin coin discontinued in 1971
30 2s6d half crown coin discontinued in 1971
48 4s double florin coin made briefly in late 19th century
57 4s9d dollar re-struck Spanish or American dollar, worth 4s9d because of their weight in silver
60 5s crown
65 5s3d quarter guinea coin made up until George III
100 8/4 or 8s4d eight and fourpence
120 10s half sovereign gold coin
130 10s6d half-guinea coin made up until George III
240 £1 pound, sovereign, quid "quid" for "pound" in use 1688-present. "sovereign" for "coin valued at £1" in use 1817-present.
260 21s or £1 1s guinea "guinea" for "coin valued at 21s" in use 1717-1832. Used in auctions (buyer pays 7 guineas, seller gets 7 pounds, auctioneer keeps the difference of 7 shillings)
286 22s6d sovereign (obs.) "sovereign" for "coin valued at 22s" in use 1503-1660
480 £2 two pounds
520 £2 2s double guinea
1200 £5 five pounds
If it's done by an 'official' security agency with govt. approval then it's ethical, if it's done by a netizen vigilante group then it's not ethical - just like if a fireman pulls a victim from a burning building s/he's a hero, but if John Q. Passerby tries to help he's arrested for tresspassing.
Unfortunately, not everyone has upgraded beyond win98 - bletch, my company still has lots of them. You could go so far as to say they (mgmt) were so disappointed by the quality, stability and security of that line that they just don't want to invest much more $$$ into all that 'pc crap', at least not untill they' just have to be replaced. So, the line around here is still "Reboot cures 99% of all your computer problems".
The "always willing to computerize things altho we don't fullt understand it" accounting dept where I work recently installed this thing where you 'clock in' and out in a computer app window. Since I had to put it on a terminal server for a remote building, and since I can access TS from home - I can punch the time clock from home now. Sweet.
FPS desperately need another element of realism: the buildings should get shot up as well as the players.
I've been playing Doom, Quake for years and during a 3D session of QII the other day it hit me: you can shoot the biggest gun at the littlest thing and it just bounces off. The plasma gun at least leaves burn marks in the wall but they quickly 'heal' - seems like a really awesome addition to the game would be walls that collapse when a stray rockets hits them - the game world should start out like a well kept castle or building, but as the game goes on it slowly turns into rubble as it gets shot up.
Just a thought.
Once you reduce an artform to some kind of 'formula' you no longer get creativity, just doggerel. If this guy actually produced films you could probably say of them, if you've seen one you've seen them all. Everyone know that pundits merely classify, catalog and explain. It's the job of the true artist to create something that breaks that mold, pushes the envelope and makes something actually new.
When you come to it, very little is actually 'new'. I think that's why our fashion leaders keep the masses focused on the 'now' - what's new, supposedly improved, etc., instead of what is 'good'. Not only does it keep them distracted from the fact that 99% of most new stuff is something from a generation or more ago, repackaged in a modern genre or idiom and presented as something 'new', when it's merely 'forgotten', but it keeps otherwise unemployable production line artists on the gravy train.
here's a web page that's as easy to use as a PC.
Interestingly I was just playing with old media this last rainy weekend, and a 1983 copy of MultiMate (Word processor) run just fine on an 180Mhz pentium once I put the 1.2Mb 5.25" floppy disk in. It had no idea of the 'fixed' disk, kept asking to insert disk for drive b: etc.
I'd love to find: PL/M-8 (pl/m for the 8008) and a SCELBAL book.
the atlantic, does the US own that now ?
Being international waters, I guess it belongs to the country with the biggest navy.
THIS
Some Msft genie-ass simply plagurized This