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Nophest in Atlanta - Music and Arts festival 4/18 - 4/20 - Free Beer! |
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| Topic: Recreation |
10:22 am EDT, Apr 16, 2008 |
Bands, DJs, performers, bike races, workshops, art, movies, free beer! Nophest is this weekend in Atlanta. @ Parkgrounds, 142 Flat Shoals Ave SE, Atlanta, GA A metric ton of arts and music. I'll be there with fellow Nashville electronic music operative Logickal. Hope to see/meet some of you out there! Feel free to forward on to anyone I missed, I lose track of how many Memestreams folks live in Atlanta. More info at www.nophest.com Nophest in Atlanta - Music and Arts festival 4/18 - 4/20 - Free Beer! |
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New pro-sumer Casio camera does 60fps burst, HD video, 300 to 1200fps high speed video |
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| Topic: Technology |
2:06 pm EDT, Apr 3, 2008 |
A typical shirt-pocket camera, if you’re lucky, can snap one photo a second in “burst mode.” A $1,000 semipro model will get you 3 shots a second. But this Casio can snap — are you ready for this? — 60 photos a second. These are not movies; these are full six-megapixel photographs, each with enough resolution for a poster-size print. ... The F1’s second trick is that business about photographing a moment after the fact. In pre-record mode, you half-press the shutter button when you’re awaiting an event that’s unpredictable: a breaching whale, a geyser’s eruption or a 5-year-old batter connecting with the ball. The camera silently, repeatedly records 60 shots a second, immediately discarding the old to make room for the new. When you finally press the shutter button fully, the camera simply preserves the most recent shots, thus effectively photographing an event that, technically speaking, you missed. ... Most stunning of all, this camera can film at outrageously high frame rates: 300, 600, or even 1,200 frames a second. The result is incredibly smooth, extremely slow motion, like something in an Imax nature movie. No still camera has ever offered anything like this feature. * * * I've been lusting after this thing ever since I saw the news from CES. Looks like it has a US release date now, according to this article, in two weeks. Think I'll wait until the second generation tech. but this is a pretty exciting development in the consumer space. New pro-sumer Casio camera does 60fps burst, HD video, 300 to 1200fps high speed video |
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RE: Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller than MP3 |
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| Topic: High Tech Developments |
1:51 pm EDT, Apr 3, 2008 |
possibly noteworthy wrote: Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, a 20-second clarinet solo, is encoded in less than a single kilobyte, and is made possible by two innovations: recreating in a computer both the real-world physics of a clarinet and the physics of a clarinet player. The achievement, announced today at the International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing held in Las Vegas, is not yet a flawless reproduction of an original performance, but the researchers say it's getting close.
Wow, Jonathan Sherwood was REALLY stretching for a good headline hook. This has nothing to do with compression! Virtual instruments are nothing new. I think it's pretty cool how they're analyzing specific instruments and trying to reverse engineer the technicalities of how something was performed though, that's the real story here. RE: Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller than MP3 |
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RE: Amsterdam currency exchangers won't take US dollars - Boing Boing |
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| Topic: Miscellaneous |
11:08 am EDT, Mar 20, 2008 |
k wrote: Currency exchange outlets in Amsterdam won't to trade US dollars for euros because the value of the dollar is dropping so quickly they're afraid of losing money, even with the outlandish vigorish the sleazy little joints usually tack on.
We are so fucked.
This is kind of alarmist. At the moment we are actually a little better against the pound right now than we were a few weeks ago. So what if some private enterprises in Amsterdam won't accept the dollar? I don't necessarily have to accept them either, no one is forcing me to. Read someone at the IMF saying they believe the Euro is overvalued recently. It's all relative. I am concerned that we have the Fed pumping up our money supply unchecked and without M3 stats we can't really tell the extent, but the Amsterdam thing doesn't really phase me. RE: Amsterdam currency exchangers won't take US dollars - Boing Boing |
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RE: Misadventures in logical reasoning |
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11:35 am EDT, Mar 13, 2008 |
Dagmar wrote:
No, this is the passage you should have quoted: Governors who hire adult prostitutes must resign immediately lest the public trust be forever sullied. Presidents who break the law by spying on Americans with no warrants, who torture people in violation of multiple treaties and statutes, who start hideously destructive wars based on false pretenses, who repeatedly proclaim the power to ignore laws, and who imprison people -- including Americans -- with no charges of any kind, should remain in office for as long as they want. Anyone who suggests otherwise is an irresponsible, shrill, partisan radical.
Heh, I was about to quote this with some commentary. You've already done the quoting for me so here goes my comment: It's ironic that in an article titled 'Misadventures in Logical Reasoning' they exercised the Red Herring fallacy. RE: Misadventures in logical reasoning |
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| Topic: Politics and Law |
1:14 am EST, Mar 8, 2008 |
Decius wrote:
To be perfectly honest with you, I think this is bunch of fucking bullshit.
Except for the computer chick at 0:33. Mmmm... Love that 70's getup. Can the phone companies do wrong? Yes, of course they can. Blocking or degrading service to existing customers who have already agreed to pay for "Internet" access should not be legal.
As best I understand that is the main thrust of the Net Neutrality argument. Everything else you described seems to be superfluous to the issue. RE: Save the Internet! |
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RE: Latest NIN Album released under a CC license |
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| Topic: Arts |
10:23 pm EST, Mar 4, 2008 |
Decius wrote: Other information:
Ghosts I-IV is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. An exciting partnership and experience regarding this release will be announced soon.
Wow. I just learned about Still last weekend, and I haven't listened to the remixes of Year Zero, and now they make 36 new tracks available for 5 bucks! Looks like I've got a lot of listening to do!
It's really good. I was jamming the FLACs today on my headphones at work, made it through 20 of 36, #19 being my favorite thus far. I dig this concept. Trent is doing it right 100%. I ordered the Deluxe set to support the cause and get the nice art, vinyl, blu-ray, the prints, and the WAV source files of the multitrack session. Really not a bad deal, it's limited to 2500 copies too so it will at least retain its value if not go up. RE: Latest NIN Album released under a CC license |
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| Topic: Arts |
11:24 am EST, Feb 28, 2008 |
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.
Brilliant! garfield minus garfield |
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RE: New hope for allergy/asthma sufferers |
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| Topic: Miscellaneous |
11:46 am EST, Feb 26, 2008 |
Nanochick wrote:
The research team, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, targeted the p110delta molecule and found that it was possible to interfere in the allergic reaction before symptoms occur, but without shutting down the immune system in mice. It means scientists are a step closer to developing a new class of allergy and asthma drugs. At present treatments focus on alleviating the symptoms. Lead author Dr Khaled Ali said: "p110delta was first identified in 1997 and, although we had our suspicions, at that time we had no idea how important it would turn out to be. This work shows that we have the potential to take control of the body's reaction to an allergen and prevent symptoms from occurring."
That will be nice. RE: New hope for allergy/asthma sufferers |
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