Saturday, April 07, 2001

would you want a say if you were offered it, and if
you were, what would you?

-"nuke canada! 1400 megatons straight to the dome piece."

that would be exactly what i would say.

full moon tonight....go outside for a walk...we have mist here. house
groove makes you move.......
posted by john , 5:35 AM Þ 
Friday, April 06, 2001

XPH

2000 13375
2020 12207
2040 11155
posted by captain davros , 10:44 PM Þ 

americans don't 'know' who they're voting for any more than any other citizens in any other country do........
americans, as we in the uk are increasingly doing, vote for the party that releases the most balloons at their
'conferences'......if the politicians really were to confer with their public at these rallies the vast majority
of those who attend would fall asleep / exit quietly during the coffee break / not attend in the first place, because
they don't want to think about the minutiae of governing : they / we / i / you want to believe that when we wake
up, when the new daddies are drafted in, all will be great and sweet and smelling like daffodills

great, let's vote for people who fart, i couldn't agree more, but please don't suggest that those who request our
vote on the strength that they tell us they fart are worthy of it for that fact alone : )

would you want a say if you were offered it, and if you were, what would you ?

I wonder if americans can take the truth of their political machine acting like a spoilt kid whose neighbour won't give
back their ball ..... I wonder if they can see the funny side of seeing all that bravado & swagger wither slightly as they
realise that bully-boy tactics don't necessarily work on an opponent that's willing and possibly a little able to say
' fuck you - make me give it back, asshole '
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 9:12 PM Þ 
Thursday, April 05, 2001



perhaps next time the mob won't
be the tool.





posted by john , 3:08 AM Þ 
Tuesday, April 03, 2001

Nuts and bolts


One of Extreme's key tenants requires programmers to release a nuts-and-bolts version of its product to the customer first and then continue to build additional features afterward. This immediately remedies the time-to-market problem, and customers wind up with a less buggy product to which features are added as the customer demands.

Extreme also requires programmers to maintain a direct relationship with the customer. Rather than packing a product with thousands of features, the customer can specify exactly what they want, and the programmer can focus on perfecting a few features.

Programmers must write tests for their own programs before they begin coding. These tests are used instead of an independent "quality assurance," or testing, group--a technique that will save time, according to Extreme's advocates.

During the coding process, programmers also practice a technique called re-factoring. This involves constantly working to simplify the code. By keeping code clean and defining things only once, programmers reduce the number of errors that must be addressed later.

For code writers themselves, one of the most striking differences is Extreme's requirement of pair programming. Once they switch to pairs, many programmers say they prefer it because the team approach can dramatically boost productivity and quality. Extreme also mandates communal ownership of all code.

http://www.xprogramming.com/what_is_xp.htm
posted by Irdial , 2:55 PM Þ 

http://inpaku.www.ntt-east.co.jp/main/english/
posted by Akihiro , 10:05 AM Þ 

Sound files and new pictures for the drone machine are
here - scroll down
when you get to the page.
posted by captain davros , 9:37 AM Þ 

basically i my opinion gwb is a tool. a puppet if you will
and for that matter they all have been and probably always
will be. but it does matter who they are the puppets for.
and this stat:"84 have been arrested for drunk driving in
the last year" out of 535 is pretty poor #'s let face it. if
anything most people in congress and in the upper levels
of the us gov are 'insulated monks'. they just seem
worldly as they have had to put up with each others bullshit
for years. it's all a big f#ing joke man, come on. we have no
real say and will never have it again unless people decide on
their own that they are ready to release control which
will not happen. i am not advocating giving up on trying to
get things done but it's quite futile and getting more so daily.
this is the truth anyway you would choose to slice it i'm sorry
to say. yes yes we are at the top of the game(us) but at
what cost? guts?????? perhaps the ones on the sidewalks
of our bloody past and future. we are guily of genocide even
nazi germany can't claim the success we have achieved in
this dept. are we the only country to have such a past? ov
course not but it's easy to forget when your drinking a f&*ing
pepsi.

clinton, was he better?? of course not it's all a sham. that the
fucking truth! nike/sprite/n' sync is there any difference? cisco
will be the death of us all.......perhaps that's taking it too far.
or is it? we can crawl into our little cyber worlds of our own
making or open the windows and let the fresh air in!!!!!!!
posted by john , 12:30 AM Þ 
Monday, April 02, 2001
posted by Irdial , 1:34 PM Þ 

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500
employees and has the following statistics:

*29 have been accused of spousal abuse
*7 have been arrested for fraud
*19 have been accused of writing bad checks
*117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at leased 2 businesses
*3 have done time for assault
*71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
*14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
*8 have been arrested for shoplifting
*21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
*84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess which organization this is?

Give up yet?

It's the 535 members of the United States Congress.
The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year
designed to keep the rest of us in line.

Whatever.



This is doing the rounds amongst the "office drones with email circuits".

What it implies is that congressmen with the above attributes are not fit to rule because they have made these "mistakes", and it further implies that only people with "clean records" should rule.

I beg to differ.

These people are EXACTLY the sort of people that we need to rule; people with REAL EXPERIENCE of REAL LIFE, not insulated monks who know nothing about the way that everybody lives.

Its great that GWB has snorted coke, maybe he will have a more rational approach to drug regulation. "Slick Willy"; I'd rather have a man with balls in charge than some vile holier than thou abstainer; he even had the guts to apologies for the MK ULTRA atrocities. What other president had the guts to even admit that it went on, much less apologize.

Life is dirty. Life has rough edges. Congressmen have to deal with all of the most vile manipulative elements in the USA, and in order to repel these evil men, they have to have direct knowledge of "evil" and all of the bad practices that the "normal" (those who are not holding high office) folk get up to.

In any case all of this is moot; in the USA, people elect their representatives, and all of this stuff is known BEFORE they are elected to public office. The above list only shows that America has got it right; they elect their peers to run their government, not empty shells or false "role models" who are living double lives. Americans can take the truth. They are miles ahead of every other country on earth.

But you knew that...
posted by Irdial , 1:23 PM Þ 

Now THAT looks interesting; this really is the way forward; differentiation through taking responsibility for your tools; as soon as you use software thats publicly available, which today pretty much means keyboards as well as the accursed laptops, you are instanly trapped in a sound "gamut" from which its difficult to escape. If however, you build your own tools, you are working in your own space, and it will be very much more simple to break out and really explore. It would be great to hear this machine in action; I wonder what it would sound like very loud.....

It looks like something that would be sensitive to how it was amplified, and also sensitive to how much the battery had drained. There is nothing quite as lovely as the sound of battery powered amplification / crude synthesiser that is running on an almost dead set of batteries.

What other lamps has Davros been hiding under his bushel??!
posted by Irdial , 12:20 PM Þ 

sell it to me!!!!! nah, just kidding. enjoy that thing.

much respect to you for the motivation and ingenuity.
posted by john , 3:08 AM Þ 

Drone Machine

Here's a drone machine I built this weekend. Apologies for the photo which is a composite taken with my Polaroid digital 320 "fun" camera.



It's an electromagnetic interference seducer, consisting of two DC motors from a broken cassette deck (8), and a P90 guitar pickup (6).

The two motors, when placed next to the pickup, generate electromagnetic energy (or "interference") which induces a current in the guitar pickup. These seducted tones are converted into sound waves by any amplifier that the instrument is plugged into (currently favouring a BOSS MG10 with two 5" speakers and warp distortion for a powerful germanium fuzz).

The two motors are controlled by independent power switches (4 & 5), and the voltage supplied to each motor can be micro-adjusted by linear potentiometers (2 & 3). This causes detuning of the tone provided by each motor. Overall voltage to both motors (and therefore pitch) is controlled by a logarithmic potentiometer (6).

The output of the pickup is delivered to a 1/4" jack via a linear potentiometer for overall volume control. A standard 9v battery supplies power.

The unit is built within a 3/4" MDF case with a Perspex top. It's HEAVY, and so it should be for stable performance use.

Sonically, the unit makes a sweet and stable tone when unplugged, as the unit has a natural resonance anyway. Although identical, the two motors run at slightly different speeds, so the starting tone with all controls on full is slightly atonal. VERY fine adjustment of control (3) brings motor 2 inline with motor 1 and a slowly phasing pseudo square-wave can be achieved, whilst further adjustment enables basic harmony. Overall pitch may be lowered approximately one octave by control (6).

When connected to an amplifier, the tone is a thin but harsh buzz. Because of the nature of the sound source the operation of switches (4 & 5) causes a "revving up" sound, like a motorbike. This is very cool. If the gain of the amplifier is increased, the tone harshens and becomes wilder. Lowering the voltage with control (6) causes a deep, deep throb, which, if the motors are stopped, will not provide enough voltage to start off again.

MP3 to follow shortly.
posted by captain davros , 12:46 AM Þ 
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