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Yeah, but where are the other 8 teats? Give it up Miss Piggy!
psychofun
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SINGAPORE-- The standard desktop PC of 2007 will have a hard drive with capacity between 500GB and 600GB, according to Mark Geenen, managing director of research company TrendFocus.
Notebook computers will be fitted with 300GB drives and small drives which can be used in mobile phones and PDAs will be able to store around 20GB, Geenen says.
Speaking at a briefing organized by the International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA) here, Geenen says there were no serious competitors to current hard drive technology for cost-effective data storage.
"The long-term demand [for storage] is there and this is a historic opportunity for our industry," he says. "The industry is poised for very impressive growth over the next few years."
No Competition?
Optical storage has been around a long time without making any major impact and flash memory is still too expensive, according to Geenen. Other storage technologies are yet to be commercialized--heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) systems will not be available until 2006 and millipede systems until 2007 or 2008, Geenen says.
The most immediate advance in storage technology is the move to perpendicular storage of data on hard drives, which will begin to appear later this year, Geenen says.
Perpendicular storage is an evolutionary technology which can be produced using existing production lines. It can provide storage capacities of up to 1 terabit per square inch, which is equivalent to storing 1TB on a single 3.5-inch disk platter and almost 10 times as much as today's standard longitudinal storage systems.
The disk drive industry will deliver over 300 million hard drives of all kinds in 2004, 16 percent up on the 261 million drives shipped in 2003, Geenen says.
Source: Yahoo News
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I cannot settle on an individual player. Out of my current collection, I favor the following:
Geddy Lee - Rush
Les Claypool - Primus
Geezer Butler - Black Sabbath
Joey Vera - Engine/Fates Warning
Flea - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Steve Harris - Iron Maiden
Cliff Burton (RIP) - Metallica
Lemmy Kilmister - Motörhead
RÜ-D - MuDvAyNe
Joey DeMaio - Manowar
D.D. Verni - Overkill
Tom Araya - Slayer
Justin Chancellor - Tool
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/me plea-bargains deducting 25 posts with Admin to save face... :(
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Huh? thumpin'
He must be dead. I think his spirit cursed me in to not seeing all the options.
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I just saw the preview last night. They are getting a little carried away. Trying to top themselves. I was more interested in the beginning. Now it's becoming "Joe Circus."
I think you may be on to something with the "Destruction - When Dinnerware Goes BAD" idea. Maybe stop-frame animation or something?
psychofun
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I'm having trouble with this one:
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OK, here goes a try...
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I have a little trouble with the type..
lol @ "SMACK"
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Whoops
in Kickin' it
lol @ "beard" & "merkin"
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lmao...good one.
psychofun
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Ok, I was able to find one..
psychofun
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I was going to upload a picture from my computer (.bmp), but it wasn't letting me. Any suggestions?
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The two best that I got were Tara Fitzgerald and Kate Winslet. I would have to go for Kate. She's pretty hot.
psychofun
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Not all of it was impossible....some of it was quite creative. But I'll pass on the 800 lb sundial.
psychofun
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OK, let me be the first to say that this was indeed a cool website. I've never seen anything musically like it. And it appears to be a great reference tool for someone who's looking for new music. Thanks for the link method!
psychofun
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Wonder if if it will be just like a "3rd arm?" The guy got lucky. Hopefully his stupidity didn't remain.
psychofun
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The future of the internet indeed!
psychofun
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Welcome to BeatKing!
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Welcome to BeatKing!
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Heavy Metal 101: Required Reading
By Mick Stingley, Contributor, KNAC.com
When this reviewer was in high school and college, there were three books that were considered “must-reads” about music: Catch A Fire (about Bob Marley), No One Here Gets Out Alive (Jim Morrison/The Doors) and Hammer of the Gods (Led Zeppelin). Since then, there have been many “rock” books that have come along, but not many that really stand out and grab you. Crazy From The Heat (David Lee Roth) comes to mind, as does The Dirt (Motley Crue)… but amidst all the books languishing in the music section of Barnes & Noble, there aren’t many that stand out as much. Apart from personal musings by Henry Rollins, Zodiac Mindwarp and Jizzy Pearl, and perhaps a Ted Nugent cookbook, there is little out there that captures the readers attention: I know KNAC’s Frank Meyer has a book on The Ramones; someone told about a pretty good Aerosmith book…
In the meantime: below, four books I would highly recommend on the subject of Rock. I had the pleasure to read these over the Christmas/Winter holiday, and feel obliged to honor them with some attention. Hopefully, others will seek to do the same…
Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbangers History of Metal
The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal
White Line Fever: Lemmy
The Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground
Read about these in the article:
Heavy Metal 101: Required Reading
psychofun
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Music fans, prepare to take up arms. The online music battles are here and, as usual, consumers are in danger of becoming lost in the fog of war. What's the problem this time? The multitude of formats--MP3, AAC, WMA--and the selection of players--Dell DJ, iPod, Archos Jukebox--plus the sheer number of services.
iTunes Music Store
Apple was first on the scene with the iTunes Music Store (ITMS) for the Mac. When it opened the service for Windows users in 2003, shoppers bought more than 1 million songs in the first four days. Windows users have been thrilled, by and large, with its ease of use and selection. The service also has the full support of the music industry, with more than 240,000 songs available from all the major labels and more than 200 independent labels--for a total of more than 400,000 songs. As a bonus, customers can buy more than 5000 spoken audio recordings from Audible.com, including many of NPR's Fresh Air recordings.
Music purchased from the iTunes Music Store is a permanent download, can be burned to an unlimited number of CDs, copied to an unlimited number of iPods, shared among three PCs on a network, and playlists can be burned to CDs up to 10 times. The ITMS also uses the Protected AAC format, which many consider a superior compression format for digital music. The drawback is that only Apple's iPod music player can read AAC files.
Songs cost 99 cents each, and most albums are $9.99.
BuyMusic.com
The Windows world's first answer to iTunes, BuyMusic.com is Web based, but it works only with Windows. If you have Internet Explorer 5.0 or better and Windows, you can find more than 300,000 songs from all the major labels and many independent ones.
Songs start at 79 cents and albums at $7.95, but most songs are in the 99-cent range and most albums are about $10.
Napster 2.0
The Net's first love with online music is back, and it's gone legit. Now owned by Roxio, Napster 2.0 supports Windows XP or 2000 and requires Microsoft's Windows Media Player 7.1 or better.
Songs are 99 cents each and albums are about $10. There's also a premium service that, for $9.95 a month, allows you unlimited listening and downloading, plus commercial-free radio. It also offers more than 500,000 songs from all the major labels and lots of independents. There are rumors that Napster is working on a Mac version.
Final Notes
If I used a PC exclusively, it would be a tough choice between Napster 2.0 and iTunes. If I had an iPod, which works with both Mac and Windows, I would use iTunes, but with any of the other players, I'm pretty confident that Napster would be my service of choice. I would not use BuyMusic.com because of its more restrictive licensing practices that are less consumer-friendly than those of Napster or iTunes.
Source: Popular Mechanics
psychofun
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They should never sing together. Period. They'd be too easy a target. As for singing individually, that's a tough one. Since they are always in trouble, they should prolly hang it up and disappear completely and forever out of the public eye. On the other hand, devoting themselves to writing (decent) music and being out on the road instead of at Never-man Ranch and SuperBoob should keep them busy. But I am thankful for the humor they have provided.
psychofun
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Metal....as was the year before, as will be this year, and the years to follow until my elderly ears cannot handle it anymore. Then I'll prolly switch to elevator music.
psychofun
Wrestlers make the best Singers
in Kickin' it
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I'm sure my dad wouldn't mind an album or two. I have one of the intro theme albums. Pretty damn good although it's edited. I got it from either CH or BMG. May as well have been Wal-Mart. Anyways, I get most of my info from the pay-per-view events he hosts. Wrestlemania XX should be big next month. That "uber gay" guy in pink is (Former) Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. Two guys to his left is the current chairman of the WWE, Vince McMahon. I could name several others in the picture, but that might make it look like I overly enjoy this sport.
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