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Ive chosen to ignore the rankings...I agree, CD, theyre silly. But I do think its a good idea to have a comopendium of the best guitarists though..so this forum is just a start...
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nice pic, homes
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awww...am I the only sick bastard that watches jackass/viva la bam.
The cant help it they are growing OLD, ASUM. :P
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heist pic eh...sounds pretty sweet to me
Since you are a music man, check out this cool 80s french movie in the video bins:
Diva (I prefer the subtitled version)... Its sort of a heist movie with a twist, very cool cinematography, and an operatic score and one of my favorite movies
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Re: Ladder Theory
Criticism:I have lots of male friends who would never think of me that way blah blah blah.
Answer:Your friend doesn't find you attractive, or he's currently doing better, or he's gay or you're wrong.
Criticism:That's not true
Answer:Yes it is.
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haven't they already tried this like twenty times before and every time it craps on their face...radio listeners tend to dig the conservatives peeps more...if this actually suceeds i'll be the first to be suprised
excluding NPR, ive never heard one
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State of the Art: Hand-Helds That Offer Video to Go
March 11, 2004
By DAVID POGUE
IF you hadn't noticed, audio inventions are inevitably followed by corresponding video versions. Radio begat TV; audio tape begat videotape; CD's begat DVD's.
It was only a matter of time, then, before it occurred to somebody to invent, for want of a better term, the video iPod: a hand-held personal-entertainment gizmo with a color
screen capable of playing movies.
That idea has certainly occurred to Microsoft. At the
Consumer Electronics Show in January, Bill Gates
demonstrated prototypes of something un-catchily named the
Microsoft Portable Media Center. Creative Labs, iRiver,
Samsung, Sanyo and ViewSonic all intend to unveil
Microsoft-based video players by year's end.
But you don't have to wait. Two hand-held video players are
already on the market, each marching to its own
non-Microsoft drummer: the Archos AV320 and the RCA Lyra
RD2780. You can find them online for $336 and $420,
respectively, not bad considering that music-only players
with the same capacity (20 gigabytes) cost about $300.
Now, video players will never be quite the smash hit that
audio players have been. One significant difference is that
there aren't as many times and places for using one. For
example, it's O.K. to listen to music as you drive, jog or
perform surgery, but probably not such a great idea to
watch movies. You have to load your player with video a lot
more often, too; you might listen to a favorite song 100
times in your life, but you probably have a lower tolerance
for repeated viewings of, say, "2 Fast 2 Furious."
Still, the video pod concept has much to offer. Such a
device can turn any airline into JetBlue, with its personal
seat-back TV screens, except that you control what's
available and you don't miss the ending of "Friends" when
the guy in front of you reclines into your lap. When you
finally get to your secluded vacation cabin, you can hook
the video pod up to a TV for a whole weekend of VHS-quality
movie viewing. The Lyra even has a Compact Flash card slot,
so when you've filled up your digital camera with nature
photos, you can empty out the memory card onto the player
and return to the field, ready for more shooting.
In many ways, the Archos and the Lyra video players are two
peas in an electronics store. Each is an 11- or 12-ounce
rectangular slab too big and too heavy for a pocket. The
Lyra is thinner but longer (5.4 inches by 3.1 inches by 1
inch); the Archos is smaller but thicker (4.4 by 3.2 by
1.2).
The bright, clear color screen measures 3.5 inches (Lyra)
or 3.8 inches diagonally (the Archos). A permanent
rechargeable battery plays video for a little over three
hours; the Archos provides 10 hours of music playback by
shutting off its screen (a feature RCA plans to add to the
Lyra in a software update later this month). Inside, a
20-gigabyte hard drive holds about 20 movies, 5,000 songs,
or 200,000 photos. (The Archos is available in 40- and
80-gigabyte models for those who feel constrained by that
repressive 200,000-picture limit.)
A home screen shows icons for the player's contents: Video,
Audio, Photos, and Files, for example. (Oh, that's right -
you can use a video pod as an external hard drive for
transporting Mac or PC files back and forth.) Using a
cheap-feeling, often-exasperating plastic joystick next to
the screen, you open the "folder" you want, choose a song,
picture or movie, and then press Play.
So how did those songs, pictures and movies get onto the
machine to begin with?
When you hook the player up to a Mac or PC with a U.S.B.
2.0 cable, the player appears on the screen as though it's
a hard drive; you drag your pictures and music into the
corresponding folders. (The Archos can also use a special
FireWire cable, although the company has the gall to charge
$60 for it.)
Getting video onto the player is a more complicated story.
The easiest way is to use the video pod as a glorified VCR,
using its Record button. As your VCR, camcorder or TiVo
plays, the player records its video feed in real time. The
Archos can even record from commercial tapes and DVD's.
(The RCA is designed to prevent that sort of lawyer bait,
although the Web is full of workarounds.)
If you prefer to transfer video directly from your Mac or
PC - a movie you've made, for example, or one you've
downloaded - buckle your seat belts; it's going to be a
geeky ride. These machines require something called
MPEG-4-encoded Divx 4 or 5 files. Converting movie files
into this special format requires special software - Archos
provides it, RCA does not - and a good deal of technical
expertise.
Nobody ever said that 1.0 versions of anything are perfect,
but that's especially true of the Lyra, whose software is
appallingly half-baked. Many actions - trying to adjust the
brightness of a photo, change the graphic equalizer or push
the joystick up or down - produce only a message that says:
"Feature will be available in future upgrades. Visit
rca.com/lyra for details." RCA has indeed released several
software upgrades since the machine's debut in November,
but Lyra owners online (including some of those posting
reviews at Amazon.com) grumble that they've paid for the
privilege of doing RCA's beta-testing.
Apparently trying to compensate, RCA includes an especially
generous assortment of accessories right in the box: a
carrying case, cigarette-lighter adapter, and even an
adapter that plays the music or soundtrack through your
car's cassette player. You feel as though you've just
bought a car with the most expensive options package and
then, when you step on the brake at 65 miles an hour, a
message says, "Feature will be available in future
upgrades."
Nor is that the only surprising lapse in the Lyra's design.
The whole operating system is, to use the technical term,
dog slow; you'll practically spend as much time looking at
the hourglass icon as at your movies. Dark scenes in movies
frequently fall apart into bursts of pixel crumbs. There's
no Back button, so if you want to change songs or movies,
you must return to the main menu screen and begin drilling
down again. You don't get an instruction book, not even on
a CD. (You're told to download the electronic manual from
the Web.)
In short, Lyra self-help groups are surely forming in
church basements all around the country.
The Archos player lacks those particular inanities, and
even offers perks like a remote control and a built-in
microphone for voice notes, but it's not perfect, either.
It could really use something like the Lyra's kickstand to
hold it upright on a table. The various input and output
jacks on the player's edges are labeled, but on a different
face of the device; more than once, you'll inadvertently
stick the headphones into the identical-looking microphone
jack. Similarly, onscreen labels often appear to identify
the changing functions of the three vertically stacked
physical control buttons, but the labels are arrayed across
the bottom of the screen, rather than vertically beside the
buttons themselves.
Make no mistake: it's quite a technical feat to build a
personal video player that does so much and costs so
little. And compared with, say, personal DVD players, these
early players cost less and take up a lot less space; they
also offer recording features and play a lot more than just
Hollywood movies.
Apparently, adding polish and coherence to this seething
mass of features is an even greater feat, however. RCA
ought to send the young Lyra to its room without supper, so
that it can think about what it means to be a well-behaved
video pod. Archos, on the other hand, has the first truly
usable video pod on its hands - a little rough in spots,
but otherwise ready for prime time.
Alas, that prime time may be only a short time. You know
how, near the end of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of
the King," Aragorn and his tiny band take a hopeless,
desperate stand against the vast Orc armies that pour from
evil Sauron's gates? As RCA and Archos watch Microsoft's
own video-pod armies amassing behind a different sort of
Gates, they probably know exactly how Aragorn felt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/11/technolo...670cf765694054b
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That smile is suspicious - is that a baggy of pot behind you? B) J/K--You got Hollywood looks, dude - I think Im gonna cast you with Slum Goddess in a heist pic.
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Off the top of my head, alot of these guys put some of the guys above to shame!
Stephen Hunter (Lou Reed's Rock & Roll Animal/Detroit)
Pat Metheney (Jazz/Rock)
BBKing/Albert King/Chuck Berry/John Hammond/Albert Collins/John Lee Hooker,etc.
Dave Edmunds (early days)
Mick Taylor
Prince
Funkadelic Guitar Player
Martin Barre
Steve Miller
Bruce Springsteen
Tom Petty
Robin Trower
Robbie Robertson
Dave Navarro
I'll be back to add more...
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Here's their list (Thanx, Reg)... Who are they missing?
1. Jimi Hendrix
2 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band
3 B.B. King
4 Eric Clapton
5 Robert Johnson
6 Chuck Berry
7 Stevie Ray Vaughan
8 Ry Cooder
9 Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
10 Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones
11Kirk Hammett of Metallica
12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
13 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead
14 Jeff Beck
15 Carlos Santana
16 Johnny Ramone of the Ramones
17 Jack White of the White Stripes
18 John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
19 Richard Thompson
20 James Burton
21 George Harrison
22 Mike Bloomfield
23 Warren Haynes
24 The Edge of U2
25 Freddy King
26 Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
27 Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits
28 Stephen Stills
29 Ron Asheton of the Stooges
30 Buddy Guy
31 Dick Dale
32 John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service
33 & 34 Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
35 John Fahey
36 Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG's
37 Bo Diddley
38 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac
39 Brian May of Qeen
40 John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
41 Clarence White of the Byrds
42 Robert Fripp of King Crimson
43 Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic
44 Scotty Moore
45 Frank Zappa
46 Les Paul
47 T-Bone Walker
48 Joe Perry of Aerosmith
49 John McLaughlin
50 Pete Townshend
51 Paul Kossoff of Free
52 Lou Reed
53 Mickey Baker
54 Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane
55 Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple
56 Tom Verlaine of Television
57 Roy Buchanan
58 Dickey Betts
59 & 60 Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead
61 Ike Turner
62 Zoot Horn Rollo of the Magic Band
63 Danny Gatton
64 Mick Ronson
65 Hubert Sumlin
66 Vernon Reid of Living Colour
67 Link Wray
68 Jerry Miller of Moby Grape
69 Steve Howe of Yes
70 Eddie Van Halen
71 Lightnin' Hopkins
72 Joni Mitchell
73 Trey Anastasio of Phish
74 Johnny Winter
75 Adam Jones of Tool
76 Ali Farka Toure
77 Henry Vestine of Canned Heat
78 Robbie Robertson of the Band
79 Cliff Gallup of the Blue Caps (1997)
80 Robert Quine of the Voidoids
81 Derek Trucks
82 David Gilmour of Pink Floyd
83 Neil Young
84 Eddie Cochran
85 Randy Rhoads
86 Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
87 Joan Jett
88 Dave Davies of the Kinks
89 D. Boon of the Minutemen
90 Glen Buxton of Alice Cooper
91 Robby Krieger of the Doors
92 & 93 Fred "Sonic" Smith, Wayne Kramer of the MC5
94 Bert Jansch
95 Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine
96 Angus Young of AC/DC
97 Robert Randolph
98 Leigh Stephens of Blue Cheer
99 Greg Ginn of Black Flag
100 Kim Thayil of Soundgarden
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The Copyright Office, under Marybeth Peters, after input from lawyers hired by one of the "Big 5" of the RIAA, found that digital music files, ought not to be governed by the limitation of first sale doctrine....
Actually, Marybeth Peters, judging from her statements, must live in a make believe fairy tale world of absolutes where digital data, like some sleeping beauty, lies pristine for centuries, eons, millenia...without wrinkles...like someone who has way too much botox...where all copies are perfect and never change. It's a world in which hard drives never crash, cross linking of files never occurs, files never get corrupted, CRCs always match perfectly...and on and on reductio ad absurdum....
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"Scientists have sounded the alarm after spotting changes in the environment in Brazil's tropical rain forests."
i just had a vision of scientists sounding the dw33b alarm and jumping down metal polls into g33k mobiles.
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Mr. Jipper - You are the KING of one liners
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Sunnyvale-Based Yahoo Teams with Top ISPs to Sue Spammers
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- Several prominent Internet service providers, including Sunnyvale-based Yahoo, America Online, Earthlink and Microsoft, have teamed to file lawsuits against hundreds of habitual Internet spammers. The companies say they have shared information and resources in targeting several hundred defendants, who they say collectively sent out millions of unwanted commercial e-mails to their subscribers in violation of the new U.S. "Can Spam" Act. The law, which went into effect Jan. 1, allows for harsh new penalties against large-scale spammers that use fraud, deceit and evasion to try to send junk e-mail to consumers. "Congress gave us the necessary tools to pursue spammers with stiff penalties, and we in the industry didn't waste a moment," said Randall Boe, AOL's executive vice president and general counsel. The suits have been filed in California, Georgia, Virginia and Washington state.
http://media.aoltimewarner.com/media/press...se_num=55253838
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Part II
Does javascript Affect Ranking?
by Jon Ricerca
http://www.SearchEngineGeek.com
Almost all SEO's agree that using too much javascript
can harm your rankings and might confuse the search
engines. Is it true? We decided to answer this extremely
simple question for the two leading search engines using
a simple statistical analysis.
The methodology: I gathered the results of the queries
that were naturally performed last month by myself and
three associates using the two leading search engines and
analyzed them. I had to visit each page and check the HTML
source code to see if javascript was being used. I counted
the number of pages found that utilized javascript for the
first 8 rankings. The results for each of the two leading
search engines were kept separate so that we could
discover any differences between the two leading search
engines for this factor.
The resulting graphs show the number of pages utilizing
javascript for each ranking. The Y-axis shows the number
of pages found utilizing javascript, while the X-axis
shows rankings 1 through 8. Here are the graphs for each
of the two leading search engines:
http://www.SearchEngineGeek.com/graphs/dcy02.jpg
http://www.SearchEngineGeek.com/graphs/dcg02.jpg
The result is very conclusive and very surprising. Both
leading search engines rank pages that utilize javascript
higher than pages that do not utilize javascript. This is
another example of how the guesses of the SEO community
are often just that... guesses... They have a 50% chance
of being correct on any particular factor. In this case,
the majority of the SEO community guessed wrong.
Notes:
1. There was no exercise to attempt to isolate different
keywords. I merely took a random sampling of the queries
performed by myself and three associates during the month.
Conclusion:
Pages which utilize javascript rank higher than pages that
do not utilize javascript on both of the leading search
engines.
This is merely a correlation study, so it cannot be
determined from this study whether the leading search
engines purposefully entertain this factor or not. The
actual factors used may be far distant from the factor we
studied, but the end result is that these search engines
do, in fact, rank pages with javascript higher than pages
without javascript in the study.
Jon Ricerca is one of the leading researchers and authors
of the Search Engine Ranking Factor (SERF) reports at
SearchEngineGeek.com. For access to the other SERF
reports, please visit:
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Nice post! :P
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....this is war !!
Dude cowers from Umma!
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Search Engine Optimization
by Scott F. Geld
http://www.MarketingBlaster.com
Search engines match the words or phrases used in a
search request with those used in Website text. You want
to make sure that your Website is optimized to come up
high on the returned search list when potential customers
are looking for products or services that your company
offers. That means that copy on your Website must be rich
in keywords or keyword phrases.
Keywords
So what is a keyword? Keywords are those words (or
phrases) that most people use to search the Web for a
particular product or service, or information. For
example, if you want to find a place that fixes cars, you
might do a search on 'auto repairs'.
Better Keywords
When you choose keywords for your Web content, don't use
words that are too broad. For example, if you sell floor
cleaners for hardwood, you might be tempted to
use 'floors' as a keyword in your copy. People could be
searching for information about all kinds of topics
related to floors...tile floors, granite floors, carpeted
floors, unfinished floors and so on. But, you want to
attract visitors who are looking for information
specifically about 'hardwood floor cleaners'. To get
qualified visitors to your site, you have use keywords or
keyword phrases that will hone in on your business.
Relevant Keywords
Make sure that the keywords you use are relevant to the
page that they are on. There's no point in using words or
phrases that don't relate to the information on the page.
It doesn't make sense to use a keyword or phrase just
because it gives you an opportunity to be highly ranked.
Once your visitor gets to a page, the content should make
sense, or you loose credibility and they don't stick
around.
Traffic
But what kind of traffic do you want? The kind of traffic
you want at your Website, is traffic that stays. Just
because you have a large volume of traffic, doesn't mean
your Internet marketing efforts are going to pay off.
What's important is that you get 'targeted' traffic...
visitors that have found what they are looking. It's
better to have fewer visitors, but more targeted prospects
that are more likely to buy.
Target Keywords
Be sure to use keywords that accurately reflect your
business. You may end up with fewer visitors, but you will
have better qualified visitors and in the end that means
higher revenue.
Scott F. Geld is the Director of Marketing for
MarketingBlaster.com, a company providing targeted traffic
and direct links starting at just $5. For more info:
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A very useful post B)
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Well, it certainly couldnt be any worse than those other talk shows :)
Off topic--Just out of curiosity, how many conservative artists can you name?
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Robert Mondavi table wines are pretty inexpensive and tasty, too
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Im hiding for cover from the women--I thought for sure you all would bring out the emoticon guns!
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I think...just to be safe...that I better give my mac a shot of penicillen