This is the story of Norma Jean....


Norma Jean lives in a trailer in Arkansas
with her two children....[img]<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://home.twcny.rr.com/myafchak/images/bubba.jpg">http://home.twcny.rr.com/myafchak/images/bubba.jpg</a><!-- m --> [/img] Trammel and Cyrus who is black, but knows who his daddy is, unlike the child we will get to in a moment...

Norma Jean, unhappy with the money she was getting from the government for having just two children, decided to have three instead to get some extra cash....rather than just choose one man to spread his seed....Norma Jean decided to have four men spread their seeds during ritual orgies....

Trammel and Cyrus would stay in the closet those nights, pondering the sounds coming from the other room...often asking eachother questions like "what is fisting?" and "how can they be playing with snowballs if it hasn't snowed?"

Trammel and Cyrus got used to the never ending flow of these four men into their "home":
Bubba Ray, Billy Joe, Jimbo, and Slim

Until one day...the men stopped coming, and nine months later came along.... little Amiee-Lynn...who doesn't have a last name....because of the haunting question...."are you my daddy?"

i want to get an ipod. i use the archos juke box but the ipod is so much better. i know xplay has a beta program so that ipod will run on windows. wondering if anyone has tried it or if there is a better program

Quote:DVD-compatible optical disk hits 100 Gbytes


By Mike Clendenin

EE Times
May 24, 2002 (12:30 p.m. EST)


TAIPEI, Taiwan — Forget about 100-gigabyte portable hard drives — too bulky. A physics professor at a leading Taiwanese university has led a group of researchers in developing a recordable optical disk capable of packing in 100 Gbytes of data and slipping into a pants pocket.

That's about 30,000 of your favorite songs, or enough tunes to toe-tap to for a few months.




The disk is compatible with today's CD and DVD technology, running off the same red laser pick-up heads used in a typical disk player. "That's the most attractive part of this technology," said Wang Shyh-Yeu, director of research at Ritek Corp., a disk maker that co-funded the study and will likely commercialize the disk in 2005 or 2006.

To achieve the 100-Gbyte density target, the research team at National Taiwan University, led by professor Tsai Din Ping, used near-field optics — where the distance used for the interaction of the laser and media is shorter than the wavelength of light used to make the recording marks on the disk.

Two layers were added to the disk to achieve the near-field effect. The first is a transparent dielectric spacing layer, about 20 nanometers to 40 nanometers thick, which keeps the distance constant in the near field. The other layer is an active layer, which will interact with the focus point of the laser beam, generate the near-field effect and then transfer the mark to the recording layer.

Smaller mark


Using a standard sized disk, 12 centimeters in diameter, the researchers drew down the mark size to about 100 nm, less than about 400 nm for today's DVDs and 900 nm for CDs. "Even with such a small mark size, we can still have about 35 dB on the readout signal," Tsai said. "If you check your DVD disk today, the readout range is about the same, from 30 dB to 40 dB. So that's a very good result because the mark size is much smaller than 400 nm but the carrier-to-noise ratio is still very good. That's not easy."

Japanese companies and university researchers have also been developing high-density prototypes. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. developed a dual-layer rewritable optical disk last year that could store 50 Gbytes per side, enough for four hours of high-definition movies. It used violet lasers, however, not red lasers.

Tsai said his prototype is ready to hit the market today, but Wang doubts the market is ready. The disk may be capable of recording dozens of Star Trek episodes, but there aren't any drives available to utilize it and no one is working on one. Such systems would also require a new chip set. "Today's technology still has a ways to go before this is needed," Wang said.

In the meantime, Wang said Ritek should work on polishing the signal-to-noise characteristics on disks in the 40-Gbyte to 60-Gbyte range, which would still far outstrip today's 9.4-Gbyte maximum capacity for a dual-sided, dual-layer DVDs. Even next-generation proposals, such as Blu-ray DVDs, top out at about 27 Gbytes. Besides, they use pricier technology — they are based on blue lasers — that is not backward compatible with today's red laser standard. "The next two years will be very important for this technology," Wang said. "If we can get through the big breakthroughs we need, this will be a threat to Blu-ray."

During that time, however, Tsai will be prodding his team to push the limits of density even further. Ritek and Taiwan's National Science Council are funding the research until February 2003 with $660,000 — the project started in March 2000. "Our goal is to make an even smaller mark size that will still be stable within the near field. To do this, we will have to find a nanostructure to make this happen in a much easier way," Tsai said.

"One hundred gigabytes is not the limit; it is just the beginning. Our goal is terabit," he said.

is what you would be reading if I was really dead. I found this little program with a little digging. It was featured in the NY Times. It turns out that you can make your computer post, email, encrypt files and/or delete them incase you're rendered dead. :poison:
The page for the program


This post is dedicated to Maynard from Danked

I give up. You guys can quit posting exclamation points and smiley faces just to keep my name off the front page.

I curse you and your one-click shopping!!!

One easy click and I'm broke. Why must you make impulse buying so easy!!!

Anyway, look at all the goodies I'm getting!

-Cowboy Bebop: Sessions 1-6 (should be here in about a week!!! :-D )
-Mr. Show with Bob & David : First 2 seasons (preordered)
-Medal of Honor : Frontline (preordered)
-The Simpsons : Second Season (preorderd)

SHIP THEM FASTER, YOU BASTARDS!!

What music/song do you like or dislike that has been covered by another artist?

Kenny Wayne Shepard Band should have been shot for even attempting Dylan's "Everything Is Broken".....what were they thinking? :crackhead:

Now, I know that there are alot of bands/artists that covered Dylan's music and they may have done it better.....but, they just ruined "Everything's Broken"....... BLAHHHH!

why am i not sleeping? :disappointed:

i am bored and drunk, lethal combination. time to start calling old girlfriends and wake them up and be a fool

I'm looking for the name of a newer song but I don't have very much information about it.

I know it's a newer Rock type song. It starts out with two vocalists singing without any type of background music and then breaks into a semi heavy rock.

I have only heard it twice on the radio but neither times have the DJ's said the name of it.