From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V7 #113 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Saturday, June 15 2002 Volume 07 : Number 113 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Re: Alloy: New from Hasbro! Hyperactive - the action figures!!! ["] Re: Alloy: New from Hasbro! Hyperactive - the action figures!!! [Will] Alloy: software code names [Brian Clayton ] Re: Alloy: software code names ["Crackers" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:13:37 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: RE: Re: Alloy: New from Hasbro! Hyperactive - the action figures!!! I was thinking if they made one of Thomas, I'd have to get one of *myself* made of course. Imagine us having adventures in the rocky outcroppings of upstate NY, or just hanging out on my bookshelves in all our plastic splendor. Wouldn't it be funny to make Alloy trading cards? Kinda like baseball cards... it could be pictures of all of us and all our "stats", like when we joined Alloy and the "degrees of seperation" rankings, and so on.. LOL!!! If only I had a million bucks and didn't have to work for a living.. xx ~R - -----Original Message----- From: Crackers If they make an Annie Lennox action figure too then my Thomas Dolby action figure will be one hell of a happy action figure. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:06:36 -0500 From: William Steffey Subject: Re: Alloy: New from Hasbro! Hyperactive - the action figures!!! have you seen peoplecards.net? the site sells trading cards of regular folks. some of them are pretty funny. >Wouldn't it be funny to make Alloy trading cards? Kinda like baseball >cards... it could be pictures of all of us and all our "stats", like when we >joined Alloy and the "degrees of seperation" rankings, and so on.. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 12:27:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Clayton Subject: Alloy: software code names When software is being developed, it often has an in-house code name, such as "Chicago" for Windows 95, etc. GNOME is a Windows-like desktop program for Linux and other Unix-type operating systems. I just read that a release candidate for GNOME 2.0 has just come out. Its code name: "Fever Pitch". I wonder if its start-up sound is a blues-y synth number... BC - -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:34:05 -0700 From: "Crackers" Subject: Re: Alloy: software code names - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Clayton" > When software is being developed, it often has an in-house code name, such > as "Chicago" for Windows 95, etc. Hardware has the same thing. The Nuon DVD enhancement system was codenamed "Project X" during development (much cooler name than Nuon if you ask me). The Atari Jaguar was code named "Panther" during development (ooh, big switch in names there). The Atari 2600 was code named "Stella" during development (named after a rather busty secretary at Atari no less). The Nintendo Gamecube was codenamed "Dolphin" during development. When I used to work as a system's engineer I noticed that one model of Compaq computers had a little eagle etched on the mother boards. I asked the Compaq rep once what was up with that and she told me during development the system was codenamed "Eagle". > GNOME is a Windows-like desktop program for Linux and other Unix-type > operating systems. I just read that a release candidate for GNOME 2.0 has > just come out. Its code name: "Fever Pitch". Speaking of Gnome... what the hell is up with the PAiA Gnome these days? People are paying reduculous amounts of money for it just because it's an old analogue synth. It's a little single oscilator box with a ribbon resistor strip on it that you make contact with with a probe and it makes a beep. The amount of control you have over the beep is extremely limited and it's not terribly useful in a musical sense. If you want a little tiny analogue synth box that just beeps you could build one for about $30. I was watching some heated bidding over a Gnome on ebay and I was just shaking my head thinking "Fools! Do you not realize that what you're bidding on has virtually no value as a collectors item and little value as a musical instrument? Just because something is "analogue" and "old" doesn't mean it's valuable!" I have noticed, however, that the insanity over those Yamaha SHS-10 strap-on psuedo-MIDI controller keyboards seems to have diminished. I could not figure out why people were paying more for that little toy than they could get a "real" strap-on MIDI controller keyboard for on Ebay. I mean it's cute and all, and it does have some musical function, but if I had a choice between the SHS-10 and the AZ-1 guess which one I'm buying? Sheeesh! The Casio SK-1 insanity seems to be abating too. There's been a glut of the beasties on Ebay but still people are paying over $20 for a $5 garage sale toy. I figure it's still being fueled by it's popularity as a circuit bending canvas. > I wonder if its start-up sound is a blues-y synth number... Not if it's done on a PAiA Gnome... then it's just a Bloop! and a fizzle. Crackers (Ebay insanity from hell!!!!) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V7 #113 ***************************