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Perpetual motion machine

I'll believe it when it's obsoleted by newer technology. =)

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I'll believe it when it's obsoleted by newer technology. =)

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reply to justin
I bet if you share the file, it will actually increase your bandwidth instead of use it up!

Could this be Ginger?
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I was at Linens N' Things in Bedford, NH a couple weekends ago and saw Dean K. shopping with his tall blond wife. I wanted to go up to him and ask him what isle Ginger was in. My wife convinced me otherwise.
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LMAO - when will new york consumer affairs "polly wants an answer" stick a microphone in his face?

I suppose there is not much they can do since he is not taking any "preorders, cash or money order only" for some thing yet unknown.

Bedford, NH though is letting him build a factory in a light-industrial zoned area. I would think they could grill him a little more. They may not want to eff up the chance to have "Made in Bedford" stamped on every ginger produced though.
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reply to justin
This post was a joke right? I have too much respect for DSLR to think that this was put here for any other reason other than to make me fall out my chair wih laughter.

The news post? The editor will be lashed immediately!

Yes it is kind of there for amusement.. its thanksgiving.. silly season!

reply to justin
I think Tom from the old Tom & Jerry toons said it best:

DOOOOOOOON'T YOOOOOOOUUU BEEEELIIEEEEVE IIIIIIITT!!!!"
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Did Tom talk? I though that only his unseen owners talked, everything was set to music?

reply to Freezone
Was hoping to trigger a debate and discussion about compression....but I seemed to have failed in that regard.

I will accept my thirty lashes and no gruel.
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reply to justin
Yeah, Tom has only spoken a few times... and every time was f'king hilarious. That particular one was from the episode with the exploding white mouse. Near the end the mouse explodes and blows up the house... a radio announcer says that the mouse has been identified as harmless, after which Tom raises his head from the rubble and gives that line in this hilarious hollow sounding voice.

BTW: You don't remember him singing "Is you is or is you ain't my baby"?
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reply to justin
That was the episode where an experimental white mouse escaped from a lab.. and jerry covered himself in flour to trick tom.

The mouse was apparently very explosive, and could go off at the slightest touch.. Another "I will get my worst enemy to treat me all nice nice" -- That old gag

Somehow, the real mouse wandered into the house, but after tom found out about jerry's tomfoolery.. as proceeded to smack the mouse around.

After the house blew up, and a soot covered tom rose from the ashes.. he said in a echo voice "Don't you believe it"

Long story short (to late.. haha).. He doesn't speak.. he only did that once.. At least in the original cartoon, to the crap on now...
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I think the "Don't you believe it" and this "Is you is" song are the only times. He also managed to slide in a devious "AHA!!" in a few episodes... and the dueling episode when they were doing the 10 paces showdown, the first few numbers he counter off were audible.
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reply to Karl Bode
I think the fact that this particular article delves into compression of unbelievable proportions leads us to snicker and poke fun more than actually discuss the subject matter.

Either way we're having fun

reply to bassthumpa
Actually I recall two other episodes where Tom spoke. One time he was was hanging out with a lady cat and Jerry light his tail on fire. He asked his paramour, "Hey. What's cookin'?" She lady cat replied, "You are."

Another time Tom talked was when he inherited a million dollars, but in order to keep it he had to be nice to Jerry (or rather not hurt a living thing, including a mouse). Of course he blows it and starts smacking Jerry with a newspaper. While doing so he stops to say, "Gee. I just gave up a million dollars. BUT I'M HAPPY!" or something like that. I think I might have heard Tom sing in another cartoon, but I can't confirm that.

A little bit of trivia. The "Don't you believe it" quote is actually from a radio show or something similar in that era. Kinda like when people kept saying Wendy's "Where's the beef?" or Arnold Schwarzenegger's "I'll be back" in the 80's. Cool. Neh?

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He asked his paramour, "Hey. What's cookin'?" She lady cat replied, "You are."

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reply to justin
Do you know how you can tell that this is a hoax? He's
got a Public Relations Representative. Here's the spin:

Hyperbole: "He's a MacGuyver"
Victimhood: "[He] compares him to the often mis-understood astronomer Galileo."

The next thing you know, he'll start building cars that
run on water, that is, if the oil industry doesn't prevent
him

reply to justin
Check

»www.apple.com/trailers/wb/analyzethis.html

on any G3 or G4 Mac (iBook and iMac included). 2 minutes in 6 MB. That could be 216 minutes (3 hours 26 minutes) in 650MB (the size of a CD-R). Imagine how much you could fit on a DVD with that, 1599 minutes, or 26 hours. Just takes a Mac with a G3/233 or higher processor. All thanks to Sorenson compression. And with Quicktime Pro ($30), it can be displayed fullscreen without so much as a flinch in image quality. It isn't the audio quality of DVD, but it is sharp enough that it passes VHS.