AlexCrowley

For personal reasons I stopped jumping about 3 years ago, I got 50 or so jumps under my belt and then stopped. I'm now pretty sure that I'll be returning to the sky in the near future. What should I expect? Will I need to start from scratch? IT seems like my wife tossed my log book out so I won't have documentation beyond my A license and people remembering me at the DZ (same staff). Any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks. (and a cursory search didnt give a specific thread, so any links to previous conversations that are related would be just as good as making everyone retreading a common topic). Thanks. J TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Do I really look like a man with a plan, Harvey? I don't have a plan. ...... I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. I just *do* things. I'm a wrench in the gears. I *hate* plans. Yours, theirs, everyone's. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

I don't think he was banned (at least not permanently). I think he just got bored with posting on here. I got bored with posting in the bonfire after my lifetime ban from SC. I'm still here, I just lurk more and visit less unless there's an interesting discussion - the bonfire seemed to have a lot of noise on it for a long time, today is the first time in a long time i noticed that there seemed to be discussions going on...... of course, I had to check out this thread to see if my name was mentioned. Oh yeah, I got promoted 3 times since I stopped post-whoring here. Thanks HH! Correlation does not imply causation TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

I think naturally people tend to gravitate towards pattern playing due to the ability to quickly intellectualize it and retain the information. The downside being that it becomes habit forming and limiting. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

That's a really interesting thought. I had been watching some youtube tutorials based on the conversation here and feel the same way. It's incredibly unnatural to watch it, even when some of them do the close-ups on the hands. On that subject, Gato - have you given a lot of thought to the overall presentation of the information? (tabs on screen, musical notation, other visual aids?) TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

I've been playing for around 20 years and being self taught have fallen into plenty of ruts and traps along the way. Personally I think beginner and intermediate lead players would find the following invaluable and are underserved with the current products: 1. How to practice: a full regular breakdown from warm-ups to the need to use a metronome to how to learn an entire song (in pieces with lots of repetition) 2. Fret hand technique, economy of movement, THUMB POSITION! 3. Picking technique Boring? Perhaps but if you're teaching lead they will become essential foundations for later. 3a. Basic harmonic theory of chords and scales (really light) 4. Playing the unitar - scales on a single string 5. Playing the bi-tar - scales on two strings, note boxes, horizontal and vetical movement on the strings 6. playing the guitar - building on previous concepts for full mobility on the neck. 7. more complex harmonic theory, chord/scale relationships, modes (probably best at this point to stick to major, minor and lydian - which would cover most bases) I think the biggest rut I found myself falling into was pattern and box playing, if those concepts can be nuked at the beginning it'll make it easier to not create those fallback positions. Oh, and most recently I realized that if you subvocalize each note it will severely hamper the ability to play fast. Playing fast requires a metronome, patience, muscle memory and no conscious thought. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Thanks Rhonda, I'm still here, I just tend to lurk due to the immense amount of crap that's been on the Bonfire for the last year or so (and if anyone thinks that's me being hypocritical then they really missed the point) TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Zero response from a portscan is not a benchmark for security. Security *is* a major problem for users. There are a number of security flaws in Apple's current OS - but like I said, it's a better balance between usability and security than the majority of other OSes out there. The majority of issues that I've faced over my career fall neatly into two camps: 1. overly complex systems security that requires a great deal of investment to administer and maintain correctly over the long term. 2. The stupid end runs that users (both casual and people that should know better: developers and other sysadmins) make to create shortcuts that circumvent those overly complex security mechanisms. Let me reiterate: Technology failed. Any technology insufficiently advanced that it requires explicit knowledge of it's workings for a person to interact with it productively is inherently broken. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

I run these OS's: - Solaris - FreeBSD - OpenBSD - DragonflyBSD - NetBSD - Linux - Mac OS X I've never had a virus or a break-in. Now why is that one "builder" unable to build a secure house while everyone else can? And please don't trot out that tire old "because it the biggest part of the market" apology. I've heard it all before. When a hacker can be physically present anywhere on the planet, and attack a box anywhere else, it is as hopeless to try to use enforcement again them, as it is to leave your doors and windows wide open and try to chase out all the birds and squirrels that come in because your builder was too stupid to install screens. Perhaps because mass adoption of technology requires it to be user friendly. Locking Windows down is as easy as locking down Linux or BSD, however you will 'break' things in the eyes of the average user. Users generally don't want to remember difficult passwords, or confirm that they really did mean to create a socket, or reconfigure their firewall every time a friend comes over and wants to use IM, or share files. In fact, they'll disable all the crap that gets in the way of them doing stuff if you tell them where the off switch is. Technology failed the users. Users don't know any better. I tend to think Apple is closer to approaching the right balance than the majority of other vendors, but it's always going to be a struggle to manage complexity while remaining accessible to people who simply view their computers as a thing to get stuff done with, rather than an end unto itself. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

I caught the show in Boston last year. It was a great experience. It was a great tribute to his father and Dweezil's gone as far as relearning his guitar technique to emulate the way Frank played. I never caught FZ live, but the vibe was definitely there (at least based on the live albums and stories I've heard). It was definitely one for FZ fans as it covered both the depth and breadth of the back catalog rather than just the commercial friendly 'hits'. It started off with footage of the Zappa band from the 70s era. While the band on screen played Montana the live band joined in starting show proper. As you'd expect at a Zappa show there was some craziness, some improvisation (including Dweezil directing the audience for vocalizations at one point in the show) later on Steve Vai joined them on stage to play out the night. Definitely a great show and a great way to get a taste of the Zappa experience. Stop thinking about it and get the tickets. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

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There is no "I" in team but there is an "I" in pie. And there's an "I" in meat pie. Meat is the anagram of team. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

What the hell are you doing here? TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

It depends on your background I think. personally I find Vegas the most intuitive NLE, but that may be because it initially started out as an audio program. As far as UIs I think it's the most uncluttered and functional. You can download a PDF of the manual from their website (search, it's on their mediasoftware site). It also has a decent help file (check under the help menu). If that's not enough then you probably need to get a basic understanding of how to edit in general cos it isn't the program that's hard. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

The next phase after 'medication is awesome!' is 'WTF!? I still have to work out how to do stuff?!'. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.