Janet Jackson rarely makes public appearances anymore, but she’s already made two this week!
24.08.2022 - 14:07 / completemusicupdate.com
Back in the early 2000s, you probably got quite used to your laptop crashing all the time, but could the problem have been that you were just listening to Janet Jackson too much? As nonsensical as that question sounds, the answer is possibly yes.In a recent blog post, Microsoft software engineer and Windows historian Raymond Chen has revealed that a “major computer manufacturer” once came to the company with an unusual issue. Certain laptops running Windows XP would crash when playing the video for Janet Jackson’s 1989 single ‘Rhythm Nation’.“One discovery [made] during the investigation [was] that playing the music video also crashed some of their competitors’ laptops”, Chen explains.
“And then they discovered something extremely weird: Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop wasn’t playing the video”.Let’s all take a moment to imagine ourselves in a room full of laptops, some playing ‘Rhythm Nation’ and all of them crashing randomly. OK, now let’s stop, because it’s already quite stressful.It turned out that Windows was not to blame for any of this.
The issue was in fact the model of hard drive being used in some laptops at the time. By coincidence, Chen says, “the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used”.When the song played, it was basically vibrating the hard drive in a way that caused it to stop working.The solution was to add a custom audio filter to the software of the affected laptops, which would detect these frequencies in any audio being played and remove them before they could shake the hard drive unconscious.This fix seems to have been
.Janet Jackson rarely makes public appearances anymore, but she’s already made two this week!
Kate Beckinsale walks the runway during the Naeem Khan fashion show in the midst of 2022 New York Fashion Week at Sony Hall in New York City.
Janet Jackson surprised Teyana Taylor at her London show this Sunday (September 4), with the Taylor describing the visit as “one of the greatest surprises of my life”.American singer-songwriter Taylor, who now has one date left on the European leg of ‘The Last Rose Petal 2… Farewell Tour’, performed a “magical” show at London’s Brixton Academy last weekend, before she was surprise by idol Jackson.“London had me in shambles & crying like a full blown babyyyyyyyy! To my days ones…y’all ALREADY know what these full circle moments meant to me!!!!” she wrote in an Instagram post.“The love, the energy, the raw emotions, the vibes, THEE ICON JANET JACKSON!!!!!!!!! Do u hear me?!!! LONDON WAS UNMATCHED. I’m shoooookkkkkkk! You showed out and OVER sold out.”A post shared by Jimmy Neutch- Shumpert (@teyanataylor)She continued: “Thank you @janetjackson for the beautiful surprise.
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Janet Jackson hits the red carpet for Harlem’s Fashion Row 15th Anniversary Fashion Show and Style Awards in New York City on Tuesday (September 6).
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Teyana Taylor got a special surprise during a recent London stop on her farewell tour. On Monday, the 31-year-old singer took to Instagram to share her gratitude for the «love» and «energy» she felt during the sold-out show and gush over a surprise visit from Janet Jackson.After thanking fans for giving her a “magical” night she’ll never forget, Taylor shared that Jackson's “beautiful surprise” helped further drive home the amount of respect and admiration she has for the pop icon.«Def one of the greatest surprises of my life,» the mother of two wrote alongside several photos of the show and the backstage surprise.
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Janet Jackson‘s 1989 single ‘Rhythm Nation’ is said to have the power to cause older laptops to crash.In a recent blog post (via Hot New Hip Hop), Microsoft’s principal software engineer, Raymond Chen, explained: “The song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they [an unnamed major manufacturer] and other[s] used.”Chen claimed that the frequency caused laptops from around 2005 to crash after playing the audio. The issue is similar to how an opera singer is able to shatter glass by singing at a certain pitch.“The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback,” he continued.“I would not have wanted to be in the laboratory that they must have set up to investigate this problem.
The Super Bowl XXXVIII incident was not the only malfunction surrounding Janet Jackson’s music in the mid aughts. Soon after that debacle, a computer manufacturer discovered that playing “Rhythm Nation” — a 1989 smash from Jackson’s fourth studio LP, Rhythm Nation 1814 — crashed a model of 5400-RPM laptop hard drives widely in use at the time.
the Wall Street Journal first reported. That’s just slightly less than the $8.99 million she sought when it hit the market in April.The “Together Again” star had owned the condo since 1998 when she purchased it for $2.8 million — or $5.13 million in today’s inflation-adjusted figures — via a legal entity named the Puffy Trust, the Journal noted.
1989 hit “Rhythm Nation” is too much for some laptops to handle. Microsoft’s principal software engineer Raymond Chen revealed on his blog Tuesday that the song has the same frequency as some older model laptops’ hard drives — called a resonate frequency, which is the natural frequency of an object. And, unfortunately, it can cause laptops to shut off.
Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation might have the ability to get you up making shapes on the dancefloor, but it also has a lesser-known (and slightly ominous) power. The track stormed the charts in 1989, with its accompanying video an absolute masterclass in choreography. But while packed dancefloors were heaving to the catchy song, not everyone could keepup with the rhythm – namely, laptops.
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