Damn, that'll teach me not to throw out obsolete stuff. I wrote a simple piece of music software for my Amstrad CPC464 back in the mid-eighties. It took input from the keyboard (using shift/ctrl for sharp and flat, if I recall), displayed musical notation on screen and played it through the primitive sound chip.
I eventually got it to play one of Bach's 48 (preludes & fugues). I seem to recall that it had 4 channels, so could cope with the 4-part counterpoint pretty well. The sound chip was horrible, but if you specified a rapidly decaying envelope it could sound very roughly like a plunckety-plunk "harpsichord".
All gone now: It was stored on one of Alan Sugar's ridiculous 3 inch disks (not 3 1/2 or 5 1/4, and entirely proprietary to his toy computers).
Therefore, all NY citizens must have their tongues surgically removed, because they might be used to yell "fire" in a crowded theatre (theater?). Smart.
It looks like the membership of the International Whaling Commission.
Whenever a vote comes up on the resumption of commercial whaling, suddenly
a load of tiny countries with no interest in whaling nevertheless
join up and vote in favour. No connection with
the generous aid package which Japan has just given them, of course...
They might as well get their answers from the Oracle at Delphi.
What makes this kind of simulation really difficult is the necessity
to have accurate, quantitative data on human responses. It's not
sufficient to know that such-and-such a stimulus will produce fear,
or produce anger, you have to put numbers on it. Because these two
effects will act in opposite directions: If fear > anger you may
produce compliance, if fear < anger you will often get resistance.
Tweak the values of the parameters and you can get any answer you
want.
Of course, this may be the point. Belief in an omniscient
oracle (whether accurate or not) might be a useful tool for ending
prevarication. In Dennett's "Breaking the Spell" this is
suggested as one of the "free-floating rationales" driving the
evolution of religious behaviours.
Example: I bought an HP travel mouse for my HP nx6125 laptop
(dual-boot XP and Fedora Linux). It has never worked under
XP. XP claims to detect it, and tries to download the right driver, but it never installed cleanly. I have removed, downloaded and re-installed the Windows driver repeatedly
but still no dice. And this is just a bog-standard USB mouse.
So I gave up on Windows.
On the other hand, the Linux X window system has supported
it from the start. No problem with running the mouse and touchpad simultaneously and no need to download any special drivers.
A successful terrorist campaign can't thrive unless there is a surrounding community to give shelter, support and the odd recruit. These people don't necessarily have to agree with the motives of the leaders (non-believers must be converted etc...), they just have to have enough of a grudge against the "free world" that they won't act against the terrorists.
If you get the moderate Islamic world on board, you can practically eliminate terrorism. You don't have to eliminate every last OBL type nutjob. On the other hand, if you treat every Muslim as a potential terrorist you will reap what you sow...
Think of the internet as a "virtual world", and the search engine as a
tool for "navigation". You start off to go to
"Joe's motors", and meanwhile you find "Bob's motors" next door.
What's wrong with that?
By the Utah logic, no two car dealers should ever be adjacent.
Once Joe sets up shop, he owns the street.
This is quite at odds with the real world, where we find whole
quarters devoted to a particular trade - because that arrangement
is much more convenient for the trader and the consumer alike.
Q: What's the difference between a "real business" which can rent a co-lo server, and a "residential customer". A: The "real business" has money.
Unfortunately, SPAMMERS HAVE MONEY. Restricting bulk email to the rich will only help spammers. In fact, it will only enforce natural selection in favour of the REALLY EFFECTIVE spammers.
19. The method of claim 14 further comprising: encoding the information utilizing a nanotechnology-based process, an atomic arrangement-based process, a holographic-based process, a laser etching-based process, and/or *** an etched rock-based process. ***
Microsoft want to patent TOMBSTONES?????
Stripped of the legalistic patent jargon, there's really nothing here, is there?
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Damn, that'll teach me not to throw out obsolete stuff. I wrote a simple piece of music software for my Amstrad CPC464 back in the mid-eighties. It took input from the keyboard (using shift/ctrl for sharp and flat, if I recall), displayed musical notation on screen and played it through the primitive sound chip.
I eventually got it to play one of Bach's 48 (preludes & fugues). I seem to recall that it had 4 channels, so could cope with the 4-part counterpoint pretty well. The sound chip was horrible, but if you specified a rapidly decaying envelope it could sound very roughly like a plunckety-plunk "harpsichord".
All gone now: It was stored on one of Alan Sugar's ridiculous 3 inch disks (not 3 1/2 or 5 1/4, and entirely proprietary to his toy computers).
It creeps me right the hell out because how would you know?
Reminds me of a little rhyme my Dad taught me:
See the happy moron,
He doesn't give a damn.
I wish I were a moron,
My God... Perhaps I am!
Therefore, all NY citizens must have their tongues surgically removed, because they might be used to yell "fire" in a crowded theatre (theater?). Smart.
The god hypothesis is Not even wrong
You gotta love that graph.
It looks like the membership of the International Whaling Commission. Whenever a vote comes up on the resumption of commercial whaling, suddenly a load of tiny countries with no interest in whaling nevertheless join up and vote in favour. No connection with the generous aid package which Japan has just given them, of course...
Too true.
They might as well get their answers from the Oracle at Delphi.
What makes this kind of simulation really difficult is the necessity to have accurate, quantitative data on human responses. It's not sufficient to know that such-and-such a stimulus will produce fear, or produce anger, you have to put numbers on it. Because these two effects will act in opposite directions: If fear > anger you may produce compliance, if fear < anger you will often get resistance.
Tweak the values of the parameters and you can get any answer you want.
Of course, this may be the point. Belief in an omniscient oracle (whether accurate or not) might be a useful tool for ending prevarication. In Dennett's "Breaking the Spell" this is suggested as one of the "free-floating rationales" driving the evolution of religious behaviours.
Still, GIGO.
Why, oh why, do I not have mod points when I need them.
Mod parent up +10!
I agree with you there.
I'm an atheist, and I enjoy Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Verdi's requiem.
(actually, come to think of it, 'tis said Verdi was an atheist and he WROTE Verdi's requiem...)
"... everybody knows what the PATRIOT Act is."
... The last refuge of the scoundrel.
"People could even swap information between devices via a firm handshake, Zhong suggests."
I'm told the Masons do this already: - albeit only one bit: I am/am not.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light...
Seems it's not just the police. In England, those who have (n)power and money can pervert the law to hide their misdeeds:
Yes, I'm steaming mad about this
This is irrelevant: we're talking about what is REFLECTED from the surface, NOT transmitted into the depths.
Example: I bought an HP travel mouse for my HP nx6125 laptop (dual-boot XP and Fedora Linux). It has never worked under XP. XP claims to detect it, and tries to download the right driver, but it never installed cleanly. I have removed, downloaded and re-installed the Windows driver repeatedly but still no dice. And this is just a bog-standard USB mouse.
So I gave up on Windows.
On the other hand, the Linux X window system has supported it from the start. No problem with running the mouse and touchpad simultaneously and no need to download any special drivers.
True story.
Strawman.
A successful terrorist campaign can't thrive unless there is a surrounding community to give shelter, support and the odd recruit. These people don't necessarily have to agree with the motives of the leaders (non-believers must be converted etc...), they just have to have enough of a grudge against the "free world" that they won't act against the terrorists.
If you get the moderate Islamic world on board, you can practically eliminate terrorism. You don't have to eliminate every last OBL type nutjob. On the other hand, if you treat every Muslim as a potential terrorist you will reap what you sow...
Yes, someone voted them in.c onstituencies/default.stm
About 22% of the electorate, I believe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/
(see the "share of electorate" graph based on British Electoral Facts by Rallings & Thrasher)
However, it is not in their interest to discourage the submission of frivolous and trivial patents.
Think of the internet as a "virtual world", and the search engine as a tool for "navigation". You start off to go to "Joe's motors", and meanwhile you find "Bob's motors" next door. What's wrong with that?
By the Utah logic, no two car dealers should ever be adjacent. Once Joe sets up shop, he owns the street.
This is quite at odds with the real world, where we find whole quarters devoted to a particular trade - because that arrangement is much more convenient for the trader and the consumer alike.
Q: What's the difference between a "real business" which can
rent a co-lo server, and a "residential customer".
A: The "real business" has money.
Unfortunately, SPAMMERS HAVE MONEY. Restricting bulk email
to the rich will only help spammers. In fact, it will only
enforce natural selection in favour of the REALLY EFFECTIVE
spammers.
I honestly do not believe I am reading THIS:
19. The method of claim 14 further comprising: encoding the information utilizing a nanotechnology-based process, an atomic arrangement-based process, a holographic-based process, a laser etching-based process, and/or
*** an etched rock-based process. ***
Microsoft want to patent TOMBSTONES?????
Stripped of the legalistic patent jargon, there's really nothing
here, is there?