The two biggest problems I have with OO is the poor spell checking (relative to say Word) and the clumsy envelope printing (definitely relative to Word which makes printing one off envelopes trivially easy). I am constantly hit by both of these... adding features won't help if the basic functionality is still lacking.
1) Societal taboos: Society is irrational. Most people are not bright thinkers...
Stop right there. It's not necessary for society to be irrational for there to be a danger, because individuals are irrational. I'd rather not have any nutbar, who decides to take a dislike to me, have unfettered access to personal details such as my schedule and movements.
Geez, were you just born an asshole or did you have to work hard to achieve that level of gratuitous, insulting and demeaning content in your post? I'm guessing the former - it's the more charitable choice. Grow up and get some therapy. Normally I wouldn't post something like this but since you clearly enjoy the ad hominem...
p.s. Please respond in a way that further demonstrates your character defect.
Uh, you seriously think someone is going to come up with a *new* search algorithm in 10 minutes, or even 10 days? Do you understand what that would entail?
If the questions are not representative of what you would actually do on the job then they have some purpose other than determining if you are capable of doing the job. If the questions tend to partition a candidate group by age then by definition they discriminate by age. And if those results are used for hiring then the hiring process discriminates based on age. What part of this don't you get?
Well simply saying "It's their company, they can do that." is a bit silly. If they ask questions that don't reflect the real life >i?actual requirements tobe able to perform the job then clearly the questions have some other purpose. If the questions are oriented so that the typical 20 year old gets a better score than the typical 40 year old then they are defacto discriminatory based on age. Now in some cases that discrimination may be legitimate in which case it should be clearly stated in the job description and be defensible in a court of law if necessary.
1) People generally tend to be more comfortable around people like themselves. I'm not defending that - it's just an observation. It's the basis of most discrimination. So IT exploded and needed a lot more bodies. The only bodies available were young ones newly out of school. Work is social. Young people, especially young men don't really seem to want to be social with guys 20 years older than them. That's not hard to understand but it does mean the older guy will be perceived as not fitting in. Then a few years go by and the new guys are making management decisions. They not only know the older guy won't fit in as well but also they don't want to hire guys to work under them when those guys are more experienced and more knowledgeable than are they themselves.
2) Let's face it your brain doesn't work the same way when you get older. After a certain point you can't just pick up a manual, stay up all night and have it all stick in your head for the next day. On the other hand you do have perspectives and skills which can only be gained by living long enough, and that includes technological domains. So you are still valuable, but in a different way. Unfortunately that different way is not always seen as being as valuable as it is. And even when it is seen as valuable the number of positions where that is a real asset is a fraction of the total number of positions... it's the nature of pyramids.
The big picture doesn't change that much but the tiny, nitty gritty details of how you do things changes rapidly and all the time. Close your eyes for 4 years and, in software at least, most of your detailed tech knowledge will be obsolete. If you are young you can afford the time to keep up... you live it and breath it when you're young. As you get older you develop other priorities and just won't be as able to keep up with that type of thing as well as the younger crowd.
This also wouldn't be the cause of all Type 2 diabetes by a long shot. Much of type 2 is actually insulin resistance not lack of insulin production. The body makes the insulin but doesn't respond to it with the sensitivity of a normal person. Only Type 1 is always low or no insulin production - which arises because the cells in the pancreas are being killed off or inhibited. There has been recent research showing that that may be an inflammatory response.
Diabetes is one of those diseases that is defined by the symptoms not an underlying mechanism. Like AIDS was until consensus became that it was caused by HIV. If you look at the diagnostic criteria for type 2 diabetes it is solely defined in terms of how much blood sugar you have in your blood at a particular instant in time. That's it - no mention of insulin or anything else - just what your blood glucose levels are under certain conditions. You can get diagnosed as diabetic and then drop 20 lbs of body weight and never again show those same glucose levels for the rest of your life - but you will still be labelled as having diabetes for the rest of your life. That has a lot of repercussions on your ability to get health coverage, insurance etc.
My initial impulse was to say something sarcastic like "Thanks for such a huge contribution to the discussion!" but that would serve no useful purpose. Either you are very young or very insecure (leading to overcompensation etc.), or perhaps both. Best of luck in becoming a mature and reasonable human being.
You need to worry about impedance and termination when your transmission line (cable) get to be too long. If you have a one-inch SCSI cable, you can probably get away with no termination at all.
Which would be why I suggested saying "greater than or equal to..."
Well, if the signal ends on a tape recorder, the tape probably moves at 1 inch-per-second. What if the destination is a hard drive spinning at 7600 RPM? The actual linear speed depends on where the head is positioned.
Sorry for being a smart-ass,
That's ok but your statements aren't actually analogous to what I said.
but what the signal does at the other end really does not matter. You have a signal travelling down a wire -- hence it is an electrical signal and you use the speed of electrical signals for determining wavelength. It depends on the cable, but a good rule of thumb is in the 0.7 to 0.8 times the speed of light.
You are right, it's been far too many years since I've thought about this stuff and it was late in the day for me... resulting in a brain fart of unusually large proportions!
Speaker Cable: This may be raw cable with cut-n-soldered ends, or it may have a special pin on the end. The main thing for speaker cable is that it is thick (more important for high power levels & huge amps). This cuts resistive losses. As always, if it has a pin on the end, get gold-plated. For raw cable, if you get corrosion, you can just chop an inch and re-solder.
For many, many years I've used simple power cable - solid or stranded copper. Cheap as dirt and as good as anything you can get for hooking up speakers.
Anybody who tells you to worry about impedance matching or termination on a stereo system is full of bull. When I design digital systems, I have to worry about this sort of stuff when the lengh of the transmission line get to be about 1/4 the wavelength of the highest frequency that I care about. In digital systems, this number is typically about an inch or two. For audio, I would not worry as long as my cables are shorter than 1/4 mile or so.;)
In digital systems termination problems frequently arise with cables much more than an "inch or two"... terminating scsi cabling leaps to mind. So you might want to phrase your explanation explicitly as greater than or equal to 1/4 of a wavelength.
In audio impedance mismatch might occur relative to two outputs (and their sinks), which could possibly affect an amp. As far as impedance mismatch between source and sink causing reflection in a cable then the relevant numbers would be 20KHz and 344m/s (speed of sound; since the electrical waveform mirrors the waveform in air, one simply being the other run through a transducer). This gives a wavelength of 17.2mm. One quarter of that would be 4.3mm... about 1/6th of an inch.
Both my parents are dead. My father just keeled over and died when his third heart attack struck. I was very sad that he was alone when it happened but from all reports, and his own descriptions of his previous two attacks, it was most likely instantaneous from his point of view. I never thought to describe that as lucky - for him or anyone else - until my mother died from a slow wasting disease.
It wasn't Alzheimers but some of the side effects were very similar. One day as I'd just finished spoon feeding her lunch she started to ask when she would be getting lunch, insisting she'd had no food. As her brain was slowly poisoned she went through stages similar to what you described. I took care of her the best I could. It cost me my job and most of my life as it was at that point.
And yet I can only imagine what it was like for you. I don't think anyone who hasn't gone through the process can really know. I don't think anyone who hasn't at least witnessed something like that can even really imagine what it must be like and what it does to those around the victim. As you allude, as we slowly outlive more and more other diseases in the western world then more and more people will end their days like that. You'd think research would get more funding but I guess enough people haven't had it touch their lives - yet.
I'm now safe from ever again having to care for a family member suffering that particular way. I can only hope no one ever has to do it for me.
But the OP wasn't right in saying that we're "all breaking the law anyway". If he'd said lots of people would be breaking the law if the private copying right hadn't been legislated, then he might have been right.
But that's not what he said, what he said was:
since your government seems to think it's OK to just assume you're all breaking the law anyway,...
which is a substantially different thing. I think most people understand that "all" in the above is not to be taken completely literally.
You've got it wrong: the government thinks that it is *not* illegal to copy music for personal use. The levy gives me the right to make copies of music for my use. Period. Nothing illegal about it. And why shouldn't it be legal? Why should the government support one or two particular delivery methods, rather than letting me get the music any way I like, as long as the artist gets paid?
Well no, I think he got it absolutely correct. The Canadian government assumed everyone, or a large percentage of the population, was going to be doing it anyway and so authorized a charge on all media of a certain class. If the opinion was that it was a tiny minority there would be no justification for the charge. Further, since they are making one pay for copying whether I do it or not, there is presumption of guilt. Imagine if they decided lots of people steal so we'll just put everyone in jail for a couple of days each year.
The carrot that went with the stick was that people can copy without fear. Why would anyone buy music when they have already been charged for it whenever they buy blank media? I think a lot of people who would never have copied/dl'd music began to do so as a result of this law.
As for artists getting the money - I admit I haven't checked for a while but that doesn't seem to actually be happening, despite collecting the levy money for years.
You would need physical access to the wired network in order to carry out your plans for espionage.
Ummmm, no you don't. There is almost always rf leakage from cables and these can be picked up and decoded - intelligence agencies have known how to do this for a long time.
If you look at what they are doing most of the individual elements are not new (check the 1992 book The Reactive Keyboard http://www.amazon.ca/Reactive-Keyboard-John-J-Darr agh/dp/0521403758 ) - however the combination of individual elements *may* be new and sufficiently creative to make for a defensible case against infringers.
1205 pages? In one book? Have any of the people involved actually tried using the book? As in carrying it around, flipping form chapter to chapter? This is ridiculous... this is exactly the point of multiple volumes.... physical ease of use! It's a book I'd actually like to have but not if it means it's like carrying a boat anchor around.
Another example I like to point out is John Brunner and his predictions on information technology and society in his novel "The Shockwave Rider"... despite being written almost 40 years ago I've seen many of his predictions (worms, compensation for lack of technology, Coley (iirc) dancing, stress reactions to change) come true... I find it amazing to think about what the state of technology was 40 years ago and then see how much he got right. Most importantly his ideas on how people/society would react to these are not far off and provided food for thought.
It should be noted that this project seems to be all about the various stills taken. When I saw the word "films" in the title it didn't imply stills to me. But a great thing nonetheless.
Sounds to me like you're describing the "achievement gap" right there.
It's only a gap if you narrowly examine the data to exclude every other kind of achievement in life. Women who make the same choices as men get the same rewards as men. Women who make different choices than men get different rewards than men. Exactly what about that situation do you want to change?
Here's an achievement gap though: women achieve a lifespan approximately 10% greater than that of me. Now that's a gap!
I don't know that I believe the axiom that given equal education/choices women aren't at a disadvantage
Of course they would be at a disadvantage in that case, considering that it would be a reduction from the current situation where women have more choice than men.
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The two biggest problems I have with OO is the poor spell checking (relative to say Word) and the clumsy envelope printing (definitely relative to Word which makes printing one off envelopes trivially easy). I am constantly hit by both of these... adding features won't help if the basic functionality is still lacking.
and they could move freely within it, to relive the better moments and fast-forward over the unpleasant ones.
So they could choose which moments to linger over...
and so they knew that choice is an illusion
So then they couldn't choose to fast forward over unpleasant experiences and linger over better moments.
Vonnegut should have had a wrestling match, in a big pit of mud jello, with Philip K. Dick.
I think the problem with talking about these sorts of things, and probably also talking about conciousness as well, is that it runs smack into Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_theorems.
1) Societal taboos: Society is irrational. Most people are not bright thinkers...
Stop right there. It's not necessary for society to be irrational for there to be a danger, because individuals are irrational. I'd rather not have any nutbar, who decides to take a dislike to me, have unfettered access to personal details such as my schedule and movements.
Geez, were you just born an asshole or did you have to work hard to achieve that level of gratuitous, insulting and demeaning content in your post? I'm guessing the former - it's the more charitable choice. Grow up and get some therapy. Normally I wouldn't post something like this but since you clearly enjoy the ad hominem...
p.s. Please respond in a way that further demonstrates your character defect.
Uh, you seriously think someone is going to come up with a *new* search algorithm in 10 minutes, or even 10 days? Do you understand what that would entail?
If the questions are not representative of what you would actually do on the job then they have some purpose other than determining if you are capable of doing the job. If the questions tend to partition a candidate group by age then by definition they discriminate by age. And if those results are used for hiring then the hiring process discriminates based on age. What part of this don't you get?
Well simply saying "It's their company, they can do that." is a bit silly. If they ask questions that don't reflect the real life >i?actual requirements tobe able to perform the job then clearly the questions have some other purpose. If the questions are oriented so that the typical 20 year old gets a better score than the typical 40 year old then they are defacto discriminatory based on age. Now in some cases that discrimination may be legitimate in which case it should be clearly stated in the job description and be defensible in a court of law if necessary.
I think there are other things as well.
1) People generally tend to be more comfortable around people like themselves. I'm not defending that - it's just an observation. It's the basis of most discrimination. So IT exploded and needed a lot more bodies. The only bodies available were young ones newly out of school. Work is social. Young people, especially young men don't really seem to want to be social with guys 20 years older than them. That's not hard to understand but it does mean the older guy will be perceived as not fitting in. Then a few years go by and the new guys are making management decisions. They not only know the older guy won't fit in as well but also they don't want to hire guys to work under them when those guys are more experienced and more knowledgeable than are they themselves.
2) Let's face it your brain doesn't work the same way when you get older. After a certain point you can't just pick up a manual, stay up all night and have it all stick in your head for the next day. On the other hand you do have perspectives and skills which can only be gained by living long enough, and that includes technological domains. So you are still valuable, but in a different way. Unfortunately that different way is not always seen as being as valuable as it is. And even when it is seen as valuable the number of positions where that is a real asset is a fraction of the total number of positions... it's the nature of pyramids.
The big picture doesn't change that much but the tiny, nitty gritty details of how you do things changes rapidly and all the time. Close your eyes for 4 years and, in software at least, most of your detailed tech knowledge will be obsolete. If you are young you can afford the time to keep up... you live it and breath it when you're young. As you get older you develop other priorities and just won't be as able to keep up with that type of thing as well as the younger crowd.
This also wouldn't be the cause of all Type 2 diabetes by a long shot. Much of type 2 is actually insulin resistance not lack of insulin production. The body makes the insulin but doesn't respond to it with the sensitivity of a normal person. Only Type 1 is always low or no insulin production - which arises because the cells in the pancreas are being killed off or inhibited. There has been recent research showing that that may be an inflammatory response.
Diabetes is one of those diseases that is defined by the symptoms not an underlying mechanism. Like AIDS was until consensus became that it was caused by HIV. If you look at the diagnostic criteria for type 2 diabetes it is solely defined in terms of how much blood sugar you have in your blood at a particular instant in time. That's it - no mention of insulin or anything else - just what your blood glucose levels are under certain conditions. You can get diagnosed as diabetic and then drop 20 lbs of body weight and never again show those same glucose levels for the rest of your life - but you will still be labelled as having diabetes for the rest of your life. That has a lot of repercussions on your ability to get health coverage, insurance etc.
My initial impulse was to say something sarcastic like "Thanks for such a huge contribution to the discussion!" but that would serve no useful purpose. Either you are very young or very insecure (leading to overcompensation etc.), or perhaps both. Best of luck in becoming a mature and reasonable human being.
You need to worry about impedance and termination when your transmission line (cable) get to be too long. If you have a one-inch SCSI cable, you can probably get away with no termination at all.
Which would be why I suggested saying "greater than or equal to..."
Well, if the signal ends on a tape recorder, the tape probably moves at 1 inch-per-second. What if the destination is a hard drive spinning at 7600 RPM? The actual linear speed depends on where the head is positioned. Sorry for being a smart-ass,
That's ok but your statements aren't actually analogous to what I said.
but what the signal does at the other end really does not matter. You have a signal travelling down a wire -- hence it is an electrical signal and you use the speed of electrical signals for determining wavelength. It depends on the cable, but a good rule of thumb is in the 0.7 to 0.8 times the speed of light.
You are right, it's been far too many years since I've thought about this stuff and it was late in the day for me... resulting in a brain fart of unusually large proportions!
Speaker Cable: This may be raw cable with cut-n-soldered ends, or it may have a special pin on the end. The main thing for speaker cable is that it is thick (more important for high power levels & huge amps). This cuts resistive losses. As always, if it has a pin on the end, get gold-plated. For raw cable, if you get corrosion, you can just chop an inch and re-solder.
For many, many years I've used simple power cable - solid or stranded copper. Cheap as dirt and as good as anything you can get for hooking up speakers.
Anybody who tells you to worry about impedance matching or termination on a stereo system is full of bull. When I design digital systems, I have to worry about this sort of stuff when the lengh of the transmission line get to be about 1/4 the wavelength of the highest frequency that I care about. In digital systems, this number is typically about an inch or two. For audio, I would not worry as long as my cables are shorter than 1/4 mile or so. ;)
In digital systems termination problems frequently arise with cables much more than an "inch or two"... terminating scsi cabling leaps to mind. So you might want to phrase your explanation explicitly as greater than or equal to 1/4 of a wavelength.
... about 1/6th of an inch.
In audio impedance mismatch might occur relative to two outputs (and their sinks), which could possibly affect an amp. As far as impedance mismatch between source and sink causing reflection in a cable then the relevant numbers would be 20KHz and 344m/s (speed of sound; since the electrical waveform mirrors the waveform in air, one simply being the other run through a transducer). This gives a wavelength of 17.2mm. One quarter of that would be 4.3mm
He "limited" other men to only 4 wives (already a mysoginistic bastard but we'll move on)
Misogyny? Wouldn't a man having four wives be considered misandry http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/misandry?
Both my parents are dead. My father just keeled over and died when his third heart attack struck. I was very sad that he was alone when it happened but from all reports, and his own descriptions of his previous two attacks, it was most likely instantaneous from his point of view. I never thought to describe that as lucky - for him or anyone else - until my mother died from a slow wasting disease.
It wasn't Alzheimers but some of the side effects were very similar. One day as I'd just finished spoon feeding her lunch she started to ask when she would be getting lunch, insisting she'd had no food. As her brain was slowly poisoned she went through stages similar to what you described. I took care of her the best I could. It cost me my job and most of my life as it was at that point.
And yet I can only imagine what it was like for you. I don't think anyone who hasn't gone through the process can really know . I don't think anyone who hasn't at least witnessed something like that can even really imagine what it must be like and what it does to those around the victim. As you allude, as we slowly outlive more and more other diseases in the western world then more and more people will end their days like that. You'd think research would get more funding but I guess enough people haven't had it touch their lives - yet.
I'm now safe from ever again having to care for a family member suffering that particular way. I can only hope no one ever has to do it for me.
We'll trade you Quebec for Alaska and Washington state.
But the OP wasn't right in saying that we're "all breaking the law anyway". If he'd said lots of people would be breaking the law if the private copying right hadn't been legislated, then he might have been right.
...
But that's not what he said, what he said was:
since your government seems to think it's OK to just assume you're all breaking the law anyway,
which is a substantially different thing. I think most people understand that "all" in the above is not to be taken completely literally.
You've got it wrong: the government thinks that it is *not* illegal to copy music for personal use. The levy gives me the right to make copies of music for my use. Period. Nothing illegal about it. And why shouldn't it be legal? Why should the government support one or two particular delivery methods, rather than letting me get the music any way I like, as long as the artist gets paid?
Well no, I think he got it absolutely correct. The Canadian government assumed everyone, or a large percentage of the population, was going to be doing it anyway and so authorized a charge on all media of a certain class. If the opinion was that it was a tiny minority there would be no justification for the charge. Further, since they are making one pay for copying whether I do it or not, there is presumption of guilt. Imagine if they decided lots of people steal so we'll just put everyone in jail for a couple of days each year.
The carrot that went with the stick was that people can copy without fear. Why would anyone buy music when they have already been charged for it whenever they buy blank media? I think a lot of people who would never have copied/dl'd music began to do so as a result of this law.
As for artists getting the money - I admit I haven't checked for a while but that doesn't seem to actually be happening, despite collecting the levy money for years.
You would need physical access to the wired network in order to carry out your plans for espionage.
Ummmm, no you don't. There is almost always rf leakage from cables and these can be picked up and decoded - intelligence agencies have known how to do this for a long time.
In an effort to make science easier some constants will have their values refined. The new values are to be:
PI 3
E 2
i 1
Further the set of mathematical operations allowed will be restricted to those in the following list:
+
And finally, the only numbers allowed will be the whole numbers.
many conspiring men who have their hearts set on addicting
Errrr, let me remove the seixism in the above comment for you:
many conspiring people who have their hearts set on addicting
If you look at what they are doing most of the individual elements are not new (check the 1992 book The Reactive Keyboard http://www.amazon.ca/Reactive-Keyboard-John-J-Darr agh/dp/0521403758 ) - however the combination of individual elements *may* be new and sufficiently creative to make for a defensible case against infringers.
1205 pages? In one book? Have any of the people involved actually tried using the book? As in carrying it around, flipping form chapter to chapter? This is ridiculous... this is exactly the point of multiple volumes.... physical ease of use! It's a book I'd actually like to have but not if it means it's like carrying a boat anchor around.
Another example I like to point out is John Brunner and his predictions on information technology and society in his novel "The Shockwave Rider"... despite being written almost 40 years ago I've seen many of his predictions (worms, compensation for lack of technology, Coley (iirc) dancing, stress reactions to change) come true... I find it amazing to think about what the state of technology was 40 years ago and then see how much he got right. Most importantly his ideas on how people/society would react to these are not far off and provided food for thought.
Ha Ha Ha, the Canadian need to insert their minor contributions into world events is hilarious.
Shhhhhh! You're embarrassing your country (not to mention yourself)!
It should be noted that this project seems to be all about the various stills taken. When I saw the word "films" in the title it didn't imply stills to me. But a great thing nonetheless.
Sounds to me like you're describing the "achievement gap" right there.
It's only a gap if you narrowly examine the data to exclude every other kind of achievement in life. Women who make the same choices as men get the same rewards as men. Women who make different choices than men get different rewards than men. Exactly what about that situation do you want to change?
Here's an achievement gap though: women achieve a lifespan approximately 10% greater than that of me. Now that's a gap!
I don't know that I believe the axiom that given equal education/choices women aren't at a disadvantage
Of course they would be at a disadvantage in that case, considering that it would be a reduction from the current situation where women have more choice than men.