Baby crying has a wide variation, and the fundamental frequency is (depending on who you ask) somewhere around 500Hz, but you get strong harmonics and nonlinears up in the 3Khz area. The non-linears are a strong part of the annoyance too. See for example http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/studentdownloads/DEA3500pdfs/hearing.pdf
And you are designed by millions of years of evolution to find that so annoying you will do anything to make it stop.
Of course people are going to support large-scale 'fixes' rather than having to car pool.
And we are very bad at risk estimation, especially for things we have no experience with. So given vague probability of 'oops we might toast the earth or kick start a new ice age' versus the price of gas doubling, the first choice is going to look pretty attractive.
I don't agree with that, but I think that's what you're dealing with.
Oh for fuck's sake. I get moderated down for asking a serious question? I really do want to know. What the hell is wrong with you people? I apologize if I stepped on the tail of a Ruby diehard, but the bloom is off the rose and I am curious why.
Not to take anything away from this framework, but now I'm curious since at first I took the post title too literally. Wasn't Ruby supposed to be modern Perl for the web? Whatever happened to that? People get bored? Web developer ADHD?
With Gmail, I just throw all old email into an 'old' folder and use search since gmail's search is great.
With Thunderbird I separate into separate folders since T-bird's search is... okay. It works like you'd expect. Quick look in the folder, then search all.
With Outlook (at work) I separate things by folders since Outlook's search is abysmally bad. Advanced search never works properly.
It's educational outreach. I played around with everything, didn't see any any real crowdsourcing - there is a game you can play to identify the particles, but they've already been identified so you're just seeing if you can get the right answer.
The disappointing bit is not being able to automatically stream new events. You have to hit 'get new event'. Obviously a big firehose of data would be bad, but once every 5 seconds or so could be soothing.
Man, fuck you nimrods with moderation points - there needs to be a meta-moderation death penalty for stupid use of the Troll moderation category.
I can be abrasive as all fucking hell, and I may be completely wrong in what I'm saying, but if I were merely trolling you I wouldn't need to be nearly so self-indulgently verbose, and I am 100% serious in what I'm saying. Even when I'm saying it in a way guaranteed to grate on you when you're the category of willful victim I'm targeting, it's sincere.
Saying something you desperately don't want to hear is not the same as trolling you. Learn the difference, if you can with your fingers jammed so far into your ears they're raping your cortex.
Yeah, well, small fry like Good Old Games or Indie Pack are even nicer. That's why I specified LARGE.
But at the large company level Valve is a great compared to someone like Activision-Blizzard, MS, or Sony. They let me do things with my games (like mod them) that nobody else is willing to do, or sell them so cheaply it doesn't matter, or constantly update stuff that I bought years ago for free. It's all sadly relative.
You should consider that when Sony's so willing to just casually announce they're going to beat you tonight it might be time to look elsewhere.
Yes, I realize Microsoft and Nintendo beat you too. So do EA and Activision-Blizzard, and... really, the only large company that isn't abusive and is willing to treat you like a human being is Valve. Zenimax/Bethesda is usually nice, but then they do something totally f#4ing dickly like suing Mojang for using 'Scrolls' in a completely unrelated context. Isn't it scary when a nice guy goes psycho?
But only Sony is so willing to rub your goddamn face in it with stuff like this, the new PSN EULA that says you have no goddamn rights whatsoever you pathetic turd, disabling USB, disabling OtherOS, disabling PS2 emulation, blah blah blah. Because they know you're a loser and worthless without them.
And you, the loser that you are, just sob 'Oh God, Sony, thank you so much for caring about me so goddamn much that you're willing to keep hitting me. Please don't ever leave me, or I might have to go to Nintendo or Microsoft or Valve, and they're just not as COOL because they don't hit me as hard.'
This entire thread (and I read every comment, gawd help me) just reinforces the original comment. There are an awful lot of people who have a really, really good reason - no really, really! - why they should be able to say what they want and you shouldn't be able to say what you want. And furthermore, you shouldn't even be able to/not/ say something you don't want to, because groupthink requires cohesion, so not agreeing or disagreeing is hate speech.
It's obviously a losing battle, since there are always far more people who find it advantageous to exploit you than people who are willing to just let people be people, even if they're dicks, so it'll be interesting to see where this really gets neutered.
> I like it when people don't know their history. It really makes me chuckle.
We know our history. That's why we have to defend the Bill of Rights against the overwhelming legions of mouthbreathers who want to neuter it at every step, even when they sometimes succeed at it. It's very sad to have to take such a hard position, but as this report, which even defines NO SPEECH as hate speech, demonstrates, everyone has a really really really good reason for not letting you say what you want while they get to say whatever they want. There's a very obvious just down the slope point here, which is Britain, where The Sun gets to say almost any ridiculous salacious thing it wants while a scientist who says homeopathy might not work gets the crap sued out of him.
Just because someone did something short sighted doesn't mean we have to let it happen again and again.
It says that the first half a strawman, yes, before unleashing the 'BUT THIS IS WRONG'. This is quite obvious from reading it.
The entire paper is a dissertation on why we can't let the first amendment keep us from disallowing speech we don't like. Your penultimate sentence admits this, so stop using 'bullshit' tactics to pretend it doesn't say this and just defend that position forthrightly instead of bizarrely trying to claim a neutral position. I object far more to your intellectual dishonesty here in baldfacedly claiming 'It's not an argument one way or the other' than I object to your actual position, because I realize a lot of people have what they think are good reasons for not allowing free speech.
No, I read the entire report, that's how I knew it was from the 'Independent Democratic Conference'.
I also don't care how many disclaimers you put on something saying you're not doing X, it doesn't matter when you're still doing X. In fact that's a favorite tactic of people who are doing X.
The kicker is page 33-35, which is almost entirely an argument for throwing the First Amendment under the bus when you don't care for it 'PROPONENTS OF A MORE REFINED FIRST AMENDMENT ARGUE THAT THIS FREEDOM SHOULD BE TREATED NOT AS A RIGHT BUT AS A PRIVILEGE – A SPECIAL ENTITLEMENT GRANTED BY THE STATE ON A CONDITIONAL BASIS THAT CAN BE REVOKED IF IT IS EVER ABUSED OR MALTREATED.'
Just to drive it home, since the summary and article avoid it scrupulously, this is a Democratic party proposal from an 'Independent Democratic Conference'.
Not because I think the Republicans are any better, but people seem to need reminding that both major political parties hate the Bill of Rights and love short sighted dangerous 'fixes' for whatever they think today's social panic is.
What? I'm on Win7 at home and laptop, and my start menu works exactly like it did on XP, with the bonus addition of the quick search box. Just confirmed this with my work computer, which is still on XP, and laptop side by side.
This thing isn't an iPad killer, to start with, it's deftly sidestepping that. This is a media consumption tablet. Stripping out all the things that confuse people is a positive - something that Apple figured out a long time ago and nerds just can't seem to get our withered mirror neurons around.
The people who are going to buy it to read books and magazines aren't going to care where their packets go. I do, but I also want my tablet to be a laptop replacement.
At some point, new cathodes, anodes and electrolytes, or moving entirely to something like supercapacitors may allow you to fully charge your car in 30 seconds (the electric grid will need beefing up too).
That'll take years and years and years but at that point it may be useful. And then they can pull out this patent.
I'm not reading this as a hypervisor (though it's a good idea) - it certainly could be, but they're not providing enough detail and there are already hypervisors out there.
The FAQ on this thing isn't really a FAQ, it's just marketing bullshit, but they keep talking about the DeepSAFE hardware working in concert with the MacAfee software - there might not even be any anti-virus software as such running on the DeepSAFE hardware itself.
That sounds more like a JTAG-type debugger for the CPU that lets software running on the PC get a raw look at the contents of memory and various CPU registers and bits while completely bypassing all of the OS/CPU controls on that.
Which of course would also be great for malware to have access to as well.
'it provides a direct view of system memory and processor activity, allowing McAfee products to gain an additional vantage point in the computing stack'
So it's visible from the OS. Now we have another vector of attack. How long before it's exploited to create even deeper rootkits, eh? Unless it's completely uncrackable, like the PS3.
'when for today’s applications, a cable modem offering 12-14 Mbps down will do just fine?'
So we can get better applications. So Netflix can stream without butchering the content like it currently does. Because you really have to worry about multiple users and aggregation. You can really see this with GoToMeeting and WebEx: I don't care what their service claims are, every time we have more than a couple people on a meeting the voice and video are crap.
How about the up being much more constrained than the down? That's not a problem for streaming video in, but is for other applications.
'You don't need more than 12-14 Mbps down because that's all we have today' is a blisteringly dumb argument.
I'd argue that the ideal situation is to be able to see the flaws (and point them out) but still enjoy what you have. At this point I can find flaws in every single game I play, but still rave about how good some of them are.
And if enough people complain often enough, things can improve. Only the crappiest console to PC ports don't have save anywhere these days. Even Square, king of the lazy-ass random encounter mechanism for RPGs, has mostly given them up. Mass Effect 2 took every bit of complaining about Mass Effect 1 and used it to craft a huge improvement in the gameplay (for most people, I know the move away from slower RPG mechanics offends some).
For instance, one thing that really needs to go is Boss Fights in Every Game. They're great for some types of game, and even games that are nothing but boss fights can be fantastic (Shadow of the Colossus), but they've seriously hurt several otherwise fantastic AAA games like BioShock, Arkham Asylum, and most recently Deus Ex: Human Revolution. And enough people are pointing out why it's a bad idea that one of the DX:HR guys sounded rather defensive about putting the boss fights in, and Ken Levine is out and out apologetic about it for BioShock.
But I'm still enjoying the hell out of DX:HR even while I can see where it's not perfect.
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Baby crying has a wide variation, and the fundamental frequency is (depending on who you ask) somewhere around 500Hz, but you get strong harmonics and nonlinears up in the 3Khz area. The non-linears are a strong part of the annoyance too. See for example http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/studentdownloads/DEA3500pdfs/hearing.pdf
And you are designed by millions of years of evolution to find that so annoying you will do anything to make it stop.
Of course people are going to support large-scale 'fixes' rather than having to car pool.
And we are very bad at risk estimation, especially for things we have no experience with. So given vague probability of 'oops we might toast the earth or kick start a new ice age' versus the price of gas doubling, the first choice is going to look pretty attractive.
I don't agree with that, but I think that's what you're dealing with.
Which is fine. Those are natural for Google+.
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2011/10/upcoming-changes-to-reader-new-look-new.html
All right, thank you to everyone who answered this seriously. I think I've gotten some idea now.
Oh for fuck's sake. I get moderated down for asking a serious question? I really do want to know. What the hell is wrong with you people? I apologize if I stepped on the tail of a Ruby diehard, but the bloom is off the rose and I am curious why.
Not to take anything away from this framework, but now I'm curious since at first I took the post title too literally. Wasn't Ruby supposed to be modern Perl for the web? Whatever happened to that? People get bored? Web developer ADHD?
With Gmail, I just throw all old email into an 'old' folder and use search since gmail's search is great.
With Thunderbird I separate into separate folders since T-bird's search is... okay. It works like you'd expect. Quick look in the folder, then search all.
With Outlook (at work) I separate things by folders since Outlook's search is abysmally bad. Advanced search never works properly.
It's educational outreach. I played around with everything, didn't see any any real crowdsourcing - there is a game you can play to identify the particles, but they've already been identified so you're just seeing if you can get the right answer.
The disappointing bit is not being able to automatically stream new events. You have to hit 'get new event'. Obviously a big firehose of data would be bad, but once every 5 seconds or so could be soothing.
Man, fuck you nimrods with moderation points - there needs to be a meta-moderation death penalty for stupid use of the Troll moderation category.
I can be abrasive as all fucking hell, and I may be completely wrong in what I'm saying, but if I were merely trolling you I wouldn't need to be nearly so self-indulgently verbose, and I am 100% serious in what I'm saying. Even when I'm saying it in a way guaranteed to grate on you when you're the category of willful victim I'm targeting, it's sincere.
Saying something you desperately don't want to hear is not the same as trolling you. Learn the difference, if you can with your fingers jammed so far into your ears they're raping your cortex.
Yeah, well, small fry like Good Old Games or Indie Pack are even nicer. That's why I specified LARGE.
But at the large company level Valve is a great compared to someone like Activision-Blizzard, MS, or Sony. They let me do things with my games (like mod them) that nobody else is willing to do, or sell them so cheaply it doesn't matter, or constantly update stuff that I bought years ago for free. It's all sadly relative.
Fffft, this has nothing to do with piracy, which is miniscule because most people are too lazy, and everything to do with used game sales.
You should consider that when Sony's so willing to just casually announce they're going to beat you tonight it might be time to look elsewhere.
Yes, I realize Microsoft and Nintendo beat you too. So do EA and Activision-Blizzard, and... really, the only large company that isn't abusive and is willing to treat you like a human being is Valve. Zenimax/Bethesda is usually nice, but then they do something totally f#4ing dickly like suing Mojang for using 'Scrolls' in a completely unrelated context. Isn't it scary when a nice guy goes psycho?
But only Sony is so willing to rub your goddamn face in it with stuff like this, the new PSN EULA that says you have no goddamn rights whatsoever you pathetic turd, disabling USB, disabling OtherOS, disabling PS2 emulation, blah blah blah. Because they know you're a loser and worthless without them.
And you, the loser that you are, just sob 'Oh God, Sony, thank you so much for caring about me so goddamn much that you're willing to keep hitting me. Please don't ever leave me, or I might have to go to Nintendo or Microsoft or Valve, and they're just not as COOL because they don't hit me as hard.'
Maybe it's time to start playing the field.
This entire thread (and I read every comment, gawd help me) just reinforces the original comment. There are an awful lot of people who have a really, really good reason - no really, really! - why they should be able to say what they want and you shouldn't be able to say what you want. And furthermore, you shouldn't even be able to /not/ say something you don't want to, because groupthink requires cohesion, so not agreeing or disagreeing is hate speech.
It's obviously a losing battle, since there are always far more people who find it advantageous to exploit you than people who are willing to just let people be people, even if they're dicks, so it'll be interesting to see where this really gets neutered.
> I like it when people don't know their history. It really makes me chuckle.
We know our history. That's why we have to defend the Bill of Rights against the overwhelming legions of mouthbreathers who want to neuter it at every step, even when they sometimes succeed at it. It's very sad to have to take such a hard position, but as this report, which even defines NO SPEECH as hate speech, demonstrates, everyone has a really really really good reason for not letting you say what you want while they get to say whatever they want. There's a very obvious just down the slope point here, which is Britain, where The Sun gets to say almost any ridiculous salacious thing it wants while a scientist who says homeopathy might not work gets the crap sued out of him.
Just because someone did something short sighted doesn't mean we have to let it happen again and again.
It says that the first half a strawman, yes, before unleashing the 'BUT THIS IS WRONG'. This is quite obvious from reading it.
The entire paper is a dissertation on why we can't let the first amendment keep us from disallowing speech we don't like. Your penultimate sentence admits this, so stop using 'bullshit' tactics to pretend it doesn't say this and just defend that position forthrightly instead of bizarrely trying to claim a neutral position. I object far more to your intellectual dishonesty here in baldfacedly claiming 'It's not an argument one way or the other' than I object to your actual position, because I realize a lot of people have what they think are good reasons for not allowing free speech.
No, I read the entire report, that's how I knew it was from the 'Independent Democratic Conference'.
I also don't care how many disclaimers you put on something saying you're not doing X, it doesn't matter when you're still doing X. In fact that's a favorite tactic of people who are doing X.
The kicker is page 33-35, which is almost entirely an argument for throwing the First Amendment under the bus when you don't care for it 'PROPONENTS OF A MORE REFINED FIRST AMENDMENT ARGUE THAT THIS FREEDOM SHOULD BE TREATED NOT AS A RIGHT BUT AS A PRIVILEGE – A SPECIAL ENTITLEMENT GRANTED BY THE STATE ON A CONDITIONAL BASIS THAT CAN BE REVOKED IF IT IS EVER ABUSED OR MALTREATED.'
Just to drive it home, since the summary and article avoid it scrupulously, this is a Democratic party proposal from an 'Independent Democratic Conference'.
Not because I think the Republicans are any better, but people seem to need reminding that both major political parties hate the Bill of Rights and love short sighted dangerous 'fixes' for whatever they think today's social panic is.
What? I'm on Win7 at home and laptop, and my start menu works exactly like it did on XP, with the bonus addition of the quick search box. Just confirmed this with my work computer, which is still on XP, and laptop side by side.
This thing isn't an iPad killer, to start with, it's deftly sidestepping that. This is a media consumption tablet. Stripping out all the things that confuse people is a positive - something that Apple figured out a long time ago and nerds just can't seem to get our withered mirror neurons around.
The people who are going to buy it to read books and magazines aren't going to care where their packets go. I do, but I also want my tablet to be a laptop replacement.
At some point, new cathodes, anodes and electrolytes, or moving entirely to something like supercapacitors may allow you to fully charge your car in 30 seconds (the electric grid will need beefing up too).
That'll take years and years and years but at that point it may be useful. And then they can pull out this patent.
I was thinking this was for Ivy Bridge or Haswell - Intel /bought/ McAfee, so adding extra future hardware support is somewhat plausible.
But now I see a 'The technology is expected to launch in products later in 2011' line, and Ivy Bridge isn't till 2012, so you're probably right.
I'm not reading this as a hypervisor (though it's a good idea) - it certainly could be, but they're not providing enough detail and there are already hypervisors out there.
The FAQ on this thing isn't really a FAQ, it's just marketing bullshit, but they keep talking about the DeepSAFE hardware working in concert with the MacAfee software - there might not even be any anti-virus software as such running on the DeepSAFE hardware itself.
That sounds more like a JTAG-type debugger for the CPU that lets software running on the PC get a raw look at the contents of memory and various CPU registers and bits while completely bypassing all of the OS/CPU controls on that.
Which of course would also be great for malware to have access to as well.
'it provides a direct view of system memory and processor activity, allowing McAfee products to gain an additional vantage point in the computing stack'
So it's visible from the OS. Now we have another vector of attack. How long before it's exploited to create even deeper rootkits, eh? Unless it's completely uncrackable, like the PS3.
'when for today’s applications, a cable modem offering 12-14 Mbps down will do just fine?'
So we can get better applications. So Netflix can stream without butchering the content like it currently does. Because you really have to worry about multiple users and aggregation. You can really see this with GoToMeeting and WebEx: I don't care what their service claims are, every time we have more than a couple people on a meeting the voice and video are crap.
How about the up being much more constrained than the down? That's not a problem for streaming video in, but is for other applications.
'You don't need more than 12-14 Mbps down because that's all we have today' is a blisteringly dumb argument.
I'd argue that the ideal situation is to be able to see the flaws (and point them out) but still enjoy what you have. At this point I can find flaws in every single game I play, but still rave about how good some of them are.
And if enough people complain often enough, things can improve. Only the crappiest console to PC ports don't have save anywhere these days. Even Square, king of the lazy-ass random encounter mechanism for RPGs, has mostly given them up. Mass Effect 2 took every bit of complaining about Mass Effect 1 and used it to craft a huge improvement in the gameplay (for most people, I know the move away from slower RPG mechanics offends some).
For instance, one thing that really needs to go is Boss Fights in Every Game. They're great for some types of game, and even games that are nothing but boss fights can be fantastic (Shadow of the Colossus), but they've seriously hurt several otherwise fantastic AAA games like BioShock, Arkham Asylum, and most recently Deus Ex: Human Revolution. And enough people are pointing out why it's a bad idea that one of the DX:HR guys sounded rather defensive about putting the boss fights in, and Ken Levine is out and out apologetic about it for BioShock.
But I'm still enjoying the hell out of DX:HR even while I can see where it's not perfect.