because its all command line, I wrote a script that leaves the DVD tray open and whenever I pop a disc in, it is automatically transferred and encoded to x264/mkv in the background.
after doing a dvdbackup to a tmp directory, the DVD tray is ejected whilst encoding proceeds, allowing me to pop a few in before I go to sleep.
mkv now supports VOB subtitles, so I just use that for all subtitles for now - I can always develop another tool chain to convert the current mkvs to new mkvs with ocr on the subtitles converting them to srt format.
certainly saves a lot of space over storing DVDs raw.
I realise its a little hard to say without direct experience, but I have had an epidural, so I know what it feels like to be paralysed. I would say that if the lethal injection causes paralysis alone, then the one being put to death would feel less than the audience during the experience. All present were witnesses.
I think If there is a chance I might see some really good stuff as I fade away, especially if my mind dilated time so the last few seconds of firing neurons seem like a dream, then it would be the best choice.
I tend to think of a botched hanging as someone whose neck does not break in the initial fall. They struggle for life - trying to find the most appropriate position to keep breathing. It can take sometime as they weaken from the muscle strain and fight to the end. No time to dream, too busy fighting.
I just had to let you know that you have hit the nail on the head when it comes to societies lack of vigilance for truth, merely vigilance for mob mentality dispensed "justice".
I think you have an interesting perspective of gravity.
The problem here may stem from thinking of gravity as affecting itself - it affects of all objects that possess mass/energy - directly in relation to mass.
if light waves can't escape a black hole then why can gravitational waves?
The speed of gravity and the speed of light are actually based on the speed of certainty of the speed of causality - its related to information, or knowledge of existence being a function of time.
The gravity waves are not EM waves, they are not really waves in that sense.
They are perceived as waves in the mind, but are actually more like a phenomenon due to our inherent sense of spatial location as being static. If you can accept that the speed of causality is the issue and that space and time follow Einsteins general theory, then these waves are only present when thought of upon a euclidean spatial background. If more of us realised how innate our euclidean sense is and then realised it is not correct when it describes our space-time, we may realise that gravity waves are an observational phenomenon like red-shift and quite possibly carry no energy at all - which is why they don't affect themselves and why many believe the search for displaced energy or measurable spatial contractions are futile
It is true for instance that the onset of a gravity wave cannot be measured simply because the act is about the relationship between this far-away object and the local intstrument and all parts of the instrument are affected by the wave in the same way, so local interactions remain consistent - some hypothesise the contractions can be observed perpendicular to the wave onset, but I am not convinced.
I agree it doesn't warrant much concern with respect to relevance to my own personal life. I don't think of Bill as being #1 anyway, deserved or undeserved, I would have trouble sleeping if I were Bill, and I enjoy a good sleep more than money. (Both is the best situation, but I would not wish to sacrifice either.)
... why ? because having access to a computer in an age where having ones own helicopter would be similar had no affect on the outcome of Bill's life ?
Yes, but without some model of the acidity levels, the data only serves knowledge of the past. Any projection forward is some kind of model. I think its fair to say that any model maybe silly if we could only act on a high degree of certainty.
If there is a possibility of large scale sufferring, I think we should forgo the luxury of a precise model,
the hardest part will be admitting to ourselves that to reduce the risk in the face of high uncertainty requires the will to act.
I have trouble coming to terms with it myself - I fear we are headed for many social collapses to coincide with a global resource crunch.
For musical freedom of expression, busking is the way to go, most passers by usually think you are performing for them, and they probably feel sorry for you. Some people realise that this is where to break free from fretting your hour upon the stage, to be totally free.
You have a good point about the usefulness of climate models, but some models, even with their large uncertainties, point to possibility of disaster - the measures required to deal with problem, if it is even a problem, are actually good sense from any reasonable point of view about resources in general. The measures involve being responsible for our resource use, as in what we use we somehow balance back if we can.
Even if we are only guessing about the when and the how, the logic of the balance of resources will get us in the end if we don't act responsibly.
Statistics are best used when estimating the best fit for a given model of our reality
So, if we are in agreement, does that make you deluded as well ?
I am thinking since I was the only one to recognise it, there is only 1 deluded person.
So, can you postulate why you think our best theory of gravity, or lack thereof can be a statistically significant factor in climate change models ?
*YOU* don't know how many dimensions we have along with all string theorists searching for more funding.
I think physicists would agree that if it were not intractable, simulating the upper limit of superconducting temperatures would not be that tricky. As it is, I think the work in this field has a long way to go, and virtually none of it is significant to modeling climate change.
All of this argument is useless in the face of the mere fact that statistics alone do not make a model. In the realm of climate change science, so much is sketchy because it is hard to find a model for such a large system, and whilst we are just taking measurements, we get no closer to understanding climate prediction.
I think its fair to say that any brilliant model to cover a global climate accurately is most likely going to include a large degree of uncertainty - which is why many are saying, let's act to prevent the worst case occurring.
This is where modern physics becomes separate from other sciences.
Modern physics does describe our reality - there are no stones unturned when it comes to understanding naturally occurring physical phenomenon on our planet.
The problem is the mis-conception of statistics as being science - statistics itself does require margins of error as a constant, but these are never a concern for the general public apparently. Without real science, how do we even know we are asking the right statistical questions ?
Conclusions based upon statistics are sketchy at best - correlations do not mean causation
Statistics are best used when estimating the best fit for a given model of our reality - the model itself should not be guessed, it must have a theory that is consistent with all previously known statistics.
Accurate theories of climate change are paramount, since, without them, our statistics just tell us what just happened.
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because its all command line, I wrote a script that leaves the DVD tray open and whenever I pop a disc in, it is automatically transferred and encoded to x264/mkv in the background.
after doing a dvdbackup to a tmp directory, the DVD tray is ejected whilst encoding proceeds, allowing me to pop a few in before I go to sleep.
mkv now supports VOB subtitles, so I just use that for all subtitles for now - I can always develop another tool chain to convert the current mkvs to new mkvs with ocr on the subtitles converting them to srt format.
certainly saves a lot of space over storing DVDs raw.
I realise its a little hard to say without direct experience, but I have had an epidural, so I know what it feels like to be paralysed. I would say that if the lethal injection causes paralysis alone, then the one being put to death would feel less than the audience during the experience. All present were witnesses.
I think If there is a chance I might see some really good stuff as I fade away, especially if my mind dilated time so the last few seconds of firing neurons seem like a dream, then it would be the best choice.
I tend to think of a botched hanging as someone whose neck does not break in the initial fall. They struggle for life - trying to find the most appropriate position to keep breathing. It can take sometime as they weaken from the muscle strain and fight to the end. No time to dream, too busy fighting.
I just had to let you know that you have hit the nail on the head when it comes to societies lack of vigilance for truth, merely vigilance for mob mentality dispensed "justice".
How do you know they weren't referring to appendages ? more cryptic maybe... but uncertain.
Sure, they'd make a fortune. But would the fortune they make cover the production costs of everything they were selling?
Well, if they got paid like the rest of us, then hell yes.
If you simulate gravity with anything other than Newton for atmospheric pressure, don't forget to check all butterfly wings along the way.
Sounds like this being just can't wait for it to be too late too act - maybe they don't have to wait that long.
God using cheap scissors (again).
I think you have an interesting perspective of gravity.
The problem here may stem from thinking of gravity as affecting itself - it affects of all objects that possess mass/energy - directly in relation to mass.
if light waves can't escape a black hole then why can gravitational waves?
The speed of gravity and the speed of light are actually based on the speed of certainty of the speed of causality - its related to information, or knowledge of existence being a function of time.
The gravity waves are not EM waves, they are not really waves in that sense.
They are perceived as waves in the mind, but are actually more like a phenomenon due to our inherent sense of spatial location as being static. If you can accept that the speed of causality is the issue and that space and time follow Einsteins general theory, then these waves are only present when thought of upon a euclidean spatial background. If more of us realised how innate our euclidean sense is and then realised it is not correct when it describes our space-time, we may realise that gravity waves are an observational phenomenon like red-shift and quite possibly carry no energy at all - which is why they don't affect themselves and why many believe the search for displaced energy or measurable spatial contractions are futile
It is true for instance that the onset of a gravity wave cannot be measured simply because the act is about the relationship between this far-away object and the local intstrument and all parts of the instrument are affected by the wave in the same way, so local interactions remain consistent - some hypothesise the contractions can be observed perpendicular to the wave onset, but I am not convinced.
I agree it doesn't warrant much concern with respect to relevance to my own personal life. I don't think of Bill as being #1 anyway, deserved or undeserved, I would have trouble sleeping if I were Bill, and I enjoy a good sleep more than money. (Both is the best situation, but I would not wish to sacrifice either.)
Most people that have access to a computer are not able developers, but back then, hardly anyone had access to a computer.
... why ? because having access to a computer in an age where having ones own helicopter would be similar had no affect on the outcome of Bill's life ?
Yes, but without some model of the acidity levels, the data only serves knowledge of the past. Any projection forward is some kind of model. I think its fair to say that any model maybe silly if we could only act on a high degree of certainty.
If there is a possibility of large scale sufferring, I think we should forgo the luxury of a precise model,
the hardest part will be admitting to ourselves that to reduce the risk in the face of high uncertainty requires the will to act.
I have trouble coming to terms with it myself - I fear we are headed for many social collapses to coincide with a global resource crunch.
For musical freedom of expression, busking is the way to go, most passers by usually think you are performing for them, and they probably feel sorry for you. Some people realise that this is where to break free from fretting your hour upon the stage, to be totally free.
You saw the Beijing Olympics Ceremony as well ?
You have a good point about the usefulness of climate models, but some models, even with their large uncertainties, point to possibility of disaster - the measures required to deal with problem, if it is even a problem, are actually good sense from any reasonable point of view about resources in general. The measures involve being responsible for our resource use, as in what we use we somehow balance back if we can.
Even if we are only guessing about the when and the how, the logic of the balance of resources will get us in the end if we don't act responsibly.
I'm an artist, you can FUCK me !
within statistical margin to model being tested
Statistics are best used when estimating the best fit for a given model of our reality
So, if we are in agreement, does that make you deluded as well ?
I am thinking since I was the only one to recognise it, there is only 1 deluded person.
So, can you postulate why you think our best theory of gravity, or lack thereof can be a statistically significant factor in climate change models ?
*YOU* don't know how many dimensions we have along with all string theorists searching for more funding.
I think physicists would agree that if it were not intractable, simulating the upper limit of superconducting temperatures would not be that tricky. As it is, I think the work in this field has a long way to go, and virtually none of it is significant to modeling climate change.
All of this argument is useless in the face of the mere fact that statistics alone do not make a model. In the realm of climate change science, so much is sketchy because it is hard to find a model for such a large system, and whilst we are just taking measurements, we get no closer to understanding climate prediction.
I think its fair to say that any brilliant model to cover a global climate accurately is most likely going to include a large degree of uncertainty - which is why many are saying, let's act to prevent the worst case occurring.
This is where modern physics becomes separate from other sciences.
Modern physics does describe our reality - there are no stones unturned when it comes to understanding naturally occurring physical phenomenon on our planet.
The problem is the mis-conception of statistics as being science - statistics itself does require margins of error as a constant, but these are never a concern for the general public apparently. Without real science, how do we even know we are asking the right statistical questions ?
Conclusions based upon statistics are sketchy at best - correlations do not mean causation
Statistics are best used when estimating the best fit for a given model of our reality - the model itself should not be guessed, it must have a theory that is consistent with all previously known statistics.
Accurate theories of climate change are paramount, since, without them, our statistics just tell us what just happened.
That is one of the most satisfying rants I've read, if only it weren't too true.
Odds reduced slightly since Elvis did have tits for a while there.
Buy 2, get 1!
Who said a brief historical summary of the life of PCs wouldn't look totally bonkers ?
Context sensitive defrag - sounds like good sense to me, whichever hardware you use.
I'm sure someone actually uses that pseudonym, they must be pretty scared right now.