Well, I think many industries where injuries are expected as part of the job will pay for the medical bills, pay the employee for time they have to spend recovering, etc. However, I'm not sure that's always the case, I'm under the impression that a lot of high risk professions try to get around these benefits by hiring temporary or seasonal labor. So, if you're a logger or a fisherman or a farmhand, your chance of injury is going to be quite high, and who knows what sort of benefits you'll get if/when bad things happen.
I guess the big difference with football is that children play football and emulate the pros in a way that is unlike how children might go fishing or help out on the farm...
What would the sensors actually accomplish? I'm just curious- it seems like they would be great for gathering data about how harmful the sport already is, but do you propose that mandatory in-game penalties should be imposed for hitting or being hit too hard? Mandatory player rest periods after hits? Maximum number of impacts per season?
If it's used something like a dosimeter, where once a player got so many hits he would have to be sidelined, then I suppose a lot more linebackers would get to play in the NFL... They'd have to keep a steady supply.
The battery is along the middle of the car, between the left and right side seats. The electric motor is in the front. So it could be a short making the battery overheat and catch fire, or a short making something else in the front catch fire, either way it's a problem that would be tough to solve when you have a 20kWh 330V battery pack completely submerged in salt water..
I can't see very well in the graphic because the text is hard to read, but it looks like most (if not all) of the pre-iPhone touchscreen phones were mockups and demos. Seems unfair to compare prototypes to production models.
This is not to say that I think Apple is in the right in their lawsuit. Samsung was probably copying the LG Prada just like Apple.:)
I guess I didn't put enough smiley emoticons in my post to make it clear that I wasn't serious. I thought the XKCD link would do the job in that regard.:)
I know it's not a REAL defense, I was using a joke to voice my frustrations.:) Although, I could sure use $2000, and if I get to steal it without any legal problems because the law is after you and your $1000, it sure would be tempting!
iPads, iPhones, iPod touches... all bundled with Safari. As an added bonus, all software for those devices must have Apple's approval (which can be revoked) and must be sold through Apple's store (where they take a cut). I like Microsoft products and I like Apple products, I just feel like the legal standards being applied to the two companies don't match up too well.
Did you see the video? It's only 29 seconds long, and the song is barely recognizable. If you didn't already know the song, it would be hard to identify even with tools like Shazam. The usage in the video would have no effect on the value of the work. I cannot imagine why this video should be an example of a work to be taken down. If it is, then anybody with a radio or ipod speakers could walk into a public place and turn it into a 'no video' zone.
The cloud wouldn't last very long, but long enough to hit the debris. By the time it hit, the gas would have expanded until it was almost a vacuum, so it wouldn't damage the debris. In fact, an astronaut caught in such a cloud probably wouldn't even notice it.
Were you perhaps thinking of the article that claimed a Prius was worse for the environment than an H3 Hummer? That one was pretty thoroughly debunked.
By the weekend we'll be talking wistfully about the good 'ol days when we used to look at 2D images on monitors instead of having alternate realities streamed directly into our brains...
Technics 1200's are discontinued, dubplates are no longer something you can easily get made, physical record stores are extremely rare, the selection is lacking at the record stores that have held on...
Then again, if you were willing to spend the money on turntables and records, getting a vinyl controlled mp3 solution wouldn't be a huge jump. And I think a lot of artists do just that....
As mentioned in TFA, they already use Audacity. I don't know if you've ever tried to make music with just Audacity, but if not let me save you the trouble. It's not the right tool.. it's a waveform editor. Funny enough, of all the studio software you listed, the one they're actually trying to replicate wasn't mentioned- Reason. These people aren't needing strong multitrack recording and mixing ability, they need good software synths tied together into a nice interface.
Of course, they could suck it up and deal with the somewhat less expensive FruityLoops, but still we're talking about hundreds of dollars. Or I guess they could try to mishmash together a bunch of iPhone apps and random software synths, but that's not very cohesive, and would still add up quickly if you were trying to get as much functionality as Reason.
As mentioned by one of the first posters- I think a lot of the actual indy hip-hop artists just pirate the software they want to use, maybe purchase it later if they come onto some cash.. but the people in TFA are academics wanting to use the software in an academic environment, and 20 seats of Reason is like $9000.
They are mostly talking about Reason. It's a software simulator for a bunch of real-life studio hardware that musicians used to have to purchase and hook up and find places to put. So, instead of having to spend $50,000 to outfit a studio with keyboards, synths, patch bays, mixers, effects, compressors, cables, etc., you can simulate it all with Reason for something like $450. But to the people in TFS, this is too much money still, and they would like to make a free equivalent. It's noble, but as others have mentioned there are other options that do not have nearly so polished and authentic sounds and interfaces, but are much cheaper or free.
There's already software out there to automatically generate beats, or entire songs for that matter if you so desire. I've listened to the output, and it's crap. I love most of the genres you listed (not so into hip-hop though) but I'm not even all that picky about tracks, but the auto-generated stuff I've heard is worthless. But, don't let that discourage you from improving upon it! I imagine it won't get you as many girls as learning the guitar, though.
I think this is probably true of the entire target market of "beat making" software. Although the markets other than hip-hop won't necessarily bother with decent mics, because you don't need human vocals for techno/house/dubstep/whatever. Or any vocals at all, for that matter. People don't have to go out and record their own samples any more either since there's so many collections out there now.
The headline implies that US students have more difficulty with reasoning skills than other students as a whole, or that this difficulty is unique to students from the US.
Does it? I don't see the word "only" in there, you fat cunt.
Perhaps you don't understand the difference between the words "imply" and "state."
The way I interpreted it is that they only tested U.S. students, so it'd be premature to assume the results extrapolate to students elsewhere. If you have a bunch of green and red apples, and you try a few of the green ones and they taste bad, the correct declarative statement would be "The green apples taste bad." It implies nothing about the red apples - they could taste good or bad, they could even taste worse. Generalizing it to "The apples taste bad" would be premature, and throwing away one of the distinguishing characteristics of your data set (you ate only the green ones).
My problem with that is- this was the first time this particular test was administered. The results, therefore, don't have any baseline with which to compare to. We're not comparing red apples to green apples, we're comparing expectations to results. Where did the expectations come from? The people that wrote the test, I suppose...
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Don't forget that you can't use your keyboard and your flashlight at the same time...
Well, I think many industries where injuries are expected as part of the job will pay for the medical bills, pay the employee for time they have to spend recovering, etc. However, I'm not sure that's always the case, I'm under the impression that a lot of high risk professions try to get around these benefits by hiring temporary or seasonal labor. So, if you're a logger or a fisherman or a farmhand, your chance of injury is going to be quite high, and who knows what sort of benefits you'll get if/when bad things happen.
I guess the big difference with football is that children play football and emulate the pros in a way that is unlike how children might go fishing or help out on the farm...
What would the sensors actually accomplish? I'm just curious- it seems like they would be great for gathering data about how harmful the sport already is, but do you propose that mandatory in-game penalties should be imposed for hitting or being hit too hard? Mandatory player rest periods after hits? Maximum number of impacts per season?
If it's used something like a dosimeter, where once a player got so many hits he would have to be sidelined, then I suppose a lot more linebackers would get to play in the NFL... They'd have to keep a steady supply.
It's a Tradition!
The battery is along the middle of the car, between the left and right side seats. The electric motor is in the front. So it could be a short making the battery overheat and catch fire, or a short making something else in the front catch fire, either way it's a problem that would be tough to solve when you have a 20kWh 330V battery pack completely submerged in salt water..
Salt water conducts electricity a lot better than fresh water. So, yes.
I can't see very well in the graphic because the text is hard to read, but it looks like most (if not all) of the pre-iPhone touchscreen phones were mockups and demos. Seems unfair to compare prototypes to production models.
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This is not to say that I think Apple is in the right in their lawsuit. Samsung was probably copying the LG Prada just like Apple.
I guess I didn't put enough smiley emoticons in my post to make it clear that I wasn't serious. I thought the XKCD link would do the job in that regard. :)
I know it's not a REAL defense, I was using a joke to voice my frustrations. :) Although, I could sure use $2000, and if I get to steal it without any legal problems because the law is after you and your $1000, it sure would be tempting!
You could always install other browsers on Windows as well. That wasn't what the lawsuit was about....
iPads, iPhones, iPod touches... all bundled with Safari. As an added bonus, all software for those devices must have Apple's approval (which can be revoked) and must be sold through Apple's store (where they take a cut). I like Microsoft products and I like Apple products, I just feel like the legal standards being applied to the two companies don't match up too well.
Would "Hey guys, look at what Apple is doing!" be a valid defense? Also, obligatory....
If I had mod points, I'd probably mod your post "funny" for lack of a "wish I thought of that" option.
Did you see the video? It's only 29 seconds long, and the song is barely recognizable. If you didn't already know the song, it would be hard to identify even with tools like Shazam. The usage in the video would have no effect on the value of the work. I cannot imagine why this video should be an example of a work to be taken down. If it is, then anybody with a radio or ipod speakers could walk into a public place and turn it into a 'no video' zone.
The cloud wouldn't last very long, but long enough to hit the debris. By the time it hit, the gas would have expanded until it was almost a vacuum, so it wouldn't damage the debris. In fact, an astronaut caught in such a cloud probably wouldn't even notice it.
Were you perhaps thinking of the article that claimed a Prius was worse for the environment than an H3 Hummer? That one was pretty thoroughly debunked.
By the weekend we'll be talking wistfully about the good 'ol days when we used to look at 2D images on monitors instead of having alternate realities streamed directly into our brains...
Came here to post exactly the same thing. TFA in this submission even links to TFA from the submission this morning.
Technics 1200's are discontinued, dubplates are no longer something you can easily get made, physical record stores are extremely rare, the selection is lacking at the record stores that have held on...
Then again, if you were willing to spend the money on turntables and records, getting a vinyl controlled mp3 solution wouldn't be a huge jump. And I think a lot of artists do just that....
As mentioned in TFA, they already use Audacity. I don't know if you've ever tried to make music with just Audacity, but if not let me save you the trouble. It's not the right tool.. it's a waveform editor. Funny enough, of all the studio software you listed, the one they're actually trying to replicate wasn't mentioned- Reason. These people aren't needing strong multitrack recording and mixing ability, they need good software synths tied together into a nice interface.
Of course, they could suck it up and deal with the somewhat less expensive FruityLoops, but still we're talking about hundreds of dollars. Or I guess they could try to mishmash together a bunch of iPhone apps and random software synths, but that's not very cohesive, and would still add up quickly if you were trying to get as much functionality as Reason.
As mentioned by one of the first posters- I think a lot of the actual indy hip-hop artists just pirate the software they want to use, maybe purchase it later if they come onto some cash.. but the people in TFA are academics wanting to use the software in an academic environment, and 20 seats of Reason is like $9000.
They are mostly talking about Reason. It's a software simulator for a bunch of real-life studio hardware that musicians used to have to purchase and hook up and find places to put. So, instead of having to spend $50,000 to outfit a studio with keyboards, synths, patch bays, mixers, effects, compressors, cables, etc., you can simulate it all with Reason for something like $450. But to the people in TFS, this is too much money still, and they would like to make a free equivalent. It's noble, but as others have mentioned there are other options that do not have nearly so polished and authentic sounds and interfaces, but are much cheaper or free.
There's already software out there to automatically generate beats, or entire songs for that matter if you so desire. I've listened to the output, and it's crap. I love most of the genres you listed (not so into hip-hop though) but I'm not even all that picky about tracks, but the auto-generated stuff I've heard is worthless. But, don't let that discourage you from improving upon it! I imagine it won't get you as many girls as learning the guitar, though.
I think this is probably true of the entire target market of "beat making" software. Although the markets other than hip-hop won't necessarily bother with decent mics, because you don't need human vocals for techno/house/dubstep/whatever. Or any vocals at all, for that matter. People don't have to go out and record their own samples any more either since there's so many collections out there now.
Does it? I don't see the word "only" in there, you fat cunt.
Perhaps you don't understand the difference between the words "imply" and "state."
The way I interpreted it is that they only tested U.S. students, so it'd be premature to assume the results extrapolate to students elsewhere. If you have a bunch of green and red apples, and you try a few of the green ones and they taste bad, the correct declarative statement would be "The green apples taste bad." It implies nothing about the red apples - they could taste good or bad, they could even taste worse. Generalizing it to "The apples taste bad" would be premature, and throwing away one of the distinguishing characteristics of your data set (you ate only the green ones).
My problem with that is- this was the first time this particular test was administered. The results, therefore, don't have any baseline with which to compare to. We're not comparing red apples to green apples, we're comparing expectations to results. Where did the expectations come from? The people that wrote the test, I suppose...