Unless you watch movies on your computer (which I don't) I don't see the point
Photoshop, Illustrator. The tools palettes are wide enough to take up that extra piece of widescreen so you have 4:3 for the page you're working on. Music sequencers have a similar strip; either for browsing files or plugins. The extra width means you won't lose overview of what's happening in the tracks themselves. 3D applications; again, these have an object properties list that takes up a slab of the screen.
I'm utterly sickened by your comment and the mindset behind it.
People use those locations on the spectrum to bother with a reply. From heartfelt agreement (same spot) to grudging agreement (proximity) to outright LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU (opposite side of the spectrum).
It saves people thinking about the merits of an argument.
The fact that we have to deal with something as ridiculous as different endians in the first place should've caused severe punishment already for all involved.
With HD cameras becoming increasingly cheap and common, and recording your own music with software synthesizers and samplers (making music has never been cheaper), plus a large portion of the (affluent) population choosing to do both, this comment can be filed away in the same box the fictional "640 kb is enough for everyone" quote resides in.
People already complain about harddisks - when it says "1 TB" on the box and they can only use 931. What do you think they're going to say when their system is loaded up with 8 GB because the sticks are just so damn cheap and they can only see 3 GB?
You paint a chaotic and violent picture of the universe.
That's because it is chaotic and violent. A Texas-sized asteroid on a crash course will not care if you just got married or hold your firstborn in your hands or finally got to retire and enjoy your free time; it will simply crash.
Depending on how you define electronic keyboard, this will be Lloyd Loar in 1919, Hammond in 1920, Martenot in 1928, Bechstein in 1929, Miessner in 1931, Wurlitzer in 1955, Rhodes in 1965 or the competing Clavinet and Pianet from 1967.
All of those are electromechanical, not electronic. Moog also never ventured beyond oscillator circuitry; Kurzweil used samples as a basis - and while the sampler was invented earlier (being big and horribly expensive), none of those systems used ROMs. Before you were welcome to shove 8" floppies in a Fairlight and load everything before use. His invention beat Roland, Yamaha, Alesis, E-mu and Korg who came up with sample-based keyboards several years later (1988 and onwards).
Kurzweil's work is still in use, too - Kurzweil Music Systems continues to exist as a company, and several machines still have something like VAST in there.
Why aren't more beer bottles being broken over heads?
Because the bottle or the sword or the knife does not create the distance a gun does. The act of killing someone is reduced to a single, gentle trigger pull - once you hear the noise, it's too late. Any melee weapon requires closer proximity, more force, and a stomach for the blood.
Try shooting 6 moving targets on the shooting range. Not a problem. Now try mowing them down with a katana.
By using a computer you manipulate the graphical representation of a Turing-complete symbolic language while performing vast amounts of integer calculus. All of this I do when I open MSN. Just because I explain it in a complex way doesn't mean it has to look complex by default.
A tagged repository can be shown as a set of folders. Where a document is actually located on the computer is not something I should be concerned with unless I manage files manually, as long as I can find it. Having a set of Word documents that show stuff like "Procedure THX1138, last revision by John, 3 days ago" tells me far more than the botched "Untitled Document Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy 0003 DO NOT DELETE.docx" actual humans can produce, or the horror people inflict on their poor inboxes by using Outlook PST files as some kind of botched MSN.
Tags solve the problem of having different folder names for everything or homebrew structures. They just don't force unified tags or the act of tagging it at all, so you have to make this a habit for people new to computers. It is however far less difficult to do than dealing with baroque folder structures and nomenclature dating from the time 8.3 filenames were radical.
Organization requires talent. Ask them to come up with some representative tags of what they just typed, and they'll do a better job.
You omitted another piece of low hanging fruit - since it's the body's crumple zone doing most of the work, replace the steel panels on the outside with something lighter (e.g. carbon fiber).
Also, let them make commuter cars for 2 people instead of 4. 3/4ths of the seating space in my car is never used, and I'd love to have something cheaper that is not a sports coupe or a motorcycle, but with great Cw values and mileage. I don't care if it fits in narrow parking spaces or can do 200 km/h - you can't drive much over 120 km/h here anyway.
Each textbook has a teacher's edition that has all the answers in it. Any open source book would logically have to have the same, if it as a product is to provide the same utility.
You split it up in 2 books and then forbid the students to own the answering book. You can have a good time convincing a 6-year old that they shouldn't peek without figuring out themselves; it's the same with an 18-year old. They will have a hard time understanding that figuring things out by themselves is exactly what education is all about.
Even then, you should not test on their ability to give the correct answer, but the correct reasoning and deduction. When 2+2=4, the correct answer is not "because it said so in the answering book", but "when I put 2 apples in this basket and add 2 apples, I count all the apples and end up at 4."
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Strange things can really happen with computers, as stray neutrino can strike a transistor and change it's state and either cause a system to crash or the wrong prescription to be issued.
- The copyright system doesn't just cover musicians. It covers everyone from software developers to film-makers to artists and photographers.
Oddly enough, software developers won't get paid for code they wrote 20 years ago. Ditto for actors, and ditto for film-makers. If they don't have their savings for when they're gray and old, it's their own fault, while musicians seem to get a free pass - even for contracts they signed up for that eventually turned out to screw them over completely.
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Or the person, if things go haywire.
Photoshop, Illustrator. The tools palettes are wide enough to take up that extra piece of widescreen so you have 4:3 for the page you're working on. Music sequencers have a similar strip; either for browsing files or plugins. The extra width means you won't lose overview of what's happening in the tracks themselves. 3D applications; again, these have an object properties list that takes up a slab of the screen.
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Eh, it's all Greek to me.
I tried to imagine a cluster of photon machine guns and all I could come up with was a container full of Mag-Lites.
People use those locations on the spectrum to bother with a reply. From heartfelt agreement (same spot) to grudging agreement (proximity) to outright LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU (opposite side of the spectrum).
It saves people thinking about the merits of an argument.
They're called spouses.
I don't know about you, but I have to return my eyes according to the contract with Zeiss-Ikon.
The fact that we have to deal with something as ridiculous as different endians in the first place should've caused severe punishment already for all involved.
With HD cameras becoming increasingly cheap and common, and recording your own music with software synthesizers and samplers (making music has never been cheaper), plus a large portion of the (affluent) population choosing to do both, this comment can be filed away in the same box the fictional "640 kb is enough for everyone" quote resides in.
People already complain about harddisks - when it says "1 TB" on the box and they can only use 931. What do you think they're going to say when their system is loaded up with 8 GB because the sticks are just so damn cheap and they can only see 3 GB?
That's because it is chaotic and violent. A Texas-sized asteroid on a crash course will not care if you just got married or hold your firstborn in your hands or finally got to retire and enjoy your free time; it will simply crash.
Hey, Hollywood hasn't magically disappeared since it was founded in the 19th century, so I'd call that pretty persistent.
That's not a problem. The problem is when some idiot dev has put the kill limit at -1.
"But can't you see it, right here? It's right here in this verse of the Book of Kings! We've always been at war with Eurasia!"
All of those are electromechanical, not electronic. Moog also never ventured beyond oscillator circuitry; Kurzweil used samples as a basis - and while the sampler was invented earlier (being big and horribly expensive), none of those systems used ROMs. Before you were welcome to shove 8" floppies in a Fairlight and load everything before use. His invention beat Roland, Yamaha, Alesis, E-mu and Korg who came up with sample-based keyboards several years later (1988 and onwards).
Kurzweil's work is still in use, too - Kurzweil Music Systems continues to exist as a company, and several machines still have something like VAST in there.
Because the bottle or the sword or the knife does not create the distance a gun does. The act of killing someone is reduced to a single, gentle trigger pull - once you hear the noise, it's too late. Any melee weapon requires closer proximity, more force, and a stomach for the blood.
Try shooting 6 moving targets on the shooting range. Not a problem. Now try mowing them down with a katana.
No, and the reason is simple: it wasn't the atheists that started saying that there is no god; it was the theists saying that there was one.
By using a computer you manipulate the graphical representation of a Turing-complete symbolic language while performing vast amounts of integer calculus. All of this I do when I open MSN. Just because I explain it in a complex way doesn't mean it has to look complex by default.
A tagged repository can be shown as a set of folders. Where a document is actually located on the computer is not something I should be concerned with unless I manage files manually, as long as I can find it. Having a set of Word documents that show stuff like "Procedure THX1138, last revision by John, 3 days ago" tells me far more than the botched "Untitled Document Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy 0003 DO NOT DELETE.docx" actual humans can produce, or the horror people inflict on their poor inboxes by using Outlook PST files as some kind of botched MSN.
Tags solve the problem of having different folder names for everything or homebrew structures. They just don't force unified tags or the act of tagging it at all, so you have to make this a habit for people new to computers. It is however far less difficult to do than dealing with baroque folder structures and nomenclature dating from the time 8.3 filenames were radical.
Organization requires talent. Ask them to come up with some representative tags of what they just typed, and they'll do a better job.
You omitted another piece of low hanging fruit - since it's the body's crumple zone doing most of the work, replace the steel panels on the outside with something lighter (e.g. carbon fiber).
Also, let them make commuter cars for 2 people instead of 4. 3/4ths of the seating space in my car is never used, and I'd love to have something cheaper that is not a sports coupe or a motorcycle, but with great Cw values and mileage. I don't care if it fits in narrow parking spaces or can do 200 km/h - you can't drive much over 120 km/h here anyway.
You split it up in 2 books and then forbid the students to own the answering book. You can have a good time convincing a 6-year old that they shouldn't peek without figuring out themselves; it's the same with an 18-year old. They will have a hard time understanding that figuring things out by themselves is exactly what education is all about.
Even then, you should not test on their ability to give the correct answer, but the correct reasoning and deduction. When 2+2=4, the correct answer is not "because it said so in the answering book", but "when I put 2 apples in this basket and add 2 apples, I count all the apples and end up at 4."
When you formulate it like this... it sounds like Toyota is making Dalek prototypes. EXTERMINATE!
Shit yeah, ladies, I bring those blue sparks.
Why blame computers (and why go the lengths to blame stray neutrons) when humans themselves can screw up far more often and far better?
Oddly enough, software developers won't get paid for code they wrote 20 years ago. Ditto for actors, and ditto for film-makers. If they don't have their savings for when they're gray and old, it's their own fault, while musicians seem to get a free pass - even for contracts they signed up for that eventually turned out to screw them over completely.
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=241339 has reverb (algorithmic, not convolution-based) running on the GPU.
Perhaps they should start a campaign - "Home taping is killing terrorists" or something to get regular people interested in cassette players again.