Dude, please only use one meme per post max. That way several people can post different memes and the Karma gets shared around. The exception to the rule is if you put together a bunch of memes to make one super meme.
e.g. In Soviet Russia, I for one welcome a beowulf cluster of GPU overlords (do they run linux?) who brute-force my password, which is coincidentally the same combination as my luggage, twenty-five times faster than YOU!
A bit of googling with my beginner's German turned up "Haltet den Dieb, er hat mein Messer im Rücken!"
It's not actually one word, but more of a saying. But as other posters have pointed out the German language loves its compound words, so I wouldn't have been too surprised if it was one massive word.
Please help me know when artist where NOT paid in historical times. I don't mean artist that didn't get paid I mean a time when artisans where not paid for there skills and work as a profession. The Pyramid artist where paid well from all accounts and pretty much since then I can show that artist have been well compensated for there work. Mozart was not a popper. I guess I should stop putting $ in the street musicians basket cause he is obviously not about his art.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not trolling and are just ill informed. There are a few exceptions but throughout history artists have been rather poorly paid. Much of the work on the pyramids was probably done by slaves, so I doubt they were well compensated for their time and effort. Mozart did die a pauper. Musicians of Mozart's time and earlier were either servants under patronage to a particular noble or were wandering minstrels and troubadours and the like. In both cases they would only just scrape out a living.
In fact it's only in the last 200 years or so that musos and artists are compensated somewhat fairly for their work, and even still you wouldn't go into either of those professions just for the money. In both cases it's a lot of hard work for little reward financially until you make it big, and lets face it there are plenty of bands and artists that don't make it big.
The relevant section for those too lazy to click the link, or who just don't want to see the mathematical detail there:
Exact reconstruction of a continuous-time baseband signal from its samples is possible if the signal is bandlimited and the sampling frequency is greater than twice the signal bandwidth.
In other words, sampling at 44.1kHz is enough to encode sound due to the range of human hearing being roughly 20kHz. I think you'll find from your own experience that CD audio sounds nothing like muaic from your SNES games.
Another example is with film. Movies run at 25fps and the human eye samples at around 10fps. You don't think the picture is flickery when you go to the cinema do you?
How is it even copyright infringement to view the source? As pretty much everyone has pointed out by visiting their site they send the source to you. I think they could make a case for infringement if you copied their code and used it on your website. But just reading it shouldn't violate copyright.
As an example, I'm reading a book I borrowed from the local library. I'm 99% sure it's a copyrighted work. This is like saying you can only look at the cover or the page layout, actually reading the text isn't allowed. Ridiculous!
I'm good about using my mirrors (unlike most Americans, I have almost no overlap between my rear-view and side-view mirrors, so I have almost no blind spot). If I want to change lanes, I signal, check the mirror, and go.
Actually you should always check your blind spot, no matter how well set up your mirrors are. The amount of times someone has been sitting in my blind spot right when I want to change lanes... let's just say I think you're very lucky not to have had an accident.
I also make it a habit to not cruise along in other drivers' blind spots. If they are aware of you then there's an extra safety margin in case things go wrong (e.g. them needing to change lanes suddenly to avoid a hazard). It also saves you from getting collected by people like yourself who don't check their blind spot.
Australia is NOT a republic. We had a referrendum a few years ago on whether the country should become a republic (i.e people or government elect a head of state and less ties to England) or not and the majority of people voted no.
Australia is a commonwealth country. The head of state is the Governor General (a purely ceremonial role), who is the Queen's representative. I think the government makes a suggestion to the Queen of England on who to appoint and she or someone in her staff signs off on it.
As for form of government Australia is a representative democracy, like pretty much every other western country.
In Australia there are laws about that sort of thing. And it's not handled by suing (seriously why get lawyers for this?), rather the police just hand out a fine or tell you to turn it down and be on your way.
Or, as was mentioned by another poster modded troll (ok 90% of his post was a troll), you could use a condom. I don't think having a circumcision gives you a license to take risks. Nor do I think encouraging circumcision (or abstinence for that matter) is a good way of solving the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
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I'm rather big on procrastination, and I don't need any games to avoid working on the thesis.
I spent the first half of this year "working" on my honours thesis. I'd take 10min break from procrastination to actually do work. Enjoy it while you can!
An earlier post pointed out that caring for family isn't altruism at all but rather just survival instinct or something like that. Any decent person and plenty of less than decent people care for their family. It's in people's self interest. There's the whole survival of the fittest thing and parents get a lot emotionally etc. out of raising children from what I understand (not a parent myself).
Altruism is putting another's needs above your own, when you don't need to, even if you gain nothing from it or it costs you something.
Also your Bill Gates example isn't a good one. Bill Gates is the exception when it comes to the mega-wealthy - he does more than just give loose change to the poor as a token effort http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm. He doesn't need to and certainly doesn't gain from it so I would say he is altruistic.
I would say altruism isn't very widespread. Apathy and selfishness seem to be the dominant forces in society.
Teachers work hard. My fiancée started teaching full time this year. I'd say she works about 50 hours a week minimum and probably more like 55 most weeks. She plans lessons on the train on the way to school. Any free periods or lunch times when she isn't on playground duty she does planning (or photocopying stuff, looking for tapes/through textbooks). Weekday afternoons and a few hours on weekends are taken up with marking, and possibly more lesson planning.
This last holidays she did have a pretty good break from work, but that really only gave her a chance to catch up with friends, do stuff around her house and do some planning for our wedding. She had neglected both of these for most of the school term.
Its much harder than I work (full time uni CS, part time work) and harder than I will work doing programming once I graduate.
I remember seeing a documentary with some guy who was on one of those low carb diets that supposedly make you live longer. He spoke painfully slow, about half the speed of what most people do. I figured if he's living twice as long he's making up for it by going at half speed through life.
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Dude, please only use one meme per post max. That way several people can post different memes and the Karma gets shared around. The exception to the rule is if you put together a bunch of memes to make one super meme.
e.g. In Soviet Russia, I for one welcome a beowulf cluster of GPU overlords (do they run linux?) who brute-force my password, which is coincidentally the same combination as my luggage, twenty-five times faster than YOU!
A bit of googling with my beginner's German turned up "Haltet den Dieb, er hat mein Messer im Rücken!" It's not actually one word, but more of a saying. But as other posters have pointed out the German language loves its compound words, so I wouldn't have been too surprised if it was one massive word.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not trolling and are just ill informed. There are a few exceptions but throughout history artists have been rather poorly paid. Much of the work on the pyramids was probably done by slaves, so I doubt they were well compensated for their time and effort. Mozart did die a pauper. Musicians of Mozart's time and earlier were either servants under patronage to a particular noble or were wandering minstrels and troubadours and the like. In both cases they would only just scrape out a living.
In fact it's only in the last 200 years or so that musos and artists are compensated somewhat fairly for their work, and even still you wouldn't go into either of those professions just for the money. In both cases it's a lot of hard work for little reward financially until you make it big, and lets face it there are plenty of bands and artists that don't make it big.
Two words about CD sampling frequency: Nyquist's Theorem.
The relevant section for those too lazy to click the link, or who just don't want to see the mathematical detail there:
In other words, sampling at 44.1kHz is enough to encode sound due to the range of human hearing being roughly 20kHz. I think you'll find from your own experience that CD audio sounds nothing like muaic from your SNES games.
Another example is with film. Movies run at 25fps and the human eye samples at around 10fps. You don't think the picture is flickery when you go to the cinema do you?
How is it even copyright infringement to view the source? As pretty much everyone has pointed out by visiting their site they send the source to you. I think they could make a case for infringement if you copied their code and used it on your website. But just reading it shouldn't violate copyright.
As an example, I'm reading a book I borrowed from the local library. I'm 99% sure it's a copyrighted work. This is like saying you can only look at the cover or the page layout, actually reading the text isn't allowed. Ridiculous!
Disclaimer: Not a lawyer
Actually you should always check your blind spot, no matter how well set up your mirrors are. The amount of times someone has been sitting in my blind spot right when I want to change lanes... let's just say I think you're very lucky not to have had an accident.
I also make it a habit to not cruise along in other drivers' blind spots. If they are aware of you then there's an extra safety margin in case things go wrong (e.g. them needing to change lanes suddenly to avoid a hazard). It also saves you from getting collected by people like yourself who don't check their blind spot.
Australia is NOT a republic. We had a referrendum a few years ago on whether the country should become a republic (i.e people or government elect a head of state and less ties to England) or not and the majority of people voted no.
Australia is a commonwealth country. The head of state is the Governor General (a purely ceremonial role), who is the Queen's representative. I think the government makes a suggestion to the Queen of England on who to appoint and she or someone in her staff signs off on it.
As for form of government Australia is a representative democracy, like pretty much every other western country.
In Australia there are laws about that sort of thing. And it's not handled by suing (seriously why get lawyers for this?), rather the police just hand out a fine or tell you to turn it down and be on your way.
Or, as was mentioned by another poster modded troll (ok 90% of his post was a troll), you could use a condom. I don't think having a circumcision gives you a license to take risks. Nor do I think encouraging circumcision (or abstinence for that matter) is a good way of solving the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Reading Slashdot, duh!
Yeah, but would you really want to carry around coins worth $-1?
Let's see if I got this right:
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1. Learn to play an instrument
2. Give away your songs for free on the internet
3.
4. Profit
I'd work on step 3 before quitting my day job if I were you.
An earlier post pointed out that caring for family isn't altruism at all but rather just survival instinct or something like that. Any decent person and plenty of less than decent people care for their family. It's in people's self interest. There's the whole survival of the fittest thing and parents get a lot emotionally etc. out of raising children from what I understand (not a parent myself).
Altruism is putting another's needs above your own, when you don't need to, even if you gain nothing from it or it costs you something.
Also your Bill Gates example isn't a good one. Bill Gates is the exception when it comes to the mega-wealthy - he does more than just give loose change to the poor as a token effort http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm. He doesn't need to and certainly doesn't gain from it so I would say he is altruistic.
I would say altruism isn't very widespread. Apathy and selfishness seem to be the dominant forces in society.
Won't somebody please think of the watts
Teachers work hard. My fiancée started teaching full time this year. I'd say she works about 50 hours a week minimum and probably more like 55 most weeks. She plans lessons on the train on the way to school. Any free periods or lunch times when she isn't on playground duty she does planning (or photocopying stuff, looking for tapes/through textbooks). Weekday afternoons and a few hours on weekends are taken up with marking, and possibly more lesson planning. This last holidays she did have a pretty good break from work, but that really only gave her a chance to catch up with friends, do stuff around her house and do some planning for our wedding. She had neglected both of these for most of the school term. Its much harder than I work (full time uni CS, part time work) and harder than I will work doing programming once I graduate.
I remember seeing a documentary with some guy who was on one of those low carb diets that supposedly make you live longer. He spoke painfully slow, about half the speed of what most people do. I figured if he's living twice as long he's making up for it by going at half speed through life.
My laptop at work already does this. That would be why I get so much more slashdot read in the morning than the afternoon.
98th percentile means "more arrogant than 98% of people".