These days, apps more frequently come in a Zip archive than a DMG, so it's more common to see people drag apps from their Downloads folder to the Dock than from a mounted disk image, but....
I figured the rest of the sentence would have been obvious from context, but since it obviously wasn't, I'll post the complete sentence. "Where the Application physically lives isn't that important, so long as it continues to do so."
We used to have the tradition of a Declaration of War on bandits or pirates, even though there was no particular opposing government, but we've sadly lost that tradition.
...and replaced it with wars on abstract concepts and substances, e.g. the war on terror, the war on drugs....
IMO, there's nothing wrong with using it for minor corrections to an otherwise good performance. Using it to make somebody who can't sing sound like a robot, however, is obnoxious.
1. A trapdoor in the roof with a ladder up to it from your attic (and a long pole with a broom on the end). This limits your falling distance considerably.
2. A long pole with a 60 degree bend in the middle and a broom all the way down the upper part.
I dunno about the dangers of solar, but the inconvenience...like when it is cloudy? Night? That's gonna be a bitch for you if you're on a road trip then....
Conveniently, most power consumption occurs during the day, and thanks to air conditioning, power consumption is at its highest when it is sunniest. Further, molten-salt-based solar power plants can continue to produce power at night.
That said, solar power for a car isn't really feasible because of the surface area required (even during the day). This is why we should be focusing our research dollars on lowering the cost of reliable, dense power storage (and capacitors in particular), not wasting it on half-assed "solutions" like CNG. A large power plant can convert that natural gas into power a heck of a lot more efficiently than a million automobiles running around the highway that convert it a little bit at a time....
CD quality is probably good enough for the final mix. You should always use 24-bit during tracking, of course, and if you plan on doing any vocoder work (Auto-Tune, Melodyne, etc.), you should generally track at a higher sample rate as well.
Even if you don't plan on doing pitch correction, it would be nice to have a bit higher sampling rate (say 60 kHz) to ensure that the upper limit of human hearing is completely below the point at which the bandpass filter starts rolling off. Software bandpass limiting during sample rate conversion can generally achieve a much tighter filter with less distortion than analog hardware on the input to an ADC.
I was joking, but wow. That's just bullshit. By any sane definition, I'm in "actual physical control" of my car when I have the only set of keys and am walking down the street. No sane person would say that I was driving. Any law that would charge someone with DUI for doing the right thing—choosing to sleep off the drunkenness in his or her car rather than driving home—is a very real threat to public safety, and runs exactly counter to all manner of ethics and social responsibility by actively encouraging actual drunk driving. Why? Your odds of getting noticed sleeping in your car all night outside a bar are much higher than your odds of randomly getting picked up in the five blocks between the bar and your house. Thus, the drunk driver is statistically less likely to get punished if he or she drives home drunk.
In any sane universe, every legislator who voted for such a law would be permanently stripped of his or her right to hold public office, and any peace officer who upheld it under those circumstances would be flogged in the public square by everyone who has ever lost a loved one to a drunk driver. There are no words for how wrong those laws are.
Thanks for the tip. I'll add that to the long list of other reasons I won't drive my car within twenty or thirty miles of that place, along with the badly marked traffic lanes, the insane number of cars and pedestrians, the $35 a day parking garages, the slow traffic, the @$$holes who cut you off constantly without mercy, the buses who drive like they're the only vehicles on the road, the bicyclists who don't pay any attention to cars, and all the $*#^@!$*& traffic lights. But I digress.
I'm pretty sure if I lived there, I'd find the cheapest long-term parking I could find within easy public reach by public transit and just leave my car there unless I was heading out of town.... It's just not worth dealing with a car in that city.
But requiring a snob to spend a day working at a homeless shelter—really working, not just coming in and handing out soup for an hour—is likely to be a hell of a lot more daunting than even a very expensive fine. It's not just the value of their time that is the punishment in that case, but also their perception that the work is menial in nature.
Granted, this isn't true for all wealthy people, or even the majority, but for a certain subset of the population (not all of whom are rich, BTW), it would be a useful punishment. In particular, repeat offenders—people who habitually violate traffic laws and casually pay the fines—might be better punished with community service.
As for ten hours of community service being too harsh for the busboy, he doesn't work seven days a week, or if he does, it's not all day. Almost nobody approaches a 112 hour work week; more to the point, if the busboy is working that many hours, we as a society have much bigger problems than his speeding problem.
Almost without exception, as long as the person being punished has some flexibility in choosing when to serve that sentence (to work around work hours), fining somebody time is just that—fining somebody time—no matter how much we might think our time is worth.
I'm not saying that the laws shouldn't be on the books. I'm saying that the laws should be updated to clarify that there is a difference between operating as in "pressing the gas pedal and/or steering" and operating as in "telling the computer to drive to a given address".
As for manual overrides, they aren't really a problem so long as the vehicle keeps an internal log with time stamps so that police can definitively determine after the fact whether the person in the driver's seat was actually driving or was merely directing the computer to drive on his or her behalf.
In much the same way, if we had a near-unlimited supply of disk space, FLAC would be inarguably better.
You may not be able to fill a 500 GB drive, but most portable music players do not have 500 GB of storage. They have 1-2 orders of magnitude less space than that. Using a lossless codec, a 4 GB music player will hold (assuming 2:1 compression) just under 13 albums. That's not a lot of music. At a 128 kbps bitrate, that same player will hold over 60 albums. That's not a small difference.
And most folks listening to music on a multifunction device—a cell phone, an iPod touch, etc.—won't want to use all their space for music. They have movies, apps, photos, and who knows what else that they want to keep on the device, too. Lossless audio translates into buying a much larger device than you otherwise would have. That doesn't come for free, which was my point.
Then the obvious solution is to get the sober drivers off the road.
No, the obvious solution is to get the human out of the driver's seat. The only reason alcohol is a problem on the roads is that cars don't drive themselves. In ten or fifteen years, the drunk driving deaths will begin to rapidly converge towards zero. (Amusingly, unless current drunk driving laws are revised, it will probably still be illegal to sit in the driver's seat while drunk even if you're not actually driving the vehicle because you are still technically "operating" it.)
Saying that FLAC is better than MP3 is like saying that an M1A1 is better than a smart car. If you care only about getting something from point A to point B undamaged, then yes, it is. If you care at all about efficiency, not so much.
As for Ogg Vorbis, I suspect the patent FUD spread by Fraunhofer pretty much sealed its fate as far as commercial vendor adoption was concerned, which in turn has limited its uptake by the general public.
Might I recommend using a spam filter? I only see one or two spam messages per month...
And now you're back to something controlled in part by a fairly small number of companies that provide the blacklists.
As for privacy, I have no clue what it is that you are referring to here -- are you concerned that other people are going to read your messages in a discussion system? That is like claiming that people are going to read the messages that you post in Facebook groups or other forums.
My point was that Facebook allows you to limit messages to people that you trust, and allows you to send messages entirely in private as well, whereas USENET is a purely open discussion forum. This makes it significantly less useful than Facebook, email, IRC, or web-based message boards. It also makes no real guarantees of when a message will be delivered. A reply could reach the original poster the same day or a week later (though I suspect this problem is less prevalent now than it used to be). Thus, its distributed nature comes at a nonzero cost.
It was an example of a system that is not controlled by any monopoly. Would you have preferred that I said XMPP?
XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) would probably be a better choice, though even then, most of the people you communicate with will be using a server provided by a near-monopoly (e.g. Facebook Chat). Still, it is at least a reasonable candidate, with the caveat that as soon as you depend on IP numbers or domain names, the service is controlled, at least in part, by a monopoly.
Well, I for one consider "Literature" to be a narrative flow set out by the author, that I enjoy following. So "Hypertext Literature" is not dead or alive, it's an oxymoron.
You mean you never read those "choose your own adventure" books as a kid, keeping a stack of two or three pages back with your fingers in case Captain Kirk died so that you could pop your way back up the stack and try another path? Now imagine that, but with a back button.
Or perhaps better literature....
I could see this being interesting with an ensemble cast in which you get to choose which people to follow, and you end up reading the story from different perspectives, learning what the other characters were doing from conversations, etc.—one story, many variations.
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These days, apps more frequently come in a Zip archive than a DMG, so it's more common to see people drag apps from their Downloads folder to the Dock than from a mounted disk image, but....
I figured the rest of the sentence would have been obvious from context, but since it obviously wasn't, I'll post the complete sentence. "Where the Application physically lives isn't that important, so long as it continues to do so."
...and replaced it with wars on abstract concepts and substances, e.g. the war on terror, the war on drugs....
When, exactly, was Microsoft good, interesting, or cool?
I would argue that for most users, the place they would drag them is into their Dock. Where the Application physically lives isn't that important.
Until it was pointed out that they were yellow, that is.
IMO, there's nothing wrong with using it for minor corrections to an otherwise good performance. Using it to make somebody who can't sing sound like a robot, however, is obnoxious.
I can see two solutions to that problem:
1. A trapdoor in the roof with a ladder up to it from your attic (and a long pole with a broom on the end). This limits your falling distance considerably.
2. A long pole with a 60 degree bend in the middle and a broom all the way down the upper part.
Conveniently, most power consumption occurs during the day, and thanks to air conditioning, power consumption is at its highest when it is sunniest. Further, molten-salt-based solar power plants can continue to produce power at night.
That said, solar power for a car isn't really feasible because of the surface area required (even during the day). This is why we should be focusing our research dollars on lowering the cost of reliable, dense power storage (and capacitors in particular), not wasting it on half-assed "solutions" like CNG. A large power plant can convert that natural gas into power a heck of a lot more efficiently than a million automobiles running around the highway that convert it a little bit at a time....
CD quality is probably good enough for the final mix. You should always use 24-bit during tracking, of course, and if you plan on doing any vocoder work (Auto-Tune, Melodyne, etc.), you should generally track at a higher sample rate as well.
Even if you don't plan on doing pitch correction, it would be nice to have a bit higher sampling rate (say 60 kHz) to ensure that the upper limit of human hearing is completely below the point at which the bandpass filter starts rolling off. Software bandpass limiting during sample rate conversion can generally achieve a much tighter filter with less distortion than analog hardware on the input to an ADC.
As opposed to all the serious risks we have been made aware of? Muscle damage, cognitive dysfunction, etc.
I was joking, but wow. That's just bullshit. By any sane definition, I'm in "actual physical control" of my car when I have the only set of keys and am walking down the street. No sane person would say that I was driving. Any law that would charge someone with DUI for doing the right thing—choosing to sleep off the drunkenness in his or her car rather than driving home—is a very real threat to public safety, and runs exactly counter to all manner of ethics and social responsibility by actively encouraging actual drunk driving. Why? Your odds of getting noticed sleeping in your car all night outside a bar are much higher than your odds of randomly getting picked up in the five blocks between the bar and your house. Thus, the drunk driver is statistically less likely to get punished if he or she drives home drunk.
In any sane universe, every legislator who voted for such a law would be permanently stripped of his or her right to hold public office, and any peace officer who upheld it under those circumstances would be flogged in the public square by everyone who has ever lost a loved one to a drunk driver. There are no words for how wrong those laws are.
Thanks for the tip. I'll add that to the long list of other reasons I won't drive my car within twenty or thirty miles of that place, along with the badly marked traffic lanes, the insane number of cars and pedestrians, the $35 a day parking garages, the slow traffic, the @$$holes who cut you off constantly without mercy, the buses who drive like they're the only vehicles on the road, the bicyclists who don't pay any attention to cars, and all the $*#^@!$*& traffic lights. But I digress.
I'm pretty sure if I lived there, I'd find the cheapest long-term parking I could find within easy public reach by public transit and just leave my car there unless I was heading out of town.... It's just not worth dealing with a car in that city.
But requiring a snob to spend a day working at a homeless shelter—really working, not just coming in and handing out soup for an hour—is likely to be a hell of a lot more daunting than even a very expensive fine. It's not just the value of their time that is the punishment in that case, but also their perception that the work is menial in nature.
Granted, this isn't true for all wealthy people, or even the majority, but for a certain subset of the population (not all of whom are rich, BTW), it would be a useful punishment. In particular, repeat offenders—people who habitually violate traffic laws and casually pay the fines—might be better punished with community service.
As for ten hours of community service being too harsh for the busboy, he doesn't work seven days a week, or if he does, it's not all day. Almost nobody approaches a 112 hour work week; more to the point, if the busboy is working that many hours, we as a society have much bigger problems than his speeding problem.
Almost without exception, as long as the person being punished has some flexibility in choosing when to serve that sentence (to work around work hours), fining somebody time is just that—fining somebody time—no matter how much we might think our time is worth.
What you forgot to mention was that the driver was sleeping at 65 MPH.
I'm not saying that the laws shouldn't be on the books. I'm saying that the laws should be updated to clarify that there is a difference between operating as in "pressing the gas pedal and/or steering" and operating as in "telling the computer to drive to a given address".
As for manual overrides, they aren't really a problem so long as the vehicle keeps an internal log with time stamps so that police can definitively determine after the fact whether the person in the driver's seat was actually driving or was merely directing the computer to drive on his or her behalf.
In much the same way, if we had a near-unlimited supply of disk space, FLAC would be inarguably better.
You may not be able to fill a 500 GB drive, but most portable music players do not have 500 GB of storage. They have 1-2 orders of magnitude less space than that. Using a lossless codec, a 4 GB music player will hold (assuming 2:1 compression) just under 13 albums. That's not a lot of music. At a 128 kbps bitrate, that same player will hold over 60 albums. That's not a small difference.
And most folks listening to music on a multifunction device—a cell phone, an iPod touch, etc.—won't want to use all their space for music. They have movies, apps, photos, and who knows what else that they want to keep on the device, too. Lossless audio translates into buying a much larger device than you otherwise would have. That doesn't come for free, which was my point.
Non-drunken dads can beat their loved ones, too. It isn't always caused by alcohol. Stress, lack of sleep, etc. can produce much the same effect.
No, the obvious solution is to get the human out of the driver's seat. The only reason alcohol is a problem on the roads is that cars don't drive themselves. In ten or fifteen years, the drunk driving deaths will begin to rapidly converge towards zero. (Amusingly, unless current drunk driving laws are revised, it will probably still be illegal to sit in the driver's seat while drunk even if you're not actually driving the vehicle because you are still technically "operating" it.)
This is why you ensure that the company, its CEO, and its board of directors cumulatively own at least 50% of the stock.
Saying that FLAC is better than MP3 is like saying that an M1A1 is better than a smart car. If you care only about getting something from point A to point B undamaged, then yes, it is. If you care at all about efficiency, not so much.
As for Ogg Vorbis, I suspect the patent FUD spread by Fraunhofer pretty much sealed its fate as far as commercial vendor adoption was concerned, which in turn has limited its uptake by the general public.
And now you're back to something controlled in part by a fairly small number of companies that provide the blacklists.
My point was that Facebook allows you to limit messages to people that you trust, and allows you to send messages entirely in private as well, whereas USENET is a purely open discussion forum. This makes it significantly less useful than Facebook, email, IRC, or web-based message boards. It also makes no real guarantees of when a message will be delivered. A reply could reach the original poster the same day or a week later (though I suspect this problem is less prevalent now than it used to be). Thus, its distributed nature comes at a nonzero cost.
XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) would probably be a better choice, though even then, most of the people you communicate with will be using a server provided by a near-monopoly (e.g. Facebook Chat). Still, it is at least a reasonable candidate, with the caveat that as soon as you depend on IP numbers or domain names, the service is controlled, at least in part, by a monopoly.
Forty-two.
Now we finally know the question.
You mean you never read those "choose your own adventure" books as a kid, keeping a stack of two or three pages back with your fingers in case Captain Kirk died so that you could pop your way back up the stack and try another path? Now imagine that, but with a back button.
Or perhaps better literature....
I could see this being interesting with an ensemble cast in which you get to choose which people to follow, and you end up reading the story from different perspectives, learning what the other characters were doing from conversations, etc.—one story, many variations.
Email: 75% spam
USENET: 99% spam and zero privacy unless you run your own server
IRC: your non-geek friends have never heard of it.