I know your being funny/sarcastic... but thats not a bad idea either, for most people it would be difficult, or rather clumsy, but for blind people, it would be good, they can feel the digit their finger is on, rotate etc... although you could do the same with with a scroll, it would just have to be bigger (like briefcase/suitcase combo-lock style) or a rolling conveyor belt (not a good idea)...
Personally, I still prefer the 10/12 button "square"... but still can see the wheel being a decent idea, plus it has other benefits, like scrolling the webpage/text/etc...
I dunno, depending on the size, position, etc. I could see that being really easy...
Move finger/wheel up for higher digit, down for lower digit, one tap for "Next Digit" two taps for Dial, but it would work a lot better with a "real" wheel, like a mouse wheel where it has that resistance between each scroll/click.
You could dial, while the phone is already next to your ear, dial without even looking at it, dial while looking at the screen (instead of it being covered by your finger) etc.
Meow, when I first read that, I thought, meow whats this about? Did you hate everyone before meow? or did something happen just meow to make you hate everything?
Meow I'm left pondering what hating everything means, if you hate everything equally, well meow, doesn't that mean you don't hate anything at all meow?
Answer meow, or later... on second thought, it doesn't matter at all meow.
There's 8 other planets, strategically placed at appropriate distances to the sun, with varying solid and liquid cores to suit all beverages during solar and planetary seasons.
Jafar's name seems to be derived from a character named Jafar or Giafar in tales of the Arabian Nights, who is the Vizier to the 9th century Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid; this character in turn was based on a real-life vizier, Ja'far bin Yahya Barmaki. Harun and Giafar were the protagonists of many stories in Arabian Nights, but Giafar was never presented as a villain. Harun did have the real Ja'far bin Yahya Barmaki beheaded after a dispute arising from allegations that Ja'far had engaged in an affair with the Caliph's sister. The original tale of Aladdin, a Syrian story not originally attached to the Arabian Nights, features two characters who correspond to Disney's Jafar. One is an unnamed vizier who is jealous of Aladdin but does not serve as a real villain; the other is the major antagonist, an evil magician from the Maghreb in North Africa who introduces Aladdin to his magical lamp.
... He is shown to be scholarly and learned in arcane lore, his secret chamber filled with strange devices and stacks of tomes, and, as such, he operates more on the level of an alchemist throughout the film's duration than an actual magician. Instead of casting spells, he relies on previously prepared potions capable of producing magical phenomena...
"It is unfortunate that the word "free" in English has such multiple meanings."
Yeah, there should be like regulations and laws against that, who are we to look for alternate meanings, keep these language pirates from stealing our sources.
But that's sort of along the lines I was/am thinking... take txoof's post alone (or mine, or whoever may reply) there are 3 separate URLS for each Slashdot comment
How many Slashdot comments are there? It's probably in the high millions, (rhetorical, but I'm interested to know none-the-less) There's like an average of about 250 comments per article, about 25 articles a day, thats about 2 million a year, so 6 million links, then take into consideration stuff like Facebook, which bounces URLs (http://www.facebook.com/link=###/etc) or sites that generate a random identifier every few minutes, making those "unique", gets unexciting quite quickly, Although billions is still fairly high.
For some perhaps, the only time I have preconceived bias, is if I have read or heard something they stated prior to the conversation at hand.
However, the first statement(s) made by each, has an influence on everything they say on the topic hence forth, with the exception of if they entered the conversation disgruntled from a prior event, or have a disposition to push buttons on first contact, and later described respectively so, that can change my opinion about their motives/etc.
But I have no reason to form a bias beforehand based on age or sex unless the information I am after is directly related to age and/or sex, if I was doing a survey on teenage dating, obviously im going to favor the 14 year old, if im doing a survey on divorce, then im going to favor the 50 year old, however im sure both of them have an equally valid opinion on both subjects, and it would be a piss-poor survey if they were the only ones in it anyways, perhaps after interviewing 25 fifty year olds, and 25 fourteen year olds, I could better formulate which may be the better age group for this particular survey.
However, I would have a bias if the younger one was say, 6 or 7 years old, but by 14 most people have a fairly good idea of, or at least a conceptual understanding (or possibility) of basically anything.
Although to simplify it, I am not disagreeing, we do have our natural bias which may be entirely unrelated to the topic at hand (attractiveness, their clothing, posture, how they entered, etc) which may effect the immediate suppositions, however (for me at least) it rarely (if ever) has an effect on the hindsight/meditative/reflection of the conversation/statements made, but that is just my tendancy, I don't jump to a conclusion and then presume that its entirely correct.
I might favor an opinion immediately based on a judgement like that, but that doesnt mean I disgregarded the unfavorable opinion, and its no longer a valid, I may agree with it a couple sentences later, or 30 minutes later.
I wouldnt even be able to say "the world is round" without having to go into debate about dimensions, the curvature of the universe, etc.
But now im just (still?) rambling. My point being nothing is absolute, and i would never disregard an opinion and/or statement based on age or sex.
That's the fault of the person she is conversing with, and basically the point I was making.
I'll take a 14 year old girls, and a 50 year old mans opinion/statement with an equal amount of salt. the 14 year old may have spent 4 years learning a subject, the 50 year old may have spent 30 years on the same subject, however the 14 year old doesn't really have much else to think about but that subject, whereas the 50 year old has well established political and ideological standards, its all intertwined with his family and employers/employees etc.
The 50 year old may have 30 years experience, but may be clinging to the same ideas from 30 years ago, and might be unaware of newer ideas, the 14 year old is most likely the reverse, they both have an equal amount of say on a subject as far as I am concerned. It's just more input to assist my own learning process, and in reverse I wouldn't favor teaching someone based on age or sex, only how interested they seemed to be, and/or how well we communicated with eachother.
"I think it's a good thing that a 14-year-old girl can pose as a 50-year-old man and see if her ideas will be taken seriously on their own merits.
No.
I think it's a good thing that a 14-year-old girl can pose her ideas and will be taken seriously on their own merits.
Yes.
If she's posing as a 50 year old man, then whatever she is saying isn't being taken on its own merits but under the assumption that she may be more qualified simply because she appears to be older and/or male.
Or, have video cameras along with a sort of ID Key-Card...
Or, damage sensors throughout the vehicle, and like a normal taxi, where you pay at the end, if the user/rider can't afford to pay for the damage they did to the vehicle, they just don't get let out, and it sits there till the situation is rectified by some means.
Or, the taxi's are just really cold and sterile, made out of material that is very hard to damage.
I'm not really a fan of any of those idea's, but they are possibilities, especially in combinations with eachother.
Puking/fucking/graffiti/etc is going to happen regardless, and in all classes (not just "bums") that's just part of the cost of the business. Personally, I don't think I would ever be comfortable in a robot/autonomous vehicle, having a human driver isn't exactly perfect, but it can be monitered/trusted more... it (human) will make instantanly recognizable sounds/motions when something is (or about to be) wrong, and you can usually directly see the fault, ie: "he looks tired", "he isnt watching the road", etc... which can't really happen with a robotic driver, you dont know its failed till you wake up in the hospital, even with redundancies, and constant input about the "health" of the autonomobile, I wouldnt trust it, and even if I did I would be sacrificing the leasure/relaxation I would probably have if it was a human.
Provided that when it is legal, it's not taxed, or hindered by some other means to make it "equal" to manual and/or internal combustion versions, or like the EV-1 gets inexplicably 'recalled' as a failed attempt when it wasn't.
lol... yeah I guess, they really need to amplify that, like have a halo around the (O) friend/foe icon when its a subscriber, or maybe im just making excuses...
I would assume DCT/et al, since it takes a fair bit of processing, and it has adjustments you can make to reduce/remove echo, and also filters for certain types of "music"... like voice, or high and low-end, drums, air instruments, etc, plus wet and dry gain, channels, etc. (in the "Time -Stretch plugin itself)
Its limited to 50% of original though for shrinking (500% for expanding) so for "Free Bird" you have to run it at 50% 3 times, which is no doubt lessening the quality each time, however I doubt its enough to say "if it didnt" it would be an ok song at 1:08... you can also change it by BPM and etc.
Like you probably already figured out... "i dont know" but what i do know is that its not just cropping out pieces.
Why bother with Wikileaks, when there's innumerable blogs?
Personally, I'm glad that its not all funneled through the same site, that's when censorship is easy, Wikileaks is great, but its not perfect, and maybe the submitter didn't trust it, or more likely, doesn't even know it exists, or possibly didn't want to make a big stink about it, and was hoping a lesser known site/blog would only get the appropriate amount of attention, without making it into some big scandal, but he/they could still refer to it.
I don't think so, other than making a lot of noise and using more electricity I dont think it would do much of anything, you could use it to create a vortex heat exchanger, but your engine would have to be running at RPM's far beyond what a normal combustion engine can run (like in the 100,000+ RPM range).
Besides, if you are doing that, you may aswell go for full condensing cooling, which a combustion engine wouldnt be able to handle because they dont seal well enough to create enough pressure needed, thats why diaphragms are used instead of cylinders.
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lol @ own comment "but still can see the wheel being a decent idea"
Yeah shit, someone should invent the wheel already FTW!
I know your being funny/sarcastic... but thats not a bad idea either, for most people it would be difficult, or rather clumsy, but for blind people, it would be good, they can feel the digit their finger is on, rotate etc... although you could do the same with with a scroll, it would just have to be bigger (like briefcase/suitcase combo-lock style) or a rolling conveyor belt (not a good idea)...
Personally, I still prefer the 10/12 button "square"... but still can see the wheel being a decent idea, plus it has other benefits, like scrolling the webpage/text/etc...
Yeah, or...
"On the other hand, proper grammar is just as nice to have."
I dunno, depending on the size, position, etc. I could see that being really easy...
Move finger/wheel up for higher digit, down for lower digit, one tap for "Next Digit" two taps for Dial, but it would work a lot better with a "real" wheel, like a mouse wheel where it has that resistance between each scroll/click.
You could dial, while the phone is already next to your ear, dial without even looking at it, dial while looking at the screen (instead of it being covered by your finger) etc.
Meow, when I first read that, I thought, meow whats this about? Did you hate everyone before meow? or did something happen just meow to make you hate everything?
Meow I'm left pondering what hating everything means, if you hate everything equally, well meow, doesn't that mean you don't hate anything at all meow?
Answer meow, or later... on second thought, it doesn't matter at all meow.
I'm outta here meow... CHICKEN FUCKER!.
Shhhh!... keep your voice down.
There's 8 other planets, strategically placed at appropriate distances to the sun, with varying solid and liquid cores to suit all beverages during solar and planetary seasons.
Well, i'd like to believe that too, and understandably aswell (lived in B.C. most of his life).
If you tallied the list there are far more USA names, or even tropical ones (and minerals, animals, gases, etc), than Canadian/BC ones...
Yes.
"They didn't quite make it to 4 though did they [yet]."
We'll have to wait to see how trials and settlements go, as well as what the album makes on its release. (16 September 2008, according to the Wiki)
Or Jafar
Jafar's name seems to be derived from a character named Jafar or Giafar in tales of the Arabian Nights, who is the Vizier to the 9th century Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid; this character in turn was based on a real-life vizier, Ja'far bin Yahya Barmaki. Harun and Giafar were the protagonists of many stories in Arabian Nights, but Giafar was never presented as a villain. Harun did have the real Ja'far bin Yahya Barmaki beheaded after a dispute arising from allegations that Ja'far had engaged in an affair with the Caliph's sister. The original tale of Aladdin, a Syrian story not originally attached to the Arabian Nights, features two characters who correspond to Disney's Jafar. One is an unnamed vizier who is jealous of Aladdin but does not serve as a real villain; the other is the major antagonist, an evil magician from the Maghreb in North Africa who introduces Aladdin to his magical lamp.
...
He is shown to be scholarly and learned in arcane lore, his secret chamber filled with strange devices and stacks of tomes, and, as such, he operates more on the level of an alchemist throughout the film's duration than an actual magician. Instead of casting spells, he relies on previously prepared potions capable of producing magical phenomena...
No no dipshit, the period before the period prior to the statement "Note the Period." period before the period.
"It is unfortunate that the word "free" in English has such multiple meanings."
Yeah, there should be like regulations and laws against that, who are we to look for alternate meanings, keep these language pirates from stealing our sources.
-1 Redundant sure...
But that's sort of along the lines I was/am thinking... take txoof's post alone (or mine, or whoever may reply) there are 3 separate URLS for each Slashdot comment
The Header:
http://search.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=626647&cid=24345519
The User:
http://slashdot.org/~txoof
The Score:
http://search.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/26/0036245#
How many Slashdot comments are there? It's probably in the high millions, (rhetorical, but I'm interested to know none-the-less) There's like an average of about 250 comments per article, about 25 articles a day, thats about 2 million a year, so 6 million links, then take into consideration stuff like Facebook, which bounces URLs (http://www.facebook.com/link=###/etc) or sites that generate a random identifier every few minutes, making those "unique", gets unexciting quite quickly, Although billions is still fairly high.
The same place they get "feet" and "yards" and "stone"
For some perhaps, the only time I have preconceived bias, is if I have read or heard something they stated prior to the conversation at hand.
However, the first statement(s) made by each, has an influence on everything they say on the topic hence forth, with the exception of if they entered the conversation disgruntled from a prior event, or have a disposition to push buttons on first contact, and later described respectively so, that can change my opinion about their motives/etc.
But I have no reason to form a bias beforehand based on age or sex unless the information I am after is directly related to age and/or sex, if I was doing a survey on teenage dating, obviously im going to favor the 14 year old, if im doing a survey on divorce, then im going to favor the 50 year old, however im sure both of them have an equally valid opinion on both subjects, and it would be a piss-poor survey if they were the only ones in it anyways, perhaps after interviewing 25 fifty year olds, and 25 fourteen year olds, I could better formulate which may be the better age group for this particular survey.
However, I would have a bias if the younger one was say, 6 or 7 years old, but by 14 most people have a fairly good idea of, or at least a conceptual understanding (or possibility) of basically anything.
Although to simplify it, I am not disagreeing, we do have our natural bias which may be entirely unrelated to the topic at hand (attractiveness, their clothing, posture, how they entered, etc) which may effect the immediate suppositions, however (for me at least) it rarely (if ever) has an effect on the hindsight/meditative/reflection of the conversation/statements made, but that is just my tendancy, I don't jump to a conclusion and then presume that its entirely correct.
I might favor an opinion immediately based on a judgement like that, but that doesnt mean I disgregarded the unfavorable opinion, and its no longer a valid, I may agree with it a couple sentences later, or 30 minutes later.
I wouldnt even be able to say "the world is round" without having to go into debate about dimensions, the curvature of the universe, etc.
But now im just (still?) rambling. My point being nothing is absolute, and i would never disregard an opinion and/or statement based on age or sex.
That's the fault of the person she is conversing with, and basically the point I was making.
I'll take a 14 year old girls, and a 50 year old mans opinion/statement with an equal amount of salt. the 14 year old may have spent 4 years learning a subject, the 50 year old may have spent 30 years on the same subject, however the 14 year old doesn't really have much else to think about but that subject, whereas the 50 year old has well established political and ideological standards, its all intertwined with his family and employers/employees etc.
The 50 year old may have 30 years experience, but may be clinging to the same ideas from 30 years ago, and might be unaware of newer ideas, the 14 year old is most likely the reverse, they both have an equal amount of say on a subject as far as I am concerned. It's just more input to assist my own learning process, and in reverse I wouldn't favor teaching someone based on age or sex, only how interested they seemed to be, and/or how well we communicated with eachother.
"I think it's a good thing that a 14-year-old girl can pose as a 50-year-old man and see if her ideas will be taken seriously on their own merits.
No.
I think it's a good thing that a 14-year-old girl can pose her ideas and will be taken seriously on their own merits.
Yes.
If she's posing as a 50 year old man, then whatever she is saying isn't being taken on its own merits but under the assumption that she may be more qualified simply because she appears to be older and/or male.
Or, have video cameras along with a sort of ID Key-Card...
Or, damage sensors throughout the vehicle, and like a normal taxi, where you pay at the end, if the user/rider can't afford to pay for the damage they did to the vehicle, they just don't get let out, and it sits there till the situation is rectified by some means.
Or, the taxi's are just really cold and sterile, made out of material that is very hard to damage.
I'm not really a fan of any of those idea's, but they are possibilities, especially in combinations with eachother.
Puking/fucking/graffiti/etc is going to happen regardless, and in all classes (not just "bums") that's just part of the cost of the business. Personally, I don't think I would ever be comfortable in a robot/autonomous vehicle, having a human driver isn't exactly perfect, but it can be monitered/trusted more... it (human) will make instantanly recognizable sounds/motions when something is (or about to be) wrong, and you can usually directly see the fault, ie: "he looks tired", "he isnt watching the road", etc... which can't really happen with a robotic driver, you dont know its failed till you wake up in the hospital, even with redundancies, and constant input about the "health" of the autonomobile, I wouldnt trust it, and even if I did I would be sacrificing the leasure/relaxation I would probably have if it was a human.
"...once it's legal."
Provided that when it is legal, it's not taxed, or hindered by some other means to make it "equal" to manual and/or internal combustion versions, or like the EV-1 gets inexplicably 'recalled' as a failed attempt when it wasn't.
lol... yeah I guess, they really need to amplify that, like have a halo around the (O) friend/foe icon when its a subscriber, or maybe im just making excuses...
I would assume DCT/et al, since it takes a fair bit of processing, and it has adjustments you can make to reduce/remove echo, and also filters for certain types of "music"... like voice, or high and low-end, drums, air instruments, etc, plus wet and dry gain, channels, etc. (in the "Time -Stretch plugin itself)
Its limited to 50% of original though for shrinking (500% for expanding) so for "Free Bird" you have to run it at 50% 3 times, which is no doubt lessening the quality each time, however I doubt its enough to say "if it didnt" it would be an ok song at 1:08... you can also change it by BPM and etc.
Like you probably already figured out... "i dont know" but what i do know is that its not just cropping out pieces.
"Posted by timothy on Thursday July 24, @04:28PM"
I scoffed a bit when I RTFS
I read them...but really didn't find any major unaddressed concerns.
"by clang_jangle (975789) * on Thursday July 24, @04:33PM"
Just saying...
Why bother with Wikileaks, when there's innumerable blogs?
Personally, I'm glad that its not all funneled through the same site, that's when censorship is easy, Wikileaks is great, but its not perfect, and maybe the submitter didn't trust it, or more likely, doesn't even know it exists, or possibly didn't want to make a big stink about it, and was hoping a lesser known site/blog would only get the appropriate amount of attention, without making it into some big scandal, but he/they could still refer to it.
Disclaimer: I Haven't RTFA.
I don't think so, other than making a lot of noise and using more electricity I dont think it would do much of anything, you could use it to create a vortex heat exchanger, but your engine would have to be running at RPM's far beyond what a normal combustion engine can run (like in the 100,000+ RPM range).
Besides, if you are doing that, you may aswell go for full condensing cooling, which a combustion engine wouldnt be able to handle because they dont seal well enough to create enough pressure needed, thats why diaphragms are used instead of cylinders.