http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~bo yk/spectra/spectra.htm contains a scientific paper written by my dad, who teaches at Caltech, about this very topic. In fact, you can sense the loss of pitches well above 20KHz, which is where CDs reach their limit. That, for one thing, is why Lps sound better than CDs.
All the good musicians are geezers! I just went to see Bob Dylan on Friday, and it was a great concert. A couple months ago, I saw Eliades Ochoa, a Cuban guitarist who'se in his mid-fifties, and in August I'm going to see Compay Segundo, who's well over 70. Most of the music I listen to is either old itself or by old people -- 60s rock, 50s and early 60s jazz, and Cuban music, mostly played by guys over 60, and often over 75. What new music is there? Sleater-Kinney, Elliot Smith, Aimee Mann, that's about it. Most of the stuff that comes out domestically these days is Spice Girls/N Sync/Backstreet Boys/Shitola.
Despite the fact that you're an AC, I agree with you. I don't feel like my quality of life would be irreparably damaged if I never saw another Penis Bird. There are also some users I wouldn't mind blocking forever. Of course, the trolls who bitch about moderation would hate this, but fuck 'em. "Just 'cause I posted 93 trolls, that doesn't mean that I can't be cool!" Pshaw.
I love Google (now GigaGoogle (try saying that five times fast)), but I really wish it had better syntax. It supports ANDs, AND NOTs, and phrases, and that's it. No ORs or XORs, and certainly no NEARs or searching by date. I used to use AltaVista before they turned into a portal, but now I can't stand it. So I use Google because it's fast and gives relevant results, but most importantly because it doesn't tell me what the Dodgers score was, or which town in Texas was the host of the most recent gun-nut massacre. I still wish it was a little less primitive, though.
I agree that Nader is really cool, but think for a minute. Even though it seems principled to vote for the best candidate, it's a bad idea, and will be until we get proportional representation. In this election especially, it is extremely important to make sure that Bush doesn't win. At least one, and possibly as many as four, Supreme Court justices, including Chief Justice Rehnquist, will be retiring during the upcoming two Presidential terms (don't forget that incumbents usually win reelection), which makes this next Presidency extra-important. Add that to Bush's support of the death penalty, opposition to abortion, and general right-wingedness and alignment with big business, and he's a pretty bad candidate. Not that Gore is so great, but at least he's not Dubya.
In a perfect world, we would have preferential balloting and other mechanisms for better democracy, but we don't now. When you vote for a third-party candidate, you are not only voting for him, but against the party that you hate the least. For instance: say you're a Green, for the sake of argument. If the Democrats get 35% of the vote, the Republicans get 40%, and the Greens get 25%, then the Republicans would win. However, if the Greens had all voted Democratic, which is the mainstream party closer to their ideology, the Democrats would have won. It's sad, but it's true. If you feel strongly about a third party, by all means vote your conscience in lesser contests such as local elections, but please compromise on the Presidential election, because this one really matters.
If the search engine is not funded by tax dollars, how is it funded? The speech says that some guy named Eric Brewer is making it for free, after having received government grants previously. Is he just doing it as a thank you, or will there be ads? I hope the former.
It is, in fact, not true that there were no indie labels in the 50s and 60s. Starting after World War II, there was an explosion of artist-run and -owned record labels, including Charles Mingus' Debut and others, notably Atlantic, which began as a small west Coast jazz label. Many of these died, but some remained, and there was another, similar flowering in the 1950s. Also, there were several indie rock labels in the 60s. However, you were right that the original poster was a moron.
Actually, there's no such thing as a flop (int he computer sense). The word is flops, and it means FLoating point OPeration per Second. The "s" is for seconds, not to pluralize the word.
Without passing judgment on the merits of this particular case, I would point out that a.org top-level domain implies non-profit organizationhood, which PEthicalTA has, and which PEatingTA does not. A.com domain is pretty much meaningless these days, though, so that would make more sense for a parody site. Having said that, I think it's pretty clear that PEatingTA is not confusable with PEthicalTA, and I don't see that they should have been required to do anything beyond prominently announcing that they are a parody and linking to the real site.
Aside from the fact that Gnome isn't merging with KDE, XFree86 is allowed by Stallman. Did you really think that Debian doesn't use X? I don't even use Debian, but I always resent it when morons like you try to start flame wars. Even if Gnome and KDE ceased to exist, we would still have lots of window managers, like Enlightenment, Sawfish, WindowMaker, etc.
How hard would it be to add vector support to the Gimp? It would be really cool to be able to mix rasters and vectors between frames in the same image, and I don't think it would be impossible, either. The infrastructure probably exists already, since Dynamic Text is a vector. You'll notice, in the Layers palette, that Dynamic Text is its own type of layer, with the properties of vectors - resizability, etc. Any idea of the difficulty of adding more sophisticated vector support in the future? Even mixed raster-vector layers, perhaps? Raster-tiled vectors? Vector shapes with complicated, super-level defined properties (e.g., "Draw a capital Q, and then perform a [raster-based] chrome filter on the resulting raster)? 'cause that would be awesome, and it would be a feature that no other program would have, to my knowledge. Certainly not Photoshop.
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No, there are not three variables. There is one (external) variable, the result. That variable has three possible values, Rock, Paper, or Scissors.
There's a movie called The Angry Red Planet that I saw about 3 minutes of on teevee once. Omigod, it was hilarious. It's about (surprise) a trip to Mars, and the awesome effects consist of a red gel over the lens when the actors go out onto the (nice 'n jungly) surface of the Angry Red Planet. It was worthy of MST3K. I'm sure Battlefield Earth was worse, though.
Yeah, the Cap'n crunch, plus the fact that he stops in the middle of the narrative to give a math problem involving bicycle wheels. Goota love a nerd like that.
Actually, a great example is the theory of gravity. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn't acknowledge the existence of gravity, but it is just a theory. You could find someone, though, if you looked in the right place.
Well, maybe he's exaggerating, but where I live (Los Angeles), there is virtually no concept of community. Because of the peculiar history of LA (the tire companies bought the entire mass-transit system), you need a car to go anywhere. Even to go to a park big enough to spread a picnic blanket, or to a market to buy milk. As a consequence, everyone is in their own little world and is oblivious to the rest of the city. There is Little League and the Farmer's Market (Santa Monica, not Fairfax), but other than that, there's not much in the way of community. My suburban neighbors never talk to each other, and we have never had a block party. My aunt's neighborhood in Ann Arbor, MI, is just the opposite, but sadly AA is getting ultragentrified. It's too bad. It's a cool town with the best deli on the planet (this is scientific fact).
That's not entirely true. If you have enough money, you really can BUY a car on the spot. Anyway, the point about software, etc. (no pun intended) is that with some things, there really is no way to own it. If you buy shrink-wrapped computer program, you do not own the music in any sense of the term. Not only can you not make money off it (which most people would agree is a reasonable restriction), you can't even lend it to someone and then take it back (plus all kinds of other things you can't do).
A more germane claim would be that a primitive society is more stable than a more advanced one. Social grouping is a requirement for war, because without a government (tribes included), you'd never get enough people who wanted to fight for the same cause. However, most people (though not all) would concede that there are benefits to urban living, writing, art, etc. that outweigh the disadvantages, provided there are checks and balances. It is misleading to assert that overpopulation, for example, is a result of mobility. It is, instead, a result of depletion of resources, which is rather indirectly a result of mobility (people settle down, they farm, they build cities, they reproduce, there's too many, they die). Starvation, though, is not at all a result of stability. The opposite, actually. Stability allows agriculture, which allows a steady diet. Huting and gathering is very hard in many regions, and many hunter-gatherers die from starvation. It's easy to overhunt or to eat all the berries, and sometimes there isn't more stuff over the next hill. As a counterargument, I would point out that archaeologists have also not found evidence of widespread literacy, the building of cathedrals, federal government, rock 'n roll, or cable TV among ancient hunter-gatherers.
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Cash is completely irrelevant. In your pursuit of karma by easy means, you forgot to stay on topic. We are talking about ownership of intellectual property, not about data mining. Two completely separate issues, comprende? Anyway, sometimes you really do need something that has to be licensed. Even if they is not fundamental to the contiunation of life as we know it, also, many things are nice to have, and a lot of people prefer not to get into philosophical discussions of the nature of ideas and ownership and the meaning of meaning when they just want to rent The Rock. Or use Office, although God knows why.
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http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~bo yk/spectra/spectra.htm contains a scientific paper written by my dad, who teaches at Caltech, about this very topic. In fact, you can sense the loss of pitches well above 20KHz, which is where CDs reach their limit. That, for one thing, is why Lps sound better than CDs.
All the good musicians are geezers! I just went to see Bob Dylan on Friday, and it was a great concert. A couple months ago, I saw Eliades Ochoa, a Cuban guitarist who'se in his mid-fifties, and in August I'm going to see Compay Segundo, who's well over 70. Most of the music I listen to is either old itself or by old people -- 60s rock, 50s and early 60s jazz, and Cuban music, mostly played by guys over 60, and often over 75. What new music is there? Sleater-Kinney, Elliot Smith, Aimee Mann, that's about it. Most of the stuff that comes out domestically these days is Spice Girls/N Sync/Backstreet Boys/Shitola.
Despite the fact that you're an AC, I agree with you. I don't feel like my quality of life would be irreparably damaged if I never saw another Penis Bird. There are also some users I wouldn't mind blocking forever. Of course, the trolls who bitch about moderation would hate this, but fuck 'em. "Just 'cause I posted 93 trolls, that doesn't mean that I can't be cool!" Pshaw.
I love Google (now GigaGoogle (try saying that five times fast)), but I really wish it had better syntax. It supports ANDs, AND NOTs, and phrases, and that's it. No ORs or XORs, and certainly no NEARs or searching by date. I used to use AltaVista before they turned into a portal, but now I can't stand it. So I use Google because it's fast and gives relevant results, but most importantly because it doesn't tell me what the Dodgers score was, or which town in Texas was the host of the most recent gun-nut massacre. I still wish it was a little less primitive, though.
I agree that Nader is really cool, but think for a minute. Even though it seems principled to vote for the best candidate, it's a bad idea, and will be until we get proportional representation. In this election especially, it is extremely important to make sure that Bush doesn't win. At least one, and possibly as many as four, Supreme Court justices, including Chief Justice Rehnquist, will be retiring during the upcoming two Presidential terms (don't forget that incumbents usually win reelection), which makes this next Presidency extra-important. Add that to Bush's support of the death penalty, opposition to abortion, and general right-wingedness and alignment with big business, and he's a pretty bad candidate. Not that Gore is so great, but at least he's not Dubya.
In a perfect world, we would have preferential balloting and other mechanisms for better democracy, but we don't now. When you vote for a third-party candidate, you are not only voting for him, but against the party that you hate the least. For instance: say you're a Green, for the sake of argument. If the Democrats get 35% of the vote, the Republicans get 40%, and the Greens get 25%, then the Republicans would win. However, if the Greens had all voted Democratic, which is the mainstream party closer to their ideology, the Democrats would have won. It's sad, but it's true. If you feel strongly about a third party, by all means vote your conscience in lesser contests such as local elections, but please compromise on the Presidential election, because this one really matters.
If the search engine is not funded by tax dollars, how is it funded? The speech says that some guy named Eric Brewer is making it for free, after having received government grants previously. Is he just doing it as a thank you, or will there be ads? I hope the former.
It is, in fact, not true that there were no indie labels in the 50s and 60s. Starting after World War II, there was an explosion of artist-run and -owned record labels, including Charles Mingus' Debut and others, notably Atlantic, which began as a small west Coast jazz label. Many of these died, but some remained, and there was another, similar flowering in the 1950s. Also, there were several indie rock labels in the 60s. However, you were right that the original poster was a moron.
Actually, there's no such thing as a flop (int he computer sense). The word is flops, and it means FLoating point OPeration per Second. The "s" is for seconds, not to pluralize the word.
Without passing judgment on the merits of this particular case, I would point out that a .org top-level domain implies non-profit organizationhood, which PEthicalTA has, and which PEatingTA does not. A .com domain is pretty much meaningless these days, though, so that would make more sense for a parody site. Having said that, I think it's pretty clear that PEatingTA is not confusable with PEthicalTA, and I don't see that they should have been required to do anything beyond prominently announcing that they are a parody and linking to the real site.
Aside from the fact that Gnome isn't merging with KDE, XFree86 is allowed by Stallman. Did you really think that Debian doesn't use X? I don't even use Debian, but I always resent it when morons like you try to start flame wars. Even if Gnome and KDE ceased to exist, we would still have lots of window managers, like Enlightenment, Sawfish, WindowMaker, etc.
They're not silent. At least the G isn't. It's pronounced g'napster, just like GNU is pronounced g'noo. For the same reason, too.
The Gimp has a line tool. Try clicking with the pencil or brush or whatever and holding shift, and then clicking again, somewhere else.
How hard would it be to add vector support to the Gimp? It would be really cool to be able to mix rasters and vectors between frames in the same image, and I don't think it would be impossible, either. The infrastructure probably exists already, since Dynamic Text is a vector. You'll notice, in the Layers palette, that Dynamic Text is its own type of layer, with the properties of vectors - resizability, etc. Any idea of the difficulty of adding more sophisticated vector support in the future? Even mixed raster-vector layers, perhaps? Raster-tiled vectors? Vector shapes with complicated, super-level defined properties (e.g., "Draw a capital Q, and then perform a [raster-based] chrome filter on the resulting raster)? 'cause that would be awesome, and it would be a feature that no other program would have, to my knowledge. Certainly not Photoshop.
No, there are not three variables. There is one (external) variable, the result. That variable has three possible values, Rock, Paper, or Scissors.
Slashback is also a pun on "flashback."
There's a movie called The Angry Red Planet that I saw about 3 minutes of on teevee once. Omigod, it was hilarious. It's about (surprise) a trip to Mars, and the awesome effects consist of a red gel over the lens when the actors go out onto the (nice 'n jungly) surface of the Angry Red Planet. It was worthy of MST3K. I'm sure Battlefield Earth was worse, though.
Yeah, the Cap'n crunch, plus the fact that he stops in the middle of the narrative to give a math problem involving bicycle wheels. Goota love a nerd like that.
Why don't these phones have the capability for the owner to specify an address book of people he/she is willing to receive messages from?
Actually, a great example is the theory of gravity. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn't acknowledge the existence of gravity, but it is just a theory. You could find someone, though, if you looked in the right place.
Well, maybe he's exaggerating, but where I live (Los Angeles), there is virtually no concept of community. Because of the peculiar history of LA (the tire companies bought the entire mass-transit system), you need a car to go anywhere. Even to go to a park big enough to spread a picnic blanket, or to a market to buy milk. As a consequence, everyone is in their own little world and is oblivious to the rest of the city. There is Little League and the Farmer's Market (Santa Monica, not Fairfax), but other than that, there's not much in the way of community. My suburban neighbors never talk to each other, and we have never had a block party. My aunt's neighborhood in Ann Arbor, MI, is just the opposite, but sadly AA is getting ultragentrified. It's too bad. It's a cool town with the best deli on the planet (this is scientific fact).
That's not entirely true. If you have enough money, you really can BUY a car on the spot. Anyway, the point about software, etc. (no pun intended) is that with some things, there really is no way to own it. If you buy shrink-wrapped computer program, you do not own the music in any sense of the term. Not only can you not make money off it (which most people would agree is a reasonable restriction), you can't even lend it to someone and then take it back (plus all kinds of other things you can't do).
A more germane claim would be that a primitive society is more stable than a more advanced one. Social grouping is a requirement for war, because without a government (tribes included), you'd never get enough people who wanted to fight for the same cause. However, most people (though not all) would concede that there are benefits to urban living, writing, art, etc. that outweigh the disadvantages, provided there are checks and balances.
It is misleading to assert that overpopulation, for example, is a result of mobility. It is, instead, a result of depletion of resources, which is rather indirectly a result of mobility (people settle down, they farm, they build cities, they reproduce, there's too many, they die).
Starvation, though, is not at all a result of stability. The opposite, actually. Stability allows agriculture, which allows a steady diet. Huting and gathering is very hard in many regions, and many hunter-gatherers die from starvation. It's easy to overhunt or to eat all the berries, and sometimes there isn't more stuff over the next hill.
As a counterargument, I would point out that archaeologists have also not found evidence of widespread literacy, the building of cathedrals, federal government, rock 'n roll, or cable TV among ancient hunter-gatherers.
Cash is completely irrelevant. In your pursuit of karma by easy means, you forgot to stay on topic. We are talking about ownership of intellectual property, not about data mining. Two completely separate issues, comprende? Anyway, sometimes you really do need something that has to be licensed. Even if they is not fundamental to the contiunation of life as we know it, also, many things are nice to have, and a lot of people prefer not to get into philosophical discussions of the nature of ideas and ownership and the meaning of meaning when they just want to rent The Rock. Or use Office, although God knows why.
Oh right. Sorry. I just wasted an hour getting half of 7.0, which is what I'm running. Slick. :-)
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Lin ux/distributions/mandrake/iso/ is working for me. I'm getting 78K/sec, which is about what I usually max out at on my DSL.