Shit, if it were the game you were describing, you really would might as well just play a real guitar. Well, yes, if you already play guitar. If someone did make a system like that, a novice could probably get to a halfway passable level in a couple of hours.
And yes, I was expecting something completely different. I do play guitar, and I assumed someone did something along the lines of what I was describing and I wanted to see how it worked out.
Seriously? I tried it out at a friend's house, because I wanted to see how they simplified guitar playing. I was expecting to see things like automatically correcting timings to the nearest eighth note, only letting you play notes that are in key, fretting every note perfectly, possibly palm-muting turned on and off with a button, and probably some system to build appropriate chords from single notes.
I was pretty startled to discover that you could only do one set of notes, either right or wrong, and that it bore no actual resemblance to playing guitar. Maybe it was just disappointment that it wasn't something much better that led me to not like it.
Guitar Hero on Wii. That single game was the biggest reason I've been tempted, for a long time, to buy a PS2 If you're going to go that far, why not just learn to play guitar?
No one is ever aquitted because of flawed jury instructions. At most, a conviction can be overturned and a new trial ordered.
Why did AA instruct its employees to erase documents relating to Enron after discovering there would soon be investigated by the SEC. What was in all the documents they shreaded. Hell if I know -- I'm a computer programmer. I generally listen to my wife and the other big four (previously five) accountants she knows, especially the ones who used to work at Andersen.
The opinions of accountants you know don't count. It counts a lot more than your opinion of what is and isn't odd for people in a different profession to do.
Actually the people you should really watch out for are your own executive officers and your auditing company.
Arthur Andersen was aquitted on appeal. The consensus of all the accountants I know is that they were basically blameless, but that doesn't matter now because the company is dead.
So that means you can afford huge sun lamps to combat the pervasive Seasonal Affective Disorder brought on by the constant clouds, eh?
Many people aren't really bothered by it. Some of us are actually bothered a lot more by too much sunlight (Too little apparently feels like depression to many people. Too much feels like stress to me.). In considering where we eventually want to live, Seattle's weather is a big draw.
There were other views of Christ that survived until the sixth century, such as Gnosticism and Marcionism, but they would be considered heretical by today's standards simply because they did not agree with the council of Nicea.
I'm not really as familiar with it as I'd like to be, but I'm pretty sure there was another view of Christ that made it into Islam.
For some reason, a lot of them have a persecution complex because they aren't allowed to force their beliefs on everyone else. Of course, you hear all the time about how America was founded by people fleeing religious persecution. The Quakers were, yes, and probably a couple of other groups. The Puritans, however, had already escaped religious persecution by moving from England to Amsterdam. However, there they had to live around people who didn't believe as they did, so they came to America.
The reason you can't do a bubblesort is because you probably haven't really played with the alogorithm or you don' know the algorithm. I have understood the algorithm; I just can't remember why it works for more than a few weeks, for some reason.
I firmly believe that it's the only real way to get started. Maybe if you don't have a teacher. My high school Pascal class didn't operate that way at all. We started with a basic "Hello World", then put the "Hello World" string into a variable, then did it in a simple for loop, etc.
Imagine where you would have gone had you just kept on banging on that PET / 64, copy typing in code that you didn't quite understand (and letting the natural evolution I described above happen for those seven years.) Probably nowhere. I don't learn that way. I have coworkers who obviously do, and they'll get up to speed with a new tool faster than me, but I'll be expert at it long before any of them.
Also, doing things I don't understand has absolutely no appeal for me, so it likely would've further entrenched the idea that I don't like programming.
How many of us could bang out a bubble sort in at least one language by the time we were 15? I still can't write a bubble sort off the top of my head. I know Insertion Sort is harder to write, but I can always figure it out, because I remember why the algorithm actually works. I was 17 when I took Pascal, and doing homework assignments a few months ahead of where the class was, so when I got to the sorting assignment (which I'm sure was intended to be solved with a bubblesort), I thought about what I did when I had to physically sort something, and reinvented Selection Sort. Of course, now that I've been taking CS classes for 13 years, when I have to physically sort something it looks more like a cross between Merge Sort and Radix Sort.
and a ton of old magazines with source code in them so the kids can copy-type in the source, see what it does. Did this actually work for you? I have a little after school computer class around fourth grade where we typed in code listings on Commodore PET's and 64's, and then watched them run. Since the teacher never explained why any of it worked, I assumed computer programming was beyond me, and wrongly dismissed it for the next seven years.
I've been putting my thing into an accountant for years. Now she's working for a big accounting firm, and looking around at her coworkers at her office Christmas party, I think I'd recommend others do the same.
Probably the single biggest draw for religion is a desire to avoid having everything just end at death. For most people, religion answers that; for those of us who do not believe, the same motivation still exists. It's not nanotech that can answer that, but medical immortality; nanotech is just a very likely path to it.
Nanotech is probably also necessary for the level of space colonization that medical immortality would eventually necessitate.
No, not sci-fi or fantasy, but religion. I looked at Buddhism for a while because I like their relatively thoughtful, contemplative approach (I like the Quakers for the same reason), but I eventually decided I'm too attached to my own identity (and memories and knowledge) to be interested in Buddhism's goals, whether they're right or not. I'd rather have continued reincarnation than Nirvana.
I don't know that I exactly fear death so much as that there are a lot more things that I want to do than I can get to in the next 50 years or so.
Why are so many nerds just dying for the nanotechnology future to get here?
Dying is a big part of it. To me, the most exciting nanotech applications are medical. When you get down to that scale, you can send your little robots in and they can perform DNA repairs on individal cells. You don't have to worry about arteriolsclerosis anymore because little machines can just drive in through an IV, collect the fatty deposits on the blood vessel walls, and leave with them through another. Cancer is easy to fix when you can just kill each individual cell and drag it out through the blood. Weight problems can be cured by an office visit; spend a few hours hooked up to a machine and whatever fat you want can be removed, including abdominal fat that can't be reached by liposuction. Gerontology researchers will have better tools, and eventually, medical immortality may be possible; if not, living a couple hundred years doesn't seem that far-fetched.
I'm from Boston. I stood on the subway for a over an hour (normal ride time: 30 minutes or so) because of these dipshit "indie" artists that did this for Turner.
No, you did that because your government is full of idiots. Hopefully, they'll be sued for wrongful prosecution.
I'm with you on Consumer Reports in general, and especially the carseat review. With the Ionic Breeze, though, I think the Federal Trade Commission was trying to stop Sharper Image from selling those a couple of years ago, because they found that they didn't do much beyond creating ozone.
Oh come on, bar the odd genius no-one going to a proper college is that far in advance of all the teaching staff that their work is going to "confuse" them.
Not normally, no, but there are the occasional odd cases like when my PC assembler class was taught by a EE professor (I was a computer engineering major at the time), and he was constantly annoyed that I was clearly a better programmer than him.
If you go to school once you're already a professional, you're also likely to know more than a teacher in small areas where the teacher only picked up enough to cover the one or two days that a course covers that topic, or niche areas you happen to have worked in. For instance, when I was in comparative programming languages, we spent half a class period talking about languages that aren't imperative, OO or functional, and I had about five years of PostScript experience.
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Shit, if it were the game you were describing, you really would might as well just play a real guitar.
Well, yes, if you already play guitar. If someone did make a system like that, a novice could probably get to a halfway passable level in a couple of hours.
And yes, I was expecting something completely different. I do play guitar, and I assumed someone did something along the lines of what I was describing and I wanted to see how it worked out.
Seriously? I tried it out at a friend's house, because I wanted to see how they simplified guitar playing. I was expecting to see things like automatically correcting timings to the nearest eighth note, only letting you play notes that are in key, fretting every note perfectly, possibly palm-muting turned on and off with a button, and probably some system to build appropriate chords from single notes.
I was pretty startled to discover that you could only do one set of notes, either right or wrong, and that it bore no actual resemblance to playing guitar. Maybe it was just disappointment that it wasn't something much better that led me to not like it.
Guitar Hero on Wii. That single game was the biggest reason I've been tempted, for a long time, to buy a PS2
If you're going to go that far, why not just learn to play guitar?
No one is ever aquitted because of flawed jury instructions. At most, a conviction can be overturned and a new trial ordered.
Why did AA instruct its employees to erase documents relating to Enron after discovering there would soon be investigated by the SEC. What was in all the documents they shreaded.
Hell if I know -- I'm a computer programmer. I generally listen to my wife and the other big four (previously five) accountants she knows, especially the ones who used to work at Andersen.
The opinions of accountants you know don't count.
It counts a lot more than your opinion of what is and isn't odd for people in a different profession to do.
Actually the people you should really watch out for are your own executive officers and your auditing company.
Arthur Andersen was aquitted on appeal. The consensus of all the accountants I know is that they were basically blameless, but that doesn't matter now because the company is dead.
I can't speak for others, but I don't really intend to come in late; it just happens.
So that means you can afford huge sun lamps to combat the pervasive Seasonal Affective Disorder brought on by the constant clouds, eh?
Many people aren't really bothered by it. Some of us are actually bothered a lot more by too much sunlight (Too little apparently feels like depression to many people. Too much feels like stress to me.). In considering where we eventually want to live, Seattle's weather is a big draw.
Always torpedo mixed metaphors, no matter how well they sing.
Did you really say 'retarted'?
They've returned to their former careers of prostitution?
There were other views of Christ that survived until the sixth century, such as Gnosticism and Marcionism, but they would be considered heretical by today's standards simply because they did not agree with the council of Nicea.
I'm not really as familiar with it as I'd like to be, but I'm pretty sure there was another view of Christ that made it into Islam.
For some reason, a lot of them have a persecution complex because they aren't allowed to force their beliefs on everyone else.
Of course, you hear all the time about how America was founded by people fleeing religious persecution. The Quakers were, yes, and probably a couple of other groups. The Puritans, however, had already escaped religious persecution by moving from England to Amsterdam. However, there they had to live around people who didn't believe as they did, so they came to America.
The reason you can't do a bubblesort is because you probably haven't really played with the alogorithm or you don' know the algorithm.
I have understood the algorithm; I just can't remember why it works for more than a few weeks, for some reason.
I firmly believe that it's the only real way to get started.
Maybe if you don't have a teacher. My high school Pascal class didn't operate that way at all. We started with a basic "Hello World", then put the "Hello World" string into a variable, then did it in a simple for loop, etc.
Imagine where you would have gone had you just kept on banging on that PET / 64, copy typing in code that you didn't quite understand (and letting the natural evolution I described above happen for those seven years.)
Probably nowhere. I don't learn that way. I have coworkers who obviously do, and they'll get up to speed with a new tool faster than me, but I'll be expert at it long before any of them.
Also, doing things I don't understand has absolutely no appeal for me, so it likely would've further entrenched the idea that I don't like programming.
How many of us could bang out a bubble sort in at least one language by the time we were 15?
I still can't write a bubble sort off the top of my head. I know Insertion Sort is harder to write, but I can always figure it out, because I remember why the algorithm actually works. I was 17 when I took Pascal, and doing homework assignments a few months ahead of where the class was, so when I got to the sorting assignment (which I'm sure was intended to be solved with a bubblesort), I thought about what I did when I had to physically sort something, and reinvented Selection Sort. Of course, now that I've been taking CS classes for 13 years, when I have to physically sort something it looks more like a cross between Merge Sort and Radix Sort.
and a ton of old magazines with source code in them so the kids can copy-type in the source, see what it does.
Did this actually work for you? I have a little after school computer class around fourth grade where we typed in code listings on Commodore PET's and 64's, and then watched them run. Since the teacher never explained why any of it worked, I assumed computer programming was beyond me, and wrongly dismissed it for the next seven years.
Do you know of a way to do this with GMail? Hell, I'd happily pay at least $20/year for GMail, maybe $50, especially if I could get local backups.
I've been putting my thing into an accountant for years. Now she's working for a big accounting firm, and looking around at her coworkers at her office Christmas party, I think I'd recommend others do the same.
Probably the single biggest draw for religion is a desire to avoid having everything just end at death. For most people, religion answers that; for those of us who do not believe, the same motivation still exists. It's not nanotech that can answer that, but medical immortality; nanotech is just a very likely path to it.
Nanotech is probably also necessary for the level of space colonization that medical immortality would eventually necessitate.
No, not sci-fi or fantasy, but religion. I looked at Buddhism for a while because I like their relatively thoughtful, contemplative approach (I like the Quakers for the same reason), but I eventually decided I'm too attached to my own identity (and memories and knowledge) to be interested in Buddhism's goals, whether they're right or not. I'd rather have continued reincarnation than Nirvana.
I don't know that I exactly fear death so much as that there are a lot more things that I want to do than I can get to in the next 50 years or so.
Why are so many nerds just dying for the nanotechnology future to get here?
Dying is a big part of it. To me, the most exciting nanotech applications are medical. When you get down to that scale, you can send your little robots in and they can perform DNA repairs on individal cells. You don't have to worry about arteriolsclerosis anymore because little machines can just drive in through an IV, collect the fatty deposits on the blood vessel walls, and leave with them through another. Cancer is easy to fix when you can just kill each individual cell and drag it out through the blood. Weight problems can be cured by an office visit; spend a few hours hooked up to a machine and whatever fat you want can be removed, including abdominal fat that can't be reached by liposuction. Gerontology researchers will have better tools, and eventually, medical immortality may be possible; if not, living a couple hundred years doesn't seem that far-fetched.
I'm from Boston. I stood on the subway for a over an hour (normal ride time: 30 minutes or so) because of these dipshit "indie" artists that did this for Turner.
No, you did that because your government is full of idiots. Hopefully, they'll be sued for wrongful prosecution.
Next thing you'll say is that ducks are to be mindlessly feared because someone might make a BOMB that looks like a DUCK!
What if it just weighed the same as a duck?
An extra 5 seconds of ad time used to clarify what the drugs does doesn't sound like a waste of air time to me.
If they say what the drug does, they also have to say what the side-effects are.
Perhaps you should be looking at bioinformatics.
I'm with you on Consumer Reports in general, and especially the carseat review. With the Ionic Breeze, though, I think the Federal Trade Commission was trying to stop Sharper Image from selling those a couple of years ago, because they found that they didn't do much beyond creating ozone.
Oh come on, bar the odd genius no-one going to a proper college is that far in advance of all the teaching staff that their work is going to "confuse" them.
Not normally, no, but there are the occasional odd cases like when my PC assembler class was taught by a EE professor (I was a computer engineering major at the time), and he was constantly annoyed that I was clearly a better programmer than him.
If you go to school once you're already a professional, you're also likely to know more than a teacher in small areas where the teacher only picked up enough to cover the one or two days that a course covers that topic, or niche areas you happen to have worked in. For instance, when I was in comparative programming languages, we spent half a class period talking about languages that aren't imperative, OO or functional, and I had about five years of PostScript experience.