Caltech's incessant whining for the return of the cannon was better described as a surrender plan rather than a recapture strategy. Caltech didn't play along - where was their bold plan to recapture the cannon? Their artful hack? The best they could muster was a cry to mommy dearest!
HMC stole it fair and square, and left it in the middle of the courtyard, there for the taking.
And for that matter, it wasn't even originally Caltech's cannon - they "liberated" it from another school.
Ayn Rand overlooks one critical item - most wealth is derived from natural resources. These resources belong, at a fundamental level, to everyone, and are not something that can be denied in perpetuity to future generations simply by the selfish claims of ones forefathers.
Noone has an inherent exclusive right to natural resources, and these resources must return to the public over time.
This return to the public is accomplished via taxes. Taxes are a rental fee charged to those who monopolize public resources - water, land, timber, and oil.
The people who levy taxes are not thieves, they are simply returning public resources to the people.
Mr. CBS is right! The mainstream media is owned by Knight Ridder and Rupert Murdoch, and is primarily interested in furthering its political agenda - namely the pursuit of capital at the expense of the truth. They publish corporate advertising and parade it as the truth.
As for his insinuation that bloggers wear pajamas, well, we have no proof that mr. talking head is even wearing any pants. (and to quote john stewart, if he is, they ARE ON FIRE! =)
While the above poster may appear radical, he's actually just furthering those in power by squandering his vote. The time for longshot votes is in the primaries. This election is realistically between two candidates. Voting for a third party is simply supporting the old regime by stating that things aren't bad enough to vote for another potential winner.
The situation can improve through siding with a candidate that has a shot at winning, and this requires compromise - ie choosing the better option, even though it's no one's first choice.
That's certainly one way of looking at it. The poor uberworker (of which you, no doubt, include yourself), is surrounded by his coworkers, the eternal slackers.
Perhaps they're not motivated. Or perhaps your manager is naive and is using a bit too much stick and not enough carrot. You'd be amazed what some positive, encouraging management can achieve.
Or, to paraphrase Office Space, "if you motivate a man with the threat of getting fired, he'll only work hard enough to keep from losing his job."
A little sugar goes a long way. And REAL sugar, not saccharine. Anyone can tell the difference.
If you had listened to AirAmerica Radio, you would know that Air America isn't hate-filled. They support a change of government, one that respects the United Nations and the Geneva Convention. One that is for the people instead of for Rupert Murdoch.
Currently, the FCC is the legislative branch of the media conglomerates.
The FCC exists primarily to cater to ClearChannel / Kiss FM. It's not about serving the public, it's about serving big business.
Pirate Radio is an act of civil disobedience.
There is an old saying - Want a free press? Buy one. Of course, for those of us that can't buy one - you can start your own!
Just imagine 1,000 Slashdotters rebroadcasting Airamerica Radio across the midwest. We might finally have a voice to reckon with Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
Not quite. The first poster is correct - the simple (naive) decoding _is_ a square wave. The second most naive form of reconstruction, linear interpolation, would yield a triangle (first order derivative of square), while more advanced reconstructions such as sync windowing would filter out the higher frequencies via band-limiting.
However, iirc band-limited approachs affect the phase below the eq cutoff, leaving you with a choice:
Either accurately replicate all frequencies N/2 and lower (while distorting the hell out of the f > N/2 range), or filter out the f > N/2 range and distort the phase of the audio region.
It's not theft, it's copyright infringement. Get it through your friggin head. Nobody took their music, they just made copies of it. That's _why_ it's called copyright infringment.
If it's digital, you're not changing their art. You're changing your copy of their art. Contrast this to a painting - with a painting, there is only one copy, you change it, it's changed for everyone.
With a DVD, you change your copy, and SO WHAT??? WHO CARES? My copy is unaffected. Yet you would lock someone up for that? Or harass them ala the RIAA?
Furthermore, when you create a work of art, it is not some edict from God, to remain unchanged and unquestioned for time immemorial. It's a statement, an emotion, and other artists are going to react to it - perhaps by sampling, interpretation, or parody. Art is not above social commentary.
p.s. Steven Spielberg is a total friggin wanker mistaking himself for an artist.
Mixonic is worth checking out - they've simplified pressing and distribution for musicians by allowing you to upload your cd and then pressing copies on demand. No physical inventory aside from bits.
They keep $4 per cd of your profit charge no startup costs. It's an attractive business model.
Your post is truly uninformed, socially irresponsible, and downright embarrassingly asinine.
I worked at Liquid from 96-98 (from pre to post IPO). Yes, it was started by some caucasians - both male and female. While I was there, the people I saw promoted were the ones who deserved it.
Furthermore, during my time at Liquid I was fortunate enough to work with an extremely qualified, competent African American engineering manager who was hired on his MERITS - ie technical and managerial skills and background.
Also, your belief that asian-american officers would have saved the day is simply your own racial prejudice. Furthermore, for several years, the CTO was a man of american of pacific islander / asian descent. He resigned after the IPO. For that matter, the head of QA was also pacific-asian-american.
As for the "good old boys" club - some execs _were_ hired in part for their leverage in the industry - ie former execs at Warner, Sony, and such. This was no secret - it kind of makes sense when you want to work with those companies, doesn't it?
And yes, managers hired people they knew - just like any other company. You hire people you have established relationships with.
In short, get a clue before slandering a company simply because your friend didn't get promoted.
I disagree. I'm not an audiophile (I use homemade speaker cables =) but I have released music on vinyl, and, compared to the CD Master, it sounds unbelievable. There is no comparison, the vinyl is living, full, and warm. The cd, well, it sounds like a cheap snapshot of the song. Still nice but not the real thing.
Try turning up vinyl vs turning up cd on a loud sound system. Or MP3's, as you've mentioned. Listen for a few hours. Tell me which one kills your ears with high freq. distortion and which one sounds liquid.
I disagree. Vinyl sounds far superior to cd. This is not an audiofile argument, this is a turn it up loud, hear the brittle tinny nature of cd audio vs. the liquid sound of a record.
CD isn't bad, but it's by no means a record. It reproduces higher frequencies better but it doesn't sound as good - as warm or as smooth.
It might be that the heavy metal listeners _liked_ the way the distorted guitars and liquid bass sounded on vinyl, and didn't like the brittle sound of cd's!
This is truly absurd. You will _not_ be a master of C in two days. You will be the programming equivalent of a tourist speaking broken english with a travel dictionary.
C, like any language, has its idioms and design patterns and these will take time to learn. Buying a book like K&R will help but I imagine there are more useful introductions to C. K&R is an incredibly terse, albeit a useful reference - and iirc it does not have much of the c library spelled out in detail)
In summary, C is great, but don't expect to be a master of it anytime soon. And anyone who claims they are a master after 2 days is not.
It doesn't cost Adobe $500, but it does potentially limit the emergence of lower-priced competitors.
If there was a larger market of people who would pay $50 / title but not $500, then perhaps another product would emerge to fill that niche. Similarly, products already in that market might have more funds to improve.
Perhaps piracy contributes to the lack of competitors in a market - this might be its most severe impact.
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Caltech's incessant whining for the return of the cannon was better described as a surrender plan rather than a recapture strategy. Caltech didn't play along - where was their bold plan to recapture the cannon? Their artful hack? The best they could muster was a cry to mommy dearest!
HMC stole it fair and square, and left it in the middle of the courtyard, there for the taking.
And for that matter, it wasn't even originally Caltech's cannon - they "liberated" it from another school.
When I was in school, Caltech had a ratio of 7 males for every female.
Harvey Mudd had a ratio of 3-1 and a women's college next door. We often consoled ourselves that "at least we didn't go to Caltech."
Ayn Rand overlooks one critical item - most wealth is derived from natural resources. These resources belong, at a fundamental level, to everyone, and are not something that can be denied in perpetuity to future generations simply by the selfish claims of ones forefathers.
Noone has an inherent exclusive right to natural resources, and these resources must return to the public over time.
This return to the public is accomplished via taxes. Taxes are a rental fee charged to those who monopolize public resources - water, land, timber, and oil.
The people who levy taxes are not thieves, they are simply returning public resources to the people.
Mr. CBS is right! The mainstream media is owned by Knight Ridder and Rupert Murdoch, and is primarily interested in furthering its political agenda - namely the pursuit of capital at the expense of the truth. They publish corporate advertising and parade it as the truth.
As for his insinuation that bloggers wear pajamas, well, we have no proof that mr. talking head is even wearing any pants. (and to quote john stewart, if he is, they ARE ON FIRE! =)
Novus Ordo Seculorum
They're only outlawed if they involve Uranus.
While the above poster may appear radical, he's actually just furthering those in power by squandering his vote. The time for longshot votes is in the primaries. This election is realistically between two candidates. Voting for a third party is simply supporting the old regime by stating that things aren't bad enough to vote for another potential winner.
The situation can improve through siding with a candidate that has a shot at winning, and this requires compromise - ie choosing the better option, even though it's no one's first choice.
That's certainly one way of looking at it. The poor uberworker (of which you, no doubt, include yourself), is surrounded by his coworkers, the eternal slackers.
Perhaps they're not motivated. Or perhaps your manager is naive and is using a bit too much stick and not enough carrot. You'd be amazed what some positive, encouraging management can achieve.
Or, to paraphrase Office Space, "if you motivate a man with the threat of getting fired, he'll only work hard enough to keep from losing his job."
A little sugar goes a long way. And REAL sugar, not saccharine. Anyone can tell the difference.
[] Slavery is good - it employs people and increases profit.
[] Human life is a cheap and necessary cost of doing business.
[] Global resources exist to benefit the few, the wealthy.
[] First come, first serve.
[] Winner takes all.
[] Those folks are lucky to be working at Megamart.
[] Government exists to serve the wealthy.
[] Property is a god-given right.
[] Rich people need more tax breaks.
[] If we can't win with advertising, win with intimidation and violence.
[] We need to spend more money on weapons to protect our ill-begotten gains.
[] The rest of the world exists to serve.
[] Justice comes from the barrel of a gun.
Anonymity is an important component of free speech. It provides a necessary way to espouse unpopular ideas without punishment or retribution.
Back to your cave, troll.
If you had listened to AirAmerica Radio, you would know that Air America isn't hate-filled. They support a change of government, one that respects the United Nations and the Geneva Convention. One that is for the people instead of for Rupert Murdoch.
As for original ideas, no ad hominem, little man.
Currently, the FCC is the legislative branch of the media conglomerates.
The FCC exists primarily to cater to ClearChannel / Kiss FM. It's not about serving the public, it's about serving big business.
Pirate Radio is an act of civil disobedience.
There is an old saying - Want a free press? Buy one. Of course, for those of us that can't buy one - you can start your own!
Just imagine 1,000 Slashdotters rebroadcasting Airamerica Radio across the midwest. We might finally have a voice to reckon with Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
Funny... Mine says:
> man woman
No manual entry for woman
Not quite. The first poster is correct - the simple (naive) decoding _is_ a square wave. The second most naive form of reconstruction, linear interpolation, would yield a triangle (first order derivative of square), while more advanced reconstructions such as sync windowing would filter out the higher frequencies via band-limiting.
However, iirc band-limited approachs affect the phase below the eq cutoff, leaving you with a choice:
Either accurately replicate all frequencies N/2 and lower (while distorting the hell out of the f > N/2 range), or filter out the f > N/2 range and distort the phase of the audio region.
Do you really think he's gone?
He starts getting some harrassing calls, decides to publicly call it quits and thereby hopefully dissuade any further punishment for his actions.
He realizes he was bad (aka he got caught), he's sorry (that he got caught), and he won't do it again (in a way that will get him caught).
Nice press announcement. Let's forgive the poor misguided fellow and move on. *snort*
How could he possibly think for a moment he was serving the public good?
It reads like an ex-con turned born again christian and I'm skeptical. Keep his info and give him a year to prove himself.
Or better yet, if he's sorry, why doesn't he provide some public service to make up for it?
It's not theft, it's copyright infringement. Get it through your friggin head. Nobody took their music, they just made copies of it. That's _why_ it's called copyright infringment.
Changing someone else's art should be illegal????
If it's digital, you're not changing their art. You're changing your copy of their art. Contrast this to a painting - with a painting, there is only one copy, you change it, it's changed for everyone.
With a DVD, you change your copy, and SO WHAT??? WHO CARES? My copy is unaffected. Yet you would lock someone up for that? Or harass them ala the RIAA?
Furthermore, when you create a work of art, it is not some edict from God, to remain unchanged and unquestioned for time immemorial. It's a statement, an emotion, and other artists are going to react to it - perhaps by sampling, interpretation, or parody. Art is not above social commentary.
p.s. Steven Spielberg is a total friggin wanker mistaking himself for an artist.
Mixonic is worth checking out - they've simplified pressing and distribution for musicians by allowing you to upload your cd and then pressing copies on demand. No physical inventory aside from bits.
They keep $4 per cd of your profit charge no startup costs. It's an attractive business model.
Mr. Foster,
Your post is truly uninformed, socially irresponsible, and downright embarrassingly asinine.
I worked at Liquid from 96-98 (from pre to post IPO). Yes, it was started by some caucasians - both male and female. While I was there, the people I saw promoted were the ones who deserved it.
Furthermore, during my time at Liquid I was fortunate enough to work with an extremely qualified, competent African American engineering manager who was hired on his MERITS - ie technical and managerial skills and background.
Also, your belief that asian-american officers would have saved the day is simply your own racial prejudice. Furthermore, for several years, the CTO was a man of american of pacific islander / asian descent. He resigned after the IPO. For that matter, the head of QA was also pacific-asian-american.
As for the "good old boys" club - some execs _were_ hired in part for their leverage in the industry - ie former execs at Warner, Sony, and such. This was no secret - it kind of makes sense when you want to work with those companies, doesn't it?
And yes, managers hired people they knew - just like any other company. You hire people you have established relationships with.
In short, get a clue before slandering a company simply because your friend didn't get promoted.
Liquid _had_ a Mac client for several years. It was dropped.
I disagree. I'm not an audiophile (I use homemade speaker cables =) but I have released music on vinyl, and, compared to the CD Master, it sounds unbelievable. There is no comparison, the vinyl is living, full, and warm. The cd, well, it sounds like a cheap snapshot of the song. Still nice but not the real thing.
Try turning up vinyl vs turning up cd on a loud sound system. Or MP3's, as you've mentioned. Listen for a few hours. Tell me which one kills your ears with high freq. distortion and which one sounds liquid.
I disagree. Vinyl sounds far superior to cd. This is not an audiofile argument, this is a turn it up loud, hear the brittle tinny nature of cd audio vs. the liquid sound of a record.
CD isn't bad, but it's by no means a record. It reproduces higher frequencies better but it doesn't sound as good - as warm or as smooth.
It might be that the heavy metal listeners _liked_ the way the distorted guitars and liquid bass sounded on vinyl, and didn't like the brittle sound of cd's!
This is truly absurd. You will _not_ be a master of C in two days. You will be the programming equivalent of a tourist speaking broken english with a travel dictionary.
C, like any language, has its idioms and design patterns and these will take time to learn. Buying a book like K&R will help but I imagine there are more useful introductions to C. K&R is an incredibly terse, albeit a useful reference - and iirc it does not have much of the c library spelled out in detail)
In summary, C is great, but don't expect to be a master of it anytime soon. And anyone who claims they are a master after 2 days is not.
It doesn't cost Adobe $500, but it does
potentially limit the emergence of lower-priced competitors.
If there was a larger market of people who would pay $50 / title but not $500, then perhaps another
product would emerge to fill that niche. Similarly, products already in that market might have more funds to improve.
Perhaps piracy contributes to the lack of
competitors in a market - this might be its most
severe impact.