Oh, totally agreed. But that's why I like the road races in NASCAR. They're at the very least amusing because usually only a handful of drivers are accustomed to it, the rest drive like morons.
Nice ignorance. Whether or not you enjoy it (I personally find NASCAR boring except for road racing) does not dictate how dumb it is. A good driver is a good driver. There's no doubt that NASCAR has top engineers working on its cars. What exactly is "dumb" about those people?
Uhm, you do realize Apple uses IBM chips in their machines, right? They keep moving away from Motorola. Every so often they have a relapse, but there's a clear cooperation between Apple and IBM.
I assume that a guitar is nothing more than a microphone from an electrical point of view. Just a device with two wires coming out of it. Guide those two wires through a shielded cables and voilà, you have a balanced signal.
Uhm. A couple of points. First any microphone with an XLR connector has a balanced output. Second, do you know what a balanced signal is? A balanced line is three wires: one signal, one inverted signal (180 degrees out of phase), and one ground. Simply passing wires through a shield does not a balanced cable make.
Hahaha, yes, I think the choice of not joining Ivy League is one of the most boneheaded moves ever. The logic is somewhat sound, but still stupid. They didn't join Ivy League because you can make more money off of athletics in Division I. I think joining Ivy League is a great way of saying... "Hey, we're not really great at sports, but hey! that's ok, because we excel in academics." Instead, you have a heavily academic institution being drained financially and reputationally (if that's a word) all in the name of athletics.
The canon is an old thing between Princeton and Rutgers. There's a Revolutionary War canon on Princeton's campus that at one point we owned. Princeton stole it, we stole it back, it was a mess. It goes so far back that when it was stolen one of the first times, it was taken by horse and carriage from Princeton to New Brunswick (or the other way around, I forget).
Yea, At Rutgers, something like over 99% of faculty holds a Ph.D. I thought this was commonplace, but in talking to people who go to other schools, apparently it's not. In liberal arts, I frankly don't think it matters, but in science disciplines, it makes a big difference. All my lectures are taught by Ph.D. holding faculty and only labs have TAs. Recitations, when classes have them, are occasionally taught by TAs, but dependant on department, professors may just as easily have them as well.
Stupid enough to employ Toni Morrison... One more reason to hate Princeton. Oh, sorry, my bitter hatred towards Princeton is kinda a necessity as I go to Princeton's age-old rival. I don't really have anything against Princeton... we just want our canon back.
#!/bin/sh
rename "s//_/g" *
for file in *;
do mencoder $file OPTIONS../fixed/$file;
done;
Fixed!
Well, in all seriousness, you are correct sir. However, the thought never even crossed my mind as I never ever use spaces in filenames because it screws up all sorts of tokenization, including this.
Your logic is the fallacy. While I can't play Half Life 2 on a Voodoo 3 (or at least I wouldn't want to try), the majority of people could use WordPerfect 5.1 (a great product by the way) for most of their word processing needs. They don't need the close to $1000 price of Microsoft Office. Let's face it, there hasn't been much innovation in Office for years. MS Office is a "moving target" for OpenOffice developers as much as a tortoise is for a hunter. Graphics cards are another story, however.
It so happens that the pendulum has swung to the "conservative" management ideology. My office is Sun Ray and Windows 2000 based. Previously I only had a Sun Ray and was given a PC to run some Java software better. There was talk of removing UNIX workstations all together, to which I told my boss that my productivity would be halved at best. He thought that was a fair assessment and now we can use whichever is better for a given task. I'd say one of the most difficult IT jobs is to be an administrator of an office full of "administrators." Granted, we're all networking people, but a lot of us are hardcore UNIX guys and have always been. I sometimes feel bad for our admins and what they have to put up with from us. Usually they understand that it's best to help us do what we want.
That's probably because daddy's more willing to tolerate a one time "gift" to shut up his son than a monthly recurring reminder that his child is spoiled.
For instance, I have a volume mounted as/usr2. It's stuff that's generally available to whoever uses my system. The most important areas of/usr2 are
/usr2/audio/lossy /usr2/audio/lossless /usr2/aud io/incoming /usr2/torrents /usr2/torrents/incomi ng /usr2/tmp
It's pretty self-explanatory. The majority of my data is in/usr2/audio. Everything in/usr2/audio/lossy and/usr2/audio/lossless is sorted by artist and album (or date of show)./usr2/audio/incoming is a mess... stuff I've ripped, downloaded, etc.
You're assuming there's such a thing as a "mature Java based solution." Pretty much every Java application I see/work with just reaffirms my belief that the language and the JVM are Busch league caricatures of real solutions. Why would one choose Java over Perl or PHP for web apps? For speed? Java certainly isn't giving you a speed boost over PHP or Perl. Is it because people enjoy System.stuff.morestuff.thisthing.and.thatthing that span 80 columns so much? Don't even get me started on Swing. "Complicated" Swing apps (which would be reasonably uncomplicated in any other "architecture") fail to run properly even on fast systems with 512MB of RAM. Java is a joke and everytime I hear someone try to defend it, I laugh.
We can also go into the fact that Java is not free, but I'll leave you to analyze that on your own.
Hahaha, it's still there. I saw it last week. Here's the lecture notes to prove it. I did wonder about the pushing of the button with the tube, I thought that was kind of interesting.
It's an impressive demonstration. Everytime I see it I still get spooked by the noise and spark it makes. Rutgers is also home to the ugliest physics lecture hall ever. Well, maybe not, but it's a good example of how the 70s were oh so wrong.
Remember, the INDUCE Act is in draft form. It needs to be fixed so that it can be used to go after its intended targets, and not, say, Bram Cohen. You have not yet made the logical connection from "the draft is poorly worded" to "the RIAA likes it because it's poorly worded."
The point is that the RIAA likes how it's worded now because of its overreaching language.
The RIAA counts as its members record labels, not artists. The RIAA is indeed fiercely loyal to its members, the record companies -- loyal to a fault, it seems sometimes.
While this may be the hidden truth, this is not how the RIAA posits itself. They used ad campaigns involving artists to convey the idea that they are "for the artists."
Uncalled for.
It was sarcasm, but it really seems like you have a vested interest in supporting the RIAA at any cost.
If you want to talk about the RIAA's business interests, then talk about what their mission statement is: "Its mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality." Something tells me that when such a tiny percentage of the money you pay for a CD goes to the actual artist, the RIAA is not promoting their members "financial vitality." So really, if the RIAA doesn't even adhere to its own mission and doesn't even have a shred of loyalty to its own members, how can you expect them to "play by the rules" when dealing with anyone else? In addition, the EFF posted that sample just as that, a sample. The legislation is worded such that they could sue anyone (whether or not they have a financial interest in their success) like Bram Cohen.
If you can't logically conclude from the RIAA's position on various legislation that it would like to see filesharing stopped all together, then I really am sorry that your reasoning ability was lost somewhere along the line. The RIAA doesn't have to come out and say "All filesharing is evil" for them to think basically that.
When nobody wants to hear your music, you have little choice.
Hahaha. You're a funny character. Perhaps you should do research before you speak. The Grateful Dead are arguably the single most successful touring band in history and Phish is probably the most successful touring band of the last 10 years. Is it a coincidence that neither of the bands had a lot radio airplay and in Phish's case, basically no exposure on MTV? No. Their fanbase does not depend on coventional music distribution channels. Free distribution of recordings is the single greatest reason for the bands' success. Media recognition - zero, Album sales - mediocre, Tickets sold - outrageous. Oh and in the world of front row seats costing hundreds of dollars, Phish had one set price for all seats, offering mail order presales to fans before Ticketmaster got their shot.
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Calc 2 level differential equations do not require software to understand or work out.
Oh, totally agreed. But that's why I like the road races in NASCAR. They're at the very least amusing because usually only a handful of drivers are accustomed to it, the rest drive like morons.
Nice ignorance. Whether or not you enjoy it (I personally find NASCAR boring except for road racing) does not dictate how dumb it is. A good driver is a good driver. There's no doubt that NASCAR has top engineers working on its cars. What exactly is "dumb" about those people?
Warning: you might spend too much time here but... Half Baked Ideas.
Uhm, you do realize Apple uses IBM chips in their machines, right? They keep moving away from Motorola. Every so often they have a relapse, but there's a clear cooperation between Apple and IBM.
Heh, didn't even realize it was wrong. I'm usually a stickler for spelling. I'm used to spelling the name of the camera company, I suppose.
I assume that a guitar is nothing more than a microphone from an electrical point of view. Just a device with two wires coming out of it. Guide those two wires through a shielded cables and voilà, you have a balanced signal.
Uhm. A couple of points. First any microphone with an XLR connector has a balanced output. Second, do you know what a balanced signal is? A balanced line is three wires: one signal, one inverted signal (180 degrees out of phase), and one ground. Simply passing wires through a shield does not a balanced cable make.
Hahaha, yes, I think the choice of not joining Ivy League is one of the most boneheaded moves ever. The logic is somewhat sound, but still stupid. They didn't join Ivy League because you can make more money off of athletics in Division I. I think joining Ivy League is a great way of saying... "Hey, we're not really great at sports, but hey! that's ok, because we excel in academics." Instead, you have a heavily academic institution being drained financially and reputationally (if that's a word) all in the name of athletics.
The canon is an old thing between Princeton and Rutgers. There's a Revolutionary War canon on Princeton's campus that at one point we owned. Princeton stole it, we stole it back, it was a mess. It goes so far back that when it was stolen one of the first times, it was taken by horse and carriage from Princeton to New Brunswick (or the other way around, I forget).
Yea, At Rutgers, something like over 99% of faculty holds a Ph.D. I thought this was commonplace, but in talking to people who go to other schools, apparently it's not. In liberal arts, I frankly don't think it matters, but in science disciplines, it makes a big difference. All my lectures are taught by Ph.D. holding faculty and only labs have TAs. Recitations, when classes have them, are occasionally taught by TAs, but dependant on department, professors may just as easily have them as well.
Stupid enough to employ Toni Morrison... One more reason to hate Princeton. Oh, sorry, my bitter hatred towards Princeton is kinda a necessity as I go to Princeton's age-old rival. I don't really have anything against Princeton... we just want our canon back.
#!/bin/sh rename "s/ /_/g" *
for file in *;
do mencoder $file OPTIONS ../fixed/$file;
done;
Fixed!
Well, in all seriousness, you are correct sir. However, the thought never even crossed my mind as I never ever use spaces in filenames because it screws up all sorts of tokenization, including this.
Erm... seems like you're complicating things.
../fixed/$file;
#!/bin/sh
for file in *;
do mencoder $file OPTIONS
done;
Your logic is the fallacy. While I can't play Half Life 2 on a Voodoo 3 (or at least I wouldn't want to try), the majority of people could use WordPerfect 5.1 (a great product by the way) for most of their word processing needs. They don't need the close to $1000 price of Microsoft Office. Let's face it, there hasn't been much innovation in Office for years. MS Office is a "moving target" for OpenOffice developers as much as a tortoise is for a hunter. Graphics cards are another story, however.
It so happens that the pendulum has swung to the "conservative" management ideology. My office is Sun Ray and Windows 2000 based. Previously I only had a Sun Ray and was given a PC to run some Java software better. There was talk of removing UNIX workstations all together, to which I told my boss that my productivity would be halved at best. He thought that was a fair assessment and now we can use whichever is better for a given task. I'd say one of the most difficult IT jobs is to be an administrator of an office full of "administrators." Granted, we're all networking people, but a lot of us are hardcore UNIX guys and have always been. I sometimes feel bad for our admins and what they have to put up with from us. Usually they understand that it's best to help us do what we want.
You should pay more attention in English.
That's probably because daddy's more willing to tolerate a one time "gift" to shut up his son than a monthly recurring reminder that his child is spoiled.
You're assuming there's such a thing as a "mature Java based solution." Pretty much every Java application I see/work with just reaffirms my belief that the language and the JVM are Busch league caricatures of real solutions. Why would one choose Java over Perl or PHP for web apps? For speed? Java certainly isn't giving you a speed boost over PHP or Perl. Is it because people enjoy System.stuff.morestuff.thisthing.and.thatthing that span 80 columns so much? Don't even get me started on Swing. "Complicated" Swing apps (which would be reasonably uncomplicated in any other "architecture") fail to run properly even on fast systems with 512MB of RAM. Java is a joke and everytime I hear someone try to defend it, I laugh.
We can also go into the fact that Java is not free, but I'll leave you to analyze that on your own.
Hahaha, it's still there. I saw it last week. Here's the lecture notes to prove it. I did wonder about the pushing of the button with the tube, I thought that was kind of interesting.
It's an impressive demonstration. Everytime I see it I still get spooked by the noise and spark it makes. Rutgers is also home to the ugliest physics lecture hall ever. Well, maybe not, but it's a good example of how the 70s were oh so wrong.
I'm generally a cautious person, and the bargain-basement price clenched the deal.
If that's not sarcasm, then you're not cautious, you're gullible.
Remember, the INDUCE Act is in draft form. It needs to be fixed so that it can be used to go after its intended targets, and not, say, Bram Cohen. You have not yet made the logical connection from "the draft is poorly worded" to "the RIAA likes it because it's poorly worded."
The point is that the RIAA likes how it's worded now because of its overreaching language.
The RIAA counts as its members record labels, not artists. The RIAA is indeed fiercely loyal to its members, the record companies -- loyal to a fault, it seems sometimes.
While this may be the hidden truth, this is not how the RIAA posits itself. They used ad campaigns involving artists to convey the idea that they are "for the artists."
Uncalled for.
It was sarcasm, but it really seems like you have a vested interest in supporting the RIAA at any cost.
If you want to talk about the RIAA's business interests, then talk about what their mission statement is: "Its mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality." Something tells me that when such a tiny percentage of the money you pay for a CD goes to the actual artist, the RIAA is not promoting their members "financial vitality." So really, if the RIAA doesn't even adhere to its own mission and doesn't even have a shred of loyalty to its own members, how can you expect them to "play by the rules" when dealing with anyone else? In addition, the EFF posted that sample just as that, a sample. The legislation is worded such that they could sue anyone (whether or not they have a financial interest in their success) like Bram Cohen.
If you can't logically conclude from the RIAA's position on various legislation that it would like to see filesharing stopped all together, then I really am sorry that your reasoning ability was lost somewhere along the line. The RIAA doesn't have to come out and say "All filesharing is evil" for them to think basically that.
If you want to play devil's advocate, that's fine. The RIAA certainly intimates their view that filesharing needs to be stopped, period. The Induce Act (S.2560) would potentially make hardware or software that can aid in infringing copyright illegal. If the Induce Act passed, a complaint such as this could be filed against anyone who makes something that aids in copyright infringement. What's the RIAA's position on the Induce Act you ask? The "RIAA Applauds Senate 'Inducement' Legislation." Those are the RIAA's words, not mine. Take it as you will.
Hahaha. You're a funny character. Perhaps you should do research before you speak. The Grateful Dead are arguably the single most successful touring band in history and Phish is probably the most successful touring band of the last 10 years. Is it a coincidence that neither of the bands had a lot radio airplay and in Phish's case, basically no exposure on MTV? No. Their fanbase does not depend on coventional music distribution channels. Free distribution of recordings is the single greatest reason for the bands' success. Media recognition - zero, Album sales - mediocre, Tickets sold - outrageous. Oh and in the world of front row seats costing hundreds of dollars, Phish had one set price for all seats, offering mail order presales to fans before Ticketmaster got their shot.