So on one hand we get told time and time again that evolution takes 'millions and millions of years' and then on the other hand, we get stories about a tree being stuck in evolution when it's the same as it was 500yrs ago. Sorta like oak trees, pines, Eucalypts and, come to think of it, every other blooy tree out there I can think of...
Smart people can tell the voices in their head are their own thoughts, while the less intelligent think they are hearing disembodied voices, not their own?
I think that even if you hear voices, if you can recognise that they are not actually 'real' you are sane. Once you lose that distinction, you are psychotic. Nothing at all to do with intelligence as psychosis on average seems to occur more in those with higher IQ's.
I just tell my friends that I'm half crazy. Whether that means all crazy half the time, or half crazy all the time I leave for them to decide.
Went through a period of psychosis in my late teens, but stayed off the anti-psychotics. Took quite a while, but got back on track without the pseudo-science quackery of psychiatry. Now I run my own business and live a pretty balanced life as a respected member of my family and the community.
Interestingly enough, the more 'artistic' (ie music) stuff I do, the more sorta crazy I get, the more I keep the artistic side in check and balanced with other things, the more 'sane' I am. Never really thought about it like that before though...
The basic tenets of Differential Association Theory are that criminal (or delinquent) behavior is learned, usually through contact/behavior modeling of an intimate social group (peers). Further criminological theories posit that the labeling of these group behaviors as deviant can cause the group to develop their own subculture with values apart from traditional society. Therefore, the labeling involved in the "help given by the juvenile justice system" actually promotes continued deviant behavior.
In my experience of teaching children, this is very true. Kids stuff up. That's just part of growing up, but if you call a kid a 'bad' kid often enough, they will become a really bad kid most of the time. If you separate the behaviour from the value statements you make of the child, they will more likely learn to address their errors as errors and see themselves as 'good' or worthwhile people. Basic psychology and it works.
On TFA's statement that kids who had been through the justice system were more likely to offend as young adults. Well, they don't call jails the 'schoolhouse' for nothing. There is a dual causation here. Self-image and learning from a peer group.
I run a small PC repair business. Symantec is great for business - it can stuff up computers big time... I put free Avast Home on my customers computers. Doesn't glug down the PC like Symantec's stuff does and far more reliable as an anti-virus agent.
Maybe we can agree that analogue is always better for our favorite kind of music. But that's sortof the problem.
NO, I don't agree with you there. Digital sampling works great with a lot of types of music, especially with modern rock, pop etc. Wind instruments are ok too. It just does not deal well with the extremely complex and layered sounds that bowed string instruments produce.
Yes, people often do like inaccurate reproductions due to the mixing done or whatever. We are talking about classical musicians though. Classical music. Not modern electronic music that lends itself well to even lower quality sampling.
What we were testing was yes, the ability to tell the difference. What I have found though is that stringed instruments sound sorta thin, sharp and sorta piercing (too extreme high up in the treble). It's a very subtle thing that only those used to hearing the instruments with the care of a well trained musician might pick up.
It sounded different. You called it "better." That was not a valid opinion. If you had recorded the "better" source in 44 kHz/16 bit stereo with a good-quality digitizer and played it back on a good-quality CD player, you would not have heard a difference at all.
How about more accurate to the original sound I spent my days with?
Pink noise won't do it, as the complexity of the sound is the issue. I used violin as an example as the boed string instruments give possibly the most complex sound out of the common Western bunch. I'm not a violinist at all, but play various instruments from Cello and Double Bass in the strings to Oboe and even Pipe Organ. I think that's a good mix. It was not a matter of the pleasantness of the sound, but the completeness of the sound.
That's basically what we went about proving wrong with a blind test using young music students. We succeeded. In my experience, humans are often far more amazing and capable of far more than we imagine...
Just curious, you didn't write up your experiment, did you? My old prof [wikipedia.org] would probably be interested in reading.
No sorry we didn't write it up. It was only an informal thing to prove the CD advertisers wrong. Digitized sound, because of the way it is sampled, loses a lot of the complexity of instruments like bowed string instruments (which give a multi-layered textured sound) accentuating the high frequency sounds and cutting the bass and mid-range. Even a hiss on an analog tape, when digitised, sounds more trebly and kind of sharp (texture-wise). Digital sampling works great however for modern largely electronic music. It's a shame that you can't really get analog recordings anymore... I miss real sound.
I guess they're durable as long as you don't listen to them much. The mere act of playing a cassette degrades it. And then there's the sound quality issue. Comparing cassettes favorably to mp3 is one thing, but to CD/DVD? Seriously?
When I was studying music years ago I did some blind tests to show whether I could detect the difference between analog and digitally sampled (CD) recordings. I got it every time. CD sounds like rubbish for a lot of music. It's great for modern music, but real rubbish as far as complex sounds like violins etc go. For strings, LP's and analog cassettes really do offer a nicer sound.
NASA generates less than one hour what it's taken me a lifetime to accrete.
The only real difference is that research and exploration is actually (ostensibly anyway) NASA's goal and reason for existence. When you do research or exploration, it goes without saying that you need to catalog the fruit of your exercises. Unfortunately though, in reality NASA's main goal is and always has been to play a very expensive game of keeping-ahead-of-the-Jones's. First against the Russians, and now maybe he Chinese and the EU. Data is secondary to getting lovely expensive shiny machinery to far away places before anyone else does.
I didn't go to the 'nicest' schools, but I went to school in Melbourne, Australia. Yeah we have violence and drugs, but nothing like some schools in the US it would seem.
A judge should not be involved in lawmaking, ever. Period.
The Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property does not appear to be a lawmaking body of any shape or form. More of a a forum/lobby group. The judges membership would seem to infer bias to me and invalidate him as the judge of the case. It is however up to the legal system of THAT NATION to make those decisions. Not us.
I'm all for the separation of legislative and judiciary branches to a degree, but Judicial law, or Common Law is an accepted part of many countries' systems around the world and one that is very much part of the social justice of those nations.
I hold the phone to the left ear because I'm deaf in the right ear, but it is usually only after I realise that I can't figure out what people are saying that I switch from right to left.
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So on one hand we get told time and time again that evolution takes 'millions and millions of years' and then on the other hand, we get stories about a tree being stuck in evolution when it's the same as it was 500yrs ago. Sorta like oak trees, pines, Eucalypts and, come to think of it, every other blooy tree out there I can think of...
Smart people can tell the voices in their head are their own thoughts, while the less intelligent think they are hearing disembodied voices, not their own?
I think that even if you hear voices, if you can recognise that they are not actually 'real' you are sane. Once you lose that distinction, you are psychotic. Nothing at all to do with intelligence as psychosis on average seems to occur more in those with higher IQ's.
I just tell my friends that I'm half crazy. Whether that means all crazy half the time, or half crazy all the time I leave for them to decide.
Went through a period of psychosis in my late teens, but stayed off the anti-psychotics. Took quite a while, but got back on track without the pseudo-science quackery of psychiatry. Now I run my own business and live a pretty balanced life as a respected member of my family and the community.
Interestingly enough, the more 'artistic' (ie music) stuff I do, the more sorta crazy I get, the more I keep the artistic side in check and balanced with other things, the more 'sane' I am. Never really thought about it like that before though...
The basic tenets of Differential Association Theory are that criminal (or delinquent) behavior is learned, usually through contact/behavior modeling of an intimate social group (peers). Further criminological theories posit that the labeling of these group behaviors as deviant can cause the group to develop their own subculture with values apart from traditional society. Therefore, the labeling involved in the "help given by the juvenile justice system" actually promotes continued deviant behavior.
In my experience of teaching children, this is very true. Kids stuff up. That's just part of growing up, but if you call a kid a 'bad' kid often enough, they will become a really bad kid most of the time. If you separate the behaviour from the value statements you make of the child, they will more likely learn to address their errors as errors and see themselves as 'good' or worthwhile people. Basic psychology and it works.
On TFA's statement that kids who had been through the justice system were more likely to offend as young adults. Well, they don't call jails the 'schoolhouse' for nothing. There is a dual causation here. Self-image and learning from a peer group.
I run a small PC repair business. Symantec is great for business - it can stuff up computers big time... I put free Avast Home on my customers computers. Doesn't glug down the PC like Symantec's stuff does and far more reliable as an anti-virus agent.
Maybe we can agree that analogue is always better for our favorite kind of music. But that's sortof the problem.
NO, I don't agree with you there. Digital sampling works great with a lot of types of music, especially with modern rock, pop etc. Wind instruments are ok too. It just does not deal well with the extremely complex and layered sounds that bowed string instruments produce.
I'm sure that your beloved Nyquest is fantastic, but CD quality strings do not sound as real as a good analog recording. Final.
Yes, people often do like inaccurate reproductions due to the mixing done or whatever. We are talking about classical musicians though. Classical music. Not modern electronic music that lends itself well to even lower quality sampling. What we were testing was yes, the ability to tell the difference. What I have found though is that stringed instruments sound sorta thin, sharp and sorta piercing (too extreme high up in the treble). It's a very subtle thing that only those used to hearing the instruments with the care of a well trained musician might pick up.
It sounded different. You called it "better." That was not a valid opinion. If you had recorded the "better" source in 44 kHz/16 bit stereo with a good-quality digitizer and played it back on a good-quality CD player, you would not have heard a difference at all.
How about more accurate to the original sound I spent my days with?
Pink noise won't do it, as the complexity of the sound is the issue. I used violin as an example as the boed string instruments give possibly the most complex sound out of the common Western bunch. I'm not a violinist at all, but play various instruments from Cello and Double Bass in the strings to Oboe and even Pipe Organ. I think that's a good mix. It was not a matter of the pleasantness of the sound, but the completeness of the sound.
That's basically what we went about proving wrong with a blind test using young music students. We succeeded. In my experience, humans are often far more amazing and capable of far more than we imagine...
Just curious, you didn't write up your experiment, did you? My old prof [wikipedia.org] would probably be interested in reading.
No sorry we didn't write it up. It was only an informal thing to prove the CD advertisers wrong. Digitized sound, because of the way it is sampled, loses a lot of the complexity of instruments like bowed string instruments (which give a multi-layered textured sound) accentuating the high frequency sounds and cutting the bass and mid-range. Even a hiss on an analog tape, when digitised, sounds more trebly and kind of sharp (texture-wise). Digital sampling works great however for modern largely electronic music. It's a shame that you can't really get analog recordings anymore... I miss real sound.
I guess they're durable as long as you don't listen to them much. The mere act of playing a cassette degrades it. And then there's the sound quality issue. Comparing cassettes favorably to mp3 is one thing, but to CD/DVD? Seriously?
When I was studying music years ago I did some blind tests to show whether I could detect the difference between analog and digitally sampled (CD) recordings. I got it every time. CD sounds like rubbish for a lot of music. It's great for modern music, but real rubbish as far as complex sounds like violins etc go. For strings, LP's and analog cassettes really do offer a nicer sound.
NASA generates less than one hour what it's taken me a lifetime to accrete.
The only real difference is that research and exploration is actually (ostensibly anyway) NASA's goal and reason for existence. When you do research or exploration, it goes without saying that you need to catalog the fruit of your exercises. Unfortunately though, in reality NASA's main goal is and always has been to play a very expensive game of keeping-ahead-of-the-Jones's. First against the Russians, and now maybe he Chinese and the EU. Data is secondary to getting lovely expensive shiny machinery to far away places before anyone else does.
Tom Lehrer in his album, "1964 That was the Year that was" IIRC. Used to listen to the LP when I was a kid.
Seems to have a habit of just dumping things in warehouses and forgetting about them.
Keeping it real... as real as a game like that could really be anyway...
I've tested a lot of Linux distros, but most of the leading distros seem to fit on one 700mb CD. Full OS with a good suite of applications.
I didn't go to the 'nicest' schools, but I went to school in Melbourne, Australia. Yeah we have violence and drugs, but nothing like some schools in the US it would seem.
Maybe your experiences are different to mine.
It takes one to know one. This works in all sorts of industries. The best teachers for example were often the worst behaved students.
Oh, right, except that equation deals with nuclear energy and not chemical energy.
It's all relative isn't it?
So you say that a board member of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property judging a copyright case is an accepted part of the social justice anywhere?
No, but I was rebutting this:
A judge should not be involved in lawmaking, ever. Period.
The Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property does not appear to be a lawmaking body of any shape or form. More of a a forum/lobby group. The judges membership would seem to infer bias to me and invalidate him as the judge of the case. It is however up to the legal system of THAT NATION to make those decisions. Not us.
I'm all for the separation of legislative and judiciary branches to a degree, but Judicial law, or Common Law is an accepted part of many countries' systems around the world and one that is very much part of the social justice of those nations.
I hold the phone to the left ear because I'm deaf in the right ear, but it is usually only after I realise that I can't figure out what people are saying that I switch from right to left.