However, as a counterpoint in support of the original point, I remember and have Watched "Wings" because it was the first best picture winner.
And strictly off the top of my head, in 1904 the first Vanderbilt Cup auto race would be held under the auspices of the AAA, and the Japanese attacked Russia at Port Arthur, which event would have repurcussions throughout the first half of the 20th century.
. . . being able to throw your eye around corners is a bit... odd.
Painful too. Not to mention how hard it was to find the damned thing afterward, seeing as how I had to keep my head cocked a bit to one side while looking for it.
I believe this is the first posting of a proper mirror site that I would like to moderate as Funny.
KFG
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Indeed, one of the problems we have, conservationally speaking, is that we use our drinking water for everything. There is no water shortage, overall. We have just as much water after you flush your toilet as before. It's just that that water is no longer suitable for drinking.
Would you buy bottled water to pour into your toilet? Probably not, and yet that is essentially what you're doing right now.
I like to use a good, old fashioned cistern, a big bucket to collect rain water, for many uses that don't involve ingestion. Why buy "bottled water" to spray across your lawn/plants? Hell, your plants even like it if it's a bit, ummmm, shitty.
You can learn a lot about water managment by reading books on sailing. When blue water cruising, management of drinking water while still getting other things done requiring the use of water can mean the difference between life and death, not merely a larger water bill. Salt, rain, grey and fresh drinking water all have their various ideal uses.
Unfortunately a popular vote system would mean that almost all states but California and New York become largely ignorable. I'm afraid that, despite being a New Yorker myself, I see exactly same problems with a popular vote system that the founding fathers did. New York and California dictating law to Montana and Rhode Island will only lead to injustice and more states being "ignored" than are now.
I like states. I like states rights and equality under law of states. Hence I'm inclined to keep the electoral college system, although I believe it may need some fine tuning.
Yes, that's pretty much what I tell my own students. Talent is that which is innate. Your purely genetic physical/mental ability.
Skill is what you develop on top of whatever talent you have through practice.
A person with little talent who does what he can to develop skill is someone who can play an instrument, whereas talent without skill is someone who can't play.
And the real problem with the 2000 election is one that is not often addressed directly, but is ceratainly relavant to the current topic.
All voting is a statistical process. No system is perfect, there will always be errors. Thus the system has a margin of error.
The 2000 vote was the problem it was because the vote was inside the margin of error, thus no amount of fiddling, recounting, whatever, could possibly resolve the issue. Statistically speaking, the vote was a dead heat and the only reason it had to be decided by the dead heat in Florida was because it was a dead heat pretty much everywhere else as well.
In terms of the "problem" this is indicative of the choices of candidates being a coin toss to most of the populace, which is, essentially, how we resolved it. By using technology to reduce the margin of error we can avoid the political brouhaha of coin toss elections by allowing one candidate to "win" by 20 votes or some such, but it does nothing to cure the political problems that lead to such dead heat elections in the first place.
Do you want Frog ala Peche, or Peche ala Frog?
Not to mention the problem inherent in such elections where a goodly portion of the voting populace look at the opposing candidates, flip their coin, look at it, then just say "Fuck it, it doesn't even matter," and stay home on election day.
Give us statistically descernable candidates and we just might have election results statistically significant.
Of course, to the candidates themselves such an idea is anathema.
As for keeping tempo I hate to say it, but the much maligned metronome is the cure for that. I know professional musicians who have been playing for 50 years who still spend an hour or two a week with a metronome. Don't let it rule your playing in the mechanical sense, but it is a valuable tool to learn the bounds of musical expression.
I happen to agree with you about the violin. I find all instruments where the player is in intimate contact with the note producing mechanism more interesting than piano. Fretless strings of all kinds, reeds, etc. The subtle variations imparted intentionally and unintentionally add to the musical interest.
My basic point, however, was that the only real difference, at the philosophical level, between a piano keyboard and a computer keyboard is the fact that a piano keyboard produces physical notes. If a computer keyboard were programed to do the same, it too would be a perfectly valid instrument interface, and typing is a skill that many nonmusicians take for granted, while at the same time claiming that they don't have the necessary physical skills to play an instrument.
There is a mystique about playing instruments that is pure hogwash.
As you point out, the major difference between typing text and "typing" music is the idea of time. Duration, tempo, etc.
Has it occured to you that the mass media has formed your ideas about nerds and pretty girls?
As it turns out, some computer nerds are also pretty girls. You can keep the bubbleheaded ditzes that read Tiger Beat and Cosmo, thank you very much.
Once upon a time my boss, after meeting my wife for the first time, called me up front, presented me to the UPS man delivering to our shop, and said "Look at this guy, you see how ugly he is? You should see his wife, she looks like she just stepped out of a Penthouse. How does an ugly guy like this get a wife like that?"
Yeah, my boss was an asshole. I didn't stay there long.
That pretty girl also has degrees in both anthropology and computer science and can write assembly code in her head that runs first time.
In short, she's a computer nerd; and proud of it.
One of the most mathmatically gifted people I've ever known was also a stunningly pretty girl. To bring the whole thing full circle she wasn't even a science/engineering major. She was a music major. So nerds can also be artistically creative as well as being pretty girls.
Stuff the mass media. They don't know shit except how to sell mass media to a mass, and I have no interest in a girl who's part of the mass, pretty or otherwise. I wish to God it were even true that being a nerd acted as a filter to keep "pretty girls" away. Then I wouldn't have to spend so much time and energy getting rid of them.
Can you type your code? If typing made music instead of printing letters you would perhaps be a maestro already. Music would be written in the letters of the alphabet plus some accent marks.
The QWERTY keyboard is actually far less a friendly user interface, with it's bizarre folded layout, compared to the geometric regularity of the piano keybord, with its mere twelve notes repeated over and over linearly.
Of course not all of us are "maestros with a musical instrument." Not all of us have practiced with a musical instrument. If you practice, you get good at something.
So if you're practiced at typing you have already demonstrated the sort of physical dexterity needed to play an instrument. Now, either choose an instrument and learn to play it, or. ..
Leverage the skills you already have as a programer and typist and take the name of the application "Notepad" seriously and literally.
Most people these days only understand economics in the sense of competition of essentially equal parties, such as American auto manufacturers vs. Japanese manufacturers, which is actually little different at street level then competition between two domestic manufacterers.
This is the world of "market forces" that the average person in a rich western nation lives in. As a "consumer" you chose between two products that are essentially similar and purchase the one that's made better/cheaper.
This sort of limited version of economics has nothing to do with assymetrical trade between unequal participants such as, oh, say, the US and Mexico or India.
Perhaps one needs to spend some time living in a poor section of India or Mexico to understand how even a fairly trivial amount of importing can completely devestate a local economy that could otherwise be happily selfsustaining.
No, you'd be ok, the law is still being negotiated so the sale is not yet final. If fact it looks like that particular law is not buyable directly, so MS is trying to take the back door route through hardware DRM forcing compliant operating systems. Guess who gets to control what "compliant" will mean?
No legal problemo building Linux boxen. In fact what gets MS sorest is the computer sold with no operating system at all, since they like to assume that's a machine that's going to be running a pirate version of Windows.
Where you get into troubles is when you want to install an OEM version of Windows along side your Linux boxen. There's still no law broken, but this brings you to MS's overt attention, and in the role of a supplicant.
If you invite the vampire into your house, well hey, he's going to suck your blood. Go figure. If you don't invite him in he's powerless.
Not particularly, no. The gentleman asked a question, I answered it.
Had anyone asked me if my answer contained a typo I would have replied, "Why, yes. So it does."
I'll even go so far as to say that should anyone ask me if the majority of my posts contain typos and outright spelling mistakes that I would reply, "Yeah, pretty much."
The technical part of my job presents enough challenges without precious "mental bandwidth" (in Ballmer's phrase) being syphoned off on distractions like licensing. It's INCREDIBLY time-consuming and that effort is totally wasted. It doesn't advance our mission at all.
This is the part of TCO that Ballmer/et al like to overlook. Not to mention the potential real costs of "failing" an audit.
Yes, of course Ballmer would like us to believe that a Windows to Windows transition of more than ten thousand computers would just go smooth as silk. Yeah, right.
It's interesting to note, however, that most of the problems Munich is experiencing are exactly the sorts of troubles they are switching to avoid in the future.
The fact of the matter is that most of the issues revolve around backing out of having used Microsoft propriatary solutions, such as VB, instead of open standards solutions, and now they have to figure out how to migrate between the two, which is not proving as easy as they might have hoped.
Thus validating their desire to switch.
The more you use Microsoft the more you have to use Microsoft, and are thus prey to whatever whim sweeps through Redmond at any given moment.
Obtaining stability and freedom, especially for a government agency totally dependant on a foreign technology, is often worth a good deal of trouble and expense to establish.
As, perhaps, say, America and American companies are willing to spend far more on researching alternatives to oil than just buying the oil would cost at the moment.
One size fits all, Be you short or be you tall, Be you wide or be you slim, Be you her or be you him. Now please, don't start to scream and yell, We never said it would fit well.
There are times and places where one size fits all may be vaguely suitable for a good many, even the majority of, people. If one happens to be exactly that "one size" you might even wonder why anyone would ever want something else.
There are also, however, times when one size fit's all, no matter how close the fit, is simply intolerable and a wee bit of tailoring is in order.
If you don't feel the need of another Linux "dialect" than ignore it. Those that do may find the new "dialect" finally makes life bearable.
I am saying that parent poster's position that perhaps understanding the motivation of thieves is in any way instructive in how to prevent them from doing it is simplistic to the point of doofyness.
The can of worms I open is where the the issue lies.
To help sort out this can of worms your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to simply define "human nature."
Slashdot Mirror
Find a picture of her mother, Bebe Buell, and you'll start to feel a lot better. That would be the November, 1974 issue.
KFG
However, as a counterpoint in support of the original point, I remember and have Watched "Wings" because it was the first best picture winner.
And strictly off the top of my head, in 1904 the first Vanderbilt Cup auto race would be held under the auspices of the AAA, and the Japanese attacked Russia at Port Arthur, which event would have repurcussions throughout the first half of the 20th century.
KFG
What on earth have apes ever done to you to deserve such disrespect?
KFG
Well, if black water gets into my cistern something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
KFG
. . . being able to throw your eye around corners is a bit ... odd.
Painful too. Not to mention how hard it was to find the damned thing afterward, seeing as how I had to keep my head cocked a bit to one side while looking for it.
I can't imagine how the Graiae sisters managed.
KFG
I believe this is the first posting of a proper mirror site that I would like to moderate as Funny.
KFG
Indeed, one of the problems we have, conservationally speaking, is that we use our drinking water for everything. There is no water shortage, overall. We have just as much water after you flush your toilet as before. It's just that that water is no longer suitable for drinking.
Would you buy bottled water to pour into your toilet? Probably not, and yet that is essentially what you're doing right now.
I like to use a good, old fashioned cistern, a big bucket to collect rain water, for many uses that don't involve ingestion. Why buy "bottled water" to spray across your lawn/plants? Hell, your plants even like it if it's a bit, ummmm, shitty.
You can learn a lot about water managment by reading books on sailing. When blue water cruising, management of drinking water while still getting other things done requiring the use of water can mean the difference between life and death, not merely a larger water bill. Salt, rain, grey and fresh drinking water all have their various ideal uses.
KFG
Unfortunately a popular vote system would mean that almost all states but California and New York become largely ignorable. I'm afraid that, despite being a New Yorker myself, I see exactly same problems with a popular vote system that the founding fathers did. New York and California dictating law to Montana and Rhode Island will only lead to injustice and more states being "ignored" than are now.
I like states. I like states rights and equality under law of states. Hence I'm inclined to keep the electoral college system, although I believe it may need some fine tuning.
KFG
Great, a video game that you still have to buy tires for.
KFG
Yes, that's pretty much what I tell my own students. Talent is that which is innate. Your purely genetic physical/mental ability.
Skill is what you develop on top of whatever talent you have through practice.
A person with little talent who does what he can to develop skill is someone who can play an instrument, whereas talent without skill is someone who can't play.
KFG
Sorry, that's just the first level. The rest is still being written. The really cool part is where it turns into an FPS halfway through.
KFG
And the real problem with the 2000 election is one that is not often addressed directly, but is ceratainly relavant to the current topic.
All voting is a statistical process. No system is perfect, there will always be errors. Thus the system has a margin of error.
The 2000 vote was the problem it was because the vote was inside the margin of error, thus no amount of fiddling, recounting, whatever, could possibly resolve the issue. Statistically speaking, the vote was a dead heat and the only reason it had to be decided by the dead heat in Florida was because it was a dead heat pretty much everywhere else as well.
In terms of the "problem" this is indicative of the choices of candidates being a coin toss to most of the populace, which is, essentially, how we resolved it. By using technology to reduce the margin of error we can avoid the political brouhaha of coin toss elections by allowing one candidate to "win" by 20 votes or some such, but it does nothing to cure the political problems that lead to such dead heat elections in the first place.
Do you want Frog ala Peche, or Peche ala Frog?
Not to mention the problem inherent in such elections where a goodly portion of the voting populace look at the opposing candidates, flip their coin, look at it, then just say "Fuck it, it doesn't even matter," and stay home on election day.
Give us statistically descernable candidates and we just might have election results statistically significant.
Of course, to the candidates themselves such an idea is anathema.
KFG
Plus, I'd kill for a backspace on the piano.
:)
Yeah, that would be sweet, wouldn't it?
As for keeping tempo I hate to say it, but the much maligned metronome is the cure for that. I know professional musicians who have been playing for 50 years who still spend an hour or two a week with a metronome. Don't let it rule your playing in the mechanical sense, but it is a valuable tool to learn the bounds of musical expression.
I happen to agree with you about the violin. I find all instruments where the player is in intimate contact with the note producing mechanism more interesting than piano. Fretless strings of all kinds, reeds, etc. The subtle variations imparted intentionally and unintentionally add to the musical interest.
My basic point, however, was that the only real difference, at the philosophical level, between a piano keyboard and a computer keyboard is the fact that a piano keyboard produces physical notes. If a computer keyboard were programed to do the same, it too would be a perfectly valid instrument interface, and typing is a skill that many nonmusicians take for granted, while at the same time claiming that they don't have the necessary physical skills to play an instrument.
There is a mystique about playing instruments that is pure hogwash.
As you point out, the major difference between typing text and "typing" music is the idea of time. Duration, tempo, etc.
That too can be learned.
KFG
Has it occured to you that the mass media has formed your ideas about nerds and pretty girls?
As it turns out, some computer nerds are also pretty girls. You can keep the bubbleheaded ditzes that read Tiger Beat and Cosmo, thank you very much.
Once upon a time my boss, after meeting my wife for the first time, called me up front, presented me to the UPS man delivering to our shop, and said "Look at this guy, you see how ugly he is? You should see his wife, she looks like she just stepped out of a Penthouse. How does an ugly guy like this get a wife like that?"
Yeah, my boss was an asshole. I didn't stay there long.
That pretty girl also has degrees in both anthropology and computer science and can write assembly code in her head that runs first time.
In short, she's a computer nerd; and proud of it.
One of the most mathmatically gifted people I've ever known was also a stunningly pretty girl. To bring the whole thing full circle she wasn't even a science/engineering major. She was a music major. So nerds can also be artistically creative as well as being pretty girls.
Stuff the mass media. They don't know shit except how to sell mass media to a mass, and I have no interest in a girl who's part of the mass, pretty or otherwise. I wish to God it were even true that being a nerd acted as a filter to keep "pretty girls" away. Then I wouldn't have to spend so much time and energy getting rid of them.
KFG
Can you type your code? If typing made music instead of printing letters you would perhaps be a maestro already. Music would be written in the letters of the alphabet plus some accent marks.
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The QWERTY keyboard is actually far less a friendly user interface, with it's bizarre folded layout, compared to the geometric regularity of the piano keybord, with its mere twelve notes repeated over and over linearly.
Of course not all of us are "maestros with a musical instrument." Not all of us have practiced with a musical instrument. If you practice, you get good at something.
So if you're practiced at typing you have already demonstrated the sort of physical dexterity needed to play an instrument. Now, either choose an instrument and learn to play it, or. .
Leverage the skills you already have as a programer and typist and take the name of the application "Notepad" seriously and literally.
Write some code. Make some noise.
KFG
Great idea! Unfortunately, such robots don't exist.
Just as human carrying Mars landers don't yet exist. I believe the idea is to think up things that don't exist yet, and then build them.
I think Mr. Cerf himself has some experience with that particular protocol.
KFG
Most people these days only understand economics in the sense of competition of essentially equal parties, such as American auto manufacturers vs. Japanese manufacturers, which is actually little different at street level then competition between two domestic manufacterers.
This is the world of "market forces" that the average person in a rich western nation lives in. As a "consumer" you chose between two products that are essentially similar and purchase the one that's made better/cheaper.
This sort of limited version of economics has nothing to do with assymetrical trade between unequal participants such as, oh, say, the US and Mexico or India.
Perhaps one needs to spend some time living in a poor section of India or Mexico to understand how even a fairly trivial amount of importing can completely devestate a local economy that could otherwise be happily selfsustaining.
KFG
No, you'd be ok, the law is still being negotiated so the sale is not yet final. If fact it looks like that particular law is not buyable directly, so MS is trying to take the back door route through hardware DRM forcing compliant operating systems. Guess who gets to control what "compliant" will mean?
No legal problemo building Linux boxen. In fact what gets MS sorest is the computer sold with no operating system at all, since they like to assume that's a machine that's going to be running a pirate version of Windows.
Where you get into troubles is when you want to install an OEM version of Windows along side your Linux boxen. There's still no law broken, but this brings you to MS's overt attention, and in the role of a supplicant.
If you invite the vampire into your house, well hey, he's going to suck your blood. Go figure. If you don't invite him in he's powerless.
Go for it.
KFG
Not particularly, no. The gentleman asked a question, I answered it.
Had anyone asked me if my answer contained a typo I would have replied, "Why, yes. So it does."
I'll even go so far as to say that should anyone ask me if the majority of my posts contain typos and outright spelling mistakes that I would reply, "Yeah, pretty much."
Not all of my code runs on first try either.
KFG
Wrong.
Licence Defintion
KFG
The technical part of my job presents enough challenges without precious "mental bandwidth" (in Ballmer's phrase) being syphoned off on distractions like licensing. It's INCREDIBLY time-consuming and that effort is totally wasted. It doesn't advance our mission at all.
This is the part of TCO that Ballmer/et al like to overlook. Not to mention the potential real costs of "failing" an audit.
KFG
Yes, of course Ballmer would like us to believe that a Windows to Windows transition of more than ten thousand computers would just go smooth as silk. Yeah, right.
It's interesting to note, however, that most of the problems Munich is experiencing are exactly the sorts of troubles they are switching to avoid in the future.
The fact of the matter is that most of the issues revolve around backing out of having used Microsoft propriatary solutions, such as VB, instead of open standards solutions, and now they have to figure out how to migrate between the two, which is not proving as easy as they might have hoped.
Thus validating their desire to switch.
The more you use Microsoft the more you have to use Microsoft, and are thus prey to whatever whim sweeps through Redmond at any given moment.
Obtaining stability and freedom, especially for a government agency totally dependant on a foreign technology, is often worth a good deal of trouble and expense to establish.
As, perhaps, say, America and American companies are willing to spend far more on researching alternatives to oil than just buying the oil would cost at the moment.
KFG
No, no. Verisign is suing ICANN for Sitefinder. Crazy, mixed up world, isn't it?
KFG
One size fits all,
Be you short or be you tall,
Be you wide or be you slim,
Be you her or be you him.
Now please, don't start to scream and yell,
We never said it would fit well.
There are times and places where one size fits all may be vaguely suitable for a good many, even the majority of, people. If one happens to be exactly that "one size" you might even wonder why anyone would ever want something else.
There are also, however, times when one size fit's all, no matter how close the fit, is simply intolerable and a wee bit of tailoring is in order.
If you don't feel the need of another Linux "dialect" than ignore it. Those that do may find the new "dialect" finally makes life bearable.
KFG
I am saying that parent poster's position that perhaps understanding the motivation of thieves is in any way instructive in how to prevent them from doing it is simplistic to the point of doofyness.
The can of worms I open is where the the issue lies.
To help sort out this can of worms your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to simply define "human nature."
Good luck Mr. Phelps.
KFG