oh yeah. I was thinking of that episode, but you're right, she was considering it. That was a great line which followed, btw: "I'm a level _five_ vegan - I don't eat anything that casts a shadow"
FYI, Groenig is the guy who gave us the first couple seasons of "don't have a cow, man" and heads that throb when choked.
The genius behind the simpsons is George Meyer, a writer who was considered so good they kept him in the editing room practically full time so that he very rarely got actual writing credit for a show. Most of the good, unexpected gags are his.
Meyer and some of the other good comedy writers that made it good are no longer there.
What needs to happen if this is to be absorbed into the mainstream is that napster, winamp and similiar programs need to add support for ogg files in their next version.
Then, Joe User searches for some song and downloads it. It ends up in "My Music" and he never even sees the ".ogg" extension because windows hides it by default. It's got a little lightning icon because it's been associated with winamp and he can play it just like any other file.
Eventually, people trading songs would make the association, "oh, these new ogg things work just like mp3s but (hopefully) are smaller)". At that point, if Fraunhoffer tried anything funny, people would laugh at them and use ogg.
Does anybody know about support for multichannel (specifically 5.1) audio streams? I've got a surround setup and some surround recordings on DVDs, and it would be just swell if I could encode those...
As file size is a direct function of bitrate, there should be no surprises at the size of the encoded file. Perhaps you might notice that you can use lower bitrates before you start noticing a drop in quality.
Check out some of this guy's other stuff. He's got a section where he makes fun of scientologists (they've threatened him of course). They even came and picketed his office one day.
Seeing as how my karma is over 50 and can only go down, I'd have to be pretty stupid to decide to go karma whoring.
Now, if you are the moron I think you are, you will respond to this saying something like "exactly, you _are_ stupid" so at least be original otherwise go fuck yourself.
In my area, unfortunately, which is literally under 500 feet from the TCI headquarters, there is no high speed option of any kind. Not cable modem, not DSL. You can of course get a satellite option but you're still restricted to dial-up for sending data.
But yeah, I agree about game development. You can make every effort to use network traffic efficiently, but if supporting modem speeds means you have to cut corners on the quality of the game, there's a good reason to just go the high-bandwidth route.
So would I. I'm interested in hearing just what they found which provides new insights on our evolution. Apparently, the junk DNA provides a detailed record of how the genome has changed over time, and even has all kinds of organisms living in it at the chromosome level. (cool!)
However, this article fills a niche - the wingnuts who actually follow 'scientific creationism' respond to stuff like this. Of course, most won't be moved and may simply wait for the order from their leadership on how to respond to what is sure to be some devastating new findings for their 'theory'.
But for some of them, it is exactly this sort of sweeping statement which they've been waiting for. It sums it up rather nicely and puts a stamp on the death of this issue (well, the genome puts a stamp on it more than this one prof does). When more data from the Genome project pours in, I optimistically believe that efforts to teach creation in public schools will fail miserably with little or no fanfare.
and of course many believe this and almost nobody has a problem with it. But make no mistake - there's a very vocal sect which insists on a literal 6 days, and demands it be taught in public schools.
As many detractors are fond of pointing out, our current Seti@Home effort wouldn't be powerful enough to find us humans if it were set up on another star.
I'd say that given the level of attention it got and the amount of discomfort it caused, her science project was a complete success. Indeed, I doubt she had imagined that it would be nearly as successful as it was.
is that animation based in turn on some other joke? or is it just one of those things that gets forwarded everywhere and turns into a craze like the hampster dance or something?
Now write a program which thinks creatively, feels a range of emotions and learns spoken languages.
Seriously, in the absence of knowledge about how genetic code works, it seemed reasonable to assume a certain size. Nobody would have denied that it could *possibly* be just 30,000 - they just expected a higher number. 30K happened to be over on the left side of the bell curve of probable outcomes given what was known at the time.
I mean, what if we turned out to have fewer genes than some bacteria? Your argument would still apply but the finding would still be pretty unexpected no?
It has been well known for the last three or four years now at least that games suck for the reasons given here. Gamemakers have known it. They just can't come up with any new ideas but not for a lack of trying methinks.
If you really think you know so well what the gaming world needs, go make a million dollars.
Slashdot Mirror
I can see it now:
pay the fee, log onto the site, and it says: "Scam #1 - fraud museum" and proceeds with a detailed description of their own site.
oh yeah. I was thinking of that episode, but you're right, she was considering it. That was a great line which followed, btw: "I'm a level _five_ vegan - I don't eat anything that casts a shadow"
FYI, Groenig is the guy who gave us the first couple seasons of "don't have a cow, man" and heads that throb when choked.
The genius behind the simpsons is George Meyer, a writer who was considered so good they kept him in the editing room practically full time so that he very rarely got actual writing credit for a show. Most of the good, unexpected gags are his.
Meyer and some of the other good comedy writers that made it good are no longer there.
Lisa Simpson, the precocious ethical-to-a-fault vegan? This is the girl who is supposed to sponsor a device marred in IP rights battles?
What needs to happen if this is to be absorbed into the mainstream is that napster, winamp and similiar programs need to add support for ogg files in their next version.
Then, Joe User searches for some song and downloads it. It ends up in "My Music" and he never even sees the ".ogg" extension because windows hides it by default. It's got a little lightning icon because it's been associated with winamp and he can play it just like any other file.
Eventually, people trading songs would make the association, "oh, these new ogg things work just like mp3s but (hopefully) are smaller)". At that point, if Fraunhoffer tried anything funny, people would laugh at them and use ogg.
Does anybody know about support for multichannel (specifically 5.1) audio streams? I've got a surround setup and some surround recordings on DVDs, and it would be just swell if I could encode those...
As file size is a direct function of bitrate, there should be no surprises at the size of the encoded file. Perhaps you might notice that you can use lower bitrates before you start noticing a drop in quality.
and yet you posted AC
Hmm, I really have to bash them in some kind of semi-public way. This sounds like fun.
Check out some of this guy's other stuff. He's got a section where he makes fun of scientologists (they've threatened him of course). They even came and picketed his office one day.
Seeing as how my karma is over 50 and can only go down, I'd have to be pretty stupid to decide to go karma whoring.
Now, if you are the moron I think you are, you will respond to this saying something like "exactly, you _are_ stupid" so at least be original otherwise go fuck yourself.
interesting how you worked politics into that.
In my area, unfortunately, which is literally under 500 feet from the TCI headquarters, there is no high speed option of any kind. Not cable modem, not DSL. You can of course get a satellite option but you're still restricted to dial-up for sending data.
But yeah, I agree about game development. You can make every effort to use network traffic efficiently, but if supporting modem speeds means you have to cut corners on the quality of the game, there's a good reason to just go the high-bandwidth route.
you gotta point there. I have it turned off, but if someone didn't that could pose a problem.
I'd like to leave javascript on but disable any ability to write in the status bar (the status bar is MINE) or create any kind of popup window.
For the goatse.cx weary, http://www.3dactionplanet.com/features/editorials/ broadband/
I don't see what the big deal is - you move the mouse over a link and the url shows up in the status bar.
Anyone know what happened to the Dilberito? I never have seen one at a convenience or grocery store. Did that fail?
So would I. I'm interested in hearing just what they found which provides new insights on our evolution. Apparently, the junk DNA provides a detailed record of how the genome has changed over time, and even has all kinds of organisms living in it at the chromosome level. (cool!)
However, this article fills a niche - the wingnuts who actually follow 'scientific creationism' respond to stuff like this. Of course, most won't be moved and may simply wait for the order from their leadership on how to respond to what is sure to be some devastating new findings for their 'theory'.
But for some of them, it is exactly this sort of sweeping statement which they've been waiting for. It sums it up rather nicely and puts a stamp on the death of this issue (well, the genome puts a stamp on it more than this one prof does). When more data from the Genome project pours in, I optimistically believe that efforts to teach creation in public schools will fail miserably with little or no fanfare.
and of course many believe this and almost nobody has a problem with it. But make no mistake - there's a very vocal sect which insists on a literal 6 days, and demands it be taught in public schools.
yeah, they could definitely be there.
As many detractors are fond of pointing out, our current Seti@Home effort wouldn't be powerful enough to find us humans if it were set up on another star.
I think this is her webpage:
http://www.thielen.com/users/brianna/
or simply http://www.thielen.com for her faimily's page.
I'd say that given the level of attention it got and the amount of discomfort it caused, her science project was a complete success. Indeed, I doubt she had imagined that it would be nearly as successful as it was.
Maybe 20% less time than it takes most desktops?
is that animation based in turn on some other joke? or is it just one of those things that gets forwarded everywhere and turns into a craze like the hampster dance or something?
In the case of humans, that's a black box with 30000 2-bit inputs, an unknown number of outputs, and exponential order internal complexity.
:-)
I trust you meant 30000 genes. There's a 2-bit input for each individual base (how many was that again?). 4^X = big friggin number
cool.
Now write a program which thinks creatively, feels a range of emotions and learns spoken languages.
Seriously, in the absence of knowledge about how genetic code works, it seemed reasonable to assume a certain size. Nobody would have denied that it could *possibly* be just 30,000 - they just expected a higher number. 30K happened to be over on the left side of the bell curve of probable outcomes given what was known at the time.
I mean, what if we turned out to have fewer genes than some bacteria? Your argument would still apply but the finding would still be pretty unexpected no?
It has been well known for the last three or four years now at least that games suck for the reasons given here. Gamemakers have known it. They just can't come up with any new ideas but not for a lack of trying methinks.
If you really think you know so well what the gaming world needs, go make a million dollars.