This should be modded funny, if anything. It is a description of hipsters calling themselves audiophiles. Real audiophiles embrace digital technology but are also skeptical of $100 stereo cables and other fancy sounding junk. Check out the Hydrogen Audio forums and The Audio Critic
While I agree strongly with your last point, I disagree just as strongly with the assertion that writing is just as difficult as "creating an OS kernel or a graph alogorithm."
I know it's anecdotal but I breezed through liberal arts electives while majoring in EE by writing papers either the night before or the morning of the due date. At the same time, people majoring in those classes I was electing were pulling their hair out to get the same grades as I. No, our professors did not grade us differently based on major, they had little knowledge or concern for that. I also had a friend who liked to poke fun at other non-science/engineering friends. He even wrote some of their papers for them, having never taken those classes, and got them As. Everyone in science and engineering shares these same anecdotes.
I was lucky enough that my university took technical writing seriously so that every year we had to pass/fail a required course on technical writing. The guy who taught that really wasn't an engineer and only cared about proper writing and communication. The dept would bring in professional writers to grade our work and have a sit down review with us individually to point out any tiny flaw and make sure we understood where we went wrong and how to fix it. It's true that most of the other students though it was BS and that they shouldn't be bothered but it was pretty easy nonetheless.
It's true that society has devalued writing to the point where adults primarily read teen and young adult garbage, even to the point where they hold up Harry Potter as an example of "good" writing. Still, science and engineering are far more abstract and difficult than proper writing. The submitters and editors post shit summaries not because it's hard but because they just don't think it's important enough to exert any effort. That would take time away from reading 50 Shades of Grey.
I used to do this, email abuse at their isp, back when I had the time and desire to read through my firewall logs. I would often get responses thanking me for sending the relevant logs or at least informing me that they were looking in to it.
I've bought sandwhiches prior to flying and eaten them on the plane numerous times, they still taste delicious. I don't know what they're doing wrong but it isn't the altitude.
First you said they had no case, now you're applying a different argument. I agree statutory rape is usually bullshit; I was only countering your assertion on the legality of the charge since it had been modded insightful by others who were just as ignorant of the law.
Actually, if you RTFA, one of the guys being charged with statutory rape is 17 (the girl was 15). The 18 year old I could see being charged depending on local law, but there's no case against the 17 year old since he's still a minor and extremely close in age with the girl.
So what if he's a minor? Age of consent in Mass is 16. There are no exceptions written in to the law to allow for minors to have sex. It's up to the prosecutor's discretion.
Chapter 265: Section 23. Rape and abuse of child
Section 23. Whoever unlawfully has sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse, and abuses a child under 16 years of age, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years or, except as otherwise provided, for any term in a jail or house of correction. A prosecution commenced under this section shall neither be continued without a finding nor placed on file.
That's why I get all mine online. I buy sporadically because most of what I like isn't yet on BR but with some patience some of the stuff I do like can be found between $15 and $20.
$15 is too much? To me, that's a pretty decent price if it's a good movie, a good transfer, solid audio, and has some decent extras. I think people may be spoiled by the $10 DVDs at Best Buy. I'm willing to pay a little more for a quality release.
Perhaps it's your TV? I have a PS3 and it's got a really nice upscaler for DVDs but it can't add in texture and details that aren't in the image. While the DVDs look great, there is still a clear difference with Blu-Ray. It's sharper and has more detail. You could also have some poorly transferred HD-DVD titles, there are a lot out there on Blu-Ray too; I always read reviews at highdefdigest.com before buying one so I don't get burned with a movie that'll look just as good on DVD.
On my XP machines, FF is pretty good with memory. A couple sites I rarely use will cause runaways but, like I said, that's rare. On my linux installation, I've tried the most recent stable FF and SwiftFox 3.5b4; they both have frequent memory runaways that force me to kill the process or crashing. I think it's the flash plugin because I see it when I'm looking at a variety of flash video sites. I'm using CrunchBang and that uses the Ubuntu repos so I've tried both versions of the Flash plugin (free and nonfree), no difference. It's gotten to the point where I've started searching for a full-featured Linux-compatible web browser that isn't FF just to see if there's a difference.
That's weird. I don't know what is causing this for you but I don't have such egregious memory usage in FF 3.0.11. I'm normally at ~400-500 MB, and that's with dozens of tabs open for a couple days or even weeks. I also have several extensions installed. I occasionally run in to some crappy flash or other type of website that leaks. The only one that sticks out in my mind is myspace but I only use it for a minute to check out a band before closing the tab to prevent it from slowing down my whole PC.
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Which is why he stole that quote... then applied for a patent on it. "But I said it while wearing a turtleneck! That's innovation!"
This should be modded funny, if anything. It is a description of hipsters calling themselves audiophiles. Real audiophiles embrace digital technology but are also skeptical of $100 stereo cables and other fancy sounding junk. Check out the Hydrogen Audio forums and The Audio Critic
I know it's anecdotal but I breezed through liberal arts electives while majoring in EE by writing papers either the night before or the morning of the due date. At the same time, people majoring in those classes I was electing were pulling their hair out to get the same grades as I. No, our professors did not grade us differently based on major, they had little knowledge or concern for that. I also had a friend who liked to poke fun at other non-science/engineering friends. He even wrote some of their papers for them, having never taken those classes, and got them As. Everyone in science and engineering shares these same anecdotes.
I was lucky enough that my university took technical writing seriously so that every year we had to pass/fail a required course on technical writing. The guy who taught that really wasn't an engineer and only cared about proper writing and communication. The dept would bring in professional writers to grade our work and have a sit down review with us individually to point out any tiny flaw and make sure we understood where we went wrong and how to fix it. It's true that most of the other students though it was BS and that they shouldn't be bothered but it was pretty easy nonetheless.
It's true that society has devalued writing to the point where adults primarily read teen and young adult garbage, even to the point where they hold up Harry Potter as an example of "good" writing. Still, science and engineering are far more abstract and difficult than proper writing. The submitters and editors post shit summaries not because it's hard but because they just don't think it's important enough to exert any effort. That would take time away from reading 50 Shades of Grey.
Ha! That's the best description of Dave Matthews Band I've heard. I never did "get" them.
I used to do this, email abuse at their isp, back when I had the time and desire to read through my firewall logs. I would often get responses thanking me for sending the relevant logs or at least informing me that they were looking in to it.
An emotional response that completely overwhelms logic does indicate a mental deficiency of some kind.
Are you saying women are mentally deficient?
I've bought sandwhiches prior to flying and eaten them on the plane numerous times, they still taste delicious. I don't know what they're doing wrong but it isn't the altitude.
And the fact that something so absurd has to go so far, with no legal safeguards against such abuses is not contemptible?
A trio of Google engineers have ported id Software's gib-filled first-person shooter Quake II to browsers
Google tells me it's a castrated tomcat or crystal meth. Are these things really in Quake II?
First you said they had no case, now you're applying a different argument. I agree statutory rape is usually bullshit; I was only countering your assertion on the legality of the charge since it had been modded insightful by others who were just as ignorant of the law.
Actually, if you RTFA, one of the guys being charged with statutory rape is 17 (the girl was 15). The 18 year old I could see being charged depending on local law, but there's no case against the 17 year old since he's still a minor and extremely close in age with the girl.
So what if he's a minor? Age of consent in Mass is 16. There are no exceptions written in to the law to allow for minors to have sex. It's up to the prosecutor's discretion.
Chapter 265: Section 23. Rape and abuse of child
Section 23. Whoever unlawfully has sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse, and abuses a child under 16 years of age, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years or, except as otherwise provided, for any term in a jail or house of correction. A prosecution commenced under this section shall neither be continued without a finding nor placed on file.
What if we threw SwiftFox in to the comparison?
D'oh! Thanks for pointing that out.
That's why I get all mine online. I buy sporadically because most of what I like isn't yet on BR but with some patience some of the stuff I do like can be found between $15 and $20.
$15 is too much? To me, that's a pretty decent price if it's a good movie, a good transfer, solid audio, and has some decent extras. I think people may be spoiled by the $10 DVDs at Best Buy. I'm willing to pay a little more for a quality release.
Perhaps it's your TV? I have a PS3 and it's got a really nice upscaler for DVDs but it can't add in texture and details that aren't in the image. While the DVDs look great, there is still a clear difference with Blu-Ray. It's sharper and has more detail. You could also have some poorly transferred HD-DVD titles, there are a lot out there on Blu-Ray too; I always read reviews at highdefdigest.com before buying one so I don't get burned with a movie that'll look just as good on DVD.
Why is this a troll? I know a lot of people who have xboxes and not a single one has opted to pay extra for the HD-DVD drive.
On my XP machines, FF is pretty good with memory. A couple sites I rarely use will cause runaways but, like I said, that's rare. On my linux installation, I've tried the most recent stable FF and SwiftFox 3.5b4; they both have frequent memory runaways that force me to kill the process or crashing. I think it's the flash plugin because I see it when I'm looking at a variety of flash video sites. I'm using CrunchBang and that uses the Ubuntu repos so I've tried both versions of the Flash plugin (free and nonfree), no difference. It's gotten to the point where I've started searching for a full-featured Linux-compatible web browser that isn't FF just to see if there's a difference.
That's weird. I don't know what is causing this for you but I don't have such egregious memory usage in FF 3.0.11. I'm normally at ~400-500 MB, and that's with dozens of tabs open for a couple days or even weeks. I also have several extensions installed. I occasionally run in to some crappy flash or other type of website that leaks. The only one that sticks out in my mind is myspace but I only use it for a minute to check out a band before closing the tab to prevent it from slowing down my whole PC.