I've had very good luck using binaural beats generated by a program I had years ago (there are many of them now, but I haven't used them) that I burned onto a CD.
As the previous poster says, the brain seems to operate differently at different frequencies. The idea of binaural beats is to 'trick' your brain into a steady oscillation at a particular level.
I don't really know if this is a placebo or not (could be the white noise alone would have similar effect I guess), but it works really well for me.
Bugs are my concern. I don't care at all about anti-aliasing, but would like the 3d accl to work when it's stable. I *must* have a stable machine though, so have held off on upgrading.
My short question. Is it time to upgrade? Are enough of the bugs worked out for this to be on my primary.
It strikes me as kind of amusing to see many of the same folks who support open source software, or even worse the ones who prefer FSF, saying you can't make a go of commercial free webbing.
The same forces apply in both scenarios. In most cases, the software not only has the hours of free time put into it, but a free web site to support it. So clearly it can be done.
For me, and my web site Poliglut it boils down to the 'love of the game' or 'gift culture' mentality. I enjoy politics, so I simply use the reading that I would already be doing as a boostrap to putting together a site. If people like it (and so far they seem to) great! I'll keep doing it. If not, that's ok to. Kind of like any one of dozens of open source projects. Most of them are junk. The few that are *really* good tend to be the ones put together by a passionate few.
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Just look at the list. It reads like a "gimme" list of things that you want from people, a list of toys that you want. It totally misses the point of Christmas, which is to make other people happy, not to gratify your lust for electrical goods.
So your position is that it won't make other people happy to buy me cool stuff?
But if you're going to get all meaning of Christmas on me, I guess I can't pass the chance to point out that the 'point' of Christmas is a little deeper than even you claim.
Pregnancy can happen. If you are having sex, protected or not, it can happen.
Not oral sex!
Or, like so many of your ilk, are you willing to say that sex is sex is sex when it comes down to villifying the President, but willing to compromise your linguistic position when it suits your needs?
I'm truly interested, not dissing RH - but I thought the upgrade treadmill was
what OSS is supposed to avoid... Someone hit me with a cluestick!
Thwack!
If anything OSS buys you more frequent upgrades because you don't have to wait until the bug count goes high enough for MS to release a service patch.
If you are only talking about functionality releases (as opposed to patches) then, Thwack!, RedHat (for example) has had a new release every six months since essentially the beginning of time.
Calling Java a "fork" of C++ because C++ preceeds it and has some things in common is patently ridiculous, and appropriation
of features from other languages does not a fork make.
And, if you can believe it, from the same message!
The "forking danger" here is that a bunch of other organizations might simply decide they want to introduce new stuff to the
language and say, "Okay. This is our version of Java. So there."
You're killing me here! Good stuff!
Ok, I'll concede that Sun didn't actually say "Okay. This is our version of C++. So there". I guess that name change must be the difference.
But wait!
Would it be so bad if someone forked the code in that manner? Maybe not. But I suspect that plenty of people are twitchy
about just that possibility, given the whole J++ fiasco.
Microsoft did change the name and it wasn't enough. Argh! I'm confused! (or someone is anyway)
Then they cannot use a GPL license. It's one thing for an editor like emacs to fork, another for a language to fork.
That's a just plain dumb statement. Without language forks we would still be using Fortran or arguably Fortran/Cobol/Algol/Lisp.
Java is itself a language fork for christ's sake. Surely you've heard of it's predecessors C++, C with classes, K&R C, C, B and BCPL. Not to mention the many other langs it stole other idioms from!
The GPL is a like an ecology. If you don't suck, you survive. If you do, you get killed.
Maybe under GPL, Java would be able to grow up and become a champ. But if it gets it's neck snapped off by an inspired left hook thrown out of the Eiffel camp, so be it.
But seriously folks, Sun, whatever their motivation, is going in the right direction. Support them. Few believed them when they said they would open soffice, but they did. Let's give them some props.
If you're walking on the beach and you discover a watch in the sand, you won't assume that randome processes and time caused this watch to appear. "When you see hoofprints, think horses, not zebras"
As I understand this argument, the position is that you cannot get order from random process. You must have intelligent design.
Since God is more ordered than the universe must I therefore think 'aha, something intelligent created God'. Of course. I cannot abandon such a well thought out axiom simply because it has ceased to support my position!
What about the intelligent thing that created God. That too is a footprint in the sand! Cool. Now we've an infinite loop of intelligent deities. This universe rocks!
Why is CNN (or the person they quoted) claiming it was the July 17 exploit when it apparently wasn't?
Possible answer one:
To give karma whores something to post about?
Possible answer two:
Because that's what their area expert thinks the guy used and they decided to post both explanations instead of launching a probably futile attempt to find out which it was by deadline time?
Slash, cvs, wiki and such are similar, but check out MatrixOne. As far as I can tell it's a framework being used by lots of people to implement *exactly* that kind of system.
They don't ask for the data it just gets sent to them. Definately not napster like
I work on a related project the Particle Physics Data Grid and can correct this a little.
It can be true that the data gets pushed (on PPDG the clients do actually pull quite directly, but that's an unimportant distinction), but only after a definition of the data that would be useful for that system (here we mean system as either a box, or a cluster, or whatever... Some set of resources). So it's a bit like Napster in that you say what you are interested in, but with pretty complex access to meta-data and, of course, vastly larger return sets.
So while the data pushing seems a bit less Napster like, the fact is it's really only confusing because of the timing of events. The idea of data caches and drawing datasets from wherever they might be available is a fair analogy to draw.
Those guys are marketing GENUISES! They've gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars of free publicity out of a few pages of letterhead and some stamps.
I mean really what are we going to do, switch to one of the other bar code readers? Of course not, but we've all gone out and got a CueCat!
Whoever put together this plan has got to be sitting in his chair rocking back and forth laughing his butt off at how we fell for it hook, line and sinker! All the while churning out invoices to the CueCat enabled advertisors who signed deals at a rate of.10 per shipped CueCat for the right to use that TMed slanty barcode and logo!
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to find out Taco was a principle over at DC!
There is one problem with long exposures (at least on my camera): They introduce noise. On my camera it isn't really noticable
until you exceed 4 seconds, but if you hold the shudder open for 8 seconds there are several "specs" on the picture and it
appears kind of grainy. But, the point is you can do it;). I'd be willing to wager more expensive models don't introduce that kind
of noise either...$400 is near the bottom of the mid range for digital cameras these days.
Right, the truth comes out!:-) That was more in line with what I expected. The problem, last I heard, can only be solved with cooling. The CCD's just flat out have some noise otherwise. I did look at some astrophotograhy rigs recently that ran pretty warm (O Celsius!) and was told they would still be quite dark.
I'm not saying the digital cams won't rock, just that they don't quite yet.
I'm pretty picking when it comes to imaging though.
I won't cry 'censorship' -- that's not what this is. MP3.com is a private organization, and can make whatever rules they wish
within the bracket of established law.
Censorship!
There I cried it so you don't have to. The government isn't the only one who can censor, nor is the term reserved for them. The fact that the legal definition changes from public to private sector is orthogonal.
Something tells me you could go to mp3.com and find pussy all over the place, completely uncensored.
I guess if I had spent the last year fighting The Man and trying to figure out how to save my home, I might be singing a different tune too.
If you mean like 8 seconds, not a problem with todays cameras.
I meant longer. I take pictures by moonlight with some regularity. I want a Bulb setting with a cable release. I admit that I wasn't aware that consumer digital was even up to 8 secs though.
Multiple exposures are "easy" to do post production with a digital camera.
Right. I can also 'post produce' multiple film frames after scanning. Maybe I'm just a luddite on this one, but I like the effects that I can produce as an experienced shutterbug better than those I have thus far mastered on Gimp or Photoshop.
Keep in mind that is still only about 1/2 the pixel depth of a 35mm frame.
Plus it will probably still be a while before you can do things like long exposures, multiple exposures, over/unders and such with consumer digital equipment.
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What additional phone capacity do I get by having a Visor attached to it?
Modulo some really compelling synergies I'll stick with my seperate devices.
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As the previous poster says, the brain seems to operate differently at different frequencies. The idea of binaural beats is to 'trick' your brain into a steady oscillation at a particular level.
I don't really know if this is a placebo or not (could be the white noise alone would have similar effect I guess), but it works really well for me.
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Bugs are my concern. I don't care at all about anti-aliasing, but would like the 3d accl to work when it's stable. I *must* have a stable machine though, so have held off on upgrading.
My short question. Is it time to upgrade? Are enough of the bugs worked out for this to be on my primary.
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The same forces apply in both scenarios. In most cases, the software not only has the hours of free time put into it, but a free web site to support it. So clearly it can be done.
For me, and my web site Poliglut it boils down to the 'love of the game' or 'gift culture' mentality. I enjoy politics, so I simply use the reading that I would already be doing as a boostrap to putting together a site. If people like it (and so far they seem to) great! I'll keep doing it. If not, that's ok to. Kind of like any one of dozens of open source projects. Most of them are junk. The few that are *really* good tend to be the ones put together by a passionate few.
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So your position is that it won't make other people happy to buy me cool stuff?
But if you're going to get all meaning of Christmas on me, I guess I can't pass the chance to point out that the 'point' of Christmas is a little deeper than even you claim.
Try reading a bit of this for some background.
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Not oral sex!
Or, like so many of your ilk, are you willing to say that sex is sex is sex when it comes down to villifying the President, but willing to compromise your linguistic position when it suits your needs?
Thwack!
If anything OSS buys you more frequent upgrades because you don't have to wait until the bug count goes high enough for MS to release a service patch.
If you are only talking about functionality releases (as opposed to patches) then, Thwack!, RedHat (for example) has had a new release every six months since essentially the beginning of time.
Happy? :-)
And, if you can believe it, from the same message!
The "forking danger" here is that a bunch of other organizations might simply decide they want to introduce new stuff to the language and say, "Okay. This is our version of Java. So there."
You're killing me here! Good stuff!
Ok, I'll concede that Sun didn't actually say "Okay. This is our version of C++. So there". I guess that name change must be the difference.
But wait!
Would it be so bad if someone forked the code in that manner? Maybe not. But I suspect that plenty of people are twitchy about just that possibility, given the whole J++ fiasco.
Microsoft did change the name and it wasn't enough. Argh! I'm confused! (or someone is anyway)
That's a just plain dumb statement. Without language forks we would still be using Fortran or arguably Fortran/Cobol/Algol/Lisp.
Java is itself a language fork for christ's sake. Surely you've heard of it's predecessors C++, C with classes, K&R C, C, B and BCPL. Not to mention the many other langs it stole other idioms from!
The GPL is a like an ecology. If you don't suck, you survive. If you do, you get killed.
Maybe under GPL, Java would be able to grow up and become a champ. But if it gets it's neck snapped off by an inspired left hook thrown out of the Eiffel camp, so be it.
Yeah, but without printing capabilities!
What's Java going to be missing, sockets?
But seriously folks, Sun, whatever their motivation, is going in the right direction. Support them. Few believed them when they said they would open soffice, but they did. Let's give them some props.
As I understand this argument, the position is that you cannot get order from random process. You must have intelligent design.
Since God is more ordered than the universe must I therefore think 'aha, something intelligent created God'. Of course. I cannot abandon such a well thought out axiom simply because it has ceased to support my position!
What about the intelligent thing that created God. That too is a footprint in the sand! Cool. Now we've an infinite loop of intelligent deities. This universe rocks!
Because it uses XFree86 4.0 as the default. That's a pretty significant change.
Since the new kernel is significant as well I'm curious to see if they switch to 8.0 when they add that. :-)
No moron, not buy it to begin with.
Possible answer one:
To give karma whores something to post about?
Possible answer two:
Because that's what their area expert thinks the guy used and they decided to post both explanations instead of launching a probably futile attempt to find out which it was by deadline time?
Slash, cvs, wiki and such are similar, but check out MatrixOne. As far as I can tell it's a framework being used by lots of people to implement *exactly* that kind of system.
EOM
I work on a related project the Particle Physics Data Grid and can correct this a little.
It can be true that the data gets pushed (on PPDG the clients do actually pull quite directly, but that's an unimportant distinction), but only after a definition of the data that would be useful for that system (here we mean system as either a box, or a cluster, or whatever... Some set of resources). So it's a bit like Napster in that you say what you are interested in, but with pretty complex access to meta-data and, of course, vastly larger return sets.
So while the data pushing seems a bit less Napster like, the fact is it's really only confusing because of the timing of events. The idea of data caches and drawing datasets from wherever they might be available is a fair analogy to draw.
I mean really what are we going to do, switch to one of the other bar code readers? Of course not, but we've all gone out and got a CueCat!
Whoever put together this plan has got to be sitting in his chair rocking back and forth laughing his butt off at how we fell for it hook, line and sinker! All the while churning out invoices to the CueCat enabled advertisors who signed deals at a rate of .10 per shipped CueCat for the right to use that TMed slanty barcode and logo!
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to find out Taco was a principle over at DC!
Huh? $200K, 8.5% tax sheltered, retire at 65. 6.6 Million.
Play here! for more info.
Was anyone else dissapointed to click through the C&D to find the 1dea7ab (no infringment there!) wasn't the fuck of the day
Right, the truth comes out! :-) That was more in line with what I expected. The problem, last I heard, can only be solved with cooling. The CCD's just flat out have some noise otherwise. I did look at some astrophotograhy rigs recently that ran pretty warm (O Celsius!) and was told they would still be quite dark.
I'm not saying the digital cams won't rock, just that they don't quite yet.
I'm pretty picking when it comes to imaging though.
Censorship!
There I cried it so you don't have to. The government isn't the only one who can censor, nor is the term reserved for them. The fact that the legal definition changes from public to private sector is orthogonal.
Something tells me you could go to mp3.com and find pussy all over the place, completely uncensored.
I guess if I had spent the last year fighting The Man and trying to figure out how to save my home, I might be singing a different tune too.
Ya know, I still don't understand calling this a new fad. Candid Camera is one of the oldest shows on television after all!
Survivor/Real World/et alia are just sitcoms to Candid Camera's sketch comedy.
I meant longer. I take pictures by moonlight with some regularity. I want a Bulb setting with a cable release. I admit that I wasn't aware that consumer digital was even up to 8 secs though.
Multiple exposures are "easy" to do post production with a digital camera.
Right. I can also 'post produce' multiple film frames after scanning. Maybe I'm just a luddite on this one, but I like the effects that I can produce as an experienced shutterbug better than those I have thus far mastered on Gimp or Photoshop.
Keep in mind that is still only about 1/2 the pixel depth of a 35mm frame.
Plus it will probably still be a while before you can do things like long exposures, multiple exposures, over/unders and such with consumer digital equipment.
Awesome for taking snapshots I bet!