What rubbish. Even your typical silicon substrate based solar cell will regenerate the energy used to produce it after 5 years. This is when you include all energy involved in the process, from mining onwards.
The lifetime of Si wafer solar cells is at least 20 years. So they return at least 4 times the power used to produce them.
Once when I was driving on the 101 between San Jose and mountainview, I saw a guy playing a flute while steering with his knees.
Still not sure if that was an instance of poor driving, or an awesome display of physical and mental prowess. But what I can say is that I haven't seen anything like that anywhere other than california.
When mixed the noise floor/errors will indeed accumulate, but bcause both signals are lower in level the resulting noise floor will be around -96db again.
There is no spoon.
This is true for straight mixing - but doesn't hold if you want to run some effects over a track - effects like flange, wah, or even just a simple stereo reverb can multiply up the noise and cause strange artefacts - which is why studios always use 24 bit for all their processing, and mix down later.
It also doesn't hold if you have recorded your own tracks at 24-bit, and want to mix with a 16-bit track you pulled off a CD. You'd rather not down-sample your original tracks until you absolutely need to.
As a former audio engineer with some ranking success, I can tell you that it's true -- delivering high-sample rate audio as an end format is really pointless. It hardly makes sense in a studio, and definitely is illogical for the distribution of a final mix.
Maybe this is true for people who just want to listen - but what about non-studio music nerds that want to play around and sample and remix tracks? Amateur musicians would like as high-sample rate audio as possibly, so that any down-mixing artefacts don't accumulate.
The only argument for not distributing the full sample rate audio in the current environment of high bandwidth and high disk space is if you believe that music creation should start and end in studios. I can't express how much I disagree with that sentiment.
This is true. TFA overlooks the fact that modern voters don't get to choose between component candidates - we are offered a choice between candidates presented due to nepotism, cronyism, or just people who are flat out corporate stooges.
This. The obesity epidemic in western countries is a far greater problem (in terms of both number of people effected, and the severity of health effects) than anorexia is.
I agree with you, but 50,000 people is a very small percentage of the Finn population, my point was merely that it should be rather easy to find that many people who don't share this view about welfare.
The article does not say that the idea for a law needs to be sensible. Only that it needs support.
I was thinking that exact thing. I believe a law that limits taxes to 1% of income would garner plenty of support. But it certainly wouldn't be sensible.
Unfortunately, $27.50 is a drop in the bucket compared to tuition, and hence not likely to affect much of anything.
You are focussing on the students. I think it is more likely that the faculty staff will start leaving. Email is insecure enough as it is, and the last thing most professors actively involved in research will want is a third party having access to any unpublished research that is sent to colleagues and co-authors via email.
I don't know if this will be the case for facebook, but usually in this sort of situation, the employees get screwed - as they generally aren't allowed to exercise their stock options for around 6-12 months after the IPO, while the owners get to exercise their options from day 1.
So the owners get to cash out at the ridiculously overhyped IPO price, while those with employee stock options have to wait until everything comes crashing down before they can cash out.
Add to that question, what is the ipo actually for?
I haven't read the facebook prospectus, but usually an ipo is for a company to raise funds to implement some part of it's business plan.
Facebook already had it's infrastructure, it already has a large user base.
So what is the purpose of this 5-10 billion dollar ipo (other than for the current owners to cash out at the peak of the hype)? What does facebook need to do over the next couple of years that requires such a massive capital injection???
That said, it's interesting to think about. Should we ever really come up with a technology to stop aging and age-related deaths, it would create a crisis. If people don't die, what do we do with babies?
Populate the Solar System for a start. And if we truly do stop aging - travelling between the stars won't seem like such a long journey...
some people in life are creators, some are mere followers.
And in general, more creators use Macs than any other platform. Musicians, film-makers, writers,actors artists, photographers etc, etc..
As a musician, I've never recorded in a studio that used Macs. I don't know of any recording studios that do have macs.
I don't personally know about film-makers - but there was a recent story on./ talking about how they are all moving away from final cut pro
I doubt you can back up your assertion about writers at all - most fiction writers of my generation started with wordperfect and moved to MS Word, and most tech writers use latex for serious stuff.
Actors don't create - they read other peoples lines - who cares what computer they use - it is meaningless to bring them up in this context.
Artists? Do you mean Sculptors? Painters? What do computers have to do with those tasks?
Photographers? Photoshop is platform independent
Your comment is full of fail. Most creative folks start from a position of no money - and that generally means the cheapest possible computing - which means no macs. I never got where this meme that creators use macs come from - IMHO it is just Apple advertising BS.
Ray Kurzweil likes to pop out his prediction that if the current rate of increase in life expectancy holds, then in 15 years time, human life expectancy will increase by more than 1 year per year.
So if you can hold out for another 15 years, maybe you will live forever.
Or maybe he is applying a linear extrapolation to a non-linear process.
Anyway - ask me in 15 years, and I'll tell you if science has failed us or not.
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Even if crime didn't exist on the internet, we'd still need the white hats to protect us from politicians.
The privacy invading tripe legislated by our current mob isn't criminal by definition.
What rubbish. Even your typical silicon substrate based solar cell will regenerate the energy used to produce it after 5 years. This is when you include all energy involved in the process, from mining onwards.
The lifetime of Si wafer solar cells is at least 20 years. So they return at least 4 times the power used to produce them.
Also, names in l33t sp34k are sooo 90s...
Knut time-travelled here from the 90s you insensitive clod!
Once when I was driving on the 101 between San Jose and mountainview, I saw a guy playing a flute while steering with his knees.
Still not sure if that was an instance of poor driving, or an awesome display of physical and mental prowess. But what I can say is that I haven't seen anything like that anywhere other than california.
When mixed the noise floor/errors will indeed accumulate, but bcause both signals are lower in level the resulting noise floor will be around -96db again. There is no spoon.
This is true for straight mixing - but doesn't hold if you want to run some effects over a track - effects like flange, wah, or even just a simple stereo reverb can multiply up the noise and cause strange artefacts - which is why studios always use 24 bit for all their processing, and mix down later.
It also doesn't hold if you have recorded your own tracks at 24-bit, and want to mix with a 16-bit track you pulled off a CD. You'd rather not down-sample your original tracks until you absolutely need to.
As a former audio engineer with some ranking success, I can tell you that it's true -- delivering high-sample rate audio as an end format is really pointless. It hardly makes sense in a studio, and definitely is illogical for the distribution of a final mix.
Maybe this is true for people who just want to listen - but what about non-studio music nerds that want to play around and sample and remix tracks? Amateur musicians would like as high-sample rate audio as possibly, so that any down-mixing artefacts don't accumulate.
The only argument for not distributing the full sample rate audio in the current environment of high bandwidth and high disk space is if you believe that music creation should start and end in studios. I can't express how much I disagree with that sentiment.
Doh. not *component*, *competent*.
This is true. TFA overlooks the fact that modern voters don't get to choose between component candidates - we are offered a choice between candidates presented due to nepotism, cronyism, or just people who are flat out corporate stooges.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
This. The obesity epidemic in western countries is a far greater problem (in terms of both number of people effected, and the severity of health effects) than anorexia is.
I agree with you, but 50,000 people is a very small percentage of the Finn population, my point was merely that it should be rather easy to find that many people who don't share this view about welfare.
The article does not say that the idea for a law needs to be sensible. Only that it needs support.
I was thinking that exact thing. I believe a law that limits taxes to 1% of income would garner plenty of support. But it certainly wouldn't be sensible.
As if anyone is going to trust Heartland to confirm the authenticity of documents that damaging. Ridiculous.
Anyway, if they try to sue anyone, then their lawyers are going to get spanked. Truth is a complete defence against defamation.
Unfortunately, $27.50 is a drop in the bucket compared to tuition, and hence not likely to affect much of anything.
You are focussing on the students. I think it is more likely that the faculty staff will start leaving. Email is insecure enough as it is, and the last thing most professors actively involved in research will want is a third party having access to any unpublished research that is sent to colleagues and co-authors via email.
It isn't their product. It is Whitney Houston's product.
Recording labels are just middlemen - all these copyright laws and extensions are all about returning profits to the artists, right?
So why are they price gouging now that the artist is dead? She isn't going to benefit from the extra revenue.
Life doesn't have to be mobile or sentient.
Your argument doesn't exclude plants, trees, fungus, etc.
I don't know if this will be the case for facebook, but usually in this sort of situation, the employees get screwed - as they generally aren't allowed to exercise their stock options for around 6-12 months after the IPO, while the owners get to exercise their options from day 1.
So the owners get to cash out at the ridiculously overhyped IPO price, while those with employee stock options have to wait until everything comes crashing down before they can cash out.
I hope this isn't the case for your relative.
Heh - so the IPO is specifically for owners and employees to cash out at the peak of the hype.
Someone else has said that the underwriters are valueing facebook at a p/e of ~400 to come up with this price.
Good luck to to any chump investor who ends up buying into this (either directly or via their 401k).
Share price is meaningless. What is important is market capitalization.
What was google's market cap when it ipoed?
Add to that question, what is the ipo actually for?
I haven't read the facebook prospectus, but usually an ipo is for a company to raise funds to implement some part of it's business plan.
Facebook already had it's infrastructure, it already has a large user base.
So what is the purpose of this 5-10 billion dollar ipo (other than for the current owners to cash out at the peak of the hype)? What does facebook need to do over the next couple of years that requires such a massive capital injection???
That said, it's interesting to think about. Should we ever really come up with a technology to stop aging and age-related deaths, it would create a crisis. If people don't die, what do we do with babies?
Populate the Solar System for a start. And if we truly do stop aging - travelling between the stars won't seem like such a long journey...
Nice editing technique to create an out of context sentence fragment. I admire your technique.
So your assertion is that actors use computers in some way to create their performances? I guess I am ignorant.
some people in life are creators, some are mere followers.
And in general, more creators use Macs than any other platform. Musicians, film-makers, writers,actors artists, photographers etc, etc..
As a musician, I've never recorded in a studio that used Macs. I don't know of any recording studios that do have macs.
./ talking about how they are all moving away from final cut pro
I don't personally know about film-makers - but there was a recent story on
I doubt you can back up your assertion about writers at all - most fiction writers of my generation started with wordperfect and moved to MS Word, and most tech writers use latex for serious stuff.
Actors don't create - they read other peoples lines - who cares what computer they use - it is meaningless to bring them up in this context.
Artists? Do you mean Sculptors? Painters? What do computers have to do with those tasks?
Photographers? Photoshop is platform independent
Your comment is full of fail. Most creative folks start from a position of no money - and that generally means the cheapest possible computing - which means no macs. I never got where this meme that creators use macs come from - IMHO it is just Apple advertising BS.
Ray Kurzweil likes to pop out his prediction that if the current rate of increase in life expectancy holds, then in 15 years time, human life expectancy will increase by more than 1 year per year.
So if you can hold out for another 15 years, maybe you will live forever.
Or maybe he is applying a linear extrapolation to a non-linear process.
Anyway - ask me in 15 years, and I'll tell you if science has failed us or not.
Exactly - at the university level, I never studied to learn - I studied to pass exams.
One week after the exam, there is no way I'd retain enough knowledge to sit and pass it again, but I didn't care.
And that system of cramming worked well enough that I graduated with 1st class honours...