Given that I can buy totally unmolested WAVs from Beatport, what's the point? I find it hard to believe that there are vinyl purists who want MP3s, or that those who would work with an MP3 wouldn't rather deal with a master-quality WAV which can be manipulated even more.
Lossy compression is just as insidious as DRM when the bandwidth for CD-quality uncompressed audio is available.
And to those who say you can't hear the difference, if you slow the track down by 50%, you can. If you don't know why you would do that, ask a DJ.
Yes; I have similar problems when I try to play a DVD over DVI-out to my HDTV from my XP MCE machine. When I use a component connection, everything works swimmingly.
I know about the protected content output path for "premium" content, but AFAICT no such content exists today, and it's unlikely that you'd be able to play it at all under XP. I haven't seen Vista do anything more to cripple regular DVD playing than XP already did.
Don't forget Haiku, the free BeOS reimplementation. What's been done so far is impressive for the number of developers working on it; if a few more developers joined the progress, I (personally, IMHO) think R1 could happen this year.
Assuming that the patent would actually be held by Johns Hopkins, I think this is a great idea. The revenue generated by this patent will fund research and education at a leading medical school, which will undoubtedly contribute to advances in other areas. Money is made in all areas of the medical process, and income from this is ordinarily subject to taxation, which just goes into the government's general coffers. By patenting these ideas, universities ensure that some of this money goes back into the processes that created the idea in the first place, instead of a Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska or a mismanaged war in Iraq...
Government intervention. They ruined the railroads and the phone companies, and now they're after the Internet. It works like this: Something is good, and private companies are selling it and making it work. The government decides it's a "right," and subsidizes one of those private companies to give it to people who can't afford it. The subsidized company soon runs the competition out of business and becomes a sponsored, sanctioned monopoly. The process has started with the Internet under the guise of "making the Information Superhighway available to everyone." It may sound good at first, but it's a bad idea. We may look back at 1994 as the beginning of the end of the high-quality Net.
This argument sounds quite similar to the rhetoric of those pushing for more intervention in peering under the guise of "Net Neutrality", doesn't it?
No more than 999 were on Amazon's network. I got one.
I had two networks to choose from: Comcast cable modem, and a supposedly "slower" SBC DSL connection. I ended up using the DSL as Amazon went unreachable on the cable modem at 5 till 1 (CST). At 1:00, Amazon was taking 10-20 seconds to load, but it did load. I clicked, answered a simple math question ("what's 18 + 19" IIRC), and it gave me the "you've got it" page.
I'm still shocked I got it, especially since I'm in Chicago, not on the west coast.
Autism is not a binary condition. There is a range of disorders called Autism Spectrum Disorders that range from Asperger's Syndrome to the low-functioning Autism that you cover.
Each of these manifests itself differently. Having an Autism Spectrum Disorder implies some level of impairment in social functioning, but where you are on the spectrum indicates how much desire you have to engage in social interactions at all.
I think the greater knowledge of the spectrum disorders in the medical community has led to the greater incidence of diagnosis. It may also be the case that the incidence of autism is increasing, though I would be surprised if TV was the cause. Simon Baron Cohen (he's Sascha's cousin) has theorized that Autism represents an extremely systematizing mind, and that kind of mind (in my experience) tends to shy away from the disordered chaos of TV and towards systems and obsessions (trains, cars, computers, etc.)
If a diagnosis is provided with the intent of helping the child learn how to cope with social situations better, I don't see anything wrong with it. While I am opposed to the search for a "cure" for a spectrum disorder that also includes a number of functioning, intelligent, and unique individuals, I feel that social interaction strategies can be learned and applied to help children with autism learn to communicate and function better. If our goal is to help each child (or adult) to learn how to accomplish the things they want to do, then I don't see how greater awareness is a problem, even if there is some amount of bandwagoning that goes on.
This raises an interesting question: now that Amazon is in the business of competing with physical DVD purchases, will Amazon prices for DVDs rise until it's cheaper to buy via UnBox?
It's dynamically typed. It's got a presentation-based user interface ala CLIM from Common Lisp, which itself was derived from the user interface of the Symbolics Lisp machines. It's native-compiled, not just threaded.
Here in the Chicago suburbs, that's what a retired teacher makes for doing nothing. The salary for an experienced teacher can push $100k, and the pension is 75% of your final pay.
It's time to do away with teacher pensions and give them 401(k)s like the rest of us. I see no point to the state putting itself on the hook for future pension liabilities against future taxpayers. We're better off burdening future taxpayers as little as possible.
I used to use one of those. Nowadays I'm using the Fossil Abacus Wrist PDA, which will do everything you described as it's just a PalmOS 4.1 USB device. And it runs a lot more software, too!
This is just the "dishonorable mentions" list, though, which seems to be more made up of products whose concept was cool but flopped in the marketplace.
What a fucking idiot. If you spelled "Nintendo" correctly on both sites, you might have a more useful comparison. These results look useful enough to me.
There was, but you're still going senile. The product that NeXT sold was called OpenStep for Windows. At that time, the old NeXTSTEP system was renamed to OpenSTEP (note the difference in caps!) and updated for the new API. There was also OpenStep for Solaris, which you can still find floating around for download - no SDK, though.
OpenStep for Windows lived on for a long time as part of WebObjects. I don't think it still exists anymore, though.
Thanks for the idea! I'm sure that the legions of people who are hard at work on getting Windows to boot on the iMac have never thought of this before.
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Um, why would you guess that? I run the full opera on a 200MHz TI OMAP processor on my Windows Mobile Smartphone. That processor is not much faster than the DS's ARM7 processor. I also use NetFront on a 132MHz Sony ARM processor in my Clie. The ARM7 in the DS can handle running a full web browser.
If they really optimize it, they can use the second, slower ARM5 to uncompress images while the first is loading the page. This is a common trick on multiprocessor systems already.
3. Run a series of ever-changing anonymous proxies to provide the average Chinese citizen with unfiltered internet access, even if it means breaking Chinese law - but don't do any business inside of China. Why does Google have an obligation to follow Chinese law, anyway? There are plenty of ways of increasing the availability of information inside China that don't involve complying with the filters.
That is the reason why Heim in the last years of his life developed an extended formal logic, in order to describe quantitative as well as qualitative aspects uniformly. Only in this way it was possible to formalise biological and psychological processes (like consciousness) in a 6-dimensional manifold, and therefore also non-physical events; this will have exceptionally far-reaching consequences for all fields of science.
Um, OK. Formalising psychological processes in a 6-dimensional manifold!
I don't disagree with much of what you wrote. I merely expressed the sentiment that any philosophy which can be said to be harmless must be so vacuous as to be worthless. Everything has within it some amount of harm as well as its good. I think in Mao's case his philosophy has done more harm than good when carried out - but that does not mean I disapprove of people reading it for themselves. Certainly my own fascination with Chinese propaganda posters would indicate that I don't disagree with this idea.
I will comment narrowly on one comment of yours: Also, even if the Little Red Book is harmful, as you suggest someone might apparently follow the tradition of Mao, what was that student going to do? Create a dictatorship and carry out a cultural revolution? In context, the answer is sadly "maybe". I would refer you to the actions of the Shining Path insurgents as just one example. These self-described Maoists are engaged in what can only be called terrorism, though it is not international terrorism of the sort that warrants US intervention.
Even if what was described in the article really happened - and I do think that is a big if, because this certainly sets off my fishy-smell detector - we are only getting half of the story. If there was a known association between this student and a Maoist insurgent group, it would at least place what happened in some kind of context, though it certainly does not justify it.
Since I'm a sucker for getting wildly misread on Slashdot, I'll throw in the side (and snide) comment that I do not think the student in question should have been able to get this book from a public university library, because I don't think there should have been any State university for him to check out the book from.:-)
Tell me, sir, where I chose any sort of repression? I only remarked that the sort of statement that the professor made sounds like it comes from a classic academic bubble. I also think that calling any political or philosophical book harmless is tantamount to calling it useless.
Why does this sound like the ultimate "the dog ate my homework" excuse? Why does the student fear putting his name forward, in the age when anyone who has been the subject of percieved executive overreach complains loudly to the press about it? I need a little more evidence before I take this for granted.
On another note, the professor who noted that "Mao Tse-Tung is completely harmless." is living in some kind of bubble. Mao killed many people and his disastrous policies almost certainly resulted in the starvation of many millions. I would recommend this book for those who have not read enough of the real history behind the cultural revolution.
Emacs is still the best editor for programming in Common Lisp. With SLIME, Emacs connects to a Common Lisp compiler over a socket and allows interactive evaluation, debugging, introspection, and more. I don't know how I ever programmed without being able to C-c I * and inspect an arbitrary object, see its slots, etc.
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Given that I can buy totally unmolested WAVs from Beatport, what's the point? I find it hard to believe that there are vinyl purists who want MP3s, or that those who would work with an MP3 wouldn't rather deal with a master-quality WAV which can be manipulated even more.
Lossy compression is just as insidious as DRM when the bandwidth for CD-quality uncompressed audio is available.
And to those who say you can't hear the difference, if you slow the track down by 50%, you can. If you don't know why you would do that, ask a DJ.
Yes; I have similar problems when I try to play a DVD over DVI-out to my HDTV from my XP MCE machine. When I use a component connection, everything works swimmingly.
I know about the protected content output path for "premium" content, but AFAICT no such content exists today, and it's unlikely that you'd be able to play it at all under XP. I haven't seen Vista do anything more to cripple regular DVD playing than XP already did.
This is a great idea. Now if only they made toys for adults like that...
Don't forget Haiku, the free BeOS reimplementation. What's been done so far is impressive for the number of developers working on it; if a few more developers joined the progress, I (personally, IMHO) think R1 could happen this year.
Assuming that the patent would actually be held by Johns Hopkins, I think this is a great idea. The revenue generated by this patent will fund research and education at a leading medical school, which will undoubtedly contribute to advances in other areas. Money is made in all areas of the medical process, and income from this is ordinarily subject to taxation, which just goes into the government's general coffers. By patenting these ideas, universities ensure that some of this money goes back into the processes that created the idea in the first place, instead of a Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska or a mismanaged war in Iraq...
This argument sounds quite similar to the rhetoric of those pushing for more intervention in peering under the guise of "Net Neutrality", doesn't it?
I had two networks to choose from: Comcast cable modem, and a supposedly "slower" SBC DSL connection. I ended up using the DSL as Amazon went unreachable on the cable modem at 5 till 1 (CST). At 1:00, Amazon was taking 10-20 seconds to load, but it did load. I clicked, answered a simple math question ("what's 18 + 19" IIRC), and it gave me the "you've got it" page.
I'm still shocked I got it, especially since I'm in Chicago, not on the west coast.
Autism is not a binary condition. There is a range of disorders called Autism Spectrum Disorders that range from Asperger's Syndrome to the low-functioning Autism that you cover.
Each of these manifests itself differently. Having an Autism Spectrum Disorder implies some level of impairment in social functioning, but where you are on the spectrum indicates how much desire you have to engage in social interactions at all.
I think the greater knowledge of the spectrum disorders in the medical community has led to the greater incidence of diagnosis. It may also be the case that the incidence of autism is increasing, though I would be surprised if TV was the cause. Simon Baron Cohen (he's Sascha's cousin) has theorized that Autism represents an extremely systematizing mind, and that kind of mind (in my experience) tends to shy away from the disordered chaos of TV and towards systems and obsessions (trains, cars, computers, etc.)
If a diagnosis is provided with the intent of helping the child learn how to cope with social situations better, I don't see anything wrong with it. While I am opposed to the search for a "cure" for a spectrum disorder that also includes a number of functioning, intelligent, and unique individuals, I feel that social interaction strategies can be learned and applied to help children with autism learn to communicate and function better. If our goal is to help each child (or adult) to learn how to accomplish the things they want to do, then I don't see how greater awareness is a problem, even if there is some amount of bandwagoning that goes on.
This raises an interesting question: now that Amazon is in the business of competing with physical DVD purchases, will Amazon prices for DVDs rise until it's cheaper to buy via UnBox?
It's dynamically typed. It's got a presentation-based user interface ala CLIM from Common Lisp, which itself was derived from the user interface of the Symbolics Lisp machines. It's native-compiled, not just threaded.
This is NOT the first time Sony has stepped right over the line in their PSP advertising.
Here in the Chicago suburbs, that's what a retired teacher makes for doing nothing. The salary for an experienced teacher can push $100k, and the pension is 75% of your final pay.
It's time to do away with teacher pensions and give them 401(k)s like the rest of us. I see no point to the state putting itself on the hook for future pension liabilities against future taxpayers. We're better off burdening future taxpayers as little as possible.
I used to use one of those. Nowadays I'm using the Fossil Abacus Wrist PDA, which will do everything you described as it's just a PalmOS 4.1 USB device. And it runs a lot more software, too!
This is just the "dishonorable mentions" list, though, which seems to be more made up of products whose concept was cool but flopped in the marketplace.
What a fucking idiot. If you spelled "Nintendo" correctly on both sites, you might have a more useful comparison. These results look useful enough to me.
There was, but you're still going senile. The product that NeXT sold was called OpenStep for Windows. At that time, the old NeXTSTEP system was renamed to OpenSTEP (note the difference in caps!) and updated for the new API. There was also OpenStep for Solaris, which you can still find floating around for download - no SDK, though.
OpenStep for Windows lived on for a long time as part of WebObjects. I don't think it still exists anymore, though.
Thanks for the idea! I'm sure that the legions of people who are hard at work on getting Windows to boot on the iMac have never thought of this before.
Mea culpa.
Um, why would you guess that? I run the full opera on a 200MHz TI OMAP processor on my Windows Mobile Smartphone. That processor is not much faster than the DS's ARM7 processor. I also use NetFront on a 132MHz Sony ARM processor in my Clie. The ARM7 in the DS can handle running a full web browser.
If they really optimize it, they can use the second, slower ARM5 to uncompress images while the first is loading the page. This is a common trick on multiprocessor systems already.
3. Run a series of ever-changing anonymous proxies to provide the average Chinese citizen with unfiltered internet access, even if it means breaking Chinese law - but don't do any business inside of China. Why does Google have an obligation to follow Chinese law, anyway? There are plenty of ways of increasing the availability of information inside China that don't involve complying with the filters.
Um, OK. Formalising psychological processes in a 6-dimensional manifold!
I don't disagree with much of what you wrote. I merely expressed the sentiment that any philosophy which can be said to be harmless must be so vacuous as to be worthless. Everything has within it some amount of harm as well as its good. I think in Mao's case his philosophy has done more harm than good when carried out - but that does not mean I disapprove of people reading it for themselves. Certainly my own fascination with Chinese propaganda posters would indicate that I don't disagree with this idea.
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I will comment narrowly on one comment of yours: Also, even if the Little Red Book is harmful, as you suggest someone might apparently follow the tradition of Mao, what was that student going to do? Create a dictatorship and carry out a cultural revolution? In context, the answer is sadly "maybe". I would refer you to the actions of the Shining Path insurgents as just one example. These self-described Maoists are engaged in what can only be called terrorism, though it is not international terrorism of the sort that warrants US intervention.
Even if what was described in the article really happened - and I do think that is a big if, because this certainly sets off my fishy-smell detector - we are only getting half of the story. If there was a known association between this student and a Maoist insurgent group, it would at least place what happened in some kind of context, though it certainly does not justify it.
Since I'm a sucker for getting wildly misread on Slashdot, I'll throw in the side (and snide) comment that I do not think the student in question should have been able to get this book from a public university library, because I don't think there should have been any State university for him to check out the book from.
What in the world? I don't even think you can read. None of what you just accused me of doing resembles in any way what I wrote.
Tell me, sir, where I chose any sort of repression? I only remarked that the sort of statement that the professor made sounds like it comes from a classic academic bubble. I also think that calling any political or philosophical book harmless is tantamount to calling it useless.
Why does this sound like the ultimate "the dog ate my homework" excuse? Why does the student fear putting his name forward, in the age when anyone who has been the subject of percieved executive overreach complains loudly to the press about it? I need a little more evidence before I take this for granted.
On another note, the professor who noted that "Mao Tse-Tung is completely harmless." is living in some kind of bubble. Mao killed many people and his disastrous policies almost certainly resulted in the starvation of many millions. I would recommend this book for those who have not read enough of the real history behind the cultural revolution.
Emacs is still the best editor for programming in Common Lisp. With SLIME, Emacs connects to a Common Lisp compiler over a socket and allows interactive evaluation, debugging, introspection, and more. I don't know how I ever programmed without being able to C-c I * and inspect an arbitrary object, see its slots, etc.