People are sensitive about disease and associations. Here in the united states, people are really touchy about sexual diseases (sex is unclean?)
Think about it... How many people have told you about their cancer? And how many about having herpes?
If you look at it as an issue with mental association, you can see why having 'the dirty pig disease' might be a problem in Muslim countries.
Of course, there is a difference between the naming of sexual diseases and Pig Flu... Sexual deseases are considered shameful for their nature. Pig Flu might be considered shameful because of an association with it's name.
If you rename AIDS to SDIAs, it'll still be considered shameful to have. If you rename 'Pig Flu' to H1N1, it'll probably make a lot of people more comfortable.
Unless the stereos are right on top of each other, they will have synchronization issues regardless.
Sound only travels through the air at ~750 miles per hour. If the boom boxes are 600 feet apart, there will be a half second of lag time between when you hear a note from your box, and a note from the guy to your left.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that if you've created Slashdot trolling jobs for 14 people, you may not be stimulating the economy as much as you hope.
(To the mods: the parent post has appeared in several other slashdot discussions and is a spam/troll.)
In my experience, the issue isn't that most people can't recognize the difference between good sound and bad sound; the issue is that most people have never even heard good sound to begin with.
Sure... We go to the theater and hear *loud* sound, and then get it into our heads that a base line capable of collapsing a lung means the equipment is of good quality.
Frankly, these days even if you have good equipment, the source material is so bad that you can't actually tell.
And if she didn't get the welfare money, what other sources of money are available?
She could get a job.
She could also become a prostitute. She could become a thief. She could deal drugs. She could also have her kids steal, whore, and deal (It's happened.)
What would that teach her children?
A welfare check won't solve her problems, but I'm not so sure that cutting her off would be any better for her, her children, or society in general. Better solutions are needed.
People will go to ridiculous lengths to avoid taking personal responsibility anymore it seems.
Of course it can't be the stupid person's fault..it has to be that evil Blackberry possessing their soul.
When you don't have the ability to be contacted by email 24/7, people don't tend to expect you to be available 24/7.
Beyond that, some people have a hard time removing their brain from work mode. Personally, I don't want to think about work until I go in the next day. Having a pager handy kind of forces the issue.
Devils advocate: the government can subsidize low cost services using tax dollars. For instance, where I grew up passenger fairs accounted for one dollar out of every three spent on our local bus system.
With that said, AFAIK, the cable companies also receive tax subsidies, and it's a simple enough prospect to show whether a government service is making money selling it's products (like the US postal service) or spending tax dollars.
It's also important to consider the value of the services financed through tax dollars. The local bus service keeps a lot of drunk people off the road. Infrastructure often leads to economic growth (see: national freeway system.)
I think I'll pass. Not that I didn't enjoed Fallout 3, simply Im getting bored of those RPG games in which the main plot is about 10-20 hours long, and the subplots about 200.
That's pretty much the essence of Fallout 2. Completing the main story in the intended order could easily chew up 80 hours of play time, but it was perfectly possible to run south to San Francisco, raid Navarro, set off with the tanker, and kill Horrigan in a few hours of play time.
The open ended morally ambiguous nature of the game is what made Fallout stand out compared to all the JRPGs I've played.
You don't personally have to have access to high speed rail in order to see it's benefit. Every person who rides the rail into St. Louis takes one more car out of your way, making the drive that much easier.
This is a bad move in my opinion and will only encourage piracy. If you do the math, you'll realize that for someone to legally acquire say, 20GB worth of music (3MB avg.) at $1.00 per song, it would cost nearly $7,000. The thing is that as time goes on, hard drives are only going to be getting bigger and cheaper. Additionally as fast broadband becomes even more widespread it will mean that illegal downloading will become easier and the price factor with eventually decrease to nothing.
And how much would it cost if legally purchased on CD? Is Apple obligated to undercut the price of other distribution methods? If they cut their price in half, would they really sell twice as much music..?
-Other people didn't like the fact that we in IT were generally smarter than them. I got one woman who liked making up big words to sound more intelligent than she was. On one occasion, she said that her screen was, "tricating." I had to ask her a few times to repeat the word to understand it. After I found out that she meant that the column size for her green screen console was wrong, causing the lines to wrap improperly, I told her I had never heard of that word before. "Oh, you're young," she said, "that's why you don't know it." Yeah, neither did Merriam and Webster, and they're pretty old, too.
Perhaps she meant "Truncating?" Wrong word, improper usage, but at least it makes some sense...
Fortunately, there are alternatives to modern CDs. Super audio CDs and DVD Audio are mastered, and the specifications required to be SACD or DVDA compliant help to fight some of the more egregious mastering practices seen on todays CDs.
The bad news is that most of the people with SACD players and sound equipment good enough to hear the difference don't tend to enjoy the same kind of music I do. Sure, it's good to listen to last generation's rock greats... But I'm hoping that in another 10 or 20 years, I'll finally be able to listen to Tool on SACD.
Biometrics can't be used as a form of positive identification alone, but it can reduce the pool of people who are capable of attacking your other layers of authentication.
Think of it like having a username... If someone doesn't know your username, it's harder for them to attack you (E.g. sending you spam.) Your username can't be revoked if compromised, but it doesn't have to be... The password serves that function.
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No! The issue was that someone with a political agenda wanted him removed from office. Everything else was an excuse.
If the same effort had been put into keeping a reign on bush, we'd probably be a lot better off.
Personally... If I'm being forced to patch a rusty old bucket, I'd rather start with the one that 85% less holes...
People are sensitive about disease and associations. Here in the united states, people are really touchy about sexual diseases (sex is unclean?)
Think about it... How many people have told you about their cancer? And how many about having herpes?
If you look at it as an issue with mental association, you can see why having 'the dirty pig disease' might be a problem in Muslim countries.
Of course, there is a difference between the naming of sexual diseases and Pig Flu... Sexual deseases are considered shameful for their nature. Pig Flu might be considered shameful because of an association with it's name.
If you rename AIDS to SDIAs, it'll still be considered shameful to have. If you rename 'Pig Flu' to H1N1, it'll probably make a lot of people more comfortable.
If I'm holding one of the boom boxes, I pretty much have to be standing on the arc.
Unless the stereos are right on top of each other, they will have synchronization issues regardless.
Sound only travels through the air at ~750 miles per hour. If the boom boxes are 600 feet apart, there will be a half second of lag time between when you hear a note from your box, and a note from the guy to your left.
Great point. A 500Hz frequency cutoff would make this technology ineffective for reproducing a lot of common instruments, including the human voice.
The comment was for my own personal amusement. If the troll enjoyed it, good for him.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that if you've created Slashdot trolling jobs for 14 people, you may not be stimulating the economy as much as you hope.
(To the mods: the parent post has appeared in several other slashdot discussions and is a spam/troll.)
Don't think of it as dieing in a terrorist attack. Think of it as not dieing of a heart attack at age 90.
In my experience, the issue isn't that most people can't recognize the difference between good sound and bad sound; the issue is that most people have never even heard good sound to begin with.
Sure... We go to the theater and hear *loud* sound, and then get it into our heads that a base line capable of collapsing a lung means the equipment is of good quality.
Frankly, these days even if you have good equipment, the source material is so bad that you can't actually tell.
The relevant question is: will these post-mortem emails have an unsubscribe link?
And if she didn't get the welfare money, what other sources of money are available?
She could get a job.
She could also become a prostitute. She could become a thief. She could deal drugs. She could also have her kids steal, whore, and deal (It's happened.)
What would that teach her children?
A welfare check won't solve her problems, but I'm not so sure that cutting her off would be any better for her, her children, or society in general. Better solutions are needed.
When you don't have the ability to be contacted by email 24/7, people don't tend to expect you to be available 24/7.
Beyond that, some people have a hard time removing their brain from work mode. Personally, I don't want to think about work until I go in the next day. Having a pager handy kind of forces the issue.
Devils advocate: the government can subsidize low cost services using tax dollars. For instance, where I grew up passenger fairs accounted for one dollar out of every three spent on our local bus system.
With that said, AFAIK, the cable companies also receive tax subsidies, and it's a simple enough prospect to show whether a government service is making money selling it's products (like the US postal service) or spending tax dollars.
It's also important to consider the value of the services financed through tax dollars. The local bus service keeps a lot of drunk people off the road. Infrastructure often leads to economic growth (see: national freeway system.)
Out of curiosity, did you play through Fallout 2?
That's pretty much the essence of Fallout 2. Completing the main story in the intended order could easily chew up 80 hours of play time, but it was perfectly possible to run south to San Francisco, raid Navarro, set off with the tanker, and kill Horrigan in a few hours of play time.
The open ended morally ambiguous nature of the game is what made Fallout stand out compared to all the JRPGs I've played.
You don't personally have to have access to high speed rail in order to see it's benefit. Every person who rides the rail into St. Louis takes one more car out of your way, making the drive that much easier.
Comment whoring for +1 funny mods is like pimping out your girlfriend for monopoly money.
And how much would it cost if legally purchased on CD? Is Apple obligated to undercut the price of other distribution methods? If they cut their price in half, would they really sell twice as much music..?
Perhaps she meant "Truncating?" Wrong word, improper usage, but at least it makes some sense...
We tried to deal with them. It didn't work out so well.
Hell, we almost got a bridge in Hungary named after Colbert.
He or she won't need to get off. That was already taken care of in an empty room.
Fortunately, there are alternatives to modern CDs. Super audio CDs and DVD Audio are mastered, and the specifications required to be SACD or DVDA compliant help to fight some of the more egregious mastering practices seen on todays CDs.
The bad news is that most of the people with SACD players and sound equipment good enough to hear the difference don't tend to enjoy the same kind of music I do. Sure, it's good to listen to last generation's rock greats... But I'm hoping that in another 10 or 20 years, I'll finally be able to listen to Tool on SACD.
Biometrics can't be used as a form of positive identification alone, but it can reduce the pool of people who are capable of attacking your other layers of authentication.
Think of it like having a username... If someone doesn't know your username, it's harder for them to attack you (E.g. sending you spam.) Your username can't be revoked if compromised, but it doesn't have to be... The password serves that function.