Sophmoric is how most discussions about energy alternatives wind up, because thinking isn't global... or informed... or dispassionate... enough. Hey: attitude doesn't solve problems, problem-solving solves problems.
How much energy and pollution is created in the manufacturing of batteries and their disposal? Somebody has to sit down and calculate the total burden created by replacing all of the existing technology, and the new problems that are created by doing so. That's a decidedly unsophomoric task... if either of you care to undertake it.
I don't see any need to namecall, but I guess that's just part of the joy of slashdot culture. In that regard, I see some misspellings you didn't... in your haste to ridicule rather than compliment someone's valid idea with some missing considerations. For your sake, I hope you don't intend to carry such an attitude into the real world.
I have to agree with you 'Tractor', the state of music/audio software these days would be greatly improved by better open-source projects. I recently moved to Logic reluctantly; these commercial progs are very slow to see fixes done, and the cobbling and hobbling of features is a sign of incurable disease. Meanwhile the costs continue without apparent limit.
Fortunately, our platforms are getting 'cross' enough these days that a great open-source sequencer might actually come to pass. Audacity is a nice beginning, and the open-source plugs are getting better and better. With Ubuntu getting so many raves, it may be just a few years.
Alas, alack, them poor folk what cain't spell. I suppose now that means no metrick system eyether. What a shame, what a shame. And here I was born with ten fingers. And ten toes. Maybe wee can have a ten letter alpobet. Yes please sir may I have another.
I've always suspected that the main point of "family values" and all of these exhortations to "think of the children" are just scare tactics to turn the world into the largest nursery in history, where you cannot even have an adult conversation, and where kids aren't even allowed to play unsupervised.
Roger that. Rod Serling based more than one episode of Twilight Zone on a similar premise. The climate of fear angle has a similar purpose (one exploited by organized religion for THOUSANDS of years) - to keep people dependent on authorities (hence TFYQA), and so distracted that they can't hear their inner voice saying over and over: WAKE UP!
In many ways it's great to be a child. The trouble with being a child in a disfunctional family is that it's only later that you rudely discover that you got the big, big shaft.
Anyone using wireless for communication who has an "expectation of privacy" is, and always has been, just fooling themselves... unless they themselves have played an intelligent part in the careful design of the equipment to avoid interception. Even that will only work for a short... sometimes a very short... time if someone with time and expertise is interested in what they're saying.
Privacy is a much more desirable-to-society
Tell that to your government... they don't seem to have heard that message.
Now, if someone could do the volume problem so we could estimate relative mass, I wouldn't have to try to remember how to do cubes on my sliderule. (Damn, cube of 3, cube of 15...)
My sliderule which is made of bamboo, I might add, not your shitty plastic substitute. No, alas, it's not a Versalog.
What happened to everyone having freedoms and taking personal responsibility for exercising them in an ethical way?
And where in the world was that ever the case? You have some who will take responsibility, and some who won't.
Sorry about your friend who was responsible, yet lost his hobby. Every school teacher learns not to punish the whole class for the behavior of one student. Government, being the amoeba that it is, hasn't evolved into that kind of wisdom.
Someone who does not know how to create a problem is no problem.
Tell that to Dick Feynmann. And it's precisely the Feynmanns that worry them so much. They don't need the book.
Of course you recognize that it's absurd to suggest that this whole discussion is rigged to jibe "an unpopular administration", although certainly the admin has created a generation of overstressed authorities who see monsters under every bed... certainly exacerbating an attitude toward experiment that's also fostered by belief-based zealots.
The discussion is about the loss of educational opportunity, and about the loss of liberties entailed in multiple causes. Of course we all need the freedom to experiment, something "Captain Obvious" to anyone who remembers being a child.
My HS chemistry teacher also showed us "explosive crystals" that were so unstable that they responded to a feather touch. But he didn't show us how to make them. I learned how they were made in college, and when I became a teacher myself I also didn't show how to make them.
Forcing students to do some research if they're interested is the responsible way to keep the lazy from maiming or killing themselves. Unfortunately, many research texts have disappeared from library shelves since the 60s.
This country is being destroyed with the kind of stealth you'd expect from an enemy that wants to achieve destruction without waking the population. Only it's not a group of aliens achieving this destruction, it's a group of ignorami being directed by clever malevolence.
... we would be using it right now."
Which I think is his whole point... that we are.
Of course we may not be 'sitting' on technology with impact of the scope you mention. And of course, there may be strategic reasons it's not being fully employed. Your skepticism isn't based on adequate consideration, so fails to be admirable....
OK, when physics tells us about the creation of energy out of a vacuum, that's ok... Even a whole universe out of nothing... no problem... but 'free energy', thats crackpot?
It would be SO aggravating if someone knew something you didn't, eh?
When I majored in science in college, I learned that science cannot "prove" anything. That while more and more evidence can accumulate in favor of a theory, it always remains a "theory". Because it is and will always be subject to revision in the light of new evidence.
This is not a disadvantage of science, it's the primary advantage of science. There is always room for doubt, and all ideas are subject to agreement with the evidence.
This advantage is why the human condition has improved so rapidly, in so many ways, since scientific thinking -- and the reliable technology it made possible -- became prevalent.
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Sophmoric is how most discussions about energy alternatives wind up, because thinking isn't global ... or informed ... or dispassionate ... enough. Hey: attitude doesn't solve problems, problem-solving solves problems.
... if either of you care to undertake it.
... in your haste to ridicule rather than compliment someone's valid idea with some missing considerations. For your sake, I hope you don't intend to carry such an attitude into the real world.
How much energy and pollution is created in the manufacturing of batteries and their disposal? Somebody has to sit down and calculate the total burden created by replacing all of the existing technology, and the new problems that are created by doing so. That's a decidedly unsophomoric task
I don't see any need to namecall, but I guess that's just part of the joy of slashdot culture. In that regard, I see some misspellings you didn't
I don't harbor any suspicions that fads will stop being popular ... but why anyone would want to use a brand-new language to do something serious???
"Faster". Uh-huh. That's sort of like saying that nuclear power is clean.
Franklin said haste makes waste. Programming is proof of that. Good code is a joy forever. Junk bonds earned their name.
A pox on Gibson 'til the end of time. And, for that matter, on the guy that sold to Gibson in the first place.
Fortunately, our platforms are getting 'cross' enough these days that a great open-source sequencer might actually come to pass. Audacity is a nice beginning, and the open-source plugs are getting better and better. With Ubuntu getting so many raves, it may be just a few years.
Alas, alack, them poor folk what cain't spell. I suppose now that means no metrick system eyether. What a shame, what a shame. And here I was born with ten fingers. And ten toes. Maybe wee can have a ten letter alpobet. Yes please sir may I have another.
I've always suspected that the main point of "family values" and all of these exhortations to "think of the children" are just scare tactics to turn the world into the largest nursery in history, where you cannot even have an adult conversation, and where kids aren't even allowed to play unsupervised.
Roger that. Rod Serling based more than one episode of Twilight Zone on a similar premise. The climate of fear angle has a similar purpose (one exploited by organized religion for THOUSANDS of years) - to keep people dependent on authorities (hence TFYQA), and so distracted that they can't hear their inner voice saying over and over: WAKE UP!
In many ways it's great to be a child. The trouble with being a child in a disfunctional family is that it's only later that you rudely discover that you got the big, big shaft.
People have an expectation of privacy.
... unless they themselves have played an intelligent part in the careful design of the equipment to avoid interception. Even that will only work for a short ... sometimes a very short ... time if someone with time and expertise is interested in what they're saying.
... they don't seem to have heard that message.
Anyone using wireless for communication who has an "expectation of privacy" is, and always has been, just fooling themselves
Privacy is a much more desirable-to-society
Tell that to your government
Now, if someone could do the volume problem so we could estimate relative mass, I wouldn't have to try to remember how to do cubes on my sliderule. (Damn, cube of 3, cube of 15...)
My sliderule which is made of bamboo, I might add, not your shitty plastic substitute. No, alas, it's not a Versalog.
Amateur chemists need to understand that there is some potential risk in what they do.
There's risk in anything we do. The only way to eliminate risk is to eliminate life itself. Which may be the solution we're working towards.
What happened to everyone having freedoms and taking personal responsibility for exercising them in an ethical way?
And where in the world was that ever the case? You have some who will take responsibility, and some who won't.
Sorry about your friend who was responsible, yet lost his hobby. Every school teacher learns not to punish the whole class for the behavior of one student. Government, being the amoeba that it is, hasn't evolved into that kind of wisdom.
I'd say that's not exactly limiting my freedoms, but protecting my life.
Which brings up the question of what makes mere survival worth protecting.
Someone who does not know how to create a problem is no problem. Tell that to Dick Feynmann. And it's precisely the Feynmanns that worry them so much. They don't need the book.
Of course you recognize that it's absurd to suggest that this whole discussion is rigged to jibe "an unpopular administration", although certainly the admin has created a generation of overstressed authorities who see monsters under every bed ... certainly exacerbating an attitude toward experiment that's also fostered by belief-based zealots.
The discussion is about the loss of educational opportunity, and about the loss of liberties entailed in multiple causes. Of course we all need the freedom to experiment, something "Captain Obvious" to anyone who remembers being a child.
My HS chemistry teacher also showed us "explosive crystals" that were so unstable that they responded to a feather touch. But he didn't show us how to make them. I learned how they were made in college, and when I became a teacher myself I also didn't show how to make them.
Forcing students to do some research if they're interested is the responsible way to keep the lazy from maiming or killing themselves. Unfortunately, many research texts have disappeared from library shelves since the 60s.
This country is being destroyed with the kind of stealth you'd expect from an enemy that wants to achieve destruction without waking the population. Only it's not a group of aliens achieving this destruction, it's a group of ignorami being directed by clever malevolence.
Fix it in November or plan to get used to it.
Sad that any American has to have this explained to them. Guess they lost too much school-time exploring creationism.
I just know that I wouldn't want to be that person. "Hey, hey buddy. Ain't you that anti-cancer guy? Hey, wait, kin I get a little help here?"
This sounds EXACTLY like what Tyrell told Roy in Bladerunner !!
You DO know what happened to Tyrell don't you?
... we would be using it right now." Which I think is his whole point ... that we are.
Of course we may not be 'sitting' on technology with impact of the scope you mention. And of course, there may be strategic reasons it's not being fully employed. Your skepticism isn't based on adequate consideration, so fails to be admirable....
OK, when physics tells us about the creation of energy out of a vacuum, that's ok ... Even a whole universe out of nothing ... no problem ... but 'free energy', thats crackpot?
It would be SO aggravating if someone knew something you didn't, eh?
When I majored in science in college, I learned that science cannot "prove" anything. That while more and more evidence can accumulate in favor of a theory, it always remains a "theory". Because it is and will always be subject to revision in the light of new evidence.
This is not a disadvantage of science, it's the primary advantage of science. There is always room for doubt, and all ideas are subject to agreement with the evidence.
This advantage is why the human condition has improved so rapidly, in so many ways, since scientific thinking -- and the reliable technology it made possible -- became prevalent.
After 12 pints I become extremely chatty, witty and insightful, gain the ability to dance like a sex god and
DAMN! No wonder I have a problem, I always gave up after 8 pints !!
Maturity sets in when responsibility is a requirement.
Maturity's set in when leaving home to go fight a war doesn't sound a thrill.
A 22 year old with a handle on debt will be more mature than
Let's wait to see whether the spouse he picks out doesn't spend everything he saved
That's because you don't really appreciate being 18 until you're 35. Ouch, my arthritis!
Oooo, lucky! What I wouldn't give to joost have arthritis again! -- Over 55