Ditto on sounding like a first year metal head. Very interesting, but easy to tell by sound only that it wasn't a virtuoso, or even a journeyman guitarist. Impressive at a technical level, no doubt, but not so much on a sonic level.
Part of what it is missing is natural variation. It's playing is perfectly fine in terms of mathematics, hit note at 0.0 bar, sustain 1.27 seconds, etc. but music is much more complex than that. In terms of humans, what makes a "very good" musician and a "great" musician isn't math, it is taking notes that are not exactly at 0.0 bar, and aren't exactly perfect in any time, but flow together as a balanced unit. The robot had no flow, no continuity, no "soul" (yes, cliche but accurate). This is the same thing as a new guitarists, where they focus on playing a individual notes in a linear fashion, whereas an experienced musician is not thinking about any single note at all, but instead the entire piece, and the notes simply flow almost subconsciously.
Not sure I can explain it very well, but after 40 years of playing, I am confident I can show it with a guitar. On the plus side, it won't be taking any of our jobs any time soon.;)
That is exactly what worries me. Personally, I would like to see someone replace Obama, but she is just a different brand of bad. Guess I will be voting a Libertarian straight ticket again.
Just found a book with that short story on Amazon and already ordered it, 20 cents + $4 shipping. Will rent Surrogates this weekend, sounds very, very good. Thanks!
In a hosts file, don't you normally assign 127.0.0.1 (localhost) instead of 0.0.0.0 (default router/every ip)? Or is it different for phones for some reason?
Putting embargoes and tariffs on China doesn't require control over the citizens, it just requires balls. Right now, politicians are more concerned with keeping Walmart stocked with cheap "stuff".
Of course, compared to what there is to know about the brain, we know practically nothing, and we shoud really minimize any brain hacking until we know more about how it works.
If you have never seen it, the movie "Brainstorm" is worth a watch. While not the greatest movie of all time, it was exactly about brain hacking, but with a headset you wore and all the visuals you saw were from the machine instead of your eyes. You would "see" what was recorded by someone else, as if you were there. Yea, some side effects associated with it. It was Natalie Wood's last movie, with Christopher Walken and Louise Fletcher.
Irony (from the Ancient Greek eirneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary technique, or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity, discordance, or unintended connection with truth)
A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, notably as a form of humor.
Ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist; Socratic irony.
If they want to get on facebook, they can do it with their phones or other devices. This would fix nothing. The problem isn't the device, it is the student.
There is nothing inherent in 3D that should be problematic.
I kinda disagree, based on the fact that technical generated 3D is simply a hack for your brain. It is designed to fool your brain into thinking that things that have no depth, have depth. I can see the possibility that it might not be good for developing eyes.
I remember watching a video in school (late 70s) about a guy who created special headset binoculars that he wore all the time for a week. They made everything upside down, which was humorous and made him have to adjust to walking, etc. He wore them every waking hour. Within a week, his brain had adjusted and flipped the image, so now with the headgear, everything was now right side up. Once he quit using them, obviously, everything was back to upside down, and it took a couple of weeks to get back to "right". This experiment is exactly parallel to what we are talking about: hacking the brain to see something differently. The experiment didn't go as far as exploring long term effects, if any, this had on the adult volunteer. What it did prove, however, is that you can force the brain to change your visual perception in a semi-permanent way. It caused a real physical change in the brain.
Any time you go hacking into things, there are unforeseen consequences. Saying to be cautious and don't let kids use it is likely a good idea until we better understand the possible side effects. It isn't like abstaining from 3D is going to hurt a 4 year old.
Both consoles have at least another year or two of mileage. Only the Wii is technologically outdated, and it's been that way since it was released.
True, the Wii is slow. That would explain why it has sold almost twice as many units as the Xbox 360 or the PS3. Not quite as many as both of those units combined, but not too far away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles That said, the others have bridged the gap on usability. It is time for Wii to bridge the gap when it comes to performance.
Sony can come up with whatever they want however, as I still won't buy anything associated with their company, be it music, hardware, software, etc. I still don't see them as anything but a parasite and they haven't done anything lately to change that perspective. Honestly, I don't feel like I have missed anything, since I do most of my gaming on Steam and a system anyway, using a faster computer and 42" TV for a monitor.
You miss the entire point. An inquiry HAS been made and the worst that they can figure they can hold him for is punishable by a $700 fine. He hasn't been charged with anything else, nor has he even been ACCUSED of anything more. Now explain why he has a $200,000 bond and Interpol involvement. Even if you don't support Wikileaks (and I"m not their biggest fan) anyone with any sense can see something is wrong, and there is much more involved here than meets the eye.
Try actually reading about the case. It is obvious that something is wrong when they go to so much trouble and spend many thousands of dollars in taxpayer money (in the UK and Sweden), over a crime that has a fine equal to a serious traffic ticket.
Keep in mind, having him in Sweden does nothing to help them create the charges against him, since he won't cooperate anyway, so if they were going to charge him with anything more serious than a $700 citation, they would have done so before his bond hearing, to prevent him from getting a bond. Seriously, you just don't have to look at this very deep to see that something is amiss.
The press keeps throwing around the word "rape", but that isn't what is being accused. Again, he appears to be a bit of a douchebag, but what happens appears to have happened during consensual sex and he continued to say in the apartment for a week after, and she held a party for him. This is NOT the same as what we would normally call "rape", hence why it has a $700 maximum fine. The story is a lot more complicated than that.
And again, a $200,000 bond for a $700 fine is the first clue that something is wrong. The main clue is that the US was the "victim" in the releases, and I'm old enough to know what my govt. has done secretly in the past. Who else would be strong arming Sweden, Cuba?
That is why I have to hold my nose while speaking out for Julian. It is a bitter pill to swallow, surely, and he has caused as much damage as he has good. Kind of like the US military. I think that much of what he has gathered needs to be out there, needs to be made public, but I don't trust Julian to figure out which parts to release and which to sit on. He is on an ego trip. The best thing he could do is release the papers to a number of older, respected journalists who can use some judgement that Julian lacks. Giving it to multiple outlets would guarantee that no one organization will simply bury the story and not release due to political pressure. Also, putting more eyes on the information would make releasing data easier and reduce the chance that the release would cause someone in the field to get killed.
That said, I do NOT like the way several world governments are railroading Julian and creating trumped up charges. The US govt. is leading this hunt, and even though Julian is a bit of a douchebag, he still deserves 100% of the same protections and rights as any other person. If any one person can be exempted from the most basic of rights, then we all can. That is more dangerous than what Julian has released.
Too soon to tell if they have actually contributed (or detracted from) our culture, although it might in time. The movie Bigger, Longer and Uncut was considered to be one of the most important musicals when it was released, as that genre has been slowing fading away. The music score is actually quite impressive.
Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein would be worthwhile examples of our culture and the best works of Mel Brooks, who is arguably one of the more influential film creators in the late 20th century.
Um, if you mean Charo, she is actually an amazingly talented flamenco guitarist.
While you are completely correct in this, however, it is not why she is a celebrity nor what she is primarily known for. I hesitated before including here, but decided she belonged solely because the vast majority of her public appearances have nothing to do with guitar, and many people who know who she is don't even know that she is a very good guitarist. To quote wikipedia: best known for her flamboyant stage presence, her provocative outfits, and her trademark phrase ("cuchi-cuchi").
I knew she played and have heard her many times, it was a judgement call. Basically, if she didn't have a giant rack and yell "cuchi cuchi", you likely would never had heard her play guitar, as she is pretty good, but not good enough to obtain celebrity for that alone. But technically, she *does* have an worthwhile talent, granted.
Are you fucking retarded? Did you even read wtf I wrote? He is twisting the truth but he is smart enough to do it in a vague enough way that his quotes might could be taken either way. I give him credit for being smart enough to twist a phrase (and once in a while, funny) but you are like commodore_bunghole above: too dumb to comprehend and quick to think you know someone based on two comments. Communist? As a Libertarian, I find that accusation quite laughable. Don't need my kind on Slashdot? Fucking hilarious!
Who is telling them that? Last I checked, we were telling our children that they should aspire to be either businessmen or celebrities.
Or a basketball/football/baseball player. Or a rock star, or supermodel, or simply a celebrity, which is even better since you don't have to have any appreciable talent. (Snooki, Paris, Charro, etc.)
I know plenty of people who worked at Dell, (I live in Lexington now). They gave back all the money, but the real loss was all the infrastructure that was built for them. Dell never did live up to their promises, instead moving everything to Mexico.
The data center, however, doesn't have all that infrastructure paid for by tax dollars, so it is actually a much lower risk for taxpayers. It is also a bit less likely to get moved simply because they didn't put it here because of cheap labor, but because of location and cheap power due to all the excess from dams and McGuire, now that all the other manufacturing has disappeared. Neither of those is likely to change any time soon.
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Ditto on sounding like a first year metal head. Very interesting, but easy to tell by sound only that it wasn't a virtuoso, or even a journeyman guitarist. Impressive at a technical level, no doubt, but not so much on a sonic level.
Part of what it is missing is natural variation. It's playing is perfectly fine in terms of mathematics, hit note at 0.0 bar, sustain 1.27 seconds, etc. but music is much more complex than that. In terms of humans, what makes a "very good" musician and a "great" musician isn't math, it is taking notes that are not exactly at 0.0 bar, and aren't exactly perfect in any time, but flow together as a balanced unit. The robot had no flow, no continuity, no "soul" (yes, cliche but accurate). This is the same thing as a new guitarists, where they focus on playing a individual notes in a linear fashion, whereas an experienced musician is not thinking about any single note at all, but instead the entire piece, and the notes simply flow almost subconsciously.
Not sure I can explain it very well, but after 40 years of playing, I am confident I can show it with a guitar. On the plus side, it won't be taking any of our jobs any time soon. ;)
That is exactly what worries me. Personally, I would like to see someone replace Obama, but she is just a different brand of bad. Guess I will be voting a Libertarian straight ticket again.
Speaking on behalf of everyone here, you are an idiot.
Just found a book with that short story on Amazon and already ordered it, 20 cents + $4 shipping. Will rent Surrogates this weekend, sounds very, very good. Thanks!
Um, what if you are Chinese?
Sucks to be you.
In a hosts file, don't you normally assign 127.0.0.1 (localhost) instead of 0.0.0.0 (default router/every ip)? Or is it different for phones for some reason?
Putting embargoes and tariffs on China doesn't require control over the citizens, it just requires balls. Right now, politicians are more concerned with keeping Walmart stocked with cheap "stuff".
Of course, compared to what there is to know about the brain, we know practically nothing, and we shoud really minimize any brain hacking until we know more about how it works.
If you have never seen it, the movie "Brainstorm" is worth a watch. While not the greatest movie of all time, it was exactly about brain hacking, but with a headset you wore and all the visuals you saw were from the machine instead of your eyes. You would "see" what was recorded by someone else, as if you were there. Yea, some side effects associated with it. It was Natalie Wood's last movie, with Christopher Walken and Louise Fletcher.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/
Irony (from the Ancient Greek eirneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary technique, or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity, discordance, or unintended connection with truth)
A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, notably as a form of humor.
Ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist; Socratic irony.
No.
If they want to get on facebook, they can do it with their phones or other devices. This would fix nothing. The problem isn't the device, it is the student.
There is nothing inherent in 3D that should be problematic.
I kinda disagree, based on the fact that technical generated 3D is simply a hack for your brain. It is designed to fool your brain into thinking that things that have no depth, have depth. I can see the possibility that it might not be good for developing eyes.
I remember watching a video in school (late 70s) about a guy who created special headset binoculars that he wore all the time for a week. They made everything upside down, which was humorous and made him have to adjust to walking, etc. He wore them every waking hour. Within a week, his brain had adjusted and flipped the image, so now with the headgear, everything was now right side up. Once he quit using them, obviously, everything was back to upside down, and it took a couple of weeks to get back to "right". This experiment is exactly parallel to what we are talking about: hacking the brain to see something differently. The experiment didn't go as far as exploring long term effects, if any, this had on the adult volunteer. What it did prove, however, is that you can force the brain to change your visual perception in a semi-permanent way. It caused a real physical change in the brain.
Any time you go hacking into things, there are unforeseen consequences. Saying to be cautious and don't let kids use it is likely a good idea until we better understand the possible side effects. It isn't like abstaining from 3D is going to hurt a 4 year old.
Eh? That doesn't make any sense.
It is called being ironic. The rest of the comment should have made that clear. They focused on usability rather than raw power, etc.
Both consoles have at least another year or two of mileage. Only the Wii is technologically outdated, and it's been that way since it was released.
True, the Wii is slow. That would explain why it has sold almost twice as many units as the Xbox 360 or the PS3. Not quite as many as both of those units combined, but not too far away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles That said, the others have bridged the gap on usability. It is time for Wii to bridge the gap when it comes to performance.
Sony can come up with whatever they want however, as I still won't buy anything associated with their company, be it music, hardware, software, etc. I still don't see them as anything but a parasite and they haven't done anything lately to change that perspective. Honestly, I don't feel like I have missed anything, since I do most of my gaming on Steam and a system anyway, using a faster computer and 42" TV for a monitor.
You miss the entire point. An inquiry HAS been made and the worst that they can figure they can hold him for is punishable by a $700 fine. He hasn't been charged with anything else, nor has he even been ACCUSED of anything more. Now explain why he has a $200,000 bond and Interpol involvement. Even if you don't support Wikileaks (and I"m not their biggest fan) anyone with any sense can see something is wrong, and there is much more involved here than meets the eye.
Try actually reading about the case. It is obvious that something is wrong when they go to so much trouble and spend many thousands of dollars in taxpayer money (in the UK and Sweden), over a crime that has a fine equal to a serious traffic ticket.
Keep in mind, having him in Sweden does nothing to help them create the charges against him, since he won't cooperate anyway, so if they were going to charge him with anything more serious than a $700 citation, they would have done so before his bond hearing, to prevent him from getting a bond. Seriously, you just don't have to look at this very deep to see that something is amiss.
The press keeps throwing around the word "rape", but that isn't what is being accused. Again, he appears to be a bit of a douchebag, but what happens appears to have happened during consensual sex and he continued to say in the apartment for a week after, and she held a party for him. This is NOT the same as what we would normally call "rape", hence why it has a $700 maximum fine. The story is a lot more complicated than that.
Here is a decent write up: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden
And again, a $200,000 bond for a $700 fine is the first clue that something is wrong. The main clue is that the US was the "victim" in the releases, and I'm old enough to know what my govt. has done secretly in the past. Who else would be strong arming Sweden, Cuba?
That is why I have to hold my nose while speaking out for Julian. It is a bitter pill to swallow, surely, and he has caused as much damage as he has good. Kind of like the US military. I think that much of what he has gathered needs to be out there, needs to be made public, but I don't trust Julian to figure out which parts to release and which to sit on. He is on an ego trip. The best thing he could do is release the papers to a number of older, respected journalists who can use some judgement that Julian lacks. Giving it to multiple outlets would guarantee that no one organization will simply bury the story and not release due to political pressure. Also, putting more eyes on the information would make releasing data easier and reduce the chance that the release would cause someone in the field to get killed.
That said, I do NOT like the way several world governments are railroading Julian and creating trumped up charges. The US govt. is leading this hunt, and even though Julian is a bit of a douchebag, he still deserves 100% of the same protections and rights as any other person. If any one person can be exempted from the most basic of rights, then we all can. That is more dangerous than what Julian has released.
Ah, good link, and actually a pretty good list of flicks for movie night. None you would expect to see on MST3K.
Too soon to tell if they have actually contributed (or detracted from) our culture, although it might in time. The movie Bigger, Longer and Uncut was considered to be one of the most important musicals when it was released, as that genre has been slowing fading away. The music score is actually quite impressive.
Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein would be worthwhile examples of our culture and the best works of Mel Brooks, who is arguably one of the more influential film creators in the late 20th century.
Um, if you mean Charo, she is actually an amazingly talented flamenco guitarist.
While you are completely correct in this, however, it is not why she is a celebrity nor what she is primarily known for. I hesitated before including here, but decided she belonged solely because the vast majority of her public appearances have nothing to do with guitar, and many people who know who she is don't even know that she is a very good guitarist. To quote wikipedia: best known for her flamboyant stage presence, her provocative outfits, and her trademark phrase ("cuchi-cuchi").
I knew she played and have heard her many times, it was a judgement call. Basically, if she didn't have a giant rack and yell "cuchi cuchi", you likely would never had heard her play guitar, as she is pretty good, but not good enough to obtain celebrity for that alone. But technically, she *does* have an worthwhile talent, granted.
My bad, one too many r's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charo
I just wanted to include someone not very current.
Are you fucking retarded? Did you even read wtf I wrote? He is twisting the truth but he is smart enough to do it in a vague enough way that his quotes might could be taken either way. I give him credit for being smart enough to twist a phrase (and once in a while, funny) but you are like commodore_bunghole above: too dumb to comprehend and quick to think you know someone based on two comments. Communist? As a Libertarian, I find that accusation quite laughable. Don't need my kind on Slashdot? Fucking hilarious!
Who is telling them that? Last I checked, we were telling our children that they should aspire to be either businessmen or celebrities.
Or a basketball/football/baseball player. Or a rock star, or supermodel, or simply a celebrity, which is even better since you don't have to have any appreciable talent. (Snooki, Paris, Charro, etc.)
But at least you're not a bitter person.
I know plenty of people who worked at Dell, (I live in Lexington now). They gave back all the money, but the real loss was all the infrastructure that was built for them. Dell never did live up to their promises, instead moving everything to Mexico.
The data center, however, doesn't have all that infrastructure paid for by tax dollars, so it is actually a much lower risk for taxpayers. It is also a bit less likely to get moved simply because they didn't put it here because of cheap labor, but because of location and cheap power due to all the excess from dams and McGuire, now that all the other manufacturing has disappeared. Neither of those is likely to change any time soon.