They could still make the first page ssl, the one without the frames, which is directly on the www.google.com domain, not a sub-domain. They do the same with news, the results themselves are ssl, but the links on that page are not. There is no technical limitations to doing this, it appears they just haven't gotten around it ot.
It doesn't work for images after trying a few different ways, ie: changing the address to https after an image search, or doing a true https search, to which you don't have the option of choose "images" as a search type. You *can* search videos, news and blogs with SSL but not images at this time. Wonder why?
Soldiers can't be charged with conduct unbecoming for bad behavior unless they are in uniform, so why should it be different?
Yes they can. The standard is much tougher for anything they do while in uniform (on duty or not) but they can be punished for activities they engage in while off duty and out of uniform. Whilst seldom used, it is *technically* illegal for them to be promiscuous, for example, and sleep with a different person every night. (This is part of the moral code they agree to) If they actively take part in a pro-communism rally for example, they can be punished. If they publish stuff on their facebook page about being pro-anarchy, same thing. This is punishment for *ideas* more than actions, but when you sign up, you literally sign a contract agreeing to those terms. And yes, you CAN and WILL be punished if you get a sunburn that is so severe you can't go to work, under Article 108 of the UCMJ for damage to government property.
The military is an exception to virtually every rule in regular society, for good reason. Any military or ex-military person knows this, and is ok with it, understanding it is a necessary function of being in the military. Military members are not without Rights, but those rights are different than for civilians, and overall, the military system tends to be more "color blind" and fair/equal to all, even if a bit harsh at times.
Oft quoted and always applies: "Gentlemen, we are here to protect democracy, not practice it."
Thats pretty funny. CDs and DVDs are still the defacto method of making physical copies for offsite storage, the defacto way to give mom photos of the kids, the easiest way to give a distributor a physical copy of images for their catalog, the best way to make a compilation of music that will play in any car, the preferred way to backup and archive settings of the old computer when you buy a new one so you have a hard copy in case of crash, and it is dirt cheap, fast and easy.
Yes, I use USB hard drives more than 4 years ago (and USB thumb drives much less) but the CD and DVD are still an important part of archiving, copying and sharing information for the majority of people.
Not really. He likely wanted anyone he was talking ABOUT to be dead as well, to not be able to deny or discount his story. Basically, it would seem as if he is simply letting history speak for himself, and before you read this, a several generations have already been exposed to his more public side (his work) before they can judge his opinions and perspectives as a private individual. Most people have opinions that they don't necessarily share to everyone in public, be they about race, religion, politics, etc., particularly if they are not in the majority in these views.
Yet plenty of people have grown up to be great contributors to society and/or greatly successful, even though they had terrible parents or no parents. Dave Thomas is one of my favorite examples, whose mother gave him up at birth, his adoptive mother died when he was 5, forcing his father to move around for work, to begin working at 12 and to drop out of school. Not only did he found Wendy's (one of the most successful fast food chains still) but did tremendous work promoting education, adoption and more.
The inverse is also true, as plenty of violent criminals and less than worthwhile persons came from what would be considered solid, caring families. While the quality of the parents is certainly influential in the outcome of individuals, it is by no means the single factor, nor the most important factor, in whether someone grows up to be a blessing or a curse to society. In the end, it is the individual that decides his own fate.
We now run all critical server functions on remote servers except intranet/file serving, and have only 12 phone lines, so their unlimited phones for $35 ea. mo. and two 5/1.5 for less than $200 each is a good deal for us, replacing pots and two T1s and saving us the 30k yearly. Our local service is AT&T, and we have downtime all the time, and absolute shit service from them. Used to be BellSouth before AT&T bought them out, and back then, the service was great.
You are correct that live sound is far superior to recorded sound in both dynamics and in tone, but once you are there, there is more to the experience than "listening", just as there is more to live performance than playing a predetermined number of notes. Sitting in an audience listening to robots play instruments would just be boring, even if the sound was great. We can't identify with them, we don't want to be like them. When I watched Stevie Ray Vaughn live in concert, the performance *was* better than anything else he recorded, but it was watching him play, watching him reach and push himself, watching some improvisation that happened, that made it a "show". I have played in bands for decades and appreciate the difficulty of what he is playing, and watching someone who was a virtuoso in a genre I appreciate is what made the experience. Robots can't do this.
This is also why I wouldn't ever have gone to a concert by Britney Spear, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Madonna or other pop performers who are more entertainers than musicians, with music that is interesting and well performed but not emotionally moving. It's also why I tend to listen primarily to raw blues, which is as analog as you can get. Robots can be entertainers, perhaps, but not musicians. They can make interesting sounds, but live, they can't move your soul. There is an old expressions that predates George Harrison's use of the phrase "You gotta pay your dues if you want to play the blues.", and it is true. If you want a song performance to break someone's heart, for example, you have to understand what it means to have your heart broken. Blues without empathy is just random notes, like a robot.
There is more to music than playing notes in order, even if they are played very well.
Guess what? I have both and have for over 15 years in this area. Generally speaking, if one goes out, the other does as well. And their support for both is handled by the same office.
I live in Lexington, we don't have a mall, we have "Uptown", complete with "Pigs In The City" as you know. When we want to go to a real mall, we either go to Hanes or Four Seasons (I work N of GSO), or perhaps Concord Mills where they have a Bass Pro shop.;)
Time Warner, at least here in north central NC, has been making a concerted effort for the last several years, and actually has pretty darn good service. Their broadband is almost never down. They almost always show up when they say they will, you can get someone on the phone typically within 5 minutes, and the people on their phone support seem to actually know what they are talking about. Yes, they are still too expensive, but service hasn't really been an issue for me. We are moving our business phones and internet access to their business class service as it will save us around $30k a year, so we will see how that works out, but other than price for home service, I'm pretty happy with them.
I said they are porting Steam to Linux thus they are familiar with platform, and it should be obvious I meant to port the games as well on the different CPU. These older games are infinitely smaller than current games, and *might* be very doable. The engine is pretty much the same for the games, it is the content that is unique (ie: BSP, textures), and platform independent. Keep in mind, that I used to play the original version of HL on a 200MHz box, which had less power than the Pandora, so it could keep up.
And yes, I know that Wine Is Not an Emulator, which is why I talked about ports, not emulation.
You can program a robot to make random changes, but that isn't the same. A human doesn't try to make random errors, they put "expression" into it. My explanation of it being random variations is only a technical and quantifiable outcome. A trained musician could easily tell the robot's playing versus a humans because the variations wouldn't be within the normal expression of music, and would be just random. Just as a good musician can usually pick out digital drums in a mix. No matter how much you randomize, you can get it to sound "similar", but it is always lacking. To the average ear, it is close enough that it doesn't distract and is "good enough".
Music is just more complex than people realize, but then again, what is "popular" today tends to be regurgitated ideas, overly processed, autotuned, overly compressed drivel. Put your XM radio on 74 if you want to hear real music without the processing and automatic error correction.
My explanation was very mechanical as well, explaining the 'physical' differences that can be quantified, but you are correct that emotion is what causes these variations, and emotion is the soul. The variations are only the outcome. Robots will be able to COPY a passionate performance, but never create one, and even then there are nuances that are difficult to capture, kind of like what you miss when you switch from vinyl to CD. Yes, you get clarity and accuracy but at the loss of dynamic range and tones that only analog can capture.
Yea, just like we will have voice recognition software for everything in 5 to 10 years, 10 years ago. Getting it 90% right is easy, getting that last 10% that really makes a difference is exponentially difficult to a trained ear.
That is actually a very good point. The Japanese industrial complex began its fixation with robotics in the 70s with auto manufacturing, and they have invested more resources than anyone, even the USA. While we lead in microchips and general purpose computing, Japanese corporations have been doing great things with that technology + servo motors and software. And as you state, these same companies have very long term outlooks about robotics.
It is easy to say that robots will play an important part of our future. It is difficult to say with certainty what those roles will be, but it is meaningless to hazard a guess if they are not developed to perform a variety of general tasks. Several Japanese companies get this, and have earned the lead they have in the industry.
"Soul" is the minor imperfections that give music character and make the same piece unique from one musician to another. As an example: One of the tricks of using digital drums and making them sound like someone is sitting at a drum set is to mess with the quantizing a bit, randomize the beats by a measure of just a few microseconds so they are in time, but not PERFECT time. You might even put in very tiny errors that don't distract from the rhythm. No real drummer is "perfect", and drums that are perfect sound fake and mechanical, even if the tones are perfectly sampled.
Same with any other instrument, but more so as you not only vary the execution of each note in a micro level, but also the dynamics (how loud, how soft a note is). Good violin playing will be more dynamic, with musician playing more aggressive in "busy" parts, and playing with a lighter touch in other places. It varies more than just the overall volume level, as playing harder and more aggressive on strings changes the entire tonal characteristics (ie: slightly more higher pitched harmonics for starters.) There was other things missing, such as no vibrato in any of the sustained notes (vibrating slightly up and down in pitch on a sustained note to give it depth).
I was a musician for most of my life, playing primarily blues guitar, and while I can *show* you easily, I'm not the best at explaining it. Hope this helps answer a very valid question.
If you don't get modded as flamebait at least twice a year, you aren't participating properly;) We all do that from time to time. What I really respect is the fact that you admit that you simply put your foot in your mouth. Anyone who doesn't do that from time to time is either lying, or they just never take their foot out.
I'm sure Toyota's shareholders are very pleased that their investment is being squandered on stuff like this when they could be solving their safety issues that could potentially bankrupt the company and in turn the shareholders.
So they should instantly cancel all programs that they have been investing in for decades (with the costs associated with cancelling them) until they fix the brake problem? You do realize that Toyota has more than 12 employees and can do more than one thing at a time, right?
I agree that it was real. It had no "soul" to the playing, it was just mechanically accurate (ie: very average high school violinist), but still a stunning engineering feat. The swaying and such did make him look more human. While I don't expect a robot to ever have the finess of a human player (although it can be programmed to COPY a version), it was still very, very impressive.
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They could still make the first page ssl, the one without the frames, which is directly on the www.google.com domain, not a sub-domain. They do the same with news, the results themselves are ssl, but the links on that page are not. There is no technical limitations to doing this, it appears they just haven't gotten around it ot.
It doesn't work for images after trying a few different ways, ie: changing the address to https after an image search, or doing a true https search, to which you don't have the option of choose "images" as a search type. You *can* search videos, news and blogs with SSL but not images at this time. Wonder why?
That's not funny, thats informative. I do exactly that at home and keep flashblock on unless I want to view some homestarrunner or play a flash game.
And 87% of all statistics are bullshit, including this tidbit and your post.
Soldiers can't be charged with conduct unbecoming for bad behavior unless they are in uniform, so why should it be different?
Yes they can. The standard is much tougher for anything they do while in uniform (on duty or not) but they can be punished for activities they engage in while off duty and out of uniform. Whilst seldom used, it is *technically* illegal for them to be promiscuous, for example, and sleep with a different person every night. (This is part of the moral code they agree to) If they actively take part in a pro-communism rally for example, they can be punished. If they publish stuff on their facebook page about being pro-anarchy, same thing. This is punishment for *ideas* more than actions, but when you sign up, you literally sign a contract agreeing to those terms. And yes, you CAN and WILL be punished if you get a sunburn that is so severe you can't go to work, under Article 108 of the UCMJ for damage to government property.
The military is an exception to virtually every rule in regular society, for good reason. Any military or ex-military person knows this, and is ok with it, understanding it is a necessary function of being in the military. Military members are not without Rights, but those rights are different than for civilians, and overall, the military system tends to be more "color blind" and fair/equal to all, even if a bit harsh at times.
Oft quoted and always applies: "Gentlemen, we are here to protect democracy, not practice it."
Thats pretty funny. CDs and DVDs are still the defacto method of making physical copies for offsite storage, the defacto way to give mom photos of the kids, the easiest way to give a distributor a physical copy of images for their catalog, the best way to make a compilation of music that will play in any car, the preferred way to backup and archive settings of the old computer when you buy a new one so you have a hard copy in case of crash, and it is dirt cheap, fast and easy.
Yes, I use USB hard drives more than 4 years ago (and USB thumb drives much less) but the CD and DVD are still an important part of archiving, copying and sharing information for the majority of people.
Not really. He likely wanted anyone he was talking ABOUT to be dead as well, to not be able to deny or discount his story. Basically, it would seem as if he is simply letting history speak for himself, and before you read this, a several generations have already been exposed to his more public side (his work) before they can judge his opinions and perspectives as a private individual. Most people have opinions that they don't necessarily share to everyone in public, be they about race, religion, politics, etc., particularly if they are not in the majority in these views.
Yet plenty of people have grown up to be great contributors to society and/or greatly successful, even though they had terrible parents or no parents. Dave Thomas is one of my favorite examples, whose mother gave him up at birth, his adoptive mother died when he was 5, forcing his father to move around for work, to begin working at 12 and to drop out of school. Not only did he found Wendy's (one of the most successful fast food chains still) but did tremendous work promoting education, adoption and more.
The inverse is also true, as plenty of violent criminals and less than worthwhile persons came from what would be considered solid, caring families. While the quality of the parents is certainly influential in the outcome of individuals, it is by no means the single factor, nor the most important factor, in whether someone grows up to be a blessing or a curse to society. In the end, it is the individual that decides his own fate.
Arthritis and tendon issues made my music career end, not my whole life, hence the "was" in my comments ;)
We now run all critical server functions on remote servers except intranet/file serving, and have only 12 phone lines, so their unlimited phones for $35 ea. mo. and two 5/1.5 for less than $200 each is a good deal for us, replacing pots and two T1s and saving us the 30k yearly. Our local service is AT&T, and we have downtime all the time, and absolute shit service from them. Used to be BellSouth before AT&T bought them out, and back then, the service was great.
Unix copyrights? What would they do with them?
Finally update Xenix to version 2.3.5.
You are correct that live sound is far superior to recorded sound in both dynamics and in tone, but once you are there, there is more to the experience than "listening", just as there is more to live performance than playing a predetermined number of notes. Sitting in an audience listening to robots play instruments would just be boring, even if the sound was great. We can't identify with them, we don't want to be like them. When I watched Stevie Ray Vaughn live in concert, the performance *was* better than anything else he recorded, but it was watching him play, watching him reach and push himself, watching some improvisation that happened, that made it a "show". I have played in bands for decades and appreciate the difficulty of what he is playing, and watching someone who was a virtuoso in a genre I appreciate is what made the experience. Robots can't do this.
This is also why I wouldn't ever have gone to a concert by Britney Spear, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Madonna or other pop performers who are more entertainers than musicians, with music that is interesting and well performed but not emotionally moving. It's also why I tend to listen primarily to raw blues, which is as analog as you can get. Robots can be entertainers, perhaps, but not musicians. They can make interesting sounds, but live, they can't move your soul. There is an old expressions that predates George Harrison's use of the phrase "You gotta pay your dues if you want to play the blues.", and it is true. If you want a song performance to break someone's heart, for example, you have to understand what it means to have your heart broken. Blues without empathy is just random notes, like a robot.
There is more to music than playing notes in order, even if they are played very well.
Guess what? I have both and have for over 15 years in this area. Generally speaking, if one goes out, the other does as well. And their support for both is handled by the same office.
I live in Lexington, we don't have a mall, we have "Uptown", complete with "Pigs In The City" as you know. When we want to go to a real mall, we either go to Hanes or Four Seasons (I work N of GSO), or perhaps Concord Mills where they have a Bass Pro shop. ;)
Well the law has been strongly molded for juries.
Is that why most patent infringement suits take place in East Texas?
Time Warner, at least here in north central NC, has been making a concerted effort for the last several years, and actually has pretty darn good service. Their broadband is almost never down. They almost always show up when they say they will, you can get someone on the phone typically within 5 minutes, and the people on their phone support seem to actually know what they are talking about. Yes, they are still too expensive, but service hasn't really been an issue for me. We are moving our business phones and internet access to their business class service as it will save us around $30k a year, so we will see how that works out, but other than price for home service, I'm pretty happy with them.
I said they are porting Steam to Linux thus they are familiar with platform, and it should be obvious I meant to port the games as well on the different CPU. These older games are infinitely smaller than current games, and *might* be very doable. The engine is pretty much the same for the games, it is the content that is unique (ie: BSP, textures), and platform independent. Keep in mind, that I used to play the original version of HL on a 200MHz box, which had less power than the Pandora, so it could keep up.
And yes, I know that Wine Is Not an Emulator, which is why I talked about ports, not emulation.
You can program a robot to make random changes, but that isn't the same. A human doesn't try to make random errors, they put "expression" into it. My explanation of it being random variations is only a technical and quantifiable outcome. A trained musician could easily tell the robot's playing versus a humans because the variations wouldn't be within the normal expression of music, and would be just random. Just as a good musician can usually pick out digital drums in a mix. No matter how much you randomize, you can get it to sound "similar", but it is always lacking. To the average ear, it is close enough that it doesn't distract and is "good enough".
Music is just more complex than people realize, but then again, what is "popular" today tends to be regurgitated ideas, overly processed, autotuned, overly compressed drivel. Put your XM radio on 74 if you want to hear real music without the processing and automatic error correction.
My explanation was very mechanical as well, explaining the 'physical' differences that can be quantified, but you are correct that emotion is what causes these variations, and emotion is the soul. The variations are only the outcome. Robots will be able to COPY a passionate performance, but never create one, and even then there are nuances that are difficult to capture, kind of like what you miss when you switch from vinyl to CD. Yes, you get clarity and accuracy but at the loss of dynamic range and tones that only analog can capture.
Yea, just like we will have voice recognition software for everything in 5 to 10 years, 10 years ago. Getting it 90% right is easy, getting that last 10% that really makes a difference is exponentially difficult to a trained ear.
That is actually a very good point. The Japanese industrial complex began its fixation with robotics in the 70s with auto manufacturing, and they have invested more resources than anyone, even the USA. While we lead in microchips and general purpose computing, Japanese corporations have been doing great things with that technology + servo motors and software. And as you state, these same companies have very long term outlooks about robotics.
It is easy to say that robots will play an important part of our future. It is difficult to say with certainty what those roles will be, but it is meaningless to hazard a guess if they are not developed to perform a variety of general tasks. Several Japanese companies get this, and have earned the lead they have in the industry.
"Soul" is the minor imperfections that give music character and make the same piece unique from one musician to another. As an example: One of the tricks of using digital drums and making them sound like someone is sitting at a drum set is to mess with the quantizing a bit, randomize the beats by a measure of just a few microseconds so they are in time, but not PERFECT time. You might even put in very tiny errors that don't distract from the rhythm. No real drummer is "perfect", and drums that are perfect sound fake and mechanical, even if the tones are perfectly sampled.
Same with any other instrument, but more so as you not only vary the execution of each note in a micro level, but also the dynamics (how loud, how soft a note is). Good violin playing will be more dynamic, with musician playing more aggressive in "busy" parts, and playing with a lighter touch in other places. It varies more than just the overall volume level, as playing harder and more aggressive on strings changes the entire tonal characteristics (ie: slightly more higher pitched harmonics for starters.) There was other things missing, such as no vibrato in any of the sustained notes (vibrating slightly up and down in pitch on a sustained note to give it depth).
I was a musician for most of my life, playing primarily blues guitar, and while I can *show* you easily, I'm not the best at explaining it. Hope this helps answer a very valid question.
If you don't get modded as flamebait at least twice a year, you aren't participating properly ;) We all do that from time to time. What I really respect is the fact that you admit that you simply put your foot in your mouth. Anyone who doesn't do that from time to time is either lying, or they just never take their foot out.
I'm sure Toyota's shareholders are very pleased that their investment is being squandered on stuff like this when they could be solving their safety issues that could potentially bankrupt the company and in turn the shareholders.
So they should instantly cancel all programs that they have been investing in for decades (with the costs associated with cancelling them) until they fix the brake problem? You do realize that Toyota has more than 12 employees and can do more than one thing at a time, right?
I agree that it was real. It had no "soul" to the playing, it was just mechanically accurate (ie: very average high school violinist), but still a stunning engineering feat. The swaying and such did make him look more human. While I don't expect a robot to ever have the finess of a human player (although it can be programmed to COPY a version), it was still very, very impressive.