I can't think of any top
40 "hits" of any genre that are different and
groundbreaking.
You must have a short memory. How do you think "genres" get started?
For example, dance pop like Britney Spears etc. is trite and uncreative, but go back to Michael Jackson's album "Thriller," which was new, dfferent and a tremendous success. It created the genre that Spears et al. are going through the motions of today.
I think THE reason why out of all the rock music
subgenres, only punk has persisted more or less unchanged
from its earliest days and shows no sign of getting
"tired", is that it uses structures that are
fundamentally similar to certain types of classical music
(notably Beethoven).
Heh... You do realize that that is the same thing that every apologist for their particular pet genre says?
Punk might so some of the same things that Beethoven did, but most likely they're the same things that any music student could do, and they're the same things that nearly every genre of Western music does. I doubt you you point to a structural characteristic shared between punk and Beethoven that isn't shared by all manner of both creative and uncreative genres.
Plus, I don't see how remaining "basically unchanged" is anything good; its't it the very definition of a lack of creativity?
Yeah, Newton handwriting recognition was actually very good. I never figured out what you had to write to make it say "Foux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup." which was the answer to "how many Newtons does it take to screw in a light bulb?" So that joke always confused me when I read it.
(Yeah, I know, it's funny because it's incomprehensible. but still what the hell was supposed to be the answer to that joke???)
It's actually a well-known technique in rock crawling. When you're on some precarious obstacles you don't want to gun the engine for fear of flipping or falling, but when you go too slow you stall the engine. In this situation you don't want to use the clutch to start up again. Releasing the clutch while on a steep hill is a bad idea for many reasons, especially when the engine is stalled (ie, no power brakes). The proper technique actually is to turn the ignition while the car is in gear! The starter motor driven by an ordinary truck battery has enough torque to pull you over the hump, and once over the hump, the engine starts right up too.
Since the motors and batteries in hyrids are far beefier than regular starter motors, I'm surprised that I heaven't heard of anyone dropping a hybrid setup into a jeep.
"Signal ripple" just means your monitor, video card, or video cable (probably the monitor) isn't up to handling the horizontal sync frequency and signal bandwith needed at high refresh rates. Upgrade your components and the problem should go away. I would suspect the displays used in the study didn't have that problem.
Actually, assuming your monitor's circuitry is of high enough quality, you want the refresh to be as high as possible. There have been several studies which demonstrated that while people could look at a CRT running at 85Hz and another at 120Hz and swear that they look identical, when asked to read text off the screens they could read faster off the display with higher refresh.
When your eyes are looking in one place refresh doesn't make a big difference, but when your eyes track from one location to another, the missing image between refreshes them down
Keep going with that math. 8 light-minutes times (1-cos(9.6e-5)) is about 660 meters of deviation, which is not really "negligible." I think that there would be quite a few ways of detecting a movement like that.
But with a gas tax, Oregon would have a disincentive against promoting the use of more fuel-efficient cars. Would you do anything to reduce fuel consumption, if it would LOSE you money?
I agree with you about the following distance -- 200 yards is ridiculous. If the parent poster would take a cursory look at his state's drivers manual he would see that they say to use the 2 second rule.
But then you went off into a rant which is totally wrongheaded and if you follow yoru own advice you will either get ticketed or killed someday.
First, I only use the inside lane when I'm going faster than all the cars in the outside lanes, and there is no opportunity to move over safely. Given that, there is absolutely no justification for wanting me to go faster, especially since we're talking about speeds well above the limit anyway.
Yet every few days I get some asshole who thinks it's a good idea to hang himself 10 feet from my rear bumper going 80mph.
Should I get out of the way? The problem is that the kind of asshole who tailgates like that is also quite likely to gun it and try to go around my right just as I'm moving over to let him pass. I signal well in advance, yet I've had several near misses this way.
On the other hand, I've never had a near miss by taking the correct course of action--taking my foot off the gas and flashing the brake lights a couple times (not actually applying the brakes mind you--just tapping the pedal to flash the lights so that the fellow in back will take a hint.)
If I do this then either he backs off to a reasonable distance thus allowing me to safely get out of the way, or he passes on the right. In neither case do I risk an accident like what could happen if I move right away.
Your abusive writing suggests that you might suffer from road rage. Please do something about this problem as it is a danger to yourself and others.
Before I launch into a wildly enthusiastic discussion of DLP, I just want to point out one amusing problem with Plasma TVs. They wont work over 6200 feet of elevation, which is where much of the soutwest US lives. I live at 7000 feet. bummer.
Huh? I was in a Best Buy in Santa Fe last week and they had plenty of plasma screens on display.
Most likely the software has no preconception of categories like "gay" or "pregnant." It just works on the statistics gathered from other user's purchases. This is even explicitly stated by Amazon--"People who purchased item X also purchased these items." It's easy for a simple statistical analysis to decide that people who buy certain items buy certain other items, without any prior categorization of the items. However, it's much harder to find reliable negative correlations in this kind of data, because the total number of available items is much greater than the number of items purchased by any one user. So the software has no real basis for concluding that gay themes and pregnancy themes don't often mix.
The tone of the article is kind of silly if you think about what the Tivo recommendations actually represent--it's not making statements about individual viewers, it's making statements about the population of users. People should be happy when the Tivo's recommendadions fail; it means they have unique tastes that aren't easily predictable from statistics. If the Tivo recommendations always work for you, it means you're just another fuckin' sheep to be analyzed and marketed to.
For the record, I bought a copy of K&R from Amazon years ago, and to this day it keeps recommending introductory books on C for me. Bwah? Why would I need Yet Another "Teach Yourself C in 24 Minutes" book when I already know it backwards and forwards?
Look, as long as you're parroting Revolutionary War rhetoric you could at least get the quote right. It's "Those who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Go think about the difference.
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40 "hits" of any genre that are different and
groundbreaking.
You must have a short memory. How do you think "genres" get started?
For example, dance pop like Britney Spears etc. is trite and uncreative, but go back to Michael Jackson's album "Thriller," which was new, dfferent and a tremendous success. It created the genre that Spears et al. are going through the motions of today.
Heh... You do realize that that is the same thing that every apologist for their particular pet genre says?
Punk might so some of the same things that Beethoven did, but most likely they're the same things that any music student could do, and they're the same things that nearly every genre of Western music does. I doubt you you point to a structural characteristic shared between punk and Beethoven that isn't shared by all manner of both creative and uncreative genres.
Plus, I don't see how remaining "basically unchanged" is anything good; its't it the very definition of a lack of creativity?
Yeah, Newton handwriting recognition was actually very good. I never figured out what you had to write to make it say "Foux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup." which was the answer to "how many Newtons does it take to screw in a light bulb?" So that joke always confused me when I read it.
(Yeah, I know, it's funny because it's incomprehensible. but still what the hell was supposed to be the answer to that joke???)
Since the motors and batteries in hyrids are far beefier than regular starter motors, I'm surprised that I heaven't heard of anyone dropping a hybrid setup into a jeep.
What on earth do you do for backups?
The concept of CSS-based ad blocking has been previously covered here, and here. I've been using it to make my Slashdot ad-free for some time now.
What's this guy running, NetBSD?
"Signal ripple" just means your monitor, video card, or video cable (probably the monitor) isn't up to handling the horizontal sync frequency and signal bandwith needed at high refresh rates. Upgrade your components and the problem should go away. I would suspect the displays used in the study didn't have that problem.
Actually, assuming your monitor's circuitry is of high enough quality, you want the refresh to be as high as possible. There have been several studies which demonstrated that while people could look at a CRT running at 85Hz and another at 120Hz and swear that they look identical, when asked to read text off the screens they could read faster off the display with higher refresh.
When your eyes are looking in one place refresh doesn't make a big difference, but when your eyes track from one location to another, the missing image between refreshes them down
Keep going with that math. 8 light-minutes times (1-cos(9.6e-5)) is about 660 meters of deviation, which is not really "negligible." I think that there would be quite a few ways of detecting a movement like that.
In the original versions of Tetris, the space shuttle on the screen would take off once you passed level 15.
It is improbable since it's very hard (highest I got was level 11).
Honestly, who remembers to write the V backwards?
Couldn't you delay the ACK packets sent out from her side? That would effectively limit the download speed in most cases.
Now, if only I could substitute my windowmanager of choice for native apps in addition to X11 apps, then I'll never look back at Linux again...
What, so you had to be watching from season one to appreciate the grand story arc? What a great way to kill a show's potential ratings.
Look, the languages that matter are C++, Java, SQL, FORTRAN and COBOL.
Exactly zero of these languages are typically used for embedded systems.
But with a gas tax, Oregon would have a disincentive against promoting the use of more fuel-efficient cars. Would you do anything to reduce fuel consumption, if it would LOSE you money?
Funny, over in the states they are well known for distinctly crappy automotive electronics.
Ahem.
I agree with you about the following distance -- 200 yards is ridiculous. If the parent poster would take a cursory look at his state's drivers manual he would see that they say to use the 2 second rule.
But then you went off into a rant which is totally wrongheaded and if you follow yoru own advice you will either get ticketed or killed someday.
First, I only use the inside lane when I'm going faster than all the cars in the outside lanes, and there is no opportunity to move over safely. Given that, there is absolutely no justification for wanting me to go faster, especially since we're talking about speeds well above the limit anyway.
Yet every few days I get some asshole who thinks it's a good idea to hang himself 10 feet from my rear bumper going 80mph.
Should I get out of the way? The problem is that the kind of asshole who tailgates like that is also quite likely to gun it and try to go around my right just as I'm moving over to let him pass. I signal well in advance, yet I've had several near misses this way.
On the other hand, I've never had a near miss by taking the correct course of action--taking my foot off the gas and flashing the brake lights a couple times (not actually applying the brakes mind you--just tapping the pedal to flash the lights so that the fellow in back will take a hint.)
If I do this then either he backs off to a reasonable distance thus allowing me to safely get out of the way, or he passes on the right. In neither case do I risk an accident like what could happen if I move right away.
Your abusive writing suggests that you might suffer from road rage. Please do something about this problem as it is a danger to yourself and others.
Huh? I was in a Best Buy in Santa Fe last week and they had plenty of plasma screens on display.
In Soviet Russia, two cents take YOU!!!
And Linux on x86 runs a lot more software than Linux on PPC
And using that logic, why bother with Linux when Windows run LOTS LOTS LOTS LOTS LOTS more software than Linux on X86...
And using that logic, why bother with any kind of platform at all?
Most likely the software has no preconception of categories like "gay" or "pregnant." It just works on the statistics gathered from other user's purchases. This is even explicitly stated by Amazon--"People who purchased item X also purchased these items." It's easy for a simple statistical analysis to decide that people who buy certain items buy certain other items, without any prior categorization of the items. However, it's much harder to find reliable negative correlations in this kind of data, because the total number of available items is much greater than the number of items purchased by any one user. So the software has no real basis for concluding that gay themes and pregnancy themes don't often mix.
The tone of the article is kind of silly if you think about what the Tivo recommendations actually represent--it's not making statements about individual viewers, it's making statements about the population of users. People should be happy when the Tivo's recommendadions fail; it means they have unique tastes that aren't easily predictable from statistics. If the Tivo recommendations always work for you, it means you're just another fuckin' sheep to be analyzed and marketed to.
For the record, I bought a copy of K&R from Amazon years ago, and to this day it keeps recommending introductory books on C for me. Bwah? Why would I need Yet Another "Teach Yourself C in 24 Minutes" book when I already know it backwards and forwards?
Is there a copy of this 56-page ruling that I can read, instead of the news articles which all say the same extremely vague things?
Look, as long as you're parroting Revolutionary War rhetoric you could at least get the quote right. It's "Those who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Go think about the difference.