That was the fault of the engineer on the album. I don't know why Rubin keeps going to him, but he keeps compressing the shit out of everything when they mix the albums. The mastering engineer publicly called them out on it after the album had been released. Quote from wikipedia: " MusicRadar and Rolling Stone attribute a quote to the album's mastering engineer Ted Jensen in which he claims that "mixes were already brick-walled before they arrived" for mastering[70][71] and cite a petition from fans to remix or remaster the album." Oftentimes today "mastering" today is simply over-compressing the hell out of the mix, but apparently, that was done ahead of time on this one.
In the original Sonic the Hedgehog, if you stopped giving input, after a few seconds, sonic would stare out (presumably) at the player and begin tapping his foot impatiently. Direct address of the audience is, if I am not mistaken, the classic example of breaking the 4th wall.
We do know what it's colder than. It's 100 times colder than 3 K. 100 times colder does not mean 100 degrees less, it means colder by a factor of 100, ie, divided by 100 (like I have mentioned already). That's not impossible. 100 times colder than background is.03 K. If space were 100 K then 100 times colder would be 1 K. I'm not sure why you have such an issue with the language here. Maybe it's because were talking about "times" with a comparative that denotes "less". In that case, just think of it as dividing by fractions ("...flip the second and multiply") because that's pretty much what that phrase is talking about.
Also your suggestion of "x.x degrees colder than" is not technically accurate, because Kelvin is not measured in degrees; it's an absolute scale.
Apples and oranges. Belief that the earth was at the center is provably wrong. "100 times colder" is a construct in language used to denote a concept that inherently is talking about a lesser quantity using the comparative form of an adjective.
If there is a better way to express this idea ("100 times colder") that would still flow naturally as part of the language, then I would be more than pleased to know what it is.
Yes. A few degrees above absolute zero. Which means taht "100 times colder" is, of course, physically impossible, or meaningless.
This is what happens when your science reporter flunked high school science.
The phrase "100 times colder" is commonly understood to mean at a temperature 1/100 of that being compared. Average temperature of outer space is 3 K, so, "100 times colder" would be.03 K. So, the phrasing is perfectly acceptable.
Also, I'm so pissed off I wasn't able to see them this time around, and everytime I hear about how amazing and groundbreaking the show is, it makes me that much more upset. I really hope I can make it to one of the shows when they come back through the US again.
One, Obama has spoken out against ear marks as well. Two, McCain is far more beholden to special interest money (i.e., lobbyist money) than Obama. Three, if we just adamantly "vote the bums out" over their votes on this issue, it might force us to vote against a legislator who has otherwise performed in a manner that we find respectable, or, conversely, voting for someone who's beliefs we don't share in order to stick it to the man (like the few handfuls of Clinton backers who vow that they will vote for McCain).
However, I do strongly urge everyone to contact your elected officials about this, and make sure that they know how you feel, and that you will be remembering it, and that if they continue to vote against your interests, you will find other candidates to support (in the primary process, if they're in the party you would normally support).
As a musician and a recording engineer, I feel I must comment on the analogy used.
For someone with a trained ear picking out an A#, or any particular note, shouldn't be all that difficult, especially if that note is tonic, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or other similar high recognizable interval from the tonic. It would be trivially easy for someone with perfect pitch to pick out a particular note.
I suppose the analogy might hold if we compared the prior SETI searching signals to be like a man who is deaf in his right ear turning his left ear away the orchestra to try and determine if the 2nd piccolo is playing sharp on A#, and now, SETI is that same man, facing forward with a brand new hearing aid, merely trying to pick out staccato notes.
I always wondered that if all human knowledge/evidence was lost, books, video clips etc. (With one exception) and a handful of humans survived, with no prior knowledge of anything before themselves except a grasp of English, and these people were to find the only surviving books, a complete works of J. R. R. Tolkien, what the hell religion would be like then.
The SC reviews more cases from the 9th circuit because it is, far and away, the largest of all of the Federal circuit courts, and thus hears more cases than any of the other circuit courts.
Most homers in a season: Barry Bonds Most homers in a career: Hank Aaron (though this will likely change soon) Most homers per at bat: Babe Ruth, i think. Highest all-time batting avg: Ty Cobb
I read a news story a couple of months back, about a teenaged couple in FL that were convicted on child porn charges b/c of a home video they made of themselves. They were 16 and 17 at the time, if memory serves correctly. So, the law of the land in the US is still 18 to make porn.
Damnit, I want a lawnmower that lets me accidentally turn an appendage into burger without requiring heavy modification and there is no good reason not to give me one.
OK, true. But there is no good reason to want one, either.
We were always told in meetings to have students use the laptops as much as possible (I imagine to justify the expense in supplying students with them). It didn't matter what we did, so long as we were using technology in the classroom. The other big push was the state achievement test (thank you very much Bush). We were never told of a definite way that we could use these computers to help improve test scores.
Of course, any chance that students have to goof off, they will, and any time my students got to use their laptop, they would be using it for IM, games, or just generally surfing the web. i tired to keep an eye on all of them, but when you have classes of 30+ students, it's difficult to make sure they are all on task with traditional kinds of instruction and assignments.
The most successful I ever was in that district was when I was teaching summer school. I think a large part of that was because the students didn't keep the laptops over the summer. I brought in a classroom set of laptops in for a day so they could type a paper. Before I brought them in, I unplugged the wireless router in the drop ceiling.
couldn't there be a problem considering the license was GPL not some BSD or apache style license. once the base is GPL, shouldn't that mean the derivatives can't be more closed than the base? (anyway IANAL).
No. There's only a problem if someone made a fork and tried to change it from GPL to something else. This was a move by the guy who holds the copyrights to the code. the copyright holder can, at anytime, decide he wants to move his code to another license. the catch is that all previously released code is still under the previous license. That is, if i release Foobar v1 under the GPL, then I release Foobar v1.1 under BSD, v1.0 remains licensed under the GPL, and you are free to take that code and start your own version, Forkbar v1.0. However, you must always keep it as GPL, because you don't own the copyright on the code; you only have access to it because of the GPL.
if you listen to the music that the devil and his band in their portion of the song, they are clearly playing funk. so, it would seem that funk devils play the fiddle.
Actually...the most exciting thing to me about the upcoming version of OSX....multiple desktops.
Oh, yes! I had forgotten about multiple desktops. I used BeOS for a long time as well, and became very accustomed to using multiple desktops in BeOS. I guess I've been using OS X at home and XP at work long enough now that I'd started to forget just how awesome multiple desktops can be.
Also, thanks, everyone, for pointing out the ` shortcut.
With a CLI, nice scripting and automation functions, and generally well laid-out and well-followed interface guidelines (w/ the major exception of iTunes*), I'd argue it's entirely possible to be very functional on a Mac. Some might say you have the built-in bias against Macs.
A lot of this is just opinion and what one is used to. I find the dock to be much more efficient and intuitive than the windows way of doing things; however, I do miss alt-tab cycling through every open window, as opposed to cycling through every open application. i know, i know, that's what expose is for, but it's something that i've grown accustomed to in all those years when I was using windows. and, in my opinion it is faster to switch between two (for example) open documents in word using alt-tab than it is switching between two open documents in pages using F10+click. This all goes to show, nothing is perfect.
But, the article is right. Vista/Aero does suck donkey balls.:P Seriously, the interface was changed in a lot of ways that seemed to be about being pretty, not being better, and a lot of those changes did make things worse.
*off topic: iTunes devations from the norm, I feel, are forgivable, as we all have an expectation of how a music playback interface should look and behave from physical counterparts in the real world, and part (most?) of iTunes deviations are in favor of lining up with those real world expectations.
As much as I am given to letting my imagination fly with such Doomsday scenarios, I don't think this one will be able to pan out quite this way.
Bushco finally, I think, realizes that the war in Iraq is unwinnable. I don't even think they would try this crap.
Israel, I think, knows better than to strike first. They have very tenuous hold on western sympathies; a first strike against Iran with as little or less evidence than the US had for invading Iraq will hurt relationships with US, Britain, etc. Israel already getting chastised by the current administration for recent actions being too over-the-top.
Even if they did try, there are enough Americans pissed off about the current war that there would be massive protests; bigger than the anti-Vietnam protests of the 60s; the kind that could "hurry-up" an impeachment proceeding. When you have most republicans running fast from the Iraq war and the President, a move to spread that war to Iran would make the prospect of President Pelosi seem like a blessing.
Significant numbers of top level military brass are at odds with the way that Bushco has handled Iraq. We could just see the armed forces refuse to follow the order to attack.
The real danger lies, I think, in Bushco staging an elaborate Gleiwitz incident type of operation that makes Iran look like an immediate, credible threat, in which case, they could, with only minor political backlash, re-institute the draft, and get the 300,000 men in Iraq that they needed to begin with, plus the addition 200,000 to 400,000 (minimum) that they would need to successfully invade Iran. Unfortunately, with the rhetoric coming out of the Bushco Corporate HQ, it seems like that might be exactly what they're planning.
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That was the fault of the engineer on the album. I don't know why Rubin keeps going to him, but he keeps compressing the shit out of everything when they mix the albums. The mastering engineer publicly called them out on it after the album had been released. Quote from wikipedia: " MusicRadar and Rolling Stone attribute a quote to the album's mastering engineer Ted Jensen in which he claims that "mixes were already brick-walled before they arrived" for mastering[70][71] and cite a petition from fans to remix or remaster the album." Oftentimes today "mastering" today is simply over-compressing the hell out of the mix, but apparently, that was done ahead of time on this one.
to counter his point.
In the original Sonic the Hedgehog, if you stopped giving input, after a few seconds, sonic would stare out (presumably) at the player and begin tapping his foot impatiently. Direct address of the audience is, if I am not mistaken, the classic example of breaking the 4th wall.
We do know what it's colder than. It's 100 times colder than 3 K. 100 times colder does not mean 100 degrees less, it means colder by a factor of 100, ie, divided by 100 (like I have mentioned already). That's not impossible. 100 times colder than background is .03 K. If space were 100 K then 100 times colder would be 1 K. I'm not sure why you have such an issue with the language here. Maybe it's because were talking about "times" with a comparative that denotes "less". In that case, just think of it as dividing by fractions ("...flip the second and multiply") because that's pretty much what that phrase is talking about.
Also your suggestion of "x.x degrees colder than" is not technically accurate, because Kelvin is not measured in degrees; it's an absolute scale.
How is it scientifically meaningless? What would be a scientifically meaningful way to express the concept?
Apples and oranges. Belief that the earth was at the center is provably wrong. "100 times colder" is a construct in language used to denote a concept that inherently is talking about a lesser quantity using the comparative form of an adjective.
If there is a better way to express this idea ("100 times colder") that would still flow naturally as part of the language, then I would be more than pleased to know what it is.
Yes. A few degrees above absolute zero. Which means taht "100 times colder" is, of course, physically impossible, or meaningless.
This is what happens when your science reporter flunked high school science.
The phrase "100 times colder" is commonly understood to mean at a temperature 1/100 of that being compared. Average temperature of outer space is 3 K, so, "100 times colder" would be .03 K. So, the phrasing is perfectly acceptable.
Uhh...9x4=36, not 46.
Apparently, it does work, assuming you're telling the truth about being drunk, and aren't just bad at math.
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Just want to give attribution where it's due.
Also, I'm so pissed off I wasn't able to see them this time around, and everytime I hear about how amazing and groundbreaking the show is, it makes me that much more upset. I really hope I can make it to one of the shows when they come back through the US again.
One, Obama has spoken out against ear marks as well. Two, McCain is far more beholden to special interest money (i.e., lobbyist money) than Obama. Three, if we just adamantly "vote the bums out" over their votes on this issue, it might force us to vote against a legislator who has otherwise performed in a manner that we find respectable, or, conversely, voting for someone who's beliefs we don't share in order to stick it to the man (like the few handfuls of Clinton backers who vow that they will vote for McCain).
However, I do strongly urge everyone to contact your elected officials about this, and make sure that they know how you feel, and that you will be remembering it, and that if they continue to vote against your interests, you will find other candidates to support (in the primary process, if they're in the party you would normally support).
As a musician and a recording engineer, I feel I must comment on the analogy used.
For someone with a trained ear picking out an A#, or any particular note, shouldn't be all that difficult, especially if that note is tonic, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or other similar high recognizable interval from the tonic. It would be trivially easy for someone with perfect pitch to pick out a particular note.
I suppose the analogy might hold if we compared the prior SETI searching signals to be like a man who is deaf in his right ear turning his left ear away the orchestra to try and determine if the 2nd piccolo is playing sharp on A#, and now, SETI is that same man, facing forward with a brand new hearing aid, merely trying to pick out staccato notes.
Totally. Fucking. Awesome.
the numbers in the story were not printed with decimals.
that sued a NIN fan for putting one of the leaked Year Zero songs on his website for download.
The SC reviews more cases from the 9th circuit because it is, far and away, the largest of all of the Federal circuit courts, and thus hears more cases than any of the other circuit courts.
Most homers in a season: Barry Bonds
Most homers in a career: Hank Aaron (though this will likely change soon)
Most homers per at bat: Babe Ruth, i think.
Highest all-time batting avg: Ty Cobb
and, no, i did not look this up.
I read a news story a couple of months back, about a teenaged couple in FL that were convicted on child porn charges b/c of a home video they made of themselves. They were 16 and 17 at the time, if memory serves correctly. So, the law of the land in the US is still 18 to make porn.
OK, true. But there is no good reason to want one, either.
And it's worse than you can possibly imagine.
We were always told in meetings to have students use the laptops as much as possible (I imagine to justify the expense in supplying students with them). It didn't matter what we did, so long as we were using technology in the classroom. The other big push was the state achievement test (thank you very much Bush). We were never told of a definite way that we could use these computers to help improve test scores.
Of course, any chance that students have to goof off, they will, and any time my students got to use their laptop, they would be using it for IM, games, or just generally surfing the web. i tired to keep an eye on all of them, but when you have classes of 30+ students, it's difficult to make sure they are all on task with traditional kinds of instruction and assignments.
The most successful I ever was in that district was when I was teaching summer school. I think a large part of that was because the students didn't keep the laptops over the summer. I brought in a classroom set of laptops in for a day so they could type a paper. Before I brought them in, I unplugged the wireless router in the drop ceiling.
No. There's only a problem if someone made a fork and tried to change it from GPL to something else. This was a move by the guy who holds the copyrights to the code. the copyright holder can, at anytime, decide he wants to move his code to another license. the catch is that all previously released code is still under the previous license. That is, if i release Foobar v1 under the GPL, then I release Foobar v1.1 under BSD, v1.0 remains licensed under the GPL, and you are free to take that code and start your own version, Forkbar v1.0. However, you must always keep it as GPL, because you don't own the copyright on the code; you only have access to it because of the GPL.
they could just use one of the BSDs, and use WINE to get their "Classic" mode.
or they could buy the BeOS code base (i think i just threw up in my mouth a little).
if you listen to the music that the devil and his band in their portion of the song, they are clearly playing funk. so, it would seem that funk devils play the fiddle.
and also the robot devil.
the flood waters had to go somewhere, didn't they?
Oh, yes! I had forgotten about multiple desktops. I used BeOS for a long time as well, and became very accustomed to using multiple desktops in BeOS. I guess I've been using OS X at home and XP at work long enough now that I'd started to forget just how awesome multiple desktops can be.
Also, thanks, everyone, for pointing out the ` shortcut.
With a CLI, nice scripting and automation functions, and generally well laid-out and well-followed interface guidelines (w/ the major exception of iTunes*), I'd argue it's entirely possible to be very functional on a Mac. Some might say you have the built-in bias against Macs.
:P Seriously, the interface was changed in a lot of ways that seemed to be about being pretty, not being better, and a lot of those changes did make things worse.
A lot of this is just opinion and what one is used to. I find the dock to be much more efficient and intuitive than the windows way of doing things; however, I do miss alt-tab cycling through every open window, as opposed to cycling through every open application. i know, i know, that's what expose is for, but it's something that i've grown accustomed to in all those years when I was using windows. and, in my opinion it is faster to switch between two (for example) open documents in word using alt-tab than it is switching between two open documents in pages using F10+click. This all goes to show, nothing is perfect.
But, the article is right. Vista/Aero does suck donkey balls.
*off topic: iTunes devations from the norm, I feel, are forgivable, as we all have an expectation of how a music playback interface should look and behave from physical counterparts in the real world, and part (most?) of iTunes deviations are in favor of lining up with those real world expectations.
The real danger lies, I think, in Bushco staging an elaborate Gleiwitz incident type of operation that makes Iran look like an immediate, credible threat, in which case, they could, with only minor political backlash, re-institute the draft, and get the 300,000 men in Iraq that they needed to begin with, plus the addition 200,000 to 400,000 (minimum) that they would need to successfully invade Iran. Unfortunately, with the rhetoric coming out of the Bushco Corporate HQ, it seems like that might be exactly what they're planning.