Thanks for pointing this out. It looks like it will be an excellent supplement to Ottman. I do like the fact that Ottman has a lot of introductory melodies -- ones that don't have much complex rhythmic aspect to worry about. I don't personally have a problem with sight reading non-trivial rhythms because I've played the flute for many years, but my classmates who are just learning music have enough to worry about regarding the pitches... adding too much complexity too quickly isn't instructional, it's just hard. So I think it would be nice if this book had more simple tunes, but otherwise, it looks great.
Robots.txt is nice if google feels like playing nice. But nothing is stopping google or anyone from completely ignoring it. If you don't want a search engine to find something, don't make it publicly available!
I don't think this is a problem that a computer can solve for you. I think you need to learn to sight-sing like everyone else. If you can at least sing major scales, then I think practicing from a book like "Music for Sight Singing" by Robert W. Ottman (ISBN 0-13-189662-8) might be helpful. Knowing "how music works" is essential for singing it -- the notes on the page aren't randomly generated, you know. Therefore, knowing something about music theory would also help you. More than some computer program, anyway.
Anyway, I'm a music minor so maybe I am too much of a purist.
I didn't say Windows sucked, I'm just said that some people do happen to use OS X for things other than the iTunes and Safari. Those are good too, though:)
True; I pay $75 for 1.5/384! Living in a backwaters country like the US kind of sucks at times. (And I live in the third largest city in the country, less than a mile from downtown.)
> The reality of it all is that you will not find many people out there serving up content at 24Mb. Except for direct conections with Internode's mirrors and Gaming Servers (which make the whole thing worth while!) you'll be spending your time waiting for the Internet to catch up with you.
This is not entirely true. If you ever happen to be downloading from an I2-connected site from another I2-connected site you'll get GREAT transfer rates. I once installed Debian on a machine at UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago) from the debian.uchicago.edu (at the University of Chicago, a few miles away) -- I got 100Mbps down the entire time, it was great. I tried downloading some ISOs on a few other machines on that switch (gigabit uplink) and I couldn't get any transfer rate less than the maximum 100Mbps down... it was amazing. If I had a gigabit card I could have downloaded a full Debian ISO in 6 seconds:)
That's damn cool, and I want that ability in my house. And I want gigabit uplink, too, because sometimes I need to shift big files in the other direction as well. What's with the limitation of upload bandwidth anyway... running the wire to my house costs them the same amount regardless of what direction the data's going! (Oh but then they can't sell hosting services. Well, too fucking bad. Sell me bandwidth.)
It's freaking 2005 and we're excited about 25Mbps? (Japan has 100MBps for years!)
> Post the most fantastic, sensationalistic articles to spark pagehits and flamewars, and the editors sit back and cash in.
Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. These are the slashdot editors we're talking about -- do you really think that they're that smart?! (I don't.):D
I didn't realize someone was holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy an iPod nano. If they weren't, maybe you would have waited a bit before buying one. You'd see this article and think to yourself, maybe I should get some other kind of MP3 player that doesn't scratch as easily. There are other music players out there, ya know.
Personally, I don't care if my iPod gets scratched. It's a music player, not a mirror in the Hubble space telescope or something. As long as it plays music, it works for me.
I always put my 4G iPod into its own pocket but that thing is so scratched I don't even want to look at it. So if you were to ask me, I would say that iPods are not scratch resistant.
I realized that as soon as I opened the box, though. Something that shiny isn't going to stay shiny unless you put it in a locked glass case and never touch it. It's a music player (with a 1.5yr life thanks to the battery), people, not a Lost Relic Of The Past. As long as mine plays music, I'm happy.
If you want durability, get a mini. Mine still looks new, and I certainly don't go out of my way to not abuse it.
Always wait until the second generation to buy from Apple. This has been true for years, and it is apparently continuing. iPod nano 2.0 will cost less, have more space, and probably a better screen.
It hardly ever pays to be an early adopter. Let other people work out the bugs, then enjoy the fruits of their labor:)
Good user interfaces are designed to make frequent tasks easy and destructive tasks hard. Deleting mail is destructive -- you shouldn't need to do it very often, so it's buried in the menus where you won't accidentally do it. Archiving is what you Should Want To Do, so the UI makes it really easy. I've never heard anyone complain that fscking a mounted partition is too hard. Why? Because it's dangerous and it's supposed to be hard! Deleting your e-mail is similar.
If you don't like gmail's interface, though, don't use it. I personally like to compose messages in emacs and then sign them with gpg, so I use mutt. I also like more control over incoming messages, so I have my own qmail server. YMMV.
Agreed. They do an excellent job hosting my zone, also. (Yeah, I could do it myself but I would spend more than $20 in my own time doing that, so I let them deal with it for $20/year.)
I think the MTA uses a similar system (in New York). I hear you can walk through those pretty quickly.
The CTA (Chicago) for some reason has a system where you insert the card (one direction only), it sucks it down, spits it back up a bit, sucks it down, then pushes it all the way back up. Then you remove it, hear a beep, and the turnstile unlocks. It is really very slow. I do like the sound it makes -- very rhythmic and familiar:)
The system that most railroads in Tokyo used was the best. You could put any sort of media in in any direction or orientation, and if the card/ticket was valid you would walk through unimpeded and pull the ticket out on the other side. If your card was bad, the gates would slam shut and the card would come up on the fare-unpaid side and you'd have to go to the ticket machine and pay the right amount.
The process repeated when you were leaving because the fares were zoned.
I've never ridden on a US system with zoned fares -- are there any? (Now that I think of it, Washington DC has one. What are their fare control machines like?)
I believe that JR's (Japan Railways) Suica card is now being accepted as cash in a number of places. I know that if I still lived in Tokyo I would definitely use this to pay for things like coffee, etc, just because it's so damn convenient.
I would appreciate that when I buy a laptop or something that they would pretend to watch me sign the receipt, though:)
This doesn't make any sense. The time consuming part of a credit card transaction is where the cashier checks your signature against the one on the back of the card. If you just touch the card, there's no way for anyone in authority to verify that you are you. This makes me slightly uneasy. Handing the cashier the card and signing wasn't really that hard.
The only place where RFID cars are convenient is for rapid transit fare control. You want to get through quickly, and swiping a card is actually cumbersome. When I first experienced this was when I was in Japan, and the normal card readers there were pretty good so it wasn't much of a difference. (More of a novelty really, but I bought in and used JR instead of the subway for my monthly pass... google SUICA if you're interested.)
Here in Chicago, though, it's great. The normal farecard readers take *forever* to read the card (you'll know this if you're from Chicago), but the new RFID-based "Chicago Card" is really really fast and speeds boarding onto busses which means you get a seat quicker and get to where you're going quicker.
> If you don't unit test then you aren't a software engineer, you are a typist who understands a programming language.
I think it's the other way around -- if you think passing unit tests means your code is perfect, then you are a typist who understands a programming language.
Here's a simple example:
int add(int a, int b) { return a * b; } boolean testAdd(){ if(add(2,2) == 4) return pass; else return fail; }
Hey, the test passed, your code must be correct, right?
If you do manage to test all possible cases then your test is the definition of the method and you shouldn't have even bothered writing it. If your test doesn't completely define the method, then your test misses that one special case and is worthless.
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Thanks for pointing this out. It looks like it will be an excellent supplement to Ottman. I do like the fact that Ottman has a lot of introductory melodies -- ones that don't have much complex rhythmic aspect to worry about. I don't personally have a problem with sight reading non-trivial rhythms because I've played the flute for many years, but my classmates who are just learning music have enough to worry about regarding the pitches... adding too much complexity too quickly isn't instructional, it's just hard. So I think it would be nice if this book had more simple tunes, but otherwise, it looks great.
Robots.txt is nice if google feels like playing nice. But nothing is stopping google or anyone from completely ignoring it. If you don't want a search engine to find something, don't make it publicly available!
Yes, GNU cp and BSD's cp do not have this "feature". "cp -v" is enough information for me, though.
I don't think this is a problem that a computer can solve for you. I think you need to learn to sight-sing like everyone else. If you can at least sing major scales, then I think practicing from a book like "Music for Sight Singing" by Robert W. Ottman (ISBN 0-13-189662-8) might be helpful. Knowing "how music works" is essential for singing it -- the notes on the page aren't randomly generated, you know. Therefore, knowing something about music theory would also help you. More than some computer program, anyway.
Anyway, I'm a music minor so maybe I am too much of a purist.
I didn't say Windows sucked, I'm just said that some people do happen to use OS X for things other than the iTunes and Safari. Those are good too, though :)
Tell that to our 3TB backup server or the University of Illinois' 500-node OSX cluster.
> No, they would sue to attach her future wages and to make an example out of her.
If someone did this to me, I would just go on welfare and let the government pay them. What are they going to do about it?
True; I pay $75 for 1.5/384! Living in a backwaters country like the US kind of sucks at times. (And I live in the third largest city in the country, less than a mile from downtown.)
> The reality of it all is that you will not find many people out there serving up content at 24Mb. Except for direct conections with Internode's mirrors and Gaming Servers (which make the whole thing worth while!) you'll be spending your time waiting for the Internet to catch up with you.
:)
This is not entirely true. If you ever happen to be downloading from an I2-connected site from another I2-connected site you'll get GREAT transfer rates. I once installed Debian on a machine at UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago) from the debian.uchicago.edu (at the University of Chicago, a few miles away) -- I got 100Mbps down the entire time, it was great. I tried downloading some ISOs on a few other machines on that switch (gigabit uplink) and I couldn't get any transfer rate less than the maximum 100Mbps down... it was amazing. If I had a gigabit card I could have downloaded a full Debian ISO in 6 seconds
That's damn cool, and I want that ability in my house. And I want gigabit uplink, too, because sometimes I need to shift big files in the other direction as well. What's with the limitation of upload bandwidth anyway... running the wire to my house costs them the same amount regardless of what direction the data's going! (Oh but then they can't sell hosting services. Well, too fucking bad. Sell me bandwidth.)
It's freaking 2005 and we're excited about 25Mbps? (Japan has 100MBps for years!)
> Post the most fantastic, sensationalistic articles to spark pagehits and flamewars, and the editors sit back and cash in.
:D
Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. These are the slashdot editors we're talking about -- do you really think that they're that smart?! (I don't.)
Old people = dumb p<b>oe</b>ple
:)
Then again, your code didn't exactly compile either
However, high school freshmen and college seniors are slightly different, aren't they.
> Error sig overflow.
:)
Don't you mean, "Sig-mentation fault"?
I didn't realize someone was holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy an iPod nano. If they weren't, maybe you would have waited a bit before buying one. You'd see this article and think to yourself, maybe I should get some other kind of MP3 player that doesn't scratch as easily. There are other music players out there, ya know.
Personally, I don't care if my iPod gets scratched. It's a music player, not a mirror in the Hubble space telescope or something. As long as it plays music, it works for me.
I always put my 4G iPod into its own pocket but that thing is so scratched I don't even want to look at it. So if you were to ask me, I would say that iPods are not scratch resistant.
I realized that as soon as I opened the box, though. Something that shiny isn't going to stay shiny unless you put it in a locked glass case and never touch it. It's a music player (with a 1.5yr life thanks to the battery), people, not a Lost Relic Of The Past. As long as mine plays music, I'm happy.
If you want durability, get a mini. Mine still looks new, and I certainly don't go out of my way to not abuse it.
> "I'll have a Guinness, no wait, make that a Coors Light" -Grad student I work with, who shall remain anonymous...
Hey don't complain. That's more Guinness for you!
Always wait until the second generation to buy from Apple. This has been true for years, and it is apparently continuing. iPod nano 2.0 will cost less, have more space, and probably a better screen.
:)
:)
It hardly ever pays to be an early adopter. Let other people work out the bugs, then enjoy the fruits of their labor
(Posted from a Rev. 2 15" Powerbook G4
> "Use the product of mass and the integral of jerk, Luke."
Use the force plus mass times a constant? Looks like someone didn't quite pass calculus.
Good user interfaces are designed to make frequent tasks easy and destructive tasks hard. Deleting mail is destructive -- you shouldn't need to do it very often, so it's buried in the menus where you won't accidentally do it. Archiving is what you Should Want To Do, so the UI makes it really easy. I've never heard anyone complain that fscking a mounted partition is too hard. Why? Because it's dangerous and it's supposed to be hard! Deleting your e-mail is similar.
If you don't like gmail's interface, though, don't use it. I personally like to compose messages in emacs and then sign them with gpg, so I use mutt. I also like more control over incoming messages, so I have my own qmail server. YMMV.
Agreed. They do an excellent job hosting my zone, also. (Yeah, I could do it myself but I would spend more than $20 in my own time doing that, so I let them deal with it for $20/year.)
I think the MTA uses a similar system (in New York). I hear you can walk through those pretty quickly.
:)
The CTA (Chicago) for some reason has a system where you insert the card (one direction only), it sucks it down, spits it back up a bit, sucks it down, then pushes it all the way back up. Then you remove it, hear a beep, and the turnstile unlocks. It is really very slow. I do like the sound it makes -- very rhythmic and familiar
The system that most railroads in Tokyo used was the best. You could put any sort of media in in any direction or orientation, and if the card/ticket was valid you would walk through unimpeded and pull the ticket out on the other side. If your card was bad, the gates would slam shut and the card would come up on the fare-unpaid side and you'd have to go to the ticket machine and pay the right amount.
The process repeated when you were leaving because the fares were zoned.
I've never ridden on a US system with zoned fares -- are there any? (Now that I think of it, Washington DC has one. What are their fare control machines like?)
I believe that JR's (Japan Railways) Suica card is now being accepted as cash in a number of places. I know that if I still lived in Tokyo I would definitely use this to pay for things like coffee, etc, just because it's so damn convenient.
:)
I would appreciate that when I buy a laptop or something that they would pretend to watch me sign the receipt, though
This doesn't make any sense. The time consuming part of a credit card
transaction is where the cashier checks your signature against the one
on the back of the card. If you just touch the card, there's no way
for anyone in authority to verify that you are you. This makes me
slightly uneasy. Handing the cashier the card and signing wasn't
really that hard.
The only place where RFID cars are convenient is for rapid transit
fare control. You want to get through quickly, and swiping a card is
actually cumbersome. When I first experienced this was when I was in
Japan, and the normal card readers there were pretty good so it wasn't
much of a difference. (More of a novelty really, but I bought in and
used JR instead of the subway for my monthly pass... google SUICA if
you're interested.)
Here in Chicago, though, it's great. The normal farecard readers take
*forever* to read the card (you'll know this if you're from Chicago),
but the new RFID-based "Chicago Card" is really really fast and speeds
boarding onto busses which means you get a seat quicker and get to
where you're going quicker.
But for credit cards, this is a security risk.
Yeah, I know. But other people could have a lack of space AND a lack of people to sleep with. It is slashdot, after all :)
Ask slashdot isn't *just* for the person asking, it's for everyone wondering about the same thing.
> If you don't unit test then you aren't a software engineer, you are a typist who understands a programming language.
I think it's the other way around -- if you think passing unit tests means your code is perfect, then you are a typist who understands a programming language.
Here's a simple example:
int add(int a, int b) { return a * b; }
boolean testAdd(){ if(add(2,2) == 4) return pass; else return fail; }
Hey, the test passed, your code must be correct, right?
If you do manage to test all possible cases then your test is the definition of the method and you shouldn't have even bothered writing it. If your test doesn't completely define the method, then your test misses that one special case and is worthless.
What's the point of unit tests, again?