Exactly. Neil Young for instance would sound unrecognizable.
All the character would be bled out of his voice. I remember seeing a clip on the making of "Do They Know It's Christmas?". When he was in the studio recording his line, the engineer told him that it was a little flat, and Neil Young's response was "hey man, that's my style!"
In a singer I'm not looking for perfection, I'm looking for humanity.
Why do interviews from Microsoft employees come across so strangely? Like CorporateSpeak or something.
It's like there's a list of terms they must use a lot, like: enhance, investment, and strangely for a person who says they don't like the word, community.
Then there's this one: This is potent. We accept that and hope we can offer people good prophylactics against loss of privacy.
Did they mean to refer to potency and prophylactics one behind the other? Seems like a Freudian slit. Loss of potency? Personally I wouldn't want to by prophylactics from a company whose name I've heard translates too literally in some languages as "small and soft".
Heck, I respect myself less for having played their games way too long.
That and Civilization -- painful memory of first brush with computer addiction ensues.
I thought highly of those id software guys though. High "woah" factor while playing. I guess they couldn't keep up with the industrialization of the computer game industry.
I would have thought of your example as a history of domestic violence. Because they referred to health status, I was thinking of a current condition, and not a person's health record or history.
Thanks for clearing me up on what they meant. I must have been in a fog.
Entities that provide services would collect their names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, race, gender, health status (including HIV, pregnancy, and domestic violence)
Wouldn't domestic violence require a domicile? Or do they mean the number of times they're kicked while sleeping on a grating?
If you thought of this first-time event so accurately before it happened and have no relation to the phage worm writer, then I'm going to draw two conclusions:
- you're using a tad more of your allotted neurons than most folks - I should start reading your/. journal
Just mind answering anyone anonomously asking you who was listening when you mentioned it last week. What are the chances the writer was in the group?
"We live in an accelerating universe now and so, as time goes on, the density of galaxies is going to thin out"
In my understanding the lights would be observed to go out for two reasons:
First, young stars form at vertices of intersecting matter bubbles and sheaths, where the concentration is highest. If a vertex reaches a high enough density it coalesces, gets critically hot so fusion can start. Problem is the average density of vertices is dropping, so less will go critical.
Second, cosmic expansion will make it increasingly less likely that the average new stars' light will be able to ever reach an observer.
I'd say if you're repeating yourself with a period of 4 years, you're doing a whole lot better than I'm averaging with my little kids.
Thanks for the correction. I'll try not to use the quote again, at least not until 2007.
Hmm, a Gibson and Tolkein fan and an expert
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Tim O'Reilly Interview
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· Score: 4, Interesting
... in his field of vision
From the interview:
"That being said, the net does lead to a breakdown of national boundaries and legal systems, and there's going to be some interesting adaptation over the years, as we move inexorably to a global cyberculture."
a "one ring to rule them all" OS
My guess is we have a fair number of people around here cut from the same cloth.
But then he suggests Air Guitar by Dave Hickey and Moneyball by Michael Lewis.
Maybe he was just trying to help the interview reader relate?
That's an example from a few years' back of an attempt to translate "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" from English to Russian and back to English using a different translator.
Can anyone try this on the new (or some other recent) algorithm?
These people are in a better position to seriously answer your question though. Well, at least about the "diamond" part. I doubt that both technologies (nanofabrication and artificial diamond sheet growth) need to progress in lock step.
I believe Russians have been precipating diamond substrates for years, and that the technicians are gaining momentum. I'm sure it's at least founding technology for the type of construction-grade extrusion discussed in the book.
Idle speculation on the nanofabrication side though: I think it will happen in our lifetimes, yes. And I fear that the devices will someday be massively available to people with bad intentions. It's a lot of power. And the downsides weigh too heavily to consider any more on a sunny Friday. Can you imagine modified software 'bots in the extrusion software?
This is one technology that I'm not going to be impatient for.
(and I mean that in the spirit in which they did).
You mean as in the curse "May you be born in interesting times".
Well it does concern me - just look at the trouble Crusher started, having to set traps for them in the mess. I don't want these things in my food - I'm sure they'd make it taste burnt.
Neal Stephenson's book was captivating but a little troubling. And a leap does seem to be taking place now. Over what chasm I don't know.
But that pinball game shows more dexterity than I'd imagined was currently present.
You obviously get out a whole lot more often than me. Sounds like I would have enjoyed that part too - well except for the Robert Goulet.
Enjoy your third trip to Finding Nemo. I still haven't seen the whole movie since I was shuttling my preschooler in and out of the theatre to skip the scary parts.
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" defeats the purpose"
You should see the movie "The Secretary" with James Spader. Not a computer in sight, but she did have a typewriter.
I'm trying to imagine the movie reworked with this application instead of the lead actress, but I don't think it would fly.
Exactly. Neil Young for instance would sound unrecognizable.
All the character would be bled out of his voice. I remember seeing a clip on the making of "Do They Know It's Christmas?". When he was in the studio recording his line, the engineer told him that it was a little flat, and Neil Young's response was "hey man, that's my style!"
In a singer I'm not looking for perfection, I'm looking for humanity.
you know, I even gave that one a nose laugh, thanks. I'm coming out of a temporary depression brought on by reading that article.
Be aware that I have the power of a log analyzer,
...
Was that a math joke? (I like math jokes!)
Anyone know a good math joke? Ahh, Friday afternoons
And these are more relevant to the health care industry, having released even vaster numbers than SCO in the past year:
- SARS
- West Nile
- E coli
So praise them!
Thank you for your keen attention ;-)
I think that line was uddered by John Cleese in Fierce Creatures.
They're already Big, now they're just adding the Brother on.
Why do interviews from Microsoft employees come across so strangely? Like CorporateSpeak or something.
It's like there's a list of terms they must use a lot, like: enhance, investment, and strangely for a person who says they don't like the word, community.
Then there's this one:
This is potent. We accept that and hope we can offer people good prophylactics against loss of privacy.
Did they mean to refer to potency and prophylactics one behind the other? Seems like a Freudian slit. Loss of potency? Personally I wouldn't want to by prophylactics from a company whose name I've heard translates too literally in some languages as "small and soft".
Heck, I respect myself less for having played their games way too long.
That and Civilization -- painful memory of first brush with computer addiction ensues.
I thought highly of those id software guys though. High "woah" factor while playing. I guess they couldn't keep up with the industrialization of the computer game industry.
Gee, I wonder which one makes more sense...
(or abusive parents, etc)
Yours makes more sense of course.
I would have thought of your example as a history of domestic violence. Because they referred to health status, I was thinking of a current condition, and not a person's health record or history.
Thanks for clearing me up on what they meant. I must have been in a fog.
Entities that provide services would collect their names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, race, gender, health status (including HIV, pregnancy, and domestic violence)
Wouldn't domestic violence require a domicile? Or do they mean the number of times they're kicked while sleeping on a grating?
so power flows all over the place, often causing congestion, energy loss and blackouts
Hmm, the same reasons the city department gave us not to eat the wild mushrooms growing down by the creek...
If you thought of this first-time event so accurately before it happened and have no relation to the phage worm writer, then I'm going to draw two conclusions:
/. journal
- you're using a tad more of your allotted neurons than most folks
- I should start reading your
Just mind answering anyone anonomously asking you who was listening when you mentioned it last week. What are the chances the writer was in the group?
"We live in an accelerating universe now and so, as time goes on, the density of galaxies is going to thin out"
In my understanding the lights would be observed to go out for two reasons:
First, young stars form at vertices of intersecting matter bubbles and sheaths, where the concentration is highest. If a vertex reaches a high enough density it coalesces, gets critically hot so fusion can start. Problem is the average density of vertices is dropping, so less will go critical.
Second, cosmic expansion will make it increasingly less likely that the average new stars' light will be able to ever reach an observer.
I'd say if you're repeating yourself with a period of 4 years, you're doing a whole lot better than I'm averaging with my little kids.
Thanks for the correction. I'll try not to use the quote again, at least not until 2007.
... in his field of vision
From the interview:
"That being said, the net does lead to a breakdown of national boundaries and legal systems, and there's going to be some interesting adaptation over the years, as we move inexorably to a global cyberculture."
a "one ring to rule them all" OS
My guess is we have a fair number of people around here cut from the same cloth.
But then he suggests Air Guitar by Dave Hickey and Moneyball by Michael Lewis.
Maybe he was just trying to help the interview reader relate?
That's an example from a few years' back of an attempt to translate "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" from English to Russian and back to English using a different translator.
Can anyone try this on the new (or some other recent) algorithm?
BTW here's Doc Och's most recent website:
Franz Josef Och
These people are in a better position to seriously answer your question though. Well, at least about the "diamond" part. I doubt that both technologies (nanofabrication and artificial diamond sheet growth) need to progress in lock step.
diamond conference
I believe Russians have been precipating diamond substrates for years, and that the technicians are gaining momentum. I'm sure it's at least founding technology for the type of construction-grade extrusion discussed in the book.
Idle speculation on the nanofabrication side though:
I think it will happen in our lifetimes, yes. And I fear that the devices will someday be massively available to people with bad intentions. It's a lot of power. And the downsides weigh too heavily to consider any more on a sunny Friday. Can you imagine modified software 'bots in the extrusion software?
This is one technology that I'm not going to be impatient for.
(and I mean that in the spirit in which they did).
You mean as in the curse "May you be born in interesting times".
Well it does concern me - just look at the trouble Crusher started, having to set traps for them in the mess. I don't want these things in my food - I'm sure they'd make it taste burnt.
Neal Stephenson's book was captivating but a little troubling. And a leap does seem to be taking place now. Over what chasm I don't know.
But that pinball game shows more dexterity than I'd imagined was currently present.
Well I have two things to say to you:
... ... all right I'm busted.
1. my kid's a natural wrestler
2. Or are you the one wanting to skip the scary parts?
"Rows and columns of tiny nano-pinball games" That sounds like I'm hallucinating quite badly.
"Electostatic actuation" - now maybe they could drive the music for it through nano-elctrostatic speakers:
"He's a nano wizard
There's got to be a spin
A nano wizard
S'got monocrystalline"
Focus?: hmm, so some theatres might have compensated for the pixelation by slightly adjusting the focus.
I think you're right about the graininess too. We're used to it and people tend to like what's familiar.
DVD of AotC should be fantastic in terms of image quality: because of the digital recording. Hey hadn't thought about the DVD potential. Thanks man!
haha!
You obviously get out a whole lot more often than me. Sounds like I would have enjoyed that part too - well except for the Robert Goulet.
Enjoy your third trip to Finding Nemo. I still haven't seen the whole movie since I was shuttling my preschooler in and out of the theatre to skip the scary parts.
To clarify I'm not the "15-year old [who] views it from the first row"... any insights beyond what was in the articles?
"... the much less than 2K digital masters for "Star Wars: Episode 2 -- Attack of the Clones"
This explains why AOTC was noticeably pixilated at the particular digital theatre where I saw it - colour was exceptional though.
Here's a bit of info on Finding Nemo, which on the other hand was a digital gem. No noticeable pixilation, and vivid colour.
From others' comments about AOTC YMMV but I don't know why. Does anyone know why different people seeing this saw such a disparity in picture quality?