Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium.
This is a latin maxim which Wikipedia renders that as "I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery"
Another rendering might be "I'd choose dangerous liberty over peaceful servitude."
Quiescite. Non vult ad comment in quibusdam legitur stultus senex valde, verborum usus, nemo amplius. Recentiores linguae experiri scribere volutpat.
This is this guy's own latin. It is loosely translated "Shut up. I want to comment to people who read a very stupid, old language used by no one anyway. Newer languages have people who actually write in them."
Please never again use the word "cyber-terrorist" in any function. It is way too easy to turn that word into "anything someone does on the internet that you are scared of" and the internet is not always well understood by political classes and established interests. It is a word which too easily invites disastrous misinterpretation (e.g. Aaron Swartz-like situations).
At the time the second amendment was written to reload a gun you had to spend a good minute reloading it with a very long stick. I support your right to have as many manually-reloaded muskets as you want, as the Founder's intended!
>They now know how to frag large groups of people because they do it on CoD and Halo. It's like free training for emotional disturbed people.
You can't rocket jump in real life. Video games are not realistic. Firing a gun in a video game is nothing like firing a gun in real life. Guns are crude, noisy, horrible, low-tech devices. No matter how much you play a video game, it isn't going to do much for your real-life accuracy. At most, video games can be a form of mental preparation, desensitization or even glorification, but very rarely an actual teaching tool.
I've been into compressed lossless audio from the start. First, AIFF is definitely not one of the most popular lossless audio formats for distributing music because the popular formats are compressed lossless audio and AIFF is uncompressed. The top formats are FLAC, APE and ALAC. FLAC is the most popular because it is open-source and versatile. APE was highly popular in the late 90's and early 00's and still is with some because it has better compression than any of the other formats. However, as time went on hard drive space became more plentiful and mobile devices started popping up. APE achieves its superior compression via calculations that are more intensive than FLAC uses and thus more taxing on mobile devices. It is also less cross-platform-compatible. ALAC is Apple's Lossless Audio Codec and is a latecomer onto the scene. It has good iTunes support and slightly better compression than FLAC, but that's about it.
Also, it is definitely possible to tell lossless audio from lossy audio, even at higher bitrates. Around 2002 I had a friend who completely mocked my lossless ways, even though I'm not one of those gold-cable audiophile people -- just a normal guy who likes his music. I just had a decent pair of Klipsh speakers with a subwoofer. My friend was so certain that this was all in my head and I was so certain that it was not that we devised a simple test. He would show me two identical-looking files in iTunes, just showing the titles. One was a high-bitrate AAC and the other a FLAC file. I could click on them to play them as much as I wanted. I was then to decide which was lossless and which was lossy. We did this with 10 files. It was basically double-blind as he didn't know which was which either until he took the computer back to check my answer. He set up 10 files this way. All in all the test took just 5 or 10 minutes.
I got 9 of 10 right. It is hard to describe sounds, but the lossless music is "deeper," especially bass, guitar vibrations and high notes. This makes it obvious for many songs.
However, I expect not everyone has hearing like this. I suspect this because one day I heard this annoying buzzing sound and asked my girlfriend about it. She couldn't hear anything. So, I searched all over for what was causing it. It turned out it was a television that was on, but that was on a non-channel so it was completely black on the screen. However, the CRT television emitted a sound from being on in a silent room that I found annoying and my girlfriend couldn't even hear. My sister could also hear it when I tested her later. I also sometimes find the sounds fluorescent lights make annoying too.
Anyway, lossless is great and, yes, you can hear the difference if you have hearing which can hear the difference. It's sort of tautological, but it's the truth.
Note, we've gotten to this strange point where people think any mention of WWII evokes Godwin's Law. The law was originally intended to stop unthinking analogies, not apt analogies, nor, as in this case, contextualized ethical examples or moral dilemmas.
Thus, I am forced to hereby invent and evoke a new law: Greenwald's Law.
So murdering innocents and lying about said murders is totally okay, as long as you do it when dealing with Nazi's. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
It isn't a terrible example; you are reading it wrong. For you, who are giving the first two statements a context that does not exist till the third statement, read it like this:
Lying [to people in general, not specifically to Nazi's] is wrong. Breaking the law [in general, not specifically in Nazi countries] is wrong.
There is an old saying: two wrongs don't make a right.
Lying is wrong. Breaking the law is wrong. Lying to the Nazi's about how you are illegally keeping Anne Frank in your attic is right. Sometimes two wrongs can make a right.
However, I agree with you. Animals should be treated better and vegetarianism is a noble choice.
Now if only we combined the wrongs associated with our penchant for meat-eating, the wrongs of our love of processed foods and the wrongs of our genetically engineering without long-term testing to make some mass-produced, tasty meat-in-a-lab, and we might be able to turn meat eating into right as well...
He said that he intends to incorporate ReactOS into the lab work so that students would have the opportunity to work on an actual operating system.
Oh, wow, an opportunity to work on an actual operating system. I just imagine thousands of Russian children all with computers staring at blank screens and start-up errors for years until this man gives them the rare chance to work on an actual operating system. Bless you, kind sir. Bless your heart.
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You are absolutely correct. It is also a little known fact that all the days between Saturday and Sunday were lost sometime before 1900 and so we are left with only 7 of the original 9 days of the week. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to wake up on Uranday or Nepturday on a sunny day a year before the year 1900.
When I am demonstrating something to her I can lean over her shoulder and touch the screen, which is fantastic. Don't make the mistake of thinking that touch is bad, because it isn't.
The first time I lean over your shoulder and hit the X button on whatever you're doing may change your tune on that...
"As a good coder" flag #1 "I can tell you we aren't all booked up" flag #2, if you were as good as you think you were, you would be busy enough to not take on random ideas from the peanut gallery
Technically, I am booked up now, but I'm not booked up for all time. There are plenty of other good freelance coders out there. I have no idea what the peanut gallery refers to.
"It's going to have to have TCP/IP in-out" oh no, that might take a.net example or two "or the thousand other things that consumer-grade have"
which all uses the same libraries that every one else has... you may be fast, but you think of yourself a bit dont you?
You may be fast, but you condescend a bit don't you? That isn't what I was saying at all. You are misunderstanding. Think if grandma had a great idea for an app. Now think about grandma trying to understand TCP/IP. Admittedly, some grandmas could but there are lots of people who cannot naturally process the types of algorithmic thinking required to be a computer programmer.
"Your advice is like telling a strait women she should try being a lesbian for a while" Sign of a true pro, making a silent bob film with the lead females role reversed, awesome, would you like to work in FAA embedded design? you truly showed your talent
Thank you. May you have future success in a commensurate amount to your kindness.
He says, 'The most common thing I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is, "I have this idea for an app or site. But I'm not technical, so I need to find someone who can make it for me." I point them to my advice about how to hire a programmer, but as most of the good ones are already booked solid...
As a good coder who writes applications for aspiring entrepreneurs for a living, I can tell you we aren't all booked up. I can also tell you that even if your hypothetical newbie learned how to code a basic application, it's not going to help them one iota when they wants to get that app made. Now he or she can make a basic app...great.
But their real app is nothing like their learn-to-code app. It's going to have to have TCP/IP in-out, a server, mess with the registry, a installer, low-level optimizations, QT bindings, API calls, assembly, links to command-line programs, cross-platform code, multithreading or the thousand other things that consumer-grade have, but a newly minted coder isn't going to know how to do or know how to do well. So what does the person get for their time? A slightly better appreciation of what that coder they still need to hire is going to have to do perhaps.
You are also forgetting about opportunity costs. Your advice is like telling a strait women she should try being a lesbian for a while, because all the good men are already married. You lose time and unless you actually are a lesbian want to be one or find it interesting for its own sake, there isn't much point.
I think they mean, to quote the saleswoman herself "This sell for like crazy user." Personally, I might believe her, because I'm not sure that case provides an effective faraday cage, which should be the first thing you look for in a case. If you are crazy though, you clearly wouldn't care about that.
A lot of serious Christian thinkers believe the modern church has lost its way. Another good read I'd recommend would be What Would Jesus Deconstruct.
I personally think a lot of sayings of Jesus that don't quite make sense in the context of the New Testament make a lot more sense in the Gospel of Thomas. Also a great deal of the New Testament comes pre-interpreted by the apostles, while Thomas is just sayings without interpretation. There is an ongoing debate as to whether the New Testament or The Gospel of Thomas is an older text or a closer text to the original material that was circulating around before the Bible became canonized.
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Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium.
This is a latin maxim which Wikipedia renders that as "I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery"
Another rendering might be "I'd choose dangerous liberty over peaceful servitude."
Quiescite. Non vult ad comment in quibusdam legitur stultus senex valde, verborum usus, nemo amplius. Recentiores linguae experiri scribere volutpat.
This is this guy's own latin. It is loosely translated "Shut up. I want to comment to people who read a very stupid, old language used by no one anyway. Newer languages have people who actually write in them."
Please never again use the word "cyber-terrorist" in any function. It is way too easy to turn that word into "anything someone does on the internet that you are scared of" and the internet is not always well understood by political classes and established interests. It is a word which too easily invites disastrous misinterpretation (e.g. Aaron Swartz-like situations).
At the time the second amendment was written to reload a gun you had to spend a good minute reloading it with a very long stick. I support your right to have as many manually-reloaded muskets as you want, as the Founder's intended!
>They now know how to frag large groups of people because they do it on CoD and Halo. It's like free training for emotional disturbed people.
You can't rocket jump in real life. Video games are not realistic. Firing a gun in a video game is nothing like firing a gun in real life. Guns are crude, noisy, horrible, low-tech devices. No matter how much you play a video game, it isn't going to do much for your real-life accuracy. At most, video games can be a form of mental preparation, desensitization or even glorification, but very rarely an actual teaching tool.
All I have to say is that the first Egyptian Pharaoh was named Q'bert.
I've been into compressed lossless audio from the start. First, AIFF is definitely not one of the most popular lossless audio formats for distributing music because the popular formats are compressed lossless audio and AIFF is uncompressed. The top formats are FLAC, APE and ALAC. FLAC is the most popular because it is open-source and versatile. APE was highly popular in the late 90's and early 00's and still is with some because it has better compression than any of the other formats. However, as time went on hard drive space became more plentiful and mobile devices started popping up. APE achieves its superior compression via calculations that are more intensive than FLAC uses and thus more taxing on mobile devices. It is also less cross-platform-compatible. ALAC is Apple's Lossless Audio Codec and is a latecomer onto the scene. It has good iTunes support and slightly better compression than FLAC, but that's about it.
Also, it is definitely possible to tell lossless audio from lossy audio, even at higher bitrates. Around 2002 I had a friend who completely mocked my lossless ways, even though I'm not one of those gold-cable audiophile people -- just a normal guy who likes his music. I just had a decent pair of Klipsh speakers with a subwoofer. My friend was so certain that this was all in my head and I was so certain that it was not that we devised a simple test. He would show me two identical-looking files in iTunes, just showing the titles. One was a high-bitrate AAC and the other a FLAC file. I could click on them to play them as much as I wanted. I was then to decide which was lossless and which was lossy. We did this with 10 files. It was basically double-blind as he didn't know which was which either until he took the computer back to check my answer. He set up 10 files this way. All in all the test took just 5 or 10 minutes.
I got 9 of 10 right. It is hard to describe sounds, but the lossless music is "deeper," especially bass, guitar vibrations and high notes. This makes it obvious for many songs.
However, I expect not everyone has hearing like this. I suspect this because one day I heard this annoying buzzing sound and asked my girlfriend about it. She couldn't hear anything. So, I searched all over for what was causing it. It turned out it was a television that was on, but that was on a non-channel so it was completely black on the screen. However, the CRT television emitted a sound from being on in a silent room that I found annoying and my girlfriend couldn't even hear. My sister could also hear it when I tested her later. I also sometimes find the sounds fluorescent lights make annoying too.
Anyway, lossless is great and, yes, you can hear the difference if you have hearing which can hear the difference. It's sort of tautological, but it's the truth.
I don't see how I can give +1 Intentionally Ironic.
It is like a clown car; it fits a lot.
Cuba is also like a clown car. It's driven by silly people in circles.
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The day after email is taxed is the day fmail is created.
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Wait...does this mean my plan to cause another Big Bang using a giant cannon isn't going to work?!
Note, we've gotten to this strange point where people think any mention of WWII evokes Godwin's Law. The law was originally intended to stop unthinking analogies, not apt analogies, nor, as in this case, contextualized ethical examples or moral dilemmas.
Thus, I am forced to hereby invent and evoke a new law: Greenwald's Law.
So murdering innocents and lying about said murders is totally okay, as long as you do it when dealing with Nazi's. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
It isn't a terrible example; you are reading it wrong. For you, who are giving the first two statements a context that does not exist till the third statement, read it like this:
Lying [to people in general, not specifically to Nazi's] is wrong. Breaking the law [in general, not specifically in Nazi countries] is wrong.
There is an old saying: two wrongs don't make a right.
Lying is wrong. Breaking the law is wrong. Lying to the Nazi's about how you are illegally keeping Anne Frank in your attic is right. Sometimes two wrongs can make a right.
However, I agree with you. Animals should be treated better and vegetarianism is a noble choice.
Now if only we combined the wrongs associated with our penchant for meat-eating, the wrongs of our love of processed foods and the wrongs of our genetically engineering without long-term testing to make some mass-produced, tasty meat-in-a-lab, and we might be able to turn meat eating into right as well...
Haha. Mod this up. :)
He said that he intends to incorporate ReactOS into the lab work so that students would have the opportunity to work on an actual operating system.
Oh, wow, an opportunity to work on an actual operating system. I just imagine thousands of Russian children all with computers staring at blank screens and start-up errors for years until this man gives them the rare chance to work on an actual operating system. Bless you, kind sir. Bless your heart. __
You are absolutely correct. It is also a little known fact that all the days between Saturday and Sunday were lost sometime before 1900 and so we are left with only 7 of the original 9 days of the week. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to wake up on Uranday or Nepturday on a sunny day a year before the year 1900.
When I am demonstrating something to her I can lean over her shoulder and touch the screen, which is fantastic. Don't make the mistake of thinking that touch is bad, because it isn't.
The first time I lean over your shoulder and hit the X button on whatever you're doing may change your tune on that...
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Ok ok, where do I start with this? I can't resist.
What's with so many programmers responding in a way that says: "I am such an awesome coder. You are such a newb. You aren't part of the group."
To argue the point that: "Anyone can be an awesome coder. Newbs should be programmers too. Everyone should be in this group."
I thought programmers were good at logic?
"As a good coder" flag #1 "I can tell you we aren't all booked up" flag #2, if you were as good as you think you were, you would be busy enough to not take on random ideas from the peanut gallery
Technically, I am booked up now, but I'm not booked up for all time. There are plenty of other good freelance coders out there. I have no idea what the peanut gallery refers to.
"It's going to have to have TCP/IP in-out" oh no, that might take a .net example or two "or the thousand other things that consumer-grade have"
which all uses the same libraries that every one else has ... you may be fast, but you think of yourself a bit dont you?
You may be fast, but you condescend a bit don't you? That isn't what I was saying at all. You are misunderstanding. Think if grandma had a great idea for an app. Now think about grandma trying to understand TCP/IP. Admittedly, some grandmas could but there are lots of people who cannot naturally process the types of algorithmic thinking required to be a computer programmer.
"Your advice is like telling a strait women she should try being a lesbian for a while" Sign of a true pro, making a silent bob film with the lead females role reversed, awesome, would you like to work in FAA embedded design? you truly showed your talent
Thank you. May you have future success in a commensurate amount to your kindness.
Who the fuck says "TCP/IP" in-out?
Clearly you weren't coding in the 90's. :)
He says, 'The most common thing I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is, "I have this idea for an app or site. But I'm not technical, so I need to find someone who can make it for me." I point them to my advice about how to hire a programmer, but as most of the good ones are already booked solid...
As a good coder who writes applications for aspiring entrepreneurs for a living, I can tell you we aren't all booked up. I can also tell you that even if your hypothetical newbie learned how to code a basic application, it's not going to help them one iota when they wants to get that app made. Now he or she can make a basic app...great.
But their real app is nothing like their learn-to-code app. It's going to have to have TCP/IP in-out, a server, mess with the registry, a installer, low-level optimizations, QT bindings, API calls, assembly, links to command-line programs, cross-platform code, multithreading or the thousand other things that consumer-grade have, but a newly minted coder isn't going to know how to do or know how to do well. So what does the person get for their time? A slightly better appreciation of what that coder they still need to hire is going to have to do perhaps.
You are also forgetting about opportunity costs. Your advice is like telling a strait women she should try being a lesbian for a while, because all the good men are already married. You lose time and unless you actually are a lesbian want to be one or find it interesting for its own sake, there isn't much point.
I think they mean, to quote the saleswoman herself "This sell for like crazy user." Personally, I might believe her, because I'm not sure that case provides an effective faraday cage, which should be the first thing you look for in a case. If you are crazy though, you clearly wouldn't care about that.
So long as Chinese children are not likely to chew on their lead-paint toys, then they will get no more lead than someone in a no-lead country.
Clearly you have not been in the presence of a toddler for any length of time.
By telling a joke you've buried the lead. Good job, our water supply is now polluted.
A lot of serious Christian thinkers believe the modern church has lost its way. Another good read I'd recommend would be What Would Jesus Deconstruct.
I personally think a lot of sayings of Jesus that don't quite make sense in the context of the New Testament make a lot more sense in the Gospel of Thomas. Also a great deal of the New Testament comes pre-interpreted by the apostles, while Thomas is just sayings without interpretation. There is an ongoing debate as to whether the New Testament or The Gospel of Thomas is an older text or a closer text to the original material that was circulating around before the Bible became canonized.