The idea of equal opportunity and equal rights should be that you just hire whoever is better for the job, and hit anyone making this not so with a big stick that has a nail in it.
That's not the point. No where does it say that they're aiming for a numerically balanced workforce. From the article, "Whites and minorities as well as men and women perceive differences in many aspects of the work climate. For example, minorities are significantly more likely than whites to cite stereotyping, harassment and racial tension as characteristics of the work climate."
This does not deal with being a racial or sexual 50/50. It has more to do with perceptions and attitudes of day to day relationships between employees.
I am primarily a musician and secondly a programmer. I've taken up programming as a second major at university.
For some reason leaking the HL2 code disturbs me more than the thousands of mp3's I've ripped from friends over the years. Perhaps it's that I now know how difficult it is to prgram and can appreciate the significance of someone's work being out of their control.
Yet I've used plenty of warez without much conscience. It's the intimacy that effects me. Leaking code is like leaking someone's tracks or samples.
I think that Microsoft's grand plan to move the world over to Trusted Computing will end up cornering them into a one-dimensional business plan. Anything outside that market will end up thriving. Robust alternatives like linux and Mac OS will become the dominant platform because they will not corner themselves into discreet markets, but rather, will continue to expand.
If this is the last stand-alone version of IE they are betting that their operating system and plan is the *only* operating system and plan. If they make too many mistakes in their Trusted Computing movement they may fail entirely as a company in the near future.
Sure, Ardour does 24-bit, 96kHz recordings but that does not mean the sound is uncoloured. Hi-Fi recordings sound different on ProTools than they do on DAT than they do on Digital Performer than they do on Cubase. The algorhythms matter.
Plus plug-in support is huge. I use Cubase for the awesome VST support. ProTools is all about Audio Suite. How many recordings are made with Antares plugins (Mic Modeler, AutoTune)? Almost everything you hear from a major label these days. Until someone comes up with VST, MAS, DirectX, and RTAS wrappers (or what have you) for linux, Ardour won't be too significant.
Sure this is good for the home user, but what are you even going to record from? I tried getting my M-Audio Delta 44 audio interface to work with RedHat, but couldn't get a single bleep out of it. Hardware support is key.
Yes this is a great step forward for Open Source. But anyone doing mission-critical professional work on this versus something tried and true would be crazy.
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Apple has used original masters (not CDs) to create much of its song library, so all they have to do is encode at a higher frequency than 44.1KHz. At a guess, they're probably using 48KHz...
Even if they are using 48kHz sample rate, they're still compressing the hell out of it, which destroys all those extra frequencies you're getting over 44.1kHz (22.05kHz - 24kHz). AAC does the same thing MP3 and vorbis does, which is chop off a significant amount of high frequencies to cut down on data.
And besides, the original masters could have been tracked at 44.1kHz, 16-bit in ProTools or what have you. Not necessarily any higher than that.
If you use Phoenix, check out the User Agent Switcher that allows you to switch browser identification on the fly from a simple drop-down menue from Phoenix, no extra screen space taken up.
If there are tools that are less painful than reading through a book and can give them a better sense of what it might be like, we need to use them.
Oh dear lord. They're worried about making troops READ? A BOOK?! Heaven forbid how painful that can be versus getting injured or worse in the line of duty. Really now, I may be misunderstanding the context, but for them to think of reading as an invconvenience and not an educational experience, I hardly trust them to manage war simulation or the pain involved with actual war.
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I believe that AI on it's own, while still inside our little metal boxes will be bored by the outside world, what matter is this physical relm to it? Unless it's survival is jeapordized by someone attempting to destroy it's actual case and assuming it can't just replicate itself across a network, it would have no reason to interact with the physical world.
However, when that computing power is combined with the ambitions and desires of man intersting things will start to happen. The muscle of supreme computational power combined with human brains in an efficient and instantaneous interface which is understandable will produce very interesting results. Think of Kevin Mitnick's social exploits in "hacking" with the ability to talk to other computers directly. Someone with a desire for "Hitlerism" (thanks Dubya!) could be an admirable foe.
Would be disabling javascript on selected pages. I.e. the ability to right-click->open-page-in-new-window/tab-with-java -disabled.
That is sort of possible in Mozilla, Netscape, and Phoenix using Tabbed Extensions. Once a tab is open it allows you to right-click on it and change its "Permissions" such as "Allow Plug-ins," "Allow Javascript," "Show Images," etc.
...look at employment as an agreement among equals instead of a master to a purchased slave...
This will be possible when companies listen to unions and the managment are not elevated to a superior status. When all parts of a company are regarded as equally important this will happen. When workers are valued at more than miniumum wage and the boss does not suck up millions this will happen. Until then it is the employer's responsibility to supply employee with as many kick backs as possible.
It has been 800,000 years since the last time the poles flipped. At that time, our ancestors were walking around, munching on wooly mammoths an giant sloths, etc., armed with such amazing modern tech as sharpened flint and fire. If they can take it, so can we.
What I am worried that our culture has become too technologically dependent to survive without complex technology which may fail in the event of such a magnetic flip. I believe we are currently exceeding the earth's carrying capacity for our species and it is only through technology that we are still surviving. Without the use of GPS tractors and global communications how are we to get food to those who need it most? Even if there is not some catastrophe, I believe our way of life will have to dramatically change.
The cavemen didn't have much to lose, so they didn't lose it. We have much that could go awry. I could be comparing apples and oranges, but NASA avoids using extremely intricate technology (i.e. CPU's with 0.13 micron transistors, etc) because those devices may fail when bombarded with cosmic rays. Might these devices fall prey to harm without a global magnetic shield?
I had the same gripes as you, until I realized I could set Mozilla to open Mail/New as the default component. So although it doesn't solve the problem of massive memory consumption, it's easy to have quick access to your browser and mail clients seperately. So until Minotaur comes full circle, this seems to be the easiest, although not the most resource efficient solution.
waves of color would wash over the screen. Kind of pretty in a psychodelic way.
wow, that must've been where they got the idea for the old OS/2 cable commercials with the swirling pyschedelic patterns. if only Windows had a prettier crash screen, they could've used it for marketing.
"Where do you want to go today? Windows has encountered a fatal error" *note pulsing techno music and fast paced visuals*
If Disney ceased doing anything cool at all, their revenues would plunge (probably not, but humor me here,) and they would no longer have power to influence legislation like the SSSCA. The point is that Slashdot is merely a discussion location. Yes, Disney is fscked for support and sponsorship of the SSSCA. Yet they are "porting" a great film to the english speaking audiences, but only because they can make a buck (or yen) off of it.
>I already sat through a Miyazaki film with tacky Hollywood dub.
while i wholeheartedly agree that subtitles are way better than dubbing (i don't mind having to do a little work to experience the film in its most genuine form while still understanding it), perhaps it's not just "tacky Hollywood dub" but tacky Japanese dialogue. be it a poorly written script or maybe literal translations of Japanese sound "tacky" to American english ears.
either way subtitles are preferred. hell, kids or adults may even learn something from being forced to read for a change.
Microsoft Linux provides all the power of the Linux Operating System with the ease of use you've come to expect from Microsoft Products.... In addition to features like My Home Directory and My Configuration, Microsoft Linux contains greatly improved support for Web and Enterprise development.
while it would solve many monitary issues, a large part of the divide problem is education. unless you've grown up around computers or been schooled in them to a relatively high degree, you're not going to have any idea how to use Linux. regardless of however good the open source GUI is. if a problem arose, which it most likely would, who would fix it? hard to find free help these days if your internet is broken. the only OS i can realistically see working when it comes to usability is the MacOS, but of course there are the money issues there. you have to admit a load of iMac2's would do fabulously in low-income communities were the price tag picked up by some generous donor (perhaps michael bloomberg could have done something useful for citizens with his millions, instead of further contributing to the woes of a bought out political system...but that's another rant altogether.)
wow. growing illegality on the net is one of my greater fears. although the spam law is clearly useful in situations, the fact that anything should be illegal out there is unsettling.
i know it's just a utopian wish, but if only people could be responsible for their own actions with respect to the effects on others.
This is exactly the kind of action that spawns terrorist attacks. The U.S. imposes their power upon other countries who neither need nor want "help" and with only heresay as evidence destroy a country's only communications system. And they wonder why they are attacked...
If you go shouting "Ahhhhh! Police state! Police state!" at every little reduction of liberty, most people will become desensitized to the reaction..
you think this hasn't already happened? in the last election a town near mine, in santa barbara, broke off from the city of santa barbara in an initiative to start their own city. it passed but only 18% of the community voted to become its own city. 30% of the voting-age population voted. the rest were completely apathetic over what city they lived in.
the majority have been desensitized to any sort of reform that nobody even cares enough to vote any more on issues they have to directly live with.
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The idea of equal opportunity and equal rights should be that you just hire whoever is better for the job, and hit anyone making this not so with a big stick that has a nail in it.
That's not the point. No where does it say that they're aiming for a numerically balanced workforce. From the article, "Whites and minorities as well as men and women perceive differences in many aspects of the work climate. For example, minorities are significantly more likely than whites to cite stereotyping, harassment and racial tension as characteristics of the work climate."
This does not deal with being a racial or sexual 50/50. It has more to do with perceptions and attitudes of day to day relationships between employees.
I am primarily a musician and secondly a programmer. I've taken up programming as a second major at university.
For some reason leaking the HL2 code disturbs me more than the thousands of mp3's I've ripped from friends over the years. Perhaps it's that I now know how difficult it is to prgram and can appreciate the significance of someone's work being out of their control.
Yet I've used plenty of warez without much conscience. It's the intimacy that effects me. Leaking code is like leaking someone's tracks or samples.
I think that Microsoft's grand plan to move the world over to Trusted Computing will end up cornering them into a one-dimensional business plan. Anything outside that market will end up thriving. Robust alternatives like linux and Mac OS will become the dominant platform because they will not corner themselves into discreet markets, but rather, will continue to expand.
If this is the last stand-alone version of IE they are betting that their operating system and plan is the *only* operating system and plan. If they make too many mistakes in their Trusted Computing movement they may fail entirely as a company in the near future.
Sure, Ardour does 24-bit, 96kHz recordings but that does not mean the sound is uncoloured. Hi-Fi recordings sound different on ProTools than they do on DAT than they do on Digital Performer than they do on Cubase. The algorhythms matter.
Plus plug-in support is huge. I use Cubase for the awesome VST support. ProTools is all about Audio Suite. How many recordings are made with Antares plugins (Mic Modeler, AutoTune)? Almost everything you hear from a major label these days. Until someone comes up with VST, MAS, DirectX, and RTAS wrappers (or what have you) for linux, Ardour won't be too significant.
Sure this is good for the home user, but what are you even going to record from? I tried getting my M-Audio Delta 44 audio interface to work with RedHat, but couldn't get a single bleep out of it. Hardware support is key.
Yes this is a great step forward for Open Source. But anyone doing mission-critical professional work on this versus something tried and true would be crazy.
Apple has used original masters (not CDs) to create much of its song library, so all they have to do is encode at a higher frequency than 44.1KHz. At a guess, they're probably using 48KHz...
Even if they are using 48kHz sample rate, they're still compressing the hell out of it, which destroys all those extra frequencies you're getting over 44.1kHz (22.05kHz - 24kHz). AAC does the same thing MP3 and vorbis does, which is chop off a significant amount of high frequencies to cut down on data.
And besides, the original masters could have been tracked at 44.1kHz, 16-bit in ProTools or what have you. Not necessarily any higher than that.
If you use Phoenix, check out the User Agent Switcher that allows you to switch browser identification on the fly from a simple drop-down menue from Phoenix, no extra screen space taken up.
If there are tools that are less painful than reading through a book and can give them a better sense of what it might be like, we need to use them.
Oh dear lord. They're worried about making troops READ? A BOOK?! Heaven forbid how painful that can be versus getting injured or worse in the line of duty. Really now, I may be misunderstanding the context, but for them to think of reading as an invconvenience and not an educational experience, I hardly trust them to manage war simulation or the pain involved with actual war.
I believe that AI on it's own, while still inside our little metal boxes will be bored by the outside world, what matter is this physical relm to it? Unless it's survival is jeapordized by someone attempting to destroy it's actual case and assuming it can't just replicate itself across a network, it would have no reason to interact with the physical world.
However, when that computing power is combined with the ambitions and desires of man intersting things will start to happen. The muscle of supreme computational power combined with human brains in an efficient and instantaneous interface which is understandable will produce very interesting results. Think of Kevin Mitnick's social exploits in "hacking" with the ability to talk to other computers directly. Someone with a desire for "Hitlerism" (thanks Dubya!) could be an admirable foe.
Would be disabling javascript on selected pages. I.e. the ability to right-click->open-page-in-new-window/tab-with-java -disabled.
That is sort of possible in Mozilla, Netscape, and Phoenix using Tabbed Extensions. Once a tab is open it allows you to right-click on it and change its "Permissions" such as "Allow Plug-ins," "Allow Javascript," "Show Images," etc.
Soylent Green is people!
As cool as this is, might it eliminate "true quality" from food. If this concept were expanded, soylent green could become reality.
...look at employment as an agreement among equals instead of a master to a purchased slave...
This will be possible when companies listen to unions and the managment are not elevated to a superior status. When all parts of a company are regarded as equally important this will happen. When workers are valued at more than miniumum wage and the boss does not suck up millions this will happen. Until then it is the employer's responsibility to supply employee with as many kick backs as possible.
It has been 800,000 years since the last time the poles flipped. At that time, our ancestors were walking around, munching on wooly mammoths an giant sloths, etc., armed with such amazing modern tech as sharpened flint and fire. If they can take it, so can we.
What I am worried that our culture has become too technologically dependent to survive without complex technology which may fail in the event of such a magnetic flip. I believe we are currently exceeding the earth's carrying capacity for our species and it is only through technology that we are still surviving. Without the use of GPS tractors and global communications how are we to get food to those who need it most? Even if there is not some catastrophe, I believe our way of life will have to dramatically change.
The cavemen didn't have much to lose, so they didn't lose it. We have much that could go awry. I could be comparing apples and oranges, but NASA avoids using extremely intricate technology (i.e. CPU's with 0.13 micron transistors, etc) because those devices may fail when bombarded with cosmic rays. Might these devices fall prey to harm without a global magnetic shield?
I had the same gripes as you, until I realized I could set Mozilla to open Mail/New as the default component. So although it doesn't solve the problem of massive memory consumption, it's easy to have quick access to your browser and mail clients seperately. So until Minotaur comes full circle, this seems to be the easiest, although not the most resource efficient solution.
Give yourself a few extra days lead time for in-depth studying. Get proper sleep sleep for the period just before and during exams.
yeah, but then i couldn't procrastinate fucking around on the web and drinking pints up until the last few hours before the exam.
waves of color would wash over the screen. Kind of pretty in a psychodelic way.
wow, that must've been where they got the idea for the old OS/2 cable commercials with the swirling pyschedelic patterns. if only Windows had a prettier crash screen, they could've used it for marketing.
"Where do you want to go today? Windows has encountered a fatal error" *note pulsing techno music and fast paced visuals*
> ...try explaining that to the "average" user.
the "average" user does not know what mozilla means. even some of the more technically savvy folk i hang out with don't know what mozilla is.
i believe anyone who uses mozilla is competent enough to discern between the bumblings of a monolithic corporation and an open source project.
clearly they're not using OS X's cocoa-wide spell checking. The posh geek of today knows how to stay well edited.
>So, is Disney good or bad?
If Disney ceased doing anything cool at all, their revenues would plunge (probably not, but humor me here,) and they would no longer have power to influence legislation like the SSSCA. The point is that Slashdot is merely a discussion location. Yes, Disney is fscked for support and sponsorship of the SSSCA. Yet they are "porting" a great film to the english speaking audiences, but only because they can make a buck (or yen) off of it.
>I already sat through a Miyazaki film with tacky Hollywood dub.
while i wholeheartedly agree that subtitles are way better than dubbing (i don't mind having to do a little work to experience the film in its most genuine form while still understanding it), perhaps it's not just "tacky Hollywood dub" but tacky Japanese dialogue. be it a poorly written script or maybe literal translations of Japanese sound "tacky" to American english ears.
either way subtitles are preferred. hell, kids or adults may even learn something from being forced to read for a change.
Microsoft Linux provides all the power of the Linux Operating System with the ease of use you've come to expect from Microsoft Products. ... In addition to features like My Home Directory and My Configuration, Microsoft Linux contains greatly improved support for Web and Enterprise development.
while it would solve many monitary issues, a large part of the divide problem is education. unless you've grown up around computers or been schooled in them to a relatively high degree, you're not going to have any idea how to use Linux. regardless of however good the open source GUI is. if a problem arose, which it most likely would, who would fix it? hard to find free help these days if your internet is broken. the only OS i can realistically see working when it comes to usability is the MacOS, but of course there are the money issues there. you have to admit a load of iMac2's would do fabulously in low-income communities were the price tag picked up by some generous donor (perhaps michael bloomberg could have done something useful for citizens with his millions, instead of further contributing to the woes of a bought out political system...but that's another rant altogether.)
wow. growing illegality on the net is one of my greater fears. although the spam law is clearly useful in situations, the fact that anything should be illegal out there is unsettling. i know it's just a utopian wish, but if only people could be responsible for their own actions with respect to the effects on others.
This is exactly the kind of action that spawns terrorist attacks. The U.S. imposes their power upon other countries who neither need nor want "help" and with only heresay as evidence destroy a country's only communications system. And they wonder why they are attacked...
If you go shouting "Ahhhhh! Police state! Police state!" at every little reduction of liberty, most people will become desensitized to the reaction..
you think this hasn't already happened? in the last election a town near mine, in santa barbara, broke off from the city of santa barbara in an initiative to start their own city. it passed but only 18% of the community voted to become its own city. 30% of the voting-age population voted. the rest were completely apathetic over what city they lived in.
the majority have been desensitized to any sort of reform that nobody even cares enough to vote any more on issues they have to directly live with.
linux shminux. just wait till Apple releases OS X 10.2 for the PS.