Sadly, being Google is not enough to classify a lawsuit agaisnt you as "weird-ass" in a court of law, unless proposition 42B is passed, which we all hope!
Re:More Stupidity!
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P2P and TV
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· Score: 5, Insightful
You seem to have mixed up your role in this whole thing.
You are not the customer, you are the product. Advetisers are the customers, they are buying your attention (what's left of it) and the TV networks are selling it.
That's right, it was simple. I could shove that darn disk in to the drive, and so long as I knew to press the drive lock down the disk would spin and the OS would load. I could learn the basic set of commands within a few minutes. It was not just simple, but darn simple and made it possible for the genius and the technophobe to achieve the same results: operating a PC.
Does this mean that the whole world is getting dimmer? Since when has "learning a basic set of commands within a few minutes" been an almost infeasible task for soooo many people? Maybe we got lazy because of too much pampering? Maybe the technophobes of the time are those who now consider themselves leet hackers? I really don't know...
So your point is: I have this and that problem in Windows so someone else claims of having this or that (other) problem in GNU/Linux is invalid?
I think what the parent meant is that, GNU/Linux is not perfect for everyone (yet). Yes, I know, Windows is not either, same goes for OSX or any environment for that matter. I find it nauseating that people go berserk if their little baby gets attacked in an OS flame war. Nobody even attempted to give some sort of an explanation about the question which was: Why aren't more distros becoming LSB Certified?
Nobody implied that anything sucks. Just a legitimate question about LSB, at least, voice your opinion about the LSB and please, leave your personnal OS of choice out of it because it is just irrelevant.
I know a lot of slashdoters will say something similar to what I say but maybe if enough people get publicly humiliated for pointless arguments about what OS is teh b35t, we might eventually be able to give some editorial value to this forum.
How exactly is that supposed to be safer than anything out there? Just because it's Google doesn't mean it will be perfect. Unless they have found some sort of formula to prove that a piece of code is secure and/or bugfree. I know we love them but I think, when it comes to computer security, people should always keep their arms up. Having a air-bag in your car does not imply that you can drive with you eyes closed.
So, about making security irrelevant, I don't think so! I don't see any way that this could happen in my lifetime, nor my children's. It was a concern 20 years ago, it's a huge concern today and it might be the biggest concern we have in another 20 years, who knows? No, Google, doesn't know.
- Immaginez un tas de loups bioniques de ça! - Nathalie Portman pétrifiée avec du gruau dans ses pantalons; - http://www.SexeAvecUneChèvre.cx - 1. Quelque chose de bête; - 2. ??? - 3. Profits! (ceci est en fait bilingue!)
The rhesus macaque monkeys also splurged on photos of top-dog counterparts, the high-ranking primates. Maybe that's like you or me buying People magazine.
So, if I understand it right, reading People Magazine is just lire looking at a monkey's derière?
Some of the leading chewing gum researchers are saying that chewing gum in class is good for concentration. What I'm saying is, self-proclaimed experts with a bias are...self-proclaimed experts with a bias...or something.
Correct me if I'm wrong but using some warezed serial number from the Internet doesn't mean that they don't have a proper license. A license is really just a piece of paper, isn't it?
I have seen this done at many places:
Me to boss: I just tried Something 2000 from Someone Inc. and it works pretty well. It costs 500$ and I need it to do project Doomed.
Boss: *deals with bureaucracy to get the said license.*
Me: *never sees any of it but still uses the software, license stays burried in some clerk's files.*
No, I'm not trying to defend this kind of attitude, I'm just saying that having a bad serial in your software does not mean you haven't paid for it.
But, I'm not really sure if having the license means you can use the software nomater what S/N was typed at the install.
(Specifically: What about computers built with Norton Ghost and the like?)
You talk of speaking french as some sort of disease...
It's not the plague you know; as a french speaking IT worker I can say that most of us speak at least enough english to be functionnal in the workplace. As for non-IT workers in Quebec it's another story. The thing is, english is basicaly a necesity in computers since most litterature and jargon associated with CS is english. We do have some lousy translations for things like E-Mail (Courriel), Software (Logiciel), Freeware (Gratuitciel) but they never really got momentum as far as common use goes.
Another common criteria in the biological definition of life is the presence of a metabolism. That would mean things like breathing, eating, producing waste, etc...
I eared it was the biggest concern as to wheter viruses are living organisms or not. Most current biology books consider viruses as non-living.
Viruses are basicly just some DNA or RNA in a shell, linking to bacterium with specific proteins.
I can't remember if it is only here in Canada or if it's US tv but I know I have the discovery channel here which...sometimes...has very interesting shows.
I don't see how things could change.
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Is Louder Better?
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Today, every commercial CDs comming out are compressed so heavily that you can barely see any difference between smooth and busy parts of any given mix.
Mastering engineers use all sorts of multiband compressors and loudness maximizers so that if you use the CD in a multiple CD charger, you don't have to ride the dial and ajust the level to make it sound even.
That means that the louder one goes, everyone bassicly has to follow so that they are not the softest playing CD in the set...which most people will perceive as inferior (psychoacoustics phenomenon here).
It really is a sad state of affairs because the role of the compressor is to limit dynamics in the sound wave which in turn, makes it harder to create climax and release in the song. The jazz and classical recordings seem not to be affected so much, fidelity is the word here...but for pop/rock records...they go as close as possible to digital 0dB.
Here we have something called, Just For Laugh Festival. It's a two weeks long festival featuring humorists from around the world. Last years' included a show called In The Fless with the Simpsons. It was a live reading of an epidose from the cast of the Simspons followed by a live Q&A with Matt Groening himself.
It's not really related to tonight's show but it can answer some concerns you had about publicly doing the voices.
And it really is funny to see Castalneta going D'Oh! and Hmmmm.
Matt Groening is a funny guy too. His father is actually called Homer, is mother Marguarette, sister Lisa...which leaves him to be incarnated in Bart...which is really just brat with mixed up letters.
I thinks it's a great idea, I know I would pay the 15$ requied to get my hands on one of these.
As for the sound quality of the said recording; I'm not too scared about it. The sound engineers only have to use one of the monitoring outputs from the sound board, apply some mastering tools (Multiband Compressor, EQ, etc..) and put it straight on CD. It's really nothing spectacular from a technical point of view, but really just a good merchandising idea.
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Or better wet, just strap the toast to a cat's back and the two will just stand in the air, rotating until the end of times.
Sadly, being Google is not enough to classify a lawsuit agaisnt you as "weird-ass" in a court of law, unless proposition 42B is passed, which we all hope!
You seem to have mixed up your role in this whole thing.
You are not the customer, you are the product. Advetisers are the customers, they are buying your attention (what's left of it) and the TV networks are selling it.
That's right, it was simple. I could shove that darn disk in to the drive, and so long as I knew to press the drive lock down the disk would spin and the OS would load. I could learn the basic set of commands within a few minutes. It was not just simple, but darn simple and made it possible for the genius and the technophobe to achieve the same results: operating a PC.
Does this mean that the whole world is getting dimmer? Since when has "learning a basic set of commands within a few minutes" been an almost infeasible task for soooo many people? Maybe we got lazy because of too much pampering? Maybe the technophobes of the time are those who now consider themselves leet hackers? I really don't know...
Food for toughts.
Well, actually, pretty much everything that is computer related is on the rise. Except maybe jobs in the U.S. and hardware prices.
So your point is: I have this and that problem in Windows so someone else claims of having this or that (other) problem in GNU/Linux is invalid?
I think what the parent meant is that, GNU/Linux is not perfect for everyone (yet). Yes, I know, Windows is not either, same goes for OSX or any environment for that matter. I find it nauseating that people go berserk if their little baby gets attacked in an OS flame war. Nobody even attempted to give some sort of an explanation about the question which was: Why aren't more distros becoming LSB Certified?
Nobody implied that anything sucks. Just a legitimate question about LSB, at least, voice your opinion about the LSB and please, leave your personnal OS of choice out of it because it is just irrelevant.
I know a lot of slashdoters will say something similar to what I say but maybe if enough people get publicly humiliated for pointless arguments about what OS is teh b35t, we might eventually be able to give some editorial value to this forum.
How exactly is that supposed to be safer than anything out there? Just because it's Google doesn't mean it will be perfect. Unless they have found some sort of formula to prove that a piece of code is secure and/or bugfree. I know we love them but I think, when it comes to computer security, people should always keep their arms up. Having a air-bag in your car does not imply that you can drive with you eyes closed.
So, about making security irrelevant, I don't think so! I don't see any way that this could happen in my lifetime, nor my children's. It was a concern 20 years ago, it's a huge concern today and it might be the biggest concern we have in another 20 years, who knows? No, Google, doesn't know.
- Immaginez un tas de loups bioniques de ça!
- Nathalie Portman pétrifiée avec du gruau dans ses pantalons;
- http://www.SexeAvecUneChèvre.cx
- 1. Quelque chose de bête;
- 2. ???
- 3. Profits! (ceci est en fait bilingue!)
I actually spent my first minutes on earth my head stuck in a vagina, how shocking!!
The rhesus macaque monkeys also splurged on photos of top-dog counterparts, the high-ranking primates. Maybe that's like you or me buying People magazine.
So, if I understand it right, reading People Magazine is just lire looking at a monkey's derière?
Some of the leading chewing gum researchers are saying that chewing gum in class is good for concentration. What I'm saying is, self-proclaimed experts with a bias are...self-proclaimed experts with a bias...or something.
What is it with you controversial people and ducks?
The are cute and all...but nowhere near controversy!
Correct me if I'm wrong but using some warezed serial number from the Internet doesn't mean that they don't have a proper license. A license is really just a piece of paper, isn't it?
I have seen this done at many places:
Me to boss: I just tried Something 2000 from Someone Inc. and it works pretty well. It costs 500$ and I need it to do project Doomed.
Boss: *deals with bureaucracy to get the said license.*
Me: *never sees any of it but still uses the software, license stays burried in some clerk's files.*
No, I'm not trying to defend this kind of attitude, I'm just saying that having a bad serial in your software does not mean you haven't paid for it.
But, I'm not really sure if having the license means you can use the software nomater what S/N was typed at the install.
(Specifically: What about computers built with Norton Ghost and the like?)
Lubricant can also help in making hard dicks go faster!
(yes, it is, indeed, an immature joke)
"Sharing software makes the copyright weasel cry!" :~(
You talk of speaking french as some sort of disease...
It's not the plague you know; as a french speaking IT worker I can say that most of us speak at least enough english to be functionnal in the workplace. As for non-IT workers in Quebec it's another story. The thing is, english is basicaly a necesity in computers since most litterature and jargon associated with CS is english. We do have some lousy translations for things like E-Mail (Courriel), Software (Logiciel), Freeware (Gratuitciel) but they never really got momentum as far as common use goes.
Why the hell do I find that sexually offensive?
Another common criteria in the biological definition of life is the presence of a metabolism. That would mean things like breathing, eating, producing waste, etc...
I eared it was the biggest concern as to wheter viruses are living organisms or not. Most current biology books consider viruses as non-living.
Viruses are basicly just some DNA or RNA in a shell, linking to bacterium with specific proteins.
I can't remember if it is only here in Canada or if it's US tv but I know I have the discovery channel here which...sometimes...has very interesting shows.
Today, every commercial CDs comming out are compressed so heavily that you can barely see any difference between smooth and busy parts of any given mix.
Mastering engineers use all sorts of multiband compressors and loudness maximizers so that if you use the CD in a multiple CD charger, you don't have to ride the dial and ajust the level to make it sound even.
That means that the louder one goes, everyone bassicly has to follow so that they are not the softest playing CD in the set...which most people will perceive as inferior (psychoacoustics phenomenon here).
It really is a sad state of affairs because the role of the compressor is to limit dynamics in the sound wave which in turn, makes it harder to create climax and release in the song. The jazz and classical recordings seem not to be affected so much, fidelity is the word here...but for pop/rock records...they go as close as possible to digital 0dB.
It's a mather of habit.
At first, I used my calculator for trivial tasks, just to make sure I didn't make a mistake.
As time went by, I ended up using it for 6 x 7 without even trying to solve the thing myself.
The result: I can't do even the simplest math in my head without a long hesitation.
N.B. I'm good at calculus.
I live in Montreal, Canada.
Here we have something called, Just For Laugh Festival. It's a two weeks long festival featuring humorists from around the world. Last years' included a show called In The Fless with the Simpsons. It was a live reading of an epidose from the cast of the Simspons followed by a live Q&A with Matt Groening himself.
It's not really related to tonight's show but it can answer some concerns you had about publicly doing the voices.
And it really is funny to see Castalneta going D'Oh! and Hmmmm.
Matt Groening is a funny guy too. His father is actually called Homer, is mother Marguarette, sister Lisa...which leaves him to be incarnated in Bart...which is really just brat with mixed up letters.
He did not answer in which state Springfield is.
I thinks it's a great idea, I know I would pay the 15$ requied to get my hands on one of these.
As for the sound quality of the said recording; I'm not too scared about it. The sound engineers only have to use one of the monitoring outputs from the sound board, apply some mastering tools (Multiband Compressor, EQ, etc..) and put it straight on CD. It's really nothing spectacular from a technical point of view, but really just a good merchandising idea.
A quote from Red in that 70s show:
"This isn't food, this is what food eats!"
I use Linux to reduce your power, Bill.