The Patriot Act probably has something in it that forced his detention....in the end this is probably staged to expose a major flaw in the draconian Bush era terra laws...
Money...
Cleverness...
Sloth...
Babes...
Fame...
Only on person had it all....Bill Murray...
Seriously, if you have money in the bank or the ability to put money in the bank do that for a year or two...then chuck it all, and do something completely out of character...like go volunteer some place...go sailing, visit all the baseball parks in one season, take up something inherently selfish for a few years and enjoy the world and it's people...meet people, love and enjoy the beauty of the world. When you have run out of money go back to work and you will be surprised how motivated you will be. Motivated to fill the bank again so you go off on another adventure...life is too short to be a code monkey or a slave to your customers...or strapped to someone's insane project and crappy software...go now.
how many of those incidents are due to engineers screwing up servers or databases
which engineers are avoiding engineering work doing IT work
compare labor costs of a IT pro and Engineer
If you can cost justify having six IT pros, couple of OS admins, couple of DBAs and a few tech support persons then it should be a no brainer...companies would rather pay engineers to do engineering work...not setting up PC's or installing and managing databases or patching windows servers....
That is because our industry has lost the discipline and skill to design, lead and implement custom software projects. I used to "clean up" those failed projects...I would come in and do damage control after people failed and got fired or quit and the entire IT department was pissed off. It takes people trained in software development management and the development lifestyle running the show with a organization that gives the professionals the ability to run the project...not the VP of sales....or marketing. Many industries can benefit from having a quality, professional highly skilled and well paid development staff...
problem is it is too late. That dog ran away in 2001...blame it on consulting. I guess...I blame it on greed.
Yes and thankfully the rise of Christianity's mysticism in the western world...that pretty much guaranteed a large portion of humanity would maintain a firm distrust of science...to this day.
No wonder that calamari is off Leviticus' menu....unnatural fin-less fish. They obviously choose to mate with their own sex, these squid make bad lifestyle choices, they are ruining traditional marriage.
Some years back while mixing and mastering an album..in attempting to setup my listening room and to calibrate my monitors...I starting with a more quantified approach using audio visualization tools that were available from the Internet... I calibrated my monitors and identified frequencies that were dropped out by recording white noise with various microphones and found the sweetspot in the monitor field...in doing so I stumbled into looking at full songs and vocals and I made a observation that I felt was astounding...I analyzed numerous hit songs by running the song through a visualizer that produced a sonogram...I picked vocal artists who had a quality of voice that I found pleasing to listen to and were hit song singers...
I also analyzed some tunes that were great musically but lacked that vocal sparkle.
What I found is that great singers produce a sonogram that shows significant instrument like qualities with several bands of semitones working together to make the actual note sung very rich and full of harmonic vibration and natural dissonance....a thin voice is just that...it lacks the semitones or they are unevenly distributed semitones that accompany the main frequency of the note sung. When the voice lacks a instrument like sonogram...the voice is unpleasant. Of the voices that were the most rich, Mahlia Jackson had several evenly distributed bands of frequencies accompanying the base note both above and below. The distribution of the semitones led me to assume they were near perfect overtones and harmonies that to our ears made the voice sound full and rich. Even Bob Dylan showed the pattern...despite his broken, breathy, nasal singing style his sonogram was rich with character. I thought for sure his would not.
On hit songs from a variety of genres and eras one thing that stood out was the vocals exhibited the same semitone patterns...in varying degree...most amateurs simply do not have this. I though it might of been tape saturation of vocal effects processing but after looking at raw digital vocal tracks from accomplished vocalists those tones were present on unprocessed tracks.
For comparison I also looked at various instruments...cello, violin, saxophone and guitar and it was shown that the semitones were very pronounced and quite numerous above and below the base frequency....one of the tools I used was a simple iTunes visualizer plug-in that provide a horizontal real-time scrolling image of the music. I simply watched the music with a tool that biologists used for analyzing bird calls and various other sounds of nature.
from this analysis I determined a few things, 1. That my own voice is not pleasing. (lol) 2. The music and sound operate on our brains and in a very complex manner and that our ears and brain are perfectly adapt at understanding the sound of music (no pun) at a very minute level of detail. So the structure of a song, key and tempo I believe is simply a coincidence and if you look at the the vocalist and the character and quality of the voice as well as the sound and tonal balance of the instrumentation, that has a very huge influence on our acceptance of one song over another.. What was interesting is that great vocalists seem to be able to control the number of semitones produced and do so to illicit maximum emotional effect in the song itself...which is the artistry and talent of the musician to take the listener beyond simply listening and to create an emotional response..
All in all my few weeks of dorking around with sound from various instruments, vocal tracks, songs and tone generators I came away with a new found appreciation of great music and how special the people are that make music...and that we separate and celebrate these people and their ability because it is a very rare gift indeed.
I learned about Turing many years ago, but his personal story was only made aware to me recently.
I am glad to see that apologies have been made but it doesn't make up for the tragedy of a brilliant man...a brilliant gay pioneer.
Speculation on if he committed suicide fails to mention that a dramatic side effect of estrogen use in males is the development of female secondary sexual characteristics, a "second pubery". Two years on estrogen injections that no doubt were at quite a high dosage to supress testosterone, Turing more than likely developed noticeable breasts accompanied by fat shifts and loss of muscle mass...not to mention the atrophy of the genitals...
One could speculate it was extremely difficult for a sexually active healthy gay man in his early 40's to undergo a "forced transition". After two years Turing was probably seeing his body turn quite female as subcutaneous fat settled into female patterns on his body and muscle tone gives way to a more smooth appearance, and body hair reduces to a terminal stage and become less vigorous. Other effects include reduction in stamina and aggression as well as physical strength. His sexuality and attractiveness to other gay men was being taken away from him. It was likely too much...add to it the extreme effects on emotions caused by the influence of estrogen if his dosage was not maintained consistently it would result in wildly shifting levels of testosterone and estrogen resulting in more emotional instability.
It would not be surprising that he could no longer live himself. In the end his story ends as another example, in a long string, of cruelties society has inflicted on gay people throughout history.
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The Patriot Act probably has something in it that forced his detention....in the end this is probably staged to expose a major flaw in the draconian Bush era terra laws...
Money...
Cleverness...
Sloth...
Babes...
Fame...
Only on person had it all....Bill Murray...
Seriously, if you have money in the bank or the ability to put money in the bank do that for a year or two...then chuck it all, and do something completely out of character...like go volunteer some place...go sailing, visit all the baseball parks in one season, take up something inherently selfish for a few years and enjoy the world and it's people...meet people, love and enjoy the beauty of the world. When you have run out of money go back to work and you will be surprised how motivated you will be. Motivated to fill the bank again so you go off on another adventure...life is too short to be a code monkey or a slave to your customers...or strapped to someone's insane project and crappy software...go now.
Figure out:
how much downtime costs the company
how many of those incidents are due to engineers screwing up servers or databases
which engineers are avoiding engineering work doing IT work
compare labor costs of a IT pro and Engineer
If you can cost justify having six IT pros, couple of OS admins, couple of DBAs and a few tech support persons then it should be a no brainer...companies would rather pay engineers to do engineering work...not setting up PC's or installing and managing databases or patching windows servers....
Then sell them the bacon later...
That is because our industry has lost the discipline and skill to design, lead and implement custom software projects. I used to "clean up" those failed projects...I would come in and do damage control after people failed and got fired or quit and the entire IT department was pissed off. It takes people trained in software development management and the development lifestyle running the show with a organization that gives the professionals the ability to run the project...not the VP of sales....or marketing. Many industries can benefit from having a quality, professional highly skilled and well paid development staff...
problem is it is too late. That dog ran away in 2001...blame it on consulting. I guess...I blame it on greed.
Yes and thankfully the rise of Christianity's mysticism in the western world...that pretty much guaranteed a large portion of humanity would maintain a firm distrust of science...to this day.
That is no moon.
He can try and support a OS with no professional support at 3 a.m.
Those are illegal and can burn your house down...what is that you say? Test? Not meth?...Oh well that is very different. Nevermind.
I said "I don't think it is appropriate for you to be asking about my sexuality."
nevermind...
Those Rotaries on the race track are super blatty...
No wonder that calamari is off Leviticus' menu....unnatural fin-less fish. They obviously choose to mate with their own sex, these squid make bad lifestyle choices, they are ruining traditional marriage.
Why wait until someone pisses you off...?
I'm not seeing it.
Most Corps use Microsoft Outhouse already.
It IS in you...
kickbacks are supposed to be UNDER the table....damn computer illiterate millennials...
I recently had a finger removed on my right hand...but thanks for pointing that out.
Pat down all D cups or greater. Palpate for wires or external triggers hidden in brassiere.
Pay me now.
Some years back while mixing and mastering an album..in attempting to setup my listening room and to calibrate my monitors...I starting with a more quantified approach using audio visualization tools that were available from the Internet... I calibrated my monitors and identified frequencies that were dropped out by recording white noise with various microphones and found the sweetspot in the monitor field...in doing so I stumbled into looking at full songs and vocals and I made a observation that I felt was astounding...I analyzed numerous hit songs by running the song through a visualizer that produced a sonogram...I picked vocal artists who had a quality of voice that I found pleasing to listen to and were hit song singers...
I also analyzed some tunes that were great musically but lacked that vocal sparkle.
What I found is that great singers produce a sonogram that shows significant instrument like qualities with several bands of semitones working together to make the actual note sung very rich and full of harmonic vibration and natural dissonance....a thin voice is just that...it lacks the semitones or they are unevenly distributed semitones that accompany the main frequency of the note sung. When the voice lacks a instrument like sonogram...the voice is unpleasant. Of the voices that were the most rich, Mahlia Jackson had several evenly distributed bands of frequencies accompanying the base note both above and below. The distribution of the semitones led me to assume they were near perfect overtones and harmonies that to our ears made the voice sound full and rich. Even Bob Dylan showed the pattern...despite his broken, breathy, nasal singing style his sonogram was rich with character. I thought for sure his would not.
On hit songs from a variety of genres and eras one thing that stood out was the vocals exhibited the same semitone patterns...in varying degree...most amateurs simply do not have this. I though it might of been tape saturation of vocal effects processing but after looking at raw digital vocal tracks from accomplished vocalists those tones were present on unprocessed tracks.
For comparison I also looked at various instruments...cello, violin, saxophone and guitar and it was shown that the semitones were very pronounced and quite numerous above and below the base frequency....one of the tools I used was a simple iTunes visualizer plug-in that provide a horizontal real-time scrolling image of the music. I simply watched the music with a tool that biologists used for analyzing bird calls and various other sounds of nature.
from this analysis I determined a few things, 1. That my own voice is not pleasing. (lol) 2. The music and sound operate on our brains and in a very complex manner and that our ears and brain are perfectly adapt at understanding the sound of music (no pun) at a very minute level of detail. So the structure of a song, key and tempo I believe is simply a coincidence and if you look at the the vocalist and the character and quality of the voice as well as the sound and tonal balance of the instrumentation, that has a very huge influence on our acceptance of one song over another.. What was interesting is that great vocalists seem to be able to control the number of semitones produced and do so to illicit maximum emotional effect in the song itself...which is the artistry and talent of the musician to take the listener beyond simply listening and to create an emotional response..
All in all my few weeks of dorking around with sound from various instruments, vocal tracks, songs and tone generators I came away with a new found appreciation of great music and how special the people are that make music...and that we separate and celebrate these people and their ability because it is a very rare gift indeed.
I learned about Turing many years ago, but his personal story was only made aware to me recently.
I am glad to see that apologies have been made but it doesn't make up for the tragedy of a brilliant man...a brilliant gay pioneer.
Speculation on if he committed suicide fails to mention that a dramatic side effect of estrogen use in males is the development of female secondary sexual characteristics, a "second pubery". Two years on estrogen injections that no doubt were at quite a high dosage to supress testosterone, Turing more than likely developed noticeable breasts accompanied by fat shifts and loss of muscle mass...not to mention the atrophy of the genitals...
One could speculate it was extremely difficult for a sexually active healthy gay man in his early 40's to undergo a "forced transition". After two years Turing was probably seeing his body turn quite female as subcutaneous fat settled into female patterns on his body and muscle tone gives way to a more smooth appearance, and body hair reduces to a terminal stage and become less vigorous. Other effects include reduction in stamina and aggression as well as physical strength. His sexuality and attractiveness to other gay men was being taken away from him. It was likely too much...add to it the extreme effects on emotions caused by the influence of estrogen if his dosage was not maintained consistently it would result in wildly shifting levels of testosterone and estrogen resulting in more emotional instability.
It would not be surprising that he could no longer live himself. In the end his story ends as another example, in a long string, of cruelties society has inflicted on gay people throughout history.
I have lots of books...does that mean I will be attacked by lions?
I drank formula...I was one. It got me where I needed to be.