Surely to be really like Nostradamus you`d have to write in code, in a vague manner that is only of interest to new-age nerds and - most importantly - you`d have to get everything wrong.
So a fine spray around a plane/car etc would be a cheap and easy way to reduce the damage. Perhaps if you added something to the water (reflective elements) it'd disperse it even better?
"a 100KW IR laser will vaporize pretty much anything that's not *perfectly* reflective, i.e. anything we can build with current technology."
yeah, but if you need to prevent this sort of thing from happening to keep your planes/boats/trucks up and running, then its worth looking into solutions. Who knows what`ll be effective? Perhaps some sort of sand/concrete which will degrade pleasantly? Layers of shiny foil which peels off revealing more foil below. Also, non/slow moving lasers will be the perfect target for counter-weapons to lock onto if they`re active for a few seconds at a time - usually you`d just get a flash as the weapon was fired - now you`ll have `I am here!` flashing lights (& heat).
"I never understood why punk didn't die after the initial "fresh breath." Maybe it was needed in some way, but I'll never forgive punk for killing prog-rock."
I wouldn't expect a prog-rock fan to understand! Isn't that sort of the point?
Heres a clue: How relevant is a 35 minute song about hermaphrodites, or pixies or the dawn of the universe whatever the fuck prog-rock bands sung about to most people in 1970`s England? Ok, and how relevant was/is the stuff the Pistols were singing about? The prog-rockers always took their stuff pretty seriously, but musically its dead. There were practically no talented musicians/songwriters in the prog-rock genre, which is why it inspired no-one - except other prog-rockers. Punk was an attitude - an `I can do that` attitude - which lives on. It manifested itself again in the Rave scene of the late 80`s/early 90`s. You can hear its echos in the modern `protest` songs (punk itself being a continuation of previous protest songs). Don't listen to all that situationist stuff - thats just do-nothing students trying to justify their obsession with analyzing everything. John Lydon et al were just having a laugh, and taking the piss out of everything they thought was shit about life in general - end of story. Read `no blacks, no dogs, no irish` - his autobiography.
"God help me! I sound like fscking Julie Burchill!"
Yes, you do - and like her you are talking bollocks. John Lydon wrote good stuff for the Pistols, and went on to write even better stuff in PIL. McLaren is just..nothing. A twat.
"And of course, whatever shitty VB-programmer written crap is getting tossed into their system is probably immature and flaky, and probably has half-assed or *no* diagnostic features. I have a really low opinion of home-brew software from ISPs."
Care to point me in the direction of a company which produces software on time, and which works perfectly? I`m not trying to be sarcastic, just curious.
You gave him permission to use your computer, so maybe you are responsible. This is a legal issue, really - it doesn't really matter what you personally think should happen.
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Why do they even bother having passwords? Can't they just have it so it only accepts PGP-encrypted emails?
"Actually, pre-programmed, boring, monotonous, cold, passionless crap doesn't qualify as music. It's just hypnotism for mindless drones"
Actually, have you heard Frank Zappa's `Civilisation phase 3`? He used advanced synths, samplers, and a lot of studio work to create that, and i`m not sure that any of those adjectives apply to it.
Maybe if you exposed yourself to more, different sorts of music you`d have a better idea?
>Why not? This sound like intelligence requires some kind of morale?
Perhaps he's suggesting that something intelligent enough to build, from the ground up, stuff like Dinosaurs, would also know why they would die out, whereas humans or other existant beings didn't, and would have designed the dinosaurs according, so that they`ve have survived.
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>That is, music doesn't/can't get made without samples
Not true. I`m not sure about percentages of this vs that sound creation method, but there are all manner of ways of creating sounds - analogue synths, simulated analog synths, fm, additive, combinations of simple waveforms modified by algo's etc. Also, many samples are just simple drum/percussion samples you can get on a sample disk (or sample yourself) or whatever. This doesn't detract from your basic point, however.
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Part of the article says are the HD is the main bottleneck on a fast pc, then later it says:
Serial ATA will be introduced at a bandwidth of 150MB/s. This is a seemingly disappointing 13% improvement over Ultra/ATA 133. However, today's hard drives rarely ever use that much bandwidth, so 150MB/s is more than enough.
Surely thats a reason for using a Public Domain license..otherwise wouldn't you have to chase foreigners around if they use your code without relevant permission...whereas if it were PD they could just use it (like they would anyway) without being obliged to defend your code base?
"The single most important risk factor for heart disease is genetics."
That would explain why heart disease and obesity are both increasing at a rate that suggests its something other than a fixed percentage of the population. Obesity kills via heart disease - you don't literally die of obesity. What's it running at nowadays - 3000 a day in the US? What was it 50 years ago? Still think its genetic?
>Degrees F quickly disappeared because (I assume) of TV weather forecasts
We get both, but primarily C's now.
>Pounds and ounces seem to be long forgotten except for babies' weights.
And weed! Will be interesting to see what will happen regarding that when cannabis is legalized here - currently you can get arrested for selling fruit in pounds and ounces, but could get a caution for selling half an ounce of cannabis!:)
>Some adults still quote weight in stones (14 pounds?) although I doubt that you can even buy scales with stones now.
Can't find stuff online to back up my suspicions, but keep an eye out for it in the news in the coming months/years. Lets face it, this is going to spread, and will no doubt be extended to human faces when the tech is good enough (its getting there). Only where people are concerned you`d need some sort of personalised face! Perhaps it'll give cosmetic surgery a new lease of life, and who knows - perhaps a cosmetic surgeon would need a license, and would have to keep before/after photos for the police!
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Surely you mean "laughed like a bastard"? Surely he'd have made much, much than he was forced to pay? Hardly punitive damages!
Surely to be really like Nostradamus you`d have to write in code, in a vague manner that is only of interest to new-age nerds and - most importantly - you`d have to get everything wrong.
So a fine spray around a plane/car etc would be a cheap and easy way to reduce the damage. Perhaps if you added something to the water (reflective elements) it'd disperse it even better?
>It's BLACK
:)
I didn't mean `copy it's colour`, I meant `reduce the angles so its smooth`. MMMMmmmmm Smooth chrome....
"If you build your aircraft/missle out of reflective materials to counteract lasers, your going to make it a large target for radar."
I guess. But doesn't the Stealth Bomber work that way? Won't laser light bounce off it fairly successfully?
"a 100KW IR laser will vaporize pretty much anything that's not *perfectly* reflective, i.e. anything we can build with current technology."
yeah, but if you need to prevent this sort of thing from happening to keep your planes/boats/trucks up and running, then its worth looking into solutions. Who knows what`ll be effective? Perhaps some sort of sand/concrete which will degrade pleasantly? Layers of shiny foil which peels off revealing more foil below. Also, non/slow moving lasers will be the perfect target for counter-weapons to lock onto if they`re active for a few seconds at a time - usually you`d just get a flash as the weapon was fired - now you`ll have `I am here!` flashing lights (& heat).
keep quiet about the whole light and mirrors thing, I guess...
"I never understood why punk didn't die after the initial "fresh breath." Maybe it was needed in some way, but I'll never forgive punk for killing prog-rock."
I wouldn't expect a prog-rock fan to understand! Isn't that sort of the point?
Heres a clue: How relevant is a 35 minute song about hermaphrodites, or pixies or the dawn of the universe whatever the fuck prog-rock bands sung about to most people in 1970`s England? Ok, and how relevant was/is the stuff the Pistols were singing about?
The prog-rockers always took their stuff pretty seriously, but musically its dead. There were practically no talented musicians/songwriters in the prog-rock genre, which is why it inspired no-one - except other prog-rockers. Punk was an attitude - an `I can do that` attitude - which lives on. It manifested itself again in the Rave scene of the late 80`s/early 90`s. You can hear its echos in the modern `protest` songs (punk itself being a continuation of previous protest songs). Don't listen to all that situationist stuff - thats just do-nothing students trying to justify their obsession with analyzing everything. John Lydon et al were just having a laugh, and taking the piss out of everything they thought was shit about life in general - end of story.
Read `no blacks, no dogs, no irish` - his autobiography.
"God help me! I sound like fscking Julie Burchill!"
Yes, you do - and like her you are talking bollocks. John Lydon wrote good stuff for the Pistols, and went on to write even better stuff in PIL. McLaren is just..nothing. A twat.
"If this stands, Microsoft has successfully become the deciding party in all major corporate mergers and aquisitions"
Well, either that, or people are really going to have to start reading what contracts they agree to.
"And of course, whatever shitty VB-programmer written crap is getting tossed into their system is probably immature and flaky, and probably has half-assed or *no* diagnostic features. I have a really low opinion of home-brew software from ISPs."
Care to point me in the direction of a company which produces software on time, and which works perfectly? I`m not trying to be sarcastic, just curious.
>It was done on a piano, and he stuck wooden blocks and other objects under some of the strikers to change the sound
A lot of his music uses "prepared pianos" - Here is a link, including some samples (which i`ve not listened to!):
You gave him permission to use your computer, so maybe you are responsible. This is a legal issue, really - it doesn't really matter what you personally think should happen.
Why do they even bother having passwords? Can't they just have it so it only accepts PGP-encrypted emails?
>By itself licensing ISP's is not a bad idea
Eh? Why? Why should it be illegal to provide information without the governments permission? Bizarre!
"Actually, pre-programmed, boring, monotonous, cold, passionless crap doesn't qualify as music. It's just hypnotism for mindless drones"
Actually, have you heard Frank Zappa's `Civilisation phase 3`? He used advanced synths, samplers, and a lot of studio work to create that, and i`m not sure that any of those adjectives apply to it.
Maybe if you exposed yourself to more, different sorts of music you`d have a better idea?
"It's doing NOTHING MORE than cutting and pasting from other peoples' work and calling it your own that pisses me off"
Who does that?
>Why not? This sound like intelligence requires some kind of morale?
Perhaps he's suggesting that something intelligent enough to build, from the ground up, stuff like Dinosaurs, would also know why they would die out, whereas humans or other existant beings didn't, and would have designed the dinosaurs according, so that they`ve have survived.
>That is, music doesn't/can't get made without samples
Not true. I`m not sure about percentages of this vs that sound creation method, but there are all manner of ways of creating sounds - analogue synths, simulated analog synths, fm, additive, combinations of simple waveforms modified by algo's etc. Also, many samples are just simple drum/percussion samples you can get on a sample disk (or sample yourself) or whatever. This doesn't detract from your basic point, however.
...who have such problems.
http://www.negativland.com/riaa/
Part of the article says are the HD is the main bottleneck on a fast pc, then later it says:
Serial ATA will be introduced at a bandwidth of 150MB/s. This is a seemingly disappointing 13% improvement over Ultra/ATA 133. However, today's hard drives rarely ever use that much bandwidth, so 150MB/s is more than enough.
If that's true, why is a HD a bottleneck?
>non-US users may need explicit permission
Surely thats a reason for using a Public Domain license..otherwise wouldn't you have to chase foreigners around if they use your code without relevant permission...whereas if it were PD they could just use it (like they would anyway) without being obliged to defend your code base?
"The single most important risk factor for heart disease is genetics."
That would explain why heart disease and obesity are both increasing at a rate that suggests its something other than a fixed percentage of the population. Obesity kills via heart disease - you don't literally die of obesity. What's it running at nowadays - 3000 a day in the US? What was it 50 years ago? Still think its genetic?
>Are road distances Km or miles? And road speeds?
:)
Miles/mph.
>Degrees F quickly disappeared because (I assume) of TV weather forecasts
We get both, but primarily C's now.
>Pounds and ounces seem to be long forgotten except for babies' weights.
And weed! Will be interesting to see what will happen regarding that when cannabis is legalized here - currently you can get arrested for selling fruit in pounds and ounces, but could get a caution for selling half an ounce of cannabis!
>Some adults still quote weight in stones (14 pounds?) although I doubt that you can even buy scales with stones now.
I still only know my weight/height in old money!
>That really scares me.
Can't find stuff online to back up my suspicions, but keep an eye out for it in the news in the coming months/years. Lets face it, this is going to spread, and will no doubt be extended to human faces when the tech is good enough (its getting there). Only where people are concerned you`d need some sort of personalised face! Perhaps it'll give cosmetic surgery a new lease of life, and who knows - perhaps a cosmetic surgeon would need a license, and would have to keep before/after photos for the police!