Actually, in most forms of gambling it doesn't matter if you are the best of the best or the worst of the worst... the house always wins. You may wins some, but you'll always lose more.
Whenever there is a gambling "house", you can bet that the odds are set up so that they always come out on top. The pool analogy is better; then its mano-a-mano with no casa at all....
Think of the possibilities when beer, cameras, and a big screen at the head of the bar are combined:
"Am I Drunk or Not?" - you take a picture of yourself/friend/stranger and post it. In true reality TV style, the whole bar votes on whether the pictur-ee is a) as drunk as they think they are, b) drunker, or c) not drunk enough. Much hilarity and yelling ensues!
"Shot Shots" - take a picture of a shot of something, put into the picture rotation. Whenever it comes up, everybody drinks one
"Hot Shots" - variation, but with a picture of a particularly attractive patron. Assuming there are some. The chance of "hot" being "hot" decreases as the night goes on
"Who's ____ is that?" - take a picture of a random body part of someone... post it. First one to guess who it is, and what part, gets to buy me a round. (wait, did I say _me_? i meant the photographer)
My impression of this article is that they're using their Linux systems for general-purpose functions ( like converting things to/from Ogg, book keeping, stuff like that ) rather than any real heavy-duty recording, multitracking, or editing. All the benefits of Linux mentioned in this article would be the same if you switched your desktop to Linux, or your server, or mom's home computer, or whatever.
Unfortunately, multi-track recording and mixing, pro-level audio I/O hardware support... those are exactly the features I _need_ in a studio computer, which are still not quite there yet in the Linux world.
... and how do we know what beauty really looks like? Maybe what we think beauty looks like, really looks like something else. That would explain why chicken looks like everything.
You know, I posted the above in jest, but it started me thinking (damn I hate when that happens). If that sitar player's daughter had been as ugly as a dog's butt... would she still have won a Grammy? I'd like to think so; as a musician I believe that in an ideal world talent always wins over appearance. However, I'm a musician in THIS decidedly-less-than-ideal world, and I fear that without the looks we'd never have heard of Ms. Jones.
I was going to say Neo in the Matrix, but this elf in a black suit just showed up with a fat manilla folder of screenshots and said he'd had his eye on me for a long time and that I should cooperate and not send this po
beat The Bone hands down any day. Want independent radio and diversity? Go college or public. The "Left of the Dial" may be coughing up blood, but its not dead yet.....
With high end CD decks, it's possible to do anything that can be done with a record, and in fact it can be done better. Can it be done cheaper, easier, and without figuring out a bunch of controls with vinyl? Sure it can. But with a CD you won't be damaging your source material when you use it and you can also do some pre-production mixing that is beat-perfect without the risk of live-show error (which is both bad for your reputation and embarassing.)
I also have an opinion here (musician for year, occasional DJ). Seems to me that the 'risk of live-show error' is part and parcel of what makes a live show worth seeing. Why even go see your favorite band if you can just listen to their recordings? There won't be any live-show errors, and you can tailor the sound to your liking. And as for the band, why even bother playing? Just pop in the disk! You won't damage your source material (your strings, your voice, drumsticks) and you can tweak the mix ahead of time. Everything will be perfect! And better yet, you don't even have to figure out the controls (know how to play)!
The whole point of live performance is that something is being created on the fly that will never happen just that way again. This applies to a musician OR a DJ. I'd much rather go see a DJ mixing and matching as s/he goes. Darn, some things won't be perfect. But some things will be done so amazingly well that I'll remember the mad mix skillz of that DJ for the rest of my life.
DJs create music. Anything else is just a jukebox.
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Somebody earlier made a car analogy. I actually quite like it. The OS is an add-on, like leather seats or the nifty Bose sound system. On most models of car you can opt not to have them. Just like a cigarette lighter....
A better (IMHO) car analogy is that the manufacturers force you to pay for a motor even if you don't want one. A motor is not an "add-on". You have to have one to use you car in the way you intended when you bought the darn thing. Similarly, a computer is useless without an OS. You can turn it on, the drives will spin, you can play with the BIOS, but you can't _do_ any of the useful things you wanted from a computer in the first place.
The analogy would be buying a car, then returning the motor for a refund. Whether you buy another motor, or get one for free (as in beer), is not important to the analogy. A computer OS is not like a radio or leather seats... the car still performs its function without those options.
Not sure what point I'm trying to make here, just that the car analogy as has been previously used is comparing apples (no pun) with oranges.
If I am driving down the street and see someone that is presenting the threat of death to another- I will step in.
What if that someone (call them Person 1) is "presenting the threat" to another person (Person 2) who has promised to beat Person 1 to death with a baseball bat? Do you still intervene against Person 1?
What if Person 2 has been shooting at Person 1 for the past 20 minutes, and JUST NOW has stopped to reload. Do you still intervene against Person 1?
What if Person 1 is holding a realistic looking watergun, and due to the lighting conditions you can't tell it from the real thing?
What if Person 1 is trying to shoot Person 2 before Person 2 can trigger the explosive device that will kill Persons 3..n ?
Point: when you step in, you also rely on you own limited understanding of the situation, and your own fallible senses. Are you ready to choose?
The thing that always gets to me is that people who are strongly on either side of this issue always talk like there is some giant conspiracy at work:
The organization who hired him promptly buried his raw data (which they paid for and own) so deep it'll never be found.
Gary nonetheless wrote a book from the results, entitled "Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America" [amazon.com](unsurprisingly out of print)...
I have owned, used, and enjoyed guns. Hunting, skeet and target shooting.. these were pastimes of my youth that I enjoyed quite a bit. I also think that some restrictions on weapon ownership are proper. Nobody can convince me that my next-door-neighbor has the right to own an Abrams.. or a Gatling gun.. or a fully automatic assault rifle.
Where is the middle ground? Not here (/.) probably, but it _has_ to be somewhere........
. If you don't believe this, just think about how many cd's you've bought in the last year as oppposed to years previous and ask yourself why.
How many: about 10x as many.
Why: because of all these damn free mp3s that I find from great bands I've never heard of. I'm then FORCED to go buy the CD to have the liner and recording notes, play in my truck, etc.
Funny, in the info on the ASCAP site I found this:
Over $6,000,000 has been distributed to date, primarily to two youth organizations with which Mr. and Mrs. Berlin were personally involved: the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, and the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts of America. These councils do not discriminate on any basis and are committed to serving all segments of New York City's diverse youth population.
Now this wouldn't be the same Boy Scouts that refuses homosexual or atheist members, would it?
Hmm, could this be part of why Jesse Helms final legislative act was a big "screw you" to the RIAA and their webcasting bill?
I assumed Helms weighed in as he did on CARP because a very vocal part of his constituency (evangelical religious broadcasters/webcasters) realized that the proposed rates applied to them too (gasp!)?
"A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State,the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
How does a requirement to register a gun infringe on my right to keep and bear said gun? I have to register to vote; I don't consider my right to vote infringed.
I know I sound flippant, but this point has always confused me. I have always thought my right to "keep and bear" wasn't infringed until some government thug showed up at my door AS A RESULT OF MY REGISTRATION to take my gun away. Registration != infringement. To say gun registration is bad because "they" might come take all the registered guns away is like saying voter registration is bad because "they" might prevent all the (women|minorities|Republicans|Democrats|men named Osama) from voting.
It is entirely possible I Just Don't Get It (tm). Here I sit, ready for enlightenment (oh wait, this is/.)....
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Actually, in most forms of gambling it doesn't matter if you are the best of the best or the worst of the worst ... the house always wins. You may wins some, but you'll always lose more.
Whenever there is a gambling "house", you can bet that the odds are set up so that they always come out on top. The pool analogy is better; then its mano-a-mano with no casa at all....
the Japanese are still claiming that they just had to attack the U.S. out of self-defense
... this sounds very very familiar to me for some reason ....
Hey, attacking someone in advance out of self defense
John Carter should just go back to Mars.
Think of the possibilities when beer, cameras, and a big screen at the head of the bar are combined:
... post it. First one to guess who it is, and what part, gets to buy me a round. (wait, did I say _me_? i meant the photographer)
"Am I Drunk or Not?" - you take a picture of yourself/friend/stranger and post it. In true reality TV style, the whole bar votes on whether the pictur-ee is a) as drunk as they think they are, b) drunker, or c) not drunk enough. Much hilarity and yelling ensues!
"Shot Shots" - take a picture of a shot of something, put into the picture rotation. Whenever it comes up, everybody drinks one
"Hot Shots" - variation, but with a picture of a particularly attractive patron. Assuming there are some. The chance of "hot" being "hot" decreases as the night goes on
"Who's ____ is that?" - take a picture of a random body part of someone
any more ideas?
My impression of this article is that they're using their Linux systems for general-purpose functions ( like converting things to/from Ogg, book keeping, stuff like that ) rather than any real heavy-duty recording, multitracking, or editing. All the benefits of Linux mentioned in this article would be the same if you switched your desktop to Linux, or your server, or mom's home computer, or whatever.
... those are exactly the features I _need_ in a studio computer, which are still not quite there yet in the Linux world.
Unfortunately, multi-track recording and mixing, pro-level audio I/O hardware support
... and how do we know what beauty really looks like? Maybe what we think beauty looks like, really looks like something else. That would explain why chicken looks like everything.
3. ....
4. Profit!
(should I flame myself now, or just wait a bit?)
You know, I posted the above in jest, but it started me thinking (damn I hate when that happens). If that sitar player's daughter had been as ugly as a dog's butt ... would she still have won a Grammy? I'd like to think so; as a musician I believe that in an ideal world talent always wins over appearance. However, I'm a musician in THIS decidedly-less-than-ideal world, and I fear that without the looks we'd never have heard of Ms. Jones.
Or possibly both at the same time? Norah Jones ... wow
I was going to say Neo in the Matrix, but this elf in a black suit just showed up with a fat manilla folder of screenshots and said he'd had his eye on me for a long time and that I should cooperate and not send this po
KTCU 88.7
KNTU 88.1
KNON 89.3
or even KERA 90.1
beat The Bone hands down any day. Want independent radio and
diversity? Go college or public. The "Left of the Dial" may be
coughing up blood, but its not dead yet.....
The whole point of live performance is that something is being created on the fly that will never happen just that way again. This applies to a musician OR a DJ. I'd much rather go see a DJ mixing and matching as s/he goes. Darn, some things won't be perfect. But some things will be done so amazingly well that I'll remember the mad mix skillz of that DJ for the rest of my life.
DJs create music. Anything else is just a jukebox.
The analogy would be buying a car, then returning the motor for a refund. Whether you buy another motor, or get one for free (as in beer), is not important to the analogy. A computer OS is not like a radio or leather seats
Not sure what point I'm trying to make here, just that the car analogy as has been previously used is comparing apples (no pun) with oranges.
At 1:27 AM????? And I'm supposed to go to BED now????
geez.
What if Person 2 has been shooting at Person 1 for the past 20 minutes, and JUST NOW has stopped to reload. Do you still intervene against Person 1?
What if Person 1 is holding a realistic looking watergun, and due to the lighting conditions you can't tell it from the real thing?
What if Person 1 is trying to shoot Person 2 before Person 2 can trigger the explosive device that will kill Persons 3..n ?
Point: when you step in, you also rely on you own limited understanding of the situation, and your own fallible senses. Are you ready to choose?
The thing that always gets to me is that people who are strongly on either side of this issue always talk like there is some giant conspiracy at work:
.. these were pastimes of my youth that I enjoyed quite a bit. I also think that some restrictions on weapon ownership are proper. Nobody can convince me that my next-door-neighbor has the right to own an Abrams .. or a Gatling gun .. or a fully automatic assault rifle.
........
The organization who hired him promptly buried his raw data (which they paid for and own) so deep it'll never be found.
Gary nonetheless wrote a book from the results, entitled "Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America" [amazon.com](unsurprisingly out of print)...
I have owned, used, and enjoyed guns. Hunting, skeet and target shooting
Where is the middle ground? Not here (/.) probably, but it _has_ to be somewhere
Its a little bit easier to spot someone sneaking up to a bank with a backhoe than it is someone in the tunnels beneath with a pair of wire clippers.
Are these the same 1000 genetically altered monkeys that just generated my page on /. ?
Why: because of all these damn free mp3s that I find from great bands I've never heard of. I'm then FORCED to go buy the CD to have the liner and recording notes, play in my truck, etc.
Damn free music, ruining my finances.....
Now this wouldn't be the same Boy Scouts that refuses homosexual or atheist members, would it?
I know I sound flippant, but this point has always confused me. I have always thought my right to "keep and bear" wasn't infringed until some government thug showed up at my door AS A RESULT OF MY REGISTRATION to take my gun away. Registration != infringement. To say gun registration is bad because "they" might come take all the registered guns away is like saying voter registration is bad because "they" might prevent all the (women|minorities|Republicans|Democrats|men named Osama) from voting.
It is entirely possible I Just Don't Get It (tm). Here I sit, ready for enlightenment (oh wait, this is
(i realize now this is SO offtopic it hurts)
Officer: Sir, did you rob the bank?
You: Of course not.
Lab: woof woof *
Officer: Just as we thought, lying!
* I have to go out and pee on your tires.