Whats wrong with steve?
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I saw an interview with this film school director, and he nailed on the head what's wrong with Speilberg. He said [paraphrasing], "When Steven Speilberg or George Lucas makes a movie, he wants to make a movie that will touch everybody. When Stanley Kubric makes a movie, he wants to make a movie that touches Stanley Kubric."
Which is what I think is wrong with speilberg and lucas... They are candles who have burned too brightly for too long, and they are simply extinguishing. I'm not going to talk about "selling out" because that's cliché, but its clear they lost their passion long ago.
I agree, citations is the scientific equivalent of "name droping".
The root problem is papers are a form of scientific social capital. And when people think you are well read, your paper is worth more. I worked in a research facility where grad students were literally held hostage so they could produce more papers for the professors to take credit for. One student came to use with his masters and was held *7* years for his PHD. It was getting so bad the graduate department was *forcing* the director to graduate students by saying, "So and so has to leave by the end of the year -- with or without his degree." (and after 7 years, who could blame them)
Add this to an already paper obsessed culture, and you have a serious problem.
I doubt anyone has access to 100% of the source. I am just guessing, but, you probably would only have access to the portion you are supposed to work on, it must consist of thousands of discreet elements, and if you leaked one they wouldn't have very many people to look at to figure out who had done it.
I think the real rule he violated was the "too good to be true" rule. Some guy offers him 600$ more then he paid for his computer -- THAT should have made him suspiscious.
I'm not saying hes right, but the guy used his own greed against him.
Let me first go on record and say you are a complete fool if you think this will work... Bite the bullet and buy a 100gb native DLT drive. At my last job I backed up 2.6TB on a DLT+autoloader, I know 220 gigs *seems* like alot of data, but you're small time.
However, if this is going to have *any* chance of working, you will need to read the drives on a regular basis. I would pop each drive in a machine and (in linux) do a "dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/null" to read the entire drive. I would do this monthly.
Why you ask? Because modern hard drives are sophisticated and they auto-correct errors *before* they become a problem. Hard drives will do things like correct recoverable errors and rewrite weak sectors when they encounter them. Thus if you go over every sector of the drive every once in awhile, you will use the drives auto-correction features to your advantadge (and protect against the drive fading, which would be my primrary concern, not stickage (which is easy to fix)).
US Citizens hate the DMCA as much as the rest of the world. US Citizens don't do anything to citizens of other countries.
The US Government does those things and the US *government* is completely out of touch with the wishes of its citizens, because it is controlled by a handful of people who are completely out of touch with any passion other then greed.
This girl I was interested in spent easily 12 - 18 hours/day playing muds. She pretty much only got out to go to class and to see LOTR:). We went on some dates but I couldn't handle it... She was always telling me about what was happening in the *5* muds she played simultaneously. I wanted to scream at her, "you dumb bitch none of it is real!" She was used to the admiration of sex-crazed mud boys who adored her because she played muds AND had a vagina (and she was quite attractive). Whereas I thought her MUDing was a serious character flaw.
I play alot of videogames, so its not that foreign to me... But MUD addiction seems to center around some serious pathologies (and I supppose alot of other non-chemical addictions). It's always the same kind of person who is attracted to MUDs, dark, depressed theatre geeks who need to escape reality. Anybody who you can walk up to and say, "Hey how you doin today?" and they reply "Great! I found the key of zathros today." has serious problems not related to videogames:) In the end I just gave up on her
Im 100% with you on this one. The guy has a weird ass phenomenon and a theroy about why it happens. Other people are trying to verify it. Thats pretty much science in a nutshell.
It the theroy isn't verified, thats science to. Also, there is no harm in trying to do something with the phenomenon even if we don't understand it. I think its likely that the guy might be able to make something usefull and *have no clue* why it works. Electricity was being used and studied 100 years before we had a clue what it was.
Re:I smile whenever ancient Unix utils are updated
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heheh, I was just thinking "Great, now we can rewrite it with a free license.":)
I heard that they weren't too keen to take a bath in France at the time of Ludvig XIV (1638-1715). People weared a necklas applied with honey when they were sleeping. During night all louses were attracted by the honey and collected to the necklas. At morning the necklas was cleaned. So it's back to the old days.
While I agree with your statements 100%, there are reasons to switch even when the hardware works. MAINTAINABILITY. Theres a shop out here that is advertising 24/7/365 for Programmers who are both experts in AIX and COBOL (8+ years only).
That position has got to be damned near impossible to staff.
I am a certified audiophile... High bit rate mp3 are very difficult to tell from the original... however most mp3s are made by amateurs with bad encoders that are *crap*.
Before encoding my cd collection I spent a month playing with different encoders and settings to find what might satisfy my ears. I eventually settled on lame with the "new vbr method" and the highest quality settings and I've been very happy with the results. If something better comes along, I'll get my CDs out from under my bed and re-encode:) The only time I've been able to tell one of my mp3s from the CD is on albums I am intimately familiar with, i.e. the Steely Dan Box set. I have easily heard it 500 times, and every once in awhile you notice the timbre of a cymbal is just a little bit different then you remembered it.
However, something no one ever thinks about is your mp3 *player* and sound card. An internal sound card is worthless for listening to music (I use a M-Audio Delta1010 which is part of my studio setup). Also the mp3 player makes a *huge* difference. It will probably come as no surprise that Winamp is shit. I like CoolPlayer which is based on libmad -- a 24 bit integer only mp3 decoder. The extra bits are important because they reduce quantization errors during decoding, there is a noticeable difference in clarity between coolplayer and winamp. Also, standalone MP3 players tend to have better mp3 decoding because they (usually) use a DSP to decode the and DSP programmers are well aware of accuracy issues.
My point is, mp3 is tolerable for casual listening even to an audiophile *IF* it's done correctly. The problem of course is that the computer is about the *worst* place to be listening to music because its at such a disadvantage (poor quality signals, noisy electronics, bad DACs, shitty speakers).
However, your need for a higher quality signal is directly proportional to the cost of your stereo. If you have a small portable stereo, the radio is about the best quality you can reproduce anyways. The quality of mp3's is superior to what the average computer can reproduce. But If you have a 30,000$ stereo as some obsessive audiophiles do, its pretty silly to listen to mp3s on it (but you're gobbling up dvd-audio discs as fast as they are made anyways).
A lot of slashdotters attack libertarians, but the root cause of this kind of FCC mandated regulation of your lives is your trust in big government.
I call shenanigans on you. Libertarians *don't* trust government because it is bought and paid for by huge corporations. Libertarians want a government by and for the people, you may remember that phrase from somewhere.
I've been offered jobs for no money. tomshardware.com offered me a "job" reviewing hardware for no pay.
Me: What does the job pay?
Them: Well we're small, so...... nothing.
Me: Can I keep some of the hardware I review?
Them: No, we want it.
Me: Well I guess it would be still cool to see my name on the site, can you guys fedex me the hardware?
Them: No, you have to pick it up.
Me: Thats 150 miles each way, it was nice meetin ya!:D
You are the exception my friend. I'm not saying I like it this way, but the US has a *HORRIBLE* case of credentialism. You can't disprove social trends:)
This was the best thing I could find on short notice, but heres a link showing median income by education in farfax county virginia.
I'm not saying you can't prosper without a degree -- first rule of science is you can't prove a negative. However, your chances are *much* greater with a college degree. In US Society right now a degree is what you need just to be let on the playing field.
Wrong... It is a meme, a degree is required because people think one is. I can guarantee without a degree you are headed for ruin. Maybe 1 out of 100 people makes it without a degree, but we all know he was just lucky.
In this economy, even well educated, well trained and competent people are having trouble finding a job. I cant even imagine what someone without a degree is going through...
Re:NASA recordings of deep space
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I would be glad to share:) One of my absolutely favorite things... they've been out of print for years, but you can goto amazon to read about them, there are also listings for the individual cds in the set. Basically what the cds are is the recordings made by the various instrumentation on the Voyager space probe (converted to audible sound).
This guy is way off base... Solaris wasn't great but it wasn't bad either. It needed a little more meat on the plot but it wasn't bad.
Some portions of the score were fantastic to. there was a montage with an amazing sountrack --it was based on electromagnetic recordings from deep space (I haven't read this from anywhere, but I have heard NASA recordings of deep space and there is no mistaking them).
This version of solaris is really about the changing perception of the universe to the main character -- although they tread pretty lightly on that theme. If you want to see a well executed movie with a neat soundtrack that will make you think just a little bit but not quite enough, go see Solaris.
The above comment is only too true. I've studied in NY regents and Alberta public schools, and the technology situation truly is sad.
Yes sir:) When I began college, they gave us an orientation tour of the facilities. On the tour we came to the best lab on campus -- pentium II 233's with 128 megs of ram. I said, "do I *have* to do my work here?" and they look puzzled, "why wouldnt you want to, these are great computers?!" to which I reply, "At home I have a dual PII 300 with 256 megs of ram" (which at the time was about the best machine avaliable) -- I might add I had purchased this computer with my wages from working at a subway sandwich shop at the time, so its not like I was mr money bags.
Now you're trolling... Im not a beginner, I've desgined CPU's, written compilers, and I'd wager I know alot more about you on this subject. The reason integer division works the way it does is because of how division is implemented in cpus. Integer division traditionally was implemented as multiple subtractions, to compute Y/X in c code: while( Y Furthermore, Integers are defined as a step function, so the result is not only foreseable but *mathmatically correct*. You might not know it, but what you are really mad about is that the compiler dosen't automatically promote the "1/2" to float. C is desgined with speed in mind, if you want promotion you have to specify it.
Arithmetic according to C: float x = 3.14159; int y = 1/2 * x; Value of y? zero
Common, this is the second lesson in most beginners programming classes. You're mixing integer division and float multiplication (clearly a mistake) and then worrying about the result being horked. If I put kerosene in my gas tank should I be pissed my car dosen't run? If you want to gripe about C please choose a legitimate gripe.
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Which is what I think is wrong with speilberg and lucas ... They are candles who have burned too brightly for too long, and they are simply extinguishing. I'm not going to talk about "selling out" because that's cliché, but its clear they lost their passion long ago.
The root problem is papers are a form of scientific social capital. And when people think you are well read, your paper is worth more. I worked in a research facility where grad students were literally held hostage so they could produce more papers for the professors to take credit for. One student came to use with his masters and was held *7* years for his PHD. It was getting so bad the graduate department was *forcing* the director to graduate students by saying, "So and so has to leave by the end of the year -- with or without his degree." (and after 7 years, who could blame them)
Add this to an already paper obsessed culture, and you have a serious problem.
I doubt anyone has access to 100% of the source. I am just guessing, but, you probably would only have access to the portion you are supposed to work on, it must consist of thousands of discreet elements, and if you leaked one they wouldn't have very many people to look at to figure out who had done it.
I'm not saying hes right, but the guy used his own greed against him.
I do not want to run around smacking monsters to level and collect gems.
However, if this is going to have *any* chance of working, you will need to read the drives on a regular basis. I would pop each drive in a machine and (in linux) do a "dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/null" to read the entire drive. I would do this monthly.
Why you ask? Because modern hard drives are sophisticated and they auto-correct errors *before* they become a problem. Hard drives will do things like correct recoverable errors and rewrite weak sectors when they encounter them. Thus if you go over every sector of the drive every once in awhile, you will use the drives auto-correction features to your advantadge (and protect against the drive fading, which would be my primrary concern, not stickage (which is easy to fix)).
The US Government does those things and the US *government* is completely out of touch with the wishes of its citizens, because it is controlled by a handful of people who are completely out of touch with any passion other then greed.
for everyone else who had to look it up, regicide is "The killing of a king."
I play alot of videogames, so its not that foreign to me ... But MUD addiction seems to center around some serious pathologies (and I supppose alot of other non-chemical addictions). It's always the same kind of person who is attracted to MUDs, dark, depressed theatre geeks who need to escape reality. Anybody who you can walk up to and say, "Hey how you doin today?" and they reply "Great! I found the key of zathros today." has serious problems not related to videogames :) In the end I just gave up on her
It the theroy isn't verified, thats science to. Also, there is no harm in trying to do something with the phenomenon even if we don't understand it. I think its likely that the guy might be able to make something usefull and *have no clue* why it works. Electricity was being used and studied 100 years before we had a clue what it was.
heheh, I was just thinking "Great, now we can rewrite it with a free license." :)
have things changed in frace since then ?
That position has got to be damned near impossible to staff.
Before encoding my cd collection I spent a month playing with different encoders and settings to find what might satisfy my ears. I eventually settled on lame with the "new vbr method" and the highest quality settings and I've been very happy with the results. If something better comes along, I'll get my CDs out from under my bed and re-encode :) The only time I've been able to tell one of my mp3s from the CD is on albums I am intimately familiar with, i.e. the Steely Dan Box set. I have easily heard it 500 times, and every once in awhile you notice the timbre of a cymbal is just a little bit different then you remembered it.
However, something no one ever thinks about is your mp3 *player* and sound card. An internal sound card is worthless for listening to music (I use a M-Audio Delta1010 which is part of my studio setup). Also the mp3 player makes a *huge* difference. It will probably come as no surprise that Winamp is shit. I like CoolPlayer which is based on libmad -- a 24 bit integer only mp3 decoder. The extra bits are important because they reduce quantization errors during decoding, there is a noticeable difference in clarity between coolplayer and winamp. Also, standalone MP3 players tend to have better mp3 decoding because they (usually) use a DSP to decode the and DSP programmers are well aware of accuracy issues.
My point is, mp3 is tolerable for casual listening even to an audiophile *IF* it's done correctly. The problem of course is that the computer is about the *worst* place to be listening to music because its at such a disadvantage (poor quality signals, noisy electronics, bad DACs, shitty speakers).
However, your need for a higher quality signal is directly proportional to the cost of your stereo. If you have a small portable stereo, the radio is about the best quality you can reproduce anyways. The quality of mp3's is superior to what the average computer can reproduce. But If you have a 30,000$ stereo as some obsessive audiophiles do, its pretty silly to listen to mp3s on it (but you're gobbling up dvd-audio discs as fast as they are made anyways).
I call shenanigans on you. Libertarians *don't* trust government because it is bought and paid for by huge corporations. Libertarians want a government by and for the people, you may remember that phrase from somewhere.
Me: What does the job pay? ... ... nothing.
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Them: Well we're small, so
Me: Can I keep some of the hardware I review?
Them: No, we want it.
Me: Well I guess it would be still cool to see my name on the site, can you guys fedex me the hardware?
Them: No, you have to pick it up.
Me: Thats 150 miles each way, it was nice meetin ya!
This was the best thing I could find on short notice, but heres a link showing median income by education in farfax county virginia.
I'm not saying you can't prosper without a degree -- first rule of science is you can't prove a negative. However, your chances are *much* greater with a college degree. In US Society right now a degree is what you need just to be let on the playing field.
In this economy, even well educated, well trained and competent people are having trouble finding a job. I cant even imagine what someone without a degree is going through ...
I would be glad to share :) One of my absolutely favorite things ... they've been out of print for years, but you can goto amazon to read about them, there are also listings for the individual cds in the set. Basically what the cds are is the recordings made by the various instrumentation on the Voyager space probe (converted to audible sound).
Some portions of the score were fantastic to. there was a montage with an amazing sountrack --it was based on electromagnetic recordings from deep space (I haven't read this from anywhere, but I have heard NASA recordings of deep space and there is no mistaking them).
This version of solaris is really about the changing perception of the universe to the main character -- although they tread pretty lightly on that theme. If you want to see a well executed movie with a neat soundtrack that will make you think just a little bit but not quite enough, go see Solaris.
As I understand it C# means (C++)++ . If you imagine the four pluses on top of eachother they become a sharp...(this could just be a rumor)
Someone gave me one of those a couple years ago, seriously the best xmas present ive ever gotten. I use it several times a day
Yes sir :) When I began college, they gave us an orientation tour of the facilities. On the tour we came to the best lab on campus -- pentium II 233's with 128 megs of ram. I said, "do I *have* to do my work here?" and they look puzzled, "why wouldnt you want to, these are great computers?!" to which I reply, "At home I have a dual PII 300 with 256 megs of ram" (which at the time was about the best machine avaliable) -- I might add I had purchased this computer with my wages from working at a subway sandwich shop at the time, so its not like I was mr money bags.
Now you're trolling ... Im not a beginner, I've desgined CPU's, written compilers, and I'd wager I know alot more about you on this subject. The reason integer division works the way it does is because of how division is implemented in cpus. Integer division traditionally was implemented as multiple subtractions, to compute Y/X in c code: while( Y Furthermore, Integers are defined as a step function, so the result is not only foreseable but *mathmatically correct*. You might not know it, but what you are really mad about is that the compiler dosen't automatically promote the "1/2" to float. C is desgined with speed in mind, if you want promotion you have to specify it.
Common, this is the second lesson in most beginners programming classes. You're mixing integer division and float multiplication (clearly a mistake) and then worrying about the result being horked. If I put kerosene in my gas tank should I be pissed my car dosen't run? If you want to gripe about C please choose a legitimate gripe.