I would like to point out that this album is not, in fact, turntablism at all. It was done pretty much entirely on a sampler.
For some real turntablism, though, I highly reccomend the DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist albums Brainfreeze and Product Placement. You'll probably never be able to get your hands on an original this late in the game, but you should be able to score convincing bootlegs on eBay or download them off of P2P services.
I also reccomend both volumes of "Live at the Futureprimitive Soundsession".
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Inteligent - Supposedly "smarter" than the genre's norm, tracks adhereing to an Inteligent sub-genre attemt to be more creative than the typical anthem, often times succeeding.
It should be noted, while we're talking about it, that the oft-used "Intelligent Dance Music" moniker was actually created by none other than Brian Behlendorf, head of the Apache project, in 1993.
He named the mailing list "IDM" after Warp's "Artifical Intelligence" compilations.
After I read that, I don't feel so bad using the term anymore. It was (as far as I can tell) never intended to be as pompous as it sounds.
Things on the Ninja Tune label (try DJ Food's "Kaleidescope" and Herbaliser's "Very Mercenary")
LTJ Bukem's Logical Progression (Volume 1, which isn't labeled Volume 1, but Volume 2 isn't it, obviously:)
Aphex Twin (Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and Richard D. James album)
I mostly listen to more experimental/IDM stuff now, but those are some more accessible classics that have really stood the test of time for me.
Of course, I can't stand trance (i.e. Sasha and Digweed/Oakenfold) so my opinions may not be worth much to you. But if you like Sasha+Digweed and Oakenfold a lot, just keep your eye out for things marked "trance". That's the specific sub-genre of electronic music that you're listening to.
Here's one of my favorite passages from A Wild Sheep Chase, FWIW... I just remembered I had this all typed up already, so I thought I'd share...
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Traffic was jammed solid in the direction on Shinjuku. Evening rush hour, among other things. Past a certain point the cars seemed practically glued in place, motionless. Every so often a wave would pass through the cars, budging them forward a few inches. I thought about the rotational speed of the earth. How many miles an hour was this road surface whirling through space? I did a quick calculation in my head and came up with a figure that could have been no faster than the Spinning Teacup at a carnival. There're many things we don't really know. It's an illusion that we know anything at all. If a group of aliens were to stop me and ask, Say, bud, how many miles an hour does the earth spin at the equator? I'd be in a fix. Hell, I don't even know why Wednesday follows Tuesday. I'd be an inergalactic joke.
I've read And Quiet Flows the Don and The Brothers Karamazov three times through. I've even read Ideologie Germanica once. I can even recite the value of pi to sixteen places. Would I still be a joke? Probably. They'd laugh their alien heads off.
Would you care to listen to some music, sir? asked the chauffeur.
Good idea, I said.
And at that a Chopin ballade filled the car. I got the feeling I was in a dressing room at a wedding reception.
Say, I asked the chauffeur, you know the value of pi?
You mean that 3.14 whatzit?
That's the one. How many decimal places do you know?
I know it to thirty-two places, the driver tossed out. Beyond that, well...
Thirty-two places?
There's a trick to it, but yes. Why do you ask?
Oh, nothing really, I said, crestfallen. Never mind.
I discovered Murakami through A Wild Sheep Chase last November. Within three months I'd read every book that had been translated to English.
I'm not a science fiction fan, but his books are just barely science fiction. They usually leave me feeling depressed (like the stereotypical main characters of his books... always a depressed, solitary male) but they're amazingly well written.
Sheep Chase is great for a quick introduction, but once you've read that, I highly reccomend reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. It's 600 dense pages, so chunk out some time, but it's absolutely worth it.
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if you're going to blow up downtown D.C. in the name of a foreign terrorist movement, you're an enemy combatant.
Wait, I think what you mean is:
If someone at a high level of government claims you're going to blow up downtown D.C. in the name of a foreign terrorist movement, you're an enemy combatant.
And, of course, you aren't allowed to appeal your status as an enemy combatant, either. If the White House says you are, you must be.
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I admit that this new Spielberg picture is more interesting than most, but through the whole thing we were constantly pummeled by annoying Spielbergisms that ruined most of the film for me.
It was all there:
the pointless "humorous" hijinks interrupting the flow (oh! the protagonist is going to eat a moldy sandwich! ha! ha! ha!)
the sappy/happy ending when this movie really deserved an unhappy one
the trite music from John Williams (which seemed especially bad this time... is he even trying anymore?)
and worst of all, the constant need to explain every minor plot twist three times because Spielberg assumes (correctly?) that his audience is really quite stupid.
Minority Report would be a decent movie if it just wasn't so fucking annoying.
I didn't say "give 'em hell". I said to politely say "no thank you". Only once have I ever had any conflict about it, and I always get out of the store faster.
Especially in Fry's where sometimes they expect you to WAIT IN LINE while they look at your receipt. Fuck that.
the "anti-theft" thing goes off every 10 people or so; the guy with who looks like a thug (who's polo shirt doesn't fit) then has to check reciepts.
Let the record show: you do NOT have to stop and let that thug check your receipt. You have paid for your merchandise, and you are free to leave. They do/not/ have a right to search you just because you are in their store and their obviously-flawed security gates went off. If you listen, you'll notice that's why they always ask YOUR permission to search you: "Can I have a look through your bag?" Say "no thank you" and keep walking.
If they want to search you without losing a lawsuit, they need to see you pick up some merchandise and then not lose sight of you until you leave the store without paying for it. Anything less than that opens them up to a lawsuit, and THEY KNOW THIS. Just say "no thank you" and be on your way. If they put up a fight just tell them to call the cops if they think they have a case. I've only had that happen to me once at Walgreen's at 3am, and even those dipshits knew they had no right to hold me.
This also goes at Fry's where they check everyone's reciept. I've found the exit-door employees are actually much, much nicer when you say "no thank you!" politely when they ask to see your receipt. They all know that there's nothing they can do to you and generally will say "okay, thanks for coming in, have a nice day!" or something similar, which is a lot more than I get normally.
Herbert is great (and his live shows are both great music and funny), but he's most certainly lumped into "IDM" and not "lowercase" or "microsounds" or whatever you want to call it.
The general consensus appears to be that he is an advocate of homophobia, racism and violence.
The charge of advocating violence gets an easy "yes" vote.
While he's obviously homophobic, I really think that's been kinda blown out of proportion, and I honestly don't think it's fair to say he "advocates" it, but whatever, I'm kinda nitpicking now, and I'm obviously biased.
As for claiming he's an advocate of racism, though, that's straight-up bullshit. I challenge you to find me one Eminem lyric that advocates racism. I don't think I've ever even heard him use the word "nigger"/"nigga", but even if he did, that still wouldn't make him racist. He came into popularity via Dr. Dre, his producer (black). The group he performed with in Detriot (D12) was him and five other black men. Frankly, whoever you've been talking to is clearly making shit up. He would never have made it this far in hip-hop being racist. It just wouldn't happen.
Regardless, I am not arguing that you have to like him. I never said that. I can fully understand not listening to him on "moral" (or whatever you want to call it) grounds.
What I was saying is that calling him a "talentless hack" was pure ignorance and that the constant comparisons to Vanilla Ice are a subtle form of racism. Yes indeedy.
Sir, it is clear you are just babbling and you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
Eminem freestyles constantly. He got second place in 1997's Rap Olympics, devoted to freestyling (well before he was backed by Dre). He has also been on The Wake Up Show (a radio show devoted to lyricists, very well respected in the underground hip-hop community) countless times, again before he was ever backed by Dre or on a label.
Eminem can and does write his own lyrics.
If you want to argue that he's a sell-out, go for it. If you want to argue that he's not a real musician because he doesn't play an instrument, go for it. (He did do most of the production on his new album, but in the hip-hop world that rarely means actually touching an instrument).
But if you want to claim that he doesn't have talent and that he doesn't write his own lyrics, you're just going to make yourself look like a moron who's never even done a cursory investigation of the topic you're arguing. And that's exactly what you've done.
That said, Eminem is a talentless corporate hack. The sooner the vortex of history sucks him into the black hole that contains Vanilla Ice and Millie Vanilly the better.
Eminem may be corporate and he may be a sell-out (I don't think so, but I could potentially agree if you hadn't shown yourself to be a dumbass already), but he's certainly not a talentless hack. Saying that just proves you know nothing about hip-hop, its culture, and how to appreciate it.
Which is fine. I don't know much about Mozart, Vivaldi or Paganini, but you don't see me spouting off about how they're talentless hacks.
The final straw was you (and everyone else) ignorantly comparing him to Vanilla Ice based on nothing but his skin color.
Long before he ever hooked up with Dr. Dre, he won second place in the 1997 Rap Olympics (dedicated to freestyling), which is quite an accomplishment for a white person in a genre heavily biased against white people (as you've shown).
If you've ever heard his freestyles on The Wake Up Show, you'd know that he has talent. But, of course, you haven't.
So buy it and show support for the concept, check out the quality and if you're happy with that then send nice feedback as a customer(lower price, different artist, etc) and give them a chance.
Right.
If they were a charity, I'd consider that.
But they're not, and I'm not going to pay $1 to download something I don't want, even if I do support the concept.
Nike issues statements denying it runs sweatshops because it wants to contribute to some kind of public debate!?
Yeah, exactly. How the fuck else are they supposed to defend themselves? The issues behind the sweatshop practices are part of a big ongoing debate and forcing one side to temper its speech lest they get sued seems like a horrible idea.
As Ann Brick of the ACLU said, "That kind of analysis is absolutely antithetical to the basic First Amendment principle that we let the people, not the government, decide who's right and who's wrong on an issue of public dispute."
"If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted." This was true in the past, but today almost all major nations follow the Berne copyright convention. For example, in the USA, almost everything created privately and originally after April 1, 1989 is copyrighted and protected whether it has a notice or not. The default you should assume for other people's works is that they are copyrighted and may not be copied unless you know otherwise. There are some old works that lost protection without notice, but frankly you should not risk it unless you know for sure.
I do keep one tab on me in case I absolutely absolutely had to stay awake into the 40-50 hour range for a road trip.
That's insane. 1 pill (even if it's 200mg, which are almost impossible to get without a real prescription) is never going to keep you awake 40-50 hours. 100mg doesn't even/affect/ me. I reccomend taking 100mg 12 hours after you wake up and 100mg more every 6-7 hours or the INSTANT you start to feel a little tired. (Wait too long and you'll fall asleep for sure). The first pill has no effect on me whatsoever, which I why I reccomend taking it early and long before you get tired.
DO NOT take 4 per shift like the guy up there.
When did I say I took four per "shift"?
I took four (100mg) pills spaced out over a 24 hour period. That's 400mg in 24 hours which is WELL under the 800mg/day maximum dosage.
You are going to get prescription info from Slashdot? Don't be a dumbass: check out the info on ANY drug before you take it. Know the maximum dose. Know the interactions. Know the side effects.
That goes without saying. There was a link to all of this information in my post. Check it again.
Sorry to hear you had all those side effects. Like I said, the only one I suffered from was a headache and that went away in under an hour (no medication). Perhaps it's because I'm taking the 100mg pills and it sounds like you are taking the 200mg ones? And of course, different drugs affect people different ways.
I've used it. The longest I've ever stayed up is 40 hours or so. The only noticible side effect was a slight headache, but that could've been caused by any number of things (I get headaches a fair amount because I don't eat very well:/). Headaches are the most common reported side-effect by far.
Even after 40 hours of being awake, I was still at nearly full mental capactity and able to work, etc. I did not feel the normal symptoms of sleep deprevation at all (I've stayed awake too long many times, and I'm familiar with how it makes you feel). I did not feel high, either. I was just... awake. I also didn't feel many physical problems (sore back, sore legs, etc) like I expected to, but YMMV, of course.
Afterwards I slept about 9 hours and had a normal next day. By my calculations (figuring you normally sleep.5 hours for each hour of wakefulness), that means I gained 22 hours of wakefulness.
You can find them on the internet if you look around enough. I am hesitant to mention sites, but there are two in the UK that sell 100mg pills. I have been unable to find the 200mg pills. They sell for about $145 + shipping ($15 or so) for 30 pills. That's $5.33 a pill. During my 40 hours awake, I took four, which works out to about $1 per hour.
Many people I tell this to think it would be a good idea to take them during finals. I must warn you that it's probably not a good idea because there is a very good chance your sleep schedule will get completely fucked up. For example, you may stay up for 32 hours, decide it's time for sleep, and then sleep through a final. In other words, I would take it a few times beforehand to get used to it before you decide to jump in and potentially fuck up something important.
Oh, yeah, good point, so how is having a permission and carrying a concealed weapon NOT carrying a gun?
Fuck, read what you wrote. We were talking about wearing a gun, which is a different thing entirely than carrying a concealed weapon. The dipshit on the website was claiming that America was evil because anyone is allowed to wear a gun. Well he, LIKE YOU, does not understand what "wearing a gun" means. I dare you to find statistics on people killed by non-concealed weapons. I'd bet you money it was nearly non-existent.
And, FWIW, I fully support gun control, but I also am opposed to idiots who argue about things they don't understand. In this case, that's you.
Uhm, read the newspapers, and then tell me again that no-one carries a gun.
The difference here is that we're talking about how "wearing" a gun is legal for everyone in the US. That's true. It's legal to carry a firearm around if it's not concealed.
It is NOT however legal to carry a gun in your pocket without special permission. That's a concealed weapon.
You don't understand the difference, so you argue a bullshit point.
Way to go, dipshit.
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I always use curly braces or the -> when dereferencing. It makes things so much clearer. Then you're down to just four variable types (and most people will never use the typeglob variables), a referencing operator ('\') and some dereferencing operators that are pretty clear.
Compare: @$foo[0] vs. $foo->[0] %$fark{snark}{mcgark} vs. $fark->{snark}->{mcgark}
Not only does it make things clearer, but you're much less likely to forget "is fark a hash or a hashref"???
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Turntablism: DJ Shadow - Entroducing
I would like to point out that this album is not, in fact, turntablism at all. It was done pretty much entirely on a sampler.
For some real turntablism, though, I highly reccomend the DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist albums Brainfreeze and Product Placement. You'll probably never be able to get your hands on an original this late in the game, but you should be able to score convincing bootlegs on eBay or download them off of P2P services.
I also reccomend both volumes of "Live at the Futureprimitive Soundsession".
Inteligent - Supposedly "smarter" than the genre's norm, tracks adhereing to an Inteligent sub-genre attemt to be more creative than the typical anthem, often times succeeding.
It should be noted, while we're talking about it, that the oft-used "Intelligent Dance Music" moniker was actually created by none other than Brian Behlendorf, head of the Apache project, in 1993.
He named the mailing list "IDM" after Warp's "Artifical Intelligence" compilations.
After I read that, I don't feel so bad using the term anymore. It was (as far as I can tell) never intended to be as pompous as it sounds.
Orbital's In Sides
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Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Things on the Ninja Tune label (try DJ Food's "Kaleidescope" and Herbaliser's "Very Mercenary")
LTJ Bukem's Logical Progression (Volume 1, which isn't labeled Volume 1, but Volume 2 isn't it, obviously
Aphex Twin (Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and Richard D. James album)
I mostly listen to more experimental/IDM stuff now, but those are some more accessible classics that have really stood the test of time for me.
Of course, I can't stand trance (i.e. Sasha and Digweed/Oakenfold) so my opinions may not be worth much to you. But if you like Sasha+Digweed and Oakenfold a lot, just keep your eye out for things marked "trance". That's the specific sub-genre of electronic music that you're listening to.
Please, please stop perpetuating the annoying rumor that Vonnegut wrote that speech.
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Traffic was jammed solid in the direction on Shinjuku. Evening rush hour, among other things. Past a certain point the cars seemed practically glued in place, motionless. Every so often a wave would pass through the cars, budging them forward a few inches. I thought about the rotational speed of the earth. How many miles an hour was this road surface whirling through space? I did a quick calculation in my head and came up with a figure that could have been no faster than the Spinning Teacup at a carnival. There're many things we don't really know. It's an illusion that we know anything at all. If a group of aliens were to stop me and ask, Say, bud, how many miles an hour does the earth spin at the equator? I'd be in a fix. Hell, I don't even know why Wednesday follows Tuesday. I'd be an inergalactic joke.
I've read And Quiet Flows the Don and The Brothers Karamazov three times through. I've even read Ideologie Germanica once. I can even recite the value of pi to sixteen places. Would I still be a joke? Probably. They'd laugh their alien heads off.
Would you care to listen to some music, sir? asked the chauffeur.
Good idea, I said.
And at that a Chopin ballade filled the car. I got the feeling I was in a dressing room at a wedding reception.
Say, I asked the chauffeur, you know the value of pi?
You mean that 3.14 whatzit?
That's the one. How many decimal places do you know?
I know it to thirty-two places, the driver tossed out.
Beyond that, well...
Thirty-two places?
There's a trick to it, but yes. Why do you ask?
Oh, nothing really, I said, crestfallen. Never mind.
I discovered Murakami through A Wild Sheep Chase last November. Within three months I'd read every book that had been translated to English.
I'm not a science fiction fan, but his books are just barely science fiction. They usually leave me feeling depressed (like the stereotypical main characters of his books... always a depressed, solitary male) but they're amazingly well written.
Sheep Chase is great for a quick introduction, but once you've read that, I highly reccomend reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. It's 600 dense pages, so chunk out some time, but it's absolutely worth it.
if you're going to blow up downtown D.C. in the name of a foreign terrorist movement, you're an enemy combatant.
Wait, I think what you mean is:
If someone at a high level of government claims you're going to blow up downtown D.C. in the name of a foreign terrorist movement, you're an enemy combatant.
And, of course, you aren't allowed to appeal your status as an enemy combatant, either. If the White House says you are, you must be.
It was all there:
- the pointless "humorous" hijinks interrupting the flow (oh! the protagonist is going to eat a moldy sandwich! ha! ha! ha!)
- the sappy/happy ending when this movie really deserved an unhappy one
- the trite music from John Williams (which seemed especially bad this time...
- and worst of all, the constant need to explain every minor plot twist three times because Spielberg assumes (correctly?) that his audience is really quite stupid.
Minority Report would be a decent movie if it just wasn't so fucking annoying.is he even trying anymore?)
I didn't say "give 'em hell". I said to politely say "no thank you". Only once have I ever had any conflict about it, and I always get out of the store faster.
Especially in Fry's where sometimes they expect you to WAIT IN LINE while they look at your receipt. Fuck that.
the "anti-theft" thing goes off every 10 people or so; the guy with who looks like a thug (who's polo shirt doesn't fit) then has to check reciepts.
/not/ have a right to search you just because you are in their store and their obviously-flawed security gates went off. If you listen, you'll notice that's why they always ask YOUR permission to search you: "Can I have a look through your bag?" Say "no thank you" and keep walking.
Let the record show: you do NOT have to stop and let that thug check your receipt. You have paid for your merchandise, and you are free to leave. They do
If they want to search you without losing a lawsuit, they need to see you pick up some merchandise and then not lose sight of you until you leave the store without paying for it. Anything less than that opens them up to a lawsuit, and THEY KNOW THIS. Just say "no thank you" and be on your way. If they put up a fight just tell them to call the cops if they think they have a case. I've only had that happen to me once at Walgreen's at 3am, and even those dipshits knew they had no right to hold me.
This also goes at Fry's where they check everyone's reciept. I've found the exit-door employees are actually much, much nicer when you say "no thank you!" politely when they ask to see your receipt. They all know that there's nothing they can do to you and generally will say "okay, thanks for coming in, have a nice day!" or something similar, which is a lot more than I get normally.
That's fun. I'm a fan of quietamerican (and Steev Hise's more-sparse phonophilia), but I didn't realize there's a live component to it, too.
What are those shows like? How do you make field recordings live?
they'll be interviewing Kid606 and talking abou the rise of laptop punk
I would be seriously surprised if 606 hadn't already gotten a few mentions in Wired. But I haven't read it in quite a while, so...
And, of course, he was on the cover of Wire a few months ago, which is just one letter off.
Herbert is great (and his live shows are both great music and funny), but he's most certainly lumped into "IDM" and not "lowercase" or "microsounds" or whatever you want to call it.
The general consensus appears to be that he is an advocate of homophobia, racism and violence.
The charge of advocating violence gets an easy "yes" vote.
While he's obviously homophobic, I really think that's been kinda blown out of proportion, and I honestly don't think it's fair to say he "advocates" it, but whatever, I'm kinda nitpicking now, and I'm obviously biased.
As for claiming he's an advocate of racism, though, that's straight-up bullshit. I challenge you to find me one Eminem lyric that advocates racism. I don't think I've ever even heard him use the word "nigger"/"nigga", but even if he did, that still wouldn't make him racist. He came into popularity via Dr. Dre, his producer (black). The group he performed with in Detriot (D12) was him and five other black men. Frankly, whoever you've been talking to is clearly making shit up. He would never have made it this far in hip-hop being racist. It just wouldn't happen.
Regardless, I am not arguing that you have to like him. I never said that. I can fully understand not listening to him on "moral" (or whatever you want to call it) grounds.
What I was saying is that calling him a "talentless hack" was pure ignorance and that the constant comparisons to Vanilla Ice are a subtle form of racism. Yes indeedy.
Ok, so did he write the music, or the lyrics?
Sir, it is clear you are just babbling and you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
Eminem freestyles constantly. He got second place in 1997's Rap Olympics, devoted to freestyling (well before he was backed by Dre). He has also been on The Wake Up Show (a radio show devoted to lyricists, very well respected in the underground hip-hop community) countless times, again before he was ever backed by Dre or on a label.
Eminem can and does write his own lyrics.
If you want to argue that he's a sell-out, go for it. If you want to argue that he's not a real musician because he doesn't play an instrument, go for it. (He did do most of the production on his new album, but in the hip-hop world that rarely means actually touching an instrument).
But if you want to claim that he doesn't have talent and that he doesn't write his own lyrics, you're just going to make yourself look like a moron who's never even done a cursory investigation of the topic you're arguing. And that's exactly what you've done.
That said, Eminem is a talentless corporate hack. The sooner the vortex of history sucks him into the black hole that contains Vanilla Ice and Millie Vanilly the better.
Eminem may be corporate and he may be a sell-out (I don't think so, but I could potentially agree if you hadn't shown yourself to be a dumbass already), but he's certainly not a talentless hack. Saying that just proves you know nothing about hip-hop, its culture, and how to appreciate it.
Which is fine. I don't know much about Mozart, Vivaldi or Paganini, but you don't see me spouting off about how they're talentless hacks.
The final straw was you (and everyone else) ignorantly comparing him to Vanilla Ice based on nothing but his skin color.
Long before he ever hooked up with Dr. Dre, he won second place in the 1997 Rap Olympics (dedicated to freestyling), which is quite an accomplishment for a white person in a genre heavily biased against white people (as you've shown).
If you've ever heard his freestyles on The Wake Up Show, you'd know that he has talent. But, of course, you haven't.
So buy it and show support for the concept, check out the quality and if you're happy with that then send nice feedback as a customer(lower price, different artist, etc) and give them a chance.
Right.
If they were a charity, I'd consider that.
But they're not, and I'm not going to pay $1 to download something I don't want, even if I do support the concept.
Nike issues statements denying it runs sweatshops because it wants to contribute to some kind of public debate!?
Yeah, exactly. How the fuck else are they supposed to defend themselves? The issues behind the sweatshop practices are part of a big ongoing debate and forcing one side to temper its speech lest they get sued seems like a horrible idea.
As Ann Brick of the ACLU said, "That kind of analysis is absolutely antithetical to the basic First Amendment principle that we let the people, not the government, decide who's right and who's wrong on an issue of public dispute."
Number one doesn't need any license at all. Just put the words "Copyright 2002 Joe Schmoe, all rights reserved" at the top, and you're done.
Technically speaking, a copyright notice isn't even required.
See Brad Templeton's Copyright Myth Number 1:
"If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted."
This was true in the past, but today almost all major nations follow the Berne copyright convention. For example, in the USA, almost everything created privately and originally after April 1, 1989 is copyrighted and protected whether it has a notice or not. The default you should assume for other people's works is that they are copyrighted and may not be copied unless you know otherwise. There are some old works that lost protection without notice, but frankly you should not risk it unless you know for sure.
I do keep one tab on me in case I absolutely absolutely had to stay awake into the 40-50 hour range for a road trip.
/affect/ me. I reccomend taking 100mg 12 hours after you wake up and 100mg more every 6-7 hours or the INSTANT you start to feel a little tired. (Wait too long and you'll fall asleep for sure). The first pill has no effect on me whatsoever, which I why I reccomend taking it early and long before you get tired.
That's insane. 1 pill (even if it's 200mg, which are almost impossible to get without a real prescription) is never going to keep you awake 40-50 hours. 100mg doesn't even
DO NOT take 4 per shift like the guy up there.
When did I say I took four per "shift"?
I took four (100mg) pills spaced out over a 24 hour period. That's 400mg in 24 hours which is WELL under the 800mg/day maximum dosage.
You are going to get prescription info from Slashdot?
Don't be a dumbass: check out the info on ANY drug before you take it. Know the maximum dose. Know the interactions. Know the side effects.
That goes without saying. There was a link to all of this information in my post. Check it again.
Sorry to hear you had all those side effects. Like I said, the only one I suffered from was a headache and that went away in under an hour (no medication). Perhaps it's because I'm taking the 100mg pills and it sounds like you are taking the 200mg ones? And of course, different drugs affect people different ways.
Yeah, you're right. I was doing:
9 * 2 = 18 hours of being awake normally
40 - 18 = 22 hours gained
But your calculation is better. Sorry.
$2/hour, then!
I've used it. The longest I've ever stayed up is 40 hours or so. The only noticible side effect was a slight headache, but that could've been caused by any number of things (I get headaches a fair amount because I don't eat very well :/). Headaches are the most common reported side-effect by far.
.5 hours for each hour of wakefulness), that means I gained 22 hours of wakefulness.
Even after 40 hours of being awake, I was still at nearly full mental capactity and able to work, etc. I did not feel the normal symptoms of sleep deprevation at all (I've stayed awake too long many times, and I'm familiar with how it makes you feel). I did not feel high, either. I was just... awake. I also didn't feel many physical problems (sore back, sore legs, etc) like I expected to, but YMMV, of course.
Afterwards I slept about 9 hours and had a normal next day. By my calculations (figuring you normally sleep
You can find them on the internet if you look around enough. I am hesitant to mention sites, but there are two in the UK that sell 100mg pills. I have been unable to find the 200mg pills. They sell for about $145 + shipping ($15 or so) for 30 pills. That's $5.33 a pill. During my 40 hours awake, I took four, which works out to about $1 per hour.
Many people I tell this to think it would be a good idea to take them during finals. I must warn you that it's probably not a good idea because there is a very good chance your sleep schedule will get completely fucked up. For example, you may stay up for 32 hours, decide it's time for sleep, and then sleep through a final. In other words, I would take it a few times beforehand to get used to it before you decide to jump in and potentially fuck up something important.
Oh, yeah, good point, so how is having a permission and carrying a concealed weapon NOT carrying a gun?
Fuck, read what you wrote. We were talking about wearing a gun, which is a different thing entirely than carrying a concealed weapon. The dipshit on the website was claiming that America was evil because anyone is allowed to wear a gun. Well he, LIKE YOU, does not understand what "wearing a gun" means. I dare you to find statistics on people killed by non-concealed weapons. I'd bet you money it was nearly non-existent.
And, FWIW, I fully support gun control, but I also am opposed to idiots who argue about things they don't understand. In this case, that's you.
Uhm, read the newspapers, and then tell me again that no-one carries a gun.
The difference here is that we're talking about how "wearing" a gun is legal for everyone in the US. That's true. It's legal to carry a firearm around if it's not concealed.
It is NOT however legal to carry a gun in your pocket without special permission. That's a concealed weapon.
You don't understand the difference, so you argue a bullshit point.
Way to go, dipshit.
I always use curly braces or the -> when dereferencing. It makes things so much clearer. Then you're down to just four variable types (and most people will never use the typeglob variables), a referencing operator ('\') and some dereferencing operators that are pretty clear.
Compare:
@$foo[0] vs. $foo->[0]
%$fark{snark}{mcgark} vs. $fark->{snark}->{mcgark}
Not only does it make things clearer, but you're much less likely to forget "is fark a hash or a hashref"???