For the lion's share of the first 14/15ths, nearly all music was for religious purposes, so at best it was a service by people for their gods
Untrue. This was "high music," as in the music of the high culture, but the low culture (which didn't have the advantage of writing the official history) produced music as well. You're not seriously asserting that no one but priests sang a note, are you? That's like saying there was never any literature other than the bible. Of course there was. It's just that the church had the means to record what they were doing.
Just so you know, I've been playing in renaissance music ensembles for decades, so I know what I'm talking about. (15th century music, on historical replicas of the instruments.) A lot of what we play is dance music, and they ain't dances for the gods.
So, please. Folk were probably singing before they were talking.
I find that being a slob helps exercise my 3d spacial awareness skills. No kidding. I know where things are in my piles 'o' crap and can usually retrieve them instantly by plunging a hand in and grabbing them. It's an O(1) retrieval. Of course, when I forget it becomes O(n^2), but we don't discuss such things in polite company.:)
Basically, a multiobjective GA was used to find parameter sets for chemical simulation equations that increased the speed of those simulations by a factor of 10x-103x. (And were more accurate, to boot.) That enables the reaction models to be more complex and, as the presentation stated, "lead potentially to new drugs, new materials, fundamental understanding of complex chemical phenomena."
No matter what it was, in two years it'd be obsolete. The machine would have to come with a support contract that said, "Every year the machine is replaced with a top of the line model."
A friend of mine works as a 911 operator. I remember her saying years ago that they were testing out new CPR directions to give to folks calling in. They were supposed to tell people to do 400 heart compressions to every breath, but they were losing count. (Panic situations, donchya know.) So they ended up telling them to do 100 compressions and then ask for what to do next. They'd just say, "keep going...."
As far as I know they adopted the new guidelines. It's just hard to spread the word that mouth to mouth isn't all that effective.
I don't think that'd be such a bad thing. The industry doesn't need to spread like wildfire. It can stand some scrutiny, and that scrutiny won't hurt it that much. GM foods should be able to survive the marketplace of ideas, just like anything else. If it can't then it should die. Law of the jungle.
They were not accustomed to eating the variations over the centuries and yet they suffered no ill effects.
How many fallacies can you squeeze into one statement?
These variations had been tested over the course of centuries. They wouldn't have been in wide use if they were toxic.
They undoubtedly ate things that did make them sick. We don't eat them now. Why? Because they made folks sick...
The basic problem is that these GM foods are not getting the long term testing necessary to determine their safety before being widely released to the general public. It's playing with fire. Now, playing with fire is fine, but it's best if that's done by the few mavericks of society, and by their choice. It's not fine when it's forced on everyone without their knowledge.
Well, I have to ascertain whether *all* Linux distros are built around poor design, or whether it was just an Ubuntu thing. The evidence leads to the former.
I think the evidence leads to the fact that you're an asshole.
The distro is doomed because i'm on the hairtrigger of moving all my boxes off of it after almost 5 years, which makes me think many people have done so already, and will do so.
I second that.
I ran Gentoo for 3 years. Switched to Kubuntu last year and haven't looked back. I was just tired of it breaking all the time, simple as that.
You would be right, except that's precisely what selection takes care of. Yes, most mutations are NOT beneficial, but this does not matter because the non-beneficial mutations die off quickly, and the rare beneficial ones survive to spread expontentially.
It's actually not that simple.
Mutations that incur no direct benefit, or are directly detrimental, can spread if the organisms they're in can survive, for whatever reason. They can be environmentally activated, like a sensitivity to a certain chemical that only expresses itself when the organism moves to different area. They can incur benefit when recessive, but be detrimental when dominant, like the sickle cell trait. (When recessive, gives resistance to malaria.) A mutation can be beneficial in one environment and detrimental in another.
Back to being something of a Social Butterfly at work. Last week, I got invited to an informal luncheon that included the Big Dogs of the corporation. That face time probably didn't hurt me none.
Excellent! Maybe you can get transferred away and your boss can actually get some work done.
Software is approaching the complexity of organic life. You know what it means for an organic being to be "finished"?
So what if our software is constantly changing, and is thus "unfinished"? To be finished means it won't improve. Heck, the whole reason for the existence of open source is the "if it's broken, I can fix it" idea.
So, why do we need software to be "finished," anyway?
As soon as it's out, I'm buying it. Heck, I'm even getting the $600 one with more memory. I'm sick of crappy phones and I'm willing to pay to bet on apple. They haven't failed me yet.
Consider the outrage and public debate that the Patriot act sparked in the US - everybody had an opinion, it was debated to death...
One correction: at the time, the Patriot Act was passed with little debate. The debate has happened after the fact. (And when some provisions came up for re-authorization.)
Though the Act made significant amendments to over 15 important statutes, it was introduced with great haste and passed with little debate, and without a House, Senate, or conference report. As a result, it lacks background legislative history that often retrospectively provides necessary statutory interpretation.
In other words, it was passed quickly and in such a way that it could be interpreted widely.
July 2003: A Los Angeles Superior Court judge dismisses all molestation charges against Kline because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning prosecution of old sex-abuse allegations.
October 2004: A federal appeals court reverses the pornography rulings, saying the Canadian hacker was acting on his own when he gained access to Kline's computer.
Note there's no mention of an appeal to SCOTUS.
This sets up a lose-lose situation for our judicial system: either a) extra-judicial hackers are condoned, or b) some 3000 potential child porn cases could be thrown out, with precedent set to do the same in future situations.
He's found a judge with child porn on his computer. This judge will hire a competent defense attorney who will argue that Willman put all of the images there. After all, Willman had complete access to the machine, by his own admission. "Willman is a lone wacko who's obsessed by child porn," the attorney will argue.
And every single child pornographer he's uncovered will do the same. Many of them will get away with it, and precedent will be set.
There's a reason why we have search laws. Willman has now tainted the evidence in thousands of child porn cases, by his own admission. That's pretty much the definition of "well meaning idiot."
...we'll still be human. The problem isn't where we are, it's what we are. Don't change that and there's always the possibility we'll amuse ourselves to death.
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You mean folk music wasn't performed by and for the folk?
News to me.
And all of history.
What do you think was more common: the music performed by the top 1% of society, or the music performed by the bottom 99%?
Untrue. This was "high music," as in the music of the high culture, but the low culture (which didn't have the advantage of writing the official history) produced music as well. You're not seriously asserting that no one but priests sang a note, are you? That's like saying there was never any literature other than the bible. Of course there was. It's just that the church had the means to record what they were doing.
Just so you know, I've been playing in renaissance music ensembles for decades, so I know what I'm talking about. (15th century music, on historical replicas of the instruments.) A lot of what we play is dance music, and they ain't dances for the gods.
So, please. Folk were probably singing before they were talking.
I find that being a slob helps exercise my 3d spacial awareness skills. No kidding. I know where things are in my piles 'o' crap and can usually retrieve them instantly by plunging a hand in and grabbing them. It's an O(1) retrieval. Of course, when I forget it becomes O(n^2), but we don't discuss such things in polite company. :)
At the last GECCO conference I saw a paper presented on the use of a genetic algorithm to speed up the simulation of certain chemical reactions:
linky
Google cache because the link is to a power point...
Basically, a multiobjective GA was used to find parameter sets for chemical simulation equations that increased the speed of those simulations by a factor of 10x-103x. (And were more accurate, to boot.) That enables the reaction models to be more complex and, as the presentation stated, "lead potentially to new drugs, new materials, fundamental understanding of complex chemical phenomena."
Cool stuff.
Myth or no, I haven't heard that.
No matter what it was, in two years it'd be obsolete. The machine would have to come with a support contract that said, "Every year the machine is replaced with a top of the line model."
:)
Hey, you said price was no object.
A friend of mine works as a 911 operator. I remember her saying years ago that they were testing out new CPR directions to give to folks calling in. They were supposed to tell people to do 400 heart compressions to every breath, but they were losing count. (Panic situations, donchya know.) So they ended up telling them to do 100 compressions and then ask for what to do next. They'd just say, "keep going...."
As far as I know they adopted the new guidelines. It's just hard to spread the word that mouth to mouth isn't all that effective.
I don't think that'd be such a bad thing. The industry doesn't need to spread like wildfire. It can stand some scrutiny, and that scrutiny won't hurt it that much. GM foods should be able to survive the marketplace of ideas, just like anything else. If it can't then it should die. Law of the jungle.
How many fallacies can you squeeze into one statement?
These variations had been tested over the course of centuries. They wouldn't have been in wide use if they were toxic.
They undoubtedly ate things that did make them sick. We don't eat them now. Why? Because they made folks sick...
The basic problem is that these GM foods are not getting the long term testing necessary to determine their safety before being widely released to the general public. It's playing with fire. Now, playing with fire is fine, but it's best if that's done by the few mavericks of society, and by their choice. It's not fine when it's forced on everyone without their knowledge.
That's not what I dun heard!
Man, you sound just like my wife...
I think the evidence leads to the fact that you're an asshole.
I second that.
I ran Gentoo for 3 years. Switched to Kubuntu last year and haven't looked back. I was just tired of it breaking all the time, simple as that.
I hope you're wearing shoes in the winter these days. :P
Fram, fram, and all that...
It's actually not that simple.
Mutations that incur no direct benefit, or are directly detrimental, can spread if the organisms they're in can survive, for whatever reason. They can be environmentally activated, like a sensitivity to a certain chemical that only expresses itself when the organism moves to different area. They can incur benefit when recessive, but be detrimental when dominant, like the sickle cell trait. (When recessive, gives resistance to malaria.) A mutation can be beneficial in one environment and detrimental in another.
So, like I say, it's not that simple.
Excellent! Maybe you can get transferred away and your boss can actually get some work done.
Software is approaching the complexity of organic life. You know what it means for an organic being to be "finished"?
So what if our software is constantly changing, and is thus "unfinished"? To be finished means it won't improve. Heck, the whole reason for the existence of open source is the "if it's broken, I can fix it" idea.
So, why do we need software to be "finished," anyway?
As soon as it's out, I'm buying it. Heck, I'm even getting the $600 one with more memory. I'm sick of crappy phones and I'm willing to pay to bet on apple. They haven't failed me yet.
One correction: at the time, the Patriot Act was passed with little debate. The debate has happened after the fact. (And when some provisions came up for re-authorization.)
From http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot"
In other words, it was passed quickly and in such a way that it could be interpreted widely.
Note there's no mention of an appeal to SCOTUS.
This sets up a lose-lose situation for our judicial system: either a) extra-judicial hackers are condoned, or b) some 3000 potential child porn cases could be thrown out, with precedent set to do the same in future situations.
Does this seem like a happy situation to you?
He's found a judge with child porn on his computer. This judge will hire a competent defense attorney who will argue that Willman put all of the images there. After all, Willman had complete access to the machine, by his own admission. "Willman is a lone wacko who's obsessed by child porn," the attorney will argue.
And every single child pornographer he's uncovered will do the same. Many of them will get away with it, and precedent will be set.
There's a reason why we have search laws. Willman has now tainted the evidence in thousands of child porn cases, by his own admission. That's pretty much the definition of "well meaning idiot."
Clean burning energy? Only if the burning bit is our whole planet.
...we'll still be human. The problem isn't where we are, it's what we are. Don't change that and there's always the possibility we'll amuse ourselves to death.
What are you talking about? There's tons of filling stations. It's called "home" and you go there every day...
I was on the fence about buying an iTV. Gonna buy one now, no doubt.