I do not take any position saying this, but I would like you to explain something to me...
How is dismissing all religions, claiming that their followers are "sheeps who dont want to think for themselves", and instead basing all of your conceptions and beliefs in "science" is anything less than being a "sheep who dont want to think itself"?
I ask because you say, and I cite: "Every time religion is shown to be wrong, they internalize the error and come up with a new story that fits the truth that their flocks believe.". So how exactly is this any different than science as we know it? Theories are constantly "updated" to "fit the thruth". First, which truth? How are you defining "truth"? Again I ask because, as much as I really like science, maths, physics et all, I fail to see how they are The Truth (tm). They are only a process into which we try to understand our universe a bit better. It is only a differente way of seeing things.
Yes, there are peoples acting like sheeps. Some of them jump into religions to reassure them or something. But I know of people who do the same with siences, news, their neighbor, whatever. They will beleive their "truth source" no matter what "evidences" you present them. Sheeps are sheeps, it has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the individual. So dismissing everything which is not "science" are whatever you "beleive" in is just the same from my point of view as those sheeps you were talking about.
For me, religion can not explain everything, science either. But both can give me insight and trigger reflexions, be it "spiritual" reflexions or "scientific" ones.
And f*ck that if I loose some karma, but I fail to understand how you can be modded INSIGHTFUL with such a closed mind, accusatory tone, trollish comment. Because I dont know what pattern you saw in the gp post, but I sure see one in your!
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They talk about using this for people with disabilities. This would be great for sure but they say in the article that they need to "train" the computer beforehand (no pun intended) before it can... interpret though.
My question, which was not answered in the article, is: Are every brain emmitting the same signals for the same action or do they need to "train" the program for every new user (monkey)?
I would think that every individual have a somewhat unique "brain signature" and if it is the case, how can a totally impaired person train a computer to use an artificial arm or leg or whatever if anyway he isn't able to move a "joystick"?
Can the computer associated anything as an input to compare with the brain activity? Could (let's say ) S. Hawking program the system by blowing in a tube harder or smoother for example?
A conservative estimate is that 30,000 Americans are killed because of medical malpractice each year.
How much would die if there were no doctors at all?
I perfectly understand this! I come from "Abitibi" in Quebec (very rural) and used to do winter camping when I was still at scool. This was soooo relaxing, I really miss those time.
I tell people about this and they do not understand why I liked it so much. Yes, it was f*cking cold to get up in the morning at -25C, yes I bitched a few times when the fire would not start, but then, when I finally managed to light it up and drink a "coffee", this was magical...
Like you said, the only thing that mattered was my own survival. No bills to pay, no boss to please, nobody to report to. Only me and the surronding trees.
I don't think it's technology which is making us more stressful, maybe is it just our obsession about always having more, doing more, faster, faster all the time. That and worying that somebody else can come, fire you, or take everything you worked so hard to get and build. THAT is stressful.
For me, a part of the answer as been to live with less. I have my computer, my cello and a midi kb, a parrot and thats it. No debts, no worry, they can take my car if they want to, I dont care anyway:)
"According to other researchers, prolonged exposure to normal gravity fields, similar to those experienced on such common planets as earth, the moon and mars, can also kill you. The damage appears to be cumulative, so you'd best get off that planet ASAP! The effect is commonly called 'aging'.
The full study is available online now. No word yet for black holes habitants' brains..."
So IBM no longer investing in AIX? HP is no longer investing in HP-UX?
Those are all companies you know, they don't care if it is free software or not, only if they can make money out of it.
No matter how much they say they love open-source, never forget it's all only PR; Sun may just be bad at this game...
It should have been: "Plus ca change, plu C'EST pareil." unless you wanted to say it in "Qebecois", then it would have been "Tabarnak, plusse ca change, plusse ce pareil sti".:-D
I've been programing since my early 10's and I am now 24. The day I have been brought back to reality, when I encountered "the corporate world!", I started to hate this job.
Let them dream as much as they whant, as dreamers are the ones who drives innovation.
I don't know for sure that it's this show. But I heard on radio this morning that the guys finally refused to make the show when they learned that the girl was actually... a transsexual!
You posted as an AC, but kept your signature, I recognized you Anne!!!
I sure hope you just don't know what a Darwin Award is, and that you are not not just trolling (god, I put you in my friends list!). The Darwin Awards is(are) a joke... It is an award, awarded to the guy (or girl) who killed him(her)self in the most stupid way in the course of the year, thus cleaning the gene pool; Darwinism... look here
Better then, to simply hold the documents in obscurity from the prying eyes of the curious using search engines to seek out this documentation by using a robots txt file
They could simply remove the web page I guess? It's even more effective you know...
I am nowhere near a professional sound engineer, I am a programmer and I had been playing the cello for over 15 years so lately, I wanted to try to mix both my taste for music and my taste for computers...
What I bought is an Audiophile 2496, it is a very good sound card (use the ice1712 chip), does 24 bit recording / at 96khz which in my case is quite overkill.
I also bought an external mixer, a Behringer ub1204-pro. It is a fairly inexpensive mixing console but it is quite a good one for my purpose, for the price, it is unbeatable. The reason I got an external mixing console is because while you can use a digital one, there is nothing like moving real buttons, it's faster, it's... just not the same. I use digitals one to, but I prefer a combination of both then only a digital one.
Now, because my cello pickup is using a piezo pickup, which have a very high impedance, I also needed a very good DI-Box/Preamp, but this is not needed depending on what your son is playing. Also, some person just prefer to mic their amp (use a microphone to record the output of the amplifier).
For about 800$ CAN I bought the cables, the DI box, the mixing console and the sound card, remove 280$ of that if you do not need a DI box (it was an expensive one, almost as much as the sound card AND the console together, but with those, you really got what you pay for).
On the software side, I use Jack and Ardour, with Hydrogen for my drum needs (it is a drum synth).
Well, I am not the best one to talk about all this stuff as I am only fooling around with this stuff. One good place to learn about this "hobby" however is to read all of Tweakz tutorial on www.studio-central.com . He explain EVERYTHING you need to know, about soundcard, mixers, everything. It is totally windows-centric, but the audio hardware part is pretty platform neutral (except the audio card, but a cheap Audiphile is quite good, tcheck the Alsa website to see what is supported) linux-soung.org is very informative for the software part, if you would want to run on Linux. For my part, I run on linux but I could not care less. It is only because I have no Windows installation. Software on windows are quite good but I have been able to get much lower latency on my linux box then on windows. Jack and Ardour works very well together also but Ardour is not very well documented yet... Things will get better on the software side I'm sure. I also had much less problem recording thru the audiophile with alsa then on windows using the maudio (the company's) drivers, don Anyway, I was just giving you my experiences, the best thing you can do is to make your own! The best advice I can give you is to take a month or two to research what you are buying. This kind of hardware is getting cheaper but it is still quite an investment to do so you better be knowledgeable about it then to be disapointed. Be an informed customer;)
Hope this helps a bit, sorry about the formatting or any spellling errors, I do not have much time to proofread my post this morning...
Ciao!
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I do not take any position saying this, but I would like you to explain something to me...
How is dismissing all religions, claiming that their followers are "sheeps who dont want to think for themselves", and instead basing all of your conceptions and beliefs in "science" is anything less than being a "sheep who dont want to think itself"?
I ask because you say, and I cite: "Every time religion is shown to be wrong, they internalize the error and come up with a new story that fits the truth that their flocks believe.". So how exactly is this any different than science as we know it? Theories are constantly "updated" to "fit the thruth". First, which truth? How are you defining "truth"? Again I ask because, as much as I really like science, maths, physics et all, I fail to see how they are The Truth (tm). They are only a process into which we try to understand our universe a bit better. It is only a differente way of seeing things.
Yes, there are peoples acting like sheeps. Some of them jump into religions to reassure them or something. But I know of people who do the same with siences, news, their neighbor, whatever. They will beleive their "truth source" no matter what "evidences" you present them. Sheeps are sheeps, it has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the individual. So dismissing everything which is not "science" are whatever you "beleive" in is just the same from my point of view as those sheeps you were talking about.
For me, religion can not explain everything, science either. But both can give me insight and trigger reflexions, be it "spiritual" reflexions or "scientific" ones.
And f*ck that if I loose some karma, but I fail to understand how you can be modded INSIGHTFUL with such a closed mind, accusatory tone, trollish comment. Because I dont know what pattern you saw in the gp post, but I sure see one in your!
They talk about using this for people with disabilities. This would be great for sure but ... interpret though.
;-)
they say in the article that they need to "train" the computer beforehand (no pun intended)
before it can
My question, which was not answered in the article, is: Are every brain emmitting the same signals for the same action
or do they need to "train" the program for every new user (monkey)? I would think that every individual have a somewhat
unique "brain signature" and if it is the case, how can a totally impaired person train a computer to use an artificial arm or
leg or whatever if anyway he isn't able to move a "joystick"?
Can the computer associated anything as an input to compare with the brain activity?
Could (let's say ) S. Hawking program the system by blowing in a tube harder or smoother for example?
Am I clear?
A conservative estimate is that 30,000 Americans are killed because of medical malpractice each year.
How much would die if there were no doctors at all?
I perfectly understand this! I come from "Abitibi" in Quebec (very rural) and used to do winter camping when I was still at scool. This was soooo relaxing, I really miss those time. :)
I tell people about this and they do not understand why I liked it so much. Yes, it was f*cking cold to get up in the morning at -25C, yes I bitched a few times when the fire would not start, but then, when I finally managed to light it up and drink a "coffee", this was magical...
Like you said, the only thing that mattered was my own survival. No bills to pay, no boss to please, nobody to report to. Only me and the surronding trees.
I don't think it's technology which is making us more stressful, maybe is it just our obsession about always having more, doing more, faster, faster all the time. That and worying that somebody else can come, fire you, or take everything you worked so hard to get and build. THAT is stressful.
For me, a part of the answer as been to live with less. I have my computer, my cello and a midi kb, a parrot and thats it. No debts, no worry, they can take my car if they want to, I dont care anyway
Hey! I tough it was only me having this weird date problem. It would not move by 15 mins at once, but it seems to gain a good 1-2 minutes per day...
"According to other researchers, prolonged exposure to normal gravity fields, similar to those experienced on such common planets as earth, the moon and mars, can also kill you. The damage appears to be cumulative, so you'd best get off that planet ASAP! The effect is commonly called 'aging'.
The full study is available online now. No word yet for black holes habitants' brains..."
Sun continues to invest heavily in Solaris
So IBM no longer investing in AIX? HP is no longer investing in HP-UX?
Those are all companies you know, they don't care if it is free software or not, only if they can make money out of it.
No matter how much they say they love open-source, never forget it's all only PR; Sun may just be bad at this game...
This may only be funny for french speakers... But any time they ask for my postal code in a web form (i'm in Montreal), I enter: G1Q 1Q9 hehe
You are not forced to type your lists, you can still put Objects into them and cast them back if you need to...
If it's been 4.5 years since the last time, beware the premature ejaculation dude...
Do you know if this worm is supported by WINE?
A country can't go bankrupt by the way...
It should have been: "Plus ca change, plu C'EST pareil." unless you wanted to say it in "Qebecois", then it would have been "Tabarnak, plusse ca change, plusse ce pareil sti". :-D
Be a slut!
laught, it's a joke...
If God exists, why did he create something so terrible as me?
...
Maybe to serve as an exemple to others?
Taken from despair.com
I wanted some ice to put in my drink and to my surprise, when I opened my freezer, the ice as melted!!!! Is this due to global freezer warming?
http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm
I'm in no way an expert in this field, I just happened to read this a few days ago...
...and be brought down a level to reality.
I've been programing since my early 10's and I am now 24. The day I have been brought back to reality, when I encountered "the corporate world!", I started to hate this job.
Let them dream as much as they whant, as dreamers are the ones who drives innovation.
Take too much in a single setting, and you die. It's poison. But gawd I love it.
Caffein: Take too much in a single setting, and you die. It's poison. But gawd I love it.
Sugar: Take too much in a single setting, and you die. It's poison. But gawd I love it.
And finally, for this incredible adrenaline rush!>
Man... anything can and WILL kill you in to much a single setting, even an adrenaline rush!
I don't know for sure that it's this show. But I heard on radio this morning that the guys finally refused to make the show when they learned that the girl was actually... a transsexual!
Now, what you said about getting laid uh?!?
You posted as an AC, but kept your signature, I recognized you Anne!!!
I sure hope you just don't know what a Darwin Award is, and that you are not not just trolling (god, I put you in my friends list!). The Darwin Awards is(are) a joke... It is an award, awarded to the guy (or girl) who killed him(her)self in the most stupid way in the course of the year, thus cleaning the gene pool; Darwinism... look here
Better then, to simply hold the documents in obscurity from the prying eyes of the curious using search engines to seek out this documentation by using a robots txt file
They could simply remove the web page I guess? It's even more effective you know...
Scarcity is getting scarcer?!?
It's nothing compared to Slahsdot...
I may answer if it can be of any help...
... just not the same. I use digitals one to, but I prefer a combination of both then only a digital one.
;)
I am nowhere near a professional sound engineer, I am a programmer and I had been playing the cello for over 15 years so lately, I wanted to try to mix both my taste for music and my taste for computers...
What I bought is an Audiophile 2496, it is a very good sound card (use the ice1712 chip), does 24 bit recording / at 96khz which in my case is quite overkill.
I also bought an external mixer, a Behringer ub1204-pro. It is a fairly inexpensive mixing console but it is quite a good one for my purpose, for the price, it is unbeatable. The reason I got an external mixing console is because while you can use a digital one, there is nothing like moving real buttons, it's faster, it's
Now, because my cello pickup is using a piezo pickup, which have a very high impedance, I also needed a very good DI-Box/Preamp, but this is not needed depending on what your son is playing. Also, some person just prefer to mic their amp (use a microphone to record the output of the amplifier).
For about 800$ CAN I bought the cables, the DI box, the mixing console and the sound card, remove 280$ of that if you do not need a DI box (it was an expensive one, almost as much as the sound card AND the console together, but with those, you really got what you pay for).
On the software side, I use Jack and Ardour, with Hydrogen for my drum needs (it is a drum synth).
Well, I am not the best one to talk about all this stuff as I am only fooling around with this stuff. One good place to learn about this "hobby" however is to read all of Tweakz tutorial on www.studio-central.com . He explain EVERYTHING you need to know, about soundcard, mixers, everything. It is totally windows-centric, but the audio hardware part is pretty platform neutral (except the audio card, but a cheap Audiphile is quite good, tcheck the Alsa website to see what is supported) linux-soung.org is very informative for the software part, if you would want to run on Linux. For my part, I run on linux but I could not care less. It is only because I have no Windows installation. Software on windows are quite good but I have been able to get much lower latency on my linux box then on windows. Jack and Ardour works very well together also but Ardour is not very well documented yet... Things will get better on the software side I'm sure. I also had much less problem recording thru the audiophile with alsa then on windows using the maudio (the company's) drivers, don
Anyway, I was just giving you my experiences, the best thing you can do is to make your own! The best advice I can give you is to take a month or two to research what you are buying. This kind of hardware is getting cheaper but it is still quite an investment to do so you better be knowledgeable about it then to be disapointed. Be an informed customer
Hope this helps a bit, sorry about the formatting or any spellling errors, I do not have much time to proofread my post this morning...
Ciao!