Right now, if you were to buy a CD of Beethoven's 9th symphony, you would not be legally allowed to do anything but listen to it.
On the other hand, you could obtain a score for the same work, and have the pleasure of spending unlimited hours imagining a variety of different interpretations as you read it through, "hearing" it in your head. This isn't actually as difficult as it might seem (given a little training and plenty of practice), and is highly rewarding.
There's more to a performance of an orchestral work than the employment of "a renowned orchestra". What conductor will they use? Nowadays, most of the major orchestras choose their conductors (as opposed to the opposite-way-around practice of yesteryear), but I wonder if their employment contracts will allow the conductors to do this sort of "pro-bono" work.
I'm not saying this couldn't or shouldn't happen, but I wouldn't be surprised if this issue that will comes up.
This peek oil, omg the sky is falling was going to happen before 2000 back in the 80s.
First, catch your expert. Back when I was young in the '60s and early '70s, a crisis was often postulated for circa 2030. Maybe somewhere between the two might be more accurate, but if you stick your head in the sand, you make it easy to get your ass kicked.
When petroleum becomes expensive, stuff will stop being made universally out of plastics.
True, but given that most "stuff" has to be dug out of the ground, there are lots of things that will become unobtainable as they cost more to dig up than than they can be sold for.
I have been predicting a collapse in our society for decades, a notion articulately explored by Ronald Wright in his book-length essay A Short History of Progress. I know attention span is something in short supply at Slashdot, so any exhortation to read a book (!) will fall on deaf ears, but the synopsis in that Wiki article gives the gist.
Something I've noticed about deniers of "peak oil" and climate change is that they are very often affluent people with young children. I'm approaching my 50s (some days quite rapidly), and I make a point of telling them I'm probably going to be dead before the worst of it hits, and I have done without creature comforts like electricity before.
But they should give the matter some serious thought if they have the slightest interest in the future welfare of their offspring.
oooh wonderful, so we are paying 43 BILLION of tax payers money to create a private company...
Reality check: whatever the cost, it's money that the Government has ALREADY TAKEN from us, and will continue to take. Much better that they spend the money on something worthwhile that will endure, rather than piss it against the wall at election time.
There will be a policy decision made to implement filtering on the public network...
Actually, I'd say the censorship issue must be dead in the water. Even if Conroy retains his ministerial seat, given the Labor party's newly tenuous hold on government, it just doesn't have the numbers to ram that through. This can't be compared with the national broadband network, which is such an irrestible carrot for the independent members of parliament who hold the balance of power for their rural or regional electorates.
So I've heard some of my (urban-centric) friends whine about "what difference is the NBN going to make to me" given their nice, comfortable ADSL2+ connections, but I spend enough time away from the cities to have seen at first hand how the regions have been left behind.
It's hard to say whether this bodes well for ZFS in the open environment.
Maybe in time, but not yet. zfs is open enough that you can use it under Linux (if you want to) via fuse, but I see no immediate revival of interest on Apple's part. For a while I was sort of hoping both would come to some sort of agreement that would give me a nice common filesystem that my Mac and Linux boxes can use, but it looks like I'll have to wait.
For now, HFS+ is OK enough for USB drives so long as I turn off journalling. I know someone will pipe up with "use NTFS or FAT", but those are just too destructive of *nix permissions.
Here in the US, the title "Liberal" refers to spineless douchebags who act like conservatives...Are Aussie Liberals the same as US Liberals?
Australian Liberals are liberal in name only. At best they are conservative, and at worst they are fascist bigots. Any reference to "liberal" (lowercase L) is entirely fictional.
This is all rather fascinating news to me - when I was a school-kid, very few of us ever had any money on us at all - so there was no "industry" in stealing it. Our lunches were either paid for up-front or we brought them with us.
You guys really have a way of making an old codger feel his age. Back when I was at school in the '60s and '70s, when the planet was newly cooled, and dinosaurs still staggered around dying of lung-cancer from smoking those non-filtered Gauloises, we had two choices: school dinners (paid for up front as part of the school fees) or packed lunches. I much preferred the latter...
Personally I would expect Rackspace to have the moral integrity not to shut down their customers websites.
In other countries (I don't know about the US), incitement to riot is regarded as a crime. Publically burning copies of the Qu'ran (or the bible, for that matter) could easily be construed as such a deliberately provocative action. Rackspace could easily present an argument that they are legitimately keeping the peace.
At the end of the day, free speech is a pipe dream.
And for a pipe, all you need is a match. I still remember occasionally using pages out of a bible to roll joints back in the '70s, using flour and water as glue...
Is that the case? Why? And how do you know? I'm not flaming, I'm curious. I've been here long enough to have seen any number of severely inflammatory posts, so I find it hard to imagine anything so bad that it merits outright removal rather than appropriate moderation.
My first take on the submission was that those nice gentlemen with the funny horned helmets should have been looking out for alien organic compounds, but of course Mars is a long way to sail (or even row), no matter how hard you flog your crew...
Details on the vulnerability are not yet public [...] However, Adobe is actively sharing information about this vulnerability (and vulnerabilities in general) with partners in the security community...
But obviously not thee or me. Guess it's just as well I'm not depending on Adobe for anything important.
Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes
Of course, there's a downside to this. I can spot a typo or grammatical solecism at 40 paces, and this can actually be painful. There are times when I wish I could join the preliterate hordes infesting Slashdot and...
Why 2030? We don't need to wait another 20 years, portable music players aren't new.
No, they aren't. But it takes a long time for people to recognise that they actually have a hearing loss. Present company included: I never owned a Walkman when it first came out in '79 (IIRC), but I guess I did my damage with a variety of power tools since... Anyway, I eventually was forced to recognise that I was missing out in conversations, and went off to an audiologist to get tested. It was something of a psychological hurdle for me to accept that I needed hearing aids, but once I got over that my life was transformed.
Took me a bit of headscratching before I realised what was going on. Ouch.
That's one reason why I have a tendency to be suspicious of editors that offer a WYSIWYG interface. I much prefer YAFIYGI (You Asked For It, You Got it) editors like (of course) TECO or more recently, EMACS or (if you insist) VI.
Names should describe what the variable means semantically.
Heh... We didn't always have the luxury of that. Back in the days when I was working on a Burroughs B3700, 6 characters was the maximum the OS (MCP IV) would allow, so our filenames were inevitably cryptic.
The perversity of the universe I live in is that in my first programming job back in the late '70s, one of my tasks was occasionally to maintain a bunch of commercial code for which the source (for some reason I don't recall) no longer existed, so I had to work directly on the binary. I actually didn't mind, since this was much more interesting than bashing out COBOL code by the bale.
Exactly. And incidentally, if you have your iPod turned up so loud you can't hear an ambulance siren, you're going to end up stone deaf in short order. I would be interested to see what happens in 2030 or so (if I'm still here), when we have half a generation wandering around with hearing-aids...
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Right now, if you were to buy a CD of Beethoven's 9th symphony, you would not be legally allowed to do anything but listen to it.
On the other hand, you could obtain a score for the same work, and have the pleasure of spending unlimited hours imagining a variety of different interpretations as you read it through, "hearing" it in your head. This isn't actually as difficult as it might seem (given a little training and plenty of practice), and is highly rewarding.
There's more to a performance of an orchestral work than the employment of "a renowned orchestra". What conductor will they use? Nowadays, most of the major orchestras choose their conductors (as opposed to the opposite-way-around practice of yesteryear), but I wonder if their employment contracts will allow the conductors to do this sort of "pro-bono" work.
I'm not saying this couldn't or shouldn't happen, but I wouldn't be surprised if this issue that will comes up.
And, of course, denial is what keeps an optimist from being a pessimist. ;-)
This peek oil, omg the sky is falling was going to happen before 2000 back in the 80s.
First, catch your expert. Back when I was young in the '60s and early '70s, a crisis was often postulated for circa 2030. Maybe somewhere between the two might be more accurate, but if you stick your head in the sand, you make it easy to get your ass kicked.
When petroleum becomes expensive, stuff will stop being made universally out of plastics.
True, but given that most "stuff" has to be dug out of the ground, there are lots of things that will become unobtainable as they cost more to dig up than than they can be sold for.
I have been predicting a collapse in our society for decades, a notion articulately explored by Ronald Wright in his book-length essay A Short History of Progress. I know attention span is something in short supply at Slashdot, so any exhortation to read a book (!) will fall on deaf ears, but the synopsis in that Wiki article gives the gist.
Something I've noticed about deniers of "peak oil" and climate change is that they are very often affluent people with young children. I'm approaching my 50s (some days quite rapidly), and I make a point of telling them I'm probably going to be dead before the worst of it hits, and I have done without creature comforts like electricity before.
But they should give the matter some serious thought if they have the slightest interest in the future welfare of their offspring.
oooh wonderful, so we are paying 43 BILLION of tax payers money to create a private company...
Reality check: whatever the cost, it's money that the Government has ALREADY TAKEN from us, and will continue to take. Much better that they spend the money on something worthwhile that will endure, rather than piss it against the wall at election time.
There will be a policy decision made to implement filtering on the public network...
Actually, I'd say the censorship issue must be dead in the water. Even if Conroy retains his ministerial seat, given the Labor party's newly tenuous hold on government, it just doesn't have the numbers to ram that through. This can't be compared with the national broadband network, which is such an irrestible carrot for the independent members of parliament who hold the balance of power for their rural or regional electorates.
So I've heard some of my (urban-centric) friends whine about "what difference is the NBN going to make to me" given their nice, comfortable ADSL2+ connections, but I spend enough time away from the cities to have seen at first hand how the regions have been left behind.
It's hard to say whether this bodes well for ZFS in the open environment.
Maybe in time, but not yet. zfs is open enough that you can use it under Linux (if you want to) via fuse, but I see no immediate revival of interest on Apple's part. For a while I was sort of hoping both would come to some sort of agreement that would give me a nice common filesystem that my Mac and Linux boxes can use, but it looks like I'll have to wait.
For now, HFS+ is OK enough for USB drives so long as I turn off journalling. I know someone will pipe up with "use NTFS or FAT", but those are just too destructive of *nix permissions.
Here in the US, the title "Liberal" refers to spineless douchebags who act like conservatives...Are Aussie Liberals the same as US Liberals?
Australian Liberals are liberal in name only. At best they are conservative, and at worst they are fascist bigots. Any reference to "liberal" (lowercase L) is entirely fictional.
This is all rather fascinating news to me - when I was a school-kid, very few of us ever had any money on us at all - so there was no "industry" in stealing it. Our lunches were either paid for up-front or we brought them with us.
You guys really have a way of making an old codger feel his age. Back when I was at school in the '60s and '70s, when the planet was newly cooled, and dinosaurs still staggered around dying of lung-cancer from smoking those non-filtered Gauloises, we had two choices: school dinners (paid for up front as part of the school fees) or packed lunches. I much preferred the latter...
Personally I would expect Rackspace to have the moral integrity not to shut down their customers websites.
In other countries (I don't know about the US), incitement to riot is regarded as a crime. Publically burning copies of the Qu'ran (or the bible, for that matter) could easily be construed as such a deliberately provocative action. Rackspace could easily present an argument that they are legitimately keeping the peace.
At the end of the day, free speech is a pipe dream.
And for a pipe, all you need is a match. I still remember occasionally using pages out of a bible to roll joints back in the '70s, using flour and water as glue...
Slashdot has only ever removed a couple of posts.
Is that the case? Why? And how do you know? I'm not flaming, I'm curious. I've been here long enough to have seen any number of severely inflammatory posts, so I find it hard to imagine anything so bad that it merits outright removal rather than appropriate moderation.
My first take on the submission was that those nice gentlemen with the funny horned helmets should have been looking out for alien organic compounds, but of course Mars is a long way to sail (or even row), no matter how hard you flog your crew...
Just when I thought I didn't need to bother with a preview... :-|
There's a nice little glossing-over in TFA:
Details on the vulnerability are not yet public [...] However, Adobe is actively sharing information about this vulnerability (and vulnerabilities in general) with partners in the security community...
But obviously not thee or me. Guess it's just as well I'm not depending on Adobe for anything important.
Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes
...
Of course, there's a downside to this. I can spot a typo or grammatical solecism at 40 paces, and this can actually be painful. There are times when I wish I could join the preliterate hordes infesting Slashdot and
What. ?
Profit?
I wish...
Why 2030? We don't need to wait another 20 years, portable music players aren't new.
No, they aren't. But it takes a long time for people to recognise that they actually have a hearing loss. Present company included: I never owned a Walkman when it first came out in '79 (IIRC), but I guess I did my damage with a variety of power tools since... Anyway, I eventually was forced to recognise that I was missing out in conversations, and went off to an audiologist to get tested. It was something of a psychological hurdle for me to accept that I needed hearing aids, but once I got over that my life was transformed.
Took me a bit of headscratching before I realised what was going on. Ouch.
That's one reason why I have a tendency to be suspicious of editors that offer a WYSIWYG interface. I much prefer YAFIYGI (You Asked For It, You Got it) editors like (of course) TECO or more recently, EMACS or (if you insist) VI.
Names should describe what the variable means semantically.
Heh... We didn't always have the luxury of that. Back in the days when I was working on a Burroughs B3700, 6 characters was the maximum the OS (MCP IV) would allow, so our filenames were inevitably cryptic.
The perversity of the universe I live in is that in my first programming job back in the late '70s, one of my tasks was occasionally to maintain a bunch of commercial code for which the source (for some reason I don't recall) no longer existed, so I had to work directly on the binary. I actually didn't mind, since this was much more interesting than bashing out COBOL code by the bale.
Exactly. And incidentally, if you have your iPod turned up so loud you can't hear an ambulance siren, you're going to end up stone deaf in short order. I would be interested to see what happens in 2030 or so (if I'm still here), when we have half a generation wandering around with hearing-aids...
Yup - and guess what? It'll be a politician.