"Prepend" isn't a word either, but technical people use it a lot because there is a specific meaning there that needs a word -- to append at the beginning.
"Prepone" is a similar one, meaning "to move a scheduled date forward" (as opposed to "postpone", where the date is moved back). It's commonly used in India among English speakers, but most North American English speakers I know have never heard it.
But the little planes i fly, all the instruments (gyros etc so turn indicator and artificial horizon) are all run from air from pilot tube.
Are you sure about that? In the little planes I fly, the gyros are powered by air from a vacuum pump, not the pitot tube. This means you can lose the entire pitot-static system and still have an attitude indicator, turn coordinator, and heading indicator. It would not be wise for all instruments in the six-pack to be powered by the same system.
I agree there's an advantage. I just don't see it as a bad habit that any teacher should try to break, as the original poster claimed. Looking at the fretboard doesn't make you a bad guitar player, but rather, being able to not look at the fretboard can help you to do other things besides playing guitar.
Because, ideally, you should be looking at sheet music (or have the capacity to do so).
Well, that depends on the type of music you're playing. A rock guitarist who writes their own music likely never actually writes it down on paper, so is always playing from memory with a bit of improvising. That would be the category I generally fall into.
I expect less dependence on watching the fretboard translates to more comfort singing into a microphone while playing as well.
Yes, but that is why most singers play simple parts and have a lead guitarist do the complex stuff. If all I'm doing is strumming chords, I don't watch the frets. But if I suddenly need to jump from an open chord position up to the 12-15 range for a quick fill, then I'm going to glance down.
You're not really supposed to be looking at the frets while you're playing. Your fingers are supposed to know where to go without looking, much like when one learns to properly touch type. Looking at your fingers while you're playing is a bad habit that sadly a lot of new guitarists fall into. Yes, in the initial learning stages one needs to do so, but any good teacher will break that habit in their students as soon as possible.
Why?
This is an honest question. I'm also a guitarist with about 30 years of experience playing the instrument, and I look at the neck a lot. Not all the time, obviously, but I definitely look. So what? I can play the instrument very well, and that's all that matters. Who cares if I'm looking at the neck or looking at the ceiling or looking at my audience? I'm not interested in what I look like when I play, I'm interested in what I sound like, and I seem to be doing okay in that area.
Besides, in case you hadn't noticed, plastic is recyclable.
Well, sort of. Plastic recycling is a bit of a scam.
The normal assumption is that if something is recyclable, that means it will live many "lives" as the same or a similar product. This is somewhat true for things like paper and glass, but generally not true for plastic. Most plastics can be recycled into a different plastic product, and that plastic product is not recyclable, meaning that it goes around once, and then ends up in a landfill.
Additionally, the demand for products made from recycled plastic is much lower than the supply of plastic to be recycled, so in truth, many of those bottles you put in your recycle bin will just get thrown in the garbage at the recycling plant.
The net effect of the prevalence of plastic recycling is likely greater harm to the environment, as people just assume that it's okay to use plastic since they can throw it into the recycle bin when they're done with it, so they end up using lots of plastic whereas the environment would be much better off if they were using other, more recyclable, materials.
I am selling an iPhone game at 0.99 $ and there's still people pirating it. Does it have to be even cheaper?
There are people who will never pirate anything. These people will either buy the product, or simply not buy it. Price it to convince these people to choose to buy over not buy.
There are people who will buy if it's cheap enough, or pirate if it's not. Price it to convince these people to choose to buy over pirate.
There are people who will pirate at any price. Forget them. You can't get their money, no matter what you do, and they're not costing you a penny. You need to get over it and worry only about the first two groups.
At $0.99, I'd say you're probably doing just fine.
It utterly and completely destroys any point I might have made.
Well, yes, actually. You made a bold claim, and provided a citation that fails to even hint at supporting your claim. Your sarcasm does nothing to bolster your point.
You, like most people here criticizing the UN, are talking about the Security Council. The UN is more than just the Security Council. The Security Council does often seem to be an ineffective and corrupt group. Other parts of the UN, however, tend to be fairly effective, which is why you usually don't hear about them. It is not the Security Council that would be running the Internet.
As much as I despise ICANN, it has never, to my knowledge, been accused of child abuse the way the United Nations has been
Um, are you aware that your link is to an article about The Vatican being accused of child abuse at the UN Human Rights Council? Are you aware that no one is suggesting The Vatican take over ICANN's role?
Brilliant! I've never watched that show (I know, I know... turning in my geek card now). The whole thing's hilarious, but the fact that the entire sequence is based on first "uncropping" a printed image damn near killed me.
For proof of the lie that is global warming go back to the 70's for predictions of global cooling
"In the thirty years leading up to the 1970s, available temperature recordings suggested that there was a cooling trend. As a result some scientists suggested that the current inter-glacial period could rapidly draw to a close... At the same time as some scientists were suggesting we might be facing another ice age, a greater number published contradicting studies... The fact is that around 1970 there were 6 times as many scientists predicting a warming rather than a cooling planet. Today, with 30+years more data to analyse, we've reached a clear scientific consensus: 97% of working climate scientists agree with the view that human beings are causing global warming." [source]
or go back to the 90's and read the incorrect predictions for today
That's pretty vague. Not sure exactly how to respond to that, since you haven't listed a particular prediction, so I'll just take a shot in the dark and point to this: "In 1988, James Hansen projected future temperature trends using 3 different human greenhouse gas emissions scenarios identified as A, B, and C... the actual increase in global surface temperatures has been less than Scenario B, which is the closest to reality... the main reason Hansen's 1988 warming projections were too high is that he used a climate model with a high climate sensitivity, and his results are actually evidence that the true climate sensitivity parameter is within the range accepted by the IPCC." [source]
or realize that they changed the name to climate change because that can mean anything.
Horsecrap. "Both of the terms in question are used frequently in the scientific literature, because they refer to two different physical phenomena. As the name suggests, 'global warming' refers to the long-term trend of a rising average global temperature... 'Climate change', again as the name suggests, refers to the changes in the global climate which result from the increasing average global temperature... a seminal climate science work is Gilbert Plass' 1956 study 'The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change'... Barrett and Gast published a letter in Science in 1971 entitled simply 'Climate Change'. The journal 'Climatic Change' was created in 1977 (and is still published today). The IPCC was formed in 1988, and of course the 'CC' is 'climate change', not 'global warming'." [source]
Global warming is an anti-science movement itself but just like the communists practiced you accuse your enemy of doing what you are doing first.
Ah yes, when in doubt, just link us to the dreaded communists. Brilliant.
Of course, such people would not stoop to simply post such messages using someone else's computer / account / wifi, etc..
So what? The point of obtaining that kind of information isn't simply to blindly arrest whoever was identified. The point is to question the person as part of an ongoing investigation. If there is reason to believe that the person in question has committed an offence, then they may be arrested. But a name associated with an IP address or a forum account is not, in itself, sufficient evidence to get a conviction.
Quentin Tarantino makes a point of not doing any product placements in his movies. If one of his characters is shown buying a pack of smokes, or pouring cereal into a bowl, it's always a fictional brand.
What idiot trusts the cloud? I mean, even its name is vaporous.
How important is your personal email?
I have two gmail accounts. One of them I'd hardly notice if it got reset. The other one, I might be mildly annoyed for about a minute, but then I'd get over it and continue happily using it.
The cloud is appropriate for some uses. I want access to my email from anywhere, I don't want to manage it, and there's nothing overly private about the data— 50% of the emails I get are short reminders that I send to myself when I'm at work and think of something I'll need to deal with later, like "garbage day tomorrow", or "wife's birthday coming up".
Shouldn't it be possible for the old seasoned professionals to write libraries and tools that make SQL injection all but impossible? Then all you have to do is convince the green new up and comers to use the existing tools. Only downside is that the newbies don't learn the lesson, but this particular lesson is pretty costly to learn the hard way.
In IT, there is this general belief that the seasoned professionals, also known as "old timers", are filled with antiquated and useless knowledge, while the green newbies, also known as "cutting edge fresh talent", know all the whiz-bang new way of doing things.
Sometimes, this is true, but sometimes it is not. As long as we continue to view this industry as being one that changes so rapidly that everything learned last week is obsolete, we will continue to make the same mistakes and reinvent the same flawed wheels.
There might be only 5 messages in PHP all containing swears and 500,000 in C++ with only 48 swears.
According to TFA: "Note that I ripped an equal amount of commit messages per language so the results aren't based on how many projects there are per language."
The intention is for this to be used in environments where unlocking the computer can be done with a proximity card or a fingerprint, and scanners for both are built into this keyboard. So, all it takes to return to your work is sit down, wave your card over the keyboard, and get back to typing.
There are solutions to that kind of problem. Basically you can have a wireless token. I've seen them advertised before where they automatically log you out as soon as the token gets out of range. It's not perfect, but fine for situations where you absolutely need to be logged out.
This does more or less the same thing.
There can be multiple solutions to the same problem.
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"Prepend" isn't a word either, but technical people use it a lot because there is a specific meaning there that needs a word -- to append at the beginning.
"Prepone" is a similar one, meaning "to move a scheduled date forward" (as opposed to "postpone", where the date is moved back). It's commonly used in India among English speakers, but most North American English speakers I know have never heard it.
I tried it for a bit, it was the most annoying thing imaginable.
Really? One email a day is "the most annoying thing imaginable"? You must not have much of an imagination.
But the little planes i fly, all the instruments (gyros etc so turn indicator and artificial horizon) are all run from air from pilot tube.
Are you sure about that? In the little planes I fly, the gyros are powered by air from a vacuum pump, not the pitot tube. This means you can lose the entire pitot-static system and still have an attitude indicator, turn coordinator, and heading indicator. It would not be wise for all instruments in the six-pack to be powered by the same system.
I agree there's an advantage. I just don't see it as a bad habit that any teacher should try to break, as the original poster claimed. Looking at the fretboard doesn't make you a bad guitar player, but rather, being able to not look at the fretboard can help you to do other things besides playing guitar.
Because, ideally, you should be looking at sheet music (or have the capacity to do so).
Well, that depends on the type of music you're playing. A rock guitarist who writes their own music likely never actually writes it down on paper, so is always playing from memory with a bit of improvising. That would be the category I generally fall into.
I expect less dependence on watching the fretboard translates to more comfort singing into a microphone while playing as well.
Yes, but that is why most singers play simple parts and have a lead guitarist do the complex stuff. If all I'm doing is strumming chords, I don't watch the frets. But if I suddenly need to jump from an open chord position up to the 12-15 range for a quick fill, then I'm going to glance down.
...without a teacher who corrects your posture and technique you will become an absolutely horrible guitar player...
Yeah, you might end up like that Hendrix kid who kept wrapping his thumb around the neck. The poor kid never did learn to play that instrument well.
You're not really supposed to be looking at the frets while you're playing. Your fingers are supposed to know where to go without looking, much like when one learns to properly touch type. Looking at your fingers while you're playing is a bad habit that sadly a lot of new guitarists fall into. Yes, in the initial learning stages one needs to do so, but any good teacher will break that habit in their students as soon as possible.
Why?
This is an honest question. I'm also a guitarist with about 30 years of experience playing the instrument, and I look at the neck a lot. Not all the time, obviously, but I definitely look. So what? I can play the instrument very well, and that's all that matters. Who cares if I'm looking at the neck or looking at the ceiling or looking at my audience? I'm not interested in what I look like when I play, I'm interested in what I sound like, and I seem to be doing okay in that area.
Besides, in case you hadn't noticed, plastic is recyclable.
Well, sort of. Plastic recycling is a bit of a scam.
The normal assumption is that if something is recyclable, that means it will live many "lives" as the same or a similar product. This is somewhat true for things like paper and glass, but generally not true for plastic. Most plastics can be recycled into a different plastic product, and that plastic product is not recyclable, meaning that it goes around once, and then ends up in a landfill.
Additionally, the demand for products made from recycled plastic is much lower than the supply of plastic to be recycled, so in truth, many of those bottles you put in your recycle bin will just get thrown in the garbage at the recycling plant.
The net effect of the prevalence of plastic recycling is likely greater harm to the environment, as people just assume that it's okay to use plastic since they can throw it into the recycle bin when they're done with it, so they end up using lots of plastic whereas the environment would be much better off if they were using other, more recyclable, materials.
I agree. Pirating a $0.99 game is pretty lame.
By the way, I think I found your game. It looks good. I'd pay you the $0.99 if I had an iPhone, or if you had an Android version available.
Best of luck to you!
I am selling an iPhone game at 0.99 $ and there's still people pirating it. Does it have to be even cheaper?
There are people who will never pirate anything. These people will either buy the product, or simply not buy it. Price it to convince these people to choose to buy over not buy.
There are people who will buy if it's cheap enough, or pirate if it's not. Price it to convince these people to choose to buy over pirate.
There are people who will pirate at any price. Forget them. You can't get their money, no matter what you do, and they're not costing you a penny. You need to get over it and worry only about the first two groups.
At $0.99, I'd say you're probably doing just fine.
It utterly and completely destroys any point I might have made.
Well, yes, actually. You made a bold claim, and provided a citation that fails to even hint at supporting your claim. Your sarcasm does nothing to bolster your point.
You, like most people here criticizing the UN, are talking about the Security Council. The UN is more than just the Security Council. The Security Council does often seem to be an ineffective and corrupt group. Other parts of the UN, however, tend to be fairly effective, which is why you usually don't hear about them. It is not the Security Council that would be running the Internet.
As much as I despise ICANN, it has never, to my knowledge, been accused of child abuse the way the United Nations has been
Um, are you aware that your link is to an article about The Vatican being accused of child abuse at the UN Human Rights Council? Are you aware that no one is suggesting The Vatican take over ICANN's role?
R2D2 could understand speech but not speak.
Sure, but consider a more serious set of offenders: Han and Chewie. Each can understand the other's language, but neither speaks it.
Brilliant! I've never watched that show (I know, I know... turning in my geek card now). The whole thing's hilarious, but the fact that the entire sequence is based on first "uncropping" a printed image damn near killed me.
Of course ... you would actually have to PROVE the person didn't invent it which is far easier said than done, don't you think?
But that's true for any system, whether first-to-file or first-to-invent.
For proof of the lie that is global warming go back to the 70's for predictions of global cooling
"In the thirty years leading up to the 1970s, available temperature recordings suggested that there was a cooling trend. As a result some scientists suggested that the current inter-glacial period could rapidly draw to a close... At the same time as some scientists were suggesting we might be facing another ice age, a greater number published contradicting studies... The fact is that around 1970 there were 6 times as many scientists predicting a warming rather than a cooling planet. Today, with 30+years more data to analyse, we've reached a clear scientific consensus: 97% of working climate scientists agree with the view that human beings are causing global warming." [source]
or go back to the 90's and read the incorrect predictions for today
That's pretty vague. Not sure exactly how to respond to that, since you haven't listed a particular prediction, so I'll just take a shot in the dark and point to this: "In 1988, James Hansen projected future temperature trends using 3 different human greenhouse gas emissions scenarios identified as A, B, and C... the actual increase in global surface temperatures has been less than Scenario B, which is the closest to reality... the main reason Hansen's 1988 warming projections were too high is that he used a climate model with a high climate sensitivity, and his results are actually evidence that the true climate sensitivity parameter is within the range accepted by the IPCC." [source]
or realize that they changed the name to climate change because that can mean anything.
Horsecrap. "Both of the terms in question are used frequently in the scientific literature, because they refer to two different physical phenomena. As the name suggests, 'global warming' refers to the long-term trend of a rising average global temperature... 'Climate change', again as the name suggests, refers to the changes in the global climate which result from the increasing average global temperature... a seminal climate science work is Gilbert Plass' 1956 study 'The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change'... Barrett and Gast published a letter in Science in 1971 entitled simply 'Climate Change'. The journal 'Climatic Change' was created in 1977 (and is still published today). The IPCC was formed in 1988, and of course the 'CC' is 'climate change', not 'global warming'." [source]
Global warming is an anti-science movement itself but just like the communists practiced you accuse your enemy of doing what you are doing first.
Ah yes, when in doubt, just link us to the dreaded communists. Brilliant.
Of course, such people would not stoop to simply post such messages using someone else's computer / account / wifi, etc..
So what? The point of obtaining that kind of information isn't simply to blindly arrest whoever was identified. The point is to question the person as part of an ongoing investigation. If there is reason to believe that the person in question has committed an offence, then they may be arrested. But a name associated with an IP address or a forum account is not, in itself, sufficient evidence to get a conviction.
Quentin Tarantino makes a point of not doing any product placements in his movies. If one of his characters is shown buying a pack of smokes, or pouring cereal into a bowl, it's always a fictional brand.
Morgan Spurlock made a documentary about product placement, and in it he interviews Tarantino, who explains "that he has been unable to get product placement in his films (he tried to shoot scenes for Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction at Dennys, but they didn’t want any part of the films)".
What idiot trusts the cloud? I mean, even its name is vaporous.
How important is your personal email?
I have two gmail accounts. One of them I'd hardly notice if it got reset. The other one, I might be mildly annoyed for about a minute, but then I'd get over it and continue happily using it.
The cloud is appropriate for some uses. I want access to my email from anywhere, I don't want to manage it, and there's nothing overly private about the data— 50% of the emails I get are short reminders that I send to myself when I'm at work and think of something I'll need to deal with later, like "garbage day tomorrow", or "wife's birthday coming up".
They have the Apple logo, iOS logo, iPhone, and Macbook. Why does apple get so many special Slashdot icons?
Meanwhile, Microsoft gets a dated sci-fi reference attached to a dated image of a guy who doesn't work there anymore.
Shouldn't it be possible for the old seasoned professionals to write libraries and tools that make SQL injection all but impossible? Then all you have to do is convince the green new up and comers to use the existing tools. Only downside is that the newbies don't learn the lesson, but this particular lesson is pretty costly to learn the hard way.
In IT, there is this general belief that the seasoned professionals, also known as "old timers", are filled with antiquated and useless knowledge, while the green newbies, also known as "cutting edge fresh talent", know all the whiz-bang new way of doing things.
Sometimes, this is true, but sometimes it is not. As long as we continue to view this industry as being one that changes so rapidly that everything learned last week is obsolete, we will continue to make the same mistakes and reinvent the same flawed wheels.
There might be only 5 messages in PHP all containing swears and 500,000 in C++ with only 48 swears.
According to TFA: "Note that I ripped an equal amount of commit messages per language so the results aren't based on how many projects there are per language."
The intention is for this to be used in environments where unlocking the computer can be done with a proximity card or a fingerprint, and scanners for both are built into this keyboard. So, all it takes to return to your work is sit down, wave your card over the keyboard, and get back to typing.
There are solutions to that kind of problem. Basically you can have a wireless token. I've seen them advertised before where they automatically log you out as soon as the token gets out of range. It's not perfect, but fine for situations where you absolutely need to be logged out.
This does more or less the same thing.
There can be multiple solutions to the same problem.