Well, there is asubtle difference between "rubbing someone the wrong way" and spreading libel which results in substantial damage to a persons reputation, social life and economic situation. If you do that kind og damage to someone I think, personally, that you should be held liable.
How large is your band? I would like to know how an orchestra constisting of maybe 12 individuals would make it in the way you are proposing. Because there is some music that needs that many people and that it would be sad if no one was ever able to make that kind of music again.
That's a matter of taste. A 128kbps mp3 usually has those little "swoop" sounds that are worse than anything. I'd personally prefer that "slightly physically but continuously worn-out" sound that doesn't constantly remind me of line noise.
On the other hand, going 192 is pretty sweet usually. I don't know why people always use as an example an mp3 with a LOW BITRATE (128) when talking about them in general. Turn the quality up just a little bit and nobody hears the difference.
"It's bad for the health" is a perfectly good argument if you are talking about a competition. If you decide to use steroids you ARE getting an unfair advantage, unless the opponent does the same. You can't expect the opponent to WANT to damage his health playing the game, even if you do. In a way you are forcing him to do - if he really wants to win.
Allowing those substances in sports and other strictly competitive things ("games") is only natural. If we did not, everyone would start taking them, they would cancel each other out and professional athletes (or some equivalent to that) would have a shorter lifespan - or end up with a pair of knockers and a beard.
College isn't strictly competitive (you can argue against that statement, but please don't waste my time) and who cares, so long as you're only doing it to yourself?
I'm not sure what kind of inferences you make thinking about this but...
a) How many slashdotters play video games?
b) How many of them are violent?
If you take a highly video-game orientet sample, should that sample not show an increased tendency to be violent?
I don't know. My experience of statistics and anything that has to do with induction is that you can never make any
conclusions about anything, ever, from it.
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That's true. We'd probably need to worry more if the program returned TRUE.
But results that aren't shared aren't of much use. Think of all the knowledge lost from the pythagoreans. We were actually LUCKY that some of those secrets leaked out.. the ones responsible were severly punished of course. The modern trend is to share and THAT has been one of the reasons for modern mathematical success. I don't believe that's just a phase. Some of the more recent mathematics could not have been done if it weren't for that openness we have already. We can't lose that again.
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Suppose the only known way to prove something is to check all cases. Suppose the cases number about 1.000.000. It would take any human practically an eternity to check them all.
Suppose checking each case is somewhat trivial, even though each case takes some considerable time and the results of each case is not generalizable to the other ones (so that we absolutlely HAVE to check the all). The mathematician working on the problem creates an algorithm for this work. It can be proven that the algorithm works. But the algorithm IS the proof. If the theorem is true, running the program produces YES or TRUE or whatever and if it's false the algorithm produces NO or FALSE or something similar.
If we don't know that the algorithm works (it is proven to do so) and that the software also works (THAT is furthermore proven to do so) we have no way of knowing whether that YES or NO our program produced actually proves the theorem. Now assume that the program found a counterexample somewhere between case #50.000 and case #55.000. What if it was a precision error? If we don't have access to whatever it was that could have produced such an error - if we don't have ALL the source and ALL other information about the software, the results are useless.
This is very interesting. I usually get the same reaction you described when reading about the brain, but I usually also think that the brain is too complex for an computer analogy. This analogy is good since it mentions that a computer is actually complex ENOUGH to get the point across. Good job.
Still, seeing that the hard drive actually stores the files, the information might have some value. In the case of our brain, it's sadly the best we have yet. A little pessimism (or realism) is actually in order here because it's good to realize how far we actually are from understanding the brain. We should never forget that. Still, such findings as this one is are always interesting and at the least worth readng about.
Normal people probably have both and are able to switch between to react to circumstances. People who lack all the "optimism" part are depressed... But i don't know other extream case has been covered. "Manic", perhaps?
Maybe optimism is intrinsically linked to the will to actually keep on living. If you always IMAGINE the future being bright, you don't want to miss it.
As a side note: I'm not optimistic about this post being modded up. While it IS moderately interesting (thinks me), the article has been around too long. I'm still writing this though with the hope that someone will actually read it. What is that an example of?
Optimism probably wins though... In the sense that we need at least SOME optimism, and probably more of it than pessimism, to actually get up and DO something... and keep ensuring our survival.
If they end up making more money that by traditional means by this album, doesn't means it is a good means of distribution in the long run. They were the first to do it, and therefore get a lot of attention because of it. People will maybe flock to their site and pay them money to support the idea. But what happens to the next guy who does this?
When this way of distributing becomes standard, no one is going to get this level of publicity, and the results might be completely different and maybe not at all favorable.
They probably do! It would be an automatic web-service that goes alphabetically through everything on the internet and rates it according to "suability".
With "Usenet" being rather far down in the alphabet it took them some time to get there.
"It may sound a little weird, but it isn't," Levy said. "Love and sex with robots are inevitable."
Levy paused for a moment. "Then I will finally be able to get a girlfriend."
Wel all have told, or have heard someone tell about how our or someone else's car ran out of gas in the middle of the dessert - or the engine failed for some inexplicable reason. Well... we certainly won't be hearing those stories anymore!
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Well, there is asubtle difference between "rubbing someone the wrong way" and spreading libel which results in substantial damage to a persons reputation, social life and economic situation. If you do that kind og damage to someone I think, personally, that you should be held liable.
...just hope to god they'll get caught. This story only shows, once again, that people can to pretty terrible things to each other using the internet.
How large is your band? I would like to know how an orchestra constisting of maybe 12 individuals would make it in the way you are proposing. Because there is some music that needs that many people and that it would be sad if no one was ever able to make that kind of music again.
Because if you manage to build something, you have understood it.
"In the speech, Ratzinger quoted an Austrian philosopher who said the ruling was "rational and just"."
Funny how, no matter how bizarre your viewpoint is, there has always been a philosopher before you who wrote about it.
Yes! The Stockholm syndrome usually does it!
That's a matter of taste. A 128kbps mp3 usually has those little "swoop" sounds that are worse than anything. I'd personally prefer that "slightly physically but continuously worn-out" sound that doesn't constantly remind me of line noise.
On the other hand, going 192 is pretty sweet usually. I don't know why people always use as an example an mp3 with a LOW BITRATE (128) when talking about them in general. Turn the quality up just a little bit and nobody hears the difference.
I think this guy speaks for all of us: http://www.xkcd.com/137/
"It's bad for the health" is a perfectly good argument if you are talking about a competition. If you decide to use steroids you ARE getting an unfair advantage, unless the opponent does the same. You can't expect the opponent to WANT to damage his health playing the game, even if you do. In a way you are forcing him to do - if he really wants to win. Allowing those substances in sports and other strictly competitive things ("games") is only natural. If we did not, everyone would start taking them, they would cancel each other out and professional athletes (or some equivalent to that) would have a shorter lifespan - or end up with a pair of knockers and a beard. College isn't strictly competitive (you can argue against that statement, but please don't waste my time) and who cares, so long as you're only doing it to yourself?
It's for the spirit of D-M-C-A, it's for the sprit of D-M-C-A-hey!
I'm not sure what kind of inferences you make thinking about this but... a) How many slashdotters play video games? b) How many of them are violent? If you take a highly video-game orientet sample, should that sample not show an increased tendency to be violent?
I don't know. My experience of statistics and anything that has to do with induction is that you can never make any
conclusions about anything, ever, from it.
That's true. We'd probably need to worry more if the program returned TRUE.
What is the "proof" turns out to be 1.000.000 pages of mostly the same thing? There is a reason we use computers.
Precisely.
But results that aren't shared aren't of much use. Think of all the knowledge lost from the pythagoreans. We were actually LUCKY that some of those secrets leaked out.. the ones responsible were severly punished of course. The modern trend is to share and THAT has been one of the reasons for modern mathematical success. I don't believe that's just a phase. Some of the more recent mathematics could not have been done if it weren't for that openness we have already. We can't lose that again.
Suppose the only known way to prove something is to check all cases. Suppose the cases number about 1.000.000. It would take any human practically an eternity to check them all. Suppose checking each case is somewhat trivial, even though each case takes some considerable time and the results of each case is not generalizable to the other ones (so that we absolutlely HAVE to check the all). The mathematician working on the problem creates an algorithm for this work. It can be proven that the algorithm works. But the algorithm IS the proof. If the theorem is true, running the program produces YES or TRUE or whatever and if it's false the algorithm produces NO or FALSE or something similar.
If we don't know that the algorithm works (it is proven to do so) and that the software also works (THAT is furthermore proven to do so) we have no way of knowing whether that YES or NO our program produced actually proves the theorem. Now assume that the program found a counterexample somewhere between case #50.000 and case #55.000. What if it was a precision error? If we don't have access to whatever it was that could have produced such an error - if we don't have ALL the source and ALL other information about the software, the results are useless.
Sounds worse, though, if you exchange the first two letters.
Yes! And when you reach orgasm it will take a picture!
This is very interesting. I usually get the same reaction you described when reading about the brain, but I usually also think that the brain is too complex for an computer analogy. This analogy is good since it mentions that a computer is actually complex ENOUGH to get the point across. Good job.
Still, seeing that the hard drive actually stores the files, the information might have some value. In the case of our brain, it's sadly the best we have yet. A little pessimism (or realism) is actually in order here because it's good to realize how far we actually are from understanding the brain. We should never forget that. Still, such findings as this one is are always interesting and at the least worth readng about.
Normal people probably have both and are able to switch between to react to circumstances. People who lack all the "optimism" part are depressed... But i don't know other extream case has been covered. "Manic", perhaps?
Maybe optimism is intrinsically linked to the will to actually keep on living. If you always IMAGINE the future being bright, you don't want to miss it.
As a side note: I'm not optimistic about this post being modded up. While it IS moderately interesting (thinks me), the article has been around too long. I'm still writing this though with the hope that someone will actually read it. What is that an example of?
Optimism probably wins though... In the sense that we need at least SOME optimism, and probably more of it than pessimism, to actually get up and DO something... and keep ensuring our survival.
Just put a negative number in the field.
If they end up making more money that by traditional means by this album, doesn't means it is a good means of distribution in the long run. They were the first to do it, and therefore get a lot of attention because of it. People will maybe flock to their site and pay them money to support the idea. But what happens to the next guy who does this? When this way of distributing becomes standard, no one is going to get this level of publicity, and the results might be completely different and maybe not at all favorable.
They probably do! It would be an automatic web-service that goes alphabetically through everything on the internet and rates it according to "suability". With "Usenet" being rather far down in the alphabet it took them some time to get there.
"It may sound a little weird, but it isn't," Levy said. "Love and sex with robots are inevitable." Levy paused for a moment. "Then I will finally be able to get a girlfriend."
Wel all have told, or have heard someone tell about how our or someone else's car ran out of gas in the middle of the dessert - or the engine failed for some inexplicable reason. Well... we certainly won't be hearing those stories anymore!