I've heard some people say: "Everyone said the same thing when XP came out." That's bullshit. When XP was released, everyone here on Slashdot was saying: "Wow, this is actually pretty good; I haven't had a single crash; They finally delivered on their promise to release a consumer OS with the NT core."
Maybe in a few months Vista will be a good upgrade, who knows, but right now I can't see one feature that I want.
It's interesting that the comparison is between something that is, to the end-user, consensual in one case and not in the other, and in the consensual case 100 (1000?) times more resources are expanded to stop it.
Who should enforce when someone's time is up? That guy wasn't following the rules and wouldn't listen to your proposed "civilian with a microphone." Should we just let him bloviate endlessly?
The question is **why the hell is this guy being considered resisting arrest inthe first place**. What justification was the original arrest under? There was no "original arrest." They tried to remove the guy from the room because he was being disruptive. It's only after he became physically combative that they arrested him. Over 50% of the highly moderated comments in this thread seem to support the view that it's ok for one jackass to arbitrarily dominate the discussion at this type of an event. Should some crazy guy just get to yell crazy shit the whole time to the exclusion of people who have legitimate questions and are willing to follow the rules? Also, these same people seem to advocate that the police should be kind and gentle to people who are actively resisting them. Someone earlier made the point of how quick and easy it is to gouge out an eye; if someone resists after you clearly say "Stop resisting or I will tase you", I say tase away.
This is probably the strongest argument against intelligent design to atheists/agnostics. What I was getting at is that, without the religion/god angle, ID arguers would have to come up with a compelling answer to this. Either they would, or the discussion would be over and we could go back to talking about SCO or DRM or whatever.
ID may be a flawed idea that should be discarded, but it does raise interesting questions. All the work that's gone into refuting arguments about eyes and flagellum and irreducible complexity has surely given us some new insights.
It's too bad this has become such a polarizing, religion based issue. Were that not the case, rational arguments about "Intelligent Design" vs. purely stochastic formation/evolution of life would be a lot more interesting. At least, the (non-theistic) intelligent design view presents some hard questions to answer: How does a phenotype that in intermediate forms is useless survive to its fruition? How did the incredibly unlikely perfect combinations of amino acids come together at the right time?
Instead we're all yelling about how stupid religious people are (I'm not sure we're wrong, just saying it would be nice if that could be removed from the equation.)
It would be interesting to see how much of this is due to the (partial?) death of dial-up internet access. Is the rate of increase consistent with dialup->DSL/cable conversions? Even within the "broadband" realm, I'm much more likely to click a video link now that my DSL is 3 Mb compared to when it was 760Kb.
As a consumer, I'd rather get rid of the legacy shit (ATA, ps2 keyboards, bios, DOS/Windows:-)
I fear for the day when PS2 ports go away. Without my Model M I'd probably have to stop using computers altogether. How people can type on modern "keyboards" I'll never understand.
They can have my PS2 port when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
If WoW implemented something like that I would probably re-subscribe. The game itself was still fun, but there were always some people around that would ruin the vibe.
I remember playing Gemstone III back in the day; It was very rare to see anything out of character and it really contributed to the immersion. They probably had about 0.00001% the number of players that WoW has so it was easier for the GMs to reign in disruptive players, but some system that is player moderated should be workable on any scale.
WRT to article: I couldn't agree more. It's pretty much a necessity to be on Vent/TS to do any raiding, and usually the most prolific speakers are the most annoying... that and other people would always be put off when I'd launch into a rambling drunken rant about gnomes or something.
It wasn't too long ago that there were no (few?) linux drivers for pro-audio hardware. Now that there are drivers for the RME interfaces things have really improved in that respect. With the continuing development of Recording/DAW type programs, it seems there's only one thing missing: real professional quality plug-ins (both processing and instruments.)
I'm not sure what the solution is; Without support for Core Audio, VST, etc. formats none of the existing stuff will work (not to mention all that USB dongle crap) and since these things a require a lot of specialized knowledge and equipment to develop, it seems unlikely that we'll see free (beer) replacements. I'm thinking of things like Ivory and BFD and Bomb Factory processors.
That said, the ability to run a distro optimized for audio is a huge advantage over other platforms. I really look forward to seeing what further progress can be made.
If there a pet shortage in Japan? Dogs/Cats also respond realistically when you interact with them.
I might understand how they favor robots over unskilled immigrants for manual labor, but why subject the elderly to robot baby seals?!?
I just searched this whole page of comments for "mp3" and failed. Why does everyone here overlook the fact that a default install of a modern distro can't play mp3s, flash, and basically all video formats (like someone said earlier: it doesn't matter whose fault this is.) I've used Linux for years and I still don't bother trying to get any of this working, never mind getting it to work smoothly with stuff embedded in web pages. I know most of it is theoretically possible, but once you're hacking autoconf files and manually setting LD_LIBRARY paths it's beyond what many people want to deal with.
A CD is mastered to an extremely shitty set of parameters. 44KHz is not enough to go up to even 22KHz (and humans can hear that rather well), and 16 bits is not nearly enough for a wide dynamic range.
1.) CD's have a sampling rate of 44.1 Khz (not 44.)
2.) Only young children can hear 20K; No human hears 22K
3.) 16 bits ~= 96db dynamic range (covers sound pressure levels of everything from someone whispering from a few feet away to a gunshot at ~1 meter.)
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Hey, it worked for the cartoon "The Hobbit" and "Return of the King".
No it didn't.
Even with the slickest low cost hard disk recording system, there are still several other important items involved in making a good sounding recording.
1.) Microphones: It's very easy to spend $30K on mics for drums alone. Using cheap mics makes things sound like... well like you used cheap mics.
2.) Recording Space: Without an Acoustically good space in which to record, it's easy to end up with a real thin "inside a tin can" sound.
3.) Engineer/Producer: Even in a high-end pro studio, results will be poor without some talented people running things (both technically and aesthetically.)
Pro tools systems work especially well for electronica/hip-hop/modern r&b where real recording of real instruments are rare, but to get a really professional sound out of a live band, there are very few alternatives to spending some serious (sure less serious than even 10-15 years ago) money.
This technology is able to detect what those melody patterns are as well as decipher patterns in other aspects of the music such as beat, harmony, pitch, octave, fullness of sound, brilliance and chord progression.
Bullshit.
Either this is an incredibly poorly written article, or someone is getting rich off P.R people's stupidity.
They don't even say whether the analysis is based on the notes (melody and chords) or on an audio sample of the song. I'd like to see them extract the harmony and melody of an audio recording, or determine "fullness" or "brilliance of sound" from music notation.
Most people can't explain why they like a certain song beyond saying they like blues, or a good beat and a strong melody.
Once again: Bullshit.
I've never heard anyone say "You know why I like $band, because damnit I like a good beat and strong melody!"
I remember after 9/11, they had a list of songs they wanted their stations to 'opt out' of or something like that. Songs that even mentioned the word jet in the lyrics were thrown out.
from the Simpsons archive:
CBG: We are hardly nerds, would a nerd wear such an irreverent
sweatshirt?
Lisa: (Reading sweatshirt)
C:/DOS
C:/DOS/RUN
RUN/DOS/RUN
Ha, only one person in a million would find that funny.
Frink: Yes, we call that the Dennis Miller ratio.
why are Apple buying up app vendors (I don't recall the name of the product i'm thinking of, some graphics/music program), and scaring all the customers silly because they think Apple will make them Mac only?
I think you're referring to Emagic, the company that makes Logic Audio (a digital audio recording program.) And I believe they already have announced that the PC version will be discontinued. Pro audio is the one of the few area s outside of graphic design dominated by the Mac, and this development will only strengthen their position.
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Isn't the acceleration really the thing that makes rollercoasters fun/exciting? With no way to create a sustained force pushing you back in the seat, this and other similar efforts will probably not replace real rollercoasters. There's no way (that I can think of) to simulate accelerating to 60+ mph in 5 seconds.
Anyonw else notice the number of acronyms in this "basic introduction" type article with no definitions. Just off the top of my head there were:
SISD (single instruction single datum??)
SIMD (single instuction multiple data??)
ISA (instruction set architecture?????)
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I've heard some people say: "Everyone said the same thing when XP came out." That's bullshit. When XP was released, everyone here on Slashdot was saying: "Wow, this is actually pretty good; I haven't had a single crash; They finally delivered on their promise to release a consumer OS with the NT core."
Maybe in a few months Vista will be a good upgrade, who knows, but right now I can't see one feature that I want.
It's interesting that the comparison is between something that is, to the end-user, consensual in one case and not in the other, and in the consensual case 100 (1000?) times more resources are expanded to stop it.
Who should enforce when someone's time is up? That guy wasn't following the rules and wouldn't listen to your proposed "civilian with a microphone." Should we just let him bloviate endlessly?
This is probably the strongest argument against intelligent design to atheists/agnostics. What I was getting at is that, without the religion/god angle, ID arguers would have to come up with a compelling answer to this. Either they would, or the discussion would be over and we could go back to talking about SCO or DRM or whatever.
ID may be a flawed idea that should be discarded, but it does raise interesting questions. All the work that's gone into refuting arguments about eyes and flagellum and irreducible complexity has surely given us some new insights.
It's too bad this has become such a polarizing, religion based issue. Were that not the case, rational arguments about "Intelligent Design" vs. purely stochastic formation/evolution of life would be a lot more interesting. At least, the (non-theistic) intelligent design view presents some hard questions to answer: How does a phenotype that in intermediate forms is useless survive to its fruition? How did the incredibly unlikely perfect combinations of amino acids come together at the right time?
Instead we're all yelling about how stupid religious people are (I'm not sure we're wrong, just saying it would be nice if that could be removed from the equation.)
It would be interesting to see how much of this is due to the (partial?) death of dial-up internet access. Is the rate of increase consistent with dialup->DSL/cable conversions? Even within the "broadband" realm, I'm much more likely to click a video link now that my DSL is 3 Mb compared to when it was 760Kb.
If WoW implemented something like that I would probably re-subscribe. The game itself was still fun, but there were always some people around that would ruin the vibe.
... that and other people would always be put off when I'd launch into a rambling drunken rant about gnomes or something.
I remember playing Gemstone III back in the day; It was very rare to see anything out of character and it really contributed to the immersion. They probably had about 0.00001% the number of players that WoW has so it was easier for the GMs to reign in disruptive players, but some system that is player moderated should be workable on any scale.
WRT to article: I couldn't agree more. It's pretty much a necessity to be on Vent/TS to do any raiding, and usually the most prolific speakers are the most annoying
It wasn't too long ago that there were no (few?) linux drivers for pro-audio hardware. Now that there are drivers for the RME interfaces things have really improved in that respect. With the continuing development of Recording/DAW type programs, it seems there's only one thing missing: real professional quality plug-ins (both processing and instruments.)
I'm not sure what the solution is; Without support for Core Audio, VST, etc. formats none of the existing stuff will work (not to mention all that USB dongle crap) and since these things a require a lot of specialized knowledge and equipment to develop, it seems unlikely that we'll see free (beer) replacements. I'm thinking of things like Ivory and BFD and Bomb Factory processors.
That said, the ability to run a distro optimized for audio is a huge advantage over other platforms. I really look forward to seeing what further progress can be made.
Fifteen space alien races we encounter for the first time that speak and understand English
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I'm surprised nobody has pointed this out yet but: Universal Translator?
I guess that ranks about even with English speaking aliens on the plausability scale though
How many config files would a user need to edit to get that stuff working on Windows box?
If there a pet shortage in Japan? Dogs/Cats also respond realistically when you interact with them. I might understand how they favor robots over unskilled immigrants for manual labor, but why subject the elderly to robot baby seals?!?
... and a Blink Watchmaker can create life as we know it. The salary for this is left as an exercise for the reader.
I just searched this whole page of comments for "mp3" and failed. Why does everyone here overlook the fact that a default install of a modern distro can't play mp3s, flash, and basically all video formats (like someone said earlier: it doesn't matter whose fault this is.) I've used Linux for years and I still don't bother trying to get any of this working, never mind getting it to work smoothly with stuff embedded in web pages. I know most of it is theoretically possible, but once you're hacking autoconf files and manually setting LD_LIBRARY paths it's beyond what many people want to deal with.
A CD is mastered to an extremely shitty set of parameters. 44KHz is not enough to go up to even 22KHz (and humans can hear that rather well), and 16 bits is not nearly enough for a wide dynamic range.
1.) CD's have a sampling rate of 44.1 Khz (not 44.)
2.) Only young children can hear 20K; No human hears 22K
3.) 16 bits ~= 96db dynamic range (covers sound pressure levels of everything from someone whispering from a few feet away to a gunshot at ~1 meter.)
Hey, it worked for the cartoon "The Hobbit" and "Return of the King". No it didn't.
Even with the slickest low cost hard disk recording system, there are still several other important items involved in making a good sounding recording.
... well like you used cheap mics.
1.) Microphones: It's very easy to spend $30K on mics for drums alone. Using cheap mics makes things sound like
2.) Recording Space: Without an Acoustically good space in which to record, it's easy to end up with a real thin "inside a tin can" sound.
3.) Engineer/Producer: Even in a high-end pro studio, results will be poor without some talented people running things (both technically and aesthetically.) Pro tools systems work especially well for electronica/hip-hop/modern r&b where real recording of real instruments are rare, but to get a really professional sound out of a live band, there are very few alternatives to spending some serious (sure less serious than even 10-15 years ago) money.
from the Simpsons archive:
CBG: We are hardly nerds, would a nerd wear such an irreverent sweatshirt?
Lisa: (Reading sweatshirt) C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN Ha, only one person in a million would find that funny.
Frink: Yes, we call that the Dennis Miller ratio.
Never put the "l" before the "u" when attempting to spell "singular"
Isn't the acceleration really the thing that makes rollercoasters fun/exciting? With no way to create a sustained force pushing you back in the seat, this and other similar efforts will probably not replace real rollercoasters. There's no way (that I can think of) to simulate accelerating to 60+ mph in 5 seconds.
Anyonw else notice the number of acronyms in this "basic introduction" type article with no definitions. Just off the top of my head there were: SISD (single instruction single datum??) SIMD (single instuction multiple data??) ISA (instruction set architecture?????)