one wonders about dick morris' claim in TFA that exit polls are "never" wrong.
back when jesse jackson was running for president the margin between the exit polls and the actual vote count was usually fairly substantial, due to the fact that no one really wanted to admit that they hadn't voted for him.
wonder if the same went for kerry?
as far as the possibility of actual fraud, I would say that regardless of whether it changes the actual outcome of the election, EVERY report of potential fraud should be investigated. there is always the posssiblity (however remote) that some fraud was perpetrated, it might just have easily been done badly too.
me personally, I miss the really honkin' big voting machines that we used to have where I grew up. the enormous lever, the little x's. they are generally held to be very hard to screw with, and they are generally left un-reset until the next election in order to facilitate recounts.
and as far as recounts go, there should ALWAYS be a recount. regardless of result, no one whould be in that much of a hurry to get the results. the office doesn't change hands for another 2 months anyway.
does anyone else here remember douglas adams' remark about the true role of the president? makes you wonder.
I said this last year, after the game sixes in the LCS. if the cubs and the sox had made it to the world series, the world would have to end just prior to the last out, because both teams couldn't lose.
However with just the sox getting there, all you have to worry about now is a chicago-chicago world series. 1907 vs.1917
(go cubbies!)
of course this year, after game three, I was pretty certain that the sox would collapse and lose the series in seven because that would have been the most painful way to go about it. After all they had just done it to the yankees. [recovering red-sox-fan]
has anyone figured out a correlation between strike years in pro sports and the elections?
halfdome is a mountain; Ansel Adams takes a photo of that mountain.
which is the thing?
better example might be cambell's soup can, warhol painting of same.
beethoven symphony, NYsymphony orchestra recording of same.
music written for the studio, unreproduceable live. (except perhaps by playing the recording. e.g. bohemian rhapsody.)
why is it that the creation of a sound is so devalued by you relative to the creation of something more physical? just because it is a recording (and potentially easily duplicateable) does not mean it is not worth respecting as an individual's creation.
I have created an image, I have recorded a song. I have written a program. how do these end up being different? (assuming the image was created in photoshop/GIMP or something similar.)
as far as the music industry goes though, it should be noted that for the most part, live performance was merely advertising for the sale of the recording. not the other way around. costs of renting the performancs space, etc., versus the gate receipts is frequently break even at best. I work for a very well known show now, and despite inordinately high ticket prices, most actual profit for the show actually comes from concession sales. (to the point where we actually took to carting around 32 extra bathrooms so people could spend more time shopping during intermission.)
max is windows only, and at one point it was really Intel only, as they had based some of its pipeline on Intel extensions.
You're generally limited to Blender, Lightwave and Maya for 3d work. which for real commercial animation out of the box leaves you with only Maya. (I know there are a lot of Lightwave fans out there, and I own/use it myself.[ Maya used to be a lot more expensive.] but lightwave lacks any sort of good 3d tracking to make it worth while.)
If there are any others, I would love to know. I've been out of the market for a while...
btw any one know if cinelerra is getting ported to osx?
I was under the impression that preventing the saving of an image from a web page is actually a feature that has been present for some time, no?
at least there being some way of disabling the right-click menu, anyway. which wouldn't stop you from finding the image in the cache file and saving it I suppose. or saving the whole page in toto...
My question about the cost of the flight, is how much more would it cost to get up to a sustainable orbit, rather than the 3 minutes of low?
won't the usefulness of a ship like this be limited commercially if you can't reach the giant sheraton in the sky? (or was it hilton, it's been so long since 2001)
I recall going to a Laszlo presentation a couple of years ago, and at the time it was based on a flash engine.
has this changed?
what they had at the time was a piece of middleware that would translate xml style code into a.swf file. or rather the xml file would be read by a.swf that contained a toolkit for generating app like controls.
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yes, you are supposed to make art if that is your calling. but you might allow the artist in question the right to decide whether or not the art gets given away for free.
one problem here is that media arts, music/video, are easily duplicated, while a painting or sculpture are not. (yes dupe-able, but not easily.) when one has an artistic calling, one wants to make a living at it so they can spend all their time fulfilling that calling.
Not many people I know, and certainly few of the artists, want spend time working at a restaurant to cover the rent, or do database entry at a bank,(shudder) or worse, cold call for telemarketers in order to make enough of a living to keep roof over head, food in belly and supplies for the art. (instruments, studio time, paint, clay. etc.)
this is not to say that many of the musicians I know aren't doing it for the gir... well the sex any way, but the basic premise of all of them is to spend their time creating more art.
I also recognize that the concept of artistic creation is a bit nebulous for some, who might find it easier to justify paying for a word processor, graphics program, car, method for "one piece of software to ask for help from another" [answer honestly now, how many of the people who download free software actually click the link and donate to the developers?] something more apparently concrete anyway. (well maybe not the car...)
perhaps if all musicians set up kagi or pay-pal accounts, all the music lovers who find the RIAA rightfully despicable could still find it in themselves to support the artist who gave them that 2 to 9 minutes of happiness.
you know, I made this point on an earlier slashdot article, and got slammed for it. I'm glad there's at least one person who agrees.
In a way, file sharing is like not tipping at restaurants and bars. If you get good service, tip. If you get good music, buy. Though if you can send the money directly to the artists all the better.
I hate to bust your bubble, but gif and all the other R G B formats have exactly three colors and shades thereof... print has a base of four, and tints there of. (plus the occasional spot color if your feeling exact...)
the question generally seems to be of sharing insurance and taxes and all the other favors that society allows the hetero married couple. while the patriarchal lineage etc. are a concern to some, many of the gay couples I know tend to be a bit more pragmatic.
they DO want their union to be seen as the symbol of a lasting love, as with anyone else's union, and importantly to be ACCEPTED as such, but there are usually some practical reasons for it too. I have occasionally noticed a bit of nose rubbing though...
too true, having a lot of spare time on my hands of late, I actually came up with three or four different answers.
It would have been nice if perhaps they had had a few possible responses,
other answers for the curious, based on the positions of the chosen 10 digits, 2,6,24,100...
for those who noticed that the middle numbers of the binomial expansion triangle, (multiplied successively by 2,3,4,5,6...) the fifth term is 420 which finds you the sequence 5746377211 [ given the other significance of that number, 420 that is, perhaps I should have seen it as unlikely...]
then there's the binomial theorem which, via a rather unwieldy cubic equation, gets you the 278th term (I was actually thinking that there was some good, if obscure, humor there, 278 ->2.71828... ha-ha... maybe not) which was 4424371075
for fun I actually did a search on that sequence, "2, 6, 24, 100" and got a russian website that had that sequence with one further term,197 which for fun gave me 0190115738
having eventually found all the various information after the fact, I was rather dissapointed to see that the number they had chosen was not 42. I must admit to feeling a bit foolish, having spent all that time on the "wrong" part of the puzzle, and though I may have gotten the 'wrong' answer, I think I got a couple of good ones. what the hell...
I suppose having lived in SF, 7 squared should have leapt out at me. (San Francisco is 7mi.x7mi. for those who don't know.)
oh well, I guess I'm "not feeling lucky..." on the other hand it was a neat little exercise.
all of this reminds me of a time almost 20 years ago when I went to fenway park to see a game.
out in center field there's an odd double layer of bleachers and the crowd in the upper and the crowd in the lower started shouting at each other. everybody sort of looked over and all at once they seemed to get it together and from all the way on the far side of the stadium you could here the clarion calls of;
"tastes great!"
"less filling!"
the small irony of the moment, (leaving out the bit about too many people being too affected by TV commercials,) was that they were sitting directly beneath a budweiser sign. #for those of you who don't remember/care that was a miller lite slogan.
given this new news, I wonder what they might yell today?
when you play an electrified instrument, (guitar, bass, B3 etc.) you are really playing the amplifier. it is part of the instrument, not just a way to amplify the sound.
the sound of thte tube amp, the square wave of high volume clipping softened by the slow response of the tube transistor, fed back into the instrument, (though not the b3 obviously) to increase sustain.
the amp is as much the instrument as the bit with strings in your hand. And like people's beliefs about things like stradivarii and the like, everyone picks out the instrument that sounds right to them.
there's a difference between a P.A. system, that is supposed to amplify sound while leaving it otherwise unaltered, and a guitar amp, which is supposed to let you shape the sound, and deliberately affect(~degrade) the signal. which is another thing to remember, electric guitars and the like technically do not make any sound. they generate an electrical signal.
I for one will be happy with the new version of the shootout if george will only go back and fix the mix in "empire strikes back"
for those of you who might not have noticed, in the re-release on VHS, all of Han Solo's sarcastic one off remarks in the asteroid field have been mixed out. these few quick remarks were some of the biggest things that humanized that character.
among all the changes made in the original trilogy, this was the biggest mistake. as far as the others go I was thrilled to see the alteration of the ending of Jedi, which I generally considered the weakest of the three. (not actually for the ewoks mind you, but the overdoing of the "sensitive moments.")
side note, has anyone else ever noticed that the cinematographer from empire also has the rocky horror on his resume?http://imdb.com/name/nm0005893/
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according to imdb, principle photography wrapped in august.
10 months of post doesn't seem too bad.
though it would be nice to see a real shot or something.
aaaahhh secrecy...
a little behind the times aren't we?
one wonders about dick morris' claim in TFA that exit polls are "never" wrong.
back when jesse jackson was running for president the margin between the exit polls and the actual vote count was usually fairly substantial, due to the fact that no one really wanted to admit that they hadn't voted for him.
wonder if the same went for kerry?
as far as the possibility of actual fraud, I would say that regardless of whether it changes the actual outcome of the election, EVERY report of potential fraud should be investigated. there is always the posssiblity (however remote) that some fraud was perpetrated, it might just have easily been done badly too.
me personally, I miss the really honkin' big voting machines that we used to have where I grew up. the enormous lever, the little x's. they are generally held to be very hard to screw with, and they are generally left un-reset until the next election in order to facilitate recounts.
and as far as recounts go, there should ALWAYS be a recount. regardless of result, no one whould be in that much of a hurry to get the results. the office doesn't change hands for another 2 months anyway.
does anyone else here remember douglas adams' remark about the true role of the president? makes you wonder.
cheers all
I said this last year, after the game sixes in the LCS. if the cubs and the sox had made it to the world series, the world would have to end just prior to the last out, because both teams couldn't lose.
However with just the sox getting there, all you have to worry about now is a chicago-chicago world series. 1907 vs.1917
(go cubbies!)
of course this year, after game three, I was pretty certain that the sox would collapse and lose the series in seven because that would have been the most painful way to go about it. After all they had just done it to the yankees.
[recovering red-sox-fan]
has anyone figured out a correlation between strike years in pro sports and the elections?
what do you do for a living, if I might ask?
halfdome is a mountain;
Ansel Adams takes a photo of that mountain.
which is the thing?
better example might be
cambell's soup can,
warhol painting of same.
beethoven symphony,
NYsymphony orchestra recording of same.
music written for the studio, unreproduceable live. (except perhaps by playing the recording. e.g. bohemian rhapsody.)
why is it that the creation of a sound is so devalued by you relative to the creation of something more physical? just because it is a recording (and potentially easily duplicateable) does not mean it is not worth respecting as an individual's creation.
I have created an image, I have recorded a song. I have written a program. how do these end up being different? (assuming the image was created in photoshop/GIMP or something similar.)
as far as the music industry goes though, it should be noted that for the most part, live performance was merely advertising for the sale of the recording. not the other way around. costs of renting the performancs space, etc., versus the gate receipts is frequently break even at best. I work for a very well known show now, and despite inordinately high ticket prices, most actual profit for the show actually comes from concession sales. (to the point where we actually took to carting around 32 extra bathrooms so people could spend more time shopping during intermission.)
max is windows only, and at one point it was really Intel only, as they had based some of its pipeline on Intel extensions.
You're generally limited to Blender, Lightwave and Maya for 3d work. which for real commercial animation out of the box leaves you with only Maya. (I know there are a lot of Lightwave fans out there, and I own/use it myself.[ Maya used to be a lot more expensive.] but lightwave lacks any sort of good 3d tracking to make it worth while.)
If there are any others, I would love to know. I've been out of the market for a while...
btw any one know if cinelerra is getting ported to osx?
I was under the impression that preventing the saving of an image from a web page is actually a feature that has been present for some time, no?
at least there being some way of disabling the right-click menu, anyway. which wouldn't stop you from finding the image in the cache file and saving it I suppose.
or saving the whole page in toto...
no?
curious, because southwest doesn't go to SFO.
My question about the cost of the flight, is how much more would it cost to get up to a sustainable orbit, rather than the 3 minutes of low?
won't the usefulness of a ship like this be limited commercially if you can't reach the giant sheraton in the sky? (or was it hilton, it's been so long since 2001)
I recall going to a Laszlo presentation a couple of years ago, and at the time it was based on a flash engine.
.swf file. or rather the xml file would be read by a .swf that contained a toolkit for generating app like controls.
has this changed?
what they had at the time was a piece of middleware that would translate xml style code into a
LOL
;-)
Oh I really wish I had mod points for you,
well done!
yes, you are supposed to make art if that is your calling. but you might allow the artist in question the right to decide whether or not the art gets given away for free.
one problem here is that media arts, music/video, are easily duplicated, while a painting or sculpture are not. (yes dupe-able, but not easily.) when one has an artistic calling, one wants to make a living at it so they can spend all their time fulfilling that calling.
Not many people I know, and certainly few of the artists, want spend time working at a restaurant to cover the rent, or do database entry at a bank,(shudder) or worse, cold call for telemarketers in order to make enough of a living to keep roof over head, food in belly and supplies for the art. (instruments, studio time, paint, clay. etc.)
this is not to say that many of the musicians I know aren't doing it for the gir... well the sex any way, but the basic premise of all of them is to spend their time creating more art.
I also recognize that the concept of artistic creation is a bit nebulous for some, who might find it easier to justify paying for a word processor, graphics program, car, method for "one piece of software to ask for help from another" [answer honestly now, how many of the people who download free software actually click the link and donate to the developers?] something more apparently concrete anyway. (well maybe not the car...)
perhaps if all musicians set up kagi or pay-pal accounts, all the music lovers who find the RIAA rightfully despicable could still find it in themselves to support the artist who gave them that 2 to 9 minutes of happiness.
what do you think?
you know, I made this point on an earlier slashdot article, and got slammed for it. I'm glad there's at least one person who agrees.
In a way, file sharing is like not tipping at restaurants and bars. If you get good service, tip. If you get good music, buy. Though if you can send the money directly to the artists all the better.
but they can vary in size...
that's what you think.
I, on the other hand, am firmly convinced that slashdot is at least 1/4 populated with really advanced versions of ELIZA and the emacs psychologist.
TABERNAC! I think you'll find...
(TABERKNAACK on the varekai toolbox...)
[two points if you get both references]
I hate to bust your bubble, but gif and all the other R G B formats have exactly three colors and shades thereof... print has a base of four, and tints there of. (plus the occasional spot color if your feeling exact...)
the question generally seems to be of sharing insurance and taxes and all the other favors that society allows the hetero married couple. while the patriarchal lineage etc. are a concern to some, many of the gay couples I know tend to be a bit more pragmatic.
they DO want their union to be seen as the symbol of a lasting love, as with anyone else's union, and importantly to be ACCEPTED as such, but there are usually some practical reasons for it too.
I have occasionally noticed a bit of nose rubbing though...
too true, having a lot of spare time on my hands of late, I actually came up with three or four different answers.
It would have been nice if perhaps they had had a few possible responses,
other answers for the curious, based on the positions of the chosen 10 digits,
2,6,24,100...
for those who noticed that the middle numbers of the binomial expansion triangle, (multiplied successively by 2,3,4,5,6...) the fifth term is 420 which finds you the sequence 5746377211 [ given the other significance of that number, 420 that is, perhaps I should have seen it as unlikely...]
then there's the binomial theorem which, via a rather unwieldy cubic equation, gets you the 278th term (I was actually thinking that there was some good, if obscure, humor there, 278 ->2.71828... ha-ha... maybe not)
which was 4424371075
for fun I actually did a search on that sequence, "2, 6, 24, 100" and got a russian website that had that sequence with one further term,197 which for fun gave me 0190115738
having eventually found all the various information after the fact, I was rather dissapointed to see that the number they had chosen was not 42. I must admit to feeling a bit foolish, having spent all that time on the "wrong" part of the puzzle, and though I may have gotten the 'wrong' answer, I think I got a couple of good ones. what the hell...
I suppose having lived in SF, 7 squared should have leapt out at me. (San Francisco is 7mi.x7mi. for those who don't know.)
oh well, I guess I'm "not feeling lucky..." on the other hand it was a neat little exercise.
cheers!
perhaps then all small USB devices should be mandated to have at least 4 3cm spikes permanently attached in divergent directions.
I think a caltrop like form-factor would cut way down on that kind of smuggling...
hey! hey! HEY!
we let the cadanians play in that one! (at least for the moment)
all of this reminds me of a time almost 20 years ago when I went to fenway park to see a game.
out in center field there's an odd double layer of bleachers and the crowd in the upper and the crowd in the lower started shouting at each other. everybody sort of looked over and all at once they seemed to get it together and from all the way on the far side of the stadium you could here the clarion calls of;
"tastes great!"
"less filling!"
the small irony of the moment, (leaving out the bit about too many people being too affected by TV commercials,) was that they were sitting directly beneath a budweiser sign.
#for those of you who don't remember/care that was a miller lite slogan.
given this new news, I wonder what they might yell today?
any thoughts?
when you play an electrified instrument, (guitar, bass, B3 etc.) you are really playing the amplifier. it is part of the instrument, not just a way to amplify the sound.
the sound of thte tube amp, the square wave of high volume clipping softened by the slow response of the tube transistor, fed back into the instrument, (though not the b3 obviously) to increase sustain.
the amp is as much the instrument as the bit with strings in your hand. And like people's beliefs about things like stradivarii and the like, everyone picks out the instrument that sounds right to them.
there's a difference between a P.A. system, that is supposed to amplify sound while leaving it otherwise unaltered, and a guitar amp, which is supposed to let you shape the sound, and deliberately affect(~degrade) the signal. which is another thing to remember, electric guitars and the like technically do not make any sound. they generate an electrical signal.
now, now let's not be exclusionary,
some of them probably swooned over leia as well...
I for one will be happy with the new version of the shootout if george will only go back and fix the mix in "empire strikes back"
for those of you who might not have noticed, in the re-release on VHS, all of Han Solo's sarcastic one off remarks in the asteroid field have been mixed out. these few quick remarks were some of the biggest things that humanized that character.
among all the changes made in the original trilogy, this was the biggest mistake. as far as the others go I was thrilled to see the alteration of the ending of Jedi, which I generally considered the weakest of the three. (not actually for the ewoks mind you, but the overdoing of the "sensitive moments.")
side note, has anyone else ever noticed that the cinematographer from empire also has the rocky horror on his resume?http://imdb.com/name/nm0005893/