To the extent this is true, doesn't the business deprive itself of the majority of the most educated workers? So the extent you (and I) are less protected, aren't we are also less vulnerable? This is small comfort to the people who get screwed, but in broad terms the balance of bullshit still favors white males.
You are mistaken, and for this you should be glad.
It often takes several years for masterpieces to be recognized as such, so it shouldn't surprise you that nothing you like has been acclaimed. I'm not a high culture joe myself, so please don't be offended, but today's high culture may be incomprehensible to you because you aren't sophisticated enough to appreciate it. If you grow up watching Fantasia, it is easier to enjoy Stravinski.
As for originality, the tale is in the telling. People of years past lived and died much as we do, a bit more fresh air and hard work maybe but basically the same. Basically. They were us first, what are you going to do?
Culturally we are far, far ahead of the 1907 crowd. Your image of 1899 is almost certainly based on the western upper class (listening to Wagner) rather than the teeming western poor (listening to minstrel shows) or the uncountable colonized listening to whips, maxim guns, pickaxes and sermons.
There is a big difference in that this person had access to all the data on the computer system. So really, its like teach tracked students by SSN and kept a record of all their past grades, and other personal information. Also, the number of bad acts required to accomplish the task is greater; so they guys are breaking into the teachers lounge and stealing the keys to the storage room and then breaking into the storage room to change the grades. These guys don't deserve 20 years, but people committing these same acts, but doing more harm, may deserve more than 20 years.
Couldn't a digital reproduction have as many bits per second as there are molecules per second of vinyl? Wouldn't that give you the exact same resulution and greater readability? What about the resolution of the original cutting apparatus?
I'm not saying vinyl sounds bad, but people don't go around saying stained glass is optically superior to plain glass, even if blue poodles and sidewalks are an improvement.
A couple years back, Plant pledged to some Seattle(?) public radio station after they cited as a positive fact the that they'd never play Stairway on public radio. Clearly, he isn't a huge fan of the song either. The main reasons Led Zeppelin didn't release their songs as singles during the 70's were 1) Jimmy Page was a tightwad and wanted everyone to buy the whole album and 2) LZ wanted people to listen to the whole album, not just a song by itself. It will be interesting to see if the songs are available individually or per album or per album side even.
I used to love the Zepp with a passion (still like them more than Tool;)), and part of me wishes they'd charge serious $$ to play their big hits so that radio stations would mix up their LZ playlists. Also, I'd love for them to clean up some bootlegs and release them. Maybe this method of distribution will create the incentive.
It is tempting to think so, but every technological advance is highly dependent on previous advances. I recommend watching Burke's first Connections series (which I first heard about on/.). To make industrial machinery economical you need fuel, the ability to measure and cut to close tolerances, etc. There are some very common, simple technologies that required a lot of sophistication to be mass produced. The french press leaps to mind (though please charitably ignore the fact that coffee was still, at-best, second in breakfast popularity to beer, reducing the impetus.)
Journalism is very much about the messenger. If a source of news wants to be credible then they should do research and not distort news to get people's attention. People here are familiar with the source and say it isn't to be taken at face value. The onus isn't on the reader to prove that a source is not credible.
You are right about SH et al, but the people they attack are policymakers whose arguments should in theory have nothing at all to do with the messenger.
You may be thinking of a tens unit. I Googled and they are available for sale. I don't know anything about the sugar substitute, but if one in 100k people had a sufficiently adverse reaction, I suspect it would never see the light of day.
In Peter Robb's Midnight in Sicily he attributes the introduction of pasta to the Arabs. Additionally, Marco Polo mentions a that the people in China eat a type of vermacelli, which suggests that he had a name for at least one kind of pasta before going east.
The current CEO doesn't have to know anything about it. The only person who needs to look the other way is the supervisor of a fab, or the operator who does the original lithography, or any one of a dozen links in the manufacturing chain.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotwayd is a pop deamon that retrieves Hotmail. It sends the same requests that OE does, rather than screen scrape, and it allows you to send mail. You may want to give it a try, if only to have all you mail readable under one client.
Open spaces on the shelf is great in a library or book store, but in your living room it is like having a JackO'Lantern staring back at you. I leave an open shelf and moved everything down when I buy something new.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'd hardly expect more froma website who's motto is "Right News, Right Now". And to the child post, yes, the slight is minor, but it is deliberate, and it is certainly more petty to lob such an insult than to object to it.
I don't see how a.xxx could help people find their porn any better than a.biz helps people find their business. Will a new.xxx TLD freeup www.teencream.com for that 4H dairy? Will I, as an avid consumer of porn, be able to just mash my hand (or any other appendage) on the keyboard secure in the knowledge that even asdfghjunim.xxx will allow me to quell my insatiable lust for filth? Is Playboy explicit enough to warrant a.xxx, I don't think so but what if they really want it? Maybe 10 years ago new TLDs would have been useful, but now.com is assumed and no commercial business in it's right mind would let take a.biz (or a xxx) instead of a.com.
You are entirely correct about finding packages based on description, but it isn't python's fault, I think it is because of all the many, many files that comprise portage. It isn't nearly enough to put me off Gentoo, and using eix rather than emerge -s can save you 98% however long -s takes.
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"You're assuming your conclusion" isn't that many more letters than "You're begging the question." and uses each word as it's currently understood.
Kind of ironic considering which one is communist.
To the extent this is true, doesn't the business deprive itself of the majority of the most educated workers? So the extent you (and I) are less protected, aren't we are also less vulnerable? This is small comfort to the people who get screwed, but in broad terms the balance of bullshit still favors white males.
You are mistaken, and for this you should be glad. It often takes several years for masterpieces to be recognized as such, so it shouldn't surprise you that nothing you like has been acclaimed. I'm not a high culture joe myself, so please don't be offended, but today's high culture may be incomprehensible to you because you aren't sophisticated enough to appreciate it. If you grow up watching Fantasia, it is easier to enjoy Stravinski. As for originality, the tale is in the telling. People of years past lived and died much as we do, a bit more fresh air and hard work maybe but basically the same. Basically. They were us first, what are you going to do? Culturally we are far, far ahead of the 1907 crowd. Your image of 1899 is almost certainly based on the western upper class (listening to Wagner) rather than the teeming western poor (listening to minstrel shows) or the uncountable colonized listening to whips, maxim guns, pickaxes and sermons.
There is a big difference in that this person had access to all the data on the computer system. So really, its like teach tracked students by SSN and kept a record of all their past grades, and other personal information. Also, the number of bad acts required to accomplish the task is greater; so they guys are breaking into the teachers lounge and stealing the keys to the storage room and then breaking into the storage room to change the grades. These guys don't deserve 20 years, but people committing these same acts, but doing more harm, may deserve more than 20 years.
Couldn't a digital reproduction have as many bits per second as there are molecules per second of vinyl? Wouldn't that give you the exact same resulution and greater readability? What about the resolution of the original cutting apparatus? I'm not saying vinyl sounds bad, but people don't go around saying stained glass is optically superior to plain glass, even if blue poodles and sidewalks are an improvement.
A couple years back, Plant pledged to some Seattle(?) public radio station after they cited as a positive fact the that they'd never play Stairway on public radio. Clearly, he isn't a huge fan of the song either. The main reasons Led Zeppelin didn't release their songs as singles during the 70's were 1) Jimmy Page was a tightwad and wanted everyone to buy the whole album and 2) LZ wanted people to listen to the whole album, not just a song by itself. It will be interesting to see if the songs are available individually or per album or per album side even. I used to love the Zepp with a passion (still like them more than Tool ;)), and part of me wishes they'd charge serious $$ to play their big hits so that radio stations would mix up their LZ playlists. Also, I'd love for them to clean up some bootlegs and release them. Maybe this method of distribution will create the incentive.
is the contrast between the amazing photos and sophisticated graphics and the Powerpoint 95 quality of the rest of the presentation. This slide (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/pictures/100907_pressGraphics/files/Stern/SternHi-Res/Stern_11.jpg) could almost be a cat macro.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/05/181420 3&tid=99
It is tempting to think so, but every technological advance is highly dependent on previous advances. I recommend watching Burke's first Connections series (which I first heard about on /.). To make industrial machinery economical you need fuel, the ability to measure and cut to close tolerances, etc. There are some very common, simple technologies that required a lot of sophistication to be mass produced. The french press leaps to mind (though please charitably ignore the fact that coffee was still, at-best, second in breakfast popularity to beer, reducing the impetus.)
Journalism is very much about the messenger. If a source of news wants to be credible then they should do research and not distort news to get people's attention. People here are familiar with the source and say it isn't to be taken at face value. The onus isn't on the reader to prove that a source is not credible. You are right about SH et al, but the people they attack are policymakers whose arguments should in theory have nothing at all to do with the messenger.
But if your assailant took a flash photo, your pants would catch fire.
You may be thinking of a tens unit. I Googled and they are available for sale. I don't know anything about the sugar substitute, but if one in 100k people had a sufficiently adverse reaction, I suspect it would never see the light of day.
In Peter Robb's Midnight in Sicily he attributes the introduction of pasta to the Arabs. Additionally, Marco Polo mentions a that the people in China eat a type of vermacelli, which suggests that he had a name for at least one kind of pasta before going east.
Between this and the http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/0 8/2215253&tid=99GM goats we should have Alec Guinness' white suit in no time.
Wouldn't the originating sound reach all points before any of the echos?
Glass doesn't flow either (except in geologic time scales) http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glas s/glass.html
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_120.html
The current CEO doesn't have to know anything about it. The only person who needs to look the other way is the supervisor of a fab, or the operator who does the original lithography, or any one of a dozen links in the manufacturing chain.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotwayd is a pop deamon that retrieves Hotmail. It sends the same requests that OE does, rather than screen scrape, and it allows you to send mail. You may want to give it a try, if only to have all you mail readable under one client.
Open spaces on the shelf is great in a library or book store, but in your living room it is like having a JackO'Lantern staring back at you. I leave an open shelf and moved everything down when I buy something new.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'd hardly expect more froma website who's motto is "Right News, Right Now". And to the child post, yes, the slight is minor, but it is deliberate, and it is certainly more petty to lob such an insult than to object to it.
You forgot C) Raise security concerns about Black Sunday and kill the industry with regulation. That, is if these things prove economical.
I don't see how a .xxx could help people find their porn any better than a .biz helps people find their business. Will a new .xxx TLD freeup www.teencream.com for that 4H dairy? Will I, as an avid consumer of porn, be able to just mash my hand (or any other appendage) on the keyboard secure in the knowledge that even asdfghjunim.xxx will allow me to quell my insatiable lust for filth? Is Playboy explicit enough to warrant a .xxx, I don't think so but what if they really want it? Maybe 10 years ago new TLDs would have been useful, but now .com is assumed and no commercial business in it's right mind would let take a .biz (or a xxx) instead of a .com.
Thank you Slashdot, for bringing to my attention this exciting new service or product!
You are entirely correct about finding packages based on description, but it isn't python's fault, I think it is because of all the many, many files that comprise portage. It isn't nearly enough to put me off Gentoo, and using eix rather than emerge -s can save you 98% however long -s takes.