Compact discs blow. People were not meant to hear music with such clarity. People need to hear snaps and pops and that shit. This, my friend, is the only modern piece of equipment I will touch. It's a mini-Victrola and it allow me to listen to the only decent music ever committed to viñyl.
Canada's rivers may have blisteringly cold water, and currents fast and merciless enough to sweep dozens of children to their deaths each year, but that's no reason to call them damnable.
For their next trick, Interpol will turn dark-side-of-the-earth satellite photos into something legible using their custom-built Photoshop plugin, Turn On the Bright Lights.
Damned liberals with their nanny-state! Saving children from death! How are children going to learn the fatal consequences of dangerous actions if they are constantly protected against them? How are they going to learn to survive on their own if we don't let them die a few times?
Snow?! We used to dream of living in snow. Great big mounds of it, 20 feet tall; that would have done us just fine! We used to live trapped within 300 foot tall blocks of ice. And it was serious ice, not like the poncy ice you get nowadays, melting and all that. You had to shatter your entire body into flakes of ice every morning, just so you could get a little room to breathe!
Ah, well. You try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.
Dyson also believes quantum effects are involved in consciousness and might resolve the freewill-determinism debate. (To my mind, this makes him not credible.)
Yes, use a german translation of a danish expression in english when you already have a similar and perfectly usefull expression in english. I think it would be hard to find a more useless foreignword.
If you believe the desire for it developed because of its evolutionary function in procreation, then surely you can also see the evolutionary benefit to the offspring in having parents feel bonded to each other. My point is that that is something natural, not something "social."
Interesting case. And surely it's true that "speech" from the very start was meant to include anonymous pamphleteers. For the analogy to apply to this case, though, you'd need to discover a Supreme Court opinion holding, for example, that anyone who owns a printing press must allow anonymous pamphleteers to use it.
All the SNOBOL source code is rot-13'd, so when it compiles, the executable cannot be reverse-engineered. It's mathematically impossible! All the same, a kernel module subjects the binary file itself to double-rot-13 encryption, for extra security.
Honestly, I don't see how it's a big deal that I have a hard time remembering my own phone number.
Practically speaking, it's irrelevant whether you do remember your phone number. I think the point of the study is that it would be alarming if all our devices made it such that people surrounded by such things (who do nothing to compensate) could not remember such things.
In other words, it's not about whether you actually remember a particular piece of information, but whether your overall ability to remember such things has been harmed by lack of use (atrophy). Current brain science suggests that the health of your brain (especially later in life) depends crucially on activity: it's not able to keep functioning unless it gets a certain kind of workout. It would not be surprising to find, correlatively, that if activities aimed at developing and maturing basic cognitive capacities in early life are lacking, those powers will not be as readily available later. That is scary.
Does that mean we should throw away cell phones? Make children memorize long lists of irrelevant items? Of course not. But we should promote the kinds of activities that help develop and maintain cognitive health. The devices and aids we have around do not make this impossible, but the danger is that they make it seem irrelevant. The attitude that people fall into spontaneously seems to be: "Why learn anything when you know (or think) you can get an adequate blast of information about it on Wikipedia?" One answer is "so your brain will work." (Other "answers" are less polite versions of "why are you so damn lazy?")
It's an interesting fact, but one that people on usenet groups frequented by aesthetically-minded audio engineers have been talking about for years. The earlier post in this thread shows some pictures of the sound that are interesting.
I mean, how long can they put off finding Earth? and, what'll they do after they've found it? That's the end. A couple episodes for epilogue, but that's pretty much it.
At the start of Season Five, Tigh wakes up in a Cylon holding cell on New Caprica, rubs his eyes (yes, both of them), and grumbles "What a frakked up dream that was. I must really need some booze."
P.S., great point about "Hamlet: The Series." This necessity of coming to a close, of course, is the problem with HBO's "Rome."
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Is the kind of video I would need a special codec to view? Gimme a link and I'll install it.
Compact discs blow. People were not meant to hear music with such clarity. People need to hear snaps and pops and that shit. This, my friend, is the only modern piece of equipment I will touch. It's a mini-Victrola and it allow me to listen to the only decent music ever committed to viñyl.
1. People don't want to fiddle with it.
2. You do want to fiddle with it.
3. Your name is Thaelon.
Therefore, you are an elf.
Canada's rivers may have blisteringly cold water, and currents fast and merciless enough to sweep dozens of children to their deaths each year, but that's no reason to call them damnable.
For their next trick, Interpol will turn dark-side-of-the-earth satellite photos into something legible using their custom-built Photoshop plugin, Turn On the Bright Lights.
"Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew." Are you trying to sound like Samwise Gamgee?
the standard metric unit of illegality
I propose the "hijink."
Damned liberals with their nanny-state! Saving children from death! How are children going to learn the fatal consequences of dangerous actions if they are constantly protected against them? How are they going to learn to survive on their own if we don't let them die a few times?
My pet peeve is UNIX programmers who don't understand the origin of the fork() system call.
OK, I'll bite. What's the origin and how is it relevant?
Ah, well. You try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.
Please review your history, in particular the phrase "October Surprise" as it applies to the transition from the Carter to the Reagan administrations.
Dyson also believes quantum effects are involved in consciousness and might resolve the freewill-determinism debate. (To my mind, this makes him not credible.)
Yes, use a german translation of a danish expression in english when you already have a similar and perfectly usefull expression in english. I think it would be hard to find a more useless foreignword.
Useless? That depends on your Weltanschauung.
You mean their browsers will pretend to open each page the user pays for?
There is a verb called "screw," but don't let that deceive you. "Screw" is a noun.
Close technological relative? Close? Like the bird and the dinosaur?
If you believe the desire for it developed because of its evolutionary function in procreation, then surely you can also see the evolutionary benefit to the offspring in having parents feel bonded to each other. My point is that that is something natural, not something "social."
Interesting case. And surely it's true that "speech" from the very start was meant to include anonymous pamphleteers. For the analogy to apply to this case, though, you'd need to discover a Supreme Court opinion holding, for example, that anyone who owns a printing press must allow anonymous pamphleteers to use it.
I think you are confusing with fear nature's mechanism of preventing unwanted or bad things from happening to us.
Exactly: that's not fear, that's our Spidey Sense.
All the SNOBOL source code is rot-13'd, so when it compiles, the executable cannot be reverse-engineered. It's mathematically impossible! All the same, a kernel module subjects the binary file itself to double-rot-13 encryption, for extra security.
Honestly, I don't see how it's a big deal that I have a hard time remembering my own phone number.
Practically speaking, it's irrelevant whether you do remember your phone number. I think the point of the study is that it would be alarming if all our devices made it such that people surrounded by such things (who do nothing to compensate) could not remember such things.
In other words, it's not about whether you actually remember a particular piece of information, but whether your overall ability to remember such things has been harmed by lack of use (atrophy). Current brain science suggests that the health of your brain (especially later in life) depends crucially on activity: it's not able to keep functioning unless it gets a certain kind of workout. It would not be surprising to find, correlatively, that if activities aimed at developing and maturing basic cognitive capacities in early life are lacking, those powers will not be as readily available later. That is scary.
Does that mean we should throw away cell phones? Make children memorize long lists of irrelevant items? Of course not. But we should promote the kinds of activities that help develop and maintain cognitive health. The devices and aids we have around do not make this impossible, but the danger is that they make it seem irrelevant. The attitude that people fall into spontaneously seems to be: "Why learn anything when you know (or think) you can get an adequate blast of information about it on Wikipedia?" One answer is "so your brain will work." (Other "answers" are less polite versions of "why are you so damn lazy?")
God damned foreign language and its traps!
He did? That's a god-damned shame. ;-)
It's an interesting fact, but one that people on usenet groups frequented by aesthetically-minded audio engineers have been talking about for years. The earlier post in this thread shows some pictures of the sound that are interesting.
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away."
I mean, how long can they put off finding Earth? and, what'll they do after they've found it? That's the end. A couple episodes for epilogue, but that's pretty much it.
At the start of Season Five, Tigh wakes up in a Cylon holding cell on New Caprica, rubs his eyes (yes, both of them), and grumbles "What a frakked up dream that was. I must really need some booze."
P.S., great point about "Hamlet: The Series." This necessity of coming to a close, of course, is the problem with HBO's "Rome."