Yes, and Linux distros would allow us to bolt on as many necks with as many strings as we wish onto the body of the guitar, the only downside being that we have to figure out how to make them fit.:)
One should always be suspicious of a technology that is promoted more on the basis of the desirability of its imagined future consequences than in light of practical, present-day successes. An unanswered question for me in all this is how many man-hours it would take even to retroactively tag all the data currently available on the web with semantically rich metadata.
Here's an analogy that doesn't prove anything but reframes the problem. As far as I understand it, the Pentagon cannot be audited, because the time it would take to properly count everything extends beyond the period for which the count would be relevant (the current fiscal year). Do those who tout the "Semantic Web" have a response to this kind of question about feasibility?
the computer had made associations like "father" and "president" [...] So, I do not doubt computers will begin to understand meaning
A few questions about this inference: How is what the computer did anything more than a simple correlation? Could the computer tell you what the scope and limits of the association are (i.e., in what ways a president is like and unlike a father)? Could it parse/create a sentence in which it had to determine whether to use either of these words in a metaphorical rather than a literal sense (or vice versa)?
Those are among the sorts of things we do when we understand language. I don't think that a computer's automatically drawing a correlation between "father" and "president" goes very far in the direction of this kind of understanding.
Opening your drive will show you the top level, but it hides the Unix directories like/usr,/var,/bin, and/etc.
True, but you can get to those from the Finder by pressing Command-Shift-G ("Go To Folder") and then typing one of those or any other valid path into the dialog box. The folder will then appear in a Finder window.
It's occurred to me that if it really is simple enough to set up a secure wireless network, then that information ought to be easy enough to communicate. What is really the problem, then, is not that the good people of this town are "too stupid" to set these things up, but that no one has yet communicated to them effectively the message that they should care about securing their networks. This is really a matter of educating the public. Word of mouth would be a good start, and surely the manufacturers bear some responsibility, but I wonder if a few well-placed (and respectful) e-mails to local newspapers in this town could also help.
Just think, people don't really know how to fix their own cars, but they know enough to know what sorts of problems might crop up, and more importantly, enough to do what needs to be done to maintain their cars reasonably well within the limits of what they, as nonexperts, can do. The only reason people know this is that there has been a culture passed from one person to the next of this kind of practical knowledge. Maybe some geeks should do their part to help disseminate the (frankly not very extensive) knowledge necessary to secure home wireless networks.
2. Download/Install Sun Java Runtime, do necessary fiddling to get Firefox to use it
I googled around last night looking for a way to do this, since Firefox seems to be running Java 1.3, but found nothing. Can somone explain to this clueless noob how to do it? Did I mention I'm running OS X? TIA
[shatner mode="kirk"]You don't understand why we must have such diversions? Do not your own people... seek enjoyment in their own way? So it is with us. You see, we humans... we need to... relax... to entertain ourselves. All of the great leaders in history have realized this: Caesar, Napoleon, Darius of Rigel IV. That's why... we created... television. If. You. Deny us. The chance to relax... we will grow weary of our lives... our less human lives?[/kirk]
Version 6. I'd be a little dubious about eBay because of Logic's hardware copy-protection scheme, a USB "key." If that's corrupted, you might not be able to get a new one.
Not to mention that you can get a variety of outboard controllers that have actual knobs on them, which, when twiddled, control whichever parameters on such UIs you choose.
For what it's worth, I run Logic Express on my 800MHz eMac and do just fine: I haven't really tested the limits, but in one song I have 8 audio tracks with a few (simple) effects and about half a dozen software synths, a couple of individual buses with global effects (reverb, delay), and the main ouput with a multiband compressor on it... with about 80% or so of CPU power. Logic also allows you to "freeze" tracks, which means running off an audio copy with all the effects already processed, so you can squeeze more tracks/effects in. In comparison, Garage Band isn't very well optimized. I've been very happy with Logic Express, especially since I got it for $150 with an educational discount. And the new Logic Express 7 looks even better, at the same price.
There's a recent thread on compiling JACK and Ardour for OSX on OS X Audio, which has lots of great info on recording on the Mac: many posters own/run studios, but the place is still newbie-friendly.
Really? It's true that we're not trying to annex it. But if you look at the orders (Orders 29 and 30?) that Bremer wrote into the constitution, you'll find that we've generously blessed the Iraqis with a constitution that allows foreign corporations (currently almost entirely U.S., and engaged in pillaging the substantial remains of Iraq's state-owned industries) to export all their profits from the country, while paying only a pittance in taxes, or nothing. Read Naomi Klein's article in Harper's: "Baghdad Year Zero."
You don't know of any Bush campaign operatives involved in setting up and running SBVT? Try reading outside your usual circle of news sites; simply everybody's talking about it. You still have n't answered what your claim about "forging documents" has to do with Kerry. The answer, as you well know, is nothing.
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Yes, and Linux distros would allow us to bolt on as many necks with as many strings as we wish onto the body of the guitar, the only downside being that we have to figure out how to make them fit. :)
That's "liquid hot mag-ma," dammit! He didn't go to evil medical school for six years for nothing.
I don't mean "you," personally, of course. ;-)
Excellent campaign-trail mathematics! Karl Rove has a job waiting for you.
Here's an analogy that doesn't prove anything but reframes the problem. As far as I understand it, the Pentagon cannot be audited, because the time it would take to properly count everything extends beyond the period for which the count would be relevant (the current fiscal year). Do those who tout the "Semantic Web" have a response to this kind of question about feasibility?
You might read Flaubert's last novel, Bouvard and Pécuchet, if you want to see the same idea much more thoroughly explored.
the computer had made associations like "father" and "president" [...] So, I do not doubt computers will begin to understand meaning
A few questions about this inference: How is what the computer did anything more than a simple correlation? Could the computer tell you what the scope and limits of the association are (i.e., in what ways a president is like and unlike a father)? Could it parse/create a sentence in which it had to determine whether to use either of these words in a metaphorical rather than a literal sense (or vice versa)?
Those are among the sorts of things we do when we understand language. I don't think that a computer's automatically drawing a correlation between "father" and "president" goes very far in the direction of this kind of understanding.
True, but you can get to those from the Finder by pressing Command-Shift-G ("Go To Folder") and then typing one of those or any other valid path into the dialog box. The folder will then appear in a Finder window.
Just think, people don't really know how to fix their own cars, but they know enough to know what sorts of problems might crop up, and more importantly, enough to do what needs to be done to maintain their cars reasonably well within the limits of what they, as nonexperts, can do. The only reason people know this is that there has been a culture passed from one person to the next of this kind of practical knowledge. Maybe some geeks should do their part to help disseminate the (frankly not very extensive) knowledge necessary to secure home wireless networks.
And I've developed a sophisticated method of mining data from other sensors: it's called talking to people!
I googled around last night looking for a way to do this, since Firefox seems to be running Java 1.3, but found nothing. Can somone explain to this clueless noob how to do it? Did I mention I'm running OS X? TIA
[shatner mode="kirk"]You don't understand why we must have such diversions? Do not your own people ... seek enjoyment in their own way? So it is with us. You see, we humans ... we need to ... relax ... to entertain ourselves. All of the great leaders in history have realized this: Caesar, Napoleon, Darius of Rigel IV. That's why ... we created ... television. If. You. Deny us. The chance to relax ... we will grow weary of our lives ... our less human lives?[/kirk]
Ah, yes. The old "CAT-5-o'-nine-tails."
Shouldn't that be: "Hot Tiger-on-Tiger Action"? The spokesmen will of course be Siegfried and Roy.
Version 6. I'd be a little dubious about eBay because of Logic's hardware copy-protection scheme, a USB "key." If that's corrupted, you might not be able to get a new one.
Not to mention that you can get a variety of outboard controllers that have actual knobs on them, which, when twiddled, control whichever parameters on such UIs you choose.
... and a guitar amp simulator.
There's a recent thread on compiling JACK and Ardour for OSX on OS X Audio, which has lots of great info on recording on the Mac: many posters own/run studios, but the place is still newbie-friendly.
HTH
Me, too. My Runescape character is at level 38 in mining.
Good example. Unfortunately, the wise guy above might just consider this to be "helping the greatest number of people."
Here are two: Benjamin Ginsberg and Ken Cordier.
Really? It's true that we're not trying to annex it. But if you look at the orders (Orders 29 and 30?) that Bremer wrote into the constitution, you'll find that we've generously blessed the Iraqis with a constitution that allows foreign corporations (currently almost entirely U.S., and engaged in pillaging the substantial remains of Iraq's state-owned industries) to export all their profits from the country, while paying only a pittance in taxes, or nothing. Read Naomi Klein's article in Harper's: "Baghdad Year Zero."
You don't know of any Bush campaign operatives involved in setting up and running SBVT? Try reading outside your usual circle of news sites; simply everybody's talking about it. You still have n't answered what your claim about "forging documents" has to do with Kerry. The answer, as you well know, is nothing.
So, I suppose you supported Iraq's decision to "intervene" in Kuwait?