I'm willing to bet that his main reason for opposing the bill is found in this sentence:
By allowing State and local governments to label pension and retirement funds as State assets, the Federal Government is giving the go-ahead for State and local governments to play politics with the savings upon which millions of Americans depend for security Knowing how much monetary matters concern him, and how strictly small-government he is, this seems the most probable driving force behind his "no" vote.
If the intervals weren't in common use, moving the key will not make a difference. An interval is a relative distance between two notes, and a key is the set of notes that you're using. If you move the key then you are moving the entire set of notes, so the relative distance between notes will not change.
I see your point, but there are many who will argue that the payoff of the sound character that comes from a good analog setup is superior to that of a digital setup. I haven't listened to enough vinyl to make an informed opinion, but having experience with recording equipment it makes a sort of sense. There are microphones, usually old, that are prized for the characteristics with which they color the sounds they record: some prized for vocals, others percussion, still others for amps...In amps themselves, there's a huge diversity among the various tube or transistor models, and people look for specific kinds of distortion, however slight.
I'm not convinced that such variation should be limited to recording. There's bound to be some coloring of the sound due to the analog circuitry, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Different types of music will sound better on different types of manufacturers' equipment, just as speakers (which are all analog, I'm sure you know) slightly specialize today.
I do agree that degradation is an issue. If vinyl were to make a comeback in a big way, laser turntables would surely become more cost effective.
Good question. Why hasn't anyone won the Archon X-Prize for Genomics? Why hasn't the Riemann hypothesis been proven or disproven - we've had over a hundred years to work on it, and it's in the nice clean realm of mathematics, not messy reality. Hell, it took 357 years before someone came up with a valid proof for Fermat's Last Theorem.
Just because nobody's proven it doesn't mean it's impossible, even if someone's offered piles of money for an answer. I'm not claiming ghosts exist, but the OP is right: there's evidence of things going on that we don't understand. A lot of it's bunk for sure, but by no means all of it. Paranormal activity is vastly unpopular with the scientific community for very understandable reasons: it's generally the domain of the uneducated and nutbags for one, and it doesn't seem to be repeatable on command for another. Still, how do you think Randi's million will ever conceivably be won except through the study of paranormal claims? Or do you really think one of the nutbags is going to find the true nature of what's going on by accident?
Our sensory organs are not equipped to experience fundamental reality. <headfullofacid> That's because you're using sensory organs, man. You gotta use the...the fundamental reality, yeah like you said. The, existence like, to really experience reality. Organs ain't nothing but patterns in your pattern. You're an like organ in the universe-pattern, and you can't experience it unless you are it, you know? Like your heart had eyes, man, or your eyes a heart.
I gotta go, the cat is greening me sideways like he knows. </headfullofacid>
Hell, ask Washington himself! The British forces were pissed off at the Colonials because they didn't meet in the field, stand in lines, and fire at each other like you were supposed to in a "civilized war." They aimed for officers, which was bad form because it confused the men beneath them. They were called cowards for their actions, too.
This is not a defense of terrorism, though it may be one of guerilla warfare. We geeks should appreciate the sentiment: too scrawny to whup 'em? Outthink 'em instead.
One more thing about guerilla warfare - it's rarely if ever offensive. Every instance I've heard of is defending the country from foreign invaders. That should say something about how our forces in Iraq are perceived by the populace, and you'd think we'd rethink what we're doing there.
Maybe in another year, after the death count of young Americans climbs higher, we will.
In a much overlooked section of Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson postulated that the real key to making the Metaverse a place where things happen and where people want to interact with each other was the inclusion of facial expressions. I tend to agree with him - look at how emoticons are used on the web today; we've had articles about their usage bleeding into corporate culture to help people understand the intended subtext of a message. A bunch of avatars walking around with a fixed look on their faces makes for a boring virtual world and more miscommunication than communication. Facial expression replication (which does not necessarily include recognition, but I think it'll help immensely) will be needed before virtual worlds really take off for society at large.
I have never read I, Robot as I'm not a big fan of Asimov, but I had heard that the whole book was an illustration of how people were harmed through loopholes in the laws or in strange circumstances. Anyone care to shed some light on the topic for me?
Personally, I dislike how the 3 laws are trotted out and paraded any time there's a story even remotely involving death by robot. I have doubts that we could ever create an AI intelligent enough to adhere to the laws while retaining control enough over it to ensure that it followed them.
Bionic Commando tops my list as I'm sure it does for a lot of folks. The mechanics are so much fun to play with. Ninja 5-0, a GBA game, has some decent grappling but I find it a bit lacking in variety. I'm not sure a 3D remake would be any good, and that's the only way we're going to see it barring a Live Arcade or Virtual Console release.
I love Grim Fandango. I can't see much of a point in a remake though. The voice acting in the original is simply priceless; that and the world they built could carry the game even if the graphics were more outdated than they are.
Laws cannot be like that. Laws have to be constant, same for everyone, and not open to discussion or question. Bull. Shit.
The aim of laws is to maintain order and to promote justice. They are much better at the first than the second, which is why you'll see an abundance of them in a police state. Now, I might simply be an idealist, but my belief is that order can be maintained by providing justice, which is difficult enough that in America we have an entire branch of government (ideally) devoted to the task of ensuring that the application of the law is just in each and every case.
Laws cannot be constant because situations change constantly. Another poster brought up slavery, which was a good point. We are not at the pinnacle of society nor anywhere close to it on the whole. I am certain that we still have unjust laws that we aren't even aware of. Would you have us keep them simply because they're already on the books when it comes out that they are harming a segment of our society?
In most cases I agree that laws should be the same for everyone, but even here there are extenuating circumstances - what about the retarded man who accidentally killed someone in anger for repeatedly provoking him? Is prison with a murder rap the most just sentence? Justice is not always clear-cut or easy to find, and it is for that reason that our laws must be mutable and the application of them flexible to a degree.
* Supports corporate efforts to ship US jobs to China, because jobs are a finite and static resource and employment is a zero-sum competition? They certainly aren't; ask any economist. This point is just plain stupid. In addition, Paul has spoken in several interviews (and possibly debates) that the way to get corporations to bring jobs back home is not by governmental force, but by creating a desirable atmosphere for them. I don't recall what his thoughts are on what that atmosphere would look like, but his libertarian views should give you a rough idea. The question is then whether a good corporate atmosphere is mutually exclusive with a good individual atmosphere, which Paul seems to think is not the case.
Well, first thing's first. Here we're discussing Halo 3, which the astute reader may notice is not Halo 2. Nigel's Law says that Halo 3 is one better.
Second, have you played the game? I never got the chance to play the demo, and I haven't been able to play the full game yet either because the roomie's completely addicted and has parked his ass in front of my TV for the past 24 hours, but I've heard that most people who've played either one fell in love with this iteration of the series. My roomate is a case in point - he hated the first one, hated the second one even more, and loves this one enough to buy a 360 for it. It's a little more interesting graphically than the other two, and the gameplay looks pretty damn good to me - a good balance between speed and tactics, though probably a little heavier on the tactics.
Congrats on the Insightful mods. I disagree with your remarks concerning my prejudice, and will restate once again that I misread your comment, but I will give some thought to what you said of me. Now, since I'm the bad guy in this exchange according to the Mod Squad, and I did make a mistake in calling you out for something you didn't do, I'm going to shut up.
Right, because it's hard to pick out a black dude in a bunch of whities, especially when he's at lest 260.
Perhaps I overreacted, but that's the sort of appositive that serves to illustrate the passive form of racism found in whites (generally American). It's not conscious, nor is it particularly malignant, but it serves to keep some measure of "us versus them" in play. I'm not calling you a bigot; it's not like you were trashing him for being black. It's just that we have a long way to go before blacks (and other minorities, but mostly blacks due to our history) are regarded as "people" rather than "those people." My apologies for jumping down your throat; I could have been a bit more gracious. In recent months I've become much more aware of this sort of thing, and the fact that it's so widespread is depressing and angering, which leads me to take an aggressive stance when I encounter it.
If you watch the video, you'll hear one of the cops say (paraphrased) "If you continue to struggle, you will be tased," to which the kid replies, "Let me go and I'll walk out the door."
The problem is, he had already struggled against the officers for a minute or two. Once you start fighting the cops, you're going for a ride downtown. He missed his opportunity to peacefully leave the building.
I cannot say whether or not the taser was excessive force. I'm inclined to side with the police in this one, though. He was causing a disturbance and resisting officers' attempts to remove him. He was given fair warning that he'd be tased, and he continued to fight. What did he expect would happen?
In the case of the earlier poster raving about Evenescance - odds are that he only heard about them because they lucked out and got a song used in an iffy superhero movie. Actually, Evanescence had two hit singles given rather too much radio play that later appeared in an iffy superhero movie. Odds are greater that said poster heard them on the radio and has mistaken their radio-friendly mediocre album for something that it's not.
I like the responsiveness of the Advanced controls but had the same gripe with the lack of a null zone. I've taken to holding the Z button, which when no targets are present locks the view, any time I'm going in a straight line. It helps immensely and is very easy to get used to.
While this may astound yanks, the bottom of the screen has its uses for subtitles. Why would this surprise us? There's deaf people in the US too, y'know.;)
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It was found in "Mud Flaps, AZ" by one "Dr. Booble." Looks legitimate to me...
If the intervals weren't in common use, moving the key will not make a difference. An interval is a relative distance between two notes, and a key is the set of notes that you're using. If you move the key then you are moving the entire set of notes, so the relative distance between notes will not change.
It's like this:
len(a[ (intervalStart + key1) : (intervalEnd + key1) ]) == len(a[ (intervalStart + key2) : (intervalEnd + key2) ])
no text, really.
I see your point, but there are many who will argue that the payoff of the sound character that comes from a good analog setup is superior to that of a digital setup. I haven't listened to enough vinyl to make an informed opinion, but having experience with recording equipment it makes a sort of sense. There are microphones, usually old, that are prized for the characteristics with which they color the sounds they record: some prized for vocals, others percussion, still others for amps...In amps themselves, there's a huge diversity among the various tube or transistor models, and people look for specific kinds of distortion, however slight.
I'm not convinced that such variation should be limited to recording. There's bound to be some coloring of the sound due to the analog circuitry, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Different types of music will sound better on different types of manufacturers' equipment, just as speakers (which are all analog, I'm sure you know) slightly specialize today.
I do agree that degradation is an issue. If vinyl were to make a comeback in a big way, laser turntables would surely become more cost effective.
Good question. Why hasn't anyone won the Archon X-Prize for Genomics? Why hasn't the Riemann hypothesis been proven or disproven - we've had over a hundred years to work on it, and it's in the nice clean realm of mathematics, not messy reality. Hell, it took 357 years before someone came up with a valid proof for Fermat's Last Theorem.
Just because nobody's proven it doesn't mean it's impossible, even if someone's offered piles of money for an answer. I'm not claiming ghosts exist, but the OP is right: there's evidence of things going on that we don't understand. A lot of it's bunk for sure, but by no means all of it. Paranormal activity is vastly unpopular with the scientific community for very understandable reasons: it's generally the domain of the uneducated and nutbags for one, and it doesn't seem to be repeatable on command for another. Still, how do you think Randi's million will ever conceivably be won except through the study of paranormal claims? Or do you really think one of the nutbags is going to find the true nature of what's going on by accident?
That's because you're using sensory organs, man. You gotta use the...the fundamental reality, yeah like you said. The, existence like, to really experience reality. Organs ain't nothing but patterns in your pattern. You're an like organ in the universe-pattern, and you can't experience it unless you are it, you know? Like your heart had eyes, man, or your eyes a heart.
I gotta go, the cat is greening me sideways like he knows.
</headfullofacid>
Hell, ask Washington himself! The British forces were pissed off at the Colonials because they didn't meet in the field, stand in lines, and fire at each other like you were supposed to in a "civilized war." They aimed for officers, which was bad form because it confused the men beneath them. They were called cowards for their actions, too.
This is not a defense of terrorism, though it may be one of guerilla warfare. We geeks should appreciate the sentiment: too scrawny to whup 'em? Outthink 'em instead.
One more thing about guerilla warfare - it's rarely if ever offensive. Every instance I've heard of is defending the country from foreign invaders. That should say something about how our forces in Iraq are perceived by the populace, and you'd think we'd rethink what we're doing there.
Maybe in another year, after the death count of young Americans climbs higher, we will.
In a much overlooked section of Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson postulated that the real key to making the Metaverse a place where things happen and where people want to interact with each other was the inclusion of facial expressions. I tend to agree with him - look at how emoticons are used on the web today; we've had articles about their usage bleeding into corporate culture to help people understand the intended subtext of a message. A bunch of avatars walking around with a fixed look on their faces makes for a boring virtual world and more miscommunication than communication. Facial expression replication (which does not necessarily include recognition, but I think it'll help immensely) will be needed before virtual worlds really take off for society at large.
I have never read I, Robot as I'm not a big fan of Asimov, but I had heard that the whole book was an illustration of how people were harmed through loopholes in the laws or in strange circumstances. Anyone care to shed some light on the topic for me?
Personally, I dislike how the 3 laws are trotted out and paraded any time there's a story even remotely involving death by robot. I have doubts that we could ever create an AI intelligent enough to adhere to the laws while retaining control enough over it to ensure that it followed them.
4) Donkey Kong is just as hard with a bionic arm.
Bionic Commando tops my list as I'm sure it does for a lot of folks. The mechanics are so much fun to play with. Ninja 5-0, a GBA game, has some decent grappling but I find it a bit lacking in variety. I'm not sure a 3D remake would be any good, and that's the only way we're going to see it barring a Live Arcade or Virtual Console release.
I love Grim Fandango. I can't see much of a point in a remake though. The voice acting in the original is simply priceless; that and the world they built could carry the game even if the graphics were more outdated than they are.
A guitar going out of tune is certainly deterministic. It's just more complex than a linear function of time...
The aim of laws is to maintain order and to promote justice. They are much better at the first than the second, which is why you'll see an abundance of them in a police state. Now, I might simply be an idealist, but my belief is that order can be maintained by providing justice, which is difficult enough that in America we have an entire branch of government (ideally) devoted to the task of ensuring that the application of the law is just in each and every case.
Laws cannot be constant because situations change constantly. Another poster brought up slavery, which was a good point. We are not at the pinnacle of society nor anywhere close to it on the whole. I am certain that we still have unjust laws that we aren't even aware of. Would you have us keep them simply because they're already on the books when it comes out that they are harming a segment of our society?
In most cases I agree that laws should be the same for everyone, but even here there are extenuating circumstances - what about the retarded man who accidentally killed someone in anger for repeatedly provoking him? Is prison with a murder rap the most just sentence? Justice is not always clear-cut or easy to find, and it is for that reason that our laws must be mutable and the application of them flexible to a degree.
Well, first thing's first. Here we're discussing Halo 3, which the astute reader may notice is not Halo 2. Nigel's Law says that Halo 3 is one better.
Second, have you played the game? I never got the chance to play the demo, and I haven't been able to play the full game yet either because the roomie's completely addicted and has parked his ass in front of my TV for the past 24 hours, but I've heard that most people who've played either one fell in love with this iteration of the series. My roomate is a case in point - he hated the first one, hated the second one even more, and loves this one enough to buy a 360 for it. It's a little more interesting graphically than the other two, and the gameplay looks pretty damn good to me - a good balance between speed and tactics, though probably a little heavier on the tactics.
But there's still no information on how to use a "no-spill" gas can without spilling gas =(
...I want my time back.
Congrats on the Insightful mods. I disagree with your remarks concerning my prejudice, and will restate once again that I misread your comment, but I will give some thought to what you said of me. Now, since I'm the bad guy in this exchange according to the Mod Squad, and I did make a mistake in calling you out for something you didn't do, I'm going to shut up.
Right, because it's hard to pick out a black dude in a bunch of whities, especially when he's at lest 260.
Perhaps I overreacted, but that's the sort of appositive that serves to illustrate the passive form of racism found in whites (generally American). It's not conscious, nor is it particularly malignant, but it serves to keep some measure of "us versus them" in play. I'm not calling you a bigot; it's not like you were trashing him for being black. It's just that we have a long way to go before blacks (and other minorities, but mostly blacks due to our history) are regarded as "people" rather than "those people." My apologies for jumping down your throat; I could have been a bit more gracious. In recent months I've become much more aware of this sort of thing, and the fact that it's so widespread is depressing and angering, which leads me to take an aggressive stance when I encounter it.
If you watch the video, you'll hear one of the cops say (paraphrased) "If you continue to struggle, you will be tased," to which the kid replies, "Let me go and I'll walk out the door."
The problem is, he had already struggled against the officers for a minute or two. Once you start fighting the cops, you're going for a ride downtown. He missed his opportunity to peacefully leave the building.
I cannot say whether or not the taser was excessive force. I'm inclined to side with the police in this one, though. He was causing a disturbance and resisting officers' attempts to remove him. He was given fair warning that he'd be tased, and he continued to fight. What did he expect would happen?
What the fuck does his being black have to do with anything?
I like the responsiveness of the Advanced controls but had the same gripe with the lack of a null zone. I've taken to holding the Z button, which when no targets are present locks the view, any time I'm going in a straight line. It helps immensely and is very easy to get used to.