It's a question of hiarchy: there are components in your system that you just do not want to go cheap on. I've yet to buy a non Asus/Abit mother board.
Buying cheap drives? cheap mice, cheap monitors? that's fine. the failure will not potentially destroy the rest of my system.
Hah. Yes.
I personally think the price of air tightening these things is beyond anyone's imagination... we're talking about *tons* (litterally) of rubber joints for airtightning...
Also imagine an air leak into the system: capsules will start slowing down, and eventually grind to a halt in the middle of a 3 mile stretch of 2 foot wide tube. Then what?
In current world implementations, Maglev trains use electromagnets to *push* the train to compensate for (air) friction.
But as you may have seen in science programs on TV, if you put a piece of superconducting metal on top of a magnet (not electromagnet), it'll just float. There's no energy loss.
As for the air thing, yes: we need it. Yes, it's dangerous. But then again, if danger was something to turn back entrepreneurial spirits, we'd never have amusement parks. Roller coasters are a brilliant example of how lawsuits can drive engineers to perfection.
In the end, I wouldn't be surprised if it had a comparable safety record as the air travel industry... ie. much higher than automotive travel.
You wonder who came up with the idea... "Hey, I'll sell you 200k worth of dark teak desks... it'll make you revenue, I promise"
Fucking assholes. I have no more sympathy left for any of the dot-com ass holes. They are the reason the economy is on it's knees right now... and some people still manage to find pride in it.
You know, the world isn't as black and white as people make it either: for example I'm a big fan of COM, because believe it or not, it came from the same place CORBA did (via TPC etc), so I'm a big Moft fan because of that. But seeing.NET invade the windows world makes me sad...
The evil is trends... companies are just a conduit for that evil, not the actual source. People - business people just want trendy buzz words to sell. The concept of product maturity means nothing to these people... if anything, it has a negative connotation (ie. archaic).
Ok, let me define 'we' and what I mean: first of all, I will not generalize to make a rule. I myself studied a lot of math for a while, and am very much in love with it.
I have found that if something sounds good, and someone shows me how very mathematical it is, I am truly amazed. I am amazed though, more than anything else, at how certain mathematical principles are embedded within us... and how there's such a fine balance in the human brain (or lack thereof sometimes, as in autistic kids who 'stim' themselves... I digress). That discovery of how our selves are actually in certain ways predictable and analyzable inspires awe in me.
The 'we' I'm talking about is this general tendency - and again, I don't want to generalize, so rather: attempts in this day and age to generate art using computers, techonology, math, whatever...
Now if you are generating this music to test your theories, the fruits of those years of mathematical analysis, more power to you. But if the end is to have a formula that creates pleasing music, I think the idea is flawed.
To abstract it further one step, (and I hate to sound like Darth Vader but), I think 'we' as humans might be starting to trust in our technology (in the original sense: ie knowledge of techniques) much more than we should.
Anyways, I could ramble on for hours, it's saturday night, and I'm tired mentally. This all is IMHO. And just to make it clear, I'm not dismissing *anyone's* efforts.
Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking. The musical system is, as it is, very heavily mathematical (resonance and harmonics etc)...
We are looking at this from the wrong way around, people should be looking for incredible mathematical leit-motives and patterns in already existing music such as Mozart or whatever...
All of these attempts to show that math is beautiful (or just attempts to make math an auditory experience) seem kind of ridiculous to me... kind of like if someone tried to make paintings using the vertex rendering methods used in Quake 1... sure it's a noble idea, but the hill to climb is in the other direction: to make vertex renderings that look like Van Gogh.
As for the music I heard on that page. It's 'curious'... nothing more. If you really want odd sounding yet beautiful harmonics, listen to some Joe Zawinul on piano...
Here's a person making an initative towards something. He's doing the work to determine whether there is need, or isn't (and I'm sure the UN will help him too).
He didn't ask us if we thought he was right, he asked if he thought we would contribute.
To answer his question though: I personally find that the state of the economy is quite dismal. And I personally have just come out of a couple of years of programming dark age (with 60 hour weeks etc -- which sadly I worked for way below what should have been paid, like many others I suppose). So these days, any spare time I have, I try to live it fully.
I don't know about others/., but many of my friends in the software industry are doing the same. It's like a mass scale of "Office Space" syndrome going on.
So to answer you: no, I probably wouldn't.
Indeed. And given that this rock is moving ever so slightly faster than the earth, it must be in an ever so slightly tighter orbit around the sun....apparently enough to dodge the earth.
The combinatorics behind chess, ie the number of distinct games is so high it would make a 128 bit UUID blush... and UUIDs are unique in time and space...
I wouldn't hold my breath for the "guaranteed tie" level of gameplay to come any time soon...
But Uzi Nissan, whose family name is also the name of a month in Hebrew and Arabic[...]
"We've always seen this case as protecting the Nissan brand and not about money," he said. "What we are saying is the word Nissan by itself is our registered trademark and we're the only ones with the right to use the name Nissan by itself."
This is exactly in the vein of what is going on in the software industry right now... people fire up visual studio, run a wizard, and generate a windows application... and three months later declare themselves programmers.
Although your argument is quite valid, it's also quite generalizing. I personally, having read the articles and followed with the brief, didn't get any impression of being on top of things... the only things that were cleared up were, as the document states, the syntax of the document... what words stand for... It states right at the beginning:
Legal is filled with bizzare keywords, strange syntax, and hideous redundancy
Quite analogously, just because you know how to declare a class, and derive it from a base class doesn't make you an object oriented programmer...
The point of the article, as it states itself:
One of the major goals of this walkthrough is to give you a better sense of when to skim and when to focus.
is not to teach how to write a program, but to teach how to somewhat read a program.
It's basically telling a completely computer illeterate person that, "really, you shouldn't start reading the code from _crtmain(), but rather from main()... and that really, when you're stepping through code, you don't need to actually see what's going on in a string class' copy constructor".
I personally found this article excellent, very well written, humorous, and very humble. It gives very few opinions about the actual case(only two IIRC).
This type of article is dangerous in the hands of careless people. As much as (and I hate to be saying this) a gun is as dangerous as the person carrying it.
So don't be fucking anal about it, don't go tearing it down just because you know 80% of the world population is lazy, and at times stupid, and will probably misuse this information.
To understand why legalese is so incomprehensible, think about it as the programming language Legal. It may have been clean and simple once, but that was before it suffered from a thousand years of feature creep and cut-and-paste coding. Sure, Legal is filled with bizzare keywords, strange syntax, and hideous redundancy, but what large piece of software isn't? Underneath the layers of cruft, serious work is taking place.
Don't get your hopes up. Have you ever had a conversation with a robot on a chat channel? Takes a while to recognize. I don't think a "are you legit? yes I am" message can be distinguishing enough.
Automating this kind of negotiation will be easy as hell.
There's art, and there's "boyz bandz". Artists aren't out there to make money, and don't be fooled... they wouldn't be making making money no matter how much we bought their CDs.
Sony Music and the like are gigantic tanks that have taken the strategic mound on a battle field, and are just laziely firing away.
They don't produce anything really, so how come they're making most of the money? People don't go out and buy Afro Jazz CDs because they saw this killer add campaign. They go because they know it exists. Making CDs cost a penny or less per CD. Selling that for $25... hmmm.
The only place I will tolerate such a f*cked up order is when the 'artists' concerned are pop record labels that are actual fabrications of big teams of 'trend analysts'. The people who buy that junk food for the ears deserve to get ripped off.
But when it comes to buying a CD of Yo Yo Ma, don't you go telling me mister that any substantial part of that $40 CD goes to him, OR that Sony does any kind of work to help Yo Yo Ma create music that would justifiy its overinflating the price by %4000.
Fach...
PS. Numbers in this post might be exagerated due to my opinions on the topic. =)
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HA hah...
Find Waldo among 100.000 other people...
Umm... hmmm... I mean Frodo.
It's a question of hiarchy: there are components in your system that you just do not want to go cheap on. I've yet to buy a non Asus/Abit mother board.
Buying cheap drives? cheap mice, cheap monitors? that's fine. the failure will not potentially destroy the rest of my system.
But root components, you can't go cheap on.
no imagining needed: Beowulf...
There is nothing more dangerous than irrational hatred, and having an unchanging bias against microsoft is a sure sign of going down that road.
I personally run both linux and win2k, and I love them both. The important part is to *see* with eyes unclouded (to quote mononoke).
'Our types' wrote the games... it's not like we're dealing with congressmen here.
Besides, the leak is just a leak, nobody is going to *not* buy the game because they have found their copy of an unstable 5 FPS build...
if anything, they'll redownload the warez version of the Beta... at which point they really will hurt the game.
But let's face it, right now, this leak is only going to spin the gossip mill... that's it.
Btw, if anyone is stupid enough to go buy a new card based on a leaked version of a game... ahh.. sigh. whatever.
Hah. Yes.
I personally think the price of air tightening these things is beyond anyone's imagination... we're talking about *tons* (litterally) of rubber joints for airtightning...
Also imagine an air leak into the system: capsules will start slowing down, and eventually grind to a halt in the middle of a 3 mile stretch of 2 foot wide tube. Then what?
In current world implementations, Maglev trains use electromagnets to *push* the train to compensate for (air) friction.
But as you may have seen in science programs on TV, if you put a piece of superconducting metal on top of a magnet (not electromagnet), it'll just float. There's no energy loss.
As for the air thing, yes: we need it. Yes, it's dangerous. But then again, if danger was something to turn back entrepreneurial spirits, we'd never have amusement parks. Roller coasters are a brilliant example of how lawsuits can drive engineers to perfection.
In the end, I wouldn't be surprised if it had a comparable safety record as the air travel industry... ie. much higher than automotive travel.
FAAAAACK. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!! <bangs head on desk>
You wonder who came up with the idea... "Hey, I'll sell you 200k worth of dark teak desks... it'll make you revenue, I promise"
Fucking assholes. I have no more sympathy left for any of the dot-com ass holes. They are the reason the economy is on it's knees right now... and some people still manage to find pride in it.
FUCKERS.
You know, the world isn't as black and white as people make it either: for example I'm a big fan of COM, because believe it or not, it came from the same place CORBA did (via TPC etc), so I'm a big Moft fan because of that. But seeing .NET invade the windows world makes me sad...
The evil is trends... companies are just a conduit for that evil, not the actual source. People - business people just want trendy buzz words to sell. The concept of product maturity means nothing to these people... if anything, it has a negative connotation (ie. archaic).
Hah ha...
so liquify them and also provide with 20 glasses full of the liquid soldier, that medics would have to carry home without spilling.
I can just picture the battlefields with soldiers running back from the line looking at their glasses of water...
thermite? nuclear? chemical?
energy is more abundant than you think.
Battery Life: 2 hours remaining
Blade Life: 28 yards of cutting remaining
hair thickness: .492mm
Keratin density: 28%
Minerals - Iron: 4 ppcc
Warning! Mr. Smith, we recommend you take some iron suplements.
Imagine you combine this with the 3D display technology. Presto, all of a sudden your house would be a holodeck (minus the tactile feedback).
DROOOooooooooooool.
Ahh. nice. Someone who's done research on this...
Ok, let me define 'we' and what I mean: first of all, I will not generalize to make a rule. I myself studied a lot of math for a while, and am very much in love with it.
I have found that if something sounds good, and someone shows me how very mathematical it is, I am truly amazed. I am amazed though, more than anything else, at how certain mathematical principles are embedded within us... and how there's such a fine balance in the human brain (or lack thereof sometimes, as in autistic kids who 'stim' themselves... I digress). That discovery of how our selves are actually in certain ways predictable and analyzable inspires awe in me.
The 'we' I'm talking about is this general tendency - and again, I don't want to generalize, so rather: attempts in this day and age to generate art using computers, techonology, math, whatever...
Now if you are generating this music to test your theories, the fruits of those years of mathematical analysis, more power to you. But if the end is to have a formula that creates pleasing music, I think the idea is flawed.
To abstract it further one step, (and I hate to sound like Darth Vader but), I think 'we' as humans might be starting to trust in our technology (in the original sense: ie knowledge of techniques) much more than we should.
Anyways, I could ramble on for hours, it's saturday night, and I'm tired mentally. This all is IMHO. And just to make it clear, I'm not dismissing *anyone's* efforts.
Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking. The musical system is, as it is, very heavily mathematical (resonance and harmonics etc)...
We are looking at this from the wrong way around, people should be looking for incredible mathematical leit-motives and patterns in already existing music such as Mozart or whatever...
All of these attempts to show that math is beautiful (or just attempts to make math an auditory experience) seem kind of ridiculous to me... kind of like if someone tried to make paintings using the vertex rendering methods used in Quake 1... sure it's a noble idea, but the hill to climb is in the other direction: to make vertex renderings that look like Van Gogh.
As for the music I heard on that page. It's 'curious'... nothing more. If you really want odd sounding yet beautiful harmonics, listen to some Joe Zawinul on piano...
sigh. all this, in IMHO (tm).
Here's a person making an initative towards something. He's doing the work to determine whether there is need, or isn't (and I'm sure the UN will help him too).
/., but many of my friends in the software industry are doing the same. It's like a mass scale of "Office Space" syndrome going on.
He didn't ask us if we thought he was right, he asked if he thought we would contribute.
To answer his question though: I personally find that the state of the economy is quite dismal. And I personally have just come out of a couple of years of programming dark age (with 60 hour weeks etc -- which sadly I worked for way below what should have been paid, like many others I suppose). So these days, any spare time I have, I try to live it fully.
I don't know about others
So to answer you: no, I probably wouldn't.
That's just MHO.
Indeed. And given that this rock is moving ever so slightly faster than the earth, it must be in an ever so slightly tighter orbit around the sun. ...apparently enough to dodge the earth.
I have to admit I take a certain joy in seeing that a whole book on fields is a mere 3 Meg download.
The combinatorics behind chess, ie the number of distinct games is so high it would make a 128 bit UUID blush... and UUIDs are unique in time and space...
I wouldn't hold my breath for the "guaranteed tie" level of gameplay to come any time soon...
But Uzi Nissan, whose family name is also the name of a month in Hebrew and Arabic[...]
"We've always seen this case as protecting the Nissan brand and not about money," he said. "What we are saying is the word Nissan by itself is our registered trademark and we're the only ones with the right to use the name Nissan by itself."
Although your argument is quite valid, it's also quite generalizing. I personally, having read the articles and followed with the brief, didn't get any impression of being on top of things... the only things that were cleared up were, as the document states, the syntax of the document... what words stand for... It states right at the beginning:
Legal is filled with bizzare keywords, strange syntax, and hideous redundancy
Quite analogously, just because you know how to declare a class, and derive it from a base class doesn't make you an object oriented programmer...
The point of the article, as it states itself:
One of the major goals of this walkthrough is to give you a better sense of when to skim and when to focus.
is not to teach how to write a program, but to teach how to somewhat read a program.
It's basically telling a completely computer illeterate person that, "really, you shouldn't start reading the code from _crtmain(), but rather from main()... and that really, when you're stepping through code, you don't need to actually see what's going on in a string class' copy constructor".
I personally found this article excellent, very well written, humorous, and very humble. It gives very few opinions about the actual case(only two IIRC).
This type of article is dangerous in the hands of careless people. As much as (and I hate to be saying this) a gun is as dangerous as the person carrying it.
So don't be fucking anal about it, don't go tearing it down just because you know 80% of the world population is lazy, and at times stupid, and will probably misuse this information.
To understand why legalese is so incomprehensible, think about it as the programming language Legal. It may have been clean and simple once, but that was before it suffered from a thousand years of feature creep and cut-and-paste coding. Sure, Legal is filled with bizzare keywords, strange syntax, and hideous redundancy, but what large piece of software isn't? Underneath the layers of cruft, serious work is taking place.
Don't get your hopes up. Have you ever had a conversation with a robot on a chat channel? Takes a while to recognize. I don't think a "are you legit? yes I am" message can be distinguishing enough.
Automating this kind of negotiation will be easy as hell.
There's art, and there's "boyz bandz". Artists aren't out there to make money, and don't be fooled... they wouldn't be making making money no matter how much we bought their CDs.
Sony Music and the like are gigantic tanks that have taken the strategic mound on a battle field, and are just laziely firing away.
They don't produce anything really, so how come they're making most of the money? People don't go out and buy Afro Jazz CDs because they saw this killer add campaign. They go because they know it exists. Making CDs cost a penny or less per CD. Selling that for $25... hmmm.
The only place I will tolerate such a f*cked up order is when the 'artists' concerned are pop record labels that are actual fabrications of big teams of 'trend analysts'. The people who buy that junk food for the ears deserve to get ripped off.
But when it comes to buying a CD of Yo Yo Ma, don't you go telling me mister that any substantial part of that $40 CD goes to him, OR that Sony does any kind of work to help Yo Yo Ma create music that would justifiy its overinflating the price by %4000.
Fach...
PS. Numbers in this post might be exagerated due to my opinions on the topic. =)