I filled one of my houses with sound simply by using a 500 watt P.A. system with some 15", 12", horn, speakers purchased at a flea market for around $500. Another house I put the same P.A. in the basement, eq'd it for low end and split the signal to my home stereo upstairs. Basement as a sub. Neighbors will love ya. Bathe in sound.
Put the system outside under a small rain shelter. Then you just need to open a window when you want to hear it.
I was a subject in a psych experiment about 10 years ago. After I took part I found out that the object was to determine the effect of visual clues on consonant sounds. The 2nd part of the experiment I watched against white noise what I thought was someone saying ba, da, bga, bda, etc.. Turns out it was simply the lips that were going the different sounds and the sounds were all apparently identical - that white noise made me feel very ill.
Anyway, the importance of visual clues shouldn't be ignored.
I still occasionally slip up with th and f sounds which I didn't naturally distinguish when I was learning as a child (before about 10 years old when it was pointed out to me). Now with my eldest lad (4) I'm encouraging him to watch and mimic not only the sounds people make but also their lip and mouth shapes as well as giving cues as to how to hold his tongue to make the correct sounds - also games around clicking his tongue and silly aerated rhymes "thronging thrush thrusted through the threadbare trees" or whatever comes to mind. Seems to be helping.
I'm guessing this would require active refrigeration unless they're in a colder climate?
You just put a roof over it and collect whatever condenses. But unless you have a lot of surface area, the water you collect will be negligble in comparison to the main distillation process.
I've heard of no councils that have reduced bin collection to every 2 weeks - only certain 'luxury pickups' like garden waste (leaves, hedge trimmings etc.) and certain recycling pickups; so definite citation needed here
Credibility fail. Literally five seconds with Google would show you that this practice has become commonplace across the UK in recent years, usually against public opinion. The details of which recycling is collected vary by local council, but reducing general rubbish collections to biweekly is almost always involved.
This does make things somewhat unpleasant in terms of smells and pests at certain times of year. IME, the worse problem is that it means if a council miss your collection one week, you wind up with an entire month of rubbish to go in the (typically small) bin, which just doesn't fit.
We have bi-weekly collections of waste alternating between compostable and landfill. We have recycling collections weekly. If your waste doesn't fit in your bin then reduce your waste. Shut the lid on the bin, compost food waste, voilà no bad smells.
I've always thought people that devoted to animals to be psychologically deficient in some way - to me it's liking choosing porn in preference to an actual sexual relationship. Weird.
Of course many pet owners appear to have a partner relationship with their pets. Kissing animals that have just been sniffing at shit and licking their own anuses; I will never understand that.
Oh, and going to bars to drink. Seriously. What a waste of resources.
I actually doubt that's true. If you are going to have a [alcoholic] drink anyway that is. There are lots of provisos and conditions of course. But, rather than every home having a distillery and all the requisite resources it has got to be better for one place to brew/distill the drinks and store them, yes? Economies of scale do work IMO.
So we shouldn't try and save resources because you personally haven't the self control not to go out and waste resources elsewhere? Couldn't you read a library book, do some gardening, organise some local fruit harvesting or something instead - it's not obligatory to drive your car around when you've some spare time.
Look, it's pretty obvious that you have NEVER cooked anything. If you're cooking YOU'RE IN THE DAMNED KITCHEN!
Cookers have had simple timers for a long time. Sometimes when you've set the timer to cook the food and you're out of the house you get delayed... why not login to the home network and bump back the cooking start-time a little so it's still hot when you get in?
It rather sounds like they haven't bothered to find out though - I'd expect him to know a ball-park figure for what portion of his business relies on Linux, how do they know how much to spend on Linux drivers and promotion otherwise?
Canonical, as one of the largest Linux suppliers probably have an idea especially with popularity-contest of how many users are using Nvidia drivers, that would at least give you an idea of the approx userbase. I can't imagine that such a calculation would give a figure 0.5%?!
The topic of this subthread was not the obvious public nature of petitions but that an attempt to stand privately in support of a particular political position is like being a member of the KKK according to plasmacutter.
And if you just shrugged and signed because your neighbor, coworker or fellow church goer asked you too without actually believing it, that's chicken shit too.
Amen to that.
Yeah those anti-democratic bastards asking for a public vote, how dare they. Oh wait...
Most laws take away the rights of people. Road laws take away your right to drive high speed through the center of a town, for example. Drug laws take away your right to sell heroin on the street corner, etc..
If people are shamed by having signed the petition then they shouldn't have signed it. The people who are shamed aren't listening to their little voice.
If they are not ashamed to have signed it then what's the problem?
I think the problem is intimidation by bigots, ie people who will not allow other people their own views. There is a difference between shame and fear.
their efforts to conceal their signatures are no different than the white hoods the KKK used to wear.
I thought the US had a notion of voting according to ones conscience and not according to the pressure put on one by threats of violence and intimidation. I didn't realise that all public elections were published - where can I look up how you voted in the last election campaign?
They want marriage specifically for the legal protections that straight people already have: so they can force employers to provide health insurance, get estate rights when their partners die, tax breaks, etc.
There, fixed that for you.
Is there something so horrible about people wanting equal treatment under the law?
When homosexual partnerships are legally recognised and offer the same protections then it seems homosexuals still want to be "married" rather than have their "civil union". It's as much about forcing social acceptance as anything else in such places. Marriage is a social construct which has almost universally been considered a benefit to society - same sex unions not so much (not that they haven't in certain contexts, consider say the Sacred Band of Thebes, but often greek same-sex unions it seems were short lived and at the right age [heterosexual] marriage was the norm).
Personally in financial considerations before the state (in the UK) being married has always been detrimental, in that if ones partner has any means of their own they are weighed against any support from the state one might receive.
Informative? You see in Christianity there's this thing called the New Covenant, the clue is right there in the name Christianity - followers or imitators of Christ as opposed to followers of the Judaic law.
Also the Sabbath is Saturday if you're going to be Mosaic about it.
Jesus went out of his way to do things that the legalistic religious authorities (pharisees) would consider "work" to show that whilst we should keep a day of remembrance to God we should not be stupid about it. Mark 3; Luke 13, 14; John 7.
In Christianity it is not by pharisaical obedience to the law that one is reconciled with God but through grace in Jesus and by the Holy Spirit.
There are no specific New Testament statements requiring the sabbath in order to be a Christian. Then are those who take part in idolatry, say, or adultery or homosexual activities free from the precepts of the Old Testament? Well yes, and you might consider they were no longer bound up in those activities if it weren't that these are things that are explicitly stated as keeping one separated from God and things that one should repent over (1 Cor 6, 10; Col 3; etc.).
The Catholic church at one point declared so. Juliete (of Romeo and Juliete fame) was only 12... and if I recall there was some reason Muhammed married that girl: so establishing conjugation at 9 would be difficult at best.
Aisha was married to Muhammed at 6 years (betrothed I guess) as he apparently had his eye on her despite her being promised to someone else in a standard family-unification type marriage. The marriage was consummated at 9 - at least according to the hadith. If one assumes Aisha developed very early, and so was not pre-pubescent, then even practicising coitus interruptus (as they did, M told his warriors they didn't have to bother when raping captives) it would have been extremely dangerous had she got pregnant. Either way I don't think this was normal practice at the time.
Even if the guy wins the case and can sell the discs (and even the license), unless the judge makes it expressly illegal for Autodesk to withhold an activation key from the second owner, they'll likely take that route to ensure the same end result.
Which is itself a circumvention of copyright. It's been sort-of mentioned elsewhere but copyright is a contract between the state (representing the people) and the creator of the work - the contract is for a [supposedly] limited monopoly in exchange for the ultimate release of the work into the public domain (PD).
If companies are using DRM and other technological methods that will prevent the work from becoming PD then they aren't living up to their side of the copyright contract. They should be allowed either copyright or technological means.
A previous post mentions a third way in which a PD-ready version is vested with a third party until the copyright expires or some limitation is placed on fair use rights that needs to be circumvented. This seems a reasonable method except the details, such as ensuring a working copy is available, will be difficult to work out.
We have a great used book store locally - the thing is it seems to have stopped getting newer stock, it still gets plenty of older books but newer stock doesn't appear to be there - it used to be that when a book had slipped from the bestseller lists that the excess of the print runs would be found in such book stores. Now, I speculate, the books are instead simply pulped if they can't be sold as full price copies?
As I recall, there is a fixed penalty in the DMCA for sending takedown notices that you know to be illegitimate. This is usually difficult to prove, but given that they have already lost a lawsuit on the exact same issue it should be relatively easy in this case.
It'll be something along the lines of "but I didn't know that the legal department sent out those missives" from the CEO and the poor lawyer who sent them will get sacked (though magically appear to suddenly have a huge pension out of nowhere).
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I mean, it'd basically be a packet-switched network, but with cars instead of pieces of data.
Hey! Here on /. we use car analogies to explain computer technology - not vice-versa!!
In Soviet Slashdot ... oh never mind. Where are my hot grits, Natalie?
I filled one of my houses with sound simply by using a 500 watt P.A. system with some 15", 12", horn, speakers purchased at a flea market for around $500.
Another house I put the same P.A. in the basement, eq'd it for low end and split the signal to my home stereo upstairs. Basement as a sub.
Neighbors will love ya. Bathe in sound.
Put the system outside under a small rain shelter. Then you just need to open a window when you want to hear it.
I was a subject in a psych experiment about 10 years ago. After I took part I found out that the object was to determine the effect of visual clues on consonant sounds. The 2nd part of the experiment I watched against white noise what I thought was someone saying ba, da, bga, bda, etc.. Turns out it was simply the lips that were going the different sounds and the sounds were all apparently identical - that white noise made me feel very ill.
Anyway, the importance of visual clues shouldn't be ignored.
I still occasionally slip up with th and f sounds which I didn't naturally distinguish when I was learning as a child (before about 10 years old when it was pointed out to me). Now with my eldest lad (4) I'm encouraging him to watch and mimic not only the sounds people make but also their lip and mouth shapes as well as giving cues as to how to hold his tongue to make the correct sounds - also games around clicking his tongue and silly aerated rhymes "thronging thrush thrusted through the threadbare trees" or whatever comes to mind. Seems to be helping.
I'm guessing this would require active refrigeration unless they're in a colder climate?
You just put a roof over it and collect whatever condenses.
But unless you have a lot of surface area, the water you collect will be negligble in comparison to the main distillation process.
One fractal green house coming up ...
I've heard of no councils that have reduced bin collection to every 2 weeks - only certain 'luxury pickups' like garden waste (leaves, hedge trimmings etc.) and certain recycling pickups; so definite citation needed here
Credibility fail. Literally five seconds with Google would show you that this practice has become commonplace across the UK in recent years, usually against public opinion. The details of which recycling is collected vary by local council, but reducing general rubbish collections to biweekly is almost always involved.
This does make things somewhat unpleasant in terms of smells and pests at certain times of year. IME, the worse problem is that it means if a council miss your collection one week, you wind up with an entire month of rubbish to go in the (typically small) bin, which just doesn't fit.
We have bi-weekly collections of waste alternating between compostable and landfill. We have recycling collections weekly. If your waste doesn't fit in your bin then reduce your waste. Shut the lid on the bin, compost food waste, voilà no bad smells.
So you have a bird in a large cage. Longevity does not equal happiness.
I've always thought people that devoted to animals to be psychologically deficient in some way - to me it's liking choosing porn in preference to an actual sexual relationship. Weird.
Of course many pet owners appear to have a partner relationship with their pets. Kissing animals that have just been sniffing at shit and licking their own anuses; I will never understand that.
Oh, and going to bars to drink. Seriously. What a waste of resources.
I actually doubt that's true. If you are going to have a [alcoholic] drink anyway that is. There are lots of provisos and conditions of course. But, rather than every home having a distillery and all the requisite resources it has got to be better for one place to brew/distill the drinks and store them, yes? Economies of scale do work IMO.
So we shouldn't try and save resources because you personally haven't the self control not to go out and waste resources elsewhere? Couldn't you read a library book, do some gardening, organise some local fruit harvesting or something instead - it's not obligatory to drive your car around when you've some spare time.
Look, it's pretty obvious that you have NEVER cooked anything. If you're cooking YOU'RE IN THE DAMNED KITCHEN!
Cookers have had simple timers for a long time. Sometimes when you've set the timer to cook the food and you're out of the house you get delayed ... why not login to the home network and bump back the cooking start-time a little so it's still hot when you get in?
Yes, but I don't want Whitehouse.gov doing that. Allowing feedback on the high profile website is STUPID and ignorant.
Apparently, allowing feedback attracts the stupid and ignorant.
Here's some feedback for yah, ... oh wait?!?
Don't forget Lactating Lycanthrope !
It rather sounds like they haven't bothered to find out though - I'd expect him to know a ball-park figure for what portion of his business relies on Linux, how do they know how much to spend on Linux drivers and promotion otherwise?
Canonical, as one of the largest Linux suppliers probably have an idea especially with popularity-contest of how many users are using Nvidia drivers, that would at least give you an idea of the approx userbase. I can't imagine that such a calculation would give a figure 0.5%?!
The topic of this subthread was not the obvious public nature of petitions but that an attempt to stand privately in support of a particular political position is like being a member of the KKK according to plasmacutter.
And if you just shrugged and signed because your neighbor, coworker or fellow church goer asked you too without actually believing it, that's chicken shit too.
Amen to that.
Yeah those anti-democratic bastards asking for a public vote, how dare they. Oh wait ...
Most laws take away the rights of people. Road laws take away your right to drive high speed through the center of a town, for example. Drug laws take away your right to sell heroin on the street corner, etc..
If people are shamed by having signed the petition then they shouldn't have signed it. The people who are shamed aren't listening to their little voice.
If they are not ashamed to have signed it then what's the problem?
I think the problem is intimidation by bigots, ie people who will not allow other people their own views. There is a difference between shame and fear.
their efforts to conceal their signatures are no different than the white hoods the KKK used to wear.
I thought the US had a notion of voting according to ones conscience and not according to the pressure put on one by threats of violence and intimidation. I didn't realise that all public elections were published - where can I look up how you voted in the last election campaign?
So basically "unprovoked violence is legitimate if it supports my ends"?
I find that rather uncivilised.
They want marriage specifically for the legal protections that straight people already have: so they can force employers to provide health insurance, get estate rights when their partners die, tax breaks, etc.
There, fixed that for you.
Is there something so horrible about people wanting equal treatment under the law?
When homosexual partnerships are legally recognised and offer the same protections then it seems homosexuals still want to be "married" rather than have their "civil union". It's as much about forcing social acceptance as anything else in such places. Marriage is a social construct which has almost universally been considered a benefit to society - same sex unions not so much (not that they haven't in certain contexts, consider say the Sacred Band of Thebes, but often greek same-sex unions it seems were short lived and at the right age [heterosexual] marriage was the norm).
Personally in financial considerations before the state (in the UK) being married has always been detrimental, in that if ones partner has any means of their own they are weighed against any support from the state one might receive.
Informative? You see in Christianity there's this thing called the New Covenant, the clue is right there in the name Christianity - followers or imitators of Christ as opposed to followers of the Judaic law.
Also the Sabbath is Saturday if you're going to be Mosaic about it.
Jesus went out of his way to do things that the legalistic religious authorities (pharisees) would consider "work" to show that whilst we should keep a day of remembrance to God we should not be stupid about it. Mark 3; Luke 13, 14; John 7.
In Christianity it is not by pharisaical obedience to the law that one is reconciled with God but through grace in Jesus and by the Holy Spirit.
There are no specific New Testament statements requiring the sabbath in order to be a Christian. Then are those who take part in idolatry, say, or adultery or homosexual activities free from the precepts of the Old Testament? Well yes, and you might consider they were no longer bound up in those activities if it weren't that these are things that are explicitly stated as keeping one separated from God and things that one should repent over (1 Cor 6, 10; Col 3; etc.).
The Catholic church at one point declared so. Juliete (of Romeo and Juliete fame) was only 12... and if I recall there was some reason Muhammed married that girl: so establishing conjugation at 9 would be difficult at best.
Aisha was married to Muhammed at 6 years (betrothed I guess) as he apparently had his eye on her despite her being promised to someone else in a standard family-unification type marriage. The marriage was consummated at 9 - at least according to the hadith. If one assumes Aisha developed very early, and so was not pre-pubescent, then even practicising coitus interruptus (as they did, M told his warriors they didn't have to bother when raping captives) it would have been extremely dangerous had she got pregnant. Either way I don't think this was normal practice at the time.
There's a pretty thorough working through of the considerations with references to the relevant hadith at http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/Aisha's_Age_of_Consummation
I'd be interested in your source for your assertion that consummation of marriage at 9 was declared Holy by the Catholics, thanks.
Even if the guy wins the case and can sell the discs (and even the license), unless the judge makes it expressly illegal for Autodesk to withhold an activation key from the second owner, they'll likely take that route to ensure the same end result.
Which is itself a circumvention of copyright. It's been sort-of mentioned elsewhere but copyright is a contract between the state (representing the people) and the creator of the work - the contract is for a [supposedly] limited monopoly in exchange for the ultimate release of the work into the public domain (PD).
If companies are using DRM and other technological methods that will prevent the work from becoming PD then they aren't living up to their side of the copyright contract. They should be allowed either copyright or technological means.
A previous post mentions a third way in which a PD-ready version is vested with a third party until the copyright expires or some limitation is placed on fair use rights that needs to be circumvented. This seems a reasonable method except the details, such as ensuring a working copy is available, will be difficult to work out.
I mean have you ever heard of a used book store?
Yeah, it's called a library.
Yeah, it's called a used book store.
We have a great used book store locally - the thing is it seems to have stopped getting newer stock, it still gets plenty of older books but newer stock doesn't appear to be there - it used to be that when a book had slipped from the bestseller lists that the excess of the print runs would be found in such book stores. Now, I speculate, the books are instead simply pulped if they can't be sold as full price copies?
As I recall, there is a fixed penalty in the DMCA for sending takedown notices that you know to be illegitimate. This is usually difficult to prove, but given that they have already lost a lawsuit on the exact same issue it should be relatively easy in this case.
It'll be something along the lines of "but I didn't know that the legal department sent out those missives" from the CEO and the poor lawyer who sent them will get sacked (though magically appear to suddenly have a huge pension out of nowhere).