The best music comes from PAIN. The kind of PAIN that only somebody who has been to hell and back can truly understand.
Software will never likely be able to model this raw emotional hurt, and thus will likely never be able to make truly moving music.
Cheer up, emo kid.
The best music evokes an emotional response but that could be happiness, sadness, enthusiasm, wonder, or even pain. In the end that emotion is determined by the listener, not the song or how it was produced. If a machine makes a song I like I'm not going to waste any time complaining about how it would have been better if it was made by a person, I'm simply going to enjoy it.
Ugh. This cup of coffee has way too much coffee in it. Not enough lobster bisque if you ask me. It's like, yeah, it's a cup of coffee and not a cup of lobster bisque, but still.:-P
You inspired me to make a coffee bisque. After I made a pot of coffee I ground the grinds and used the resulting slurry to thicken my coffee.
Until I can get a caffeine high from lobster this will have to do.
...communications will be down across radio, television, and internet, so the police, and the population, will be left to guess what is going on and when everything will be back to normal....
Minor nitpick: I'm guessing you're not familiar with ARES. All you need for radio communication is a transmitter and a receiver, and both can be powered by batteries. I have a handheld unit that has a range of approximately 80-100 miles and can be recharged with a solar cell and I have a base station that can contact people across the entire planet under the right conditions (solar activity actually helps) and can also be battery operated.
While communications may be a little slower they wouldn't shut down completely. You might just be stuck asking your neighbor for updates or meeting everyone at the town hall instead of reading about it online.
Option 1: a chunk of vegetable matter that is probably prone to getting some strain of mold or bacteria that I'd rather not ingest.
Option 2: a smooth hunk of the same metal that my dining implements are made of.
There are really people who'd prefer that their spices be in long-term contact with bits of food instead of sterilizable metal?
Salt isn't a spice, it's a mineral. It's also antibacterial and inhibits the growth of yeast and mold, which is why it's a good preservative. If anything, your popcorn will be safer in a full salt shaker than in the bag.
In the case of the salt shaker, the rice isn't absorbing moisture (the salt is WAY better at it than the rice is), it's being used for the same function as the bearing in a spray paint can, to break up the clumps mechanically. You could actually use some metal ball bearings for the same purpose (make sure they're bigger than the holes in the shaker, obviously).
Popcorn kernels are a better candidate than ball bearings. I'm not saying ball bearings aren't a good choice but you'll find a lot of people have an aversion to finding them in something they're going to eat.
So what you are saying is that a open source coder could never compete with a commercial one?
I think he's saying that comparing a team of coders to one guy doing this in his spare time isn't the greatest comparison. What I took away from that post is that this is a pretty impressive achievement.
I learned this lesson the hard way. Yes, you can be excellent and dedicated at your job, but if that involves making everyone else look like lazy/stupid idiots, you are better off either: a) not bothering and keeping your head down b) Do it anyway and hang out after the meeting to present the work.
I lost 1 job and lots of friends by making some people look like the idiots they are. My current job is going the same way as I generally get stuff done instead of having a meeting to talk about the meeting to talk about the issue. There are a couple of guys in our place that work in a similar way... action instead of words, be we are generally looked upon as troublemakers.
It sucks being technically inclined, analytical and ambitious. It's a combination guaranteed to either make you, or ruin you.
While I feel badly for you, I really do, I think you weren't in the right environment anyway.
Where I worked before going off on my own the people that solved problems got perks because the people that solve problems usually don't make them, and anyone that doesn't make problems is someone you want to keep happy.
Only if you give a shit about what slashdotters say. If you develop a genuinely useful free software project you deserve the free advertising for the time you've spent.
Unfortunately, that phrase is subjective. I might not find software that uploads weather data from my nerd cave to a public server genuinely useful but someone else might be overjoyed such a utility exists. I consider some of the code I wrote in my spare time genuinely useful but the best I get from other people is quizzical stares.
I just finished winterizing my SSD and let me tell you, it's surprisingly difficult to wrap chains around a hard drive and still have it fit in your case.
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"We used to compute with 5 ton stones and dead penguins, now get of my lawn!"
Luxury! Back in my day we used to use 5 tonne stones! Course back then the metric system wasn't invented yet, which made it pretty awkward since we were all using a measurement nobody had heard of. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time...
get a 900+ pound motorcycle. you'll get a workout. My upper body hurts for the first month riding starts every year. when you are moving around that beast and at every stoplight you have to steady it you get a workout.
Out of curiosity, what the hell are you doing to get such an upper body workout on your bike? When you move the bike you move it exactly like a bicycle, hold the handlebars and keep it straight. My wife can move a bike like that. When you're at a stoplight keep it steady with your legs by keeping your ass on the seat and your feet on the ground. As long as the bike isn't more than about five degrees off upright it doesn't require that much force to keep it upright.
Disclosure: 15 years riding experience on 100cc to 1500cc bikes.
Not to say they don't exist, but I have yet to meet anyone on the planet who has ever used the "Start cooking at 18:00" feature of any cooking appliance more than once.
I use it for bread. You can stick the loaf in the oven for its final rise and it will start baking automatically.
A computer, built for the kitchen environment would be valuable.
Just do what I do, use an old laptop. It doesn't matter if the battery is shot since it will likely be plugged in all the time and you don't worry as much about getting it dirty because at least it's being used instead of rotting in a landfill.
That's why findings like this are so interesting. Maybe having it easy and being happy aren't synonymous after all?
The problem is that easy is subjective. If you have nothing to compare it to, easy doesn't register as "easy", it registers as "normal". If you've encountered a large problem, others seem smaller by comparison. If you only ever encounter small problems they seem larger than they are.
My leg was crushed in an accident; I never appreciated being able to walk until I couldn't because up to that point, it was normal. Now I have a hard time seeing people drive to the store instead of walking across the street when they're in the mood for a snack. I imagine having experienced starvation or homelessness would cause the same effect hearing people complain about the doneness of their steak or the color of the paint in their house.
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The best music comes from PAIN. The kind of PAIN that only somebody who has been to hell and back can truly understand.
Software will never likely be able to model this raw emotional hurt, and thus will likely never be able to make truly moving music.
Cheer up, emo kid.
The best music evokes an emotional response but that could be happiness, sadness, enthusiasm, wonder, or even pain. In the end that emotion is determined by the listener, not the song or how it was produced. If a machine makes a song I like I'm not going to waste any time complaining about how it would have been better if it was made by a person, I'm simply going to enjoy it.
Ugh. This cup of coffee has way too much coffee in it. Not enough lobster bisque if you ask me. It's like, yeah, it's a cup of coffee and not a cup of lobster bisque, but still. :-P
You inspired me to make a coffee bisque. After I made a pot of coffee I ground the grinds and used the resulting slurry to thicken my coffee.
Until I can get a caffeine high from lobster this will have to do.
BEST DECISION I EVER MADE.
Everyone knows caps lock is cruise control for cool.
...communications will be down across radio, television, and internet, so the police, and the population, will be left to guess what is going on and when everything will be back to normal....
Minor nitpick: I'm guessing you're not familiar with ARES. All you need for radio communication is a transmitter and a receiver, and both can be powered by batteries. I have a handheld unit that has a range of approximately 80-100 miles and can be recharged with a solar cell and I have a base station that can contact people across the entire planet under the right conditions (solar activity actually helps) and can also be battery operated.
While communications may be a little slower they wouldn't shut down completely. You might just be stuck asking your neighbor for updates or meeting everyone at the town hall instead of reading about it online.
Easy one. Just start wearing a tin foil hat. I'm sure some kind soul here would be more than willing to help you out!
Someone actually performed a study on this and discovered that a tin foil hat would only amplify electromagnetic waves! I kid you not.
Going out on a limb here, but is this the study you were talking about?
Option 1: a chunk of vegetable matter that is probably prone to getting some strain of mold or bacteria that I'd rather not ingest.
Option 2: a smooth hunk of the same metal that my dining implements are made of.
There are really people who'd prefer that their spices be in long-term contact with bits of food instead of sterilizable metal?
Salt isn't a spice, it's a mineral. It's also antibacterial and inhibits the growth of yeast and mold, which is why it's a good preservative. If anything, your popcorn will be safer in a full salt shaker than in the bag.
In the case of the salt shaker, the rice isn't absorbing moisture (the salt is WAY better at it than the rice is), it's being used for the same function as the bearing in a spray paint can, to break up the clumps mechanically. You could actually use some metal ball bearings for the same purpose (make sure they're bigger than the holes in the shaker, obviously).
Popcorn kernels are a better candidate than ball bearings. I'm not saying ball bearings aren't a good choice but you'll find a lot of people have an aversion to finding them in something they're going to eat.
So what you are saying is that a open source coder could never compete with a commercial one?
I think he's saying that comparing a team of coders to one guy doing this in his spare time isn't the greatest comparison. What I took away from that post is that this is a pretty impressive achievement.
That might be so, but you're leaving out movie and merchandising rights.
That's where the money is!
Why would I want to see a movie about some guy buying a comic book?
Whoops, it was actually bought by Intel. Pretty cool that my first informative mod comes from spreading misinformation...
You're well on your way to becoming an editor here. ;)
Nothing says I love you better than "Here, sweetheart, I killed these for you!"
Try it with spiders, it actually works. ;)
I learned this lesson the hard way. Yes, you can be excellent and dedicated at your job, but if that involves making everyone else look like lazy/stupid idiots, you are better off either: a) not bothering and keeping your head down b) Do it anyway and hang out after the meeting to present the work.
I lost 1 job and lots of friends by making some people look like the idiots they are. My current job is going the same way as I generally get stuff done instead of having a meeting to talk about the meeting to talk about the issue. There are a couple of guys in our place that work in a similar way... action instead of words, be we are generally looked upon as troublemakers.
It sucks being technically inclined, analytical and ambitious. It's a combination guaranteed to either make you, or ruin you.
While I feel badly for you, I really do, I think you weren't in the right environment anyway.
Where I worked before going off on my own the people that solved problems got perks because the people that solve problems usually don't make them, and anyone that doesn't make problems is someone you want to keep happy.
You are too nice. I would pay them in pennies.
Come to think of it, even if I had to settle for $25,000 I would still pay them in pennies.
I would donate good money, pennies of course, to see that.
Only if you give a shit about what slashdotters say. If you develop a genuinely useful free software project you deserve the free advertising for the time you've spent.
Unfortunately, that phrase is subjective. I might not find software that uploads weather data from my nerd cave to a public server genuinely useful but someone else might be overjoyed such a utility exists. I consider some of the code I wrote in my spare time genuinely useful but the best I get from other people is quizzical stares.
SSD ftw?
For the Winter?
I just finished winterizing my SSD and let me tell you, it's surprisingly difficult to wrap chains around a hard drive and still have it fit in your case.
Eliminate salt and fat from your diet and see how it goes.
And there's no scientific evidence that there's anything wrong with corn syrup.
Of course, but overdo it and you create problems too. It's becoming increasingly difficult to moderate salt, fat, and simple carbohydrate intake.
size does matter those who were well-endowed What an incredibly phallic story.
Yeah, the researchers were dicks.
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Predicted Reply: "We used to compute with 5 ton stones and dead penguins, now get of my lawn!"
Luxury! Back in my day we used to use 5 tonne stones! Course back then the metric system wasn't invented yet, which made it pretty awkward since we were all using a measurement nobody had heard of. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time...
get a 900+ pound motorcycle. you'll get a workout. My upper body hurts for the first month riding starts every year. when you are moving around that beast and at every stoplight you have to steady it you get a workout.
Out of curiosity, what the hell are you doing to get such an upper body workout on your bike? When you move the bike you move it exactly like a bicycle, hold the handlebars and keep it straight. My wife can move a bike like that. When you're at a stoplight keep it steady with your legs by keeping your ass on the seat and your feet on the ground. As long as the bike isn't more than about five degrees off upright it doesn't require that much force to keep it upright.
Disclosure: 15 years riding experience on 100cc to 1500cc bikes.
I would make a fake bomb threat in an airport, and then... just leave.
Millions of dollars wasted, millions of dollars more airport security theater implemented just because, and to top it off no actual bomb needed.
Given the TSA's history with this sort of thing, they'd probably implement a rule forbidding people from leaving the airport.
Not to say they don't exist, but I have yet to meet anyone on the planet who has ever used the "Start cooking at 18:00" feature of any cooking appliance more than once.
I use it for bread. You can stick the loaf in the oven for its final rise and it will start baking automatically.
A computer, built for the kitchen environment would be valuable.
Just do what I do, use an old laptop. It doesn't matter if the battery is shot since it will likely be plugged in all the time and you don't worry as much about getting it dirty because at least it's being used instead of rotting in a landfill.
Ooooh, can't wait to go collect x tribbles to earn some cash. On second thought, nah.
Mccoy: "Well the nearest thing that I can figure is that they're born pregnant – which appears to be quite a time-saver!"
Once x = 1, the rest should take care of itself!
thought itself is only an electrochemical process.
Thats what we think...
“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” - Emo Phillips
That's why findings like this are so interesting. Maybe having it easy and being happy aren't synonymous after all?
The problem is that easy is subjective. If you have nothing to compare it to, easy doesn't register as "easy", it registers as "normal". If you've encountered a large problem, others seem smaller by comparison. If you only ever encounter small problems they seem larger than they are.
My leg was crushed in an accident; I never appreciated being able to walk until I couldn't because up to that point, it was normal. Now I have a hard time seeing people drive to the store instead of walking across the street when they're in the mood for a snack. I imagine having experienced starvation or homelessness would cause the same effect hearing people complain about the doneness of their steak or the color of the paint in their house.