What kind of rubbish is this??? "...now depend on others for our critical infrastructure..." is a pretty blind sighted shot out at a broad side of a barn, and it looks like you missed. The united states is the leading manufacturer and exporter in the world, by far. In fact, the united states dominates across the board by nearly every measure of economic and military strength. "the good old days" eh..
How does outsourcing the construction of a plane (although i believe they were manufactured by boeing, a us company last time i checked) affect whether or not a terrorist hijacks the plane and rams it into a 120 story building? Your full of yourself. For the record, it is believed we trained the people that flew those planes into the buildings.
New formula..
1.say something about security jumbled with bullshit...
2. ???
3. get modded insightful
Point one: When you're not using the excess bandwidth it doesn't take away from everyone else. A car get's constant gas mileage (relatively speaking).
Point two: Dialup is only about 50% cheaper than broadband for 1/10th (or less) of the speed. You do the math.
Point three: I think you're along the right axioms with the "casual internet use" thing. Most people that don't have a need for broadband, quite simply don't have it. Broadband penetration rates in the U.S. are something well under 10% IIRC. Contrast this to how many people who drive suv's who clearly don't need them.
=) Yes, most electronic music is produced overseas where the riaa has lesser control over the situation. It's pedantic in the sense the only reason that the RIAA does not control these labels yet is dance music took the low road out of the limelight in america. Should the "music industry" decide that EDM is the "next big thing" status in america then you can rest assured that things will change in EDM circles aswell. Which is unfortunate of course, it's unbelievable how much innovation and spirit there is within electronica.
Gone are all the constraints of money and promotion. You can start producing electronica music with a 500 dollar software suite and a little bit of creativity (and patience). There is many people who are only 19, 20, maybe 21 that get their records signed. Granted they don't make a living doing it, but it's a start...
It just brings the whole thing down to earth really. Music was never meant to be shackled by a media industry which seeks to undermine all which it stood for. (profit instead of content)
There is not a more moving experience on the planet for me than watching a tear roll down somebodies cheek when the DJ spinning drops a divine track (not to say this is a common thing). Unbelievable? you take a listen, and then get back to me =)...
I think his inferred point is that evolution is a slow miss/hit process. It's had billions of years to repeat its process over and over so naturally some things have became very refined (i.e. us). The needs of an organism in the wild that is unable to utilize tools or think on our level is quite different than our needs. Our "needs" have taken on a whole new level of requirements which evolution never began to fulfill. The statement that "evolution is superior to the art of science" is utter rubbish. We can design/build things tailored to our needs, right now, with progress which is thousands of orders of magnitude quicker than evolution.
The amount of knowledge it would take to build an entire car that rivals the 'vette in all aspects by yourself (machining, design, the whole gamut) is incomprehensible to say the least. While it may be true only a few thousand dollars worth of raw materials goes into the 'vette (maybe less) the amount of equipment and man-hours worth of knowledge that goes into assembling them is, quite literally, out there in space somewhere.
Speaking of potential mishaps, here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if two planes almost collide it's a near miss. That's crap my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss.
WHAM! CRUNCH!
"Look, they nearly missed!"
"Yes, but not quite."
Who's negligence is it really??? Microsoft's, or the person who used WINDOWS for something that would affect whether or not they breathe tomorrow morning? Only on slashdot do posts like this get modded up... Pure flamebait
people say im mostly psychotic but i sleep with music on at relatively low volumes. It's not chill music either, it's mostly progressive/trance/etc. point being i sleep better when i have something to focus on... Sometimes the bass is too invasive so i cut it 4 or 5 db =)
Ahh but she can always grow another pair/set. Thats the beauty of it, even if we directed all our resources at eradicating life from the face of the planet we would surely fail (as we would eradicate ourselves first) and the natural course of things would overtake the planet once again. You're thinking on the scale of a human life, nature is thinking on the scale of aeons. It's unstoppable. Our interest in preserving our environment is for our OWN good... not for natures... i think you have it confused a bit..
this happens usually when your windows installation is borked, im sure a lot more than just being not bootable after the patch is wrong with the machine.. It's usually ahrd to track that sort of thing down.
.5n -1 wher n is a number representing the entire group is below *MEDIAL*, not average, quite the difference...
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I'm throwing the bullshit flag on this one.
Think of it in different terms. Perhaps the most centric task of an airplane is to move cargo. Imagine that the cargo moving capacity (be it people or packages) is burdened down by an overbearing waste (junk mail that is nothing more than blocks of depleted uranium wrapped in packaging) in the system. It becomes so bad that often entire planes are filled with cargo and you have to wait several flights to board a plane (as cargo has the same priority as passengers). It's a huge problem now..
Nobody is saying the concept of e-mail doesn't work. They are saying SMTP is a broken open ended protocol that needs a rewrite, and it does.
I fail to see how this is a social problem. Albeit it is based on the behavior of people (who disregard the ethical issue of dumping their waste on others and scamming people out of money). You can't legislate morality, so your solution to the problem, is no solution at all (or saying there isn't a problem). Just the kind of box thinking we need.
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I guess your submittal wasn't slashdotsational enough...
consider this. We can (theoretically) model a entire cell in action although it takes a very very very large amount of processing power (the video about the CRAY X-1's has a guy talking about his dream is to be able to model an entire cell and petaflop supercomputers would probably allow this). The brain is made up of cells. Theoretically by moodeling every single cell in the entire human brain it should be possible to recreate a human-like intelligence level. (there are some obvious limitations to this). Note that we can't even model a single cell yet (the brain is comprised of many many many cells (billions?)), let alone in real time.
This is all 'theory' of course but I think while perhaps the most accurate way to approach the problem, it also is more than likely the slowest. Also, from my *limited* understanding of the human body I gather we know not even close to enough to accurately model a human braing given infinite resources (memory, manpower, processing speed, whatever else i can't think of).
My point being is artificial intelligence on the mammal (or more specifically human) scale isn't something as unaproachable as you would like to think. If we don't annihlate ourselves in the next thousand years (I wonder if they said that a thousand years ago?) I imagine that significant strides will have been made towards human level A.I. despite protests/laws barring such research.
Don't take me the wrong way, I fully agree with you that processing speed probably isn't the most prominent thing barring us from recreating human-like intelligence but it's certainly up there (right underneath our general lack of knowledge as to how the brain operates).
Plain wrong.. perhaps 50% of the chart dance material is covers but one need not venture far into the worlds of progressive house, trance, (pick your flavor), etc. to find good quality productions. Your statement tends to make me think that although perhaps you have recented clubs as of late you really don't understand the structure in front of you. It's just like the "rest" of the music scene. I.E. charts (or shitty venues) are not indicitave of the state of the scene (in general popularity does not equal quality). If this wasn't what you were saying at all then I'm sorry... It just seems to me that the obvious observation that chart music = shit infers some other agenda.
actually vinyl has a superior dynamic range by a few dB initially (or at least thats the idea). However, after a few plays (read: very few, like 10 or 11) the record grooves have worn down and a cd (which doesn't have any sort of dynamic range decay other than the fact that its the medium pop records are put on (laugh)) has a better dynamic range. The truth of the matter is it has nothing to do with vinyl being a superior format to press records in.
It's heavy, fragile (even moreso than cds, enter warps), sounds worse most of the time, about the only thing it has going for it is the fact that it is an analog medium. This makes not much of a difference as the tracks of the song have been through quite a few digital medium states (although at a very high resolution) by the time it is mastered, and in most cases vinyl records are dance material, which was almost entirely generated on a machine.
In the end it's mostly the image that keeps vinyl alive. It is the heart and soul of the "DJ". Seeing a guy up there on a pair of gimpy CDM's just doesn't convey the same feeling, although it's becoming far more commmonplace for celebrity status dj's to playback entire sets off of CDMs (very fresh material that hasn't made it to the pressing facility or early promo's).
The electronica/dance scene pulseline is new material and your ability to integrate that into sets properly. Vinyl is dying a (long overdue) silent death. The best dj's in dance circles aren't necessarily the best mixers, they are the ones that can work the crowd and have insane tracklists.
the guillotine was probably as painless as it gets. Although you are correct that the person technically isn't "braindead" until the oxygen supply in the brain runs out (read: not that long), the trauma inflicted by the massive blow that severed the head renders the person unconscious. There is a straight dope article on it if you don't believe me
i have 3 winxp boxes and the last time one crashed was four days ago (heat problem I think.. first time its ever happened).. in general they all experience an uptime of greater than two weeks. They usually are shutdown before they have a chance to crash (once every couple weeks) but for the most part it seems to run for an indefinitely long amount of time. Of course this all depends on software and hardware used so.. mileage is definitely varying:-D
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What kind of rubbish is this??? "...now depend on others for our critical infrastructure..." is a pretty blind sighted shot out at a broad side of a barn, and it looks like you missed. The united states is the leading manufacturer and exporter in the world, by far. In fact, the united states dominates across the board by nearly every measure of economic and military strength. "the good old days" eh..
How does outsourcing the construction of a plane (although i believe they were manufactured by boeing, a us company last time i checked) affect whether or not a terrorist hijacks the plane and rams it into a 120 story building? Your full of yourself. For the record, it is believed we trained the people that flew those planes into the buildings.
New formula..
1.say something about security jumbled with bullshit... 2. ??? 3. get modded insightful
flawed.
Point one: When you're not using the excess bandwidth it doesn't take away from everyone else. A car get's constant gas mileage (relatively speaking).
Point two: Dialup is only about 50% cheaper than broadband for 1/10th (or less) of the speed. You do the math.
Point three: I think you're along the right axioms with the "casual internet use" thing. Most people that don't have a need for broadband, quite simply don't have it. Broadband penetration rates in the U.S. are something well under 10% IIRC. Contrast this to how many people who drive suv's who clearly don't need them.
Seing a pattern emerge here?
=) Yes, most electronic music is produced overseas where the riaa has lesser control over the situation. It's pedantic in the sense the only reason that the RIAA does not control these labels yet is dance music took the low road out of the limelight in america. Should the "music industry" decide that EDM is the "next big thing" status in america then you can rest assured that things will change in EDM circles aswell. Which is unfortunate of course, it's unbelievable how much innovation and spirit there is within electronica.
Gone are all the constraints of money and promotion. You can start producing electronica music with a 500 dollar software suite and a little bit of creativity (and patience). There is many people who are only 19, 20, maybe 21 that get their records signed. Granted they don't make a living doing it, but it's a start...
It just brings the whole thing down to earth really. Music was never meant to be shackled by a media industry which seeks to undermine all which it stood for. (profit instead of content)
There is not a more moving experience on the planet for me than watching a tear roll down somebodies cheek when the DJ spinning drops a divine track (not to say this is a common thing). Unbelievable? you take a listen, and then get back to me =)...
I think his inferred point is that evolution is a slow miss/hit process. It's had billions of years to repeat its process over and over so naturally some things have became very refined (i.e. us). The needs of an organism in the wild that is unable to utilize tools or think on our level is quite different than our needs. Our "needs" have taken on a whole new level of requirements which evolution never began to fulfill. The statement that "evolution is superior to the art of science" is utter rubbish. We can design/build things tailored to our needs, right now, with progress which is thousands of orders of magnitude quicker than evolution.
The amount of knowledge it would take to build an entire car that rivals the 'vette in all aspects by yourself (machining, design, the whole gamut) is incomprehensible to say the least. While it may be true only a few thousand dollars worth of raw materials goes into the 'vette (maybe less) the amount of equipment and man-hours worth of knowledge that goes into assembling them is, quite literally, out there in space somewhere.
Who's negligence is it really??? Microsoft's, or the person who used WINDOWS for something that would affect whether or not they breathe tomorrow morning? Only on slashdot do posts like this get modded up... Pure flamebait
if only i had mod points =( the last 5 i had 4 of them got aten by lack of use ...
people say im mostly psychotic but i sleep with music on at relatively low volumes. It's not chill music either, it's mostly progressive/trance/etc. point being i sleep better when i have something to focus on... Sometimes the bass is too invasive so i cut it 4 or 5 db =)
Ahh but she can always grow another pair/set. Thats the beauty of it, even if we directed all our resources at eradicating life from the face of the planet we would surely fail (as we would eradicate ourselves first) and the natural course of things would overtake the planet once again. You're thinking on the scale of a human life, nature is thinking on the scale of aeons. It's unstoppable. Our interest in preserving our environment is for our OWN good... not for natures... i think you have it confused a bit..
bullshit... show me numbers/statistics that support your awfully brave statement "average gas mileage is lower today than it was in the early 1980's"
this happens usually when your windows installation is borked, im sure a lot more than just being not bootable after the patch is wrong with the machine.. It's usually ahrd to track that sort of thing down.
all you have to do IIRC is disable DCOM services or patch windows to get rid of the little bastard
no
.5n -1 wher n is a number representing the entire group is below *MEDIAL*, not average, quite the difference...
I'm throwing the bullshit flag on this one.
Think of it in different terms. Perhaps the most centric task of an airplane is to move cargo. Imagine that the cargo moving capacity (be it people or packages) is burdened down by an overbearing waste (junk mail that is nothing more than blocks of depleted uranium wrapped in packaging) in the system. It becomes so bad that often entire planes are filled with cargo and you have to wait several flights to board a plane (as cargo has the same priority as passengers). It's a huge problem now..
Nobody is saying the concept of e-mail doesn't work. They are saying SMTP is a broken open ended protocol that needs a rewrite, and it does.
I fail to see how this is a social problem. Albeit it is based on the behavior of people (who disregard the ethical issue of dumping their waste on others and scamming people out of money). You can't legislate morality, so your solution to the problem, is no solution at all (or saying there isn't a problem). Just the kind of box thinking we need.
I guess your submittal wasn't slashdotsational enough...
consider this. We can (theoretically) model a entire cell in action although it takes a very very very large amount of processing power (the video about the CRAY X-1's has a guy talking about his dream is to be able to model an entire cell and petaflop supercomputers would probably allow this). The brain is made up of cells. Theoretically by moodeling every single cell in the entire human brain it should be possible to recreate a human-like intelligence level. (there are some obvious limitations to this). Note that we can't even model a single cell yet (the brain is comprised of many many many cells (billions?)), let alone in real time.
This is all 'theory' of course but I think while perhaps the most accurate way to approach the problem, it also is more than likely the slowest. Also, from my *limited* understanding of the human body I gather we know not even close to enough to accurately model a human braing given infinite resources (memory, manpower, processing speed, whatever else i can't think of).
My point being is artificial intelligence on the mammal (or more specifically human) scale isn't something as unaproachable as you would like to think. If we don't annihlate ourselves in the next thousand years (I wonder if they said that a thousand years ago?) I imagine that significant strides will have been made towards human level A.I. despite protests/laws barring such research.
Don't take me the wrong way, I fully agree with you that processing speed probably isn't the most prominent thing barring us from recreating human-like intelligence but it's certainly up there (right underneath our general lack of knowledge as to how the brain operates).
the important question is how many operatant hours these glucose -> electricity devices last.
I am the son of two baby boomers... Next year is my last year of high school... Where did you come up with that one?
Plain wrong.. perhaps 50% of the chart dance material is covers but one need not venture far into the worlds of progressive house, trance, (pick your flavor), etc. to find good quality productions. Your statement tends to make me think that although perhaps you have recented clubs as of late you really don't understand the structure in front of you. It's just like the "rest" of the music scene. I.E. charts (or shitty venues) are not indicitave of the state of the scene (in general popularity does not equal quality). If this wasn't what you were saying at all then I'm sorry... It just seems to me that the obvious observation that chart music = shit infers some other agenda.
USD has had holographic images embedded into the currency for quite sometime aswell
Zero Insertion Force is all it claims mate :-D
actually vinyl has a superior dynamic range by a few dB initially (or at least thats the idea). However, after a few plays (read: very few, like 10 or 11) the record grooves have worn down and a cd (which doesn't have any sort of dynamic range decay other than the fact that its the medium pop records are put on (laugh)) has a better dynamic range. The truth of the matter is it has nothing to do with vinyl being a superior format to press records in.
It's heavy, fragile (even moreso than cds, enter warps), sounds worse most of the time, about the only thing it has going for it is the fact that it is an analog medium. This makes not much of a difference as the tracks of the song have been through quite a few digital medium states (although at a very high resolution) by the time it is mastered, and in most cases vinyl records are dance material, which was almost entirely generated on a machine.
In the end it's mostly the image that keeps vinyl alive. It is the heart and soul of the "DJ". Seeing a guy up there on a pair of gimpy CDM's just doesn't convey the same feeling, although it's becoming far more commmonplace for celebrity status dj's to playback entire sets off of CDMs (very fresh material that hasn't made it to the pressing facility or early promo's).
The electronica/dance scene pulseline is new material and your ability to integrate that into sets properly. Vinyl is dying a (long overdue) silent death. The best dj's in dance circles aren't necessarily the best mixers, they are the ones that can work the crowd and have insane tracklists.
the guillotine was probably as painless as it gets. Although you are correct that the person technically isn't "braindead" until the oxygen supply in the brain runs out (read: not that long), the trauma inflicted by the massive blow that severed the head renders the person unconscious. There is a straight dope article on it if you don't believe me
i have 3 winxp boxes and the last time one crashed was four days ago (heat problem I think.. first time its ever happened).. in general they all experience an uptime of greater than two weeks. They usually are shutdown before they have a chance to crash (once every couple weeks) but for the most part it seems to run for an indefinitely long amount of time. Of course this all depends on software and hardware used so.. mileage is definitely varying :-D