I suspect those cyclic noises are actually worn into the physical media at this point. It's an old record and may have been played alot, or perhaps that was an artifact of its creation.
If you do a noise filter in Audacity 2.0, using some of the quiet parts toward the end to get the noise characteristics, you can get a very clear-sounding result. You may want to try different levels of filtering. I only filtered a little, since the defaults were too much.
Sometimes, no matter how much testing you do, shit just happens. It is a fact of life. Show me one perfect, bug free, piece of software. Stuff breaks all the time, we only notice it when it affects us.
Next time you're in a hospital and there's some embedded pumping you full of [radiation | medication | oxygen] you'd better pray the developers of those systems didn't have the same viewpoint.
Um, no you don't. By definition, if you tested exhaustively, you'd have found everything that could possibly go wrong with whatever you tested.
I'm not saying it's always feasible to test exhaustively, but don't say you did when you clearly didn't.
Also: "we had in excess of three million online operational hours in which nothing had ever exercised that bug"
Taken with the "exhaustively" statement, I'm thinking that whoever said these things doesn't understand QA very well. It's easy to write code that works well when everything's good, and it's often just as easy to test that. It's another thing entirely to write code that works well (or fails gracefully) when everything's wrong. And again, it's harder to test that.
including Opera's hopes that people will adopt this technology for presentations - and to replace PowerPoint.
I don't think this'll replace PowerPoint per se, but it'll certainly free up the high-level administrative assistants from being the voice-activated mouse that some executives turn them into.
Let me preface by saying I haven't looked into other online music downloads because they tend to have DRM, so maybe this is a problem with those other services, too.
I looked at a couple of albums, and I see a trend for the song lengths to be very short, and the song counts to be on the long side. I suppose the ideal album for the artist would feature 3600 tracks of 1-second lengths, whereas the ideal album for the consumer would be a single 60-minute track.
Obviously, as time goes by, track counts and lengths with normalize somewhat, but are we not getting the same value as we would if we bought 70-minute albums from BMG for $8 apiece?
There are cars that are made for and marketed toward women. There's shampoo for women. There's hair dye for women. There are even paper towels that are aimed at women.
All these things are also separately marketed toward men. Sure, the boxes are different, and the ads are different, but they're basically the same product. At some point a long time ago, someone figured out that gender-neutral products didn't do as well as ones that skewed toward male or female, and everyone else followed suit.
So please only find the "printer for women" insulting if you find the notion of women's shampoo, socks, towels, cars, hair dye, and paper towels insulting.
If you're hiring people you know very well (e.g. relatives, girlfriend), why are you already anticipating discplinary problems? Shouldn't you be certain that they will be good co-workers if you know them as well as you should? It's not like all you have are a resume and 3 references to go from...
Communicating to them from a young age that they're special and better than other people is a negative towards producing functional adults.
It depends on the environment. If they're in a school where a sports culture is emphasized and classroom performance is not, maybe it helps to hear that they are special, even if they can't run fast or jump far.
'Better' is a relative term - you can only be better at a given task than someone else but not absolutely better than them.
I see this sort of idiotic reasoning as crappy self-justification, sort of an "I'm better than everyone and that's why they hate me".
You do realize that this does happen, don't you? Try going to work for a company that thinks they're hiring someone average when they hire you. Then do several things at your normal skill level, without knowing that you've just shown up the skills of an entire group of veterans. See what happens. See if they'll let you continue doing that, or if they dumb down your work so you don't make waves. It's quite possible for people to hate you because you're better than they are.
The solution? Work with people at your same level. It's better to impress with your work than it is to frighten.
If he's scientifically-oriented, he needs to be convinced of the need to interact with other people in a way that they like. If you can make your case to him and show him examples of how better human-to-human interactions would benefit him, he'll want to learn how, because he'll want the benefits.
Can you bypass it with the use of canned air? If so, will it then become illegal to transport canned air in the driver's compartment?
I'm all in favor of things that make people not drive incompetently, but aren't there general-purpose eye-tracking solutions that apply to any type of impairment, like sleepiness, drug use, cellphone use, or having children in the car?
What legitimate need does a single person have when downloading 40 gigs of data over a short period of time?
If he ran rsync between his home PC and a work PC to maintain file state across two systems, the first time he could easily send 40GB to the home PC as quickly as the bandwidth would allow.
Maybe there are better ways to do this, and maybe most people would just ssh or vpn in to the work PC, but if you're told your usage of the bandwidth is unlimited, why not use it as you want?
I suppose he could have also downloaded a bunch of ISOs all at the same time, but unless he got the latest and a few historic versions of all the Linux and BSD distros, I don't see that adding up to 40GB.
Look, I don't care if it's true to the original. The previews for this "remake" make me very much want to see it because it looks like it deals with issues with an intensity that the original never had.
I don't care if Starbuck is a girl, and I don't care if Boomer is a girl. Seeing interesting characters doing interesting things is more important to me than having a white man play Starbuck and a black man play Boomer.
There is a difference between having a behavioral addiction and a chemical dependency.
I'm generalizing here, but if you intake something that looks like (or is) a chemical your body produces, your body will basically say, "Hey, I'm making too much of that - better cut back." When your body no longer produces enough of that chemical to be of any use, you do need a substitute for it in the short term. Not having it causes withdrawal.
Any pleasure drug that works on this principle would probably make you depend on it chemically.
People may think this is extreme, but they've never been on the #tulez channel on IRC. You wouldn't believe how much illegal jig swapping goes on there.
So if you religiously advocate an OS that is generally more stable, secure, and doesn't restrict its users' freedoms, you're like a terrorist? But if you are a zombie who always picks the most popular platform that is known to be unstable, insecure, and restrictive of its users' freedoms, you're ok?
It's also illegal for someone to steal your car that you left running with the door open and your stereo playing "steal this car" over and over again. The real question is why she wouldn't tear it up before throwing it out, or go home and shred it.
She's damn lucky that someone didn't scratch out her address and put one of their choosing on the application before handing it in. She basically handed anyone who wanted it an instant credit fraud application.
Why don't they patent software failure itself? That way, any time non-Microsoft software caused Windows to crash, the software vendor would have to pay a royalty fee.
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If you do a noise filter in Audacity 2.0, using some of the quiet parts toward the end to get the noise characteristics, you can get a very clear-sounding result. You may want to try different levels of filtering. I only filtered a little, since the defaults were too much.
Next time you're in a hospital and there's some embedded pumping you full of [radiation | medication | oxygen] you'd better pray the developers of those systems didn't have the same viewpoint.
I'm not saying it's always feasible to test exhaustively, but don't say you did when you clearly didn't.
Also: "we had in excess of three million online operational hours in which nothing had ever exercised that bug"
Taken with the "exhaustively" statement, I'm thinking that whoever said these things doesn't understand QA very well. It's easy to write code that works well when everything's good, and it's often just as easy to test that. It's another thing entirely to write code that works well (or fails gracefully) when everything's wrong. And again, it's harder to test that.
I don't think this'll replace PowerPoint per se, but it'll certainly free up the high-level administrative assistants from being the voice-activated mouse that some executives turn them into.
"Go to the next slide, please." etc.
I looked at a couple of albums, and I see a trend for the song lengths to be very short, and the song counts to be on the long side. I suppose the ideal album for the artist would feature 3600 tracks of 1-second lengths, whereas the ideal album for the consumer would be a single 60-minute track.
Obviously, as time goes by, track counts and lengths with normalize somewhat, but are we not getting the same value as we would if we bought 70-minute albums from BMG for $8 apiece?
All these things are also separately marketed toward men. Sure, the boxes are different, and the ads are different, but they're basically the same product. At some point a long time ago, someone figured out that gender-neutral products didn't do as well as ones that skewed toward male or female, and everyone else followed suit.
So please only find the "printer for women" insulting if you find the notion of women's shampoo, socks, towels, cars, hair dye, and paper towels insulting.
If you're hiring people you know very well (e.g. relatives, girlfriend), why are you already anticipating discplinary problems? Shouldn't you be certain that they will be good co-workers if you know them as well as you should? It's not like all you have are a resume and 3 references to go from...
It depends on the environment. If they're in a school where a sports culture is emphasized and classroom performance is not, maybe it helps to hear that they are special, even if they can't run fast or jump far.
'Better' is a relative term - you can only be better at a given task than someone else but not absolutely better than them.
I see this sort of idiotic reasoning as crappy self-justification, sort of an "I'm better than everyone and that's why they hate me".
You do realize that this does happen, don't you? Try going to work for a company that thinks they're hiring someone average when they hire you. Then do several things at your normal skill level, without knowing that you've just shown up the skills of an entire group of veterans. See what happens. See if they'll let you continue doing that, or if they dumb down your work so you don't make waves. It's quite possible for people to hate you because you're better than they are.
The solution? Work with people at your same level. It's better to impress with your work than it is to frighten.
If he's scientifically-oriented, he needs to be convinced of the need to interact with other people in a way that they like. If you can make your case to him and show him examples of how better human-to-human interactions would benefit him, he'll want to learn how, because he'll want the benefits.
Looks like a camel to me, really.
If only they could make it capture the light from the goatse.cx guy before it reaches my eyes...
"Hold on... Wait a second, they have laser weapons and mass drivers sure enough, but they're pointed _toward_ the planet."
"No way! That doesn't make a lot of sense. They're vulnerable to meteor strikes, comets, ... attack from unfriendly aliens."
"Hmm. Maybe it's a prison planet, and the satellites prevent escape."
"That could be. We saw that moon base, and those could be the jailers."
"Yeah, and have you seen their entertainment? Only hardcore prisoners would like that stuff."
Where else would they be able to mine the ore to make these rods and replenish the satellites' ammo?
I'm all in favor of things that make people not drive incompetently, but aren't there general-purpose eye-tracking solutions that apply to any type of impairment, like sleepiness, drug use, cellphone use, or having children in the car?
What legitimate need does a single person have when downloading 40 gigs of data over a short period of time?
If he ran rsync between his home PC and a work PC to maintain file state across two systems, the first time he could easily send 40GB to the home PC as quickly as the bandwidth would allow.
Maybe there are better ways to do this, and maybe most people would just ssh or vpn in to the work PC, but if you're told your usage of the bandwidth is unlimited, why not use it as you want?
I suppose he could have also downloaded a bunch of ISOs all at the same time, but unless he got the latest and a few historic versions of all the Linux and BSD distros, I don't see that adding up to 40GB.
Look, I don't care if it's true to the original. The previews for this "remake" make me very much want to see it because it looks like it deals with issues with an intensity that the original never had.
I don't care if Starbuck is a girl, and I don't care if Boomer is a girl. Seeing interesting characters doing interesting things is more important to me than having a white man play Starbuck and a black man play Boomer.
How about skynet?
All this will do is send our valuable virus-writing jobs overseas, as domestic virus writers will be afraid of being caught.
There is a difference between having a behavioral addiction and a chemical dependency.
I'm generalizing here, but if you intake something that looks like (or is) a chemical your body produces, your body will basically say, "Hey, I'm making too much of that - better cut back." When your body no longer produces enough of that chemical to be of any use, you do need a substitute for it in the short term. Not having it causes withdrawal.
Any pleasure drug that works on this principle would probably make you depend on it chemically.
Doesn't everyone just velcro them to the wall above the litter box?
Why is everyone backing away from me?!
People may think this is extreme, but they've never been on the #tulez channel on IRC. You wouldn't believe how much illegal jig swapping goes on there.
So if you religiously advocate an OS that is generally more stable, secure, and doesn't restrict its users' freedoms, you're like a terrorist? But if you are a zombie who always picks the most popular platform that is known to be unstable, insecure, and restrictive of its users' freedoms, you're ok?
"HOAP-2 [the sumo robot] is designed as an aid to robotics research and therefore runs on open source, Linux-based software."
My OS can beat up your OS.
It's also illegal for someone to steal your car that you left running with the door open and your stereo playing "steal this car" over and over again. The real question is why she wouldn't tear it up before throwing it out, or go home and shred it.
She's damn lucky that someone didn't scratch out her address and put one of their choosing on the application before handing it in. She basically handed anyone who wanted it an instant credit fraud application.
Why don't they patent software failure itself? That way, any time non-Microsoft software caused Windows to crash, the software vendor would have to pay a royalty fee.