Seriously, unless you have a very small computer, you're not going to sit it on your stand. If it can't sit on your stand, it's pretty much useless. Get a small chromatic tuner and a metronome. Korg makes a decent all-in-one box..
All of the posts pushing you toward a tuning fork are fine as far as they go, but the visual feedback you receive while working on the bridge end of the fingerboard is valuable.
Also, I play in a couple of ensembles, one of which tunes to A=442 instead of A=440, so when working those parts, it's especially valuable.
Oh, and the metronome is way more important than the tuner. It's the most useful tool you can buy. Ignore those 'just listen' posts -- most drummers can't play in rhythm. It's hard. You need a metronome.
This is a standard practice at many companies -- employees in sensitive positions who tender resignations are escorted from the building following the resignation. According to a friend in HR, this used to be primarily for sales people, so they couldn't take customers with them. It isn't suprising that it's also become common in IT; the moment you resigned, you could no longer be held accountable (with your job) and were a business security liability.
Paying for the two weeks, at least in Washington State, though, doesn't reflect on the company's professionalism, though. It reflects state law.
Your argument basically states that using a networked machine responsibly is too hard.
Should we make the same argument about driving or public health? When you use a networked computer, your actions or inactions effect the rest of the community just as much as your driving habits and efforts to contain communicable diseases.
The bottom line is that the hardware is yours. Any software you put on it that you don't author yourself is from a vendor. Microsoft has no responsibility for the health and well-being of machines on my network. As the administrator, the buck stops here.
If I chose to keep running any unpatched software, I am taking a caculated risk, and as the person ultimately responsible for the heath of the network, I want to have all the information I need to make a sound judgement.
It's fitting that he passed away on the anniversary of the Apollo landings.
Re:Not a bad idea -- government funded copyleft
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We're talking about music here, not source code. This system is essentially a manditory copyleft license for all recorded music/movies.
Were it a govt. mandated GNU license (which is software specific), then yes, all of these things would be legal. But it's not, so they're not.
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In the Netherlands, copying is legal even if you don't own the original CD/DVD. Artists (who make a living creating these works) are compensated by taxes on storage media for the artworks.
So, I have the right to re-distribute the work non-commercially with attribution with a share alike clause (those I give the work to are entitled to the same rights I have).
It was actually an SGI interface that shipped with IRIX 6 or so. The "buildings" were actually directories I think. It's been a long time since I looked at it (time to get the Indy out of the attic, eh?).
Sorry I don't remember what it was called. Can someone else help with that?
I would disagree completely -- this is an argument against open source. The exploits are expected to come out within hours of disclosure, not hours of discovery.
Closed-source software has the ability to write the patch before disclosing the vulnerability.
I believe in open source 100%, I just think that this argument falls against, not for OSS.
I don't think it's a driver problem here -- I ran a dual-PIII machine for a couple of years under Win2k with a Soundblaster Live! and had no problems with audio.
There are a lot of variables here as far as drivers and configuration are concerned, but if I had to guess, it would be a hardware issue.
This is one of my big issues with Windows -- it's heinously complex when it comes time to troubleshoot./etc/ is far more elegant (and easier to decipher) than the registry.
This couldn't be more true. Aladin had a spin-off cartoon and 2 sequels, none of which were good. But it did keep the franchise "fresh" as new kids enter the target market. Otherwise, you'd just have a bunch of 20-somethings getting nostogic about it.
This is simply not true. I have it running on an older machine with 128 megs. It works fine out of the box.
It is unbearably slow in KDE with less than 256, but since I'm using Windowmaker, it's just fine.
Amazing how many knee-jerk reactions to the parent post without checking the actual requirements.
And as a side note, I've installed 9.1 on 2 different laptops and 5 different laptops. The only driver that didn't work "out of the box" was a VIA chipset's sound card (don't remember the chipset number -- I'm across town from the system right now). It was a lousy soundcard that needed upgrading anyway (working great with my Audigy II).
RTFA? The overpass/underpass was discussed as the theoretical best-case scenario. The idea behind this is a system that doesn't cost so damn much to build (or create 2-hour delays while they're doing it).
I think a more accurate version of that metaphor would be I fiddle with your lighter, turning it way up. Then, when you use it, you burn the only copy of your thesis.
It becomes more grey there. Proper lighter safety would require you to check the gas level before lighting it. Am I responsible? Or is it your own unsafe use of the lighter responsible?
There are other sorts of violations other then the well-being personal and/or property, such as the right to privacy.
That was my point -- the age-old libretarian view of "as long as it doesn't harm me or my property, do what you want" is even more moronic than usual when applied to modern technology.
It doesn't hurt/damage you or your property. What you own in your computer is hardware. There are very few viruses that can effect it.
As far as the software/OS, all you own is a license -- an abstraction that remains unaffected by viruses or worms. Even if your XP installation is completely foobar, you still have the exact same legal rights to use them.
The statistics this article uses are readability statistics. They measure (duh!) how easy the supplied text is to read.
This does not represent mastery of the language. In fact, way back in journalism school, we were all taught that our goal should be to write for the average 8th grade student.
Writing clearly -- defined as easily read --is often far more difficult than using a larger, more precise vocabulary.
And neither clarity nor vocabulary has anything to do with expressing complex ideas -- the most difficult task in writing.
In summary, the article is nothing but a rhetorical flourish.
Finally there's a version of the trickle-down theory that actually works.
I'd bet that Dell made this decision because there are many large users (Munich decision, with many more considering) who will be switching over in the work-place.
Many non-techie employees of those organizations will want to have the same environment at home as at work -- two OSs is simply too "confusing" for point-and-click types.
And as more and more large institutions move to Linux whatever reason (there are many), I think we will see more and more pre-packaged systems available on a retail level.
There are a couple of personal preferences that keep me a way from windows (reliance on GUI for administration, difficulty of managing the registry vs. flat text files for configuration, lack of a pager), but my biggest reason is a fundamentally philisophical one.
In the early eighties, hardware was where everything was at. Then Microsoft came along, purchased DOS and declared that hardware is a commodity, that software is what's important; decide which software packages you want to run, then make hardware decisions based on that.
Open Source software is really on the egde of something very different -- software is joining hardware on the list of commodity items. What's becoming important is labor; decide what you need your IT infrastructure to do, hire talent that can adopt and modify existing open-source solutions to meet your needs.
The idea that labor is more important than the software -- be it Exchange or Oracle -- appeals to my leftist political outlook, to be sure. Beyond that, it's also a win/win for open source communities as the projects evolve -- and new modules are written -- through labor in commercial environments.
This is what Sun is counting on as they open their source code and move towards a service revenue model -- the labor behind the servers is where the real value is, not the hardware or the software.
Just my $.02 (what ever happened to the cent symbol on the keyboard?).
The patent isn't on the double-click. It's on using different durations and repetitions of clicks to accomplish different tasks.
This sounds like Microsoft is gearing up to go after OSX, which uses the long click to emulate a two button mouse.
Try the County Assessor yet?
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Local municipalities and county government will definitely have maps that are owned by the public. They will, for the most part, be very up to date and extremely accurate - right down to the blueprints and floor plans of buildings appearing on them.
If your project is focused on one local area, they're probably adaptable. If you're trying to put together a national database, it will be difficult. Each municipality will have very different maps in terms of scale, style and detail (is the utility map the same as the county assessor map? Or does each department keep its own maps?).
Unifying all of this data is what keeps map companies in business. It's a lot of work.
The Electric Labyrinth, his student film from USC, was
basically a short (20 minutes, if I remember) version of THX. It was the first
Lucas film to be released on DVD years ago, part of the SHORT collection - Short
10 - Chaos - that is now
defunct, I think. It's an interesting insight into that period of his career.
It will be a very, very sad day when Bell labs moves away from technology research and starts researching customer service tools and metrics. Or stops researching all together.
Bells labs is also the birth place of a lot of digital audio technology. Max Matthews was there -- the father of electronic music. It's where speech synthesis was invented. Remember HAL singing "A Bicycle Built for Two?" They actually synth'ed a computer doing that back in the 60's.
It's the beginning of the end for one one the cultural icons of technology.
Although, if they're in the service industry now, maybe they'll eventually become a geek theme park. Imagine riding the digital rollercoaster, where you're either at the top or bottom, but never anywhere in between..
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Seriously, unless you have a very small computer, you're not going to sit it on your stand. If it can't sit on your stand, it's pretty much useless. Get a small chromatic tuner and a metronome. Korg makes a decent all-in-one box..
All of the posts pushing you toward a tuning fork are fine as far as they go, but the visual feedback you receive while working on the bridge end of the fingerboard is valuable.
Also, I play in a couple of ensembles, one of which tunes to A=442 instead of A=440, so when working those parts, it's especially valuable.
Oh, and the metronome is way more important than the tuner. It's the most useful tool you can buy. Ignore those 'just listen' posts -- most drummers can't play in rhythm. It's hard. You need a metronome.
(playing 23 years)
No kidding. These are workstation desktop wigdets, not system administration tools. Tools for remote monitoring? Hello ...
This is a standard practice at many companies -- employees in sensitive positions who tender resignations are escorted from the building following the resignation. According to a friend in HR, this used to be primarily for sales people, so they couldn't take customers with them. It isn't suprising that it's also become common in IT; the moment you resigned, you could no longer be held accountable (with your job) and were a business security liability. Paying for the two weeks, at least in Washington State, though, doesn't reflect on the company's professionalism, though. It reflects state law.
Your argument basically states that using a networked machine responsibly is too hard.
Should we make the same argument about driving or public health? When you use a networked computer, your actions or inactions effect the rest of the community just as much as your driving habits and efforts to contain communicable diseases.
The bottom line is that the hardware is yours. Any software you put on it that you don't author yourself is from a vendor. Microsoft has no responsibility for the health and well-being of machines on my network. As the administrator, the buck stops here.
If I chose to keep running any unpatched software, I am taking a caculated risk, and as the person ultimately responsible for the heath of the network, I want to have all the information I need to make a sound judgement.
It's fitting that he passed away on the anniversary of the Apollo landings.
We're talking about music here, not source code. This system is essentially a manditory copyleft license for all recorded music/movies.
Were it a govt. mandated GNU license (which is software specific), then yes, all of these things would be legal. But it's not, so they're not.
So, I have the right to re-distribute the work non-commercially with attribution with a share alike clause (those I give the work to are entitled to the same rights I have).
This is essentially a Creative Commons license.
Does the Netherlands permit derivative works as well (without copyright-holder consent)?
It was actually an SGI interface that shipped with IRIX 6 or so. The "buildings" were actually directories I think. It's been a long time since I looked at it (time to get the Indy out of the attic, eh?).
Sorry I don't remember what it was called. Can someone else help with that?
Closed-source software has the ability to write the patch before disclosing the vulnerability.
I believe in open source 100%, I just think that this argument falls against, not for OSS.
I don't think it's a driver problem here -- I ran a dual-PIII machine for a couple of years under Win2k with a Soundblaster Live! and had no problems with audio.
/etc/ is far more elegant (and easier to decipher) than the registry.
There are a lot of variables here as far as drivers and configuration are concerned, but if I had to guess, it would be a hardware issue.
This is one of my big issues with Windows -- it's heinously complex when it comes time to troubleshoot.
This couldn't be more true. Aladin had a spin-off cartoon and 2 sequels, none of which were good. But it did keep the franchise "fresh" as new kids enter the target market. Otherwise, you'd just have a bunch of 20-somethings getting nostogic about it.
How about "When a judge orders a re-count."
How hard was that?
This is simply not true. I have it running on an older machine with 128 megs. It works fine out of the box.
It is unbearably slow in KDE with less than 256, but since I'm using Windowmaker, it's just fine.
Amazing how many knee-jerk reactions to the parent post without checking the actual requirements.
And as a side note, I've installed 9.1 on 2 different laptops and 5 different laptops. The only driver that didn't work "out of the box" was a VIA chipset's sound card (don't remember the chipset number -- I'm across town from the system right now). It was a lousy soundcard that needed upgrading anyway (working great with my Audigy II).
The final product isn't a piece of software. It's a gun.
While the bug may not be noticed in the dev phase, I'm sure it would in the testing.
After all, somebody's bound to notice that it misses all the time.
RTFA? The overpass/underpass was discussed as the theoretical best-case scenario. The idea behind this is a system that doesn't cost so damn much to build (or create 2-hour delays while they're doing it).
I think a more accurate version of that metaphor would be I fiddle with your lighter, turning it way up. Then, when you use it, you burn the only copy of your thesis.
It becomes more grey there. Proper lighter safety would require you to check the gas level before lighting it. Am I responsible? Or is it your own unsafe use of the lighter responsible?
Or is it somewhere in between?
There are other sorts of violations other then the well-being personal and/or property, such as the right to privacy.
That was my point -- the age-old libretarian view of "as long as it doesn't harm me or my property, do what you want" is even more moronic than usual when applied to modern technology.
It doesn't hurt/damage you or your property. What you own in your computer is hardware. There are very few viruses that can effect it.
As far as the software/OS, all you own is a license -- an abstraction that remains unaffected by viruses or worms. Even if your XP installation is completely foobar, you still have the exact same legal rights to use them.
The statistics this article uses are readability statistics. They measure (duh!) how easy the supplied text is to read. This does not represent mastery of the language. In fact, way back in journalism school, we were all taught that our goal should be to write for the average 8th grade student. Writing clearly -- defined as easily read --is often far more difficult than using a larger, more precise vocabulary. And neither clarity nor vocabulary has anything to do with expressing complex ideas -- the most difficult task in writing. In summary, the article is nothing but a rhetorical flourish.
Finally there's a version of the trickle-down theory that actually works.
I'd bet that Dell made this decision because there are many large users (Munich decision, with many more considering) who will be switching over in the work-place.
Many non-techie employees of those organizations will want to have the same environment at home as at work -- two OSs is simply too "confusing" for point-and-click types.
And as more and more large institutions move to Linux whatever reason (there are many), I think we will see more and more pre-packaged systems available on a retail level.
There are a couple of personal preferences that keep me a way from windows (reliance on GUI for administration, difficulty of managing the registry vs. flat text files for configuration, lack of a pager), but my biggest reason is a fundamentally philisophical one. In the early eighties, hardware was where everything was at. Then Microsoft came along, purchased DOS and declared that hardware is a commodity, that software is what's important; decide which software packages you want to run, then make hardware decisions based on that. Open Source software is really on the egde of something very different -- software is joining hardware on the list of commodity items. What's becoming important is labor; decide what you need your IT infrastructure to do, hire talent that can adopt and modify existing open-source solutions to meet your needs. The idea that labor is more important than the software -- be it Exchange or Oracle -- appeals to my leftist political outlook, to be sure. Beyond that, it's also a win/win for open source communities as the projects evolve -- and new modules are written -- through labor in commercial environments. This is what Sun is counting on as they open their source code and move towards a service revenue model -- the labor behind the servers is where the real value is, not the hardware or the software. Just my $.02 (what ever happened to the cent symbol on the keyboard?).
The patent isn't on the double-click. It's on using different durations and repetitions of clicks to accomplish different tasks.
This sounds like Microsoft is gearing up to go after OSX, which uses the long click to emulate a two button mouse.
Local municipalities and county government will definitely have maps that are owned by the public. They will, for the most part, be very up to date and extremely accurate - right down to the blueprints and floor plans of buildings appearing on them.
If your project is focused on one local area, they're probably adaptable. If you're trying to put together a national database, it will be difficult. Each municipality will have very different maps in terms of scale, style and detail (is the utility map the same as the county assessor map? Or does each department keep its own maps?).
Unifying all of this data is what keeps map companies in business. It's a lot of work.
It will be a very, very sad day when Bell labs moves away from technology research and starts researching customer service tools and metrics. Or stops researching all together.
Bells labs is also the birth place of a lot of digital audio technology. Max Matthews was there -- the father of electronic music. It's where speech synthesis was invented. Remember HAL singing "A Bicycle Built for Two?" They actually synth'ed a computer doing that back in the 60's.
It's the beginning of the end for one one the cultural icons of technology.
Although, if they're in the service industry now, maybe they'll eventually become a geek theme park. Imagine riding the digital rollercoaster, where you're either at the top or bottom, but never anywhere in between ..