'In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today.'
Sh'yeah - right Wally. 20 households eating up hundreds of millions of users worth of bandwidth, many many hundreds of thousands of which are already:
a: bombing away on bittorrent
b: watching youtube (reminds me - I need to watch last night's Bill Maher...)
c: downloading eons of pr0n
d: spamming the planet with adverts for C4iL1s and v14grA?
Whatever he's smokin' - I want some. Now. It's been a long and pretty dorky day, I could use some massive hallucinogens.
Give the horsey some sugar cubes. Aaaaah - look - it's all PAISLEY...
Pressure dome eh? Riiiight. Oil's at $114 a barrel, and we're burning up terran soil to make fuel to get pissed away in SUVs, and you want to build a pressure dome on the moon. Let me know how that works out for ya, mmKay?
sorry dude - but that is some Seriously Wishful Thinking.
1. dirt filled with vital nutrients (potassium, nitrogen, and others...)
2. an atmosphere at a sufficient pressure that can maintain water, and contains CO2 and nitrogen.
3. soil that isn't too acidic.
4. soil that isn't too alkaline.
5. bacteria in the soil that can fix nitrogen and other important nutrients.
6. water that isn't too acidic or alkaline.
7. not be subjected to withering UV and cosmic radiation.
8. a consistent temperature gradient somewhere above freezing and well below boiling.
How many of these conditions are met on the moon?
None.
Growing plants on the moon is wishful thinking. Period.
Adobe is quite happy to remain a significant Apple player I'm sure. That is their platform and it has always shined there.
True, but only so far. Adobe has a very dysfunctional relationship with Apple, especially since Apple became a Serious Software Company. Example: Final Cut Pro (FCP). FCP was aimed at AVID, but the results were the destruction of Adobe Premiere. At the time (1999) Premiere 4 was the deal, and it sucked really badly. It was so disruptive that AVID said they would cease development on the Apple platform. Adobe followed suite. AVID soon went back, but Adobe was very deeply hurt and stopped making Premiere for MacOS. Only recently have they considered going back.
Apple is in a strong position, but they are only as strong as their developers (which is why Linux is sucking wind on consumer apps, as discussed above). If Microsoft pulled MSOffice off the MacOS, and Adobe did the same, Apple would have to leave the computer business.
The fiasco with FCP vs Premiere was so detrimental to Apple AND Adobe, that both sides have backed off a bit, but they still compete a lot. What you will NEVER see is iPhoto turn into a Photoshop killer, nor will Apple develop Adobe Pages and Keynote into anything seriously competitive with Word and PowerPoint - Apple needs MS Office BIG TIME. Apple got spanked - true FCP is the killer video app, and iMovie is pretty good for what it is, but the bad blood it churned up is something Apple is VERY aware of, and they know they have to walk a delicate line with their developers.
If they get too out of line, Adobe could EASILY partner with ASUS and pull a "buy CS3 and get a computer FREE" deal, and that would be the beginning of the end of Apple.
I use sympatico DSL, and its so unreliable and badly throttled, that at least half the time I don't bother and leech off my neighbour who has wireless hooked up to her cable modem. It's actually FASTER for me to get data at 50% strength on wireless from the lady downstairs than it is for me to ethernet directly to my DSL modem. Pathetic. I'm moving in a few months and CANNOT WAIT to ditch sympatico.
The problem is that no one is going to take the time to write "high quality" software for linux, unless they're going to make money on it. Since they know most Linux users will either
A. Attack them for not being "free and open"
B. Steal the software anyway
It's not likely you'll ever see such an animal.
I (sadly) agree, and that's why Linux is going to die in a ghetto. On the flip side: Adobe could port their entire CS to Linux, sell the software and Throw In The Computer For Free (buy CS version (x)! Get a Linux computer from ASUS for FREE with the coupon included!!!) Fuck - I'd do that in a New York Second. I really believe Adobe is the key to Linux - it would provide the killer apps everyone wants on a platform they could pretty much dictate. At that point, you know for a fact RedHat would drool at that deal...
but, (sigh) as you know and stated clearly, the zealots will pee in the well, and it won't happen.
The problem with the viability of desktop Linux, and why everyone is so leery of it, is the lack of consumer software for it. True enough, OpenOffice is an admirable effort, and it is getting very close to parity with MS Office. And Firefox / etc. are fine. But there is more to do on these damn machines than write emails, documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.
What is needed on Linux is the same panoply of software that is at the same level of quality as found on MacOS or Windows. What is missing on Linux:
1. The Adobe/Macromedia collection of software â" from Photoshop to Dreamweaver to Flash.
2. A really good video editor (think AVID)
3. A really good audio/music program (think ProTools and Ableton Live)
4. A low level video layer (think quickTime/Quartz / WindowsMedia)
I'm sure there's more. Frankly, NOTHING on Linux rivals the Adobe CS collection. NOTHING on Linux rivals AVID (or even Final Cut Pro). NOTHING on Linux rivals ProTools. Why don't I have a Linux box? Because the above mentioned software packages (and a host of others) are not available on Linux, and the stuff that is similar to it is inferior. If Adobe / AVID / Digidesign / Ableton / etc. ported their stuff over to Linux, I'd get a Linux box in a heartbeat. But until then, I'm going to hang with my MacBookPro, thank you very much.
And since this is The Truth On The Ground, that's why places like RedHat are hesitant to bother with desktop Linux. They could build it, but there's nothing to do there, and thus no money to be made.
Imagine this: Peter Doofus writes a blog and subscribes to slashdot under the name DooferXOXO and visits a few political blogs as Bliftipper. DooferXOXO is a nice enough schmoe - a reasonable persona. But Bliftipper allows him to speak in a very different voice, where he can test reactions, and Bliftipper is known as a bit of troll. At one point he responds on his own blog as Bliftipper.
Suddenly Peter Doofus is linked to his own content, and, well, things pretty much unzip from there. I have a lot of misgivings about Google these days. They say "Do no evil" but it seems they are slowly becoming something I don't really approve of...
Yeah - I'm pretty sure I know who it is, too. He always says the same stupid shit, and is a well known troll. If it is who I think it is, you can see the similarities for yourself. Thanks for your support.
Oh, agreed, but you illustrated my point: take 26,000 Hiroshima nukes and set them off all over the world, and it's not as big a deal as putting them all in one place the size of a large shopping mall.
Now, if you blast a large asteroid with a nuke, you have 200 billion tons of radioactive gravel landing on the earth. If you do it LONG before it hits the earth, then, yeah, you get a reduced load, and a few weeks or months of a steady rain of crap out of the sky. But if you wait to the last minute (something humans do all the time), you're still fucked, because you now have 100 billion tons of gravel blowing along at 50,000 kmph, landing in roughly one place at one time, and that's a lot of kinetic energy and it will fuck up your day / month / life.
If we're going to Nuke Apophis, we should nuke it just as it passes the earth, so this way when it comes back to slam us ten years later, it's more of a diffuse cloud of crap, not all of which will hit the atmosphere. It would make for some excellent sunsets for a year or so, and some colder winters, but that's about it.
Yes it is. It has changed somewhat since the 1980s to be more of a specialist focus, but over all, yes it is.
Whilst being articulate helps, you've clearly never hired a software engineer.
I have. And when we get some binary brained prick like you who had a skill range from A to B and a social range even more narrow cast, we NEVER hire them. Why? Because they're assholes, and we depend on team work - people who are not only skilled, but people who have other competencies than typing. they need to get along with others, which means they need to be culturally aware human beings.
Some narrow technical skill is EXACTLY what will get you the big money in software, and what will get you hired over and over.
And over and over and over and you';ll get tossed from one place to another until your job is finally outsourced, or, you're too old and exhausted to continue programming, and because you don't have a life or skillset outside of that, you're not good material for anything else, and you end up a 60 year bag checker at WalMart, because you're too tweaked to get into management, and don't have enough interests to propel you into some other line of work.
Having a general understanding of computers and an intimate knowledge of how they work (plus language theory and a wide exposure to different languages) is also a good thing.
which you can get from any decent CS dept in any reputable LA school.
But studying arts/humanities alongside? Waste of time. You had high school for that.
Oh puhleez, Mister Troll. From your lack of social skills, and your general point, you are probably one of those drones who is cranking on some compiler theory at MIT or VA tech, and thinks a framed print of a painting by Monet is Art. I hope you have your visa in order, because your job just went to India.
The facts in The Real World are this:
1. you will work in a team, so you will need social skills.
2. Sociality is dependent on culture, and culture is dependent on everything that isn't programming. So learn that stuff too.
3. A lot of programming today is focussed on media, and a knowledge of communication theory, propaganda, cultural studies and similar things will get you out in front of the drones who don't.
4. If all you know is programming, you will always be a programmer. You will be replaced.
Now that your spanking is over, go back to your mommy's basement and play Xbox for a while.
according to a translation in an post below, they're actually talking 98,000x Hiroshima bomb. I'll crackout my handy crackulator and 98,000 x 16 = 1,568,000, or 1,568 megatons (mT), or, 1.5 gigaton (gT).
That's gotta hurt...
The other thing to remember is, even with your calculation at 415 mT, it's 415mT in ONE PLACE - you're not going to want to be ANYWHERE near that. If it hits an ocean, it will vapourise a massive amount of water and create a truly stunning tsunami. You could drop 26,000 hiroshima bombs all at once all over the planet, and removing the issue of radiation, the sheer force of the weapons would be incredible, but not as powerful as putting them all in one place the size of a large shopping mall.
Now, if you "blow the asteroid up" you still don't get away from massive problems, as you still have 200 billion tons of gravel coming down the pike, all in one concentrated area, which would still make for a significant amount of heat and destruction. It' like an atom smasher - the sun dumps an enormous amount of energy on the earth every second, but it is diffuse over an area. Put it all in an area the size of a shopping mall, and you just took blew the city to bits.
So, even something 8x bigger than the Tsar bomb, exploded in the right place, could have massive effects, esp. in water. And if the translation is correct, we're actually looking at something an order or two of magnitude larger...
Where I teach, we have to use Blackboard, which As We All Know is a roiling piece of shit, and when combined with a hokey pokey Content Management System (CMS), is an invitation to True Disaster.
I got tired of Blackboard's idiocy, and when combined with our CMS, I was... disgusterpated. Luckily, I know something about Apple computers (having worked there for 3 years) and our local IT dood, while a miracle worker, is more windows/unix centered, and isn't really totally up on Leopard and similar systems like I am. So I help him with some things, and we have a great working relationship.
I told him of my frustration with the system that exists, and he is also utterly pissed at the idiotic policies that seem to have been carved out of stone in the late 1990s. So, he said - hey - I have a server for this building you share with a neighbouring department that hardly uses it...
So, I set up all my courses on the server, with none of the idiotic design limitations from CMS, or any of the file size limits from Blackboard. I'm happy, he's excited to do fun and much more interesting work supporting this thing, and the students really like this supplement to the system. The result: Win Win Win, except for the the draconian bureaucrats who run CMS and Blackboard.
I still use blackboard for grading, but other than that, it's a waste of my time, and I don't have to wait 20 minutes for updates to my site to show up, and neither me nor my students have to deal with microscopic file limitations.
I can attest to guerrilla IT. When you're dealing with responsible adults who are trying to get a job done, it all works out really really well. It's not hard to imagine scenarios where people of "Diminished Responsibility" could really make an unholy mess of things, but over all, I think it streamlines services a great deal, i.e.:
People like Ramachandran have come up with interesting evidence that the "you" that you think you are is not really more than an epiphenomenon of the brain - a way to ride herd on a bunch of zombies in your brain that allow you t osurvive by taking very complex activities and accomplishing them automatically. The "conscious" mind is thus an illusion.
Assuming this is so, then the notion of "free will" is of no consequence. It's not that you don't have it, it just doesn't matter, because there is not "you" to have "it".
I pick door 1, monty shows me what's behind door 3 - a goat. Door 1 might have a goat or a car, door 2 might have a goat or a car. Sounds like 50/50 to me - I don't see the benefit of changing my choice. I don't have any evidence of a goat or car behind 1 or 2. I picked 1, and without evidence, I don't see how changing my choice will make it better.
I don't think this has anything to do with cognitive dissonance at all. It's a question of probability. There were 3 - my odds of success were 1 out 3. Monty shows me that one of them is bad, so now my odds are 1 out of 2. In any particular Monty event, the odds will always be 50/50. If you ALWAYS pick door 1, and if Monty ALWAYS shows you door (not 1) is a goat, then your odds will always be 50/50, assuming the assignment of the car or goat to door 1 or 2 is always truly random and fair.
Drummer doesn't show up late and completely hammered.
Disadvantage:
Drummer is always on time and always perky.
Advantage:
The keyboard player isn't a dick.
Disadvantage:
The keyboard player doesn't voice chords in weird ways to give the music a sense of "motion".
Advantage:
You don't have to haul a Hammond B3 or Mellotron around with you.
Disdvantage:
Ummm. None on that one. Hammonds are a pain and Mellotrons are touchy cranky dinosaurs that are impossible to tune.
Advantage:
The guitar player doesn't pull all the chix.
Disadvantage:
You don't pull any of the chix anyway, because you're not a guitar player. You're a dweeby techno geek pretending to be a rockstar. There's nothing wrong with that - heck - Caribou's latest record, Andorra, is proof that a techno geek can make dead brilliant music. But you're still not gonna get groupies.
Advantage:
You get to be part of the problem - producing art in an age of mechanical overproduction.
Disadvantage:
You get to be part of the problem - producing art in an age of mechanical overproduction.
So, over all, it seems like a bit of a wash to me. Just another section card at HMV...
I have Sympatico and it SUCKS great steaming tourdes. Right out of my butt. It seems like EVERY night right around 7 PM everything grinds to a halt. first thing in the morning - bing bang quick as lightning, but in the evening, it's like they're specifically jerking me around.
It really bites. Example: lest night, 8.30 pm. I fire up my computer (MacBookPro) click connect, and suddenly the DSL light goes out. Then it comes back on. Then it goes out. when it finally links up I've got a DL speed of something like 42kbps.
It's ridiculous. So, I disconnect, turn off the modem, fix myself a martini, and when I get back I turn on the DSL modem, and wait a minute for it to go through its motions. Then I click to connect and bingo - same little soap opera.
So, I give up, and in the morning, I fire everything up, and I get online with 1.2mbps DL speed - thing is ROCKIN.
It really pisses me off. I had totally crap service in San Francisco from SBC/ATT, but this is MUCH worse. Although, when it works, it's way better than what I had in SF.
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"Will the REAL Doctor Pederman PLEASE report to Neurosurgery IMMEDIATELY!"
RS
Sh'yeah - right Wally. 20 households eating up hundreds of millions of users worth of bandwidth, many many hundreds of thousands of which are already:
a: bombing away on bittorrent
b: watching youtube (reminds me - I need to watch last night's Bill Maher...)
c: downloading eons of pr0n
d: spamming the planet with adverts for C4iL1s and v14grA?
Whatever he's smokin' - I want some. Now. It's been a long and pretty dorky day, I could use some massive hallucinogens.
Give the horsey some sugar cubes. Aaaaah - look - it's all PAISLEY...
RS
RS
sorry dude - but that is some Seriously Wishful Thinking.
RS
1. dirt filled with vital nutrients (potassium, nitrogen, and others...)
2. an atmosphere at a sufficient pressure that can maintain water, and contains CO2 and nitrogen.
3. soil that isn't too acidic.
4. soil that isn't too alkaline.
5. bacteria in the soil that can fix nitrogen and other important nutrients.
6. water that isn't too acidic or alkaline.
7. not be subjected to withering UV and cosmic radiation.
8. a consistent temperature gradient somewhere above freezing and well below boiling.
How many of these conditions are met on the moon?
None.
Growing plants on the moon is wishful thinking. Period.
RS
cheers.
RS
Adobe is quite happy to remain a significant Apple player I'm sure. That is their platform and it has always shined there.
True, but only so far. Adobe has a very dysfunctional relationship with Apple, especially since Apple became a Serious Software Company. Example: Final Cut Pro (FCP). FCP was aimed at AVID, but the results were the destruction of Adobe Premiere. At the time (1999) Premiere 4 was the deal, and it sucked really badly. It was so disruptive that AVID said they would cease development on the Apple platform. Adobe followed suite. AVID soon went back, but Adobe was very deeply hurt and stopped making Premiere for MacOS. Only recently have they considered going back.
Apple is in a strong position, but they are only as strong as their developers (which is why Linux is sucking wind on consumer apps, as discussed above). If Microsoft pulled MSOffice off the MacOS, and Adobe did the same, Apple would have to leave the computer business.
The fiasco with FCP vs Premiere was so detrimental to Apple AND Adobe, that both sides have backed off a bit, but they still compete a lot. What you will NEVER see is iPhoto turn into a Photoshop killer, nor will Apple develop Adobe Pages and Keynote into anything seriously competitive with Word and PowerPoint - Apple needs MS Office BIG TIME. Apple got spanked - true FCP is the killer video app, and iMovie is pretty good for what it is, but the bad blood it churned up is something Apple is VERY aware of, and they know they have to walk a delicate line with their developers.
If they get too out of line, Adobe could EASILY partner with ASUS and pull a "buy CS3 and get a computer FREE" deal, and that would be the beginning of the end of Apple.
best,
RS
RS
The problem is that no one is going to take the time to write "high quality" software for linux, unless they're going to make money on it. Since they know most Linux users will either
A. Attack them for not being "free and open"
B. Steal the software anyway
It's not likely you'll ever see such an animal.
I (sadly) agree, and that's why Linux is going to die in a ghetto. On the flip side: Adobe could port their entire CS to Linux, sell the software and Throw In The Computer For Free (buy CS version (x)! Get a Linux computer from ASUS for FREE with the coupon included!!!) Fuck - I'd do that in a New York Second. I really believe Adobe is the key to Linux - it would provide the killer apps everyone wants on a platform they could pretty much dictate. At that point, you know for a fact RedHat would drool at that deal...
but, (sigh) as you know and stated clearly, the zealots will pee in the well, and it won't happen.
(double sigh)
RS
What is needed on Linux is the same panoply of software that is at the same level of quality as found on MacOS or Windows. What is missing on Linux:
1. The Adobe/Macromedia collection of software â" from Photoshop to Dreamweaver to Flash.
2. A really good video editor (think AVID)
3. A really good audio/music program (think ProTools and Ableton Live)
4. A low level video layer (think quickTime/Quartz / WindowsMedia)
I'm sure there's more. Frankly, NOTHING on Linux rivals the Adobe CS collection. NOTHING on Linux rivals AVID (or even Final Cut Pro). NOTHING on Linux rivals ProTools. Why don't I have a Linux box? Because the above mentioned software packages (and a host of others) are not available on Linux, and the stuff that is similar to it is inferior. If Adobe / AVID / Digidesign / Ableton / etc. ported their stuff over to Linux, I'd get a Linux box in a heartbeat. But until then, I'm going to hang with my MacBookPro, thank you very much.
And since this is The Truth On The Ground, that's why places like RedHat are hesitant to bother with desktop Linux. They could build it, but there's nothing to do there, and thus no money to be made.
RS
2 the ranting gryphon sums it up pretty well.
RS
Suddenly Peter Doofus is linked to his own content, and, well, things pretty much unzip from there. I have a lot of misgivings about Google these days. They say "Do no evil" but it seems they are slowly becoming something I don't really approve of...
RS
cheers,
RS
Now, if you blast a large asteroid with a nuke, you have 200 billion tons of radioactive gravel landing on the earth. If you do it LONG before it hits the earth, then, yeah, you get a reduced load, and a few weeks or months of a steady rain of crap out of the sky. But if you wait to the last minute (something humans do all the time), you're still fucked, because you now have 100 billion tons of gravel blowing along at 50,000 kmph, landing in roughly one place at one time, and that's a lot of kinetic energy and it will fuck up your day / month / life.
If we're going to Nuke Apophis, we should nuke it just as it passes the earth, so this way when it comes back to slam us ten years later, it's more of a diffuse cloud of crap, not all of which will hit the atmosphere. It would make for some excellent sunsets for a year or so, and some colder winters, but that's about it.
RS
No, no it's not.
Yes it is. It has changed somewhat since the 1980s to be more of a specialist focus, but over all, yes it is.
Whilst being articulate helps, you've clearly never hired a software engineer.
I have. And when we get some binary brained prick like you who had a skill range from A to B and a social range even more narrow cast, we NEVER hire them. Why? Because they're assholes, and we depend on team work - people who are not only skilled, but people who have other competencies than typing. they need to get along with others, which means they need to be culturally aware human beings.
Some narrow technical skill is EXACTLY what will get you the big money in software, and what will get you hired over and over.
And over and over and over and you';ll get tossed from one place to another until your job is finally outsourced, or, you're too old and exhausted to continue programming, and because you don't have a life or skillset outside of that, you're not good material for anything else, and you end up a 60 year bag checker at WalMart, because you're too tweaked to get into management, and don't have enough interests to propel you into some other line of work.
Having a general understanding of computers and an intimate knowledge of how they work (plus language theory and a wide exposure to different languages) is also a good thing.
which you can get from any decent CS dept in any reputable LA school.
But studying arts/humanities alongside? Waste of time. You had high school for that.
Oh puhleez, Mister Troll. From your lack of social skills, and your general point, you are probably one of those drones who is cranking on some compiler theory at MIT or VA tech, and thinks a framed print of a painting by Monet is Art. I hope you have your visa in order, because your job just went to India.
The facts in The Real World are this:
1. you will work in a team, so you will need social skills.
2. Sociality is dependent on culture, and culture is dependent on everything that isn't programming. So learn that stuff too. 3. A lot of programming today is focussed on media, and a knowledge of communication theory, propaganda, cultural studies and similar things will get you out in front of the drones who don't.
4. If all you know is programming, you will always be a programmer. You will be replaced.
Now that your spanking is over, go back to your mommy's basement and play Xbox for a while.
RS
RS
That's gotta hurt...
The other thing to remember is, even with your calculation at 415 mT, it's 415mT in ONE PLACE - you're not going to want to be ANYWHERE near that. If it hits an ocean, it will vapourise a massive amount of water and create a truly stunning tsunami. You could drop 26,000 hiroshima bombs all at once all over the planet, and removing the issue of radiation, the sheer force of the weapons would be incredible, but not as powerful as putting them all in one place the size of a large shopping mall.
Now, if you "blow the asteroid up" you still don't get away from massive problems, as you still have 200 billion tons of gravel coming down the pike, all in one concentrated area, which would still make for a significant amount of heat and destruction. It' like an atom smasher - the sun dumps an enormous amount of energy on the earth every second, but it is diffuse over an area. Put it all in an area the size of a shopping mall, and you just took blew the city to bits.
So, even something 8x bigger than the Tsar bomb, exploded in the right place, could have massive effects, esp. in water. And if the translation is correct, we're actually looking at something an order or two of magnitude larger...
cheers!
RS
I got tired of Blackboard's idiocy, and when combined with our CMS, I was... disgusterpated. Luckily, I know something about Apple computers (having worked there for 3 years) and our local IT dood, while a miracle worker, is more windows/unix centered, and isn't really totally up on Leopard and similar systems like I am. So I help him with some things, and we have a great working relationship.
I told him of my frustration with the system that exists, and he is also utterly pissed at the idiotic policies that seem to have been carved out of stone in the late 1990s. So, he said - hey - I have a server for this building you share with a neighbouring department that hardly uses it...
So, I set up all my courses on the server, with none of the idiotic design limitations from CMS, or any of the file size limits from Blackboard. I'm happy, he's excited to do fun and much more interesting work supporting this thing, and the students really like this supplement to the system. The result: Win Win Win, except for the the draconian bureaucrats who run CMS and Blackboard.
I still use blackboard for grading, but other than that, it's a waste of my time, and I don't have to wait 20 minutes for updates to my site to show up, and neither me nor my students have to deal with microscopic file limitations.
I can attest to guerrilla IT. When you're dealing with responsible adults who are trying to get a job done, it all works out really really well. It's not hard to imagine scenarios where people of "Diminished Responsibility" could really make an unholy mess of things, but over all, I think it streamlines services a great deal, i.e.:
"It Works For Me!"
RS
Assuming this is so, then the notion of "free will" is of no consequence. It's not that you don't have it, it just doesn't matter, because there is not "you" to have "it".
RS
RS
door 1 - door 2 - door 3
I pick door 1, monty shows me what's behind door 3 - a goat. Door 1 might have a goat or a car, door 2 might have a goat or a car. Sounds like 50/50 to me - I don't see the benefit of changing my choice. I don't have any evidence of a goat or car behind 1 or 2. I picked 1, and without evidence, I don't see how changing my choice will make it better.
I don't think this has anything to do with cognitive dissonance at all. It's a question of probability. There were 3 - my odds of success were 1 out 3. Monty shows me that one of them is bad, so now my odds are 1 out of 2. In any particular Monty event, the odds will always be 50/50. If you ALWAYS pick door 1, and if Monty ALWAYS shows you door (not 1) is a goat, then your odds will always be 50/50, assuming the assignment of the car or goat to door 1 or 2 is always truly random and fair.
What am I missing?
RS
Drummer doesn't show up late and completely hammered.
Disadvantage:
Drummer is always on time and always perky.
Advantage:
The keyboard player isn't a dick.
Disadvantage:
The keyboard player doesn't voice chords in weird ways to give the music a sense of "motion".
Advantage:
You don't have to haul a Hammond B3 or Mellotron around with you.
Disdvantage:
Ummm. None on that one. Hammonds are a pain and Mellotrons are touchy cranky dinosaurs that are impossible to tune.
Advantage:
The guitar player doesn't pull all the chix.
Disadvantage:
You don't pull any of the chix anyway, because you're not a guitar player. You're a dweeby techno geek pretending to be a rockstar. There's nothing wrong with that - heck - Caribou's latest record, Andorra, is proof that a techno geek can make dead brilliant music. But you're still not gonna get groupies.
Advantage:
You get to be part of the problem - producing art in an age of mechanical overproduction.
Disadvantage:
You get to be part of the problem - producing art in an age of mechanical overproduction.
So, over all, it seems like a bit of a wash to me. Just another section card at HMV...
RS
RS
best,
RS
It really bites. Example: lest night, 8.30 pm. I fire up my computer (MacBookPro) click connect, and suddenly the DSL light goes out. Then it comes back on. Then it goes out. when it finally links up I've got a DL speed of something like 42kbps.
It's ridiculous. So, I disconnect, turn off the modem, fix myself a martini, and when I get back I turn on the DSL modem, and wait a minute for it to go through its motions. Then I click to connect and bingo - same little soap opera.
So, I give up, and in the morning, I fire everything up, and I get online with 1.2mbps DL speed - thing is ROCKIN.
It really pisses me off. I had totally crap service in San Francisco from SBC/ATT, but this is MUCH worse. Although, when it works, it's way better than what I had in SF.
RS