Federally, the only Constitutional crimes are treason, piracy and counterfeiting. So stem cells are not in the federal domain of control.
those may be the only constitutional crimes (I don't know, maybe they are, maybe they aren't), but the federal government also has, you know, laws. Like anti-drug laws, for one. So stem cells could easily be under the federal government's control.
In other news today, Microsoft executives report that dipping your balls in sweet cream and squatting in a kitchen full of kittens may be hazardous to your health.
Phew. I was just about to do that...good thing you stopped me.
Just buy a laptop computer with a firewire port, get a decent video capture program that supports firewire capture, plug in your camera, and record straight to hard disk. No tape needed. If you need lots of storage, get a nice big firewire drive.
(2) Who really thought the whole mouse was made out of solid state iPod Wheel magic plastic? It would be a waste of materials driving up costs for no reason at all (not even AAPL profits!)
Well, I for one was hoping that was the case. I have carpal tunnel, and it tends to be aggrivated by my mouse far more than my keyboard. The thought of not having to click a mouse button was intriguing. Up until I read this article, I'd been planning a trip over to the Apple store some night this week to pick one up. Now, I'm not even considering it.
Take into note the dumbasses that were suing Apple because their battery life died 2 years after using their iPods 24/7.
I don't have an iPod, but I believe the problem was that it cost more to replace the battery than to buy a new iPod, which I think most people would agree is ridiculous on a product that costs several hundred dollars.
Anybody have any idea if this would help those with RSI's like Carpal Tunnel? Seems like it would...I know the mouse is more problematic than the keyboard for me...
Wow, that was probably the most mature, well thought out response I've ever gotten on Slashdot. You didn't even imply that I still live with my mom (which I don't). Much appreciated. Anyway, I hope you're right, because it looks like that's the way we're going for at least the next 3.5 years...I think the determining factor will be whether or not we can realistically drain the resources of terrorist groups that are supported by countries in a part of the world that's sitting on more oil/money than they know what to do with, and whether we're able to dispose of more terrorists than we create. Oh well, at least the "war against terrorism" is over, but the "struggle against extremism" has just begun.
It is almost a crime to think that a vast majority of the US population believes that the Iraq war was due to 9/11.
It may not have been the cause, but do you really think that the war would have had the initial popularity that it needed in congress were it not for 9/11? Prior to 9/11 Iraq was seen (by the general public at least) as a bit of a distant threat. Our military pushed them out of Kuwait relatively quickly, and I don't think many people would have thought Iraq warranted an invasion prior to 9/11
Whether I agree or not with the WMD situation, I will openly admit that I would rather see terrorists go to Iraq to take on the US military, than come to the US to take on the citizens. My guess is that was Bush's goal to begin with, to "take the war to them", and away from the western hemisphere. Many would call this cynical, I would instead call it good tactics.
I would call it shortsighted. This tactic relies on the idea that there's a finite amount of terrorists that can be lured to and killed off in Iraq, leaving a safer world for the rest of us. However, what if we're creating new terrorists by occupying Iraq faster that we can kill off the old ones? We have to pull troops out of Iraq eventually, and if we do so with more terrorists than when we started, how does that help us?
Apple already doesn't treat customers like scum the way Microsoft does (which I appreciate; I'm honest, but I don't like the assumption that I am not).
So making Logic Pro users carry around a little USB dongle with their laptops is an example of how Apple doesn't treat customers like scum?
Sound is likewise handled like this. The sound processor convolutes teh sound in realtime in reaction to the environment. That actually works really well even on older hardware like the Xbox. It'l even take in to account the number and locations of your speakers if you like
Firstly, it's "convolves" when you're talking about audio, not "convolutes", and convolution is a notorious processor-hog. What you're referring to is plain-ole digital signal processing, where a simple(ish) delay-based reverb algorithm is added to an audio signal to mimic the visual environment. If one were to actually calculate an impulse response for a given area in the map for use with convolution reverb, it would be awesome, but somewhat unlikely on today's game systems.
In addition, they did this experiment on lenses taken from dead cows. Of course they're not going to heal, they're from dead animals! I'd be more impressed if the study was done on live animals
I'd be more impressed if the dead eyes healed themselves...
Daylight Savings Time should be renamed "Standard Time." Of course, that leaves the problem with what to call the old "Standard Time." My suggestions are as follows:
We'll just call it "Standard Time Full Speed" and "Standard Time Hi-Speed"...that'll solve the confusion.
my primary machine is a PowerMac G5...If I'm completely crazy, somebody slap me, but wasn't Microsoft convicted of anti-trust violations relating to their monopoly on the browser? Wasn't a serious issue of their case the "need" to integrate Internet Explorer with the OS? Now it is MORE integrated--to the point that they CAN'T possibly make a Windows 2000 version?
Apple did the same thing with Safari and Jaguar. In order to upgrade Safari to a version that didn't break Flash Remoting technologies, one had to upgrade their OS from Jaguar to Panther. The newer version of Safari just wasn't/isn't available for Jaguar. Purportedly, the reason for this was that the new Safari made use of something new in the OS...I seem to remember hearing what that was around that time, but I don't remember offhand.
Wow, that's also not correct. As I posted to the GP, the correct quote is:
"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know that gasoline smell? Smells like...victory."
"You smell that?... That gasoline smell? That's the smell of victory! I *love* the smell of napalm in the morning!"
I think it's funny that while acting like a smart-ass, trying to point out someone else's misquote, you *also* misquote the film. That's the great thing about/. I suppose, everybody acts like they're brilliant, but 98% percent of the time...dead wrong.
Am I the only person who was told back in high school English class to define an acronym the first time you use it? I'm guessing the S and T stand for Sales and Tax respectively, but what the heck is the G? Global? General? Great? Goofy?
The system compares monophonic audio files, not midi files. The audio files are transcribed and quantized to MIDI notes (Middle C = 60, etc.) to make the comparison process more efficient.
I've been considering setting up a audio search website where you actually just hum, sing, or do whatever into a microphone and it'll match up the closest audio file
Something similar to this (pdf link at top of page)?
It's actually not too hard to do with a small data set, but it gets really difficult to give accurate results quickly with a big dataset (especially since many songs have similar melodies).
while I haven't heard enough carillons with any frequency to be able to make a direct comparison (although I have heard more than just that one), it should be noted that all bells can sound somewhat off-key when played along with other bells because they don't have a truly harmonic series. While a true harmonic tone has partials only at integer ratios of the fundamental (for a tone at 100Hz, the partials occur at 200Hz, 300Hz, 400Hz, 500Hz, etc.), this isn't exactly the case with bells. All bells have some extra partials thrown in. I don't remember exactly what these are, offhand. These partials can make bells sound out of tune when certain harmonies are played. So, the out-of-tune sound of the Naperville carillon could just as easily be the result of poorly arranged music (considering the physical properties of bells). It's also possible that the bells, while actually being in tune, were molded in a manner that placed too much emphasis on the non-harmonic partials.
That said, I haven't actually brought a chromatic tuner down to the carillon to see how accuratly the bells are tuned, so I don't know for sure if it's in tune or not...
That must be a completely DIFFERENT Carillion that I've heard being played on numerous occasions down by the river walk then.
Not that this is the most interesting comment in the world, but my mom's actually played it. They had free lessons for the community or something like that. She seemed to enjoy it.
Sounds bloody awful
sounds like bells...what do you expect it to sound like?
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Federally, the only Constitutional crimes are treason, piracy and counterfeiting. So stem cells are not in the federal domain of control.
those may be the only constitutional crimes (I don't know, maybe they are, maybe they aren't), but the federal government also has, you know, laws. Like anti-drug laws, for one. So stem cells could easily be under the federal government's control.
In other news today, Microsoft executives report that dipping your balls in sweet cream and squatting in a kitchen full of kittens may be hazardous to your health.
Phew. I was just about to do that...good thing you stopped me.
He also suggests that CAN-SPAM has been effective in deterring spammers.
Oh, so that's why I don't get any spam any more...
Well, off to clean my Inbox of spam.
Tom
Just buy a laptop computer with a firewire port, get a decent video capture program that supports firewire capture, plug in your camera, and record straight to hard disk. No tape needed. If you need lots of storage, get a nice big firewire drive.
The Aquaducts!
(2) Who really thought the whole mouse was made out of solid state iPod Wheel magic plastic? It would be a waste of materials driving up costs for no reason at all (not even AAPL profits!)
Well, I for one was hoping that was the case. I have carpal tunnel, and it tends to be aggrivated by my mouse far more than my keyboard. The thought of not having to click a mouse button was intriguing. Up until I read this article, I'd been planning a trip over to the Apple store some night this week to pick one up. Now, I'm not even considering it.
Take into note the dumbasses that were suing Apple because their battery life died 2 years after using their iPods 24/7.
I don't have an iPod, but I believe the problem was that it cost more to replace the battery than to buy a new iPod, which I think most people would agree is ridiculous on a product that costs several hundred dollars.
Anybody have any idea if this would help those with RSI's like Carpal Tunnel? Seems like it would...I know the mouse is more problematic than the keyboard for me...
Wow, that was probably the most mature, well thought out response I've ever gotten on Slashdot. You didn't even imply that I still live with my mom (which I don't). Much appreciated. Anyway, I hope you're right, because it looks like that's the way we're going for at least the next 3.5 years...I think the determining factor will be whether or not we can realistically drain the resources of terrorist groups that are supported by countries in a part of the world that's sitting on more oil/money than they know what to do with, and whether we're able to dispose of more terrorists than we create. Oh well, at least the "war against terrorism" is over, but the "struggle against extremism" has just begun.
It is almost a crime to think that a vast majority of the US population believes that the Iraq war was due to 9/11.
It may not have been the cause, but do you really think that the war would have had the initial popularity that it needed in congress were it not for 9/11? Prior to 9/11 Iraq was seen (by the general public at least) as a bit of a distant threat. Our military pushed them out of Kuwait relatively quickly, and I don't think many people would have thought Iraq warranted an invasion prior to 9/11
Whether I agree or not with the WMD situation, I will openly admit that I would rather see terrorists go to Iraq to take on the US military, than come to the US to take on the citizens. My guess is that was Bush's goal to begin with, to "take the war to them", and away from the western hemisphere. Many would call this cynical, I would instead call it good tactics.
I would call it shortsighted. This tactic relies on the idea that there's a finite amount of terrorists that can be lured to and killed off in Iraq, leaving a safer world for the rest of us. However, what if we're creating new terrorists by occupying Iraq faster that we can kill off the old ones? We have to pull troops out of Iraq eventually, and if we do so with more terrorists than when we started, how does that help us?
Apple already doesn't treat customers like scum the way Microsoft does (which I appreciate; I'm honest, but I don't like the assumption that I am not).
So making Logic Pro users carry around a little USB dongle with their laptops is an example of how Apple doesn't treat customers like scum?
Sound is likewise handled like this. The sound processor convolutes teh sound in realtime in reaction to the environment. That actually works really well even on older hardware like the Xbox. It'l even take in to account the number and locations of your speakers if you like
Firstly, it's "convolves" when you're talking about audio, not "convolutes", and convolution is a notorious processor-hog. What you're referring to is plain-ole digital signal processing, where a simple(ish) delay-based reverb algorithm is added to an audio signal to mimic the visual environment. If one were to actually calculate an impulse response for a given area in the map for use with convolution reverb, it would be awesome, but somewhat unlikely on today's game systems.
In addition, they did this experiment on lenses taken from dead cows. Of course they're not going to heal, they're from dead animals! I'd be more impressed if the study was done on live animals
I'd be more impressed if the dead eyes healed themselves...
Daylight Savings Time should be renamed "Standard Time." Of course, that leaves the problem with what to call the old "Standard Time." My suggestions are as follows:
We'll just call it "Standard Time Full Speed" and "Standard Time Hi-Speed"...that'll solve the confusion.
Am I the only one that gets more annoyed by people saying "dupe" derailing a conversation than by the fact that it's a dupe?
my primary machine is a PowerMac G5...If I'm completely crazy, somebody slap me, but wasn't Microsoft convicted of anti-trust violations relating to their monopoly on the browser? Wasn't a serious issue of their case the "need" to integrate Internet Explorer with the OS? Now it is MORE integrated--to the point that they CAN'T possibly make a Windows 2000 version?
Apple did the same thing with Safari and Jaguar. In order to upgrade Safari to a version that didn't break Flash Remoting technologies, one had to upgrade their OS from Jaguar to Panther. The newer version of Safari just wasn't/isn't available for Jaguar. Purportedly, the reason for this was that the new Safari made use of something new in the OS...I seem to remember hearing what that was around that time, but I don't remember offhand.
...screwed up the link, here it is again:
2 24919/movies/misc/apocalypse_smell_x.wav
http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2005-05-25_60628139
Wow, that's also not correct. As I posted to the GP, the correct quote is:
.wav File Here: http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2005-05-25_606281392 24919/movies/misc/apocalypse_smell_x.wav
"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know that gasoline smell? Smells like...victory."
"You smell that? ... That gasoline smell? That's the smell of victory! I *love* the smell of napalm in the morning!"
/. I suppose, everybody acts like they're brilliant, but 98% percent of the time...dead wrong.
2 24919/movies/misc/apocalypse_smell_x.wav
I think it's funny that while acting like a smart-ass, trying to point out someone else's misquote, you *also* misquote the film. That's the great thing about
.wav File Here: http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2005-05-25_60628139
Am I the only person who was told back in high school English class to define an acronym the first time you use it? I'm guessing the S and T stand for Sales and Tax respectively, but what the heck is the G? Global? General? Great? Goofy?
And yes, I did RTFA, it doesn't say there either.
The system compares monophonic audio files, not midi files. The audio files are transcribed and quantized to MIDI notes (Middle C = 60, etc.) to make the comparison process more efficient.
I've been considering setting up a audio search website where you actually just hum, sing, or do whatever into a microphone and it'll match up the closest audio file
5 -041917
7 -010011
Something similar to this (pdf link at top of page)?
http://www.gersic.com/static.php?page=static05031
and this?
http://www.gersic.com/static.php?page=static05032
It's actually not too hard to do with a small data set, but it gets really difficult to give accurate results quickly with a big dataset (especially since many songs have similar melodies).
while I haven't heard enough carillons with any frequency to be able to make a direct comparison (although I have heard more than just that one), it should be noted that all bells can sound somewhat off-key when played along with other bells because they don't have a truly harmonic series. While a true harmonic tone has partials only at integer ratios of the fundamental (for a tone at 100Hz, the partials occur at 200Hz, 300Hz, 400Hz, 500Hz, etc.), this isn't exactly the case with bells. All bells have some extra partials thrown in. I don't remember exactly what these are, offhand. These partials can make bells sound out of tune when certain harmonies are played. So, the out-of-tune sound of the Naperville carillon could just as easily be the result of poorly arranged music (considering the physical properties of bells). It's also possible that the bells, while actually being in tune, were molded in a manner that placed too much emphasis on the non-harmonic partials.
That said, I haven't actually brought a chromatic tuner down to the carillon to see how accuratly the bells are tuned, so I don't know for sure if it's in tune or not...
nobody expects the spammish inquisition.
That must be a completely DIFFERENT Carillion that I've heard being played on numerous occasions down by the river walk then.
Not that this is the most interesting comment in the world, but my mom's actually played it. They had free lessons for the community or something like that. She seemed to enjoy it.
Sounds bloody awful
sounds like bells...what do you expect it to sound like?