If you are having MIDI latency problems under Windows, try ASIO4ALL. It's far from fancy, but it's FAST.
ASIO4ALL plus something other than onboard Realtek sound (I'm using a Turtle Beach Amigo II) is enough to let me use a lowly Acer Aspire One netbook as the synth module for my EWI USB. It works just fine. Even when I was using more expensive sound hardware (Lexicon Omega), the ASIO4ALL driver worked better than the native Lexicon driver!
[smaller nit to pick: that should really be native American, no Native American, just as it should be western European, not Western European. It's not necessary to capitalize every adjective.]
Yes, it is. A Native American is someone (at least partially) descended from pre-Columbian residents of the continent. A native American (no capital N) is the vast majority of the country -- every person born in the United States.
Similarly with your Western European example -- a Western European is a person from Western Europe (a defined region). Calling someone a western European is redundant if you consider all of Europe to be part of "the west", and does not necessarily indicate that the person is from the region known as Western Europe.
It might be easy to hand write the details off the screen for circumvention, but that is only going to net you a small data set. These systems are designend to stop people walking off with entire client databases and that type of thing. In the governemnt, it's more about keyword 'flagging' that sends the MIB to your desk on very short notice.
It also does nothing to keep you from using your phone to take a picture of the screen -- something I have done when the machine coughs up a BSOD.
These days it's often times easier to catch things with my non-dominant hand.
As it would be for anyone who grew up playing baseball -- or was a hockey goalie. The catching glove goes on the non-dominant hand. Toss a small ball to someone who didn't play baseball, and chances are good they use both hands to catch it. Do the same with someone who did play baseball, and chances are they'll snatch it out of the air with the non-throwing hand.
It's mostly a matter of intent, even subconsciously. If you were to toss, say, a volleyball, then just about everyone is going to use both hands to catch it. A (gridiron) football is SOMETIMES catchable with one hand, but generally this is done only as a last resort -- and in such cases, it's usually whichever hand can reach it that does the catching. Something the size of a baseball or tennis ball is easily caught with one hand if it's not going too fast, and baseball players have the mindset of not only catching the ball, but immediately doing something with it like applying a tag or throwing it to someone else. In either case, catching it with the glove USUALLY makes sense. There are times that grabbing it with the bare hand makes more sense, and players do practice these situations. Still their first reaction is going to be to catch it with the "glove" hand, even if they're not wearing one.
I'm reasonably ambidextrous (bat and box left, but bowl, throw, golf, and swing a racquet right) and for me most things get done with one hand or the other just because that's how I practiced them. I learned to box from a lefty, and it never occurred to me to do it any other way. I swing a bat left-handed because it is an advantage to do so more often than not (two steps closer to first base, at the very least), and I don't spend much time swinging a bat anyhow. I could have gone either way with golf clubs, but right-handed clubs are by far the easier to find. In tennis the equipment doesn't change by handedness, but the two-hand backhand of a right-handed player is most similar to the swing of a LEFT-handed batter, which is a movement I already found familiar. Bowling is much like golf -- you might not think bowling balls are "right handed" but once the holes are drilled they sure are, and bowling shoes are by default designed for the left foot to slide. If the equipment works better one way or the other, I typically go with the flow. For anything else, it's a crapshoot. Darts I can throw either way, and sometimes I have to try both to see which one is working better on a given day. I also have mice on BOTH sides of my keyboard so that when I feel one wrist starting to get cramped up, I can switch. I noticed I grab the mouse a lot tighter with the left hand though, because it's slightly shakier if I don't.
I'm one of those people game designers DON'T have to worry about. Give me controls that makes sense and we're good to go. Still it amazes me that this isn't taken into consideration for EVERYONE. I had a girlfriend who was born without a left hand. She used a trackball on that side since it was mostly useless for typing, and had a keyboard with a trackpoint in it but only used the mouse buttons (mostly for dragging, as she could click the large trackball buttons adequately, but not at the same time as moving the ball). There was still a mouse on the right for everyone else. It was a simple and elegant solution. She was also a rather avid gamer and preferred PC games over the consoles of the day precisely because they DID allow the controls to be reassigned to suit her.
I also had a girlfriend whose entire family (including herself) was left-handed. At dinner it was always the guests who were relegated to the end of the table so as not to bump elbows.
My ex-girlfriend has a sticker on the bumper of her Prius that say "I SNEAK UP ON PEOPLE" and has a little stick figure guy being knocked over by the silhouette of a Prius.
The main problem I have encountered is in parking lots, when drivers start to back up without noticing people walking through the same parking lot. I have actually been hit twice, but both times I managed to jump before impact and not wrench a knee or ankle. Once I flopped on the back of the car, and the other I managed to get a foot on the bumper and push myself out of harm's way. In both cases, the drivers were shocked -- and when that wore off, I was accused of trying to scare them!
Since the problem largely seems to be with vehicles backing up unexpectedly, why not use an existing standard warning method when backing up -- like a beep? Trucks are so equipped, why not (part- or full-time) electric vehicles?
In Cairo everyone sits at a standstill, but they may not be pointed where they want to go, with the single side benefit that they can buy figs at any time from a local street vendor.
Replace "figs" with "oranges" or "melons" or "flowers", and you could still be describing Los Angeles. Minus the camels.
I have always wondered why the coffins need to be buried horizontally. It seems we could get two or three times as many graves in a cemetary if they were buried vertically, whether they are self-burying or not. There would still be room for flat stones and flower holders too.
So that's why my spiffy Altec Lansing stereo Bluetooth headset says Plantronics on it -- because companies don't like to stamp their names on things when they buy out companies.
The measure for the carpool lane should be miles*people per gallon. Say the limit for the HOV is set at 55 MMPG. This means you can only drive alone if your car gets 55 miles a gallon or better. If your car gets 27.5 MPG, you only need two people in it. Everyone else needs three.
If your car qualifies for occupancy 2 in the HOV, your annual tag is a different color. If it qualifies for occupancy ONE in the HOV (though how to classify plug-in hybrids remains an issue), you get yet another sticker. If you have no special sticker, you need three people in the car.
The greatest advantage would be that no extra stickers need be sent out -- you'd still get one every year just like you do now. It would just carry an additional meaning. Every year, if the MMPG threshold needs tweaking, it doesn't mean having to wait for a bunch of stickers to expire. If people want to take advantage of a rule change mid-year, they'd have to pay for a new sticker. Otherwise they wait till registration rolls around.
Optionally, each car could be tagged with its highway mileage when initially registered. Then each individual highway could have a different limit as appropriate. If the HOV lanes are barren, bump the limit down. If they're as bad as the other lanes, bump it up. We already have the electronic signs all over the place, it wouldn't take new hardware.
Second, what Toyota is saying in the second sentence is that the black box is not designed to collect all data about an automobile accident for courtroom purposes, it is designed to collect data about what the subsystems were doing for engineering purposes. That's plenty sufficient to tell whether a pedal was down or not.
No, it's sufficient to show whether the car THOUGHT the pedal was down or not. This does not necessarily correlate to the physical state of the pedal.
"guarantee users' privacy and safety when surfing, and forbids them to restrict any liberty whatsoever"
These two conflict. establishing privacy and safety require the users behavior and software be carefully configured and updated, and that impedes on ones liberty to have absolute control over their own behavior and property.
It probably means the ISP must not do anything to compromise the privacy and safety of the users. Not much can be done about the users being directly compromised. This is going to be a conflict when someone is zombified though -- cut them off and step on their rights (but protect everyone else as obligated) or leave them alone even though it is known they are attacking others?
So you'll basically whine in hope that helps your job security. I'm sure that'll work fine.
Nope, I'm not in the IT department. The outsourcing company really does make our lives easier, but what do we do if the requirements of the Indian government are in direct opposition to the requirements of ours (federal and state)?
We have outsourced some of our repetitive grunt work to a company in India. Once we got the glitches and language barrier out of the way, they have proven they can do the job so long as they are told EXACTLY what to do. Otherwise they will halt the moment they go off-script and not continue until we have made a decision. Sometimes I think they "get confused" just to get a break on some of the shittier work, but there's no way to prove this. It doesn't make them extra money to do this, since they have more than one job in the pipeline at any given time.
The problem is that we have to use e-mail to communicate with them. It's hosted on our own server, and they use a VPN to access it. Will WE have to comply with these conditions as well? If so, they can kiss the contract goodbye because we are bound by privacy laws to keep this information out of the hands of third parties -- including foreign government agencies.
For example, one of the things they will do is check to make sure an insurance policy has the same drivers and vehicles on it that we submitted to the carrier. In order to do this, they must cross-reference the driver list containing the name, date of birth, driver license number, and state of residence. The middle two of these four are considered protected information under both state and federal statutes.
Similarly, I had a chemistry teacher that would light inverted beakers of hydrogen gas. One (probably damaged beforehand) shattered during the demonstration, showering everyone within 12 feet in glass shards.
After that, he used test tubes, and inspected them first.
This is because not telling you how to do it is simpler, faster, and incurs less liability than having to explain how to do it RIGHT. There's more to making explosives than just the chemicals that go into them.
They know full well that if you really want to do it yourself, the information is out there. They just don't want the remaining fingers pointed at THEM when it blows up in someone's hand.
The other three BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India) aren't going to step on China's toes. On the one hand they want to emulate Chinese growth, but at the same time they wish to avoid China's growing pains (even if they are usually kept under wraps). Don't expect a lot of help here -- the best the "West" can expect is for them to sit and watch.
Very few OSX users use a virus checker. Not a single one that I personally know of. And also not a single one of them has ever got a virus.
I have a simple question. If they have no virus checker but did have some bit of malware operating under the radar, how would you know? If it's quiet (to the user) and doesn't break anything, would you have any reason to go looking for it?
Probably why life insurance companies don't pay out on suicide.
On the contrary, they will pay if the policy has been in force for two years first -- at least in the states I have direct knowledge of (but I believe it is generally done this way even if NOT required by state law).
I think this is more likely than not. There are some vibrational modes that like to split into two at the slightest irregularity. In a square plate it shows up as the X mode split. I'm sure it's a lot more complex in a sphere. Just by their nature, these two new modes will generate beat frequencies, and slow ones at that -- the resonance from north to south just isn't going to be THAT much faster than the resonance across the equator.
It's quite likely there are multiple cycles going on, and they just might be stomping on each other right now. It's like putting your food in the cold spot of the microwave, which I think we've all done.;)
I was once at an after-hours party (really a small rave), and was already rolling when a group formed in a corner to pass around a couple joints. I was in this group of maybe 12 to 15 people, when MY BOSS WALKED IN THE FRONT DOOR. I completely forgot that (1) he lived less than a mile away, and (2) he had commented on this fact when he saw the flyer I had been given by another employee. Apparently he remembered!
Anyhow, he studiously pretended not to notice me until the circle broke up. Then he introduced me to his wife and bought me a drink (last call too).
Could he have gotten me canned? Probably. His successor eventually did, over something fairly trivial -- but I understood, the MAIN boss's son wanted the job. At least they offered me another position (a crappy one) which I declined. But at no point did they use that party as the reason (though I doubt it ever came up).
I had to go this route on multiple occasions. Unfortunately, it worked. I say "unfortunately" because I adopted the technique of lashing out unpredictably (useful in bullying situations) and applied it where it did not belong. Sometimes I still do. I tend to go from zero to asshole very quickly, without giving a whole lot of warning that someone has crossed the line.
Don't confuse apathy or poor education with censorship. There was an article in the last Time that was with someone paralyzed at Kent State. What proportion of those born after that in the US know anything other than having heard the name once?
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it Soldiers are gunning us down Should have been done long ago What if you knew her and Found her dead on the ground How can you run when you know
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If you are having MIDI latency problems under Windows, try ASIO4ALL. It's far from fancy, but it's FAST.
ASIO4ALL plus something other than onboard Realtek sound (I'm using a Turtle Beach Amigo II) is enough to let me use a lowly Acer Aspire One netbook as the synth module for my EWI USB. It works just fine. Even when I was using more expensive sound hardware (Lexicon Omega), the ASIO4ALL driver worked better than the native Lexicon driver!
For a fine example of this, one should listen to or watch Frank Zappa/Ensemble Modern's most excellent Welcome to the United States.
Yes, it is. A Native American is someone (at least partially) descended from pre-Columbian residents of the continent. A native American (no capital N) is the vast majority of the country -- every person born in the United States.
Similarly with your Western European example -- a Western European is a person from Western Europe (a defined region). Calling someone a western European is redundant if you consider all of Europe to be part of "the west", and does not necessarily indicate that the person is from the region known as Western Europe.
It also does nothing to keep you from using your phone to take a picture of the screen -- something I have done when the machine coughs up a BSOD.
As it would be for anyone who grew up playing baseball -- or was a hockey goalie. The catching glove goes on the non-dominant hand. Toss a small ball to someone who didn't play baseball, and chances are good they use both hands to catch it. Do the same with someone who did play baseball, and chances are they'll snatch it out of the air with the non-throwing hand.
It's mostly a matter of intent, even subconsciously. If you were to toss, say, a volleyball, then just about everyone is going to use both hands to catch it. A (gridiron) football is SOMETIMES catchable with one hand, but generally this is done only as a last resort -- and in such cases, it's usually whichever hand can reach it that does the catching. Something the size of a baseball or tennis ball is easily caught with one hand if it's not going too fast, and baseball players have the mindset of not only catching the ball, but immediately doing something with it like applying a tag or throwing it to someone else. In either case, catching it with the glove USUALLY makes sense. There are times that grabbing it with the bare hand makes more sense, and players do practice these situations. Still their first reaction is going to be to catch it with the "glove" hand, even if they're not wearing one.
I'm reasonably ambidextrous (bat and box left, but bowl, throw, golf, and swing a racquet right) and for me most things get done with one hand or the other just because that's how I practiced them. I learned to box from a lefty, and it never occurred to me to do it any other way. I swing a bat left-handed because it is an advantage to do so more often than not (two steps closer to first base, at the very least), and I don't spend much time swinging a bat anyhow. I could have gone either way with golf clubs, but right-handed clubs are by far the easier to find. In tennis the equipment doesn't change by handedness, but the two-hand backhand of a right-handed player is most similar to the swing of a LEFT-handed batter, which is a movement I already found familiar. Bowling is much like golf -- you might not think bowling balls are "right handed" but once the holes are drilled they sure are, and bowling shoes are by default designed for the left foot to slide. If the equipment works better one way or the other, I typically go with the flow. For anything else, it's a crapshoot. Darts I can throw either way, and sometimes I have to try both to see which one is working better on a given day. I also have mice on BOTH sides of my keyboard so that when I feel one wrist starting to get cramped up, I can switch. I noticed I grab the mouse a lot tighter with the left hand though, because it's slightly shakier if I don't.
I'm one of those people game designers DON'T have to worry about. Give me controls that makes sense and we're good to go. Still it amazes me that this isn't taken into consideration for EVERYONE. I had a girlfriend who was born without a left hand. She used a trackball on that side since it was mostly useless for typing, and had a keyboard with a trackpoint in it but only used the mouse buttons (mostly for dragging, as she could click the large trackball buttons adequately, but not at the same time as moving the ball). There was still a mouse on the right for everyone else. It was a simple and elegant solution. She was also a rather avid gamer and preferred PC games over the consoles of the day precisely because they DID allow the controls to be reassigned to suit her.
I also had a girlfriend whose entire family (including herself) was left-handed. At dinner it was always the guests who were relegated to the end of the table so as not to bump elbows.
My ex-girlfriend has a sticker on the bumper of her Prius that say "I SNEAK UP ON PEOPLE" and has a little stick figure guy being knocked over by the silhouette of a Prius.
The main problem I have encountered is in parking lots, when drivers start to back up without noticing people walking through the same parking lot. I have actually been hit twice, but both times I managed to jump before impact and not wrench a knee or ankle. Once I flopped on the back of the car, and the other I managed to get a foot on the bumper and push myself out of harm's way. In both cases, the drivers were shocked -- and when that wore off, I was accused of trying to scare them!
Since the problem largely seems to be with vehicles backing up unexpectedly, why not use an existing standard warning method when backing up -- like a beep? Trucks are so equipped, why not (part- or full-time) electric vehicles?
Replace "figs" with "oranges" or "melons" or "flowers", and you could still be describing Los Angeles. Minus the camels.
Mostly.
I have always wondered why the coffins need to be buried horizontally. It seems we could get two or three times as many graves in a cemetary if they were buried vertically, whether they are self-burying or not. There would still be room for flat stones and flower holders too.
So that's why my spiffy Altec Lansing stereo Bluetooth headset says Plantronics on it -- because companies don't like to stamp their names on things when they buy out companies.
Oh, wait...
The measure for the carpool lane should be miles*people per gallon. Say the limit for the HOV is set at 55 MMPG. This means you can only drive alone if your car gets 55 miles a gallon or better. If your car gets 27.5 MPG, you only need two people in it. Everyone else needs three.
If your car qualifies for occupancy 2 in the HOV, your annual tag is a different color. If it qualifies for occupancy ONE in the HOV (though how to classify plug-in hybrids remains an issue), you get yet another sticker. If you have no special sticker, you need three people in the car.
The greatest advantage would be that no extra stickers need be sent out -- you'd still get one every year just like you do now. It would just carry an additional meaning. Every year, if the MMPG threshold needs tweaking, it doesn't mean having to wait for a bunch of stickers to expire. If people want to take advantage of a rule change mid-year, they'd have to pay for a new sticker. Otherwise they wait till registration rolls around.
Optionally, each car could be tagged with its highway mileage when initially registered. Then each individual highway could have a different limit as appropriate. If the HOV lanes are barren, bump the limit down. If they're as bad as the other lanes, bump it up. We already have the electronic signs all over the place, it wouldn't take new hardware.
No, it's sufficient to show whether the car THOUGHT the pedal was down or not. This does not necessarily correlate to the physical state of the pedal.
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It probably means the ISP must not do anything to compromise the privacy and safety of the users. Not much can be done about the users being directly compromised. This is going to be a conflict when someone is zombified though -- cut them off and step on their rights (but protect everyone else as obligated) or leave them alone even though it is known they are attacking others?
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Nope, I'm not in the IT department. The outsourcing company really does make our lives easier, but what do we do if the requirements of the Indian government are in direct opposition to the requirements of ours (federal and state)?
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We have a contract with the company in India. We do NOT have a contract with the Indian government.
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We have outsourced some of our repetitive grunt work to a company in India. Once we got the glitches and language barrier out of the way, they have proven they can do the job so long as they are told EXACTLY what to do. Otherwise they will halt the moment they go off-script and not continue until we have made a decision. Sometimes I think they "get confused" just to get a break on some of the shittier work, but there's no way to prove this. It doesn't make them extra money to do this, since they have more than one job in the pipeline at any given time.
The problem is that we have to use e-mail to communicate with them. It's hosted on our own server, and they use a VPN to access it. Will WE have to comply with these conditions as well? If so, they can kiss the contract goodbye because we are bound by privacy laws to keep this information out of the hands of third parties -- including foreign government agencies.
For example, one of the things they will do is check to make sure an insurance policy has the same drivers and vehicles on it that we submitted to the carrier. In order to do this, they must cross-reference the driver list containing the name, date of birth, driver license number, and state of residence. The middle two of these four are considered protected information under both state and federal statutes.
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Similarly, I had a chemistry teacher that would light inverted beakers of hydrogen gas. One (probably damaged beforehand) shattered during the demonstration, showering everyone within 12 feet in glass shards.
After that, he used test tubes, and inspected them first.
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This is because not telling you how to do it is simpler, faster, and incurs less liability than having to explain how to do it RIGHT. There's more to making explosives than just the chemicals that go into them.
They know full well that if you really want to do it yourself, the information is out there. They just don't want the remaining fingers pointed at THEM when it blows up in someone's hand.
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The other three BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India) aren't going to step on China's toes. On the one hand they want to emulate Chinese growth, but at the same time they wish to avoid China's growing pains (even if they are usually kept under wraps). Don't expect a lot of help here -- the best the "West" can expect is for them to sit and watch.
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I have a simple question. If they have no virus checker but did have some bit of malware operating under the radar, how would you know? If it's quiet (to the user) and doesn't break anything, would you have any reason to go looking for it?
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Yes, the moon is a star. That is why our landings have always been at night.
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On the contrary, they will pay if the policy has been in force for two years first -- at least in the states I have direct knowledge of (but I believe it is generally done this way even if NOT required by state law).
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I think this is more likely than not. There are some vibrational modes that like to split into two at the slightest irregularity. In a square plate it shows up as the X mode split. I'm sure it's a lot more complex in a sphere. Just by their nature, these two new modes will generate beat frequencies, and slow ones at that -- the resonance from north to south just isn't going to be THAT much faster than the resonance across the equator.
It's quite likely there are multiple cycles going on, and they just might be stomping on each other right now. It's like putting your food in the cold spot of the microwave, which I think we've all done. ;)
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I was once at an after-hours party (really a small rave), and was already rolling when a group formed in a corner to pass around a couple joints. I was in this group of maybe 12 to 15 people, when MY BOSS WALKED IN THE FRONT DOOR. I completely forgot that (1) he lived less than a mile away, and (2) he had commented on this fact when he saw the flyer I had been given by another employee. Apparently he remembered!
Anyhow, he studiously pretended not to notice me until the circle broke up. Then he introduced me to his wife and bought me a drink (last call too).
Could he have gotten me canned? Probably. His successor eventually did, over something fairly trivial -- but I understood, the MAIN boss's son wanted the job. At least they offered me another position (a crappy one) which I declined. But at no point did they use that party as the reason (though I doubt it ever came up).
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I had to go this route on multiple occasions. Unfortunately, it worked. I say "unfortunately" because I adopted the technique of lashing out unpredictably (useful in bullying situations) and applied it where it did not belong. Sometimes I still do. I tend to go from zero to asshole very quickly, without giving a whole lot of warning that someone has crossed the line.
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Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know
(It's still played on the radio.)
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