Some of the *sole* reasons gamers are running Windows 10:
* Typical MS bullshit about not supporting DirectX 12 on Windows 7, They did the same shit when they tried to force gamers to migrate from XP to Vista via DirectX 10. * MS artificially not supporting newer CPUs even though AMD officially has drivers for Threadripper
Ask gamers to tell you ANY _new_ features that are DirectX 12 only and not available in DirectX 10? You'll get *crickets.* Gamers don't fucking care. They just want to play the latest shiny.
First off, having one teacher for ~30 students is an absolutely shitty way to teach. The fast learners are bored while they wait for the rest of the class. The slow learners are always struggling as they try to understand concepts. The best kind of teaching is one on one, self-directed learning.
When I was in high school one of my classmates was struggling to get 50% in Trigonometry. I spent one hour with him and he got 80% on the next test. The teacher thought he cheated until I said I tutored him. He was NOT stupid -- he just learnt a DIFFERENT way from HOW the teacher was teaching. A good teacher MUST use different ways of learning: Algebraic, Visual, Tactile, Auditory. The focus is HEAVY on symbol manipulation with some visual learning, and almost zero tactile or auditory modalities of learning.
The fact that Music is not a required course shows how brain-dead the education system is. Music and Mathematics go together like a ball and glove. So what happens? We neuter Mathematics and then wonder why the kids are bored out of their fucking minds. Gee, lets ignore 80% of the OTHER fun ways to learn.
Kids used to learn cyclic addition aka Number Theory's modular arithmetic when they were taught how to read an analog clock. No one ever stopped to tell them that they were doing advanced math. Gee, who knew!
Calculus is differentiation (sub-dividing things into infinitesimals) and integration (summing infinitesimals up) -- it isn't rocket science. The secret to teaching all mathematics is make it _engaging._ You can make a game out of ANYTHING. But that involves work -- and teachers don't have time to prepare for that. Their schedule is already over-loaded -- they don't have time to personalize and individualize learning because we don't value it and give the excuse that we can't afford it. But yet we can make missiles that cost a million each.Our financial priories are completely fucked up so we are left with a crap teaching modality.
> but the raw mechanics of calc and differential equations aren't things you can master by doing anything other than rote work
Again bullshit. That's because that is used as a Litmus test to tell if the students know how to _apply_ the concepts. Having students repeat mind-numbering, boring, exercises is the symptom of a shitty teaching methodology. That's not to say "practice" is bad, but practice for practice sake is stupid. The difference is musicians and great teachers know: perfect practice makes perfect. You need to be practicing the _right_ things. Doing the same set of dumb exercises over and over doesn't teach kids critical thinking -- only formulaic, no-original-thought, regurgitated memorization.
When you engage students one on one, and go at _their_ pace, they are able to learn, and apply, FAR faster more then the traditional, indoctrination, mode of "teaching".
If learning isn't fun -- then you are doing it wrong.
Wow! That's an VERY interesting bit of music trivia. That "Spaced" track is from 1969 too! It lasts a little longer, but dam, that THX version was _definitely_ inspired / ripped-it-off! That's pretty cool you know Paul Beaver too.
Interestingly enough Iannis Xenakis's 1953 song "Metastasis" @0:30 has a similar, but slightly different glissando. I wonder if Paul Beaver knew about it?
It is almost comical to see a phrase of music become popular 14 (or 30) years later. Shame that Beaver & Krause was never acknowledged.
> "Spaced", or rather the final movements of it now called "Deep Note", was used at the very beginning, as the House Lights were slowly brought down, and the deep Blue Stage Lights were slowly brought up, and...
You wouldn't happen to know what year that happened by chance? Before 1983 ?
-- Stupid Juvenile Whiners tactics Rule #4: Never take responsibility
I had always wondered if the foley sounds for Tribbles were doves. Thanks for the confirmation / details! THIS type of article is the ones I remember from/.'s days of yore.
Any other resources for how (modern) SFX are created? I know Indianna Jones' whipcrack is a bit of a trade secret but recently THX sheet music for "Deep Note" sound was shared
There is even an (poor) YouTube interview with its creator.
Only children censor. Adults discuss and even laugh about "taboo" subjects.
Over in/r/minecraft mentioning a server's name is "illegal" (I'm assuming the intent was to stop spam/advertising.) So how does one discuss the history of popular Minecraft servers such as 2b2t if they can't be named???
Oh FFS stop with the excessive dongle is a "solution" bullshit. We don't need more fucking dongles; we need LESS of them.
Nice straw man of "first world problems" -- the fucking problem was CREATED by Apple, not us. We were able to both listen AND charge our phones with the previous phone(s). We _already_ have wired headphones that work -- we don't need to buy overpriced, crappy, wireless ones.
Agreed! Knowing WHY something was moderating is extremely handy./. blows reddit out of the water. You know reddit has jumped the shark when redditards down-vote you just for asking a question! WTF? *facepalm*
It has gotten so bad that there are mini-banners "Please don't downvote comments based on opinion.", Gee, no shit, Sherlock.
Worse, some sub-reddits like/r/minecraft censor mentioning a server name. While I can understand the intent of trying to minimize spam/advertising, it ALSO has the shitty side effect that there goes ANY meaningful discussion on discussing the HISTORY of WHY a particular server is/was popular such as 2b2t, etc.
For example, I love seeing "epic" builds. But apparently mentioning that they are on 2b2t is "illegal" and thus you are down-voted by all the redditards for "violating" the rules. On/. a post like that might get marked "Informative" despite being off-topic.
I should have put air quotes around: You get TWO "numbers:" to signal that infinities are concepts and not numbers -- despite that they tend to be treated like numbers.
When you add, subtract, multiply or divide the "real numbers" used in everyday life, you always get another real number
*facepalm*
NO, you do not. 0/0 is a singularity because it does NOT produce another real number. You get TWO numbers: +Infnity, and -Infinity and thus Mathematicians say the operation is "undefined".
Considering Patrick is broke (Why isn't this news?) he couldn't afford it:
I've been mulling over exactly how to tell you all this, and I guess this is as good a place as any. The store has been ripping me off horribly, and I'm very nearly broke. I have no evidence that they've ever done anything with donations besides line their own pockets. I've not been paid any money by them in two years. That was upon the 14.2 release (and followed another long period of time with no income). The 14.2 release generated nearly $100K in revenue. The store gave me $15K, and later said that I was "overpaid".
When I agreed to set up the store, it was structured as a company where they owned 60%, and my wife and I owned 40%. I had not yet escaped California and would have quickly gone broke there with a house underwater had I not taken the deal. And 60% seemed fair, since the idea was that the company would be providing health insurance, paying for the production of the goods, and handling shipping and related customer service. And when my daughter was born and needed surgery and continuing medical attention I could hardly jeopardize our insurance in the days before the ACA. I was between a rock and a hard place like many residents of the US. Since then, the store has ceased to provide any benefits, and shouldn't even be getting a 50/50 split in my opinion, much less looting the coffers for 81+% (anything they want to spend money on is an expense, apparently, while any expenses I have to support the actual project come out of the peanuts they toss me). I only found out about how bad it really was last year when I finally managed to get some numbers out of them. I thought the sales were just that bad, and was really rather depressed about it. Another side note - the ownership of the 60% portion of the store changed hands behind my back. Nobody thought they needed to tell me about this. At that point I'd say things got considerably worse for me.
This is sad news -- I guess he should have retained 51% of the store.:-(
"The first copyright privilege in England bears date 1518 and was issued to Richard Pynson, King's Printer, the successor to William Caxton. The privilege gives a monopoly for the term of two years. The date is 15 years later than that of the first privilege issued in France. Early copyright privileges were called "monopolies,"...
> The original copyright terms covered the author long enough to gain a decent living for his lifetime
Copyright was invented by --> Publishers <-- to maintain control by preventing other publishers from making a profit:
"The history of copyright law starts with early privileges and monopolies granted to printers of books. The British Statute of Anne 1710, full title "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned", was the first copyright statute. Initially copyright law only applied to the copying of books."
and
"Pope Alexander VI issued a bull in 1501 against the unlicensed printing of books and in 1559 the Index Expurgatorius, or List of Prohibited Books, was issued for the first time."
and
"The first copyright privilege in England bears date 1518 and was issued to Richard Pynson, King's Printer, the successor to William Caxton. The privilege gives a monopoly for the term of two years. The date is 15 years later than that of the first privilege issued in France. Early copyright privileges were called "monopolies,"...
and
"In England the printers, known as stationers, formed a collective organization, known as the Stationers' Company. In the 16th century the Stationers' Company was given the power to require all lawfully printed books to be entered into its register. Only members of the Stationers' Company could enter books into the register. This meant that the Stationers' Company achieved a dominant position over publishing in 17th century England"
Also the game itself is very depressing. I couldn't have said it better then Hathur:
I very hesitantly played the game. I'm not remotely surprised it didn't sell well, it has nothing to do with Let's play. I've played many games that are similar (light to non existant gameplay, heavy on narrative) despite having also seen let's plays of those games (Telltale games, interactive novels etc). The reason this game likely isn't selling well is because it is woefully depressing. Only a very small percentage of people want to be enveloped in the very real emotional agony and despair associated with what cancer does to somebody's life. I'm a cancer survivor myself and going through this game was hell for me because of the emotions and fears it brings up. Even my family and friends refused to touch this game or watch it on YouTube because they said "Nope, watching you go through cancer was torture enough... don't want or need more of that."
Most people (myself included) prefer to play games for escapism from the drudgery or unpleasantness of life.. you work hard, had a crap day and you go home... games are a great way to wind down and escape the stress and burden of every day life. This game only compounds on your burden, making you feel pain and sorrow and fear.. most people don't want to face or endure that, especially if they have some of it in their life.
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Some of the *sole* reasons gamers are running Windows 10:
* Typical MS bullshit about not supporting DirectX 12 on Windows 7, They did the same shit when they tried to force gamers to migrate from XP to Vista via DirectX 10.
* MS artificially not supporting newer CPUs even though AMD officially has drivers for Threadripper
Ask gamers to tell you ANY _new_ features that are DirectX 12 only and not available in DirectX 10? You'll get *crickets.* Gamers don't fucking care. They just want to play the latest shiny.
They obviously don't care about Windows Spyware
How many of those running Windows 10 were forced upgrades?
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Only children censor.
Adults discuss, and even laugh about "taboo" subjects.
Considering MS just started to list their 79+ endpoints, I doubt they care about users knowing what data they actually send:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
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Only children censor.
Adults discuss, and even laugh about "taboo" subjects.
Indeed.
Is there a full descriptive list of recommended KB updates to install since MS can't actually provide a 1-line summary of each KB ?
> There is no "fun" way to learn calculus.
Bullshit. Go read A Mathematician's Lament
First off, having one teacher for ~30 students is an absolutely shitty way to teach. The fast learners are bored while they wait for the rest of the class. The slow learners are always struggling as they try to understand concepts. The best kind of teaching is one on one, self-directed learning.
When I was in high school one of my classmates was struggling to get 50% in Trigonometry. I spent one hour with him and he got 80% on the next test. The teacher thought he cheated until I said I tutored him. He was NOT stupid -- he just learnt a DIFFERENT way from HOW the teacher was teaching. A good teacher MUST use different ways of learning: Algebraic, Visual, Tactile, Auditory. The focus is HEAVY on symbol manipulation with some visual learning, and almost zero tactile or auditory modalities of learning.
The fact that Music is not a required course shows how brain-dead the education system is. Music and Mathematics go together like a ball and glove. So what happens? We neuter Mathematics and then wonder why the kids are bored out of their fucking minds. Gee, lets ignore 80% of the OTHER fun ways to learn.
Kids used to learn cyclic addition aka Number Theory's modular arithmetic when they were taught how to read an analog clock. No one ever stopped to tell them that they were doing advanced math. Gee, who knew!
Calculus is differentiation (sub-dividing things into infinitesimals) and integration (summing infinitesimals up) -- it isn't rocket science. The secret to teaching all mathematics is make it _engaging._ You can make a game out of ANYTHING. But that involves work -- and teachers don't have time to prepare for that. Their schedule is already over-loaded -- they don't have time to personalize and individualize learning because we don't value it and give the excuse that we can't afford it. But yet we can make missiles that cost a million each. Our financial priories are completely fucked up so we are left with a crap teaching modality.
> but the raw mechanics of calc and differential equations aren't things you can master by doing anything other than rote work
Again bullshit. That's because that is used as a Litmus test to tell if the students know how to _apply_ the concepts. Having students repeat mind-numbering, boring, exercises is the symptom of a shitty teaching methodology. That's not to say "practice" is bad, but practice for practice sake is stupid. The difference is musicians and great teachers know: perfect practice makes perfect. You need to be practicing the _right_ things. Doing the same set of dumb exercises over and over doesn't teach kids critical thinking -- only formulaic, no-original-thought, regurgitated memorization.
When you engage students one on one, and go at _their_ pace, they are able to learn, and apply, FAR faster more then the traditional, indoctrination, mode of "teaching".
If learning isn't fun -- then you are doing it wrong.
Thanks for the YouTube link.
Wow! That's an VERY interesting bit of music trivia. That "Spaced" track is from 1969 too! It lasts a little longer, but dam, that THX version was _definitely_ inspired / ripped-it-off! That's pretty cool you know Paul Beaver too.
Interestingly enough Iannis Xenakis's 1953 song "Metastasis" @0:30 has a similar, but slightly different glissando. I wonder if Paul Beaver knew about it?
It is almost comical to see a phrase of music become popular 14 (or 30) years later. Shame that Beaver & Krause was never acknowledged.
> "Spaced", or rather the final movements of it now called "Deep Note", was used at the very beginning, as the House Lights were slowly brought down, and the deep Blue Stage Lights were slowly brought up, and ...
You wouldn't happen to know what year that happened by chance? Before 1983 ?
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Stupid Juvenile Whiners tactics Rule #4: Never take responsibility
I had always wondered if the foley sounds for Tribbles were doves. Thanks for the confirmation / details! THIS type of article is the ones I remember from /.'s days of yore.
Any other resources for how (modern) SFX are created? I know Indianna Jones' whipcrack is a bit of a trade secret but recently THX sheet music for "Deep Note" sound was shared
There is even an (poor) YouTube interview with its creator.
THX Deep Note with Dr. Andy Moorer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Mojang (makers of Minecraft) have gone full SJW retard
"Riding" digital pixels such as pig, horse, dolphin, in a video game is animal cruelty???
*double facepalm*
> Linux has VERY poor documentation
Not just Linux but a lot of GPL software does as well in my experience. :-(((
Proof: How many man pages actually have examples.
This is one area the *BSDs do better. (Security too, but that's a separate discussion.)
Only children censor.
Adults discuss and even laugh about "taboo" subjects.
Over in /r/minecraft mentioning a server's name is "illegal" (I'm assuming the intent was to stop spam/advertising.) So how does one discuss the history of popular Minecraft servers such as 2b2t if they can't be named???
Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.
Mojang (makers of Minecraft) have already gone full SJW retard
"Riding" digital pixels such as pig, horse, dolphin, in a video game is animal cruelty???
*facepalm*
You keep using these words "animal cruelty", it doesn't mean what you think it means.
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Only children censor.
Adults discuss and even laugh about "taboo" subjects.
Oh FFS stop with the excessive dongle is a "solution" bullshit. We don't need more fucking dongles; we need LESS of them.
Nice straw man of "first world problems" -- the fucking problem was CREATED by Apple, not us. We were able to both listen AND charge our phones with the previous phone(s). We _already_ have wired headphones that work -- we don't need to buy overpriced, crappy, wireless ones.
Quite astroturfing already.
> including a splitter so i can charge my iphone whilst listening to music
Which splitter are you using? TIA.
/sarcasm I mean, its not like corporations bribe, er, lobby congress, right?
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The Best thing about America: Capitalism
The Worst thing about America:Capitalism
Agreed! Knowing WHY something was moderating is extremely handy. /. blows reddit out of the water. You know reddit has jumped the shark when redditards down-vote you just for asking a question! WTF? *facepalm*
It has gotten so bad that there are mini-banners "Please don't downvote comments based on opinion.", Gee, no shit, Sherlock.
Worse, some sub-reddits like /r/minecraft censor mentioning a server name. While I can understand the intent of trying to minimize spam/advertising, it ALSO has the shitty side effect that there goes ANY meaningful discussion on discussing the HISTORY of WHY a particular server is/was popular such as 2b2t, etc.
For example, I love seeing "epic" builds. But apparently mentioning that they are on 2b2t is "illegal" and thus you are down-voted by all the redditards for "violating" the rules. On /. a post like that might get marked "Informative" despite being off-topic.
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I would love to see forums with combines the best of the two: the breadth of Reddit with the depth of Slashdot.
Does this exist?
Also:
If you can't innovate, litigate!
Except the _exceptions_ themselves ARE interesting.
They could have easily added a minor foot note:
Likewise the Complex number is crap for omitting the detail that i represents a 90 degree counter clockwise rotation.
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Mojang "Logic"
"Riding" digital pixels such as pig, horse, dolphin, in a video game is animal cruelty???
*facepalm*
Thanks for the catch! I knew I missing something.
I should have put air quotes around: You get TWO "numbers:" to signal that infinities are concepts and not numbers -- despite that they tend to be treated like numbers.
Thanks again!
Who ever put together that diagram about "Four Special Number Systems" was completely clueless about Mathematical Singularities
*facepalm*
NO, you do not. 0/0 is a singularity because it does NOT produce another real number. You get TWO numbers: +Infnity, and -Infinity and thus Mathematicians say the operation is "undefined".
And yet here you are on /. whining about it. :-)
*zing*
Oh look, imaginary value dropped. Sucks to be you.
When is the /. article for when Fuckerberg takes a shit?
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Insecure children censor.
Adults communicate about taboo subjects, and laugh.
Considering Patrick is broke (Why isn't this news?) he couldn't afford it:
This is sad news -- I guess he should have retained 51% of the store. :-(
Modern Copyright started in 1518.
> The original copyright terms covered the author long enough to gain a decent living for his lifetime
Copyright was invented by --> Publishers <-- to maintain control by preventing other publishers from making a profit:
and
and
and
History of Copyright Law
Indeed -- visual experience is exactly right.
Also the game itself is very depressing. I couldn't have said it better then Hathur:
You, DO you realize that 33% of Azure is running Linux, right?
* http://www.zdnet.com/article/l...
And they even support Linux hosting!
* https://azure.microsoft.com/en...
This guy repeating himself is almost as much "fun" as watching Rick and Morty's
Plumbus: How They Do It