Can you actually call that music? I wonder what it sounds like.
Not to start a dictionary war but from websters:
Main Entry: music
Pronunciation: 'myü-zik Function: noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English musik, from Old French musique, from Latin musica, from Greek mousikE any art presided over by the Muses, especially music, from feminine of mousikos of the Muses, from Mousa Muse 1 a : the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity b : vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony 2 a : an agreeable sound : EUPHONY b : musical quality (snip)
I would define music as sounds created with artistic intent.
Not all of the music I listen to neccessarily has rhythm and melody/harmony. And Harmony is a concept of western music, other musics are based on other mathematics.
Ambient music, which I like a lot, does not neccessarily have a discernable rhythm or melody, but can be very intersting to listen to.
There is only so much you can do when restricting yourself to octive based music. Just about everything that would sound nice to most people has already been done. That's why I find experimental music so interesting. It is different.
I like music that is sample based, and I like music that is made from unorthodox techniques, such as the current article suggests. I like normal music too but music like this just fascinates me.
I wonder if they could make it 2-3 times as big, which would still be pocket sized, and hold 10 times as much memory?
And does the sound record in stereo? At that size two microphones would probably be too close together to make much of a difference. It would still be great for recording concerts.
there is no current "go" program that can challenge a true master of that game. Though it's been a while since I've read this, so this may have changed. But this has been a reason why computer logic enthusiasts have been enthralled with this game for many a year.
I'm just getting into the game, and haven't even played against humans much. I must say it gets my interests more than chess. I have to ask, has the same amount of resources been put into creating a Go program as there has into Deep Blue?
I don't know. From what I understand the Japanese have been working on it for years, but how does it compare to the effort to create a master challenging chess program?
I can see how making a Go program would be more difficult. In Chess you move pieces, and there are significant limits on how you can move those pieces. Whereas in Go the pieces stay put, but you can put a new piece almost anywhere on the entire board, which usually has much more than 64 squares.
I'm glad I live in Oregon where we don't have to put up with that sales tax nonsense.
It is really nice knowing how much something will cost just from looking at the price tag. When I go to other states it is really weird.
Technically speaking, when I visit other states I shouldn't have to pay sales tax. Washington is the only state that has people that understand that. I can show them my drivers license and they take it off my bill. If I try to do that in any other state, including neighboring California, they will look at me like I'm insane.
As if the idea of not having a sales tax is insane. Sales Tax is what's really insane. It is a pain for the consume, it is a pain for the business, and you don't get to write it off your federal income taxes like you can with State income and property taxes.
There are even some politicians that want all internet companies to automatically collect income taxes and give them to the state of each consumer. It would be a big expense just figuring out the logistics, collecting and distributing taxes for the 48 states that have sales tax. Mail-order businesses have never been expeted to do this so why should internet companies?
Well, this article isn't about that, it is about people voluntarily submitting their out of state purchases for sales tax, which technically speaking, you have always supposed to do whether traveling or buying mail order. But most people just pay the local sales tax when traveling, and don't think about it because they don't come from a state without sales tax.
convince risk averse managers that they are safely following the largest herd.
Unfortunately, the largest herd is heading for a cliff.
Or would a better analogy be:
Unfortunately, the largest herd is surrounded by a pack of wolves.
The first is funnier, but the second is probably more accurate (IE script kiddies mostly target MS Products), and it was more along the lines of my first thought.
Well the good news is that the people that actually care about this study are the people that understand its shortcomings and inaccuracies.
The bad news is the PHBs don't understand the study, but will try to make business discussions after reading it anyway. PHBs don't need to understand it, they're the boss.
With any luck, the businesses that employ PHBs will go under, but that is a long, slow, and painful process.
so that the "community standards" of the whole country will be decided the citizens of the most conservative counties of the state that elected Rick Santorum senator.
Americans are fucking schizophrenic, and it's only getting worse. This Puritanical neoconservatism is really, truly dangerous.
Don't read their websites unless you don't need to sleep tonight. After the FCC ruled that you can use "The F Word" as long as you are not using it to describe copulation, the AFA had a letter writting campaign that has now but a stranglehold on talk radio.
They also lead a letter writting campaign for Jane'ts Boobie. I heard that there were 40 Thousand letters complaining about that sent to CBS. What was a lot less publicized was that they received ten times as many letters complaining about their refusal to show the moveon.org ad.
So maybe there are more people against censorship than for it, but the mainstream liberal media isn't reporting it?
I hope AMC is okay with me camping in their lawn for the next year.
So, you unemployeed too? And, after living rent-free for over a year, do we have to watch the movie when it comes out? I suppose living on the street for a year could make just about anyone deranged enough to enjoy it.
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Well, If you don't like it, you don't have to install it or listen to it. I agree with you about the creeping fascism, I just don't think this is the best example. Issues of Corporate Personhood, Campaign Finance, and Government Contracts are much better examples of how our freedoms are being taken away from Citizens, and into the hands of Corporations. (Or should I say Big Corporations, since most small business are OK?)
On the other hand, I think that reverse-engineering the codecs for competing products (GPL or otherwise) should be perfectly legal. If you want to have the obiquitous protocal fine, but if other people can figure out how to play it, then they should be allowed to promote competing products.
Speaking of which, are there any good media players for Linux that play Real and WMA files/streams, but are not put out by Real or MS?
People have mentioned Real Alternative but it didn't look like they have a Linux player.
make that around 3am every morning, and drop off a printout of your daily spam on his doorstep for good measure.:) Yes I know it'd probably be at least partially illegal
Why settle for Partially Illegal, wrap the spam around a brick and um.... nevermind.
Maybe humans aren't meant to live in "large organizations", leaving them stranded without a culture to pass on from generation to generation for thousands of years?
Under the new world order we'll have a culture. Unfortunately it will be a monoculture.
I hope it doesn't come to that but it is already forming.
I seem to remember the bike being an electric vehicle
That's what I was wondering. In the world of Neo-Tokyo I think most of the vehicles are electric, maybe predicting a shortage of Oil, and yet they still have some way to produce electricity. At least all the Motorcycles were electric.
I remember it being explained somewhere that the vehicles are electric but browsing through the first volume of the comic haven't spied it. I think it was explained on the Bonus DVD to the movie.
yes, a condom in a shipment of corn flakes would cause a problem
It would certainly be a choking hazard, but I think what they are trying to get at is that it is a bad thing for a woman who is pregnant, who plans to give birth, to "accidently" injest contraceptive drugs, especially if they are in the last trimester.
The localities could easily decide, when the franchises come up for renewal, to make it a condition of the renewal that at least n ISP's be allowed to use the cable system to connect to the customers.
Thats sort of what the city of Portland tried to do. Well, it wasn't renewal as much it was getting permission from the local regulatory agency to provide new services. It started when TCI was the cable company, and then AT&T bought them out. Well, since AT&T didn't like the regulatory agency's decision, they sued either the agency, or the city of Portland (I forget which) and won.
At the time I tried to explain the situation to non-geek acquaintances. They just couldn't understand.
But AT&T owns the infastructure so they can do whatever they want with it. No, the city owns the infrastructure and leases the rights to use and maintain it to the cable company.
But AT&T has the lease so they have the right to do whatever they want with it. No, the lease did not include the right to be an internet provider. For new rights they have to negotiate with the regulatory body, whose job it is to look after consumers.
But AT&T shouldn't be regulated. Regulation is bad and the agency has no right to dictate these terms. It should be the same rules for Internet as for Cable. It isn't fair to make new rules for them..... Providing cable access is distinctly different from being an ISP. Cable is a content provider issue, but with internet you become a common carrier which is a whole different set of rules.
AT&T (and other providers) want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to maintain a government mandated monopoly, but to be free of regulation as if they were not. And they'll sue if they don't get their way.
Comcast has since bought out AT&T in Portland. I also found this followup article from a year or so ago when the ACLU got involved.
At one point I think the city was considering having competition of cable providers, up to 5 providers for each household. I'm not sure what became of this. Maybe it died when the recession hit.
I'm a Republican turned Libertarian who voted for Nader. Al Gore has connections with some of the scarriest people in the Religious Right. He is the main reason I never considered the Democrats when I left the Republican party. He was the biggest advocate for censorship when he was in the Senate (Liberman's since replaced him) and had/has a disturbing insterest in the internet. There was no way I would ever vote for Gore.
I'll admit that the insanity of the Bush administration has suprised me (and I had very low expectations). So I'm not going to vote for Nader in the next election, but if the Democrats pick Liberman than I'm voting for Cthulhu.
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Not to start a dictionary war but from websters:
I would define music as sounds created with artistic intent.
Not all of the music I listen to neccessarily has rhythm and melody/harmony. And Harmony is a concept of western music, other musics are based on other mathematics.
Ambient music, which I like a lot, does not neccessarily have a discernable rhythm or melody, but can be very intersting to listen to.
There is only so much you can do when restricting yourself to octive based music. Just about everything that would sound nice to most people has already been done. That's why I find experimental music so interesting. It is different.
I like music that is sample based, and I like music that is made from unorthodox techniques, such as the current article suggests. I like normal music too but music like this just fascinates me.
if you ever move to California
People don't move from Oregon to California.
They move from California to Oregon.
I'm never going back!
I wonder if they could make it 2-3 times as big, which would still be pocket sized, and hold 10 times as much memory?
And does the sound record in stereo?
At that size two microphones would probably be too close together to make much of a difference.
It would still be great for recording concerts.
And how much do these things cost?
there is no current "go" program that can challenge a true master of that game. Though it's been a while since I've read this, so this may have changed. But this has been a reason why computer logic enthusiasts have been enthralled with this game for many a year.
I'm just getting into the game, and haven't even played against humans much. I must say it gets my interests more than chess. I have to ask, has the same amount of resources been put into creating a Go program as there has into Deep Blue?
I don't know. From what I understand the Japanese have been working on it for years, but how does it compare to the effort to create a master challenging chess program?
I can see how making a Go program would be more difficult. In Chess you move pieces, and there are significant limits on how you can move those pieces. Whereas in Go the pieces stay put, but you can put a new piece almost anywhere on the entire board, which usually has much more than 64 squares.
I'm glad I live in Oregon where we don't have to put up with that sales tax nonsense.
It is really nice knowing how much something will cost just from looking at the price tag. When I go to other states it is really weird.
Technically speaking, when I visit other states I shouldn't have to pay sales tax. Washington is the only state that has people that understand that. I can show them my drivers license and they take it off my bill. If I try to do that in any other state, including neighboring California, they will look at me like I'm insane.
As if the idea of not having a sales tax is insane. Sales Tax is what's really insane. It is a pain for the consume, it is a pain for the business, and you don't get to write it off your federal income taxes like you can with State income and property taxes.
There are even some politicians that want all internet companies to automatically collect income taxes and give them to the state of each consumer. It would be a big expense just figuring out the logistics, collecting and distributing taxes for the 48 states that have sales tax. Mail-order businesses have never been expeted to do this so why should internet companies?
Well, this article isn't about that, it is about people voluntarily submitting their out of state purchases for sales tax, which technically speaking, you have always supposed to do whether traveling or buying mail order. But most people just pay the local sales tax when traveling, and don't think about it because they don't come from a state without sales tax.
convince risk averse managers that they are safely following the largest herd.
Unfortunately, the largest herd is heading for a cliff.
Or would a better analogy be:
Unfortunately, the largest herd is surrounded by a pack of wolves.
The first is funnier, but the second is probably more accurate (IE script kiddies mostly target MS Products), and it was more along the lines of my first thought.
Well the good news is that the people that actually care about this study are the people that understand its shortcomings and inaccuracies.
The bad news is the PHBs don't understand the study, but will try to make business discussions after reading it anyway. PHBs don't need to understand it, they're the boss.
With any luck, the businesses that employ PHBs will go under, but that is a long, slow, and painful process.
so that the "community standards" of the whole country will be decided the citizens of the most conservative counties of the state that elected Rick Santorum senator.
You forgot to link Santorum.
Hope this helps.
People are too damn patriotic to see thru the truth.
Patriotism is love of country.
Nationalism is love of government.
Who do you think is supporting the current regime?
I've got to give them credit for creative funding!
They better look for different funding then.
Ashcroft is going after pr0n!
Quick! Everybody Panic!
Americans are fucking schizophrenic, and it's only getting worse. This Puritanical neoconservatism is really, truly dangerous.
Don't read their websites unless you don't need to sleep tonight. After the FCC ruled that you can use "The F Word" as long as you are not using it to describe copulation, the AFA had a letter writting campaign that has now but a stranglehold on talk radio.
They also lead a letter writting campaign for Jane'ts Boobie. I heard that there were 40 Thousand letters complaining about that sent to CBS. What was a lot less publicized was that they received ten times as many letters complaining about their refusal to show the moveon.org ad.
So maybe there are more people against censorship than for it, but the mainstream liberal media isn't reporting it?
I hope AMC is okay with me camping in their lawn for the next year.
So, you unemployeed too?
And, after living rent-free for over a year, do we have to watch the movie when it comes out?
I suppose living on the street for a year could make just about anyone deranged enough to enjoy it.
Well, If you don't like it, you don't have to install it or listen to it. I agree with you about the creeping fascism, I just don't think this is the best example. Issues of Corporate Personhood, Campaign Finance, and Government Contracts are much better examples of how our freedoms are being taken away from Citizens, and into the hands of Corporations. (Or should I say Big Corporations, since most small business are OK?)
On the other hand, I think that reverse-engineering the codecs for competing products (GPL or otherwise) should be perfectly legal. If you want to have the obiquitous protocal fine, but if other people can figure out how to play it, then they should be allowed to promote competing products.
Speaking of which, are there any good media players for Linux that play Real and WMA files/streams, but are not put out by Real or MS?
People have mentioned Real Alternative but it didn't look like they have a Linux player.
make that around 3am every morning, and drop off a printout of your daily spam on his doorstep for good measure. :) Yes I know it'd probably be at least partially illegal
Why settle for Partially Illegal, wrap the spam around a brick and um.... nevermind.
I doubt they will stand the /. effect...
Or at least make some people wonder why so many people are interested in that address.
Maybe humans aren't meant to live in "large organizations", leaving them stranded without a culture to pass on from generation to generation for thousands of years?
Under the new world order we'll have a culture.
Unfortunately it will be a monoculture.
I hope it doesn't come to that but it is already forming.
It is called Fascism.
Mussolini said he would prefer it to be called corporatism.
I seem to remember the bike being an electric vehicle
That's what I was wondering.
In the world of Neo-Tokyo I think most of the vehicles are electric, maybe predicting a shortage of Oil, and yet they still have some way to produce electricity. At least all the Motorcycles were electric.
I remember it being explained somewhere that the vehicles are electric but browsing through the first volume of the comic haven't spied it. I think it was explained on the Bonus DVD to the movie.
yes, a condom in a shipment of corn flakes would cause a problem
It would certainly be a choking hazard, but I think what they are trying to get at is that it is a bad thing for a woman who is pregnant, who plans to give birth, to "accidently" injest contraceptive drugs, especially if they are in the last trimester.
The localities could easily decide, when the franchises come up for renewal, to make it a condition of the renewal that at least n ISP's be allowed to use the cable system to connect to the customers.
Thats sort of what the city of Portland tried to do. Well, it wasn't renewal as much it was getting permission from the local regulatory agency to provide new services. It started when TCI was the cable company, and then AT&T bought them out. Well, since AT&T didn't like the regulatory agency's decision, they sued either the agency, or the city of Portland (I forget which) and won.
At the time I tried to explain the situation to non-geek acquaintances. They just couldn't understand.
But AT&T owns the infastructure so they can do whatever they want with it. No, the city owns the infrastructure and leases the rights to use and maintain it to the cable company.
But AT&T has the lease so they have the right to do whatever they want with it. No, the lease did not include the right to be an internet provider. For new rights they have to negotiate with the regulatory body, whose job it is to look after consumers.
But AT&T shouldn't be regulated. Regulation is bad and the agency has no right to dictate these terms. It should be the same rules for Internet as for Cable. It isn't fair to make new rules for them..... Providing cable access is distinctly different from being an ISP. Cable is a content provider issue, but with internet you become a common carrier which is a whole different set of rules.
AT&T (and other providers) want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to maintain a government mandated monopoly, but to be free of regulation as if they were not. And they'll sue if they don't get their way.
Comcast has since bought out AT&T in Portland.
I also found this followup article from a year or so ago when the ACLU got involved.
At one point I think the city was considering having competition of cable providers, up to 5 providers for each household. I'm not sure what became of this. Maybe it died when the recession hit.
I'm a Republican turned Libertarian who voted for Nader. Al Gore has connections with some of the scarriest people in the Religious Right. He is the main reason I never considered the Democrats when I left the Republican party. He was the biggest advocate for censorship when he was in the Senate (Liberman's since replaced him) and had/has a disturbing insterest in the internet. There was no way I would ever vote for Gore.
I'll admit that the insanity of the Bush administration has suprised me (and I had very low expectations). So I'm not going to vote for Nader in the next election, but if the Democrats pick Liberman than I'm voting for Cthulhu.