I didn't find Liebowitz all that depressing. At least we're told that there are colonies in space where man still survives.
How about On The Beach by Nevil Shute. Written at the height of the cold war, it starts at a point in time where everything in the world is dead or soon to be because of a nuclear war, except Australia, South Africa, and Southern South America. But that is only because the wind patterns haven't brought the fallout there yet. The story takes place in Australia and everyone is just waiting for the seasons to change when the weather patterns will bring the radiation south and kill everyone there too. It follows several people and through them looks at how people live knowing it is just a matter of time till everyone is dead. The author maintains that where they can, people just try to live normal lives because that is all their they can do without going into overload. Some do lose it becoming alcoholics and extreme risk takers, etc. Some are in complete denial. Some like an American sub commander, internally can't accept his family is dead and buys things for them for when he goes home. Rationally he knows they have to be dead, but can't help but deny it inside.
The commander is in charge of a nuclear submarine that was docked in Australia at the time all the hostilities literally went ballistic. They go to Puget Sound because they hear intermitant transmissions from a short wave transmitter using morse code. While up there they determine radiatin levels aren't dropping. After someone goes ashore in air tanks they find the transmission was a broken window and a curtain brushing the sending unit. Power is on because the automatic systems haven't crashed yet.
They go back to Melbourne and the government there starts handing out suicide pills so people don't have to endure radiation poisoning before finally dying. The book ends with all the characters including a young family with a baby born just before the war, killing themselves as the radiation in the area reaches leathal levels.
I read the book once. It was incredibly well written. One of the best I ever read. I can't read it again. It is way too depressing. WAY too depressing. I tried once and before I even read a page I had a sort of reaction to it. I had to put it down. There was no way I could read it again. I've read Liebowitz a few times and will probably read it again some time. Not anywhere near the coefficient of depresivity that On The Beach puts out. FWIW I read it in the 70s as a teen, when you could still see B-52s routinely flying north from SAC bases in the U.S. on training runs and patrols. Back when 747s were still fairly rare you could still tell the B-52s apart by how damned high they were flying and the contrails. You could tell they had a massive number of engines by the contrails. Different time.
I'd rather have a jury decide if a person is guilty of murder or should go free than a judge based on an arbitrary interpretation of law. Put all the facts on the table including on how the murder weapon was found. Let the jury determine the verdict. The jury has traditionally been trusted to determine the believability of a person on the stand and the evidence given... that isn't the judge's job, nor should it be. That's why the jury is made up of peers. Judges let the accused essentially go free in these cases not because the evidence is invalid or planted. That doesn't even come into the picture. It is only because the accused was violated. His or her rights were violated. So punish the person who did that. If a guy on trial for murder were shot while in custody would you throw some random guy in society in jail for that and let the policeman go free? And if he lived would you drop the murder conviction? Of course not. Violating the prisoner's rights in that way doesn't change the truth and fact of his crime. And the right people are punished for those violations. An illegal search is no different in terms of violating their rights. And the fundamental truths and facts of the crime still should not be suppressed. Let the data be free.
If a cop did an illegal search and found a murder weapon that proved a guy killed your mother, would you rather the judge set the murderer free, or throw the cop in jail for violating someone's civil rights? Or would you rather punish society, let the murderer go free, and as has happened before, kill someone else? I'd like to see you justify your beliefs to that person's relatives. I think it is better to make precedent and throw both the cop and the murderer in jail. And the bonus is, if they do an illegal search on someone and the gun they find isn't smoking or even related to the case, the precedent is set and the cop still goes to jail. Right now that doesn't happen and society is punished once again. It's a geek site, where are the, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?"
I think more people than Samsung believes this. And that Koh is probably on a power trip (like most judges) so that it makes her feel more powerful when she can bar the truth from being told over some technical matter of the law. Almost as bad as not allowing a smoking gun into a murder trial because of an illegal search and seizure... even if it proves guilt. Both circumstances suppress the truth. So why is one bad and not the other. No altruistic arguments now. We're strictly talking about suppressing truth in court of law so that the wrong party gets punished (relatively speaking: Samsung not Apple, and society not the murderer), whether directly or indirectly.
Right now if you post something and one of your followers doesn't bother to look at it, they don't look at it. How is this going to change? It seems like all they're doing with this is highlighting the posts of people or companies that pay, so that the post sticks out more in their followers feeds. I didn't see anything about blocking the posts of people who don't pay. Have you read another article that says this?
Exactly what I was thinking. How much does it cost to buy a single quarter or half page ad in a major newspaper with a PAID circulation of 250,000 to 500,000? Never mind something like the New York Times. Does anyone remember when Firefox was asking for donations so that they could promote the fist major release with a full page ad in the NYTs? I think it cost in the tens of thousands for that. And we're not even talking about the Sunday paper (the big day for newspaper circulation in the United States). For a company this is not a bad price.
Same goes for TV and Radio spots.
And it doesn't impact the less affluent Facebook exhibitionists, small business owners, musicians, etc. who may have a lot of followers. They're not being asked to pay. Only if they want to push their new post into their followers feed instead of letting them come to the trough.
Maybe if people like you addressed the issues instead of beating up the people who make the complaints it really would be the year of the Linux desktop. But no, you would rather slag others who don't feel the same way as you. You need to see a psychiatrist and deal with your own insecurities before you are qualified to advise others.
I said I use Linux on a VM now. I still have to use it. Now go cry somewhere else. So sad you can't take it when someone dents your fanboyism. You should take some antisensitivity training. Maybe instead of crying and curling in a little ball and feeling hurt when someone posts honest criticism you should ask why these criticisms aren't addressed. I think it's because fanboys like you live in a different reality than the rest of us. Just a hint, there has never been a year of the Linux desktop. The potential is there, but attitudes like yours will always prevent it.
Wisdom would be gained by discovering the effect of fire by putting your finger in it.
Maybe better to say: Wisdom is evidenced by being able to discover the effects of fire by watching what happens when someone else put their finger in it. I often think a good measure of wisdom is how well you can learn from others' mistakes.:)
So are you saying that an idiot savant who is the best pianist in the world is someone you would trust with new and complex tasks than someone with a high IQ? Just because someone can do one thing well doesn't mean they are that intelligent or suited to other tasks. What you are talking about is the achievment of a goal which doesn't have to have any relation to intelligence. Ill give you that better workers often are not as intelligent as others because they may work harder. But that is easily mismanaged into hiring people who work hard not smart. They get the job done but in an ugly way (e.g. guys who produce tons of spagetti code in a day to get something working and management loves them for it, but a year later when it breaks no-one can debug it or fix it). Judged on his previous performance when he was young, Einstein ended up working odd jobs like teaching and in the patent office because he didn't fit the mold of succesful academic.
They aught to put an original Shelby Cobra cockpit (or facimile) in this and sell it as the ultimate car racing game/simulator. All the Zuckerbergs of the world would lap it right up.
The best thing they could do is to stuff KDE Wallet up the ass of the fucking knobs who created it, and anyone who promotes it. The next best thing would be to disable it by default instead of its current enabled by default. It gets in the way more than it helps. First thing I do is disable it to prevent it from annoying me at best and fucking things up at worst.
The next best thing would be if they made Dolphin look, feel, and behave like Thunar. Maybe better would be to throw Dolphin out the fucking window. The way it displays files and directories sucks shite (and NO, none of the Dolphin view options is worth a wet sack of monkey shit). Say what you will about the Windows Explorer look and feel, but Thunar is the most usable of any of the Linux GUI file managers. I don't need 90% of the bells and whistles of the other file managers (including Dolphin), and when I do there are better less clunky apps to handle the job (including the command line which is faster and easier to use than most of Dolphin). I prefer KDE over the other desktops but I install Thunar and make it my default file manager first thing after disabling KDE Wallet (the other unfortunate pile of dog vomit in an otherwise good desktop but which KDE needs to scrape off and throw in the garbage). The only thing I can think of that might make it better for my purposes is an integrated search feature.
Everyone knows that if Darth hadn't thrown the emperor down the power shaft nothing would have happened to it. We all saw when he hit bottom that big power spike that destabilized the entire power grid allowing what would normally be an insignificant hit by the Millennium Falcon to trigger a catastrophic failure.
Oh wait, are we using arguments from a made up fantasy scifi movie to justify reasoning in a real world conversation? Thought so... just checking.
And by the way, the harmonized scale in D is also I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, viib5, I. And in the key of E it is: I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, viib5, I, and F: I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, viib5, I. You get the idea. That is why roman numerals (in programmers parlance, enumeration) is used, to abstract the required notes/chords so they can be used in any key. Kind of like superclassing the progressions.:D
This is clearly scout mech sized. We'll have to wait till the mid sized 50 tonne models are released before we can use the LRM's. In the meantime they will have time to get this one off of wheels and running at 140 kph. Can't wait till fussion powered models arrive.
They do a good job but they ripped it (unintentionally or not) from this guy's routine. Yes this is the Pachelbel's Canon rant. Pachelbel's Canon is a baroque piece that follows roughly the I V vi IV progression. And as shown in both videos, it's probably more correct to say it's the progressions being reused, and how that is key since it is redundantly obvious that chords like notes are more limited and are always reused. Or like letters in the alphabet... there are only 26 but they can make millions of words (in many languages) depending on how they are ordered, or their progression.
For anyone who this flies over, it is really quite simple. We have seven notes in the traditional western scale (sometimes called the ionian mode by music geeks). In grade school we first learn the musical scale as doe ray me fa so la tee doe. That's eight because we repeat the root (do'h). If we looked at a piano we can play starting from middle C, and get the same scale by playing the key for the C note, then D, E, F, G, A, B, C.
We can also play the scale using chords instead of individual notes, and this is key to understanding progressions. But if we want to play the scale using chords for the C scale (called the harmonized scale), each chord needs to be made up of notes from only the C scale. If we played a harmonized scale in D, the notes of every chord would all need to belong to the D scale. This happens to work not too badly with a couple of minor (small pun here) changes. To keep it short, another important concept is that often the scale is enumerated. The first note of any scale is 1, the second 2. Usually this is done in Roman numerals. So a C in the C scale is I, the B is ii, the E is iii, the F is IV, the G is V, the A is iv, and the B is viib5 (the last one, minor seven flat 5 is a bit messed up, yeah). The upper and lower case is important, because upper case means a major or dominant chord and the lower case means minor.
We use the roman numerals because they can just be moved around to any scale. Say D, where the scale is D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D. So I, V, vi, IV as in Pachelbel's Canon, or the Axis of Awesome's Four Chords, is D, A, Bm, and G. Since you know it's I, V, vi, IV you can move it to the key of C and play C, G, A, F. If you were playing blues, the most common progression is I, IV, V (so you'll hear people saying, "hey, it's just one four five", and then often the key). You can hear a musician at a jam sometimes say, "there is a I, vi, ii, V turnaround." A very common turnaround and a type of progression.
So it is these chord progressions (encoded in roman numeral notation) that are really important not so much the chords. Take for example the progression: I, III, IV, iv... That is the first four bars of Radiohead's Creep. But it is also the first four bars of a 1920s Bessie Smith tune called 'Ain't Nobodies Business; covered very successfully later on by Jimmy Witherspoon, BB King and Ruth Brown(key of Bb), and the BOMB, Freddie King (key of Db... with a I, vi, ii, V turnaround:).... and borrowed by Radiohead (no turnaround... and nothing wrong with using the progression, like the article points out, there is limited set of progressions that sound good to people, their going to be reused).
To try to explain the reason for major and minor in a short space (it is is dense but should be understandable if you have even a little musical knowledge): Remembering the C scale is C, D, E, F, G, A, B: The first note is C
This is very cool. But is it as tough as human skin. Granted we can be cut, scraped etc, but real skin is quite durable and even when damaged can self repair almost always. But I guess you have to start somewhere and this sounds good. A real necessity.
It's a rant from someone who doesn't have to do anything to keep other systems running. I don't want to do anything to keep a system running. I want to use the system not fuck with it. It's like having a lot of money but not wanting to buy something because you don't see the value. You can afford it, but you just don't want to afford it. I had the fortitude back then. I don't any longer. I have better things to do with my time.
If I cared to fuck around with it all the time I would have no problem with Linux. You don't spend 15 years in and around Unix environments and not be able to fix them. I'm just sick and fucking tired of having to fix them all the time. Linux stuff is mostly done by younger guys (MOSTLY... I don't give a rats ass if you're offended by that if you're in the minority) who don't bother to thoroughly test or are on projects lacking enough testers, and often drop code without telling anyone or testing beyond their agile addled unit test that they built because they had a good idea in a dream last night. All well and good because they don't make a living doing their socially consciousnesses open source thing... since they don't feel the impact except their annoyance over complaints of their flakey code breaking something somewhere. Meanwhile others have to spend hours figuring out what library is missing, or rebuilding the box because your rpm fucktard bullshit dependencies wants to delete kde because you try to back out a flakey package that is holding back a needed upgrade in another tool. Enterprise Redhat? Dude? Yeah been there done that. Won't ever touch another rpm distro ever again. EVER.
By and large people are all right, but you exhibit one thing I just fucking hate in the Linux community: the overwhelming smugness and unthinking condescension of many that if someone has had it with the frustration of working with a pseudo stable desktop that they must not be technically proficient. Look dipshit (not nice being insulted is it... sorry if you're an asperger victim and don't realize you're being insulting... actually no, no I'm not sorry)... so look dipshit, some people just have more productive things to do with their time than futz with something that should just work.
dude I program on a Unix system. I've written load balanced multiprocessing apps to handle and transform tens of thousands of records per second, done low level shite, even done assembly language. I know my way or how to ask the right questions... I don't want to anymore. When someone says they're tired of the mess, instead of living in denial, maybe it's time to wake up and smell the coffee. Don't you wonder why people keep making jokes about "the year of the Linux desktop?" Don't you wonder why people with the money are working on BSD based Macs instead of Linux? Wake up. How many mechanics get told to build a smelter when their ratchet is defective? None. They find another ratchet. I too have decided to use a different tool that doesn't require me to keep building smelters.
And I have given Gates a bunch of money in the past, and don't have a problem with that. With Windows 8, next time I do buy a new system, I hate to admit it but I'll be forced to buy Apple. After Jobs, Bill Gates looks like a sweetheart to me... but Ballmer has fucked MS right up and W8 is a monkey's abortion. It looks like a stable Unity. But stable shit or unstable shit, they're still shit.
I program on Linux, specifically on a Linux VM guest on a Windows 7 host. Everything else I use Windows. I have had Windows 7 since it came out. Yes I've had to re-install it twice. But I've had to nuke half a dozen or more instances of Linux in the same time. Sure I could have kept them if I wanted to spend hours fucking around when things stopped working, but even with the amount of time it takes, it is easier and faster to blow it away and rebuild.
After the past week rebuilding my dev environment (this time moving it from a physical box where the video kept locking up the interface) I have vowed never use anything but a VM for Linux ever again as it is easier to clone that once it is installed to save the headache of rebuilding.
As much as Linux fanboys like to claim Linux is more stable, well it might just be as a server, but no way for a desktop. This is coming as a former ardent Linux fanboy who got his first Slackware distro in the 90s. Right around now in my life, I just want the fucking thing to work and not have to fuck around with it all the fucking time to keep it that way.
The fact that people have to ride into space on Russian (or Chinese) rockets is less about the technology than the ham fisted planning and management of American politicians, bureaucrats, and NASA administrators. Have you forgotten already that the first privately financed rocket company just had a capsule dock with the space station? A year or so and people will be riding on new rockets. And I doubt anyone started at the bottom of the learning curve. I wouldn't doubt that building a new motor from scratch was a better thing to do. It made sure people didn't get trapped in a mindset of building things in a 1960s way. The old rocket was certainly design constrained by the technology of the era, so why constrain a modern rocket within that old framework? Yeah don't reinvent the wheel. Were that a rocket engine was as simple as a wheel.
And given the complexity of the operation, the landing isn't even really assured yet. People will probably be really interested if it crashes and however many hundreds of millions of dollars is trashed. Money they'll say would be better spent promoting sports and fitness and getting fat kids away from the front of the computers or game consoles (and the irony here is that at least some of them will be playing sports games while sitting on the couch, mimicking a bunch of guys whose combined salaries could probably finance NASA, or pay for basic health insurance for all of America's uninsured, and then some). Anyway... hopefully if the lander does touch down successfully, the general public will be just as interested to hear it is running around and with luck finding micro-martians to talk to. Regardless, I am interested in the Mars landing. And the Olympics.
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I didn't find Liebowitz all that depressing. At least we're told that there are colonies in space where man still survives.
How about On The Beach by Nevil Shute. Written at the height of the cold war, it starts at a point in time where everything in the world is dead or soon to be because of a nuclear war, except Australia, South Africa, and Southern South America. But that is only because the wind patterns haven't brought the fallout there yet. The story takes place in Australia and everyone is just waiting for the seasons to change when the weather patterns will bring the radiation south and kill everyone there too. It follows several people and through them looks at how people live knowing it is just a matter of time till everyone is dead. The author maintains that where they can, people just try to live normal lives because that is all their they can do without going into overload. Some do lose it becoming alcoholics and extreme risk takers, etc. Some are in complete denial. Some like an American sub commander, internally can't accept his family is dead and buys things for them for when he goes home. Rationally he knows they have to be dead, but can't help but deny it inside.
The commander is in charge of a nuclear submarine that was docked in Australia at the time all the hostilities literally went ballistic. They go to Puget Sound because they hear intermitant transmissions from a short wave transmitter using morse code. While up there they determine radiatin levels aren't dropping. After someone goes ashore in air tanks they find the transmission was a broken window and a curtain brushing the sending unit. Power is on because the automatic systems haven't crashed yet.
They go back to Melbourne and the government there starts handing out suicide pills so people don't have to endure radiation poisoning before finally dying. The book ends with all the characters including a young family with a baby born just before the war, killing themselves as the radiation in the area reaches leathal levels.
I read the book once. It was incredibly well written. One of the best I ever read. I can't read it again. It is way too depressing. WAY too depressing. I tried once and before I even read a page I had a sort of reaction to it. I had to put it down. There was no way I could read it again. I've read Liebowitz a few times and will probably read it again some time. Not anywhere near the coefficient of depresivity that On The Beach puts out. FWIW I read it in the 70s as a teen, when you could still see B-52s routinely flying north from SAC bases in the U.S. on training runs and patrols. Back when 747s were still fairly rare you could still tell the B-52s apart by how damned high they were flying and the contrails. You could tell they had a massive number of engines by the contrails. Different time.
I'd rather have a jury decide if a person is guilty of murder or should go free than a judge based on an arbitrary interpretation of law. Put all the facts on the table including on how the murder weapon was found. Let the jury determine the verdict. The jury has traditionally been trusted to determine the believability of a person on the stand and the evidence given... that isn't the judge's job, nor should it be. That's why the jury is made up of peers. Judges let the accused essentially go free in these cases not because the evidence is invalid or planted. That doesn't even come into the picture. It is only because the accused was violated. His or her rights were violated. So punish the person who did that. If a guy on trial for murder were shot while in custody would you throw some random guy in society in jail for that and let the policeman go free? And if he lived would you drop the murder conviction? Of course not. Violating the prisoner's rights in that way doesn't change the truth and fact of his crime. And the right people are punished for those violations. An illegal search is no different in terms of violating their rights. And the fundamental truths and facts of the crime still should not be suppressed. Let the data be free.
If a cop did an illegal search and found a murder weapon that proved a guy killed your mother, would you rather the judge set the murderer free, or throw the cop in jail for violating someone's civil rights? Or would you rather punish society, let the murderer go free, and as has happened before, kill someone else? I'd like to see you justify your beliefs to that person's relatives. I think it is better to make precedent and throw both the cop and the murderer in jail. And the bonus is, if they do an illegal search on someone and the gun they find isn't smoking or even related to the case, the precedent is set and the cop still goes to jail. Right now that doesn't happen and society is punished once again. It's a geek site, where are the, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?"
I think more people than Samsung believes this. And that Koh is probably on a power trip (like most judges) so that it makes her feel more powerful when she can bar the truth from being told over some technical matter of the law. Almost as bad as not allowing a smoking gun into a murder trial because of an illegal search and seizure... even if it proves guilt. Both circumstances suppress the truth. So why is one bad and not the other. No altruistic arguments now. We're strictly talking about suppressing truth in court of law so that the wrong party gets punished (relatively speaking: Samsung not Apple, and society not the murderer), whether directly or indirectly.
Right now if you post something and one of your followers doesn't bother to look at it, they don't look at it. How is this going to change? It seems like all they're doing with this is highlighting the posts of people or companies that pay, so that the post sticks out more in their followers feeds. I didn't see anything about blocking the posts of people who don't pay. Have you read another article that says this?
Exactly what I was thinking. How much does it cost to buy a single quarter or half page ad in a major newspaper with a PAID circulation of 250,000 to 500,000? Never mind something like the New York Times. Does anyone remember when Firefox was asking for donations so that they could promote the fist major release with a full page ad in the NYTs? I think it cost in the tens of thousands for that. And we're not even talking about the Sunday paper (the big day for newspaper circulation in the United States). For a company this is not a bad price.
Same goes for TV and Radio spots.
And it doesn't impact the less affluent Facebook exhibitionists, small business owners, musicians, etc. who may have a lot of followers. They're not being asked to pay. Only if they want to push their new post into their followers feed instead of letting them come to the trough.
Hey fucktard, how's it going?
Maybe if people like you addressed the issues instead of beating up the people who make the complaints it really would be the year of the Linux desktop. But no, you would rather slag others who don't feel the same way as you. You need to see a psychiatrist and deal with your own insecurities before you are qualified to advise others.
I said I use Linux on a VM now. I still have to use it. Now go cry somewhere else. So sad you can't take it when someone dents your fanboyism. You should take some antisensitivity training. Maybe instead of crying and curling in a little ball and feeling hurt when someone posts honest criticism you should ask why these criticisms aren't addressed. I think it's because fanboys like you live in a different reality than the rest of us. Just a hint, there has never been a year of the Linux desktop. The potential is there, but attitudes like yours will always prevent it.
Maybe better to say: Wisdom is evidenced by being able to discover the effects of fire by watching what happens when someone else put their finger in it. I often think a good measure of wisdom is how well you can learn from others' mistakes. :)
So are you saying that an idiot savant who is the best pianist in the world is someone you would trust with new and complex tasks than someone with a high IQ? Just because someone can do one thing well doesn't mean they are that intelligent or suited to other tasks. What you are talking about is the achievment of a goal which doesn't have to have any relation to intelligence. Ill give you that better workers often are not as intelligent as others because they may work harder. But that is easily mismanaged into hiring people who work hard not smart. They get the job done but in an ugly way (e.g. guys who produce tons of spagetti code in a day to get something working and management loves them for it, but a year later when it breaks no-one can debug it or fix it). Judged on his previous performance when he was young, Einstein ended up working odd jobs like teaching and in the patent office because he didn't fit the mold of succesful academic.
Yeah I meant ought... ought to have pressed preview first. dang.
They aught to put an original Shelby Cobra cockpit (or facimile) in this and sell it as the ultimate car racing game/simulator. All the Zuckerbergs of the world would lap it right up.
The best thing they could do is to stuff KDE Wallet up the ass of the fucking knobs who created it, and anyone who promotes it. The next best thing would be to disable it by default instead of its current enabled by default. It gets in the way more than it helps. First thing I do is disable it to prevent it from annoying me at best and fucking things up at worst.
The next best thing would be if they made Dolphin look, feel, and behave like Thunar. Maybe better would be to throw Dolphin out the fucking window. The way it displays files and directories sucks shite (and NO, none of the Dolphin view options is worth a wet sack of monkey shit). Say what you will about the Windows Explorer look and feel, but Thunar is the most usable of any of the Linux GUI file managers. I don't need 90% of the bells and whistles of the other file managers (including Dolphin), and when I do there are better less clunky apps to handle the job (including the command line which is faster and easier to use than most of Dolphin). I prefer KDE over the other desktops but I install Thunar and make it my default file manager first thing after disabling KDE Wallet (the other unfortunate pile of dog vomit in an otherwise good desktop but which KDE needs to scrape off and throw in the garbage). The only thing I can think of that might make it better for my purposes is an integrated search feature.
I thought you were going to respond to my thesis on why the second death star blew up.
Everyone knows that if Darth hadn't thrown the emperor down the power shaft nothing would have happened to it. We all saw when he hit bottom that big power spike that destabilized the entire power grid allowing what would normally be an insignificant hit by the Millennium Falcon to trigger a catastrophic failure.
Oh wait, are we using arguments from a made up fantasy scifi movie to justify reasoning in a real world conversation? Thought so... just checking.
And by the way, the harmonized scale in D is also I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, viib5, I. And in the key of E it is: I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, viib5, I, and F: I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, viib5, I. You get the idea. That is why roman numerals (in programmers parlance, enumeration) is used, to abstract the required notes/chords so they can be used in any key. Kind of like superclassing the progressions. :D
lol... yeah. oops. :/ good catch
This is clearly scout mech sized. We'll have to wait till the mid sized 50 tonne models are released before we can use the LRM's. In the meantime they will have time to get this one off of wheels and running at 140 kph. Can't wait till fussion powered models arrive.
They do a good job but they ripped it (unintentionally or not) from this guy's routine. Yes this is the Pachelbel's Canon rant. Pachelbel's Canon is a baroque piece that follows roughly the I V vi IV progression. And as shown in both videos, it's probably more correct to say it's the progressions being reused, and how that is key since it is redundantly obvious that chords like notes are more limited and are always reused. Or like letters in the alphabet... there are only 26 but they can make millions of words (in many languages) depending on how they are ordered, or their progression.
For anyone who this flies over, it is really quite simple. We have seven notes in the traditional western scale (sometimes called the ionian mode by music geeks). In grade school we first learn the musical scale as doe ray me fa so la tee doe. That's eight because we repeat the root (do'h). If we looked at a piano we can play starting from middle C, and get the same scale by playing the key for the C note, then D, E, F, G, A, B, C.
We can also play the scale using chords instead of individual notes, and this is key to understanding progressions. But if we want to play the scale using chords for the C scale (called the harmonized scale), each chord needs to be made up of notes from only the C scale. If we played a harmonized scale in D, the notes of every chord would all need to belong to the D scale. This happens to work not too badly with a couple of minor (small pun here) changes. To keep it short, another important concept is that often the scale is enumerated. The first note of any scale is 1, the second 2. Usually this is done in Roman numerals. So a C in the C scale is I, the B is ii, the E is iii, the F is IV, the G is V, the A is iv, and the B is viib5 (the last one, minor seven flat 5 is a bit messed up, yeah). The upper and lower case is important, because upper case means a major or dominant chord and the lower case means minor.
We use the roman numerals because they can just be moved around to any scale. Say D, where the scale is D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D. So I, V, vi, IV as in Pachelbel's Canon, or the Axis of Awesome's Four Chords, is D, A, Bm, and G. Since you know it's I, V, vi, IV you can move it to the key of C and play C, G, A, F. If you were playing blues, the most common progression is I, IV, V (so you'll hear people saying, "hey, it's just one four five", and then often the key). You can hear a musician at a jam sometimes say, "there is a I, vi, ii, V turnaround." A very common turnaround and a type of progression.
So it is these chord progressions (encoded in roman numeral notation) that are really important not so much the chords. Take for example the progression: I, III, IV, iv... That is the first four bars of Radiohead's Creep. But it is also the first four bars of a 1920s Bessie Smith tune called 'Ain't Nobodies Business; covered very successfully later on by Jimmy Witherspoon, BB King and Ruth Brown(key of Bb), and the BOMB, Freddie King (key of Db... with a I, vi, ii, V turnaround :).... and borrowed by Radiohead (no turnaround... and nothing wrong with using the progression, like the article points out, there is limited set of progressions that sound good to people, their going to be reused).
To try to explain the reason for major and minor in a short space (it is is dense but should be understandable if you have even a little musical knowledge): Remembering the C scale is C, D, E, F, G, A, B: The first note is C
This is very cool. But is it as tough as human skin. Granted we can be cut, scraped etc, but real skin is quite durable and even when damaged can self repair almost always. But I guess you have to start somewhere and this sounds good. A real necessity.
It's a rant from someone who doesn't have to do anything to keep other systems running. I don't want to do anything to keep a system running. I want to use the system not fuck with it. It's like having a lot of money but not wanting to buy something because you don't see the value. You can afford it, but you just don't want to afford it. I had the fortitude back then. I don't any longer. I have better things to do with my time.
If I cared to fuck around with it all the time I would have no problem with Linux. You don't spend 15 years in and around Unix environments and not be able to fix them. I'm just sick and fucking tired of having to fix them all the time. Linux stuff is mostly done by younger guys (MOSTLY... I don't give a rats ass if you're offended by that if you're in the minority) who don't bother to thoroughly test or are on projects lacking enough testers, and often drop code without telling anyone or testing beyond their agile addled unit test that they built because they had a good idea in a dream last night. All well and good because they don't make a living doing their socially consciousnesses open source thing... since they don't feel the impact except their annoyance over complaints of their flakey code breaking something somewhere. Meanwhile others have to spend hours figuring out what library is missing, or rebuilding the box because your rpm fucktard bullshit dependencies wants to delete kde because you try to back out a flakey package that is holding back a needed upgrade in another tool. Enterprise Redhat? Dude? Yeah been there done that. Won't ever touch another rpm distro ever again. EVER.
By and large people are all right, but you exhibit one thing I just fucking hate in the Linux community: the overwhelming smugness and unthinking condescension of many that if someone has had it with the frustration of working with a pseudo stable desktop that they must not be technically proficient. Look dipshit (not nice being insulted is it... sorry if you're an asperger victim and don't realize you're being insulting... actually no, no I'm not sorry) ... so look dipshit, some people just have more productive things to do with their time than futz with something that should just work.
dude I program on a Unix system. I've written load balanced multiprocessing apps to handle and transform tens of thousands of records per second, done low level shite, even done assembly language. I know my way or how to ask the right questions... I don't want to anymore. When someone says they're tired of the mess, instead of living in denial, maybe it's time to wake up and smell the coffee. Don't you wonder why people keep making jokes about "the year of the Linux desktop?" Don't you wonder why people with the money are working on BSD based Macs instead of Linux? Wake up. How many mechanics get told to build a smelter when their ratchet is defective? None. They find another ratchet. I too have decided to use a different tool that doesn't require me to keep building smelters.
And I have given Gates a bunch of money in the past, and don't have a problem with that. With Windows 8, next time I do buy a new system, I hate to admit it but I'll be forced to buy Apple. After Jobs, Bill Gates looks like a sweetheart to me... but Ballmer has fucked MS right up and W8 is a monkey's abortion. It looks like a stable Unity. But stable shit or unstable shit, they're still shit.
I program on Linux, specifically on a Linux VM guest on a Windows 7 host. Everything else I use Windows. I have had Windows 7 since it came out. Yes I've had to re-install it twice. But I've had to nuke half a dozen or more instances of Linux in the same time. Sure I could have kept them if I wanted to spend hours fucking around when things stopped working, but even with the amount of time it takes, it is easier and faster to blow it away and rebuild.
After the past week rebuilding my dev environment (this time moving it from a physical box where the video kept locking up the interface) I have vowed never use anything but a VM for Linux ever again as it is easier to clone that once it is installed to save the headache of rebuilding.
As much as Linux fanboys like to claim Linux is more stable, well it might just be as a server, but no way for a desktop. This is coming as a former ardent Linux fanboy who got his first Slackware distro in the 90s. Right around now in my life, I just want the fucking thing to work and not have to fuck around with it all the fucking time to keep it that way.
The fact that people have to ride into space on Russian (or Chinese) rockets is less about the technology than the ham fisted planning and management of American politicians, bureaucrats, and NASA administrators. Have you forgotten already that the first privately financed rocket company just had a capsule dock with the space station? A year or so and people will be riding on new rockets. And I doubt anyone started at the bottom of the learning curve. I wouldn't doubt that building a new motor from scratch was a better thing to do. It made sure people didn't get trapped in a mindset of building things in a 1960s way. The old rocket was certainly design constrained by the technology of the era, so why constrain a modern rocket within that old framework? Yeah don't reinvent the wheel. Were that a rocket engine was as simple as a wheel.
And given the complexity of the operation, the landing isn't even really assured yet. People will probably be really interested if it crashes and however many hundreds of millions of dollars is trashed. Money they'll say would be better spent promoting sports and fitness and getting fat kids away from the front of the computers or game consoles (and the irony here is that at least some of them will be playing sports games while sitting on the couch, mimicking a bunch of guys whose combined salaries could probably finance NASA, or pay for basic health insurance for all of America's uninsured, and then some). Anyway... hopefully if the lander does touch down successfully, the general public will be just as interested to hear it is running around and with luck finding micro-martians to talk to. Regardless, I am interested in the Mars landing. And the Olympics.
Imagine, someone on a geek website slagging activities where people get together for enjoyment and to socialize.