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"The system assumes that if you've come up from behind a vehicle, the driver has seen it and is aware," Mr. Schwyn said.
I disagree completely. The car which you've just come up from behind and are now passing is exactly the same car you are about to side-swipe as you aggressively cut them off.
Plus, the real issue here is attention span. If everyone paid great attention while driving, we wouldn't need fancy radar systems to protect us. But everyone is not paying attention, therefore it is unsafe to assume that a driver remembers the car behind which they drove up mere moments before.
the effect to which you refer is known as "tremolo", or "vocal vibrato". a professional singer can indeed hold a steady single note without tremolo, and can add tremolo on-demand. the untrained amateur, on the other hand, cannot avoid tremolo.
actually, it doesn't sound that bad. it still has a long way to go before it can compete with the likes of bono or bjork, but it already sounds as good if not better than most japanese pop stars. it would also play well in bollywood.
i think that it won't be long before synthesized vocals take over a significant chunk of the recording industry. this includes voice-over tracks for things such as advertising and animated films.
I know that small claims court in NY does not require a lawyer to file a complaint, and the awards are limited to $3000. Something like this might work for you.
that's what i'm thinking. the landing would have transferred a buttload of heat, scientifically speaking. however, we assume the capsule bounced several times after initial impact, so most of the heat would be some distance away from the final landing site. i wonder what the temperature of the landing module was right after it came to rest?
all you folks who are clamoring about using an extended warranty are completely off-topic. the poster wants help for a D.I.Y. job. he/she either does not want to, or cannot send the laptop in for repairs, waiting God-knows how many weeks for the repair turnaround.
what tools does linux have for enterprise management? don't get me wrong; i hate the windoze corp. as much as the next/.'er. but i have to admit that the their last 2 releases really simplify a corporate sysadmin's job. what does linux have to offer in this area?
for example, if ibm goes all-linux on their hundreds of thousands of desktops, how will they handle things like upgrades and patches, managing user accounts, security, etc.? will they use a non-free distro that has all these features, and if so, which distro(s) out there offer the kind of enterprise management features that ibm's windoze-addled admins have come to depend on?
i am sure that the sysadmins at ibm are asking themselves the same question. or perhaps they already know the answer...
a friend of mine is a sql server consultant. his client is paying him very large sums of money to tweak their kludged distribution of sql server machines so that they can achieve something resembling scalability. in fact, he is making significantly more than me, and i am an oracle/unix specialist.
while the anonymous coward who posted that mind-numbing piece of drivel is obviously smoking crack, he/she does have an indirect point.
consider this: anyone ever watch tv in russia? if you want to find out what will happen to the quality of the tv content when the tv entertainment industry loses its advertising cash cow, just watch a few minutes of post-soviet television. it is abysmal. america's tv shows are good because the people in our tv industry are well paid, and all of it is supported by the commercials we so quickly disdain.
don't get me wrong. when i watch recorded shows on my Time Warner Cable DVR, i always skip over commercials using the super-high-speed fast-forward feature. but i do so knowing that i am contributing to the decline of quality tv in america.
by the way, the super-high-speed fast-forward feature works quite well. it always rewinds a few seconds after you press the "play" button, because you inevitably fast-forward a little too far after the end of the commercials. but for some mysterious reason, it almost always rewinds to the exact point at which the show resumes. very nice.
amen! i am of the opinion that the reason americans skip commercials is that most american commercials suck. i spent a little time in england and i loved their commercials. they're hilarious! we need more creative advertisers, not more creative lawyers.
I'm an old bbs nerd, and while it gives me a warm fuzzy reading about Kermit on the space station, it makes me wonder about the actual level of technology up there. What I mean is, why would they need kermit in the first place if not to cobble together a hodgepodge of ill-fitting, obsolete technologies?
i love my $8.95/mo. dvr from time warner cable. and even though i constantly gripe about how slow it changes channels, the only way i would give it up is if you pried it from my cold, dead hands. that being said, i am a geek, and i want to try to build one myself.
the necessary hardware is obvious. but i do not how i can decode twc's digital cable signal all by my little geek self. can anyone offer any hints or clues?
last time i checked, NYC's small claims court has an award cap of $3,000, and you do not need a lawyer. if you can figure out how to post a reply on/., you can probably fill out the small claims application yourself.
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i am cookie-paranoid, so i won't let salon.com set a cookie. it therefore will not let me read the article via the force-ad. see! i am not paranoid; the cookies really are out to get me!
why does /. waste our time and bandwidth with useless stories such as this? is cmdrtaco having a slow news day?
I don't get it. Can someone please explain this concept to me, so that I do not have to read some doctoral thesis.
"The system assumes that if you've come up from behind a vehicle, the driver has seen it and is aware," Mr. Schwyn said.
I disagree completely. The car which you've just come up from behind and are now passing is exactly the same car you are about to side-swipe as you aggressively cut them off.
Plus, the real issue here is attention span. If everyone paid great attention while driving, we wouldn't need fancy radar systems to protect us. But everyone is not paying attention, therefore it is unsafe to assume that a driver remembers the car behind which they drove up mere moments before.
scientists do research. engineers do practical applications.
the effect to which you refer is known as "tremolo", or "vocal vibrato". a professional singer can indeed hold a steady single note without tremolo, and can add tremolo on-demand. the untrained amateur, on the other hand, cannot avoid tremolo.
i think that it won't be long before synthesized vocals take over a significant chunk of the recording industry. this includes voice-over tracks for things such as advertising and animated films.
I know that small claims court in NY does not require a lawyer to file a complaint, and the awards are limited to $3000. Something like this might work for you.
thank gawd. i was really worried for a minute there.
Hey! What the hell is /. doing using sql server?!? Heresy! I feel tainted. Ewww.
had i mod points, i'd give them all to you, if for nothing else than your sig.
that's what i'm thinking. the landing would have transferred a buttload of heat, scientifically speaking. however, we assume the capsule bounced several times after initial impact, so most of the heat would be some distance away from the final landing site. i wonder what the temperature of the landing module was right after it came to rest?
all you folks who are clamoring about using an extended warranty are completely off-topic. the poster wants help for a D.I.Y. job. he/she either does not want to, or cannot send the laptop in for repairs, waiting God-knows how many weeks for the repair turnaround.
who the heck is, "Marcus Courtney of Seattle"?
i have a fisher space pen. it is awesome. my ex-girlfriend bought it for me. it definitely lasted longer than our relationship.
for example, if ibm goes all-linux on their hundreds of thousands of desktops, how will they handle things like upgrades and patches, managing user accounts, security, etc.? will they use a non-free distro that has all these features, and if so, which distro(s) out there offer the kind of enterprise management features that ibm's windoze-addled admins have come to depend on?
i am sure that the sysadmins at ibm are asking themselves the same question. or perhaps they already know the answer...
a friend of mine is a sql server consultant. his client is paying him very large sums of money to tweak their kludged distribution of sql server machines so that they can achieve something resembling scalability. in fact, he is making significantly more than me, and i am an oracle/unix specialist.
consider this: anyone ever watch tv in russia? if you want to find out what will happen to the quality of the tv content when the tv entertainment industry loses its advertising cash cow, just watch a few minutes of post-soviet television. it is abysmal. america's tv shows are good because the people in our tv industry are well paid, and all of it is supported by the commercials we so quickly disdain.
don't get me wrong. when i watch recorded shows on my Time Warner Cable DVR, i always skip over commercials using the super-high-speed fast-forward feature. but i do so knowing that i am contributing to the decline of quality tv in america.
by the way, the super-high-speed fast-forward feature works quite well. it always rewinds a few seconds after you press the "play" button, because you inevitably fast-forward a little too far after the end of the commercials. but for some mysterious reason, it almost always rewinds to the exact point at which the show resumes. very nice.
amen! i am of the opinion that the reason americans skip commercials is that most american commercials suck. i spent a little time in england and i loved their commercials. they're hilarious! we need more creative advertisers, not more creative lawyers.
buelba's comment is such an obvious troll. i can't believe so many people fell for it.
i read the excerpt from The Da Vinci Code. seems like a fun book. but what are "numeraries"?
it is a very poorly written article, with no substantive references. it reads like some intern's exam-week final project. total crap.
I'm an old bbs nerd, and while it gives me a warm fuzzy reading about Kermit on the space station, it makes me wonder about the actual level of technology up there. What I mean is, why would they need kermit in the first place if not to cobble together a hodgepodge of ill-fitting, obsolete technologies?
the necessary hardware is obvious. but i do not how i can decode twc's digital cable signal all by my little geek self. can anyone offer any hints or clues?
last time i checked, NYC's small claims court has an award cap of $3,000, and you do not need a lawyer. if you can figure out how to post a reply on /., you can probably fill out the small claims application yourself.