And probably doing it for some centuries, in continuous "mad-hatter lunch", to cover 100 acres and more.
You don't need the midden mound to account for the whole size of the tree-island -- as the roots grow and leaf-litter gathers, a tree-island could grow of its own accord.
It's all about sentencing. If something is only a crime when it occurs in conjunction with another crime is effectively "bonus points" on your prison sentence.
If you think about it, having an using the equipment effectively shows premeditation, and possibly hints to repeat offences and/or organised crime.
In Scotland, trespass is not a crime... unless you commit another crime while trespassing. This effectively means it's a worse crime to step into someone's house and steal a box than it is to take the same box from the pavement if they left it lying unattended. Which makes sense, when you think about it.
It's not "truth by democracy", although I'll accept that it makes "truth by democracy" easier.
The simple fact of the matter is that pretty much anything is valid science if the research is carried out correctly. You could carry out a study looking for unicorns if you wanted. Just because we are pretty much certain that there's no such thing, there's still a case for trying to increase our certainty of that.
So it is really pretty trivially obvious that no researcher should be "discriminated against" based on what he researches.
The tricky part here is that you still have to be able to evaluate the quality of research, and to put not too fine a point on it... research into intelligent design really is likely to be of very poor quality, in that if it comes to any conclusion, it will always do so by massive leaps of logic.
This leaves the nasty situation where a group who are legally protected against discrimination produce the sort of crap that makes them impossible to employ. Statistically, this will look like indirect discrimination at the very least.
If a PC already has integrated motherboard sound, integrated motherboard Ethernet, integrated motherboard USB, integrated motherboard RAID, etc. then for the most part you won't *care* how the layout is arranged.
When you buy a laptop, you care about battery life, right? And you care about performance, right?
But Voice of America is a branded product. You tune into VoA and it tells you you're listening to VoA. It's propaganda, but it's a million miles away from sock-puppeting -- sock puppets don't tell you they're sock puppets.
Hopefully TEPCO's insurers will cover their needs. If not, TEPCO are going to get torn apart by the Japanese people who already see these guys as national heros if the news we're getting over here is accurate...
This is why Rock Band 3 uses MIDI instead of pitch detection. I've been working on software that does pitch detection for instruments for the last 10 years. We've contracted out to the best companies and research groups in the industry. Thus far, the only thing we can honestly offer to customers is pitch detection for monophonic instruments - that's the only thing that works well enough to offer commercially.
Erm... MIDI is a transport protocol, not a means of input. Most actual MIDI guitars use pitch detection, and I would see this as the best interface for a game such as this one. Roland were the first to come up with a mass-market MIDI product, and they did it by making a retrofit kit of 6 individual inductive-coil pickups to be fitted near the bridge. The coils were too small and too near the bridge to get a useful sound for direct output, but it was good enough to get an individual fundamental frequency off each string.
The first digital modelling guitar, the Line6 Variax, used individual piezo transducers on the bridge saddles in order to produce a clean sound that would be musically useful, but everything was done using signal processing.
For an accurate guitar game, the best solution is still a Roland-like inductive pickup array. You could retrofit this to most guitars with nothing more than a strip of Blu-tak. Recreating the 1990's DSP tech that powered the old Rolands with 21st century electronics would cost peanuts. It would also open the road to a lucrative second income stream through the sale of branded guitars.
I've played guitar and drums in a band, and I have played both in Guitar Hero. Nothing beats playing with the band. The element of improvisation alone puts it miles above a video game. Not only that, but GH and Rock Band drumming are not real drumming. Yes, analogous, and yes, a real drummer has a big advantage when playing RB/GH over a non-drummer, but a RB/GH drummer doesn't benefit from the same comparison.
Improvisation is important, but so is technique. The pendulum swings both ways: all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but all play and no work also makes Jack a dull boy. A computer can't teach improv, but when it comes to measurement of accuracy in timing, a computer can't be beat. (pun intended).
The headline says "Dutch Court Lifts PlayStation 3 Seizure Order". This is not true. It is a European court that happens to be physically located in Den Haag, which is in the province of South Holland. It is in South Holland, but is not Dutch.
Barack Obama lives in Washington, but he is not Washingtonian, he is Hawai'ian.
Yep, people seem to forget that all performance art is representative. You make a film that looks and sounds like real life and no-one's going to have the patience to watch it.
The net was handled fairly well. Only one minor plot-hole springs to mind: when she wiped the virus, all the data that it had deleted was magically restored. Thankfully this wasn't crucial to the plot. Oh wait, that was the whole resolution of the film, wasn't it?
Does Visual Studio automatically fix the tab order for GUI elements yet? As a heavy keyboard user, I had my fill of amateur VS-coded interfaces a long, long time ago.
I like the idea of socialism... I like the idea of communism even better. But here's the problem. Every attempt in the history of man kind to achieve these noble states have resulted in a shift of power "from the elite business class" to "the elite government class" which results in even MORE abuse of the people than existed previously.
If I am wrong, please show me where in the world this idea has actually worked?
I would have thought the original model of democracy as used in ancient Greece was the perfect example of communism in action. The town was run by the townsfolk, communally, and for the greater good.
Under the communal democratic system, many great feats of civil engineering were carried out, not least of which is the Parthenon in Athens.
Ancient Greece was responsible for the foundations of much of modern science, and this probably wouldn't have been possible in any executive-run society.
Do you understand the goal of terrorism? One of the principles of terrorism is called "the principle of reaction". The terrorist tells his peers that "they hate us" (for any given combination of "they" and "us"). Not everyone believes him, so he attacks "them" in the name of "us". "Them" blame "us" for the actions of a few terrorists. This gives the terrorist the proof they need to say again that "they hate us".
If you charge CAIR with all the ills of Islamic terrorism simply by association, then you are letting the terrorists win. Love thy neighbour -- only love can set you free.
The thing with using actual agents for tracking is that it is a labour-intensive process and is thus not likely to be done on a whim. This alone militates against frivolous abuse of the system except in extreme cases -- it's a self-limiting activity. Planting a bug on someone's car and popping round once in a while to change the battery generates a lot of data for not a lot of effort, so it's nowhere near self-limiting.
Yes, he was talking about Blade Runner and yes, he was talking about industry trends. It's very likely (judging by current industry practice) that the new Blade Runner sequel will be somewhat de-Blade-Runner-ised in order to get the PG-13 rating, and sell it to people who shouldn't really have been able to see the original.
the rights would not allow them to release a direct remake of the original film
This leaves an interesting question: why?
Possible answers:
The original Blade Runner still sells well, particularly given the Final Cut in HD. No-one wants to cannibalise their own sales of a recent product. Relatively slow uptake of Bluray might even be artificially slowing sales of The Final Cut. (I won't buy it until I have a laptop with Bluray -- why get the DVD now?)
The rights to Electric Sheep may not be transferrable. So this [s|pr]equal would be based on the Blade Runner IP and further away from the original Electric Sheep IP
Or maybe the remake rights were on offer but just very, very expensive, and they decided to save a few quid on a cheaper option.
I think he's suggesting we use line-drawn animation for our next generation. Betty Boop never got pregnant. All hail Betty Boop, cure to the population explosion!
No, he said that if bands give away music for free, people will pay to see their gigs. He seems blissfully unaware that the most of the money made at gigs comes from the sale of music, not tickets and not T-shirts. The internet has not changed the ability for bands to sell their own CDs. Even bands signed to a major label still get a bigger cut out of direct sales at gigs. This has been the case for decades.
The post I responded to was talking about recordings being 100% free. No copyright, no protection whatsoever. But free music does not make money for bands, which is why it is very rarely "given away" on the internet -- where it's free, it's free for streaming only so that you have to buy it if you want to listen to it without visiting the band's website.
Since only roughly 10% of the sales price of a CD goes to the artist, it's possible to earn more money by offering the music for free and getting your fans to buy merchandise and go to concerts instead.
[citation needed]
You may be interested to know that most musicians I know are still selling CDs. In fact, most musicians I know still say that direct sales of their CDs at concerts is the main source of income (they get over 50% from direct sales). People in general only wear branded clothing from a few big acts, and I'm guessing you're probably a metalhead, because it really isn't that normal in other genres. The only music branded clothing I have is a cap I bought when I'd forgotten my sun-hat on holiday
Music is a musician's business, and taking away the ability to profit from music takes away their ability to profit.
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And probably doing it for some centuries, in continuous "mad-hatter lunch", to cover 100 acres and more.
You don't need the midden mound to account for the whole size of the tree-island -- as the roots grow and leaf-litter gathers, a tree-island could grow of its own accord.
HAL.
It's all about sentencing. If something is only a crime when it occurs in conjunction with another crime is effectively "bonus points" on your prison sentence.
If you think about it, having an using the equipment effectively shows premeditation, and possibly hints to repeat offences and/or organised crime.
In Scotland, trespass is not a crime... unless you commit another crime while trespassing. This effectively means it's a worse crime to step into someone's house and steal a box than it is to take the same box from the pavement if they left it lying unattended. Which makes sense, when you think about it.
This IP was first published in Libya -- US copyright law doesn't apply.
And yes, I know I'm taking the joke too far.
It's not "truth by democracy", although I'll accept that it makes "truth by democracy" easier.
The simple fact of the matter is that pretty much anything is valid science if the research is carried out correctly. You could carry out a study looking for unicorns if you wanted. Just because we are pretty much certain that there's no such thing, there's still a case for trying to increase our certainty of that.
So it is really pretty trivially obvious that no researcher should be "discriminated against" based on what he researches.
The tricky part here is that you still have to be able to evaluate the quality of research, and to put not too fine a point on it... research into intelligent design really is likely to be of very poor quality, in that if it comes to any conclusion, it will always do so by massive leaps of logic.
This leaves the nasty situation where a group who are legally protected against discrimination produce the sort of crap that makes them impossible to employ. Statistically, this will look like indirect discrimination at the very least.
It's a messy, ill-thought-out law.
HAL.
More importantly - who cares?
If a PC already has integrated motherboard sound, integrated motherboard Ethernet, integrated motherboard USB, integrated motherboard RAID, etc. then for the most part you won't *care* how the layout is arranged.
When you buy a laptop, you care about battery life, right? And you care about performance, right?
The project will not target English language web sites.
Well that's me avoiding Lolcatz from now on.
I haz invadid ur cuntree and set u up da bom!
But Voice of America is a branded product. You tune into VoA and it tells you you're listening to VoA. It's propaganda, but it's a million miles away from sock-puppeting -- sock puppets don't tell you they're sock puppets.
Hopefully TEPCO's insurers will cover their needs. If not, TEPCO are going to get torn apart by the Japanese people who already see these guys as national heros if the news we're getting over here is accurate...
... but who am I to judge.
No idea -- you posted anonymously.
This is why Rock Band 3 uses MIDI instead of pitch detection. I've been working on software that does pitch detection for instruments for the last 10 years. We've contracted out to the best companies and research groups in the industry. Thus far, the only thing we can honestly offer to customers is pitch detection for monophonic instruments - that's the only thing that works well enough to offer commercially.
Erm... MIDI is a transport protocol, not a means of input. Most actual MIDI guitars use pitch detection, and I would see this as the best interface for a game such as this one. Roland were the first to come up with a mass-market MIDI product, and they did it by making a retrofit kit of 6 individual inductive-coil pickups to be fitted near the bridge. The coils were too small and too near the bridge to get a useful sound for direct output, but it was good enough to get an individual fundamental frequency off each string.
The first digital modelling guitar, the Line6 Variax, used individual piezo transducers on the bridge saddles in order to produce a clean sound that would be musically useful, but everything was done using signal processing.
For an accurate guitar game, the best solution is still a Roland-like inductive pickup array. You could retrofit this to most guitars with nothing more than a strip of Blu-tak. Recreating the 1990's DSP tech that powered the old Rolands with 21st century electronics would cost peanuts. It would also open the road to a lucrative second income stream through the sale of branded guitars.
HAL.
I've played guitar and drums in a band, and I have played both in Guitar Hero. Nothing beats playing with the band. The element of improvisation alone puts it miles above a video game. Not only that, but GH and Rock Band drumming are not real drumming. Yes, analogous, and yes, a real drummer has a big advantage when playing RB/GH over a non-drummer, but a RB/GH drummer doesn't benefit from the same comparison.
Improvisation is important, but so is technique. The pendulum swings both ways: all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but all play and no work also makes Jack a dull boy. A computer can't teach improv, but when it comes to measurement of accuracy in timing, a computer can't be beat. (pun intended).
HAL.
You've got to remember that Seinfeld doesn't know the difference between his own country and the two-continent-wide landmass it is located in....
The headline says "Dutch Court Lifts PlayStation 3 Seizure Order". This is not true. It is a European court that happens to be physically located in Den Haag, which is in the province of South Holland. It is in South Holland, but is not Dutch.
Barack Obama lives in Washington, but he is not Washingtonian, he is Hawai'ian.
HAL.
Yep, people seem to forget that all performance art is representative. You make a film that looks and sounds like real life and no-one's going to have the patience to watch it.
HAL.
The net was handled fairly well. Only one minor plot-hole springs to mind: when she wiped the virus, all the data that it had deleted was magically restored. Thankfully this wasn't crucial to the plot. Oh wait, that was the whole resolution of the film, wasn't it?
HAL.
Does Visual Studio automatically fix the tab order for GUI elements yet? As a heavy keyboard user, I had my fill of amateur VS-coded interfaces a long, long time ago.
I like the idea of socialism... I like the idea of communism even better. But here's the problem. Every attempt in the history of man kind to achieve these noble states have resulted in a shift of power "from the elite business class" to "the elite government class" which results in even MORE abuse of the people than existed previously.
If I am wrong, please show me where in the world this idea has actually worked?
I would have thought the original model of democracy as used in ancient Greece was the perfect example of communism in action. The town was run by the townsfolk, communally, and for the greater good.
Under the communal democratic system, many great feats of civil engineering were carried out, not least of which is the Parthenon in Athens.
Ancient Greece was responsible for the foundations of much of modern science, and this probably wouldn't have been possible in any executive-run society.
Communal responsibility FTW!
HAL.
Do you understand the goal of terrorism? One of the principles of terrorism is called "the principle of reaction". The terrorist tells his peers that "they hate us" (for any given combination of "they" and "us"). Not everyone believes him, so he attacks "them" in the name of "us". "Them" blame "us" for the actions of a few terrorists. This gives the terrorist the proof they need to say again that "they hate us".
If you charge CAIR with all the ills of Islamic terrorism simply by association, then you are letting the terrorists win. Love thy neighbour -- only love can set you free.
HAL.
The thing with using actual agents for tracking is that it is a labour-intensive process and is thus not likely to be done on a whim. This alone militates against frivolous abuse of the system except in extreme cases -- it's a self-limiting activity. Planting a bug on someone's car and popping round once in a while to change the battery generates a lot of data for not a lot of effort, so it's nowhere near self-limiting.
HAL.
Yes, he was talking about Blade Runner and yes, he was talking about industry trends. It's very likely (judging by current industry practice) that the new Blade Runner sequel will be somewhat de-Blade-Runner-ised in order to get the PG-13 rating, and sell it to people who shouldn't really have been able to see the original.
Also a candidate name for a sequel starring Harrison Ford....
From TFA:
the rights would not allow them to release a direct remake of the original film
This leaves an interesting question: why?
Possible answers:
The original Blade Runner still sells well, particularly given the Final Cut in HD. No-one wants to cannibalise their own sales of a recent product. Relatively slow uptake of Bluray might even be artificially slowing sales of The Final Cut. (I won't buy it until I have a laptop with Bluray -- why get the DVD now?)
The rights to Electric Sheep may not be transferrable. So this [s|pr]equal would be based on the Blade Runner IP and further away from the original Electric Sheep IP
Or maybe the remake rights were on offer but just very, very expensive, and they decided to save a few quid on a cheaper option.
HAL.
I think he's suggesting we use line-drawn animation for our next generation. Betty Boop never got pregnant. All hail Betty Boop, cure to the population explosion!
No, he said that if bands give away music for free, people will pay to see their gigs. He seems blissfully unaware that the most of the money made at gigs comes from the sale of music, not tickets and not T-shirts. The internet has not changed the ability for bands to sell their own CDs. Even bands signed to a major label still get a bigger cut out of direct sales at gigs. This has been the case for decades.
The post I responded to was talking about recordings being 100% free. No copyright, no protection whatsoever. But free music does not make money for bands, which is why it is very rarely "given away" on the internet -- where it's free, it's free for streaming only so that you have to buy it if you want to listen to it without visiting the band's website.
Since only roughly 10% of the sales price of a CD goes to the artist, it's possible to earn more money by offering the music for free and getting your fans to buy merchandise and go to concerts instead.
[citation needed]
You may be interested to know that most musicians I know are still selling CDs. In fact, most musicians I know still say that direct sales of their CDs at concerts is the main source of income (they get over 50% from direct sales). People in general only wear branded clothing from a few big acts, and I'm guessing you're probably a metalhead, because it really isn't that normal in other genres. The only music branded clothing I have is a cap I bought when I'd forgotten my sun-hat on holiday
Music is a musician's business, and taking away the ability to profit from music takes away their ability to profit.
HAL.