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The team is aiming not at a true thinking machine but at a new class of software that can 'understand' human questions and respond to them correctly.
I feel like someone should tell them how Jeopardy works... That thing isn't going to have too many questions to respond to.
Except at the "meet the contestant" part, maybe, which by the way should be fascinating.
Why? Honestly, who in their right mind wants to live anywhere but on Earth? We are perfectly suited for life on this planet and no other. We have beautiful mountains, ocean, fresh water, we don't need "life-support" systems just to take a walk outside, and we sure as hell don't need a rocket to get here.
I could see the attraction and novety of a three day mars or moon vacation, but beyond that, I'm staying here.
Music is a living, breathing thing, and tempo fluctuations are to be expected and welcomed. It's part of music.
The way to record properly is to first record a scratch track with the whole band playing the song. Then each musician records their own track, playing along with the scratch track in their monitors, until they've recorded the whole thing the way they want it (with whatever splices they want). This makes tempo fluctuations a moot point since everyone's playing along with the same scratch track.
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Actually, E# is pronounced "eeh sharp", and is a distinct note (and in many cases pitch) from F.
For example, in an F# major scale, E# is the leading tone and should sound slightly higher than F natural (which would be the lowered tonic) would, due to the tendency to want to resolve to the F#. Of course if you are playing on an even tempered instrument such as a piano, the pitch will always be identical to that of F natural, but pianos are always out of tune for this reason.
I fully expect to be modded down for this embarrassing display of band geekery.
It was probably hardware failure, and given the shear number of lights/projectors/lighted up people/people flying through air going on, something was bound to fail at some point during that ceremony. This seems pretty minor.
Not quite -- labels don't do hierarchy, at least not well. I love gmail but do miss being able to organize things in a hierarchy. Even more with google bookmarks.
It's worse than you even think. Real Property refers to land, and only land. The Real in Real Property is "Real" as in "Royal," not "Real" as in "Not Fake." Real Estate refers to the land plus whatever structures are permanently situated upon it. This author really needs to do a little studying up on this. Cars, TVs, and anything not permanently attached to the building are personal property, not real property.
First off, are companies not taxed on whatever income their IP brings them? Does a factory pay tax on the machinery it owns? Or just on whatever revenue the products that the machinery creates bring in?
Furthermore, the "real" in "real estate" has nothing to do with the property not being "fake", as I believe the author thinks. "Real Property" is "real" as in "royal." It is named thus because originally in Europe (from where our system of law originates), all land was owned by the crown. "Real Property" specifically refers to land, and only land. Not ideas.
IP couldn't be farther from real property. This is quite a stretch!
It's an innovative new application of an old idea. I've never seen a lamp like it, have you? Not all brilliant ideas have to be bleeding edge technology.
You'd get used to it. As a musician I routinely work under conductors who wave their arms around wildly for many hours at a time. They don't get tired. And believe me, they don't have any sort of super human strength or stamina.
In fact, it'd probably be an exercise benefit for most people.
The fatigue issue, for most reasonably healthy people, is really a non-issue IMO. You'd get stronger and used to the actions required, and frankly I'd love anything that forces me to get a little more exercise throughout my work day. We are just used to computing being a completely sedentary activity.
if it increases revenue to the industry, why are they taking action? Because they're immoral, and apparently want to capitalise on something that has already made them money.
I think that is a very narrow-sighted statement. The reason they are taking action is because they believe they are losing money through people illegally downloading music. I'm not sure whether that is true or not, but I'm pretty sure not everyone who downloads an album that they like *does* buy it, as the grandparent does... I don't believe for a second that they are doing this to reap more profit.
However, my point about respect for the artists boils down to this: the artist (and the record company) expects you to buy their album if you want to listen to it, not try it, then decide whether or not to buy it. This is the implicit agreement you have with them as a music listener. By downloading it first, listening to it, and then deciding whether to buy it, you are violating that agreement, behind their backs. In my book, that displays a lack of respect. The fact that you do buy the album, while heart-warming, is not relevant to this argument. Especially considering that many, many of those who download music will happily listen to it many times over and never pay for the music they are enjoying. Try to look at it from the artists point of view.
I gave up downloading music illegally some time ago for these reasons.
In my case p2p has caused my to buy more cds than I usually would have if I hadn't of been exposed to certain artists and songs.
I see this argument all the time and I fail to see where you and others like you get off thinking it is your job to dictate to the RIAA their business model. Whether or not downloading music illegally increases album sales is irrelevant. It is illegal, and you are displaying a severe lack of respect for the artists you claim to love so much.
I would be impressed if he did that completely without outside help.
I'm more impressed by the thought that he did it with outside help. It shows that he understands the process of delegation, or, at least, the value of resourcefulness. Both traits that are crucial for a successful business leader.
Sure, any number of slashdotters could have coded this site in 3 months, but this kid is actually doing it and has successfully managed to generate a big buzz about his site, which is not easy and doesn't just happen by chance. I'm impressed and would be happy to see him succeed.
I have heard nothing from Google employees about them caring about their stock price, and I posted this yesterday [slashdot.org]:
"The funny thing is that Google's owners and employees are probably the least concerned with their profits. Sergey that is one of the original two founders of the company works for a $1/year, drives a lavish Toyota Prius, lives in a small apartment, usually wears blue jeans, and is _personally_ worth $7 to $11 billion dollars."
I fail to see how this displays his not caring about the stock price... If he's making a $1/year salary, but worth $7 to $11 billion, which I presume is largely in google stock, it seems to me he should be quite concerned with google's stock price.
Microsoft has to learn how to accept competition and not try to kill it or buy it out. Competition leads to innovation, which is exactly what this industry lacks in a lot of areas.
Your missing the point of capitalism. Competition is good for the consumer because it breeds innovation, but it is not necessarily good for the competitors involved. From MS's point of view it's a much better idea to kill or buy out their competition, than let it fester, compete with them, and steal their market share. So no, they don't have to learn to accept anything.
Uh, comparing this to Y2K seems a little extreme to me... Y2K was a big deal because it sounded scary to the average non-programmer person and there was nothing they could do to fix it. Taking 10 minutes to change all your clocks twice a year is not a big deal. The world got on fine before all our electronics became self aware and started adjusting themselves automatically for DST.
last, but for me most importantly, are the pretty pictures on the left-hand column of keys configurable?
What would be cool is if they dynamically displayed what programs you have open, ie, what's in the task bar. Then you could get rid of the task bar altogether, or at least hide it most of the time. I don't often have more than 10 windows open at once, actually yes I do, but whatever, the point is it would be neat and save some mousing.
At any rate, I imagine a much more practical version of this would just be a keyboard sized touch sensitive lcd, perhaps with some sort of transparent keyboard device over it so you'd have some tactile response from the thing.
I repeat: The Fair Tax system would never fly in America
Though it would be heaven if it did.
I don't think it would be heaven. Unfortunately (or fortunately?), rampant slack-jawed consumerism is a large part of what makes our economy strong. If people all of a sudden stopped buying things, it would really spell trouble for the economy. Dropping sales would mean that companies would no longer be able to afford to pay their employees, so people would be out of jobs. Inflation would drop dangerously low. All of this leads to a weak economy, and a weak economy is bad for all of us. Especially the ones who lost their jobs. Face it, consumerism fuels capitalism, and capitalism is what has made the US so strong historically.
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FTA: The team is aiming not at a true thinking machine but at a new class of software that can 'understand' human questions and respond to them correctly.
I feel like someone should tell them how Jeopardy works... That thing isn't going to have too many questions to respond to.
Except at the "meet the contestant" part, maybe, which by the way should be fascinating.
Why? Honestly, who in their right mind wants to live anywhere but on Earth? We are perfectly suited for life on this planet and no other. We have beautiful mountains, ocean, fresh water, we don't need "life-support" systems just to take a walk outside, and we sure as hell don't need a rocket to get here.
I could see the attraction and novety of a three day mars or moon vacation, but beyond that, I'm staying here.
Music is a living, breathing thing, and tempo fluctuations are to be expected and welcomed. It's part of music.
The way to record properly is to first record a scratch track with the whole band playing the song. Then each musician records their own track, playing along with the scratch track in their monitors, until they've recorded the whole thing the way they want it (with whatever splices they want). This makes tempo fluctuations a moot point since everyone's playing along with the same scratch track.
Sure, 15 years later.... What about 500 years from now?
Yes, and the network will kill a small boy in front of your very eyes if you don't do it right.
Have you ever actually worked in the real world?
Actually, E# is pronounced "eeh sharp", and is a distinct note (and in many cases pitch) from F.
For example, in an F# major scale, E# is the leading tone and should sound slightly higher than F natural (which would be the lowered tonic) would, due to the tendency to want to resolve to the F#. Of course if you are playing on an even tempered instrument such as a piano, the pitch will always be identical to that of F natural, but pianos are always out of tune for this reason.
I fully expect to be modded down for this embarrassing display of band geekery.
They've gone to plaid!!!
It was probably hardware failure, and given the shear number of lights/projectors/lighted up people/people flying through air going on, something was bound to fail at some point during that ceremony. This seems pretty minor.
Not quite -- labels don't do hierarchy, at least not well. I love gmail but do miss being able to organize things in a hierarchy. Even more with google bookmarks.
It's worse than you even think. Real Property refers to land, and only land. The Real in Real Property is "Real" as in "Royal," not "Real" as in "Not Fake." Real Estate refers to the land plus whatever structures are permanently situated upon it. This author really needs to do a little studying up on this. Cars, TVs, and anything not permanently attached to the building are personal property, not real property.
First off, are companies not taxed on whatever income their IP brings them? Does a factory pay tax on the machinery it owns? Or just on whatever revenue the products that the machinery creates bring in?
Furthermore, the "real" in "real estate" has nothing to do with the property not being "fake", as I believe the author thinks. "Real Property" is "real" as in "royal." It is named thus because originally in Europe (from where our system of law originates), all land was owned by the crown. "Real Property" specifically refers to land, and only land. Not ideas.
IP couldn't be farther from real property. This is quite a stretch!
It's an innovative new application of an old idea. I've never seen a lamp like it, have you? Not all brilliant ideas have to be bleeding edge technology.
You'd get used to it. As a musician I routinely work under conductors who wave their arms around wildly for many hours at a time. They don't get tired. And believe me, they don't have any sort of super human strength or stamina.
In fact, it'd probably be an exercise benefit for most people.
The fatigue issue, for most reasonably healthy people, is really a non-issue IMO. You'd get stronger and used to the actions required, and frankly I'd love anything that forces me to get a little more exercise throughout my work day. We are just used to computing being a completely sedentary activity.
Why should I spend $500+ on a beautiful 3.5" screen that will be scratched to hell after a few weeks of 16+ hour days in my pocket? Boo.
if it increases revenue to the industry, why are they taking action? Because they're immoral, and apparently want to capitalise on something that has already made them money.
I think that is a very narrow-sighted statement. The reason they are taking action is because they believe they are losing money through people illegally downloading music. I'm not sure whether that is true or not, but I'm pretty sure not everyone who downloads an album that they like *does* buy it, as the grandparent does... I don't believe for a second that they are doing this to reap more profit.
However, my point about respect for the artists boils down to this: the artist (and the record company) expects you to buy their album if you want to listen to it, not try it, then decide whether or not to buy it. This is the implicit agreement you have with them as a music listener. By downloading it first, listening to it, and then deciding whether to buy it, you are violating that agreement, behind their backs. In my book, that displays a lack of respect. The fact that you do buy the album, while heart-warming, is not relevant to this argument. Especially considering that many, many of those who download music will happily listen to it many times over and never pay for the music they are enjoying. Try to look at it from the artists point of view.
I gave up downloading music illegally some time ago for these reasons.
In my case p2p has caused my to buy more cds than I usually would have if I hadn't of been exposed to certain artists and songs.
I see this argument all the time and I fail to see where you and others like you get off thinking it is your job to dictate to the RIAA their business model. Whether or not downloading music illegally increases album sales is irrelevant. It is illegal, and you are displaying a severe lack of respect for the artists you claim to love so much.
I would be impressed if he did that completely without outside help.
I'm more impressed by the thought that he did it with outside help. It shows that he understands the process of delegation, or, at least, the value of resourcefulness. Both traits that are crucial for a successful business leader.
Sure, any number of slashdotters could have coded this site in 3 months, but this kid is actually doing it and has successfully managed to generate a big buzz about his site, which is not easy and doesn't just happen by chance. I'm impressed and would be happy to see him succeed.
I have heard nothing from Google employees about them caring about their stock price, and I posted this yesterday [slashdot.org]: "The funny thing is that Google's owners and employees are probably the least concerned with their profits. Sergey that is one of the original two founders of the company works for a $1/year, drives a lavish Toyota Prius, lives in a small apartment, usually wears blue jeans, and is _personally_ worth $7 to $11 billion dollars."
I fail to see how this displays his not caring about the stock price... If he's making a $1/year salary, but worth $7 to $11 billion, which I presume is largely in google stock, it seems to me he should be quite concerned with google's stock price.
Microsoft has to learn how to accept competition and not try to kill it or buy it out. Competition leads to innovation, which is exactly what this industry lacks in a lot of areas.
Your missing the point of capitalism. Competition is good for the consumer because it breeds innovation, but it is not necessarily good for the competitors involved. From MS's point of view it's a much better idea to kill or buy out their competition, than let it fester, compete with them, and steal their market share. So no, they don't have to learn to accept anything.
So only US citizens are allowed to have cell phones in the US?
Uh, comparing this to Y2K seems a little extreme to me... Y2K was a big deal because it sounded scary to the average non-programmer person and there was nothing they could do to fix it. Taking 10 minutes to change all your clocks twice a year is not a big deal. The world got on fine before all our electronics became self aware and started adjusting themselves automatically for DST.
last, but for me most importantly, are the pretty pictures on the left-hand column of keys configurable?
What would be cool is if they dynamically displayed what programs you have open, ie, what's in the task bar. Then you could get rid of the task bar altogether, or at least hide it most of the time. I don't often have more than 10 windows open at once, actually yes I do, but whatever, the point is it would be neat and save some mousing.
At any rate, I imagine a much more practical version of this would just be a keyboard sized touch sensitive lcd, perhaps with some sort of transparent keyboard device over it so you'd have some tactile response from the thing.
I repeat: The Fair Tax system would never fly in America
Though it would be heaven if it did.
I don't think it would be heaven. Unfortunately (or fortunately?), rampant slack-jawed consumerism is a large part of what makes our economy strong. If people all of a sudden stopped buying things, it would really spell trouble for the economy. Dropping sales would mean that companies would no longer be able to afford to pay their employees, so people would be out of jobs. Inflation would drop dangerously low. All of this leads to a weak economy, and a weak economy is bad for all of us. Especially the ones who lost their jobs. Face it, consumerism fuels capitalism, and capitalism is what has made the US so strong historically.