Indeed. It is a nice rack and all... but why? While I congratulate the guy on his workmanship, the rack looks like an imitation of 'what grown-ups are working with'. Why not just buy one, or take a job as a sysadmin...
Indeed, the 'digital age', which is btw not really new anymore, allows for great remixes. It also allows for a lot of crappy remixes no-one wants to hear. Real artists always get their stuff made, even if they have to use an analog tape recorder in their grandmother's basement. This (cheap) digital technology just makes is easier for everyone else to make crap.
Do you have any idea how many jokes were made after 911 we Americans had to endure?
While this may be true, I hardly see why this is a reason to find these bombings 'funny'. "They laughed at us, now we laugh at you"?!?
People got killed there. People had their arms torn of by the blast. It _IS_ not funny, no more than the attack on the WTC was or no more than people starving in Africa are. Jokes are made about all of these, but imho pretending it is 'funny' at a time when people are still fighting for their lives is an indication of poor taste. See the television news of the paramedics rushing victims to the hospital and have a good laugh. It's "you turn" now. Hope you feel better.
Cracking jokes in stressful situations is known to help people cope. My wife used to work in Accident & Emergency, and from the things she told me, Paramedics have the sickest sense of humour.
Yes, except for the small difference that the paramedics are the ones with the stress. Those telling jokes on/. are not.
True: this isn't the first terrorist attack (I can call them terrorists, can I?) and most likely won't be the last.
True: most likely this bombing will get more media attention than other conflicts where innocent people were hurt.
True: probably some politicians will USE this event for their own agenda
True: "I couldn't care less" is the most egoistic cynical and macho comment ever published on/. You realise that those "not caring whatsoever about other's life" are the kind of person commiting this attack? Let me know next time somthing horrible happens to you, I will be happy to share my sentiment about it.
Any BNC connector, which is what you see on pro audio gear (and most video gear), has better high-frequency response than the fanciest RCA jack.
Agreed, but imho not relevant. BNC connectors have a matched impedance (75 Ohms for video, 50 for everything else), which is a Good Thing. But we are talking audio here: the wavelength is immense, so this doesn't really matter. In my experience the cable itself is much more important, i.e. use rather thick threaded cable to avoid losses and inductance. And to make it complete, use properly shielded connectors (be them BNC or RCA).
How would 83431 digits (83431 characters) be 33,8 kilobytes?
Keep in mind that numbers are not characters. You only need 4 bits to represent a decimal digit. Actually this is even a waste, because there would be 6 4-bit combinations you never use (1010, 1011, 1100, 1101, 1110 and 1111). It is possible however to take several digits together and code them in a more efficient manner (avoiding the 'waste'). The actual information content of one decimal digit is the 2-log of 10, or 3.32 bits (more than 3 but less than 4).
The information content of 83431 digits is therefore about 277kbit, or 35kByte.
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I think the point is that most of us have grasped the concept of ice melting since we were old enough to sit at the big table. More so after intro to physical science in high school when we learned the magic of Celcius.
There is a difference between knowing ice melts and knowing why or how. The Greek also knew that every day Apollo would ride his sun-chariot. No need to investigate how he did this exactly.
As the parent said: nerds want to know how stuff works.
No, noone is 'less important' than any others, all human being share the same level of importance, even those that cannot spell correctly all of the time. That's what you are missing.
Not really. My point was not that those writing spelling mistakes are less important than others, or that they are less intelligent (as is frequently stated in this discussion).
On the contrary: because I assume that most people on slashdot are capable of writing without (too much) errors, it is a sign of disrecpect to the readers (imho) to choose not to do so. In other words: they must be thinking less of their readers, otherwise they would do the effort of writing correctly.
At least that is the message conveyed to me (and others here). You may argue that this is untrue, and you your values are different, but methinks that an element of respect for others is to pay attention to what they think is important, not what you think is important (though this statement is a bit shaky and harder than the one I intend to make:-).
I'm not writing a fucking paper, it's an response in a damn forum.
So?
You can 'unlearn' the spelling you usually use in a whitepaper? You need not turn on the SPU (speling processing unit)? The people reading the forum are less important than those reading the white paper?
Indeed, rules or patterns evolve from what _people_ do, they are not a law of nature. As such people should be able to change them one way or another.
And even though I am not a fan of alternative spellings (such as exist e.g. in my own mother tongue Dutch), I can live with them as long as they are more or less consistent.
However, most people are just lazy: their vocabulary is not consistent (words can be written in a number of ways). They just don't care about spelling, most likely because they just cannot spell correctly. Or because they don't proofread stuff they make public which is imho a sign of lack of respect for those who have to read it.
This leads to the question: if you shoot a light ray(velocity c=the speed of light) from the spaceship moving with half= 0.5 c, how come the light ray moves with 1.0 c from the view of both observers, not with 1.5 c from the resting observer?
IIRC, this is the essence of his theory: the 'normal' laws of physics-as-we-know-it are deformed to fit his two new postulates. Speed of light is the same everywhere, well, then distances have to be dependent of the speed of the observer etc...
I think we are talking about different sibjects here. More specifically: I am NOT suggesting that a morse option would be a good idea on phones. My point (still standing) was that getting a message through with a morse transmitter is apparently faster than getting it through with text messages.
That is: comparing a standard morse device and a standard phone (one could argue about T9). That the morse key is more convenient is not the point, because it is part of a standard setup, just like an engine is part of a standard car. What did you expect them to to, cripple the key and use an untrained operator to prove that text messaging is faster? Such comparison would be useless, because (apart from no-one caring about it) you could just count the number of keypresses, average presses per minute an calculate the outcome. The whole point of this experiment, although not perfect, is to compare REALISTIC conditions.
If the pro-morser had been forced to enter morse on a phone keypad instead of his $200 morsing 'bug' then I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have won. It takes several keypresses to send a single character in morse and just because it's morse, it doesn't mean that you can press the keys any quicker. He could only key quicker because of the equipment he was using.
While I can follow your reasoning, it is also not completely fair:
- transmitting morse code is done using the equipment the guy used, transmitting text messages is done using the equipment the boy used. What you are saying is "cars would be not faster than bicycles, if it weren't for the combustion engines".
- it is only your assumption that the morse guy wouldn't have won using the keypad. Maybe yes, maybe no. Not very scientific either.
- No-one is saying this was a scientific endeavour. Was Leno nominated for the Nobel prize or so?
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And it's even worse than that: 25ct plus his works would only buy you half a candybar. This means his collected works are worth -17.5ct.
Like this you mean?
The same of course. Nyquist sampling allows for perfect reconstruction of ALL info, hence also phase info.
Maybe it would think the shuttle was a _massive_ female seagull. That's why they covered the windows.
Indeed. It is a nice rack and all... but why? While I congratulate the guy on his workmanship, the rack looks like an imitation of 'what grown-ups are working with'. Why not just buy one, or take a job as a sysadmin...
The first one would get the last ones vomit ans vice versa. Unless they were vomiting diagonally of course...
In short: availability of technology != art.
While this may be true, I hardly see why this is a reason to find these bombings 'funny'. "They laughed at us, now we laugh at you"?!?
People got killed there. People had their arms torn of by the blast. It _IS_ not funny, no more than the attack on the WTC was or no more than people starving in Africa are. Jokes are made about all of these, but imho pretending it is 'funny' at a time when people are still fighting for their lives is an indication of poor taste. See the television news of the paramedics rushing victims to the hospital and have a good laugh. It's "you turn" now. Hope you feel better.
Wouldn't the emergence communications system have its own frequencies?
Yes, except for the small difference that the paramedics are the ones with the stress. Those telling jokes on /. are not.
True: most likely this bombing will get more media attention than other conflicts where innocent people were hurt.
True: probably some politicians will USE this event for their own agenda
True: "I couldn't care less" is the most egoistic cynical and macho comment ever published on /. You realise that those "not caring whatsoever about other's life" are the kind of person commiting this attack?
Let me know next time somthing horrible happens to you, I will be happy to share my sentiment about it.
Monday:
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- How was work today?
- 3.1
Tuesday:
- How was work today?
- 3.141
Wednesday:
- How was work today?
- 3.141592
Agreed, but imho not relevant. BNC connectors have a matched impedance (75 Ohms for video, 50 for everything else), which is a Good Thing. But we are talking audio here: the wavelength is immense, so this doesn't really matter. In my experience the cable itself is much more important, i.e. use rather thick threaded cable to avoid losses and inductance. And to make it complete, use properly shielded connectors (be them BNC or RCA).
Keep in mind that numbers are not characters. You only need 4 bits to represent a decimal digit. Actually this is even a waste, because there would be 6 4-bit combinations you never use (1010, 1011, 1100, 1101, 1110 and 1111). It is possible however to take several digits together and code them in a more efficient manner (avoiding the 'waste'). The actual information content of one decimal digit is the 2-log of 10, or 3.32 bits (more than 3 but less than 4). The information content of 83431 digits is therefore about 277kbit, or 35kByte.
There is a difference between knowing ice melts and knowing why or how. The Greek also knew that every day Apollo would ride his sun-chariot. No need to investigate how he did this exactly.
As the parent said: nerds want to know how stuff works.
42+42+1=125*124*...*2 ???
Not really. My point was not that those writing spelling mistakes are less important than others, or that they are less intelligent (as is frequently stated in this discussion).
On the contrary: because I assume that most people on slashdot are capable of writing without (too much) errors, it is a sign of disrecpect to the readers (imho) to choose not to do so. In other words: they must be thinking less of their readers, otherwise they would do the effort of writing correctly. At least that is the message conveyed to me (and others here). You may argue that this is untrue, and you your values are different, but methinks that an element of respect for others is to pay attention to what they think is important, not what you think is important (though this statement is a bit shaky and harder than the one I intend to make :-).
So?
You can 'unlearn' the spelling you usually use in a whitepaper? You need not turn on the SPU (speling processing unit)? The people reading the forum are less important than those reading the white paper?
And even though I am not a fan of alternative spellings (such as exist e.g. in my own mother tongue Dutch), I can live with them as long as they are more or less consistent. However, most people are just lazy: their vocabulary is not consistent (words can be written in a number of ways). They just don't care about spelling, most likely because they just cannot spell correctly. Or because they don't proofread stuff they make public which is imho a sign of lack of respect for those who have to read it.
IIRC, this is the essence of his theory: the 'normal' laws of physics-as-we-know-it are deformed to fit his two new postulates. Speed of light is the same everywhere, well, then distances have to be dependent of the speed of the observer etc...
Hope it's not "DVD Jon breaks leg"
That is: comparing a standard morse device and a standard phone (one could argue about T9). That the morse key is more convenient is not the point, because it is part of a standard setup, just like an engine is part of a standard car. What did you expect them to to, cripple the key and use an untrained operator to prove that text messaging is faster? Such comparison would be useless, because (apart from no-one caring about it) you could just count the number of keypresses, average presses per minute an calculate the outcome. The whole point of this experiment, although not perfect, is to compare REALISTIC conditions.
While I can follow your reasoning, it is also not completely fair:
- transmitting morse code is done using the equipment the guy used, transmitting text messages is done using the equipment the boy used. What you are saying is "cars would be not faster than bicycles, if it weren't for the combustion engines".
- it is only your assumption that the morse guy wouldn't have won using the keypad. Maybe yes, maybe no. Not very scientific either.
- No-one is saying this was a scientific endeavour. Was Leno nominated for the Nobel prize or so?
A rotary braille reader.
Pfft old news. The same can be done using plain old Worcestershire sauce as embalming fluid.