[from tfa] The biggest problem in commercial sampling isn't that artists don't know how to give away pieces of their work; it's that they and their producers want to get paid more - a lot more - for smaller bits of their songs. Think George Clinton, not Gilberto Gil. [/tfa]
Where's she get off saying this? Pfunk was 10 years ahead of this kind of thinking when he released sample CDs with all the peices of the songs he still owned rights to. Those CDs came with a liscense that starts with nothing owed to sample, but increases royalties as the sampler increases profits. Now you can argue the terms he came up with weren't generous beyond that, but still, a 11 year lead on Hillary's newfound way of thinking puts him WELL above HER criticism, even ignoring her former well-loathed employer.
more info on pfunk samples: http://p076.ezboard.com/fpoliticalpalace frm34.show Message?topicID=948.topic http://www.duke.edu/~tm c/pfunk.html
No, I'm pretty sure mathematica would work fine. It does indeed have it's own language, and plenty of permutation/combination logistics. I'm guessing it'd be more useful to someone seeking a mathematical proof/theorem regarding the problem, listing complex genral-case equations at each step. The more common programming languages are likely more productive, being concerned more with just the result than the theory at each step. tho I do know many math majors that would have an easier time programming it in mathematica, just because that's what they're used to. Lisp is the logical language choice for this or any other heavily-combinational/AI task, though you'll never catch me programming in it.
wrong, i didn't say i disagreed with it. i said it's not relevant--it doesn't apply, and implied that it's inflamatory, and that you're bringing your own hatred to a subject that doesn't need it.
Let me apologize to any woman reading for all the comments in this thread that indicate women gamers are unwelcome if less than attractive...As if every single social interation between the sexes need be sexual. We need you as gamers if only to dilute this kind of idiocy among us.
In related news, my 12-year-old offer to marry the first woman to regularly defeat me at StreetFighter regardless of age, race, or looks, goes entirely unanswered.
I think I was born 5 years or so too late; I've seen a few teenage girls who contend in Soul Calibur...
I gotta move to California where they have more asians...
Hmm, what about getting savings on the division and multiplication too?
1 mult =.001 1 add =.0002
so if you're multiplying by less than 5, you might as well use addition instead...of course, if you were to automate that detection, you'd lose the savings...
what about patenting the if statement? patenting howver-many-million color variations on 1 pixel? patenting "on" and "off"? ^^..of course all of the above are "in conjunction with a computational device".
"you can't be a true geek without learning to solder."
sigh... you can't be a true geek without regularly alienating 99% of the population. (tho this comment gets up to 99.5 for excluding non-hardware true geeks)
It's only logical that offshoring will be brought within the common man's reach in the next few years, causing the totality of code-monkeying to outsource, because lord knows, nobody actually enjoys it.
someone told me once how to get xm radio free, but i have no idea whether it's true or not.
since sattelite is strictly 1-way communication, the receiver itself locks and unlocks service based on it's receiving a message from the sattelite like "s/n#1234, lock service". the hack comes in by exploiting the undocumented habits of these turn on/off packets. because of the volume of messages to send since they're non-unique and every receiver ignores messages that are not for their serial#, the "turn off" signals are broadcast once every while for 6mo-1yr after you let your service lapse. The hack then is to disconnect the power entirely from your XM radio for a year after letting your service expire, ereafterwards it's free.
so, is this urban legend? makes sense to me. it would be easily thwarted by rebroadcasting the totality of disallowed s/ns every once in a while, which i would suspect they might do.
This article hints at something I've wanted to brainstorm around for a long time now: implementing laws and arguments as a suite of views on a set of data, instead of as they both currently are implemented: flat documents in the legislative and judicial respectively.
Pushes for plain-text legislation, while noble in intent, I take to be infeasable due to the innumerable intricacies of law--that is to say, there is no simple yet effective way to express certain complex legalities. But if instead of having one, and only one phrasing of a law, EULA, judicial argument, or whatever, we allow several VIEWS (ie phrasings intended for a specific audience) of the DATA (the semi-immutable concept that the document attempts to express).
We already accomplish this in lesser forms: an "executive summary" as part of a document is a classic example of rephrasing the meaning of a document for a specific audience.
Imagine if we wrote laws with a legaleese view, a summary view, a plain-english view, and a technical/medical/whatever'sapplicable view. The public would be served by reading the summary, nonlawyers that want to monitor their government would have the plainenglish, and specialists in the subjectmatter would have their applicable view. "How could that work, there's too much chance for conflict and deceit among the several views?" you may ask. We already undertake such a human risk when judges review law for interpretation. Only in this scenario, instead of one phrasing, the judge has MULTIPLE valid phrasings, each with it's own context, from which to pull interpretation. A natural heirarchy of where to pull what meaning could be established: If --a-- detail in the legaleese completely contradicts the basis of the executive summary, the summary holds more weight, as the summary is where one would state "overall intent". Contrarily, if the --totality-- of details in the legaleese and plain-english draw a conclusion other than the summaries', the summary is in need of revision.
I see applicability well beyond just laws, but they make for a good first thought. Eventually, I could even see this implemented as a document format where switching between views are as difficult as following hyperlinks, and view-preference-options are standardized so one can surf the net as different levels of readers. (patent it first and i got yer prior art right here, bitch ^_-) I could even see slashmoderation as a worthwhile inclusion to the concept.
Anyway, the whole idea's pretty alpha in my mind, and I'd love other ppl's thoughts.
i was outside playing frisbee golf in a milwaukee suburb yesterday around 6pm, and i SWEAR there were enough of these long, thin clouds that i commented to my friend "it doesn't make sense that so many jets flew by at different angles".
using the student pdf matchup sheet, i'm unsatisfied. they don't match the regular cloud pictures nearly as closely as the jet-trail clouds, but i doubt we had any airshows to create so many in such an odd pattern.
I wholeheartedly agree. I think we should definetly put more attention into our candidates the more local they are, yet the means to find worthwhile information for local candidates is far from convenient.
i remember being about 8 and playing ffa1 for the gameboy over a 10 hour long cartrip.. at the end of this game, YOU KILL GOD. (now i'm way more accustomed to asian thought, but at 8, i wondered if i was going to hell for beating this game... ^^)
still, those gameboy ffa's were so good, i could remember wanting to go back and play again just to 'see' friends from back in the storyline. hey, c'mon, i was little.
enter zip code = get all candidates you can vote on
choose a candidate and you can find out:
-a terse biography
-their voting record
-their publicly stated policy
-their financial backing
-how a rainbow of interest groups approve/disapprove of their voting record
the site is simplistic and packed with unslanted info. just as i like 'em. it's by far the best resource i've come accross yet.
to give credit, i came accross this site via one of my Senators' websites, Russ Feingold. He was cosponsor along with John McCain for campaign finance reform, and I couldn't be more pleased with him.
i can imagine the future slashdot legal discussions now.. would google cave private email-filestoreage mp3s to the riaa under a dmca-letter? maybe not. but what if microsoft eventually follows suit, and some unethical bittorrent schmuck puts his xboxnext game collection on it?
some dumbass writing google: "can 1z have a she11 stra1t to m41 gm41l s0z t4 uz3 fxP?"
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[from tfa] The biggest problem in commercial sampling isn't that artists don't know how to give away pieces of their work; it's that they and their producers want to get paid more - a lot more - for smaller bits of their songs. Think George Clinton, not Gilberto Gil. [/tfa]
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Where's she get off saying this?
Pfunk was 10 years ahead of this kind of thinking when he released sample CDs with all the peices of the songs he still owned rights to. Those CDs came with a liscense that starts with nothing owed to sample, but increases royalties as the sampler increases profits. Now you can argue the terms he came up with weren't generous beyond that, but still, a 11 year lead on Hillary's newfound way of thinking puts him WELL above HER criticism, even ignoring her former well-loathed employer.
more info on pfunk samples:
http://p076.ezboard.com/fpoliticalpalac
http://www.duke.edu/~t
agreed.
for anyone ELSE who couldn't tell, i was joking.
(how many campaign routes could really be simplified to 'downhill' or 'uphill' anyway? ^^)
What the hell's wrong with a bicycle??
Plan your campaign routes downhill and voila!
I'd vote for the candidate that comes to
my house and busts out a nollie hardflip...
-g
No, I'm pretty sure mathematica would work fine.
It does indeed have it's own language, and plenty of permutation/combination logistics.
I'm guessing it'd be more useful to someone seeking a mathematical proof/theorem regarding the problem, listing complex genral-case equations at each step.
The more common programming languages are likely more productive, being concerned more with just the result than the theory at each step. tho I do know many math majors that would have an easier time programming it in mathematica, just because that's what they're used to.
Lisp is the logical language choice for this or any other heavily-combinational/AI task, though you'll never catch me programming in it.
heh.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=89
http
it worked for me, and i had quicktime
installed months before i ever installed
firefox.
wrong, i didn't say i disagreed with it.
i said it's not relevant--it doesn't apply,
and implied that it's inflamatory, and that
you're bringing your own hatred to a subject
that doesn't need it.
>And who cares if you're goth? So you wear tight
>black clothes and that matters how in this >discussion?
aaAHahahaHaHAhaahhaahaha
looks like -I- hit the nail on the head too,
anonymous coward ^_^;;;;
I didn't put a "I" either.
any version'll do.
offer's still open ladies. ^_-
you hit the nail on the head. i am.
and you're the resentful fugly goth
(you're no beefcake, this is slashdot)
who gets neither sexual NOR social attention.
nice to meet you.
(mods, this guy is a troll)
That vague social trend of female dependency
is not mutually exclusive to an unwelcome techie
environment.
Now that you've vented, reread this
woman's intelligent post with an open mind.
The comments on this article only serve
to back-up her points.
-evilme
Let me apologize to any woman reading for all
the comments in this thread that indicate women
gamers are unwelcome if less than attractive.
the sexes need be sexual. We need you as gamers
if only to dilute this kind of idiocy among us.
-g
In related news, my 12-year-old offer to marry
the first woman to regularly defeat me at
StreetFighter regardless of age, race, or looks,
goes entirely unanswered.
I think I was born 5 years or so too late;
I've seen a few teenage girls who contend
in Soul Calibur...
I gotta move to California where they have more asians...
-evilme
Hmm, what about getting savings on the
division and multiplication too?
1 mult =
1 add =
so if you're multiplying by less than 5,
you might as well use addition instead.
detection, you'd lose the savings...
what about patenting the if statement?
patenting howver-many-million color
variations on 1 pixel?
patenting "on" and "off"? ^^
"in conjunction with a computational device".
-evilme
"you can't be a true geek without learning to solder."
sigh... you can't be a true geek without
regularly alienating 99% of the population.
(tho this comment gets up to 99.5 for excluding
non-hardware true geeks)
now THIS i beleive. thank you.
it only disproves it if it's true.
everything posted is heresay.
i have an mp3-cd player in my car.
i have no intention of ever getting XM, free or not.
thanks for your accusation though.
fallacious reasoning:
It's only logical that offshoring will be brought within the common man's reach in the next few years, causing the totality of code-monkeying to outsource, because lord knows, nobody actually enjoys it.
someone told me once how to get xm radio free,
but i have no idea whether it's true or not.
since sattelite is strictly 1-way communication,
the receiver itself locks and unlocks service
based on it's receiving a message from the
sattelite like "s/n#1234, lock service".
the hack comes in by exploiting the undocumented
habits of these turn on/off packets. because
of the volume of messages to send since they're
non-unique and every receiver ignores messages
that are not for their serial#, the "turn off"
signals are broadcast once every while
for 6mo-1yr after you let your service lapse.
The hack then is to disconnect the power entirely
from your XM radio for a year after letting
your service expire, ereafterwards it's free.
so, is this urban legend? makes sense to me.
it would be easily thwarted by rebroadcasting
the totality of disallowed s/ns every once
in a while, which i would suspect they might do.
This article hints at something I've wanted to brainstorm around for a long time now: implementing laws and arguments as a suite of views on a set of data, instead of as they both currently are implemented: flat documents in the legislative and judicial respectively.
Pushes for plain-text legislation, while noble in intent, I take to be infeasable due to the innumerable intricacies of law--that is to say, there is no simple yet effective way to express certain complex legalities. But if instead of having one, and only one phrasing of a law, EULA, judicial argument, or whatever, we allow several VIEWS (ie phrasings intended for a specific audience) of the DATA (the semi-immutable concept that the document attempts to express).
We already accomplish this in lesser forms: an "executive summary" as part of a document is a classic example of rephrasing the meaning of a document for a specific audience.
Imagine if we wrote laws with a legaleese view, a summary view, a plain-english view, and a technical/medical/whatever'sapplicable view. The public would be served by reading the summary, nonlawyers that want to monitor their government would have the plainenglish, and specialists in the subjectmatter would have their applicable view. "How could that work, there's too much chance for conflict and deceit among the several views?" you may ask. We already undertake such a human risk when judges review law for interpretation. Only in this scenario, instead of one phrasing, the judge has MULTIPLE valid phrasings, each with it's own context, from which to pull interpretation. A natural heirarchy of where to pull what meaning could be established: If --a-- detail in the legaleese completely contradicts the basis of the executive summary, the summary holds more weight, as the summary is where one would state "overall intent". Contrarily, if the --totality-- of details in the legaleese and plain-english draw a conclusion other than the summaries', the summary is in need of revision.
I see applicability well beyond just laws, but they make for a good first thought. Eventually, I could even see this implemented as a document format where switching between views are as difficult as following hyperlinks, and view-preference-options are standardized so one can surf the net as different levels of readers. (patent it first and i got yer prior art right here, bitch ^_-) I could even see slashmoderation as a worthwhile inclusion to the concept.
Anyway, the whole idea's pretty alpha in my mind, and I'd love other ppl's thoughts.
i was outside playing frisbee golf in
a milwaukee suburb yesterday around 6pm,
and i SWEAR there were enough of these
long, thin clouds that i commented to my
friend "it doesn't make sense that so many
jets flew by at different angles".
using the student pdf matchup sheet,
i'm unsatisfied. they don't match the
regular cloud pictures nearly as closely
as the jet-trail clouds, but i doubt
we had any airshows to create so many
in such an odd pattern.
iiidunno.
I wholeheartedly agree. I think we should
definetly put more attention into our
candidates the more local they are, yet
the means to find worthwhile information
for local candidates is far from convenient.
mods, what the heck, funny??
this is serious! ^_^
i remember being about 8 and playing ffa1
for the gameboy over a 10 hour long cartrip..
at the end of this game, YOU KILL GOD.
(now i'm way more accustomed to asian thought,
but at 8, i wondered if i was going to hell
for beating this game... ^^)
still, those gameboy ffa's were so good,
i could remember wanting to go back and
play again just to 'see' friends from
back in the storyline.
hey, c'mon, i was little.
www.vote-smart.org
enter zip code = get all candidates you can vote on
choose a candidate and you can find out:
-a terse biography
-their voting record
-their publicly stated policy
-their financial backing
-how a rainbow of interest groups approve/disapprove of their voting record
the site is simplistic and packed with unslanted info. just as i like 'em. it's by far the best resource i've come accross yet.
to give credit, i came accross this site via one of my Senators' websites, Russ Feingold. He was cosponsor along with John McCain for campaign finance reform, and I couldn't be more pleased with him.
this is what i would expect of google as well.
i can imagine the future slashdot legal
discussions now..
would google cave private email-filestoreage
mp3s to the riaa under a dmca-letter? maybe
not. but what if microsoft eventually follows
suit, and some unethical bittorrent schmuck
puts his xboxnext game collection on it?
some dumbass writing google:
"can 1z have a she11 stra1t to m41 gm41l
s0z t4 uz3 fxP?"