What exactly are the advantages over just simply using a boat?
Ever see a parasailer? Like that, but for people who enjoy spraying mass quantities of water on whatever is below them.
Really stretching now, could be used from the deck of a ship to quickly access overhead unloading cranes... if attached to a submarine it could potentially be used for personnel transfer to helicopters... ummm... I think it's just slightly more useful than the jet-pack James Bond used in Thunderball.
Ford Prefect is from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.... he has considerable difficulty understanding why humans tend to continually state the obvious, such as "It's a nice day", or "You're very tall", or "So this is it. We're all going to die", or "expensive subscription services are going to lose massive amounts of business during an economic downturn when cheap and free alternatives with more selection are readily available."
I won't dispute the "biggest selling games are non-violent these days" point, hopefully that is true.
On the other hand, in the American suburbs I'm familiar with, 13 year olds may not earn their own money, but they have strong (and often absolute) control over the purchase decision process, in many cases cruising the mall with $60 in their pockets. Some parents are aware of what's in the games and don't care, more often the parents don't care enough to be aware of what's going on.
Even if the "blood and gore will impress my friends" crowd isn't a majority, it's still a significant market. Hopefully games like Guitar Hero will continue to gain ground on FPS and other gore-centric titles, but even GH has some pretty "dark" graphics both on the packaging and the screen - sure you're not killing anything, and that's good, but it's a little edgy for me to consider putting in front of my 7 year old.
Thanks,
The laws (in the US) still permit a bit of individual decision-making in the matter of vaccines, as long as they're still permitting us that freedom, people will exercise it for what they think, or more likely feel, is right.
So, then, you're 13 years old and in the video game shop in the mall with your buds... gee, let's see, which game do I want to buy here, think the guys would be impressed by some flag-football where the most dexterous player wins, or chainsaw arena football.... hmmmm.... tough one, right?
I think the problem here is that since Windows based Firefox has a bazillion users, it has been optimized a bit better than the Linux version, enough so that it's faster on Wine. If the Linux Firefox build team is sufficiently embarrassed by this, they'll soon fix it.
Double edge sword here - yeah, reliability is a good thing, but Linux (still) has a large base of users who run it on ancient hardware - so, speed matters.
I don't think a large amount of profile data will do much to improve optimization - better to have a lean profile that accurately represents the most used sections of the program.
I'm not convinced that vaccines gave both of my sons their Autism, but the regression coincided with the high fever that followed a vaccine - no fiction there. There are also "fever effects" in my children's developmental pattern, nothing you can publish in a peer reviewed journal or anything, but they actually seem to make progress toward "normalcy" in spurts now that often coincide with fevers. What does that mean? Who knows - I worked with a Harvard educated neuroscientist for a couple of years, and based on his stated opinions of the state of the art in understanding these kinds of cause and effect relationships in the brain, I'd guess that there's definitely something happening there, but the world's leading experts would only have hunches as to what's really going on.
It's one thing to speak in abstract probabilities, make historical references to plagues that ended before you were born, talk about the greater good, etc. etc. When you're the one on the front line watching human beings be maimed in the name of "the greater good," you start to question whose greater good is really being served, and do I really want to participate?
I do think it's suspicious that the last vaccine-autism case which was decided in favor of the injured was treated as a very specific special case, not likely applicable to anyone else, yet this one which was presented by parents who weren't as sharp or knowledgeable is being portrayed as precedent setting and a "major setback" for future plaintiffs.
The implant hype had far wider reaching consequences than the Dow Corning bankruptcy. The FDA enacted a virtual moratorium on new medical devices for years, putting a serious kink in the growth of the industry which I had just happened to choose as a career a couple of years earlier.
Political (over) reaction to hysteria usually has wider reaching consequences than any fact-based actions government undertakes.
I don't think the cell carriers want any bit-torrent activity (or similar bandwidth hogs) on their networks just yet. When they've got 3x capacity in 80% of their served markets, then they might consider looking for other customers. As it is right now, they're commanding much more than $25/mo for much less than 1Mbit/s, why would they want to get into a low-margin business like home data?
Sounds like a win-win, it can't cost $10 in effort to ban a user, if they continue being %tards they continue supporting the moderators with actual cash.
Problem with you and your "poof" is that it hasn't been repeated for several millenia by august personages of power. These people have a vast library of wisdom passed down through the ages, conveniently condensed into a single book which requires interpretation by men who need your money.... but I digress.
Most people aren't really too concerned about proof, they rely on the advice and opinions of people around them who they respect. As a stranger, you need to appear compellingly more believable than their parents, neighbors, pastor, and that wise old wino down at the convenience store - all those people hold more intrinsic opinion-worth than you. Oh, and your arguments? Well, they are more likely to offend the audience and drive them away from your point of view.
Some departments of some universities have been teaching critical thinking, but only a minority of graduates really get it. Until we become a planet of critical thinkers, legend and opinion will continue to hold a stronger influence on people than any so-called evidence.
I believe you have to post to get/. mod points, but the whole thing about/. mods is that even if they are retards, there are a lot of them and things that get modded up to a visible level have impressed several retards (um, moderators) without un-impressing a larger number.
This, combined with the absurd volume of posts on any given article, allows/. to bury most of the chaff (and a good bit of wheat), while presenting at least a few worthwhile comments.
Back on your average mom and pop blog you'd expect to actually read most of the responses, and getting a decent signal to noise ratio while retaining most of the content is a much harder problem.
/. does an admirable job of moderating through technology, and utilizing their huge readership to do moderation. This model breaks down for most people's groups that consist of a dozen regular posters and a hundred or so lurkers - there just aren't enough people who care a little bit wielding a little moderation power to make it work - people who care too much and/or wield too much power over the discussion usually end up spoiling the experience, unless the group is more or less intrinsically well behaved.
Yeah, because listserv groups are so well behaved....
whether it's a BBS, Usenet group, listserv, or Wordpress blog with feedback, user groups are user groups and it doesn't take more than a couple of bad actors to spoil the experience.
Moderators who care and connect well with the group seem to be key to a thriving open community, regardless of technology.
IANAM - I am not a musician, but I have been near musicians more than once in my life.... I believe the Pentatonic scale is just a subset of the 12 tone, it certainly is if you can play it on a piano without special tuning. As for 50 cent (24 tone) scales, musicality is all in the ear of the beholder, and if we're talking about your average CD buyer / MP3 sharer today, I don't think they'd "get" 24 tone, they wouldn't know what's wrong, but they'd probably not like it. 24 tone sounds like something Zappa would do....
As for the quote, it was a long time ago, but it was an "old dude" even then, like Dick Clark, or Chuck Berry - wide range, I know, but they were definitely talking to aspiring new pop artists.
I forget who it was, some scion of the music industry, who was interviewed and asked what was important for new musicians to do, and his answer was to make sure to tune their instruments and sing the notes on-key. This is what makes music sound "familiar," and "musical," the 12 tone scale. Get off of that and you're stretching people's brains to recognize other sounds that don't sound "musical," to the western world at least.
Of course, with auto-tune, the entertainers can concentrate on other things without having to worry about this traditional required skill. Oh well, do you want to appreciate a trained musician or an entertainer? Billboard's top 100 pretty clearly demonstrates that the dollars prefer entertainment to musicianship. If you appreciate traditional musicianship, consider patronizing your local orchestra - I'm sure they need the money, and they're usually 20x more musically skilled than what you hear on pop-music recordings.
It's a period technology sound... like analog synth in the early '70s, or amp-feedback distortion ever since the late '60s, or tape-loop multi-tracking ever since the 50's, or FM synthesizers in 1986-7. Frankly, I'm surprised that the world is still coming up with new, uniquely identifiable tech-driven sounds, ever since about 1995 home PCs have been able to manipulate audio-rate data at will. At some point any "new" sound is just going to be a revival of some familiar sound from the past, possibly mixed with some other old familiar sound that it hasn't been mixed with lately.
The only way he would not be free to practice it is if it has already been patented by someone else. If he has been practicing this (with dated documentation, such as a patent application), that's automatic prior art invalidation.
Now, if a troll can forecast something you want to do in the future that you have not yet documented practice of, they can run ahead of you and patent that, but having a full patent is no more protection from that than dated, documented practice of the art.
Yeah, but for the most part you have the option to tell your IT boss to stick it and go get similar abuse from a boss-jerk of your choice for similar pay.
Mercenaries are in it for a contract period and expected to take orders to potentially get themselves killed on a regular basis during that time.
Get in the right program and they will give you credit for weaving baskets, hardly groundbreaking technology, but a worthy endeavor if you want to spend your life hawking wares at craft-show booths.
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I assume this is dragging the boat after you.
What exactly are the advantages over just simply using a boat?
Ever see a parasailer? Like that, but for people who enjoy spraying mass quantities of water on whatever is below them.
Really stretching now, could be used from the deck of a ship to quickly access overhead unloading cranes... if attached to a submarine it could potentially be used for personnel transfer to helicopters... ummm... I think it's just slightly more useful than the jet-pack James Bond used in Thunderball.
Could easily use beer as the thrust media, if the support boat was a Budweiser tanker.
Ford Prefect is from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.... he has considerable difficulty understanding why humans tend to continually state the obvious, such as "It's a nice day", or "You're very tall", or "So this is it. We're all going to die", or "expensive subscription services are going to lose massive amounts of business during an economic downturn when cheap and free alternatives with more selection are readily available."
I won't dispute the "biggest selling games are non-violent these days" point, hopefully that is true.
On the other hand, in the American suburbs I'm familiar with, 13 year olds may not earn their own money, but they have strong (and often absolute) control over the purchase decision process, in many cases cruising the mall with $60 in their pockets. Some parents are aware of what's in the games and don't care, more often the parents don't care enough to be aware of what's going on.
Even if the "blood and gore will impress my friends" crowd isn't a majority, it's still a significant market. Hopefully games like Guitar Hero will continue to gain ground on FPS and other gore-centric titles, but even GH has some pretty "dark" graphics both on the packaging and the screen - sure you're not killing anything, and that's good, but it's a little edgy for me to consider putting in front of my 7 year old.
Thanks,
The laws (in the US) still permit a bit of individual decision-making in the matter of vaccines, as long as they're still permitting us that freedom, people will exercise it for what they think, or more likely feel, is right.
So, then, you're 13 years old and in the video game shop in the mall with your buds... gee, let's see, which game do I want to buy here, think the guys would be impressed by some flag-football where the most dexterous player wins, or chainsaw arena football.... hmmmm.... tough one, right?
I think the problem here is that since Windows based Firefox has a bazillion users, it has been optimized a bit better than the Linux version, enough so that it's faster on Wine. If the Linux Firefox build team is sufficiently embarrassed by this, they'll soon fix it.
Double edge sword here - yeah, reliability is a good thing, but Linux (still) has a large base of users who run it on ancient hardware - so, speed matters.
I don't think a large amount of profile data will do much to improve optimization - better to have a lean profile that accurately represents the most used sections of the program.
I'm not convinced that vaccines gave both of my sons their Autism, but the regression coincided with the high fever that followed a vaccine - no fiction there. There are also "fever effects" in my children's developmental pattern, nothing you can publish in a peer reviewed journal or anything, but they actually seem to make progress toward "normalcy" in spurts now that often coincide with fevers. What does that mean? Who knows - I worked with a Harvard educated neuroscientist for a couple of years, and based on his stated opinions of the state of the art in understanding these kinds of cause and effect relationships in the brain, I'd guess that there's definitely something happening there, but the world's leading experts would only have hunches as to what's really going on.
It's one thing to speak in abstract probabilities, make historical references to plagues that ended before you were born, talk about the greater good, etc. etc. When you're the one on the front line watching human beings be maimed in the name of "the greater good," you start to question whose greater good is really being served, and do I really want to participate?
I do think it's suspicious that the last vaccine-autism case which was decided in favor of the injured was treated as a very specific special case, not likely applicable to anyone else, yet this one which was presented by parents who weren't as sharp or knowledgeable is being portrayed as precedent setting and a "major setback" for future plaintiffs.
The implant hype had far wider reaching consequences than the Dow Corning bankruptcy. The FDA enacted a virtual moratorium on new medical devices for years, putting a serious kink in the growth of the industry which I had just happened to choose as a career a couple of years earlier.
Political (over) reaction to hysteria usually has wider reaching consequences than any fact-based actions government undertakes.
Ever watch the movie Serenity?
They thought they had a cure for social strife, which easily kills more people that contagious diseases do...
I don't think the cell carriers want any bit-torrent activity (or similar bandwidth hogs) on their networks just yet. When they've got 3x capacity in 80% of their served markets, then they might consider looking for other customers. As it is right now, they're commanding much more than $25/mo for much less than 1Mbit/s, why would they want to get into a low-margin business like home data?
Sounds like a win-win, it can't cost $10 in effort to ban a user, if they continue being %tards they continue supporting the moderators with actual cash.
Problem with you and your "poof" is that it hasn't been repeated for several millenia by august personages of power. These people have a vast library of wisdom passed down through the ages, conveniently condensed into a single book which requires interpretation by men who need your money.... but I digress.
Most people aren't really too concerned about proof, they rely on the advice and opinions of people around them who they respect. As a stranger, you need to appear compellingly more believable than their parents, neighbors, pastor, and that wise old wino down at the convenience store - all those people hold more intrinsic opinion-worth than you. Oh, and your arguments? Well, they are more likely to offend the audience and drive them away from your point of view.
Some departments of some universities have been teaching critical thinking, but only a minority of graduates really get it. Until we become a planet of critical thinkers, legend and opinion will continue to hold a stronger influence on people than any so-called evidence.
I believe you have to post to get /. mod points, but the whole thing about /. mods is that even if they are retards, there are a lot of them and things that get modded up to a visible level have impressed several retards (um, moderators) without un-impressing a larger number.
This, combined with the absurd volume of posts on any given article, allows /. to bury most of the chaff (and a good bit of wheat), while presenting at least a few worthwhile comments.
Back on your average mom and pop blog you'd expect to actually read most of the responses, and getting a decent signal to noise ratio while retaining most of the content is a much harder problem.
/. does an admirable job of moderating through technology, and utilizing their huge readership to do moderation. This model breaks down for most people's groups that consist of a dozen regular posters and a hundred or so lurkers - there just aren't enough people who care a little bit wielding a little moderation power to make it work - people who care too much and/or wield too much power over the discussion usually end up spoiling the experience, unless the group is more or less intrinsically well behaved.
Yeah, because listserv groups are so well behaved....
whether it's a BBS, Usenet group, listserv, or Wordpress blog with feedback, user groups are user groups and it doesn't take more than a couple of bad actors to spoil the experience.
Moderators who care and connect well with the group seem to be key to a thriving open community, regardless of technology.
IANAM - I am not a musician, but I have been near musicians more than once in my life.... I believe the Pentatonic scale is just a subset of the 12 tone, it certainly is if you can play it on a piano without special tuning. As for 50 cent (24 tone) scales, musicality is all in the ear of the beholder, and if we're talking about your average CD buyer / MP3 sharer today, I don't think they'd "get" 24 tone, they wouldn't know what's wrong, but they'd probably not like it. 24 tone sounds like something Zappa would do....
As for the quote, it was a long time ago, but it was an "old dude" even then, like Dick Clark, or Chuck Berry - wide range, I know, but they were definitely talking to aspiring new pop artists.
Or, you can one-man-band it like NIN....
I forget who it was, some scion of the music industry, who was interviewed and asked what was important for new musicians to do, and his answer was to make sure to tune their instruments and sing the notes on-key. This is what makes music sound "familiar," and "musical," the 12 tone scale. Get off of that and you're stretching people's brains to recognize other sounds that don't sound "musical," to the western world at least.
Of course, with auto-tune, the entertainers can concentrate on other things without having to worry about this traditional required skill. Oh well, do you want to appreciate a trained musician or an entertainer? Billboard's top 100 pretty clearly demonstrates that the dollars prefer entertainment to musicianship. If you appreciate traditional musicianship, consider patronizing your local orchestra - I'm sure they need the money, and they're usually 20x more musically skilled than what you hear on pop-music recordings.
It's a period technology sound... like analog synth in the early '70s, or amp-feedback distortion ever since the late '60s, or tape-loop multi-tracking ever since the 50's, or FM synthesizers in 1986-7. Frankly, I'm surprised that the world is still coming up with new, uniquely identifiable tech-driven sounds, ever since about 1995 home PCs have been able to manipulate audio-rate data at will. At some point any "new" sound is just going to be a revival of some familiar sound from the past, possibly mixed with some other old familiar sound that it hasn't been mixed with lately.
The only way he would not be free to practice it is if it has already been patented by someone else. If he has been practicing this (with dated documentation, such as a patent application), that's automatic prior art invalidation.
Now, if a troll can forecast something you want to do in the future that you have not yet documented practice of, they can run ahead of you and patent that, but having a full patent is no more protection from that than dated, documented practice of the art.
Yeah, but for the most part you have the option to tell your IT boss to stick it and go get similar abuse from a boss-jerk of your choice for similar pay.
Mercenaries are in it for a contract period and expected to take orders to potentially get themselves killed on a regular basis during that time.
Get in the right program and they will give you credit for weaving baskets, hardly groundbreaking technology, but a worthy endeavor if you want to spend your life hawking wares at craft-show booths.