I mean, I thought he had better taste than that. I've been a Crimson fan for quite some time. I know folks who have studied under Fripp. He strikes me in the third person as very un-windows-user-ish.
I'm pretty sure he carries a Powerbook, if that makes you feel better.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor would be an interesting choice for this as well - a long, slow build up to a driving rhythm that becomes barely controlled chaos, ending suddenly and without warning.
Speaking as a King Crimson fan of more than 20 years, I'm a bit gutted about this.
Why? No, seriously. The only possible downside is that the audio geeks will end up tweaking the recordings to the point that they have no musical quality whatsoever.
Unless you hide from other people's computers you're going to end up inevitably using Vista at some point, I don't see how this makes the experience any worse. I'd be concerned if they just sampled existing music but that isn't what is happening.
The shocking thing is that he allowed them to videotape him while he was performing.:D
Sadly, artists like Fripp and Justin Timberlake are being drawn into battles they don't understand, and therefore they don't get to properly choose a side. If only they knew that MS will destroy the industry they love.
You know nothing about Fripp if you think he has any love for the music business. Pretty much everything he has ever written about the topic is contrary to that.
He's certainly savvy enough to have an informed opinion of whether cooperating with Microsoft is going to help or hinder his new business of distributing lossless, un-DRMed Crimson and Fripp recordings. (DGM Live) I'm pretty sure he'd view Microsoft as a more valuable ally than "the industry."
People might have heard Fripp or Crimson music in a Gilette commercial, on The Maxx cartoon on Liquid Television, or in some porn movie that stole the music. (Fripp sued them to get royalties) With regards to the commercial, I know he said something to the effect of "Why not? I use their razors, and people will get to hear something a lot better than the music they ordinarily use in those things. And I can use the money."
As a Fripp fan who will probably end up using Vista at some point I'm cautiously optimistic about this. I'm also skeptical that the little noises an OS makes can have any musical quality whatsoever.
In addition, in a large vehicle the conservation of momentum is on your side. It's not the crash that kills you it's the sudden acceleration (your body going from 30 to 0 mph in a second).
The mass of the vehicles involved is an interesting and significant data point but it's not the whole story. The way the shape of the vehicle changes during a collision is extremely important. The force with which you're whipped around against your various restraints and airbags is important, but none of that matters if the passenger compartment's geometry radically changes while you're sitting in it.
It is easy to see how some big vehicles are not going to be very great in this regard, as rigidity of the passenger compartment can't be a huge priority in their design. The more safety-oriented Euro manufacturers design their cars around the crew compartment but you obviously aren't going to do that with a vehicle designed primarily to haul cargo.
Large mass is not why TFA says SUV's are dangerous, it's because they tip over.
There have been some other morbidly entertaining SUV safety flaws over the last few years. I'm pretty sure one of the Honda SUVs was the first vehicle to ever cut the legs off a steel crash test dummy.
Rollover certainly isn't the only danger, although it sure ain't pretty. Chassis rigidity doesn't tend to scale as the mass of the vehicle increases. Volvo used to show off its wagons in ads with three of them stacked on top of one another. I wouldn't want to sit in a rolled-over Escalade any longer than I absolutely had to...
Training with a mechnical dummy is detrimental to gaining actual combat experience.
It's enough to make you wonder why the wing chun people have been training with wooden dummies for freaking ever... you ought to send them your memo.
The article claims that the android can dodge punches. I say that it can't. It takes a fist less than a quarter of a second to travel from the ready position to the opponent's face. The microprocessor needs to do image processing to realize that the fist is moving towards a specific area, which will require many image frames before it can actually determine the fist movements. And even if the microprocessor was able to act fast enough, I haven't seen any motors that can rotate fast enough.
There are plenty of martial artists who telegraph their moves horribly. You'd expect an advanced enough robot to be able to understand something like that; it doesn't need to wait until it sees the punch coming, it needs to read your body language and posture.
Because it's a convenient excuse for Microsoft's competitors not being successful in the marketplace. Given any failure of a product one likes, one can just point at Microsoft and say "OMG EVIL MONOPOLY!"
Never mind the fact that life is more complicated than that.
If you're going to throw the F word around at least learn what it means. Fascism has little to nothing to do with business, instead it is about the state or more specifically the ruler. It is a pragmatic form of government when it comes to business. If anything, it functions under a permanent war economy with the major industries cooperating. In other words, it is a centralized economy that still retains private property and freedom of commerce.
The US and other countries today are not fascist nor resemble anything like a fascist nation. Does big business run the country? Yes. Do politicians suck up to it? Yes. Is this a good thing? NO! But its NOT fascism. To call it such is at the least a bit ignorant.
Uh... haven't you spent two paragraphs describing the same thing? I'm not being facetious: you really haven't presented much of a contrast. "Permanent war economy" would be a fine subtitle for all those snazzy CNN and Fox graphics about the "War Against Terror".
First, the argument that an attack is disciplined thus it must be the national military is just plain stupid -- and I frequently agree with Bruce S.
I guess it's a good thing Bruce didn't make that argument then. I can only assume you're referring to "I know people involved in this investigation -- the attackers are very well-organized." I think a fair reading of his statement would lead one to believe that he thinks they're organized in a way that represents expenditure of a lot of resources, to the point where you'd suspect a state were sponsoring the activity.
Everything else you said seems reasonable enough. What you mentioned about corporations is interesting: one could suppose it's not the Chinese military, but some Chinese corporate interests doing the spying, although I'm not sure they've got their own megacorporations operating at that level yet.
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I'm pretty sure he carries a Powerbook, if that makes you feel better.
Only the hobbiest musician does not.
I'm pretty sure Robert Fripp carries a Powerbook.
Why? No, seriously. The only possible downside is that the audio geeks will end up tweaking the recordings to the point that they have no musical quality whatsoever.
Unless you hide from other people's computers you're going to end up inevitably using Vista at some point, I don't see how this makes the experience any worse. I'd be concerned if they just sampled existing music but that isn't what is happening.
The shocking thing is that he allowed them to videotape him while he was performing.
You know nothing about Fripp if you think he has any love for the music business. Pretty much everything he has ever written about the topic is contrary to that.
He's certainly savvy enough to have an informed opinion of whether cooperating with Microsoft is going to help or hinder his new business of distributing lossless, un-DRMed Crimson and Fripp recordings. (DGM Live) I'm pretty sure he'd view Microsoft as a more valuable ally than "the industry."
Groan.
People might have heard Fripp or Crimson music in a Gilette commercial, on The Maxx cartoon on Liquid Television, or in some porn movie that stole the music. (Fripp sued them to get royalties) With regards to the commercial, I know he said something to the effect of "Why not? I use their razors, and people will get to hear something a lot better than the music they ordinarily use in those things. And I can use the money."
As a Fripp fan who will probably end up using Vista at some point I'm cautiously optimistic about this. I'm also skeptical that the little noises an OS makes can have any musical quality whatsoever.
The mass of the vehicles involved is an interesting and significant data point but it's not the whole story. The way the shape of the vehicle changes during a collision is extremely important. The force with which you're whipped around against your various restraints and airbags is important, but none of that matters if the passenger compartment's geometry radically changes while you're sitting in it.
It is easy to see how some big vehicles are not going to be very great in this regard, as rigidity of the passenger compartment can't be a huge priority in their design. The more safety-oriented Euro manufacturers design their cars around the crew compartment but you obviously aren't going to do that with a vehicle designed primarily to haul cargo.
There have been some other morbidly entertaining SUV safety flaws over the last few years. I'm pretty sure one of the Honda SUVs was the first vehicle to ever cut the legs off a steel crash test dummy.
Rollover certainly isn't the only danger, although it sure ain't pretty. Chassis rigidity doesn't tend to scale as the mass of the vehicle increases. Volvo used to show off its wagons in ads with three of them stacked on top of one another. I wouldn't want to sit in a rolled-over Escalade any longer than I absolutely had to...
Uh... we don't?
It's less painfull after a glass of Aquavit. Or two.
To clarify matters, I suggest we calling the, ahem, borrowing of intellectual property GNU/Stealing.
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You're totally making that up.
It's enough to make you wonder why the wing chun people have been training with wooden dummies for freaking ever... you ought to send them your memo.
There are plenty of martial artists who telegraph their moves horribly. You'd expect an advanced enough robot to be able to understand something like that; it doesn't need to wait until it sees the punch coming, it needs to read your body language and posture.
I think the question is whether VH is blogging with Sammy or Dave? The real VH only ever blogs with Dave, man.
Because it's a convenient excuse for Microsoft's competitors not being successful in the marketplace. Given any failure of a product one likes, one can just point at Microsoft and say "OMG EVIL MONOPOLY!"
Never mind the fact that life is more complicated than that.
In space, no one can hear you sneezing because of the dust.
Don't touch me there!!!!!
Hey, they were important once! Napoleon, Churchill, The Beatles, etc.
Brought about by government fiat? No, not especially.
Oooooh, I'm convinced. Ha.
Uh... haven't you spent two paragraphs describing the same thing? I'm not being facetious: you really haven't presented much of a contrast. "Permanent war economy" would be a fine subtitle for all those snazzy CNN and Fox graphics about the "War Against Terror".
I guess it's a good thing Bruce didn't make that argument then. I can only assume you're referring to "I know people involved in this investigation -- the attackers are very well-organized." I think a fair reading of his statement would lead one to believe that he thinks they're organized in a way that represents expenditure of a lot of resources, to the point where you'd suspect a state were sponsoring the activity.
Everything else you said seems reasonable enough. What you mentioned about corporations is interesting: one could suppose it's not the Chinese military, but some Chinese corporate interests doing the spying, although I'm not sure they've got their own megacorporations operating at that level yet.
Haha. You win.
Whereas denigrating something by calling it "gay" is the height of maturity.
The problem is that they keep voting Windows...