Maybe it's really for managers of people who are diagnosed with something terminal. If you write an article that says, "If you have an employee that is about to die, make sure they take care of x, y, and z, before the end." that would seem horrible and heartless. On the other hand, an article that says, "If you are about to die, make sure you take care of x, y, and z for your employer, before the end." that seems much nicer, if a little weird. If you're a manager, just read between the lines.
The center speaker addresses this problem by providing a single source for sound that comes from the middle of the screen (like dialog). Most of the audio you hear in 5.1/7.1 systems comes from the center speaker. I would say just for the center speaker alone, 5.1/7.1 is worth it.
The benefit of having the extra speakers in the back is for things that sound like they are coming from everywhere. If there is a thunderstorm in the movie, having uncorrelated rain noise from all the speakers makes it sound like the storm is happening all around you, not just in front of you. Adding more speakers increases this effect, but I'm not sold on 7.1 being that much better than 5.1.
There was an Infinite Mind episode on NPR a couple of months ago about Asperger's Syndrome. They mentioned several times that people with Aperger's Syndrome tend to have one or more parents and grandparents that are engineers or scientists.
I think the discussion would benefit from a consistent definition of the terms "free will" and "free choice". I would interpret "free choice" as having the power to do what you want (you are not compelled to do something else, e.g. nobody is holding a gun to your head). "Free will", on the other hand, is the power to choose what you want to do, or to decide to do something other than what you are inclined to do. Compatibilism says that you can have free choice (depending on the circumstances), but you never have free will. Indeterminists would say you can also conditionally have free choice, but you always have free will. You are clearly aware of the distinction between the two concepts, but used the terms in what I think is a potentially confusing way.
I think there are other interesting objections to determinism, such as the validity of human reasoning, etc.
My intent in mentioning the information was not to imply that Franklin is a champion of theocracy. It was more to provide a balance with the event mentioned in the original post. I think if we can agree that he was somewhere between Michael Newdow and Billy Graham (and probably more toward the Michael Newdow end of the spectrum), we have little to argue about on this point. I guess that's the peril of countering black facts with white ones, is people may not realize your position is grey.
So what? If the topic is Benjamin Franklin's position on the separation of church and state, the fact that he proposed the prayers is far more relevant than the fact that the proposal was rejected.
Yes, but he also proposed a Seal for the United States that contained overt Biblical imagery, and requested that the Constitutional Convention open each day with prayers.
Donald Knuth is a Lutheran, or at least goes to the First Lutheran Church of Palo Alto now and then. See his news page for his occasionally scheduled appearances to have informal talks about Bible verses.
I suggest you look into two of his books, "3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated" and "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About".
He gave some lectures about how he wrote "3:16", his motivations for doing so, and various thoughts about God. These lectures were the basis for "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About"
You are right on there. I wouldn't say I get up on my high horse if an Open Source app only runs on Windows, but I am certainly disappointed because I probably won't get to run it.
There are so many cross-platform libraries out there that it shouldn't be hard to make your app cross-platform in most cases. That goes for people developing under Linux, too. Why not also build it for Windows?
Also, it would seem to me that making it cross-platform would greatly increase your pool of potential developers. I haven't seen any statistics about the number of Open Source developers that run open-source operating systems vs. those that run Windows, but I'm sure it's far different than the ratio of Windows users to Linux users. If you want people to help out, make it cross-platform.
No, they would have to go back and find a public-domain edition that contains the story. For instance, if you search for "Moby Dick", you will see several recent editions that have the copyright restrictions on them. However, Google could find a pre-1923 edition of Moby Dick, scan it, and put the whole thing online.
Relax, dude, nobody moved your cheese. It just got moldy, and then it was like "hey, there's more sunlight overe there", and it crawled over by the window.
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No, like this. Pity, the original site seems to be gone.
You don't think the authorities would verify the activity on the same webcam before sending in the cavalry?
It's a corollary to "the more things change the more they stay the same."
Depends on whether it's your two cents' worth, or someone is giving a penny for your thoughts.
There could be some pretty interesting plots where Obi-wan keeps the wrong people from bumping into Luke.
Should it bother me that I thought of that?
The benefit of having the extra speakers in the back is for things that sound like they are coming from everywhere. If there is a thunderstorm in the movie, having uncorrelated rain noise from all the speakers makes it sound like the storm is happening all around you, not just in front of you. Adding more speakers increases this effect, but I'm not sold on 7.1 being that much better than 5.1.
There was an Infinite Mind episode on NPR a couple of months ago about Asperger's Syndrome. They mentioned several times that people with Aperger's Syndrome tend to have one or more parents and grandparents that are engineers or scientists.
I think there are other interesting objections to determinism, such as the validity of human reasoning, etc.
Unpredictability and randomness are not the same thing.
Not true, at least in Windows 9x. When my machine would crash, the next time it booted it would blame me for not shutting down properly.
My intent in mentioning the information was not to imply that Franklin is a champion of theocracy. It was more to provide a balance with the event mentioned in the original post. I think if we can agree that he was somewhere between Michael Newdow and Billy Graham (and probably more toward the Michael Newdow end of the spectrum), we have little to argue about on this point. I guess that's the peril of countering black facts with white ones, is people may not realize your position is grey.
So what? If the topic is Benjamin Franklin's position on the separation of church and state, the fact that he proposed the prayers is far more relevant than the fact that the proposal was rejected.
Yes, but he also proposed a Seal for the United States that contained overt Biblical imagery, and requested that the Constitutional Convention open each day with prayers.
I don't have all day!
How about a real one?
Well, he can't use a computer for 3 years, so he'll probably get prostate cancer.
I suggest you look into two of his books, "3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated" and "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About".
He gave some lectures about how he wrote "3:16", his motivations for doing so, and various thoughts about God. These lectures were the basis for "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About"
I belive Civilization I-III (I don't know about IV) also started the timeline at 4000 BC.
No no no. Running a green marker around the edge of your CD is for making it sound better.
You are right on there. I wouldn't say I get up on my high horse if an Open Source app only runs on Windows, but I am certainly disappointed because I probably won't get to run it.
There are so many cross-platform libraries out there that it shouldn't be hard to make your app cross-platform in most cases. That goes for people developing under Linux, too. Why not also build it for Windows?
Also, it would seem to me that making it cross-platform would greatly increase your pool of potential developers. I haven't seen any statistics about the number of Open Source developers that run open-source operating systems vs. those that run Windows, but I'm sure it's far different than the ratio of Windows users to Linux users. If you want people to help out, make it cross-platform.
No, they would have to go back and find a public-domain edition that contains the story. For instance, if you search for "Moby Dick", you will see several recent editions that have the copyright restrictions on them. However, Google could find a pre-1923 edition of Moby Dick, scan it, and put the whole thing online.
does this result in people being more or less informed? Or are people fooling themselves if they believe that they are well informed by either source?
Relax, dude, nobody moved your cheese. It just got moldy, and then it was like "hey, there's more sunlight overe there", and it crawled over by the window.
I think it has something to do with Vin Diesel.