Thanks for the link, that was exactly what I was looking for. It says 2009, so I can only hope it arrives. In the meantime, there is some great regular (donation-ware) instruction from Justin Sandercoe at http://www.justinguitar.com/ including some awesome videos. By the time Guitarrising gets here maybe I will be able to do the medium difficulty!
I had heard snippets of the Bill Cosby speech over the years, but honestly have to say that you have provided a great service in sharing that link. No only was I impressed with what Mr. Cosby had to say to the NAACP, but it let to the past hour reading all sorts of famous speeches of interest. I particularly liked the Richard Nixon "checkers" speech, which puts a lot of the anger and rancor from our current political campaigns in perspective.
This is why some sort of warm-up is necessary. It does not necessarily mean stretching, just getting your muscles ready to work. Martial arts may be different somehow, but even my kid's instructor has them doing pushups and running in place before any flexibility exercises are done.
I do not stretch before getting on my bike for 20 miles (my usual ride). I ride slowly for 5 - 10 minutes and then stretch. I find that I can almost touch my toes at that point, whereas before I couldn't even come within 6 inches of them. If I don't stretch at the beginning of the ride, and then shortly afterward is when the muscles hurt and it seems I have been most susceptible to injury. Right now I am recovering from tendinitis for over-aggressively riding some hills and inadequately warming up and stretching over the past few months (due to work/time restrictions). I have learned my lesson and will add the stretching back in when I can get back on the bike.
I think (tin foil hat securely on) that it is too late, these "black boxes" are already upstream and the powers-that-be are just floating the idea of public knowledge of these black boxes. Now that they know the reaction is highly negative, some under-secretary somewhere can be punished for thinking that public knowledge would be possible, and the government can use this distraction to get on with other more nefarious data monitoring and mining.
I continue to think that I am being monitored, and as long as I conduct myself accordingly that I will have nothing to fear except the continued erosion of my privacy and the potential eventuality that failure to comply with group-think will land me in trouble.
You don't need to read sheet music to be in a band. Trust me, I know and can't read guitar music on anything but tablature (I did learn it, however, when I played the bagpipes but that is much simpler). You also don't need a "whiz" on the guitar... basically any intermediate that can play in time (to a metronome and eventually a drummer) and knows their barre chords can be in a garage band. Heck, look at what the Ramones, Green Day and the Sex Pistols were able to accomplish using 3-chord songs!!
I used to have a link to a new product being developed that was a guitar trainer for real guitars, recognizing the pitch and strings automagically. I thought it was covered here at Slashdot previously, but can't find the link. Essentially it was to be, and may still be, the link between those who got good at Guitar Hero "playing" guitar, and the real deal by encouraging people to play a game, like GH, but using a real instrument instead of a controller.
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I agree that "bricked" use to mean the electronic gadget was as useful as a brick. Nowadays it seems, however, that it doesn't mean you need to simply push the reset button, but it often is recoverable.
For example, the router installs of DD-WRT will occasionally "brick" a router (the term used on the FAQ and forums). And yet, some fancy work with short circuiting, or soldering iron or other non-trivial tweaking may be necessary to get it going again. The router isn't a brick, but for all intents and purposes to most newbies it still is. It isn't hitting a reset button for sure, but may be recoverable.
This is not digg? Where you choose or recommend which topic responses get moderated up or down?
I tend to moderate all requests for moderators to "do their job" down every time I seem them. I often use "Overrated" since it will not be subject to metamoderation.
Your positions are exactly the same as mine, a mixture between the two main parties. I like how you described it. I also voted for McCain and had similar feelings when waking up this morning - mixture of fear and hope. Thanks for sharing.
Given the new power structure it should be a very quick move for the Democrats to unblock the Republicans and give Washington D.C. the representatives they deserve.
*crickets*
Exactly. They couldn't get it done during the Carter administration nor during the first Bill Clinton term, both instances of Democrat control of congress with a Democrat President. So I really doubt it is solely the Republicans blocking it.
Perhaps you have a right to bare arms, but I have no desire to see all that flabby elbow fat jiggling around.
All joking aside, the purpose of guns was so that the populace could hold the government accountable to the people, and that if they got out of line the people would have an opportunity to rebel again. Unfortunately it is somewhat anacronistic to believe that personal handgun rights, or any of the things that you mention, would have any effect against a modern day government since they now have tanks, helicopter gunships, battleships and any number of arms that you cannot purchase. Basically you are owned and it seems we have slipped too far down a slippery slope to ever recover to the place where we could hope to defend ourselves against our government.
It is unfortunate. And yet I am doing everything I can to afford a few newer guns soon, so that when the new government inevitably comes calling for all "registered" guns, I can have a few unregistered ones in reserve. I am originally from England and my family still over there had to surrender all their guns because they no longer had the land to privately shoot on nor belonged to a shooting club to shoot them at. So they had to sell them including my great-grandfather's shotgun that he used to shoot rabbits for dinner in the Welsh countryside. A shame that I hope does not repeat itself over here.
I am reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time. I agree about the distraction of the characters, really unbelievable and they tend to go into these multi-paragraph philosophical rants when looking at a person's face, or before responding to a question/statement. I realize she was trying to make a point and this was how she chose to do it through her characters.
Conceptually, however, the book seems to make a lot of sense in some areas, e.g. you can't tax your way to happiness, societal unity and fairness. Where it breaks down for me is the assumption that everything can be done via a capitalistic, pay-as-you-go system. For example, using a Rand point of view, roadways would be built by industrialists and then folks would be charged to use them... what a patchwork of tolls, long lines, anti-competition, and ultimately environmental damage would we have with a multi-company operated roadway approach?
Get ready for the anti-Rand approach to Government. You will see the Balph Eubanks, Jim Taggarts and Wesley Mouches all coming out from the woodwork now, hat in hand for the "needy" people.
I was laying in bed fighting Combine in my dreams/nightmare, plus those nasty head crabs that jump out when you least expect them.
I watched the speech on cnn.com this morning from work, checked into the results of my local races (all won by Democrats), and really came away with a feeling that there is a ton of work that needs to be done, and not all of it can be done by one man in a short period of time. The other thing I did was look online at some guns because I know at some point there will be a tragedy involving a nutcase with a gun (ala VT or Columbine) and they'll be coming for my guns next.
No, if I don't vote it will make no difference whatsoever. I live in a state that will definitely go Democratic. Unlike 2 years ago, there is no one running for office that is contested. Given our electoral system, my vote cannot do anything other than possibly give an independent candidate enough votes to receive election funding and a place on the ballot next time. Unfortunately this time, there is no Ross Perot to get my vote.
I will vote, as my civic obligation. But if I chose to not vote, please do not assume it is because I am too lazy to do so. It has nothing to do with it, and none of your points make any sense to me.
1. My opinion really doesn't count anyway, my vote can't help anyone get elected unless I change residence to a more independent state. 2. The two party system gives me every right to complain 3. Every time I vote for a candidate I regret it anyway, cause all we get is more of the same - bigger government, more taxes & more intrusion. Ross Perot got my vote twice and I have regretted he didn't win each time. I can't remember the name of the independent candidates the last two times, and regrettably we ended up with W.
Looking at it from this side of the pond, it is not quite so clear. Compared with socialist-leaning political types we see in Europe, Obama is seen as a very centrist politician. However compared with the usual types of politicians we are used to in this country, it will be a significant shift toward the left if Obama gets the presidency and the Democrats keep control of congress. While this may be only a 2 year shift in power, looking at what happened to Bill Clinton and the Democrats previously, it is nevertheless makes me very nervous to think what might happen in those 2 years.
There is no candidate or their party that represents my more libertarian views on the world. Small government is not represented by either major party, personal gun ownership is shakily represented by the Republicans, and freedom of self-expression is shakily represented by the Democrats (for some history on the changes to what that party represents - look at what the Democrats did to the students in Chicago in the early 60s).
Obama may look right to you. However, I feel he represents the lesser of two evils between him and Senator Clinton. McCain would have been perfect 10 years ago. Now he just seems like a bitter old-man-puppet, who picked a hot "young" thing as his running mate and now will make all of us pay the price of a Democratic President due to his inability to pick a good VP candidate.
It is with pride that I go to the polls tomorrow, especially as a non-native citizen allowed the priveledge to vote via my naturalization. It is with some amount of shame that I pick a candidate that I agree less than 50% with on my topics of interest (including McCain, Obama, Bob Barr and Bill the Cat).
I don't know the answer to this, but I can say I seriously screwed up my system by upgrading to 8.10. Upon reboot I could not get X, there were mismatches in files (I am still a newbie, despite what my profile and UID might say) and I ended up downloading (on my XP machine) 8.04 so I could rebuild my system. I am not particularly happy, especially with my earlier decision not to create a partition for my/home directory as I lost a few personal things I couldn't retrieve. Oh well, no big loss except a whole day to download and rebuild.
I am going to wait also... that has been my pattern before, waiting a few days for the download speeds to catch up and the forums to calm down, and upgrades have always gone smoothly.
No, but I have been toying with the idea of a UPC scanner that allows me to record nutrition facts for foods I eat during the day. So every time I bring out a twinkie, I scan the box, enter N twinkies, and it adds the fat, sodium etc. to my daily intake. For non-packaged foods, like salad or fruit or whatever, I'd have barcodes preprinted that I can just scan and indicate what serving size. This would make nutrition tracking much simpler than the FitDay and other web based tracking services.
I the main problem is that UPC info does not carry nutritional information within it. So somewhere there needs to be a database of product identifiers and nutritional information.
I think there are companies that do this with very expensive (~$180) handheld scanners, though I am not sure they incorporate the serving size for personal nutrition scanning.
I have a CueCat (PS/2) version I picked up at Rat Shack and have never really used it. I picked it up because I knew someday I'd tinker a use for it.
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My favorite, I think perhaps from one of the Roger Moore Bond films, was the Soviet agents knife in the shoe. It was hilarious watching her try to kick Bond, swinging the leg around trying to 'git im'
"XXXX has ruined Linux" is what they said when RedHat was king of the distros, when SuSE YAST made setting up a Linux box a snap, when Mandrake was getting popular and folks will continue to do so.
If you feel it is time to install FreeBSD or OpenSolaris, go ahead. No one is stopping you, and there is no need to cry to the rest of us about your ruined Linux.
I got stuck in that loop myself. Go into Help & Preferences, look on the right under Index and click on the General link. At the top is a checkbox "Use Beta Index". Uncheck this box and you will be returned to regular Slashdot index.pl sweets & joy & goodness.
How "old" are we talking about for the recommendations for moving to a more lightweight Linux distribution? Do people use these machines for actual CPU intensive work?
I have a Thinkpad x31 at home running Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I have managed to bloat it up quite a bit adding in all kinds of services, including a recent misguided foray into Ubuntu Studio. It will not run Compiz due to the lack of a graphics card. Regardless, it still runs like a champ but I only really use it as a web browser, video player and the occasional Pyton script checking.
Wow a real honest catfight between two low UID posters! It is a wonder that Slashdot got anywhere if this is evidence of what it was really like back in the day!
They are already doing this. It is called "Fluoridation of the public water supply". It hasn't been perfected yet, but looking at the mindless drones that I live and work with, it seems to have had some effect. They are even starting to think that Jimmy Carter was actually a good President.
Mass confusion here! Doing the usual reading of comments under the assumption of a male writer (this is Slashdot, afterall) I wondered what female boss would hire a guy specifically for his long hair... it wasn't until I got to the comment about panty hose that I figured out you were a bank robber and not a computer scientist!
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Thanks for the link, that was exactly what I was looking for. It says 2009, so I can only hope it arrives. In the meantime, there is some great regular (donation-ware) instruction from Justin Sandercoe at http://www.justinguitar.com/ including some awesome videos. By the time Guitarrising gets here maybe I will be able to do the medium difficulty!
I had heard snippets of the Bill Cosby speech over the years, but honestly have to say that you have provided a great service in sharing that link. No only was I impressed with what Mr. Cosby had to say to the NAACP, but it let to the past hour reading all sorts of famous speeches of interest. I particularly liked the Richard Nixon "checkers" speech, which puts a lot of the anger and rancor from our current political campaigns in perspective.
This is why some sort of warm-up is necessary. It does not necessarily mean stretching, just getting your muscles ready to work. Martial arts may be different somehow, but even my kid's instructor has them doing pushups and running in place before any flexibility exercises are done.
I do not stretch before getting on my bike for 20 miles (my usual ride). I ride slowly for 5 - 10 minutes and then stretch. I find that I can almost touch my toes at that point, whereas before I couldn't even come within 6 inches of them. If I don't stretch at the beginning of the ride, and then shortly afterward is when the muscles hurt and it seems I have been most susceptible to injury. Right now I am recovering from tendinitis for over-aggressively riding some hills and inadequately warming up and stretching over the past few months (due to work/time restrictions). I have learned my lesson and will add the stretching back in when I can get back on the bike.
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I think (tin foil hat securely on) that it is too late, these "black boxes" are already upstream and the powers-that-be are just floating the idea of public knowledge of these black boxes. Now that they know the reaction is highly negative, some under-secretary somewhere can be punished for thinking that public knowledge would be possible, and the government can use this distraction to get on with other more nefarious data monitoring and mining.
I continue to think that I am being monitored, and as long as I conduct myself accordingly that I will have nothing to fear except the continued erosion of my privacy and the potential eventuality that failure to comply with group-think will land me in trouble.
You don't need to read sheet music to be in a band. Trust me, I know and can't read guitar music on anything but tablature (I did learn it, however, when I played the bagpipes but that is much simpler). You also don't need a "whiz" on the guitar... basically any intermediate that can play in time (to a metronome and eventually a drummer) and knows their barre chords can be in a garage band. Heck, look at what the Ramones, Green Day and the Sex Pistols were able to accomplish using 3-chord songs!!
I used to have a link to a new product being developed that was a guitar trainer for real guitars, recognizing the pitch and strings automagically. I thought it was covered here at Slashdot previously, but can't find the link. Essentially it was to be, and may still be, the link between those who got good at Guitar Hero "playing" guitar, and the real deal by encouraging people to play a game, like GH, but using a real instrument instead of a controller.
I agree that "bricked" use to mean the electronic gadget was as useful as a brick. Nowadays it seems, however, that it doesn't mean you need to simply push the reset button, but it often is recoverable.
For example, the router installs of DD-WRT will occasionally "brick" a router (the term used on the FAQ and forums). And yet, some fancy work with short circuiting, or soldering iron or other non-trivial tweaking may be necessary to get it going again. The router isn't a brick, but for all intents and purposes to most newbies it still is. It isn't hitting a reset button for sure, but may be recoverable.
See also: hacker, cracker, root, nerd, geek
This is not digg? Where you choose or recommend which topic responses get moderated up or down?
I tend to moderate all requests for moderators to "do their job" down every time I seem them. I often use "Overrated" since it will not be subject to metamoderation.
Your positions are exactly the same as mine, a mixture between the two main parties. I like how you described it. I also voted for McCain and had similar feelings when waking up this morning - mixture of fear and hope. Thanks for sharing.
Given the new power structure it should be a very quick move for the Democrats to unblock the Republicans and give Washington D.C. the representatives they deserve.
*crickets*
Exactly. They couldn't get it done during the Carter administration nor during the first Bill Clinton term, both instances of Democrat control of congress with a Democrat President. So I really doubt it is solely the Republicans blocking it.
Perhaps you have a right to bare arms, but I have no desire to see all that flabby elbow fat jiggling around.
All joking aside, the purpose of guns was so that the populace could hold the government accountable to the people, and that if they got out of line the people would have an opportunity to rebel again. Unfortunately it is somewhat anacronistic to believe that personal handgun rights, or any of the things that you mention, would have any effect against a modern day government since they now have tanks, helicopter gunships, battleships and any number of arms that you cannot purchase. Basically you are owned and it seems we have slipped too far down a slippery slope to ever recover to the place where we could hope to defend ourselves against our government.
It is unfortunate. And yet I am doing everything I can to afford a few newer guns soon, so that when the new government inevitably comes calling for all "registered" guns, I can have a few unregistered ones in reserve. I am originally from England and my family still over there had to surrender all their guns because they no longer had the land to privately shoot on nor belonged to a shooting club to shoot them at. So they had to sell them including my great-grandfather's shotgun that he used to shoot rabbits for dinner in the Welsh countryside. A shame that I hope does not repeat itself over here.
I am reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time. I agree about the distraction of the characters, really unbelievable and they tend to go into these multi-paragraph philosophical rants when looking at a person's face, or before responding to a question/statement. I realize she was trying to make a point and this was how she chose to do it through her characters.
Conceptually, however, the book seems to make a lot of sense in some areas, e.g. you can't tax your way to happiness, societal unity and fairness. Where it breaks down for me is the assumption that everything can be done via a capitalistic, pay-as-you-go system. For example, using a Rand point of view, roadways would be built by industrialists and then folks would be charged to use them... what a patchwork of tolls, long lines, anti-competition, and ultimately environmental damage would we have with a multi-company operated roadway approach?
Get ready for the anti-Rand approach to Government. You will see the Balph Eubanks, Jim Taggarts and Wesley Mouches all coming out from the woodwork now, hat in hand for the "needy" people.
I was laying in bed fighting Combine in my dreams/nightmare, plus those nasty head crabs that jump out when you least expect them.
I watched the speech on cnn.com this morning from work, checked into the results of my local races (all won by Democrats), and really came away with a feeling that there is a ton of work that needs to be done, and not all of it can be done by one man in a short period of time. The other thing I did was look online at some guns because I know at some point there will be a tragedy involving a nutcase with a gun (ala VT or Columbine) and they'll be coming for my guns next.
No, if I don't vote it will make no difference whatsoever. I live in a state that will definitely go Democratic. Unlike 2 years ago, there is no one running for office that is contested. Given our electoral system, my vote cannot do anything other than possibly give an independent candidate enough votes to receive election funding and a place on the ballot next time. Unfortunately this time, there is no Ross Perot to get my vote.
I will vote, as my civic obligation. But if I chose to not vote, please do not assume it is because I am too lazy to do so. It has nothing to do with it, and none of your points make any sense to me.
1. My opinion really doesn't count anyway, my vote can't help anyone get elected unless I change residence to a more independent state.
2. The two party system gives me every right to complain
3. Every time I vote for a candidate I regret it anyway, cause all we get is more of the same - bigger government, more taxes & more intrusion. Ross Perot got my vote twice and I have regretted he didn't win each time. I can't remember the name of the independent candidates the last two times, and regrettably we ended up with W.
Looking at it from this side of the pond, it is not quite so clear. Compared with socialist-leaning political types we see in Europe, Obama is seen as a very centrist politician. However compared with the usual types of politicians we are used to in this country, it will be a significant shift toward the left if Obama gets the presidency and the Democrats keep control of congress. While this may be only a 2 year shift in power, looking at what happened to Bill Clinton and the Democrats previously, it is nevertheless makes me very nervous to think what might happen in those 2 years.
There is no candidate or their party that represents my more libertarian views on the world. Small government is not represented by either major party, personal gun ownership is shakily represented by the Republicans, and freedom of self-expression is shakily represented by the Democrats (for some history on the changes to what that party represents - look at what the Democrats did to the students in Chicago in the early 60s).
Obama may look right to you. However, I feel he represents the lesser of two evils between him and Senator Clinton. McCain would have been perfect 10 years ago. Now he just seems like a bitter old-man-puppet, who picked a hot "young" thing as his running mate and now will make all of us pay the price of a Democratic President due to his inability to pick a good VP candidate.
It is with pride that I go to the polls tomorrow, especially as a non-native citizen allowed the priveledge to vote via my naturalization. It is with some amount of shame that I pick a candidate that I agree less than 50% with on my topics of interest (including McCain, Obama, Bob Barr and Bill the Cat).
I don't know the answer to this, but I can say I seriously screwed up my system by upgrading to 8.10. Upon reboot I could not get X, there were mismatches in files (I am still a newbie, despite what my profile and UID might say) and I ended up downloading (on my XP machine) 8.04 so I could rebuild my system. I am not particularly happy, especially with my earlier decision not to create a partition for my /home directory as I lost a few personal things I couldn't retrieve. Oh well, no big loss except a whole day to download and rebuild.
I am going to wait also... that has been my pattern before, waiting a few days for the download speeds to catch up and the forums to calm down, and upgrades have always gone smoothly.
No, but I have been toying with the idea of a UPC scanner that allows me to record nutrition facts for foods I eat during the day. So every time I bring out a twinkie, I scan the box, enter N twinkies, and it adds the fat, sodium etc. to my daily intake. For non-packaged foods, like salad or fruit or whatever, I'd have barcodes preprinted that I can just scan and indicate what serving size. This would make nutrition tracking much simpler than the FitDay and other web based tracking services.
I the main problem is that UPC info does not carry nutritional information within it. So somewhere there needs to be a database of product identifiers and nutritional information.
I think there are companies that do this with very expensive (~$180) handheld scanners, though I am not sure they incorporate the serving size for personal nutrition scanning.
I have a CueCat (PS/2) version I picked up at Rat Shack and have never really used it. I picked it up because I knew someday I'd tinker a use for it.
My favorite, I think perhaps from one of the Roger Moore Bond films, was the Soviet agents knife in the shoe. It was hilarious watching her try to kick Bond, swinging the leg around trying to 'git im'
I wonder if you can run the identity server on DD-WRT? That would be cool without requiring me to keep my computer running all the time!
"XXXX has ruined Linux" is what they said when RedHat was king of the distros, when SuSE YAST made setting up a Linux box a snap, when Mandrake was getting popular and folks will continue to do so.
If you feel it is time to install FreeBSD or OpenSolaris, go ahead. No one is stopping you, and there is no need to cry to the rest of us about your ruined Linux.
I got stuck in that loop myself. Go into Help & Preferences, look on the right under Index and click on the General link. At the top is a checkbox "Use Beta Index". Uncheck this box and you will be returned to regular Slashdot index.pl sweets & joy & goodness.
How "old" are we talking about for the recommendations for moving to a more lightweight Linux distribution? Do people use these machines for actual CPU intensive work?
I have a Thinkpad x31 at home running Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I have managed to bloat it up quite a bit adding in all kinds of services, including a recent misguided foray into Ubuntu Studio. It will not run Compiz due to the lack of a graphics card. Regardless, it still runs like a champ but I only really use it as a web browser, video player and the occasional Pyton script checking.
Wow a real honest catfight between two low UID posters! It is a wonder that Slashdot got anywhere if this is evidence of what it was really like back in the day!
p.s. C'mon guys, be civil!
They are already doing this. It is called "Fluoridation of the public water supply". It hasn't been perfected yet, but looking at the mindless drones that I live and work with, it seems to have had some effect. They are even starting to think that Jimmy Carter was actually a good President.
Mass confusion here! Doing the usual reading of comments under the assumption of a male writer (this is Slashdot, afterall) I wondered what female boss would hire a guy specifically for his long hair... it wasn't until I got to the comment about panty hose that I figured out you were a bank robber and not a computer scientist!