Amen to that... first thing when I stumble out of bed is to walk out to the back patio and have a smoke while my dogs relieve themselves, then off to the bathroom for the 3 "S"'s.
Let's do a little comparison. When SCO determined (for the purposes of this discussion, I'll assume good faith on their part) that Linux violated their copyrights, lawsuits were filed. No one was arrested, despite the massive scale of Linux distribution.
Most notably, Linus was not arrested under RICO. Neither was IBM's CEO, or the president of their Linux division. Or anyone from RedHat.
In summation, SCO compares favorably to the RIAA, and that is very damning.
Associate with a culture that talks about killing cops, lose your right to complain about heavy handed police raids. Where's the problem?
Uh, no. The "problem" is the First and Fourth Amendments. They are inalienable rights, specifically to protect those whose opinions the government doesn't like.
The police probably didn't violate the letter of the law, but they certainly violated its spirit.
There's clearly a misunderstanding here, and I don't think it's your fault.
I don't work in the industry. I'm just a music fan. But I understand how management works in the industry (more-or-less). I get the impression that the GP thinks that Universal (for instance) has draconian policies that all its subsidiaries must follow.
In reality -- from my limited perspective -- it seems like Universal (again, for instance) invests heavily in its subsidiaries but gives them a lot of managerial control. Indeed, in this respect, the "pop artists" subsidize the creation of the music I like.
All the labels you mentioned are highly respected among fans. All of them put out music most don't consider mainstream. They know their niche far better than a media giant would, and I think the giants respect that, for now. Indeed, it seems that the more popular an artist is, the more restrictive policies regarding their releases get.
Feel free to correct me. I once wanted to be an EE and work in a studio. (I studied math once I realized how boring physics is.) I'm fascinated by the process, won't argue, or take offense.
Trolling a place like slashdot is not easy. Sure, you can occassionally stumble into a thread a annihilate it with a stupid question or vaguely inciteful comment. But slashdot has what I call "heterogeneous groupthink".
There are four or five major camps. The Linux crowd. The Windows crowd. The PS3 crowd. The Ayn Rand-influenced Librarian crowd. The Right Wing "Centrist" crowd. The Commie crowd.
Playing these crowds against each other is too easy. Boring. No fun at all.
So if you want some real lulz, you need to get them all riled up at the same time. Unfortunately, posts that touch upon topics that can do that are marked off topic very quickly.
I agree that the Art of Electronics is a great book, but I'm not sure what its pedagogical value is. I had a couple of years of physics under my belt when I went through that book the first time, but I found it impenetrable until I actually took a course in electronics. The book uses engineering jargon with no explanation, to confusing effect unless something else supplements it.
The rest of us use programming languages - and those languages have a syntax, and that syntax can certainly be affected by cultural factors.
Uh, so does Boolean logic. Ever read Frege's Begriffsschrift? I'm guessing "no". There are dozens of syntaxes for propositional and quantificational logic.
It's okay to leave a word uncapitalized if it's in quotation marks. Even at the beginning of a sentence. The Real WTF (TM) is that they used double quotation marks instead of single quotation marks for a single word.
Gaming has done a lot for my life...MANY good memories...playing punch out, against my bro with ice hockey....a little later all-night games of NBA jam and street fighter 2...LAN parties...I mean, I could prolly write a book on all my gaming memories.
You probably could, but you really shouldn't. It sounds like a major snorefest.
You won't find any of them "at a local university."
Funny. A New Kind of Science was required reading for a class I took on Artificial Life, as it is a good -- if long and self-indulgent -- exposition of the basic concepts in the field. But they are just basic concepts in a field that's been around since the 70s.
Knowledge is not about degrees, anyway. Degrees mean something else, mainly that you can take direction for a few years and you're probably not bone-stupid.
Spoken like someone who didn't apply themselves in school.
But you're right. A degree alone is meaningless. But since we're on the topic of self-improvement through learning, I figured it was safe to assume that our hypothetical student would apply himself. Especially since I assumed that your hypothetical autodidact was interested in learning. We should be generous in our assumptions.
A university obviously provides more resources for learning science than bad popular science books can. If one wants to learn science, being an autodidact is not a good way of going about it.
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Amen to that... first thing when I stumble out of bed is to walk out to the back patio and have a smoke while my dogs relieve themselves, then off to the bathroom for the 3 "S"'s.
Okay, what's the third S? I just shit and shower.
I'm still sickened by this invocation of RICO.
Let's do a little comparison. When SCO determined (for the purposes of this discussion, I'll assume good faith on their part) that Linux violated their copyrights, lawsuits were filed. No one was arrested, despite the massive scale of Linux distribution.
Most notably, Linus was not arrested under RICO. Neither was IBM's CEO, or the president of their Linux division. Or anyone from RedHat.
In summation, SCO compares favorably to the RIAA, and that is very damning.
Associate with a culture that talks about killing cops, lose your right to complain about heavy handed police raids. Where's the problem?
Uh, no. The "problem" is the First and Fourth Amendments. They are inalienable rights, specifically to protect those whose opinions the government doesn't like.
The police probably didn't violate the letter of the law, but they certainly violated its spirit.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/games/min esweeper.html
There's clearly a misunderstanding here, and I don't think it's your fault.
I don't work in the industry. I'm just a music fan. But I understand how management works in the industry (more-or-less). I get the impression that the GP thinks that Universal (for instance) has draconian policies that all its subsidiaries must follow.
In reality -- from my limited perspective -- it seems like Universal (again, for instance) invests heavily in its subsidiaries but gives them a lot of managerial control. Indeed, in this respect, the "pop artists" subsidize the creation of the music I like.
All the labels you mentioned are highly respected among fans. All of them put out music most don't consider mainstream. They know their niche far better than a media giant would, and I think the giants respect that, for now. Indeed, it seems that the more popular an artist is, the more restrictive policies regarding their releases get.
Feel free to correct me. I once wanted to be an EE and work in a studio. (I studied math once I realized how boring physics is.) I'm fascinated by the process, won't argue, or take offense.
No brainers like these are why Knuth said that premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Reading and writing bits to the disk takes orders of magnitude longer than context switching.
To Soros' credit, Lyndon LaRouche hates him. :-)
Playing with kilocalories, I see. Also equivalent to the amount of energy contained in
8000000 / 89875517873681764
kg of matter.
I think we've broken science.
Member of the Carlyle Group. Worked for the Council on Foreign Relations. Convicted for insider trading. Destabilized the Thai and Malay economies.
The Soros Foundation?
Oh christ, I'm conflicted now.
On the right, the study supports FLOSS. On the left, it was funded by George Soros, a vomitus inducing individual.
You might not realize this, but PDF is an open standard. For instance, pdflatex (free by any standard) can output pdfs.
I noticed a distinct lack of Taco porn in your summary. For shame.
Agreed.
Alibris.com is a good source for texts too. I got a copy of Baby Rudin (Principles of Mathematical Analysis) for $20 from there.
You'll have a point the moment allofmp3 opens an office in the US. Until then, they're only selling in Russia. Legally.
(Speaking from experience)
Trolling a place like slashdot is not easy. Sure, you can occassionally stumble into a thread a annihilate it with a stupid question or vaguely inciteful comment. But slashdot has what I call "heterogeneous groupthink".
There are four or five major camps. The Linux crowd. The Windows crowd. The PS3 crowd. The Ayn Rand-influenced Librarian crowd. The Right Wing "Centrist" crowd. The Commie crowd.
Playing these crowds against each other is too easy. Boring. No fun at all.
So if you want some real lulz, you need to get them all riled up at the same time. Unfortunately, posts that touch upon topics that can do that are marked off topic very quickly.
Mine, for instance.
I agree that the Art of Electronics is a great book, but I'm not sure what its pedagogical value is. I had a couple of years of physics under my belt when I went through that book the first time, but I found it impenetrable until I actually took a course in electronics. The book uses engineering jargon with no explanation, to confusing effect unless something else supplements it.
The rest of us use programming languages - and those languages have a syntax, and that syntax can certainly be affected by cultural factors.
Uh, so does Boolean logic. Ever read Frege's Begriffsschrift? I'm guessing "no". There are dozens of syntaxes for propositional and quantificational logic.
Fr0st pist!!!!
Oh wait, how did I lose to dada21's encyclopedic first post? Not fair. There should be a law against forts psist longer than about 5 lines.
It's okay to leave a word uncapitalized if it's in quotation marks. Even at the beginning of a sentence. The Real WTF (TM) is that they used double quotation marks instead of single quotation marks for a single word.
Neat. Who was it?
Gaming has done a lot for my life...MANY good memories...playing punch out, against my bro with ice hockey....a little later all-night games of NBA jam and street fighter 2...LAN parties...I mean, I could prolly write a book on all my gaming memories.
You probably could, but you really shouldn't. It sounds like a major snorefest.
Considering that there are currently 300 million people living in the US, the XBox360 owners are in a minority.
Is that you, Dickles?
If you're willing to net boot, Debian's "miniiso" is 9-12 MB. The GTK miniiso is around 15 MB.
(Just some of the trivia you learn when trying to install Linux on an old iMac with a broken CD drive)
You won't find any of them "at a local university."
Funny. A New Kind of Science was required reading for a class I took on Artificial Life, as it is a good -- if long and self-indulgent -- exposition of the basic concepts in the field. But they are just basic concepts in a field that's been around since the 70s.
Knowledge is not about degrees, anyway. Degrees mean something else, mainly that you can take direction for a few years and you're probably not bone-stupid.
Spoken like someone who didn't apply themselves in school.
But you're right. A degree alone is meaningless. But since we're on the topic of self-improvement through learning, I figured it was safe to assume that our hypothetical student would apply himself. Especially since I assumed that your hypothetical autodidact was interested in learning. We should be generous in our assumptions.
A university obviously provides more resources for learning science than bad popular science books can. If one wants to learn science, being an autodidact is not a good way of going about it.