We've had a few Dramas in our band, some use click track some do not. The difference I note when they play is that drummers that use click tracks are technically very competent but sound sterile, whereas the drummers that do not use click tracks are very instinctive and can more often do things on the fly.
It's kinda funny cause I would say to my friend - 'how the fuck did you pull that off dood?' and he would answer 'dunno mate'. Great for creativity - but not for consistency. Recording at all times is usually mandatory with drummers that use instinct, drummers that use click and metronome are easier to play with (I find), but making music isn't just about what's easy.
Besides I prefer if the bass player can keep the time and the drummer elevates the drama.
So, it's the customer's fault that a defective system was used, not the vendor's.
I guess that means people should keep that in mind when they see a Diebold ATM. Who knows how much it might debit your account when you withdraw funds.
M$... M$... M$... M$... M$... I love saying it because of the way the M$ fanboys react.
What would you fanboys prefer that doesn't get you all googely under the collar and start throwing chairs around
MS - already taken, Ms refers to females. I think the reason M$ fanboys
get so offended by people typing M$ is because it reminds them that M$ only care about the money - awwwwwwwwwwwww. You want me to waste more of my time and actually type M.i.c.r.o.s.o.f.t. when I spent years of my life fixing the broken inconsistent operating system that windows is. M$ own the market, M$ fanboys should really just get over themselves and accept that M$ is a accepted moniker for Microsoft.
I think that is exactly what will happen. Small crater. Then use the microwave unit that I spoke about above.
Absolutely, it makes sense to make full use of the existing surroundings. I was wondering if there are any Lava tubes near the poles? The moon's lower gravity would almost certainly make them much larger than terrestrial lava tubes. Cap the end's off, pump in some atmosphere and you have a space ready to be used a base. I don't mean right away, but the location of a lunar lava tube might be a factor in selecting *where* a good place to set up an initial base.
In time setting up a moonstalk would be a great way of establishing the large infrastructure on the moon allowing mining and energy investment which are likely the first things to get us into space, en masse.
Thermal Solar is making some great advances and even pushing the boundaries of Stirling engine design. The picture is an animated gif of a parabolic dish mounted generator - note the interesting design of the alternator off the power piston.
There is a lot going on in Thermal Solar right now as it has the greatest potential to meet base load power needs when coupled with molten salt storage.
I have not heard of the power company story and would be interested to find out more, do you have a link?
Unfortunately not TC. I do know the scheme was run(ing) in the Northern Territory.
I think the same can be said for NSW. I have been evacuated once from a bush fire and have witnessed the bush around Sydneys F3 freeway burning badly enough to close the free way.
Since that time, bushfires have occurred that are exactly what the aboriginal practice had been designed to avoid,
I'm sure the Aboriginals set fire to the bush to get a few nice dinners, the fire management aspect just happened to be a much better side-affect. Since they have been doing it for so long even the trees adapted their seed pods for a fire so that the saplings would sprout in a nice fertile environment, sterilised of predators.
And since those nice eucalyptus trees were exported to California maybe the sepo's have to burn their bush the same way the abo's did here.
As an aside, if native Australian's colonised Europe perhaps they would be exporting wallabies now instead of the sheep Australia exports now. That tail *never* touches the ground - and if roo's taste so good wallabies must taste even better. Who would of though our national symbol would taste so good - Roo steak for dinner I think!!!!!!
I think one of the primary issues is we haven't let native Australian's burn the bush the way they always have in the cooler months of the year (say around May or June). I remember seeing something about this on the ABC that because the burning was being done in those cooler months the intensity of the fires were greatly reduced and the most volatile fuel was burnt.
This also had the effect of leaving the less volatile fuel in the ground, so the soil had a higher carbon content and was less prone to bushfires. Ironically, the Aborigines in question were being paid by a power company to do the burning because it offset the power plants carbon emissions.
The reality of Australia's management of the land is we have a lot to learn from Native Australian's, and that's a humility that goes beyond just saying 'Sorry'. Until we grasp that, as a nation, we will have more of these bushfires.
'my company used it for a solution and invested time and money into getting it approved and purchased. Microsoft sure handed us a raw deal for taking a gamble on their platform.'
Well now, people are again starting to understand why people hate Microsoft. What, did you expect them to look after you rather than themselves.
Don't worry, next time they promise you something, they will really mean it, honest, you can trust M$.
Personally I welcome M$'s patent attack, I think it will give the Open Source Community the opportunity to answer either legally or technologically.
The current situation is like John Wayne saying 'I'm not gunna hit ya...' with the threat of a confrontation looming over anyone who would dare challenge M$ dominance. For M$ it will signal their long coming slide into irrelevance if they do and their impotence if they don't.
It's still in beta, for goodness sakes. I'm sure, at the end of it, Windows 7 will be a massive hog that requires outrageous amounts of RAM and disk space
Ok, ok, as I've said before in other premises maybe I overdid it.
For every incremental post you just *have* to insert another ok! Ok,ok,ok! Ok!
Being pessimistic and the like, we're not all fucked - but a lot of people are. The ones that say were ok really just mean 'well, I'm ok - so everything is ok'.
While we are waiting for a new OCO to be built maybe we could put DSCOVR to work. I know it does different science and probably needs a different launch vehicle but it's waiting in storage now, waiting for infrastructure and a launch window. Wouldn't it make sense to use it rather than let it sit in a nitrogen filled cannister in a storage building somewhere? Can OCO's ground infrastructure be re-purposed for data from this 'bird' at least until a replacement OCO can be put in orbit? Something rather than nothing?
Seems to me right now you have a bird without a ground team and a ground team without a bird.
For a while now I've considered whether how bad Windows is, is the reason people don't switch to a Linux distribution. What I mean is they see how bad Windows is and they think that is the expected experience if they use *any* computer operating system. So their perception becomes 'oh I have to not only learn a new OS but also put up with a whole new set of bugs'.
Not that I'm saying that Linux Distributions are free of bugs, but on the whole my bad experiences with windows was one of the reasons I switched to Linux. I now spend less time fixing Linux than I did Windows and I waste that time on slashdot.
5) we may as well just nuke it all now if we don't establish extra-terrestrial colonies. Colonization of space is the next logical step for a species which develops intelligence, and if we don't continue down that path we are a dead-end branch waiting to be pruned from the tree of life.
I am pointing out that your justification makes no scientific sense....I repeat: the idea of space colonies is currently not even science fiction, it's religion. Which was my original point.
With respect, while you make some valid point's I think it's appropriate to point out that the human race has historically judged itself by it's rate of expansion. The size of the human race being instrumental to it's capacity to build the infrastructure of a successful civilisation, where the rule of law is a core building block to a stable society. Building a stable expanding civilisation has relied on the availability of cheap energy and clearly we are coming to the end of that era.
By staying on Earth your premise asks us "how do we continue to grow as a race AND decrease our energy/resource consumption? - to be sure a challenge that has to be met - but one that may be significantly more challenging than creating space colonies if you are considering the social changes required to achieve ZPG.
Failing to achieve the goal of building a sustainable society means even maintaining an existing population, currently about 7 billion, becomes a serious challenge or humanity goes into population decline. Both of those scenarios pose serious issues. One only has to look at the issues arising in Russia right now due to it's population being in decline, extrapolate that worldwide and effectively you *are* ending, maybe not humanity, but certainly this civilisation. With the end of this civilisation you certainly will loose the capacity to do many things.
There *has* to be a limit to how many people the earth can support before our society confronts this issue. Inevitably the colonisation of space holds the key to the continued expansion of our society, as flawed as it is. Maybe it's not scientific, but it certainly *is* logical.
The only reason America got to the moon in the first place was because Kennedy got behind the idea, the people got behind Kennedy. No one was talking about science, science is mankind's tool - it's the imagination and the idea that's important. Let me remind you of these word's:
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
It was the vision that inspired people and science and engineering were the tools used to beat the USSR to the moon, until it became a religion. So when should space colonies be considered? When the earth sustains two, three times the existing population? 14 Billion, 21 billion people?
Doing everything you have said is a necessity for the survival of the human race, but it doesn't mean we can't do all of those things simultaneously. I posit that moving infrastructure to space a significant step to achieving the goals you stated anyway. Colonising space sooner rather than later might be the best thing we can do to maintain biodiversity on earth because humanity will continue to consume resources. For now, colonisation of space is just an idea's whose time is yet to come and even if it is religious, it doesn't mean it's not important.
When people are faced with the inevitability of a challenge, perhaps 'one we are unable to postpone' (to paraphrase Kennedy) it might be that kind of fervour that we need to ensure society, and not just humanity, survives.
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My real name isn't MrKaos.
You may say 'That's no moon' but that's the biggest ring I've ever seen!
It's kinda funny cause I would say to my friend - 'how the fuck did you pull that off dood?' and he would answer 'dunno mate'. Great for creativity - but not for consistency. Recording at all times is usually mandatory with drummers that use instinct, drummers that use click and metronome are easier to play with (I find), but making music isn't just about what's easy.
Besides I prefer if the bass player can keep the time and the drummer elevates the drama.
I guess that means people should keep that in mind when they see a Diebold ATM. Who knows how much it might debit your account when you withdraw funds.
I wonder how they would feel if it was their own data that was being accessed?
What would you fanboys prefer that doesn't get you all googely under the collar and start throwing chairs around MS - already taken, Ms refers to females. I think the reason M$ fanboys get so offended by people typing M$ is because it reminds them that M$ only care about the money - awwwwwwwwwwwww. You want me to waste more of my time and actually type M.i.c.r.o.s.o.f.t. when I spent years of my life fixing the broken inconsistent operating system that windows is. M$ own the market, M$ fanboys should really just get over themselves and accept that M$ is a accepted moniker for Microsoft.
Now git off my lawn
Get off my lawn kid.
Absolutely, it makes sense to make full use of the existing surroundings. I was wondering if there are any Lava tubes near the poles? The moon's lower gravity would almost certainly make them much larger than terrestrial lava tubes. Cap the end's off, pump in some atmosphere and you have a space ready to be used a base. I don't mean right away, but the location of a lunar lava tube might be a factor in selecting *where* a good place to set up an initial base.
In time setting up a moonstalk would be a great way of establishing the large infrastructure on the moon allowing mining and energy investment which are likely the first things to get us into space, en masse.
We can already mass produced humans, and do it with unskilled labourers ;-)
Why I hate M$ so much. DDDiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee M$ Diiiiiiieeeeeeee.
There is a lot going on in Thermal Solar right now as it has the greatest potential to meet base load power needs when coupled with molten salt storage.
Unfortunately not TC. I do know the scheme was run(ing) in the Northern Territory.
I think the same can be said for NSW. I have been evacuated once from a bush fire and have witnessed the bush around Sydneys F3 freeway burning badly enough to close the free way.
I did see elvis though - man that thing is huge!
I'm sure the Aboriginals set fire to the bush to get a few nice dinners, the fire management aspect just happened to be a much better side-affect. Since they have been doing it for so long even the trees adapted their seed pods for a fire so that the saplings would sprout in a nice fertile environment, sterilised of predators.
And since those nice eucalyptus trees were exported to California maybe the sepo's have to burn their bush the same way the abo's did here.
As an aside, if native Australian's colonised Europe perhaps they would be exporting wallabies now instead of the sheep Australia exports now. That tail *never* touches the ground - and if roo's taste so good wallabies must taste even better. Who would of though our national symbol would taste so good - Roo steak for dinner I think!!!!!!
I think one of the primary issues is we haven't let native Australian's burn the bush the way they always have in the cooler months of the year (say around May or June). I remember seeing something about this on the ABC that because the burning was being done in those cooler months the intensity of the fires were greatly reduced and the most volatile fuel was burnt.
This also had the effect of leaving the less volatile fuel in the ground, so the soil had a higher carbon content and was less prone to bushfires. Ironically, the Aborigines in question were being paid by a power company to do the burning because it offset the power plants carbon emissions.
The reality of Australia's management of the land is we have a lot to learn from Native Australian's, and that's a humility that goes beyond just saying 'Sorry'. Until we grasp that, as a nation, we will have more of these bushfires.
Well now, people are again starting to understand why people hate Microsoft. What, did you expect them to look after you rather than themselves.
Don't worry, next time they promise you something, they will really mean it, honest, you can trust M$.
The current situation is like John Wayne saying 'I'm not gunna hit ya ...' with the threat of a confrontation looming over anyone who would dare challenge M$ dominance. For M$ it will signal their long coming slide into irrelevance if they do and their impotence if they don't.
Fear not! Windows 9 will fix it!!!
Truth being so fragile and all, a balance is all we can hope to achieve.
For every incremental post you just *have* to insert another ok! Ok,ok,ok! Ok!
Being pessimistic and the like, we're not all fucked - but a lot of people are. The ones that say were ok really just mean 'well, I'm ok - so everything is ok'.
Seems to me right now you have a bird without a ground team and a ground team without a bird.
Just sayin...
For a while now I've considered whether how bad Windows is, is the reason people don't switch to a Linux distribution. What I mean is they see how bad Windows is and they think that is the expected experience if they use *any* computer operating system. So their perception becomes 'oh I have to not only learn a new OS but also put up with a whole new set of bugs'.
Not that I'm saying that Linux Distributions are free of bugs, but on the whole my bad experiences with windows was one of the reasons I switched to Linux. I now spend less time fixing Linux than I did Windows and I waste that time on slashdot.
For Microsoft's payroll system.
Because we can ;-)
With respect, while you make some valid point's I think it's appropriate to point out that the human race has historically judged itself by it's rate of expansion. The size of the human race being instrumental to it's capacity to build the infrastructure of a successful civilisation, where the rule of law is a core building block to a stable society. Building a stable expanding civilisation has relied on the availability of cheap energy and clearly we are coming to the end of that era.
By staying on Earth your premise asks us "how do we continue to grow as a race AND decrease our energy/resource consumption? - to be sure a challenge that has to be met - but one that may be significantly more challenging than creating space colonies if you are considering the social changes required to achieve ZPG.
Failing to achieve the goal of building a sustainable society means even maintaining an existing population, currently about 7 billion, becomes a serious challenge or humanity goes into population decline. Both of those scenarios pose serious issues. One only has to look at the issues arising in Russia right now due to it's population being in decline, extrapolate that worldwide and effectively you *are* ending, maybe not humanity, but certainly this civilisation. With the end of this civilisation you certainly will loose the capacity to do many things.
There *has* to be a limit to how many people the earth can support before our society confronts this issue. Inevitably the colonisation of space holds the key to the continued expansion of our society, as flawed as it is. Maybe it's not scientific, but it certainly *is* logical.
The only reason America got to the moon in the first place was because Kennedy got behind the idea, the people got behind Kennedy. No one was talking about science, science is mankind's tool - it's the imagination and the idea that's important. Let me remind you of these word's:
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
It was the vision that inspired people and science and engineering were the tools used to beat the USSR to the moon, until it became a religion. So when should space colonies be considered? When the earth sustains two, three times the existing population? 14 Billion, 21 billion people?
Doing everything you have said is a necessity for the survival of the human race, but it doesn't mean we can't do all of those things simultaneously. I posit that moving infrastructure to space a significant step to achieving the goals you stated anyway. Colonising space sooner rather than later might be the best thing we can do to maintain biodiversity on earth because humanity will continue to consume resources. For now, colonisation of space is just an idea's whose time is yet to come and even if it is religious, it doesn't mean it's not important.
When people are faced with the inevitability of a challenge, perhaps 'one we are unable to postpone' (to paraphrase Kennedy) it might be that kind of fervour that we need to ensure society, and not just humanity, survives.
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