I`m well aware that anecdote =/= data but ten years ago when i was a busker playing music and singing for my rent i was inundated with panhandlers in my vicinity. I made hundreds on a good day and so did they. They nearly universally blew it on booze or oxy/meths/cannabis and smokes.
The only panhandlers who "really" need your offering are the ones out of the way staring past the sidewalk-too tired to ask anymore. These persons get my change/a coffee/ a meal/ a phonecall nearly every time.
The vibrant, energetic ones partying in the street get nothing from me.
I've been using the ctrl+enter shortcut for urls for longer than ff has been a browser. IE 4 days iirc is when i discovered that one-right about the time my brother discovered ctrl+numpad plus to expand column views.
The wall came down in 1990 although politically it had already been 'torn down' in 1989. Twenty-two (or 23) years ago. Also-I suddenly feel 'old' in my mid-thirties...
I wonder just how correct you may be in your assessment of the/. community of more-than two million accounts although I bet there are hordes of older lurkers and anons even discounting the shills and sockpuppets.
I also wonder why br tags aren't working in/. preview even with 'html formatted' selected.
I remember seeing a segment on 'Daily Planet' perhaps back when it was still '@Discovery.ca' on a Toronto car-mounted system which was in use to recover reportedly-stolen vehicles and more than 1 hit-and-run case. Google will know which segment it was-IIRC it was a Shannon Bentley piece and showed the officers perspective as to what was visible through the camera footage.
I foresee forgeable composits in the relatively-near future. Materials science has made many strides with meta-materials and the funky stuff they can do but that has got to be just the first steps in improving upon our current bevy of standbys like drop-forged steel. With enough time we as a species will find better materials and processes than what raw-nature can afford us.
Until then though we've managed some impressive things so far but some of us will see what the next fifty years will bring us.
I do as well but i 'think' the answer lies in the discrepancy of gravity from 'expected' values in the equations of physics by a slight hundred-twenty orders of magnitude. I have often read in the past several years that this could be due to gravity leaking off our brane(m theory) but it'll be a while before i can explore the theories mathematically for myself.
I have a multitude of lectures to watch online and learn about the various mathematical tools and techniques to see what's going on under the hood so to speak. Until then i'll continue to learn more about how much we still don't know about this universe we live in.
Multiplayer-oblivion was fun on a vanilla install-perhaps a friendly coder/modder could COBLize it to work with all mods-transferring graphics and meshes on the fly. Or even if the modlist load-order needs to be identical for all players on the LAN. IIRC it could be "configured" to transmit more variables to each computer but it's been a while since i looked at it.
Disclosure: nearly 4000 game-hours spent in Bethesdas Universe-3000 of them in Oblivions Cyrodiil and about 1800 of those hours spent running Oldblivion for game performance on OLD hardware. About 50 hours were devoted to trying out Multiplayer Oblivion Mod but differing mod lists and bashfiles were enough to confuse the mod.
Daggerfall is free online for a legal elder scrolls fix and runs with dosbox quite nicely. Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim often come up for sale on steam and each has its own charms and quirks as well as active mod communities.
I have run my personal audio studio for a while now. I compose, perform, track, stem & mix. Sometimes the steps vary but this is generally it. I outsource the mastering, pressing and marketing to maintain a fresh perspective as well as the ear of a specialist in the field. Perhaps outsourcing really is the key.
Contemplating many-worlds in far better to me than floating-brain scenarios. Some of the other 'mainstream alternate' theories are far more complex when one digs below the surface. MOND was a disappointment and Heim-theory fizzled. These are all published and lectures and course materials are freely and openly available to all on the web for the required maths to understand and manipulate what the equations do when you poke them with a stick.
I'm still learning but many-worlds looks interestingly symmetrical once the surface is peeled back in a similar way to how modern string-theories contain an elegance in how they simplify the calculations to a manifold.
All it takes is time and a hamiltonian.
p.s. A working preview would be nice but this is slashdot and many things don't 'quite' work right on my older ipod touch.
In the time it took to read your comment eighteen people have been pronounced doa from vehicle strikes. An hour from now another bike rider will strike and kill a pedestrian. Very different orders of magnitude even if 87% of all internet statistics are made up on the spot.
This could be accomplished on the net-even right here on/. .
Your user-base would need standardized audio gear so every audio file would need to be 'mastered' to a soundcard and headphone combination shared by every tester. 50 'kits' could be assembled for under ten thousand dollars imo.
The rest of the sticker-price of a single car could cover the costs of an audio engineer creating the master files as well as a marketing team to find 50 ocd geeks to install their audio gear in their own systems and rate the sounds.
Volumes could be controlled by software to minimize the effects of the fletscher-munson curve to audio loudnesses across the sound spectrum. Non-standard connectors would ensure that the headphones are directly in the provided soundcard which could be usb.
It should be possible to make the software a linux variant live-cd like mint or puppy with a single icon in the desktop environment labelled 'Car Engine Noises like Vroom Vruum' or somesuch.
This is back-of-the-envelope feasable and I, for one, would welcome the opportunity to shape a sound to be heard by *billions* of people.
As someone who walks 20 to 40 km a week tires are noisy things *unless* you have in-ear headphones or earbuds. I don't use headphones while walking but the vast majority of people have no clue about the damage headphones cause to hearing and as a musician that risk is unacceptable. I can tell you that "earbuds" of any colour plugged into any music or media-playing device drown out most cars until about 40kph or a hill/acceleration even at a low media-level. Parking lots are deadly places when you don't have steel/fibreglass walls and an airbag system around you even at the best of times.
Throw in some crazy subwoofers and the deaf-blind can FEEL the traffic flowing by. Oblig: this could be awesome for ninja-pirates, or even pirate-ninjas too!
soab my mod points just expired. I "think" that this is an implication of quantum-theory as well as several flavours of string-theory. I'm still learning the relevant mathematics from Leonard Susskind's lectures on youtube and checking the Perimeter Institute's past public lectures for gems like Roger Penrose or S. James Gates jr. or Stephen Hawking for some guidance on which fields of maths to focus my learnimg next.
Sir Penrose speaks elequently but somewhat obtusely on spinors and spinor-theory being useful to calculate infinities like entangled states.
For those who REALLY enjoy new developments in theoretical physics these resources have been invaluable in my self-education.
If it were for physicists rather than mathematicians the chess-pieces would be approximated by spheres and 6 sigma would be regarded as a theory having been proven. Mathematical proofs are "somewhat" more rigourous and a sigma rating at all would invalidate the proof.. This lies somewhere between those two extremes.
"The great thing about laser beams is they have no inertial mass..."
And yet photons have momentum. Perhaps a resident lasergeek could calculate the momentum transferred through beam reflection... Need way more coffee before i try mathing things up on a Sunday!
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I`m well aware that anecdote =/= data but ten years ago when i was a busker playing music and singing for my rent i was inundated with panhandlers in my vicinity. I made hundreds on a good day and so did they. They nearly universally blew it on booze or oxy/meths/cannabis and smokes.
The only panhandlers who "really" need your offering are the ones out of the way staring past the sidewalk-too tired to ask anymore. These persons get my change/a coffee/ a meal/ a phonecall nearly every time.
The vibrant, energetic ones partying in the street get nothing from me.
I've been using the ctrl+enter shortcut for urls for longer than ff has been a browser. IE 4 days iirc is when i discovered that one-right about the time my brother discovered ctrl+numpad plus to expand column views.
The wall came down in 1990 although politically it had already been 'torn down' in 1989. Twenty-two (or 23) years ago. Also-I suddenly feel 'old' in my mid-thirties...
/. community of more-than two million accounts although I bet there are hordes of older lurkers and anons even discounting the shills and sockpuppets.
/. preview even with 'html formatted' selected.
I wonder just how correct you may be in your assessment of the
I also wonder why br tags aren't working in
US 70s oldsmobile. I think the conversion in PI*USOlds=Eurocars...i may bo off by a factor of 2 though.
It's about a car-length-does that count?
Lrt's see hiw thr ipid tiucg fared... No predictive abilities at all... Imagine that!
Still no slashdot video on my ipod.
I remember seeing a segment on 'Daily Planet' perhaps back when it was still '@Discovery.ca' on a Toronto car-mounted system which was in use to recover reportedly-stolen vehicles and more than 1 hit-and-run case. Google will know which segment it was-IIRC it was a Shannon Bentley piece and showed the officers perspective as to what was visible through the camera footage.
"I thought that should be funny more than
insightful, but oh well..."
Once upon a slashdot past funny mods gave karma. These days though the better the laugh, the insightfuller the mod. How times have changed!
I foresee forgeable composits in the relatively-near future. Materials science has made many strides with meta-materials and the funky stuff they can do but that has got to be just the first steps in improving upon our current bevy of standbys like drop-forged steel. With enough time we as a species will find better materials and processes than what raw-nature can afford us.
Until then though we've managed some impressive things so far but some of us will see what the next fifty years will bring us.
"Personally I go with Everet..."
I do as well but i 'think' the answer lies in the discrepancy of gravity from 'expected' values in the equations of physics by a slight hundred-twenty orders of magnitude. I have often read in the past several years that this could be due to gravity leaking off our brane(m theory) but it'll be a while before i can explore the theories mathematically for myself.
I have a multitude of lectures to watch online and learn about the various mathematical tools and techniques to see what's going on under the hood so to speak. Until then i'll continue to learn more about how much we still don't know about this universe we live in.
http://www.google.com/m?q=multiplayer+oblivion+mod&client=ms-opera-mini-iphone&channel=new
Multiplayer-oblivion was fun on a vanilla install-perhaps a friendly coder/modder could COBLize it to work with all mods-transferring graphics and meshes on the fly. Or even if the modlist load-order needs to be identical for all players on the LAN. IIRC it could be "configured" to transmit more variables to each computer but it's been a while since i looked at it.
Disclosure: nearly 4000 game-hours spent in Bethesdas Universe-3000 of them in Oblivions Cyrodiil and about 1800 of those hours spent running Oldblivion for game performance on OLD hardware. About 50 hours were devoted to trying out Multiplayer Oblivion Mod but differing mod lists and bashfiles were enough to confuse the mod.
Daggerfall is free online for a legal elder scrolls fix and runs with dosbox quite nicely. Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim often come up for sale on steam and each has its own charms and quirks as well as active mod communities.
I have run my personal audio studio for a while now. I compose, perform, track, stem & mix. Sometimes the steps vary but this is generally it. I outsource the mastering, pressing and marketing to maintain a fresh perspective as well as the ear of a specialist in the field. Perhaps outsourcing really is the key.
Contemplating many-worlds in far better to me than floating-brain scenarios. Some of the other 'mainstream alternate' theories are far more complex when one digs below the surface. MOND was a disappointment and Heim-theory fizzled. These are all published and lectures and course materials are freely and openly available to all on the web for the required maths to understand and manipulate what the equations do when you poke them with a stick.
I'm still learning but many-worlds looks interestingly symmetrical once the surface is peeled back in a similar way to how modern string-theories contain an elegance in how they simplify the calculations to a manifold.
All it takes is time and a hamiltonian.
p.s. A working preview would be nice but this is slashdot and many things don't 'quite' work right on my older ipod touch.
In the time it took to read your comment eighteen people have been pronounced doa from vehicle strikes. An hour from now another bike rider will strike and kill a pedestrian. Very different orders of magnitude even if 87% of all internet statistics are made up on the spot.
This could be accomplished on the net-even right here on /. .
Your user-base would need standardized audio gear so every audio file would need to be 'mastered' to a soundcard and headphone combination shared by every tester. 50 'kits' could be assembled for under ten thousand dollars imo.
The rest of the sticker-price of a single car could cover the costs of an audio engineer creating the master files as well as a marketing team to find 50 ocd geeks to install their audio gear in their own systems and rate the sounds.
Volumes could be controlled by software to minimize the effects of the fletscher-munson curve to audio loudnesses across the sound spectrum. Non-standard connectors would ensure that the headphones are directly in the provided soundcard which could be usb.
It should be possible to make the software a linux variant live-cd like mint or puppy with a single icon in the desktop environment labelled 'Car Engine Noises like Vroom Vruum' or somesuch.
This is back-of-the-envelope feasable and I, for one, would welcome the opportunity to shape a sound to be heard by *billions* of people.
Guitar whammy dive sounds fun...
As someone who walks 20 to 40 km a week tires are noisy things *unless* you have in-ear headphones or earbuds. I don't use headphones while walking but the vast majority of people have no clue about the damage headphones cause to hearing and as a musician that risk is unacceptable.
I can tell you that "earbuds" of any colour plugged into any music or media-playing device drown out most cars until about 40kph or a hill/acceleration even at a low media-level. Parking lots are deadly places when you don't have steel/fibreglass walls and an airbag system around you even at the best of times.
Throw in some crazy subwoofers and the deaf-blind can FEEL the traffic flowing by. Oblig: this could be awesome for ninja-pirates, or even pirate-ninjas too!
soab my mod points just expired. I "think" that this is an implication of quantum-theory as well as several flavours of string-theory. I'm still learning the relevant mathematics from Leonard Susskind's lectures on youtube and checking the Perimeter Institute's past public lectures for gems like Roger Penrose or S. James Gates jr. or Stephen Hawking for some guidance on which fields of maths to focus my learnimg next.
Sir Penrose speaks elequently but somewhat obtusely on spinors and spinor-theory being useful to calculate infinities like entangled states.
For those who REALLY enjoy new developments in theoretical physics these resources have been invaluable in my self-education.
Typoed on my ipod.
Osk.exe for all your keyboard needs.
This looks like a job for Googlefight!
Looks like it's the first one.
If it were for physicists rather than mathematicians the chess-pieces would be approximated by spheres and 6 sigma would be regarded as a theory having been proven. Mathematical proofs are "somewhat" more rigourous and a sigma rating at all would invalidate the proof.. This lies somewhere between those two extremes.
Some infinities are "larger" than others.
"The great thing about laser beams is
they have no inertial mass..."
And yet photons have momentum. Perhaps a resident lasergeek could calculate the momentum transferred through beam reflection... Need way more coffee before i try mathing things up on a Sunday!