Haha, they already fixed the summary. You must have missed the original, completely broken one--disjoined sentences, sentence fragments, mispunctuation, and more. Oh well, I may have been modded troll, but perhaps my outrage made a difference.
Who the hell wrote this broke-ass summary? Or a better question is, who the hell proofread and approved it?! Yes, yes, I know, "you must be new here," har har. Seriously, this is garbage.
Wow, way to completely misread his comment. He was disparaging "armchair inventors," "armchair entrepreneurs" and "armchair capitalists," referring by all three to the GP. Fix your parser!
Almost anybody can run a dynamic range compressor on a track and make it shine.
Come on now, that's just not even remotely true. Compressors are NOT "1-button" processors. Unlike a lot of other effects and processors, you really have to *know* what they do and how they work to get any use out of them. I'd wager 80-90% of home recording enthusiasts have little to no understanding of compression, or have a basic misunderstanding (are you one of them?). And as I'm sure lots of pundits will agree, compression can do way more harm than good in the wrong hands.
It just occurred to me: could Apple be ignoring this and other really basic filesystem problems because they're spending all their time working on something like ZFS? I.e., "we're going to switch out of this anyway so whatever?" It's still *REALLY* shitty of them, but that seems like a plausible explanation..
What the good ones can do with Wikipedia is incredibly inspiring. A good friend of mine teaches High School in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn -- pretty much "the hood." He's a tall white anarchist with big hair. Try to imagine this classroom; it involves a lot of true stereotypes. But what does NOT fit the stereotype is that he started a class wiki, and has all his students contribute to it. Instead of a total mess, instead of abuse, graffiti and sludge, it's raised the level of ALL the students. It's a peer environment: once it becomes cool to do it right, to BE right, abuse and problems dry up almost completely.
This is an incredibly exciting new paradigm of teaching, because it puts the power of education directly into the students' hands. Education no longer needs to be a fount that springs forth from some "authority," it can be something that brings authority to the student. And the best part is the huge "fuck you" to the older generation of jaded "educators" (read: administrators), who would NEVER have tried such a thing, expecting only the worst. Instead it has completely revolutionized his classroom. Sure, there are kids with serious problems that aren't getting solved by a class wiki, and no one expects it to. But for the students at large, this is a BIG deal. And they LOVE it! Think of how many potential writers, poets, researchers, who knows, can be encouraged by just having a chance to write on a little webpage, developing the bravery to put it out there among their friends and enemies.
I got Leopard with a new MacBook Pro; previously I have been using Tiger since it came out. I've come to the current conclusion that of all the changes in Leopard, the good ultimately outweighs the bad. A huge chunk of this is due to massively improved networking in Finder -- the "Shared" section in the left-hand list makes networking with my several other machines (windows, linux or otherwise) so much easier, faster, and logical. For whatever it's worth, this is one case where coming closer to windows was an improvement. However, this particular one, like its implementation in Windows, still suffers from the problem of DNS updating -- it doesn't appear to cache entries, and there's no way that I can find to force it to update (note: I'm a bit of a newb on that stuff, so I might be misunderstanding it).
My friends and I were both worried we'd have to actually go back to Tiger, but I've adapted quite quickly to the changes and find the overall experience dramatically improved. The speed increases are downright monumental; using spotlight is actually a viable idea now!
--Ted
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Good question. I remain pretty confused; however, I love some of the tags that show up. I do think it's an interesting way of gauging people's opinion or content of the article (no matter how wrong or flamebaity the tags are). So it's entertaining, but so far useless. It does seem like the sort of thing that would, in theory, be useful, in terms of seeing other articles that have been tagged with x. But I've never come across the actual need to do that.
So yes, I second this question, as I would love to hear an answer.
I always found the Apple turnover rate to be rather low -- I mean, they're delicious, but I can only eat a few of them before it's just too much.
--tedb0t
I don't normally do this, but since it appeared twice: the word you want is "piqued," not "peaked." You could say, "My curiosity peaked" as in, "My curiosity reached a local maximum," but that would have a different meaning from "this piqued my curiosity," meaning "this stimulated my curiosity."
Nonsense. If you really understood how to tell me to "paint or make music," you'd be painting or making music yourself. If you're not, then I'm not going to value your artistic direction. A good patron / client / commissioner of a piece trusts the artist to do his or her thing without backseat driving. What good artists (like even Picasso) understand is how to ignore patrons/clients while making them believe you're listening.
*Wow.* Enjoy that myopic life you've got going on there. Seriously -- "passive activity?" Now look, if you don't happen to like fiction then fair enough, I don't care. But the reading of a good novel is so far from "passive" I can't imagine what you're talking about. Weren't read to as a child?
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be insulting here. But I am just a little surprised.
I think words like "CEO" and "employee" are pretty out of context here for good old Vastech. I think the words we want are "hey you" and "that guy that's that other guy's cousin."
OT: Vastech? Did they used to sell Vaseline or do vasectomies or something? Did someone tell them, "hey, rebates man, that's where the REAL money is!"
As far as I know, Genie doesn't have a normal command of language for her age, which is what I originally meant. I don't think she ever learned normal syntax, for instance. It *is* a hotly debated subject in psycholinguistics, but I'm personally impressed by the neural network model experiments that give a pretty compelling explanation for the importance of language acquisition during the first 10-12 years. Check out Manfred Spitzer's work and his book, "The Mind Within the Net."
I wholeheartedly agree with you. However, I must point out: All stimulus on developing brains has a hugely fundamental influence on the way the neural networks of the brain wire themselves up. Children unexposed to language before 10-12 can't (truly) learn it ever, and babies who are restricted from moving around and exploring shapes and colors will be severely limited in their abilities to understand, conceptualize, and utilize shapes and colors in general. Evidence of this, as well as extremely compelling neural net models that explain it, have been piling up since the 80s.
It follows that a developing brain exposed to a significant amount of very rapidly changing images (and not even just images but dialog and things and entire scenes) will overdevelop the ability to deal with that speed, with the result that long, drawn out concentration could be almost impossible.
In any case, it's the most cogent biological evidence for the idea of moderation I've ever heard! It's obvious, and it's common sense, but moderation and a large variety of experience for a developing brain is utterly crucial. Just saying this to add to your point regarding parental influence.
I enjoyed and agreed with your post. However, regarding:
broaden their music spectrum away from the incredibly narrow current crap Come now, we all know that *broadening* their offering stands very little chance of making them *more* money. All American entertainment industries are built on formulas, because apparently, formulas are what people (in this culture?) want. I'm certainly not defending it, but that's the way the situation appears to be. And to be clear, I'm not saying this can't change. I believe that, if for some reason, all the labels and media outlets did start widening their scope, and *kept with it*, the audience at large might just learn that their musical interests are broader than they thought. Wishful thinking? Maybe I'm just being optimistic;)
I imagine they get enough "back seat driving" now as it is. Can you just imagine how annoying it would have to be to argue with every third tourist why you are taking what appears to be an out-of-the-way route, when the cabbie knows traffic patterns and is avoiding a 45 minute rush-hour delay by dodging the turnpike? Hahaha. Maybe in Manhattan. In Brooklyn, almost every cab I've taken I've had to carefully "backseat drive" just to get anywhere close to my destination. It's a good thing I used to drive here, so I actually know the streets pretty well, but I feel bad for my friends who have as little clue as the driver.
Thank you. I get so tired of those same comments all the time. Whatever happened to a slashdotter's sense of wonder and imagination? Have years and years of scifi not left some kind of impression, some ability to be excited by the possibilities, instead of just whining about one thing or another? Sheesh.
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Haha, they already fixed the summary. You must have missed the original, completely broken one--disjoined sentences, sentence fragments, mispunctuation, and more. Oh well, I may have been modded troll, but perhaps my outrage made a difference.
Who the hell wrote this broke-ass summary? Or a better question is, who the hell proofread and approved it?! Yes, yes, I know, "you must be new here," har har. Seriously, this is garbage.
--ted
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Wow, way to completely misread his comment. He was disparaging "armchair inventors," "armchair entrepreneurs" and "armchair capitalists," referring by all three to the GP. Fix your parser!
Come on now, that's just not even remotely true. Compressors are NOT "1-button" processors. Unlike a lot of other effects and processors, you really have to *know* what they do and how they work to get any use out of them. I'd wager 80-90% of home recording enthusiasts have little to no understanding of compression, or have a basic misunderstanding (are you one of them?). And as I'm sure lots of pundits will agree, compression can do way more harm than good in the wrong hands.
Tedb0t
It just occurred to me: could Apple be ignoring this and other really basic filesystem problems because they're spending all their time working on something like ZFS? I.e., "we're going to switch out of this anyway so whatever?" It's still *REALLY* shitty of them, but that seems like a plausible explanation..
Haha, I know, that's exactly what I thought when I saw the pic.
What the good ones can do with Wikipedia is incredibly inspiring. A good friend of mine teaches High School in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn -- pretty much "the hood." He's a tall white anarchist with big hair. Try to imagine this classroom; it involves a lot of true stereotypes. But what does NOT fit the stereotype is that he started a class wiki, and has all his students contribute to it. Instead of a total mess, instead of abuse, graffiti and sludge, it's raised the level of ALL the students. It's a peer environment: once it becomes cool to do it right, to BE right, abuse and problems dry up almost completely.
This is an incredibly exciting new paradigm of teaching, because it puts the power of education directly into the students' hands. Education no longer needs to be a fount that springs forth from some "authority," it can be something that brings authority to the student. And the best part is the huge "fuck you" to the older generation of jaded "educators" (read: administrators), who would NEVER have tried such a thing, expecting only the worst. Instead it has completely revolutionized his classroom. Sure, there are kids with serious problems that aren't getting solved by a class wiki, and no one expects it to. But for the students at large, this is a BIG deal. And they LOVE it! Think of how many potential writers, poets, researchers, who knows, can be encouraged by just having a chance to write on a little webpage, developing the bravery to put it out there among their friends and enemies.
It's truly inspiring.
--Ted
I got Leopard with a new MacBook Pro; previously I have been using Tiger since it came out. I've come to the current conclusion that of all the changes in Leopard, the good ultimately outweighs the bad. A huge chunk of this is due to massively improved networking in Finder -- the "Shared" section in the left-hand list makes networking with my several other machines (windows, linux or otherwise) so much easier, faster, and logical. For whatever it's worth, this is one case where coming closer to windows was an improvement. However, this particular one, like its implementation in Windows, still suffers from the problem of DNS updating -- it doesn't appear to cache entries, and there's no way that I can find to force it to update (note: I'm a bit of a newb on that stuff, so I might be misunderstanding it).
My friends and I were both worried we'd have to actually go back to Tiger, but I've adapted quite quickly to the changes and find the overall experience dramatically improved. The speed increases are downright monumental; using spotlight is actually a viable idea now!
--Ted
Good question. I remain pretty confused; however, I love some of the tags that show up. I do think it's an interesting way of gauging people's opinion or content of the article (no matter how wrong or flamebaity the tags are). So it's entertaining, but so far useless. It does seem like the sort of thing that would, in theory, be useful, in terms of seeing other articles that have been tagged with x. But I've never come across the actual need to do that.
So yes, I second this question, as I would love to hear an answer.
Yeah ... that was the joke. Thanks anyway.
I always found the Apple turnover rate to be rather low -- I mean, they're delicious, but I can only eat a few of them before it's just too much. --tedb0t
I don't normally do this, but since it appeared twice: the word you want is "piqued," not "peaked." You could say, "My curiosity peaked" as in, "My curiosity reached a local maximum," but that would have a different meaning from "this piqued my curiosity," meaning "this stimulated my curiosity."
Nonsense. If you really understood how to tell me to "paint or make music," you'd be painting or making music yourself. If you're not, then I'm not going to value your artistic direction. A good patron / client / commissioner of a piece trusts the artist to do his or her thing without backseat driving. What good artists (like even Picasso) understand is how to ignore patrons/clients while making them believe you're listening.
It's NEVER Lupus!
*Wow.* Enjoy that myopic life you've got going on there. Seriously -- "passive activity?" Now look, if you don't happen to like fiction then fair enough, I don't care. But the reading of a good novel is so far from "passive" I can't imagine what you're talking about. Weren't read to as a child?
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be insulting here. But I am just a little surprised.
ROFL.
I think words like "CEO" and "employee" are pretty out of context here for good old Vastech. I think the words we want are "hey you" and "that guy that's that other guy's cousin."
OT: Vastech? Did they used to sell Vaseline or do vasectomies or something? Did someone tell them, "hey, rebates man, that's where the REAL money is!"
As far as I know, Genie doesn't have a normal command of language for her age, which is what I originally meant. I don't think she ever learned normal syntax, for instance. It *is* a hotly debated subject in psycholinguistics, but I'm personally impressed by the neural network model experiments that give a pretty compelling explanation for the importance of language acquisition during the first 10-12 years. Check out Manfred Spitzer's work and his book, "The Mind Within the Net."
It follows that a developing brain exposed to a significant amount of very rapidly changing images (and not even just images but dialog and things and entire scenes) will overdevelop the ability to deal with that speed, with the result that long, drawn out concentration could be almost impossible.
In any case, it's the most cogent biological evidence for the idea of moderation I've ever heard! It's obvious, and it's common sense, but moderation and a large variety of experience for a developing brain is utterly crucial. Just saying this to add to your point regarding parental influence.
"...cat head, cat head, cat head... read that back to me."
Spelling a person's name correctly is not minutia.
Thank you. I get so tired of those same comments all the time. Whatever happened to a slashdotter's sense of wonder and imagination? Have years and years of scifi not left some kind of impression, some ability to be excited by the possibilities, instead of just whining about one thing or another? Sheesh.