In this instance, I think it's the overprotective mother leading to him being homeschooled and never socialized. By 8, a kid should at least have A friend if not multiple friends.
Your liberal heart is ignoring the cynic that must be present as well. There's a high probability that this is NOT an autistic individual, merely a person who was diagnosed as autistic at the parents' wishes. This is a HUGE problem in America and one of the reasons that parents of truly autistic children have a hard time with the systems in place.
My anecdotal evidence for my view point is the fact that the lady who lived at the end of the block I grew up on had a son. That son was not diagnosed by their first physician, nor their second with autism. Finally, after 3, possibly 4 different physicians saw him, she found one that considered him autistic. After finding this, she decided that he needed special attention throughout school and, when the school district wouldn't give him the attention she felt he needed, she tried 4 different schools before she decided to home school him.
Now, this child (at the time I last saw him, he was approximately 8-10) is odd, and has some weird tendencies (at one point, their neighbor was selling their house and he went over and wrote in chalk on their driveway "WAY OVERPRICED"), I would describe him as socially inept, but he doesn't behave like other autistic children I've encountered. In fact, he doesn't behave like children or people with Asperger Syndrome even. My mother and I were walking our dog and he yelled out to us to say hi and ask if the dog had gone "poopie" yet. Anyone familiar with these disorders knows that this is unusual to the point of it being near impossible.
Moral of the story, if you look hard enough you can find someone who will say whatever you want them to, and if I were doing something like this and got caught, I'd make it a point to get at least one person to claim me mentally deranged.
Cause I'm sure someone out there said that at some point, we would not longer be spending days, weeks, months, or even years in the studio to get a final product, and yet it still takes typically months for most projects*. Just because it's possible that that will happen, doesn't mean it will work for everyone.
*I emphasize most projects. Hiphop/rap/what have you are notorious for making sure that they get their next record out the moment sales dip from their previous one...perhaps that's why their songs are almost never memorable.
Sorry, but it *is* difficult to get from a compilable program to a distributable program that Linux users can try out easily.
You suggest tarballs, meaning configure && make && make install. That means you need to deal with automake and friends which are insanely obscure and hard to learn.
I thought those were inherent to Linux users. I have never had a Linux install going for longer than a month where I hadn't at least once dropped to command line to put in some variant of configure && make && make install and get a new program running...
This is a great point. Another point I'd like to make is the people asking for a binary are far more often the people who will NOT be able to provide a decent bug report (as in, "Every time that I run the application within these conditions on kernel X.x.x in the foo environment, I reach error 42." and not a bug report of "It's not working! FIX IT PLZ!"). Most people who want something enough to follow instructions on how to compile it are at least technical enough to be able to provide a minimum of good bug reports.
24-bit makes sense, giving far greater dynamic range (which can be construed as resolution if we want to compare it to photos/videos). Admittedly, calling it 24-bit is a bit absurd as the best I've heard of is closer to 20, maybe 21 bit, but if we're trying to keep within a standardized system, may as well use groups of 8. In older recording/playback system 48k was a vast improvement over 44.1k. The perceived advantages to 88.2k, 96k, 176.4k, and 192k were due to a one octave (88.1k/96k) or two octave (176.4k/192k) low pass filter causing less of a high frequency bump than a tenth of an octave (44.1k) or an eighth of an octave (48k). This is not really necessary anymore as the digital filters perform way better than most people give them credit for.
As a playback standard, 24-bit 44.1k or 24-bit 48k make perfect sense with current generation, decent quality D/A. 24-bit permits the greater dynamic range and greater dynamic accuracy that pieces like Chopin's can benefit from. There likely will be an audible sonic difference between 44.1k and 192k, but it will be distortion. Some people certainly prefer the sound of these higher bit rates, however it is still not accurate to the original product. If the higher resolution bit depth isn't necessary (as is the case with most modern music) it will not be detrimental to the playback, unlike 192k.
For anyone looking for a more in depth write up, it was shared here on/. a while back, but there's a great write-up from Neil Young about why these formats don't matter (the argument using solely a 1k test tone is very easy to dither, using a full symphony or even a full piano's range is virtually impossible to mask with dither). I disagree with him in general on the 16-bit vs 24-bit, but, for the most part, the average listener would never know the difference considering the dynamic range in most modern music is still comparable to watching a movie that's 128 x 72 upconverted to 1080p while 1080p would've been available to the producer to begin with.
Yeah, I have a unique name. You literally will not find anyone with my first name last name combination other than me so it's not like they're getting new info from me (although I did change a number of details of my own volition, as well as check the box about not using this information for marketing about a number of details as well, considering it was completely wrong).
Actually, they almost certainly already had it. Just based on your name and billing address, a legitimate organization which has gone through a proper series of mandated checks can pull up your credit profile, your history, etc. The last 4 of the SSN allow them to find the information if your name was, for example, "John Smith" and you lived in Boston in an apartment complex that had 4 different Smith families in it.
He's alive and well and will live into his 120s. Meanwhile, in another universe, he never lived and no one lives on this planet. Ah The Coming of the Quantum Cats, such a great introduction to him. He will be missed.
..for many children gifted education is a type of special needs education, and keeping them in a standard setting is not only cruel, it's likely to turn them into angry disaffected hackers...
There are a vast majority of states where the left lane on multi-lane highways, by law, is for faster traffic and to be passing only. But, if you get a ticket for that, without the person getting a ticket for speeding, you should have no issue getting the charge dropped.
When I got my license, Illinois required something like 20 hrs behind the wheel, I know they upped it since I went through so I figured a requirement would be around 50-75 now and 3k would fall in line with that. Of course, it is Illinois, I could've just bought it with a large *ahem* donation...
Considering that the average person needs (depending greatly upon your state) about 3k miles under your belt before you get a license...I'd say that instills a lot more confidence.
Yeah, I mean, if you told me when I was a kid that my parents could find out where I am and figure out what I was doing or I could turn off this one little feature (the second link used location data as frame of reference) and they'd have no further capabilities...which do you think would happen? (yes I know, it's not that easy, but it's still the naiveté of youth that would lead me to have thought that at 12).
I'm sorry, but I found his comment to be rather witty. Frankly, my mother is not a Journalist. My mother never previously tried to secure her data (she actively would fill out surveys for coupons, for TV stations, for anything of the sort and ALWAYS used department store cards). Why should she need to now?
Mrs. Rosenberg, on the other hand, she would have wanted to be thorough. Which should be true of reporters and journalists, but these days, I'm cynical of that.
OSHA has estimated there are roughly 10,000 workers in the U.S. communication tower industry. Ten deaths may not seem like a huge number, but it is enough proportionally to rank the industry among the deadliest in the country.
So every one in one thousand dies on the job. I'd say that's a pretty high mortality rate for the US.
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In this instance, I think it's the overprotective mother leading to him being homeschooled and never socialized. By 8, a kid should at least have A friend if not multiple friends.
Your liberal heart is ignoring the cynic that must be present as well. There's a high probability that this is NOT an autistic individual, merely a person who was diagnosed as autistic at the parents' wishes. This is a HUGE problem in America and one of the reasons that parents of truly autistic children have a hard time with the systems in place.
My anecdotal evidence for my view point is the fact that the lady who lived at the end of the block I grew up on had a son. That son was not diagnosed by their first physician, nor their second with autism. Finally, after 3, possibly 4 different physicians saw him, she found one that considered him autistic. After finding this, she decided that he needed special attention throughout school and, when the school district wouldn't give him the attention she felt he needed, she tried 4 different schools before she decided to home school him.
Now, this child (at the time I last saw him, he was approximately 8-10) is odd, and has some weird tendencies (at one point, their neighbor was selling their house and he went over and wrote in chalk on their driveway "WAY OVERPRICED"), I would describe him as socially inept, but he doesn't behave like other autistic children I've encountered. In fact, he doesn't behave like children or people with Asperger Syndrome even. My mother and I were walking our dog and he yelled out to us to say hi and ask if the dog had gone "poopie" yet. Anyone familiar with these disorders knows that this is unusual to the point of it being near impossible.
Moral of the story, if you look hard enough you can find someone who will say whatever you want them to, and if I were doing something like this and got caught, I'd make it a point to get at least one person to claim me mentally deranged.
And then they edited the summery to fix my complaint...
I must know!
The Internet should be slightly expanded HTML1 and CGI as far as I'm concerned.
"No one will need more than 637 kB of memory for a personal computer..."
And I already used all my mod points...Where's that +1 Insightful when I need it...
Wait, you actually RTFA. You must be new here.
Cause I'm sure someone out there said that at some point, we would not longer be spending days, weeks, months, or even years in the studio to get a final product, and yet it still takes typically months for most projects*. Just because it's possible that that will happen, doesn't mean it will work for everyone.
*I emphasize most projects. Hiphop/rap/what have you are notorious for making sure that they get their next record out the moment sales dip from their previous one...perhaps that's why their songs are almost never memorable.
Sorry, but it *is* difficult to get from a compilable program to a distributable program that Linux users can try out easily.
You suggest tarballs, meaning configure && make && make install. That means you need to deal with automake and friends which are insanely obscure and hard to learn.
I thought those were inherent to Linux users. I have never had a Linux install going for longer than a month where I hadn't at least once dropped to command line to put in some variant of configure && make && make install and get a new program running...
Guess this is my get off my lawn post...
This is a great point. Another point I'd like to make is the people asking for a binary are far more often the people who will NOT be able to provide a decent bug report (as in, "Every time that I run the application within these conditions on kernel X.x.x in the foo environment, I reach error 42." and not a bug report of "It's not working! FIX IT PLZ!"). Most people who want something enough to follow instructions on how to compile it are at least technical enough to be able to provide a minimum of good bug reports.
is it appears the person assigned the bug only has one to work on (or I don't understand how the bug-zilla handles that).
24-bit makes sense, giving far greater dynamic range (which can be construed as resolution if we want to compare it to photos/videos). Admittedly, calling it 24-bit is a bit absurd as the best I've heard of is closer to 20, maybe 21 bit, but if we're trying to keep within a standardized system, may as well use groups of 8. In older recording/playback system 48k was a vast improvement over 44.1k. The perceived advantages to 88.2k, 96k, 176.4k, and 192k were due to a one octave (88.1k/96k) or two octave (176.4k/192k) low pass filter causing less of a high frequency bump than a tenth of an octave (44.1k) or an eighth of an octave (48k). This is not really necessary anymore as the digital filters perform way better than most people give them credit for.
As a playback standard, 24-bit 44.1k or 24-bit 48k make perfect sense with current generation, decent quality D/A. 24-bit permits the greater dynamic range and greater dynamic accuracy that pieces like Chopin's can benefit from. There likely will be an audible sonic difference between 44.1k and 192k, but it will be distortion. Some people certainly prefer the sound of these higher bit rates, however it is still not accurate to the original product. If the higher resolution bit depth isn't necessary (as is the case with most modern music) it will not be detrimental to the playback, unlike 192k.
For anyone looking for a more in depth write up, it was shared here on /. a while back, but there's a great write-up from Neil Young about why these formats don't matter (the argument using solely a 1k test tone is very easy to dither, using a full symphony or even a full piano's range is virtually impossible to mask with dither). I disagree with him in general on the 16-bit vs 24-bit, but, for the most part, the average listener would never know the difference considering the dynamic range in most modern music is still comparable to watching a movie that's 128 x 72 upconverted to 1080p while 1080p would've been available to the producer to begin with.
Yeah, I have a unique name. You literally will not find anyone with my first name last name combination other than me so it's not like they're getting new info from me (although I did change a number of details of my own volition, as well as check the box about not using this information for marketing about a number of details as well, considering it was completely wrong).
Actually, they almost certainly already had it. Just based on your name and billing address, a legitimate organization which has gone through a proper series of mandated checks can pull up your credit profile, your history, etc. The last 4 of the SSN allow them to find the information if your name was, for example, "John Smith" and you lived in Boston in an apartment complex that had 4 different Smith families in it.
He could end up being like Tupac and release another book every other year for next 20 years...
He's alive and well and will live into his 120s. Meanwhile, in another universe, he never lived and no one lives on this planet. Ah The Coming of the Quantum Cats, such a great introduction to him. He will be missed.
..for many children gifted education is a type of special needs education, and keeping them in a standard setting is not only cruel, it's likely to turn them into angry disaffected hackers...
Jeremy Hammond?
Ahem. Let's revise that with some specifics and references, shall we?
There are a vast majority of states where the left lane on multi-lane highways, by law, is for faster traffic and to be passing only. But, if you get a ticket for that, without the person getting a ticket for speeding, you should have no issue getting the charge dropped.
So because the car's going to follow the law, you're upset?
When I got my license, Illinois required something like 20 hrs behind the wheel, I know they upped it since I went through so I figured a requirement would be around 50-75 now and 3k would fall in line with that. Of course, it is Illinois, I could've just bought it with a large *ahem* donation...
Considering that the average person needs (depending greatly upon your state) about 3k miles under your belt before you get a license...I'd say that instills a lot more confidence.
Yeah, I mean, if you told me when I was a kid that my parents could find out where I am and figure out what I was doing or I could turn off this one little feature (the second link used location data as frame of reference) and they'd have no further capabilities...which do you think would happen? (yes I know, it's not that easy, but it's still the naiveté of youth that would lead me to have thought that at 12).
I'm sorry, but I found his comment to be rather witty. Frankly, my mother is not a Journalist. My mother never previously tried to secure her data (she actively would fill out surveys for coupons, for TV stations, for anything of the sort and ALWAYS used department store cards). Why should she need to now?
Mrs. Rosenberg, on the other hand, she would have wanted to be thorough. Which should be true of reporters and journalists, but these days, I'm cynical of that.
So every one in one thousand dies on the job. I'd say that's a pretty high mortality rate for the US.