The "punctuality" they're referring to (and the "leap second" correction) have to do with the rotational speed (length of a day) of the earth, not its speed of revolution around the sun (which leap days correct for).
I doubt it. Byrne's pretty much an icon in art music, he just doesn't need cheap publicity. I think he's just wacky and quirky.
And if there's anyone who's a "nerd" in music, it's Byrne. The new wave art rockers of the 80s were the nerds of music. Of his contemporaries, he's third in nerdiness only to maybe Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo or Thomas Dolby (She Binded Me With Science), who went on to form an interactive music software company in the 90s.
I'm not going to comment on the quality of Byrne's post-modern art here, but he's definitely not a fanboy for Powerpoint. From the article:
The book includes mostly lucid musings on how PowerPoint has ushered in "the end of reason," with pictures of bar charts gone hideously astray, fields of curved arrows that point at nothing, disturbing close-ups of wax hands and eyebrows, and a photo of Dolly the cloned sheep enclosed by punctuation brackets.
Plus, I think he's just having a bit of a laugh on the conformist business world. It's, you know, satire:
Byrne...said the compilation wasn't meant as a "serious statement about anything."
The submitter is asking for a cross-platform solution. One big caveat is that the most popular PVR software for Windows is Snapstream. According to their knowledge base, a number of cards, including the Leadtek Winfast 2000 XP Deluxe, is not compatible with their software. http://kb.snapstream.com/Kb.aspx?kbid=1049
I too am adding PVR functionality to my computer. Anyone know of what compromise card would be both Snapstream and MythTV compatible?
I think "make more mistakes" is just a side effect of the real point: Take more risks. Obviously, if you take more risks, your probability of making mistakes also goes up. I'm sure if the error rate didn't happen to go up with risk taking (just getting lucky), no one would complain.
The MPAA isn't going to do right by consumers unless we all start with the same premises. And though I know this has been done to death on/. , perpetuating this blatant fallacy that copyright infringement is theft make any consideration on their part a non-starter.
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Does anyone remember this gem of a book (booklet, IIRC) on Extended Basic game programming for the TI 99/4A? Fond, fond childhood memories of programming my first (and, come to think of it, only) games using their cute little recipes.
Yes! the 2600 Pacman is ubiquitous! Also, the 2600 version of Donkey Kong put out by Coleco. I don't know why, but, the sound of Mario jumping a barrel (scoring the points from jumping the barrel, not just the jumping sound, IIRC, and it's nothing like Nintendo's original sounds) has been in dozens of commercials, sitcoms, and other tv where some "anonymous" video game is being played off camera.
These are all valid concerns to some degree, but really, I wonder if flying cars will ever be possible in today's legal reality. I mean, "liability" and its catalyst, "litigiousness", rule the day.
Seriously, could a Henry Ford or a Wright Bros succeed today? Or even a Watt or Fulton? Transport is dangerous stuff. You look at the ridiculous risks the inventors at the "heyday" of mechanical innovation took...they put a lot of people's lives on the line. People were zipping about in their Model T's without restraints, with little regulation, at unheard of speeds. Sometimes I'm amazed that even today they (the govnt) actually allow meagerly trained common citizens to pilot massive 2 ton projectiles at lethal speeds...it's really thanks to the inertia of history. You introduce new personal transport (e.g. the Segway) and the regulators and lawyers and risk managers and all sorts of bureaucrats of officialdom are all over you. And god forbid your device requires a modicum of personal responsibility and involves personal risks. That's not acceptable in today's liability-first world.
No doubt we're a lot of safer with the oversight...I wouldn't fly without something like the FAA...but we're talking about personal transport as opposed to commerical transport, and I regret that real innovation can't happen (or be seriously adopted) in today's climate.
(BTW, as for the "eyesore" complaint: I think replacing milions of miles of multilane monstrosities with greenspace is a fair trade-off for skylanes dotted with personal flightcraft.)
This is an unthinking, knee-jerk reaction. Senator Dayton is responding to a problem, by talking about it and thinking about it. The gist of what he says is true: Spam is huge because the costs are miniscule.
Wrong. Spam is huge because it works. People are buying penis enlargers and snake oils.
There needs to be a change in the economics of Spam.
That's right. The demand side needs to go away. What does not need to go away is the vanishing cost of information. Saddling email with an artificial tax, or any information with an artificial burden, is not going to work. It's not real, does not recreate scarcity, is easily subverted, and I think is immoral. This is the lesson RIAA, MPAA, and others don't understand.
Great point, but the antecedents to property, that is "territory", "nest", and "chosen mate" have been around nearly as long as life (at least animal life).
Beatty's methods aren't a cure for traffic congestion. There's no driving method that affects volume, of course. What they can affect is the flow of traffic...whether it's more smooth and continuous, or riddled with local anomalies like these traffic waves that produce unnecessary slow downs , are persistent, and have cascading effects.
Hey, I don't know if you were kidding or not, but your approach is not far from the "correct" one to help reduce traffic jams! Amateur scientist William Beatty has a really interesting page on the physics of traffic jams. Standing waves are a big culprit in causing and keeping traffic jammed. When you rush ahead to cover a gap, hurrying up and to join the jammed cars ahead, you simply perpetuate the life of the standing wave. When you slowly cover the gap, you not only give time for the wave ahead to dissipate, but you smooth out the flow to a pace more suitable to traffic conditions. The result is more than just trading off a continuous, modest pace for hurry-up-and-wait... hard breaking causes ripple effects that actually produce jams.
Seriously though, I don't think you appreciate the glacial pace at which change occurs at Princeton. I mean, it's Princeton, we've done it like this for hundreds of years! It's the Princeton way. If it was good enough for James Madison and Woodrow Wilson, who are we to begrudge the time honored methods of yore? Now get out your quill and parchment, and sign up for your classes: You're taking Middle Greek, Oratory, European Economyes, and Gentlemanly Etiquette. (you're a Foppish Dandy Studies major).
Great letter, but gotta ding you on your sig (seeing as how pride yourself on your "analness").
That quote is actually ascribed to first century stoic philosopher Seneca, not Aristotle. The original Latin is "Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit."
I hope you and other Princeton students (or anybody dismayed with Strauss' representation of the "progressive thinking" of the academy) consider also writing his boss, Dan Oberst, Director of Enterprise Information Services (oberst at princeton.edu), or even better, the Vice President of the Office of Information Technology and CIO, Betty Leydon (betty at princeton.edu).
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The "punctuality" they're referring to (and the "leap second" correction) have to do with the rotational speed (length of a day) of the earth, not its speed of revolution around the sun (which leap days correct for).
Guess which part doesn't apply to the government?
Hmm...wait, wait, don't tell me...uhm...oooh, i know this one.....
Hint: All of it.
Damn you! I was gonna guess that!
Three words:
Warhol..Campbell's Soup.
It's called "pop art." It's commentary. Not my favorite, but there it is.
I doubt it. Byrne's pretty much an icon in art music, he just doesn't need cheap publicity. I think he's just wacky and quirky.
And if there's anyone who's a "nerd" in music, it's Byrne. The new wave art rockers of the 80s were the nerds of music. Of his contemporaries, he's third in nerdiness only to maybe Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo or Thomas Dolby (She Binded Me With Science), who went on to form an interactive music software company in the 90s.
I'm not going to comment on the quality of Byrne's post-modern art here, but he's definitely not a fanboy for Powerpoint. From the article:
The book includes mostly lucid musings on how PowerPoint has ushered in "the end of reason," with pictures of bar charts gone hideously astray, fields of curved arrows that point at nothing, disturbing close-ups of wax hands and eyebrows, and a photo of Dolly the cloned sheep enclosed by punctuation brackets.
Plus, I think he's just having a bit of a laugh on the conformist business world. It's, you know, satire:
Byrne...said the compilation wasn't meant as a "serious statement about anything."
The submitter is asking for a cross-platform solution. One big caveat is that the most popular PVR software for Windows is Snapstream. According to their knowledge base, a number of cards, including the Leadtek Winfast 2000 XP Deluxe, is not compatible with their software.
http://kb.snapstream.com/Kb.aspx?kbid=1049
I too am adding PVR functionality to my computer. Anyone know of what compromise card would be both Snapstream and MythTV compatible?
I think "make more mistakes" is just a side effect of the real point: Take more risks. Obviously, if you take more risks, your probability of making mistakes also goes up. I'm sure if the error rate didn't happen to go up with risk taking (just getting lucky), no one would complain.
Why do they want to steal from us?
The MPAA isn't going to do right by consumers unless we all start with the same premises. And though
I know this has been done to death on
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Does anyone remember this gem of a book (booklet, IIRC) on Extended Basic game programming for the TI 99/4A? Fond, fond childhood memories of programming my first (and, come to think of it, only) games using their cute little recipes.
What a great little machine...
Yes! the 2600 Pacman is ubiquitous! Also, the 2600 version of Donkey Kong put out by Coleco. I don't know why, but, the sound of Mario jumping a barrel (scoring the points from jumping the barrel, not just the jumping sound, IIRC, and it's nothing like Nintendo's original sounds) has been in dozens of commercials, sitcoms, and other tv where some "anonymous" video game is being played off camera.
Really?! My first guess (which kinda makes sense from context) was "I am not even a programmer"
Which, given this is Slashdot, caused me to audibly gasp.
That page is hilarious.
They also have a patent litigation against Microsoft covered by Slashodot earlier
Ha! Anyone else misread this as "They also have a patent on litigation against Microsoft..."
Wouldn't surprise me....
I loves me some barratry.
But...but..but whadda about the Coleco Adam, huh?
Hi-speed tape drive. Played ColecoVision cartridges. And the power supply was in the printer.
The power supply was in the printer.
The...power supply...was....in...the...printer
Innovate on THAT, Mr. Jobs!
These are all valid concerns to some degree, but really, I wonder if flying cars will ever be possible in today's legal reality. I mean, "liability" and its catalyst, "litigiousness", rule the day.
Seriously, could a Henry Ford or a Wright Bros succeed today? Or even a Watt or Fulton? Transport is dangerous stuff. You look at the ridiculous risks the inventors at the "heyday" of mechanical innovation took...they put a lot of people's lives on the line. People were zipping about in their Model T's without restraints, with little regulation, at unheard of speeds. Sometimes I'm amazed that even today they (the govnt) actually allow meagerly trained common citizens to pilot massive 2 ton projectiles at lethal speeds...it's really thanks to the inertia of history. You introduce new personal transport (e.g. the Segway) and the regulators and lawyers and risk managers and all sorts of bureaucrats of officialdom are all over you. And god forbid your device requires a modicum of personal responsibility and involves personal risks. That's not acceptable in today's liability-first world.
No doubt we're a lot of safer with the oversight...I wouldn't fly without something like the FAA...but we're talking about personal transport as opposed to commerical transport, and I regret that real innovation can't happen (or be seriously adopted) in today's climate.
(BTW, as for the "eyesore" complaint: I think replacing milions of miles of multilane monstrosities with greenspace is a fair trade-off for skylanes dotted with personal flightcraft.)
This is an unthinking, knee-jerk reaction. Senator Dayton is responding to a problem, by talking about it and thinking about it. The gist of what he says is true: Spam is huge because the costs are miniscule.
Wrong. Spam is huge because it works. People are buying penis enlargers and snake oils.
There needs to be a change in the economics of Spam.
That's right. The demand side needs to go away. What does not need to go away is the vanishing cost of information. Saddling email with an artificial tax, or any information with an artificial burden, is not going to work. It's not real, does not recreate scarcity, is easily subverted, and I think is immoral. This is the lesson RIAA, MPAA, and others don't understand.
Great point, but the antecedents to property, that is "territory", "nest", and "chosen mate" have been around nearly as long as life (at least animal life).
Beatty's methods aren't a cure for traffic congestion. There's no driving method that affects volume, of course. What they can affect is the flow of traffic...whether it's more smooth and continuous, or riddled with local anomalies like these traffic waves that produce unnecessary slow downs , are persistent, and have cascading effects.
Was he trying to peddle free software to Princeton?
Hey, I don't know if you were kidding or not, but your approach is not far from the "correct" one to help reduce traffic jams! Amateur scientist William Beatty has a really interesting page on the physics of traffic jams. Standing waves are a big culprit in causing and keeping traffic jammed. When you rush ahead to cover a gap, hurrying up and to join the jammed cars ahead, you simply perpetuate the life of the standing wave. When you slowly cover the gap, you not only give time for the wave ahead to dissipate, but you smooth out the flow to a pace more suitable to traffic conditions. The result is more than just trading off a continuous, modest pace for hurry-up-and-wait... hard breaking causes ripple effects that actually produce jams.
Seriously though, I don't think you appreciate the glacial pace at which change occurs at Princeton. I mean, it's Princeton, we've done it like this for hundreds of years! It's the Princeton way. If it was good enough for James Madison and Woodrow Wilson, who are we to begrudge the time honored methods of yore? Now get out your quill and parchment, and sign up for your classes: You're taking Middle Greek, Oratory, European Economyes, and Gentlemanly Etiquette. (you're a Foppish Dandy Studies major).
Great letter, but gotta ding you on your sig (seeing as how pride yourself on your "analness").
That quote is actually ascribed to first century stoic philosopher Seneca, not Aristotle. The original Latin is "Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit."
Geeky regards.
I hope you and other Princeton students (or anybody dismayed with Strauss' representation of the "progressive thinking" of the academy) consider also writing his boss, Dan Oberst, Director of Enterprise Information Services (oberst at princeton.edu), or even better, the Vice President of the Office of Information Technology and CIO, Betty Leydon (betty at princeton.edu).
And here a just shelled out $129 to upgrade to Panthaar.