6. To get one's attention, ads often feature grotesque fungus-infected toenails, giant hairy bellies, and that #@&% possessed androgynous redneck kid with the big gums.
7. They are often repetitious. I'm sick and tired of the psychedelic IBM ads on slashdot, for example. The 60's are dead, Jim. Youtube also runs the same ads over and over.
If they don't want us to block ads, then stop making them stupid in the 7 different ways.
The US gov't can't order say a Singapore company to put in a back door or hack their own product. Such restrictions on a US company would give Singapore companies an advantage because they can say they are outside of US govt's control.
I suppose the US gov't can tell Singapore co's that they can't sell products in the US unless they have a back door and unlock it somehow on request. But that's harder to verify and enforce than with a US-based co.
As I understand it, the rising will also be uneven because of changes in the ocean flow. The south-eastern coast of US is expected to see more rising than average, for example.
Prove it! I can say the same about you. It's speculation either way. Market prices are determined by a myriad of factors, mostly hidden in the undeciphered neurons of buyers. Unless you have a reliable mind reader, it's speculation versus speculation. U B in the same boat, CriticBoy!
I don't think it's so much about the Constitution, because they can get a search warrant. But it could drive business away from US companies, not unlike what Snowden's revelations about Cisco products did to Cisco sales.
If you drive business away from US companies/products/sites by putting holes in them, then US law enforcement companies will have even less leverage because they would be dealing with over-seas companies and governments. DOJ is robbing long-term Peter to pay short-term Paul. And it hurts our economy.
It wasn't going down in the first place due to global warming.
I believe it's because the inequality (growing 1%). Beach front property is a luxury item and a status symbol. Like a Jaguar, it doesn't have to last 20 years to serve that goal.
I suspect the property values would be much higher if not for GW; it's just been masked by other issues.
From an entrepreneurial perspective, you have to take risks to win. You have to grow fast and beat your competitors because the "first to market" tends to have a big advantage.
This encourages taking shortcuts. I'm not sure how to prevent such security-related risks other than perhaps criminal prosecution or huge fines. However, that would drive up the expense of IT work (think insurance) and result in offshoring. USA regulators will have a hard time dictating the laws of Timbuktu web servers and products.
It would be somewhat similar to the Apple unlock issue: if you over-regulate and/or compromise the security of US tech companies, customers will buy elsewhere where the US gov't can't meddle.
I'm not ranting against regulation in general, only saying you have to think globally when trying to solve security-related issues.
Skeptics should buy up flat beach-front properties if they truly think it's a hoax.
If it is a hoax, the land value will go back up when the hoax is exposed and they'll be jillionaires. If it's not a hoax, the fools get what they deserve.
By "amateur fiddler" I meant amateur dabbler, NOT violin player.
There is a command line utility called "SOX" that can string together sound files and do some basic effects. But I haven't tested it yet. It's mostly intended as a format converter, and not an advanced effects processor or synth. Although, one may be able to insert their own effects and generators being it can accept and produce number lists as wave plots.
I've been kicking around the idea of a generic "wave processor" to generate and reuse wave profiles for synthesis, effects control, attack/fade/wobble envelopes, etc.
Waves are waves such that it seems one can use "root idioms" to process them all rather than make dedicated utilities for synthesis different from effects different from envelopes, etc. I'm trying to find/invent "wave Lisp" rather than the verbose "wave Java" we seem to have now (roughly speaking). I don't care that much about processing speed, for one may be able to deactivate portions for quick drafts (feedback turnaround). Thus, if high abstraction/factoring is slower, so be it.
I've dabbled with cSound, but would like something a bit more modular, a cross between SOX and cSound, but with cleaner wave idiom factoring. Maybe my wife will let me retire. Maybe I'm dreaming on both the factoring idea and retirement.
I like composing in a style that's part renascence and part new age like Philip Glass. (I'm not very good yet but get better as I dabble more.)
The problem with paying for software is that it seems the co. tries to make sure it has a short life so you have to upgrade often, like whenever a new OS comes or 32/64/128bit chip upgrade comes out etc. Being an amateur fiddler, I go for long stretches where I don't use something.
Good reverb takes rather elaborate processing. "Cheap" reverb can "ring" on the high end. One has to randomly or systematically dither the pitch rate of each sub-echo to avoid ringing (although there may be other ways; I'm just an amateur wave shaper).
But an effect can still offer a real-time draft mode to judge the general level and give a rough idea (using a simplified algorithm).
As far as your idea of dragging snippets around on a whim, some tasks work better as tracks and others as snippets in my opinion. I'd like to use both, depending on the task or intended editing.
But, to simplify the UI for software makers, I'm okay with textual references or ID's such that one can write formula-like strings or fill in spreadsheet-like cells/tables for snippets indicating what parameters/effects to leave as the default (or original) and what to override with specific settings. That way you can "re-string" without changing the original snippets. Thus, reinventing Visio may not be necessary.
It's a trade-off between fancy processing (like real-time feedback), fancy UI's, lots of features/effects, and money spent on software. The above are possible ways to reduce the pressure on the first 2 to improve the second 2, being it's unlikely we'll get all 4. I'm a realist.
I wouldn't go that far. The effects operate on the current track. You can make a track copy if you want to keep the original. Or test it on the current track, and do a Control-Z to undo changes. A preview mode would be nice. Some effects have it.
But in general real-time effect preview & change requires either a lot more horse-power, or a very efficiently tuned algorithm. That's asking a lot for open-source for some effects, which may take a lot of computations. Non-real-time is often far easier to program.
One thing I don't like about Audacity is that there's no easy way to chop a sample into segments and then move the segments around independently, such as cleaning up singing timing. If you insert and delete sections in the middle, then the entire left or entire right side slides with it. I don't want that.
I've only found round-about ways to achieve it that are like 10x the steps it should be, such as creating a track for each segment, which is messy and can slow it down, or merge them and hope I don't need to go back to the original.
If anybody found a direct solution, I'd like to know.
How Hulk's pants stay on while every other article of clothing is ripped asunder.
Because selling drawings of nude men to minors is not legal.
Hmmm, I wonder if his yanker gets bigger also? Maybe it gets smaller, and that's why his pants stay on. See, maybe Bruce Banner has a huge package, but it DEcreases when he's angry, counter-compensating for muscle gain. Solved! Where's my Nobel.
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6. To get one's attention, ads often feature grotesque fungus-infected toenails, giant hairy bellies, and that #@&% possessed androgynous redneck kid with the big gums.
7. They are often repetitious. I'm sick and tired of the psychedelic IBM ads on slashdot, for example. The 60's are dead, Jim. Youtube also runs the same ads over and over.
If they don't want us to block ads, then stop making them stupid in the 7 different ways.
I'm not sure what you mean. How about a scenario.
The US gov't can't order say a Singapore company to put in a back door or hack their own product. Such restrictions on a US company would give Singapore companies an advantage because they can say they are outside of US govt's control.
I suppose the US gov't can tell Singapore co's that they can't sell products in the US unless they have a back door and unlock it somehow on request. But that's harder to verify and enforce than with a US-based co.
It was that darned Moses parting seas. Voters failed to address Global Mosesing.
As I understand it, the rising will also be uneven because of changes in the ocean flow. The south-eastern coast of US is expected to see more rising than average, for example.
Prove it! I can say the same about you. It's speculation either way. Market prices are determined by a myriad of factors, mostly hidden in the undeciphered neurons of buyers. Unless you have a reliable mind reader, it's speculation versus speculation. U B in the same boat, CriticBoy!
Rotten Apples?
So, the DOJ won.
I don't think it's so much about the Constitution, because they can get a search warrant. But it could drive business away from US companies, not unlike what Snowden's revelations about Cisco products did to Cisco sales.
If you drive business away from US companies/products/sites by putting holes in them, then US law enforcement companies will have even less leverage because they would be dealing with over-seas companies and governments. DOJ is robbing long-term Peter to pay short-term Paul. And it hurts our economy.
I believe it's because the inequality (growing 1%). Beach front property is a luxury item and a status symbol. Like a Jaguar, it doesn't have to last 20 years to serve that goal.
I suspect the property values would be much higher if not for GW; it's just been masked by other issues.
From an entrepreneurial perspective, you have to take risks to win. You have to grow fast and beat your competitors because the "first to market" tends to have a big advantage.
This encourages taking shortcuts. I'm not sure how to prevent such security-related risks other than perhaps criminal prosecution or huge fines. However, that would drive up the expense of IT work (think insurance) and result in offshoring. USA regulators will have a hard time dictating the laws of Timbuktu web servers and products.
It would be somewhat similar to the Apple unlock issue: if you over-regulate and/or compromise the security of US tech companies, customers will buy elsewhere where the US gov't can't meddle.
I'm not ranting against regulation in general, only saying you have to think globally when trying to solve security-related issues.
as are the leaks
Tim was right: gov't wants to open Pandora's box.
Skeptics should buy up flat beach-front properties if they truly think it's a hoax.
If it is a hoax, the land value will go back up when the hoax is exposed and they'll be jillionaires. If it's not a hoax, the fools get what they deserve.
Try recording rap, then you can do both.
Addendum and corrections
By "amateur fiddler" I meant amateur dabbler, NOT violin player.
There is a command line utility called "SOX" that can string together sound files and do some basic effects. But I haven't tested it yet. It's mostly intended as a format converter, and not an advanced effects processor or synth. Although, one may be able to insert their own effects and generators being it can accept and produce number lists as wave plots.
I've been kicking around the idea of a generic "wave processor" to generate and reuse wave profiles for synthesis, effects control, attack/fade/wobble envelopes, etc.
Waves are waves such that it seems one can use "root idioms" to process them all rather than make dedicated utilities for synthesis different from effects different from envelopes, etc. I'm trying to find/invent "wave Lisp" rather than the verbose "wave Java" we seem to have now (roughly speaking). I don't care that much about processing speed, for one may be able to deactivate portions for quick drafts (feedback turnaround). Thus, if high abstraction/factoring is slower, so be it.
I've dabbled with cSound, but would like something a bit more modular, a cross between SOX and cSound, but with cleaner wave idiom factoring. Maybe my wife will let me retire. Maybe I'm dreaming on both the factoring idea and retirement.
I like composing in a style that's part renascence and part new age like Philip Glass. (I'm not very good yet but get better as I dabble more.)
The problem with paying for software is that it seems the co. tries to make sure it has a short life so you have to upgrade often, like whenever a new OS comes or 32/64/128bit chip upgrade comes out etc. Being an amateur fiddler, I go for long stretches where I don't use something.
Good reverb takes rather elaborate processing. "Cheap" reverb can "ring" on the high end. One has to randomly or systematically dither the pitch rate of each sub-echo to avoid ringing (although there may be other ways; I'm just an amateur wave shaper).
But an effect can still offer a real-time draft mode to judge the general level and give a rough idea (using a simplified algorithm).
As far as your idea of dragging snippets around on a whim, some tasks work better as tracks and others as snippets in my opinion. I'd like to use both, depending on the task or intended editing.
But, to simplify the UI for software makers, I'm okay with textual references or ID's such that one can write formula-like strings or fill in spreadsheet-like cells/tables for snippets indicating what parameters/effects to leave as the default (or original) and what to override with specific settings. That way you can "re-string" without changing the original snippets. Thus, reinventing Visio may not be necessary.
It's a trade-off between fancy processing (like real-time feedback), fancy UI's, lots of features/effects, and money spent on software. The above are possible ways to reduce the pressure on the first 2 to improve the second 2, being it's unlikely we'll get all 4. I'm a realist.
I wouldn't go that far. The effects operate on the current track. You can make a track copy if you want to keep the original. Or test it on the current track, and do a Control-Z to undo changes. A preview mode would be nice. Some effects have it.
But in general real-time effect preview & change requires either a lot more horse-power, or a very efficiently tuned algorithm. That's asking a lot for open-source for some effects, which may take a lot of computations. Non-real-time is often far easier to program.
One thing I don't like about Audacity is that there's no easy way to chop a sample into segments and then move the segments around independently, such as cleaning up singing timing. If you insert and delete sections in the middle, then the entire left or entire right side slides with it. I don't want that.
I've only found round-about ways to achieve it that are like 10x the steps it should be, such as creating a track for each segment, which is messy and can slow it down, or merge them and hope I don't need to go back to the original.
If anybody found a direct solution, I'd like to know.
Over the last 30 years or so I keep seeing studies on coffee that are all over the map.
One says it's good, another bad, another good, another bad, etc.
In general it seems to roughly average out: coffee screws up half your organs but helps the other half.
It's thus roughly neutral, health-wise. I take it to stay awake through boring tasks, not for health.
By the way, if you are susceptible to kidney stones, drink a lot of water with coffee.
2 wrongs don't make a right.
Von Braun once said something like, "I don't regret designing (V2) rockets. What I regret is they were pointed at the wrong planet."
I especially like this quote:
"...we strongly believe the only way to guarantee that such a powerful tool isn't abused and doesn't fall into the wrong hands is to never create it."
McFly Boards
Go at night so you don't need expensive sun-shades
Because selling drawings of nude men to minors is not legal.
Hmmm, I wonder if his yanker gets bigger also? Maybe it gets smaller, and that's why his pants stay on. See, maybe Bruce Banner has a huge package, but it DEcreases when he's angry, counter-compensating for muscle gain. Solved! Where's my Nobel.
dog-dollars? I believe it's Bitecoin.
I did check, and dogs are paid 43 cents on the dollar compared to human males. That's ruff.