Did anybody else hear the theme from Deliverance while reading that?
Q: What's the difference between a violin and a fiddle?
A: People actually like fiddle music!
There was a world class concert violinist (don't remember his name, it has been several years ago) who said he tried to learn to play the fiddle. "Turkey in the Straw is Mozart played real fast with extra notes!" he siad.
The wood's desnity isn't what they say made them sound good, it was the evenness of the density. In other words, if part of the soundboard is denser than a few inches away, your harmonics will suck more than if the density were even, even if the uneven soundboard is denser.
OK, I'm back. There's no way to say it nice, so I'll not mince words - the summary is inflamatory garbage. TFA says
Viacom wants the data to prove that infringing material is more popular than user-created videos, which could be used to increase Google's liability if it is found guilty of contributory infringement.
It doesn't say why Viacom needs user names; maybe I haven't had enough coffee yet, but TFA is pretty light on details too, and since IANAL reading the ruling won't do me much more good than a lawyer reading uncommented source code.
How? I don't buy stuff from Viacom, the TV stations do. As I don't watch much TV anyway my participation in a boycott isn't going to help any.
That organized RIAA boycott sure helped. The four foreign-owned record labels ignore it, and all losses it causes are attributed to piracy.
At first I thought "somebody needs to start blowing shit up" but then I realized that no matter what we do, it will be useless at best and probably counterproductive.
Now, I haven't RTFA (yet) but the summary sounds like they're going after people who watch YouTube videos. How in the hell am I supposed to know the copyright owner doesn't want it seen? Not wanting your video seen is as stupid as not wanting your music heard.
Ever drive through Missouri? If so, ever smell almonds? Well, afaik there are no almond trees in Misouri. That's pesticide you smell - arsenic.
TFA and TFS are referring to incredibly tiny amounts of arsenic, not large quantities, and they would be actually be inside the chips. I can't see how they would pose a danger to anyone.
Um, your comment was pretty ignorant but it was on topic, have the mods been smoking arsenic?
What I would really like to see is more AI used to help users in a variety of fields both within the program workings itself (computer side), as well as on the design of the actual content (user side).
Ever since the GUI, computing seems to have gone in the opposite direction of what you describe. I learned the pre-GUI Word perfect (IIRC, and among other DOS programs) by hitting the F1 key. DOS 3.1 came with a very fat book that explained all the commands and functions, and even the interrupts. The OS itself fit on two 360K floppies.
Now we have the multigigabyte Windows and a twenty seven page manual, with F1 being no help at all in any OS or program I know of (including KDE/Mandriva, don't know about Apple).
I wish these software companies (not just MS, the other companies' programs I've used are just as bad) would learn that in order for their program to be useful to me I need to know how to use it. For a hundred dollar-plus program or OS I shouldn't have to shell out another twenty for an instruction manual; it should come with the product.
I'm literate; I don't need a class, just give me a book!
We already have things like predictive texting, spellcheck, grammar check
You argue against yourself there. Ever since the spell checker I see more and more "Eye kin spill. Thus is spilled wright; eye no bee cause my spill chucker said sew", and nobody seems to know how to use an apostrophe anymore. From this I would reason that these things would make for far worse programmers than we have now.
I gave up on grammar checkers as a waste of time long ago.
GCC is easier to remember? Ok, that really isn't an acronym (or bacronym I guess... is it?)
Actually, either acronyms and bacronyms (a word I had to look up, having never seen it before, but damn I was 30 when the word was coined and forty before it was ever documented) are ok by me.
What's not ok is the devolution of literacy. "Back in the day" the rule was, and still should be, that the first time any acronym (and now bacronym) is used in any document, it should be spelled out:
"The WSJ (Wall Street Journal) is reporting on a EU project called Milepost aimed at integrating AI (Articiaial Intelligence) inside GCC (Gnu Compiler). The team partners, which include include IBM, the University of Edinburgh and the French research institute, INRIA, announced their preliminary results at the recent GCC Summit, being able to increase the performance of GCC by 10% in just one month's work. GCC Summit paper is provided [PDF]."
"Wall Street Journal" should be spelled out because dammit, Jim, I'm a nerd, not a greedhead. EU should need no more explanation than US. AI shouldn't need explanation; this is, after all, a nerd site and the term has been around almost as long as I have. IBM has been around a lot longer and is usually how the company is referred to; that's its name. Its commercials and ads don't even say "International Business Machines".
CGG would be unknown to non-Linux users and non-programmers, so it should have been spelled out as well. PDF doesn't need to be expanded because gees, everybody knows what a PDF is but who knows what a portable document format is?
When my oldest daughter was born, the first time I changed her diaper I said "Wow! A miracle baby! My kid's shit don't stink!
Two weeks later I almost gagged changing her, I was ready to call the EPA. Later I found that no newborn's shit stinks. It only stinks after the baby has bred bacteria in its bowels.
Shit does not, in fact, stink. Bacteria stinks. You might actually need to run a scientific experiment to determine this statement's validity.
The article would be a lot more newsworthy is the researchers had found surprising data rather than what everyone expected.
Truly talented people should eventually feel the onus of working for someone else's company and branch off to do their own things.
Talent is plentiful, but multitalent is rare. Someone good at programming will likely not be good at marketing. Just because you're a good guitar player doesn't mean you'll be any good at selling shoes. Talent in any field isn't inborn; every field requires training. Just because you're a good linebacker doen't mean you'll be a good coach.
For instance, ignoring the dubious notion of 'morality', how many projects have the top Google guys stifled because they were 'evil' or didn't see their potential? Sometimes you just want to make evil.
IHBT? How can you say morality is dubious? If a thing you do hurts people besides yourself, it's wrong. The only people who can't understand that are psychopaths and sociopaths.
I think what I don't understand is how the curent can measure mass. I understand EMF, induction, how a coil works, etc but can't visualise exactly how you would weigh an object using nothing but electricity and coils.
So why are carriers gouging their customers so? Because they can.
"Why do you rob banks?" a famous depression-era bank robber was asked. "That's where the money is" he replied.
Does anybody really think that any company at all is going to charge any less fro any product than they can get away from? Personally I refuse to text at all; I pay a dime for the text as well as air time. If I'm in a situation I can't or don't want to answer the phone, I'll call the caller back. Text messaging may have its legitimate uses, but I think it's probably mostly used by kids.
We're getting unlimited access plans for cell phones lately, maybe it's because the kids are growing up and getting jobs and realising that money only grows on trees if you have an orchard?
It would seem, then, that a simple solution would be for the individual States to enact term limits
Not so simple. The way the system is set up, any state that enacted term limits on their Federal Senators and Representatives would lose all power. No state is going to unilaterally impose term limits for that reason.
When Clinton said "I did not have sex with that woman" he was telling the truth - under a very narrow definition of "sex". This is likely the same thing.
It does make one hope. OT but as to Clinton, I'm still pissed off that the Republicans spent forty million taxpayer dollars on their witch hunt against the best President I've seen in my lifetime. Clinton's blowjob is nobody's business but Clinton, his family, and a White House intern. It had no bearing whatever on his job and I was appalled at what the Republicans did.
Should Obama win and do a good job as president, I'll vote for him in 2012, assuming I'm still sentient.
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Did anybody else hear the theme from Deliverance while reading that?
Q: What's the difference between a violin and a fiddle?
A: People actually like fiddle music!
There was a world class concert violinist (don't remember his name, it has been several years ago) who said he tried to learn to play the fiddle. "Turkey in the Straw is Mozart played real fast with extra notes!" he siad.
TFA I saw yesterday (New Scientist) said that it was possible that the wood's age may have something to do with its even density.
A good luthier should test this by finding some antique wood and making violins out of it.
The wood's desnity isn't what they say made them sound good, it was the evenness of the density. In other words, if part of the soundboard is denser than a few inches away, your harmonics will suck more than if the density were even, even if the uneven soundboard is denser.
What's embarrassing is that I'm in the middle of Restaraunt (again) and the captain is in the bath offering Ford and Arthur Gynnyn Tonyxes.
I think I'm getting Al Sheimers.
I'll supply them for you, you lazy person you!
That must've been a hacker who got onto my computer who was searching for "bunny", "kitties", "puppies" and "babies".
I only search for "fire", "car crashes", "backyard wrestling" and "boobs".
*grunt*
Yes, that was indeed uncalled for. Especially the one about your mom. Sorry.
OK, I'm back. There's no way to say it nice, so I'll not mince words - the summary is inflamatory garbage. TFA says
It doesn't say why Viacom needs user names; maybe I haven't had enough coffee yet, but TFA is pretty light on details too, and since IANAL reading the ruling won't do me much more good than a lawyer reading uncommented source code.
TFA says the EFF is getting involved.
Another company to purposely avoid
How? I don't buy stuff from Viacom, the TV stations do. As I don't watch much TV anyway my participation in a boycott isn't going to help any.
That organized RIAA boycott sure helped. The four foreign-owned record labels ignore it, and all losses it causes are attributed to piracy.
At first I thought "somebody needs to start blowing shit up" but then I realized that no matter what we do, it will be useless at best and probably counterproductive.
Now, I haven't RTFA (yet) but the summary sounds like they're going after people who watch YouTube videos. How in the hell am I supposed to know the copyright owner doesn't want it seen? Not wanting your video seen is as stupid as not wanting your music heard.
Is Hollywood that scared of Ster Wreck?
Don't you mean indeterminate quantum state?
Well, that's indeterminate...
Ever drive through Missouri? If so, ever smell almonds? Well, afaik there are no almond trees in Misouri. That's pesticide you smell - arsenic.
TFA and TFS are referring to incredibly tiny amounts of arsenic, not large quantities, and they would be actually be inside the chips. I can't see how they would pose a danger to anyone.
Um, your comment was pretty ignorant but it was on topic, have the mods been smoking arsenic?
What I would really like to see is more AI used to help users in a variety of fields both within the program workings itself (computer side), as well as on the design of the actual content (user side).
Ever since the GUI, computing seems to have gone in the opposite direction of what you describe. I learned the pre-GUI Word perfect (IIRC, and among other DOS programs) by hitting the F1 key. DOS 3.1 came with a very fat book that explained all the commands and functions, and even the interrupts. The OS itself fit on two 360K floppies.
Now we have the multigigabyte Windows and a twenty seven page manual, with F1 being no help at all in any OS or program I know of (including KDE/Mandriva, don't know about Apple).
I wish these software companies (not just MS, the other companies' programs I've used are just as bad) would learn that in order for their program to be useful to me I need to know how to use it. For a hundred dollar-plus program or OS I shouldn't have to shell out another twenty for an instruction manual; it should come with the product.
I'm literate; I don't need a class, just give me a book!
We already have things like predictive texting, spellcheck, grammar check
You argue against yourself there. Ever since the spell checker I see more and more "Eye kin spill. Thus is spilled wright; eye no bee cause my spill chucker said sew", and nobody seems to know how to use an apostrophe anymore. From this I would reason that these things would make for far worse programmers than we have now.
I gave up on grammar checkers as a waste of time long ago.
I, for one, welcome our new humorless slashdot moderating overlords!
You go for funny and get "insightful", the GP oes for funny and gets "offtopic". Now watch, they'll mod this one "funny".
I've been waiting for the omnicompiler, that recognises every command and every syntax for every computer language.
What? You mean your AI isn't REALLY intelligence but just part of the name? How disappointing!
GCC is easier to remember? Ok, that really isn't an acronym (or bacronym I guess... is it?)
Actually, either acronyms and bacronyms (a word I had to look up, having never seen it before, but damn I was 30 when the word was coined and forty before it was ever documented) are ok by me.
What's not ok is the devolution of literacy. "Back in the day" the rule was, and still should be, that the first time any acronym (and now bacronym) is used in any document, it should be spelled out:
"Wall Street Journal" should be spelled out because dammit, Jim, I'm a nerd, not a greedhead. EU should need no more explanation than US. AI shouldn't need explanation; this is, after all, a nerd site and the term has been around almost as long as I have. IBM has been around a lot longer and is usually how the company is referred to; that's its name. Its commercials and ads don't even say "International Business Machines".
CGG would be unknown to non-Linux users and non-programmers, so it should have been spelled out as well. PDF doesn't need to be expanded because gees, everybody knows what a PDF is but who knows what a portable document format is?
Since when has any lawyer or politician NOT been a weasel?
Shit stinks
When my oldest daughter was born, the first time I changed her diaper I said "Wow! A miracle baby! My kid's shit don't stink!
Two weeks later I almost gagged changing her, I was ready to call the EPA. Later I found that no newborn's shit stinks. It only stinks after the baby has bred bacteria in its bowels.
Shit does not, in fact, stink. Bacteria stinks. You might actually need to run a scientific experiment to determine this statement's validity.
The article would be a lot more newsworthy is the researchers had found surprising data rather than what everyone expected.
Truly talented people should eventually feel the onus of working for someone else's company and branch off to do their own things.
Talent is plentiful, but multitalent is rare. Someone good at programming will likely not be good at marketing. Just because you're a good guitar player doesn't mean you'll be any good at selling shoes. Talent in any field isn't inborn; every field requires training. Just because you're a good linebacker doen't mean you'll be a good coach.
For instance, ignoring the dubious notion of 'morality', how many projects have the top Google guys stifled because they were 'evil' or didn't see their potential? Sometimes you just want to make evil.
IHBT? How can you say morality is dubious? If a thing you do hurts people besides yourself, it's wrong. The only people who can't understand that are psychopaths and sociopaths.
The easiest way to win at something is just to declare yourself the winner as soon as you possibly can
Yeah, that really worked well for the Saddam Hussein.
There SHOULD be a "glass ceiling" for Marketing and Sales guys
I vote "third ark".
First Fermat, now this. Is nothing sacred?!
Money. Not much else these days.
I think what I don't understand is how the curent can measure mass. I understand EMF, induction, how a coil works, etc but can't visualise exactly how you would weigh an object using nothing but electricity and coils.
to download an mp3 ... if the RIAA smells you.
I've always wondered that about dogs, too - how can anything that stinks that bad smell anything at all?
So why are carriers gouging their customers so? Because they can.
"Why do you rob banks?" a famous depression-era bank robber was asked. "That's where the money is" he replied.
Does anybody really think that any company at all is going to charge any less fro any product than they can get away from? Personally I refuse to text at all; I pay a dime for the text as well as air time. If I'm in a situation I can't or don't want to answer the phone, I'll call the caller back. Text messaging may have its legitimate uses, but I think it's probably mostly used by kids.
We're getting unlimited access plans for cell phones lately, maybe it's because the kids are growing up and getting jobs and realising that money only grows on trees if you have an orchard?
It would seem, then, that a simple solution would be for the individual States to enact term limits
Not so simple. The way the system is set up, any state that enacted term limits on their Federal Senators and Representatives would lose all power. No state is going to unilaterally impose term limits for that reason.
As a foreigner I assure you that I have no access whatsoever to your legislators
I didn't say "all foreigners". Anyone with wealth, anywhere in the world, has access to "my" representatives, and very likely yours as well.
Old joke:
Q - How do you know when a politician is lying?
A - His lips are moving.
When Clinton said "I did not have sex with that woman" he was telling the truth - under a very narrow definition of "sex". This is likely the same thing.
It does make one hope. OT but as to Clinton, I'm still pissed off that the Republicans spent forty million taxpayer dollars on their witch hunt against the best President I've seen in my lifetime. Clinton's blowjob is nobody's business but Clinton, his family, and a White House intern. It had no bearing whatever on his job and I was appalled at what the Republicans did.
Should Obama win and do a good job as president, I'll vote for him in 2012, assuming I'm still sentient.