This will also affect the Live Music Manufacturers since all the really sexy new light speakers are driven with Neodymium magnets and they use a lot more of the stuff per unit (lbs vs grams) than HDs
Neodymium magnets plus Class D amplifiers are creating a sea change in live amplification -I have a Markbass combo amp that does 300watts into a 12-inch speaker and weighs less than 40 lbs -of course it cost a bit: ~$1k http://www.markbass.it/products.php
1500 watts, 18" subwoofer -only 43 kg http://www.master-audio.com/producto.asp?id=195
genz-benz is another maker of really light powerful gear as well http://www.genzbenz.com/?fa=whatsnew
This may be the only game that North Korea can win...
Outside of famine stricken central Africa there is probably no place in the world whose people are in such desperate straits -and this is due to a stupid corrupt government -not acts of Nature.
It's the oldest story - Masses are oppressed Faces, clothes and bladders All distressed Rich folks get the good life Poor folks get the woe In the end It's nothing you don't know
You're at Urinetown! Your ticket should say Urinetown! No refunds, this is Urinetown! We'll keep that dough! _____________________________________________________ It's a privilege to pee
I run the only toilet In this part of town, you see So, if you've got to go You've got to go through me
It's a privilege to pee Water's worth its weight In gold these days
No more bathrooms Like in olden days You come here and pay a fee For the privilege to pee
HIghly recommended if any high school or community group is doing this in your area
Trigun is the best Space Western I ever saw next to Bebop, although Vash's character is all over the map with the anime practice of breaking character model when the character does a double take or cries or laughs....much as Fullmetal Alchemist does. When you dig into the Trigun story it is pretty deep, but some western audiences get confused when a character is too many contradictory things -zany, brave, lecherous, despairing for instance. PEACE AND LOVE!
Meryl Strife and Milly rock! Also, Outlaw Star was pretty good.
Sounds like it would stop the most direct attacks, but unlike credit card transactions, which can't be anonomized or proxied, a slighly more sophisticated attacker could just use a pwnd machine or proxy and they could appear to be coming from a nominally local block.
However, if this is state-sponsored, the PRC may be reluctant to allow use of those tools lest they become widespread enough to allow massive evasion of the Great Firewall...
I think eventually some combination of biometrics (hello Big Brother!), one time pad generating crypto-keys or smartFOBS with some RFID-based authentication will end up becoming the norm as most people's password usage is too insecure.
He was scheduled for Coachella last year, but the Iceland Volcano eruption kept him and Mew and others from making it over -thank Gawd that Muse and Gorillaz were already over here....
An opposite game called anti-monopoly came out in 1973
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimonopoly
and spent 9 years in court with Parker Brother during which Parker Bros was apparently allowed to reregister their trademark
the company was subsequently bought by Parker and the prof who invented the game gave them the trademark on Antimonopoly in exchange for being allowed to use it as well. Pretty odd, since Ansbach, the creator of Antimonopoly actually won the case...
the ultimate (worst case) outcome of this would be to prevent anyone from making informed or researched statement in a petition to the state -Or to have to hire a licensed professional to prepare the technical parts of such a petition.
When applied to a defendant's right to represent himself in court this could conceivably result in charges practicing law without a license if one was too good of a jailhouse lawyer....
Sadly, unless the military get involved the most likely replacement will be some islamic hardline fascist group like the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt's military has been the source of power for decades, so this is not like Tunisia where the military will just stand idly by.
Ironically in another Middle East Country -Turkey the military has often intervened when the governments have gone off track, so they have actually helped keep that country from going radical at times -although they are currently a little nervous about the moderate islamist government currently in power there.
Cries for Western Style Democracy seem to go unheeded in parts of the world where rigid power structures and theocracies reside. Not that Western Style democracy seems to be working that well in the US these days...
Also, how can you possible compare him to Lady Ga Ga, Will I Am is a technologist and a talented producer as well as a great performer -check out his 'money' for instance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6RVoiyhihs The Polaroid Lady Ga Ga move is as lame as the Fergie and Gwen Stefani branding that HP did 7-8 years ago
-I'm just sayin' -Hey -preview is a lot faster now -GOOD JOB:-)
yeah, but do you think that the ones who weren't able to jump over the (admittedly low) bar into higher education are going to be able to speak or write any better? -usually not.
Unfortunately it is a societal/generational thing that has been going on for at least 30 years (I don't blame MTV, but it seems like it started around the advent of widespread cable TV and the upswing in bad/dumb TV shows) literacy as we knew it is diminishing....like the glaciers.
despite their limitations and age, procedural languages are a better way to teach kids (or anyone)how to think logically about the steps required to make a computer do something they want it to do.
It worked for me in 1971 on a teletype at Cory School in SJ connected to a Stanford mainframe -which I had to feed my 'saved' paper tapes to
and it will work just as well today on whatever BASIC emulators (or even VB.NET god forbid) that are available today on PCs, pads or whatever.
Although Java is probably better for middle/high school, I do believe that Basic or Logo are better for those younger who have not yet learned how to deconstruct a desired outcome into a bunch of logical steps.
Women's educational expert Melanie Upfoot addresses the children at school. Upfoot: For too long, there's been an anti-woman bias in math. Boys are aggressive, obnoxious, and never let us be heard. From now on, I'm splitting the school in two, separating the boys and the girls forever.
4. Melanie Upfoot begins teaching her first class in the all-girls classroom. Upfoot: Now, let's buckle down and do some math. Lisa: Yes! [The teacher turns on an electronic device that plays soft music and projects colorful mathematical symbols all around the classroom.] Upfoot: How do numbers make you feel? What does a plus sign smell like? Is the number 7 odd, or just different? Lisa: Are we gonna do any actual math problems? Upfoot: "Problems"? That's how men see math, something to be attacked - something to be "figured out." Lisa: But... isn't it? I mean, confidence building can't replace real learning. Upfoot : Uh-oh, Lisa, it sounds like you're trying to derail our self-esteem engine.
5. Lisa peers through the window to the math class in the all-boys classroom. Teacher: Now boys, who can tell me the volume of this snowman. Anyone? Martin: Just add the volume of the spheres! We know the radii.... Lisa: He forgot the volume of the carrot nose: one-third base times height! Oh math, I have missed you! Skinner: No girls allowed!... Lisa: Assistant Groundskeeper Skinner, don't you think it's wrong that I can't get the best math education because I'm a girl? Skinner: [sighs] I don't have any opinions anymore. All I know is that no one is better than anyone else, and everyone is the best at everything.
6. Lisa: Mom, the girls' school is a joke, and I'm not allowed to take the boys' math. Marge: When I was in school, I loved math. Until.... [flashback to Marge studying with a calculus book on the beach] Homer: Hey, Professor Von Hubba Hubba - wanna hop in my dune bug and erode some beach? Marge: I'd love to. But I've got my calculus final tomorrow. Homer: C'mon, baby, the only math you need is You + Me = Forever. Marge: Oh, Homie. [She leaves with him.] [Present day] Marge: Since then, I haven't been able to do any of the calculus I've encountered in my daily life. But that's not going to happen to you!
A dedication to process is a substitute for thinking....
It sounds as though you have spent most of your time schlepping through cmmi process level 1 -albeit as a heroic individual (from cmmi link in tfa):
1. Initial (chaotic, ad hoc, individual heroics) - the starting point for use of a new process.
That's fine for lone developer projects or backscratch projects on sourceforge, but that's not the way to keep any organization with more than half a dozen programmers functional.
No matter how good a thinker or programmer you are, there will probably come a time when you are not there or not available and without process (and it's partner, documentation) the ordered development of the code you were working on will be very difficult for those who follow.
I've been dealing with that mindset at my current company -they have a 20-year history of seat-of-the-pants programming with little documentation and most of the important details of the various server products in people's heads -some of whom are not that far off from retirement....
and it has been one of my tasks to try to get all of the processes and products documented so that we can pass off the work when it is time -not to mention satisfying SoX compliance and pending ITIL process implementation.
But I still can't get some of the developers to help me document their products/processes because they are constantly running around duct taping some of our ancient, barely understood core products -because at the time no one cared about process and/or documentation. Most of them still don't today, sadly.
I worked at ROLM in the 80s when they were one of the companies going up against ATT to offer computerized PBXs and offer access to low cost WATS lines.
Flushed with success (before they were bought by IBM and then Siemens) they announced they were going to build a campus and housing in the Coyote Valley -which helped spawn the preservationist groups which have been opposing Cisco's efforts in that area since about 1999:
but if 30% of the audience opts out then that show becomes that much less valuable for both the broadcaster and the advertiser.
I can't say whether the amount is reasonable, but the 2$ helps offset the reduced ad revenue that comes from offering 30% less eyeballs (probably prime target consumers) to the advertisers and allows the network to continue to operate whilw giving those willing to pay the premium a chance to skip ads.
but I agree that DVD ads and trailers suck as bad as the junk you have to see before a movie is shown in a theater
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This will also affect the Live Music Manufacturers since all the really sexy new light speakers are driven with Neodymium magnets and they use a lot more of the stuff per unit (lbs vs grams) than HDs
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f87/neodymium-%93light-weight%94-speaker-cabinet-review-167954/
Neodymium magnets plus Class D amplifiers are creating a sea change in live amplification -I have a Markbass combo amp that does 300watts into a 12-inch speaker and weighs less than 40 lbs -of course it cost a bit: ~$1k
http://www.markbass.it/products.php
1500 watts, 18" subwoofer -only 43 kg
http://www.master-audio.com/producto.asp?id=195
genz-benz is another maker of really light powerful gear as well
http://www.genzbenz.com/?fa=whatsnew
I'm just sayin'
This may be the only game that North Korea can win...
Outside of famine stricken central Africa there is probably no place in the world whose people are in such desperate straits -and this is due to a stupid corrupt government -not acts of Nature.
I'm just sayin'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinetown
It's the oldest story -
Masses are oppressed
Faces, clothes and bladders
All distressed
Rich folks get the good life
Poor folks get the woe
In the end
It's nothing you don't know
You're at Urinetown!
Your ticket should say Urinetown!
No refunds, this is Urinetown!
We'll keep that dough!
_____________________________________________________
It's a privilege to pee
I run the only toilet
In this part of town, you see
So, if you've got to go
You've got to go through me
It's a privilege to pee
Water's worth its weight
In gold these days
No more bathrooms
Like in olden days
You come here and pay a fee
For the privilege to pee
HIghly recommended if any high school or community group is doing this in your area
-I'm just sayin'
Trigun is the best Space Western I ever saw next to Bebop, although Vash's character is all over the map with the anime practice of breaking character model when the character does a double take or cries or laughs....much as Fullmetal Alchemist does. When you dig into the Trigun story it is pretty deep, but some western audiences get confused when a character is too many contradictory things -zany, brave, lecherous, despairing for instance. PEACE AND LOVE!
Meryl Strife and Milly rock! Also, Outlaw Star was pretty good.
I'm just sayin'
Sounds like it would stop the most direct attacks, but unlike credit card transactions, which can't be anonomized or proxied, a slighly more sophisticated attacker could just use a pwnd machine or proxy and they could appear to be coming from a nominally local block.
However, if this is state-sponsored, the PRC may be reluctant to allow use of those tools lest they become widespread enough to allow massive evasion of the Great Firewall...
I think eventually some combination of biometrics (hello Big Brother!), one time pad generating crypto-keys or smartFOBS with some RFID-based authentication will end up becoming the norm as most people's password usage is too insecure.
-I'm just sayin'
He was scheduled for Coachella last year, but the Iceland Volcano eruption kept him and Mew and others from making it over -thank Gawd that Muse and Gorillaz were already over here....
http://www.thealternateside.org/100416/tour_plans_bands_disrupted_volcanic_ash_cloud_coachella_cancellations
I'm just sayin'
An opposite game called anti-monopoly came out in 1973
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimonopoly
and spent 9 years in court with Parker Brother during which Parker Bros was apparently allowed to reregister their trademark
the company was subsequently bought by Parker and the prof who invented the game gave them the trademark on Antimonopoly in exchange for being allowed to use it as well. Pretty odd, since Ansbach, the creator of Antimonopoly actually won the case...
-I'm just sayin'
>>defense jobs only consume wealth
Actually, in this case they also reduce our privacy and personal freedoms...but it will keep a few more IT contractor jobs in the US.
I think the terrorists/government have both won. Win/Win, we lose.
I'm just sayin'
sic is also latin for quoting something, even though it's messed up
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sic
for instance: "NC Official [sic] 6 License Police...."
of course, thanks to l33tspeak, illiteracy, etc., these things are too numerous to flag for the most part except in scholarly works.
-I'm just sayin'
the ultimate (worst case) outcome of this would be to prevent anyone from making informed or researched statement in a petition to the state -Or to have to hire a licensed professional to prepare the technical parts of such a petition.
When applied to a defendant's right to represent himself in court this could conceivably result in charges practicing law without a license if one was too good of a jailhouse lawyer....
-I'm just sayin'
many people will disagree that the Muslim Brotherhood is in favor of secularism
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11146
the Muslim brotherhood has ties to fascism that predate WW2 and has active ties to Europe and the US in addition to the Middle East.
-I'm just sayin'
Sadly, unless the military get involved the most likely replacement will be some islamic hardline fascist group like the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt's military has been the source of power for decades, so this is not like Tunisia where the military will just stand idly by.
Ironically in another Middle East Country -Turkey the military has often intervened when the governments have gone off track, so they have actually helped keep that country from going radical at times -although they are currently a little nervous about the moderate islamist government currently in power there.
Cries for Western Style Democracy seem to go unheeded in parts of the world where rigid power structures and theocracies reside. Not that Western Style democracy seems to be working that well in the US these days...
I'm just sayin'
Also, how can you possible compare him to Lady Ga Ga, Will I Am is a technologist and a talented producer as well as a great performer -check out his 'money' for instance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6RVoiyhihs
:-)
The Polaroid Lady Ga Ga move is as lame as the Fergie and Gwen Stefani branding that HP did 7-8 years ago
-I'm just sayin' -Hey -preview is a lot faster now -GOOD JOB
yeah, but do you think that the ones who weren't able to jump over the (admittedly low) bar into higher education are going to be able to speak or write any better? -usually not.
Unfortunately it is a societal/generational thing that has been going on for at least 30 years (I don't blame MTV, but it seems like it started around the advent of widespread cable TV and the upswing in bad/dumb TV shows) literacy as we knew it is diminishing....like the glaciers.
-I'm just sayin'
oblig futurama:
Scruffy: Jail's not so bad. You can make sangria in the terlet. Course, it's shank or be shanked.
Amy: (crying) Of course.
http://www.futurama-madhouse.net/scripts/4acv16.shtml
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shank
-I'm just sayin
despite their limitations and age, procedural languages are a better way to teach kids (or anyone)how to think logically about the steps required to make a computer do something they want it to do.
It worked for me in 1971 on a teletype at Cory School in SJ connected to a Stanford mainframe -which I had to feed my 'saved' paper tapes to
and it will work just as well today on whatever BASIC emulators (or even VB.NET god forbid) that are available today on PCs, pads or whatever.
Although Java is probably better for middle/high school, I do believe that Basic or Logo are better for those younger who have not yet learned how to deconstruct a desired outcome into a bunch of logical steps.
-I'm just sayin'
http://homepage.smc.edu/nestler_andrew/simpsonsmath.htm
... isn't it? I mean, confidence building can't replace real learning.
...
Women's educational expert Melanie Upfoot addresses the children at school.
Upfoot: For too long, there's been an anti-woman bias in math. Boys are aggressive, obnoxious, and never let us be heard. From now on, I'm splitting the school in two, separating the boys and the girls forever.
4. Melanie Upfoot begins teaching her first class in the all-girls classroom.
Upfoot: Now, let's buckle down and do some math.
Lisa: Yes!
[The teacher turns on an electronic device that plays soft music and projects colorful mathematical symbols all around the classroom.]
Upfoot: How do numbers make you feel? What does a plus sign smell like? Is the number 7 odd, or just different?
Lisa: Are we gonna do any actual math problems?
Upfoot: "Problems"? That's how men see math, something to be attacked - something to be "figured out."
Lisa: But
Upfoot : Uh-oh, Lisa, it sounds like you're trying to derail our self-esteem engine.
5. Lisa peers through the window to the math class in the all-boys classroom.
Teacher: Now boys, who can tell me the volume of this snowman. Anyone?
Martin: Just add the volume of the spheres! We know the radii....
Lisa: He forgot the volume of the carrot nose: one-third base times height! Oh math, I have missed you!
Skinner: No girls allowed!
Lisa: Assistant Groundskeeper Skinner, don't you think it's wrong that I can't get the best math education because I'm a girl?
Skinner: [sighs] I don't have any opinions anymore. All I know is that no one is better than anyone else, and everyone is the best at everything.
6. Lisa: Mom, the girls' school is a joke, and I'm not allowed to take the boys' math.
Marge: When I was in school, I loved math. Until....
[flashback to Marge studying with a calculus book on the beach]
Homer: Hey, Professor Von Hubba Hubba - wanna hop in my dune bug and erode some beach?
Marge: I'd love to. But I've got my calculus final tomorrow.
Homer: C'mon, baby, the only math you need is You + Me = Forever.
Marge: Oh, Homie. [She leaves with him.]
[Present day] Marge: Since then, I haven't been able to do any of the calculus I've encountered in my daily life. But that's not going to happen to you!
ditto -I met my mate on AS 11 years ago -my only requirement was that they weighed less than I did and were ok with my partying and playing music.
-I'm just sayin'
A dedication to process is a substitute for thinking....
It sounds as though you have spent most of your time schlepping through cmmi process level 1 -albeit as a heroic individual (from cmmi link in tfa):
1. Initial (chaotic, ad hoc, individual heroics) - the starting point for use of a new process.
That's fine for lone developer projects or backscratch projects on sourceforge, but that's not the way to keep any organization with more than half a dozen programmers functional.
No matter how good a thinker or programmer you are, there will probably come a time when you are not there or not available and without process (and it's partner, documentation) the ordered development of the code you were working on will be very difficult for those who follow.
I've been dealing with that mindset at my current company -they have a 20-year history of seat-of-the-pants programming with little documentation and most of the important details of the various server products in people's heads -some of whom are not that far off from retirement....
and it has been one of my tasks to try to get all of the processes and products documented so that we can pass off the work when it is time -not to mention satisfying SoX compliance and pending ITIL process implementation.
But I still can't get some of the developers to help me document their products/processes because they are constantly running around duct taping some of our ancient, barely understood core products -because at the time no one cared about process and/or documentation. Most of them still don't today, sadly.
-I'm just sayin'
Why do they hate our Freedom?
Oh that's right they're fascists and are determined to take it away -then people will pity us rather than hate us
-I'm just sayin'
Why do they hate our Freedom?
Oh yeah -they're the government
-I'm just sayin'
I worked at ROLM in the 80s when they were one of the companies going up against ATT to offer computerized PBXs and offer access to low cost WATS lines.
Flushed with success (before they were bought by IBM and then Siemens) they announced they were going to build a campus and housing in the Coyote Valley -which helped spawn the preservationist groups which have been opposing Cisco's efforts in that area since about 1999:
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/02.01.01/cover/cisco1-0105.html
at least Google are doing this in an already developed area instead of taking more of our dwindling open spaces.
-I'm just sayin'
more thuggish than the thugees
-I'm just sayin'
I'll believe it when chairs fly -oh wait....
-I'm just sayin'
but if 30% of the audience opts out then that show becomes that much less valuable for both the broadcaster and the advertiser.
I can't say whether the amount is reasonable, but the 2$ helps offset the reduced ad revenue that comes from offering 30% less eyeballs (probably prime target consumers) to the advertisers and allows the network to continue to operate whilw giving those willing to pay the premium a chance to skip ads.
but I agree that DVD ads and trailers suck as bad as the junk you have to see before a movie is shown in a theater
-I'm just sayin'