The firefox embedded search engines changed me my googling (tm).
The search engines I mainly use are: Amazon, wikipedia, some local computer shop, youtube (if I'm looking for, say, Maria Callas, youtube will have pertinent bits of video to look at), and other music related search engines. In the end, I removed google as my home page as for me it tends to become a secondary search engine [ie I look at it after using a more specialized search engine], even if I still use it a lot [ie in the end still more than any other search engine].
I'm sad that people can relate inanimate things and music. Musicians don't just play music, they relate their experiences, thzeir loves, their travels, their discovers of other civilization.
So, are robot civilized ?
If there's one activity that represent the fabulous complexity, the hopes, or the death, or emotions, it is music. When do robots have experienced that, when ?
I understand that if a robot flips a burger at MC Donalds it can be called a cook, and THEN this robot can be called a musician.
But I have the unsuitable un-modern un-ipodishcool reflex, that is to think that when one talks of cooking or making music, he thinks of putting a little, little of his heart in it.
Seriously in my opinion, the day a robot, an animal or whatever can intentionally play music, it's not a robot anymore but a human being.
Can anyone imagine a robot Glenn Gould ? a robot Debussy ? a robot Ali Farka Touré ? a robot Duke Ellington ? and then not give them full human rights ?
And does this robot run on booze ? I think not !
Well in the blog comments there is a link to an article which makes the argument that contrarily to the popular idea entrepreneurship is fed on hubris more than on risk taking.
"Listen to a good concert, and try to recreate the experience with traditional stereo."
There's strong chances that the good concert has been played and heard in stereo. A guitar is mono. A Bach cantata is stereo. Maybe you could add x channels to simulate a particular concert all acoustic response, but I understand that as a gimmick.
Maybe a Bach cantata recorded by the middle of the orchestra would be a cool gimmick.
When you play in a usual rock band, the sound comes of several amplifiers that are often mono. A stereo system is enough to replicate the frontal positioning of mono speakers.
In conclusion, for now I don't believe that Music benefits from more than 2 speakers. I may well be proven wrong, and I don't say that several channels aren't useful for games or movies. But I don't believe that great rock, classical, jazz, electronic, etc.. musicians and engineers have felt that more that 2 channels were good for listening music. I think that they have been different experiments and that their inconclusiveness lead to the 2 speakers statu quo.
Maybe that future music (and not new age muzak, but Music) will have a good use of more than stereo.
Maybe than already recorded music will benefit form dseveral channels.
For now thats something that I haven't observed, as most of the music I like is or almost mono (folk music, voice and guitar) or stereo (rock, electronica, classical).
How do you know that more people use Youtube to see illegal content, really ?
For example I don't remember having watched illegal content. All I look on youtube is mostly digged videos, like the truck wich loose its rear to a train, the odd scientific experiment, or the ritual colbert extract (wich helps me to learn spoken english, thanks alot youtube and google video for that). I can't remember when i have last looked to a music video or such. So I would argue that few people look to really illegal content on youtube (what for would they, the low quality don't go well with meaningless but highly polished mainstream entertainment) and thats maybe universal problem ? They just don't like people having a word on what they look at, thats all.
My point was that I thought that you were making a generalization about Muslims that I didn't agree with. I have a hard time accepting the "Muslims this, Muslims that", when this encompasses lots of rather different cultures. Muslims from Morocco's aren't the Muslims from Saudi Arabia, who aren't the Bengali Muslims.
I'm weary of this meme that Islam is less adapted to modernity. I do think that the occidental world had better intelligence to put in the problem that replaying the story of Rome and of the Crusades: playing the economically driven military might card. There would be generalizations made about that too (and thus more terrorists, what a beautifull self feeding war machine).
Analogy between food and information ? one doesn't die from being deprived of information, especially bad one. If I could follow your analogy, I would say that Google accepted to provide sickening food (censored information) to people that maybe would have had better food otherwise. So it's a kind of Mac Donald's of information ?
And apparently the Wiki guy doesn't think that selling expired MC Donald food to poor people is a honorable move. Like some people think that sending expired medications to Africa is not the way to solves its problems, however good the intent.
At the same time, as a non usan, i would say that Bush also faces particular conditions aka globalization and rise of China, India, etc, what doesn't come without side effects.
Not saying that I like the guy. Even if he's pretty entertaining and he's doing stuff. It's maybe not a very good thing that most americans decided twice that they prefer someone who does stuff over someione who does less stuff, but as I said, I'm not american. Neither Iraki, thanks God.
Please don't link to a pdf without saying so, I for one like to click links but don't like to have my machine halted for opening a document - though maybe this is only firefox that does that, all my tabs are frozen until the pfs decides its loaded... wich can take minutes with large files. Anyway, still thanks.
I understand that damaging a public park's trees is not nice to the comunauty. At the same time, its a little sad that for most kids trees are so rare that they even can't take a few branches on one of those.
It's in my opinion like in other arts: someone has an idea then everyone copies it for the next years.
I'd wage that the first to have the idea makes the best out of it, not necessarily because of a better techicity or artistry, but because having the idea denotes empathy for what people want ('capitalistic humility').
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3 years is not much at all for a murder, the english law is pretty lenient. Oh wait...
Well my bad then.
The firefox embedded search engines changed me my googling (tm). The search engines I mainly use are: Amazon, wikipedia, some local computer shop, youtube (if I'm looking for, say, Maria Callas, youtube will have pertinent bits of video to look at), and other music related search engines. In the end, I removed google as my home page as for me it tends to become a secondary search engine [ie I look at it after using a more specialized search engine], even if I still use it a lot [ie in the end still more than any other search engine].
>> Actually some people (but apparenly not in the /. demographics) don't relate "good music" to "top 20 music". Shocking, I know.
I'm sad that people can relate inanimate things and music. Musicians don't just play music, they relate their experiences, thzeir loves, their travels, their discovers of other civilization. So, are robot civilized ? If there's one activity that represent the fabulous complexity, the hopes, or the death, or emotions, it is music. When do robots have experienced that, when ? I understand that if a robot flips a burger at MC Donalds it can be called a cook, and THEN this robot can be called a musician. But I have the unsuitable un-modern un-ipodishcool reflex, that is to think that when one talks of cooking or making music, he thinks of putting a little, little of his heart in it.
Linkety link http://www.amazon.com/Ali-Farka-Toure/dp/B000003QJ E/
http://www.amazon.com/Debussy-Orchestral-Music-Ber nard-Haitink/dp/B00000417P/
http://www.amazon.com/State-Wonder-Complete-Goldbe rg-Variations/dp/B00006FI7C/
http://www.amazon.com/Far-East-Suite-Duke-Ellingto n/dp/B0000C8AOZ/
Seriously in my opinion, the day a robot, an animal or whatever can intentionally play music, it's not a robot anymore but a human being. Can anyone imagine a robot Glenn Gould ? a robot Debussy ? a robot Ali Farka Touré ? a robot Duke Ellington ? and then not give them full human rights ? And does this robot run on booze ? I think not !
Well in the blog comments there is a link to an article which makes the argument that contrarily to the popular idea entrepreneurship is fed on hubris more than on risk taking.
A democracy that needs Bush has a faith problem.
Well it's not a candy distribution satellite.
I haven't heard such dynamic flaws on Herreweghe (for example, amongst many others) recent recordings ?
"Listen to a good concert, and try to recreate the experience with traditional stereo." There's strong chances that the good concert has been played and heard in stereo. A guitar is mono. A Bach cantata is stereo. Maybe you could add x channels to simulate a particular concert all acoustic response, but I understand that as a gimmick. Maybe a Bach cantata recorded by the middle of the orchestra would be a cool gimmick. When you play in a usual rock band, the sound comes of several amplifiers that are often mono. A stereo system is enough to replicate the frontal positioning of mono speakers. In conclusion, for now I don't believe that Music benefits from more than 2 speakers. I may well be proven wrong, and I don't say that several channels aren't useful for games or movies. But I don't believe that great rock, classical, jazz, electronic, etc.. musicians and engineers have felt that more that 2 channels were good for listening music. I think that they have been different experiments and that their inconclusiveness lead to the 2 speakers statu quo. Maybe that future music (and not new age muzak, but Music) will have a good use of more than stereo. Maybe than already recorded music will benefit form dseveral channels. For now thats something that I haven't observed, as most of the music I like is or almost mono (folk music, voice and guitar) or stereo (rock, electronica, classical).
Beside, this tape was for my sister.
Also, steamships: http://www.answers.com/topic/steamship
How do you know that more people use Youtube to see illegal content, really ? For example I don't remember having watched illegal content. All I look on youtube is mostly digged videos, like the truck wich loose its rear to a train, the odd scientific experiment, or the ritual colbert extract (wich helps me to learn spoken english, thanks alot youtube and google video for that). I can't remember when i have last looked to a music video or such. So I would argue that few people look to really illegal content on youtube (what for would they, the low quality don't go well with meaningless but highly polished mainstream entertainment) and thats maybe universal problem ? They just don't like people having a word on what they look at, thats all.
In the four legged category there is the robot mule wich apparently can handle unbalance issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3W8dm5JxFc
My point was that I thought that you were making a generalization about Muslims that I didn't agree with. I have a hard time accepting the "Muslims this, Muslims that", when this encompasses lots of rather different cultures. Muslims from Morocco's aren't the Muslims from Saudi Arabia, who aren't the Bengali Muslims. I'm weary of this meme that Islam is less adapted to modernity. I do think that the occidental world had better intelligence to put in the problem that replaying the story of Rome and of the Crusades: playing the economically driven military might card. There would be generalizations made about that too (and thus more terrorists, what a beautifull self feeding war machine).
Analogy between food and information ? one doesn't die from being deprived of information, especially bad one. If I could follow your analogy, I would say that Google accepted to provide sickening food (censored information) to people that maybe would have had better food otherwise. So it's a kind of Mac Donald's of information ? And apparently the Wiki guy doesn't think that selling expired MC Donald food to poor people is a honorable move. Like some people think that sending expired medications to Africa is not the way to solves its problems, however good the intent.
> I'm not sure if you know any muslims.
You know, you could spend ages on how stupid most games and sports are.
Let's not forget their beady little eyes and flapping heads.
At the same time, as a non usan, i would say that Bush also faces particular conditions aka globalization and rise of China, India, etc, what doesn't come without side effects. Not saying that I like the guy. Even if he's pretty entertaining and he's doing stuff. It's maybe not a very good thing that most americans decided twice that they prefer someone who does stuff over someione who does less stuff, but as I said, I'm not american. Neither Iraki, thanks God.
Please don't link to a pdf without saying so, I for one like to click links but don't like to have my machine halted for opening a document - though maybe this is only firefox that does that, all my tabs are frozen until the pfs decides its loaded... wich can take minutes with large files. Anyway, still thanks.
I understand that damaging a public park's trees is not nice to the comunauty. At the same time, its a little sad that for most kids trees are so rare that they even can't take a few branches on one of those.
It's in my opinion like in other arts: someone has an idea then everyone copies it for the next years. I'd wage that the first to have the idea makes the best out of it, not necessarily because of a better techicity or artistry, but because having the idea denotes empathy for what people want ('capitalistic humility').