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by teeja 17y ago
Arguing along those lines has some interesting results. How can -2 be a number? If you have two apples, and I have none, you can give me two apples. <b>You can't give me -2 apples.</b> You want zero diamonds? I can SHOW you
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by teeja 17y ago
Yep, ad hominem is alive and well. The favorite tactic of the uninformed, the 'diverters' and haters.
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by teeja 17y ago
$50 isn't much for professionals who pay hundreds of dollars for reference manuals ... or are on location in NE Turkey without laptop Mathematica access. I'm guess W intends an access lite for later. For decades, most tech products coming o
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by teeja 17y ago
Depending on how 'sophisticated' you want the music to be, there are more & more decent online Flash/JS sequencers that you could record. http://beaterator.rockstargames.com/beaterator.html http://www.lilyapp.org/about/ http://www.
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by teeja 17y ago
"An editor's job is, ultimately, to properly vet information" Considering the job they did during the Bush years, I'd gladly point out that there are still a few empty seats on that bus full of lawyers.
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by teeja 17y ago
It's a tragedy how little impact software has had on (formal) education - decades of hype, promising trials (PLATO, Logo, Smalltalk) eventuated no profound innovation ... only peripheral benefits (note-taking, paper-writing, class projects
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by teeja 17y ago
For sound I'd recommend the much-underrecognized built-in Garageband... better than Audacity. ('Name' artists have done whole CD's with it) ... It has many, many fine plug-ins & effects, if you'll be using music.
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by teeja 17y ago
Set a $10 fan near the floor blowing upwards onto a 45-degree surface. Quite similar, save $290.
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by teeja 17y ago
"At most, an educated person needs help with only a few small points of grammar." Especially the difference between lie, lay, laid, lied, lain, layed, and lying !!
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by teeja 17y ago
Good gawd, y'all! Why do I think of MTV when I see all that? Dire Straits!
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by teeja 17y ago
"The purpose of NerdKits is to reduce the risks involved with getting started in the electronics field." That's great. What you start with doesn't matter so much, because once you've grasped many possibilities that one kit allows, you've al
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by teeja 17y ago
He he. When I read 'jump' I tend to think of that "G-word" that people argue about so much. Then I think of the old saw, "Rules are made to be broken."
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by teeja 17y ago
Yeah, that's one of the cool things about music apps ... as with music hardware, there are dozens of ways to (for example) make n-pole filters and distinguish your sound and features from other people's. Sound is an area that seems like it
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by teeja 17y ago
It's neatly designed and inviting/friendly-looking. I like what you've done with the Google maps section, I've not seen anyone do that with neighborhoods before. (Google can be a powerful ally for such maps.) Since I've never been to Thaila
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by teeja 17y ago
Nice! One of the most thorough articles I've seen.
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by teeja 17y ago
Doing a chemical run-around of 4 billion years of brain filtering evolution might not be the best idea. There might be a reason you're having a hard time remembering that shit ... it might just be shit . Food. Exercise. Sleep. Skip the gim
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by teeja 17y ago
I was just reading this, and this paragraph struck my eye: "Bricklin and Frankston recalled that their initial efforts to promote VisiCalc did not meet universal enthusiasm. Experienced computer people weren’t bowled over, Bricklin said; th
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VisiCalc memories - the first Killer App(wordyard.com)
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by teeja 17y ago
Agreed ... too often the stupidity is coming from the organization rather than its employees. Earlier today I read about a VA data HD with 10 million records being sent for repair unencrypted. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/probe
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by teeja 17y ago
Good article. A good example of the ontology problem is the Venn diagram. Unspoken in every Venn diagram is the white space that stretches as far as the eye can see. That's the world that isn't categorized yet. Anything could lurk out there
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by teeja 17y ago
He'd have gotten better results by paying someone to give him a good review. Marketing an audio product with a print ad? Who'd fall for that approach nowadays? The number of people trying to sell music these days is incomprehensible. It's p
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by teeja 17y ago
Except on Wall Street.
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by teeja 17y ago
Exactly. As the movie "Looking for Bobby Fischer" made clear, we in the US live in a non-chess culture. Like mathematicians, chess players and honor-roll students in high-school are ignored while jocks get lots of attention. Belonging to a
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by teeja 17y ago
We also created the Internet much more than the rest of the world. n'est-ce pas?
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by teeja 17y ago
Pricey! I'd pimp for Open Google instead.
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by teeja 17y ago
Blech! I'd rather stare at cockroaches. IfYaKnowWhatIMeanAndImPrettySureThatYouDoItWasADarkAndStormyNight
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by teeja 17y ago
As opposed to the irrational monkeys that dump their trash in the ocean? Or shoot satellites powered by plutonium into fast-decaying orbits? Or use ASATs to destroy satellites, then cry out for ways to get all that trash out of orbit? Or ma
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by teeja 17y ago
The internet empowers many with an opportunity to be part of the conversation - to the extent that they're able and willing. It brings together collaborators and ideas that might otherwise never have met. It opens opportunities to explore f
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by teeja 17y ago
"The aliens indirectly contributed to the development of internet search engines." Well, then, that settles that ... they can't be "at least a thousand years ahead of humans technologically"
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by teeja 17y ago
Interesting scope plan, hadn't heard of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array Exabyte ... hah! That's a gigabyte per second for 31.7 years .... I should live so long!

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