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by zinkem 15y ago
I think the term "rite of passage" may have prompted the response. A rite of passage is generally something that every member of a culture (or subculture) goes through to get from X to Y.
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by zinkem 15y ago
The attacks on torrent sites have little to do with headlines and more to do with the reality that they are critical points in the distribution of information people don't want shared. To many people the distinction you point out is meaning
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by zinkem 15y ago
Here's a video tour of their offices circa 1993, for those who haven't seen it. I think this is a cool look into the beginnings of the company and the (early) excitement surrounding Doom at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65xJfVk
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by zinkem 15y ago
Why is Comcast cutting people off for a year instead of just charging per GB above the cap or upgrading to a higher class service? This is a punishment without a trial.
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by zinkem 15y ago
Yes, I agree. Isn't Comcast abusing their position here to protect their cable business? My friends recently got cut off for going over their limit; well they went over their limit because its a house of 4 using Netflix and downloading game
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by zinkem 15y ago
Everything you say is true, you need to practice to get good. The hardware, everything I mentioned and one or several mics (or a guitar amp), is still only about $3k to get started. SM58s (great for guitar cabs and ok for rock vocals) are u
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by zinkem 15y ago
What people can do and what they do do are a little different. I can't think of anyone who stopped building their rig at $3k, but it's possible to produce demo-quality records with a $600 computer, a nice A/D/A converter and software like R
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by zinkem 15y ago
I think the cost problem has largely been solved. Someone can throw together a DAW for $2 or $3k and start creating really great sounding music following hours of practice. I think most young musicians know about and go this route when they
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by zinkem 15y ago
I feel like Chomsky's argument is being mischaracterized a little here. I don't think Chomsky is necessarily looking for 'simple' rules, but he wants models that explain. Norvig is looking at statistical models that can predict what is goin
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by zinkem 15y ago
According to one source I found[1], 60 meters of DAT tape holds 1300mb of data. That's 21.67mb per meter. My gmail inbox is 679mb, thats about 31 meters of DAT tape. [1] http://menehune.opt.wfu.edu/Kokua/SGI/007-2861-005/sgi_html/...
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by zinkem 15y ago
Real time, in web technology, means that the client communicates with the server through a socket instead of repeated HTTP get requests. This is exactly what this project is describing. You probably hear this a lot lately, especially from j
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by zinkem 15y ago
Here's a news posting from an academic site: http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/news/article.asp?qEmpID=328 Not exactly what you asked for, but I think this is the research institute where some or all of this technology was developed. The skin gun
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by zinkem 15y ago
Oh yea, lots of room for improvement. In my experience, the concrete suggestions (for niche 1 and 3) aren't necessarily potential niches, but starting points to build more powerful software. I should note, there is probably a huge opportuni
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by zinkem 15y ago
I have a little experience in retail management. I can't speak to #2 because I didn't deal with suppliers. I can however tell you that my fortune 500 employers had #1 and #3 in place already; these are basics that every retail software must
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by zinkem 15y ago
The headline is accurate. They seek action, they are not acting yet. You're right that there is nothing new here, however.
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by zinkem 15y ago
>porting an app from another platform to this is ridiculously simple This has been at least a part of the sell. It runs Linux with libSDL, they said they ported the Unreal Engine in about 2 weeks. It also uses gcc, so you could compile
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by zinkem 15y ago
And just because someone has a mental illness that causes strife in their personal life, it doesn't make their work inherently irrational.
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by zinkem 15y ago
I come from a retail management background, so I'm a newbie to the tech industry. The guys who taught me retail management put extreme emphasis on training. Training and knowledge dissemination was a top priority for the management teams I
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by zinkem 15y ago
>MPAA is not the entity that either distributes or licenses the movies for distribution, so they have nothing to do with it. Who do you think "b" is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_A...
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by zinkem 15y ago
Have you seen the adminstration's white paper on IP enforcement? This type of legislation is a priority for Obama and Biden. http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/ip_white_paper...
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Jumping in platform games, some analysis(youtube.com)
1 points by zinkem 15y ago|0 comments
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by zinkem 15y ago
Oh OK. So just as long as the problem would exist without us, we aren't responsible for our actions? Well governments have been putting people in concentration camps long before North Korea decided to do it.
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by zinkem 15y ago
What do you call it when the CIA participates in the drug trafficking, is that acting with neglect or intent?
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FCC Commissioner leaves for Comcast(news.cnet.com)
50 points by zinkem 15y ago|16 comments
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by zinkem 15y ago
People who work in the music production see a lot wider spaces inbetween subtle variations in sound than most of us. There are as many ways to construct a song as there are to construct a program, even if you know the "general idea."
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by zinkem 16y ago
The record industry rose up to solve a problem: artists needed their music recorded and distributed. Those problems are solved by computers and the internet. It's so cheap to record an album these days its ridiculous, as opposed to 40 years
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by zinkem 16y ago
Because radio creates monoculture and monoculture has less overhead.
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by zinkem 16y ago
I think what OP is referring to is when light hits glass, some times it is reflected and sometimes it will move through the glass, depending on the angle it makes with the surface of the glass. So the signal is probably bouncing around insi
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by zinkem 16y ago
With a software system, unwanted code can be injected into the system at any time without your knowledge. This isn't true of hardware.
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by zinkem 16y ago
You need to be able to re-create your inputs if a problem occurs. You need to be able to seed a random number generator and have it generate the same sequence for debugging.

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