Monday, February 13, 2012
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Hackerii şi serverele NASA
Mi s-a acrit de câte ori am auzit tâmpenia asta până acum.
Cred că ar fi timpul s-o lămurească cineva.
Multă lume are foarte vagi idei despre ce este internetul, un server sau NASA. Internetul este o reţea mondială de calculatoare, imensă. Un server este fie un program fie un computer care dă informaţie la cerere. NASA este o agenţie de stat finanţată de guvernul Statelor Unite pe care îl deserveşte.
Dar nu este absolut nici o legătură între site-ul NASA de pe un server sau un cloud de servere care deserveşte vizitatorul curios cu tot felul de informaţii puse acolo de ei şi reţelele lor interne de calculatoare cu care ei proiectează sau controlează misiuni spaţiale.
Sunt sisteme total diferite. Separate.
Din când în când apare în presă câte o ştire care ar trebui să sune aşa: Un copchil ameţit din România sau în numele lui cineva a descărcat un rahat de program de pe internet cu care a blocat sau poate chiar a modificat o pagină dintr-un site de informare al NASA.
Este ilegal? Da. Trebuie pedepsit? Da. Dar de ce ne pedepsesc ziariştii tot timpul pe noi cu ştiri din astea idioate?
În primul rând ar trebui pedepsiţi autorii acestor programe, care sunt într-adevăr profesionişti şi ştiu ce fac, adică participă într-o conspiraţie de pseudoinformare. Şi lumea informatică ştie bine cine sunt aceştia.
Tâmpitul de care am citit azi a luat 3 ani. Dar câţi ani ar trebui să ia deşteptul care a scris acel program?
Cred că ar fi timpul s-o lămurească cineva.
Multă lume are foarte vagi idei despre ce este internetul, un server sau NASA. Internetul este o reţea mondială de calculatoare, imensă. Un server este fie un program fie un computer care dă informaţie la cerere. NASA este o agenţie de stat finanţată de guvernul Statelor Unite pe care îl deserveşte.
Dar nu este absolut nici o legătură între site-ul NASA de pe un server sau un cloud de servere care deserveşte vizitatorul curios cu tot felul de informaţii puse acolo de ei şi reţelele lor interne de calculatoare cu care ei proiectează sau controlează misiuni spaţiale.
Sunt sisteme total diferite. Separate.
Din când în când apare în presă câte o ştire care ar trebui să sune aşa: Un copchil ameţit din România sau în numele lui cineva a descărcat un rahat de program de pe internet cu care a blocat sau poate chiar a modificat o pagină dintr-un site de informare al NASA.
Este ilegal? Da. Trebuie pedepsit? Da. Dar de ce ne pedepsesc ziariştii tot timpul pe noi cu ştiri din astea idioate?
În primul rând ar trebui pedepsiţi autorii acestor programe, care sunt într-adevăr profesionişti şi ştiu ce fac, adică participă într-o conspiraţie de pseudoinformare. Şi lumea informatică ştie bine cine sunt aceştia.
Tâmpitul de care am citit azi a luat 3 ani. Dar câţi ani ar trebui să ia deşteptul care a scris acel program?
Erare humanum est
Don't ignore or forget your own mistakes, they might tell you who you really are and help you fix that.
It's Not Over Until The Fat Lady Sings
I said in another post, each blog post is a bet, you're betting your own reputation on it.
I also said on different occasions that if you play a song enough times people might get used to it and even say they like it especially if it was heard on occasions when they wanted to have a good time.
This time i'll go by instinct. I had it with singing in the same tune with the choir.
I always thought soul is a genre belonging to the American culture. But nowadays there is more audience to British soul than to American. It shouldn't matter would say some. If it's good, then let's hear it. I am in the United States for 16 years now and i cannot name out of the top of my head any American soul singer. I'd have to think first, to double check with Wikipedia than play a few youtube videos and probably i will remember a few voices. Ah, and there's always that BB King diabetes commercial.
But i can name a few British soul singers, among them Van Morrison and Adele. And i looked into Wikipedia, Leona Lewis goes there as well. Van the man is not all bad especially when you listen him with The Band. Now i need to confess, i've been listening a lot of The Band lately, especially after i re listened that obsessive Caravan song one day on 101.9. I think there's a bit of soul even in Jesie J's music.
But Adele can't possibly be that good to fill the air with her all day long on most local stations. And the charts.
The way the British do that is simple. You take a popular genre that's about to die. (Or you take a popular genre and invade it and kill it in the process, i'm not sure, for that i'd have to check the with the history).
You put together some fragments from different songs, that one can only vaguely remember. Add a bunch of subliminal words and find or build a professional singer who would go for it. Ask him/her to make it sound not all that pretentious. Throw away as much as possible from that contemporary British accent.
Pronounce m like a and s lie sh. Stumble on words like little children. Season it with a few new age like, unexpected, almost dissonant change of keys. Make it sound like crying for hope. Yodelling like change of tones. Raise the eyelash corners a little. Empathize. Other things she does deliberately with her voice i cannot describe.
Play it like crazy on local stations and everywhere.
Adele brought it to an art. At times she makes it sound like it is continuous with no brakes. Voice falls into silence only at low tones. A bit monumental with highly accurate piano (actually the British were always good with instruments) and dozens of strings. And the newly invented technique of filling any empty spaces with words. Marching drums. Scratching ears at high notes. Anything but not soothing.
Although in the recipe there are enough reasons to back the charts, i don't believe it. Someone tell me when this is over.
(I've been listening this video version several times while writing this. Now that i released some of my frustrations by doing so, i can see it already in a different light. I think i even might get used to it. :) See what i mean?)
I also said on different occasions that if you play a song enough times people might get used to it and even say they like it especially if it was heard on occasions when they wanted to have a good time.
This time i'll go by instinct. I had it with singing in the same tune with the choir.
I always thought soul is a genre belonging to the American culture. But nowadays there is more audience to British soul than to American. It shouldn't matter would say some. If it's good, then let's hear it. I am in the United States for 16 years now and i cannot name out of the top of my head any American soul singer. I'd have to think first, to double check with Wikipedia than play a few youtube videos and probably i will remember a few voices. Ah, and there's always that BB King diabetes commercial.
But i can name a few British soul singers, among them Van Morrison and Adele. And i looked into Wikipedia, Leona Lewis goes there as well. Van the man is not all bad especially when you listen him with The Band. Now i need to confess, i've been listening a lot of The Band lately, especially after i re listened that obsessive Caravan song one day on 101.9. I think there's a bit of soul even in Jesie J's music.
But Adele can't possibly be that good to fill the air with her all day long on most local stations. And the charts.
The way the British do that is simple. You take a popular genre that's about to die. (Or you take a popular genre and invade it and kill it in the process, i'm not sure, for that i'd have to check the with the history).
You put together some fragments from different songs, that one can only vaguely remember. Add a bunch of subliminal words and find or build a professional singer who would go for it. Ask him/her to make it sound not all that pretentious. Throw away as much as possible from that contemporary British accent.
Pronounce m like a and s lie sh. Stumble on words like little children. Season it with a few new age like, unexpected, almost dissonant change of keys. Make it sound like crying for hope. Yodelling like change of tones. Raise the eyelash corners a little. Empathize. Other things she does deliberately with her voice i cannot describe.
Play it like crazy on local stations and everywhere.
Adele brought it to an art. At times she makes it sound like it is continuous with no brakes. Voice falls into silence only at low tones. A bit monumental with highly accurate piano (actually the British were always good with instruments) and dozens of strings. And the newly invented technique of filling any empty spaces with words. Marching drums. Scratching ears at high notes. Anything but not soothing.
Although in the recipe there are enough reasons to back the charts, i don't believe it. Someone tell me when this is over.
(I've been listening this video version several times while writing this. Now that i released some of my frustrations by doing so, i can see it already in a different light. I think i even might get used to it. :) See what i mean?)