What i find a much larger irritation though (and im looking you here ubuntu) is when os's cross bread names and numbers. I remember numbers...... i really dont ALSO want to have to decode names and numbers at the same time - its just adding a layer of "heres something else you can get wrong buddy" to the whole equation and i think ubuntu really should rethink that scheme
I agree. Same beef with OSX. About this Mac says I'm running 10.7.4 but I have to look at (eg) wikipedia to check that number represents the stable release of Lion. 'About this Mac' doesn't bother to mention the feline marketing name. If you're going to use these silly names, then at least be consistent and use them everywhere.
1. The raping of google search results to allegedly reduce link farm sites (instead: gives shopping sites priority!). Google was better before.
2. The revamping of/. (instead: makes it nearly impossible to find comments posted as AC). No-one actually wanted the new site design, the old one wasn't any worse.
3. Unified tablet and PC interfaces. These were never meant to look and work the same. So many webpages are now full of wasteful white space up the sides to accomodate tablets.
Gnome3 is a case in point with its much-maligned designer/developer-driven "innovations". Face it: Win7 (XP really), Gnome2 and OSX are about as good as the UI design will ever get as far as 99.999% of users are concerned. Various attempts to create linux-based 'minimalist' desktop interfaces for Joe Public's non-mobile use have failed miserably.
No-body likes learning curves that they don't feel they need and which do not offer any payoff versus the status quo. Kids grow up with Windows and Mac.
As someone once said, the only truly "intuitive" interface is the nipple. All others are learned. Kids grow up with Win and Mac interfaces so for them that is "intuitive". Perhaps people need to STFU about so-called "intuitive" interfaces. "Intuitive" is meaningless and is code for "what the designer wants". There are clean, easy-to-use interfaces with sensible, logical flow, good error handling and minimized clicks per task.
Recently I was watching some non-english speaking kids grapple with a ps2 game with an English setup (no memory cards in slots). They couldn't read any text on screen. The blasted "no memory card" handling was so badly designed it had them going around in circles for 15 minutes to get out and just play without saving state, as if it was a deliberate tactic to encourage buying memory cards.
Want to see if the UI graphic design and flow are really good? Test it out with all the text unreadable eg lorem ipsum and see if the graphic indicators of usual default setup are so strong that the user doesn't have to read the associated text.
Insurance companies will love this. They will be able to analyze data concerning your style and manner of driving and claim recklessness or incompetence in order to deny claims.
Okay, lets look at it scientifically. Our ears hear all the way up to around 22khz, but at 22khz they can still define between sine waves and saw/squares (cant tell much between saws and squares but can between sines and either). At 22khz on a 44.1 sample rate, the only wave possible right at the top is a saw. Because is frame 1 is at max phase (+1), frame two at minimum (-1) and frame three at +1 then you have a 22khz saw. You end up getting aliasing at the top end ultimately.
96khz, while by no means the best, gives twice as much detail at the top, allowing you to create much smoother waveforms at the top and as a result enjoy a much higher clarity and lower distortion near the nyquist.
So, scientifically, 96k is not only better, but quite easily perceivably better. And its odd you's say that we cant feel harmonies outside 22khz, because they interact with harmonies lower. You can look it up, but its widely agreed on, that simply recording the original TB808 drum machine (which made sound up to 36khz and more) up to only 22khz made it sound flat and bland.
"Many have the desire but few have the skill." - Albert Einsteain.
Fail. Oh boy is this ever a misplaced quote! Einstein was bored out of his brain at school and thought to be intellectually *retarded* by his teachers. At university, his performance was rather mediocre and he preferred to read philosophy texts (which became a lifelong hobby) rather than study physics. He said at the peak of his career that he didn't consider himself particularly talented at math per se. I think it was Roger Penrose who taught him differential geometry so he could develop General Relativity. He never, ever fitted the conventional career profile of scientists.
Yes science requires a lot of math..... if you're no good at math, science is not the proper choice, no matter how much you enjoyed reading Astronomy or Asimov magazines as a kid. (shrug)
Fail in this context. I never said I didn't end up good at math. At university I blossomed late and graduated with high grades and a double major in theoretical physics and math. But I would have done much better had I started developing and enjoying those skills much earlier. It would have been far less of a struggle and a last minute cram at the end of my degree.
I was fascinated by all things science as a little kid. Doing, enjoying, fantasizing. I craved books for kids about science, electronics kits and chemistry sets - these were what I enjoyed. And toy robots. Then I got to junior high school and started formal science classes. Awful. Hated chemistry. Math was painful. Only physics became vaguely interesting. I did a BS, but school nearly ruined that path.
It got modded down because there are some serious astroturfers here, perhaps some even on the payroll of an arm's length "image management" company. For-hire astroturfers have been uncovered on/. before.
You miss the point altogether. Now, Google will not be prosecuted in Australia for stealing people's data. It is theft whether or not they left their wifi open.
Agreed, look at the antiprivacy, pro-google nonsense here. People think Google shouldn't be prosecuted for stealing data. Astonishing, the end of privacy is already here and hacker culture is dead on/.
The only possible question is why his superiors took so long to deal with the problem once they knew about it.
But that is serious enough to warrant an investigation and prosecution. They didn't give a damn. People don't seem to follow that this means there will be NO prosecution for wardriving and unauthorized data mining. It beggars belief that anyone on/. doesn't get how serious that is, especially for a company in the business of profiling users.
Modded -1? You do realize that this decision means Google *will evade prosecution* in Australia? It doesn't just mean no second investigation, it means no further action. So it's ok to eavesdrop and collect passwords? Wardriving is ok? WTF?
Have you ever tried to actually speak with senior technical management at Adobe to discuss that type of collaboration? Not easy. It'd have to be done top-down.
Some professional coders don't care much about bloat in my experience. They don't even have time to notice or care about bloat. Most of those I know are on turbocharged workstations or recent model Macbook Pros and rely on Moore's Law to solve the runs-like-a-slug problem by the time their code gets to market. Their main problem is getting to the next sprint or release.
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What i find a much larger irritation though (and im looking you here ubuntu) is when os's cross bread names and numbers. I remember numbers. ..... i really dont ALSO want to have to decode names and numbers at the same time - its just adding a layer of "heres something else you can get wrong buddy" to the whole equation and i think ubuntu really should rethink that scheme
I agree. Same beef with OSX. About this Mac says I'm running 10.7.4 but I have to look at (eg) wikipedia to check that number represents the stable release of Lion. 'About this Mac' doesn't bother to mention the feline marketing name. If you're going to use these silly names, then at least be consistent and use them everywhere.
My friend Peter is not a rock, and my friend Thomas isn't even a twin.
Peter denies that three times and Thomas doubts it.
Just like nobody wanted:
1. The raping of google search results to allegedly reduce link farm sites (instead: gives shopping sites priority!). Google was better before.
2. The revamping of /. (instead: makes it nearly impossible to find comments posted as AC). No-one actually wanted the new site design, the old one wasn't any worse.
3. Unified tablet and PC interfaces. These were never meant to look and work the same. So many webpages are now full of wasteful white space up the sides to accomodate tablets.
Gnome3 is a case in point with its much-maligned designer/developer-driven "innovations". Face it: Win7 (XP really), Gnome2 and OSX are about as good as the UI design will ever get as far as 99.999% of users are concerned. Various attempts to create linux-based 'minimalist' desktop interfaces for Joe Public's non-mobile use have failed miserably.
No-body likes learning curves that they don't feel they need and which do not offer any payoff versus the status quo. Kids grow up with Windows and Mac.
As someone once said, the only truly "intuitive" interface is the nipple. All others are learned. Kids grow up with Win and Mac interfaces so for them that is "intuitive". Perhaps people need to STFU about so-called "intuitive" interfaces. "Intuitive" is meaningless and is code for "what the designer wants". There are clean, easy-to-use interfaces with sensible, logical flow, good error handling and minimized clicks per task.
Recently I was watching some non-english speaking kids grapple with a ps2 game with an English setup (no memory cards in slots). They couldn't read any text on screen. The blasted "no memory card" handling was so badly designed it had them going around in circles for 15 minutes to get out and just play without saving state, as if it was a deliberate tactic to encourage buying memory cards.
Want to see if the UI graphic design and flow are really good? Test it out with all the text unreadable eg lorem ipsum and see if the graphic indicators of usual default setup are so strong that the user doesn't have to read the associated text.
Insurance companies will love this. They will be able to analyze data concerning your style and manner of driving and claim recklessness or incompetence in order to deny claims.
So there are also benefits to older fathers: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9325945/Children-of-older-fathers-are-more-likely-to-live-longer.html Besides which, it's been known for a long time that older men tend to have less viable and more deformed spermatazoa, so TFA is not surprising.
Filtering to limit upper input bandwidth introduces artefacts. The less in the way of the signal to interfere, the better quality of amplifier.
Okay, lets look at it scientifically. Our ears hear all the way up to around 22khz, but at 22khz they can still define between sine waves and saw/squares (cant tell much between saws and squares but can between sines and either). At 22khz on a 44.1 sample rate, the only wave possible right at the top is a saw. Because is frame 1 is at max phase (+1), frame two at minimum (-1) and frame three at +1 then you have a 22khz saw. You end up getting aliasing at the top end ultimately.
96khz, while by no means the best, gives twice as much detail at the top, allowing you to create much smoother waveforms at the top and as a result enjoy a much higher clarity and lower distortion near the nyquist.
So, scientifically, 96k is not only better, but quite easily perceivably better. And its odd you's say that we cant feel harmonies outside 22khz, because they interact with harmonies lower. You can look it up, but its widely agreed on, that simply recording the original TB808 drum machine (which made sound up to 36khz and more) up to only 22khz made it sound flat and bland.
Interesting post.
As we all know, "audiophiles with trained ears" are not at all prone to misinformed bullshit regurgitation, confirmation bias, and elitism.
Yawn. This is the stock straw man for derailing any discussion about audio. There are real differences that can be described and heard also.
I sit behind a monitor. That degree has always been useful.
"Many have the desire but few have the skill." - Albert Einsteain.
Fail. Oh boy is this ever a misplaced quote! Einstein was bored out of his brain at school and thought to be intellectually *retarded* by his teachers. At university, his performance was rather mediocre and he preferred to read philosophy texts (which became a lifelong hobby) rather than study physics. He said at the peak of his career that he didn't consider himself particularly talented at math per se. I think it was Roger Penrose who taught him differential geometry so he could develop General Relativity. He never, ever fitted the conventional career profile of scientists.
Yes science requires a lot of math..... if you're no good at math, science is not the proper choice, no matter how much you enjoyed reading Astronomy or Asimov magazines as a kid. (shrug)
Fail in this context. I never said I didn't end up good at math. At university I blossomed late and graduated with high grades and a double major in theoretical physics and math. But I would have done much better had I started developing and enjoying those skills much earlier. It would have been far less of a struggle and a last minute cram at the end of my degree.
I was fascinated by all things science as a little kid. Doing, enjoying, fantasizing. I craved books for kids about science, electronics kits and chemistry sets - these were what I enjoyed. And toy robots. Then I got to junior high school and started formal science classes. Awful. Hated chemistry. Math was painful. Only physics became vaguely interesting. I did a BS, but school nearly ruined that path.
It got modded down because there are some serious astroturfers here, perhaps some even on the payroll of an arm's length "image management" company. For-hire astroturfers have been uncovered on /. before.
But this data theft went on for a long time with their knowledge. Management was negligent.
I call straw man on all this tax talk. The topic is privacy invasion and theft of data.
You miss the point altogether. Now, Google will not be prosecuted in Australia for stealing people's data. It is theft whether or not they left their wifi open.
You totally fail to understand that this decision means Google will not be prosecuted in Australia.
And no idea about or desire for privacy apparently.
Agreed, look at the antiprivacy, pro-google nonsense here. People think Google shouldn't be prosecuted for stealing data. Astonishing, the end of privacy is already here and hacker culture is dead on /.
The only possible question is why his superiors took so long to deal with the problem once they knew about it.
But that is serious enough to warrant an investigation and prosecution. They didn't give a damn. People don't seem to follow that this means there will be NO prosecution for wardriving and unauthorized data mining. It beggars belief that anyone on /. doesn't get how serious that is, especially for a company in the business of profiling users.
Invasion of privacy - a corporation systematically wardriving and data mining people' networks for years unimpeded - is a very serious matter.
Modded -1? You do realize that this decision means Google *will evade prosecution* in Australia? It doesn't just mean no second investigation, it means no further action. So it's ok to eavesdrop and collect passwords? Wardriving is ok? WTF?
Why bother with an invasion of privacy case when they can go for the bigger fish? .
Because invasion of privacy is *important*.
Have you ever tried to actually speak with senior technical management at Adobe to discuss that type of collaboration? Not easy. It'd have to be done top-down.
Some professional coders don't care much about bloat in my experience. They don't even have time to notice or care about bloat. Most of those I know are on turbocharged workstations or recent model Macbook Pros and rely on Moore's Law to solve the runs-like-a-slug problem by the time their code gets to market. Their main problem is getting to the next sprint or release.
Designers have nothing to do if a design is already optimized for most users. So they invent things to do. Otherwise they'd be out of a job.