No, Crappy Digital lacks _soul_, that is not captured on vinyl.
How about this: crappy vinyl lacks the soul of a live performance that is in no way captured on anything at all. (yet).
The railing against "plastic music" is nonsensical. The imperfections simply denote realism since we all know nobody has a Photoshop-perfect skin; yet that won't hold us back from using that. Likewise, engineers in the studio will do their damned best to polish imperfections away - what do you think equalizers and compressors are for, actually? - and leave only the imperfections they want you to hear.
Furthermore, those $10k horns aren't worth crap if you don't have the room treatment. Just check how many times that is omitted in favor of a $7k interconnect. To add insult to injury, few of those things will be of any benefit if you're above a certain age, where the high frequencies in your hearing range will drop off pretty fast.
There's just one problem; if the baggage handlers feel a little bit playful, they'll skip on work and just jump in a pile of 'm, because it's way bigger than the one they have at the McDonalds.
I've never understood why owning 1/4th of the music will cost you 4 times as much as the original.
Well, I do understand from a business POV, and the fact that phones are castrated so rolling your own ringtones isn't possible, but still.
The gold standard would be inserting electrodes directly into the brain but that's completely out of question
The legal department will simply demand that this is put in the EULA somewhere, and to validate the copy of Windows 2011, the user has to mark the checkbox and stick a fork in the eyesocket. For direct connectivity.
Now, in a matter of hours, millions of people can be informed of a looming issue and speak out about it
They call this "inboxer rebellion" at Snopes and it goes lost in a mass of false positives, deafness to crying wolf and utterly stupid Youtube comments plus a dozen Fw:Fw:Fw:Fw:Fw:'s from 200 aggregated Hotmail addresses.
When i get old older ( and maybe fatter ) i want to lighten up. Moon would be ideal.
I want nanobots who'll expell the flab and use the power for other creative purposes.
The wingflapping is a nice idea though, I've always loved Pilotwings on the N64 where you could do this. Just don't make 'm out of wax and get too close to the sun^H^H^Hceiling.
We also received 10 commandments which work fairly well as a guideline on how to live.
Actually, they don't. In the original form, they're incredibly simplistic if you look at actual law with all its exceptions, pitfalls and in-case-ofs. Furthermore, they differ per holy book. Furthermore, the "you shall only worship one god" doesn't really mesh with the free will stuff. But, I assume you were thinking primarily of "Thou shalt not murder" and "Thou shalt not steal";).
I am tired of seeing CEOs earning millions and millions of dollars.
I'm not - I just wish shareholders would not let them earn those amounts if they are completely incompetent. Run it into the ground and still get a nice financial goodbye (rinse, lather, repeat for the next company); where's the logic in that?
This assumes that each new discovery creates 2 adjacent "missing transitional fossils". If between A and B, a "missing link" C is discovered, then the links D (between A and C) and E (between C and B) pop up. So yeah, it goes up by 2.
I don't think they're satisfied until every possible specimen is discovered so you have an actual 1:1 family tree.
Which is why insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan got steamrolled by US troops, where completely annihilated, and quickly ceased to be a fighting force.
Haven't seen Rambo III to find out who trained them?;)
Also, the self-determination and the right to bear arms isn't helping the population of the US - they're already subjects. Just not under a king, but under the corporations. I'm not trying to talk you out of the right to bear arms; by all means, go ahead. I also see your point about the Burmese people, but I think you're skipping too much over cultural differences. It works if it's ingrained in the people from the start, which was the case with the US.
Firepower is on the basis of parity. A citizen's militia can fight another citizen's militia; things change when tanks, bigger guns and an organized group of soldiers get into the equation. You'd have to train the populace, and then you'd get guerilla warfare.
It's just that when you lack the organization, the right to bear arms won't be of much use. You can learn how to shoot for self-defense on a range; you won't learn tactics or teamwork.
Mod parent up; excellent reference, and R.A. Lafferty is an underappreciated genius. 9 stupid laws means a severe loss of fingers; oh, how stumped the RIAA would be.
If you want to eradicate pretentiousness, go after everyone who uses the word "utilize" instead of "use". In 90% of the cases "use" would do just fine. It's a greater evil compared to haptic/tactile;).
None of us thoroughly understands the world we live in. The amount you could learn in a single lifetime is only a minuscule fraction.
There's a subtle but important difference between saying "I don't understand it" and "It must be magic". The former can be solved (or at least a good attempt can be made) by education, the latter can't - because it's superstition.
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The railing against "plastic music" is nonsensical. The imperfections simply denote realism since we all know nobody has a Photoshop-perfect skin; yet that won't hold us back from using that. Likewise, engineers in the studio will do their damned best to polish imperfections away - what do you think equalizers and compressors are for, actually? - and leave only the imperfections they want you to hear.
Furthermore, those $10k horns aren't worth crap if you don't have the room treatment. Just check how many times that is omitted in favor of a $7k interconnect. To add insult to injury, few of those things will be of any benefit if you're above a certain age, where the high frequencies in your hearing range will drop off pretty fast.
It's Reason and Cubase and Ableton Live which come on Windows, too - Logic for Windows ceased to exist around version 5 or so.
I think the term you're looking for is "parametrized queries".
She had her first chance to settle for $3000 - still a lot but a lot smaller than the $200k+ she now has to cough up.
I've never understood why owning 1/4th of the music will cost you 4 times as much as the original. Well, I do understand from a business POV, and the fact that phones are castrated so rolling your own ringtones isn't possible, but still.
Mod parent up - this was poetic.
What's to stop them from paying shills/astroturfers to upload viral marketing-like stuff to Youtube or to react in forums?
Yeah, but is it serial or parallel?
- running out of fuel
- operating the device while being intoxicated
- bumping into the guy in front of you
- messing with the radio/GPS/kids and then noticing any objects in front of you several seconds later than your reaction time allows for
I'm sure you can make up several more.The wingflapping is a nice idea though, I've always loved Pilotwings on the N64 where you could do this. Just don't make 'm out of wax and get too close to the sun^H^H^Hceiling.
This assumes that each new discovery creates 2 adjacent "missing transitional fossils". If between A and B, a "missing link" C is discovered, then the links D (between A and C) and E (between C and B) pop up. So yeah, it goes up by 2.
I don't think they're satisfied until every possible specimen is discovered so you have an actual 1:1 family tree.
Also, the self-determination and the right to bear arms isn't helping the population of the US - they're already subjects. Just not under a king, but under the corporations. I'm not trying to talk you out of the right to bear arms; by all means, go ahead. I also see your point about the Burmese people, but I think you're skipping too much over cultural differences. It works if it's ingrained in the people from the start, which was the case with the US.
Firepower is on the basis of parity. A citizen's militia can fight another citizen's militia; things change when tanks, bigger guns and an organized group of soldiers get into the equation. You'd have to train the populace, and then you'd get guerilla warfare.
It's just that when you lack the organization, the right to bear arms won't be of much use. You can learn how to shoot for self-defense on a range; you won't learn tactics or teamwork.
Mod parent up; excellent reference, and R.A. Lafferty is an underappreciated genius. 9 stupid laws means a severe loss of fingers; oh, how stumped the RIAA would be.
If you want to eradicate pretentiousness, go after everyone who uses the word "utilize" instead of "use". In 90% of the cases "use" would do just fine. It's a greater evil compared to haptic/tactile ;).