(1) People's ears suck. I hate the way MP3 compression sounds, and I think it's pretty easy to pick out on a 128kbps file if there's any sort of cymbal hit. In fact I'd say it's the opposite of sizzle. I am no audiophile, I just like music enough to listen to it instead of relegate it to the background.
(2) I don't know about you but I find myself explaining to people all the time that the reason their new flat-screen looks crappy on an analog station is because the analog TVs do a much better job of showing the signal. The smoothing of the noise and the greater continuity between colors seems to be analogous to what you get with a record, and something that I'd call warmth. The problem is that when you say video is warm it is assumed that you are talking about color temperature.
A policeman by trade commenting on videos of other policemen is not make-believe. He has been in the same situation, and will continue to be throughout his life. Shooting zombies, not so much.
They're not gods. But they have a god complex, otherwise they'd be milkmen or magazine editors.
But you're right, what that one guy posted as personal advice is completely representative of the entire country. Hope you got your "Australia 1 America 0" fix for the day.
I enjoy the internet because over here the government isn't waiting for the right time to toss up the filters.
The problem with that argument is you can use it all the time, so it becomes essentially meaningless. It's not that you're wrong, it's more of a case of "so what?" The line has to be drawn somewhere.
Sometimes there's an obvious speed up or slow down on a song, and in those cases you don't need software to figure out if there's a click track. A quick way to check is to compare the very end of the song and the very beginning. It's similar to acapella singing, sometimes there's a slight change in pitch. If it's not so much that you notice in the middle of the song, then it's not worth worrying about.
There are great albums that used click tracks, and great albums that didn't. Obviously a metronomic sense of tempo is a good asset for a drummer to have, especially if they're looking for session work. But a sense of dynamics and texture is, in my opinion, more important. I'd take an interesting drummer over one that just subdivides everything any day.
Then again, some songs benefit from the drum machine sound. It's all about the vision.
I don't consider a click track on a studio album to be cheating any more than a photographer using a light meter. In a live setting, however, it's a different matter. Not that I've seen anyone actually use a click track live (except for people attempting to sync up with some other prerecorded track and did it out of sheer necessity).
We wired our new building with two LAN ports in each office, for network printers. Day 1 was fine. On day 2, I had to rush in early because the network was completely down. During the move I made damn sure everything was perfect, but there's always something that can go wrong.
Someone realized that they had a small switch with the stuff they moved from their old office. They didn't know what to do with it, so they plugged it in in the new room. Naturally, they plugged it into both ports.
Apparently STP doesn't do a thing if some of your gear doesn't speak it. I consider it my fault for not remembering that they had the switch and chucking it before the move.
Yeah, I always wondered about that one as well. God breathing life into mud sounds a lot like abiogenesis to me. But good luck trying to tell a young earth creationist or a flat-earther that.
You may be right. They surely have not given up. But I feel like when I look at the history of the movement, I see them trying again and again to convince school boards and getting slapped again and again by the courts. No one's buying the name changes, either. For instance, the most recent tactic is "teach the controversy" but Judge Jones said in the Kitzmiller ruling, "This tactic is at best disingenuous, and at worst a canard."
I'm not sure they'll ever give up, and the fact that we have such vocal Luddites in this country scares me quite a bit. I'm sure the only place the anti-evolution crowd is louder is within pockets of fundamentalist Islam. Still, I am somewhat comforted by the fact that our courts know better.
I guess what bothers me the most is the public's inability to understand the distinction between topics like evolution, abiogenesis, atheism, and morality. As I've said, the people pushing the agenda are liars. But the folks who believe it often just lack that understanding. They don't get that science has a very strict purview, and the supernatural does not fall within it.
Offtopic: part of the reason that 8- and 16-bit era games got better towards the end of their systems' lives was because (a) as the price of ROM memory fell, you could squeeze in better graphics, (b) cartridge-based games means you can augment the console by putting a coprocessor right on the game board. The first one was especially pronounced with the NES, the second with the SNES. Sega took the opposite path, releasing new hardware every other week, and to nobody's surprise but theirs, they no longer sell hardware.
Sure, part of it is better engines and better coding practices, but IMO the effect is a lot less dramatic with today's consoles.
On-topic: Sony's always had the power to prevent undesirable studios from making games. All they have to do is refuse to sell them the license. They have always had that control. Doing it through the API is phenomenally stupid and I have to assume that Sony is just lying here. The reality is most likely that the designers didn't do enough to make accessing hardware functions easy or elegant, and Sony wants to spin the studios' complaints into something that points to the system having increased quality.
I guess the hard part is the "working and secure" bit then. I think you are generalizing too much.
Networking used to be horrible. Different protocols, different hardware. Lots of fads, each as much as a pain to set up as the last. No point and click email server wizards. Site-to-site was by modem, not VPN. When men were men and the cable was coax, that sort of thing.
It has gotten to the point now where you have a router, modem, AP, and switch in one, for $50 or something. Network speed is automatically negotiated. Everything full-duplex. That's if you're actually running cable. You don't even have to anymore. The protocol is all TCP/IP, so there's no need to worry about having matching hardware as well as software that can speak those protocols.
If a user can't set up a 2009-era consumer router/switch/AP/toaster, there's nothing wrong with that, but they need to pay someone to do it for them. Because it's about as magically automatic as it's gonna get.
People that come on here and complain about networking not being easy enough must not remember a time when your OS didn't do the connection troubleshooting for you. So yeah, in general we can always strive to make things simpler, but specifically, how is it going to get simpler than "plug the blue wire into the port on the left and turn your laptop's radio on?"
No, this is Amazon's attempt to play nice with publishers because they need content for the Kindle to work.
Holding their ground would be doing the opposite.
They know that time is on their side. They are hoping that, like with iTMS, e-books will inevitably represent the largest slice of the book & magazine pie. At that point they will be able to do whatever they like.
Good text-to-speech could conceivably kill off the audio book market. But I don't think that you could say it's the same thing as a copyrighted reading of a book performance. It's more like reading a book to your child. So for Amazon to stand their ground they'd have to recognize this as reinterpreting the law to force a market for a product that people eventually aren't going to want or need. And then say, "nope".
UAC isn't there to stop viruses. It's there to provide a disincentive to honest devs to stop assuming their software is being run by the administrator. Specifically, the software will either (a) not work or (b) prompt the user enough times to escalate privilege that they stop using it anyway.
If your remote control runs out of batteries, pressing power 100 times isn't going to make the TV any more likely to turn on.
The only time repeating something works is when you're trying to be obnoxious to someone so that they'll give you want you want in the hopes that you'll go away.
Hypothetically speaking you're correct, but Windows seems to suffer from a single program being able to freeze the desktop, whereas I can't remember ever seeing that on my Mac or in Gnome or KDE. Certainly not on the Mac. The stupid icon will just keep hopping until you start shouting insults at it.
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You know what I've always wondered: why is that we *park* on *driveways*? Crazy!
Maybe so but the guy was talking about transistors vs. tubes.
(1) People's ears suck. I hate the way MP3 compression sounds, and I think it's pretty easy to pick out on a 128kbps file if there's any sort of cymbal hit. In fact I'd say it's the opposite of sizzle. I am no audiophile, I just like music enough to listen to it instead of relegate it to the background.
(2) I don't know about you but I find myself explaining to people all the time that the reason their new flat-screen looks crappy on an analog station is because the analog TVs do a much better job of showing the signal. The smoothing of the noise and the greater continuity between colors seems to be analogous to what you get with a record, and something that I'd call warmth. The problem is that when you say video is warm it is assumed that you are talking about color temperature.
The ones in orange or the ones in blue?
Not much, if they're in a courtroom and are trying to tell people that they never smoked pot.
A policeman by trade commenting on videos of other policemen is not make-believe. He has been in the same situation, and will continue to be throughout his life. Shooting zombies, not so much.
They're not gods. But they have a god complex, otherwise they'd be milkmen or magazine editors.
But you're right, what that one guy posted as personal advice is completely representative of the entire country. Hope you got your "Australia 1 America 0" fix for the day.
I enjoy the internet because over here the government isn't waiting for the right time to toss up the filters.
The problem with that argument is you can use it all the time, so it becomes essentially meaningless. It's not that you're wrong, it's more of a case of "so what?" The line has to be drawn somewhere.
I think it was pretty clear that the signs were meant to provoke a positive kneejerk response from the "DRUGS ARE BAD M'KAY" crowd.
Mimeographs are too pricey. Just make the kids hand copy them, it'll improve their penmanship, and shut-up-manship.
Dammit, Faraday, you *always* do this. Now is not the time.
Sometimes there's an obvious speed up or slow down on a song, and in those cases you don't need software to figure out if there's a click track. A quick way to check is to compare the very end of the song and the very beginning. It's similar to acapella singing, sometimes there's a slight change in pitch. If it's not so much that you notice in the middle of the song, then it's not worth worrying about.
There are great albums that used click tracks, and great albums that didn't. Obviously a metronomic sense of tempo is a good asset for a drummer to have, especially if they're looking for session work. But a sense of dynamics and texture is, in my opinion, more important. I'd take an interesting drummer over one that just subdivides everything any day.
Then again, some songs benefit from the drum machine sound. It's all about the vision.
I don't consider a click track on a studio album to be cheating any more than a photographer using a light meter. In a live setting, however, it's a different matter. Not that I've seen anyone actually use a click track live (except for people attempting to sync up with some other prerecorded track and did it out of sheer necessity).
We wired our new building with two LAN ports in each office, for network printers. Day 1 was fine. On day 2, I had to rush in early because the network was completely down. During the move I made damn sure everything was perfect, but there's always something that can go wrong.
Someone realized that they had a small switch with the stuff they moved from their old office. They didn't know what to do with it, so they plugged it in in the new room. Naturally, they plugged it into both ports.
Apparently STP doesn't do a thing if some of your gear doesn't speak it. I consider it my fault for not remembering that they had the switch and chucking it before the move.
Yeah, I always wondered about that one as well. God breathing life into mud sounds a lot like abiogenesis to me. But good luck trying to tell a young earth creationist or a flat-earther that.
You may be right. They surely have not given up. But I feel like when I look at the history of the movement, I see them trying again and again to convince school boards and getting slapped again and again by the courts. No one's buying the name changes, either. For instance, the most recent tactic is "teach the controversy" but Judge Jones said in the Kitzmiller ruling, "This tactic is at best disingenuous, and at worst a canard."
I'm not sure they'll ever give up, and the fact that we have such vocal Luddites in this country scares me quite a bit. I'm sure the only place the anti-evolution crowd is louder is within pockets of fundamentalist Islam. Still, I am somewhat comforted by the fact that our courts know better.
I guess what bothers me the most is the public's inability to understand the distinction between topics like evolution, abiogenesis, atheism, and morality. As I've said, the people pushing the agenda are liars. But the folks who believe it often just lack that understanding. They don't get that science has a very strict purview, and the supernatural does not fall within it.
Offtopic: part of the reason that 8- and 16-bit era games got better towards the end of their systems' lives was because (a) as the price of ROM memory fell, you could squeeze in better graphics, (b) cartridge-based games means you can augment the console by putting a coprocessor right on the game board. The first one was especially pronounced with the NES, the second with the SNES. Sega took the opposite path, releasing new hardware every other week, and to nobody's surprise but theirs, they no longer sell hardware.
Sure, part of it is better engines and better coding practices, but IMO the effect is a lot less dramatic with today's consoles.
On-topic: Sony's always had the power to prevent undesirable studios from making games. All they have to do is refuse to sell them the license. They have always had that control. Doing it through the API is phenomenally stupid and I have to assume that Sony is just lying here. The reality is most likely that the designers didn't do enough to make accessing hardware functions easy or elegant, and Sony wants to spin the studios' complaints into something that points to the system having increased quality.
Most of us stop acting on pure instinct before we learn how to speak. That's no excuse.
I guess the hard part is the "working and secure" bit then. I think you are generalizing too much.
Networking used to be horrible. Different protocols, different hardware. Lots of fads, each as much as a pain to set up as the last. No point and click email server wizards. Site-to-site was by modem, not VPN. When men were men and the cable was coax, that sort of thing.
It has gotten to the point now where you have a router, modem, AP, and switch in one, for $50 or something. Network speed is automatically negotiated. Everything full-duplex. That's if you're actually running cable. You don't even have to anymore. The protocol is all TCP/IP, so there's no need to worry about having matching hardware as well as software that can speak those protocols.
If a user can't set up a 2009-era consumer router/switch/AP/toaster, there's nothing wrong with that, but they need to pay someone to do it for them. Because it's about as magically automatic as it's gonna get.
People that come on here and complain about networking not being easy enough must not remember a time when your OS didn't do the connection troubleshooting for you. So yeah, in general we can always strive to make things simpler, but specifically, how is it going to get simpler than "plug the blue wire into the port on the left and turn your laptop's radio on?"
No, this is Amazon's attempt to play nice with publishers because they need content for the Kindle to work.
Holding their ground would be doing the opposite.
They know that time is on their side. They are hoping that, like with iTMS, e-books will inevitably represent the largest slice of the book & magazine pie. At that point they will be able to do whatever they like.
Good text-to-speech could conceivably kill off the audio book market. But I don't think that you could say it's the same thing as a copyrighted reading of a book performance. It's more like reading a book to your child. So for Amazon to stand their ground they'd have to recognize this as reinterpreting the law to force a market for a product that people eventually aren't going to want or need. And then say, "nope".
You'd better take Select out of there before they throw your case out.
What is the advantage of moving things in the system folder?
Why not just create a folder called System under your Users\master_p folder and then screw with that?
UAC isn't there to stop viruses. It's there to provide a disincentive to honest devs to stop assuming their software is being run by the administrator. Specifically, the software will either (a) not work or (b) prompt the user enough times to escalate privilege that they stop using it anyway.
If your remote control runs out of batteries, pressing power 100 times isn't going to make the TV any more likely to turn on.
The only time repeating something works is when you're trying to be obnoxious to someone so that they'll give you want you want in the hopes that you'll go away.
Hypothetically speaking you're correct, but Windows seems to suffer from a single program being able to freeze the desktop, whereas I can't remember ever seeing that on my Mac or in Gnome or KDE. Certainly not on the Mac. The stupid icon will just keep hopping until you start shouting insults at it.
Tk is never a good choice.