Sibling post makes a really important point. Let go of the word "liberal" and let it return to the wild. It's a good word than needs to go find itself and discover its original meaning. The fascists in question call themselves "progressives" - let's go with that.
It's the vision that motivates people. No one gives a shit about self-sustaining colonies in the Sahara (and it's illegal in the Anartic). But if the goal is to colonize Mars, cool shit will happen.
That was historically NASA's value: lots of cool stuff got invented for daily life because engineers were highly motivated by going to space.
They where NOT preventing anybody from operating on any spectrum they wished, you could walk outside of the venue and crank up your WiFi hotspot anytime you wished. Private property owners have the right to allow or deny any activity on their property they choose
C'mon, that's so obviously not true I'm not sure how you finished typing it. Anyway, the airwaves are special. You can't charge a fee to have access to them on your property. (So many things are special that it's hard to think of them as special cases these days - there are exceptions to just about everything you wrote - for example, you can't make rules that have the effect of excluding black people from your property. There's lots of case law around dress codes.) Excluding is different from restricting to only those who pay a fee.
If we don't have such property rights in this country, then why do we call it "private property"?
Conservatives asking that for years now. Just try creating a pond on your property!
Congrats - you just added 25 point to your score on the crackpot index. Well done. (There should really be points for saying "questioning the fundamentals is the foundation of science", but oddly that's missing from the index.)
My wife has extra-sensory perception in both sight and sound. I'll trust her senses over your denial any day.
Heh, I assume you meant you'll trust her perceptions, since you just claimed she can perceive things beyond her senses.
They built stuff that didn't break and hence you only sold once.
About 1/3rd of the early C-64s sold were returned as defective. Stores had great piles of returns. The first-gen disk drives were crap. The SID chips burnt out regularly. Survivor bias is not the same as reliable.
Once you start taking money from customers, you can't go around lying about what the product will be. And it wasn't "we want to put in X", it was "Yes, the game will have X" (sometimes with gameplay footage).
Plus, there were bogus screenshots on the Steam page too, but that's almost beside the point.
It was direct conversation. "Will the game have X?" "Yes, it will have X" (sometimes with gameplay footage). But no X.
Games can get away with some of that, if the game is actually good, as we all know sometimes a feature get removed at the last minute because it just isn't working out. But NMS basically delivered nothing beyond the engine. It was a tech demo, with no actual content.
But before it causes any problems. Heck, I had a washer that would spin down, shake things up a bit in hopes of better distribution, and spin up again. Most just stop and alarm.
Any washing machine that is so shoddily built that it can actually "explode"
It didn't explode. It broke apart from overload.
Thus "explode" in scare quotes. Totally unacceptable for a washing machine to conduct "unscheduled rapid disassembly" because of such a common problem.
Manufacturers cannot predict every use for their product. Such a prohibition on sale of anything that can be mechanically overloade
We're not talking hypotheticals here. We're talking about the single most common failure mode for a washing machine. It's not "fit for purpose". Selling it as a washing machine is, frankly, fraud.
Forcing users to change passwords regularly is a security anti-pattern. It produces lower security overall. It's something IT does to express their loathing of the userbase, not a security practice.
Make users change passwords when there's evidence of a breach, and only then.
Any halfway-decent washing machine will detect such an extreme imbalance and shut down. Any washing machine that is so shoddily built that it can actually "explode" (not just damage itself) due to an unbalanced load shouldn't be legal for sale in the US.
Exploding batteries. Exploding washing machines. I'm going to keep a safe distance from my Samsung TV.
I strongly suspect the Binary Boy is the new Doc Ruby - a trolling account for a regular/. poster. He seems to take the contentious, emotionally provocative point of view on too many issues to be legit.
That takes global agreement. We only need to look around to realise that we're pretty rubbish at that...
The only way we'll get good at that IMO is to colonize another planet. Humans are pretty good about pulling together in rivalry with an other. Earth vs Mars in the Sol Cup? You'd get some global unity.
Ah, you're just missing the key ingredient. It makes perfect sense to send people on death row to Mars as a reality TV show. It could pay for itself! [[insert Trump joke here]]
Maybe he/she doesn't like people who make outrageous claims they can't back up
Making outrageous claims you hope you can deliver on in the future is called leadership and vision. Assuming you at least make some credible progress towards that goal, which Musk seems to do.
CD's 44 KHz playback can only (perfectly) reconstruct signals at 22 KHz. That is inadequate for _some_ people. Why do you assume everyone else is just as tone deaf as you ??
Ah, now we get to it. You're not a science crackpot on sampling (though apparently on Einstein???), but you believe in humans with super-human hearing. I, OTOH, believe in audiophile salesmen capable of convincing the mark he has super-human hearing in order to drain him of $30k for audio equipment.
Sure, sure, it's a bell curve and a few can hear above 20k at birth, though with significant attenuation, but it won't last long.
Some people (incorrectly) believe you can't see frame rates higher then 30.
No one who saw the HFR version of the Hobbit, or turned on the "make everything look cheap" temporal up-scaling in their smart TV believes that.
The obvious and intended effect of their actions was to deny access to that part of the spectrum unless a fee was paid. But keep inventing legal fictions - but why would you even try to defend these schmucks?
They were doing no such thing. They were flat out forbidding the use of the devices.
That's what "licensing a spectrum" is! Only approved devices are allowed to use this (part of the) spectrum. It doesn't get any clearer than that. Want to use this part of the spectrum? Pay a $200 license fee.
Instead of criticizing others for your ignorance it would behoove you to spend some researching the topic instead of spouting dogma.
You're now perfectly channeling the crackpot who just knows Einstein was wrong. But for a better crackpot score, you should call me a hidebound reactionary and accuse Nyquist and Shannon of being part of an establishment conspiracy to silence the truth.
And how much did you pay, after being convinced by the salesman that you could hear the difference? Or did you get scammed by HD-DVD? Do you believe you can hear 90 kHz, or do you believe Nyquist was wrong, or did you get taken by a staged A/B test?
introduce uncorrelated high-order harmonics that fall in the audible range
Arguing against math is rather pointless, you know.
and can add a harshness to the sound that makes people tire of listening more quickly.
It's rather the other way around. Most recordings, including some great early jazz recordings, are "unlistenable" if reproduced accurately, because the engineering simply didn't care abotu top-octave noise. In the early days, there wasn't any equipment to reproduce it with any fidelity, and recordings were mastered to sound great on the equipment of the day. More modern pop stuff people just don't care when mastering, as they know their audience will be listening to low-bitrate MP3s anyway, so again the songs are mastered to sound OK for that audience. PLay that on real, modern equipment and it's jarring.
So there's a crowd that loves tube amps, records, and other gear that's lossy (in a nice-sounding way) in that top octave. But it's the very lack of accuracy that makes stuff sound better.
Also, of course, there's utter scams like HD-DVD, where they put both the normal and HD track on the disc, except they add noise to the "normal" track (really).
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Sibling post makes a really important point. Let go of the word "liberal" and let it return to the wild. It's a good word than needs to go find itself and discover its original meaning. The fascists in question call themselves "progressives" - let's go with that.
Be honest, not only when the power goes out ....
It's the vision that motivates people. No one gives a shit about self-sustaining colonies in the Sahara (and it's illegal in the Anartic). But if the goal is to colonize Mars, cool shit will happen.
That was historically NASA's value: lots of cool stuff got invented for daily life because engineers were highly motivated by going to space.
Sounds an awful lot like "g-spot."
"move faster and go bigger"
Well, at least Google is working with a theme here. (The theme of course being "you're fucked".)
Nothing more tired, played out, and stupid as a "for the children" argument.
They where NOT preventing anybody from operating on any spectrum they wished, you could walk outside of the venue and crank up your WiFi hotspot anytime you wished. Private property owners have the right to allow or deny any activity on their property they choose
C'mon, that's so obviously not true I'm not sure how you finished typing it. Anyway, the airwaves are special. You can't charge a fee to have access to them on your property. (So many things are special that it's hard to think of them as special cases these days - there are exceptions to just about everything you wrote - for example, you can't make rules that have the effect of excluding black people from your property. There's lots of case law around dress codes.) Excluding is different from restricting to only those who pay a fee.
If we don't have such property rights in this country, then why do we call it "private property"?
Conservatives asking that for years now. Just try creating a pond on your property!
Congrats - you just added 25 point to your score on the crackpot index. Well done. (There should really be points for saying "questioning the fundamentals is the foundation of science", but oddly that's missing from the index.)
My wife has extra-sensory perception in both sight and sound. I'll trust her senses over your denial any day.
Heh, I assume you meant you'll trust her perceptions, since you just claimed she can perceive things beyond her senses.
We're talking about general purpose computers. Not locked down appliances that do some computing.
They built stuff that didn't break and hence you only sold once.
About 1/3rd of the early C-64s sold were returned as defective. Stores had great piles of returns. The first-gen disk drives were crap. The SID chips burnt out regularly. Survivor bias is not the same as reliable.
Once you start taking money from customers, you can't go around lying about what the product will be. And it wasn't "we want to put in X", it was "Yes, the game will have X" (sometimes with gameplay footage).
Plus, there were bogus screenshots on the Steam page too, but that's almost beside the point.
It was direct conversation. "Will the game have X?" "Yes, it will have X" (sometimes with gameplay footage). But no X.
Games can get away with some of that, if the game is actually good, as we all know sometimes a feature get removed at the last minute because it just isn't working out. But NMS basically delivered nothing beyond the engine. It was a tech demo, with no actual content.
Only after it happens.
But before it causes any problems. Heck, I had a washer that would spin down, shake things up a bit in hopes of better distribution, and spin up again. Most just stop and alarm.
Any washing machine that is so shoddily built that it can actually "explode"
It didn't explode. It broke apart from overload.
Thus "explode" in scare quotes. Totally unacceptable for a washing machine to conduct "unscheduled rapid disassembly" because of such a common problem.
Manufacturers cannot predict every use for their product. Such a prohibition on sale of anything that can be mechanically overloade
We're not talking hypotheticals here. We're talking about the single most common failure mode for a washing machine. It's not "fit for purpose". Selling it as a washing machine is, frankly, fraud.
Forcing users to change passwords regularly is a security anti-pattern. It produces lower security overall. It's something IT does to express their loathing of the userbase, not a security practice.
Make users change passwords when there's evidence of a breach, and only then.
Any halfway-decent washing machine will detect such an extreme imbalance and shut down. Any washing machine that is so shoddily built that it can actually "explode" (not just damage itself) due to an unbalanced load shouldn't be legal for sale in the US.
Exploding batteries. Exploding washing machines. I'm going to keep a safe distance from my Samsung TV.
I strongly suspect the Binary Boy is the new Doc Ruby - a trolling account for a regular /. poster. He seems to take the contentious, emotionally provocative point of view on too many issues to be legit.
That takes global agreement. We only need to look around to realise that we're pretty rubbish at that...
The only way we'll get good at that IMO is to colonize another planet. Humans are pretty good about pulling together in rivalry with an other. Earth vs Mars in the Sol Cup? You'd get some global unity.
Ah, you're just missing the key ingredient. It makes perfect sense to send people on death row to Mars as a reality TV show. It could pay for itself! [[insert Trump joke here]]
Maybe he/she doesn't like people who make outrageous claims they can't back up
Making outrageous claims you hope you can deliver on in the future is called leadership and vision. Assuming you at least make some credible progress towards that goal, which Musk seems to do.
CD's 44 KHz playback can only (perfectly) reconstruct signals at 22 KHz. That is inadequate for _some_ people. Why do you assume everyone else is just as tone deaf as you ??
Ah, now we get to it. You're not a science crackpot on sampling (though apparently on Einstein???), but you believe in humans with super-human hearing. I, OTOH, believe in audiophile salesmen capable of convincing the mark he has super-human hearing in order to drain him of $30k for audio equipment.
Sure, sure, it's a bell curve and a few can hear above 20k at birth, though with significant attenuation, but it won't last long.
Some people (incorrectly) believe you can't see frame rates higher then 30.
No one who saw the HFR version of the Hobbit, or turned on the "make everything look cheap" temporal up-scaling in their smart TV believes that.
The obvious and intended effect of their actions was to deny access to that part of the spectrum unless a fee was paid. But keep inventing legal fictions - but why would you even try to defend these schmucks?
So, you're telling me that selling licenses to use part of the radio spectrum for $200 is somehow not licensing the spectrum?
Man, some people will twist themselves into knots to defend anything.
They were doing no such thing. They were flat out forbidding the use of the devices.
That's what "licensing a spectrum" is! Only approved devices are allowed to use this (part of the) spectrum. It doesn't get any clearer than that. Want to use this part of the spectrum? Pay a $200 license fee.
Instead of criticizing others for your ignorance it would behoove you to spend some researching the topic instead of spouting dogma.
You're now perfectly channeling the crackpot who just knows Einstein was wrong. But for a better crackpot score, you should call me a hidebound reactionary and accuse Nyquist and Shannon of being part of an establishment conspiracy to silence the truth.
And how much did you pay, after being convinced by the salesman that you could hear the difference? Or did you get scammed by HD-DVD? Do you believe you can hear 90 kHz, or do you believe Nyquist was wrong, or did you get taken by a staged A/B test?
introduce uncorrelated high-order harmonics that fall in the audible range
Arguing against math is rather pointless, you know.
and can add a harshness to the sound that makes people tire of listening more quickly.
It's rather the other way around. Most recordings, including some great early jazz recordings, are "unlistenable" if reproduced accurately, because the engineering simply didn't care abotu top-octave noise. In the early days, there wasn't any equipment to reproduce it with any fidelity, and recordings were mastered to sound great on the equipment of the day. More modern pop stuff people just don't care when mastering, as they know their audience will be listening to low-bitrate MP3s anyway, so again the songs are mastered to sound OK for that audience. PLay that on real, modern equipment and it's jarring.
So there's a crowd that loves tube amps, records, and other gear that's lossy (in a nice-sounding way) in that top octave.
But it's the very lack of accuracy that makes stuff sound better.
Also, of course, there's utter scams like HD-DVD, where they put both the normal and HD track on the disc, except they add noise to the "normal" track (really).