Tim, you're a writer (or, at least, attempting to play one on TV); as such, you might want to actually learn how. The saying is "goes with the territory."
You make a valid point but nonetheless it's *exactly* like telling a rancher he's small-minded for insisting on raising grass-fed beef because more and more [ignorant] people are content with the flavorless, factory-farmed dogshit being pushed-out by BigAg on behalf of McD's and Walmart.
Quite possibly the market you describe simply isn't the one that Neil wants to focus on.
Very much so.:) FYI, this occurred at Kenyon (small liberals arts school in Ohio); Neil was there visiting his daughter.
I do think he's being a bit daft with all this 'quality' nonsense though.
Neil's easily the most vocal proponent of replacing 16bit/44khz audio with 24bit/192khz and that's a contentious subject... but all the yammering and clamoring aside, if someone were to take a decent pair of speakers (nothing necessarily extreme, mind you; my preference would be an older pair of Klipsch Reference floorspeakers, $1000 on CL) and bi-amp 'em to a decent used receiver (Marantz, Denon and HK come to mind, $300 on CL), feed 'em with optical S/PDIF from a pc or SACD player... and then audition the uncompressed recording of your choice (presumably something you're used to and love) at 16bit and 24bit... there's an excellent chance you'd be able to tell the difference in a double-blind test. As for being able to tell the difference between high-bitrate compressed and 16bit lossless? It's a foregone conclusion and anyone saying otherwise is either tone-deaf or talking out their ass; that "high quality" MP3, WMA or proprietary stream (i.e. Spotify on its highest quality settings) is going to sound muffled by comparison; particularly the highs.
Totally orthogonal to the topic at hand but a true story definitely worth relating: while my kid brother was at college, one of his friends was cranking Neil Young loudly in his dorm room... and there came a loud pounding on his door. He yelled "come in" and Neil Young opened the door and yelled "Turn it down!" with a shit-eating grin.
No, not in any meaningful sense (i.e. the context of the comparison in question): fracking-induced quakes are highly-localized and miniscule by comparison; i.e. just because you might be able to pop a zit on your face quite easily doesn't mean that you can use the same technique to remove a brain tumor... but yes, both the zit and the tumor are located in your head.;)
Not quite true; from what I recall, their democratically - elected gov't (back in the 50's?) was a threat to a particular western oil company with vested interests in Iran... and thus we have the situation you see today...;)
Perhaps it would've been safe to assume that my comment was intended to be at least partially useful; i.e. I wasn't referring to drives that are so fucking old that they're of legal drinking age??;)
Ellen made all the hard changes, like clamping down on offensive speech.
"Offense is never given, it's only ever taken."
-Unknown
"He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool."
Brigham Young
WTF happened to the basic American principle of dying for the right of the offensive to be offensive... not just when we don't agree but especially when we don't agree??
I remember old Connors sucking balls... and getting an *entire batch* of Fujitsus that were bad (eighteen years ago)... IBM "Deathstars" were virtually guaranteed to go belly-up soon after purchase (fifteen years ago)... but I'm not aware of Western Digitals from a decade ago being likely to have problems disproportionate to their numbers... in fact, I've low-level-wiped and run diag on *so very many* WD's from that time period (easily in the thousands) that I feel sure I would have spotted a trend...
Fuck those insidious things. Taking out a hornets/wasps' nest up in the eaves with a 12ga loaded with birdshot (the smaller the shotsize, the better)...? Priceless. Watching bits of wasp rain gently down for 30sec afterwards only adds to the fun!
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It comes with the territory...
Tim, you're a writer (or, at least, attempting to play one on TV); as such, you might want to actually learn how. The saying is "goes with the territory."
(If I don't tell you, who is?? Your editors?!) ;)
Why do shepherds wearing flowing robes?
'Cause sheep can hear a zipper from a mile away...
Quite possibly the market you describe simply isn't the one that Neil wants to focus on.
That's a cool story....hope it's true.
Very much so. :) FYI, this occurred at Kenyon (small liberals arts school in Ohio); Neil was there visiting his daughter.
I do think he's being a bit daft with all this 'quality' nonsense though.
Neil's easily the most vocal proponent of replacing 16bit/44khz audio with 24bit/192khz and that's a contentious subject... but all the yammering and clamoring aside, if someone were to take a decent pair of speakers (nothing necessarily extreme, mind you; my preference would be an older pair of Klipsch Reference floorspeakers, $1000 on CL) and bi-amp 'em to a decent used receiver (Marantz, Denon and HK come to mind, $300 on CL), feed 'em with optical S/PDIF from a pc or SACD player... and then audition the uncompressed recording of your choice (presumably something you're used to and love) at 16bit and 24bit... there's an excellent chance you'd be able to tell the difference in a double-blind test. As for being able to tell the difference between high-bitrate compressed and 16bit lossless? It's a foregone conclusion and anyone saying otherwise is either tone-deaf or talking out their ass; that "high quality" MP3, WMA or proprietary stream (i.e. Spotify on its highest quality settings) is going to sound muffled by comparison; particularly the highs.
Totally orthogonal to the topic at hand but a true story definitely worth relating: while my kid brother was at college, one of his friends was cranking Neil Young loudly in his dorm room... and there came a loud pounding on his door. He yelled "come in" and Neil Young opened the door and yelled "Turn it down!" with a shit-eating grin.
No, not in any meaningful sense (i.e. the context of the comparison in question): fracking-induced quakes are highly-localized and miniscule by comparison; i.e. just because you might be able to pop a zit on your face quite easily doesn't mean that you can use the same technique to remove a brain tumor... but yes, both the zit and the tumor are located in your head. ;)
Pluto is too small for the heat to be internally generated
Unless its core is continuing to undergo a fissile reaction...
Why not take out of Oklahoma's or Texas's playbook and do some fracking near the fault line?
Um, 'cause shale layers != tectonic plates?!
But surely we need a way to move soil samples around!
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a tablet. ;)
Not quite true; from what I recall, their democratically - elected gov't (back in the 50's?) was a threat to a particular western oil company with vested interests in Iran... and thus we have the situation you see today... ;)
They'd simply have to let me get behind the wheel: I've seen how skilled their drivers aren't.
We won't give up on oil until we run out.
It'll never happen: I'd like to introduce thermal depolymerization, or, as it may possibly come to be known, soylent oil. ;)
Drivers don't really have the option not to take rides...they have to accept 90% of rides offered, or they're out of Uber.
Don't be stupid: if they don't want to take rides, they have the option of not signing-on to the system.
Perhaps it would've been safe to assume that my comment was intended to be at least partially useful; i.e. I wasn't referring to drives that are so fucking old that they're of legal drinking age?? ;)
Fuzz, I'm surprised you never heard of this...
we don't currently have fusion working
We don't currently have economically viable, contained fusion reactors working.
using a fissile material as fuel
it would seem that the writer doesn't understand the difference between fission and fusion...
Ellen made all the hard changes, like clamping down on offensive speech.
"Offense is never given, it's only ever taken."
-Unknown
"He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool."
Brigham Young
WTF happened to the basic American principle of dying for the right of the offensive to be offensive... not just when we don't agree but especially when we don't agree??
Even dumbass shills ought to keep from sticking their feet that far down their throats...
I remember old Connors sucking balls... and getting an *entire batch* of Fujitsus that were bad (eighteen years ago)... IBM "Deathstars" were virtually guaranteed to go belly-up soon after purchase (fifteen years ago)... but I'm not aware of Western Digitals from a decade ago being likely to have problems disproportionate to their numbers... in fact, I've low-level-wiped and run diag on *so very many* WD's from that time period (easily in the thousands) that I feel sure I would have spotted a trend...
And then took a big bloody nose from the inferior Migs.
That only held true until graduates of the Navy's new Fighter Weapons School showed up, whereupon the kill ratio became 13-to-1 (our favor).
Fuck those insidious things. Taking out a hornets/wasps' nest up in the eaves with a 12ga loaded with birdshot (the smaller the shotsize, the better)...? Priceless. Watching bits of wasp rain gently down for 30sec afterwards only adds to the fun!
And yet, hard drives can and do crash. They fail.
Three rules of thumb:
A) Avoid heat
B) Avoid vibration
C) Avoid Seagate!
Why does everybody keep repeating this? That ruling applied to *one individual*