basically the Washington post print edition had a lot more on the fact that they're no longer venture capital darlings; they have a process, they can sell it to companies NOW, and they are looking to the future for mass production (and the resultant cost cuts).
however the Washington post website only has the "Companies to watch!" blurb, which is useless.
I was talking to a Consultant- a sub-con who works for himself and he was commenting on the the differences between being a salaried employee and being a contractor.
I commented "it must stink paying for your own health coverage"- His response was that Health care coverage is nice, but not as expensive as everyone makes it seem. Actually the biggest expenses are that vacations are unpaid, and education costs are solely your own.
Insurance companies are always looking to make money and I'm sure they give volume discounts, just like everybody else! (who actually pays $1.50 for a resistor at radio shack?)
I know becuase I did a lot of research on this. I went to Best Buy and talked to their knowledgable staff and they told me this was the thing we needed. And they said it was "Sweet" so I had to get it. They also told be I should buy the extended warranty contract, so of course I did- you never know when some "new technology" is going to break and you won't be able to fix it.
See, I tried to rise above the pack by actually responding to the article posted on Slashdot (if you notice the majority of slashdot comments fail to do so) HOWEVER I did not do the deep research and check the journal.
Let this be a lesson to us- We know journalists are dumb (esp. online journalists!) and we know that they only pander to the lowest common sensationalist denominator.
So hmmm, Wilco breaks into the billboard chart at number 13 thanks to mp3 trading on the web,
and Moby is "barely floating".
Good! First off, Moby may know a thing or two about making music, but what exactly does he know about Economics, and specifically those that are related to album sales? Ah! He doesn't have any qualifications. Thats fine, I am not a slave to "pieces of paper" that say Harvard or Yale, what is his evidence?
1) he's not doing so hot. 2) Weezer's not doing so hot. 3) Pink is beating the PANTS off them both.
Hmmm, could it be that PINK spend mad money on songwriter (Specifically the lady from 4 Non Blondes) Linda Perry
Hunh, maybe she's just getting more air play and has better quality songs?
okay, okay, fine. WEll, what about Wilco, who's album has been available for ages on the web, I would think they have a techie fan base? And didn't wide spread MP3 availability simply help them out?
So let us re-phrase the Pearl Jam Effect- when your new album sucks in comparison to your previous albums and you don't sell because you don't deserve it?
I have a TI 85 that I've had since high school... almost 10 years of it- It is enough equipment for the job. One cool thing I saw is they have an overhead projector that attaches to a TI, so the professor can talk about graphing a function and show it to the class on the calculator (makes up for any bad drawing abilities!)
The only complaint I have about the TI is that doing anything in different bases (HEX, binary, etc.) and converting back and forth is A PAIN. My office mate uses a handheld to do his hex conversions- I use MS's calcualtor accessory. It does the job fast. I have evolved to the point of using it and relying on it.
And thats really the approach that education should have for technology- have some pilot programs, but lets see whats working and what fits into what we already do well.
Augment, don't re-invent.
As for depending upon it to do math- thats up to the individual. For some people the time it takes to do math is wasted. For some people the time it takes to paint their house, clean their house, install vinyl siding by themselves is wasted and they'd rather have someone/something else do it. Props to them, it really is their decision. If you want to get quikc at math in your head, play dominos!
The thing is you can also run programs off a TI- write 'em in c on a real computer, compile 'em down to Z80 machine code, and DL to your TI. VOila! MINESWEEPER!
The mirror is out of the country. Okay I can't linke to the mirror, but can I link to an underground news site that has a linke to the mirror, that has a link to the "BAD!" information!!!
Or do I have to link to a site that a 12 year old made for his little sister, that links to a wired article, that links to a slashdot page (They totally steal their news from here. P.S.- Hi wired!) , that links to a pr0n site, that links to THIS slasdot article, that links to google, that links to the Queen of Englands home page, that links to the mirror?
So move the link out. And then when re-legislated, link out again. When the laws become too impracticle to enforce they collapse.
Reasons 1, 2, and 4 are done for a great number of college courses, both traditional and distance learning. This has been a natural evolution from having a department/school wide network with internet access and computer labs. The emphasis is that this evolved out of circumstances, this has not been pushed by some technology vendor.
This can also be done without laptops as well- though more and more most colleges are saying the average freshman needs a computer, with fairly reasonable access to a computer lab or a library. (SIDENOTE: the one in my high school was locked up tighter than a chastity belt. That makes sense, lets NOT let the kids use computers! We literally had a LOTUS 1-2-3 class as a lecture!) Now the difference is that Sunday night 3 am our freshman can go into the computer labs and type away. High schools are usually closed by then. But this can all be acheived without getting "ultra fancy" and losing sight of the goal- get kids to use computers as tools, not simply as toys.
WOW! Instead of that annoying socratic method (Professor: "Mr Pithers! Please stand up and tell us WHY we should never invert the apex of a geometric nucleus?") to find out the students grasp of knowledge, have a "private" little quiz- almost anonymous, and the teacher gets a better "random sample" of what the class knows.
My wife has a slim little toshiba laptop and she types much faster ( not to mention much neater) than she can scrawl with a pen or pencil.
Given the extremes, it seems silly to "mandate" such a thing into existence- let the typers type, let the writers write, and let the kids who sleep in the back use a tape recorder!
I think educators are basically being tapped out for their budget, so they are being marketed (or "marked") by poeple who have computers and want to sell it.
But before we step in to the "can we do it?" phase, we need to step into the "Why?" phase:
What advantage is this going to confer to kids? A radically changed lesson plan to incorporate whiz-bang gizmos, where neither the lesson plan nor the gizmos have had all their bugs wrinkled out?
No, this is a bottom up approach and you end up having the tail wag the dog. Lets look at computers in some schools- in the late 80's my grammar school had a couple of Commodore PETs (literally 2), it was wheeled out for special occaisions (once a year) and wheeled back into its closet. It was obvious that they bought the hype that "computers are our future, so simply by having one near a classroom it will enrich the students!"
We need a top down approach: what are we trying to teach? How best to implement the lesson plan? And if you want to teach "computers" (ugh, who'd want to take that class?!) figure out what you want to do- maybe instead of a hand held device one of those microprocessor lab trainers (a computer on a board with a led read out and hex keypad input), or a unix system, or just a plain ol' windows box with Word on it (hey, typing is a skill!)
I hate when people just throw tech at a problem without thinking it through. This guy,
"I'm trying to figure out how to use Palms in our schools,"
Dude... you sellin'? Next to Trex fake wood, tongue depressers are the newest wave in home building materials!
PS- to bring this back on topic- One thing every building geek needs is info on permits and applications. Easy- just get a contractor to spill on exactly WHAT permits one needs to build said structure- pose as a person who might actually buy their services. Then when they say "oh yeah, you just file a 10b21 form a-spec, and it takes about a week..."
youve played him at his own game. Except for you fm6- I think tongue depresser structures are exempt from BOCA standards.
exactly. Another way to swiftly increase the value of the cardboard box/red tagged house (complete with CONDEMNED signs and all) is to fix 'er up. And the cheapest way to do that is to DIY.
Think about it, I'm installing a deck for well under a G (well, a G if you include all the beer!) and that will more than pay for itself in terms of what the house can be sold for.
Oh, you know for a fact that the kid got the info on how to do JUST that from a website... infact a site written SOLELY to explain how to dual boot that specific walmart box!
I think a fair number of Joe Everybody's will most likely pirate a copy of Windows XP or whatever.
but the question is What is the mean time between plugging in the box when you first get it and installing a Windows OS? That initial exposure is what's most important. Also if there is a "kid" in the house (becuase kids don't shell out the money, thus they have no "value" associated with the computer, thus they are more likely to mess-around with it) that kid may be the one installing Windows but he may like linux and the box could be set up to dual-boot.
Give enough people general exposure to linux, and it transforms from "something that them there hakkers use", to "something that worked pretty well, and didn't crash nearly as much as..."
Now maybe those people are in a position to buy some computers for there small company, and maybe now that they've had a favorable experience with linux they decide to save their business a lot of money by becoming a linux shop...
Now that the name is out there, give the people a favorable experience with it and a cute mascot. Tux could be the next mickey mouse!
This is how a nerd approaches his house
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Even a nerd is smart enough to build equity.
And when I moved into my starter home (town house, actually) I was fully on the DIY kick. I pulled down wallpaper, put up dry wall, changed and added light fixtures, and painted, good lord how I painted!
Now we're planning on adding a deck in the backyard and we spoke to different contractors. After getting the used-car-salesman "what can I do to make you sign the contract today?", the run-around, the week-to-week price change, and the shady "we'll drive around in my truck and I'll point out the one's I've done, you don't NEED references!"- I've decided to build it myself. For a savings of $1,500-3,000 USD (depending upon who's estimate you believe).
You know far too much about fishing to actually have any!
And unless you found that "significant other who likes to fish" I'd say its about time you followed your own advice!;)
I think your advice is mostly sound, however there are some areas that I think would warrant further explanation. Alas, I am at a loss for fishing metaphors! maybe these will help:
To hook the best fish, don't walk around like the ancient mariner with an albatross around your neck.
Be careful removing scales and watch out for choking on small bones.
Both Fish and house guests stink after three days.
The other difference is that once a hole is found in a system, it can be patched.
Once you've shipped some physical object and the security on it has been breached, you are up a creek!
One of the best scheme's I've heard of is one where there was a way of spoofing certain keys. The implementer knew this and when one of these hacked keys were entered it turned on the "RANDOM BUG" boolean, which would drop things mid process, panic your machine, etc. etc. He was quite smug when he thought of this.
I don't think he could get a patent on it. I think the BSOD is an example of prior art!
First Blockbuster makes the announcement that they are going DVD. They're not there yet but now when you first walk into the store DVD is what you get.
Now Circuit City is phasing out VHS... With the affordability of DVD players and its clearly superior picture quality (I liked grainy vhs, didn't see a need to get a dvd player, got a PS2 for my wedding and now I don't rent tapes.) there is no reason not to.
Current VHS users can still rent VHS cassettes, and blank tapes will still be sold for quite a while (so you can tape your tv shows), its just getting phased out.
This is the model HDTV should take/is going to take. Don't legislate it into existence- let the technology mature. Let it breathe along side whats already there, and watch as people take note of its superior performance. As the entry level price drops the past will fall by the way side.
the people I feel the worst for are those who have huge vhs libraries. But since there are ways of taking obselete video formats (Super 8!) and transferring them to digital, they don't have much to worry about.
It seems my wife (a product of the midwest) had an interesting physical education experience.
They too would dance, but they would dance to the seminol electronic music song, Popcorn! (sorry for the amazon link, but they have a sound sample for those interested...)
Oh wow, this is a great idea for a fitness tape: Moog'ing to the oldies! (someone tell Richard Simmons!)
However this sounds like a MUCH better switch (popcorn gets damn annoying after a little while)- as long as they can maintain the machine, kudos to them!
I hear the argument all the time- tube vs solid state, CD vs MP3 (with hi bit rate) vs Live, live in a cheezy bar with a moron sound guy, live in a huge stadium built for basketball, live on acoustic guitar three feet away from you, or a cheap radio shack audio tape that's been copied 4 times (4 gen loss) played on a crappy tape recorder with one 5 inch paper cone speaker.
I think it's all bunk. Some performances sound better with the crackle and hum of a radio, some sound great on a component speaker system, and some sound damn fine on a fisher price toy.
5 different judges hear five different performances, based upon where they focus their attention, how much hearing loss they've sustained over time (limits their freq response sensitivity) and heck, even the mood they are currently in.
If all the judges were "telecommuting" I would say they are missing out. But having one judge telecommute in? I think by removing one facet of the performance that forces the judge to see the same "live performance" (its done in one take. it's live. we could argue this point for hours.) in a different light. In the same way a blind judge is going to have a different performance even though they are sitting right next to you.
Probably its more of a novelty thing having this judge telecommute in. The "music community" is far too obssessed with sonic purity and the environment impacting on the performance for it to take hold. Truth is, things sound better when you have to get dressed up, drive out, park your car (or valet), stand in line, and sample in the "electrically charged" environment of a crowded room.
But when the power is knocked out, and you have a candle and a 4th generation tape of Tom Waits on the tape recorder your french teacher used to have...
all you need to do is add the girl. And that beats out most of the live performances I've seen.
Close your eyes. clear your mind. Hear that? That's the zen!
Why, yes! Zen does sound a lot like a computer fan with the occaisional hard drive spin up! Where do you think the computer manufacturers got the idea from?
Re:OR just spend $60 on a sharp wizard 730!
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however the link is to the press release.
basically the Washington post print edition had a lot more on the fact that they're no longer venture capital darlings; they have a process, they can sell it to companies NOW, and they are looking to the future for mass production (and the resultant cost cuts).
however the Washington post website only has the "Companies to watch!" blurb, which is useless.
I was talking to a Consultant- a sub-con who works for himself and he was commenting on the the differences between being a salaried employee and being a contractor.
I commented "it must stink paying for your own health coverage"- His response was that Health care coverage is nice, but not as expensive as everyone makes it seem. Actually the biggest expenses are that vacations are unpaid, and education costs are solely your own.
Insurance companies are always looking to make money and I'm sure they give volume discounts, just like everybody else! (who actually pays $1.50 for a resistor at radio shack?)
Look! You can make your own front side labels on your computer!
I know becuase I did a lot of research on this. I went to Best Buy and talked to their knowledgable staff and they told me this was the thing we needed. And they said it was "Sweet" so I had to get it. They also told be I should buy the extended warranty contract, so of course I did- you never know when some "new technology" is going to break and you won't be able to fix it.
Imperial Tacohead has made a fool of us all.
See, I tried to rise above the pack by actually responding to the article posted on Slashdot (if you notice the majority of slashdot comments fail to do so) HOWEVER I did not do the deep research and check the journal.
Let this be a lesson to us- We know journalists are dumb (esp. online journalists!) and we know that they only pander to the lowest common sensationalist denominator.
Don't Believe the Hype.
So hmmm, Wilco breaks into the billboard chart at number 13 thanks to mp3 trading on the web,
and Moby is "barely floating".
Good! First off, Moby may know a thing or two about making music, but what exactly does he know about Economics, and specifically those that are related to album sales? Ah! He doesn't have any qualifications. Thats fine, I am not a slave to "pieces of paper" that say Harvard or Yale, what is his evidence?
1) he's not doing so hot.
2) Weezer's not doing so hot.
3) Pink is beating the PANTS off them both.
Hmmm, could it be that PINK spend mad money on songwriter (Specifically the lady from 4 Non Blondes) Linda Perry
Hunh, maybe she's just getting more air play and has better quality songs?
okay, okay, fine. WEll, what about Wilco, who's album has been available for ages on the web, I would think they have a techie fan base?
And didn't wide spread MP3 availability simply help them out?
So let us re-phrase the Pearl Jam Effect- when your new album sucks in comparison to your previous albums and you don't sell because you don't deserve it?
I have a TI 85 that I've had since high school... almost 10 years of it- It is enough equipment for the job. One cool thing I saw is they have an overhead projector that attaches to a TI, so the professor can talk about graphing a function and show it to the class on the calculator (makes up for any bad drawing abilities!)
The only complaint I have about the TI is that doing anything in different bases (HEX, binary, etc.) and converting back and forth is A PAIN. My office mate uses a handheld to do his hex conversions- I use MS's calcualtor accessory. It does the job fast. I have evolved to the point of using it and relying on it.
And thats really the approach that education should have for technology- have some pilot programs, but lets see whats working and what fits into what we already do well.
Augment, don't re-invent.
As for depending upon it to do math- thats up to the individual. For some people the time it takes to do math is wasted. For some people the time it takes to paint their house, clean their house, install vinyl siding by themselves is wasted and they'd rather have someone/something else do it. Props to them, it really is their decision. If you want to get quikc at math in your head, play dominos!
The thing is you can also run programs off a TI- write 'em in c on a real computer, compile 'em down to Z80 machine code, and DL to your TI. VOila! MINESWEEPER!
So where does it stop?
The mirror is out of the country. Okay I can't linke to the mirror, but can I link to an underground news site that has a linke to the mirror, that has a link to the "BAD!" information!!!
Or do I have to link to a site that a 12 year old made for his little sister, that links to a wired article, that links to a slashdot page (They totally steal their news from here. P.S.- Hi wired!) , that links to a pr0n site, that links to THIS slasdot article, that links to google, that links to the Queen of Englands home page, that links to the mirror?
So move the link out. And then when re-legislated, link out again. When the laws become too impracticle to enforce they collapse.
Okay in reponse to some of your Goods-
Reasons 1, 2, and 4 are done for a great number of college courses, both traditional and distance learning. This has been a natural evolution from having a department/school wide network with internet access and computer labs. The emphasis is that this evolved out of circumstances, this has not been pushed by some technology vendor.
This can also be done without laptops as well- though more and more most colleges are saying the average freshman needs a computer, with fairly reasonable access to a computer lab or a library. (SIDENOTE: the one in my high school was locked up tighter than a chastity belt. That makes sense, lets NOT let the kids use computers! We literally had a LOTUS 1-2-3 class as a lecture!)
Now the difference is that Sunday night 3 am our freshman can go into the computer labs and type away. High schools are usually closed by then.
But this can all be acheived without getting "ultra fancy" and losing sight of the goal- get kids to use computers as tools, not simply as toys.
WOW! Instead of that annoying socratic method (Professor: "Mr Pithers! Please stand up and tell us WHY we should never invert the apex of a geometric nucleus?") to find out the students grasp of knowledge, have a "private" little quiz- almost anonymous, and the teacher gets a better "random sample" of what the class knows.
P.S.- that geometric nucleus question is hard.
My wife has a slim little toshiba laptop and she types much faster ( not to mention much neater) than she can scrawl with a pen or pencil.
Given the extremes, it seems silly to "mandate" such a thing into existence- let the typers type, let the writers write, and let the kids who sleep in the back use a tape recorder!
I think educators are basically being tapped out for their budget, so they are being marketed (or "marked") by poeple who have computers and want to sell it.
But before we step in to the "can we do it?" phase, we need to step into the "Why?" phase:
What advantage is this going to confer to kids?
A radically changed lesson plan to incorporate whiz-bang gizmos, where neither the lesson plan nor the gizmos have had all their bugs wrinkled out?
No, this is a bottom up approach and you end up having the tail wag the dog. Lets look at computers in some schools- in the late 80's my grammar school had a couple of Commodore PETs (literally 2), it was wheeled out for special occaisions (once a year) and wheeled back into its closet. It was obvious that they bought the hype that "computers are our future, so simply by having one near a classroom it will enrich the students!"
We need a top down approach: what are we trying to teach? How best to implement the lesson plan?
And if you want to teach "computers" (ugh, who'd want to take that class?!) figure out what you want to do- maybe instead of a hand held device one of those microprocessor lab trainers (a computer on a board with a led read out and hex keypad input), or a unix system, or just a plain ol' windows box with Word on it (hey, typing is a skill!)
I hate when people just throw tech at a problem without thinking it through.
This guy,
is doomed.
Dude... you sellin'? Next to Trex fake wood, tongue depressers are the newest wave in home building materials!
PS- to bring this back on topic-
One thing every building geek needs is info on permits and applications. Easy- just get a contractor to spill on exactly WHAT permits one needs to build said structure- pose as a person who might actually buy their services. Then when they say "oh yeah, you just file a 10b21 form a-spec, and it takes about a week..."
youve played him at his own game.
Except for you fm6- I think tongue depresser structures are exempt from BOCA standards.
The nerd way is to build it on the first go around, have people recognize the value, and then fix the bugs along the way!
That's becuase they sell like hotcakes!
exactly. Another way to swiftly increase the value of the cardboard box/red tagged house (complete with CONDEMNED signs and all) is to fix 'er up. And the cheapest way to do that is to DIY.
Think about it, I'm installing a deck for well under a G (well, a G if you include all the beer!)
and that will more than pay for itself in terms of what the house can be sold for.
Oh, you know for a fact that the kid got the info on how to do JUST that from a website...
infact a site written SOLELY to explain how to dual boot that specific walmart box!
Its all about percentages.
I think a fair number of Joe Everybody's will most likely pirate a copy of Windows XP or whatever.
but the question is What is the mean time between plugging in the box when you first get it and installing a Windows OS?
That initial exposure is what's most important.
Also if there is a "kid" in the house (becuase kids don't shell out the money, thus they have no "value" associated with the computer, thus they are more likely to mess-around with it) that kid may be the one installing Windows but he may like linux and the box could be set up to dual-boot.
Give enough people general exposure to linux, and it transforms from "something that them there hakkers use", to "something that worked pretty well, and didn't crash nearly as much as..."
Now maybe those people are in a position to buy some computers for there small company, and maybe now that they've had a favorable experience with linux they decide to save their business a lot of money by becoming a linux shop...
Now that the name is out there, give the people a favorable experience with it and a cute mascot. Tux could be the next mickey mouse!
Even a nerd is smart enough to build equity.
And when I moved into my starter home (town house, actually) I was fully on the DIY kick. I pulled down wallpaper, put up dry wall, changed and added light fixtures, and painted, good lord how I painted!
Now we're planning on adding a deck in the backyard and we spoke to different contractors. After getting the used-car-salesman "what can I do to make you sign the contract today?", the run-around, the week-to-week price change, and the shady "we'll drive around in my truck and I'll point out the one's I've done, you don't NEED references!"- I've decided to build it myself.
For a savings of $1,500-3,000 USD (depending upon who's estimate you believe).
So this book is right up my alley!
If you don't unix regularly a nice intro book on shell scripting followed by a reference book on your favorite shell will work.
And if you plan on interacting with management I highly recommend Pressman's "Software Engineering: A Practicioners Approach".
You know far too much about fishing to actually have any!
;)
And unless you found that "significant other who likes to fish" I'd say its about time you followed your own advice!
I think your advice is mostly sound, however there are some areas that I think would warrant further explanation. Alas, I am at a loss for fishing metaphors! maybe these will help:
To hook the best fish, don't walk around like the ancient mariner with an albatross around your neck.
Be careful removing scales and watch out for choking on small bones.
Both Fish and house guests stink after three days.
Everything I know I learned from alt.seduction.fast
The other difference is that once a hole is found in a system, it can be patched.
Once you've shipped some physical object and the security on it has been breached, you are up a creek!
One of the best scheme's I've heard of is one where there was a way of spoofing certain keys. The implementer knew this and when one of these hacked keys were entered it turned on the "RANDOM BUG" boolean, which would drop things mid process, panic your machine, etc. etc. He was quite smug when he thought of this.
I don't think he could get a patent on it. I think the BSOD is an example of prior art!
First Blockbuster makes the announcement that they are going DVD. They're not there yet but now when you first walk into the store DVD is what you get.
Now Circuit City is phasing out VHS... With the affordability of DVD players and its clearly superior picture quality (I liked grainy vhs, didn't see a need to get a dvd player, got a PS2 for my wedding and now I don't rent tapes.) there is no reason not to.
Current VHS users can still rent VHS cassettes, and blank tapes will still be sold for quite a while (so you can tape your tv shows), its just getting phased out.
This is the model HDTV should take/is going to take. Don't legislate it into existence- let the technology mature. Let it breathe along side whats already there, and watch as people take note of its superior performance. As the entry level price drops the past will fall by the way side.
the people I feel the worst for are those who have huge vhs libraries. But since there are ways of taking obselete video formats (Super 8!) and transferring them to digital, they don't have much to worry about.
And time marches on.
It seems my wife (a product of the midwest) had an interesting physical education experience.
They too would dance, but they would dance to the seminol electronic music song, Popcorn! (sorry for the amazon link, but they have a sound sample for those interested...)
Oh wow, this is a great idea for a fitness tape: Moog'ing to the oldies! (someone tell Richard Simmons!)
However this sounds like a MUCH better switch (popcorn gets damn annoying after a little while)-
as long as they can maintain the machine, kudos to them!
But what happens when the songs get old?
I hear the argument all the time- tube vs solid state, CD vs MP3 (with hi bit rate) vs Live,
live in a cheezy bar with a moron sound guy, live in a huge stadium built for basketball, live on acoustic guitar three feet away from you, or a cheap radio shack audio tape that's been copied 4 times (4 gen loss) played on a crappy tape recorder with one 5 inch paper cone speaker.
I think it's all bunk. Some performances sound better with the crackle and hum of a radio, some sound great on a component speaker system, and some sound damn fine on a fisher price toy.
5 different judges hear five different performances, based upon where they focus their attention, how much hearing loss they've sustained over time (limits their freq response sensitivity) and heck, even the mood they are currently in.
If all the judges were "telecommuting" I would say they are missing out. But having one judge telecommute in? I think by removing one facet of the performance that forces the judge to see the same "live performance" (its done in one take. it's live. we could argue this point for hours.) in a different light. In the same way a blind judge is going to have a different performance even though they are sitting right next to you.
Probably its more of a novelty thing having this judge telecommute in. The "music community"
is far too obssessed with sonic purity and the environment impacting on the performance for it to take hold. Truth is, things sound better when you have to get dressed up, drive out, park your car (or valet), stand in line, and sample in the "electrically charged" environment of a crowded room.
But when the power is knocked out, and you have a candle and a 4th generation tape of Tom Waits on the tape recorder your french teacher used to have...
all you need to do is add the girl. And that beats out most of the live performances I've seen.
You gotta flow with it, feel the zen.
Close your eyes. clear your mind. Hear that? That's the zen!
Why, yes! Zen does sound a lot like a computer fan with the occaisional hard drive spin up! Where do you think the computer manufacturers got the idea from?
I hate it when I screw up my sig file!!