You sir make some excellent points. I mean what part of "would somebody get this walking carpet out of my way" is considered "fine film?"
Also, another glaring problem with this whole concept is that you can't "fire George Lucas." Um, yeah, he *is* Star Wars, its his, and its that simple.
Its not like some studio executive can walk in and fire George Lucas... he *is* the studio for crying out loud.
I think what most people seem to do is, romanticize the OT because it is steaped in tradition and modern folk lore. And because of that people have just become so blind to the reality that Star Wars was always just meant to be a serial in the grand tradition of the 1930's and '40's seriels, and to project anything more than that is just faulty logic and you are simply setting yourself up for disappointment.
Of course, its the cool thing now days to hate. Because god forbid you actually admit to liking something! Holy shit... you'd just be another fan boy! Can't have that.
Its the safe move, to bash Episode III, especially a year prior to its release -- because after setting yourself up for a disapointment you can laugh and point "see I told you so!"
Instead of just enjoying the movie for what it is and not projecting your own tainted expectations based on a "remembered" past experience is a sure way to ensure that you will not like this movie. Instead, just maybe it might be a good idea to sit back, relax, and let your mind go and enjoy.
Um, no. Actually driving like a criminal, and using one's car as a weapon is what sent this scum bag to jail. The "black box" just helped make sure this freak is off the streets.
Not exactly. Yes, a reference is always checked on less-than-professional gear... but if you've ever been in a mastering suite... you will often find the finest available professional monitors because accuracy and transparency cannot be achieved using sub-standard gear.
The whole point of this is that in acoustically tuned rooms, (e.g. decent recording studios) is the most accurate way to represent sound.
f you don't want to hear the room, use headphones!
Heh, um... if you are in a recording situation... the only use headphones have is for tracking/monitoring. Doing a mix or mastering using headphones? Um, no. Not in a million years:)
Um yeah, that's pretty much the main problem in hearing the room versus hearing the actual sound.
well... i'll take a pair of Genelec's over anything. Perfectly tuned and as sonically pure as any near-field or main-room monitor will get.
having spent a little time in half-way decent studios... and having heard what a nicely tuned room can get you (coupled with a nice set of Tannoy's and Genelec's as the mains), I'd take that over the size any day of the week. Nice tight low-ends, crystal clear high-end and all the definition and transparency in the mid.
Actually... with proper use of "bass traps" you can hear real bass out of decent monitors (I'm thinking of nicer monitors... ala Event 20/20's or a nice pair of Tannoy's).
Using bass traps in the corners of the room, which is where low freq's tend to rest can go a long way in ensuring that the low-end you hear is not the room, but the actual sound.
Of course bass traps aren't a "fix-all" good acoustic absorption goes a long way as well to stop the slap-back and other nasty room things.
Ah... but you'd have to be a real freak to convert a room in your house to a recording studio... errr... oh wait... heh:)
Heh, sounds like you used your powers for awesome!
I on the other hand, many years ago, working for a telecom, was working on an application, in coldfusion, to automate some billing functions... only to find out that there was a whole other development effort doing the same exact thing! Yeah, no one talked to anyone at this company (which is probably why its just a sad pathetic footnote in the world of telecom).
That was the worse, being half-way through the project and someone coming along and saying "uh yeah, we have another team working on this." My manager, turns out, was making a power play. Nice being a pawn:)
I was referring to *my* current situation. I was simply stating facts... everyone I work with does indeed have a CS degree, and each one hates things of the creative nature.
I don't know you, haven't worked with you, and therefor was not making a blanket statement regarding all those who have CS degrees of course:)
What I was doing was illustrating the difference between myself and those I work with.
Heh, its funny. I have this 7-Year Plan that I have recently started... and if I can follow through with it, will mean at the 7th year I will be out of IT.
I've been in IT for nearly 10 years, and right now, I see my career as almost at a complete stand-still. Yeah, I make a decent living (on the north side of 78k a year) -- but I'm still doing the same thing I was doing in 1997 -- the only difference is, I'm a hell of a lot better at it.
Anyway, i formulated this 7-year plan where I would start to develop some of my side projects and hopefully be at a point within the 7 years that I can leave IT behind and never look back.
I think my biggest problem with IT is the people. I'm a pretty friendly guy who has a very strange sense of humor and like to read, write, watch movies, talk about art and design, music, recording and other creative things -- while everyone I work with all have CS degrees and view things like that as a sickness to be avoided. Its a shame really. Plus, the managers in IT -- I swear they just stamp them out of some machine. Some are better than the others -- and the two guys that own the small consultancy I work for are great guys, very smart and just good people... but here at the client site... these people are robots! I get constantly criticized for not being more "social" here. Well there's a reason! No one gives a damn what I'm into and what I like to talk about. I'm sorry, I just am not going to become something I'm not.
So, instead of trying to shape myself into something I'm not, I figure I need to find a way out of this IT world. I wouldn't call myself "unhappy" in fact I am a happy person -- because of my life *outside* of IT.
Of course -- 7 years is a long time, and things are subject to change... but my current frame of mind dictates that I can't just sit around and do *nothing* -- I'm not the type who just waits for things to happen. I try my hardest to make things happen (realizing of course that control is, after all, an illusion) -- but all the same. Shit aint just gonna happen just because:)
Heh, like a real life Canary Trap eh? That'd be pretty cool... but for that to be truly effective it wouldn't have to be so obvious (the mistakes). A misplaced period or a switched adjective would be more effective... of course I read too much Tom Clany!:)
Free speech is fine when we're talking about opinions and facts - it shouldn't protect lying and baseless claims.
wow, scary.
free speech means I can make all the baseless claims and lie all I want. What I can't do is yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater (the classic example).
If I break the law (through fraud) -- then fine, arrest me, and I'll go through due process, but to simply restrict speech simply because it may be baseless or a lie is ridiculous and scary.
Right now, I'm sitting on the beach typing this and that later today I'm going to take a long drive in my Ferrari.
See, that was a lie! I'm sitting in my cubicle right now! But according to your definition of free speech, I just committed a crime by lying where I am and what I'm doing.
be like buying an Enzo? In order to be considered to be eligable to purchase a Ferrari Enzo, you would have had to owned an F40 and F50 -- so, what two laptops do you need to have owned prior in order to get one of these:)
I just stick with my powerbook 17", looks more like the amazing Porsche Carerra GT:-D
"Complexity is intrinsic in technology but simplicity is how we should bring it to the consumer."
Now I agree with this completely, but there's a message in here that I have some reservations about.
I believe in keeping things simple, but hiding complexity is often a double edge sword. Look at the old Mac OS 9 (and prior). The vast majority of complexity was hidden from the user... but to some of us... that meant we were forced to do things the way Apple wanted it done. Now, for many folks, that wasn't a bad thing... and were quite happy with that way. But for me, it was frustrating (which is why I found Linux).
Now, with gadgets, yes, simplicity clearly is the goal -- but making things more simple at the expense of hiding complexity -- thus handicapping (some of) the users is the balancing act that (I hope) needs to be considered.
specs which could foresee future futher away than say 4-6 years
LOL! Good grief man... the client I'm working with, their specs can't see past 4-6 weeks!
Over the last year and a half I've been working on building a "policy engine" that manages this company's various business policies... everything ranging from ordering, or communications to whatever.
Well, the ding-dang business users and their minions the "business analysists" can't see past a month or so... then oops... more functionality... change existing functionality... because "oops... we really need it to do this" to the point where I have to make this a unified system of "one off's"
Yeah, ugh... and the idea of "rewrite" has come up because right now... the code base is huge... its a mess and looks like, well, like patch work. We are trying to get management buy-in... and calling it "upgrading and refactoring" because we know full well that "rewrite" is a dirty word in these parts:)
Nice boiler plate response. Following Slashdot Rules to the letter.
Models are very good at predicting weather over 24 hours. What's your point?
Go find some textbooks on non-dimensionalisation techniques, statistical mechanics, basic chaos theory and their applications to the numerical solutions of PDEs
LOL!!!
Then come back when you're informed
Oh yes master of course master... anything you say. Oh that's right... I'm not allowed to have my own opinions because they conflict with yours.
So you have this blind, unquestioned faith in the models eh? So, is a computer your godhead? My whole point is predicting that which is based on *models* is not any better than predicting the weather over 24 hours.
Write out 100 times: i will learn to question my faith in computer models.
oh my, we are certain of ourselves aren't we? So, you think computer models and "trends" can predict what will happen in 50+ years.
Your example is completely irrelevant and has no basis on the *prediction* of climate, in that you assume the computer models are to be trusted completely and that they are infalable.
The whole point of this little exercise is to not just swallow what we are given as the gospel... rejecting the spoon that feeds us is tough sometines.
You missed the point... which should come as no surprise to me as most here on slashdot are just itching for a fight. So here's my point nice and clear.
Anyone or anything (e.g. computer models) that tries to predict the future, not matter how "reliable" their system may believe (which is a matter of faith on the part of those who believe in the system) is what is stupid.
Further my point is, we use computer models to predict the weather... so are our computer models so robust that we should trust them without question to predict the climate in 50 (or more) years? NO.
they can't predict the weather over 24 hours with any degree of accuracy, but of course we are supposed to just believe them when they tell us how things will be in 50 years.
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well, in my opinion, they didn't :)
to you they did, but hey. News flash: I aint you! I have my own ideas and opinions.
Um yeah, the only problem there is it is LUCAS himself that puts up the dollars! Its Lucas Films. He's the man.
You sir make some excellent points. I mean what part of "would somebody get this walking carpet out of my way" is considered "fine film?"
Also, another glaring problem with this whole concept is that you can't "fire George Lucas." Um, yeah, he *is* Star Wars, its his, and its that simple.
Its not like some studio executive can walk in and fire George Lucas... he *is* the studio for crying out loud.
I think what most people seem to do is, romanticize the OT because it is steaped in tradition and modern folk lore. And because of that people have just become so blind to the reality that Star Wars was always just meant to be a serial in the grand tradition of the 1930's and '40's seriels, and to project anything more than that is just faulty logic and you are simply setting yourself up for disappointment.
Of course, its the cool thing now days to hate. Because god forbid you actually admit to liking something! Holy shit... you'd just be another fan boy! Can't have that.
Its the safe move, to bash Episode III, especially a year prior to its release -- because after setting yourself up for a disapointment you can laugh and point "see I told you so!"
Instead of just enjoying the movie for what it is and not projecting your own tainted expectations based on a "remembered" past experience is a sure way to ensure that you will not like this movie. Instead, just maybe it might be a good idea to sit back, relax, and let your mind go and enjoy.
Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail
Um, no. Actually driving like a criminal, and using one's car as a weapon is what sent this scum bag to jail. The "black box" just helped make sure this freak is off the streets.
Not exactly. Yes, a reference is always checked on less-than-professional gear... but if you've ever been in a mastering suite... you will often find the finest available professional monitors because accuracy and transparency cannot be achieved using sub-standard gear.
The whole point of this is that in acoustically tuned rooms, (e.g. decent recording studios) is the most accurate way to represent sound.
f you don't want to hear the room, use headphones!
:)
Heh, um... if you are in a recording situation... the only use headphones have is for tracking/monitoring. Doing a mix or mastering using headphones? Um, no. Not in a million years
Nope - you're removing room resonance
Um yeah, that's pretty much the main problem in hearing the room versus hearing the actual sound.
well... i'll take a pair of Genelec's over anything. Perfectly tuned and as sonically pure as any near-field or main-room monitor will get.
having spent a little time in half-way decent studios... and having heard what a nicely tuned room can get you (coupled with a nice set of Tannoy's and Genelec's as the mains), I'd take that over the size any day of the week. Nice tight low-ends, crystal clear high-end and all the definition and transparency in the mid.
Actually... with proper use of "bass traps" you can hear real bass out of decent monitors (I'm thinking of nicer monitors... ala Event 20/20's or a nice pair of Tannoy's).
:)
Using bass traps in the corners of the room, which is where low freq's tend to rest can go a long way in ensuring that the low-end you hear is not the room, but the actual sound.
Of course bass traps aren't a "fix-all" good acoustic absorption goes a long way as well to stop the slap-back and other nasty room things.
Ah... but you'd have to be a real freak to convert a room in your house to a recording studio... errr... oh wait... heh
Heh, sounds like you used your powers for awesome!
:)
I on the other hand, many years ago, working for a telecom, was working on an application, in coldfusion, to automate some billing functions... only to find out that there was a whole other development effort doing the same exact thing! Yeah, no one talked to anyone at this company (which is probably why its just a sad pathetic footnote in the world of telecom).
That was the worse, being half-way through the project and someone coming along and saying "uh yeah, we have another team working on this." My manager, turns out, was making a power play. Nice being a pawn
I was referring to *my* current situation. I was simply stating facts... everyone I work with does indeed have a CS degree, and each one hates things of the creative nature.
:)
I don't know you, haven't worked with you, and therefor was not making a blanket statement regarding all those who have CS degrees of course
What I was doing was illustrating the difference between myself and those I work with.
Heh, its funny. I have this 7-Year Plan that I have recently started... and if I can follow through with it, will mean at the 7th year I will be out of IT.
:)
I've been in IT for nearly 10 years, and right now, I see my career as almost at a complete stand-still. Yeah, I make a decent living (on the north side of 78k a year) -- but I'm still doing the same thing I was doing in 1997 -- the only difference is, I'm a hell of a lot better at it.
Anyway, i formulated this 7-year plan where I would start to develop some of my side projects and hopefully be at a point within the 7 years that I can leave IT behind and never look back.
I think my biggest problem with IT is the people. I'm a pretty friendly guy who has a very strange sense of humor and like to read, write, watch movies, talk about art and design, music, recording and other creative things -- while everyone I work with all have CS degrees and view things like that as a sickness to be avoided. Its a shame really. Plus, the managers in IT -- I swear they just stamp them out of some machine. Some are better than the others -- and the two guys that own the small consultancy I work for are great guys, very smart and just good people... but here at the client site... these people are robots! I get constantly criticized for not being more "social" here. Well there's a reason! No one gives a damn what I'm into and what I like to talk about. I'm sorry, I just am not going to become something I'm not.
So, instead of trying to shape myself into something I'm not, I figure I need to find a way out of this IT world. I wouldn't call myself "unhappy" in fact I am a happy person -- because of my life *outside* of IT.
Of course -- 7 years is a long time, and things are subject to change... but my current frame of mind dictates that I can't just sit around and do *nothing* -- I'm not the type who just waits for things to happen. I try my hardest to make things happen (realizing of course that control is, after all, an illusion) -- but all the same. Shit aint just gonna happen just because
LOL!!!
heh, damn, should preview more often...
"I promise to preview my posts to comments before I click submit." (repeated 100x).
Heh, like a real life Canary Trap eh? That'd be pretty cool... but for that to be truly effective it wouldn't have to be so obvious (the mistakes). A misplaced period or a switched adjective would be more effective... of course I read too much Tom Clany! :)
Free speech is fine when we're talking about opinions and facts - it shouldn't protect lying and baseless claims.
wow, scary.
free speech means I can make all the baseless claims and lie all I want. What I can't do is yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater (the classic example).
If I break the law (through fraud) -- then fine, arrest me, and I'll go through due process, but to simply restrict speech simply because it may be baseless or a lie is ridiculous and scary.
Right now, I'm sitting on the beach typing this and that later today I'm going to take a long drive in my Ferrari.
See, that was a lie! I'm sitting in my cubicle right now! But according to your definition of free speech, I just committed a crime by lying where I am and what I'm doing.
heh... but this (probably) will never replace a decent guitar tech.
remember, there's more to it than just getting the instrument in tune. Setting up a guitar is an art in of itself.
but... there's a HUGE difference between "roadie" and "guitar tech."
be like buying an Enzo? In order to be considered to be eligable to purchase a Ferrari Enzo, you would have had to owned an F40 and F50 -- so, what two laptops do you need to have owned prior in order to get one of these :)
:-D
I just stick with my powerbook 17", looks more like the amazing Porsche Carerra GT
In this quote from the article:
"Complexity is intrinsic in technology but simplicity is how we should bring it to the consumer."
Now I agree with this completely, but there's a message in here that I have some reservations about.
I believe in keeping things simple, but hiding complexity is often a double edge sword. Look at the old Mac OS 9 (and prior). The vast majority of complexity was hidden from the user... but to some of us... that meant we were forced to do things the way Apple wanted it done. Now, for many folks, that wasn't a bad thing... and were quite happy with that way. But for me, it was frustrating (which is why I found Linux).
Now, with gadgets, yes, simplicity clearly is the goal -- but making things more simple at the expense of hiding complexity -- thus handicapping (some of) the users is the balancing act that (I hope) needs to be considered.
specs which could foresee future futher away than say 4-6 years
:)
LOL! Good grief man... the client I'm working with, their specs can't see past 4-6 weeks!
Over the last year and a half I've been working on building a "policy engine" that manages this company's various business policies... everything ranging from ordering, or communications to whatever.
Well, the ding-dang business users and their minions the "business analysists" can't see past a month or so... then oops... more functionality... change existing functionality... because "oops... we really need it to do this" to the point where I have to make this a unified system of "one off's"
Yeah, ugh... and the idea of "rewrite" has come up because right now... the code base is huge... its a mess and looks like, well, like patch work. We are trying to get management buy-in... and calling it "upgrading and refactoring" because we know full well that "rewrite" is a dirty word in these parts
"old lamps for new"
:-P
sorry... couldn't be helped. Impulse posting. Yeah, its OT
Nice strawman
Nice boiler plate response. Following Slashdot Rules to the letter.
Models are very good at predicting weather over 24 hours. What's your point?
Go find some textbooks on non-dimensionalisation techniques, statistical mechanics, basic chaos theory and their applications to the numerical solutions of PDEs
LOL!!!
Then come back when you're informed
Oh yes master of course master... anything you say. Oh that's right... I'm not allowed to have my own opinions because they conflict with yours.
So you have this blind, unquestioned faith in the models eh? So, is a computer your godhead? My whole point is predicting that which is based on *models* is not any better than predicting the weather over 24 hours.
Write out 100 times: i will learn to question my faith in computer models.
oh my, we are certain of ourselves aren't we? So, you think computer models and "trends" can predict what will happen in 50+ years.
Your example is completely irrelevant and has no basis on the *prediction* of climate, in that you assume the computer models are to be trusted completely and that they are infalable.
The whole point of this little exercise is to not just swallow what we are given as the gospel... rejecting the spoon that feeds us is tough sometines.
You missed the point... which should come as no surprise to me as most here on slashdot are just itching for a fight. So here's my point nice and clear.
Anyone or anything (e.g. computer models) that tries to predict the future, not matter how "reliable" their system may believe (which is a matter of faith on the part of those who believe in the system) is what is stupid.
Further my point is, we use computer models to predict the weather... so are our computer models so robust that we should trust them without question to predict the climate in 50 (or more) years? NO.
they can't predict the weather over 24 hours with any degree of accuracy, but of course we are supposed to just believe them when they tell us how things will be in 50 years.
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