Think about it. Why, in movies, can we hear starships flying around and shooting in space (Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.)? Because going with the (accurate) silence is distracting to the audience who is subconsciously *expecting* to hear something.
Even when silence would be the *correct* audio track, the lack of sound tends to pull viewers out of the experience because they *expect* to hear something.
This is a horrible argument. You're actually in favor of perpetuating a fallacious assumption *just because* it's the assumption? If movies stopped doing it, audiences would stop expecting it. "Problem" solved.
Plus, y'know, when TV *doesn't* do that, they usually get commended for accuracy (e.g. Firefly).
missing the sound of the turbine of a fighter jet taking, which was the usual noise with some older cooling fans, along with missing the constant reboots...
If you have to keep constantly rebooting your fighter jet in midair, somebody should be fired.
For those of us who don't have any idea what GNSS or GLONASS stand for...it would really be nice to tell us what the hell this article is actually about.
GNSS = global navigation satellite system GLONASS = "acronym for Globalnaya navigatsionnaya sputnikovaya sistema or Global Navigation Satellite System, is a space-based satellite navigation system operated by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. It provides an alternative to Global Positioning System (GPS) and is the only alternative navigational system in operation with global coverage and of comparable precision."
There was once a young Discordian called Golden Rod. Early in his illumination, he wondered what season his country was in.
Perhaps it was in the season of Discord, on the cusp of Bureaucracy. Surely, Order was rising to noxious levels.
Or perhaps it was already Bureaucracy, on the cusp of Aftermath. Surely, Disorder was rising to obnoxious levels.
So in his quest for An Answer, Golden Rod sought out the Discordian monk Nopants. Nopants dwelled in a basement because it would be obscene for him to go outside. Golden Rod freed himself from his leggings and descended the stairs. Below, Nopants sat on a cushion in a gross lotus position.
"My wise friend Nopants, I have come to ask you a question,” said Golden Rod, “What is Bureaucracy?"
“In India,” said Nopants, “they tie elephants to trees using thin cords. An elephant could easily snap the cord, yet they remain tethered in place. Why do you think this is?”
Golden Rod itched himself and shrugged.
“When the elephant is young,” intoned Nopants, “she is too weak to break the cord. She tries, but eventually she gives up. When the elephant grows up, she does not try to escape her puny bonds because she believes she will fail.”
“So the cord isn’t the thing keeping the elephant in place,” said Golden Rod. He squinted at Nopants, “That’s very interesting, but what does that have to do with Bureaucracy?”
“Bureaucracy,” said Nopants, “is waiting for a red traffic light in the middle of the night when no one is coming.”
Across space and time, a gong sounded.
Golden Rod left the basement and returned to the real world, thoroughly confused. As he drove home, he ran five red lights. His mirth rose with each light. By the end of the voyage he was giggling like a ninny at his newfound freedom.
Years went by and Golden Rod continued drive towards Aftermath. He ignored stop signs, blew through red lights, and opened his moon roof despite danger of falling rocks.
“Sweet Merciful Ass!” cried out Bung-Fu the Fool as he clawed at the dashboard. “You’re gonna get us both killed!”
“Nonsense! I am self-emancipated from these mundane traffic laws,” cackled Golden Rod. “I am a harbinger of Aftermath!”
“Do you always drive like this?” said Bung-Fu as he buckled his seat belt.
Golden Rod nodded. "Always."
Meanwhile, the monk Nopants was wheeling his gong across the street towards his basement. He patiently waited for the light to turn red, then pushed the ponderous percussive instrument upon the pavement.
The collision made the exact sound of enlightenment.
They keep putting these in around me. Yes, I can testify at least some drivers hate them. Especially if they're more than one lane wide and you don't know which lane you're supposed to be in depending on how long it is until you turn (there's no reason to ever use the inner lane unless the circle is beyond a certain circumference).
Yeah, my first thought when I read the summary was, "This only works if the projected speed is the same or lower"...wouldn't knowing how much to accelerate to make the light mean that other drivers would less accurately predict the speed at which you're likely to be traveling through the intersection?
But I'm generally paranoid when driving, especially at stoplights. Ever since I was driving down a straight 4-lane-wide-in-one-direction road (in the second-left lane!) and another driver turned on and randomly wandered into my obviously occupied lane, I assume all drivers are maximally incompetent.
Wouldn't that make a lot more sense in Britain? Why isn't it the Michigan Right so you don't have to cross traffic? It looks like to turn left, you have to "swing wide" across two lanes of a right-hand turn, which is very counterintuitive. (Or maybe it's just me having difficulty reading those diagrams...I wish they had *continuous* arrows demonstrating right and left turns.)
I thought I had heard that UPS drivers and such try to avoid left turns as much as possible.
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Hmm. Buried in a separate tab from the huge page of comments of everybody taking it seriously.
I actually believed the headline until I read more of the summary.
And...? The summary and headline are in agreement. (There was a Soylent article too that looked like a blatant April Fool's Day joke but actually wasn't.)
Granted, in the months leading up to the Slashcott, I actively assumed that every summary was blatantly lying to me or at least attempting to mischaracterize the situation...so read the comments until you find the one guy who knows what's actually going on...but the quality seems to have spiked recently. (Gee, isn't that a remarkable coincidence?)
Googles ruining their social media platform. I don't want to go anywhere near it anymore. The selfie thing was the final straw.
Shit, shelfies aren't even on their social media platform! This is Gmail we're talking about. WTF
I'm still waiting to see if they'll ever get the hint when every time they ask me to associate a phone number with the account, I tell them to go fuck themselves.
I was a longtime (going on 10 years) user of Yahoo Mail, but when they finally crammed the new interface down my throat, after the fourth time they silently dropped all my incoming emails for days at a time, I had to call it quits.
I mean, for fuck's sake, if your email provider can't even deliver email properly, what the hell is the point? And I KNOW I was getting emails over these periods since I had notification emails coming in daily otherwise.
There was some tv show (Smallville and Stargate, according to Wikipedia) where they were constantly whipping out an XPS laptop at a suspiciously convenient camera angle, I remember;-)
Although what really made me gag was the Oracle placements in Iron Man movies. They put the Oracle and Sun logos right next to each other...Sun, sure; Oracle, fuck no!
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Think about it. Why, in movies, can we hear starships flying around and shooting in space (Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.)? Because going with the (accurate) silence is distracting to the audience who is subconsciously *expecting* to hear something.
Even when silence would be the *correct* audio track, the lack of sound tends to pull viewers out of the experience because they *expect* to hear something.
This is a horrible argument. You're actually in favor of perpetuating a fallacious assumption *just because* it's the assumption? If movies stopped doing it, audiences would stop expecting it. "Problem" solved.
Plus, y'know, when TV *doesn't* do that, they usually get commended for accuracy (e.g. Firefly).
I thought semis actually have like 18 gears? Sure, semi vs. car, though.
missing the sound of the turbine of a fighter jet taking, which was the usual noise with some older cooling fans, along with missing the constant reboots...
If you have to keep constantly rebooting your fighter jet in midair, somebody should be fired.
We're talking about the news. Not TV! There's a big difference. The news is not supposed to be fiction.
If I'm watching the news, I want accuracy (i.e. the program not doing something that basically amounts to lying to me) more than sexy car sounds.
Other reasons to keep it around can emerge after it's implemented, thus becoming new objects of the lane; i.e. yes, there *can* be others.
For those of us who don't have any idea what GNSS or GLONASS stand for...it would really be nice to tell us what the hell this article is actually about.
GNSS = global navigation satellite system
GLONASS = "acronym for Globalnaya navigatsionnaya sputnikovaya sistema or Global Navigation Satellite System, is a space-based satellite navigation system operated by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. It provides an alternative to Global Positioning System (GPS) and is the only alternative navigational system in operation with global coverage and of comparable precision."
Oh, so it's GPS. See how easy that was?
There was once a young Discordian called Golden Rod. Early in his illumination, he wondered what season his country was in.
Perhaps it was in the season of Discord, on the cusp of Bureaucracy. Surely, Order was rising to noxious levels.
Or perhaps it was already Bureaucracy, on the cusp of Aftermath. Surely, Disorder was rising to obnoxious levels.
So in his quest for An Answer, Golden Rod sought out the Discordian monk Nopants. Nopants dwelled in a basement because it would be obscene for him to go outside. Golden Rod freed himself from his leggings and descended the stairs. Below, Nopants sat on a cushion in a gross lotus position.
"My wise friend Nopants, I have come to ask you a question,” said Golden Rod, “What is Bureaucracy?"
“In India,” said Nopants, “they tie elephants to trees using thin cords. An elephant could easily snap the cord, yet they remain tethered in place. Why do you think this is?”
Golden Rod itched himself and shrugged.
“When the elephant is young,” intoned Nopants, “she is too weak to break the cord. She tries, but eventually she gives up. When the elephant grows up, she does not try to escape her puny bonds because she believes she will fail.”
“So the cord isn’t the thing keeping the elephant in place,” said Golden Rod. He squinted at Nopants, “That’s very interesting, but what does that have to do with Bureaucracy?”
“Bureaucracy,” said Nopants, “is waiting for a red traffic light in the middle of the night when no one is coming.”
Across space and time, a gong sounded.
Golden Rod left the basement and returned to the real world, thoroughly confused. As he drove home, he ran five red lights. His mirth rose with each light. By the end of the voyage he was giggling like a ninny at his newfound freedom.
Years went by and Golden Rod continued drive towards Aftermath. He ignored stop signs, blew through red lights, and opened his moon roof despite danger of falling rocks.
“Sweet Merciful Ass!” cried out Bung-Fu the Fool as he clawed at the dashboard. “You’re gonna get us both killed!”
“Nonsense! I am self-emancipated from these mundane traffic laws,” cackled Golden Rod. “I am a harbinger of Aftermath!”
“Do you always drive like this?” said Bung-Fu as he buckled his seat belt.
Golden Rod nodded. "Always."
Meanwhile, the monk Nopants was wheeling his gong across the street towards his basement. He patiently waited for the light to turn red, then pushed the ponderous percussive instrument upon the pavement.
The collision made the exact sound of enlightenment.
http://www.principiadiscordia....
They keep putting these in around me. Yes, I can testify at least some drivers hate them. Especially if they're more than one lane wide and you don't know which lane you're supposed to be in depending on how long it is until you turn (there's no reason to ever use the inner lane unless the circle is beyond a certain circumference).
Is this something they do in the U.S.? Maybe just not in my area...
Yeah, my first thought when I read the summary was, "This only works if the projected speed is the same or lower"...wouldn't knowing how much to accelerate to make the light mean that other drivers would less accurately predict the speed at which you're likely to be traveling through the intersection?
But I'm generally paranoid when driving, especially at stoplights. Ever since I was driving down a straight 4-lane-wide-in-one-direction road (in the second-left lane!) and another driver turned on and randomly wandered into my obviously occupied lane, I assume all drivers are maximally incompetent.
Wouldn't that make a lot more sense in Britain? Why isn't it the Michigan Right so you don't have to cross traffic? It looks like to turn left, you have to "swing wide" across two lanes of a right-hand turn, which is very counterintuitive. (Or maybe it's just me having difficulty reading those diagrams...I wish they had *continuous* arrows demonstrating right and left turns.)
I thought I had heard that UPS drivers and such try to avoid left turns as much as possible.
Tony Stevenson made changes - Today 16:51
Comment [ Pfft! Happy April's fool!
For immediate release: Apache Subversion votes to rename itself Apache Irony, creates a black hole and disappears. ]
Hmm. Buried in a separate tab from the huge page of comments of everybody taking it seriously.
I actually believed the headline until I read more of the summary.
And...? The summary and headline are in agreement. (There was a Soylent article too that looked like a blatant April Fool's Day joke but actually wasn't.)
Granted, in the months leading up to the Slashcott, I actively assumed that every summary was blatantly lying to me or at least attempting to mischaracterize the situation...so read the comments until you find the one guy who knows what's actually going on...but the quality seems to have spiked recently. (Gee, isn't that a remarkable coincidence?)
Googles ruining their social media platform. I don't want to go anywhere near it anymore. The selfie thing was the final straw.
Shit, shelfies aren't even on their social media platform! This is Gmail we're talking about. WTF
I'm still waiting to see if they'll ever get the hint when every time they ask me to associate a phone number with the account, I tell them to go fuck themselves.
Hey, at least it's not like past years on Slashdot where every story is clearly bogus. That got pretty old.
Make it NOT AUTOPLAY. One click is not going to break their arms.
Wouldn't care if it didn't auto-play. Blech.
I was a longtime (going on 10 years) user of Yahoo Mail, but when they finally crammed the new interface down my throat, after the fourth time they silently dropped all my incoming emails for days at a time, I had to call it quits.
I mean, for fuck's sake, if your email provider can't even deliver email properly, what the hell is the point? And I KNOW I was getting emails over these periods since I had notification emails coming in daily otherwise.
(the wealth part, not the partisan politics part)
If you are concerned with "the poor", you need to look at mass average measurements of wealth and health
I think the term you're looking for is median, which will swiftly prove his point.
This isn't sufficiently implausible for me to discount it actually happening, which I would call a failure of april fooling.
Satire falls down when the thing can totally plausibly happen.
They ported it to Linux?
One more jump:
http://www.imdb.com/company/co...
Grimm, House, and Heroes are among the big-name ones.
There was some tv show (Smallville and Stargate, according to Wikipedia) where they were constantly whipping out an XPS laptop at a suspiciously convenient camera angle, I remember ;-)
Although what really made me gag was the Oracle placements in Iron Man movies. They put the Oracle and Sun logos right next to each other...Sun, sure; Oracle, fuck no!