This happens much more often then you would think. My personal example is going to the US from Grantley Adams International (BGI) in Barbados: 2 bottles of hot sauce, 20oz bottled water (already opened), carried right on board the same (large US carrier) flight home. Bottle of water IN MY HAND. No questions asked, not stopped in any way.
And that is why, at a recent AES conference there was a great little speech given about how Audio is the only industry that eats its young. If it doesn't matter to the average consumer how it sounds, than we will progressively get worse and worse quality audio considered passable. It's sad enough that people are preferring the sound of MP3s and most have never heard music on anything better than crappy cheap earbuds or, at best, a poorly configured home theater system, yet they claim to love their music.
If I had a nickel for every time I've sat someone down in front of a decent quality sound system (think $500 system, counting receiver and speakers or receiver and headphones) and played them an album that they, "know inside and out" and they find something new that they've heard before, I would be able to afford the amazing speakers that a friend works with. Let's be honest, as long as people consider iTunes 128 kbps AAC to be, "High Quality" and 256 kbps AAC to be, "Highest Quality" with 128 MP3 being acceptable, it doesn't matter how expensive your soundcard is, it won't sound good.
Why does it matter? If the listener is happy, who cares. Oh yeah, by the way, $500 is far from impressive. What, did you pick up a home theatre in a box deal? If you run a $3000 rig a home for music and $1000 setup in your car and can't stand the sound from your ear buds, maybe you are just being a pretentious asshole. Even better, if you are as familiar with sound quality as you posture to be, you would know, and accept, the difference. Instead, you take the side that you know better than everyone else. Thanks, very helpful. "Loving music" has fuck-all to do with sound quality. I suppose those who enjoyed the early days of radio didn't love their music?
I can't get over the fact that this "professional" writer insists on starting many of his sentences with And and But in TFA. I certainly wouldn't want him writing for me, much less pay him to do so.
As badly as I want to get a hold of it, I would bet my bottom dollar they have it constructed to be a money pit of already-on-the-disc or just utter garbage DLC. I can smell the money factory firing up as we speak.
The large scale and rapid intake of surrounding gas and objects around the blackhole produces those jets. Once the feeding slows, or stops, the jets disappear. They are then considered to be in a dormant stage. I actually recall reading or hearing somewhere that its thought that the heat and friction of the gas/objects spinning into the blackhole becomes so intense that it begins to push away the very materials that feed the blackhole itself (and therfore feed the jets). So, the blackhole still exists, but is in a dormant phase. I am unsure if anyone acutally knows this to be a proven fact as to why blackholes stop feeding, or if its just speculation.
IIRC, being that we are towards the outer edge of the galaxy, and that its believed that the Milky Way's supermassive blackhole is "dormant" (as much as a blackhole can be, it is no longer ravenously eating the gas around it and producing the large gamma ray bursts or quasars), our solar system would not be affected by the tremendous gravity. If the blackhole just disappeared completely, many stars on the outer edge of the Milky Way would continue on their original path and speed, unaffected by the sudden lack of the black hole's gravity, because that isn't what is keeping them on their current orbital path.
Its been a struggle finding drivers for slightly older equipment as well (I'm talking motherboards from 2006 here). For whatever reason, ASUS doesn't have them available, and when you attempt to Google something, you have no idea what sites to trust. They all appear exactly like spyware-malware breeding zones with your classic "convenient driver update" install programs. I'm not falling for that bullshit. Main problem being is that I'd hate to trust a driver from anywhere other than an item's manufacturer, so I just don't deal with it at all anymore. Really irritates the hell out of me.
This is very common now. Bad example, I know, but have you tried to buy a BTX case recently? All the "current" and "well-known" manufacturers simply link to other sites. Yes, they are no longer actively in use, but if your company still PRODUCES them, sell them yourselves! I'm sure Ill get trolled, flamed and modded into oblivion now, but its great way to create a multicore PC totally on the super cheap for a non-nerd user, like ourselves. I agree with you, the OP, that's shitty for business.
My 52" 240hz Bravia Z series was a pretty damn nice tv until a Wii-mote cracked the LCD. I wanted to blame Sony or Nintendo, but in the end, had to blame Captain Morgan.
This has fetish written all over it. Well, until some big fat sweaty lady in the automotive section at Wal-Mart saves your life with her DD bra! Wait a minute...two fetishes in one!
You mentioning Blockbuster carrying smaller indie films and some hard to find stock got me thinking about how they were the only place in town to rent anime. For years and years, until Ghost in the Shell was released (which was a bit more mainstream than the average anime), that was the only game in town if you wanted to rent Akira, Ninja Scroll, Black Magic M-66, Vampire Hunter D, Bubblegum Crisis, etc. That, or you had to go to Suncoast Video and buy them for $30 each (or more). It was nice while it lasted, but Netflix is the new king of the castle.
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This happens much more often then you would think. My personal example is going to the US from Grantley Adams International (BGI) in Barbados: 2 bottles of hot sauce, 20oz bottled water (already opened), carried right on board the same (large US carrier) flight home. Bottle of water IN MY HAND. No questions asked, not stopped in any way.
And that is why, at a recent AES conference there was a great little speech given about how Audio is the only industry that eats its young. If it doesn't matter to the average consumer how it sounds, than we will progressively get worse and worse quality audio considered passable. It's sad enough that people are preferring the sound of MP3s and most have never heard music on anything better than crappy cheap earbuds or, at best, a poorly configured home theater system, yet they claim to love their music. If I had a nickel for every time I've sat someone down in front of a decent quality sound system (think $500 system, counting receiver and speakers or receiver and headphones) and played them an album that they, "know inside and out" and they find something new that they've heard before, I would be able to afford the amazing speakers that a friend works with. Let's be honest, as long as people consider iTunes 128 kbps AAC to be, "High Quality" and 256 kbps AAC to be, "Highest Quality" with 128 MP3 being acceptable, it doesn't matter how expensive your soundcard is, it won't sound good.
Why does it matter? If the listener is happy, who cares. Oh yeah, by the way, $500 is far from impressive. What, did you pick up a home theatre in a box deal? If you run a $3000 rig a home for music and $1000 setup in your car and can't stand the sound from your ear buds, maybe you are just being a pretentious asshole. Even better, if you are as familiar with sound quality as you posture to be, you would know, and accept, the difference. Instead, you take the side that you know better than everyone else. Thanks, very helpful. "Loving music" has fuck-all to do with sound quality. I suppose those who enjoyed the early days of radio didn't love their music?
Sigh.
They replaced The Offspring with The Offspring? Thats weird.
I can't get over the fact that this "professional" writer insists on starting many of his sentences with And and But in TFA. I certainly wouldn't want him writing for me, much less pay him to do so.
As badly as I want to get a hold of it, I would bet my bottom dollar they have it constructed to be a money pit of already-on-the-disc or just utter garbage DLC. I can smell the money factory firing up as we speak.
Enough said. I wonder what the correlation between sex and Crocs would be?
The large scale and rapid intake of surrounding gas and objects around the blackhole produces those jets. Once the feeding slows, or stops, the jets disappear. They are then considered to be in a dormant stage. I actually recall reading or hearing somewhere that its thought that the heat and friction of the gas/objects spinning into the blackhole becomes so intense that it begins to push away the very materials that feed the blackhole itself (and therfore feed the jets). So, the blackhole still exists, but is in a dormant phase. I am unsure if anyone acutally knows this to be a proven fact as to why blackholes stop feeding, or if its just speculation.
IIRC, being that we are towards the outer edge of the galaxy, and that its believed that the Milky Way's supermassive blackhole is "dormant" (as much as a blackhole can be, it is no longer ravenously eating the gas around it and producing the large gamma ray bursts or quasars), our solar system would not be affected by the tremendous gravity. If the blackhole just disappeared completely, many stars on the outer edge of the Milky Way would continue on their original path and speed, unaffected by the sudden lack of the black hole's gravity, because that isn't what is keeping them on their current orbital path.
Its been a struggle finding drivers for slightly older equipment as well (I'm talking motherboards from 2006 here). For whatever reason, ASUS doesn't have them available, and when you attempt to Google something, you have no idea what sites to trust. They all appear exactly like spyware-malware breeding zones with your classic "convenient driver update" install programs. I'm not falling for that bullshit. Main problem being is that I'd hate to trust a driver from anywhere other than an item's manufacturer, so I just don't deal with it at all anymore. Really irritates the hell out of me.
Ironic that your user name is "Girlintraining" isn't it?
Would you accept a car that has an engine that cuts out 12 times in 35 hours?
I already own a Volkswagen, thanks.
They got their paychecks, did they not?
This is very common now. Bad example, I know, but have you tried to buy a BTX case recently? All the "current" and "well-known" manufacturers simply link to other sites. Yes, they are no longer actively in use, but if your company still PRODUCES them, sell them yourselves! I'm sure Ill get trolled, flamed and modded into oblivion now, but its great way to create a multicore PC totally on the super cheap for a non-nerd user, like ourselves. I agree with you, the OP, that's shitty for business.
Want to circumvent the release date? You get what you pay for.
No, you just suck.
The land of the fee and home of the slave?
Actually, we prefer the term "Commercialized American".
The rest of us have kids and GFs (oh, this is /. those aren't supposed to exist, sorry honey. She just rolled her eyes and said "nerds")
Does she always read over your shoulder when you are on /.? I would inform her that doing so makes her a "nerd" as well.
"What the fuck does that mean?!?! PC LOAD LETTER?!?!?"
My 52" 240hz Bravia Z series was a pretty damn nice tv until a Wii-mote cracked the LCD. I wanted to blame Sony or Nintendo, but in the end, had to blame Captain Morgan.
And your friends can see your pacman high-score at the local arcade. So fucking what.
What's an ar-cad-e?
This has fetish written all over it. Well, until some big fat sweaty lady in the automotive section at Wal-Mart saves your life with her DD bra! Wait a minute...two fetishes in one!
Interesting and informative. Mod up!
You mentioning Blockbuster carrying smaller indie films and some hard to find stock got me thinking about how they were the only place in town to rent anime. For years and years, until Ghost in the Shell was released (which was a bit more mainstream than the average anime), that was the only game in town if you wanted to rent Akira, Ninja Scroll, Black Magic M-66, Vampire Hunter D, Bubblegum Crisis, etc. That, or you had to go to Suncoast Video and buy them for $30 each (or more). It was nice while it lasted, but Netflix is the new king of the castle.
I hear this in Stephen Hawking's voice when I read this article. I'm sure I'm not the only one.