The one thing I never had to suffer through was a vinyl recording just going bad. I bought a boxed set of CDs and one crapped out after a few years. I tried to get the company to replace it, but their attitude was "Buy another set." Nice.
I'm surprised if they even vote in an election, rather than for American Idols.
I am seriously impressed with the song performed by Jackson Browne, years and years ago: Lawyers In Love. At first I thought it was funny. Now I don't think it was intended to amuse.
Across the road is the company I've wanted. They have excellent packages at good prices,
but the
one for my block has poorer packages and a poor reputation for service.
I'm hoping this means both can compete, along with AT&T,
for my block of flats, which should give me better options and service. Though I still smell a fish.
There's been competition between cable and satellite for years, but prices are still rather steep.
Cable is such a swindle I haven't give it much thought. The FCC screws up often enough, it's about time
they did something right.
Yes, I have noticed that. No matter how much I strain, I cannot hear the background on CDs. No hiss, no pops, no crackle, no distortion... nothing that wasn't in the original music.
OTOH, on CDs I can hear some unwanted background noise that I cannot hear in vinyl, for instance in classical music recordings there's the faint paper rustle when the musicians turn the pages in the score. That sound is very clearly heard in some CDs, but completely masked by the background noise in vinyl.
Well, if you have one of these I can see why. I savage a beautiful Philips turntable from a flea market, built it a new walnut base so it wouldn't look shabby, and gave it the love and care it needed. Along with a proper phono pre-amp it does a fine job of reproducing music. I also keep my records clean and unscratched, so no clicks, pops or anything else. Long ago I figured if I was going to have hundreds of $ in vinyl I'd best take care of the collection. CDs are convenient that you can play carpet hockey with them and still get a reasonable output, but that "error correction" is just approximating and filling gaps.
Worst is so many recordings which originated on vinyl never will be released on CD as they weren't popular enough. Other albums have had songs trimmed to fit on CD, for whatever rationale the musica company had for editing. Last, the crummy "remastering" -- the first Dire Straits, Sultans of Swing was trimmed at the end for CD, eventually restored to its full on a later "greatest hits" release. Wow. One Chicago collection CD was clearly taken from some media in distress, perhaps old master tapes or even copied from cassettes. Terrible.
Music captured as digital and given good treatment, as Telarc do, is a fine thing on CD, but some of the old stuff just never had a fair day in court when converted -- or was initially released as a jobber recording, to be followed by Re-Master, 20 bit, 24 bit, SACD, etc. to garner money over and over again for the same recording.
I keep both, but don't expect much from CDs. When they are good, that's fine, when they aren't, meh.
Pointless... really. Digital has its place -- you'll be hard pressed (not intended as a pun) to fit analog music into your iPod, particularly at the quantity of digital recordings you can cram in there. More to the point, people are developing tin-ears at phenominal rate. While many stereo's and boom-boxes have much better quality than the old transistor radios of yor, much of the music has lost something, going from a CD (which was lossy to begin with) to MP3 which is lossy again. Park your car in a quiet area and listen closely and you can hear artifacts, you also may notice (if you had heard this same performance live or on vinyl) there's some background missing, even fainter instruments.
Not to overlook the over-amped hearing-impaired of tomorrow roaming the streets. They don't care about high fidelity, they just want to be noticed.
The only place digital/analog matters is when and where you choose to listen. When I'm on my iPod, I accept it's not going to be great. When I'm at home listening to vinyl, I know it will be.
Years ago, when CDs first emerged I picked up a few Telarc disks and was impressed. Stupidly I assumed this meant all CDs would be of high quality and began physically downsizing my music collection. At some point, after unloading some treasures I'll never see again (for less than $$$$ on ebay anyway) I listened through a few recent exchanges and realised a lot of CD re-issues were shite. Bollox! I halted the exchange and have since retained the majority of my vinyl collection and even added to it. Some of that old well mastered stuff is well beyond the means of modestly priced CD player and even some immodestly priced ones.
I thought this place would be a sports bar associated with Arsenal F.C. but see it was the site of a spanish colonial arsenal. Interesting history...
1874 erected
Fell down (in Santa Ana winds)
re-erected
1916 washed away in flood
1929 re-erected, again
1949 burned down
1950 re-erected and this time it stayed!
Reminds me of something... "Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands."
Perhaps so, but they do tend to keep these people busy, rather than trying to create a bot out of your computer. I'm fine with them, Bigfoot hunters and UFO weenies, so long as they behave themselves.
Years ago a fellow I knew took to hanging out in graveyards with his camera and film sensitive to Infra Red (pick up the
background IR, except where spirits, which apparently suck the energy out of their surroundings when they manifest themselves.) He claimed to have
taken actual photos of ghosts hanging about graves, including some which
were posessed. He offered to show me some of his work, but I wasn't in a
mood for it as my Grandmum had recently passed away.
So here's this bloke:
Auerbach, on the other hand, strongly feels that ghosts and specters cannot be photographed. "If they could be, people would've already," Auerbach says. So this fellow with pictures was fiddling the film?
I do believe in spooks! I do, I do, I do believe in spooks! Oh, sod, who was it then?
So... what traffic is passing between the datacenter and your company?
The problem is this is mostly web traffic. The application has gone from a thin client, which cached details on the workstation to web pages, which are rather large and a lot more page loads than with the old system. The network concern is that internally we have plenty of bandwidth - but this is hosted outside which at times is saturating our connection to the outside world. Eventually it will be hosted internally, but not for months. We don't have a lot of money to throw around right now, so upgrading our pipe isn't likely.
I was hoping for a subsidy, but it's not forthcoming.
Perhaps if you included an 'imagine a beowulf cluster', 'In Societ Russia' or 'I for one welcome our...', but competition for subsidies is considerable and with so little money to go around. Have you tried the Kellogg Foundation?
Delivery of products by big truck is far more efficient than the traditional retail method of buying things. Retail is grossly inefficient: you've got all the floor workers, the physical maintenance of the building itself, and then the huge amount of cash and effort that goes into marketing that gets spent on retail stores. Amazon.com or wherever has none of that: they've got some web-lackeys making a website and a bunch of stuff sitting in warehouses, and if you pay them money they dump some of it on a big truck and take it to you
I'm waiting for the day they install a pipe in my house connected to the great, world wide web o' commerce and anything I buy is put in at one end and pops out in my house a while later.:)
The internet has made lots of money for shipping companies and employed a lot of delivery/logistics people. UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc. All those online shops have to get the product to the buyer somehow.
Sadly, where I work, they just hope for the best and throw more hardware at the problem. We're running a new site, hosted off-site, which is killing our network bandwidth. Not my choice. I just shake my head.
Slashdot Mirror
I think I could salvage some of that hardware. It still looks useable and I bet I could install Linux on it.
I'm imagining a beowulf cluster already...
Can be seen here
Ironic someone said they didn't trust him, he was a fraud. At least one bidder got the scoop.
True, but I've had CDs with poor quality transters, lost songs from original albums, and CDs go bad. Shit happens on both media.
The one thing I never had to suffer through was a vinyl recording just going bad. I bought a boxed set of CDs and one crapped out after a few years. I tried to get the company to replace it, but their attitude was "Buy another set." Nice.
...don't riot.I'm surprised if they even vote in an election, rather than for American Idols.
I am seriously impressed with the song performed by Jackson Browne, years and years ago: Lawyers In Love. At first I thought it was funny. Now I don't think it was intended to amuse.
Across the road is the company I've wanted. They have excellent packages at good prices, but the one for my block has poorer packages and a poor reputation for service. I'm hoping this means both can compete, along with AT&T, for my block of flats, which should give me better options and service. Though I still smell a fish. There's been competition between cable and satellite for years, but prices are still rather steep.
Cable is such a swindle I haven't give it much thought. The FCC screws up often enough, it's about time they did something right.
ISR TV watches you, &c. &c. &c.
I plan to do this at some point. I also plan to move a lot of old VHS tapes to HDD, but haven't got around to it yet.
I hope it doesn't asplode!
Yes, I have noticed that. No matter how much I strain, I cannot hear the background on CDs. No hiss, no pops, no crackle, no distortion... nothing that wasn't in the original music.
OTOH, on CDs I can hear some unwanted background noise that I cannot hear in vinyl, for instance in classical music recordings there's the faint paper rustle when the musicians turn the pages in the score. That sound is very clearly heard in some CDs, but completely masked by the background noise in vinyl.
Well, if you have one of these I can see why. I savage a beautiful Philips turntable from a flea market, built it a new walnut base so it wouldn't look shabby, and gave it the love and care it needed. Along with a proper phono pre-amp it does a fine job of reproducing music. I also keep my records clean and unscratched, so no clicks, pops or anything else. Long ago I figured if I was going to have hundreds of $ in vinyl I'd best take care of the collection. CDs are convenient that you can play carpet hockey with them and still get a reasonable output, but that "error correction" is just approximating and filling gaps.
Worst is so many recordings which originated on vinyl never will be released on CD as they weren't popular enough. Other albums have had songs trimmed to fit on CD, for whatever rationale the musica company had for editing. Last, the crummy "remastering" -- the first Dire Straits, Sultans of Swing was trimmed at the end for CD, eventually restored to its full on a later "greatest hits" release. Wow. One Chicago collection CD was clearly taken from some media in distress, perhaps old master tapes or even copied from cassettes. Terrible.
Music captured as digital and given good treatment, as Telarc do, is a fine thing on CD, but some of the old stuff just never had a fair day in court when converted -- or was initially released as a jobber recording, to be followed by Re-Master, 20 bit, 24 bit, SACD, etc. to garner money over and over again for the same recording.
I keep both, but don't expect much from CDs. When they are good, that's fine, when they aren't, meh.
Why go that far? You can listen to LPs digitally! Ion USB Turntable Be sure you have the best pickup money can by on that thing! ;-)
Pointless ... really. Digital has its place -- you'll be hard pressed (not intended as a pun) to fit analog music into your iPod, particularly at the quantity of digital recordings you can cram in there. More to the point, people are developing tin-ears at phenominal rate. While many stereo's and boom-boxes have much better quality than the old transistor radios of yor, much of the music has lost something, going from a CD (which was lossy to begin with) to MP3 which is lossy again. Park your car in a quiet area and listen closely and you can hear artifacts, you also may notice (if you had heard this same performance live or on vinyl) there's some background missing, even fainter instruments.
Not to overlook the over-amped hearing-impaired of tomorrow roaming the streets. They don't care about high fidelity, they just want to be noticed.
The only place digital/analog matters is when and where you choose to listen. When I'm on my iPod, I accept it's not going to be great. When I'm at home listening to vinyl, I know it will be.
Years ago, when CDs first emerged I picked up a few Telarc disks and was impressed. Stupidly I assumed this meant all CDs would be of high quality and began physically downsizing my music collection. At some point, after unloading some treasures I'll never see again (for less than $$$$ on ebay anyway) I listened through a few recent exchanges and realised a lot of CD re-issues were shite. Bollox! I halted the exchange and have since retained the majority of my vinyl collection and even added to it. Some of that old well mastered stuff is well beyond the means of modestly priced CD player and even some immodestly priced ones.
I thought this place would be a sports bar associated with Arsenal F.C. but see it was the site of a spanish colonial arsenal. Interesting history...
Reminds me of something ... "Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands."
Good point. Belief in angels and supernatural go hand in hand.
... ghosts are bullshit!Perhaps so, but they do tend to keep these people busy, rather than trying to create a bot out of your computer. I'm fine with them, Bigfoot hunters and UFO weenies, so long as they behave themselves.
In Soviet Russia spooks believe in YOU!
Years ago a fellow I knew took to hanging out in graveyards with his camera and film sensitive to Infra Red (pick up the background IR, except where spirits, which apparently suck the energy out of their surroundings when they manifest themselves.) He claimed to have taken actual photos of ghosts hanging about graves, including some which were posessed. He offered to show me some of his work, but I wasn't in a mood for it as my Grandmum had recently passed away.
So here's this bloke:
Auerbach, on the other hand, strongly feels that ghosts and specters cannot be photographed. "If they could be, people would've already," Auerbach says. So this fellow with pictures was fiddling the film?I do believe in spooks! I do, I do, I do believe in spooks! Oh, sod, who was it then?
The problem is this is mostly web traffic. The application has gone from a thin client, which cached details on the workstation to web pages, which are rather large and a lot more page loads than with the old system. The network concern is that internally we have plenty of bandwidth - but this is hosted outside which at times is saturating our connection to the outside world. Eventually it will be hosted internally, but not for months. We don't have a lot of money to throw around right now, so upgrading our pipe isn't likely.
You've been spying on me!
Gawd, did I leave the webcam on again?!?
To bugs.
In the 1800's the family dined at the dinner table.
In the 1940's the family dined around the radio.
In the 1960's the family dined around the television.
In the 2000's the family dines around the computer monitor.
Perhaps if you included an 'imagine a beowulf cluster', 'In Societ Russia' or 'I for one welcome our ...', but competition for subsidies is considerable and with so little money to go around. Have you tried the Kellogg Foundation?
Lucky you, no tax for a first post. ;-)
I'm waiting for the day they install a pipe in my house connected to the great, world wide web o' commerce and anything I buy is put in at one end and pops out in my house a while later. :)
The internet has made lots of money for shipping companies and employed a lot of delivery/logistics people. UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc. All those online shops have to get the product to the buyer somehow.
Sadly, where I work, they just hope for the best and throw more hardware at the problem. We're running a new site, hosted off-site, which is killing our network bandwidth. Not my choice. I just shake my head.