When Tim Horton's was bought out all the donuts and pastries changed to junk. Maybe their coffee has gotten better, but I'll buy no mor apple fritters from Tim Ho's. I used to make the 200 mile round trip to Canada occasionally to pick up a dozen... but I suppose the new owners know what they're doing.
What will Puck call his coffee? Wolfgang Puck's Hearty Coffee? Seems all the soups feature the word Hearty on the label. Maybe that's what you get from putting chicken fat in it. At least I haven't seen MSG in there, which Progresso has now added to all of their soups. Bastards.
mmm.. that's a hearty cuppa, but what's this yellow lump floating in it?
Quality Control, n.:
The process of testing one out of every 1,000 units coming off a production line to make sure that at least one out of 100 works.
(From the BSD fortune file)
While that's hoomerous, QA!=QC. QC, as the fortune says, is checking the output of production. QA is more focused on assuring production will consistently meet spec, before anything actually comes off the line. QC is an aspect of QA.
Sony use to be known for the quality of their products. With mistakes like this and running to save costs will hurt them in the long run. After a while I will rather get my Sorney or a Genuine Penophonix version which has better quality.
Ah, Akio Morita, we miss you so... the barbarians who run your company now are more concerned with profits, they're happy to let their products be made out of crappy parts, in crappy ways, by crappily trained (if at all) workers, so long as the failure rate doesn't get too high.
I don't buy Sony stuff anymore, I avoid it. Problem is, there's getting to be few manufacturers of consumer electronics, let along computer bits, which don't suck. It's cheaper to fill third world landfills with 15% failure rate than spend the bucks to get it right the first time.
This is why quality-assurance departments exist. Where was QA on this one?
I'm amazed anyone actually has a Q/A dept anymore. Back in 2000, when axes started to fall, suits developed a new philosophy, around the world: Q/A Is Expendable -- let the customer test it and we'll just write off the bad units and dodge blame for any damage done.
Heck, we can _all_ think of one very large and successful company which does this.
In my early experience with digital audio, I regrettably started trading in my LP's for CD's of the same album. I had a pretty good audio set-up, but not as good as today, even so I started realizing I was trading good recordings for poorly sampled/remastered ones. I halted, but not until after trading away some of my best recordings, which I've bought any number of in gold, 20 bit, etc. schemes. What it really comes down to is the loss from sine waves converted to a binary code (A/D converter), then compressed, then decompressed and finally run out through a D/A converter into a representation of the original analog (which may have actually included sawtooth and other waves, but have been a bit rounded in the process)
There are better makes of A/D and D/A converters and better methods of compressing a digital stream, but one thing I really did notice wasn't so much the high frequencies (though on some they sound like some higher harmonics have found their way in or like the sound has a tinge to it), but low frequencies, which semi conductors really have serious problems with, the more semiconductors you run the signal through (hence NAD went back to basics years ago and tried to build amps and preamps with the minimum number of high quality transistors/FETs to cut down on noice generated by the circuitry). I have some premium vinyl of Stevie Wonder and Todd Rundgren which is unmatched by even the best CD's in my collection. Considering how much more lossy MP3 (or even OGG) can be I assume most people, like in the days of AM 6 transistor radios, don't care about fidelity. Nothing wrong with that, especially when driving a 5 spd pickup down the road and listening, but it's another matter when listening through phones or in the peace of one's home, where digital artifacts and lossiness is more noticable. Probably a blessing to have a "tin ear".
Have one of the chinese sites spam chinese addresses with seditious talk of democracy, human rights, freedom of speech, what a swell COUNTRY Taiwan is, etc.
May the ISPs live in interesting times...
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where enraged citizens storm the building, set it on fire, seize the funds from the bank accounts and distribute to orphanages everywhere and leave the Adware staff tied up to lightpoles with a note for the police.
Hmm. Kinda like my fantasy, which seems to involve a tricky hand gesture which magically transfers money from their bank account to my bank account. Of course, I don't mean to be rude, thus a tastefully worded thank-yew note is forwarded to them.
IMHO, this is a movie that will make full use of Burton's talents. Willy Wonka is a deeply eccentric character, and Burton is known for his well... "Burtonesque" way of doing things. Burton will really bring out the weirdness of Wonka.
In the trailer Wonka looks like he falls somewhere between Michael Jackson and Alex of Clockwork Orange.
Evil, vaguely Arabic aliens invade. Only the square jawed hero (played by the guy from that movie that was vaguely popular last year), the love interest (with that woman from the movie your girlfriend watched) and the wisecracking black sidekick (fuck knows, they all look the same to me) can defeat them. 2 hours of bland Hollywood shite. This is the sight of a culture so bereft of originality that plagiarism is hailed as a creative force.
Sounds like what we really need is a War of the Worlds Musical!
Is this the real life
Is this just fantasy
A.D. 2101, War was beginning
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
Martians, yeilding no sympathy
Because I'm easy come,easy go,
Fly Zig high, fly Zig low,
Anyway the Zig goes,doesn't really matter to me, to me
Mama, just watched TV,
Ignored what prophets said,
Now martians coming and we're dead,
Mama, life had just begun,
But now we've gone and thrown it all away
Mama ooo, didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters
Too late, we're on our way,
To destruction, Cats say,
Told to make our time today,
Goodbye everybody, I got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and move a Zig
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blow)
I don't know how to fly,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Is the curate!, Is the curate, dragged by a tentacle
Laserbolt and heatrays very very frightening me
All your base, All your base
All your base, All your base
All your base are belong to us!
But I just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He just a poor boy from a poor planetoid
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go, will you let me go
Take off every Zig! For great justice!
Take off every Zig! For great justice!
Take off every Zig! For great justice!
For great justice! For great justice!
Move, move, move move, move, move Zig!
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me move
Someone set up us the bomb!
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby, I know what I doing baby!
Just gotta get out-just gotta move Zig right outta here
Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters,nothing really matters to me
It would be amusing if the War of the Worlds TV trailer (which is refusing to play on my machine), was engineered to look like a news broadcast, and managed to cause panic like the radio series.
Are you kidding? We're at freaking war in Iraq, soldiers are taking the SoD to task for the shit they have to ride into battle in, and most people are completely oblivious to the knucklehead who got us into this fine mess.
Three years ago we witnessed something astounding, two jets colliding with the WTC towers and one with the Pentagon and, victims families aside, most americans are right back on track to worrying about which color iPod to get and whether they'll have enough beer in the cooler for the bowl games.
I'm not saying we're stupid or anything, but we're remarkably resilient in bouncing back into our own little bubbles after a catastrophe, so long as it didn't directly touch us. Aliens could be all over the place and we'd just want to get through it so we can rebuild our civilisation and see how Survivor Vanuatu comes out.
Meanwhile, in news that will ruin my life for the next 3 days or so:
Pixar has pushed back their last feature, while paired with a certain evil empire, Cars until May 2006 (insert riot here) which had been due Nov 2005. This is so they can sell more DVDs for your holiday shopping pleasure later in 2006 (the fucked up logic escapes me, but Dreamworks is doing the same shit with Shrek 3, moving it back to May 2007)
In less incredible news, Pixar has pushed back their last feature, while paired with a certain evil empire, Cars until May 2006
(insert riot here) which had been due Nov 2005. This is so they can sell more DVDs for your holiday shopping pleasure later in 2006 (the fucked up logic escapes me, but Dreamworks is doing the same shit with Shrek 3, moving it back to May 2007)
What he didn't think of is to give the perception of inadequate supply, but continue to fill up shelves. This way Nintendo gets the extra attention as well as sales.
Not only that, it will fuel tailgunners to buy up lots of them and sell them, at a premium, to suckers on eBay.
He's a local boy, too, having graduated from the University of Victoria. Frankly, a local boy getting big-time acting attention in the outside world is more newswothy, IMHO, than the fact that he's playing Chicago. He played Vancouver four times the other month. Why wasn't that a front-page headline?
All entertainment from outside the USA, particularly Canada, is subject to extreme scrutiny (since the canadians booed W.)
should spitting image return and feature Bush, well... the bombs would be dropping fast and furious!
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People who drive and talk suffer, before or during the fact, brain damage. What the fsck is so important to talk about while driving, anyway?
What will Puck call his coffee? Wolfgang Puck's Hearty Coffee? Seems all the soups feature the word Hearty on the label. Maybe that's what you get from putting chicken fat in it. At least I haven't seen MSG in there, which Progresso has now added to all of their soups. Bastards.
mmm.. that's a hearty cuppa, but what's this yellow lump floating in it?
i only worship at bob's discount church (if you get your prayers in early, you get a 5% discount on your sins.)
(From the BSD fortune file)
While that's hoomerous, QA!=QC. QC, as the fortune says, is checking the output of production. QA is more focused on assuring production will consistently meet spec, before anything actually comes off the line. QC is an aspect of QA.
Did they pay the shipping?
Ah, Akio Morita, we miss you so ... the barbarians who run your company now are more concerned with profits, they're happy to let their products be made out of crappy parts, in crappy ways, by crappily trained (if at all) workers, so long as the failure rate doesn't get too high.
I don't buy Sony stuff anymore, I avoid it. Problem is, there's getting to be few manufacturers of consumer electronics, let along computer bits, which don't suck. It's cheaper to fill third world landfills with 15% failure rate than spend the bucks to get it right the first time.
I'm amazed anyone actually has a Q/A dept anymore. Back in 2000, when axes started to fall, suits developed a new philosophy, around the world: Q/A Is Expendable -- let the customer test it and we'll just write off the bad units and dodge blame for any damage done.
Heck, we can _all_ think of one very large and successful company which does this.
Not sure, but I think those were just the calibre of new games...
There are better makes of A/D and D/A converters and better methods of compressing a digital stream, but one thing I really did notice wasn't so much the high frequencies (though on some they sound like some higher harmonics have found their way in or like the sound has a tinge to it), but low frequencies, which semi conductors really have serious problems with, the more semiconductors you run the signal through (hence NAD went back to basics years ago and tried to build amps and preamps with the minimum number of high quality transistors/FETs to cut down on noice generated by the circuitry). I have some premium vinyl of Stevie Wonder and Todd Rundgren which is unmatched by even the best CD's in my collection. Considering how much more lossy MP3 (or even OGG) can be I assume most people, like in the days of AM 6 transistor radios, don't care about fidelity. Nothing wrong with that, especially when driving a 5 spd pickup down the road and listening, but it's another matter when listening through phones or in the peace of one's home, where digital artifacts and lossiness is more noticable. Probably a blessing to have a "tin ear".
Some people will refer to a salt lick, which IIRC is about 5 or more lbs.
That would be a fair assumption. Labels on consumer electronics should be believed as much as a menu of what snake oil cures.
As for High Definition in regard to MP3's, there's any number of audiophiles who will suggest strongly that the two are mutually exclusive.
I thought HD was used back in the days of VCR's before it meant higher actual resolution.
Nowaday's you can buy DVD players at the grocery store, so I take it all with a pint of salt.
I wonder if they'll find digital finger prints of 10 year old boys and Michael Jackson on pr0n sites...
May the ISPs live in interesting times...
Hmm. Kinda like my fantasy, which seems to involve a tricky hand gesture which magically transfers money from their bank account to my bank account. Of course, I don't mean to be rude, thus a tastefully worded thank-yew note is forwarded to them.
Ah.. to be Merlin for a day...
In the trailer Wonka looks like he falls somewhere between Michael Jackson and Alex of Clockwork Orange.
Hmm..
Sounds like what we really need is a War of the Worlds Musical!
Is this the real life
,nothing really matters to me
Is this just fantasy
A.D. 2101, War was beginning
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
Martians, yeilding no sympathy
Because I'm easy come,easy go,
Fly Zig high, fly Zig low,
Anyway the Zig goes,doesn't really matter to me, to me
Mama, just watched TV,
Ignored what prophets said,
Now martians coming and we're dead,
Mama, life had just begun,
But now we've gone and thrown it all away
Mama ooo, didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters
Too late, we're on our way,
To destruction, Cats say,
Told to make our time today,
Goodbye everybody, I got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and move a Zig
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blow)
I don't know how to fly,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Is the curate!, Is the curate, dragged by a tentacle
Laserbolt and heatrays very very frightening me
All your base, All your base
All your base, All your base
All your base are belong to us!
But I just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He just a poor boy from a poor planetoid
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go, will you let me go
Take off every Zig! For great justice!
Take off every Zig! For great justice!
Take off every Zig! For great justice!
For great justice! For great justice!
Move, move, move move, move, move Zig!
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me move
Someone set up us the bomb!
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby, I know what I doing baby!
Just gotta get out-just gotta move Zig right outta here
Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Any way the Zig goes....
Are you kidding? We're at freaking war in Iraq, soldiers are taking the SoD to task for the shit they have to ride into battle in, and most people are completely oblivious to the knucklehead who got us into this fine mess.
Three years ago we witnessed something astounding, two jets colliding with the WTC towers and one with the Pentagon and, victims families aside, most americans are right back on track to worrying about which color iPod to get and whether they'll have enough beer in the cooler for the bowl games.
I'm not saying we're stupid or anything, but we're remarkably resilient in bouncing back into our own little bubbles after a catastrophe, so long as it didn't directly touch us. Aliens could be all over the place and we'd just want to get through it so we can rebuild our civilisation and see how Survivor Vanuatu comes out.
Meanwhile, in news that will ruin my life for the next 3 days or so:
Pixar has pushed back their last feature, while paired with a certain evil empire, Cars until May 2006 (insert riot here) which had been due Nov 2005. This is so they can sell more DVDs for your holiday shopping pleasure later in 2006 (the fucked up logic escapes me, but Dreamworks is doing the same shit with Shrek 3, moving it back to May 2007)
In less incredible news, Pixar has pushed back their last feature, while paired with a certain evil empire, Cars until May 2006
(insert riot here) which had been due Nov 2005. This is so they can sell more DVDs for your holiday shopping pleasure later in 2006 (the fucked up logic escapes me, but Dreamworks is doing the same shit with Shrek 3, moving it back to May 2007)
Not only that, it will fuel tailgunners to buy up lots of them and sell them, at a premium, to suckers on eBay.
Whew! Thank goodness I'm impervious to marketing and hype!
ooo there's a platinum version of helloworld.c coming out...must have *drool*
I think the idea is No Jar-Jar Christmas Special is a great holiday idea.
All entertainment from outside the USA, particularly Canada, is subject to extreme scrutiny (since the canadians booed W.)
should spitting image return and feature Bush, well... the bombs would be dropping fast and furious!
As soon as he digitally adds long, floppy ears, a long snout and adds some 'yousa' and 'meesa' to the dialogue.
i hope he likes tomatoes...
How about Star Trek, Flintstones and a sprinking of Star Wars? Stone Trek (requires flash)