The beauty of capitalism is that we don't have to come up with the jobs that these newly unemployed will have to do, they will figure that out for themselves.
This is hysterical. Yeah, they will figure that out, after they've burned down everything in sight because they are starving.
There is no such thing as the "free market." This is a stupid delusion I see so frequently that it is virtually impossible to discuss what is wrong with our system. Markets are always controlled by someone. It just depends on who is controlling what.
Oh, and I've been to South Korea, and as it happens China. I don't think you have clue number one as to why or how those systems work, so you should refrain from making asinine glibertarian-tard statements about them until you've at least done some basic homework.
If it were the human vs. the robot, and the human was hungry, and the robot was in the way of food, I guarantee you human wins every time, no matter what it takes.
The cold calculations of silicon have nothing vs. the survival instincts of 3.5 billion years of evolutionary struggle.
Why not make it easy to run software developed to control the loudness of audio? A dynamic volume button if you will.
Loudness is not one control. It is many. With compression and limiting you can make something sound much louder even if the peak volume is not that high. There are parameters for compression and they don't automatically, universally restrict volume to a desired dynamic level . . . or if you try, you'll get a lot of unlistenable noise.
Better to enact standards for broadcast dynamics. As others have noted, the industry sure doesn't have a problem passing laws to make their lives easier. Why is that not an option for the consumer?
20 fires have been associated with firearms activity
Sounds fair to me.
. They are campfires, debris burning, and vehicle fires."
Looks like they left off steel penis extensions, which also cause fires. This fire caused by a gun also had 9000 people running for their lives.
Boo-frickety-hoo. Maybe the problem of this desperate need to extend ones' penis will solve itself . . . when people get sick of grown men acting like 12-year-olds with their guns.
. Many people would like movies released in higher detail than 1080p
I can't understand why. There is a barely-perceptible difference between DVD and blu-ray as it is. Of course, as someone who can afford big screen TV's and expensive players, I am also old, and therefore my eyesight is not what it was.
I certainly won't be dropping hundreds of dollars on yet another microscopic difference in fidelity, and the subsequent replacement of all my favorite movies with whatever the new format is. I only bought a blu-ray and a high-def TV because they came down in price, and I could pick up some classics for under $10 in the bin at best buy. I assure you, I will wait until the 4K versions are under $10 before I start moving to them.
And I have no idea how 62 channels of audio is of any use, pertinent to the OP. I don't have 62 ears.
And before anyone starts getting all technical with me about the virtues of 62 channels of audio, I engineer my own recordings as a hobby. I certainly know what that entails, and honestly anything above about 5 channels is getting simply ludicrous. It is very easy to place sounds wherever you want them with just a few three-dimensional cues. I really do think this whole thing is someone trying to sell uber-expensive systems.
The problem is that people in Africa are helped by air organizations rather than being taught to help them selves.
No, the problem is that the west is still digging diamonds and other valuables out of Africa's soil, and as long as there's money to be made filching the continent of its riches, we can't afford for any of the nations there to have like an independent or responsible government.
So it is in fact the government. The MANY governments of the world.
Describe how you would provide long term help with a budget equal to Larry Ellison's island fund which we can say is $1 billion USD.
I'm trying to decide if you are being funny here, or a stupid asshole. One billion dollars is the kind of money that a whole city or nation-state could be founded on. So, what we do have here is Larry Ellison being a self-centered asshole, when he could like many wealthy people actually be of some use to the world.
Hey, it's his money, and if he wants to act like the world's biggest spoiled child, then that's who he obviously wants to be. Just don't pretend it's anything else.
No, it is not. A bank has power over an economy that no other institution can match.
saying that a business is 'crime' is strange at least,
LOL. Tell that to the drug dealers, oh, everywhere.
You are getting confused about "criminal" versus "illegal." Criminal is criminal, no matter the law. Illegal is when the law recognizes that something is criminal. But many businesses are actively criminal in that they steal from their customers, and actively harm their communities. The law has simply been bought to permit them to behave this way. Doesn't make it any less reprehensible.
with a fast enough computer could you programatically write sheet music for every possible song ever,
No, never. Ever. A song is not just notes, it's sound, it's melody. It's a million intangible aspects that I do not think any program could encompass.
Art and creativity are thankfully out of the reach of automation. You can try, but a human mind can synthesize in a way that a computer is simply incapable of. That is why we are still in control of the machines.
I don't think that chord progressions are subject to copyright
Considering how theory and harmony work, chord progressions are utterly non-copyrightable. I believe the majority of pop songs use the chords I, IV, V, I, in that order, at 120 bpm.
The chords for "Twist and Shout," "La Bamba," and a dozen other little pop dance songs are flat-out identical. There are ONLY seven choices if you stick to simple triads in key. If you aren't playing simple triads in key, you're wandering towards jazz.
Melody and lyric are what make a song individual. Chord progressions are like building blocks. It would be akin to patenting the fucking brick.
If being filthy stinking rich causes one to lose peripheral interest in the things they enjoy, like nerdtoys, programming, and all things geek.
To some of us this is just a job, and after almost 18 years of non-stop corporate bullshit, one I'm glad to come home from so I can play my bass. I use computers to record music at home. I HATE doing tech support anywhere but in the office.
Then, what do we need patent clerks for? We could outsource that function to the same people who fucking process insurance claims or drivers' license applications. If they're not going to do any fucking critical thinking, then let's find some minimum-wage hacks to not think in their stead. Saves us some money, right?
Theory: Life exists because of evolution. Provable? Not at all
Um, yes. Eminently. Proven, in fact. Already done.
That life evolved from simpler forms is not a theory. It is a dead-on fact. The "from natural selection" part is theoretical. The "evolution" part is observed a million times over in the fossil record, the geologic record, the cosmological record, etcetera. The only people who dispute that life started as simple microorganisms and evolved to larger forms are, well, stupid. I don't give passes for ignorance anymore . ..
Scientific Theories are attempts to explain what is an undeniable, observable fact
Well, you just proved to me that you don't know what a theory is. Theories can be confirmed, or falsified. A theory is not worth anything if it is not falsifiable (i.e., cannot be tested). A theory that is repeatedly confirmed enters a realm of acceptance where it is rarely challenged because challenges always fail. Relativity is a theory. It has been confirmed many times, and is now integral to our lives vis-a-vis such things as nuclear power, and bombs, and GPS systems.
Theories are useful because they are predictive. The theory of evolution predicted for example, a "particulate means of genetic transmission," which appeared decades later as DNA. Theory confirmed.
On the other hand, the myth that God just waved his hand and did it all predicts nothing useful, cannot be falsified, cannot be tested.
So sad that science education has fallen so far. We live in a world that utterly depends on our understanding of these things, and as is painfully obvious by your Disneyland comprehension of how science works, we are in danger of having a world run by buck-toothed rubes whose intellect is operating at the Larry the Cable Guy level, trying to comprehend and maintain systems requiring far more intellectual horsepower than they can manage. Disaster is certain.
Hey Holder is the same guy who doesn't have any problems with the New Black Panther Party using voter intimidation at polling places,
Do you have a link where this occurred? Last I recall the NBP numbered apprxoimately four fucking people.
In the meantime, Rick Scott has thrown thousands of minority Florida voters off the rolls because they have a funny-sounding name. And Teabag state after Teabag state is adopting unconstitutional poll taxes (disguised as Voter ID laws).
If you're gonna start bitching about election fraud with an R next to your name, bring a flame suit, bitch. You will have a lot of fucking explaining to do.
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As I recall, super-sensitive movie scripts are kept secret in this same way, by giving each party a slightly different version.
Encyclopedias are also kept from wholesale copying by the inclusion of bogus entries.
This is an old technique. Fuck, I've seen movie plots based on this idea, plots where GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE was directly part of the story.
I am stunned that they AREN'T doing this. It is a VERY SIMPLE technique to figure out who is blabbing.
This is hysterical. Yeah, they will figure that out, after they've burned down everything in sight because they are starving.
There is no such thing as the "free market." This is a stupid delusion I see so frequently that it is virtually impossible to discuss what is wrong with our system. Markets are always controlled by someone. It just depends on who is controlling what.
Oh, and I've been to South Korea, and as it happens China. I don't think you have clue number one as to why or how those systems work, so you should refrain from making asinine glibertarian-tard statements about them until you've at least done some basic homework.
Oh, I most certainly fucking can. Anonymous Coward. Git yer debatin' shoes on if you have the balls.
The Universe is pretty awesome, IMHO.
Um, actually he's right.
You are a PARASITE. You are stealing the future from my kids. Fuck you in the face with a rake.
If it were the human vs. the robot, and the human was hungry, and the robot was in the way of food, I guarantee you human wins every time, no matter what it takes.
The cold calculations of silicon have nothing vs. the survival instincts of 3.5 billion years of evolutionary struggle.
Loudness is not one control. It is many. With compression and limiting you can make something sound much louder even if the peak volume is not that high. There are parameters for compression and they don't automatically, universally restrict volume to a desired dynamic level . . . or if you try, you'll get a lot of unlistenable noise.
Better to enact standards for broadcast dynamics. As others have noted, the industry sure doesn't have a problem passing laws to make their lives easier. Why is that not an option for the consumer?
There is no difference between mythology and religion, at least not where it regards "useful information about the world."
Well, when someone gets capitalism working would you please let us know?
It's the same old think that is so tiresome -- which is really "not thinking."
Sounds fair to me.
Looks like they left off steel penis extensions, which also cause fires. This fire caused by a gun also had 9000 people running for their lives.
Boo-frickety-hoo. Maybe the problem of this desperate need to extend ones' penis will solve itself . . . when people get sick of grown men acting like 12-year-olds with their guns.
I can't understand why. There is a barely-perceptible difference between DVD and blu-ray as it is. Of course, as someone who can afford big screen TV's and expensive players, I am also old, and therefore my eyesight is not what it was.
I certainly won't be dropping hundreds of dollars on yet another microscopic difference in fidelity, and the subsequent replacement of all my favorite movies with whatever the new format is. I only bought a blu-ray and a high-def TV because they came down in price, and I could pick up some classics for under $10 in the bin at best buy. I assure you, I will wait until the 4K versions are under $10 before I start moving to them.
And I have no idea how 62 channels of audio is of any use, pertinent to the OP. I don't have 62 ears.
And before anyone starts getting all technical with me about the virtues of 62 channels of audio, I engineer my own recordings as a hobby. I certainly know what that entails, and honestly anything above about 5 channels is getting simply ludicrous. It is very easy to place sounds wherever you want them with just a few three-dimensional cues. I really do think this whole thing is someone trying to sell uber-expensive systems.
Looks like that's all the effort they put into this shite software, too.
No, the problem is that the west is still digging diamonds and other valuables out of Africa's soil, and as long as there's money to be made filching the continent of its riches, we can't afford for any of the nations there to have like an independent or responsible government.
So it is in fact the government. The MANY governments of the world.
I'm trying to decide if you are being funny here, or a stupid asshole. One billion dollars is the kind of money that a whole city or nation-state could be founded on. So, what we do have here is Larry Ellison being a self-centered asshole, when he could like many wealthy people actually be of some use to the world.
Hey, it's his money, and if he wants to act like the world's biggest spoiled child, then that's who he obviously wants to be. Just don't pretend it's anything else.
It is only selling due to nostalgia.
I honestly doubt it will be worth much in 100 years.
No, it is not. A bank has power over an economy that no other institution can match.
LOL. Tell that to the drug dealers, oh, everywhere.
You are getting confused about "criminal" versus "illegal." Criminal is criminal, no matter the law. Illegal is when the law recognizes that something is criminal. But many businesses are actively criminal in that they steal from their customers, and actively harm their communities. The law has simply been bought to permit them to behave this way. Doesn't make it any less reprehensible.
No, never. Ever. A song is not just notes, it's sound, it's melody. It's a million intangible aspects that I do not think any program could encompass.
Art and creativity are thankfully out of the reach of automation. You can try, but a human mind can synthesize in a way that a computer is simply incapable of. That is why we are still in control of the machines.
Considering how theory and harmony work, chord progressions are utterly non-copyrightable. I believe the majority of pop songs use the chords I, IV, V, I, in that order, at 120 bpm.
The chords for "Twist and Shout," "La Bamba," and a dozen other little pop dance songs are flat-out identical. There are ONLY seven choices if you stick to simple triads in key. If you aren't playing simple triads in key, you're wandering towards jazz.
Melody and lyric are what make a song individual. Chord progressions are like building blocks. It would be akin to patenting the fucking brick.
To some of us this is just a job, and after almost 18 years of non-stop corporate bullshit, one I'm glad to come home from so I can play my bass. I use computers to record music at home. I HATE doing tech support anywhere but in the office.
Then, what do we need patent clerks for? We could outsource that function to the same people who fucking process insurance claims or drivers' license applications. If they're not going to do any fucking critical thinking, then let's find some minimum-wage hacks to not think in their stead. Saves us some money, right?
Wow. Who modded this troll? Seriously.
Who was too chickenshit, in other words, to dispute poster's points? Which I find very compelling, btw.
Um, yes. Eminently. Proven, in fact. Already done.
That life evolved from simpler forms is not a theory. It is a dead-on fact. The "from natural selection" part is theoretical. The "evolution" part is observed a million times over in the fossil record, the geologic record, the cosmological record, etcetera. The only people who dispute that life started as simple microorganisms and evolved to larger forms are, well, stupid. I don't give passes for ignorance anymore . . .
Well, you just proved to me that you don't know what a theory is. Theories can be confirmed, or falsified. A theory is not worth anything if it is not falsifiable (i.e., cannot be tested). A theory that is repeatedly confirmed enters a realm of acceptance where it is rarely challenged because challenges always fail. Relativity is a theory. It has been confirmed many times, and is now integral to our lives vis-a-vis such things as nuclear power, and bombs, and GPS systems.
Theories are useful because they are predictive. The theory of evolution predicted for example, a "particulate means of genetic transmission," which appeared decades later as DNA. Theory confirmed.
On the other hand, the myth that God just waved his hand and did it all predicts nothing useful, cannot be falsified, cannot be tested.
So sad that science education has fallen so far. We live in a world that utterly depends on our understanding of these things, and as is painfully obvious by your Disneyland comprehension of how science works, we are in danger of having a world run by buck-toothed rubes whose intellect is operating at the Larry the Cable Guy level, trying to comprehend and maintain systems requiring far more intellectual horsepower than they can manage. Disaster is certain.
Do you have a link where this occurred? Last I recall the NBP numbered apprxoimately four fucking people.
In the meantime, Rick Scott has thrown thousands of minority Florida voters off the rolls because they have a funny-sounding name. And Teabag state after Teabag state is adopting unconstitutional poll taxes (disguised as Voter ID laws).
If you're gonna start bitching about election fraud with an R next to your name, bring a flame suit, bitch. You will have a lot of fucking explaining to do.