A few more mph in Oregon and you would get a Wreckless Driving ticket and could be hauled off to jail at the discretion of the officer, if memory serves.
Not necessarily. The problem with speed limits is they do not take into consideration the vehicle that's being driven, the vehicle's tires, or other various factors that contribute to the safety of those speeds.
I agree that it increases the potential for Darwinism, but just because one drives at 90-100 MPH on the freeway does not necessarily mean that he or she is driving any more risky than someone driving at 60. Those of us who value our own (and our family's) well being don't drive based entirely on the speed limit. In certain conditions, I drive much slower than the speed limit because that's what's wise. It would be nice if I were also allowed to drive faster when safe.. you know, to make up for the times that I had to drive slower.
Ultimately, I feel the real problem is that people have been trained to rely on the government to tell them what's right and wrong, what's safe and what's dangerous. It's total bullshit.
A colleague of mine has created a small desk to go on top of his desk to raise up the necessary peripherals to the proper height. He loves that it requires no commitment.
Define necessary. It acts as a kind of lubricant during sex and protects the most sensitive area of the penis. Without it, your dick isn't as sensitive (read: sex isn't as good).
Welcome to the world, son! SNIP!
You are completely ignoring important other factors such as crash avoidance. Small cars are much easier to control, especially in emergencies. The safest car is a car that never gets in an accident. Granted that's one impossible extreme.:)
"OSX is slower than Windows" is a very broad statement to make and most likely quite false, except perhaps when specifically discussing graphics drivers.
I don't know where people get the impression that the human eye can only detect 30fps but it is blatantly wrong. The eye can detect much more than this.
Varied time signature changes are always planned (and Tool is quite fantastic at layering multiple elements with different time signatures on top of each other). I heard once a while back that they did not record with a click track; I'm sure that they do precisely plan their tempo changes and did not mean to communicate otherwise.
Maybe for an overall volume, but I guarantee just about everyone can pick up even a half dB change of a single instrument in a mix. It's amazing how a tiny amount can drastically change how an instrument sits in a mix. Sometimes even.1 or.2 dB is audible.
I'm a big fan of uncompressed audio, but iTunes downloads are actually decent in quality, if memory serves (I really only listen to CD's, so I guess that largely invalidates my claim). About 6 years ago I spent a good amount of time A/B'ing between different compression types, bitrates, etc. I seem to remember 160 Kbps with AAC being rather difficult to pick up, and I do consider my ear to be "better than normal," as my schooling, hobbies, and professions have all been tied into music in some way either currently or in the past.
Ultimately, I think the broadcast media probably has a bigger impact on the way they mix and master modern "recordings". I'm not quite sure what you mean by "blending," but microphonics and higher frequencies* don't seem to be all that lost with modern compression, especially when you take into account the absolute shit that most people listen to their music through: 1% THD amplification with equally shitty crossovers (if at all), and terrible speakers. Can you hear the differences on a set of Genelec studio monitors? Yes. Can you hear it on every day sound systems? LOL, no, it all sounds like shit. Oh no, I think I'm turning into Stan from South Park.
* Higher frequencies are really quite poorly conveyed even with uncompressed recordings. 16-bit stereo recordings at 44.1 KHz simply does not provide enough samples to capture very high frequencies in any amount of detail. Oh well, most people are deaf and can't hear much past 15KHz, anyways. Actually, I'm probably in that category myself.
That works for some genres, but most of the time it detracts from the music and is a flaw in my mind. Not always true.. for example, Tool is a fantastic prog rock/metal band in my mind, but they certainly do not rigidly follow a click. I feel a lot of musicians say, "Yeah, our tempo varies and it's intentional," as a guise for just not wanting to practice with a damn metronome. That said, it is very difficult to pull off what bands like Tool do (not that I'm a professional musician).
If memory serves, 110 dB and 118 dB only appear to be relatively close in loudness because of the ear's built-in "turn it down" mechanism. I forget the details, but essentially there are muscles inside your ear that tighten up the tiny bones that detect the vibrations (I think, it's been a very long time since I've learned this stuff), effectively "turning the volume down". It is to protect ones' hearing; unfortunately, these muscles tire easily. So in other words, once you get to a certain volume, your ear makes an attempt to turn down the perceptible noise. Don't let that fool you, though, it really is very loud. There may also be a threshold that once hit, our ears cannot detect it being any "louder." Perhaps someone more intimately familiar with such things could pipe in.
I'd much rather be at a 110 dB concert than a 118 dB concert... especially if it's A weighted 110 vs. 118.
The loudness wars are obnoxious and they are achieved only by making the mix as completely uninteresting as possible and limited to the point of audible distortion.
A 3dB increase represents twice as much "power", but the human ear does not perceive the increase in quite the same way. About 10 dB is perceived as "twice as loud."
It's not just voices. Many instruments are auto tuned or replaced with samples (SoundReplacer on drums is all too common). Massive compression/limiting across the stereo bus. Sigh, it's a mess. Interestingly, Muse's recordings actually sound pretty good.
What's wrong with questioning every argument? I don't mean openly with others, but internally. Is it not best to analyze it and contemplate it so that one day you can hopefully understand the "why"? I agree, outspoken individuals who have learned a little bit of "logic" can be quite annoying, especially when crucial variables are ignored or forgotten. My mother in law is a fantastic example of this, but you most likely don't know her.
One need remember the full probability course to understand what is a correlation and why it doesn't imply causation.
It's been a long time since I took a logic/critical thinking class. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this one of the first things that they teach? Perhaps I misunderstand what you're saying.
Absolutely! I cannot agree more. How many of us would not have even bothered learning something if we weren't "made to do it"? As a child, my parents forced me to do things I thought I'd hate only to find out I really, really liked some of of those things. Pushing that comfort zone is crucial to developing an educated and open mind about a great many things.
But, leave it a to politician to see a problem (in this case, our students failing mathematics miserably), and to propose a solution that states "well, we don't need that anyways." Call me crazy, but that seems a bit retarded even for a politician. Wait, no it doesn't...
Indeed. Unfortunately, power hungry people who are actually not good at real world things jump into politics instead. In other words, we end up with a bunch of retarded ass holes running our nation. What a bunch of fuckers.
Logic/critical thinking very much tie in to Algebra and vice versa. It seems strange to me to present one without the other. Yet it seems logic/critical thinking classes are very rare in contrast to Algebra.
There is a root account, it just does not have a password set. If you feel you must login as root, you can do something like this from an admin account:
# sudo su -
Now you've launched a root shell. To set a root password so you can su - to it like you would any other account:
# passwd
[type passwd]
[and again]
Done. As for running commands as root from GUI, just alt + F2: sudo command or gksu command (if Unity has gksu installed).
Personally, I've come to prefer the Debian Testing branch for a desktop OS (currently Wheezy). However, I wouldn't expect this to be favorable for a brand new Linux user.
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A few more mph in Oregon and you would get a Wreckless Driving ticket and could be hauled off to jail at the discretion of the officer, if memory serves.
Not necessarily. The problem with speed limits is they do not take into consideration the vehicle that's being driven, the vehicle's tires, or other various factors that contribute to the safety of those speeds.
I agree that it increases the potential for Darwinism, but just because one drives at 90-100 MPH on the freeway does not necessarily mean that he or she is driving any more risky than someone driving at 60. Those of us who value our own (and our family's) well being don't drive based entirely on the speed limit. In certain conditions, I drive much slower than the speed limit because that's what's wise. It would be nice if I were also allowed to drive faster when safe.. you know, to make up for the times that I had to drive slower.
Ultimately, I feel the real problem is that people have been trained to rely on the government to tell them what's right and wrong, what's safe and what's dangerous. It's total bullshit.
A colleague of mine has created a small desk to go on top of his desk to raise up the necessary peripherals to the proper height. He loves that it requires no commitment.
Define necessary. It acts as a kind of lubricant during sex and protects the most sensitive area of the penis. Without it, your dick isn't as sensitive (read: sex isn't as good). Welcome to the world, son! SNIP!
You are completely ignoring important other factors such as crash avoidance. Small cars are much easier to control, especially in emergencies. The safest car is a car that never gets in an accident. Granted that's one impossible extreme. :)
Good point... and even better: your signature.
Dang you beat me to it.
"OSX is slower than Windows" is a very broad statement to make and most likely quite false, except perhaps when specifically discussing graphics drivers.
I don't know where people get the impression that the human eye can only detect 30fps but it is blatantly wrong. The eye can detect much more than this.
Varied time signature changes are always planned (and Tool is quite fantastic at layering multiple elements with different time signatures on top of each other). I heard once a while back that they did not record with a click track; I'm sure that they do precisely plan their tempo changes and did not mean to communicate otherwise.
Yeah, but most people don't like to accept that reality.
Aha! That is where 6 dB comes in. I knew it had significance, but could not remember what it was.
Maybe for an overall volume, but I guarantee just about everyone can pick up even a half dB change of a single instrument in a mix. It's amazing how a tiny amount can drastically change how an instrument sits in a mix. Sometimes even .1 or .2 dB is audible.
I'm a big fan of uncompressed audio, but iTunes downloads are actually decent in quality, if memory serves (I really only listen to CD's, so I guess that largely invalidates my claim). About 6 years ago I spent a good amount of time A/B'ing between different compression types, bitrates, etc. I seem to remember 160 Kbps with AAC being rather difficult to pick up, and I do consider my ear to be "better than normal," as my schooling, hobbies, and professions have all been tied into music in some way either currently or in the past.
Ultimately, I think the broadcast media probably has a bigger impact on the way they mix and master modern "recordings". I'm not quite sure what you mean by "blending," but microphonics and higher frequencies* don't seem to be all that lost with modern compression, especially when you take into account the absolute shit that most people listen to their music through: 1% THD amplification with equally shitty crossovers (if at all), and terrible speakers. Can you hear the differences on a set of Genelec studio monitors? Yes. Can you hear it on every day sound systems? LOL, no, it all sounds like shit. Oh no, I think I'm turning into Stan from South Park.
* Higher frequencies are really quite poorly conveyed even with uncompressed recordings. 16-bit stereo recordings at 44.1 KHz simply does not provide enough samples to capture very high frequencies in any amount of detail. Oh well, most people are deaf and can't hear much past 15KHz, anyways. Actually, I'm probably in that category myself.
That works for some genres, but most of the time it detracts from the music and is a flaw in my mind. Not always true.. for example, Tool is a fantastic prog rock/metal band in my mind, but they certainly do not rigidly follow a click. I feel a lot of musicians say, "Yeah, our tempo varies and it's intentional," as a guise for just not wanting to practice with a damn metronome. That said, it is very difficult to pull off what bands like Tool do (not that I'm a professional musician).
If memory serves, 110 dB and 118 dB only appear to be relatively close in loudness because of the ear's built-in "turn it down" mechanism. I forget the details, but essentially there are muscles inside your ear that tighten up the tiny bones that detect the vibrations (I think, it's been a very long time since I've learned this stuff), effectively "turning the volume down". It is to protect ones' hearing; unfortunately, these muscles tire easily. So in other words, once you get to a certain volume, your ear makes an attempt to turn down the perceptible noise. Don't let that fool you, though, it really is very loud. There may also be a threshold that once hit, our ears cannot detect it being any "louder." Perhaps someone more intimately familiar with such things could pipe in.
I'd much rather be at a 110 dB concert than a 118 dB concert... especially if it's A weighted 110 vs. 118.
The loudness wars are obnoxious and they are achieved only by making the mix as completely uninteresting as possible and limited to the point of audible distortion.
A 3dB increase represents twice as much "power", but the human ear does not perceive the increase in quite the same way. About 10 dB is perceived as "twice as loud."
It's not just voices. Many instruments are auto tuned or replaced with samples (SoundReplacer on drums is all too common). Massive compression/limiting across the stereo bus. Sigh, it's a mess. Interestingly, Muse's recordings actually sound pretty good.
I'm shocked.
What's wrong with questioning every argument? I don't mean openly with others, but internally. Is it not best to analyze it and contemplate it so that one day you can hopefully understand the "why"? I agree, outspoken individuals who have learned a little bit of "logic" can be quite annoying, especially when crucial variables are ignored or forgotten. My mother in law is a fantastic example of this, but you most likely don't know her.
One need remember the full probability course to understand what is a correlation and why it doesn't imply causation.
It's been a long time since I took a logic/critical thinking class. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this one of the first things that they teach? Perhaps I misunderstand what you're saying.
Absolutely! I cannot agree more. How many of us would not have even bothered learning something if we weren't "made to do it"? As a child, my parents forced me to do things I thought I'd hate only to find out I really, really liked some of of those things. Pushing that comfort zone is crucial to developing an educated and open mind about a great many things.
But, leave it a to politician to see a problem (in this case, our students failing mathematics miserably), and to propose a solution that states "well, we don't need that anyways." Call me crazy, but that seems a bit retarded even for a politician. Wait, no it doesn't...
Indeed. Unfortunately, power hungry people who are actually not good at real world things jump into politics instead. In other words, we end up with a bunch of retarded ass holes running our nation. What a bunch of fuckers.
Logic/critical thinking very much tie in to Algebra and vice versa. It seems strange to me to present one without the other. Yet it seems logic/critical thinking classes are very rare in contrast to Algebra.
There is a root account, it just does not have a password set. If you feel you must login as root, you can do something like this from an admin account:
# sudo su -
Now you've launched a root shell. To set a root password so you can su - to it like you would any other account:
# passwd
[type passwd]
[and again]
Done. As for running commands as root from GUI, just alt + F2: sudo command or gksu command (if Unity has gksu installed).
Personally, I've come to prefer the Debian Testing branch for a desktop OS (currently Wheezy). However, I wouldn't expect this to be favorable for a brand new Linux user.