Pen and paper can give writers and designers a direct means of sketching out their ideas without the complicating biases of software, while whiteboards can bring engineers "out from behind their screens" and entice them "to take risks and share ideas with others."
Terrible analogy. The actual art in the performance is whatever the performer wants to present, whether that's with a classical orchestra or synthesizers. Analogue/digital distribution is way down the line.
Of course this is nothing new. I've been saying analog is better than digital for a very long time despite being modded down every time I say it.
Because it's bollocks. A good digital recording of the signal from a turntable will be indistinguishable from direct analogue playback. Done right, digital will outperform analogue. It isn't always done right, especially these days thanks to the loudness war, but that isn't an inherent problem with digital. Anything else is just nostalgia - you like it because it sounds like the things you like.
If you want to say that the available analogue recordings are better than the digital ones, well, you might well have a point. But digital itself is not the problem.
I'm more impressed by this proof-of-concept from a few years ago, of headlights which could selectively de-illuminate individual raindrops and improve visibility in rain (or so was claimed) by 50% even at 90km/h.
The summary has the names (or it does now, anyway) but not the numbers or the symbols, which would have been nice to include. Would've been good to include some etymology as well.
according to a theory that overturns Einstein's century-old claim that the speed of light is a constant
Did Einstein ever make any claims about the speed of light being constant over time, or has a journalist just assumed he must have in order to shoe-horn his name in?
I've seen experiments that show the brain is remarkably foolable when it comes to synchronising actions and vision.
If you set up a light to flash every time the volunteer pushes a button, but then slowly increase the delay, their brain will compensate and they'll still think it's instant (up to a point, of course).
But then if you remove the delay, the next time they press the button they will perceive the light as coming on before they pushed the button.
So while it will always seem much less laggy if you go from an HDTV to a dumb TV (CRT or an LCD computer monitor for example), that doesn't necessarily mean you were having such a bad experience with the TV before you switched. Your brain may have been filtering out some of the delay between your actions and the on-screen consequences.
There's probably some kind of opposite analogy with how Obama will be viewed in four years time...
He tested the hack at home, emulating the city's network, and it worked. A real-life test would had been illegal.
Oh, right. So he hacked the city's network the same way I robbed a bank with a gun, only it wasn't a bank, it was my friend with some monopoly money, and it wasn't a gun, it was a banana. But we both acted like it was real, so it totally would have worked.
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Pen and paper can give writers and designers a direct means of sketching out their ideas without the complicating biases of software, while whiteboards can bring engineers "out from behind their screens" and entice them "to take risks and share ideas with others."
Terrible analogy. The actual art in the performance is whatever the performer wants to present, whether that's with a classical orchestra or synthesizers. Analogue/digital distribution is way down the line.
Of course this is nothing new. I've been saying analog is better than digital for a very long time despite being modded down every time I say it.
Because it's bollocks. A good digital recording of the signal from a turntable will be indistinguishable from direct analogue playback. Done right, digital will outperform analogue. It isn't always done right, especially these days thanks to the loudness war, but that isn't an inherent problem with digital. Anything else is just nostalgia - you like it because it sounds like the things you like.
If you want to say that the available analogue recordings are better than the digital ones, well, you might well have a point. But digital itself is not the problem.
And statistics begs to point out that one special-snowflake outlier doesn't make the conclusion worthless.
Yeah... ...plane doors open inwards, though. The pressure will stop you opening the door even after all the locks have been opened.
BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors
They're not his doors, though, are they?
What, no-one's posted a link to the over-simplistic and shallow short story Manna and been vapidly modded to +5 Insightful?
What is Slashdot coming to...
I'm more impressed by this proof-of-concept from a few years ago, of headlights which could selectively de-illuminate individual raindrops and improve visibility in rain (or so was claimed) by 50% even at 90km/h.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The summary has the names (or it does now, anyway) but not the numbers or the symbols, which would have been nice to include. Would've been good to include some etymology as well.
Me and you both mate.
Well it's a free world, but don't expect me to watch.
And stand the fuck up for the anthem too, you aren't being oppressed.
You are if you're telling people "the fuck" to do something that they don't want to do.
ah, the /. friendly discussions! * I'm a different AC, not the GP
Too right. As if I'd be caught dead starting a sentence with a lower-case letter or forgetting a closing full stop, the very idea...
To the Stargate!
Yikes, settle down. Just trying to give a simple analogy for how strong the evidence is for the Big Bang.
What I am saying is that we should not disregard other possibilities such as the universe simply be far, far, far bigger than we can see.
We already know it is. But we're also pretty damn sure it puffed itself up about 13.8 billion years ago.
Is interesting to remember that may be possible that there has not even been a big bang to start
Only in the same sense that it's possible dinosaurs never really existed and all the bones were put there by God.
according to a theory that overturns Einstein's century-old claim that the speed of light is a constant
Did Einstein ever make any claims about the speed of light being constant over time, or has a journalist just assumed he must have in order to shoe-horn his name in?
I'm surprised to learn that there is even one person at a time still using PowerPoint.
It was 20,000 feet after the first 13,333 feet.
when everyone I know refuses to buy online because of counterfeit products and terrible return policies
So, because everyone you know doesn't shop online, no-one does?
I guess Amazon is some kind of weird fiction that we're all in on?
To accomplish the task, a cohort of scientists fed thousands of hours of TV footage -- 5000 to be precise -- from the BBC to a neural network.
Accuracy is therefore greatly increased on the words "tea," "Doctor," and "wanker."
Most high-ish end modern TVs will have a "gaming mode" that turns this off.
There is usually still some lag in game mode, but on my Samsung, for example, it goes from approx 100ms to approx 40ms when you switch.
I've seen experiments that show the brain is remarkably foolable when it comes to synchronising actions and vision.
If you set up a light to flash every time the volunteer pushes a button, but then slowly increase the delay, their brain will compensate and they'll still think it's instant (up to a point, of course).
But then if you remove the delay, the next time they press the button they will perceive the light as coming on before they pushed the button.
So while it will always seem much less laggy if you go from an HDTV to a dumb TV (CRT or an LCD computer monitor for example), that doesn't necessarily mean you were having such a bad experience with the TV before you switched. Your brain may have been filtering out some of the delay between your actions and the on-screen consequences.
There's probably some kind of opposite analogy with how Obama will be viewed in four years time...
Should've used metric seconds.
try a joke thats actually funny - fuckwit
Good of you to sign your post, AC.
Margret Hamilton basically wrote the code that got us to the moon by literally punching
Bang! Zoom! Right to the moon!
He tested the hack at home, emulating the city's network, and it worked. A real-life test would had been illegal.
Oh, right. So he hacked the city's network the same way I robbed a bank with a gun, only it wasn't a bank, it was my friend with some monopoly money, and it wasn't a gun, it was a banana. But we both acted like it was real, so it totally would have worked.
News for birds. Stuff that splatters.