A lot of times I've wanted an iPod and wanted a digital camera and wondered if there could be a way to use the harddisk in the iPod so I have a lot of storage space without carrying 2 hard disks everywhere. I think this is a good idea, I don't know if it's done well but if it is I'd buy one.
People always say that installing linux is difficult, what they never say is that these days its a lot easier than installing windows. Because microsoft's installers have never really been reviewed they've had no motive to improve them and they've stayed unstable, unituitive and generally crap.
The only reason that bands like Radiohead release singles is to promote their albums. In this stupid music industry where singles are so important their brilliant albums wouldn't even be noticed without a single in the charts.
And I think that's bullshit. A very, very few number of albums are written in this way, because if they were, the singles on the album couldn't be marketted seperately. When I listen to one of my albums, I *always* skip the tracks I don't like. I've listened to them all, and they sure as hell don't build off each other. They can all be listened to seperately, with no loss in appreciation of the music. And I don't think my albums are at all different from the vast majority out there.
No offence but thats probably the difference between you and a music fan, or just most music fans. I have no problem with you skipping tracks or buying tracks on their own, as long as I can buy albums. If all music buying is done in single tracks, I think albums would disappear which is a shame.
You are of course entitled to your opinion but I think that if you dont like every track on at least some of your albums, then you aren't listening to music you really like, or you dont have enough patience to really listen to music. Sure i like some tracks on any albums better than the others though. Its just that if I listen to a track by the Chilli Peppers from By The Way, it puts me in the mood for a track by the Chilli Peppers, from By The Way. The album, By The Way, also has ups and downs, quiet bits and loud bits, fast and slow bits, like a good song should. Thats why I compare an album to a long song, I think that musical expression comes partly in changes during a song, as it does through an album.
I sort of agree with this, and sort of not. I think that every track on a great album builds on and works with the others, as if an album were a long song. I think that 1 track gets you ready for the next and that listening to an entire album is the best way to listen to music, not just picking single tracks that dont flow off each other.
I also think that only 'proper bands' who make good music really make good albums, not manufactured pop acts who only make the occassional good single. Maybe the ability to sell single songs for a dollar will get rid of manufactured pop, leaving us only with the artists who can make 12 good songs and sell it as an album.
No one seems to say that using humans to generate electricity is impossible. To get energy out, they need to put energy in in the form of food or whatever. Food is basically fuel for the human generator, and has to be made somehow. All the energy in food comes from the sun, which they blocked out so the robots have to generate it somehow. Energy, as we all know, can neither be created nor destroyed so the robots can never get more energy out than they put in, which is the biggest plot hole in the matrix because it means the entire 2 films are impossible.
Can anyone actually point me to any double blind tests on mp3s? Everyone says they're inferior but I believe its all just a psychological effect, including that the lower bitrates cant be listened to. I want to see evidence but I think that its all crap, and I think audiophiles are just people who decide that they know more than you about sound reproduction. Sure theres differrences in an mp3 file, but can you actually tell and does it ruin the experience of listening, I doubt it but I want to see some GOOD SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE.
If we can write software that automatically filters spam, can we write some that can give us the names and addresses of those sending it, so that they can be punished under the law?
Why does America worry about porn and computer game violence when they allow ordinary people to buy guns?
There are hardly any shootings in Britain because you cant get guns, hell in Britain you have to be over a certain age to buy a butter knife. I tihnk that the only reason guns haven't already been banned over there is that no politician dares say the he or she thinks they should, as the backlash from a vocal minority would be huge.
It could be argued that kids are less violent after playing games like GTA3, because it lets them get rid of the violence tv, or just being a teenager has given them.
I'm sure that unless the governments do something really incredible the controls on games will be pathetic and very easy to get round. I'm not supposed to be able to get GTA3 (I'm 16) but I have - if I couldn't get it legally I'm sure it could be pirated. And I have always been able to get into the cinema to see films I'm "too young" for. And I have got very drunk at the agee of 15, 3 years below the minimum age in England, where I live.
What makes anyone think the government would have any more luck controlling games?
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A lot of times I've wanted an iPod and wanted a digital camera and wondered if there could be a way to use the harddisk in the iPod so I have a lot of storage space without carrying 2 hard disks everywhere. I think this is a good idea, I don't know if it's done well but if it is I'd buy one.
People always say that installing linux is difficult, what they never say is that these days its a lot easier than installing windows. Because microsoft's installers have never really been reviewed they've had no motive to improve them and they've stayed unstable, unituitive and generally crap.
It would be nice to use one multi output soundcard, but does linux have drivers for it that can output 10 channels?
The only reason that bands like Radiohead release singles is to promote their albums. In this stupid music industry where singles are so important their brilliant albums wouldn't even be noticed without a single in the charts.
And I think that's bullshit. A very, very few number of albums are written in this way, because if they were, the singles on the album couldn't be marketted seperately. When I listen to one of my albums, I *always* skip the tracks I don't like. I've listened to them all, and they sure as hell don't build off each other. They can all be listened to seperately, with no loss in appreciation of the music. And I don't think my albums are at all different from the vast majority out there. No offence but thats probably the difference between you and a music fan, or just most music fans. I have no problem with you skipping tracks or buying tracks on their own, as long as I can buy albums. If all music buying is done in single tracks, I think albums would disappear which is a shame. You are of course entitled to your opinion but I think that if you dont like every track on at least some of your albums, then you aren't listening to music you really like, or you dont have enough patience to really listen to music. Sure i like some tracks on any albums better than the others though. Its just that if I listen to a track by the Chilli Peppers from By The Way, it puts me in the mood for a track by the Chilli Peppers, from By The Way. The album, By The Way, also has ups and downs, quiet bits and loud bits, fast and slow bits, like a good song should. Thats why I compare an album to a long song, I think that musical expression comes partly in changes during a song, as it does through an album.
I sort of agree with this, and sort of not. I think that every track on a great album builds on and works with the others, as if an album were a long song. I think that 1 track gets you ready for the next and that listening to an entire album is the best way to listen to music, not just picking single tracks that dont flow off each other.
I also think that only 'proper bands' who make good music really make good albums, not manufactured pop acts who only make the occassional good single. Maybe the ability to sell single songs for a dollar will get rid of manufactured pop, leaving us only with the artists who can make 12 good songs and sell it as an album.
IBM even made machines that were sold to Nazi Germany before WW2 and used to administrate the execution of Jews. Or so I heard.
No one seems to say that using humans to generate electricity is impossible. To get energy out, they need to put energy in in the form of food or whatever. Food is basically fuel for the human generator, and has to be made somehow. All the energy in food comes from the sun, which they blocked out so the robots have to generate it somehow. Energy, as we all know, can neither be created nor destroyed so the robots can never get more energy out than they put in, which is the biggest plot hole in the matrix because it means the entire 2 films are impossible.
Great films still though.
Can anyone actually point me to any double blind tests on mp3s? Everyone says they're inferior but I believe its all just a psychological effect, including that the lower bitrates cant be listened to. I want to see evidence but I think that its all crap, and I think audiophiles are just people who decide that they know more than you about sound reproduction.
Sure theres differrences in an mp3 file, but can you actually tell and does it ruin the experience of listening, I doubt it but I want to see some GOOD SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE.
If we can write software that automatically filters spam, can we write some that can give us the names and addresses of those sending it, so that they can be punished under the law?
Why does America worry about porn and computer game violence when they allow ordinary people to buy guns?
There are hardly any shootings in Britain because you cant get guns, hell in Britain you have to be over a certain age to buy a butter knife. I tihnk that the only reason guns haven't already been banned over there is that no politician dares say the he or she thinks they should, as the backlash from a vocal minority would be huge.
It could be argued that kids are less violent after playing games like GTA3, because it lets them get rid of the violence tv, or just being a teenager has given them.
I'm sure that unless the governments do something really incredible the controls on games will be pathetic and very easy to get round. I'm not supposed to be able to get GTA3 (I'm 16) but I have - if I couldn't get it legally I'm sure it could be pirated. And I have always been able to get into the cinema to see films I'm "too young" for. And I have got very drunk at the agee of 15, 3 years below the minimum age in England, where I live.
What makes anyone think the government would have any more luck controlling games?