I think it had to be a little more than just the tubes. I'm well aware tubes definitely affect the sound having experimented with them myself, but the difference between a Marshall Plexi (or even a combo) and say, a Fender Deluxe Reverb is more significant -or at least, quickly become so.
The irony is how much we now pay in America for his British amps! Ouch.
It would sound a hell of a lot better than a Yamaha if the sound you were after was a heavy rock'n'roll sound. I've had Marshalls, and I've had a Yamaha, it was godawful nasal sounding. Not bad for clean, great for jazz, but it didn't distort well at all.
If you like the sound of early Van Halen, that was a 100watt Plexi model (albeit run through a variac and -possibly (though it's contested) modded some).
RIP Jim Marshall, rock would not have been the same without you. I give you a moment of... screaming feedback! Okay, so we would still have Fender, possibly Mesa, and Vox, (unless Vox was a Marshall clone? Admittedly I don't know the history of Vox), and maybe some others, but it wouldn't be the same. Marshall seems to have been the primary catalyst behind the harmonically distorted guitar.
I've wanted to dump cable for a long time. Television is atrocious for all the reasons everyone here has already brought up- in a nutshell: crap content, too many commercials, and too expensive. I probably won't be able to though because the wife loves her news and sports, (while not a luddite, she's not particularly tech saavy either). She has the damn television on first thing in the morning until bedtime -and even past that (I should seriously consider at least removing the TV in the bedroom). I'd prefer to leave television off the majority of the day. I've got a nice Blu Ray player that can stream. (I do not however have a digital ready TV, so I can't get OTA broadcasts..heck, it's a CRT!)
I was looking at Hulu+ just earlier this week and thinking "hmmm.." but now that I've read a lot of the comments here I think I'll hold off until/unless they can offer better, less limiting options. What I hadn't considered was Netflix, so I'll check them out. There's also amazon.
But I wonder, if streaming does manage to take a big bite out of cable's profits at some point, what's to stop the cable companies from imposing stricter caps on usage to fight back? or even outright blocking streaming? They don't seem like the types to react to competition by adapting to it, but by trying to squash it.
.. but democrats/liberals never use obscene language or get loud or violent when arguing their side? Be serious. Things are heated on both sides of the aisle.
What's altruism got to do with it? That might be a fringe benefit in the long run, but we're not there to liberate the poor Afghanistanis from their backward fascist theocracy, and that was never lauded as the raison d' etre for the Afghanistan war. We went there to blow Al Qeada and any supporting Taliban the hell up for crashing planes into our buildings and killing thousands, and to try and prevent them from attacking again in the future.
I love fountain pens but never found them particularly suitable for note taking, where you have to write fast and clean. For final copy though, hell yeah. I had my dad's old Parker Duofold Junior from the 1930s reconditioned, and I'm using that for a lot of stuff.
Pennies cost more to make than their worth, that can't be good for an economy or cash strapped government.
I wonder how Canadian retailers will price things now though. Instead of pricing something at $4.99, (to psychologically make you think it's $4 not $5) will they drop the price to $4.95 and lose 4 cents on every purchase, or just mark it up to an even $5.00? And yeah, even though that little trick doesn't work on most of us, it works on enough people that they keep doing it. Or at least US retailers do, I'm not sure about Canadian ones.
Point taken, but on the other hand, that's only one question of the IQ test. Are you saying that this one question weighed so much that it alone affected his score that much?
I'm not really sure he'll get ostracized...at least, not by everyone. Like you, I've read umpteen books on magic. I'm still "active" (so to speak) in the bizarre magic community. Magic has frequently relied on some form of technology throughout it's history, even if electronics didn't exist yet. It used tricks of gravity, hydraulics, chemistry, and probably a few I can't think of at the moment. Any new tech is almost immediately utilized, the newer the better so that the audience is not yet aware of it, or unlikely to make the connection.
Someone up above mentioned that you can't fool a camera; yet it seems you can. If "classic" magic is vulnerable to the camera, it seems the answer -for commercial magicians anyway- is to change the nature of magic to leverage the camera to it's advantage. It's not my thing, but it'll happen.
Personally, I could never stand the big illusions and illusionists. Some dancing guy on a huge stage (presumably with trap doors) and hidden assistants hiding behind curtains, all manner of custom made bright colored boxes which bear no resemblance to anything one sees in everyday life ("oh, that's not rigged or anything....").. it bores me to tears. So, the tech angle is not a huge paradigm shift, for me, it's just more of the same, but a different medium.
But a guy who can take, say, my pencil, a coin, and a rubber band, and do something with them that should be physically impossible, right in front of my face... that I find entertaining and mysterious, if he does it well. (I'm over the card tricks though).
Do you have any idea how much storage it would take just to keep 4,000 user's emails from every single day for 5 whole years, not to mention their data? Not just the latest data, not deduplication, but a copy of every file,and more importantly, every email for every user, every day, for 5 years... we're not talking about a trip down to Best Buy. Heck, I'm not even talking hard drives, but tape and related silos. It won't happen on our budget, even with incremental backups and Grandfather/Father/Son schemes. We're still stuck on LTO-3. Now, maybe if I could convince them to upgrade everything to LTO-5, but that too would be expensive with our restricted budget right now.
aside from the obvious reasons, my end users will read it and expect me to be able to archive 5 years of their data and email. We just don't have the storage capacity or funds to buy more for that kind of archival, the state is in a world of financial hurt. Must be nice to be the Fed.
I think you'd be surprised. Sometimes I wonder if what constitutes being "attractive" is simply being young and famous on TV. Look at Colin Morgan who plays the title character on the BBC/SyFy show, "Merlin" I've read of women swooning over him on fan forums, but he isn't your classic leading man either.
I'd have to disagree, from what I've seen. Neighbors, family, friends, and most end users at work typically are scared to death of the OS, and the less they have to do to it (such as rebooting), from their perspective, the better. Half the issues they bug with me could be solved by a reboot but it doesn't occur to them -or, they're wary of doing it.
is full of naysayers who lost sight of the true goal of science - to observe, to be open-minded, and honest.
Science should never be wielded like dogma, leave that to religion.
For example: http://web.mit.edu/randy/www/words.html
Most of these "experts" should have known better, and not gotten cocky with their current state of known science. At no point will we ever know it all. At no point can we say, we know this currently understood law of physics is 100% irrefutable. (Although it' may be 99.9% irrefutable, jus' sayin')
It just may be -however unlikely- that psychic phenomenon is real, but **extremely** rare and not really reproducible -something that can be tapped into on demand- and it's more even probable that most to all psychics are frauds, or at the very least, people who may have experienced some level of ESP once or twice but who greatly overstate their ability as something they can use when they want to, as though it were a reliable tool, a superpower even. Hah.
Of course, on the other hand... it's not good to be so open minded that yer brain falls out. Maybe it's all coincidence.
Either way, bias will always taint this subject, from one end of the argument or the other, but I predict the argument will go on for the foreseeable future.
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I think it had to be a little more than just the tubes. I'm well aware tubes definitely affect the sound having experimented with them myself, but the difference between a Marshall Plexi (or even a combo) and say, a Fender Deluxe Reverb is more significant -or at least, quickly become so.
The irony is how much we now pay in America for his British amps! Ouch.
It would sound a hell of a lot better than a Yamaha if the sound you were after was a heavy rock'n'roll sound. I've had Marshalls, and I've had a Yamaha, it was godawful nasal sounding. Not bad for clean, great for jazz, but it didn't distort well at all.
... screaming feedback! Okay, so we would still have Fender, possibly Mesa, and Vox, (unless Vox was a Marshall clone? Admittedly I don't know the history of Vox), and maybe some others, but it wouldn't be the same. Marshall seems to have been the primary catalyst behind the harmonically distorted guitar.
If you like the sound of early Van Halen, that was a 100watt Plexi model (albeit run through a variac and -possibly (though it's contested) modded some).
RIP Jim Marshall, rock would not have been the same without you. I give you a moment of
I've wanted to dump cable for a long time. Television is atrocious for all the reasons everyone here has already brought up- in a nutshell: crap content, too many commercials, and too expensive. I probably won't be able to though because the wife loves her news and sports, (while not a luddite, she's not particularly tech saavy either). She has the damn television on first thing in the morning until bedtime -and even past that (I should seriously consider at least removing the TV in the bedroom). I'd prefer to leave television off the majority of the day. I've got a nice Blu Ray player that can stream. (I do not however have a digital ready TV, so I can't get OTA broadcasts..heck, it's a CRT!)
I was looking at Hulu+ just earlier this week and thinking "hmmm.." but now that I've read a lot of the comments here I think I'll hold off until/unless they can offer better, less limiting options. What I hadn't considered was Netflix, so I'll check them out. There's also amazon.
But I wonder, if streaming does manage to take a big bite out of cable's profits at some point, what's to stop the cable companies from imposing stricter caps on usage to fight back? or even outright blocking streaming? They don't seem like the types to react to competition by adapting to it, but by trying to squash it.
.. but democrats/liberals never use obscene language or get loud or violent when arguing their side? Be serious. Things are heated on both sides of the aisle.
What's altruism got to do with it? That might be a fringe benefit in the long run, but we're not there to liberate the poor Afghanistanis from their backward fascist theocracy, and that was never lauded as the raison d' etre for the Afghanistan war. We went there to blow Al Qeada and any supporting Taliban the hell up for crashing planes into our buildings and killing thousands, and to try and prevent them from attacking again in the future.
I love fountain pens but never found them particularly suitable for note taking, where you have to write fast and clean. For final copy though, hell yeah. I had my dad's old Parker Duofold Junior from the 1930s reconditioned, and I'm using that for a lot of stuff.
Worf did a cameo on M*A*S*H ? Oh wait, he was a Lieutenant.
Pennies cost more to make than their worth, that can't be good for an economy or cash strapped government.
I wonder how Canadian retailers will price things now though. Instead of pricing something at $4.99, (to psychologically make you think it's $4 not $5) will they drop the price to $4.95 and lose 4 cents on every purchase, or just mark it up to an even $5.00? And yeah, even though that little trick doesn't work on most of us, it works on enough people that they keep doing it. Or at least US retailers do, I'm not sure about Canadian ones.
This sums it up nicely. No need to read any further comments, it just becomes a pissing match.
Point taken, but on the other hand, that's only one question of the IQ test. Are you saying that this one question weighed so much that it alone affected his score that much?
I'm not really sure he'll get ostracized...at least, not by everyone. Like you, I've read umpteen books on magic. I'm still "active" (so to speak) in the bizarre magic community. Magic has frequently relied on some form of technology throughout it's history, even if electronics didn't exist yet. It used tricks of gravity, hydraulics, chemistry, and probably a few I can't think of at the moment. Any new tech is almost immediately utilized, the newer the better so that the audience is not yet aware of it, or unlikely to make the connection.
Someone up above mentioned that you can't fool a camera; yet it seems you can. If "classic" magic is vulnerable to the camera, it seems the answer -for commercial magicians anyway- is to change the nature of magic to leverage the camera to it's advantage. It's not my thing, but it'll happen.
Personally, I could never stand the big illusions and illusionists. Some dancing guy on a huge stage (presumably with trap doors) and hidden assistants hiding behind curtains, all manner of custom made bright colored boxes which bear no resemblance to anything one sees in everyday life ("oh, that's not rigged or anything....").. it bores me to tears. So, the tech angle is not a huge paradigm shift, for me, it's just more of the same, but a different medium.
But a guy who can take, say, my pencil, a coin, and a rubber band, and do something with them that should be physically impossible, right in front of my face... that I find entertaining and mysterious, if he does it well. (I'm over the card tricks though).
Phineas and Ferbs' was better. That got them off the island and across a good part of the Atlantic...
Sorry Benjamin, I really should have replied to the AC here. Too late to change it now.
Do you have any idea how much storage it would take just to keep 4,000 user's emails from every single day for 5 whole years, not to mention their data? Not just the latest data, not deduplication, but a copy of every file ,and more importantly, every email for every user, every day, for 5 years... we're not talking about a trip down to Best Buy. Heck, I'm not even talking hard drives, but tape and related silos. It won't happen on our budget, even with incremental backups and Grandfather/Father/Son schemes. We're still stuck on LTO-3. Now, maybe if I could convince them to upgrade everything to LTO-5, but that too would be expensive with our restricted budget right now.
Well how else would the Akashic records work?
Um..not particularly; I admin Linux and NetWare mostly. Why?
aside from the obvious reasons, my end users will read it and expect me to be able to archive 5 years of their data and email. We just don't have the storage capacity or funds to buy more for that kind of archival, the state is in a world of financial hurt. Must be nice to be the Fed.
Clearly I'm the only Martha Jones fan around here.
Nope.. check up about 40 posts earlier..
Canada is largely thought of as "North Wisconsin".
By whom? Wisconsiners? I'm "American" (as in the US) and I never looked at Canada as anything but another nation.
meh, Martha Jones...
I had always wanted to see Martha get her wish, if only for a few eps.. Poor Martha, snubbed again and again by the Doc.
I think you'd be surprised. Sometimes I wonder if what constitutes being "attractive" is simply being young and famous on TV. Look at Colin Morgan who plays the title character on the BBC/SyFy show, "Merlin" I've read of women swooning over him on fan forums, but he isn't your classic leading man either.
Nuclear reactors grant immortality? I'm heading right down to Salem NJ now! ;)
Nope.
In fact, I was going to search an online version of the Old Testament for "Bantha" and see what came up.
I'd have to disagree, from what I've seen. Neighbors, family, friends, and most end users at work typically are scared to death of the OS, and the less they have to do to it (such as rebooting), from their perspective, the better. Half the issues they bug with me could be solved by a reboot but it doesn't occur to them -or, they're wary of doing it.
is full of naysayers who lost sight of the true goal of science - to observe, to be open-minded, and honest.
Science should never be wielded like dogma, leave that to religion.
For example:
http://web.mit.edu/randy/www/words.html
Most of these "experts" should have known better, and not gotten cocky with their current state of known science. At no point will we ever know it all. At no point can we say, we know this currently understood law of physics is 100% irrefutable. (Although it' may be 99.9% irrefutable, jus' sayin')
It just may be -however unlikely- that psychic phenomenon is real, but **extremely** rare and not really reproducible -something that can be tapped into on demand- and it's more even probable that most to all psychics are frauds, or at the very least, people who may have experienced some level of ESP once or twice but who greatly overstate their ability as something they can use when they want to, as though it were a reliable tool, a superpower even. Hah.
Of course, on the other hand... it's not good to be so open minded that yer brain falls out. Maybe it's all coincidence.
Either way, bias will always taint this subject, from one end of the argument or the other, but I predict the argument will go on for the foreseeable future.