I don't think you're an extremist nazi boss, but your final statement COMPLETELY contradicts what went before. You should realise that what people do in their private lives - no matter how distasteful or chaotic it seems to you - is their business alone and it may or may not have ANY bearing on their work performance.
Some of the most outstandingly productive, career-minded people have the most astonishingly fucked-up personal lives, you should always judge people on criteria that are specifically relevant to the decision that you're taking. If they take pills and stay out all night, if they like to have sex with animals or even if they take part in some disgustingly perverted hobby like role-play gaming (I work with one such freak), if it's left behind when they get to work it's no business of their employer.
On the other hand, if they spend all day on the company phones talking shite to their perverted RPG buddies, they should be immediately be fired.
"For example, there was a guy who it transpires was a dead keen club DJ who spent most nights of the week working in clubs on a freelance basis and clearly was partial to the odd pill to get him through his set - I decided that this wasn't the kind of guy I wanted working in my development team.
That said, I'm pretty open to people doing whatever with their life, as long as it doesn't affect their work."
The don't do that because it would invite SERIOUS piracy, and starve the model of revenue. Imagine if the PS2 was available as a PCI card, and you just needed to pop you PS2 disk into your DVD drive and get playing... except that one of the primary anti-piracy measures used by the PS2 is it's INABILITY to read DVD-R and CD-R disks - using a standaqrd PC drive would circumvent this completely, and kids would start trading copied PS2 disks at school, just as happened with Amiga game disks.
The problem was that surround sound is essentially pointless, as most people couldn't care less about STEREO, let alone anything more sophisticated. In case you're wondering, Ambisonic was NOT a simulated surround sound system like all of the currently available systems (real time generation of environmental audio excepted) but rather used an extrememly elegant microphone (the Soundfield mic) and a 3 'speaker (arranged as an equilateral triangle, listener at the centre) replay system. Ambisonic recorded REAL surround information, not studio mixed effects like Dolby et al. There is one further 'proper' surround sytem that has been succesfully used for years, that is so-called "dummy head" recording. Basically, a solid polystyrene human head is used with microphones psitioned at the ears, and replay is done through conventional headphones. The results of both of these systems are fantasically immersive because they use REAL information rather than simulated. Of course, we now also have to ability to generate real-time positional audio effects in video games, and these, too can be considered REAL as the environemt is at least consistent, and the positioning precise.
If you really dig this effect, I'd recommend that you buy a couple of 'speakers and wire'em up out of phase. The sound will REALLY be "all over the place", but don't blame me if it makes you want to throw up.
You're probably referring to the risible "Q-Sound", just one of many failed and technically unsound attempts at 2 channel "surround" sound.
It WAS shit, Dolby's many systems ARE shit. Surround sound (excepting Ambisonic and computer generated special effects for games - ie "environmental audio") is a complete and utter waste of time and money.
Well, it's pretty easy to "create a 5.1 experience" as 5.1 is a complete fucking waste of time. The only surround sound system with any merit whatsoever was Ambisonic, and that died a death (except for it's wonderful Soundfield microphone) well over a decade ago.
Dolby and all the others can fuck off back to the pointless hype-driven marketing swamp that they sprang from.
Don't give me that crap. How many Jews were evicted from Morocco? And how many remain there? Israel gives away the land it steals from Arabs to incoming Jews - is it any surprise that so many Jews drain out of surrounding countries into Israel?
Shit, if the USA offered free land to British citizens, Britain would empty out pretty fucking quickly too.
"The right model, the only viable model, is India and Pakistan."
If we just cut the world up into enough little pieces, every cultist need never meet someone from a different cult? Ridiculous, as the million-odd soldiers who routinely man the Kashmiri borders attest.
The ONLY SOLUTION is a tolerant, just society that does not discriminate on race or creed. The right model, the only viable model, the every democratic secular society in the free world.
And who here claimed that Arafat was anything other than a lowlife murderer? Does Israel think it's in a 'who can be more subhuman' competition? Coz Sharon's got the fucking lead right now, Bush is in second place and Arafat's struggling to stay in the top 10.
Israel needs to get the fuck out of Palestine and Sharon tried for his crimes against humanity, right after Milosevic is finished with. The state of Israel is living on STOLEN land and borrowed time. Israel is running out of friends, one serious rift with its American sponsors and it's history.
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I don't think you're an extremist nazi boss, but your final statement COMPLETELY contradicts what went before. You should realise that what people do in their private lives - no matter how distasteful or chaotic it seems to you - is their business alone and it may or may not have ANY bearing on their work performance.
Some of the most outstandingly productive, career-minded people have the most astonishingly fucked-up personal lives, you should always judge people on criteria that are specifically relevant to the decision that you're taking. If they take pills and stay out all night, if they like to have sex with animals or even if they take part in some disgustingly perverted hobby like role-play gaming (I work with one such freak), if it's left behind when they get to work it's no business of their employer.
On the other hand, if they spend all day on the company phones talking shite to their perverted RPG buddies, they should be immediately be fired.
"For example, there was a guy who it transpires was a dead keen club DJ who spent most nights of the week working in clubs on a freelance basis and clearly was partial to the odd pill to get him through his set - I decided that this wasn't the kind of guy I wanted working in my development team.
That said, I'm pretty open to people doing whatever with their life, as long as it doesn't affect their work."
Is this some kind of joke?
Ahh... you must mean Virtual Girl!
I've been looking forward to THAT product since I was about 10.
Actually, I'll take that back as it seems you might be Swedish.
And I'll bet my Swedish is a LOT worse than your English.
fenomenon?
Get a fucking dictionary already!
The don't do that because it would invite SERIOUS piracy, and starve the model of revenue. Imagine if the PS2 was available as a PCI card, and you just needed to pop you PS2 disk into your DVD drive and get playing... except that one of the primary anti-piracy measures used by the PS2 is it's INABILITY to read DVD-R and CD-R disks - using a standaqrd PC drive would circumvent this completely, and kids would start trading copied PS2 disks at school, just as happened with Amiga game disks.
The problem was that surround sound is essentially pointless, as most people couldn't care less about STEREO, let alone anything more sophisticated. In case you're wondering, Ambisonic was NOT a simulated surround sound system like all of the currently available systems (real time generation of environmental audio excepted) but rather used an extrememly elegant microphone (the Soundfield mic) and a 3 'speaker (arranged as an equilateral triangle, listener at the centre) replay system. Ambisonic recorded REAL surround information, not studio mixed effects like Dolby et al. There is one further 'proper' surround sytem that has been succesfully used for years, that is so-called "dummy head" recording. Basically, a solid polystyrene human head is used with microphones psitioned at the ears, and replay is done through conventional headphones. The results of both of these systems are fantasically immersive because they use REAL information rather than simulated. Of course, we now also have to ability to generate real-time positional audio effects in video games, and these, too can be considered REAL as the environemt is at least consistent, and the positioning precise.
Natural sound is perceived by the BRAIN, not the ear.
If you really dig this effect, I'd recommend that you buy a couple of 'speakers and wire'em up out of phase. The sound will REALLY be "all over the place", but don't blame me if it makes you want to throw up.
You're probably referring to the risible "Q-Sound", just one of many failed and technically unsound attempts at 2 channel "surround" sound.
It WAS shit, Dolby's many systems ARE shit. Surround sound (excepting Ambisonic and computer generated special effects for games - ie "environmental audio") is a complete and utter waste of time and money.
Well, it's pretty easy to "create a 5.1 experience" as 5.1 is a complete fucking waste of time. The only surround sound system with any merit whatsoever was Ambisonic, and that died a death (except for it's wonderful Soundfield microphone) well over a decade ago.
Dolby and all the others can fuck off back to the pointless hype-driven marketing swamp that they sprang from.
Christ on crutches!
Bose are shit.
And Pioneer beat this crap to market by over a YEAR with their phased-array device.
Big fucking yawn.
Don't give me that crap. How many Jews were evicted from Morocco? And how many remain there? Israel gives away the land it steals from Arabs to incoming Jews - is it any surprise that so many Jews drain out of surrounding countries into Israel?
Shit, if the USA offered free land to British citizens, Britain would empty out pretty fucking quickly too.
It depends what that pizza shop is standing on top of, and who built it.
"The right model, the only viable model, is India and Pakistan."
If we just cut the world up into enough little pieces, every cultist need never meet someone from a different cult? Ridiculous, as the million-odd soldiers who routinely man the Kashmiri borders attest.
The ONLY SOLUTION is a tolerant, just society that does not discriminate on race or creed. The right model, the only viable model, the every democratic secular society in the free world.
If they're settling occupied land, have served in the IDF and vote for fucking Sharon they're hardly INNOCENT, are they?
That's the HiMac.
"accidentally killing civilians as part of a military action"
In that case, the IDF must be the most "accident" prone organisation in the history of the world.
I notice that you didn't mention the fact that the UN has adjudged Israel's (why can't YOU spell Israel, by the way?) occupation illegal.
Why don't you email that to the parents of the next Palestinian child shot through the head by an IDF sniper?
And who here claimed that Arafat was anything other than a lowlife murderer? Does Israel think it's in a 'who can be more subhuman' competition? Coz Sharon's got the fucking lead right now, Bush is in second place and Arafat's struggling to stay in the top 10.
Judaism =! Israel, and Anti-Israel =! Pro-Hamas
What do you call the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine? One outrage begets another.
I didn't mention Judaism...
Israel needs to get the fuck out of Palestine and Sharon tried for his crimes against humanity, right after Milosevic is finished with. The state of Israel is living on STOLEN land and borrowed time. Israel is running out of friends, one serious rift with its American sponsors and it's history.
At least it's one less UAV to oppress Palestinians with.
Let's hope whoever stole it uses it against the Israelis.
Take a CLOSE look at the cooling 'towers' on the G5 - they're not just chunks of Aluminium, you know.
Well, that's what the ASA BELIEVES they're doing in this case.
The fact that they're completely wrong is inconvenient.