And I follow that as often as is feasible. When the concert is an hour away WITHOUT traffic, though, it becomes troublesome to visit the box office in person.
2) Tickets can be transferred between IDs/owners up to two times, but both parties must do this in person at the venue ticket office while presenting IDs. This allows for the "Oh shit, I can't go" phenomenon but makes it cumbersome and impractical for scalpers.
Unless, of course, you realize you can't go at the last minute and can't get to the venue in time to transfer them (hours in traffic in my situation, not rare... if you live in OC and the concert is at the Hollywood Bowl, for example). No, I'll stick with transferable tickets, thank you.
Write once, run anywhere is a sham. It only works that way (maybe) with apps that have no user input nor output. Getting one app on just a handful of phones to look right requires having separate projects and separate source files (and separate graphical assets) for each screen size, given the lack of a preprocessor. Not to mention the varying availability of various libraries across different platforms (MIDP1, MIDP2, Sprint libraries, etc.).
Oh, but your phone app should work just fine in a browser, yes? Write once, run anywhere? Sure... if your browser sends key-up and key-down messages that correspond to phone keyboards.
Your phone app written in J2ME? Without platform-specific tweaks, it won't do any better on a big variety of phones than an app written in any other environment. AND, you have the added fun of your app randomly chugging once in a long while when the garbage collector decides it's time to rearrange the furniture.
Essentially, the whole supposed java portability edge is moot. It's not an entirely horrible platform to develop on, but it's hardly the magic wand that so many people apparently think it would be. And woe to the hobbyist that tries to develop with Eclipse.
HA! The ads became intrusive many years ago, when the first monkey begged to be punched, when the first flash ad danced across my screen thereby obscuring text, when the first ad made a sound upon page loading, when the first popups for porn and X10 cameras littered my screen.
More obnoxiously still, a considerable percentage of ads cause significant delay in my getting to the page I want to get to, due to the sheer ridiculous slothery of the servers hosting the ads, so I end up WAITING a good long time for the ad itself to load.
Ad-blocking is my response to those, which crossed the intrusiveness barrier YEARS before I used ad-blocking software. Heck, animated gifs are at the borders of taste/intrusiveness.
If it was all fast-loading static (or non-nasty) graphics and text, I probably wouldn't have been driven to use ad-blockers. Heck, I clicked on and bought things through lots of the non-irritating ads on the sides and tops and bottoms of screens. I found them helpful. However, the intrusive ones put me over the edge and ruined it for everyone.
Us Bb clarinets and trumpets play C. My A Clarinet plays B for concert pitch.
Got it backwards there, buddy. To play a concert A, your Bb plays B, your A plays C. In a band, you might play a C, given the ensemble's tendency to tune to Bb rather than A.
Because A is given to you at the start of each orchestral performance. Heck, I *don't* have perfect pitch, but I can hear in my head a pretty good estimate of A (which probably falls in the range of G# to A#) without reference, just because I've heard "This is A" associated with that general pitch area so many times. For any other note, if I had to make a guess, I'd think of the general area of A in my head and relative-pitch the note from there.
On a side note, I believe the reason people consider the equal temperament tuning non-ideal is that 2^(7/12) does not exactly equal 1.5
It's not so much the fifths that do you in (on a wind instrument, raising your eyebrows is usually enough to bring it to 1.5), but the much larger discrepancies with minor and major thirds, and major 7ths. 2^(4/12) is significantly further from 1.25 than 2^(7/12) is from 1.5. Sure, it's not quite 1%, but 1% at 440Hz is 4Hz, making the difference between just intonation and equal temperament variable enough to hear 4 beats (wawawawa, or weeooweeooweeooweeoo if you prefer) per second.
Linux and Windows are on the complete opposite ends of the Suggestion spectrum. Windows is a mother-in-law constantly yelling "do it that way! i can get it cheaper at Sam's. Someone's at the door." over your shoulder. Linux is 34 million unassembled apparati in one big pile and 34 million instruction manuals in another pile.
I know Linux is all about freedom and choice, but would it really go so much against its principles to make suggestions? Suggestions such as, "There are 38 FTP clients available on your system. Why not try this one?" or "There are 8 ways to install software. We recommend using yum."
The same story often happens... user wants to do something. user looks around. user finds program that supposedly does what he wants. user looks at manual. manual says what things do. user tries to use program. user becomes frustrated because program does not do what he wanted or expected. user is frustrated. user complains online. user is told to RTFM. user says FTFM
See, the user already tried reading TFM. Problem is, the settings out of the box don't do what he wants on the program, and the instructions, while technically correct, don't make any useful recommendations for what settings are commonly used and how someone might commonly tweak them. Further, there's another piece of software out there that would do the job much better. But how would he know? The software just came in one big pile, and he tried the first one that had a name vaguely related to what he needs to do.
I'm not saying it's a good idea to have a "Press 'Start' to Start" arrow pointing at a button labeled "Start," but a step or two in that direction, across the Linux world, could make a HUGE difference in usability by people who don't have a full-time-job of time to dedicate to making Linux work properly.
On my Debian systems, for example ... Some distributions make it easy enough to package-ize source installs
This was the parent's point exactly, I think. The problem isn't so much that there's not a WAY to do it, it's that there's not A way to do it. There are too many ways to do it, each with varying levels of effectiveness. Different distros have different levels of support for different methods of package management. If there was a single easy way to handle packages on ANY linux distro, THAT would be nice.
If the average user actually read all the documentation, they'd still be reading it now, and would never get to experience the wonderful world of Linux at all! What the documentation needs is an informative "terse" section ("You push the button and it makes it go") followed by the currently-existing "verbose" doc.
10. P2P networks are not hotbeds for discovering new music. It is popular music that is illegally file-shared most frequently.
WHAAAAAAAAAA? Popular music is file-shared the most frequently?
Next you'll be telling me that the number 4,182,587,284 takes longer to write than the number 7, or that planets are harder to see around than paper clips.
Assuming that wikipedia is correct and this is a continuation of the story from the original clone wars short, it is inevitable that these will be followed by a revisiting of the original Clone Wars cartoons.
Among the wonders to look forward to:
The original Clone Wars cartoons will be redone in CG, as Lucas had originally wanted.
Special appearance by Jabba the Hutt, where we discover that he and Obi Wan have done business for some time.
Someone will shoot Anakin first, causing him to go aggro and eventually turn to the dark side entirely out of self-defense.
All explosions will be accompanied by planar shockwaves.
Death scenes of random insignificant characters will be shortened or removed entirely.
The final episode will feature a galaxy-wide welcome-to-the-rainforest happy-fest victory party.
Qui-Gon's disembodied head will accompany Obi Wan at all times, acting as his personal Jiminy Cricket.
DVD Bonus Feature Deleted Scenes of Chewbacca's extended family.
I don't think only classical music has nuance. My comparison was meant to illustrate similar attitudes of a good deal of Linux people and classical music people.
Linux is the Classical Music of the computer world. Windows is popular music.
Linux/Classical requires a certain etiquette of its users/listeners. They should thoroughly educate themselves about the OS/music before sitting down and giving it a go. It is quite sophistocated. If someone sits down and starts screaming loudly in front of a Linux box/at a classical concert, they are sharply chastised by other people in the Linux/concert-going community for being such ignorant dolts. If someone does not understand something about linux/classical music or finds it too complicated, it is most certainly their fault for being stupid and uncultured, not Linux/classical music's fault for being a steep-learning-curve beast.
Linux/Classical music advocates constantly bemoan the fact that their OS/music is heavily marginalized in favor of Windows/popular music, despite the fact that Linux/classical has a significant, highly educated user/listener base. Rather than putting forward their OS/music for what it is, welcoming new users/listeners with open, helpful arms, and being thankful for the attention their OS/music is getting, they decry the fall of civilization and the crime against humanity that their obviously superior OS/music is almost completely ignored by the mainstream culture.
Linux users/classical listeners CLAIM to extend open arms to the world at large, wanting everyone to use their OS/listen to their music. Then, the moment someone publicly complains about installing the wrong version of apache/calls Schoenberg unlistenable, the community at large jumps on them like a pack of wolves on a wounded sheep, labeling them a smacktard guilty of the heinous crimes of not reading 5 books and 38 articles on the topic before trying their hand at using/listening to the OS/music.
Not to mention the hassle involved in choosing a distro/finding the box office's bizarro hours.
The user/listener says "well, screw you all!" and returns to the low-hassle world of Windows/popular music. It may be more prone to spyware/destroying your eardrums, it may have Windows Tax/Ticketmaster charges, but you can just show up with no knowledge of it whatsoever and use/listen to it.
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And I follow that as often as is feasible. When the concert is an hour away WITHOUT traffic, though, it becomes troublesome to visit the box office in person.
2) Tickets can be transferred between IDs/owners up to two times, but both parties must do this in person at the venue ticket office while presenting IDs. This allows for the "Oh shit, I can't go" phenomenon but makes it cumbersome and impractical for scalpers.
Unless, of course, you realize you can't go at the last minute and can't get to the venue in time to transfer them (hours in traffic in my situation, not rare... if you live in OC and the concert is at the Hollywood Bowl, for example). No, I'll stick with transferable tickets, thank you.
Write once, run anywhere is a sham. It only works that way (maybe) with apps that have no user input nor output. Getting one app on just a handful of phones to look right requires having separate projects and separate source files (and separate graphical assets) for each screen size, given the lack of a preprocessor. Not to mention the varying availability of various libraries across different platforms (MIDP1, MIDP2, Sprint libraries, etc.).
Oh, but your phone app should work just fine in a browser, yes? Write once, run anywhere? Sure... if your browser sends key-up and key-down messages that correspond to phone keyboards.
Your phone app written in J2ME? Without platform-specific tweaks, it won't do any better on a big variety of phones than an app written in any other environment. AND, you have the added fun of your app randomly chugging once in a long while when the garbage collector decides it's time to rearrange the furniture.
Essentially, the whole supposed java portability edge is moot. It's not an entirely horrible platform to develop on, but it's hardly the magic wand that so many people apparently think it would be. And woe to the hobbyist that tries to develop with Eclipse.
HA! The ads became intrusive many years ago, when the first monkey begged to be punched, when the first flash ad danced across my screen thereby obscuring text, when the first ad made a sound upon page loading, when the first popups for porn and X10 cameras littered my screen.
More obnoxiously still, a considerable percentage of ads cause significant delay in my getting to the page I want to get to, due to the sheer ridiculous slothery of the servers hosting the ads, so I end up WAITING a good long time for the ad itself to load.
Ad-blocking is my response to those, which crossed the intrusiveness barrier YEARS before I used ad-blocking software. Heck, animated gifs are at the borders of taste/intrusiveness.
If it was all fast-loading static (or non-nasty) graphics and text, I probably wouldn't have been driven to use ad-blockers. Heck, I clicked on and bought things through lots of the non-irritating ads on the sides and tops and bottoms of screens. I found them helpful. However, the intrusive ones put me over the edge and ruined it for everyone.
They started it.
Us Bb clarinets and trumpets play C. My A Clarinet plays B for concert pitch.
Got it backwards there, buddy. To play a concert A, your Bb plays B, your A plays C. In a band, you might play a C, given the ensemble's tendency to tune to Bb rather than A.
My Eb, you tune on F#, which is just nasty.
Because A is given to you at the start of each orchestral performance. Heck, I *don't* have perfect pitch, but I can hear in my head a pretty good estimate of A (which probably falls in the range of G# to A#) without reference, just because I've heard "This is A" associated with that general pitch area so many times. For any other note, if I had to make a guess, I'd think of the general area of A in my head and relative-pitch the note from there.
On a side note, I believe the reason people consider the equal temperament tuning non-ideal is that 2^(7/12) does not exactly equal 1.5
It's not so much the fifths that do you in (on a wind instrument, raising your eyebrows is usually enough to bring it to 1.5), but the much larger discrepancies with minor and major thirds, and major 7ths. 2^(4/12) is significantly further from 1.25 than 2^(7/12) is from 1.5. Sure, it's not quite 1%, but 1% at 440Hz is 4Hz, making the difference between just intonation and equal temperament variable enough to hear 4 beats (wawawawa, or weeooweeooweeooweeoo if you prefer) per second.
Linux and Windows are on the complete opposite ends of the Suggestion spectrum. Windows is a mother-in-law constantly yelling "do it that way! i can get it cheaper at Sam's. Someone's at the door." over your shoulder. Linux is 34 million unassembled apparati in one big pile and 34 million instruction manuals in another pile.
I know Linux is all about freedom and choice, but would it really go so much against its principles to make suggestions? Suggestions such as, "There are 38 FTP clients available on your system. Why not try this one?" or "There are 8 ways to install software. We recommend using yum."
The same story often happens... user wants to do something. user looks around. user finds program that supposedly does what he wants. user looks at manual. manual says what things do. user tries to use program. user becomes frustrated because program does not do what he wanted or expected. user is frustrated. user complains online. user is told to RTFM. user says FTFM
See, the user already tried reading TFM. Problem is, the settings out of the box don't do what he wants on the program, and the instructions, while technically correct, don't make any useful recommendations for what settings are commonly used and how someone might commonly tweak them. Further, there's another piece of software out there that would do the job much better. But how would he know? The software just came in one big pile, and he tried the first one that had a name vaguely related to what he needs to do.
I'm not saying it's a good idea to have a "Press 'Start' to Start" arrow pointing at a button labeled "Start," but a step or two in that direction, across the Linux world, could make a HUGE difference in usability by people who don't have a full-time-job of time to dedicate to making Linux work properly.
If that someone somehow could make Linux users agree to pay for software, maybe it could happen. Until then, don't hold your breath.
I think we will take a few more years to surpass Windows as the musician's choice.
/upset that so much of the decent music software is not available on Windows.
When you're done with that, you can work on surpassing Apple.
Because if they posted their real identities, the sheer volume of messages to their accounts would simultaneously DDOS the internets.
On my Debian systems, for example
...
Some distributions make it easy enough to package-ize source installs
This was the parent's point exactly, I think. The problem isn't so much that there's not a WAY to do it, it's that there's not A way to do it. There are too many ways to do it, each with varying levels of effectiveness. Different distros have different levels of support for different methods of package management. If there was a single easy way to handle packages on ANY linux distro, THAT would be nice.
If the average user actually read all the documentation, they'd still be reading it now, and would never get to experience the wonderful world of Linux at all! What the documentation needs is an informative "terse" section ("You push the button and it makes it go") followed by the currently-existing "verbose" doc.
Games are games. Why do people have such a hard time with this?
Except that, without unsigned values, Java won't let you, for example, say:
byte a = 0xFF;
Folksonomy is the #1 most hated word??? This poll is the first time I've even heard it. Same goes for blook.
I call shenanigans!
What about talking to yourself? I've been known to do it. Would hate to get a ticket from shouting "ARG!! I forgot to stop at Fry's!!!"
10. P2P networks are not hotbeds for discovering new music. It is popular music that is illegally file-shared most frequently.
WHAAAAAAAAAA? Popular music is file-shared the most frequently?
Next you'll be telling me that the number 4,182,587,284 takes longer to write than the number 7, or that planets are harder to see around than paper clips.
It's not the one-second delay that's frustrating. It's the 190 one-second delays for old farts like me that like to channel surf like in olden times.
You have one of the quick ones...
Wow, man, you're onto something!
Qui-Gon: "Obi Wan, run an analysis of this sample."
Obi Wan: "Anakin's Midichlorian count... It's OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAND!!!!!!!!! "
Among the wonders to look forward to:
- The original Clone Wars cartoons will be redone in CG, as Lucas had originally wanted.
- Special appearance by Jabba the Hutt, where we discover that he and Obi Wan have done business for some time.
- Someone will shoot Anakin first, causing him to go aggro and eventually turn to the dark side entirely out of self-defense.
- All explosions will be accompanied by planar shockwaves.
- Death scenes of random insignificant characters will be shortened or removed entirely.
- The final episode will feature a galaxy-wide welcome-to-the-rainforest happy-fest victory party.
- Qui-Gon's disembodied head will accompany Obi Wan at all times, acting as his personal Jiminy Cricket.
- DVD Bonus Feature Deleted Scenes of Chewbacca's extended family.
Can't wait!!I don't think only classical music has nuance. My comparison was meant to illustrate similar attitudes of a good deal of Linux people and classical music people.
Linux is the Classical Music of the computer world. Windows is popular music.
Linux/Classical requires a certain etiquette of its users/listeners. They should thoroughly educate themselves about the OS/music before sitting down and giving it a go. It is quite sophistocated. If someone sits down and starts screaming loudly in front of a Linux box/at a classical concert, they are sharply chastised by other people in the Linux/concert-going community for being such ignorant dolts. If someone does not understand something about linux/classical music or finds it too complicated, it is most certainly their fault for being stupid and uncultured, not Linux/classical music's fault for being a steep-learning-curve beast.
Linux/Classical music advocates constantly bemoan the fact that their OS/music is heavily marginalized in favor of Windows/popular music, despite the fact that Linux/classical has a significant, highly educated user/listener base. Rather than putting forward their OS/music for what it is, welcoming new users/listeners with open, helpful arms, and being thankful for the attention their OS/music is getting, they decry the fall of civilization and the crime against humanity that their obviously superior OS/music is almost completely ignored by the mainstream culture.
Linux users/classical listeners CLAIM to extend open arms to the world at large, wanting everyone to use their OS/listen to their music. Then, the moment someone publicly complains about installing the wrong version of apache/calls Schoenberg unlistenable, the community at large jumps on them like a pack of wolves on a wounded sheep, labeling them a smacktard guilty of the heinous crimes of not reading 5 books and 38 articles on the topic before trying their hand at using/listening to the OS/music.
Not to mention the hassle involved in choosing a distro/finding the box office's bizarro hours.
The user/listener says "well, screw you all!" and returns to the low-hassle world of Windows/popular music. It may be more prone to spyware/destroying your eardrums, it may have Windows Tax/Ticketmaster charges, but you can just show up with no knowledge of it whatsoever and use/listen to it.
Am not running Slack. Am *used to* running Slack, and frustrated at the degree of relearning necessary to run other, "easier" flavors.