I sort of agree with you. But you have to admit that it's like a cheat code in a game. People will abuse it, and it will make them worse at their craft.
I'm pretty sure an analog harmonizer doesn't correcting the original pitches. You'd probably, in its oldest version, just have an octave pedal, which would be doubling or halving the frequency.
I wants me a ring modulator, though. Wants. Wants.
That's one thing I generally grant to the Backstreet Boys and N'Sync: they've all been Disney sweatshop singing since they were 8, so they've got pretty good control over their voices.
As for everything else, I wrote a poem.
All you people can't you see, can't you see how your love's affecting our reality every time we're down you can make it right and that makes you larger than life
oh wait, i ripped that off from the BB, and it sucks.
It's the principle that matters. You're basically saying they should randomly not let people in the booth saying "You're the error margin, good bye." How would you feel?
But then they wouldn't be the error margin. And that's not how it works. The thing about the error margin is that if you've got a 2% error margin, i'm betting there's well over 90% probability that those lost votes will be a representative sample.
Make a law saying anyone who didn't get their vote counted doesn't have to pay taxes until the next election. I'm sure they'll get it sorted out in no time.
What you're suggesting is to increase taxes to pay for better voting machines. Get involved if you care. Don't if you don't.
Another example: if during one day in one country all the transactions in one bank contained 2% errors, that is money going to the wrong recipent, wrong amounts etc. it would be totally unacceptable.
maybe if we involved a bank and put a euro coin/note in each envelope....
I dunno about completely unacceptable. If anything, I'd make money.
But my father pointed out that the reason why banking machines are more accurate is that there's more money in banking than in voting. Same with gambling machines. Voting is run by a bunch of retired volunteers with little money, and it doesn't earn anyone any money.
So voting machines are cheap pieces of shit with no QA. Not that that doesn't bother me.
but start impacting photography professionals and you'll have riots in the streets.
Friedmud
I'd love to see a professional photographer riot. That would be great. They'd all be excitedly taking pictures of each other while they got beaten to a bloody pulp.:)
As a matter of fact, anything hot enough to melt solder will soon be illegal, such as internal combustion engines, the backs of refrigerators (you can still keep the front part), water heaters, and stoves.
Think of the children. They were all just burning themselves on this shit anyway.
C) They know not what it means D) They are sociopaths(might be the same as C)
In my experience, a sociopath doesn't care that they don't know. They would rather continue exploiting their lack of empathy than learn to not hurt other people.
One is uneducated. The other is unwilling to be educated, or ignoring of the truth, or ignorant.
Why someone needs extra SD cards for a phone is beyond me.
I bittorrent on my phone's internet, just to make back the money I spend on text messages the phone carrier doesn't have to pay for.
No, but really, I put music on my phone. And if you've got a phone with a good camera in it, you can take loads of pictures and video. But still, I suppose, that's all manageable with a single microSD card.
USB 3.0 plans to take the voltage down to 4 volts. This move must be resisted at all costs!
For one, I want to be able to power a 5400rpm laptop HDD off only USB power, and you can't do that on 5v. Or was that an amperage problem. I don't remember.
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I'm assuming that since he's replacing fiber with fiber, he needs the bandwidth/low latency.
I sort of agree with you. But you have to admit that it's like a cheat code in a game. People will abuse it, and it will make them worse at their craft.
There are certainly legitimate uses for autotune.
This will greatly increase pop music's appeal among the 8 year old boy demographic.
I'm pretty sure an analog harmonizer doesn't correcting the original pitches. You'd probably, in its oldest version, just have an octave pedal, which would be doubling or halving the frequency.
I wants me a ring modulator, though. Wants. Wants.
That's one thing I generally grant to the Backstreet Boys and N'Sync: they've all been Disney sweatshop singing since they were 8, so they've got pretty good control over their voices.
As for everything else, I wrote a poem.
All you people can't you see, can't you see
how your love's affecting our reality
every time we're down
you can make it right
and that makes you larger than life
oh wait, i ripped that off from the BB, and it sucks.
That is pretty bad, indeed.
Well said.
Cheers,
Nathan
It's the principle that matters. You're basically saying they should randomly not let people in the booth saying "You're the error margin, good bye."
How would you feel?
But then they wouldn't be the error margin. And that's not how it works. The thing about the error margin is that if you've got a 2% error margin, i'm betting there's well over 90% probability that those lost votes will be a representative sample.
Make a law saying anyone who didn't get their vote counted doesn't have to pay taxes until the next election. I'm sure they'll get it sorted out in no time.
What you're suggesting is to increase taxes to pay for better voting machines. Get involved if you care. Don't if you don't.
Another example:
if during one day in one country all the transactions in one bank contained 2% errors, that is money going to the wrong recipent, wrong amounts etc. it would be totally unacceptable.
maybe if we involved a bank and put a euro coin/note in each envelope....
I dunno about completely unacceptable. If anything, I'd make money.
But my father pointed out that the reason why banking machines are more accurate is that there's more money in banking than in voting. Same with gambling machines. Voting is run by a bunch of retired volunteers with little money, and it doesn't earn anyone any money.
So voting machines are cheap pieces of shit with no QA. Not that that doesn't bother me.
but start impacting photography professionals and you'll have riots in the streets.
Friedmud
I'd love to see a professional photographer riot. That would be great. They'd all be excitedly taking pictures of each other while they got beaten to a bloody pulp. :)
As a matter of fact, anything hot enough to melt solder will soon be illegal, such as internal combustion engines, the backs of refrigerators (you can still keep the front part), water heaters, and stoves.
Think of the children. They were all just burning themselves on this shit anyway.
C) They know not what it means
D) They are sociopaths(might be the same as C)
In my experience, a sociopath doesn't care that they don't know. They would rather continue exploiting their lack of empathy than learn to not hurt other people.
One is uneducated. The other is unwilling to be educated, or ignoring of the truth, or ignorant.
What about the orgies of pedantry?
Well, actually, slashdotters all host their own pedantry orgies, and noone is invited. But then we all form a beowulf cluster.
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Tsare, fsd tsfat or ou.
Fid. Daass.
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I thought it would be the ever-popular:
Poster: AC :)
FRIED CHIKKIN!!!!
You need to reinstall your sarcasm detection package.
There's a serious lack of sarcasm tags, and it's required when it's not immediately obvious.
Where is your irony tag...
Guys! I found it:
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And I doubt the vibrator would be able to provide that subtle womanizing that takes a lifetime to perfect.
We'd already BE replaced, if they could design a computer to :-
1. Order a round of drinks
2. Unblock the sink
3. Catch mice and rats
This is EXACTLY why I'm hostile to women in the sciences. :)
VHS quality? Shoot 1080 or 720 sometime. a feature found on fairly low end cameras these days. i believe a 4GB card is 9 minutes of 720p.
thankfully, 16GB sdhc cards are ~$30 at newegg lately
Boy, that's less than a dollar per minute!
It's a dastardly plot to replace men completely. Pretty soon, vibrators will be able to replicate our feeling.
Why someone needs extra SD cards for a phone is beyond me.
I bittorrent on my phone's internet, just to make back the money I spend on text messages the phone carrier doesn't have to pay for.
No, but really, I put music on my phone. And if you've got a phone with a good camera in it, you can take loads of pictures and video. But still, I suppose, that's all manageable with a single microSD card.
Not true, even if you use [gxk]dm, you should be able to "activate" the new driver (after updating xorg.conf) by killing the dm.
Or, as we call it around here, logging out and logging back in again. :)
(Ubuntu restarts the DM on logout)
USB 3.0 plans to take the voltage down to 4 volts. This move must be resisted at all costs!
For one, I want to be able to power a 5400rpm laptop HDD off only USB power, and you can't do that on 5v. Or was that an amperage problem. I don't remember.
The point is, I'M DISSATISIFIED!!!!
Oh, so it's like American beer.
My favorite old Aussie joke:
Q. Why do Americans like their beer freezing cold?
A. So you can tell it from piss.
We likewise have a joke about you guys and your taste in beer:
Fosters: Australian for beer :)
(I am aware you guys export it more than you drink it)
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