If you're in public housing because you can't afford a place of your own, the best thing you can do for your kids is demonstrate how hard work and achievement can get you off the public dime. I understand people come on hard times and need public housing, but settling down with a broadband connection seems very out of place.
Using a P2P or playing games on KDE gives your kid nothing educationally. GUIs will change, programs will change, and by college your kid will end up having to learn something else anyway. Kids don't need computers to learn (at least on the elementary/junior high level). They need good textbooks, good involved teachers, and most importantly involved parents.
I would bet a good sum of money that the mom in the public housing situation wasn't using the computer as a TRUE educational tool for the 12 year old. I bet she was probably using it as a baby sitter, much the same way some parents throw Disney movies on the TV.
I actually thought our school lunches were pretty good, for the most part.
It seemed many of my then classmates liked the tired old "school food sucks" mantra. In reality, it wasn't the school's cooking they didn't like; it was the food. In other words, their parents never exposed them to exotic food like...uh...vegetables. Consequently, they weren't happy with anything but Pizza Hut pizza and chicken fingers.
Everyone rants about the inner city schools, but how about rural schools?
I bet rural schools have a much, much more difficult time getting access to technology than inner city schools. At least inner city kids can go to museums, libraries, etc., if they don't have the tech right in front of them at school.
I really don't care what you listen to, or if I mislabeled it as death metal. I'm just tired of people trying to down others for their musical choices.
The issue here is distribution methods, fair use, fair payment to artists, etc., not your personal rant on who's "worthy" and who's not. Truth be told, there are good and bad artists on both major labels and independent labels. Being with an independent label doesn't make your music inherently better, just as being with a major deosn't make it worse.
So go ahead and mod me Troll, you morons. The fact is MicroBerto's initial post is way offtopic, and is only an advertisement for a band.
By the way, you have no idea what kind of music I like or where I like to hear it. The fact you assumed I'm a "Limp-Korn-Parktalica" fan does absolutely nothing for your argument.
I'm not saying CD prices are fair, but to be honest movies usually at least pay for themselves in the theater (sometimes many times over). DVDs are icing on the cake.
If mod points are handed out based on length of post, you deserve them. Otherwise...
Companies have many things to consider when deciding where to sell a product. Targeted advertising, language, marketability, warranty considerations, local laws...
It's not as simple as you think. Believe me, if Sony thinks people in Russia/Egypt/Australia want this product, they will sell it there (if they can make money). Until then, they'll test it out on their home turf in Japan.
The quality sucks. They compress the shit out of all my channels on comcast. It's only gotten worse since they added more HD content.
If I understand correctly, digital cable doesn't broadcast everything all at once. In other words, when you tune to a specific channel the cable company only provides the data stream needed for that specific channel (hence the slight delay when changing channels).
Because of this, I don't think Comcast is forced to "compress" channels as you say. They must simply make sure they have the bandwidth to deliver the content requested by each digital box, which is actually much easier to control than with analog cable, where the end user could theoretically splice to an infinite number of TVs from the one cable running to their home.
For many, paying for the on-demand movie is preferrable to making a trip to the video store. Especially when the price is the same.
I haven't had any problems with the pause/fast forward in on-demand. I only go to the video store now when on-demand isn't showing a particular movie I want to see.
And if you want lifetime viewing, buy the physical media. Would you actually trust the cable company to "remember" you have lifetime viewing rights anyway?
So you're the moron pushing for meaningless representation. Thanks.
By promoting an unreasonable expectation that racial percentages in the general population should be forced in every aspect of our lives, you significantly retard progress, and inadvertantly advance blatant racism.
I have no problem with a member of a minority group (or a female) playing a leading role in any position. But this issue should be addressed on a case-by-case basis, where offenders of racism are punished as they offend, not forced to make decisions based on something as asinine as race or gender.
I wonder...do you make this argument for all professions? Should sports be regulated in the same manner? Should your male WASP brain surgeon be run out of town because you need more minorities/women in the field?
Right. Six weeks later (and halfway through the semester) your book arrives. Now you have two - the one that was "shipped" to you many moons ago, and the new one you were forced to purchase in the meantime.
Our school leased space for Barnes & Noble to run the bookstore.
They wouldn't give out ISBNs over the phone. But believe me, I wouldn't have had the slightest bit of guilt trying. Anyone purchasing anything at that place should have reported them for brutally raping the customers.
Where do you read that money was the problem with both Challenger and Columbia?
I think the problem was one of judgement, not funding. Now, if NASA management starts grounding shuttle launches (at the behest of engineers) because they don't have enough funding to ensure safe missions, your argument may make sense.
Let's not throw more money at what seems to be an inherently flawed management system at NASA. Let's fix the management system first.
For the damn thousandth time, the effect you're hearing on the Cher song was not (solely) an autotuner. If it was only being used to correct minor pitch issues, you probably wouldn't even notice it.
Cher and Kid Rock used other means to achieve a desired effect, not try to fake you out (in other words, they were trying to be obvious with the effect, much like distortion on a guitar).
Thank you. I get tired of the elitists, also. I like what I like, you like what you like, so fucking what?
It's always confusing to me when "indie" fans like a band that signs with a major label, and go on to be accused of "selling out." Hey, you don't want them to sign with a major? You make their goddamned car payments, mortgage payments, etc!
Having done some singing myself (and having played the trombone in high school) I wondered this myself. Do the sound techs simply bypass the autotuner when they know the singer is going to this? Would the autotuner, if left on, create a "stepped" effect by attempting to pull each sound to the "correct" pitch all the way up/down?
If you need distortion and effects to make your music good, it means you aren't a good enough musician yet.
It sure does make some nice new sounds, though. I tend to enjoy guitar distortion, and the many other effects that can be used with a guitar. That's not to say I don't enjoy a clean acoustic set as well, but a new sound is a new sound, and it's up to the personal preference of the individual to decide what they like and what they don't.
Having said that, I don't think the autotuner falls in the same category as guitar distortion. The autotuner is trying to make a screwup sound like it was supposed to sound originally, not a different sound entirely. My guess is autotuners are mainly used for concerts where the singers are dancing or running around the stage a lot. As I'm not particular to Brittney or N'Sync, I probably don't have to worry about this much.
When CDs were designed, why wasn't a casing with a retractable cover (a la floppy disk) incorporated?
I remember when CDs first came out they were touted as being able to "last forever," but for those of us that have a couple hundred CDs in our cars, we've inevitably thrown a CD down and contributed to its shortened lifespan. If there were a cover, this wouldn't be a problem.
I wonder if the **IAs had some say in the matter. Planned obsolescence is good for business, after all.
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And I would love paying US$50 for both cable and internet.
Using a P2P or playing games on KDE gives your kid nothing educationally. GUIs will change, programs will change, and by college your kid will end up having to learn something else anyway. Kids don't need computers to learn (at least on the elementary/junior high level). They need good textbooks, good involved teachers, and most importantly involved parents.
I would bet a good sum of money that the mom in the public housing situation wasn't using the computer as a TRUE educational tool for the 12 year old. I bet she was probably using it as a baby sitter, much the same way some parents throw Disney movies on the TV.
That's all.
Funny, I've never had that much trouble.
It seemed many of my then classmates liked the tired old "school food sucks" mantra. In reality, it wasn't the school's cooking they didn't like; it was the food. In other words, their parents never exposed them to exotic food like...uh...vegetables. Consequently, they weren't happy with anything but Pizza Hut pizza and chicken fingers.
I bet rural schools have a much, much more difficult time getting access to technology than inner city schools. At least inner city kids can go to museums, libraries, etc., if they don't have the tech right in front of them at school.
The issue here is distribution methods, fair use, fair payment to artists, etc., not your personal rant on who's "worthy" and who's not. Truth be told, there are good and bad artists on both major labels and independent labels. Being with an independent label doesn't make your music inherently better, just as being with a major deosn't make it worse.
So go ahead and mod me Troll, you morons. The fact is MicroBerto's initial post is way offtopic, and is only an advertisement for a band.
By the way, you have no idea what kind of music I like or where I like to hear it. The fact you assumed I'm a "Limp-Korn-Parktalica" fan does absolutely nothing for your argument.
Now go away and listen to your death metal.
Companies have many things to consider when deciding where to sell a product. Targeted advertising, language, marketability, warranty considerations, local laws...
It's not as simple as you think. Believe me, if Sony thinks people in Russia/Egypt/Australia want this product, they will sell it there (if they can make money). Until then, they'll test it out on their home turf in Japan.
Because of limitations to iTunes Music Store, this song cannot be shipped outside of the United States. Sorry Dutch Double Dutch Bus fans!"
How would this stop him from selling it internationally? He's not acting as a distributor of music for the artist.
If I understand correctly, digital cable doesn't broadcast everything all at once. In other words, when you tune to a specific channel the cable company only provides the data stream needed for that specific channel (hence the slight delay when changing channels).
Because of this, I don't think Comcast is forced to "compress" channels as you say. They must simply make sure they have the bandwidth to deliver the content requested by each digital box, which is actually much easier to control than with analog cable, where the end user could theoretically splice to an infinite number of TVs from the one cable running to their home.
I haven't had any problems with the pause/fast forward in on-demand. I only go to the video store now when on-demand isn't showing a particular movie I want to see.
And if you want lifetime viewing, buy the physical media. Would you actually trust the cable company to "remember" you have lifetime viewing rights anyway?
By promoting an unreasonable expectation that racial percentages in the general population should be forced in every aspect of our lives, you significantly retard progress, and inadvertantly advance blatant racism.
I have no problem with a member of a minority group (or a female) playing a leading role in any position. But this issue should be addressed on a case-by-case basis, where offenders of racism are punished as they offend, not forced to make decisions based on something as asinine as race or gender.
I wonder...do you make this argument for all professions? Should sports be regulated in the same manner? Should your male WASP brain surgeon be run out of town because you need more minorities/women in the field?
They wouldn't give out ISBNs over the phone. But believe me, I wouldn't have had the slightest bit of guilt trying. Anyone purchasing anything at that place should have reported them for brutally raping the customers.
I think the problem was one of judgement, not funding. Now, if NASA management starts grounding shuttle launches (at the behest of engineers) because they don't have enough funding to ensure safe missions, your argument may make sense.
Let's not throw more money at what seems to be an inherently flawed management system at NASA. Let's fix the management system first.
Is it really that hard to make your link in the article go through Slashdot or Google so everyone doesn't have to register?
Cher and Kid Rock used other means to achieve a desired effect, not try to fake you out (in other words, they were trying to be obvious with the effect, much like distortion on a guitar).
It's always confusing to me when "indie" fans like a band that signs with a major label, and go on to be accused of "selling out." Hey, you don't want them to sign with a major? You make their goddamned car payments, mortgage payments, etc!
Having done some singing myself (and having played the trombone in high school) I wondered this myself. Do the sound techs simply bypass the autotuner when they know the singer is going to this? Would the autotuner, if left on, create a "stepped" effect by attempting to pull each sound to the "correct" pitch all the way up/down?
It sure does make some nice new sounds, though. I tend to enjoy guitar distortion, and the many other effects that can be used with a guitar. That's not to say I don't enjoy a clean acoustic set as well, but a new sound is a new sound, and it's up to the personal preference of the individual to decide what they like and what they don't.
Having said that, I don't think the autotuner falls in the same category as guitar distortion. The autotuner is trying to make a screwup sound like it was supposed to sound originally, not a different sound entirely. My guess is autotuners are mainly used for concerts where the singers are dancing or running around the stage a lot. As I'm not particular to Brittney or N'Sync, I probably don't have to worry about this much.
I remember when CDs first came out they were touted as being able to "last forever," but for those of us that have a couple hundred CDs in our cars, we've inevitably thrown a CD down and contributed to its shortened lifespan. If there were a cover, this wouldn't be a problem.
I wonder if the **IAs had some say in the matter. Planned obsolescence is good for business, after all.