When I was in high school I heard The Yardbirds and Ohio Express and Hendrix and The Archies on local radio (and 50 kW AM stations at night which aired pretty much the same things, only a week or two sooner) and liked them all, along with a lot of other stuff, some of which (to my thinking) got played to death and some of which was only in rotation for about a week or two. If not for radio I would probably have been exposed to little if any of it. My local 1 kW even played the first Blood, Sweat, and Tears (with Al Kooper singing lead) single.
Music is mostly for adolescents. Eventually you'll grow out of it, like the rest of us over-30s.
I think it probably has something to do with the kind of music in which you get emotionally invested during adolescence. Someone once said that something terrible happens to music when you get to be 35 or so (that is, when you hit that age the new stuff coming out compares very unfavorably to what was new when you were younger), and I suspect that this is true for every generation. What my mom listened to in the 1930s and '40s was derided by her mother as "that jazzy music" and, of course, was too loud.
In order to accept the premise that the RIAA "controls" music I'd have to accept that people don't decide for themselves what they like.
The same people who said "what's that crap?" when I played the first Crosby, Stills, and Nash album a few months before it got any airplay sure thought it sounded great once it showed up on their radios. I've seen nothing to make me think that succeeding generations are any more discerning.
Television CRTs do use phosphors with different persistance times, but that's probably not what you're noticing.
In the US the powerline frequency is 60Hz (which means that lightbulbs flash at a 120 Hz rate, once for each positive and negative peak), so a 30 Hz (frame)or 60 Hz (field) vertical refresh rate on TVs isn't the problem that it would be if our powerline frequency were 50 Hz, as I believe it is in Europe and the U.K.
If you stipulate the existance of an all-powerful supernatural creator being then He could create our universe (and a bazillion parallel ones) while rolling over in His sleep, so that's not nearly as big a deal as a universe that can create itself where previously there was not only nothing but even the nothing wasn't there, so it's more miraculous.
The reason for the existance of that all-powerful supernatural creator being is a separate question and is left as an exercise for the reader.:-)
Also, why did Pat Sajack get a late night tv slot once and even a news show, but Bob Eubanks didn't.
Because CBS went into it thinking Sajak was just the charming and witty host of "Wheel of Fortune", but then when he went on vacation he let Rush Limbaugh fill in for him, and they've been nervous about game show hosts ever since.:-)
So believing in science and logic means being unwilling to allow for even the possibility of some non-physical thing "outside" of science?
If there's no "creator" "outside" of the universe, then, according to the principle of cause and effect that lies at the heart of so much of science and logic, not only should the universe not be there, not only should there be nothing, but even the nothing shouldn't be there.
Doesn't believing in a universe which created itself require an even greater belief in miracles than any of the religious explanations?
All that said, a familiarity with science and logic can make for a better BS detector.
It doesn't matter how many articles Wikipedia has or what subjects are or are not covered nearly as much as whether what they say is true. If all nine million articles are full of mistakes and/or lies, no one is going to say "Yeah, but they're still a trustworthy and credible reference source because all of the articles are about serious subjects."
That may not be an actual SCART input as SCART is currently defined. Is it two rows of four holes? It may be an RGB connector that was used on semi-pro AV equipment about 30 years ago. You might be able to run 640 x 480 VGA on it, maybe 800 x 600. I think I've got a pinout of it buried in a sub-sub-sub-subdirectory on one of my partitions somewhere from a few years ago. e-mail me at coastalnet.com if you want me to blow half a day searching for it.:-) (seriously, if you really need it let me know).
Try looking at your CRT and clearing your throat loudly- this is what they were trying to fix;)
What you're talking about is probably the result of your eyeballs bouncing. Try it again, only this time instead of clearing your throat crunch on some celery sticks. (or some celeron chips if you have really strong jaws)
Assuming a "typical" household with married couple and two kids, let's say the wife is a homemaker and doesn't get out much. She could very well just have the TV on for something to listen to while she goes about her hobbies all day
Hobbies?!? You were being sarcastic when you referred to cooking, cleaning, laundry, dishwashing, etc., etc., etc., as hobbies, right?
We got a hallicrafters (as I recall the logo had the name uncapitalized) television back in 1954, about the same time as we got my baby brother, and I think the bill for each was about $400. Still have the brother, kinda wish we still had the TV. It needed some repairs over the years, but there was someone in town who could repair it, the parts needed were available, and I think they even managed to fix it without having to have the service manual or schematic. Boy are those days ever gone.
My dad replaced it without warning with a color set somewhere in the late '60s but I'm pretty sure it was still going strong at the time.
The reason he went with hallicrafters was his favorable experience with the brand during his Army Air Corps service (P-51 pilot) in WWII.
I think that that thing you refer to as a high-voltage cut-off capacitor (big red plastic thing, right?) is actually a voltage dividing resistor string inside a lot of (electrical) insulation. It tended, with age, to change resistive value non-proportionately, tricking the shut-down comparator into thinking that the high voltage was higher (unsafely so) than it actually was, causing an unnecessary shutdown. A replacement was obscenely expensive and prone to the same failure.
Every single pixel in a plasma screen is a phosphor-based light emitter, meaning it probably provides superior blacks to CRTs (which can't completely shut off their electron guns in normal usage, while plasmas can).
CRTs can shut off their electron guns completely, in fact there's even a level known as "blacker than black" (which is biased into and beyond cut-off, so that any reasonable level of noise isn't enough to bring it back out of cut-off), although it's only used during retrace.
Re:This sucks. (Score:-1) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04, @06:33PM (#22643906) Your comment reminded me of what Stewart Brand said about Strategy and Tactics wargaming magazine in The Last Whole Earth Catalog:...its considerations of game design, nostalgia-stroking, and bloodless conflict may be worth investigation by inventors of whatever's gonna replace war. You can be sure that peace isn't. Conflict is too interesting. [ Reply to This | Parent ]
Perhaps you should have read the journal entry for which Minozake provided a link so that you would both have been using the same definition of 'innocent'.
As for what you did post, if you'd said that as a celibate priest you can resist acting on the attractions which you can't control, it would have been a more fair comparison.
I've been trying to find a working link to that article. I saved the page to my hard drive a few years ago from Dan Chak's reprint of it, but it's not on his site anymore and The Onion's search thingie just choked when I tried using it.
It's scary how accurate that article's predictions were.
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When I was in high school I heard The Yardbirds and Ohio Express and Hendrix and The Archies on local radio (and 50 kW AM stations at night which aired pretty much the same things, only a week or two sooner) and liked them all, along with a lot of other stuff, some of which (to my thinking) got played to death and some of which was only in rotation for about a week or two. If not for radio I would probably have been exposed to little if any of it. My local 1 kW even played the first Blood, Sweat, and Tears (with Al Kooper singing lead) single.
I think it probably has something to do with the kind of music in which you get emotionally invested during adolescence. Someone once said that something terrible happens to music when you get to be 35 or so (that is, when you hit that age the new stuff coming out compares very unfavorably to what was new when you were younger), and I suspect that this is true for every generation. What my mom listened to in the 1930s and '40s was derided by her mother as "that jazzy music" and, of course, was too loud.
If you're a big Mencken fan, check the remainder bins for Roy Hoopes' book, "Our Man in Washington".
The same people who said "what's that crap?" when I played the first Crosby, Stills, and Nash album a few months before it got any airplay sure thought it sounded great once it showed up on their radios. I've seen nothing to make me think that succeeding generations are any more discerning.
...but it still seems to me that any combination of "Harris", "Florida", "government", and "counting" is just bound to end badly.
In the US the powerline frequency is 60Hz (which means that lightbulbs flash at a 120 Hz rate, once for each positive and negative peak), so a 30 Hz (frame)or 60 Hz (field) vertical refresh rate on TVs isn't the problem that it would be if our powerline frequency were 50 Hz, as I believe it is in Europe and the U.K.
The reason for the existance of that all-powerful supernatural creator being is a separate question and is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
Because CBS went into it thinking Sajak was just the charming and witty host of "Wheel of Fortune", but then when he went on vacation he let Rush Limbaugh fill in for him, and they've been nervous about game show hosts ever since. :-)
If there's no "creator" "outside" of the universe, then, according to the principle of cause and effect that lies at the heart of so much of science and logic, not only should the universe not be there, not only should there be nothing, but even the nothing shouldn't be there.
Doesn't believing in a universe which created itself require an even greater belief in miracles than any of the religious explanations?
All that said, a familiarity with science and logic can make for a better BS detector.
It doesn't matter how many articles Wikipedia has or what subjects are or are not covered nearly as much as whether what they say is true. If all nine million articles are full of mistakes and/or lies, no one is going to say "Yeah, but they're still a trustworthy and credible reference source because all of the articles are about serious subjects."
You've been watching too many porno flicks. :-)
Nothing to say, but for some reason I just felt compelled to be a part of this particular thread. :-)
You aren't in or near eastern NC by chance?
That may not be an actual SCART input as SCART is currently defined. Is it two rows of four holes? It may be an RGB connector that was used on semi-pro AV equipment about 30 years ago. You might be able to run 640 x 480 VGA on it, maybe 800 x 600. I think I've got a pinout of it buried in a sub-sub-sub-subdirectory on one of my partitions somewhere from a few years ago. e-mail me at coastalnet.com if you want me to blow half a day searching for it. :-) (seriously, if you really need it let me know).
What you're talking about is probably the result of your eyeballs bouncing. Try it again, only this time instead of clearing your throat crunch on some celery sticks. (or some celeron chips if you have really strong jaws)
Hobbies?!? You were being sarcastic when you referred to cooking, cleaning, laundry, dishwashing, etc., etc., etc., as hobbies, right?
My dad replaced it without warning with a color set somewhere in the late '60s but I'm pretty sure it was still going strong at the time.
The reason he went with hallicrafters was his favorable experience with the brand during his Army Air Corps service (P-51 pilot) in WWII.
I think that that thing you refer to as a high-voltage cut-off capacitor (big red plastic thing, right?) is actually a voltage dividing resistor string inside a lot of (electrical) insulation. It tended, with age, to change resistive value non-proportionately, tricking the shut-down comparator into thinking that the high voltage was higher (unsafely so) than it actually was, causing an unnecessary shutdown. A replacement was obscenely expensive and prone to the same failure.
CRTs can shut off their electron guns completely, in fact there's even a level known as "blacker than black" (which is biased into and beyond cut-off, so that any reasonable level of noise isn't enough to bring it back out of cut-off), although it's only used during retrace.
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04, @06:33PM (#22643906)
Your comment reminded me of what Stewart Brand said about Strategy and Tactics wargaming magazine in The Last Whole Earth Catalog:
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"The future. I say live it, or live with it."
...could you cut the Easter Europe cables too...Not this year. Too much chance of accidentally cutting the St. Patrick's Day cables as well.
As for what you did post, if you'd said that as a celibate priest you can resist acting on the attractions which you can't control, it would have been a more fair comparison.
Foobar of Borg, may his (or her) tribe increase, came up with a working link to that 2001 article which can be found when you read this post.
I've been trying to find a working link to that article. I saved the page to my hard drive a few years ago from Dan Chak's reprint of it, but it's not on his site anymore and The Onion's search thingie just choked when I tried using it.
It's scary how accurate that article's predictions were.