I never had a job that let me listen to music or surf the web or whatever else when I was supposed to be working. Instead I was always expected to be working.
Maybe the problem is that the music industry's "product" is now seen as something that has to be consumer in cars or through crappy earbuds.
Am I the only person that sees that as a problem?
Might as well start designing cameras & Photoshop to make all photos look recognizable when viewed through a half-full unturned beer mug.
Music should be mastered to be what is best for the music. Any concerns about being able to hear it in a shitty listening environment should be left to the concern of the person who chooses to listen in a shitty environment.
"That music always has pp or p sections, sometimes with mf sections before the f or ff sections. Occasionally there's an sfz ff type of crescendo."
Look, classical may not be your personal favorite style of music, but that doesn't mean you have to swear about it like that, even if you DID censor it down to initials. Keep your FUs to yourself, buddy.
I'm relating this from personal experience. I hate all operating systems. I'd prefer to use Linux if possible but haven't been able to get away from using windows as my main boot. Why? Well games of course.
But beyond that, maybe I'm just unlucky but not one of my five printers works (one several years old the others all under 2 years old) Never got either of my two scanners to work... one of which was one of the top selling scanners in history, sold for almost a decade with only minor changes. There's still a version sold today. But linux drivers? Nope. It's on the "don;t even ask, we're not going to" list.
Obviously most of this has to do with peripheral manufacturers being unwilling to release code or specs or be supportive in any way, but the end result is the same.
You seem to be under the impression that the scanners are supposed to achieve something other than enriching the people who make them.
They ARE intended to do something else. Actually it's their main intent - to keep people simultaneously scared shitless and give them a feeling of security if they are nice and submissive.
And they work extremely well at this. Just look anywhere there are skeptics and you'll see people crying "as long as it keeps me safe on my flight from Omaha to Kansas City!"
I'm gonna trademark iShoe, iRock, iCar, iFruit, iBeam, iGlasses, iSpy, iPatent... because these are all totally new original words and it's not like I'm trying to trademark a generic term at all.
Whoops, please add iTrademark, iGeneric and iTerm to that list.
If you can still reliably get what you want by using a phone, calling and saying "Hey, this is Andy in the Widget Dept., what was today's password again?" then it's not very smart to invest a lot of time and money into developing an unproven way of doing the same thing.
Well, apart from having a father who worked in insurance most of his life, and having worked for an insurance company for a short while myself, and now being on government disability because the insurance company of the guy driving the truck who ran over me wormed their way out of paying what they'd agreed to pay, you're right - beyond that I know very little about insurance.
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I have. I was let go because they took one look at me. I'm kinda scruffy.
Yeah! ANYONE can land a commercial jet in a corn field. Doesn't take training or anything.
Doesn't mater, just make sure you wash you veggies properly before eating.
Make sure there are lots of soap suds instead of just one sud.
I never had a job that let me listen to music or surf the web or whatever else when I was supposed to be working. Instead I was always expected to be working.
Imagine that.
Maybe the problem is that the music industry's "product" is now seen as something that has to be consumer in cars or through crappy earbuds.
Am I the only person that sees that as a problem?
Might as well start designing cameras & Photoshop to make all photos look recognizable when viewed through a half-full unturned beer mug.
Music should be mastered to be what is best for the music. Any concerns about being able to hear it in a shitty listening environment should be left to the concern of the person who chooses to listen in a shitty environment.
Aftermarket can take of that.
Good idea for a video game though.
The faster your go without hitting anything, the louder the music gets. Maybe the tempo picks up too.
And then something else happens. Doesn't matter what, it's a video game.
"That music always has pp or p sections, sometimes with mf sections before the f or ff sections. Occasionally there's an sfz ff type of crescendo."
Look, classical may not be your personal favorite style of music, but that doesn't mean you have to swear about it like that, even if you DID censor it down to initials.
Keep your FUs to yourself, buddy.
You have to know where to look.
I'll take the 60 dollar game the next year when it's on sale for $9.99
MS fanboi with no Linux experience?
I'm relating this from personal experience. I hate all operating systems. I'd prefer to use Linux if possible but haven't been able to get away from using windows as my main boot. Why? Well games of course.
But beyond that, maybe I'm just unlucky but not one of my five printers works (one several years old the others all under 2 years old)
Never got either of my two scanners to work... one of which was one of the top selling scanners in history, sold for almost a decade with only minor changes. There's still a version sold today. But linux drivers? Nope. It's on the "don;t even ask, we're not going to" list.
Obviously most of this has to do with peripheral manufacturers being unwilling to release code or specs or be supportive in any way, but the end result is the same.
And that's not even taking into account the fact that they might want to PRINT the document.
Printing on Linux is easy if you happen to have one of the supported printers and the driver is decent.
If your printer is older and works fine in Windows or Mac, or newer, but for whatever reason there's no linux driver for it, you're pretty much SOL.
Same goes for scanners.
Guantanimo? Enemy combatants? Declared enemies of the state by the Pres., shot in the head and buried in an unmarked grave?
Unlikely, yes. But now "legal" under Bush/Obama.
Maybe that's why we're running out?
They ARE intended to do something else. Actually it's their main intent - to keep people simultaneously scared shitless and give them a feeling of security if they are nice and submissive.
And they work extremely well at this. Just look anywhere there are skeptics and you'll see people crying "as long as it keeps me safe on my flight from Omaha to Kansas City!"
Exactly. Why bother to go on a suicide mission if something BAD could happen to you instead?
I used to think like you. Spent thousands on audio equipment.
Now that I'm deaf in one ear I listen to MP3s through $24 headphones.
Being deaf saves a lot of money.
Corporate responsibility?
What are you, some kind of commie?
I'm gonna trademark iShoe, iRock, iCar, iFruit, iBeam, iGlasses, iSpy, iPatent... because these are all totally new original words and it's not like I'm trying to trademark a generic term at all.
Whoops, please add iTrademark, iGeneric and iTerm to that list.
Oops! iList!
Damn - iOops.
uhoh. iDamn
will it never end?
iEnd
They still do!
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Also it depends on how you define smart.
If you can still reliably get what you want by using a phone, calling and saying "Hey, this is Andy in the Widget Dept., what was today's password again?" then it's not very smart to invest a lot of time and money into developing an unproven way of doing the same thing.
Who says they don't?
Or, sell the exploit to Russians for a couple million.
I have edited the Encyclopedia Britannica down to a far more powerful, potent form. It follows below.
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There. You now know everything.
Well, apart from having a father who worked in insurance most of his life, and having worked for an insurance company for a short while myself, and now being on government disability because the insurance company of the guy driving the truck who ran over me wormed their way out of paying what they'd agreed to pay, you're right - beyond that I know very little about insurance.
...for trying to use the product they bought.
AT&T needs to learn from the insurance companies - the REAL profit is in selling a product you never intend to deliver.