That's nice, so you think people are self-destructive by nature and no attempt should be made to have a rational social model, as long as the powerful get what they want, even if we're awash in surplus capacity and resources.
Are you implying that a continuous growth economic model will magically bypass real physical limits? The current culling program of permanent wars, police state, homelessness, crippling medical costs, and poverty is acceptable, though?
In what way does a leisure society imply "culling"? Why such a simplistic two option world?
That's just a social model, a human convention. We will have to do away with "growth" as the "#1 model over all else" mentality we have. It works now and then, but it basically ignores all the productivity gains and technology we have.
What's wrong with a leisure society and guaranteed minimum livable conditions for all? And for the people with weird wiring who absolutely must have an owner or must dominate others or must have a bigger car, let's put them in a reserve and watch them fight over artificially scarce resources...
Yeah and the scope has a bandwidth in the megahertz, those steps aren't going to be in the output signal to the speakers, and even if they were they would be smoothed out (filtered) by the speaker crossover and the mechanical time constant of the speaker parts.
And then there's the air, those steps aren't going through the air...
Yeah but unless you have the speakers and room and amplifier to go with that dynamic range (on what music? Today's music is so compressed a Fisher Price cassette deck is hi-fi), it's wasted information.
Oh and it's "niche".
And why does everything need to have "growth"? Only cancer has continuous growth. What if there's enough demand to keep some local technical people gainfully employed in the West?
Sure it's not the same kind of jobs our parents had, with job security, health insurance, benefits, and a retirement fund, but can we please still chase the few crumbs that are left to the common folk?
Or it could be that human beings haven't changed much and seeing a physical object directly picking up a squiggle wave and turning it into an electric wave that makes a speaker cone wobble is instinctively more "human" than a cheap chinese piece of plastic with 5 cents of silicon running more software than a team of PhDs can understand in a year.
Here in Montreal some dude has a mushroom growing kit that grows on a bag filled with coffee grounds. They were the most intensely flavored mushrooms I ever tasted. I was like getting hit in the face by a boxing glove made of mushrooms.
Like a Walkera QR X350? It's not half bad, but if you get the ARF expect to do some interesting work to get a receiver and battery to fit in its belly.
Hey I'm the last one to use as an example. I just ate two chicken patties, 6 donuts and am starting on a bottle of scotch. But my yearly checkup and blood test always come back normal.
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That's nice, so you think people are self-destructive by nature and no attempt should be made to have a rational social model, as long as the powerful get what they want, even if we're awash in surplus capacity and resources.
Wonderful.
"It is simply not possible to get a full-wave 20kHz signal out of a standard 44kHz sample rate,"
What the hell are you babbling about? A 44.1KHz system is band-limited to 22KHz and you can ONLY get a sine wave out with two data points!
Jesus Christ already!
What does "full wave" mean anyways? Are you one of those types that throws technical-sounding jargon around without a clue?
Maybe to a mundane person, but anyone with at least the curiosity of a mollusc might try to understand something beyond the level of the UI.
And for the 50Hz/60Hz difference.
"Audio is just a crazy world of snake oil and placebo."
So is software...
Aren't we supposed to be "sapiens"?
Are you implying that a continuous growth economic model will magically bypass real physical limits? The current culling program of permanent wars, police state, homelessness, crippling medical costs, and poverty is acceptable, though?
In what way does a leisure society imply "culling"? Why such a simplistic two option world?
Can you explain how a record works? You can see the squiggle and even play it back with a sharp piece of plastic and you can hear the sound.
Now explain every bit in a MP3 and how the processor works.
You're confusing convenience with complexity.
That's just a social model, a human convention. We will have to do away with "growth" as the "#1 model over all else" mentality we have. It works now and then, but it basically ignores all the productivity gains and technology we have.
What's wrong with a leisure society and guaranteed minimum livable conditions for all? And for the people with weird wiring who absolutely must have an owner or must dominate others or must have a bigger car, let's put them in a reserve and watch them fight over artificially scarce resources...
Oh wait, that's Monday morning. Shit.
Man, I don't know what reel to reel is "dramatically" less than a digital source. My TEAC X3 and Pioneer RT-909 sound just fine.
Yeah and the scope has a bandwidth in the megahertz, those steps aren't going to be in the output signal to the speakers, and even if they were they would be smoothed out (filtered) by the speaker crossover and the mechanical time constant of the speaker parts.
And then there's the air, those steps aren't going through the air...
So will you, and that's the human aspect of it.
Exactly, and if I made 5000$/hour and worked 40 hour weeks, I'd make 200000$ a week, you don't have to believe it, the math just works.
That's the beauty of maths!
Oh, it has no meaning in the real world and there are no jobs that pay 5000$ an hour for the vast majority of the human race?
But the math works!!!!
My point is that math is just a concept, sound is real and how you perceive it is all the evidence you should need.
It's like food, I'm sure you can measure every spice down to the genetic level but I still might not like the taste.
Yeah but unless you have the speakers and room and amplifier to go with that dynamic range (on what music? Today's music is so compressed a Fisher Price cassette deck is hi-fi), it's wasted information.
Oh and it's "niche".
And why does everything need to have "growth"? Only cancer has continuous growth. What if there's enough demand to keep some local technical people gainfully employed in the West?
Sure it's not the same kind of jobs our parents had, with job security, health insurance, benefits, and a retirement fund, but can we please still chase the few crumbs that are left to the common folk?
Or it could be that human beings haven't changed much and seeing a physical object directly picking up a squiggle wave and turning it into an electric wave that makes a speaker cone wobble is instinctively more "human" than a cheap chinese piece of plastic with 5 cents of silicon running more software than a team of PhDs can understand in a year.
Here in Montreal some dude has a mushroom growing kit that grows on a bag filled with coffee grounds. They were the most intensely flavored mushrooms I ever tasted. I was like getting hit in the face by a boxing glove made of mushrooms.
that life *here* began *out there*
The 850$ kickback.
Like a Walkera QR X350? It's not half bad, but if you get the ARF expect to do some interesting work to get a receiver and battery to fit in its belly.
I guess I could type more for my subject, but when the subject is one-letter languages, get off my case, eh?
If I understood more math, I'd enjoy using J, the "normal keyboard" version of APL
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OK, so a perfectly fine word like "hella" has no place in the very serious topic of asteroid mining?
http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/...
Reputable enough for you, you absurd human being?
Welcome to twenty years ago. Please try to use the internet's "search" capabilities. Thanks.
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"Nobody measures OUT because on the grand scale of things, OUT is inconsequential."
Um, do you know what Innu feed their dogs?
Hey I'm the last one to use as an example. I just ate two chicken patties, 6 donuts and am starting on a bottle of scotch. But my yearly checkup and blood test always come back normal.