Judging by the Ars article, the survey considered TV and gaming to be the same activity. This somehow strikes me as completely wrong. Certainly it's no basis to be drawing conclusions about gaming. All it says is that TV and gaming, in some combination, can harm performance. Cigarettes and sitting on wooden stools, in some combination, can give you lung cancer, but you won't see me selling the stool.
Yup. I don't see why this is mysterious. Maybe I've played through (Thief | Commander Keen | Descent) so many times that I just can't stomach those same levels again for a while, but really wish I could keep playing. Sequels to the rescue!
Perhaps you aren't familiar with the "video games" all the kids are playing. Video games combine pictures and sound to create an experience. This ain't the baseball of yore.
Additionally, the concept of art serves only to boost the egos and reputations of artists and art critics while detracting from the works themselves.
And here we arrive at the golden rule of mixing: never do it with headphones. And always test your mix on systems like the one your audience will be using (bundled computer speakers, in this case).
I should add: your question is very vague. Will you be recording audio yourself? If so, you'll be wanting a decent microphone and preamp, as well as a quiet recording environment, more than a special sound card (assuming you've got something better than a Soundblaster), although the sound card is good to have. If you're not recording, just get some decent monitors and call it a day.
I'm not normally one to complain about "Ask Slashdot" questions, but this isn't the best community to turn to for a recording question. There are forums in which nearly every member has bought many different audio interfaces -- you want one of those, not Slashdot.
I'm sure Windows is pretty easy to diagnose if you know your stuff, but I've found it much harder to get a handle on because I'm never sure what it's doing or how to make sure I've configured something as completely as possible. This is mainly because Linux is a more open system. For example, on Linux I can edit xorg.conf and be sure that I'm in control of what X is doing. If I'm trying to change my video card driver in Windows, I don't have a clue what Windows is doing underneath. The best I can do is coax it through the driver update wizard or something. Working with Windows's screwy wireless networking system is another exercise in "what the hell is really going on".
Windows may be easier for newbs, but I don't care about that. A system that tries to do the right thing is all right but I (like you, I think) would rather just tell it the right way and know for sure that it's going to do it that way.
I've had the opposite experience. Linux is great when it works. When it doesn't, it's always been broken in a sane way. I can diagnose the problem and fix a config file and be pretty confident that the problem isn't coming back. I may not have understood the problem beforehand, but after I get a handle on it the solution is obvious. Windows, on the other hand, has never made any sense when it breaks. I suspect that Windows is as rational and fixable as Linux underneath, but it's even harder to figure out the obscure tweaks that may be needed to fix it, which leaves you with solutions like "install the driver again and hope it doesn't break this time" or "try reformatting".
And most websites go and change it anyway. Most browsers offer a minimum font size setting, but that's a half assed solution that doesn't scale all the text together.
You're conflating digitization with compression and lossy compression with lossless compression.
CDs aren't compressed at all, and while Flac is a form of compression, it's lossless, meaning that it only finds a more efficient way to represent the audio data.
That's about what I thought as well. I'm all for neat wiring, but when I saw that there was absolutely no slack left at the ends of the wires I felt nothing but pity for the guy who has to work on that system.
Doesn't VIM start you where you were last editing by default? I realize that this can be disabled, but why would you do that if it's usually what you want?
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They probably can't even remember all of "PCMCIA". Hell, even I can only do it on a good day.
Judging by the Ars article, the survey considered TV and gaming to be the same activity. This somehow strikes me as completely wrong. Certainly it's no basis to be drawing conclusions about gaming. All it says is that TV and gaming, in some combination, can harm performance. Cigarettes and sitting on wooden stools, in some combination, can give you lung cancer, but you won't see me selling the stool.
Yup. I don't see why this is mysterious. Maybe I've played through (Thief | Commander Keen | Descent) so many times that I just can't stomach those same levels again for a while, but really wish I could keep playing. Sequels to the rescue!
It's a shame that such a wonderful mascot is stuck with such shitty food. I love the King, but I'll choose the other big headed mascot's food any day.
They both have two heads?
An Asain person?
Perhaps you aren't familiar with the "video games" all the kids are playing. Video games combine pictures and sound to create an experience. This ain't the baseball of yore.
Additionally, the concept of art serves only to boost the egos and reputations of artists and art critics while detracting from the works themselves.
According to string theory, that's impossible.
It seems we've reached an impasse.
Except it's pronounced "ming". Just like PNG is "ping".
And here we arrive at the golden rule of mixing: never do it with headphones. And always test your mix on systems like the one your audience will be using (bundled computer speakers, in this case).
Not at all. Decent audio gear is very affordable.
I should add: your question is very vague. Will you be recording audio yourself? If so, you'll be wanting a decent microphone and preamp, as well as a quiet recording environment, more than a special sound card (assuming you've got something better than a Soundblaster), although the sound card is good to have. If you're not recording, just get some decent monitors and call it a day.
Get thee to an Audio forum, fool.
I'm not normally one to complain about "Ask Slashdot" questions, but this isn't the best community to turn to for a recording question. There are forums in which nearly every member has bought many different audio interfaces -- you want one of those, not Slashdot.
I'm sure Windows is pretty easy to diagnose if you know your stuff, but I've found it much harder to get a handle on because I'm never sure what it's doing or how to make sure I've configured something as completely as possible. This is mainly because Linux is a more open system. For example, on Linux I can edit xorg.conf and be sure that I'm in control of what X is doing. If I'm trying to change my video card driver in Windows, I don't have a clue what Windows is doing underneath. The best I can do is coax it through the driver update wizard or something. Working with Windows's screwy wireless networking system is another exercise in "what the hell is really going on".
Windows may be easier for newbs, but I don't care about that. A system that tries to do the right thing is all right but I (like you, I think) would rather just tell it the right way and know for sure that it's going to do it that way.
That's a nice setup. Where did you pick up a vertical monitor though? I've seen a few, but not too often.
I've had the opposite experience. Linux is great when it works. When it doesn't, it's always been broken in a sane way. I can diagnose the problem and fix a config file and be pretty confident that the problem isn't coming back. I may not have understood the problem beforehand, but after I get a handle on it the solution is obvious. Windows, on the other hand, has never made any sense when it breaks. I suspect that Windows is as rational and fixable as Linux underneath, but it's even harder to figure out the obscure tweaks that may be needed to fix it, which leaves you with solutions like "install the driver again and hope it doesn't break this time" or "try reformatting".
Because it's not done ye.
When you *tell* it to. There's absolutely no reason you should have to do that. That's what your font size preference is for.
And most websites go and change it anyway. Most browsers offer a minimum font size setting, but that's a half assed solution that doesn't scale all the text together.
You're conflating digitization with compression and lossy compression with lossless compression.
CDs aren't compressed at all, and while Flac is a form of compression, it's lossless, meaning that it only finds a more efficient way to represent the audio data.
I wasn't going to say anything until you duplicated the error, but it's garage (for the pretentious, of course -- car hole to everyone else).
That's about what I thought as well. I'm all for neat wiring, but when I saw that there was absolutely no slack left at the ends of the wires I felt nothing but pity for the guy who has to work on that system.
Gentoo has the best documentation in the Linux world too. I refer to it even when configuring other distros.
Doesn't VIM start you where you were last editing by default? I realize that this can be disabled, but why would you do that if it's usually what you want?
Same here. Anyone who can manage it should get involved.