The problem here is not with the audio system. Garbage in, garbage out. It is the job of the application to provide a suitable stream for playback, and building tools into the controls for dealing with something that is broken in the first place is a bad idea. And if you do have recordings that are too quiet, there are plenty of tools out there than will kick the gain up for you.
Well, it depends. I certainly want something a lot more sophisticated than just a/dev/dsp that everything gets written to. When I'm playing a DVD, I do not want some stupid flash ad to start talking to me. I don't want a ding noise informing me that updates are ready. So a certain level of smart behavious would be good. Likewise, working networking features would be good: I'd like to be able to hook up my MP3 collection to the hi-fi via the laptop that sits in the living room, and so forth.
Really? Try me. In fact, just as an experiment, let's set up a fake holodeck, with a non-stop supply of sex hungry people of the desired gender and general physical attributes, and let's see just how long it takes before I get bored and decide to leave. Who wants to help me out here?
He's getting into the realm where reality butts up against philosophy and logic. You might be better to phrase this as "Here is a logical explanation of a physical event which cannot be tested". There is, I suppose, a loose analogy to Godel's incompleteness theorems. He might be right or wrong: the problem is that examining the physical event in question does not test his theory. Ooh, scary:)
I'm not getting at you, so please don't take it that way, but does anyone remember yesterday's discussion of how open source just wasn't sexist and everybody was welcome on merit and so on and so forth? Your post is kinda the point: this low-level stuff drives intelligent, would-be contributors away pretty quickly, as a rule.
Buffett *is* lucky. He does not have access to knowledge or information that no-one else does: he improves his chances by rigorously sticking to sound business principles, but ultimately, his outlying success is dumb luck. Not that I would bet against him:p
Insurance is not about gambling, despite the facts that the mechanics of it are similar. The purpose of insurance is to make a small payment to cover an unlikely, but expensive catastrophe. And in any case, it's hardly the point: the people who are going to deny you a job because you worked in the gambling industry do ot really operate on this level.
Good call on surface area, I should have thought of that. I was more interested in seeing it stand up on its edge though:p My maths is right, remember that volume will cube when you scale an external dimension (Google calculator is fantastic for running these back-of-the-envelope sort of numbers as it sorts all your units out for you and all you need to do is a sanity check). And it only takes a few moments thought to see that a 25m radius disc of copper is going to be heavier than 146kg: even I can lift that. If I run it with your figure of 1109m across we get 493,230,253,000kg which is so heavy it's not funny. If you had a penny that size it would be deforming the earth's crust.
Well, I'm bored. The US Mint says that a penny weighs 2.5g and is 19.05mm across. I can't find an estimate for the height of a nuclear power station, but let's say 25m, so a nuclear power station sized penny would weight 2.5g*(25m/19.05mm)^3=5 650 346.68kg. That's quite a lot. The current copper price is $6241/tonne on the London Metals Exchange, that is, roughly $35,263,813.60. Zinc is about a third of that price.
Which is not what I was responding to, but never mind. Mathematics has nothing to do with truth or otherwise: it is simply the logical consequences that arise from given axioms. It so happens that if you pick the right axioms then there are many correspondences with the real world, but truth? Nowt to do with it.
You don't need a brand to run a business model, in certain segments. Lonely, desperate men with no self esteem are sitting ducks for an anonymous promise of cheap, easy, self-medicated improvement.
Your other point is well made - at the moment, law enforcement can't legally respond to a spam email, pay for the product, and then follow the money trail. There are sound legal reasons for this but I reckon there is a good case for narrow legislation to deal with this specific problem. The answer isn't educating users: at the end of the day, you need a certain IQ level to recognise a given example of spam, and for any given IQ level, there will be a certain percentage of the population below that, no matter what you do to try and raise their awareness.
Yeah. I'm not convinced anything like what the OP seeks is available any more, but at the price a new ML1610 costs, I don't see why you *would*. And so far, mine has been a great wee workhorse: three full toners through it and it chugs away like a trooper.
Re your last paragraph, that's exactly what we used to do, but not at a county level, a *parish* level. To leave and settle in another parish, you needed a piece of paper called a testificat, signed by your minister, stating your good character. I'm not sure if it's ever been formally abolished, either.
And if his maternal great-great-great-grandmother comes from Inner Spongistan, it's OK to throw him to the wolves? These tests prove nothing. I could see a place for them at an immigration hearing, but not at a border control point. That's just stupid.
From the day I began writing essays I was bounded by my writing speed (and now, by my typing speed). Anyway, if your cursive writing is slower than any other form, you're doing something wrong, because cursive involves the same movements as printing, except with printing you also have to move the pen up and down as well as in the plane.
Frontline staff are in any field rarely educated in any detail as to the law that applys to what they do. Banks are a classic example of this: they actively mislead front-line staff as to the law, as it makes them much more confident dealing with complaining customers.
It's not a legal procedure as such (and I believe you can also do it with CCs), but it can be effective. If you do it, however, you stand to be sued by the retailer: however if you have a reasonable case against them, or the money isn't worth the hassle, they probably won't. But if they did it would be a world of annoyance.
So read the damned policy documents before you sign them. Ask yourself if the premium is sensible relative to the risk you are asking to be insured against.
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You know, maybe you have a point. Asshole.
The problem here is not with the audio system. Garbage in, garbage out. It is the job of the application to provide a suitable stream for playback, and building tools into the controls for dealing with something that is broken in the first place is a bad idea. And if you do have recordings that are too quiet, there are plenty of tools out there than will kick the gain up for you.
Well, it depends. I certainly want something a lot more sophisticated than just a /dev/dsp that everything gets written to. When I'm playing a DVD, I do not want some stupid flash ad to start talking to me. I don't want a ding noise informing me that updates are ready. So a certain level of smart behavious would be good. Likewise, working networking features would be good: I'd like to be able to hook up my MP3 collection to the hi-fi via the laptop that sits in the living room, and so forth.
Really? Try me. In fact, just as an experiment, let's set up a fake holodeck, with a non-stop supply of sex hungry people of the desired gender and general physical attributes, and let's see just how long it takes before I get bored and decide to leave. Who wants to help me out here?
He's getting into the realm where reality butts up against philosophy and logic. You might be better to phrase this as "Here is a logical explanation of a physical event which cannot be tested". There is, I suppose, a loose analogy to Godel's incompleteness theorems. He might be right or wrong: the problem is that examining the physical event in question does not test his theory. Ooh, scary :)
I'm not getting at you, so please don't take it that way, but does anyone remember yesterday's discussion of how open source just wasn't sexist and everybody was welcome on merit and so on and so forth? Your post is kinda the point: this low-level stuff drives intelligent, would-be contributors away pretty quickly, as a rule.
Buffett *is* lucky. He does not have access to knowledge or information that no-one else does: he improves his chances by rigorously sticking to sound business principles, but ultimately, his outlying success is dumb luck. Not that I would bet against him :p
Insurance is not about gambling, despite the facts that the mechanics of it are similar. The purpose of insurance is to make a small payment to cover an unlikely, but expensive catastrophe. And in any case, it's hardly the point: the people who are going to deny you a job because you worked in the gambling industry do ot really operate on this level.
Good call on surface area, I should have thought of that. I was more interested in seeing it stand up on its edge though :p My maths is right, remember that volume will cube when you scale an external dimension (Google calculator is fantastic for running these back-of-the-envelope sort of numbers as it sorts all your units out for you and all you need to do is a sanity check). And it only takes a few moments thought to see that a 25m radius disc of copper is going to be heavier than 146kg: even I can lift that. If I run it with your figure of 1109m across we get 493,230,253,000kg which is so heavy it's not funny. If you had a penny that size it would be deforming the earth's crust.
Well, I'm bored. The US Mint says that a penny weighs 2.5g and is 19.05mm across. I can't find an estimate for the height of a nuclear power station, but let's say 25m, so a nuclear power station sized penny would weight 2.5g*(25m/19.05mm)^3=5 650 346.68kg. That's quite a lot. The current copper price is $6241/tonne on the London Metals Exchange, that is, roughly $35,263,813.60. Zinc is about a third of that price.
Which is not what I was responding to, but never mind. Mathematics has nothing to do with truth or otherwise: it is simply the logical consequences that arise from given axioms. It so happens that if you pick the right axioms then there are many correspondences with the real world, but truth? Nowt to do with it.
Hypatia, Ada Lovelace, Mary Cartwright.
Your other point is well made - at the moment, law enforcement can't legally respond to a spam email, pay for the product, and then follow the money trail. There are sound legal reasons for this but I reckon there is a good case for narrow legislation to deal with this specific problem. The answer isn't educating users: at the end of the day, you need a certain IQ level to recognise a given example of spam, and for any given IQ level, there will be a certain percentage of the population below that, no matter what you do to try and raise their awareness.
That would be Bob Dylan.
Indeed. Though try to stop the girls in Civil Engineering playing with the concrete vibrating wands...
Yeah. I'm not convinced anything like what the OP seeks is available any more, but at the price a new ML1610 costs, I don't see why you *would*. And so far, mine has been a great wee workhorse: three full toners through it and it chugs away like a trooper.
Re your last paragraph, that's exactly what we used to do, but not at a county level, a *parish* level. To leave and settle in another parish, you needed a piece of paper called a testificat, signed by your minister, stating your good character. I'm not sure if it's ever been formally abolished, either.
And if his maternal great-great-great-grandmother comes from Inner Spongistan, it's OK to throw him to the wolves? These tests prove nothing. I could see a place for them at an immigration hearing, but not at a border control point. That's just stupid.
Autotune doesn't sound like anything until you overdo it, when it suddenly sounds like sandpapering an innocent baby's bottom.
Anecdote != data.
From the day I began writing essays I was bounded by my writing speed (and now, by my typing speed). Anyway, if your cursive writing is slower than any other form, you're doing something wrong, because cursive involves the same movements as printing, except with printing you also have to move the pen up and down as well as in the plane.
Frontline staff are in any field rarely educated in any detail as to the law that applys to what they do. Banks are a classic example of this: they actively mislead front-line staff as to the law, as it makes them much more confident dealing with complaining customers.
It's not a legal procedure as such (and I believe you can also do it with CCs), but it can be effective. If you do it, however, you stand to be sued by the retailer: however if you have a reasonable case against them, or the money isn't worth the hassle, they probably won't. But if they did it would be a world of annoyance.
So read the damned policy documents before you sign them. Ask yourself if the premium is sensible relative to the risk you are asking to be insured against.
Do, please, enlighten us with the details o games you have designed that have sold in excess of a million copies...