Transients. Classical music has very few transients and I wouldn't expect a blind test between MP3 and raw bitstream to show much difference. Try listening to a steel-string guitar with lots of pick noise.
To be honest, it doesn't sound very different to what is requried in financial services, which use massive imaging stores (for documentation), require 100% data integrity in their records, and generally operate on workflows of the same level of complexity. They also have to meet security requirements of the same level of importance, so not an impossible challenge, I think.
For a while, it's cheaper to maintain a plane than buy a new one. After a while, it's cheaper and easier to start over and buy a new one, even with the cost of fitting it out.
Yup. We often hear historians and others tell us about the evil Victorian factories, the cruelties of the Industrial Revolution, how hateful industrial employment was. This is a couple of verses from a Scots song, which is actually from the Industrial Revolution, and not anyone else's varnished interpretation:
As I gaed [went] by the weaver's yetts [gates]
Ma heart began tae beat
Watchin aa the factory lasses
Stottin [striding] doon the street
Wi[th] their flashy-dashy petticoats,
Their flashy-dashy shawls,
Five and a tanner [sixpence] gutty boots,
They're aa wee gallus molls
Gallus molls has no simple translation, but streetwise sexy young women on the prowl would be close.
The funny thing is, none of these people have to work for low wages or as sweated labour; they are quite free to spend their days scavenging rubbish dumps for scraps of food. It's hardly taking advantage of someone to pay them the going rate as opposed to letting them starve in the streets.
Your proposal is to take us back to the 1930s, which, if I might remind you, didn't work out so well. It took a long time to unwind the economic impact of protectionism. Imposing these standards on trading partners removes any point in trading with them - so all your manufacturing jobs will come back onshore. In turn, wages will go through the roof, as will inflation in general. In turn, your trading partners have to match the new, higher wages, which is even harder for them to do. Problem.
On worker protection: the country with the least worker protection laws in the world is the United States. Yet bizarrely, you also have some of the highest standards, because you are held to them by the free market. Countries with notional but unenforced safety regimes, such as China, don't do so well at actually protecting their workers.
In terms of sonic complexity, the Beatles are more interesting from a musical standpoint than Mozart. He was just an expert tunesmith with the ability to set melodies in symphonic structure. Some of the music the Beatles made, particularly around the Sergeant Pepper/White Album period, compares well with Mahler or Philip Glass. It still forms the basis of the popular music that most people listen to today, so just as blues fans will always tend to work their way back to Robert Johnson and his ilk, so most musicians today will acknowledge their debt to the Beatles. Certainly all of the working musicians I know, in various fields, are all Beatles fans and none are quite as ready to dismiss them as some people in this thread are.
You're missing the point a little. I don't disagree that a democratic government is probably the best we can do, but here's the point. Imagine a bunch of people living in caves. There is no government, no taxes, the only rules are avoiding getting beaten over the head with a mammoth femur. How do you get from there to a state where it is morally and ethically correct that people I don't know and haven't agreed anything with can take my money in return for providing services that I may or may not want? In essence, what's the difference between a government (democratic or not) and a protection racket?
Not really. Let A = cost of retrieving data from smashed drive. Let B = value of data. Is AB? Probably not for most applications. In which case, hammer treatment is just fine.
I was exaggerating to make the point, but if you start from the point of view of asking yourself why governments exist, what gives them legitemacy, and what gives them the right to levy taxes on you, then you are pretty close to coming to the conclusion that taxation is theft. I tend to the utalitarian in my thinking, so I accept that taxation and government does have to exist and keep on existing, but it's worth asking yourself *why* the government has a right to take your money, that you worked for, and spend it on something that has no relevance to you.
Sorry, pal, but you're so far off the map it isn't even funny. We all need to eat, but most countries haven't banned making money off selling food yet.
OK. Instead of breaking the shopkeepers window, you mug him, take his wallet, and use the contents to have another, extra, window put in his shop. Now he has an extra window to display his produce in and entice passers by. Is this good for him y/n?
What's that saying - "the harder I work, the luckier I get". Sure, Warren Buffet is lucky. But he's also put an awwful lot of sweat in to get that lucky. There are very few Warren Buffets who achieved what he did by chucking darts at a list of stocks.
Once upon a time, we had this thing called live music. Except we just called it music, because we didn't have anything else. The idea that recorded music is an essential part of a musician's income is tendentious at best.
Don't forget Edison's invention of the electric chair, specifically designed to show how dangerous AC current was. Although in the end it turned out to be so safe that the first 'volunteer' to test it survived (kinda).
Mmm. Herd instincts for the lose. But the few financial instituitions that stood against the headwinds are now reaping the rewards. For example, in the UK LTSB is taking over HBOS, despite the fact that HBOS was nearly twice LTSB's size at the height of the boom. The rational players are doing just fine.
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Transients. Classical music has very few transients and I wouldn't expect a blind test between MP3 and raw bitstream to show much difference. Try listening to a steel-string guitar with lots of pick noise.
To be honest, it doesn't sound very different to what is requried in financial services, which use massive imaging stores (for documentation), require 100% data integrity in their records, and generally operate on workflows of the same level of complexity. They also have to meet security requirements of the same level of importance, so not an impossible challenge, I think.
We'll point out any flaws for ya ;)
For a while, it's cheaper to maintain a plane than buy a new one. After a while, it's cheaper and easier to start over and buy a new one, even with the cost of fitting it out.
I wonder how the Irish economy would react if prices for all computers went up by 5-10% because of the lack of competition from Dell?
As I gaed [went] by the weaver's yetts [gates]
Ma heart began tae beat
Watchin aa the factory lasses
Stottin [striding] doon the street
Wi[th] their flashy-dashy petticoats,
Their flashy-dashy shawls,
Five and a tanner [sixpence] gutty boots,
They're aa wee gallus molls
Gallus molls has no simple translation, but streetwise sexy young women on the prowl would be close.
Your proposal is to take us back to the 1930s, which, if I might remind you, didn't work out so well. It took a long time to unwind the economic impact of protectionism. Imposing these standards on trading partners removes any point in trading with them - so all your manufacturing jobs will come back onshore. In turn, wages will go through the roof, as will inflation in general. In turn, your trading partners have to match the new, higher wages, which is even harder for them to do. Problem.
On worker protection: the country with the least worker protection laws in the world is the United States. Yet bizarrely, you also have some of the highest standards, because you are held to them by the free market. Countries with notional but unenforced safety regimes, such as China, don't do so well at actually protecting their workers.
In terms of sonic complexity, the Beatles are more interesting from a musical standpoint than Mozart. He was just an expert tunesmith with the ability to set melodies in symphonic structure. Some of the music the Beatles made, particularly around the Sergeant Pepper/White Album period, compares well with Mahler or Philip Glass. It still forms the basis of the popular music that most people listen to today, so just as blues fans will always tend to work their way back to Robert Johnson and his ilk, so most musicians today will acknowledge their debt to the Beatles. Certainly all of the working musicians I know, in various fields, are all Beatles fans and none are quite as ready to dismiss them as some people in this thread are.
+1, Scarily Plausible
You're missing the point a little. I don't disagree that a democratic government is probably the best we can do, but here's the point. Imagine a bunch of people living in caves. There is no government, no taxes, the only rules are avoiding getting beaten over the head with a mammoth femur. How do you get from there to a state where it is morally and ethically correct that people I don't know and haven't agreed anything with can take my money in return for providing services that I may or may not want? In essence, what's the difference between a government (democratic or not) and a protection racket?
I'm 4032 years old, you insensitive clod!
That is, is A less than B? Thanks for eating my tags, /.
Not really. Let A = cost of retrieving data from smashed drive. Let B = value of data. Is AB? Probably not for most applications. In which case, hammer treatment is just fine.
I was exaggerating to make the point, but if you start from the point of view of asking yourself why governments exist, what gives them legitemacy, and what gives them the right to levy taxes on you, then you are pretty close to coming to the conclusion that taxation is theft. I tend to the utalitarian in my thinking, so I accept that taxation and government does have to exist and keep on existing, but it's worth asking yourself *why* the government has a right to take your money, that you worked for, and spend it on something that has no relevance to you.
Sorry, pal, but you're so far off the map it isn't even funny. We all need to eat, but most countries haven't banned making money off selling food yet.
If as a citizen you are participating in a spontaneous act of resistance against an invading enemy, you are entitled to Geneva Conventon protections.
OK. Instead of breaking the shopkeepers window, you mug him, take his wallet, and use the contents to have another, extra, window put in his shop. Now he has an extra window to display his produce in and entice passers by. Is this good for him y/n?
alt.cosuard? Gone the same way as the debate over universal postage services, I suppose.
What's that saying - "the harder I work, the luckier I get". Sure, Warren Buffet is lucky. But he's also put an awwful lot of sweat in to get that lucky. There are very few Warren Buffets who achieved what he did by chucking darts at a list of stocks.
Once upon a time, we had this thing called live music. Except we just called it music, because we didn't have anything else. The idea that recorded music is an essential part of a musician's income is tendentious at best.
Don't forget Edison's invention of the electric chair, specifically designed to show how dangerous AC current was. Although in the end it turned out to be so safe that the first 'volunteer' to test it survived (kinda).
Mmm. Herd instincts for the lose. But the few financial instituitions that stood against the headwinds are now reaping the rewards. For example, in the UK LTSB is taking over HBOS, despite the fact that HBOS was nearly twice LTSB's size at the height of the boom. The rational players are doing just fine.
Oh, we don't. We just have a long tradition of chopping off their heads when they go too far. We're kinda pragmatic that way.
Sumerian cuneiform (sp?!) dates to something like 3500BC, IIRC a few centuried before the Egyptians really got going. So yep, roughly halfway.