I guess I"m less concerned with a few looters these days and more concerned with mass rights abrogation by government policy and weakening controls on overzealous enforcement. we're both talking about innocents, just at different scales.
it's ok.. I understand that despite your mid 30s age, you haven't grown beyond the teenage insecurity of cheering for people more powerful than you just so you can feel better about your own insignificance. tyranny needs opportunity to spread, and people like yourself are always there in droves, ready to support it; while completely ignorant of history and willing to swallow whatever swill is dished out by authority figures.
another example of placing people's feelings at the moment above the long term interests of that person and society at large? yeah brilliant idea there.. the moment you call 911 you're public record anyway, so deal with it.
..and the only reason it's a trap is because insurance is government mandated. perhaps we should return to the days of optional driver insurance. perhaps it'll remind people that insurance policies aren't magic pieces of paper that protect drivers on the road.. they only protect from over litigious society, which is another artificial construct that should be eliminated. it's like original sin only instead of convincing you that you're incomplete without their snake oil, they hold a litigative gun to your head if you don't have it.
um.. the first case is taken involuntarily while the second case requires them to ask. the former will be used against you when you apply for jobs/insurance/healthcare benefits/loans/ and who knows what the fuck else. it depends what idiotic extrapolations the buyers of the information make.
the cops are supposed to work for the public interest, but they don't. they work for the state's and thus not for us. the media is supposed to keep tabs on the government's activities, but they're really in it for their own personal gain and glory these days. I think if public money gets pumped into it, it should be accountable to the public should individuals take an interest. in this era of standing up for your rights = terrorist, locking up the radio broadcasts is just one more step towards an opaque state that can do whatever it wants.
I don't know where you're from, but here in the states, we aren't (yet) required to give back doors to government lackeys. this is a good thing no matter what wanna-be tyrants like yourself say. if you want to discuss abuse of power, todays governments are a much better place to start.
the loudness war affects modern vinyl just as much as cd. if you're into independents then you can probably find reasonably well mastered digital (maybe vinyl too) products from them.. this has nothing to do with the format and more to due with studio policy.
and analog has similar limitations.. the mastering, manufacturing of the disk, and the playback method all introduce losses as well. whatever theoretical 'purity' you think you're hearing is gone the moment the needle touches the groove...gone even before the first vinyl is pressed. in fact, each copy will be different. with digital the potential exists at least for you to get an exact duplicate of what came out of the (digital) mixers used for recording and/or mastering. even if you get a downsampled copy, the format doesn't degrade with normal use, and is more convenient to store. it is true that resampling causes loss of data, but so do the analog equivalents.
1. vinyl doesn't last forever. it degrades with each play, has more noise, suffers from audible intermod distortion among other things, all of which drown out any theoretical superiority to cd audio (nyquist issues), nevermind 24bit audio where nyquist sits well beyond human hearing. if it's a bad master, blame the studio and not the format because a bad master ruins them all. if you want art buy the poster and the photobook. nothing prevents downloads from coming with high res artwork. most of the vinyl hype is coming from hippies who grew up with it and haven't bothered to learn about technology post 1970...and neohippie university students who want to differentiate from their peers.
2. mp3 is only useful for compatibility with portable players. its compression ratio sucks compared with aac and other lossy formats. there is nothing superior about mp3 compared with cd audio except for the fact that it's smaller.
vhs was worse than 4:1:1 (DV). the original standard was 3Mhz luma and 300khz for both color channels (ntsc has 500 for each iirc). it was probably the lowest quality video standard mass produced. it might have had a greater percentage of its bw allocated to color than say a 4:2:0 DVD, but that's not saying much when the total bw differed so greatly that 4:2:0 sources still had better color resolution.
I'd group the vinyl and tape people in with the vhs heads.. it's all nostalgia and or generational insecurity, with the new converts just trying to differentiate themselves socially with their peers. obviously it's legitimate to go to those older formats when the recording doesn't exist on the newer ones (or it's a bad transfer), but otherwise it's pure snobbery. properly done digital is superior to all those formats.
if the freedom of speech was limited by the collective average outlook of people like you, who insist on getting 'offended' to 'prove' their social decency, we'd have none at all. get over it.
and you're purposely ignoring the increasing number of similarities between today and 1984 for reasons I cannot fathom.. we're headed there, step by step. slow cooked. no one will arrest you for building that room because it's ineffective and cost prohibitive enough that most people don't do it. you might not be arrested for reading political books, but you WILL be put on a watch list (eg no fly) that supersedes due process. your example, if true, disproves the previous statement, ie that you CAN be arrested simply for buying/reading/distributing certain literature. I guess anyone who's actually read 1984 would know how terrible such a reality is even if today isn't EXACTLY what was described.
it is not a good idea to hide the complexity of a task when the task is complex. simple assumptions can be expressed in the form of sane defaults, templates, or 'wizards', but that's not what apple does.
I didn't say drain on the market. I said it's killing growth in technology. I meant innovation/new ideas/new capabilities.
the issue is that the terms are slipping.. since when is a windows 95 styled desktop a power user interface? what replaced it? huge icons inside dropshadowed boxes, limited multitasking, and no filesystem management. hell even things like quitting applications to save battery power are apparently 'power user' capabilities now. brilliant! it's dosshell with pretty graphics. what you call 'maturation' I call slipping back to childhood...or maybe a mid life crisis.. those 'sharp edges' are there because they reflect the realities of whatever processes are involved in the task the program was written for. now, killing unneeded functionality is very different from the claim that apple devices represent new processes that don't require those sharp edges.
Both. the 'market appeal' being that most people are too stupid to keep their fucking fingers away from a spinning blade. ie they can't be bothered to use it properly. the net result is that people who bought the saw with the guard will now never be able to do the things the unguarded saw allows them to. now if these people show up at their employment and demand that they be allowed to use their guarded saws when the work requires more flexibility than that and/or the blades or power requirements are different.... this analogy kinda sucks because we're not talking about risk to life and limb (in most cases) here. we're talking about fitness for a task as well as investment in future capabilities, in both software and user. this requires a learning curve at least somewhat higher than today's kludged speak'n'math interfaces to complex problems.
the problem is that most people are unable or unwilling to look past the surface, and people with above average intellect are usually less tolerant of willful ignorance than the average. I don't worry when someone doesn't take my advice when I know it is correct. sooner or later these people will either learn the hard way and take my advice. or just keep looping through the causality until circumstances change and they no longer need whatever it is that needs to be fixed. I used to care, I really did. nowadays I don't, because I don't need the stress of living two lives for the sake of placating others willful ignorance and insecurity. I state a suggestion once, and only once, usually in writing. if I'm asked again by the same person as though he never read/heard me/didn't like the answer, I forward my already stated email/write up on the subject. the whole 'market yourself better' rhetoric is really just a plead to tolerate the laziness of people who cant' be bothered to learn their jobs...or the details of how to do whatever it is they want to do.
Steve jobs knew how to build a personality cult. apple is not unlike scientology in many respects, except that instead of manipulating people to give them their money and serve the cause, apple manipulates people to give them their money and....errr hmm.. lets walk through the process
1. convince people that every other vendor is 'the man' but apple is different. this captures most peoples' interests because most people are insecure children who want to be different (just like everyone else). sell them on the idea of a 'lifestyle' that they can buy into which gives them 'superior' methods for doing the techy things their friends do 'the hard way.' 2. sell them 'easy button' devices which hide rather large assumptions. these work ok for the first few attempts at advertised functions because the targeted users have never done them before. 3. user goes out into the world with his iThing and things go well until he has to interface with the masses. user assumes the problem is with them because he was told that task X is really easy and simple by the marketing. meanwhile reality is not so black and white. 4.the non-apple users grow to hate his arrogance. undaunted, he continuously reminds them of the superiority of his iThing and apple in general, unmindful of the fact he has become a real-life popup ad who everyone wishes would just go away.
as far as women go, I have found that it's expressions of power and dominance that they like the most, not over people necessarily (but that does turn some of them on) but in terms of capability. wealth generation, followed by prowess in bed, followed by unique talents, followed by looks are generally how they size up men. basically, real men dont' have to advertise anything because women will see they are capable by seeing them in action, if they are indeed capable of anything worthwhile. the ones who have to 'advertise' are just bullshit artists.
ultimately a futile gesture. passive aggressive strategies always end with you painted into a corner..what happens when there are no choices left that you like?.. or that are even useful?
you should know better considering your uid.. AD is microsoft's ldap which is actually a nice way of consolidating network resources. yes, wouldn't it be nice if we all could just use our hippie apples and no one had to be responsible, but that's just not how it works.
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I guess I"m less concerned with a few looters these days and more concerned with mass rights abrogation by government policy and weakening controls on overzealous enforcement. we're both talking about innocents, just at different scales.
it's ok.. I understand that despite your mid 30s age, you haven't grown beyond the teenage insecurity of cheering for people more powerful than you just so you can feel better about your own insignificance. tyranny needs opportunity to spread, and people like yourself are always there in droves, ready to support it; while completely ignorant of history and willing to swallow whatever swill is dished out by authority figures.
another example of placing people's feelings at the moment above the long term interests of that person and society at large? yeah brilliant idea there.. the moment you call 911 you're public record anyway, so deal with it.
you mean the same generalizations made by cops and their lobbies about everything from terror threats to traffic laws?
..and the only reason it's a trap is because insurance is government mandated. perhaps we should return to the days of optional driver insurance. perhaps it'll remind people that insurance policies aren't magic pieces of paper that protect drivers on the road.. they only protect from over litigious society, which is another artificial construct that should be eliminated. it's like original sin only instead of convincing you that you're incomplete without their snake oil, they hold a litigative gun to your head if you don't have it.
fuck them all.
um..
the first case is taken involuntarily while the second case requires them to ask. the former will be used against you when you apply for jobs/insurance/healthcare benefits/loans/ and who knows what the fuck else. it depends what idiotic extrapolations the buyers of the information make.
the cops are supposed to work for the public interest, but they don't. they work for the state's and thus not for us. the media is supposed to keep tabs on the government's activities, but they're really in it for their own personal gain and glory these days. I think if public money gets pumped into it, it should be accountable to the public should individuals take an interest. in this era of standing up for your rights = terrorist, locking up the radio broadcasts is just one more step towards an opaque state that can do whatever it wants.
well fine.. then they don't have to take a penny of public money. they can fund their own privacy like we citizens are apparently expected to do.
go buy an apple already. thats the kidn of customer they cater to
I don't know where you're from, but here in the states, we aren't (yet) required to give back doors to government lackeys. this is a good thing no matter what wanna-be tyrants like yourself say. if you want to discuss abuse of power, todays governments are a much better place to start.
you aren't part of the demographic being talked about here.
the loudness war affects modern vinyl just as much as cd. if you're into independents then you can probably find reasonably well mastered digital (maybe vinyl too) products from them.. this has nothing to do with the format and more to due with studio policy.
sure.. until the needle hits the groove. then it's substantially less accurate than even a properly mastered cd from the same source.
and analog has similar limitations.. the mastering, manufacturing of the disk, and the playback method all introduce losses as well. whatever theoretical 'purity' you think you're hearing is gone the moment the needle touches the groove...gone even before the first vinyl is pressed. in fact, each copy will be different. with digital the potential exists at least for you to get an exact duplicate of what came out of the (digital) mixers used for recording and/or mastering. even if you get a downsampled copy, the format doesn't degrade with normal use, and is more convenient to store. it is true that resampling causes loss of data, but so do the analog equivalents.
1. vinyl doesn't last forever. it degrades with each play, has more noise, suffers from audible intermod distortion among other things, all of which drown out any theoretical superiority to cd audio (nyquist issues), nevermind 24bit audio where nyquist sits well beyond human hearing. if it's a bad master, blame the studio and not the format because a bad master ruins them all. if you want art buy the poster and the photobook. nothing prevents downloads from coming with high res artwork. most of the vinyl hype is coming from hippies who grew up with it and haven't bothered to learn about technology post 1970...and neohippie university students who want to differentiate from their peers.
2. mp3 is only useful for compatibility with portable players. its compression ratio sucks compared with aac and other lossy formats. there is nothing superior about mp3 compared with cd audio except for the fact that it's smaller.
vhs was worse than 4:1:1 (DV). the original standard was 3Mhz luma and 300khz for both color channels (ntsc has 500 for each iirc). it was probably the lowest quality video standard mass produced. it might have had a greater percentage of its bw allocated to color than say a 4:2:0 DVD, but that's not saying much when the total bw differed so greatly that 4:2:0 sources still had better color resolution.
I'd group the vinyl and tape people in with the vhs heads.. it's all nostalgia and or generational insecurity, with the new converts just trying to differentiate themselves socially with their peers. obviously it's legitimate to go to those older formats when the recording doesn't exist on the newer ones (or it's a bad transfer), but otherwise it's pure snobbery. properly done digital is superior to all those formats.
if the freedom of speech was limited by the collective average outlook of people like you, who insist on getting 'offended' to 'prove' their social decency, we'd have none at all. get over it.
google astroturfer? ..or just completely ignorant about human psychological needs?
and you're purposely ignoring the increasing number of similarities between today and 1984 for reasons I cannot fathom.. we're headed there, step by step. slow cooked.
no one will arrest you for building that room because it's ineffective and cost prohibitive enough that most people don't do it. you might not be arrested for reading political books, but you WILL be put on a watch list (eg no fly) that supersedes due process. your example, if true, disproves the previous statement, ie that you CAN be arrested simply for buying/reading/distributing certain literature. I guess anyone who's actually read 1984 would know how terrible such a reality is even if today isn't EXACTLY what was described.
it is not a good idea to hide the complexity of a task when the task is complex. simple assumptions can be expressed in the form of sane defaults, templates, or 'wizards', but that's not what apple does.
I didn't say drain on the market. I said it's killing growth in technology. I meant innovation/new ideas/new capabilities.
the issue is that the terms are slipping.. since when is a windows 95 styled desktop a power user interface? what replaced it? huge icons inside dropshadowed boxes, limited multitasking, and no filesystem management. hell even things like quitting applications to save battery power are apparently 'power user' capabilities now. brilliant! it's dosshell with pretty graphics. what you call 'maturation' I call slipping back to childhood...or maybe a mid life crisis.. those 'sharp edges' are there because they reflect the realities of whatever processes are involved in the task the program was written for. now, killing unneeded functionality is very different from the claim that apple devices represent new processes that don't require those sharp edges.
Both. the 'market appeal' being that most people are too stupid to keep their fucking fingers away from a spinning blade. ie they can't be bothered to use it properly. the net result is that people who bought the saw with the guard will now never be able to do the things the unguarded saw allows them to. now if these people show up at their employment and demand that they be allowed to use their guarded saws when the work requires more flexibility than that and/or the blades or power requirements are different.... this analogy kinda sucks because we're not talking about risk to life and limb (in most cases) here. we're talking about fitness for a task as well as investment in future capabilities, in both software and user. this requires a learning curve at least somewhat higher than today's kludged speak'n'math interfaces to complex problems.
the problem is that most people are unable or unwilling to look past the surface, and people with above average intellect are usually less tolerant of willful ignorance than the average. I don't worry when someone doesn't take my advice when I know it is correct. sooner or later these people will either learn the hard way and take my advice. or just keep looping through the causality until circumstances change and they no longer need whatever it is that needs to be fixed. I used to care, I really did. nowadays I don't, because I don't need the stress of living two lives for the sake of placating others willful ignorance and insecurity. I state a suggestion once, and only once, usually in writing. if I'm asked again by the same person as though he never read/heard me/didn't like the answer, I forward my already stated email/write up on the subject. the whole 'market yourself better' rhetoric is really just a plead to tolerate the laziness of people who cant' be bothered to learn their jobs...or the details of how to do whatever it is they want to do.
Steve jobs knew how to build a personality cult. apple is not unlike scientology in many respects, except that instead of manipulating people to give them their money and serve the cause, apple manipulates people to give them their money and....errr hmm.. lets walk through the process
1. convince people that every other vendor is 'the man' but apple is different. this captures most peoples' interests because most people are insecure children who want to be different (just like everyone else). sell them on the idea of a 'lifestyle' that they can buy into which gives them 'superior' methods for doing the techy things their friends do 'the hard way.'
2. sell them 'easy button' devices which hide rather large assumptions. these work ok for the first few attempts at advertised functions because the targeted users have never done them before.
3. user goes out into the world with his iThing and things go well until he has to interface with the masses. user assumes the problem is with them because he was told that task X is really easy and simple by the marketing. meanwhile reality is not so black and white.
4.the non-apple users grow to hate his arrogance. undaunted, he continuously reminds them of the superiority of his iThing and apple in general, unmindful of the fact he has become a real-life popup ad who everyone wishes would just go away.
as far as women go, I have found that it's expressions of power and dominance that they like the most, not over people necessarily (but that does turn some of them on) but in terms of capability. wealth generation, followed by prowess in bed, followed by unique talents, followed by looks are generally how they size up men. basically, real men dont' have to advertise anything because women will see they are capable by seeing them in action, if they are indeed capable of anything worthwhile. the ones who have to 'advertise' are just bullshit artists.
apples aren't exactly designed to last either.. they're made with the same cheap components as the dells..
ultimately a futile gesture. passive aggressive strategies always end with you painted into a corner..what happens when there are no choices left that you like?.. or that are even useful?
you should know better considering your uid.. AD is microsoft's ldap which is actually a nice way of consolidating network resources. yes, wouldn't it be nice if we all could just use our hippie apples and no one had to be responsible, but that's just not how it works.