Where words have more specificity, use those that are more specific.
For the summary's example of pavement versus sidewalk, pavement is less specific than sidewalk. Pavement refers to an improved surface and just as easily could mean a roadway, while sidewalk pretty specifically indicates an improved surface that is meant for pedestrians rather than vehicles.
America still has regionalities itself though, it's not like it's one homogeneous language region. It'd be wicked pissah to spill your Moxie on the hottop when opening the cah doah and you'd be bull if you did.
We have a TV capable of being connected to the network/Internet. It's not connected and never will be. As far as I'm concerned the TV is a display device. It shouldn't be connected to anything, if I do connect anything it'll be some other device that I can disconnect and remove from the entertainment center if it proves to be a problem down the road.
Images, even the summary's "SONY" logo, can help the reader prioritize what to read and what to skip. Hell, Slashdot over the years has used a lot of little icons, which are pictures, next to article summaries.
It is frustrating when stupid stock photos that are too specific for a given article are used, but being able to use iconography to filter-against can be an advantage if it's used properly.
Beta testers often don't get paid, but they don't have to pay either, and they get access to new technology sooner than if they had to wait for release.
A friend of mine was an official beta tester for Windows 4.0 (later '95) and NT 4.0. He didn't have to pay, but he did have to supply his own floppy disks to create install media with.
We're seeing yet another example of Apple post-Jobs.
Jobs didn't bat a thousand, but he was very good at figuring out what people would want even if they themselves didn't know it, and under him the company generally did a decent job of quality assurance testing.
Post-Jobs, they are messing up the designs and they're failing to do good quality control.
Except this time they can't bring him back except via Ouija Board.
Was going to say, where I live the only thing they care about for historic vehicle plates is the VIN. I used to be an officer in a local car club with approximately 300 members, probably 3/4 of the cars in the club were resto-mod, not straight restorations. No one ever had any problems getting historic vehicle plates or collector car insurance so long as the car was old enough.
They did that because they made the audio system part of the body control module.
Hell, even back as far as my '95 Impala SS, the radio contains the receiver for the key fob to unlock the doors and trunk. Integration in this fashion has been the trend for more than a couple of decades.
I can see why, from their point of view, they did it. When they decided they wanted a BCM where all switches were wired to the BCM instead of directly to what they ostensibly controlled, and they wanted all control devices wired directly to the BCM so that they could do things like let the pattern of tail and brake lights be programmed for each market rather than be uniquely wired for each market, they would have had two computers, one for the entertainment system, and one for the BCM. By making everything the BCM, they have one computer, and they can then integrate the screen into the BCM and allow onscreen controls.
Now I personally hate onscreen controls in a thing where I'm not supposed to turn my attention away from the main focus (ie, the road), but if they're willing to accept the accidents that result then their logic makes some sense.
When I was a kid our turntable broke. Not sure what went wrong exactly, but while the platter still spun it didn't make any sound. Having seen old movies with purely mechanical turntables I was able to take newspaper, wrap it into a cone, and tuck the end where it made physical contact with the needle. While the sound lacked bass, we were able to play records with it for a short time before my parents replaced the broken machine.
So from a close-to-the-process perspective, yes, vinyl does bring the listener closer. Whether or not that's valued is another matter.
My sugar-drink of choice has been Mountain Dew. When they started offering the Throwback version the biggest difference I detected was the lack of lingering aftertaste on the Throwback. After drinking it exclusively for awhile I found regular Mountain Dew to be unappealing, the way it felt like the sugary syrup clung to the tongue after finishing was off-putting.
I can imagine that Mexican Coca Cola is much the same way, but I don't buy it because it's just too expensive for what one gets.
The medium with the music on it is not the advantage of vinyl. The album artwork and the jacket liner with information is.
I collect Laserdiscs. Haven't bought any in quite a long time now but I'm up over 500 titles. At the time I started buying them, on an NTSC 4:3 TV they looked basically the same as DVD, but since Laserdisc was launched as a premium format originally, most releases on the format continued to be released with all of the extras like nice artwork and the jacket liner, and boxed sets often came with small books or other accessories.
Now, my rate of purchase slowed greatly when the TV physical aspect ratio changed, because between that and the use of LCD, the picture quality became noticeably worse when compared to DVDs that were encoded properly. Basically a Laserdisc had the black bars at the top and bottom of a letterbox version as part of the image. A properly encoded DVD only encoded the content, it was up to the player to locate that content on the screen properly, adding the black bars to map the 16:9 aspect movie on a 4:3 screen. Some early DVDs got it wrong, they took the matted image with black bars and recorded it onto the DVD, but those are fairly uncommon. Once it became obvious that new formats were going to look better I generally stopped buying LD except where I wanted the artwork.
As much as I like Laserdisc, I don't think it should make a comeback unless they're going to throw a blu-ray of the movie in as an extra.
A very quick, cursory search reveals optical media duplicators with multidisc simultaneous capacity for less than $300 brand new as purpose-built machines. These are the kinds of machines that someone with no technical acumen can operate, just plug it in, put the source disc into the top drive, put blanks into the other drives, hit the button to copy, and take our four copies a few minutes later. Repeat as many times as one wants.
For nerds, hit-up the Goodwill and get an old tower case with six 5.25" drive bays and build your own. Can probably even find the drives for next to nothing. Or go find those external USB drives or enclosures.
And while CD is not as popular as it once was, a lot more cars and homes can play CDs than can play cassettes, as DVD and Blu-Ray players will play CDs.
If you want to stop someone from skipping ahead to the next song easily, don't master the original recording into separate tracks.
Anyone specifically seeking-out compact cassette is being willfully obtuse at this point.
It would've been great if more prerecorded music was available for the same price, as the cartridges were smaller diameter and protected their contents better.
When I did a lot of telecom infrastructure work that involved FCC Universal Service Fund "E-rate", it was pointed-out by someone that a bunch of small school districts didn't maintain their own infrastructure support and could pay me something like $25/hour to do their E-rate inspection work for them after-hours. After thinking about what I made full-time and what I could make when the job had me working overtime, it was not really worth my time to work those side-jobs. Between the value of my free-time and the rate I made when I worked genuine overtime, there was no reason to do 'gig' work that didn't may consultant/contractor rates.
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Where words have more specificity, use those that are more specific.
For the summary's example of pavement versus sidewalk, pavement is less specific than sidewalk. Pavement refers to an improved surface and just as easily could mean a roadway, while sidewalk pretty specifically indicates an improved surface that is meant for pedestrians rather than vehicles.
America still has regionalities itself though, it's not like it's one homogeneous language region. It'd be wicked pissah to spill your Moxie on the hottop when opening the cah doah and you'd be bull if you did.
...as the last one tried to kill Bob Hoskins.
as if there wasn't enough rule 34 to choke a sperm whale
Funny enough, I believe there's rule 34 of that too, making for one of the most disturbing recursions imaginable.
You mean, like use a versioning system that doesn't bother to respect major/minor/maintenance numbering?
So it's quite possible I "watch" Spongebob and Big Boobs Bazinga back to back.
Now profile THAT!
I believe that Rule 34 is still in-effect...
I'll just find something else to do.
We have a TV capable of being connected to the network/Internet. It's not connected and never will be. As far as I'm concerned the TV is a display device. It shouldn't be connected to anything, if I do connect anything it'll be some other device that I can disconnect and remove from the entertainment center if it proves to be a problem down the road.
I still have a floppy disk drive in my computer at home. Doesn't seem to have mattered.
Yep. There's a reason the old expression, "a picture is worth a thousand words" was created.
Images, even the summary's "SONY" logo, can help the reader prioritize what to read and what to skip. Hell, Slashdot over the years has used a lot of little icons, which are pictures, next to article summaries.
It is frustrating when stupid stock photos that are too specific for a given article are used, but being able to use iconography to filter-against can be an advantage if it's used properly.
Beta testers often don't get paid, but they don't have to pay either, and they get access to new technology sooner than if they had to wait for release.
A friend of mine was an official beta tester for Windows 4.0 (later '95) and NT 4.0. He didn't have to pay, but he did have to supply his own floppy disks to create install media with.
We're seeing yet another example of Apple post-Jobs.
Jobs didn't bat a thousand, but he was very good at figuring out what people would want even if they themselves didn't know it, and under him the company generally did a decent job of quality assurance testing.
Post-Jobs, they are messing up the designs and they're failing to do good quality control.
Except this time they can't bring him back except via Ouija Board.
Uh, all of them?
Only winning move is not to play.
That's why my movie and music collections are on physical media, because I control the physical media.
Was going to say, where I live the only thing they care about for historic vehicle plates is the VIN. I used to be an officer in a local car club with approximately 300 members, probably 3/4 of the cars in the club were resto-mod, not straight restorations. No one ever had any problems getting historic vehicle plates or collector car insurance so long as the car was old enough.
They did that because they made the audio system part of the body control module.
Hell, even back as far as my '95 Impala SS, the radio contains the receiver for the key fob to unlock the doors and trunk. Integration in this fashion has been the trend for more than a couple of decades.
I can see why, from their point of view, they did it. When they decided they wanted a BCM where all switches were wired to the BCM instead of directly to what they ostensibly controlled, and they wanted all control devices wired directly to the BCM so that they could do things like let the pattern of tail and brake lights be programmed for each market rather than be uniquely wired for each market, they would have had two computers, one for the entertainment system, and one for the BCM. By making everything the BCM, they have one computer, and they can then integrate the screen into the BCM and allow onscreen controls.
Now I personally hate onscreen controls in a thing where I'm not supposed to turn my attention away from the main focus (ie, the road), but if they're willing to accept the accidents that result then their logic makes some sense.
When I was a kid our turntable broke. Not sure what went wrong exactly, but while the platter still spun it didn't make any sound. Having seen old movies with purely mechanical turntables I was able to take newspaper, wrap it into a cone, and tuck the end where it made physical contact with the needle. While the sound lacked bass, we were able to play records with it for a short time before my parents replaced the broken machine.
So from a close-to-the-process perspective, yes, vinyl does bring the listener closer. Whether or not that's valued is another matter.
My sugar-drink of choice has been Mountain Dew. When they started offering the Throwback version the biggest difference I detected was the lack of lingering aftertaste on the Throwback. After drinking it exclusively for awhile I found regular Mountain Dew to be unappealing, the way it felt like the sugary syrup clung to the tongue after finishing was off-putting.
I can imagine that Mexican Coca Cola is much the same way, but I don't buy it because it's just too expensive for what one gets.
The medium with the music on it is not the advantage of vinyl. The album artwork and the jacket liner with information is.
I collect Laserdiscs. Haven't bought any in quite a long time now but I'm up over 500 titles. At the time I started buying them, on an NTSC 4:3 TV they looked basically the same as DVD, but since Laserdisc was launched as a premium format originally, most releases on the format continued to be released with all of the extras like nice artwork and the jacket liner, and boxed sets often came with small books or other accessories.
Now, my rate of purchase slowed greatly when the TV physical aspect ratio changed, because between that and the use of LCD, the picture quality became noticeably worse when compared to DVDs that were encoded properly. Basically a Laserdisc had the black bars at the top and bottom of a letterbox version as part of the image. A properly encoded DVD only encoded the content, it was up to the player to locate that content on the screen properly, adding the black bars to map the 16:9 aspect movie on a 4:3 screen. Some early DVDs got it wrong, they took the matted image with black bars and recorded it onto the DVD, but those are fairly uncommon. Once it became obvious that new formats were going to look better I generally stopped buying LD except where I wanted the artwork.
As much as I like Laserdisc, I don't think it should make a comeback unless they're going to throw a blu-ray of the movie in as an extra.
Having lived through that age it kind of sucked.
A very quick, cursory search reveals optical media duplicators with multidisc simultaneous capacity for less than $300 brand new as purpose-built machines. These are the kinds of machines that someone with no technical acumen can operate, just plug it in, put the source disc into the top drive, put blanks into the other drives, hit the button to copy, and take our four copies a few minutes later. Repeat as many times as one wants.
For nerds, hit-up the Goodwill and get an old tower case with six 5.25" drive bays and build your own. Can probably even find the drives for next to nothing. Or go find those external USB drives or enclosures.
And while CD is not as popular as it once was, a lot more cars and homes can play CDs than can play cassettes, as DVD and Blu-Ray players will play CDs.
If you want to stop someone from skipping ahead to the next song easily, don't master the original recording into separate tracks.
Anyone specifically seeking-out compact cassette is being willfully obtuse at this point.
It would've been great if more prerecorded music was available for the same price, as the cartridges were smaller diameter and protected their contents better.
Again price and availability won-out.
As far as I'm aware, none of the Chrysler products come with CD players anymore standard. Some models allow them to be added, but not all.
There is nothing scarier than a programmer heading to the server room with a screwdriver in his hand.
Not really seeing an upside to the gig economy.
When I did a lot of telecom infrastructure work that involved FCC Universal Service Fund "E-rate", it was pointed-out by someone that a bunch of small school districts didn't maintain their own infrastructure support and could pay me something like $25/hour to do their E-rate inspection work for them after-hours. After thinking about what I made full-time and what I could make when the job had me working overtime, it was not really worth my time to work those side-jobs. Between the value of my free-time and the rate I made when I worked genuine overtime, there was no reason to do 'gig' work that didn't may consultant/contractor rates.
And I know plenty of people with flashy cars that aren't poor, where they drive a new Mercedes Benz, Lexus, or Lincoln because they wanted a nice car.