I had a friend call me about that crap. She took her Macbook pro there and they "ran" that same software on it and said her Mac was infected. Instead of giving it to them, she brought it to me and had me check - of course it wasn't infected and there is no way Sierra would run a PC scan program for Windows. Scam artists to the hilt..
include payments to the people who wrote and played the songs? Spotify, being yet another business that doesn't want to pay for the music, really should shut up about this. At least Apple pays something that isn't so meager as to be an insult.
Not only cameras, but monitoring the distance between planes, when they are in position to take off, the engine spool - up and launch, and rate of climb until the plane is out of the area. Likewise in reverse for landings - watch landing speeds, position, etc. Much like self driving cars that need human monitoring, automation at least at this point, can't account for unseen variables and therefor, a human must be monitoring at all times. both flight controller and pilot. It would be possible for AI to make sure the flights are properly spaced and staying within parameters.
Yes this would be very valuable for inclement weather takeoffs and landings. Imagine an AI being able to check tarmac conditions to account for water or ice, which affects landing distance, and being able to let the tower and pilot know so they can compensate. I see it as a safety measure more than as traffic management matter
It's you who needs a lesson. Reaganomics is what ruined America. He cut the top tier tax rate from 72% to 23% and raised taxes three times on the middle class, under the name of trickle down. He also cut corporate tax rates to the point where some companies like GE pay no taxes at all, and most of the big companies pay a smaller tax rate than teh average American does.
The GOP has been repeating this pattern year after year, until the top 2% of Americans have over 50% of the wealth. The richest have seen their income increase 300% (not a typo) since Ronnie while the middle class, the engine that drives the country, has seen their income essentially stay flat, allowing for inflation. The economic records bear this out. To compound this, the middle class is now heavily in debt and paying more and more interest on borrowed money, just to stay afloat.
Remember this fact: Back in the days of Eisenhower, before Ronnie gave the country away to the rich, the middle class could afford to live on a single income, own a new care, have a nice house and send their kids to college and still live comfortably. And this fact: When Clinton was in office, he raised taxes on the rich and left office with the first in decades budget surplus. When Bush came in, he promptly gave that surplus away to his rich friends, rescinded the tax breaks for the rich, and the country went back into debt again.
So you want to blame somebody, blame the GOP. Want to fix it? Then return the tax rates to that of Eisenhower and the country will be out of debt in 12 years. There is no reason in the world why a person should be making more than a million per month, and expecting not to pay taxes on it. But don't be blaming the boomers or some economic theory, when reality and the plain stark facts explain it very clearly. The GOP, the party of the put America in the economic trouble it is in right now.
I remember 3D audio being used on in music and theater sound effects back in the 90's. This is not new tech at all, except for the addition of making the audio source track with the image. I can see how this could be a real problem, especially when a SFX of any duration is triggered then has to follow an image's location in the game.
Jeez, people at least google this stuff before you post. The RIAA curve is a standard EQ curve inserted between the output of the mastering console (or 2T tape machine) and the lathe, that reduces gain at the top and bottom. When the LP is played back, the amp's phono input stage restores the roll of, applying the original, only reversed.
It is not compression at all. The RIAA EQ curve is an industry standard, in which the top and bottom are EQ'd down, then the reserve EQ curve is applied on playback at the phono input stage. Thinking that compression is the same thing as EQ'ing is stupid.
to add: I left this out - in mixdown, the old way was to go to 2 track with 0 bias. That went to the mastering lab to be tweaked and used to cut the mother. I got to listen to several audio production paths: 24T (or more) analog> 2T analog> LP mother>etc. 24TA>2TA>digital (no processing) 24TA>digital. multi track digital? digital.
My ears liked 24T analog dumped as 24T to digital, best. While I have heard several types of digital tape emulation plug ins, the real thing beats it hands down.
I will qualify this, though: Some types of music, like live orchestra, sound best done full digital - you need all the nuances that digital captures. But for "pop" music, the warmth that analog tape saturation gives adds to the recording.
I see that most of the posts here address recording resolution, like 44 / 48 / 96 and the higher rez does give a better sense of air and space, as it captures those frequencies that we don't "hear" but sense". But it's all pissing in the wind if the result is converted to MP3 or played back on less than top level audiophile gear. It is nuts to track on 96 when you know yur audience will be listening to your tracks on spotify, through $100 headphones or a car audio system.
Tape saturation / aka over biasing. People forget that magnetic tape was the only way to record in the days of vinyl LPs. I was a studio engineer at the time of introduction of digital tape recording. It was common then for the studio engineer to over bias teh tapes, like +4 or even +7, to get a "hotter" or "fatter" sound. This is really the origin of the warmth that people here in vinyl. I did a session where the drums, vocals and bass went to a reel to reel digital tape recorder, and the guitars went to a +7 biased analog 2" and the DTR at the same time. The guitar tracks sounded much better on the analog tracks, hands down.
There are other factors involved, too, like the deterioration when the original mother is cut on the lathe, then that is used to make multiple negative metal duplicates, for pressing, which, in turn are used to press the disks themselves. The mother is cut from lacquer or acetate, then sprayed with metal paint, make what is called teh daughter, the negative, which is use to press the blobs of vinyl into the LPs. so there is degradation there.
Wheat is recorded onto the mother and winds up on the LP does not have a true EQ. It has the top and bottom rolled off, to reduce needle bounce and mistracking. This is done through the use of what is called the RIAA curve, and the loss of top and bottom is restored at the phono input stage of the amplifier.
A number of studios are returning to muti track analog recorder to get that over biased sound. there are digital plug ins that will hopefully duplicate that sound, but, and this is coming from someone who had one and tracked on one, a 2" , 16 track Ampex flat top machine, biased to +4, just sounds perfect, and digital will never be able to get that sound..
Let me just try to agree / negotiate some fine I may get. That won't go anywhere - for us peons, it's "pay the fie or go to jail". Two sets of rules....
it could be done with a laser, and has been, but apparently, it was too expensive.
Fact: LPs use this EQ called an RIAA curve - it rolls off the top and bottom after mastering, then restores it during the amplification stage. The reason for this is that too much low end would make the needle bounce and too much top end would make the needle skip - not track the highs.
So they create yet another digital medium. DAT, Digital Reel to Reel, CD, lossless DA, etc., it doesn't matter. DA is still ones and zeros. Digital is digital and analog is analog. People like LPs because of the warmth and depth of the sound - they are analog. Making them digital defeats the whole advantage.
I wouldn't mind paying --- if the extra money went to the artists. Right now, it doesn't. They don't pay musicians / songwriter effin squat. And they are proud of it. They want to run more ads- then pay the artists another 10 cents per play.
that allow violence, murder, maiming, torture, etc, nf TV and in cinema, but not nudity or sex. IOW, it's not OK to show a couple making love but it is OK to show a person killing another person.
I have a profound hearing loss and depend on the iPhone MFi to hear conversation through my aids during phone calls. It is a buggy mess- it will drop one or the other side (L/R) during a call, take seconds to decide how to handle to audio (between speaker and MFi) when a call comes in, and sometimes will route notification sounds through the aids. There is such a thing as inconvenience. But when your ability to hear on the iPhone through MFi is compromised, that is a huge problem.
TV and film used to have characters that smoked tobacco in every episode or scene.Now they don't, because it is well known that smoking is bad for you. But the "body positive" movement is the flip side- much like big tobacco and nicotine addicts than ran around denying that their product and habit is not good for you.
Being overweight is not good for your health. Just like tobacco, there is no parsing or denying this. Facts are facts. Remember when you used to walk down the street and see a lot of smokers? Now you don't see nearly that many. But you do see a lot of fat people. So what's the difference? None. Except overweight people want to see themselves on TV and in film, to make their condition acceptable. That is the bottom line for the Body Positive movement.
"Belief", aka "Faith" is based upon ideology, ie a set of rules imposed by those who determine who is in and who is out of the religion. Spirituality, however, is based upon one person's relationship with their existence, and a search for meaning and commonality.
when you base your dogma upon worship, fear, and ideology. Not reality. Modern day Christianity is mostly the polar opposite of the things That Jesus taught - note that most religious leaders are very fond of quoting the old testament, and saying "God says". When a religion becomes primarily a social self reinforcing group based upon a set of rules, then it is doomed from the beginning to fail.
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I had a friend call me about that crap. She took her Macbook pro there and they "ran" that same software on it and said her Mac was infected. Instead of giving it to them, she brought it to me and had me check - of course it wasn't infected and there is no way Sierra would run a PC scan program for Windows. Scam artists to the hilt..
include payments to the people who wrote and played the songs? Spotify, being yet another business that doesn't want to pay for the music, really should shut up about this. At least Apple pays something that isn't so meager as to be an insult.
when it comes to beyond the reach, start at the top with Don the Con. A crook and swindler who has gotten away with crimes for decades...
Not only cameras, but monitoring the distance between planes, when they are in position to take off, the engine spool - up and launch, and rate of climb until the plane is out of the area. Likewise in reverse for landings - watch landing speeds, position, etc. Much like self driving cars that need human monitoring, automation at least at this point, can't account for unseen variables and therefor, a human must be monitoring at all times. both flight controller and pilot. It would be possible for AI to make sure the flights are properly spaced and staying within parameters. Yes this would be very valuable for inclement weather takeoffs and landings. Imagine an AI being able to check tarmac conditions to account for water or ice, which affects landing distance, and being able to let the tower and pilot know so they can compensate. I see it as a safety measure more than as traffic management matter
a song has melody and lyrics with some sort of form to it, like verse chorus bridge. Rap is "poetry" yapped over Loopz. Yo.
ever seen the constant stream of water draining out of an A/C in the deep south, in the middle of summer?
It's you who needs a lesson. Reaganomics is what ruined America. He cut the top tier tax rate from 72% to 23% and raised taxes three times on the middle class, under the name of trickle down. He also cut corporate tax rates to the point where some companies like GE pay no taxes at all, and most of the big companies pay a smaller tax rate than teh average American does. The GOP has been repeating this pattern year after year, until the top 2% of Americans have over 50% of the wealth. The richest have seen their income increase 300% (not a typo) since Ronnie while the middle class, the engine that drives the country, has seen their income essentially stay flat, allowing for inflation. The economic records bear this out. To compound this, the middle class is now heavily in debt and paying more and more interest on borrowed money, just to stay afloat. Remember this fact: Back in the days of Eisenhower, before Ronnie gave the country away to the rich, the middle class could afford to live on a single income, own a new care, have a nice house and send their kids to college and still live comfortably. And this fact: When Clinton was in office, he raised taxes on the rich and left office with the first in decades budget surplus. When Bush came in, he promptly gave that surplus away to his rich friends, rescinded the tax breaks for the rich, and the country went back into debt again. So you want to blame somebody, blame the GOP. Want to fix it? Then return the tax rates to that of Eisenhower and the country will be out of debt in 12 years. There is no reason in the world why a person should be making more than a million per month, and expecting not to pay taxes on it. But don't be blaming the boomers or some economic theory, when reality and the plain stark facts explain it very clearly. The GOP, the party of the put America in the economic trouble it is in right now.
I remember 3D audio being used on in music and theater sound effects back in the 90's. This is not new tech at all, except for the addition of making the audio source track with the image. I can see how this could be a real problem, especially when a SFX of any duration is triggered then has to follow an image's location in the game.
Jeez, people at least google this stuff before you post. The RIAA curve is a standard EQ curve inserted between the output of the mastering console (or 2T tape machine) and the lathe, that reduces gain at the top and bottom. When the LP is played back, the amp's phono input stage restores the roll of, applying the original, only reversed.
It is not compression at all. The RIAA EQ curve is an industry standard, in which the top and bottom are EQ'd down, then the reserve EQ curve is applied on playback at the phono input stage. Thinking that compression is the same thing as EQ'ing is stupid.
to add: I left this out - in mixdown, the old way was to go to 2 track with 0 bias. That went to the mastering lab to be tweaked and used to cut the mother. I got to listen to several audio production paths: 24T (or more) analog> 2T analog> LP mother>etc. 24TA>2TA>digital (no processing) 24TA>digital. multi track digital? digital. My ears liked 24T analog dumped as 24T to digital, best. While I have heard several types of digital tape emulation plug ins, the real thing beats it hands down. I will qualify this, though: Some types of music, like live orchestra, sound best done full digital - you need all the nuances that digital captures. But for "pop" music, the warmth that analog tape saturation gives adds to the recording. I see that most of the posts here address recording resolution, like 44 / 48 / 96 and the higher rez does give a better sense of air and space, as it captures those frequencies that we don't "hear" but sense". But it's all pissing in the wind if the result is converted to MP3 or played back on less than top level audiophile gear. It is nuts to track on 96 when you know yur audience will be listening to your tracks on spotify, through $100 headphones or a car audio system.
Tape saturation / aka over biasing. People forget that magnetic tape was the only way to record in the days of vinyl LPs. I was a studio engineer at the time of introduction of digital tape recording. It was common then for the studio engineer to over bias teh tapes, like +4 or even +7, to get a "hotter" or "fatter" sound. This is really the origin of the warmth that people here in vinyl. I did a session where the drums, vocals and bass went to a reel to reel digital tape recorder, and the guitars went to a +7 biased analog 2" and the DTR at the same time. The guitar tracks sounded much better on the analog tracks, hands down. There are other factors involved, too, like the deterioration when the original mother is cut on the lathe, then that is used to make multiple negative metal duplicates, for pressing, which, in turn are used to press the disks themselves. The mother is cut from lacquer or acetate, then sprayed with metal paint, make what is called teh daughter, the negative, which is use to press the blobs of vinyl into the LPs. so there is degradation there. Wheat is recorded onto the mother and winds up on the LP does not have a true EQ. It has the top and bottom rolled off, to reduce needle bounce and mistracking. This is done through the use of what is called the RIAA curve, and the loss of top and bottom is restored at the phono input stage of the amplifier. A number of studios are returning to muti track analog recorder to get that over biased sound. there are digital plug ins that will hopefully duplicate that sound, but, and this is coming from someone who had one and tracked on one, a 2" , 16 track Ampex flat top machine, biased to +4, just sounds perfect, and digital will never be able to get that sound..
Let me just try to agree / negotiate some fine I may get. That won't go anywhere - for us peons, it's "pay the fie or go to jail". Two sets of rules....
it could be done with a laser, and has been, but apparently, it was too expensive. Fact: LPs use this EQ called an RIAA curve - it rolls off the top and bottom after mastering, then restores it during the amplification stage. The reason for this is that too much low end would make the needle bounce and too much top end would make the needle skip - not track the highs.
So they create yet another digital medium. DAT, Digital Reel to Reel, CD, lossless DA, etc., it doesn't matter. DA is still ones and zeros. Digital is digital and analog is analog. People like LPs because of the warmth and depth of the sound - they are analog. Making them digital defeats the whole advantage.
I wouldn't mind paying --- if the extra money went to the artists. Right now, it doesn't. They don't pay musicians / songwriter effin squat. And they are proud of it. They want to run more ads- then pay the artists another 10 cents per play.
being Wal- Marted. Only in cyberspace. And I hope Amazon crushes Wal Mart.
that allow violence, murder, maiming, torture, etc, nf TV and in cinema, but not nudity or sex. IOW, it's not OK to show a couple making love but it is OK to show a person killing another person.
of TV and cinema violence. Or how other countries have video games but far fewer gun deaths.
I have a profound hearing loss and depend on the iPhone MFi to hear conversation through my aids during phone calls. It is a buggy mess- it will drop one or the other side (L/R) during a call, take seconds to decide how to handle to audio (between speaker and MFi) when a call comes in, and sometimes will route notification sounds through the aids. There is such a thing as inconvenience. But when your ability to hear on the iPhone through MFi is compromised, that is a huge problem.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l... will her account be suspended?
are being allowed to post, seeing as many of them are not classified as "terrorists" even though they bomb, burn, kill, threaten, etc.
TV and film used to have characters that smoked tobacco in every episode or scene.Now they don't, because it is well known that smoking is bad for you. But the "body positive" movement is the flip side- much like big tobacco and nicotine addicts than ran around denying that their product and habit is not good for you. Being overweight is not good for your health. Just like tobacco, there is no parsing or denying this. Facts are facts. Remember when you used to walk down the street and see a lot of smokers? Now you don't see nearly that many. But you do see a lot of fat people. So what's the difference? None. Except overweight people want to see themselves on TV and in film, to make their condition acceptable. That is the bottom line for the Body Positive movement.
"Belief", aka "Faith" is based upon ideology, ie a set of rules imposed by those who determine who is in and who is out of the religion. Spirituality, however, is based upon one person's relationship with their existence, and a search for meaning and commonality.
when you base your dogma upon worship, fear, and ideology. Not reality. Modern day Christianity is mostly the polar opposite of the things That Jesus taught - note that most religious leaders are very fond of quoting the old testament, and saying "God says". When a religion becomes primarily a social self reinforcing group based upon a set of rules, then it is doomed from the beginning to fail.