If you were an investor, which would you prefer -- a CEO who's a pretty cool guy, or a CEO who uses every degrading, demeaning plea, threat, and trick to increase the value of your investment?
What kind of silly question is that? You act as if the 'pretty cool guy' can't increase the value of your investment without acting unethically.
Somehow the "logic" on that page doesn't impress me. If it was popular it would have been written down before "The Old Nursery Rythms?" Nevermind that perhaps it wasn't popular before it appeared in that book...
Sorry, snopes is not the be all end all of discussion.
Well, it does have to go through the House after it leaves the Senate. A house PANEL approved the bill, I don't think its been voted on by the House as a whole yet.
You mean how we respect other countries by overthrowing their government and installing dictator? I notice you left Iraq off your list. Is that because the US orginally put him into power? Don't forget all the counties in South America we've done that to as well.
How about US companies paying slave wages to Chinese citizens to make cheap products? Is keeping China's government in power via economic trade showing respect?
What about all the lopsided trade deals? You know, where we 'helped' a third world country build a dam to generate electricity, but the catch was that only American contracts could build it and we would own it when it was finished (made under the promise that building and then later running the dam would create jobs in that country)?
Is THAT how you think we 'respect' other countries? Or is that how we screw them to our own advantage?
Indeed. People need to do the math. 3000 people and two builds, out of 300,000,000 people and who know how many builds? 0.001% of the populate died because of some nutjobs, and now the rest of us have to live in a state more and more resembling the old East Germany? WTF?
As far as burning / ripping goes, its pretty easy and has all the options most would want. I'd personally rather one program that does a very good job over either that do each one of their tasks excellently.
This story was only popular because of the news teasers all day long: "What COMMON VEGETABLE can send YOU to the HOSPITAL? Find out on the News at 11!"
Hmm, possible O&A fan? They rip on that all the time..
If they had just said "wash your greens well before you eat them" everyone would have gone "Duh, of course!"
Actually washing them does not kill the bacteria in this case.
I don't run Linux, so that's not an option unless they run on Windows. I'll have to check.
Winamp became a horrid POS immediately after AOL bought them. The newest versions are crap, and the older ones unsupported / lacking features (like ripping).
Except my experience is recounted time and again. Do you really think people would have abandoned vinyl if they honestly didn't believe CDs were better?
Well I'm not sure I agree with the suit either, I'm sure this is the logic. The manufactors aren't making ALL their products low emission. Since you really do NEED a car in CA, consumers have no choice in the matter.
I think its similar to suing chemical companies which dump their waste in the river; its just that here the finished product creates the pollution, whereas chemical companies pollute in the course of making their product.
Not so, actually. A CD contains a digital representation of the original analog signal. The record contains *the original analog signal.*
Yet the CD sounds better. Amazing huh? Digitizing doesn't mean you're losing information.
If you ever get the chance, listen to an mp3 (most dramatic), or even a cd (closer, but no cigar), and then listen to the same track from a vinyl record. The difference will blow your mind-- the record will sound clearer and more detailed, even if it's old and scratched. The sound is far more lifelike in the way our ears handle it.
MP3 is a red herring. I have MP3s that sound just like the CD track, because the bitrate is set high. A crappy MP3 sounds crappy because someone encoded at a very low bit rate, throwing away much of the information. I've heard the same track on CD and vinyl. The constant hiss noise from the record being played too much killed any enjoyment of it. Maybe the added hiss making things more lifelike to you, but not to me.
The simple truth of the matter is that records offer a more accurate recreation of the original audio, simply because their 'resolution' is (for all intents and purposes) infinite, where a digital recording is limited by the encoding rate of the ADC (analog-to-digital converter, for the non-crazy). If you don't have a top-notch stereo, the difference isn't as noticeable, but I've found that as I've become more familiar with the hobby and upgraded my kit, my records sound better and better, while I listen to my mp3s less and less.
Nope, the resolution cannot be infinite. There is always a limit to how much change can be detected, and we are talking about record player, not the most accurate device. You fool yourself into believing the records sound better because you convinced yourself that if you spent more money to upgrade the record player you'll get the best sound. But you're not, really. In reality, your records are sounding worse and worse if you have a standard (non-laser) record player.
A friend of a friend in college was like you; he spent $10,000 each on two ribbon speakers, best ones in existance at the time. I didn't hear any difference between his speakers and my home surround system, although he would swear his gave better sound..
They are supposed to gain supporters and show they hold public interest. Thats how. This is why i've been saying third parties need to work from the ground up in local elections or "grass roots" first.
Again, how are they supposed to do that without funding? I live in Vermont, home of the Green party, and even the local media here ignores them. They don't have any commercials or coverage. They don't have the money for the exposure.
But seriously, the federal elections and the matching money isn't something that is a grant for free speech or anything of the sorts.
TV and radio spots cost money. Paper and ink cost money. Getting permits to hold a public rally costs money.
When less then half the registard voters show up to the polls, they should easily be able to pick up five percent of the vote simply from motivating theem.
If no one knows about them, how is that possible? Most of those that do show haven't heard about a third party; well, nothing except that third parties are a bunch of nutjobs.
I'm not sure I don't agree with you here except that I have seen the nutjobs on television making themselves apear to be nutjobs themselves.
TV can make anything seem crazy, depending on how they are edited. They take a two hour speech, and take a few quotes out of context and mash them together. Anyone that's been on "reality TV" has said the same thing; they show you only one side of the person so that you love or hate them.. It can be done with the "news" (they are really just entertainment also) as well.
Bottom line is that the two major parties have centered thier position enough to cover most concerns of the people.
Have you been reading this thread, or really talked to independants? Most people don't feel either Rs or Ds fit their ideas. At best, they agree with a few positions. Even the two parties have to worry about the independants, they are the ones that choose the winner typically, since they are the largest group.
If the third party isn't big enough to do that, no amount of federal matching money is going to make them vialbe for office.
Third parties won't be able to grow big enough without money to get their word out. Most third party people are your average middle class person (who by the way is sliding into the lower class) and can't contribute much monetarely.
You can use Windows without even knowing what MSbuild is, but there's no real abundance of people out there using Windows without ever having come in contact with the GUI. So it seems to me that the GUI is something a lot more people would have an opinion on, compared to the relatively specialised things you mentioned. Especially since nowadays, a new version of Windows is major news not just within the IT industry, but in nearly all walks of life. Basically, I wouldn't be surprised if every man and his dog had their own (often rather uneducated/ignorant, as these things tend to go) opinion on how the Vista shell "ought to" work.
At the end of the day though, users are users. Developers are the primary uses of VS and msbuild. They might not be the best, indeed, I bet there are quite a few crumby ones out there, and there is / was quite a bit of noise in these blogs as well.
That said, some 'stupid' person may come up with a valid point nonetheless. If 85% of Vista users complain about a particular UI problem, don't you think that warrants a change?
And that's why I predict a higher noise ratio for the comments on that particular blog. (I'm actually quite surprised at my original post being modded Flamebait. Is what I'm saying that unreasonable?)
There's always going to be a high noise ratio; that doesn't mean it will be impossible to find good comments. And if the 'noise' is about one thing, I'd think that one thing will need changing if its being bashed by the majority. That's who they are targeting after all, the majority.
I don't think your comment was modded fairly, FWIW...
No, really. A CD is a plastic disc with groves and dents, which are interperated to create sound. A vinyl player with a laser is the same thing.. so why would you buy a laser linyl player over a CD player? You have a bulkier, more fragile item with the exact same sound quality.
Unless you're going to tell me that a laser vinyl player doesn't 'lose that extra sound' like a CD player would (hint: they both will use the same processing to convert the groves to sound..).
Sounds to me like vinyl is adding artifacts which aren't really there. Why you'd think that is 'better' I don't understand. Its more likely everyone said the vinyl sounds better because they think it should (since you knew which one was playing).
Finally, go back and listen on the 100th play and tell me vinyl is better.
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If you were an investor, which would you prefer -- a CEO who's a pretty cool guy, or a CEO who uses every degrading, demeaning plea, threat, and trick to increase the value of your investment?
What kind of silly question is that? You act as if the 'pretty cool guy' can't increase the value of your investment without acting unethically.
Does that incline me, or any others, to do so? I don't think so.
Maybe not you, but possible others. After all, if government can't follow its own rules, how can it expect anyone else to follow them?
Somehow the "logic" on that page doesn't impress me. If it was popular it would have been written down before "The Old Nursery Rythms?" Nevermind that perhaps it wasn't popular before it appeared in that book...
Sorry, snopes is not the be all end all of discussion.
Well, it does have to go through the House after it leaves the Senate. A house PANEL approved the bill, I don't think its been voted on by the House as a whole yet.
You mean how we respect other countries by overthrowing their government and installing dictator? I notice you left Iraq off your list. Is that because the US orginally put him into power? Don't forget all the counties in South America we've done that to as well.
How about US companies paying slave wages to Chinese citizens to make cheap products? Is keeping China's government in power via economic trade showing respect?
What about all the lopsided trade deals? You know, where we 'helped' a third world country build a dam to generate electricity, but the catch was that only American contracts could build it and we would own it when it was finished (made under the promise that building and then later running the dam would create jobs in that country)?
Is THAT how you think we 'respect' other countries? Or is that how we screw them to our own advantage?
Indeed. People need to do the math. 3000 people and two builds, out of 300,000,000 people and who know how many builds? 0.001% of the populate died because of some nutjobs, and now the rest of us have to live in a state more and more resembling the old East Germany? WTF?
Could you tell us more about the nursery rhyme? Like was it made up and told to children to warn them?
Perhaps you should look into the origins of Ring around the Posy (sp?).
Anyone calling you crazy really needs to look at what the FBI was up to in the 50s and 60s; technically I'm not sure they ever stopped.
Either it plays video / music or it doesn't.
As far as burning / ripping goes, its pretty easy and has all the options most would want. I'd personally rather one program that does a very good job over either that do each one of their tasks excellently.
WMP seems to handle it all pretty well.
Oh bullshit. One sounds better. To say you can't compare how two mediums sound is beyond stupid.
I think you missed the part about having a 'testbed,' which I took to mean as unit tests / integration tests.
No one does eat spinach.
There's at least 100 people (one dead) that do.
This story was only popular because of the news teasers all day long: "What COMMON VEGETABLE can send YOU to the HOSPITAL? Find out on the News at 11!"
Hmm, possible O&A fan? They rip on that all the time..
If they had just said "wash your greens well before you eat them" everyone would have gone "Duh, of course!"
Actually washing them does not kill the bacteria in this case.
I apprecite everyone's suggestions, but like I said, there is no ONE program to rip, burn, play and manage playlists like WMP does.
Also, I was too vague about the phone; it requires WMA format (v3m razr).. and it didn't look like those apps encoded to WMA either..
I don't run Linux, so that's not an option unless they run on Windows. I'll have to check.
Winamp became a horrid POS immediately after AOL bought them. The newest versions are crap, and the older ones unsupported / lacking features (like ripping).
Except my experience is recounted time and again. Do you really think people would have abandoned vinyl if they honestly didn't believe CDs were better?
Unfortunately I had started to use WMP because most of the other programs are crap or I need four seperate ones to do everything WMP does.
Also, my wifes phone requires me to use WMP to sync the music on the phone.
Why focus on the automakers?
Well I'm not sure I agree with the suit either, I'm sure this is the logic. The manufactors aren't making ALL their products low emission. Since you really do NEED a car in CA, consumers have no choice in the matter.
I think its similar to suing chemical companies which dump their waste in the river; its just that here the finished product creates the pollution, whereas chemical companies pollute in the course of making their product.
Not so, actually. A CD contains a digital representation of the original analog signal. The record contains *the original analog signal.*
Yet the CD sounds better. Amazing huh? Digitizing doesn't mean you're losing information.
If you ever get the chance, listen to an mp3 (most dramatic), or even a cd (closer, but no cigar), and then listen to the same track from a vinyl record. The difference will blow your mind-- the record will sound clearer and more detailed, even if it's old and scratched. The sound is far more lifelike in the way our ears handle it.
MP3 is a red herring. I have MP3s that sound just like the CD track, because the bitrate is set high. A crappy MP3 sounds crappy because someone encoded at a very low bit rate, throwing away much of the information. I've heard the same track on CD and vinyl. The constant hiss noise from the record being played too much killed any enjoyment of it. Maybe the added hiss making things more lifelike to you, but not to me.
The simple truth of the matter is that records offer a more accurate recreation of the original audio, simply because their 'resolution' is (for all intents and purposes) infinite, where a digital recording is limited by the encoding rate of the ADC (analog-to-digital converter, for the non-crazy). If you don't have a top-notch stereo, the difference isn't as noticeable, but I've found that as I've become more familiar with the hobby and upgraded my kit, my records sound better and better, while I listen to my mp3s less and less.
Nope, the resolution cannot be infinite. There is always a limit to how much change can be detected, and we are talking about record player, not the most accurate device. You fool yourself into believing the records sound better because you convinced yourself that if you spent more money to upgrade the record player you'll get the best sound. But you're not, really. In reality, your records are sounding worse and worse if you have a standard (non-laser) record player.
A friend of a friend in college was like you; he spent $10,000 each on two ribbon speakers, best ones in existance at the time. I didn't hear any difference between his speakers and my home surround system, although he would swear his gave better sound..
They are supposed to gain supporters and show they hold public interest. Thats how. This is why i've been saying third parties need to work from the ground up in local elections or "grass roots" first.
Again, how are they supposed to do that without funding? I live in Vermont, home of the Green party, and even the local media here ignores them. They don't have any commercials or coverage. They don't have the money for the exposure.
But seriously, the federal elections and the matching money isn't something that is a grant for free speech or anything of the sorts.
TV and radio spots cost money. Paper and ink cost money. Getting permits to hold a public rally costs money.
When less then half the registard voters show up to the polls, they should easily be able to pick up five percent of the vote simply from motivating theem.
If no one knows about them, how is that possible? Most of those that do show haven't heard about a third party; well, nothing except that third parties are a bunch of nutjobs.
I'm not sure I don't agree with you here except that I have seen the nutjobs on television making themselves apear to be nutjobs themselves.
TV can make anything seem crazy, depending on how they are edited. They take a two hour speech, and take a few quotes out of context and mash them together. Anyone that's been on "reality TV" has said the same thing; they show you only one side of the person so that you love or hate them.. It can be done with the "news" (they are really just entertainment also) as well.
Bottom line is that the two major parties have centered thier position enough to cover most concerns of the people.
Have you been reading this thread, or really talked to independants? Most people don't feel either Rs or Ds fit their ideas. At best, they agree with a few positions. Even the two parties have to worry about the independants, they are the ones that choose the winner typically, since they are the largest group.
If the third party isn't big enough to do that, no amount of federal matching money is going to make them vialbe for office.
Third parties won't be able to grow big enough without money to get their word out. Most third party people are your average middle class person (who by the way is sliding into the lower class) and can't contribute much monetarely.
You can use Windows without even knowing what MSbuild is, but there's no real abundance of people out there using Windows without ever having come in contact with the GUI. So it seems to me that the GUI is something a lot more people would have an opinion on, compared to the relatively specialised things you mentioned. Especially since nowadays, a new version of Windows is major news not just within the IT industry, but in nearly all walks of life. Basically, I wouldn't be surprised if every man and his dog had their own (often rather uneducated/ignorant, as these things tend to go) opinion on how the Vista shell "ought to" work.
At the end of the day though, users are users. Developers are the primary uses of VS and msbuild. They might not be the best, indeed, I bet there are quite a few crumby ones out there, and there is / was quite a bit of noise in these blogs as well.
That said, some 'stupid' person may come up with a valid point nonetheless. If 85% of Vista users complain about a particular UI problem, don't you think that warrants a change?
And that's why I predict a higher noise ratio for the comments on that particular blog. (I'm actually quite surprised at my original post being modded Flamebait. Is what I'm saying that unreasonable?)
There's always going to be a high noise ratio; that doesn't mean it will be impossible to find good comments. And if the 'noise' is about one thing, I'd think that one thing will need changing if its being bashed by the majority. That's who they are targeting after all, the majority.
I don't think your comment was modded fairly, FWIW...
You realize that's a CD player right?
No, really. A CD is a plastic disc with groves and dents, which are interperated to create sound. A vinyl player with a laser is the same thing.. so why would you buy a laser linyl player over a CD player? You have a bulkier, more fragile item with the exact same sound quality.
Unless you're going to tell me that a laser vinyl player doesn't 'lose that extra sound' like a CD player would (hint: they both will use the same processing to convert the groves to sound..).
The point is that you can download a CD rather than buy it so what is the point of buying CD's?
The point is that you can download a vinyl [album] rather than buy it so what is the point of buying vinyls'?
You realize the same info is on both vinyl and CDs right?
Sounds to me like vinyl is adding artifacts which aren't really there. Why you'd think that is 'better' I don't understand. Its more likely everyone said the vinyl sounds better because they think it should (since you knew which one was playing).
Finally, go back and listen on the 100th play and tell me vinyl is better.
Why do you believe that? Blog comments have influenced VS2005, MSbuild, etc. Why would Vista be different?