For most people, degrees aren't about their competency in a particular field.
A degree generally means that you have some level of reading/writing competency, that you are able to complete tasks, that you are able to work with others, that you have been exposed to some level of socialization, and that you are not poor.
While these things don't always hold true, they are mostly true. If a company had to screen non-degree candidates for positions, it would take much, much longer and be a more complicated process - meaning HR costs would go up.
I'm pretty fucking sure that most parents know by the time their little brats are in middle (jr. highschool) school whether or not their child is college material, and should be adjusting their future goals accordingly instead of throwing on the blinders and being 110% supporting of their kids unrealistic goals.
Yeah, in fact, we should euthanize them if they're judged useless at this age.
1. Making Carl Sagan sing (along with Auto-Tune the news, etc) borders on parody, at the very least humor.
2. A lot of people out there have never heard of pitch correction outside of this context, where it is obvious that some processing has been done to the vocal track.
The intention of my post (snarky comment aside) was to point out to those less informed that there's pitch correction in nearly all of the music we hear these days.
Unfortunately, I had not anticipated the misinterpretation of my words as some sort of hostile attack on Carl Sagan and Peter Frampton.
So, instead of getting the +5 Informative, I get the -1 Troll with the +5 Insightful pedantic rebuttal, which is all too common around here. Ah well, you win some, you lose some.
Ah, the classic "I'll start a pedantic flame war because I like to feel important" technique.
Any decent person would have taken my comment with the grain of salt that it's meant to be taken, and any legitimate musician would not waste so much time defending the "auto-tune fad".
Regardless, I said that people who are "doing it wrong" are retarded. That would be the "artist", not the listeners. The listeners are retarded in a uniquely different way not originally discussed!:)
It used to be that vocalists wrote their own songs (Neil Diamond, Michael Jackson, etc); now it is not.
OK, fine. I can accept that. I understand having good vocalists being famous just for singing (Britney Spears, etc).
But if you're some commoner who can't write music AND can't hit a note, then what exactly are you? Not a musician in any sense of the word, and not a person with talent. You're just a BRAND at that point - a brand that the RIAA has picked to sell a product.
I have every right to be condescending toward the cynical marketing of the RIAA. I'm sorry if anyone's feelings are hurt by that statement, but go fuck yourself and jump off a bridge.
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That you've noticed. If your pitch correction is noticeable, you're doing it wrong. Unless you think the effect is cool - in which case you're a retard.
So now users can call tech support with their mouse plugged into their monitor and say that their "computer doesn't work".
I don't understand the fixation on making a completely universal plug. It seems good in theory, but what does it actually get us beyond some cable interchanging possibilities and expensive upgrades?
Why aren't we working on better wireless communication so that we don't need wires at all? I can't get my wireless mouse 2 feet away from the receiver, and I sure as hell don't want another cable cluttering things up.
Uh, if you're using menus in a web browser, you're Doing It Wrong. I've had a Firefox plugin for years that hides all the menus under one button.
I'm sure they'll come out with some sort of "prehistoric" mode that you Luddites can run, though.
Not to mention, the summary says Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you're still using Windows, you should just shut up and take your shit sandwich like you do on all your other software.
That made me laugh until I finished the sentence. And I saw a goat eating an iPhone bush.
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1. Get a USB traffic sniffing application 2. Run the TI driver on a Windows XP VM and record the traffic as you transfer files. 3. Write your own driver with libusb-win32 and pray that it works 4. Become hero to the TI community!!!
An eternal weekend sounds like absolute hell. If I don't have any structure to my day/projects, I don't get anything done or feel any accomplishment. If I don't feel any accomplishment, I feel useless.
That's what it was like during summer before I joined the real world. Constantly starting projects, puttering, but never finishing them. Drinking/playing games/watching TV for a good portion of the time out of pure boredom, but then feeling guilty for it.
I can't imagine wanting to go back to that. I can, however, imagine getting more vacation days, or working 4 days a week.
Hey dipshit! if you actually read the law, or were in the industry affected by this, you might understand that they actually did specify a level of encryption required. I should know because I just spent the last month upgrading our product to conform to the law. From what I was told by our security experts, AES and 3DES are acceptable.
Eh, a language is only as good as its standard library. I don't like telling people to download/build/install a number of other libraries of specific versions just to run/build my stupid application.
It's just a fact of life. For personal applications (where it's hard enough to get people to use your app anyway) and work applications (where licensing causes multiple headaches on this front).
And no, I don't use Ruby, Python, or Javascript so I can't comment on any of their libraries.
By the time we actually got to one of these planets, would it still be able to sustain life? Should we be looking for planets that are in their early, less habitable stages?
Maybe the parents should take their precious little snowflake to a fucking doctor to check for hear problems if they're that concerned.
But they can't afford health insurance... until after they sue the school for killing their child in gym class. You have the right idea but you're coming from the wrong perspective. These heart monitors are being implemented by the rich and elite to stop the poor working class from getting ahead through litigation! Is it not every American's right to potentially profit from common tragedy?!
Because they don't just want crappy ports of crappy applications. They want stylish applications designed specifically with the iPhone in mind. And guess what? It's working!
But if you were running a gaming website, you could cash in twice - once from the check, and once from the publicity that reporting on the check would bring.
I think the problem here is that it's beneficial to EA AND to the websites... wait, is that really a problem then? Well, I guess for the general public it is - unless it's a really good game!
Yes, things play nicer when there's only one display, but do you maximize to just one physical screen then? How do you run a video full screen on one monitor while working on the other?
Multi-head complications are irritating on every computer I use, regardless of whether it's Linux, Windows, or OSX. Making one big screen isn't the solution I'm looking for. But I doubt they'll fix this mess in the next 10 years.
Actually, it's the other way around. Read Alice Miller's "Drama of the Gifted Child"
Grandiosity is just one of the common ways people cope with feelings of insufficiency. For example, constantly needing to fish for opinions in order to reassure oneself, or being a huge ass to push people away before they can reject you. Or acting like a loner so that other people don't depend on you so you don't let them down. Etc, etc.
Yeah, no shit. I used to write music and do all sorts of creative things, and once I became content with life, it became a huge pain in the ass to do anything relatively creative.
The transformation is like going from an existential POV to a nihilistic POV. All of a sudden, nothing matters because your 'problems' are all solvable and have simple answers. Imagine if Nietzsche had just decided that all of his gloomy over-thinking was a symptom of his dysfunctional childhood, and then went out and started a family and lived happily ever after.
I like to think that it's possible to be creative without living a life filled with unnecessary drama, and that it just takes an extraordinarily adept person to do so, but sometimes I'm not so sure.
So... why do you use a Mac then? I used to use Windows with mostly OSS software, and then I just gave in and installed Linux because it's easier that way. What's your story?
The thing that bothers me is when I start to wonder what percentage of mac users there are out there that will pompously go to whatever sites they feel like, downloading and installing whatever software they feel like, on the basis that "Mac's don't get viruses."
Hmm, unless you have to clean up their mess, why do you care so much?
Also, from my limited experience with Macs and Mac users, it seems like they aren't the type to be dissatisfied with what they have and go exploring for exciting downloads, but maybe I've gotten the wrong impression. It seems like they buy Macs for the very reason that they don't like 'exploring' and want something that 'just works'.
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It's a heck of a lot more efficient than typing out the counter-argument. I'm sure you've come up with a few on your own already.
Yes, we'd hate for poor people to have a chance at good jobs.
Hey, I never said I agreed with the way things are.
I was originally going to mention race instead of class, but I figured that would start a flame war of different proportions.
For most people, degrees aren't about their competency in a particular field.
A degree generally means that you have some level of reading/writing competency, that you are able to complete tasks, that you are able to work with others, that you have been exposed to some level of socialization, and that you are not poor.
While these things don't always hold true, they are mostly true. If a company had to screen non-degree candidates for positions, it would take much, much longer and be a more complicated process - meaning HR costs would go up.
I'm pretty fucking sure that most parents know by the time their little brats are in middle (jr. highschool) school whether or not their child is college material, and should be adjusting their future goals accordingly instead of throwing on the blinders and being 110% supporting of their kids unrealistic goals.
Yeah, in fact, we should euthanize them if they're judged useless at this age.
Bitter jackass.
Let's try this again.
1. Making Carl Sagan sing (along with Auto-Tune the news, etc) borders on parody, at the very least humor.
2. A lot of people out there have never heard of pitch correction outside of this context, where it is obvious that some processing has been done to the vocal track.
The intention of my post (snarky comment aside) was to point out to those less informed that there's pitch correction in nearly all of the music we hear these days.
Unfortunately, I had not anticipated the misinterpretation of my words as some sort of hostile attack on Carl Sagan and Peter Frampton.
So, instead of getting the +5 Informative, I get the -1 Troll with the +5 Insightful pedantic rebuttal, which is all too common around here. Ah well, you win some, you lose some.
Ah, the classic "I'll start a pedantic flame war because I like to feel important" technique.
Any decent person would have taken my comment with the grain of salt that it's meant to be taken, and any legitimate musician would not waste so much time defending the "auto-tune fad".
Regardless, I said that people who are "doing it wrong" are retarded. That would be the "artist", not the listeners. The listeners are retarded in a uniquely different way not originally discussed! :)
It used to be that vocalists wrote their own songs (Neil Diamond, Michael Jackson, etc); now it is not.
OK, fine. I can accept that. I understand having good vocalists being famous just for singing (Britney Spears, etc).
But if you're some commoner who can't write music AND can't hit a note, then what exactly are you? Not a musician in any sense of the word, and not a person with talent. You're just a BRAND at that point - a brand that the RIAA has picked to sell a product.
I have every right to be condescending toward the cynical marketing of the RIAA. I'm sorry if anyone's feelings are hurt by that statement, but go fuck yourself and jump off a bridge.
That you've noticed. If your pitch correction is noticeable, you're doing it wrong. Unless you think the effect is cool - in which case you're a retard.
So now users can call tech support with their mouse plugged into their monitor and say that their "computer doesn't work".
I don't understand the fixation on making a completely universal plug. It seems good in theory, but what does it actually get us beyond some cable interchanging possibilities and expensive upgrades?
Why aren't we working on better wireless communication so that we don't need wires at all? I can't get my wireless mouse 2 feet away from the receiver, and I sure as hell don't want another cable cluttering things up.
Uh, if you're using menus in a web browser, you're Doing It Wrong. I've had a Firefox plugin for years that hides all the menus under one button.
I'm sure they'll come out with some sort of "prehistoric" mode that you Luddites can run, though.
Not to mention, the summary says Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you're still using Windows, you should just shut up and take your shit sandwich like you do on all your other software.
I've seen a goat eating a blackberry
That made me laugh until I finished the sentence. And I saw a goat eating an iPhone bush.
1. Get a USB traffic sniffing application
2. Run the TI driver on a Windows XP VM and record the traffic as you transfer files.
3. Write your own driver with libusb-win32 and pray that it works
4. Become hero to the TI community!!!
An eternal weekend sounds like absolute hell. If I don't have any structure to my day/projects, I don't get anything done or feel any accomplishment. If I don't feel any accomplishment, I feel useless.
That's what it was like during summer before I joined the real world. Constantly starting projects, puttering, but never finishing them. Drinking/playing games/watching TV for a good portion of the time out of pure boredom, but then feeling guilty for it.
I can't imagine wanting to go back to that. I can, however, imagine getting more vacation days, or working 4 days a week.
Hey dipshit! if you actually read the law, or were in the industry affected by this, you might understand that they actually did specify a level of encryption required. I should know because I just spent the last month upgrading our product to conform to the law. From what I was told by our security experts, AES and 3DES are acceptable.
Eh, a language is only as good as its standard library. I don't like telling people to download/build/install a number of other libraries of specific versions just to run/build my stupid application.
It's just a fact of life. For personal applications (where it's hard enough to get people to use your app anyway) and work applications (where licensing causes multiple headaches on this front).
And no, I don't use Ruby, Python, or Javascript so I can't comment on any of their libraries.
By the time we actually got to one of these planets, would it still be able to sustain life? Should we be looking for planets that are in their early, less habitable stages?
Maybe the parents should take their precious little snowflake to a fucking doctor to check for hear problems if they're that concerned.
But they can't afford health insurance... until after they sue the school for killing their child in gym class. You have the right idea but you're coming from the wrong perspective. These heart monitors are being implemented by the rich and elite to stop the poor working class from getting ahead through litigation! Is it not every American's right to potentially profit from common tragedy?!
I'm about as conservative/libertarian as they come. But this post is the funniest thing I've read all day!
I'm a vegetarian, but this is the best hamburger I've ever had.
Because they don't just want crappy ports of crappy applications. They want stylish applications designed specifically with the iPhone in mind. And guess what? It's working!
But if you were running a gaming website, you could cash in twice - once from the check, and once from the publicity that reporting on the check would bring.
I think the problem here is that it's beneficial to EA AND to the websites... wait, is that really a problem then? Well, I guess for the general public it is - unless it's a really good game!
Yes, things play nicer when there's only one display, but do you maximize to just one physical screen then? How do you run a video full screen on one monitor while working on the other?
Multi-head complications are irritating on every computer I use, regardless of whether it's Linux, Windows, or OSX. Making one big screen isn't the solution I'm looking for. But I doubt they'll fix this mess in the next 10 years.
Actually, it's the other way around. Read Alice Miller's "Drama of the Gifted Child"
Grandiosity is just one of the common ways people cope with feelings of insufficiency. For example, constantly needing to fish for opinions in order to reassure oneself, or being a huge ass to push people away before they can reject you. Or acting like a loner so that other people don't depend on you so you don't let them down. Etc, etc.
Yeah, no shit. I used to write music and do all sorts of creative things, and once I became content with life, it became a huge pain in the ass to do anything relatively creative.
The transformation is like going from an existential POV to a nihilistic POV. All of a sudden, nothing matters because your 'problems' are all solvable and have simple answers. Imagine if Nietzsche had just decided that all of his gloomy over-thinking was a symptom of his dysfunctional childhood, and then went out and started a family and lived happily ever after.
I like to think that it's possible to be creative without living a life filled with unnecessary drama, and that it just takes an extraordinarily adept person to do so, but sometimes I'm not so sure.
So... why do you use a Mac then? I used to use Windows with mostly OSS software, and then I just gave in and installed Linux because it's easier that way. What's your story?
The thing that bothers me is when I start to wonder what percentage of mac users there are out there that will pompously go to whatever sites they feel like, downloading and installing whatever software they feel like, on the basis that "Mac's don't get viruses."
Hmm, unless you have to clean up their mess, why do you care so much?
Also, from my limited experience with Macs and Mac users, it seems like they aren't the type to be dissatisfied with what they have and go exploring for exciting downloads, but maybe I've gotten the wrong impression. It seems like they buy Macs for the very reason that they don't like 'exploring' and want something that 'just works'.