When using fx boxes to emulate other hardware, you always want a high-power, distortion-free system that can reproduce exactly what it is fed. This way, when you employ "fuzzbox v.1.9" or "fender jazzman-ish rev 6", or the former feeding into the latter, they sound like those things, instead of those things plus new grunge.
This is typical for studios; the repro system is pristine. Because you always what to hear what's there, not what's there plus something the end listener won't hear, and because as I said earlier, no general *music* repro system should be operating in a regime where it is adding distortion -- because that sucks.
There are plenty of high-power, low-noise solutions that allow emulation to do exactly what it was designed to do. You just have to be savvy enough to pick them instead of that Marshall stack you always drooled over...
I plan on buying one of these the very soonest I can once they are actually shipping the hardware. Echo is crippled by the many limitations Amazon coded in on purpose -- it's basically something that looks up text matches and does something if it finds one. No language parsing worth a damn. Even so, it's very useful, and within those limits, you can make stuff for it, Amazon's pretty open about it as long as you can set up a secure server (ugh) or use their cloud (double-ugh.) Siri, as per usual for Apple, is a much more closed system, and frankly, it's of no interest at all to me because of that.
Mycroft is completely open source. I have very high hopes for it because of that. I have reams of my own natural language processing code I should be able to plug right in the moment there is a speech-to-text engine I can use directly. Others do as well. Custom apps in the home space, that are actually somewhat smarter than...
[if string == "turn on light" then TurnOnLight]
I suggest everyone check MyCroft out. Perhaps you'll be as enthused as I. I can hope.;)
I have yet to meet a file "sharer" who thought there was *any* perceived risk. Not audio, not video, not programs...
Seriously. Not one. Since the first digital days. That's anecdotal, but it's a whole lot of anecdotes, as in every adult and teen I've met in the last 40 years.
And speaking as a software developer that decided not to copy protect, threaten or prosecute, but did implement anonymous active copy / IP reporting over the net so I knew what was going on in terms of interest and activity, there have been hundreds of times the number of non-purchased copies of my various software products in use as compared to the number that were purchased during the sales lifetimes of those products.
There's no fear out there. I'm not sure there should be, either. Because the threat level is basically zero. And perhaps it should be, ethically speaking. Legally... well, the law is often wrong.
AC's right, though. What AC described is a far better circumstance than what the kids have allowed the game machine vendors and game vendors to sell them. Having made that bed, now everyone gets to lie in it. It's really a shame.
Luckily, my XBox still works, so not stuck with this shite.
You get incarcerated, if you're *lucky*, you'll see a doctor after a few months, and even then, probably only if someone beats you within an inch of your life.
The free medical care? Mostly myth, and absolute bottom feeder quality if you do get any. Too little, too late if it's serious. The free food? Trust me, you don't want to eat it. Any of it. The free room / roof? Sure. Complete with free beatings, rape, and deaf/blind guards. And an hour a day in the yard. Pick your power group. The free education? Awful. You can't use it anyway, you're a felon. Start figuring out who and how to rob, because that's the only decent-paying job you can get hired for now.
Jails and prison in the US are hellholes, the inevitable fruit of the popular retribution-centric mindset combined with scare-the-populace political maneuvering. You approve, okay, that's your call but don't try to sell those places as poverty relief. There's no relief to be found. Of any kind.
...except the upgrade they pushed to me today was 48.02, not 49. Just looked. I ASSumed that today's update would be today's update as represented here. Silly me.
I still have it installed on my Mac, too. And FF49 still eats memory by the gigabyte and slows down grossly after operating for as little as an hour with no more surfing that reading Slashdot and surfing Amazon a little bit. Has to be restarted many times a day if I want it to perform reasonably. It's been like that for years. They're so busy adding features, they don't bother to do even the most basic debugging.
However, Safari is terrible, Chrome is a joke, Opera has repeatedly sent me running from CSS problems, and Omniweb... basically lost in the past. As long as I keep restarting it, FF works better than anything else.
I just wish they had someone on the team that could put it through the wringer and kill these horrific memory-eating habits it's got.
God seems to send mostly tsunami and higher property taxes.
And filling my 64gb card with photos is already more than I can do, or want to do -- that's a lot of risk in one tiny bit of "eventually it will fail" technology.
But perhaps those who use their cameras for video will appreciate this, particularly when 4k is used. That crap uses memory like no still photo process EVAR.
Because prices don't keep with inflation, we end up with more buying power. The median family has gone from spending 43% of its income on food (1900) to 30% (1950) to 11% (today), and now buys highly-engineered cars (anti-lock brakes, satellite radio, crumple zones, complex suspensions), cell phones, and high-speed internet as well as food.
Yes, but the largest economic factors for the little guys are worse:
o Housing costs - far beyond anything even remotely rational o Schooling costs - rising way faster than income o Medical costs - rising way faster of income o Savings - savings ability is moving away from lower incomes o Investment opportunities moving away from lower incomes (ex, savings interest, if anyone had savings anymore)
It is because of those things, and others like them, that the big picture isn't at all what you suggest it is. Some sectors, almost entirely those that are pivoting on the fulcrum of advancing computer technology, leave us way ahead. They're nice to have. Smartphones, computers in the home and office and the like. But overall, the suck is sucking harder, people are highly stressed (and I would argue, more stressed), and things are going downhill quite steadily at this point in time.
Incoming LDNLS systems are already making significant inroads on jobs; that's only going to accelerate. The sky is basically falling, and as far as I can tell, the government is likely already too far behind the curve to stave off some serious social uproar.
What you're describing is why significant economic and social change are waiting in the wings as we discuss this. These changes are coming; and they will be qualitatively and quantitatively different than any changes prior, such as trains, fore and aft rigged ships, and the cotton gin.
Where? I see driver-assist cars, but no self-driving cars.
No, you do see them -- they just aren't competent in as wide a range of situations as (some) human drivers are. They can take control of the vehicle and drive without any input from the driver in quite a range of circumstances. This is nto to say they are perfect, but neither are humans. In re humans, there are driving circumstances, various, that some humans are competent in, and some aren't; it's not like people are uniformly homogeneous in driving skills. So variation in skill is the norm, not the exception.
While humans aren't really improving much, self-driving vehicles are; and there's no reason at all to think they'll stop that development where humans typically do (and in some ways, they're already better -- for instance, the whole "I'm on a cellphone and not presently paying attention" thing.)
Sure, further to go. But they're going there, definitely on the way. No question about it. Quickly, too.
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You've gone off on a tangent. It's polarizing. Stop it. Right now.
When using fx boxes to emulate other hardware, you always want a high-power, distortion-free system that can reproduce exactly what it is fed. This way, when you employ "fuzzbox v.1.9" or "fender jazzman-ish rev 6", or the former feeding into the latter, they sound like those things, instead of those things plus new grunge.
This is typical for studios; the repro system is pristine. Because you always what to hear what's there, not what's there plus something the end listener won't hear, and because as I said earlier, no general *music* repro system should be operating in a regime where it is adding distortion -- because that sucks.
There are plenty of high-power, low-noise solutions that allow emulation to do exactly what it was designed to do. You just have to be savvy enough to pick them instead of that Marshall stack you always drooled over...
The answer is MyCroft
I plan on buying one of these the very soonest I can once they are actually shipping the hardware. Echo is crippled by the many limitations Amazon coded in on purpose -- it's basically something that looks up text matches and does something if it finds one. No language parsing worth a damn. Even so, it's very useful, and within those limits, you can make stuff for it, Amazon's pretty open about it as long as you can set up a secure server (ugh) or use their cloud (double-ugh.) Siri, as per usual for Apple, is a much more closed system, and frankly, it's of no interest at all to me because of that.
Mycroft is completely open source. I have very high hopes for it because of that. I have reams of my own natural language processing code I should be able to plug right in the moment there is a speech-to-text engine I can use directly. Others do as well. Custom apps in the home space, that are actually somewhat smarter than...
[if string == "turn on light" then TurnOnLight]
I suggest everyone check MyCroft out. Perhaps you'll be as enthused as I. I can hope. ;)
I have yet to meet a file "sharer" who thought there was *any* perceived risk. Not audio, not video, not programs...
Seriously. Not one. Since the first digital days. That's anecdotal, but it's a whole lot of anecdotes, as in every adult and teen I've met in the last 40 years.
And speaking as a software developer that decided not to copy protect, threaten or prosecute, but did implement anonymous active copy / IP reporting over the net so I knew what was going on in terms of interest and activity, there have been hundreds of times the number of non-purchased copies of my various software products in use as compared to the number that were purchased during the sales lifetimes of those products.
There's no fear out there. I'm not sure there should be, either. Because the threat level is basically zero. And perhaps it should be, ethically speaking. Legally... well, the law is often wrong.
RTFA? RTFA???
This is... this is slashdot... WTF are you thinking?
o Read TFS
o Bitch about editors and / or submitters
o PROFIT!
AC's right, though. What AC described is a far better circumstance than what the kids have allowed the game machine vendors and game vendors to sell them. Having made that bed, now everyone gets to lie in it. It's really a shame.
Luckily, my XBox still works, so not stuck with this shite.
TFS: All that without saying how fast they are. lol
lol. Free doctor, eh?
Someone's been feeding you a line of propaganda.
You get incarcerated, if you're *lucky*, you'll see a doctor after a few months, and even then, probably only if someone beats you within an inch of your life.
The free medical care? Mostly myth, and absolute bottom feeder quality if you do get any. Too little, too late if it's serious.
The free food? Trust me, you don't want to eat it. Any of it.
The free room / roof? Sure. Complete with free beatings, rape, and deaf/blind guards. And an hour a day in the yard. Pick your power group.
The free education? Awful. You can't use it anyway, you're a felon. Start figuring out who and how to rob, because that's the only decent-paying job you can get hired for now.
Jails and prison in the US are hellholes, the inevitable fruit of the popular retribution-centric mindset combined with scare-the-populace political maneuvering. You approve, okay, that's your call but don't try to sell those places as poverty relief. There's no relief to be found. Of any kind.
What OS are you running?
ok, fine -- but isn't it reasonable to expect that load to go away when I close the slashdot tab?
Oh, and also, "You cannot perform further updates on this system."
So fuck me, I guess. Here's some broken shit, live with it.
...except the upgrade they pushed to me today was 48.02, not 49. Just looked. I ASSumed that today's update would be today's update as represented here. Silly me.
I still have it installed on my Mac, too. And FF49 still eats memory by the gigabyte and slows down grossly after operating for as little as an hour with no more surfing that reading Slashdot and surfing Amazon a little bit. Has to be restarted many times a day if I want it to perform reasonably. It's been like that for years. They're so busy adding features, they don't bother to do even the most basic debugging.
However, Safari is terrible, Chrome is a joke, Opera has repeatedly sent me running from CSS problems, and Omniweb... basically lost in the past. As long as I keep restarting it, FF works better than anything else.
I just wish they had someone on the team that could put it through the wringer and kill these horrific memory-eating habits it's got.
Well, if by "out" you mean you can buy one, no. But if by out, you mean, humanity has this technology, then yes, we do.
That's not what anyone is talking about, planning, or doing. So... no. Just no.
God seems to send mostly tsunami and higher property taxes.
And filling my 64gb card with photos is already more than I can do, or want to do -- that's a lot of risk in one tiny bit of "eventually it will fail" technology.
But perhaps those who use their cameras for video will appreciate this, particularly when 4k is used. That crap uses memory like no still photo process EVAR.
Christ, all 'is and meta morphing comments, too.
But have you purchased your own telephone pole?
NO? Bloody amateur.
Yes, but the largest economic factors for the little guys are worse:
o Housing costs - far beyond anything even remotely rational
o Schooling costs - rising way faster than income
o Medical costs - rising way faster of income
o Savings - savings ability is moving away from lower incomes
o Investment opportunities moving away from lower incomes (ex, savings interest, if anyone had savings anymore)
It is because of those things, and others like them, that the big picture isn't at all what you suggest it is. Some sectors, almost entirely those that are pivoting on the fulcrum of advancing computer technology, leave us way ahead. They're nice to have. Smartphones, computers in the home and office and the like. But overall, the suck is sucking harder, people are highly stressed (and I would argue, more stressed), and things are going downhill quite steadily at this point in time.
Incoming LDNLS systems are already making significant inroads on jobs; that's only going to accelerate. The sky is basically falling, and as far as I can tell, the government is likely already too far behind the curve to stave off some serious social uproar.
What you're describing is why significant economic and social change are waiting in the wings as we discuss this. These changes are coming; and they will be qualitatively and quantitatively different than any changes prior, such as trains, fore and aft rigged ships, and the cotton gin.
Grab the popcorn.
Clearly you either forgot to include the check, or it was too small. I suggest you try again, but fix whichever of those errors you made.
Here you go.
No, you do see them -- they just aren't competent in as wide a range of situations as (some) human drivers are. They can take control of the vehicle and drive without any input from the driver in quite a range of circumstances. This is nto to say they are perfect, but neither are humans. In re humans, there are driving circumstances, various, that some humans are competent in, and some aren't; it's not like people are uniformly homogeneous in driving skills. So variation in skill is the norm, not the exception.
While humans aren't really improving much, self-driving vehicles are; and there's no reason at all to think they'll stop that development where humans typically do (and in some ways, they're already better -- for instance, the whole "I'm on a cellphone and not presently paying attention" thing.)
Sure, further to go. But they're going there, definitely on the way. No question about it. Quickly, too.
I'm not a snowflake! I'M A SPECIAL BUTTERFLY! [stomps (tiny) feet]