Yeah but at what point does it become wrong? Is it wrong when someone conceives the idea, when the idea gestates, when the idea becomes full fledged, or when the idea is under way? What if the astronaut just goes part of the way, and we blow up the ship with a remote detonator?
Srsly people who feel the need to project their own life/death values onto others vicariously are one of the major groups we need to eliminate from this planet if we are to move forward with scientific exploration and William Cooper's "star seed."
Maybe they should be the ones we send, they're bodysnatchers/aliens to begin with, send them home.
I for one find the idea of pandemic chronic sleep deprivation to be complete hogwash. I am not sure where they are getting their data but certttttttttsdafffffffffasdddd xzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzxzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
To elaborate on this, regardless of free publicity, artists have to build up the perception of value before the general public will be capable of viewing something free as valued. That's just human nature, ask any goatboy marketer. Sometimes increasing prices increases sales. And with NIN, if they continue to give music away for free, they will continue to dissipate (or spend) their public perception of value, until a point where only the most hardcore fans are still bothering to download the music, because the novelty of "valued becoming free" will wear off.
We are wired to take free resources lightly. It conserves mental energy and focus for those which are harder to obtain. Ultimately the free music model is untenable for artists who seek to make a living. Then again, who said an ancient folk craft such as composing/songwriting SHOULD be a career? Charles Ives composed some of the most interesting and compelling music of the 20th century while selling insurance for a living. True musicians will continue to produce with or without the money, as they did in the beginning.
All major evolutions kill something off. I think this one will kill off the high dollar, highly pretentious cock rockers who rely on glam to create the perception of social status and fantasy. And what we will be left with is novelty music and grass roots composers, people who want to write music because they like to and are compelled to, as opposed to the overtrained LA, NYC, and London based ninnies who just couldn't hack it in a day job.
Seems like a joke but until internet dating systems replace the reasonably effective social proof system of referral (a lot of women tend to date men they know through others, or whom their friends have dated) then women will always be skeptical of the people they meet there. Also, only part of the problem with lack of response is due to attention whores and fake accounts...a lot of it is due to men being almost incapable of conveying attractiveness and due to them lacking the ability to present themselves well. I mean, read some profiles. People mimic one another constantly. Long walks on beaches, quiet nights at home, zzzzz. I'd wager the math is irrelevant, I prefer parsimony...men online have no safety references and no real hook points to their personalities or lifestyles.
These trollish threads are so tired that, to sound like a snob, I can't even be bothered to rehash this shit again in order to try and get through to these delusional vinyl people. I just wish the mods would consult someone like Bob Katz in the future before even greenlighting threads like these.
I am one of those people, for about the past 15 years...and I can tell you he is being misleading. He does not present enough evidence to indicate that he is even using a mastering chain remotely similar to that used by labels. I don't know Digital Performer well enough to know whether or not his dragging motion is applying an actual CHAIN, but unless that's a quad processor or he's triggering some sort of "Redo" with that, then he is not processing this wav file with any sort of normal plugins, because they are rendered, and that takes time. Mastering engineers do not DRAG wavs into bigness. Bottom line here is that he does not provide any information to indicate that he is illustrating an analogue of the procedure which creates the sound he is complaining about, so the video is ultimately worthless sensationalism.
I've got to niggle here. This guy is being a bit misleading. He says we have to "take the quieter bits and turn them up." He states nothing about the fx processing chain used to do this, or if one was used at all. If you simply increase the gain to the point where the.wav file takes up the whole screen, then the peaks are going to get clipped exactly at the points where they cross over 0dBfs, which, on the sample/sine level causes a "DC offset" circus consisting of thousands of tiny voltage pops, and is a much more audible and noisy sound than the sound produced by a read ahead brick wall limiter, which makes use of (sometimes automatic) attack and release settings that ease the sound into its dynamic reductions and thus produce a far less audible effect per decibel of gain reduction.
It's actually a quite important nitpick and really makes a difference, not just sonically but factually, if he is trying to claim that what he is demonstrating is somehow analogous to what music labels are doing. If he is gain tinkering, then this video is a fraud. The way he drags the.wav's size, rather than hitting some sort of "processing" or "rendering" button leads me to believe he is gain tinkering, because inline effects take time to render, sometimes as much as 30 seconds or more. The one guy in the comments who contested him on it, he blew off. Go figure.
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Adverts are louder because the advent of digital brick wall limiting allowed for a reduced dynamic range, which means the entire program level can be increased without incurring distortion by consistently exceeding 0dBfs. Psychoacoustic A/B studies have proven that people pay more attention to louder programs than a softer counterpart. Compare the relatively uncompressed CSPANs 1-3 against FOX NEWS and tell me which one seems more "engaging," regardless of the value of the content.
In the 1980s, music was softer because all they had were high quality compressors, but compressors use real time attack and release parameters, whereas digital brickwall limiters are "read ahead" and so they can look at the upcoming material and handle distortion much, much better. You can get usually up to 4-6 decibels of mean RMS limitation out of a read ahead limiter before it starts to smell funny.
Almost nobody wants jumpy pop music, with drastic amplitude changes. Dramatic, startling music like Stravinsky, Wagner, or Mahler is kewl for what it is, but the average pop listener just does not want that. Pop listeners by and large want their dynamic changes to come from changes in the arrangements (guitars dropping out, drummer hitting lighter or sidesticking, etc.)
It's a fine line, because contrast is important to maintain interest, but too much contrast is downright annoying. When it comes to dance and rock, I like the current average loudness levels in most cases. The reason some albums sound like shit is either because the mix engineer didn't know what he was doing and so he handed off a shitty mix with bass and drums poorly mixed and so the mastering engineer tried to compensate with the limiter in pursuit of an ideal mean or peak RMS--or because the mix was fine and the mastering engineer was a stupid, deaf tool who can't hear distortions. In most cases though, this is not the case. There is material out there like some of Paul Van Dyk's stuff that hits a -8 mean RMS, and sounds fantastic...because PVD KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING. In contrast, the guy who mastered the RHCP's Californication needs to be shot into the sun.
Brilliant! My own personal trojan aggregator! It'll be XSS mania! Seriously, maybe if this included a tightly managed and trusted whitelist. Otherwise, I'd never go near a browsing bot.
My browsing is so chaotic anyway, I'd hate to be the miner trying to market at me.
Is all external communication prohibited? What's to keep someone from composing a blog entry in their head, and then just phoning someone else up and dictating it? Is it specifically the use of networked devices? What sort of shoulder surfing has to take place for a blogger to even get caught?
The real fuckin essence of the point behind goddamned censorship is to try and remind onesself to practice temperance. Some people use motherfuckin cuss words very casually and with little emotion, but for the asslickin majority of douchebags out there, shit talking cuss words represent a temporary indulgence of a sort of internal cunting anger, bitch. People draw on cocksuckin cuss words to add force to what they are saying, jackass, and that desire and willingness to add a cheap sort of force to words, rather than letting the fudgepacking, nutlicking words carry their own weight, is the real peril. This sort of buttramming neurolinguistic nuance is lost on dicksucking fundies tho.
of time from millions of people. If you were to add up all the individual charges for each incident of spamming, the total additive penalty would be well over life in prison. Yeah, he does belong in prison for life. Sentences are not just for the severity of crime, they are also for repetition and scale of the offense. Imagine this...if you took the total amount of suffering he has created, and concentrated it all into one single victim, how severe would that victim's torment be?
I'm the customer. I'm a taxpayer. I want my security delivered seamlessly, in black box fashion, with perhaps a power point once a year to show me how I'm more safe than I was last year. In no other client/agent scenario does one pay a full one third of his salary in order to not only receive a service, but to also have the infinite and minute details of that service regularly crammed down his throat against his will, with a side helping of FUD. It's not enough that we haven't been hit since 2001. For this government to be good at securing America, they should also be able to protect me from the details. Vigilance? What is vigilance? Was it my job to be vigilant before 2001? Hoodies won't even snitch on criminals breaking into their neighbor's house, and I'm supposed to spot international spies? If I have to care more in 2007 than I did in 2000, then yes, the terrorists did win. I want a full restoration of the apathy which was mine in 2000, because my taxes didn't endanger us, intelligence failures did. I was paying the same taxes in 2000 as I am now, and I want the same hands-off government service.
What we need is parking.google.com which is a further development in maps, where google maps any and all available parking spots, lots, and garages in any given area. Often times finding your way around is not even the hard part...finding a place to put your car is.
No stock price to piss off shareholders, who beat up on a board of directors. No CEO for them to beat on, so he can then beat up on his CIO, who then beats up on directors who beat up on team leads, who work hard to create tight solutions. Money is generally a better motivator than standards compliance.
This whole pandering idea is ironic because only nerds have low enough self-esteem to care MORE about what women want as a gender, than they care about what men want. It's about PEOPLE, not gender. Kissing up to women is gonna get you friended, not laid. Who gives a shit what women as a whole want? Most of them are jackall stupid and egocentric, just like the average man. I care what individual beacons, individual people of worth want. People talk about appreciating diversity, but then they cram the differences and distinctions down your throat so damn much, you begin to resent the beneficiary of the damn cramming.
Most taxes suck, but this one would win. Sure, the spammers wouldn't end up paying for spam. But if you tax, say, one cent for each email, then spammers will be forced to acquire many more drones to continue to send out the volume they do. Because if a spammer sends out 10000 emails from one user's compromised PC, Joe Trojan is gonna FLIP OUT about his $100 email bill, and that will drive him to take responsibility for his computer (the "car in neutral rolling down a hill analogy.") Money is the great motivator. For spam to remain unnoticeavle on the averate bill, the spammer could only send like maybe 100-500 TOPS from each infected PC, in this case requiring 20x more drones. Thus, the spamming industry is virtually destroyed. I send what, 200 personal emails a month? I'd pay a $2/mo tax to smite spammers and force personal computing responsibility as a side effect.
Believe me, I really can't stand tech snobs. But linux is a special case--if someone can't manage to self-teach on a free operating system that is perhaps better documented than any other technical topic on the entire internet, I really don't want them working in my environment. If they're doing it for the certification and credentials, fine. But if for the knowledge, no thanks, that is a serious indication that you are hiring a hand-held spectation junkie.
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Tons of apps grew this way. The economics of anonymity are a lot like mob rule. People watch angry mobs do bad things and think "how could these anonymous people do such things?" But sure enough, when they wonder these things, they are not wondering anonymously, they are wondering loudly through their identities and expecting a pat on the back for it. As for the appliance oriented DAW, Protools already covers that and is ubiquitous in pro studios. It's just too expensive for the average home user though. Also a lot of plugin developers like Universal Audio and Powercore are coupling their apps with daughterboards these days. It stops piracy, and also helps the user build out an even more powerful machine. I have and use both. As for price, a lot of companies have student discounts which are not well advertised, so if you're a student always look for this price break.
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Yeah but at what point does it become wrong? Is it wrong when someone conceives the idea, when the idea gestates, when the idea becomes full fledged, or when the idea is under way? What if the astronaut just goes part of the way, and we blow up the ship with a remote detonator?
Srsly people who feel the need to project their own life/death values onto others vicariously are one of the major groups we need to eliminate from this planet if we are to move forward with scientific exploration and William Cooper's "star seed."
Maybe they should be the ones we send, they're bodysnatchers/aliens to begin with, send them home.
I for one find the idea of pandemic chronic sleep deprivation to be complete hogwash. I am not sure where they are getting their data but certttttttttsdafffffffffasdddd xzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzxzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
To elaborate on this, regardless of free publicity, artists have to build up the perception of value before the general public will be capable of viewing something free as valued. That's just human nature, ask any goatboy marketer. Sometimes increasing prices increases sales. And with NIN, if they continue to give music away for free, they will continue to dissipate (or spend) their public perception of value, until a point where only the most hardcore fans are still bothering to download the music, because the novelty of "valued becoming free" will wear off.
We are wired to take free resources lightly. It conserves mental energy and focus for those which are harder to obtain. Ultimately the free music model is untenable for artists who seek to make a living. Then again, who said an ancient folk craft such as composing/songwriting SHOULD be a career? Charles Ives composed some of the most interesting and compelling music of the 20th century while selling insurance for a living. True musicians will continue to produce with or without the money, as they did in the beginning.
All major evolutions kill something off. I think this one will kill off the high dollar, highly pretentious cock rockers who rely on glam to create the perception of social status and fantasy. And what we will be left with is novelty music and grass roots composers, people who want to write music because they like to and are compelled to, as opposed to the overtrained LA, NYC, and London based ninnies who just couldn't hack it in a day job.
Seems like a joke but until internet dating systems replace the reasonably effective social proof system of referral (a lot of women tend to date men they know through others, or whom their friends have dated) then women will always be skeptical of the people they meet there. Also, only part of the problem with lack of response is due to attention whores and fake accounts...a lot of it is due to men being almost incapable of conveying attractiveness and due to them lacking the ability to present themselves well. I mean, read some profiles. People mimic one another constantly. Long walks on beaches, quiet nights at home, zzzzz. I'd wager the math is irrelevant, I prefer parsimony...men online have no safety references and no real hook points to their personalities or lifestyles.
The database didn't lead to the murder...Miller Lite and a double digit IQ did.
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These trollish threads are so tired that, to sound like a snob, I can't even be bothered to rehash this shit again in order to try and get through to these delusional vinyl people. I just wish the mods would consult someone like Bob Katz in the future before even greenlighting threads like these.
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I am one of those people, for about the past 15 years...and I can tell you he is being misleading. He does not present enough evidence to indicate that he is even using a mastering chain remotely similar to that used by labels. I don't know Digital Performer well enough to know whether or not his dragging motion is applying an actual CHAIN, but unless that's a quad processor or he's triggering some sort of "Redo" with that, then he is not processing this wav file with any sort of normal plugins, because they are rendered, and that takes time. Mastering engineers do not DRAG wavs into bigness. Bottom line here is that he does not provide any information to indicate that he is illustrating an analogue of the procedure which creates the sound he is complaining about, so the video is ultimately worthless sensationalism.
I've got to niggle here. This guy is being a bit misleading. He says we have to "take the quieter bits and turn them up." He states nothing about the fx processing chain used to do this, or if one was used at all. If you simply increase the gain to the point where the .wav file takes up the whole screen, then the peaks are going to get clipped exactly at the points where they cross over 0dBfs, which, on the sample/sine level causes a "DC offset" circus consisting of thousands of tiny voltage pops, and is a much more audible and noisy sound than the sound produced by a read ahead brick wall limiter, which makes use of (sometimes automatic) attack and release settings that ease the sound into its dynamic reductions and thus produce a far less audible effect per decibel of gain reduction.
.wav's size, rather than hitting some sort of "processing" or "rendering" button leads me to believe he is gain tinkering, because inline effects take time to render, sometimes as much as 30 seconds or more. The one guy in the comments who contested him on it, he blew off. Go figure.
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It's actually a quite important nitpick and really makes a difference, not just sonically but factually, if he is trying to claim that what he is demonstrating is somehow analogous to what music labels are doing. If he is gain tinkering, then this video is a fraud. The way he drags the
You've just been tagged by one of those verbose nuance nerds on
Adverts are louder because the advent of digital brick wall limiting allowed for a reduced dynamic range, which means the entire program level can be increased without incurring distortion by consistently exceeding 0dBfs. Psychoacoustic A/B studies have proven that people pay more attention to louder programs than a softer counterpart. Compare the relatively uncompressed CSPANs 1-3 against FOX NEWS and tell me which one seems more "engaging," regardless of the value of the content.
In the 1980s, music was softer because all they had were high quality compressors, but compressors use real time attack and release parameters, whereas digital brickwall limiters are "read ahead" and so they can look at the upcoming material and handle distortion much, much better. You can get usually up to 4-6 decibels of mean RMS limitation out of a read ahead limiter before it starts to smell funny.
Almost nobody wants jumpy pop music, with drastic amplitude changes. Dramatic, startling music like Stravinsky, Wagner, or Mahler is kewl for what it is, but the average pop listener just does not want that. Pop listeners by and large want their dynamic changes to come from changes in the arrangements (guitars dropping out, drummer hitting lighter or sidesticking, etc.)
It's a fine line, because contrast is important to maintain interest, but too much contrast is downright annoying. When it comes to dance and rock, I like the current average loudness levels in most cases. The reason some albums sound like shit is either because the mix engineer didn't know what he was doing and so he handed off a shitty mix with bass and drums poorly mixed and so the mastering engineer tried to compensate with the limiter in pursuit of an ideal mean or peak RMS--or because the mix was fine and the mastering engineer was a stupid, deaf tool who can't hear distortions. In most cases though, this is not the case. There is material out there like some of Paul Van Dyk's stuff that hits a -8 mean RMS, and sounds fantastic...because PVD KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING. In contrast, the guy who mastered the RHCP's Californication needs to be shot into the sun.
Brilliant! My own personal trojan aggregator! It'll be XSS mania! Seriously, maybe if this included a tightly managed and trusted whitelist. Otherwise, I'd never go near a browsing bot. My browsing is so chaotic anyway, I'd hate to be the miner trying to market at me.
Is all external communication prohibited? What's to keep someone from composing a blog entry in their head, and then just phoning someone else up and dictating it? Is it specifically the use of networked devices? What sort of shoulder surfing has to take place for a blogger to even get caught?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
Sounds like webcollage, with tags. http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/
The real fuckin essence of the point behind goddamned censorship is to try and remind onesself to practice temperance. Some people use motherfuckin cuss words very casually and with little emotion, but for the asslickin majority of douchebags out there, shit talking cuss words represent a temporary indulgence of a sort of internal cunting anger, bitch. People draw on cocksuckin cuss words to add force to what they are saying, jackass, and that desire and willingness to add a cheap sort of force to words, rather than letting the fudgepacking, nutlicking words carry their own weight, is the real peril. This sort of buttramming neurolinguistic nuance is lost on dicksucking fundies tho.
of time from millions of people. If you were to add up all the individual charges for each incident of spamming, the total additive penalty would be well over life in prison. Yeah, he does belong in prison for life. Sentences are not just for the severity of crime, they are also for repetition and scale of the offense. Imagine this...if you took the total amount of suffering he has created, and concentrated it all into one single victim, how severe would that victim's torment be?
I'm the customer. I'm a taxpayer. I want my security delivered seamlessly, in black box fashion, with perhaps a power point once a year to show me how I'm more safe than I was last year. In no other client/agent scenario does one pay a full one third of his salary in order to not only receive a service, but to also have the infinite and minute details of that service regularly crammed down his throat against his will, with a side helping of FUD. It's not enough that we haven't been hit since 2001. For this government to be good at securing America, they should also be able to protect me from the details. Vigilance? What is vigilance? Was it my job to be vigilant before 2001? Hoodies won't even snitch on criminals breaking into their neighbor's house, and I'm supposed to spot international spies? If I have to care more in 2007 than I did in 2000, then yes, the terrorists did win. I want a full restoration of the apathy which was mine in 2000, because my taxes didn't endanger us, intelligence failures did. I was paying the same taxes in 2000 as I am now, and I want the same hands-off government service.
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What we need is parking.google.com which is a further development in maps, where google maps any and all available parking spots, lots, and garages in any given area. Often times finding your way around is not even the hard part...finding a place to put your car is.
No stock price to piss off shareholders, who beat up on a board of directors. No CEO for them to beat on, so he can then beat up on his CIO, who then beats up on directors who beat up on team leads, who work hard to create tight solutions. Money is generally a better motivator than standards compliance.
This whole pandering idea is ironic because only nerds have low enough self-esteem to care MORE about what women want as a gender, than they care about what men want. It's about PEOPLE, not gender. Kissing up to women is gonna get you friended, not laid. Who gives a shit what women as a whole want? Most of them are jackall stupid and egocentric, just like the average man. I care what individual beacons, individual people of worth want. People talk about appreciating diversity, but then they cram the differences and distinctions down your throat so damn much, you begin to resent the beneficiary of the damn cramming.
Most taxes suck, but this one would win. Sure, the spammers wouldn't end up paying for spam. But if you tax, say, one cent for each email, then spammers will be forced to acquire many more drones to continue to send out the volume they do. Because if a spammer sends out 10000 emails from one user's compromised PC, Joe Trojan is gonna FLIP OUT about his $100 email bill, and that will drive him to take responsibility for his computer (the "car in neutral rolling down a hill analogy.") Money is the great motivator. For spam to remain unnoticeavle on the averate bill, the spammer could only send like maybe 100-500 TOPS from each infected PC, in this case requiring 20x more drones. Thus, the spamming industry is virtually destroyed. I send what, 200 personal emails a month? I'd pay a $2/mo tax to smite spammers and force personal computing responsibility as a side effect.
Believe me, I really can't stand tech snobs. But linux is a special case--if someone can't manage to self-teach on a free operating system that is perhaps better documented than any other technical topic on the entire internet, I really don't want them working in my environment. If they're doing it for the certification and credentials, fine. But if for the knowledge, no thanks, that is a serious indication that you are hiring a hand-held spectation junkie.
Tons of apps grew this way. The economics of anonymity are a lot like mob rule. People watch angry mobs do bad things and think "how could these anonymous people do such things?" But sure enough, when they wonder these things, they are not wondering anonymously, they are wondering loudly through their identities and expecting a pat on the back for it. As for the appliance oriented DAW, Protools already covers that and is ubiquitous in pro studios. It's just too expensive for the average home user though. Also a lot of plugin developers like Universal Audio and Powercore are coupling their apps with daughterboards these days. It stops piracy, and also helps the user build out an even more powerful machine. I have and use both. As for price, a lot of companies have student discounts which are not well advertised, so if you're a student always look for this price break.