There's never a smoking gun in the hand of a politician. Nixon's henchmen came *close* to delivering a smoking gun, but that's still not quite good enough.
There ae always allegations of fraud in elections. But you'll never have, say, Jeb Bush getting a conscience and going before the House and saying "I helped rig the election, these individuals were fully aware that I was doing it [names], I was paid $x by $y, etc."
If there could simply be some PAINFULLY OBVIOUS, clear evidence that can't be explained away or ignored or dismissed as paranoia, that the democratic process has been subverted, heads would roll.
So connect the dots if you will, and go ahead and make your weak case. I'm just waiting for the strong case. The one that triggers out-and-out violent revolution the day after an election.
Next to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the TABC is the most corrupt government agency I've ever personally done business with. Clean your own house before you criticize someone else's housekeeping.
The "repeal" of prohibition put the States in charge of control of alcohol. Give a State the option of whether to control something, and they will always opt in, not out.
It's a holdover from prohibition that all alcohol goes through a state controlled distribution point to begin with. Prohibition may have been repealed (for alcohol anyway) but the means to bring it back if the state desired, were certainly preserved. Had there been an alternative distribution method (e.g., the opportunity for competition in the industry) this would not be a newsworthy story.
What is important about this story is not that the state uses software or that the software malfunctioned, but that the state maintains a single point of control for the distribution of a commodity product, and the people in that state tolerate such a scheme.
Nothing to see here. People who care about this sort of thing should take part in the process of government, and if they don't, then they should understand they brought their misfortune on themselves.
Personally, I think they should just bring back prohibition, and start treating people who use (the dangerous drug) alcohol the same way they treat people who use all the other substances the government doesn't approve of.
For every true rags to riches story, there's a fucton more rags + herculean effort = still rags stories.
There's a guy around here who gives success motivation talks, he's pretty popular on a local level. But I just think it's hilarious, because here's this young, tall, white guy who dresses well and has good teeth, who seems to sincerely believe the source of his success comes from his attitude. It hasn't occurred to him that he had most of the ingredients of being successful handed to him, or that being attractive in the mediagenic sense has done more for his success than his attitude.
This urban legend won't stop, but the truth is, it's damned hard to get a corp. to pay LEGITIMATE invoices. The notion that crap gets paid out just because the bill arrives is preposterous.
"I find it far more frightening that 100% of CIOs were asked this question...."
The sample had enough members to allow 84%. The article says "100 CIO's were surveyed." But it's meaningless unless we can study the survey and the methods used to evaluate it.
That could mean they picked 25 people to consider out of the 100 responses. Or they could be rounding or averaging the result, after asking 10 people. Maybe they surveyed eight people and got seven replies? Maybe the 84% represents an interpretation of a number of questions on some survey with biased wording? Or maybe it's just made up?
We don't know, because we know nothing about the research methods used. so, in an academic sense, it's worthless information supported by no data, with no opportunity for review. It's not reproducible, and it's not credible.
"For those who are playing at home, this is the approximate noise floor of 16-bit linear PCM. "
But if you're serious about digital recording you're doing 24 bit. And I'm tired of hearing about how it doesn't matter, because it does. You may not be able to hear high frequencies directly, but I strongly believe you perceive them indirectly, such as in the subtleties of imaging, in the timbre of woodwinds, and in the overall resonance of a piano. *subtle* but important, IMO, and it *is* My O that matters here.
"Do you really want to trust your masters to an audio format that itself introduces generation loss? "
No, it was just an example. I love my Delta card. But I record my practice sessions on minidisc and I would still like to be able to extract the audio without going through any DA converter. Lossy ATRAC or not, it can't be worse than the stupid analog signal at the stupid headphone or line jack.
If there is a microphone involved, say for quiet vocals or acoustic instruments, you still need one of the more expensive parts of the recording studio that you'd like to say is obsolete: you need quiet.
It's really, really expensive to get -96dB of quiet. Maybe you aren't that picky, but I record acoustic piano and wood flute, and the slightest extraneous sound ruins a take.
Another important thing, is there is still a divide between the best you can do with consumer equipment and minimum requirements for output that will be acceptable by professional production standards.
Especially if your work needs to be sync'd with any kind of video, you're pretty much screwed if you don't have timecoded takes for every track from start to finish. They'll re-do your work rather than do some old-school painstaking syncing tracks by hand.
So you can get "good enough" with home/consumer equipment, but the stretch between "good enough" for an amateur, and "equal to pro quality" is still pretty damned huge, and tends to be expensive.
We're getting there, but one of the most annoying things is that the equipment manufacturers *intentionally* cripple consumer gear. Things like SCMS, or no digital output on recorders, really annoy me. It costs MORE to put an anolog output circuit on the minidisc recorders than it would to just put sp/dif output. Think about it.
>>...They came without a notice - no warrant, no >>nothing. They're making up their own laws, if >>you ask me.
>ok, so if they didnt have a warrant, why didnt >you just tell them to get the hell out of your >store?
Or even, call the State Police and have them arrested for robbery. Not just shoplifting mind you, we're talking organized crime here, 5-25 years in prison for each individual and whoever they took their orders from.
But we're not really hearing the whole story, are we?
I think there are schools where the administrators feel absolutely in control, and then there are schools where the administrators are absolutely terrified to make the slightest wave lest they turn a manageable situation into Attica, get it?
I saw this phenomenon 20 years before Columbine. I went to schools where a wrong look from a teacher could have turned the place into the Alamo. I'm totally not kidding. You walked the line, no matter whether you were a geek or a jock. You learned how to fight with who you could fight, and you learned who you DIDN'T fight with or you would, quite literally, die.
This is no bullshit.
Other schools, I'm sure, are filled with more or less obedient members of a genteel, homogenized society, where teachers and administrators feel empowered to say "do this" and pretty much get what they want. Other places, they say "do this", and it's a joke. Start insisting on things, and you have to decide how bad you want certain behavior, because any time you push too hard, it's probably going to involve cops, some kids getting carted off to juvy, and there will be consequences. So you don't play the trump card of discipline every time you think you want to control some behavior.
Believe me, getting them to say the pledge of allegience is pretty low on the list of priorities for some people. The people who have so much space to worry about crap like this, don't know how lucky they are.
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Yeah good idea. You do understand the motivation for a secret ballot, correct?
If you can confirm who you voted for, you have opened the door to abuse. (Hint: a union boss suddenly weilds incredible political power).
But it's almost always amid a cloud of doubt.
There's never a smoking gun in the hand of a politician. Nixon's henchmen came *close* to delivering a smoking gun, but that's still not quite good enough.
There ae always allegations of fraud in elections. But you'll never have, say, Jeb Bush getting a conscience and going before the House and saying "I helped rig the election, these individuals were fully aware that I was doing it [names], I was paid $x by $y, etc."
If there could simply be some PAINFULLY OBVIOUS, clear evidence that can't be explained away or ignored or dismissed as paranoia, that the democratic process has been subverted, heads would roll.
So connect the dots if you will, and go ahead and make your weak case. I'm just waiting for the strong case. The one that triggers out-and-out violent revolution the day after an election.
>> that war is too expensive.
>Now you are expecting the heads of state to have
>common sense?
The language being spoken here is "dollars and cents" not "common sense." So, as a matter of fact, it's reasonable to expect them to understand.
>told us to turn down the barometer.
Wouldn't that be something!
It ain't the heat, it's the humidity?
>You can read the internal memos
Where?
That page leads to 404 links. Maybe information wants to be free, but this information seems to want to be 404.
Yes, yes, bitwidth is the time domain, not frequency.
I shouldn't make claims about auditory perception.
You got me there.
But given a choice between higher quality and lower quality electronics, give me higher, period.
Every step into the process introduces aberration. Don't think in terms of one sampling, think of aggregate resampling.
And give me a quiet damned room to record flute. Don't argue with me about what's quiet enough.
I see that as a reason to let them steep in their own shit.
If you bring your own downfall, don't expect sympathy.
I take it you have never tried to obtain (or simply *keep*) a liquor license in Texas then?
You will never deal with bigger assholes in your life.
Wishing won't do it. I'm beginning to think the only way it's ever gonna happen is if potsmokers join the republican party. You read that right.
Change the platform from within, by sheer numbers. Fuck trying to run against it with independent parties. Just fix the predominate party.
Unfortunately, that would take *work* not to mention patience and money. So it's hopeless.
>And this seemed like a good idea?
Presumably it's done with the affirmative consent of the voters in the state. If they made their bed, why shouldn't we let them lie in it?
>Mine (Texas) is not.
Next to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the TABC is the most corrupt government agency I've ever personally done business with. Clean your own house before you criticize someone else's housekeeping.
The "repeal" of prohibition put the States in charge of control of alcohol. Give a State the option of whether to control something, and they will always opt in, not out.
It's a holdover from prohibition that all alcohol goes through a state controlled distribution point to begin with. Prohibition may have been repealed (for alcohol anyway) but the means to bring it back if the state desired, were certainly preserved. Had there been an alternative distribution method (e.g., the opportunity for competition in the industry) this would not be a newsworthy story.
What is important about this story is not that the state uses software or that the software malfunctioned, but that the state maintains a single point of control for the distribution of a commodity product, and the people in that state tolerate such a scheme.
Nothing to see here. People who care about this sort of thing should take part in the process of government, and if they don't, then they should understand they brought their misfortune on themselves.
Personally, I think they should just bring back prohibition, and start treating people who use (the dangerous drug) alcohol the same way they treat people who use all the other substances the government doesn't approve of.
The real work happens on VMWare images. I have baseline and milestone images. If I'm starting a documentation project, I start it on a fresh VM.
If I had to stand in line for bread, I'd at least check to see if the line for flour is shorter.
>Ever heard of "From Rags to Riches" stories?
For every true rags to riches story, there's a fucton more rags + herculean effort = still rags stories.
There's a guy around here who gives success motivation talks, he's pretty popular on a local level. But I just think it's hilarious, because here's this young, tall, white guy who dresses well and has good teeth, who seems to sincerely believe the source of his success comes from his attitude. It hasn't occurred to him that he had most of the ingredients of being successful handed to him, or that being attractive in the mediagenic sense has done more for his success than his attitude.
>Next time check your facts before posting.
Right, when my AP department cuts a check for my last expense report, I'll be with you on that.
Clearly you haven't worked in the corporate world.
If you want your invoices paid, you have to do more than just send them. You have to hound the people who will eventually pay you.
This urban legend won't stop, but the truth is, it's damned hard to get a corp. to pay LEGITIMATE invoices. The notion that crap gets paid out just because the bill arrives is preposterous.
"I find it far more frightening that 100% of CIOs were asked this question...."
The sample had enough members to allow 84%. The article says "100 CIO's were surveyed." But it's meaningless unless we can study the survey and the methods used to evaluate it.
That could mean they picked 25 people to consider out of the 100 responses. Or they could be rounding or averaging the result, after asking 10 people. Maybe they surveyed eight people and got seven replies? Maybe the 84% represents an interpretation of a number of questions on some survey with biased wording? Or maybe it's just made up?
We don't know, because we know nothing about the research methods used. so, in an academic sense, it's worthless information supported by no data, with no opportunity for review. It's not reproducible, and it's not credible.
Or, any number of things could go wrong with the plan, and you could end up losing your house. Even *if* SCO loses, *you* could still lose.
Borrowing stock might work, but it could backfire bigtime.
"For those who are playing at home, this is the approximate noise floor of 16-bit linear PCM. "
But if you're serious about digital recording you're doing 24 bit. And I'm tired of hearing about how it doesn't matter, because it does. You may not be able to hear high frequencies directly, but I strongly believe you perceive them indirectly, such as in the subtleties of imaging, in the timbre of woodwinds, and in the overall resonance of a piano. *subtle* but important, IMO, and it *is* My O that matters here.
"Do you really want to trust your masters to an audio format that itself introduces generation loss? "
No, it was just an example. I love my Delta card. But I record my practice sessions on minidisc and I would still like to be able to extract the audio without going through any DA converter. Lossy ATRAC or not, it can't be worse than the stupid analog signal at the stupid headphone or line jack.
Biz types tend to remember Edison. Physics types tend to remember Tesla. This is as it should be, to my reckoning.
If there is a microphone involved, say for quiet vocals or acoustic instruments, you still need one of the more expensive parts of the recording studio that you'd like to say is obsolete: you need quiet.
It's really, really expensive to get -96dB of quiet. Maybe you aren't that picky, but I record acoustic piano and wood flute, and the slightest extraneous sound ruins a take.
Another important thing, is there is still a divide between the best you can do with consumer equipment and minimum requirements for output that will be acceptable by professional production standards.
Especially if your work needs to be sync'd with any kind of video, you're pretty much screwed if you don't have timecoded takes for every track from start to finish. They'll re-do your work rather than do some old-school painstaking syncing tracks by hand.
So you can get "good enough" with home/consumer equipment, but the stretch between "good enough" for an amateur, and "equal to pro quality" is still pretty damned huge, and tends to be expensive.
We're getting there, but one of the most annoying things is that the equipment manufacturers *intentionally* cripple consumer gear. Things like SCMS, or no digital output on recorders, really annoy me. It costs MORE to put an anolog output circuit on the minidisc recorders than it would to just put sp/dif output. Think about it.
>>...They came without a notice - no warrant, no
>>nothing. They're making up their own laws, if
>>you ask me.
>ok, so if they didnt have a warrant, why didnt
>you just tell them to get the hell out of your
>store?
Or even, call the State Police and have them arrested for robbery. Not just shoplifting mind you, we're talking organized crime here, 5-25 years in prison for each individual and whoever they took their orders from.
But we're not really hearing the whole story, are we?
I think there are schools where the administrators feel absolutely in control, and then there are schools where the administrators are absolutely terrified to make the slightest wave lest they turn a manageable situation into Attica, get it?
I saw this phenomenon 20 years before Columbine. I went to schools where a wrong look from a teacher could have turned the place into the Alamo. I'm totally not kidding. You walked the line, no matter whether you were a geek or a jock. You learned how to fight with who you could fight, and you learned who you DIDN'T fight with or you would, quite literally, die.
This is no bullshit.
Other schools, I'm sure, are filled with more or less obedient members of a genteel, homogenized society, where teachers and administrators feel empowered to say "do this" and pretty much get what they want. Other places, they say "do this", and it's a joke. Start insisting on things, and you have to decide how bad you want certain behavior, because any time you push too hard, it's probably going to involve cops, some kids getting carted off to juvy, and there will be consequences. So you don't play the trump card of discipline every time you think you want to control some behavior.
Believe me, getting them to say the pledge of allegience is pretty low on the list of priorities for some people. The people who have so much space to worry about crap like this, don't know how lucky they are.