Well, Lord of the Rings is a book that should take, at most, a few weeks to read. Then it's off to other books, etc. I guess if he goes into a loop, just re-reading LOTR, there might be a problem.
With the gaming, on the other hand, it's a long, long loop of the same thing, for extended periods.
1.In several of these activities, such as schools and the police, the stated goals of the public organization is to offer services at least as good as their private conterparts, but for no cost whatsoever to the consumer of the service.
Seriously, are you living under the illusion that the police are charged with the responsibility of providing you with the same degree of personal security that Bill Gates can purchase with his billions?
The original music, recorded on vinyl, as you say, was played by the performer from sheet music, which includes dynamic cues and precise timing data.
I even have this fancy software (not sure if it's still published) called 'Desktop Sheet Music' published by Midisoft. It lets you enter the score, completely and 100% accurately, and then it's played back EXACTLY how the composer intended.
When I want to listen to a great performance of classical music, I want the original recording, played back on equipment that does the best possible job of playing back that actual recording. Worrying about and/or corrupting the fidelity of the recording to remove 'scratches' seems to me like fretting about the back of the theatre seat in front of you at a theatre performance. Deal with the fact that you have no business 'cleaning up' something you didn't originate.
The achievement is being able to accurately translate a recording into MIDI instructions.
Yes!! Then we can download said MIDI files off Usenet and play them on our 8-bit Sound Blaster Pro cards. What a great idea! I'm getting excited just thinking about those warm tones ol' Sound Blaster is capable of.
You're really entitled to your opinion. And entitled to use the OS that suits you. Apparently it's not Unix or a Unix-workalike.
Some people like you (I won't say 'people like you' because I could be wrong, and I'm gonna let you be the one doing all the presuming here) seem to think Linux and Unix need to 'battle' Microsoft Windows to succeed.
Not to mention the fact that hours are suspiciously non-metric unit of measure. Where are the kilohours? Why not ten hours per day and one hundred hours per minute?
Where's a good French Revolutionary when one is needed?
And then of course there are those little towns that deliberatlely set their speed limits WAY too freaking low.
Or, perhaps, it's because so many of the citizens dogs are getting run over by outsiders rocketing through town, and parents of five year olds are becoming worried.
I think we've all been on the highway where there are traffic signals every few miles, and they're all timed together to insure that people travelling the speed limit will get through without having to stop.
Then there are often a few tards who jackrabbit around the people going the speed limit so they can be waiting, in front of normal traffic, stopped at the red light, which will change green smoothly a bit before the normal traffic drivers arrive at it.
But the fricking speeders are stopped, in front of said lights, and end up forcing EVERYBODY behind them to stop, too.
I've seen the kind of broken garbage that people like you create because you're 'empowered' with Microsoft Turd. The outlining and hierarchical layout of that program (and it's poor imitators) is so fragile it actually interferes with the freedom of the user to outline ideas (any experienced user knows to be very, very careful about moving stuff around)
A few months, stuck on a desert island with only FrameMaker would do you a lot of good.
Then you can either sling shit on the customer's plate or pitch it to the dogs out back by the dumpsters and start fresh.
To stretch the metaphor, sometimes the customer is in a hurry and isn't expecting a gourmet meal. To stretch it even further, are you the software developer equivalent of a gourmet chef, or just another dude trained to run the fry machine at Burger King?
Of course, import tariffs on food, created by developed countries in order to protect their domestic agriculture don't help even a little bit.
But you see, it's possible that they will. Big agribusiness interests are the ones who are hurt most by import tarrifs. They want to keep certain third-world nations 'bananna republics' and in order to do this they must continue to grow banannas in them and haul the banannas to 'First World' countries as cash crops. The actual people in the third-world nations would be better off growing mixed crops for local consumption. So import tariffs that cut off the market for the agribusinesses might force them loosen their stranglehold.
Companies do this because there's more PR in charities than paying your taxes.
Actually, some entities do this because the government is so corrupted, slanted by special interests, and utterly incapable of doing certain needed things. Many charitable foundations have people who might be termed 'captains of industry' sitting on their board, people who have PROVEN they are capable administrators. Government, on the other hand, is composed of careerist civil service sloths, and the overgrown shyster 'used car salesmen' types who succeed in politics.
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Well, Lord of the Rings is a book that should take, at most, a few weeks to read. Then it's off to other books, etc. I guess if he goes into a loop, just re-reading LOTR, there might be a problem.
With the gaming, on the other hand, it's a long, long loop of the same thing, for extended periods.
So your comparison doesn't really hold.
Post-MUD typing speed: circa 90-100wpm, depending on content.
Unfortunately, data entry jobs aren't very rewarding.
Your example is weak because I fail to see why the government should subsidize some billionaires' Yacht Race.
Let Larry Ellision take swimming lessons, or pay for his own search/rescue team.
1.In several of these activities, such as schools and the police, the stated goals of the public organization is to offer services at least as good as their private conterparts, but for no cost whatsoever to the consumer of the service.
Seriously, are you living under the illusion that the police are charged with the responsibility of providing you with the same degree of personal security that Bill Gates can purchase with his billions?
Seriously??
The original music, recorded on vinyl, as you say, was played by the performer from sheet music, which includes dynamic cues and precise timing data.
I even have this fancy software (not sure if it's still published) called 'Desktop Sheet Music' published by Midisoft. It lets you enter the score, completely and 100% accurately, and then it's played back EXACTLY how the composer intended.
When I want to listen to a great performance of classical music, I want the original recording, played back on equipment that does the best possible job of playing back that actual recording. Worrying about and/or corrupting the fidelity of the recording to remove 'scratches' seems to me like fretting about the back of the theatre seat in front of you at a theatre performance. Deal with the fact that you have no business 'cleaning up' something you didn't originate.
The achievement is being able to accurately translate a recording into MIDI instructions.
Yes!! Then we can download said MIDI files off Usenet and play them on our 8-bit Sound Blaster Pro cards. What a great idea! I'm getting excited just thinking about those warm tones ol' Sound Blaster is capable of.
I was thinking more that it would be similar to a Chuck E Cheese experience. Do they still have robotic musicians at said venue?
I don't run Linux anywhere at the moment.
Unix, baybee.
You're really entitled to your opinion. And entitled to use the OS that suits you. Apparently it's not Unix or a Unix-workalike.
Some people like you (I won't say 'people like you' because I could be wrong, and I'm gonna let you be the one doing all the presuming here) seem to think Linux and Unix need to 'battle' Microsoft Windows to succeed.
Hell with that.
Accept some honest criticism, or your experiment will fail.
Not only has my 'experiment' not failed, I'm typing a response to you through use of it.
Your experience may differ. Take a guess if I'm worried.
Actually, /usr/local isn't 'the easy way out.' It's the UNIX tradition, which became a tradition over the last 25+ years.
But lord help us, the upstart Microsoft tailpipe chasers have invented something new.
Sure, let's go and give incentives for farmers to farm the heck out of their land.
Who proposed offering said incentives? It's not an either/or proposition.
It runs a branded UNIX?
When did MacOS 10 become a branded UNIX?
Did they really 'invent' that much of the technology, or did they just implement the stuff invented at CERN?
Not to mention the fact that hours are suspiciously non-metric unit of measure. Where are the kilohours? Why not ten hours per day and one hundred hours per minute?
Where's a good French Revolutionary when one is needed?
(all beheaded?!?!?)
And then of course there are those little towns that deliberatlely set their speed limits WAY too freaking low.
Or, perhaps, it's because so many of the citizens dogs are getting run over by outsiders rocketing through town, and parents of five year olds are becoming worried.
Barring that, they will tailgate within an inch of your bumper
I miss having a sun roof, and a coffee can full of taconite pellets beside me on the passenger seat.
(okay, just fantasizing)
To augment your comment:
I think we've all been on the highway where there are traffic signals every few miles, and they're all timed together to insure that people travelling the speed limit will get through without having to stop.
Then there are often a few tards who jackrabbit around the people going the speed limit so they can be waiting, in front of normal traffic, stopped at the red light, which will change green smoothly a bit before the normal traffic drivers arrive at it.
But the fricking speeders are stopped, in front of said lights, and end up forcing EVERYBODY behind them to stop, too.
Thanks, piston boy.
Office 2003 has a smoother looking interface and it sports a shit load more tools, features, and UI enhancements
It has more shiney buttons, broken features, and bullshit adventures for the user to wander off into.
An excellent opportunity for desk jockeys to prove their worth to the less alert PHBs.
Maybe you don't write system documentation
Jebus F. Cripes!
I've seen the kind of broken garbage that people like you create because you're 'empowered' with Microsoft Turd. The outlining and hierarchical layout of that program (and it's poor imitators) is so fragile it actually interferes with the freedom of the user to outline ideas (any experienced user knows to be very, very careful about moving stuff around)
A few months, stuck on a desert island with only FrameMaker would do you a lot of good.
Word processors can also be used by total pratts to justify their desk jockey status in a company.
Then you can either sling shit on the customer's plate or pitch it to the dogs out back by the dumpsters and start fresh.
To stretch the metaphor, sometimes the customer is in a hurry and isn't expecting a gourmet meal. To stretch it even further, are you the software developer equivalent of a gourmet chef, or just another dude trained to run the fry machine at Burger King?
Of course, import tariffs on food, created by developed countries in order to protect their domestic agriculture don't help even a little bit.
But you see, it's possible that they will. Big agribusiness interests are the ones who are hurt most by import tarrifs. They want to keep certain third-world nations 'bananna republics' and in order to do this they must continue to grow banannas in them and haul the banannas to 'First World' countries as cash crops. The actual people in the third-world nations would be better off growing mixed crops for local consumption. So import tariffs that cut off the market for the agribusinesses might force them loosen their stranglehold.
I choose a third option.
3. Google is really no better or worse than the average corporation, and the average corporation can and sometimes is benevolent.
You see? It's not an either/or choice.
Actually, one day the entirely of Google may be worth as much as the Gates Foundation gives each year.
Companies do this because there's more PR in charities than paying your taxes.
Actually, some entities do this because the government is so corrupted, slanted by special interests, and utterly incapable of doing certain needed things. Many charitable foundations have people who might be termed 'captains of industry' sitting on their board, people who have PROVEN they are capable administrators. Government, on the other hand, is composed of careerist civil service sloths, and the overgrown shyster 'used car salesmen' types who succeed in politics.