This is true, but they could do so much more. Imagine a first-rate SVG implementation that maps directly to their Quartz display server. Maybe we can expect something like that? Or would it go against the lean-and-mean promises they've already made?
Ooh, what a fun game...mix statements made by different people into a context as though they were said by the same person, and point out how they're incompatible, and see how many +1 insightful points you can get from the witless moderators.
There's got to be a latin phrase for this kind of fallacy, like argumentum ad dorkum?
I've always wondered about the VTVL thing...doesn't vertical landing require fuel...extra fuel, that is...versus something like a lifting body which can, more or less, fall unpowered to an airstrip?
Someone in HR uses some other person's job offer (in.doc format) as a template to offer her a job. Sends document in email.
Wife gets email, but doesn't have Word handy. She's a unix geek, so she uses the strings command to look at the text...screams "WTF!?" at the absurdly low salary offer.
A moment later, realizes that her name isn't "John Smith".
Closer scrutiny reveals what this guy applied for, where he lives, and how much they offered him. It was in Word's undo stack, which travelled with the document.
That was true in the previous generation. If you hang out in the forums for the older generation (based on the Axsys and AX2 flagship models) they talk about this problem quite a bit.
If you hang out in the Vetta forum, nobody has this problem.
Of course, you can still make mistakes in operating the amplifer...dialing up a tone at low volumes in your livingroom is not a good way to design a preset that you intend to use at gig volume. There's always room for using a tool badly.
This is a real problem, because fewer and fewer companies make tubes any more and there are a lot of us guitar players who still are not satisfied with the way these modelling amps sound.
On the flip side, with every generation of modelling technology, more of these unsatisfied tube purists become satisfied digital modelling customers. The graininess that you talked about was really evident to me in the previous generation. The Line6 Vetta won me over.
I don't think there will be any reason to look to quantum computing when the next generation DSPs will give plenty of room for model improvement even beyond the Vetta.
I just had Helter Stupid playing just yesterday. That whole thing is just brilliant! I get goosebumps at the end where he says "good night" and the ambulance sirens fade into the distance.
Doesn't it really come down to one's own vision of what constitutes "good"? Speaking only for myself, "powerful" and "useful" are not sufficient conditions for "good". Call me a zealot, but I like the commercial software that I buy to play nice with software from other vendors, meaning open protocols and document formats. I also like it to require a platform upgrade only when the unique needs of the application genuinely demands it.
Being a disappointed ex-customer of Microsoft is not necessarily bigotry...sometimes it's an informed opinion.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Let the buyer beware.
people will take you more seriously when you say "Apple's new technology poses a real threat to MS" if you don't follow it with "I'm getting a sex change so I could maybe have Steve's baby"
When did quotation marks become horribly-biased-paraphrase-marks? Was it about the same time that you said "I'm a pedophile"?
It strikes me that a company that cannot manage its finances responsibly would not make a good employer either...but would you be allowed to peek at their ledger when seeking a job? Even if it were a policy that you had set for yourself and you must apply it to all potential employers for the sake of consistent application?
SPOILER ALERT! Do not read this review if you don't want the movie to be spoiled for you! SPOILER ALERT!
A vengeful character with a connection to the captain's past surfaces to draw the Enterprise, and her crew, into a long battle in space that climaxes during an apparently-hopeless situation where a doomsday weapon goes through an agonizingly long warm-up sequence that is just about to conclude when an emotionless friend and crewmember tragically sacrifices himself for the good of the many, but not before he manages to make a backup copy of his consciousness and secures a compatible replacement body on which to install it for the rebirth of his character in a future film.
The two of you are addressing different points. You are talking about who the audience is, but the grandparent was paraphrasing the message. You are both correct: the shareholders are the audience, and the message was correctly translated by the grandparent post.
Are there any answering machines out there with an AUX line-level input so that you don't lose the quality of the sound file when crossing the speaker/microphone barrier?
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This is true, but they could do so much more. Imagine a first-rate SVG implementation that maps directly to their Quartz display server. Maybe we can expect something like that? Or would it go against the lean-and-mean promises they've already made?
so that's what passes for humor these days.
Ooh, what a fun game...mix statements made by different people into a context as though they were said by the same person, and point out how they're incompatible, and see how many +1 insightful points you can get from the witless moderators.
There's got to be a latin phrase for this kind of fallacy, like argumentum ad dorkum?
I've always wondered about the VTVL thing...doesn't vertical landing require fuel...extra fuel, that is...versus something like a lifting body which can, more or less, fall unpowered to an airstrip?
That was true in the previous generation. If you hang out in the forums for the older generation (based on the Axsys and AX2 flagship models) they talk about this problem quite a bit.
If you hang out in the Vetta forum, nobody has this problem.
Of course, you can still make mistakes in operating the amplifer...dialing up a tone at low volumes in your livingroom is not a good way to design a preset that you intend to use at gig volume. There's always room for using a tool badly.
On the flip side, with every generation of modelling technology, more of these unsatisfied tube purists become satisfied digital modelling customers. The graininess that you talked about was really evident to me in the previous generation. The Line6 Vetta won me over.
I don't think there will be any reason to look to quantum computing when the next generation DSPs will give plenty of room for model improvement even beyond the Vetta.
Same here. I've had a Vetta Combo for over a year, and I'm still in love with it.
I just had Helter Stupid playing just yesterday. That whole thing is just brilliant! I get goosebumps at the end where he says "good night" and the ambulance sirens fade into the distance.
He still only gets 50%, because he neglected to describe Steve Jobs as "mercurial".
Ok, but he didn't describe Steve Jobs as "mercurial", so there. ;-)
Darwin is licensed under the "Apple Public Source License Ver. 1.2", which is on the list of approved licences at opensource.org.
Yes! Think about all of the poor, starving Microsoft employees!
...mmm...coca-cola...
Doesn't it really come down to one's own vision of what constitutes "good"? Speaking only for myself, "powerful" and "useful" are not sufficient conditions for "good". Call me a zealot, but I like the commercial software that I buy to play nice with software from other vendors, meaning open protocols and document formats. I also like it to require a platform upgrade only when the unique needs of the application genuinely demands it.
Being a disappointed ex-customer of Microsoft is not necessarily bigotry...sometimes it's an informed opinion.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Let the buyer beware.
It's not plagarism when you properly attribute it to the original author, genius.
Brilliant folks, those MR geniuses...can't even make a site that displays correctly in the latest mozilla. I can't wait to see what they invent next.
Sure, it's unattributed...but at least it's verbatim.
When did quotation marks become horribly-biased-paraphrase-marks? Was it about the same time that you said "I'm a pedophile"?
built-in symbol-table obfuscation? Even at interface boundaries?
It strikes me that a company that cannot manage its finances responsibly would not make a good employer either...but would you be allowed to peek at their ledger when seeking a job? Even if it were a policy that you had set for yourself and you must apply it to all potential employers for the sake of consistent application?
SPOILER ALERT! Do not read this review if you don't want the movie to be spoiled for you! SPOILER ALERT!
A vengeful character with a connection to the captain's past surfaces to draw the Enterprise, and her crew, into a long battle in space that climaxes during an apparently-hopeless situation where a doomsday weapon goes through an agonizingly long warm-up sequence that is just about to conclude when an emotionless friend and crewmember tragically sacrifices himself for the good of the many, but not before he manages to make a backup copy of his consciousness and secures a compatible replacement body on which to install it for the rebirth of his character in a future film.
The two of you are addressing different points. You are talking about who the audience is, but the grandparent was paraphrasing the message. You are both correct: the shareholders are the audience, and the message was correctly translated by the grandparent post.
Are there any answering machines out there with an AUX line-level input so that you don't lose the quality of the sound file when crossing the speaker/microphone barrier?
Imagine the internet where we only had HTML and didn't have PDF.