The idea that an economy is based on some kind of inflexible natural law, when it is wholly a human construct to begin with, is dangerous. This oversimplified view of wealth and how it's used is an intellectual shortcut that stymies critical thinking about a range of issues. It lulls people into a sense of powerlessness that might be relieving on some level, but is dangerous in that it implies "they way things are" is the same as "the way things have to be". It drains people's will to make things better.
The Invisible Hand is taking the place of God as a rhetorical tool politicians use to short-circuit people's thinking and turn them against their own interests.
Albums might become less important commercially, as far as many people will be buying individual tracks, not a whole CD. But when you look at what was released all throughout the CD era (and before), most albums were already just collections of standalone songs. The Pink-Floydian concept album was always the exception, not the norm. The norm was taking a half dozen songs that had in fact already been released as 45 rpm singles, padding them with some filler, and releasing it as an album.
So looking at release schedules, you're probably right, artists might be more inclined to release smaller batches of tracks vs. waiting until they have enough material for an album. But as far as the music they're writing, I don't see that changing. People who cared about putting together an hour-long block of thematically consistent music before, will still care about that now. People who were going to write standalone "singles" will continue to do that, too.
I wouldn't say technology has made music un-singable. Yeah, there are some tracks out there with vocals layered using a sampler. But you've had layered vocals since the dawn of time in the form of duets and harmony singing in larger groups. Effects like chorus and reverb can be pretty much ignored when singing - lots of them are just used to replicate the sound of a particular physical environment. Even autotune is mostly used to correct singers who can't hold a specific pitch, not to extend their vocal range or otherwise make it something that can't be sung. Complaining that you can't make the sound coming out of your mouth sound identical to what you hear on a record is a bit of a ridiculous comparison... it's a bit like saying you can't sing Yesterday unless your voicebox is an exact 1:1 mold of Paul McCartney's.
This type of thing has been investigated going back to at least the 1970s, although at that time they were doing things like shuffling cards with phrases written on them instead of using a software random number generator to pick which elements end up in the composition. It seems to be easier to apply these techniques to ambient music, like was done with the music in Spore, than to pop music, at least currently. Though there do appear to be more examples than I'm familiar with, based on this article.
Time is 100% relevant to this discussion. Music history is littered with examples of songs that have had their structure and duration altered as a result of outside forces. Donovan had to make a decision when recording "Hurdy Gurdy Man" whether to include all 3 verses he wrote, or 2 verses and a guitar solo, as there wasn't time to have 3 verses plus a solo within 3 minutes. The Byrds had loads of songs where even more verses were cut out to keep them down to a radio-friendly length. While radio stations aren't as anal about running times these days, you still won't hear a 10-minute song on the radio. And there's no disputing that that particular limitation had a deep effect on much of the music of the previous century.
As for how streaming services will affect music - I think a lot of the pressures they put on writers are similar to radio. They work better with shorter pieces of music that are free-standing in the sense that they will work when played between any two other songs. So, less emphasis on things like thematic consistency (both in lyrics and music). Really the only thing I see different in streaming (vs. radio) is that in streaming it's easier to skip a particular song, so the listener is able to shut himself out more from experimentation. He can decide within 15 seconds if a song presents a sound he deems to be acceptable, and whether he wants to skip it. Whereas on the radio, he would be "forced" to listen to the whole track. I don't think this will be much of an issue though, since radio stations as well as streaming services both usually cater to a specific genre anyway - they're certainly not hotbeds of experimentation.
Straight up... I haven't seen mod points in like 8 years (maybe I'm blacklisted? Karma has been "excellent" for most of that period...) but I'd be doing this too.
You certainly don't need to click on ads to have your internet usage tracked. Tracking is usually done through cookies or scripts. But even if you disable scripts and cookies, Google will still track all your searches and YouTube videos, and scan the content of your emails. Facebook will do the same for all the data on your account with them, too. The only way to stop that tracking is to not use their systems.
It should have made a difference by raising awareness of the issue, and confirming what was previously only suspicion. Unfortunately what I think played out is that people just don't care in general - and those who do care, already cared before Snowden.
So there's an upcoming referendum on leaving the EU... do we expect their government to not be investigating the implications of that? It would be grossly incompetent for them not to investigate what would happen, if there's any chance that it will.
So, what's supposed to be the news here? Is leaving the EU something that was not considered within the realm of possibility, but this leak demonstrates the seriousness of it? I don't follow UK/EU internal politics. (Except for Jeremy Clarkson... freedom to fracas! Reinstate Jeremy!)
I'm wondering, what sort of problems have you had with SimCity 4? I'm able to play it on Windows 7 64-bit on a GTX 275 without any tweaking. The only issue I've had with it is occasional crashing, but I remember that also happened on a period Pentium 4 box - at least with the Network Addon mod.
SimCity 3000 and especially SimCity 4 were great evolutions of the preceding games. (Not failed revolutions like online-Sim-City from a few years ago.) 3000 came out in 1999 I believe, and SC4 was in 2003. From there, it was a 10 year gap until the next game, which is online-Sim-City.
It's not quite "as well", with RAID 0 if you lose either of two drives, the data is gone. That effectively doubles the chance of failure. If you only have the budget to play with 2 drives, you should be using one drive normally and the second drive as an external backup. Not RAID 1, that leaves you open to software/file system errors and the like. Having the backup as a separate drive that's not plugged in except when running backups negates a lot of those failure modes.
Nope, definitely no AOL coaster spindles in my closet. Hell, they didn't even work well as coasters! Judging by the amount of broken discs lying around on the street 15 years ago, nobody else kept them either. Nor have I kept driver discs since I got broadband. Getting them off the internet is easier, plus you get a newer version of the driver to boot.
Definitely... Someone making $10/hr in the US is going to need to spend something like 15% of their income on health insurance, even with a subsidy. That's just to hold the insurance - if they need to actually receive health care for any reason, there are always co-pays, deductibles, and stuff that just isn't covered at all. Someone in France may also be able to get by without owning a car because of a working public transit system, or at least use the car much less. These two items alone might account for a third of a U.S. worker's income. It helps to bring up specific examples like this when discussing it, because many people in the US really don't realize what they're missing. It's engrained in the popular mind that the US has the best standard of living in the world. Add to that all the political propaganda going around, and some people's eyes start to glaze over as soon as they read the phrase "social services". Even if people have the conception that such a thing exists somewhere, they might be brainwashed into thinking it's somehow bad.
Just the name "Red Alert Politics" says something about their strategy, and the strategy of many other similar outlets. They have to whip people into an emotional frenzy where reason is discarded, which is how they turn members of the working class against their own interests. Sometimes they trigger such a state using religion, or race, or an emotional appeal to the instinct to protect children. As some of these things have come to mean less to people, "invisible hand"/money-worshipping nonsense preached with an air of authority have taken a big place in the arsenal. Regardless of the specific methods used to invoke a state of blind "red alert"... the goal is always to obscure the vulnerable reader's chance of thinking about the issues critically. Bonus points if your material reinforces what the reader thinks he already knows. A consistent voice of garbage from many sources is highly effective.
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The idea that an economy is based on some kind of inflexible natural law, when it is wholly a human construct to begin with, is dangerous. This oversimplified view of wealth and how it's used is an intellectual shortcut that stymies critical thinking about a range of issues. It lulls people into a sense of powerlessness that might be relieving on some level, but is dangerous in that it implies "they way things are" is the same as "the way things have to be". It drains people's will to make things better.
The Invisible Hand is taking the place of God as a rhetorical tool politicians use to short-circuit people's thinking and turn them against their own interests.
Albums might become less important commercially, as far as many people will be buying individual tracks, not a whole CD. But when you look at what was released all throughout the CD era (and before), most albums were already just collections of standalone songs. The Pink-Floydian concept album was always the exception, not the norm. The norm was taking a half dozen songs that had in fact already been released as 45 rpm singles, padding them with some filler, and releasing it as an album.
So looking at release schedules, you're probably right, artists might be more inclined to release smaller batches of tracks vs. waiting until they have enough material for an album. But as far as the music they're writing, I don't see that changing. People who cared about putting together an hour-long block of thematically consistent music before, will still care about that now. People who were going to write standalone "singles" will continue to do that, too.
I wouldn't say technology has made music un-singable. Yeah, there are some tracks out there with vocals layered using a sampler. But you've had layered vocals since the dawn of time in the form of duets and harmony singing in larger groups. Effects like chorus and reverb can be pretty much ignored when singing - lots of them are just used to replicate the sound of a particular physical environment. Even autotune is mostly used to correct singers who can't hold a specific pitch, not to extend their vocal range or otherwise make it something that can't be sung. Complaining that you can't make the sound coming out of your mouth sound identical to what you hear on a record is a bit of a ridiculous comparison... it's a bit like saying you can't sing Yesterday unless your voicebox is an exact 1:1 mold of Paul McCartney's.
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This type of thing has been investigated going back to at least the 1970s, although at that time they were doing things like shuffling cards with phrases written on them instead of using a software random number generator to pick which elements end up in the composition. It seems to be easier to apply these techniques to ambient music, like was done with the music in Spore, than to pop music, at least currently. Though there do appear to be more examples than I'm familiar with, based on this article.
Time is 100% relevant to this discussion. Music history is littered with examples of songs that have had their structure and duration altered as a result of outside forces. Donovan had to make a decision when recording "Hurdy Gurdy Man" whether to include all 3 verses he wrote, or 2 verses and a guitar solo, as there wasn't time to have 3 verses plus a solo within 3 minutes. The Byrds had loads of songs where even more verses were cut out to keep them down to a radio-friendly length. While radio stations aren't as anal about running times these days, you still won't hear a 10-minute song on the radio. And there's no disputing that that particular limitation had a deep effect on much of the music of the previous century.
As for how streaming services will affect music - I think a lot of the pressures they put on writers are similar to radio. They work better with shorter pieces of music that are free-standing in the sense that they will work when played between any two other songs. So, less emphasis on things like thematic consistency (both in lyrics and music). Really the only thing I see different in streaming (vs. radio) is that in streaming it's easier to skip a particular song, so the listener is able to shut himself out more from experimentation. He can decide within 15 seconds if a song presents a sound he deems to be acceptable, and whether he wants to skip it. Whereas on the radio, he would be "forced" to listen to the whole track. I don't think this will be much of an issue though, since radio stations as well as streaming services both usually cater to a specific genre anyway - they're certainly not hotbeds of experimentation.
I've also heard "engine driver" used.
Straight up... I haven't seen mod points in like 8 years (maybe I'm blacklisted? Karma has been "excellent" for most of that period...) but I'd be doing this too.
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You certainly don't need to click on ads to have your internet usage tracked. Tracking is usually done through cookies or scripts. But even if you disable scripts and cookies, Google will still track all your searches and YouTube videos, and scan the content of your emails. Facebook will do the same for all the data on your account with them, too. The only way to stop that tracking is to not use their systems.
It should have made a difference by raising awareness of the issue, and confirming what was previously only suspicion. Unfortunately what I think played out is that people just don't care in general - and those who do care, already cared before Snowden.
"The people" are already wealthy, it's just that a minority of them have locked it up from the rest. It's the ultimate expression of greed.
10 or 20 deaths in a single event qualifies as mass murder. I'm pretty sure the 'qaeda has killed fiftyfold that amount in single events.
So there's an upcoming referendum on leaving the EU... do we expect their government to not be investigating the implications of that? It would be grossly incompetent for them not to investigate what would happen, if there's any chance that it will.
So, what's supposed to be the news here? Is leaving the EU something that was not considered within the realm of possibility, but this leak demonstrates the seriousness of it? I don't follow UK/EU internal politics. (Except for Jeremy Clarkson... freedom to fracas! Reinstate Jeremy!)
"Past decade"... SimCity 4 was 12 years ago bruh!
I'm wondering, what sort of problems have you had with SimCity 4? I'm able to play it on Windows 7 64-bit on a GTX 275 without any tweaking. The only issue I've had with it is occasional crashing, but I remember that also happened on a period Pentium 4 box - at least with the Network Addon mod.
SimCity 3000 and especially SimCity 4 were great evolutions of the preceding games. (Not failed revolutions like online-Sim-City from a few years ago.) 3000 came out in 1999 I believe, and SC4 was in 2003. From there, it was a 10 year gap until the next game, which is online-Sim-City.
Can you point me to where anyone even suggested to "help [him] not get caught"?
ac-com-plice, noun
a person who helps another commit a crime.
The debate team winners do so by gathering votes.
That'll probably be when the next version hits PC in 2020 or 2021. These AAA titles don't dip below $50 for a long time.
And which stable distros are using 4.0? My Debian stable box that gets updated at least weekly is on 3.2.
It's not quite "as well", with RAID 0 if you lose either of two drives, the data is gone. That effectively doubles the chance of failure.
If you only have the budget to play with 2 drives, you should be using one drive normally and the second drive as an external backup. Not RAID 1, that leaves you open to software/file system errors and the like. Having the backup as a separate drive that's not plugged in except when running backups negates a lot of those failure modes.
You've probably got a spindle in your closet...
Nope, definitely no AOL coaster spindles in my closet. Hell, they didn't even work well as coasters! Judging by the amount of broken discs lying around on the street 15 years ago, nobody else kept them either. Nor have I kept driver discs since I got broadband. Getting them off the internet is easier, plus you get a newer version of the driver to boot.
Definitely... Someone making $10/hr in the US is going to need to spend something like 15% of their income on health insurance, even with a subsidy. That's just to hold the insurance - if they need to actually receive health care for any reason, there are always co-pays, deductibles, and stuff that just isn't covered at all. Someone in France may also be able to get by without owning a car because of a working public transit system, or at least use the car much less. These two items alone might account for a third of a U.S. worker's income.
It helps to bring up specific examples like this when discussing it, because many people in the US really don't realize what they're missing. It's engrained in the popular mind that the US has the best standard of living in the world. Add to that all the political propaganda going around, and some people's eyes start to glaze over as soon as they read the phrase "social services". Even if people have the conception that such a thing exists somewhere, they might be brainwashed into thinking it's somehow bad.
Just the name "Red Alert Politics" says something about their strategy, and the strategy of many other similar outlets. They have to whip people into an emotional frenzy where reason is discarded, which is how they turn members of the working class against their own interests. Sometimes they trigger such a state using religion, or race, or an emotional appeal to the instinct to protect children. As some of these things have come to mean less to people, "invisible hand"/money-worshipping nonsense preached with an air of authority have taken a big place in the arsenal. Regardless of the specific methods used to invoke a state of blind "red alert"... the goal is always to obscure the vulnerable reader's chance of thinking about the issues critically. Bonus points if your material reinforces what the reader thinks he already knows. A consistent voice of garbage from many sources is highly effective.