Yep, and this is great news for the U.S. as it will continue to profit from the diversity of thought provided by immigrants from such short-sighted countries. As a U.S. citizen, I'm happy to hear it. If Putin wants to rebuild the U.S.S.R. and watch it fall again for the same old reasons, let him.
As a musician, it is YOUR sound, and there is no argument that you choose your instrument (including the amp, and even the wooden knobs that go to 11) to produce it the way you want.
Additionally, when people listen to a REPRODUCTION of your sound, they can choose to alter it via choice in the equipment they use, and that is fine too.
There was, perhaps, a time when people had to hand build equipment to achieve the sound they want, and those who couldn't build it had to buy it at "hand-built" (extraordiarily high) prices. But today, I find it hard to belive that a couple hundred dollars worth of soft-configurable DSP gear cannot produce the full gamut of what are essentially "effects" shaping both produced and reproduced audio.
The critical test to debunk audiophilism should be to see if they can tell the difference between their $30K worth of gear and some relatively inexpensive DSP model of it.
Or maybe some kind of unstoppable nuclear-powered bot. No, wait, if it accidentally landed on earth there could be big trouble...and since these days our presidents and bionic people are all women, we'd have no way to save ourselves.
It's like what I used to say about pushing higher resolutions for television: Ten minutes into a GOOD show or movie and people are no longer conscious of the fact that they are watching it on a 12-inch black and white set.
Actually, I happen to work on a system that handles customer data for a large government-regulated utility, and we have a very effective Change Management system. My point was that these systems are not super-AIs and are still susceptible to human error (garbage in, garbage out), and errors WILL occur, even if really infrequently. I suppose I was just being anal about his use of the word "impossible".
Michael Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft in Kirkland, Wash., said he was surprised that it was even possible to accidentally load the wrong code onto live servers
Yeah, like those servers are going to say "yecch!" and spit it back out like bad brussel sprouts. Michael Cherry had better stick to non-technical subjects.
OMG Doc said something truly insightful. Darn, I'm going to have to turn in my "Doc Ruby Haters Club ID Card" and my "Karma-whoring Decoder Ring". And Double Darn, now I've posted and can't use my mod points against him! Oh well, I guess there's always Roland...
Most of the "cheating" I've seen is only in the minds of kiddies who don't understand the effects of latency, and the ability experienced players have to compensate for it. Gaming would be 1000% better if these kids would just grow a spine.
Washington State: You'll never get the Easterners to unite with the Westerners. And you'll never get the Westerners to understand that their crowded little, tree and water-filled slice is not the entire state.
Us poor kids used scissors and a steady hand to get our disks notched.
We had a room full of 64's at my high school, and during our programming classes (we had an awesome, progressive teacher) we would poke pencils in each other's joystick ports, shorting them and causing the machine to reset. Never broke one though.
The value of the floppy drive is best appreciated by those of us who spent hours typing in code only to entrust it to that gambling device which was the cassette tape drive, or to face the reality of having no storage device at all. I remember leaving my trusty Commodore 64 on for a few days straight before I got my tape drive.
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Yep, and this is great news for the U.S. as it will continue to profit from the diversity of thought provided by immigrants from such short-sighted countries. As a U.S. citizen, I'm happy to hear it. If Putin wants to rebuild the U.S.S.R. and watch it fall again for the same old reasons, let him.
Wow, Mr. BadAnalogyGuy, you've discovered an intriguing method of mining for karma.
I should like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I might have read them...
Whoever moderated this "redundant" needs to be meta-moderated "retarded".
As a musician, it is YOUR sound, and there is no argument that you choose your instrument (including the amp, and even the wooden knobs that go to 11) to produce it the way you want.
Additionally, when people listen to a REPRODUCTION of your sound, they can choose to alter it via choice in the equipment they use, and that is fine too.
There was, perhaps, a time when people had to hand build equipment to achieve the sound they want, and those who couldn't build it had to buy it at "hand-built" (extraordiarily high) prices. But today, I find it hard to belive that a couple hundred dollars worth of soft-configurable DSP gear cannot produce the full gamut of what are essentially "effects" shaping both produced and reproduced audio.
The critical test to debunk audiophilism should be to see if they can tell the difference between their $30K worth of gear and some relatively inexpensive DSP model of it.
Not a troll. MOD UP.
Or maybe some kind of unstoppable nuclear-powered bot. No, wait, if it accidentally landed on earth there could be big trouble...and since these days our presidents and bionic people are all women, we'd have no way to save ourselves.
It's like what I used to say about pushing higher resolutions for television: Ten minutes into a GOOD show or movie and people are no longer conscious of the fact that they are watching it on a 12-inch black and white set.
Actually, I happen to work on a system that handles customer data for a large government-regulated utility, and we have a very effective Change Management system. My point was that these systems are not super-AIs and are still susceptible to human error (garbage in, garbage out), and errors WILL occur, even if really infrequently. I suppose I was just being anal about his use of the word "impossible".
Michael Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft in Kirkland, Wash., said he was surprised that it was even possible to accidentally load the wrong code onto live servers
Yeah, like those servers are going to say "yecch!" and spit it back out like bad brussel sprouts. Michael Cherry had better stick to non-technical subjects.
"fucking heads"? Hmmm...Intriguing...I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
OMG Doc said something truly insightful. Darn, I'm going to have to turn in my "Doc Ruby Haters Club ID Card" and my "Karma-whoring Decoder Ring". And Double Darn, now I've posted and can't use my mod points against him! Oh well, I guess there's always Roland...
A run through the laminator should take care of that problem.
I'll see that Huh?, and raise you a WTF?
If not for the "tortured mythology" the series would have been nothing but "vampire" episodes. PLEASE, give us the tortured mythology!
Troll? Phfffft, if this were Digg, they'd be saying the soldiers used civilian babies to fuel their generators. And provide their bacon.
Most of the "cheating" I've seen is only in the minds of kiddies who don't understand the effects of latency, and the ability experienced players have to compensate for it. Gaming would be 1000% better if these kids would just grow a spine.
All...Hail...Plankton.
Vaporac. Vaporlon. Vaporium. Whatever...
Washington State: You'll never get the Easterners to unite with the Westerners. And you'll never get the Westerners to understand that their crowded little, tree and water-filled slice is not the entire state.
Wow, now if only we can get 610 climatologists to believe in this particle, its existence will be confirmed.
Us poor kids used scissors and a steady hand to get our disks notched.
We had a room full of 64's at my high school, and during our programming classes (we had an awesome, progressive teacher) we would poke pencils in each other's joystick ports, shorting them and causing the machine to reset. Never broke one though.
The value of the floppy drive is best appreciated by those of us who spent hours typing in code only to entrust it to that gambling device which was the cassette tape drive, or to face the reality of having no storage device at all. I remember leaving my trusty Commodore 64 on for a few days straight before I got my tape drive.
No.