Why is it that you are choosing to misinterpret my figures of speech in order to entice me to flame you? Any right-minded creative professional doesn't want everybody leaning over their shoulder commenting whilst they're concentrating, and I made it quite clear that contributions and ideas are welcome in order to head off comments like yours before thay're posted.
My entire business and even the workbench you see described above exists because I have planned it from the GROUND UP to participation and creativity and retain staff and volunteers (yes, volunteers!) at a much better rate than other businesses.
Also, how is the phrase "yelling at", not meant literally, any different from the American equivalent "chewing out"? In fact, it's more grotesque and implies more abuse than a "yelling at". Get a job.
I know, I know, flamebait. But he deserves a retort for framing me as the "evil boss".
My analogy was meant to mean services (ftp, http etc) = hi-fi and integrated (snazzy new lo-fi opera) = mini system. Mix and match vs. done for you. And they sold more because they were cheaper, not better. There is still a market for "proper" hifi. And lots of second hand gear for discerning people like me, available cheaply. So everybody wins in the end. I think?
1st point: You dont know where my displays are, or who watches them, either. FYI they are on a bench along the side of a workshop and studio, and on many occasions staff will watch from the entrance, because they're welcome to watch from there but entering whilst I'm busy without a good reason or something to contribute will earn them a yelling at. So 1st point invalidated - wide viewing angle is great for my purposes.
As for the second point about colours in Sparta, your lack of taste should not prevent those who do have a discerning eye objectively recommending x screen for y feature.
And about snobs, agreed, except that we all know I meant blind listening test, hi-fi magazine type snobs, not rich ones. So there you have it, I'm de-trolled again! Next!
And this is the point in the conversation where we all get modded "-1 Offtopic". But yes, there are benefits. There must be, otherwise AC there wouldn't be extolling my virtues, would he? (or she, as the first replier implies).
Yes, but will they last decades? One of the reasons CRTs are so difficult to set up is that, like any other electronics, their internals can "drift" over extended periods of time.
Manufacturers, thinking of the long term back when they designed these things, implemented those various "pains in the arse" so people like me who know a good thing when we see it can re-adjust the drifting resisters and capacitors over time and keep our equipment in good condition, showing quality images to clients and guests on the same screen for a decade. It's called "maintaining" something, and it used to be cheaper than throwing everything away every couple of years.
Now it's cheaper to do that, resources are dwindling away faster than ever, and it's all the fault of those who can't maintain anything, calling it "a pain in the arse". Comparisons - repairing decent old clothes made from cotton or buying from Asda. Cooking fresh. Farmhouse techniques like making shoepolish from mutton. Maintaining your own vehicle. And on. And on.
Flamey - Yes. Correct - Yes. Insightful - maybe not so. This should be obvious;-P
Despite being a shill account created by Opera Software, you are, nonetheless correct about hosting our own content. Problem is, we already have web servers, p2p, ftp etc. and they are stable, mature and bug-free. Why your entirely new, potentially untrustworthy integrated solution? It's hi-fi seperates vs. computer speakers again... see my other posts today...:-P
This is both a correction to the above and a reply to Mikael (a troll if ever I saw one!)
You do know those Wharfedales are frigging OLD, right? Your false and misleading comparison, modded up with karma bonus you don't deserve is still nagging at me! Coupla hundred bucks indeed! You're the first person to go on my Foes list, right now! Check if you don't believe me! I wasted a whole post telling you that and preventing other readers of my original post from taking your advice.
In fact, do please take his advice and send all your Trinitrons, old Wharfedale / Tannoy / etc. speakers to me. Then I'll open a hifi shop with a listening room and blackjack and hookers... oh dear now I'm -1 Offtopic;-P
Actually, they're not. In the case of the monitors, it's an established fact that CRT viewing angles, especially Trinitrons, are better than any flat tech we have today. Also, the orange pigment issue is also a real one, solved only by OLEDs, and you know have much they cost.
As for the second example, any hifi snob from the 90s is going to agree all day that the posh rig posted will sound better than a "couple of hundred bucks" setup.
I've listened to, set up, and performed through lots of different equipment using different recording formats all my life. You can't buy a hifi anymore that sounds as rich and perfect as those speakers - that was the whole point of the post, and comparing them to modern crap without even doing some research on the subject shows your ignorance.
Modern speakers, even from Wharfedale (now a "big box" co, as you call it over the pond), suck, as you say in the Good ol' US of A!
Here are some more recent tech most of you have spurned for all the wrong reasons but which I'll never give up and you can pry from my cold dead hands (but you won't want to!!)
We have: Washed out LCD monitors, rubbish refresh rates, pale colours, all reds are orange. I Have: My 21" newsroom Trinitrons, three of, for a combined resolution of 4800x1200 at 85Hz. Perfect colours, wide viewing angles, annoying bezels. Windows 7 really likes them...
We have: Computer speakers, tiny badly-designed amplifiers, built-in speakers on TV's, plastic "hifi" speakers with metal cones, etc. Plenty of bass, fair enough, but just whisper "dynamic range" and "signal-to-noise ratio" to these people and you might just cause a flamewar. I Have: Wharfedale Modus Twos and a Rotel RSX-03 amplifier with 6 discrete channels (RSX-03), FLAC, Cds. And yes, decent speaker wire (4mm) I found! I'm not a hifi snob, but I know mine sounds better and with wise buying cost less!
Either you're very deep, or you copied that from somewhere. Please enlighten me... lots of food for thought therein, even for myself. We HATE admitting we're wrong, especially in tech and science.
Notice he told you that it was the non-100% beef product he was referring to? How in any way does this compare with your experience with real, whole meat and a meatgrinder? He's railing about food processing industry methods, not meat-eaters!
He is almost certainly telling the truth about what he saw, the BBC and Channel 4 have both aired undercover investigations of "food" factories, showing how much non-meat stuff goes into processed meat and meals in the name of profit. Vegetarian food, too, is watered down and adulterated to cut costs, and enhanced with "Flavour Enhancer" and "Natural Colourings", made from meat products, no less!
You know what, fuck you!! Asthma is caused directly by pollution and smog in urban areas, where concentration of cases matches high smog areas geographically and even improves when they do! So stop blaming smokers when you should blame cars, and the oil economy which causes your representatives to plan stupid, selfish systems like roads and remove the working, sensible ones like suburban trolleycars! Go on, mod me down -1 Disagree! (~ie the usual Troll i get these days for telling the truth!)
Being British, I'm unfamiliar with EVDO but our nearest equivalent, UMTS without HSPDA does 48Kbytes/s down per cell, so lets say you have 3 idiots downloading Madden 2035 for Nokia 320x240 and me trying to load/. hmmm work it out so I feel for you. GPRS - 9.6Kbytes/s down max. HSDPA - depends. Wildly. I've had a Sony Ericsson C905 downloading Ubuntu via torrent at 860Kb/s on Vodafone's business network. Goddamn I could turn up places and my connection was LOADS better, ffs... My experience with T-Mobile, however is wildly contrasted. I get good web through their HSDPA, but seriously throttled DLs and Torrents - I'm talking 5K/s here - and same handset!! So you're right, 3.5G !necessarily= Fast.
of the way this is being pointed out seems to be that your Government had a steering role in security, so the first thing that comes into their heads is "Backdoor". Notice how Microsoft themselves insist that it's only a configuration framework that the NSA has worked on. They want to play down Government participation just as a safe manufacturer would. BUT - big BUT - do the NSA (or some other Dept.) have SOURCE and if so, surely they have tons of 0days up their sleeve anyway? Who else has source? That's what we'd really like to know, M$. I was as shocked as anybody that there is a "Shared Source Initiative" when Win2k leaked, and wondered "Who? How many?" but the news just died. Nobody else asked that, not even on here.
I confess, love Win7, it's beautiful, but will it still be a craporama of exploits which drive the Anti-V/Mal etc whatever ecosystem? I don't run stuff from email, I use only familiar apps known to be spyware-free through years of experience, and I heed UAC when I see it. Stable so far.
Oh, I veered offtopic there, but back ontopic - do the NSA have the source? Who else?? Because then they wouldn't even need to work with M$ to open a backdoor, and the main fears hinted at above would be realised (the Govt. could spy on everyone).
I call shill - 2.5G is pants even with good coverage, just try loading/. homepage with graphics (~2.5Mo), even on 3.5G (hsdpa) it can really tank. Ex-Bell or no ex-Bell, if the map is accurate it should stand, but maybe the above replier has a point about using the same colours. Just my 2pence.
Troll?? Troll??!! Do the mods actually ever look at the context here on/.? I'm biting the troll you idiot, there's a serious point in there and HE was the one who insulted the intelligence of somebody who corrected him, correctly (that doesn't look right... but it says what I mean!) with the "two brain cells" thing and I stuck up for the poor biter by, er, biting! Come on mods, look at my posting history, I'm a biter and a ranter, not a troll, yet you'd think I was the creator of goatse the way I get modded down for insightful, often factual (but admittedly sometimes offtopic) posts. I can think of two deliberate trolls I perpetrated here, and they were modded up!!
My grammer and punctuation go downhill when I'm ranting on a rubbish laptop keyboard. You've no idea how many times i fumbled TAB, Enter and the mousepad thing whilst writing that, and having to reposition the caret. So no, not deliberately trying to mislead people as to correct punctuation etc., but he is deliberately misleading people about meaning hence rant rant rant
lol and thanks for the correction, it is ironic isn't it? Rachel xx
I didn't either. The common term was always Big Red Switch. This white button thing has really brought out the trolls, I can't blame them. It doesn't half wind me up that these people have a job and that having a brain disqualifies people from employment these days, God thinking is such a bad thing in the workplace today!!! They'd rather we lolcat the day away and show them nice performace statistics than actually make money for the firm to protect all our incomes. Pride and ego before logic and common sense - welcome to the Noughties.
Yeah, great. I use a screwdriver to short pins on the array of motherboards hanging off the power supplies at the back of my bench. Just don't nudge the hard drives with the mouse whilst playing games, and watch out for that massive graphics card just wobbling there when you change the monitor lead!!
I get mod points far too often for my karma, and waste them on "Get off my lawn" trolls for the giggles. Now I wish I hadn't. I was always mature for my age, and finally along comes a really good get off my lawn and I can't mod you up! You're either informative or insightful, but not both lol (work that out, it's a joke at the mod system, not a dig at you!). Here, have a reply point!
OH dear. Fucking semantics. Big deal if noone can ever communicate what they mean properly and we descend into a planet of the apes. Never mind everything being dumbed down in education, BUT NOT HERE. THIS IS WHERE I DRAW THE LINE. We are geeks, comms geeks no less. Get off my (only 28yo) lawn!!!!
You obviously have some stake in implying that 0day is still 0day several days later, even though it really is ONLY EVER 0day on that day! On following days, it was a 0day but by that definition all exploits will always be 0day and the term loses it's meaning.
You are re-writing our language. In a years' time, will you say the same weaselly thing about our brain cells to people who simply correct (i.e. read "help") you? And it's not one comment, is the GGP as well. Yeah, I've been defensive here on/. before, but that comment is worse than my normal paranoia - your plain wrong and here I am putting it right for you. Space below is for your reply, perhaps it'll be "thanks". Rachel xx
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Why is it that you are choosing to misinterpret my figures of speech in order to entice me to flame you? Any right-minded creative professional doesn't want everybody leaning over their shoulder commenting whilst they're concentrating, and I made it quite clear that contributions and ideas are welcome in order to head off comments like yours before thay're posted.
My entire business and even the workbench you see described above exists because I have planned it from the GROUND UP to participation and creativity and retain staff and volunteers (yes, volunteers!) at a much better rate than other businesses.
Also, how is the phrase "yelling at", not meant literally, any different from the American equivalent "chewing out"? In fact, it's more grotesque and implies more abuse than a "yelling at". Get a job.
I know, I know, flamebait. But he deserves a retort for framing me as the "evil boss".
My analogy was meant to mean services (ftp, http etc) = hi-fi and integrated (snazzy new lo-fi opera) = mini system. Mix and match vs. done for you. And they sold more because they were cheaper, not better. There is still a market for "proper" hifi. And lots of second hand gear for discerning people like me, available cheaply. So everybody wins in the end. I think?
1st point: You dont know where my displays are, or who watches them, either. FYI they are on a bench along the side of a workshop and studio, and on many occasions staff will watch from the entrance, because they're welcome to watch from there but entering whilst I'm busy without a good reason or something to contribute will earn them a yelling at. So 1st point invalidated - wide viewing angle is great for my purposes. As for the second point about colours in Sparta, your lack of taste should not prevent those who do have a discerning eye objectively recommending x screen for y feature. And about snobs, agreed, except that we all know I meant blind listening test, hi-fi magazine type snobs, not rich ones. So there you have it, I'm de-trolled again! Next!
And this is the point in the conversation where we all get modded "-1 Offtopic". But yes, there are benefits. There must be, otherwise AC there wouldn't be extolling my virtues, would he? (or she, as the first replier implies).
That's not actually me! Flattering, though. Want to be my slave? ;-P
Yes, but will they last decades? One of the reasons CRTs are so difficult to set up is that, like any other electronics, their internals can "drift" over extended periods of time.
Manufacturers, thinking of the long term back when they designed these things, implemented those various "pains in the arse" so people like me who know a good thing when we see it can re-adjust the drifting resisters and capacitors over time and keep our equipment in good condition, showing quality images to clients and guests on the same screen for a decade. It's called "maintaining" something, and it used to be cheaper than throwing everything away every couple of years.
Now it's cheaper to do that, resources are dwindling away faster than ever, and it's all the fault of those who can't maintain anything, calling it "a pain in the arse". Comparisons - repairing decent old clothes made from cotton or buying from Asda. Cooking fresh. Farmhouse techniques like making shoepolish from mutton. Maintaining your own vehicle. And on. And on.
Flamey - Yes. Correct - Yes. Insightful - maybe not so. This should be obvious ;-P
Despite being a shill account created by Opera Software, you are, nonetheless correct about hosting our own content. Problem is, we already have web servers, p2p, ftp etc. and they are stable, mature and bug-free. Why your entirely new, potentially untrustworthy integrated solution? It's hi-fi seperates vs. computer speakers again... see my other posts today... :-P
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That's not a pun. It's a wordplay (or a play on words).
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This is both a correction to the above and a reply to Mikael (a troll if ever I saw one!)
You do know those Wharfedales are frigging OLD, right? Your false and misleading comparison, modded up with karma bonus you don't deserve is still nagging at me! Coupla hundred bucks indeed! You're the first person to go on my Foes list, right now! Check if you don't believe me! I wasted a whole post telling you that and preventing other readers of my original post from taking your advice.
In fact, do please take his advice and send all your Trinitrons, old Wharfedale / Tannoy / etc. speakers to me. Then I'll open a hifi shop with a listening room and blackjack and hookers... oh dear now I'm -1 Offtopic ;-P
Actually, they're not. In the case of the monitors, it's an established fact that CRT viewing angles, especially Trinitrons, are better than any flat tech we have today. Also, the orange pigment issue is also a real one, solved only by OLEDs, and you know have much they cost. As for the second example, any hifi snob from the 90s is going to agree all day that the posh rig posted will sound better than a "couple of hundred bucks" setup. I've listened to, set up, and performed through lots of different equipment using different recording formats all my life. You can't buy a hifi anymore that sounds as rich and perfect as those speakers - that was the whole point of the post, and comparing them to modern crap without even doing some research on the subject shows your ignorance. Modern speakers, even from Wharfedale (now a "big box" co, as you call it over the pond), suck, as you say in the Good ol' US of A!
Here are some more recent tech most of you have spurned for all the wrong reasons but which I'll never give up and you can pry from my cold dead hands (but you won't want to!!)
We have: Washed out LCD monitors, rubbish refresh rates, pale colours, all reds are orange.
I Have: My 21" newsroom Trinitrons, three of, for a combined resolution of 4800x1200 at 85Hz. Perfect colours, wide viewing angles, annoying bezels. Windows 7 really likes them...
We have: Computer speakers, tiny badly-designed amplifiers, built-in speakers on TV's, plastic "hifi" speakers with metal cones, etc. Plenty of bass, fair enough, but just whisper "dynamic range" and "signal-to-noise ratio" to these people and you might just cause a flamewar.
I Have: Wharfedale Modus Twos and a Rotel RSX-03 amplifier with 6 discrete channels (RSX-03), FLAC, Cds. And yes, decent speaker wire (4mm) I found! I'm not a hifi snob, but I know mine sounds better and with wise buying cost less!
Not all progress is good, only good progress :-)
Either you're very deep, or you copied that from somewhere. Please enlighten me... lots of food for thought therein, even for myself. We HATE admitting we're wrong, especially in tech and science.
Notice he told you that it was the non-100% beef product he was referring to? How in any way does this compare with your experience with real, whole meat and a meatgrinder? He's railing about food processing industry methods, not meat-eaters!
He is almost certainly telling the truth about what he saw, the BBC and Channel 4 have both aired undercover investigations of "food" factories, showing how much non-meat stuff goes into processed meat and meals in the name of profit. Vegetarian food, too, is watered down and adulterated to cut costs, and enhanced with "Flavour Enhancer" and "Natural Colourings", made from meat products, no less!
You know what, fuck you!! Asthma is caused directly by pollution and smog in urban areas, where concentration of cases matches high smog areas geographically and even improves when they do! So stop blaming smokers when you should blame cars, and the oil economy which causes your representatives to plan stupid, selfish systems like roads and remove the working, sensible ones like suburban trolleycars! Go on, mod me down -1 Disagree! (~ie the usual Troll i get these days for telling the truth!)
Somebody? More like everybody will, especially once the oh-so-sexy, oh-so-geeky Borg Queen (me!) steps up to the plate :P
Being British, I'm unfamiliar with EVDO but our nearest equivalent, UMTS without HSPDA does 48Kbytes/s down per cell, so lets say you have 3 idiots downloading Madden 2035 for Nokia 320x240 and me trying to load /. hmmm work it out so I feel for you. GPRS - 9.6Kbytes/s down max. HSDPA - depends. Wildly. I've had a Sony Ericsson C905 downloading Ubuntu via torrent at 860Kb/s on Vodafone's business network. Goddamn I could turn up places and my connection was LOADS better, ffs... My experience with T-Mobile, however is wildly contrasted. I get good web through their HSDPA, but seriously throttled DLs and Torrents - I'm talking 5K/s here - and same handset!! So you're right, 3.5G !necessarily= Fast.
of the way this is being pointed out seems to be that your Government had a steering role in security, so the first thing that comes into their heads is "Backdoor". Notice how Microsoft themselves insist that it's only a configuration framework that the NSA has worked on. They want to play down Government participation just as a safe manufacturer would. BUT - big BUT - do the NSA (or some other Dept.) have SOURCE and if so, surely they have tons of 0days up their sleeve anyway? Who else has source? That's what we'd really like to know, M$. I was as shocked as anybody that there is a "Shared Source Initiative" when Win2k leaked, and wondered "Who? How many?" but the news just died. Nobody else asked that, not even on here.
I confess, love Win7, it's beautiful, but will it still be a craporama of exploits which drive the Anti-V/Mal etc whatever ecosystem? I don't run stuff from email, I use only familiar apps known to be spyware-free through years of experience, and I heed UAC when I see it. Stable so far.
Oh, I veered offtopic there, but back ontopic - do the NSA have the source? Who else?? Because then they wouldn't even need to work with M$ to open a backdoor, and the main fears hinted at above would be realised (the Govt. could spy on everyone).
I call shill - 2.5G is pants even with good coverage, just try loading /. homepage with graphics (~2.5Mo), even on 3.5G (hsdpa) it can really tank. Ex-Bell or no ex-Bell, if the map is accurate it should stand, but maybe the above replier has a point about using the same colours. Just my 2pence.
Troll?? Troll??!! Do the mods actually ever look at the context here on /.? I'm biting the troll you idiot, there's a serious point in there and HE was the one who insulted the intelligence of somebody who corrected him, correctly (that doesn't look right... but it says what I mean!) with the "two brain cells" thing and I stuck up for the poor biter by, er, biting! Come on mods, look at my posting history, I'm a biter and a ranter, not a troll, yet you'd think I was the creator of goatse the way I get modded down for insightful, often factual (but admittedly sometimes offtopic) posts. I can think of two deliberate trolls I perpetrated here, and they were modded up!!
lol and thanks for the correction, it is ironic isn't it? Rachel xx
I didn't either. The common term was always Big Red Switch. This white button thing has really brought out the trolls, I can't blame them. It doesn't half wind me up that these people have a job and that having a brain disqualifies people from employment these days, God thinking is such a bad thing in the workplace today!!! They'd rather we lolcat the day away and show them nice performace statistics than actually make money for the firm to protect all our incomes. Pride and ego before logic and common sense - welcome to the Noughties.
I call it Computing with Thrills (TM) ;)
I get mod points far too often for my karma, and waste them on "Get off my lawn" trolls for the giggles. Now I wish I hadn't. I was always mature for my age, and finally along comes a really good get off my lawn and I can't mod you up! You're either informative or insightful, but not both lol (work that out, it's a joke at the mod system, not a dig at you!). Here, have a reply point!
OH dear. Fucking semantics. Big deal if noone can ever communicate what they mean properly and we descend into a planet of the apes. Never mind everything being dumbed down in education, BUT NOT HERE. THIS IS WHERE I DRAW THE LINE. We are geeks, comms geeks no less. Get off my (only 28yo) lawn!!!!
You are re-writing our language. In a years' time, will you say the same weaselly thing about our brain cells to people who simply correct (i.e. read "help") you? And it's not one comment, is the GGP as well. Yeah, I've been defensive here on /. before, but that comment is worse than my normal paranoia - your plain wrong and here I am putting it right for you. Space below is for your reply, perhaps it'll be "thanks". Rachel xx