Somebody didn't like a company and posted a nasty opinion of them.
This is America, where a company can legally bribe "your" representatives before they are elected, by "contributing" to both major party candidates. When Sony gives ten million to the Republican and another ten million to the Democrat, no matter who loses, Sony wins. And Sony gets whatever laws it wants passed, and whatever laws it doesn't like repealed (unless some other company has made a bigger pre-election bribe the other way).
So when a corporate entity shuts you up, that IS government censorship. Besides, from the encyclopedia:
Typically censorship is done by governments, religious and secular groups, corporations, or the mass media, although other forms of censorship exist.
Now, since an encyclopedia is not a good enough source for a school paper, let alone a scientific one, how about the dictionary?
1. an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds. 2. any person who supervises the manners or morality of others. 3. an adverse critic; faultfinder. 4. (in the ancient Roman republic) either of two officials who kept the register or census of the citizens, awarded public contracts, and supervised manners and morals. 5. (in early Freudian dream theory) the force that represses ideas, impulses, and feelings, and prevents them from entering consciousness in their original, undisguised forms. -verb (used with object) 6. to examine and act upon as a censor. 7. to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.
Yes, I saw your "At least not government censorship." Still not going to let you squirm out of it; the fact that it isn't the government per se has nothing whatever to do with the fact that it WAS in fact censorship.
I was going to rebut your comment with links to all sorts of controversial things I've posted on the internet in the last ten years, but then I remembered all the things that there's no way in hell I'd ever post. You and Thompson are right, it seems.
Someone holding a press pass acts as proxy for the wider population
Apologies for this US-centric post, but I don't remember "reporter" being on the last ballot I cast. I also don't recall reading that Thoman Paine needed a press pass for his "Common Sense" articles.
I've read the Constitution, and I don't remember anything in the 1st amendment regarding press passes, or government powers to issue them. That document doesn't grant rights to citizens; it specifically states that you already have all rights. What it does is grant power to government, and limited power at that,
Sadly, opinions like yours have allowed government to gain far greater powers than granted by the Constitution.
I just wrote a slashdot journal about these bad mods just this morning. The parent is by no means -1 Troll. It is -1 OFFTOPIC!
If he had done the traditional "frosty piss" or GNAA, then that would have indeed been a troll (or maybe flamebait). As it is, it's simply offtopic. Rating it "troll" doesn't give it a lower score than the deserved "offtopic".
Now mod THIS comment of mine offtopic as well, damn it, because it is. Even if it is informative and may be interesting, it's not on topic.
I'm conflicted. There was a slashdot article about some evil or another Verizon was doing, and I'm looking for a new cell phone provider (AT&T's takeover of Cingular caused me far more problems than I wish to get into here).
I asked slashdotters for suggestions, and Verizon seemed to not be very well liked. But now they;re teaming up with Google.
Plus, my tenant and her boyfriend were over the other night, and he has a really cool phone, It's a small clamshell that will fit in a pocket and opens up with a QWERTY keyboard, has MP3 capabilities, and he can upload the MP3s from his computer and all sorts of other cool features.
I'm still looking for cell phone provider suggestions; I'm using a fifteen dollar Net10 phone right now.
Key words here: "most loud". What they say almost never matches what they do. Look at my own Senator, Obama. Always talking against the corporations, but he voted FOR that Godawful bankrupcy "reform" that lets you lose your house over medical bills. He represents the bankers, not the banking customers.
Maybe I'm just dumb, but it seems to me that the answer is in fact "yes"; only difference between the apps being online and local is that online is MORE work.
They used to have apps on the network where I work. Now they're all on the hard drive - because having it on the network was slow and filled the servers and was a support nightmare. I fail to see how having the stuff online would be any advantage at all.
We're talking about internet over brain implants. That means sight and sound (and meybe feel and smell).
Sure, if you hook up wires to certain portions of the brain, you might be able to manipulate what that person believes they are experiencing, or else induce pain or pleasure, and very likely could indirectly control his or her actions through those experiences
Bingo! here's the scenario: what you see isn't what you think you're seeing.
You see a damsel in distress - a cad is attacking her. You come to her defense, fighting off the cad. He runs away, and she is so appreciative that she wants to make love to you.
Only there was no cad - what you attacked was the damsel, who YOU attacked then raped. Meanwhile, a bunch of fat guys in some basement, the same guys who post goatse and tubgirl pictures at slashdot, are laughing their asses off as the police put you in handcuffs (and you think the police are the kinky damsel).
Hell, I've had my thoughts manipulated WITHOUT brain implants. It would be so much easier if those wishing to manipulate me could control what I see and hear. Actually, the corporate-owned mainstream media can do this to most people without implants; all they control is radio, TV, and newspapers.
Your comment made me look up KSHE on Wikipedia to see if the first stereo FM rock and roll radio station in existance would be notable enough to show up on Wikipedia.
KSHE is there, and contains a bit of trivia I didn't know about ("Sweet Meat, a likeness of which originally appeared on the Blodwyn Pig LP, 'A Head Rings Out'.") However...
KSHE originally played lighter, female-oriented rock when it first started operating in 1961 as KSHE (Hence, the reason for the SHE in KSHE), Over the years, KSHE gradually incorporated more mainstream rock to become the station that it is today.
KSHE, one of the oldest continually operating rock stations in the country, will celebrate its 40th birthday as a rock station in November, 2007.
My dad listened to KSHE before its format change to "Real Rock Radio" (which is not its "current" slogan as the Wiki article says, but has been its slogan since the day of its format change from light jazz (NOT "female oriented rock"). Herb Alpert is most decidedly neither rock, nor female oriented.
It did not "gradually" change, the format change was sudden.
It did not broadcast "mainstream rock"; what it broadcast was most decidedly NOT mainstream, but the non-mainstream rock itself became mainstream. For instance, nobody but KSHE played Jimi Hendrix. The black stations wouldn't play him because he was a rocker, and the rock stations wouldn't play him because he was black. He was decidedly NOT mainstream when KSHE started playing his music.
It is not "one of" the oldest, it is THE oldest.
KSHE broadcasts RBDS data. Its morning show is a syndicated feed of the Bob & Tom Show, out of Indianapolis.
Bob and Tom are not KSHE homegrown nor are relevant to KSHE itself; their (IMO bad) show is filler. That godawful show also plays here in Springfield, IL on WCVS. Its mention does NOT belong in a Wikipedia article about KSHE.
I wrote an acccount of this then-teenager's discovery of KSHE on the day of its format change in a 2004 K5 article titled Birth of a label-sanctioned pirate radio station. It garnered many comments and emails, including an email from one of KSHE's first disk jockeys who worked at KSHE in the beginning and waxed nostalgic over the article.
Most of the short Wikipedia article about KSHE was dropped from a male bovine's rectum. I now see where Wikipedia gets its reputation for inaccuracy.
I'm sorry, sir, but are you really British? I ask because I'm not, but I usually have no trouble reading the Queen's English (as opposed to the American English I speak and write).
I understand the terms "bollocks" and "fuckwit" but what the terms "ime", "18plus", and "rorotact"?
Also, can you translate the unparsable phrase "I cant create and article about it" to either English or American? Even Ebonics would do, but your attempt at communication fails miserably. Sorry.
Perhaps many deleted Wikipedia articles and/or edits are removed because, like your post, they are completely and illegibly unreadable?
-mcgrew
PS: I just googled "rorotact" and was asked "Did you mean: Rotaract?" Clicking the first link brought me to Rotoract Club, where a very content-free page tells me to "Just U Do It" and the entire page reads only
Rotoract Club Group Purpose
Develop professional and leadership skills while recognizing the dignity and value of useful occupations as opportunities to serve needs and problems in the community
For more information or to contact this group please call [a telephone number] or e-mail.
Student Centers Home
Sorry, but I think you and your organization are a few bricks shy of a full load, as we sometimes say here in the colonies. Again, my apologies to you and your illiterate friends.
As an admin on Wikipedia... I agree that there are definitely some people who want to delete to readily
Are you really an admin? Should Wikipedia have admins that can't properly spell a three letter word?;)
Ordinarily a small typo like that should be ignored, especially at slashdot where people can't tell the verb "lose" from the verb "loose", but Wikipedia has a (completely undeserved IMO) reputation for being innacurate. Because of this, a Wikipedia admin should be especially careful when posting about Wikipedia in public. Please proofread a bit more carefully, ok? Sometimes the spell checker can be one's worst enemy.
-mcgrew (linked blagh includes a short satire of and quote from Wikipedia)
Do you think it takes twice as many workers to maintain twice as many machines?
No. But do you think the number of machines will only double?
What happens when someone invents the Star Trek replicators? The future is almost always scarier than it is when it becomes the present.
Back in the late '70s when it looked like comfortable cars were a thing of the past, I bemoaned the fact that at seventy cents per gallon I'd be driving a cramped little car the rest of my life. But now I'm driving the most comfortable luxury car I've ever owned (a 2002 Concorde), and it's dwarfed by the SUVs.
There's no predicting the future. I remain optimistic.
Considering how slow, blinkey, and annoying most "web 2.0" sites are, and how looking at the source shows that they were developed by people who have no clue what an anchor tag is or what does, or when and when not to use an apostrophe (or a spell checker), today's web developers won't be missed. Actually they're probably missed already, by their former employers who now have to find someone else to ask if you want fries with that.
Web 2.0 is far more annoying than web 1.0 was. I shudder to think how bad web 3.0 will be!
HR was going to hire you as the new marketing CEO until you got to the part about "blowjobs"
Speaking of which, yesterday was a very, very unusual Monday for me. I usually don't do Mondays very well (sorta like Arthur, who never got the hang of Thursdays). I think I must have slipped through some sort of space-time continuum into a paralell dimention, or two sheets of the string-theory universe collided or something, because, well, lets just say I had a very un-nerdlike experience and today have a huge smile on my face.
Yes, but my point is that as an IT professional, it doesn't matter whether you work for XYZ financial or to the company that XYZ financial hires; you still have a job. The work still needs to be done.
And it's hard to outsource an internal network. That guy from Indai isn't going to come to your office to replace the router, or to diagnose that the router is the problem.
The Nyquist theorum is a mathematical proof that you cannot produce a tone at more than half the sample rate. E.g., at CD's 44k samples per second, the highest tone that can be reproduced is 22khz.
If your 300 Hz tone has 30kHz harmonics, your CD's sample of that tone will NOT sound like your original 300 Hz tone. What you can't hear can color what you can.
Nyquist doesn't speak to aliasing, either. At 44k samples per second, a 15 kHz tone has three samples per crest. At that small number of samples there's no way to tell a sine wave from a sawtooth wave.
However, analog has its problems as well - noise being the primary problem.
The 8-track tape This sorry piece of crap is proof positive of American stupidity. The cassette - the (now obsolete) four track, two-spindle, 1/8th inch, 1/78 IPS shirt pocket sized tape cassette was produced before the 8-track. The four track cassette was originally made as a dictation device, but advances in tape manufacture and head design soon gave them a frequency response that came close to human hearing's limit, signal to noise ratio low enough that you had to turn it up very loud to hear the hiss, and inaudible harmonic distortion which made them ideal for music.
Nevertheless, the 8-track was born anyway. With its transport speed at twice the 4-track cassette's speed, it should have been audibly superior. However, the "powers that be" decided that 8-tracks were going to be for automobiles, which at the time were not as well insulated from outside sounds and wind as today's cars, and with the auto's horrible acoustics, it was OK for a car's music to sound like effluent.
But the deliberately bad sound wasn't bad enough. The eight track tape had a single spindle, a very clever design where the tape fed from the center of the spindle, around a capstain roller inside the housing and back to the outside of the roll of tape. This made for an expensive setup, and one that was prone to wow and flutter, as well as having the tape get "eaten" by the tape player. And unlike a cassette, if your 8-track got ate, you might as well throw it in the trash.
But wait, there's more! This thing was deemed to be for the car, while cassettes were going to be (by about 1970 or so) for the home.
This made no sense whatever, since the "portable" eight track took up as much space as four cassettes, without being able to play any longer than a cassette. In fact, you could buy a longer playing cassette than 8-track.
But the one thing more than anything else that made 8-tracks suck like a Hoover was the fact that it had to change tracks four times during an album. This usually necessitated at least one song and usually more being interrupted in the middle!
Folks finally, after about ten years, started figuring this stuff out for themselves and replaced their 8-track cartriges with 4 track cassettes. Me? I never had an 8-track, although all my friends did. I, the geek, used the far more logical cassettes since about 1966 or 7. Hah! The geek gets the last laugh again!
Another reason for vinyl's sonic superiority is that no matter how high a sampling rate is, it can never contain all of the data present in an analog groove, Nyquist's theorem to the contrary.
This statement is true, but completely irrelevant. The fact that a recording medium is analog does not mean that it is better at accurately recording and reproducing a sound than a digital medium. Magnetic tapes are also analog recordings. Putting a pencil on a string, hanging it next to a speaker, and having it draw a line on a moving sheet of paper is also an analog recording.
There is a very salient point being missed here.
Have you ever heard a CD that you would confuse with a live performance? Neither have I. However, in 1978 I owned a pair of Kenwood 777 speakers, six drivers in each enclosure including fifteen inch woofers, and a German made Dual turntable. If you would put Van Halen's first album on and crank that sucker up to 9 and close your eyes, Van Halen was in the living room. Once when we moved, the last thing to go into the new place was guitars and amps. We then opened the tequila and proceeded to crank that Van Halen album.
The next day we met the new neighbors. "Man", they said, "your band kicks ass!" They thought it was live.
However, if you have a digital master for an analog medium, or an analog master for a digital medium, you have the worst of both worlds. You have the Nyquist limit which cuts all harmonics above the limit, distorting tones below the limit as well as digital's aliasing (which is why you'll never convince anyone a digital sample is live), as well as analog's noise.
In short, if you have a digital master, the CD will sound better. If you have an analog master, the vinyl will sound better.
Analog suffers from another thing - unlike digital, the quality of the input device is paramount. A Cheap turntable is not going to sound as good as a cheap CD player.
Am I the only one who remembers what the MS in MSNBC stands for? I did note that one poster said they got a cut of every Zune sold (that's what, $2.78 so far?)
Get with the program guys, this is an Apple fanboy vs Microsoft fanboy thread! Let us Linux fanboys put on the popcorn and watch you two duke it out.
Meanwhile, we Linux fans have our own download service. And unlike Microsaoft or Apple, ours is MAFIAA-free, DRM-free, and FREE (as in both speech and beer)! And you're not tied to oour platform to use it.
The thing is, that great American corporation Sony gives ten million to the Democrat, and another ten million to the Republican, and no matter who loses, Sony wins and America loses. The same people who own Sony own the newspapers, radio stations, and TV networks, who endlessly parrot that voting for a third party candidate is a wasted vote since that candidate is slated to lose. So your choices are:
Vote for one of the the Republicrats who do NOT have your interests ate heart and who will NOT listen to you
Vote for a sure loser
Stay home
Most people rationally opt for #3.
Myself? I split my vote between the Libertarians and the Greens, just to piss them off! There are two reforms that are badly needed before this will change, and neither of them has a snowball in hell's chance of ever happening:
Outlaw contributing to any candidate one is not elgible to vote for (as an Illinois voter I should not be able to contribute to McCain unless he runs for President)
Outlaw "contributing" to more than one candidate in any one race
This would end the legalized bribery and outlaw corporations and unions from having more say in your government than voters do.
It's supposed to be a list of dangerous criminals. Now it's not.
Yes it is. All peace activists are dangerous - to the chickenhawk sleazebags running our government. Look at Nixon's Vice President. The hippies were right! They still are.
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This is America, where a company can legally bribe "your" representatives before they are elected, by "contributing" to both major party candidates. When Sony gives ten million to the Republican and another ten million to the Democrat, no matter who loses, Sony wins. And Sony gets whatever laws it wants passed, and whatever laws it doesn't like repealed (unless some other company has made a bigger pre-election bribe the other way).
So when a corporate entity shuts you up, that IS government censorship. Besides, from the encyclopedia:Now, since an encyclopedia is not a good enough source for a school paper, let alone a scientific one, how about the dictionary? Yes, I saw your "At least not government censorship." Still not going to let you squirm out of it; the fact that it isn't the government per se has nothing whatever to do with the fact that it WAS in fact censorship.
-mcgrew
I agree 100% with your post and disagree as vehemently as you with the GP, but sadly, I don't think he's trolling.
Now Ann Coulter, yes, she IS a troll. And not a very good one at that. But oddly, she has a press pass.
Oh hell...
I was going to rebut your comment with links to all sorts of controversial things I've posted on the internet in the last ten years, but then I remembered all the things that there's no way in hell I'd ever post. You and Thompson are right, it seems.
-mcgrew
Someone holding a press pass acts as proxy for the wider population
Apologies for this US-centric post, but I don't remember "reporter" being on the last ballot I cast. I also don't recall reading that Thoman Paine needed a press pass for his "Common Sense" articles.
I've read the Constitution, and I don't remember anything in the 1st amendment regarding press passes, or government powers to issue them. That document doesn't grant rights to citizens; it specifically states that you already have all rights. What it does is grant power to government, and limited power at that,
Sadly, opinions like yours have allowed government to gain far greater powers than granted by the Constitution.
-mcgrew
*sigh*
I just wrote a slashdot journal about these bad mods just this morning. The parent is by no means -1 Troll. It is -1 OFFTOPIC!
If he had done the traditional "frosty piss" or GNAA, then that would have indeed been a troll (or maybe flamebait). As it is, it's simply offtopic. Rating it "troll" doesn't give it a lower score than the deserved "offtopic".
Now mod THIS comment of mine offtopic as well, damn it, because it is. Even if it is informative and may be interesting, it's not on topic.
Evil billing? That's AT&T.
I'm conflicted. There was a slashdot article about some evil or another Verizon was doing, and I'm looking for a new cell phone provider (AT&T's takeover of Cingular caused me far more problems than I wish to get into here).
I asked slashdotters for suggestions, and Verizon seemed to not be very well liked. But now they;re teaming up with Google.
Plus, my tenant and her boyfriend were over the other night, and he has a really cool phone, It's a small clamshell that will fit in a pocket and opens up with a QWERTY keyboard, has MP3 capabilities, and he can upload the MP3s from his computer and all sorts of other cool features.
I'm still looking for cell phone provider suggestions; I'm using a fifteen dollar Net10 phone right now.
Key words here: "most loud". What they say almost never matches what they do. Look at my own Senator, Obama. Always talking against the corporations, but he voted FOR that Godawful bankrupcy "reform" that lets you lose your house over medical bills. He represents the bankers, not the banking customers.
Maybe I'm just dumb, but it seems to me that the answer is in fact "yes"; only difference between the apps being online and local is that online is MORE work.
They used to have apps on the network where I work. Now they're all on the hard drive - because having it on the network was slow and filled the servers and was a support nightmare. I fail to see how having the stuff online would be any advantage at all.
But like I said, maybe I'm just dumb.
It wasn't just head, my friend. It's been a long long long time since I've had any.
And it only cost me twenty bucks! (the most expensive I ever had cost a house, a car, and part of my pension. All women are prostitutes.)
We're talking about internet over brain implants. That means sight and sound (and meybe feel and smell).
Sure, if you hook up wires to certain portions of the brain, you might be able to manipulate what that person believes they are experiencing, or else induce pain or pleasure, and very likely could indirectly control his or her actions through those experiences
Bingo! here's the scenario: what you see isn't what you think you're seeing.
You see a damsel in distress - a cad is attacking her. You come to her defense, fighting off the cad. He runs away, and she is so appreciative that she wants to make love to you.
Only there was no cad - what you attacked was the damsel, who YOU attacked then raped. Meanwhile, a bunch of fat guys in some basement, the same guys who post goatse and tubgirl pictures at slashdot, are laughing their asses off as the police put you in handcuffs (and you think the police are the kinky damsel).
Hell, I've had my thoughts manipulated WITHOUT brain implants. It would be so much easier if those wishing to manipulate me could control what I see and hear. Actually, the corporate-owned mainstream media can do this to most people without implants; all they control is radio, TV, and newspapers.
Your comment made me look up KSHE on Wikipedia to see if the first stereo FM rock and roll radio station in existance would be notable enough to show up on Wikipedia.
KSHE is there, and contains a bit of trivia I didn't know about ("Sweet Meat, a likeness of which originally appeared on the Blodwyn Pig LP, 'A Head Rings Out'.") However...My dad listened to KSHE before its format change to "Real Rock Radio" (which is not its "current" slogan as the Wiki article says, but has been its slogan since the day of its format change from light jazz (NOT "female oriented rock"). Herb Alpert is most decidedly neither rock, nor female oriented.
It did not "gradually" change, the format change was sudden.
It did not broadcast "mainstream rock"; what it broadcast was most decidedly NOT mainstream, but the non-mainstream rock itself became mainstream. For instance, nobody but KSHE played Jimi Hendrix. The black stations wouldn't play him because he was a rocker, and the rock stations wouldn't play him because he was black. He was decidedly NOT mainstream when KSHE started playing his music.
It is not "one of" the oldest, it is THE oldest.Bob and Tom are not KSHE homegrown nor are relevant to KSHE itself; their (IMO bad) show is filler. That godawful show also plays here in Springfield, IL on WCVS. Its mention does NOT belong in a Wikipedia article about KSHE.
I wrote an acccount of this then-teenager's discovery of KSHE on the day of its format change in a 2004 K5 article titled Birth of a label-sanctioned pirate radio station. It garnered many comments and emails, including an email from one of KSHE's first disk jockeys who worked at KSHE in the beginning and waxed nostalgic over the article.
Most of the short Wikipedia article about KSHE was dropped from a male bovine's rectum. I now see where Wikipedia gets its reputation for inaccuracy.
-mcgrew
I understand the terms "bollocks" and "fuckwit" but what the terms "ime", "18plus", and "rorotact"?
Also, can you translate the unparsable phrase "I cant create and article about it" to either English or American? Even Ebonics would do, but your attempt at communication fails miserably. Sorry.
Perhaps many deleted Wikipedia articles and/or edits are removed because, like your post, they are completely and illegibly unreadable?
-mcgrew
PS: I just googled "rorotact" and was asked "Did you mean: Rotaract?" Clicking the first link brought me to Rotoract Club, where a very content-free page tells me to "Just U Do It" and the entire page reads onlySorry, but I think you and your organization are a few bricks shy of a full load, as we sometimes say here in the colonies. Again, my apologies to you and your illiterate friends.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
To misquote Isaac Asimov's Salvor Hardin in Foundation, "XML is the last refuge of the incompetent."
As an admin on Wikipedia... I agree that there are definitely some people who want to delete to readily
;)
Are you really an admin? Should Wikipedia have admins that can't properly spell a three letter word?
Ordinarily a small typo like that should be ignored, especially at slashdot where people can't tell the verb "lose" from the verb "loose", but Wikipedia has a (completely undeserved IMO) reputation for being innacurate. Because of this, a Wikipedia admin should be especially careful when posting about Wikipedia in public. Please proofread a bit more carefully, ok? Sometimes the spell checker can be one's worst enemy.
-mcgrew
(linked blagh includes a short satire of and quote from Wikipedia)
Do you think it takes twice as many workers to maintain twice as many machines?
No. But do you think the number of machines will only double?
What happens when someone invents the Star Trek replicators? The future is almost always scarier than it is when it becomes the present.
Back in the late '70s when it looked like comfortable cars were a thing of the past, I bemoaned the fact that at seventy cents per gallon I'd be driving a cramped little car the rest of my life. But now I'm driving the most comfortable luxury car I've ever owned (a 2002 Concorde), and it's dwarfed by the SUVs.
There's no predicting the future. I remain optimistic.
Considering how slow, blinkey, and annoying most "web 2.0" sites are, and how looking at the source shows that they were developed by people who have no clue what an anchor tag is or what does, or when and when not to use an apostrophe (or a spell checker), today's web developers won't be missed. Actually they're probably missed already, by their former employers who now have to find someone else to ask if you want fries with that.
Web 2.0 is far more annoying than web 1.0 was. I shudder to think how bad web 3.0 will be!
HR was going to hire you as the new marketing CEO until you got to the part about "blowjobs"
Speaking of which, yesterday was a very, very unusual Monday for me. I usually don't do Mondays very well (sorta like Arthur, who never got the hang of Thursdays). I think I must have slipped through some sort of space-time continuum into a paralell dimention, or two sheets of the string-theory universe collided or something, because, well, lets just say I had a very un-nerdlike experience and today have a huge smile on my face.
Yes, but my point is that as an IT professional, it doesn't matter whether you work for XYZ financial or to the company that XYZ financial hires; you still have a job. The work still needs to be done.
And it's hard to outsource an internal network. That guy from Indai isn't going to come to your office to replace the router, or to diagnose that the router is the problem.
The Nyquist theorum is a mathematical proof that you cannot produce a tone at more than half the sample rate. E.g., at CD's 44k samples per second, the highest tone that can be reproduced is 22khz.
If your 300 Hz tone has 30kHz harmonics, your CD's sample of that tone will NOT sound like your original 300 Hz tone. What you can't hear can color what you can.
Nyquist doesn't speak to aliasing, either. At 44k samples per second, a 15 kHz tone has three samples per crest. At that small number of samples there's no way to tell a sine wave from a sawtooth wave.
However, analog has its problems as well - noise being the primary problem.
-mcgrew
Never? Really? Never? This is a technology website, and you're using the word "Never"??
Two plus two will NEVER equal five unless you're not very smart.
-mcgrew
Have you ever heard a CD that you would confuse with a live performance? Neither have I. However, in 1978 I owned a pair of Kenwood 777 speakers, six drivers in each enclosure including fifteen inch woofers, and a German made Dual turntable. If you would put Van Halen's first album on and crank that sucker up to 9 and close your eyes, Van Halen was in the living room. Once when we moved, the last thing to go into the new place was guitars and amps. We then opened the tequila and proceeded to crank that Van Halen album.
The next day we met the new neighbors. "Man", they said, "your band kicks ass!" They thought it was live.
However, if you have a digital master for an analog medium, or an analog master for a digital medium, you have the worst of both worlds. You have the Nyquist limit which cuts all harmonics above the limit, distorting tones below the limit as well as digital's aliasing (which is why you'll never convince anyone a digital sample is live), as well as analog's noise.
In short, if you have a digital master, the CD will sound better. If you have an analog master, the vinyl will sound better.
Analog suffers from another thing - unlike digital, the quality of the input device is paramount. A Cheap turntable is not going to sound as good as a cheap CD player.
-mcgrew (there are errors in the linked article)
Am I the only one who remembers what the MS in MSNBC stands for? I did note that one poster said they got a cut of every Zune sold (that's what, $2.78 so far?)
Get with the program guys, this is an Apple fanboy vs Microsoft fanboy thread! Let us Linux fanboys put on the popcorn and watch you two duke it out.
Meanwhile, we Linux fans have our own download service. And unlike Microsaoft or Apple, ours is MAFIAA-free, DRM-free, and FREE (as in both speech and beer)! And you're not tied to oour platform to use it.
-mcgrew
- Vote for one of the the Republicrats who do NOT have your interests ate heart and who will NOT listen to you
- Vote for a sure loser
- Stay home
Most people rationally opt for #3.Myself? I split my vote between the Libertarians and the Greens, just to piss them off! There are two reforms that are badly needed before this will change, and neither of them has a snowball in hell's chance of ever happening:
- Outlaw contributing to any candidate one is not elgible to vote for (as an Illinois voter I should not be able to contribute to McCain unless he runs for President)
- Outlaw "contributing" to more than one candidate in any one race
This would end the legalized bribery and outlaw corporations and unions from having more say in your government than voters do.It will never happen.
-mcgrew
It's supposed to be a list of dangerous criminals. Now it's not.
Yes it is. All peace activists are dangerous - to the chickenhawk sleazebags running our government. Look at Nixon's Vice President. The hippies were right! They still are.
-mcgrew