>I work really hard with the bands I produce (I produce music) to create *exactly* the sound intended
It must be really depressing then to have the CD mastering wreck all that with over compression.
>damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage
Has 'collateral damage' been redefined to allow this leap forward? Every other weapon supposed to avoid this does a very good job of hitting civs, own soldiers, allies soldiers etc. I'm guessing the weak link here is the human element but really, do we want to automate this sort of firepower? THIS is how Skynet started.
Fair point, I wasn't clear. I looked at them all and discarded most because they had a policy I disagreed with. That left Tory but that was not because they had a great policy but because of what they didn't support IYSWIM.
>Any judge would hold same brick and mortar selling counterfeit to same liability in damages.
So if I rent some premises to a shop and they then sell dodgy goods, I'm liable? Are you sure? Sounds bogus to me.
>why do people insist on believing we're a two party state?
Why do people assume others haven't done their homework?
I know about the other parties and have browsed most of their manifestos but all of them have at least one policy that I disagree with as strongly as I do the ID card so they're out the running for now.
One thing I notice is that people as young as 30-35 still pull the 'of course, this wasn't around when I was a kid so I don't understand it' card when referring to stuff like PCs, Home Cinemas, mobile phones, Sat Navs etc. Speaking as someone of 46 who has used computers and programmed them since I was 15 in 1979, I find this somewhat frustrating. Is it possible some people are just fed up of the rapid change and starting to push back against it and refusing to spend too much time keeping up with it all?
Another thought is that we seem to reinvent the wheel far more often these days. For instance, I was listening to a web dev podcast (not bad for an olden eh? (get off my lawn!)) where they noted they had just discovered that most of the stuff they thought their generation had invented (information architecture, UI design etc) had (gasp) been around for decades and how they now realised they could learn stuff from the older generation of app designers and architects.
As a species, I suspect we know far more than we can adequately document and track so spend far too much of our efforts and resourcing doing stuff that already exists. You see this a lot in the news with some headline proclaiming a 'new scientific discovery' which I knew about when I was a kid but clearly, those younger than me had forgotton/not known about and discovered it all over again.
>Flamebait? Seriously?
Pretty bizarre eh? FWIW, I agree with your post and I'm (currently) a Tory voter next time round but mainly because they're not Labour than anything else. Labour have been around so long there's a whole generation around that forgot some of the dodgy goings on the Tories got up to but then it's pretty much a different bunch in now so I'm prepared to give them another crack.
Reasons I'm not voting Labour
1. ID Card
2. Iraq
3. Selling off the gold at its lowest price
4. Taxing the pension funds
5. ID card (again).
They're sounding ever more rabid, proclaim bizarre things that anyone with a clue can see right through and are frankly counter productive to whatever they are trying to achieve. Once upon a time I had a lot of respect for them in many areas but these days, just seeing FSF in a headline is usually a clue you need to jump to the next new article.
>I think they developed Kirk and Pike quite well.
Kirk: Shields up, phasers to maximum. Prepare to engage.
Pike: Don't Panic! Don't Panic!
(That's going to go 'whoosh' for non Brit's I suspect)
Bringing Lucas into the equation is an interesting one. I really liked the first 3 Star Wars movies but after that, I think it was just the force of the initial success pushing things along. If it weren't for those, most subsequent SW stuff whether it's the films or the novels wouldn't have been nearly as successful because frankly, they weren't that good. It was all intertia.
For me, Adams is similar. I used to be a Radio 4 fan far earlier than was probably good for me and used to listen to it as a matter of course as a teen. I remember the first airing of the first episode and was so blown away by it I couldn't wait to get to school next day to tell everyonre about it. From then on, those first two series were like I'd died and gone to heaven. Ditto for the books. However, anything that came after that was for me, pretty lame. Even the later Dirk Gently books were pretty poorly written and had little compelling content. As someone else said, it is the Emporer's New Clothes - if Adams farted in a bottle everyone would say how fantastic it was. The reality was that it just wasn't - he was being held up by those first two HHGTTG series. Everything else he wrote after that was an also ran.
Apart from anything else, he was by all accounts a nightmare to work with and left a trail of unfinished projects and pices for other people to pick up as he flitted from one thing to another. Look at the stories of the first and (subsequently canned second) Hitchhiker's Infocom games for examples.
I wouldn't take anything away from him for those first two radio series - they were brilliant, whether by luck or ability but after that, it was intertia. Pretty much everyone I know read every subsequent book even though they freely admitted after each one it was more than a bit 'meh'.
>And what is with the general trend of taking classic, decent works and making crappy sequels?
Sometimes it pays dividends. There was a sequel to HG Wells' The Time Machine that was released about ten years ago which I really enjoyed. It totally turned things on their head but in a really cool way.
Yep - that was my first thought too. A good idea that never really took off. heck, even Atari had their Transputer Workstations but they only got as far as universities as I remember. I did see one demoed at a UK computer show (PCW maybe?) running some Kodak software for image manipulation and the speed and quality of the images were amazing for the time.
For just about every other piece of software on the planet, the UK pays much more and often twice as much as the US does. Adobe are one of the worst in this respect but previous MS operating systems have been *far* cheaper in the US than here.
6 years ago I got paid for writing computer/tech content for AOL. Then they found someone who would do it for free if AOL gave their magazine some coverage. hey ho.
Once SCO is finally dead and buried, the whole saga is going to make a cracking book up there with the Enron one (and film). I'd like to think it would be a warning to future CEO's on how not to look like a total idiot but I suspect that just goes with the job these days.
I wrote to Atari UK about the lack of updates (of worth) to the ST range and got a letter back from the boss (whose name escapes me) pretty much spilling the beans about the Falcon a good 6-8 months before anyone had been told about it. I later showed it to their marketing guy when I (briefly) worked for them and his jaw hit the ground when he saw the date and he mouthed 'WTF?'. He wasn't happy.
Very true. For those who grew up in later years, there's no way to understand just how awesome it was seeing your name on a computer screen. Computers were the stuff of SciFi and things like video cameras were pretty much unknown in the home so seeing your name on the screen of a piece of technology was incredible. It felt like the future.
You may well be right (just reporting what Top Gear said) but they did say that as an example, a single indicator arm, as used on the steering wheel was GBP1000.
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>I work really hard with the bands I produce (I produce music) to create *exactly* the sound intended
It must be really depressing then to have the CD mastering wreck all that with over compression.
>Sure, once the tubes are at operating temperature...
The joke didn't need explaining. Trust me.
>First, What's your cup size?
Depends, Latte or black Americano?
>damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage
Has 'collateral damage' been redefined to allow this leap forward? Every other weapon supposed to avoid this does a very good job of hitting civs, own soldiers, allies soldiers etc. I'm guessing the weak link here is the human element but really, do we want to automate this sort of firepower? THIS is how Skynet started.
Fair point, I wasn't clear. I looked at them all and discarded most because they had a policy I disagreed with. That left Tory but that was not because they had a great policy but because of what they didn't support IYSWIM.
I must admit, I didn't read the article (c'mon) but in that case, I have little sympathy for the hosting company.
>Any judge would hold same brick and mortar selling counterfeit to same liability in damages.
So if I rent some premises to a shop and they then sell dodgy goods, I'm liable? Are you sure? Sounds bogus to me.
>why do people insist on believing we're a two party state?
Why do people assume others haven't done their homework?
I know about the other parties and have browsed most of their manifestos but all of them have at least one policy that I disagree with as strongly as I do the ID card so they're out the running for now.
One thing I notice is that people as young as 30-35 still pull the 'of course, this wasn't around when I was a kid so I don't understand it' card when referring to stuff like PCs, Home Cinemas, mobile phones, Sat Navs etc. Speaking as someone of 46 who has used computers and programmed them since I was 15 in 1979, I find this somewhat frustrating. Is it possible some people are just fed up of the rapid change and starting to push back against it and refusing to spend too much time keeping up with it all?
Another thought is that we seem to reinvent the wheel far more often these days. For instance, I was listening to a web dev podcast (not bad for an olden eh? (get off my lawn!)) where they noted they had just discovered that most of the stuff they thought their generation had invented (information architecture, UI design etc) had (gasp) been around for decades and how they now realised they could learn stuff from the older generation of app designers and architects.
As a species, I suspect we know far more than we can adequately document and track so spend far too much of our efforts and resourcing doing stuff that already exists. You see this a lot in the news with some headline proclaiming a 'new scientific discovery' which I knew about when I was a kid but clearly, those younger than me had forgotton/not known about and discovered it all over again.
Mod parent up. This has hit the nail on the head.
>Flamebait? Seriously?
Pretty bizarre eh? FWIW, I agree with your post and I'm (currently) a Tory voter next time round but mainly because they're not Labour than anything else. Labour have been around so long there's a whole generation around that forgot some of the dodgy goings on the Tories got up to but then it's pretty much a different bunch in now so I'm prepared to give them another crack.
Reasons I'm not voting Labour
1. ID Card
2. Iraq
3. Selling off the gold at its lowest price
4. Taxing the pension funds
5. ID card (again).
They're sounding ever more rabid, proclaim bizarre things that anyone with a clue can see right through and are frankly counter productive to whatever they are trying to achieve. Once upon a time I had a lot of respect for them in many areas but these days, just seeing FSF in a headline is usually a clue you need to jump to the next new article.
>I think they developed Kirk and Pike quite well.
Kirk: Shields up, phasers to maximum. Prepare to engage.
Pike: Don't Panic! Don't Panic!
(That's going to go 'whoosh' for non Brit's I suspect)
Bringing Lucas into the equation is an interesting one. I really liked the first 3 Star Wars movies but after that, I think it was just the force of the initial success pushing things along. If it weren't for those, most subsequent SW stuff whether it's the films or the novels wouldn't have been nearly as successful because frankly, they weren't that good. It was all intertia.
For me, Adams is similar. I used to be a Radio 4 fan far earlier than was probably good for me and used to listen to it as a matter of course as a teen. I remember the first airing of the first episode and was so blown away by it I couldn't wait to get to school next day to tell everyonre about it. From then on, those first two series were like I'd died and gone to heaven. Ditto for the books. However, anything that came after that was for me, pretty lame. Even the later Dirk Gently books were pretty poorly written and had little compelling content. As someone else said, it is the Emporer's New Clothes - if Adams farted in a bottle everyone would say how fantastic it was. The reality was that it just wasn't - he was being held up by those first two HHGTTG series. Everything else he wrote after that was an also ran.
Apart from anything else, he was by all accounts a nightmare to work with and left a trail of unfinished projects and pices for other people to pick up as he flitted from one thing to another. Look at the stories of the first and (subsequently canned second) Hitchhiker's Infocom games for examples.
I wouldn't take anything away from him for those first two radio series - they were brilliant, whether by luck or ability but after that, it was intertia. Pretty much everyone I know read every subsequent book even though they freely admitted after each one it was more than a bit 'meh'.
>And what is with the general trend of taking classic, decent works and making crappy sequels?
Sometimes it pays dividends. There was a sequel to HG Wells' The Time Machine that was released about ten years ago which I really enjoyed. It totally turned things on their head but in a really cool way.
Yep - that was my first thought too. A good idea that never really took off. heck, even Atari had their Transputer Workstations but they only got as far as universities as I remember. I did see one demoed at a UK computer show (PCW maybe?) running some Kodak software for image manipulation and the speed and quality of the images were amazing for the time.
For just about every other piece of software on the planet, the UK pays much more and often twice as much as the US does. Adobe are one of the worst in this respect but previous MS operating systems have been *far* cheaper in the US than here.
>Does no one speak in clear plain language anymore?
No, we emit facetime dialog that has high legibility quotiants.
6 years ago I got paid for writing computer/tech content for AOL. Then they found someone who would do it for free if AOL gave their magazine some coverage. hey ho.
Once SCO is finally dead and buried, the whole saga is going to make a cracking book up there with the Enron one (and film). I'd like to think it would be a warning to future CEO's on how not to look like a total idiot but I suspect that just goes with the job these days.
>So if the outside is made of something soft, it may well survive the drop off of a building.
Didn't help the poor Chinese/Apple/Foxconn guy.
>Still, I can never understand suicide, perhaps the guy had other issues
Never underestimate the power of 'honour' in certain cultures.
I wrote to Atari UK about the lack of updates (of worth) to the ST range and got a letter back from the boss (whose name escapes me) pretty much spilling the beans about the Falcon a good 6-8 months before anyone had been told about it. I later showed it to their marketing guy when I (briefly) worked for them and his jaw hit the ground when he saw the date and he mouthed 'WTF?'. He wasn't happy.
Very true. For those who grew up in later years, there's no way to understand just how awesome it was seeing your name on a computer screen. Computers were the stuff of SciFi and things like video cameras were pretty much unknown in the home so seeing your name on the screen of a piece of technology was incredible. It felt like the future.
You may well be right (just reporting what Top Gear said) but they did say that as an example, a single indicator arm, as used on the steering wheel was GBP1000.