I just switched from Spotify to Google Play. I had just gotten so fed up with Spotify's broken shuffle feature, which basically just picks 30 songs out of your playlist and repeats them over and over, that I had to try something else. I like the way Google integrates with the music I already own and has the same catalog as Spotify. Plus, the ability to dial in radio stations that actually includes the kind of genres I want is far superior in Google Play. Finally, it includes YouTube Red so I never get ads over there any more either.
The main Spotify feature I miss is the curated playlists. At first I thought the lack of a "discover" feature would bother me, but I've been able to cobble something similar in GP.
It's usually the person doing the gaslighting who is delusional, paranoid, insecure, and incompetent.
True, but in the Age of Trump, gaslighting is seen by awful people as "smart" and a "winning strategy".
We're watching in real time as an entire nation is being gaslighted. Of course, the worst people in the work place are going to adopt the same strategy. Individuals need to insulate themselves as best they can and then fight back like hell.
Naaah, what was really crazy was thinking that an ex-stoner "community organizer" raised by Communists, who'd never been in charge of a damn thing his entire life, could be a successful President.
And yet, he leaves office with the highest approval rating of any post-war president.
I think Scott Adams would call this "cognitive dissonance".
Yes. I don't have any issue with someone exploiting an artistic effect of a defect. Which is what most of these effects are. Years ago, I dabbled in the alternative photographic processes like cyanotype and VanDyke, and metal etching printing, and gold toning. If I get back into it, I'd probably deal with digital printed negatives and albumen printing.
I've done some platinum printing, and it's absolutely luminous.
Tube amps are cool in their own right, and many of them are physically beautiful pieces of "functional artwork", but they are not "magical" by any means. It just happens that the particular type of odd-order harmonic distortion created by tubes happens to sound OK to many people. But it IS distortion, and technically is unwanted in REPRODUCING recorded content.
Tube mic preamps are pretty magical, for production. Just as film is magical for photo production.
But you are absolutely correct about reproduction.
But maybe it is like tube amplifiers, and some people enjoy the inherent distortion in slide photos or tube audio.
Ask a musician whether tube amplifiers are not as good as solid state.
Fact is, human senses respond well to certain types of distortion, no matter the medium. That's why there are still people painting with oils and playing violins and wind instruments. And singing.
Assange has merely done what many men of less than perfect character would if they had been stuck in the Ecuadorian embasssy in London for four years and counting
Assange isn't "stuck" in the Ecuadorian embassy. He's there hiding from rape charges.
Like it or not, the perception of the incoming president as Putin's lapdog is going to stick. You cannot wipe off the stink at this point. In the history books, Donald J Trump is going to have an asterisk after his name, and the image of #RussianDon cuddling up to Vladimir Putin is forever.
The data sets are very deliberately adjusted/fudged to attempt to account for these differences. That doesn't necessarily mean there is some conspiracy going on to perpetuate a hoax, but questioning the methods used to do the fudging is entirely reasonable.
Try to explain data science to a climate denier. They're totally invested in the idea that climate data is bogus because George Soros paid all the climate scientists to fake data in order to destroy freedom.
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I just switched from Spotify to Google Play. I had just gotten so fed up with Spotify's broken shuffle feature, which basically just picks 30 songs out of your playlist and repeats them over and over, that I had to try something else. I like the way Google integrates with the music I already own and has the same catalog as Spotify. Plus, the ability to dial in radio stations that actually includes the kind of genres I want is far superior in Google Play. Finally, it includes YouTube Red so I never get ads over there any more either.
The main Spotify feature I miss is the curated playlists. At first I thought the lack of a "discover" feature would bother me, but I've been able to cobble something similar in GP.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/...
You stupid sonofabitch. Do you really think this election was about globalism?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/28/...
Maybe it's all the cursing that reduces brain shrinkage.
Now you're making me hungry.
True, but in the Age of Trump, gaslighting is seen by awful people as "smart" and a "winning strategy".
We're watching in real time as an entire nation is being gaslighted. Of course, the worst people in the work place are going to adopt the same strategy. Individuals need to insulate themselves as best they can and then fight back like hell.
And yet, he leaves office with the highest approval rating of any post-war president.
I think Scott Adams would call this "cognitive dissonance".
If you think that "field of focus" is all that's going on in that photograph, you should probably stick with your iPhone's camera.
I've done some platinum printing, and it's absolutely luminous.
Albumen printing is also something special.
Tube mic preamps are pretty magical, for production. Just as film is magical for photo production.
But you are absolutely correct about reproduction.
You are correct. This is something that cannot be done with a digital camera:
https://www.getty.edu/art/exhi...
You also can't buy a Lexus motorcycle. Does that mean Lexus "missed the boat" on motorcycles?
Ask a musician whether tube amplifiers are not as good as solid state.
Fact is, human senses respond well to certain types of distortion, no matter the medium. That's why there are still people painting with oils and playing violins and wind instruments. And singing.
"Alternative media"? Is that what it's called now?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...
What do you think he would charge to put some in Trump's?
Someone ought to tell him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11...
Thanks a lot, Trump.
Assange isn't "stuck" in the Ecuadorian embassy. He's there hiding from rape charges.
Like it or not, the perception of the incoming president as Putin's lapdog is going to stick. You cannot wipe off the stink at this point. In the history books, Donald J Trump is going to have an asterisk after his name, and the image of #RussianDon cuddling up to Vladimir Putin is forever.
Whatever Wikileaks may have once been, let's look at what it's doing as of about five hours ago:
https://twitter.com/WLTaskForc...
Do you think this new "database" they're talking about will include Wikileaks itself or nah? The technical term for what they're doing is, "evil".
Nicotine is a great recreational drug and performance enhancer, but smoking/chewing/dipping is horrible for you.
Vaping is a good alternative, as long as you're willing to look a little like a goofy hipster.
George Soros funds the near-earth asteroids.
Is DAB approximately the same thing as HD-Radio, just a different part of the spectrum?
Historic data is not "getting colder". Don't believe everything you read in the Breitbart comments section.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Scien...
http://arstechnica.com/science...
Try to explain data science to a climate denier. They're totally invested in the idea that climate data is bogus because George Soros paid all the climate scientists to fake data in order to destroy freedom.