Or maybe they should never have sold the wall album separate from the movie. And find some way to force you to review the album art before listening to the music. And maybe a drug test to require a current high dose of LSD in order to proceed.
They're not worried about the effects of digitization on the feel of the music? Especially with lossy compression? I love Pink Floyd, but this was obviously about the money, not the experience.
It's bad enough how CDs ripped to MP3 cause that empty audio jerk between tracks. And when one track completes (such as when heard on the radio), I always expect the next to come, and get disappointed when it doesn't. Who knows what 16-bit audio has already removed from the feel of this music. At least it's not 8-bit (see http://www.retrothing.com/2010/03/8bit-pink-floyd-dark-side-of-the-moon-.html).
Yesterday I noticed an advertisement in a printed copy of the economist magazine/newspaper with the tagline, "hit print", with text indicating that it costs less to print on HP printers. As someone who is at least slightly environmentally conscious, I was really shocked and actually somewhat offended - this is the opposite direction of where things are and should be going. These companies must be a little worried - 4% yearly is very significant. It's not just trees - pulping is bad for the environment (even recycled paper), and ink is not good either.
Some time ago I heard that an executive at the company for which I worked at the time had his admin print all of his email every moring. Also shocking.
I do generally listen to the economist instead of reading, and often leave my copy in the post office for someone to "reuse", but I don't think I can subscribe to audio only - they push the paper, probably to make their advertisers happy. Capitalism works against us in so many ways...
I doubt you tried this, but I seem to remember that if you did a view source on some error pages returned from some versions of IIS, they show the stack trace, even though the configuration implied that it hid error details. I don't know if this is the case anymore. Security by attempted obscurity is no security at all.
Why do people still buy socks that don't match? The solution is to buy only one style of socks. Then it doesn't even matter much when you lose one or more.
I'm sure a robot would not be crazy enough to buy different kinds of socks.
"When god closes a door, he opens a window. Unless he's turning on the heater."
"God never gives you more than you can handle. Until he kills you."
This made me think of the great Woody Allen movie "Sleeper", but I couldn't think of a joke quickly (would the technology still recognize the leader after the steamroller incident?). I didn't read every comment, but I didn't notice any about plastic surgery (many about broken noses though). I wouldn't have summarized this story on slashdot, or my summary would have included the word "ridiculous" at least once.
I think you are intentionally missing my point. It would be misleading or a half-truth to say that a mathematician produced 6 from 3 if the mathematician produced 6 from 3 and 2.
It depends on your definition; yield would be a more appropriate term. My point was that the news media easily distorts headlines like this - for example, the news talks about the blume box as if it creates energy from nothing. People that know better need to be more clear about where the energy comes from. Many people don't get past the headlines.
Nor am I an anonymous coward. And you are wrong - I am extremely tolerant. It takes humor to achieve tolerance in this world. People that can't take a joke are intolerant of humor.
That doesn't explain anything to me. I am not an atheist - I am more agnostic (what we do is more important that what crazy things we believe, so why argue about beliefs? That just causes division, which is only in the interest of the few, specifically the powerful elite). I did go to Catholic school though, and I definitely see the worldwide damage done in the name of this "universal"ly EXCLUSIVE religion (do your history research before you check the splinter in my eye). I actually picked that religion because I also saw Italy in the summary, but really anything based on the premise that man wrote down everything he needed to know a few thousand years ago and never messed it up in years of manual reprinting and translation (often with specific intentions) has got to be misleading. Anybody that believes that crap can't think critically; I have actually talked creationists out of their beliefs.
Isn't it slashdot readers that always point out how stupid everyone else is for confusing correlation and causality?
Maybe bing users are finding what they are after, instead of drowning in the google results?
Slashdot is such a religious organization.
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I didn't say that *I* could tell the difference, even with good headphones (and drugs). But I bet the members of Pink Floyd think they could. ;)
Or maybe they should never have sold the wall album separate from the movie. And find some way to force you to review the album art before listening to the music. And maybe a drug test to require a current high dose of LSD in order to proceed.
They're not worried about the effects of digitization on the feel of the music? Especially with lossy compression? I love Pink Floyd, but this was obviously about the money, not the experience.
It's bad enough how CDs ripped to MP3 cause that empty audio jerk between tracks. And when one track completes (such as when heard on the radio), I always expect the next to come, and get disappointed when it doesn't. Who knows what 16-bit audio has already removed from the feel of this music. At least it's not 8-bit (see http://www.retrothing.com/2010/03/8bit-pink-floyd-dark-side-of-the-moon-.html).
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neologism
"2 : a meaningless word coined by a psychotic"
That goes for women AND men.
Know the limits of your knowledge - when you need to take training, perform research, ask someone else, etc. Don't assume you know everything.
It's a space station. (Ben Kenobi)
Yesterday I noticed an advertisement in a printed copy of the economist magazine/newspaper with the tagline, "hit print", with text indicating that it costs less to print on HP printers. As someone who is at least slightly environmentally conscious, I was really shocked and actually somewhat offended - this is the opposite direction of where things are and should be going. These companies must be a little worried - 4% yearly is very significant. It's not just trees - pulping is bad for the environment (even recycled paper), and ink is not good either.
Some time ago I heard that an executive at the company for which I worked at the time had his admin print all of his email every moring. Also shocking.
I do generally listen to the economist instead of reading, and often leave my copy in the post office for someone to "reuse", but I don't think I can subscribe to audio only - they push the paper, probably to make their advertisers happy. Capitalism works against us in so many ways...
I doubt you tried this, but I seem to remember that if you did a view source on some error pages returned from some versions of IIS, they show the stack trace, even though the configuration implied that it hid error details. I don't know if this is the case anymore. Security by attempted obscurity is no security at all.
Why do people still buy socks that don't match? The solution is to buy only one style of socks. Then it doesn't even matter much when you lose one or more.
I'm sure a robot would not be crazy enough to buy different kinds of socks.
"When god closes a door, he opens a window. Unless he's turning on the heater."
"God never gives you more than you can handle. Until he kills you."
This made me think of the great Woody Allen movie "Sleeper", but I couldn't think of a joke quickly (would the technology still recognize the leader after the steamroller incident?). I didn't read every comment, but I didn't notice any about plastic surgery (many about broken noses though). I wouldn't have summarized this story on slashdot, or my summary would have included the word "ridiculous" at least once.
I think you are intentionally missing my point. It would be misleading or a half-truth to say that a mathematician produced 6 from 3 if the mathematician produced 6 from 3 and 2.
Oh I found it (apparetntly the same as !=). Yikes, I never studied FORTRAN.
BTW, I am familiar with !=, but what does /= mean?
It depends on your definition; yield would be a more appropriate term. My point was that the news media easily distorts headlines like this - for example, the news talks about the blume box as if it creates energy from nothing. People that know better need to be more clear about where the energy comes from. Many people don't get past the headlines.
People who think we can "produce" electricity need to take a science class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy
Nor am I an anonymous coward. And you are wrong - I am extremely tolerant. It takes humor to achieve tolerance in this world. People that can't take a joke are intolerant of humor.
That doesn't explain anything to me. I am not an atheist - I am more agnostic (what we do is more important that what crazy things we believe, so why argue about beliefs? That just causes division, which is only in the interest of the few, specifically the powerful elite). I did go to Catholic school though, and I definitely see the worldwide damage done in the name of this "universal"ly EXCLUSIVE religion (do your history research before you check the splinter in my eye). I actually picked that religion because I also saw Italy in the summary, but really anything based on the premise that man wrote down everything he needed to know a few thousand years ago and never messed it up in years of manual reprinting and translation (often with specific intentions) has got to be misleading. Anybody that believes that crap can't think critically; I have actually talked creationists out of their beliefs.
> Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace
Does that explain Catholocism?
> On the other hand
I think you mean "from the other lobe"
Aren't they responsible to their shareholders? Isn't there potentially more profit here than in the history of man (except maybe oil)?
Additionally, I claim prior art.
Google fills the evil void. Maybe they can patent a two-hour email outage for paying customers too?
Isn't it slashdot readers that always point out how stupid everyone else is for confusing correlation and causality? Maybe bing users are finding what they are after, instead of drowning in the google results? Slashdot is such a religious organization.