there was an ad once, in a major turkish newspaper for a mechanical engineer.
They required that the applicant should have a BS, MS in mechanical engineering in an obscure field, that the applicant knew excellent Russian, English, Turkish and Arabic, s/he didnt have any issues with traveling and the list went on.
The only thing missing in requirements was an astronaut certification.
do they take into account the people who entered the industry in the recent years and moved to silicon valley or california to work ? its not as if i.t. is a stale field. its one of the most popular choices for youth actually.
they have tried to get away with anything including what they did with rootkits on cds and even swg screw up. If they are let to get away, they just do it.
1812 aims to give an impression of a battlefield. for that, it is logical to do extensive positioning. 1812 is kinda like a FPS game of classic music, if you will.
but for almost all other classic music pieces, such positioning would hurt.
im a european working for over 15 hours without any sleep for 24 hours. i spelled 'porsche' correctly for the first time probably before you were born.
before doing stupid generalizations about groups of people :
1) Grown enough balls to post with your own identity
2) Take care to make valuable contribution to insolent arrogance ratio in your posts higher
the number of speakers are irrelevant to quality of music. let me briefly explain :
you need different ranges assigned to different speakers that can give out that frequencies. but, there has to be more of the same speakers assigned to a particular frequency range - lets say, you got a certain size of tweeter. if there are 4 of this, and you divide a small incremental range of high frequency sound to four of these in small increments, you'll have, say, seperated two sopranos' (each soprano will have differences in their frequencies, even if minute and hardly identifiable by human ear) voices to two tweeters of the SAME kind, but while playing these two sopranos' voices, each of their voices will come from the different tweeters. this will increase the distinctiveness of each sound. here, the quality of the tweeters matter VERY much.
just like tweeters, if you have many mid range speakers to assign incremental frequencies, the clarity of sound will increase.
people generally err in that if there are 5.1 speakers, or 7.1, you can do more of that, because there are more speakers - that is not the case. in almost all 4.1 and more speaker systems, the satellite speakers generally come with the same size, therefore being able to effect efficient and clear playback of a certain frequency range. whereas it is good for positioning through different channels through software, it is bad for music quality and sound clarity - because you will have to play a broader frequency range from that speakers.
also, positioning does not matter much when playing music - think - how many times were you able to sit in the middle of a symphony orchestra, or a rock band in concert, and listen to music ?
not only you cant, but also it doesnt make any sense - human ears are directional - you wont be able to hear the sounds coming from the back as distinctively and clearly as the ones coming from an angle from the front.
that is why all music concerts, gigs, playback and whatnot are done in front of the audience.
a stereo setup correctly reproduces that positioning. ie - your hearing field is like a letter 'V' while listening to a concert, your head, field of hearing starting from the bottom end of the V, and the arrayed speakers of the concert setup being placed in upper tips of the V.
in concerts array speakers are used. if you paid attention, there are a lot of speakers positioned in the same place to the right, and left of the stage, on top of each other. this creates a sound stage that encompasses you.
this concept was a niche concept in which only audiophiles knew and were able to use. because mainstream stereo producers were just skipping by it. we didnt have any chance of listening to such stuff on a pc speaker set at all. however altec lansing made a good entry with such a product a while ago, and it changed the way all the speaker system producers designed the speaker sets. see altec lansing fx 6021 here : http://www.alteclansing.com/index.php?file=north_product_detail&iproduct_id=fx6021 notice the 'in concert' technology, and notice how similar speakers are arrayed on top of each other. Read people's thoughts on this thing here : http://www.amazon.com/Altec-Lansing-FX6021-Speaker-System/dp/B0001EMLXE
this thing, is supposedly a pc speaker set. it should be nothing significant. but, when i bought this, it totally ousted my full deck pioneer stereo with $700 speakers each. i stopped listening to anything else.
one of my friends took this choice lightly, and went for a X.1 system from a known manufacturer, but after a while he decided to get the 6021, but he wasnt able to get one because it was out of stock. he is still looking for one since then, and its on the top of his list. he spends $350 on motherboards alone, when doing an upgrade.
concept of marginal returns also apply to quality of music. buy a crappy pair of speakers, buy a crappy cable, you get crap out of your set. buy good speakers and cable, and a good set, you get good quality. the point beyond where marginal returns start declining steeply in regard to quality-price, is the point for luxury - minimal returns, huge cash.
its the same with sports cars. a honda sports car is good and acceptably priced. and it can satisfy any enthusiast. a porche on the other hand, may give comparably less increase in performance and satisfaction, but much more expensive. still there are those who buy porches.
they dont have drm on their CDs for a while now. i have easily ripped 3 EMI label big classic music compilations i bought, and im listening them on my pc since. no hassles.
the only difference between adolf hitler and w.bush is that the latter havent chosen to practice his powers in full yet. even nazis, at the start of their reign, didnt have the power to LEGALLY snatch a citizen and make them disappear. they did those via illegal means, through thugs. your president has that power LEGALLY.
just check the executive powers given to his office by republican congress in the 6 years they had the majority, and you'll get appalled.
its a federal law. valid everywhere. its freedom of information act.
And no, I don't support vigilante hacking of Yahoo email accounts. That surprises you? Or did you think everybody was all for it?
it doesnt surprise me. it saddens me. its like a heroic behaviour lending the rights of people who seek to deprive you of your rights. naivety at best.
no i didnt. i see the nazi party in action everyday on cnn. if you are still not aware, their general secretary sits in white house.
he has executive powers to snatch anyone from the streets, without asking, or telling anyone, on any grounds, and holding them for undefined durations for example.
examples are endless. this is just one.
dont keep the illusion that you are living in a modern democratic country.
It's actually not irrelevant whether they said hi to each other. I actually used to say hi via email to my father using his.gov email address as the "To" all the time. Like every other branch, his branch of the government had very specific guidelines for personal use of the account, and the computer in general. He did personal banking from time to time I believe on his office computer, during lunch time, when it and many other web sites were permitted. Others (porn) were always forbidden. You actually can as a government official both maintain a private email address AND send non-official business to a government address.
I have read a few references in some of the coverage to there being a second account (not hacked) that has allegedly been used for government business, but unfortunately for the hacker that claim is still apparently unsubstantiated, and also he didn't hack THAT account. I guess he was more interested in posting family photos from her Yahoo address.
its irrelevant. if some law says you cant take a govt. car out of business hours, you cant. its regardless whether you use it for personal business or not, if you do.
same goes for the email - you cant use a personal email to correspond with.gov addresses in any fashion, IF you are a government employee. thats simple as that.
Right. Because we are being stripped of our rights, the solution is to invade personal email accounts. Do me a favor, don't hack my account and I promise not to tread on you man!
precisely. what do you think it would be like ?
what you propose is like saying 'but we are people too, we also have rights' to french aristocracy in 1780, who had the power on grounds that their privileges and rule were from divine origins, and it was reflected in the laws passed in last 3 centuries.
its irrelevant whether they just said 'hi' to each other, one using private email, other using govt. email.
its still a violation of the laws. you CANT use your private email to correspond with someone through govt. email. thats as simple as that.
vigilantism is unfortunately a necessity of our times, because we are living in times in which people are being stripped of all their modern constitutional rights by many governments around the world. there are noone but you, the people, to protect your interests. not even senators or representatives.
apparently you have not been reading slashdot, since you are unaware what those conservatives have been doing to anything regarding freedom, in the last 2 years. and leave aside personal freedoms, but technological freedoms and traditions.
its not forward thinking and liberal to allow fundamentalist propaganda to propagate itself. if it is, then you have to allow nazis to propagate their neonazi ideologies too, because not doing so, would be contrary to freedom of speech, and liberalism.
there are a point where conservatism becomes proto-fascism. american republicans are way past beyond that point.
because obama doesnt use private email for government work, TO ESCAPE PUBLIC OVERSIGHT, it would be an invasion of privacy to hack his account. a total personal affair.
whaddya know, palin DOES use her personal account to dodge public oversight.
its not a personal matter to hack his account. its a public matter.
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there was an ad once, in a major turkish newspaper for a mechanical engineer.
They required that the applicant should have a BS, MS in mechanical engineering in an obscure field, that the applicant knew excellent Russian, English, Turkish and Arabic, s/he didnt have any issues with traveling and the list went on.
The only thing missing in requirements was an astronaut certification.
The ad became famous.
do they take into account the people who entered the industry in the recent years and moved to silicon valley or california to work ? its not as if i.t. is a stale field. its one of the most popular choices for youth actually.
is it loaded with drm to its neck like vista ? will it come in 500 indistinguishable shitty flavors ? does it require min. 8 gig ram ?
they have tried to get away with anything including what they did with rootkits on cds and even swg screw up. If they are let to get away, they just do it.
just google 'concert speaker arrays'
that was an intended positioning.
1812 aims to give an impression of a battlefield. for that, it is logical to do extensive positioning. 1812 is kinda like a FPS game of classic music, if you will.
but for almost all other classic music pieces, such positioning would hurt.
bullshit.
your statements defy all the setups in concerts that are being performed around the world even as of this moment.
it goes to your own ignorance and insolence.
im a european working for over 15 hours without any sleep for 24 hours. i spelled 'porsche' correctly for the first time probably before you were born.
before doing stupid generalizations about groups of people :
1) Grown enough balls to post with your own identity
2) Take care to make valuable contribution to insolent arrogance ratio in your posts higher
the number of speakers are irrelevant to quality of music. let me briefly explain :
you need different ranges assigned to different speakers that can give out that frequencies. but, there has to be more of the same speakers assigned to a particular frequency range - lets say, you got a certain size of tweeter. if there are 4 of this, and you divide a small incremental range of high frequency sound to four of these in small increments, you'll have, say, seperated two sopranos' (each soprano will have differences in their frequencies, even if minute and hardly identifiable by human ear) voices to two tweeters of the SAME kind, but while playing these two sopranos' voices, each of their voices will come from the different tweeters. this will increase the distinctiveness of each sound. here, the quality of the tweeters matter VERY much.
just like tweeters, if you have many mid range speakers to assign incremental frequencies, the clarity of sound will increase.
people generally err in that if there are 5.1 speakers, or 7.1, you can do more of that, because there are more speakers - that is not the case. in almost all 4.1 and more speaker systems, the satellite speakers generally come with the same size, therefore being able to effect efficient and clear playback of a certain frequency range. whereas it is good for positioning through different channels through software, it is bad for music quality and sound clarity - because you will have to play a broader frequency range from that speakers.
also, positioning does not matter much when playing music - think - how many times were you able to sit in the middle of a symphony orchestra, or a rock band in concert, and listen to music ?
not only you cant, but also it doesnt make any sense - human ears are directional - you wont be able to hear the sounds coming from the back as distinctively and clearly as the ones coming from an angle from the front.
that is why all music concerts, gigs, playback and whatnot are done in front of the audience.
a stereo setup correctly reproduces that positioning. ie - your hearing field is like a letter 'V' while listening to a concert, your head, field of hearing starting from the bottom end of the V, and the arrayed speakers of the concert setup being placed in upper tips of the V.
in concerts array speakers are used. if you paid attention, there are a lot of speakers positioned in the same place to the right, and left of the stage, on top of each other. this creates a sound stage that encompasses you.
this concept was a niche concept in which only audiophiles knew and were able to use. because mainstream stereo producers were just skipping by it. we didnt have any chance of listening to such stuff on a pc speaker set at all. however altec lansing made a good entry with such a product a while ago, and it changed the way all the speaker system producers designed the speaker sets. see altec lansing fx 6021 here : http://www.alteclansing.com/index.php?file=north_product_detail&iproduct_id=fx6021 notice the 'in concert' technology, and notice how similar speakers are arrayed on top of each other. Read people's thoughts on this thing here : http://www.amazon.com/Altec-Lansing-FX6021-Speaker-System/dp/B0001EMLXE
this thing, is supposedly a pc speaker set. it should be nothing significant. but, when i bought this, it totally ousted my full deck pioneer stereo with $700 speakers each. i stopped listening to anything else.
one of my friends took this choice lightly, and went for a X.1 system from a known manufacturer, but after a while he decided to get the 6021, but he wasnt able to get one because it was out of stock. he is still looking for one since then, and its on the top of his list. he spends $350 on motherboards alone, when doing an upgrade.
what an ignorant generalization.
concept of marginal returns also apply to quality of music. buy a crappy pair of speakers, buy a crappy cable, you get crap out of your set. buy good speakers and cable, and a good set, you get good quality. the point beyond where marginal returns start declining steeply in regard to quality-price, is the point for luxury - minimal returns, huge cash.
its the same with sports cars. a honda sports car is good and acceptably priced. and it can satisfy any enthusiast. a porche on the other hand, may give comparably less increase in performance and satisfaction, but much more expensive. still there are those who buy porches.
simple as that.
the big music providers had been way past that point for a long while now. they didnt care what you thought the standard should be. emi is the first.
excuse me but are you clueless about music ?
the number of speakers, or surround do not determine the quality of music.
they dont have drm on their CDs for a while now. i have easily ripped 3 EMI label big classic music compilations i bought, and im listening them on my pc since. no hassles.
you people shouldnt have voted the party that let financial sector do anything they want, employing an unseen 'hands off' policy.
and now you pay. dont do it next time.
not only in u.s.
its simple supply and demand. as i.t. field got established, a lot of people entered the field. hence salaries dropped.
anyone who thought whopping wages of 90s would continue, were naive.
the only difference between adolf hitler and w.bush is that the latter havent chosen to practice his powers in full yet. even nazis, at the start of their reign, didnt have the power to LEGALLY snatch a citizen and make them disappear. they did those via illegal means, through thugs. your president has that power LEGALLY.
just check the executive powers given to his office by republican congress in the 6 years they had the majority, and you'll get appalled.
And no, I don't support vigilante hacking of Yahoo email accounts. That surprises you? Or did you think everybody was all for it?
it doesnt surprise me. it saddens me. its like a heroic behaviour lending the rights of people who seek to deprive you of your rights. naivety at best.
aaaaah.
no i didnt. i see the nazi party in action everyday on cnn. if you are still not aware, their general secretary sits in white house.
he has executive powers to snatch anyone from the streets, without asking, or telling anyone, on any grounds, and holding them for undefined durations for example.
examples are endless. this is just one.
dont keep the illusion that you are living in a modern democratic country.
It's actually not irrelevant whether they said hi to each other. I actually used to say hi via email to my father using his .gov email address as the "To" all the time. Like every other branch, his branch of the government had very specific guidelines for personal use of the account, and the computer in general. He did personal banking from time to time I believe on his office computer, during lunch time, when it and many other web sites were permitted. Others (porn) were always forbidden. You actually can as a government official both maintain a private email address AND send non-official business to a government address.
I have read a few references in some of the coverage to there being a second account (not hacked) that has allegedly been used for government business, but unfortunately for the hacker that claim is still apparently unsubstantiated, and also he didn't hack THAT account. I guess he was more interested in posting family photos from her Yahoo address.
its irrelevant. if some law says you cant take a govt. car out of business hours, you cant. its regardless whether you use it for personal business or not, if you do.
.gov addresses in any fashion, IF you are a government employee. thats simple as that.
same goes for the email - you cant use a personal email to correspond with
Right. Because we are being stripped of our rights, the solution is to invade personal email accounts. Do me a favor, don't hack my account and I promise not to tread on you man!
precisely. what do you think it would be like ?
what you propose is like saying 'but we are people too, we also have rights' to french aristocracy in 1780, who had the power on grounds that their privileges and rule were from divine origins, and it was reflected in the laws passed in last 3 centuries.
its irrelevant whether they just said 'hi' to each other, one using private email, other using govt. email.
its still a violation of the laws. you CANT use your private email to correspond with someone through govt. email. thats as simple as that.
vigilantism is unfortunately a necessity of our times, because we are living in times in which people are being stripped of all their modern constitutional rights by many governments around the world. there are noone but you, the people, to protect your interests. not even senators or representatives.
apparently you have not been reading slashdot, since you are unaware what those conservatives have been doing to anything regarding freedom, in the last 2 years. and leave aside personal freedoms, but technological freedoms and traditions.
its not forward thinking and liberal to allow fundamentalist propaganda to propagate itself. if it is, then you have to allow nazis to propagate their neonazi ideologies too, because not doing so, would be contrary to freedom of speech, and liberalism.
there are a point where conservatism becomes proto-fascism. american republicans are way past beyond that point.
if those republicans didnt mess up ENTIRE world in various ways in the last 8 years.
im not gonna even talk about the wars and unrest they stirred, or what did they try to do to internet. just the latest mega global crisis is enough.
the records of the shit palin has been pulling in alaska are NOT lost, and she is still trying to escape justice.
innocent until proven guilty. even if obama was guilty of anything, you dont have anything but zits and tits to support your argument.
whereas proof of palin's power abuse and dodging of public oversight are right in front of your eyes.
it is NOT her yahoo account anymore. at the moment she used it for correspondence of government affairs, that account has become a public property.
it is not only permissible, but mandatory to make its contents accessible to public.
because obama doesnt use private email for government work, TO ESCAPE PUBLIC OVERSIGHT, it would be an invasion of privacy to hack his account. a total personal affair.
whaddya know, palin DOES use her personal account to dodge public oversight.
its not a personal matter to hack his account. its a public matter.