What the hell are you on about?
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Posts by poobumwilly
14 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Sep 2009
Did hackers scoop source code from DayZ zombie game brains?
El Reg in email address blunder
Ten reasons why you shouldn't buy an iPhone 5
Tuesday 4th October 2011 22:01 GMT 
pffff
As a person who has owned, nay, endured a Sony Ericsson Walkman phone for the past 18 months...
* for which the external speaker went kaput after 6 months (no ring tone/alarm);
* for which it regularly wouldn't charge (even though it indicated that it was charging);
* for which upon the slightest touch on the headphone connector (remember this is a "Walkman" phone) would convince the phone that the headphones had been disconnected, stopping the music and displaying the question "Would you like to continue playback through the external speaker" (which of course didn't work)...
...ALL of this list seems laughably petty.
I almost feel like a starving pauper orphan witnessing an argument between two fatty-fat-fats over which is better - caviar or foie gras?
Why modern music sounds rubbish
Friday 9th September 2011 08:31 GMT
No, "Electronica" (note the A on the end) is generally used to refer to contemporary electronic dance music. The works of Stockhausen and that of other proponents of musique concrète and elektronische Musik, would probably be best described as Electroacoustic music.
The term "electronic" music however (without the A suffix) would encompass them all.
Wednesday 7th September 2011 23:18 GMT 
Loudness war?
The only people who refer to it as a "Loudness War" are beardy weirdy real ale drinking music puritans who would rather audio signal compression didn't exist AT ALL!... and for whom I couldn't give a toss about.
It's not that I disagree with their sentiments though, but I think there is a wider issue which isn't being addressed... and that is the emergence and domination of electronic based music forms over the past 2 decades, and the relative stagnation of more traditional "band" music (i.e. Rock, metal, punk, emo, whatever...)
Rock (n' Roll) enjoyed being the coolest sound around for near on 40 years, but now has to compete against RnB/Hip Hop, Electronica (encompassing DnB, dubstep, techno, etc.)... so what can it, as a genre, and it's proponents do?
Well, it's stuffed in terms of any kind of real innovation - bands are still typically 1 singer, 1 guitarist, 1 bassist and 1x drummer, with the techniques for playing the same as they always were. The amps and effect pedals have also changed very little over the years and so the sounds bands can make are similarly limited to the "same old, same old" sounds.
Heavy compression, in essence, is one of the few areas of the music production process that Rock can "do" to compete.... and if you want to know why electronic music is heavily compressed, see Clubs/DJs/the-necessity-to-have-some-kind-of-standardised-dynamic-level-for-the-benefit-of-mixing
Shagbook won't take Facebook thrust lying down
Facebook fails webmail tests
Note to Captain Kirk: Warp speed will kill you
Pig plague alert: Our safe sex guide
Friday 11th December 2009 23:03 GMT 
PHWOAR!
I liked this so much I [Censored] my [Censored] until it was red raw!
... And then my secretary walked in! She was surprised and shocked at first until I suggested that she [Censored] [Censored] [Censored] her [Censored] [Censored] in the broom cupboard while I [Censored] my [Censored] [Censored] all over her [Censored] [Censored] and [Censored] [Censored] [Censored].
It was at that point that she showed me a side that I thought never existed! She said that she wanted me to [Censored] [Censored] [Censored] [Censored] [Censored] her [Censored] [Censored] [Censored] [Censored] [Censored] [Censored] [Censored] into a [Censored] [Censored] while she [Censored] [Censored] [Censored] and also while the office temp, Steve, [Censored] [Censored] [Censored] at [Censored] [Censored] and inserted seven [Censored] [Censored] [Censored], plus a hamster!
In short... Best. Friday. Ever!
Brit space agency to probe 'crackpot' antigravity device
Google maximizes minimalist homepage madness
Thursday 8th October 2009 16:41 GMT
Didn't work for me... until
Tried in both Firefox 3 and Safari 4... Didn't work.
But, It does work now!
I think it's because my homepage is still set to ye olde "Google suggest" page.
So I tried it on google.com (as opposed to google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en), reloaded the page (still nothing), closed the tab, opened another tab (which automatically opens up my google homepage) - it works.
Having said that though, as it is, it seems pretty pointless... sure it looks nice'n'minimalist - until you touch the mouse. It'd be better if it only revealed the hidden stuff when you moused over them and disappeared when you mouse off them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
