Posts by CatW 16 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jun 2012
There is another reason - Most youngsters don't even know what 'a hifi' is and listen on crappy little NXT speakers. Having great hifi means you want the best source material and sometimes this simply isn't available anywhere as lossless.
I did some work for a large music company and a lot of their online catalogue was digitised using ISA based Sound Blaster 16 cards. Only the advent of 24bit made them revisit digitising 15 years later!!!
Thats such a crap design, they would have been so better of with a large slim delta wing with nose plane. Not only would it have been stronger and been able to 'flick' the vehicle up harder but there is no way in the even of a false launch that the vehicle could fall back on the tail damaging the launch aircraft.
Typical Americans - one design, just make the wings longer, more engines. We built Concorde.
Not really, rudeness is like racism, its a card that gets pulled out not as much as it used to but racism is causing deliberate offence, not just being unaware or pulling an impression of the Nigerian taxi driver / security man you where talking to, thats just a accent. Else we should arrest every beatboy, trendy and low jean wearing teenager for their terrible efforts at Jamaican accents.
...though that would be a start! :o)
I just read the first paragraph - that was as far as I got.
The trouble with 20-something programmers is that they have no real world experience. I've heard this time and again in real business; That computers solve problems by creating more.
Simple example: Windows7 *Still* seem incapable of remembering that the task bar is supposed to be on a GUI layer above any window. The mouse pointer doesn't vanish behind things. If they can't get this right, and the two items are programmed by virtual community teams who have never met, then do I really want this system trying to produce a lush, and secure, web 2.0 experience?
"Age and experience will always overcome youth and enthusiasm" except it seems in programming where the most brain dead, fashionista web designer twat has 100% say over how the whole world has to interface with essential systems.
If we took out all the non-essential crap out of Windows, we'd need two less nuclear power stations on the planet.
64Tb is not that much if you edit video and do visual effects.
What is scary is that IBM-Hitachi was a marriage made in heaven but since the transition to 'HGST' they answer to the shareholders and you might as well save your data on toilet paper covered in iron filings. I hate to say it but Western Digital drives are the best now.
Once again, like the speaker article last week, there is this total acceptance that throwing programming at something will solve all problems, well:
Modern hifi sounds rubbish - most people with ears buy valve hifi
Modern lenses are flat and dead - everytone uses vintage glass
And in 3D, for example, there is the idea that 'If you want the irredescence of a beetle case, the great thing about M*** is that you can get a programmer to create that' - Oh, I see, so a programmer is superior to lust looking at a beetle casing and making a colour gradient that, though less accurate, will look asthetically right.
And the down draft and noise of these quad chopper 'robots' won't be a problem?
Robot rim lights? Bite my shinny metal arse!
FireFox has taken a large chunk of the browser world so why not stop bickering and get pissed off developpers and games programmers together and make an uber open source alternative to PS.
Do you really need that de-blur tool, or would you rather employ a photographer with a tripod instead of a trampoline?
Come on people, our fathers won wars and we fall apart because we can use pirat, err, 'learning' editions of software anymore.
They claim there is 'no competition' but firstly thats probably why the InPhase company went tits up and secondly, never mind SSD, carbon memory will be here in a year or so offering 100 billion bits per inch and a billion year life!
Makes you wonder what data we might 'find' in carbon?!
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