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Comment Re: Not really missing vinyl (Score 1) 433

My right ear easily discerns 15,734Hz (really annoying back in day of analog TV) and reasonably good discernment to about 18.7KHz (tested by a doctor). My left ear is virtually useless beyond about 8KHz, which makes for a hard time reply listening to music - I extrapolate a LOT my head. My hobby in recording and sound reinforcement was always a challenge.

Try to convince people that you can in fact hear their TV flyback transformer whine and you get blank stares. I've proven it to tech by picking the noisy flyback blindfolded ( and not forgiving the 'touch this' trick at 25KV), and fortunately that's a thing of the past.

But I've met people who could hear much better, most of whom made their living on that. Very instructive. I loathe MP3s at anything less than 320k, but lots of radio uses much less rate. I'm not disappointed it the difference between vinyl and CD, though with a good noise gate you can make vinyl sound a lot like CD. I'm always resampling my CDs in my online libraries such seem to revert to lower rates for some odd reason. Hmmm...

Comment Lots of possibilities (Score 1) 299

There is the problem of just how replicants 'escape', conspiracies abounding.

Deckard may be recreated every 4 years or so, with his last memories intact, an interesting way to use replicants.

Time for two or more Deckards? On than one planet?

Time for more Rachels? Or just the same one over and over?

Who's running Tyrell?

If the recycled Deckard gets older, that satisfies his own self-doubt about his nature. Cover for his replicantism. And he can always be left dead if he gets too close to the truth.

And he could be a minor character in the continuing story...

Comment Re:There are many more good questions now (Score 1) 241

Our worksite bandwidth isn't constrained by the circuit, it's the firewalling. We are one of the top ten targets in the universe. Given that, I'm not slowed down by external access, but by internal firewalls. We have to protect against internal threats also.

A production server requires three instances - production, test, and development. Days to implement, weeks to approve. We have to actually know what it will be expected to do before we can request it.

I'm currently using around 120GB of storage, of which 40GB is purely redundant. I'm limited only by the shared volumes, and I see about 16TB available. Our tech now knows that this storage is cheap.

Our website managers, however, believe we need a world-class presence, so we are now engaged in rapid releases, monthly. This is a reporting site our customers use to get statements, details, and resolve complaints. I'm not sure we need to team the site so often, but I'll let our customers make that point.

Not all corporate IT is lost and dysfunctional.

Comment Re:bring back the green IBM 3270 (Score 1) 241

I'm still using green screens. They try to force me to the GUI, first by pointing out the functionality. I out of that they are denying me those functions in terminal, so of course the GUI is better. They really just don't want me running macros to pull details on 5,000+ accounts when I'm asked to.

Yes, that's it.

Comment Re: How crazy (Score 1) 135

No, until they find a Filipino who can remember how things worked before the current issue was raised. That's somehow become very difficult. Then I move over to the Dark Side and get more pay for interfacing with them. But not until.

Trust me, if the kill off our team and let the Filipinos do it. The ticket count will triple. They will still need someone to consolidate, properly categorize, and track. They were never able to do so with the US team for 14 years. I'm not yet quaking in my boots that they will get the offshore team up tothat challenge in even a quarter of the time. But they will try.

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