Right, because until we cure every problem on Earth, we should not do anything sciency or interesting.

The answer to your question is because it's fucking there. Plain and simple. Meanwhile go find a cave to live in. You're living on the shoulders of adventurers who weren't afraid of everything. You really need to get back to humans roots.

There is a reason that young men are the ones doing the fighting. It isn't stupidity either.

It's not sociopathy or anything like that. I was immortal once, the toughest bastard on the planet. ready to march into hell for th esheer adventure of it. But time changes us. If I was conscripted, at my age, I'd probably be the first casualty, long before reporting. Old guys simply don't have the fight in them that the young ones do.

And it isn't the one you think it is.

There ya go. Let's declare war on Mars. Problem solved.

Dude, this is slashdot. We've become the home of the ultimate reactionaries. Whatever the headline or story is, it pisses everyone off. Then they have to figure out why.

You mean like banning sales of Teslas in some states because the "Normal' car dealerships won't allow it?

I play keyboard, electric and acoustic six string fingerpick and steel string guitar and electric bass, Harmonica, flute, and dabble in drums. And I agree 100 percent with him.

His description is exactly what happens with vinyl. It's also similar to tube amps. We tend to like the particular distortions that we like. There are many settings in different programs that will tailor a sound to a particular style, which does depend a lot on the technology used to make them. A typical sample is an equalizer panel, say in iTunes. Assuming no distortion in any other part of the system, there would be no need for anything other than "flat". In fact, in a perfect system, any adjustment is just adding distortion.

But we don't hear like that. I do love the sound of tube amps. But I'm not so conceited as to declare that the best. You can listen to Rameau with hip hop filtering on your system as far as I care - it's what you like.

DIstortion is even desirable at times. Guitar on an overdriven tube amp makes for a very interesting sound.

But to the subject at hand, it isn't difficult to prove that digital has much higher potential for much less distortion compared to vinyl or tube amps. It's all just that some people prefer the distortin that they like.

Note: a lot of CD music these days is coming out with a lot of distortion and compression in the original mix.

You were hearing the harmonics.

http://www.audiocircle.com/ind...

Fuses for crissakes! In a world where a fair number of people believe that their system fuses make their stereos sound better, do not expect people to accept that Strads are just another good violin.

We will however know that we are nearing the end of them when the Majick argument comes into play:

"The Strads know, and they refuse to play better than the other violins when they know they are being tested"

I already know musicians that believe that magic was used in the construction of Strads, (as well as Zildjan cymbals) so it isn't at all unlikely they will use the same excuses that the ESP people use when their tests do not support their view.

It's like those special rocks and fuses that make your stereo sound better.

You are 100 percent correct. If Microsoft wants to dump a third of it's users, that's their right and a business decision they and only they should make.

Then again, I have a couple of old XP computers sitting around that I'll probably take to best buy to trade in.

Only one thing is for certain, and that is that the computer I bring home will not be a Windows OS product.

See how that works?

He was definitely justified in bouncing the dude, nd "being a dick" is a very gentle term. I read the report, Sievers needs to go to Redmond, where bugs are actually features.