I am truly ashamed right now. I'm pissed off too, at the Canadian government and bureaucracy that are increasingly taking their cues, and sometimes even their orders, from our Big Brother south of the border.
My country used to be better than this.
From most perspectives Swift is ridiculously ugly and not very interesting.
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What? You don't have a brainwave recorder with filters that pass only the audio portion? Get with the times dude!
It's been happening forever. In the 1500s, a Catholic Priest dedicated his efforts to attacking the mnemonics techniques used to memorize scripture--and everything else--because they attached lewd and base images to ideas in the mind. This happened after one preacher admitted he used an image of a naked virgin girl in a not-so-puritan situation to help remember some odd line of the Catholic bible. Having such thoughts in peoples's heads was unacceptable, entirely.
when Universal began offering lossless tracks, it encoded a watermark in the audio that manifested as an annoying buzzing noise, and eventually after much complaint it thankfully stopped doing that.
They just turned down the density, it's still there it can be detected with a long enough sample. It's similar tech to what they use in their film prints. I am acquainted with this issue.
Whatever you say, AC. However, I'm totally not surprised by a C-level executive and "Architect"-with-a-capital-A extolling the virtues of Java, Web UIs and giving the old song and dance about cross-platform only being about "performance."
Most future projects will be cross platform because user now don't know/care what platform your services run on...
Application vendors desperately want the platform to be a dumb pipe that disappears in order to deliver the Pure Application Experience. Platform vendors desperately want apps to distinctively convey their platform's benefits.
Can you listen to it with your headphones of choice?
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Nah you have it all wrong, it won't be about the music itself. The key word here is "interactive," there'll be some necessary server/remote component that'll respond to user interaction and implement essential logic of the user experience, which will be tailored to the individual. The trick is getting people to actually want this thing, and somehow passing this thing off as "music" or at least the sort of thing someone like Bono could really exert authorship over (as opposed to merely brand or "inspire," while designers and engineers do the actual work). You wouldn't be able to "pirate" this thing any more than you can pirate a World of Warcraft account.
It poses fundamental challenges to the concept of "recorded music" and I personally think it's a pretty stupid idea, but interactive, personalized, "streamed" experiences are the only way artists seem to be able to get paid for their work on the Internet, apart from begging for alms.
I've noticed about five people have responded, and some of them have user IDs in the millions. That's a pretty small cross-section; and I've had up to 50 responses to posts on Slashdot in under an hour, when I've really pissed the crowd off with some uncomfortable fact. I'm not taking much stock in the overwhelming rise of the majority rule of morning people here.
There is some evidence that 80% of the population awakens far too early, to detrimental effect on health. The idea has gained some traction slowly over the past decade or two; in the next 30-40 years, I expect we'll link circadian disruption by bastardized early-riser sleep culture to the high incidence of stupidity, depression, and psychosis leading to school shootings.
I'm uncertain of the statistics on this, but whenever I see photos of "Indy dev" conferences I always see a lot of silver laptops with glowing fruit. I think most of these people are already equipped.
Sticking your child in front of a video game to parent for you is NOT engaging.
Children need independence. Independence doesn't mean mommy isn't around; it means they make decisions and mistakes on their own, and are able to move away from their parents and return by their own action--even if they're instructed when to do so. Such instruction is engagement, as is parents asking where you're going, where you've been, what you've done, and having food prepared for you when you get home.
We can extrapolate theoretically from here, but that's not the point. Above illustrates that parental engagement does not require your child to be chained to a desk with a single activity when not engaged by the parent. My argument was on this balance of time, and on the impact thereof in regards to independent social and environmental experience versus isolation with a single activity.
To compare: we could also talk about break time spent smoking versus break time spent walking around the building. If you bring a healthy diet into this discussion, you are babbling on about irrelevancies.
This is 2014, and we're in the decade of reboots. This is the reboot of "sit your kids in front of the TV to watch the Children's Channel" thinking. The glowing, phosphorus parent of the 80s, now back with less Big Bird.
Put your kids outside. Don't put them on the bicycle of the Internet; put them on a *real* bicycle. I walked the 1/3 mile to school when I was 6; I could bicycle 1.2 miles in that time, a good 10 minutes walking by myself, well out of sight of my parents. When I was 8, I had a bicycle with a coaster brake, and would disappear outside for hours at a time--by myself, since I had no friends. Sometimes I came back home after the older 5th graders beat the shit out of me for some Freudian satisfaction related to their small penises (too impatient for puberty I guess), I'm sure; but, for all the baseball bats and tennis shoes they applied, they never managed to put a bruise on me, so I made out alright.
This is all a bunch of wanting your kids locked in a room doing a single thing, in a place you know, with the ability to look in and verify they're still doing that one thing and nothing else, so that you don't have to show any concern. My massive internal simulator predicts, via armchair child psychology, that this will not provide a robust set of varied experiences for the child, and so will slow their mental growth and reduce their ability to thrive. History will prove me correct--has proven me correct--but I'm sure nobody will listen and, when it's all well proven that this actually happened, will instead find the next substitute single activity and claim it's different, somehow, and fail to predict the same result.
Who the hell do you know is a morning person? That one dude at the office? How many people are awake like, "Ugh, fuck, too early for this shit, coffee..."?
They say it's DSPD. You won't sleep like a normal person, you stay up late, then you don't get up until 10 or 11. Yeah, right. And normal people enforce a bed time, drag their asses out of bed groggily, then come in and futz around for a few hours until about lunch, and suddenly become active.
Guess which behavior's normal?
I'm pretty sure that nobody from the US National Security Agency is going to come and detonate a suicide vest while you are in a shopping mall or buying groceries whereas Isis will do that if they can.
No of course not. They'll just send a cruise missile into a populated coffee shop.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
