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Comment Re: Mod parent down (Score 1) 755

Sometimes you aren't recording the voice and instruments at different times, sometimes you're using your DAW software to create the monitor mixes the performers are cueing to.

Once you've recorded everything latency doesn't matter but people do need the live mixing to be in sync.

(That said, people trying to do this at 96k should probably just do this in hardware...)

Comment Re:I wonder if this is a kind of copyright protect (Score 1) 520

Wel, by definition, if something is copyrighted it's "released," you have to publish something in order to obtain a copyright.

Maybe everybody having their own idiosyncratic language isn't a copyright thing, but it's a pretty standard business tactic for vendors, for everyone from IBM to Apple. IBM or Control Data were happy to give you source code with their distribution, because they were pretty satisfied that you'd never be able to run the code on anything but their gear.

Nowadays shops like Microsoft or Google just create incompatible extensions to Java to keep people targeting their runtime infrastructure. Or Apple just up and creates a Rust clone (an arguably much improved one, but still pretty redolent of the original).

Comment Re: So? (Score 1) 520

I don't know if the GC problem is that terrible. Apple's clone of Rust, Swift, manages to work without a garbage collector and it's pretty straightforward, you just have to use type annotation to mark retain loops, other than that the memory model Just Works.

Comment Re: More liberal than libertarian (Score 1) 580

Well, except that my point was that libertarians ARE mostly shadows of the major political coalitions and that pure ideology is pretty irrelevant. If you can assign an ideology a coordinate or a quadrant on some graph (who exactly is placing the origin?), that ideology is probably pretty meaningless.

Comment Re: More liberal than libertarian (Score 1) 580

Political beliefs don't exist on lines of real numbers. They're usually more categorical than that.

The Nolan chart can map political attitudes to points on a graph, but you can't make any kind of induction based on the graph representation-- just because two points are close together doesn't mean they represent people or attitudes that are politically compatible, and just because a cluster of points might exist, it doesn't necessarily mean that those points for a coherent ideology, let alone a viable political constituency.

(The whole point of the Nolan Chart was to prove that libertarianism is distinct and doesn't fit into the neat boxes of American political discourse. The Nolan chart is a worldview that tries to prove libertarians exist, and aren't just meaningless shadows of the major political coalitions.)

Comment Re: Perspective (Score 1) 277

It's important to point out, that there's nothing necessarily wrong with bias, the real issue should be with inaccuracy. It's not enough to say that this or that news report is biased, you actually have to show how it is wrong.

It was quite common for people to obtain all of their news from biased, or at least "politically informed" viewpoints, news sources, etc. throughout the 19th century and into the middle of the 20th century, and the results were not an utter calamity. people used to be responsible for reading news from several different sources, much like they are now on the Internet, and then forming their own opinions from the consensus, or at least their appreciation of the consensus.

The fetish for "balance "in journalism only started in the 1950s, afternoon national television networks in the United States started airing news broadcast, and the government and activists feared that three national news networks simply didn't give enough opportunities for people to hear a multitude of opinions. Thus, the early journalists who worked in television attempted to create a certain "tone" or ideological conceit that was apparently neutral.

Of course, "balanced" journalism is just as ideologically-biased as anything else, it's simply biased towards the belief that there are two sides to every issue and these two sides are of equal merit. And since the deeper a complex issue is covered, the more likely the reporter's perspective is likely to show through, a "balanced" journalist is likely just not going to delve too deeply into issues. Because, in the end, appearing fair is more important than telling the truth.

in my opinion, a reporter isn't worth his salt unless he has some kind of deep-seated values and beliefs, and the problem with a lot of cable journalism is they simply deny this from the outset, and this leads to bland, uninformative infotainment. Which is why we have TDS.

Comment Perspective (Score 5, Interesting) 277

It's pretty clear that Stewart has had a profound effect upon how people born after 1980 get their news. He's probably the US's most relevant and well known cultural critic and satirist. Some people bring up Twain but I'm not sure he's there (yet) -- Rosewater demonstrated that Stewart's got something more to say but he's not ready to go into Mysterious Stranger territory.

On the other hand he's flatly more historically relevant, and has made a more indelible impression than H. L. Menken. Time and other outlets have compared him to Walter Cronkite with zero fucking irony, and it's a fair cop.

Comment Re:Wheres he going? (Score 1) 277

Comedy Central used to be the network that had Mystery Science Theater and the odd stand-up anthology. And then one day they got South Park, and it became the network with South Park.

And then Craig Killborn was an ass to his boss one too many times, and they hired Jon Stewart, and then Comedy Central became the network with The Daily Show (and later Colbert). And the occasional screening of Mean Girls and nauseating repeats of Tosh.0.

The Larry Willmore show is pretty good and manages to be original despite the general glut of news satire out there right now, but I suspect it's not enough.

Comment Re: Fun Reading (Score 2) 418

Note - first off, I am not sure about AQ, but this is an INDUSTRY STANDARD practice to suppress noise generation. In that case you only ground one side of the cable

Right, but (1) You don't do this for digital cable, and (2) ground-lifting has nothing to do with signal direction, it has to do with interrupting ground loops in equipment distant from the patch panel. The grounds are lifted on the send side of some patches, the receive side of others...

Submission + - $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: There are few markets that are quite as loaded-up with "snake oil" products as the audio/video arena. You may have immediately thought of "Monster" cables as one of the most infamous offenders. But believe it or not, there are some vendors that push the envelope so far that Monster's $100 HDMI cables sound like a bargain by comparison. Take AudioQuest's high-end Ethernet cable, for example. Called "Diamond," AudioQuest is promising the world with this $10,500 Ethernet cable. If you, for some reason, believe that an Ethernet cable is completely irrelevant for audio, guess again. According to their claim: "AudioQuest's Diamond RJ/E is a directional Ethernet cable made with the same hallmark materials, philosophy, care and attention that is applied to all their interconnects, whether it's an entry level introduction to Hi-Fi or a died-in-the-wool music connoisseur. Another upgrade with Diamond is a complete plug redesign, opting for an ultra-performance RJ45 connector made from silver with tabs that are virtually unbreakable. The plug comes with added strain relief and firmly lock into place ensuring no critical data is lost." It's too bad AudioQuest limits itself to just audio, because descriptions like that would prove a welcome sight in other markets. Just imagine how tempting it would be to own 100% solid paper clips made with uncompromising materials that take a no-nonsense approach to holding paper together. Unfortunately, in this case, there's the issue of digital data being, well, digital. But hey, a 1 or a 0 could arrive at its destination so much cleaner, right?

Comment Re:AI. It's like 3D TV. We don't have it. (Score 1) 129

perhaps we should spend a few minutes contemplating what it is we plan to call an actual intelligence, once we get that far.

An essential characteristic of intelligence is that we don't know how it works. Thus a computer program can never be intelligent, and the essential definitions of intelligence are pushed back over an horizon every time a test is beaten. Thus TFA.

Comment Re:Latest update (Score 1) 222

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

I use GnuPG to secure some archival things in the cloud.

I'd consider giving some money to it if it was actually usable for its first and
most important function, namely, securing emails. It works perfectly, but it's
deployment is utterly lacking, no major vendors have gotten far enough behind it to
enable it by default, and even knowledgable users don't do something as simple as
sign their emails, to at least advertise to others that they have a key.

Also I live in LA, I can see ICANN from my office window, and there are basically no
opportunities to get your key signed. GPG has no community.

These aren't technical problems with GPG, they're problems with how it's marketed
and how it's positioned in platforms. In my opinion, GnuPG needs users a lot more
than it might need $60k in emergency funds. Get the users and the funding will likely
be obviated.

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Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin)
Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org/

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eJUAn1ZbFlj9V7t/Es380X6tEen5RBWs
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