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Comment Author seems unclear on music technology. (Score 3, Informative) 19

"Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drivers,"

The Gravis Ultrasound ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), as well as other soundcards which *USED WAVETABLE SYNTHESIS* were available.

Yeah, FM-synthesis sounds like a robot. The SNES SPC-7000 was wavetable. The Sega Genesis used a Z80 for FM synthesis. A GUS card was supperior to the SPC-7000.

If you want to know how good the music is, either run DOOM in DOSBOX with a correct GUS Wavetable patch set (which will let you know how *ACTUALLY GOOD* the music is). Alternatively, the Doom & Doom 2 remaster on Steam has an actual band covering the actual tracks. That also sounds awesome.

Lol; I guess the author wasn't aware of the state of the art in 1993 if that's what they wrote.

Comment This constant assumption that dark matter is right (Score -1, Troll) 71

bothers me.

There is an unexplained phenomena and this "dark matter" and "dark energy" is just a made up explanation for that. There is no evidence it exists. No experiments we've done show that it exists and as far as I know there aren't even any proposed experiments that just need funding that are likely to show it exists.

Saying a galaxy is 99.9% something that we have no clue if even exists seems insane.

It's like string theory. Just made up stuff that is just tuned as needed to match measurements. It's like a god of the gaps - it's constantly adjusted to match experimental data.

Comment What about "free" apps? (Score 1) 24

I can see google/apple having a problem with "free" apps that people want to host and have installed from official app stores and then only allow behind the scenes payment where google/apple don't get a cut.

Presumably google/apple will have a rule for this where you're charged a certain amount for pushing new versions (which require validation) and per-install costs that would be offset by payment %'s that those companies take.

And then hopefully they're still good for truly free apps.

Comment This means you must know the chain of custody... (Score 4, Interesting) 87

if you can't just record your own screen which requires no circumvention -- because in the past the data was encrypted -- that means to use anything anywhere ever you must know if it had previously been encrypted.

This is such bullshit.

"You can have it, you just can't obtain it" is such a bad idea to ever have in law.

Comment This guy is just playing word games (Score 1) 89

Calling something that's perfectly valid but not physics "physics" and then saying "physicists" should do it.

It's not physics. It's applied physics which is what all the differently named sciences are already. Chemistry, for example, is just applied physics. And so is whatever this guy is trying to rename to physics.

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