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Comment Re:Bollocks (Score 2) 206

But it's not like, say, the presence of Facebook means IIRC has suddenly been uninvented.

If I recall correctly, IIRC stands for If I Recall Correctly, I think you wanted IRC, IIRC IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. ;)

Comment Dangerous (Score 1) 297

I think that buzzwords can be dangerous and I won't allow people to talk to me like that. ;) The problems start when someone (a manager) who doesn't understand the term uses it, and I do and set the project up that way. However it can also be funny, I had a manager once that for EVERY problem brought to his attention replied "can't we just hard code it to work"

Comment Re:Well, duh. (Score 1) 125

...For the steam release, I saw people blogging about it

It's common to see a tweet like "game X is awesome and it's on Steam for half price right now!".

yep, you're spot on about that, I'll get them every day on Facebook from various mates - Drops my productivity way down. :)

Music

Submission + - The Loudness Wars May Be Ending

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Mike Barthel writes about a technique called brick-wall limiting, where songs are engineered to seem louder by bringing the quiet parts to the same level as the loud parts and pushing the volume level of the entire song to the highest point possible. "Because of the need to stand out on radio and other platforms, there's a strategic advantage to having a new song sound just a little louder than every other song. As a result, for a period, each new release came out a little louder than the last, and the average level of loudness on CDs crept up (youtube) to such a degree that albums actually sounded distorted, as if they were being played through broken speakers." But the loudness wars may be coming to an end. Taking advantage of the trend towards listening to music from the digital "cloud"—via services like Pandora, Spotify, and Apple's forthcoming iCloud—a proposal by audio engineer Thomas Lund, already adopted as a universal standard (PDF) by the International Telecommunications Union, would institute a volume limit on any songs downloaded from the cloud effectively removing the strategic advantage of loudness. Lund's proposal would do the same thing for any music you could buy. "Once a piece of music is ingested into this system, there is no longer any value in trying to make a recording louder just to stand out," says legendary engineer Bob Ludwig, who has been working with Lund. "There will be nothing to gain from a musical point of view. Louder will no longer be better!""
Transportation

Submission + - Tesla receives $465M loan to build Model S

SignalFreq writes: Tesla Motors, based in San Carlos, California, was approved yesterday for $465M in loans from the Department of Energy's Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program. Tesla plans to use $365M of the money to finance a manufacturing facility for the Model S (review, Letterman video) and $100M for a powertrain manufacturing plant in the SF Bay Area. "Tesla will use the ATVM loan precisely the way that Congress intended — as the capital needed to build sustainable transport," said Tesla CEO and Product Architect Elon Musk. Tesla expects the Model S to ship in late 2011 and the base cost to be $57,400 ($49,900 after a federal tax credit). Ford received $5.9B and Nissan received $1.6B under the same program.

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