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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 Re: Confounding Factors in Play (Score 1) 66

Metastudies are useless for anything but providing a reason to perform another study.

Time and time again metastudies have come to faulty conclusions, because of variables simply not accounted for.

They're great for encouraging and pushing for funding to perform other specific detailed studies. But results from metastudies should not generally be used to influence outside of further scientific study.

And the media should never touch them.

Comment Re: Cue up (Score 1) 348

You realize there are a bunch of homes available for sale in all sorts of places for next to nothing. The problem isn't "housing", it is "housing where people want to live". Declining population in places like Italy have created housing collapse where nice houses aren't sold, and sit empty, and they'll pay you to move into one.

Comment Re: PCI (was Re:easy solution) (Score 1) 135

Yep. There's ways to lessen some pci requirements, but hiding the facts isn't one of them.

Unable to run current up to date versions is also a fantastic way to get compromised.

If you get compromised and it's discovered that you falsified your PCI stays, well, you'll find you can't accept payments any more. Good luck with that. Your customers won't all switch to a second tier alternative.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 192

It isn't colonial, it is industrial. The current format of school is that of preparing for a factory workforce. We are post industrial, knowledge/AI/Whatever it will be called workforce.

Educators need to come to grip with getting EVERY child their MAX educational value we can. This means breaking the rows and columns of desks in a classroom, and getting kids their most valuable education they can get. This means some will do much better than others. Talent has gradations. Not everyone can be a Astro Physics expert.

Comment Re:Cue up (Score -1, Troll) 348

"fair" is subjective. What you think is "fair" isn't really fair. It is objectively unfair to use qualitative terms in discussion of policy.

What would be fair, is that Government live within the means we ALREADY tax out of the public. Cut Spending first. Then, when all cuts that can be made, are made, then MAYBE we can have a discussion on tax increases.

Its Not Your Money.

Envy isn't a virtue.

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