Figures. AZ is a testing ground for some of the most heinous police activity anywhere, as well as crazy legislation. The GOP controls the population center and they test out truly insane policies in places like Tucson to see how the more-liberally minded react to form their strategies without losing power. This has been going on longer than the 20 years I've lived there. This kind of clear unconstitutional action *should* reflect on tourism, and Jan Brewer and the rest of the cretins in PHX should see their political careers ending as the bottom line reflects.
Other craziness aside, it is hard to argue that Prince doesn't know music. His impact on the industry is huge and lasting, and he was at least a competent musician on several instruments and contributed much to the Minnie music scene. And how many of the similarly huge artists don't have their own closet-fulls of crazy?
That said, I agree that there is a definite difference between analog and digital, even for most people. Decent turntables always provided far more fabulous sound, that was far more realistic and less punchy. Ironically, one could argue Prince added this very digital-like signature to George Clinton's music and reinvigorated GC's career. But back to the point, I've a friend with tinnitus and he cannot listen to any digitally sampled music whatsoever. There is yet to be a real scientific response on this board about what kinds of impact it puts on the brain to jump from one sample to the next.. our capacities are so far beyond what can be interpreted digitally it's a joke, and merely an assumption that we suffer not from it, let alone benefit. I'm with Neil Young on this one.
We take technology like this as good and impartial without due respect to us as organism, like we take for granted just about every other "advance" in technology. It should not be considered crazy to question why the exponential increases in processing power and storage density have netted almost zero improvement in quality of life or anything else truly measurable, except of course, "convenience" in terms of short-term gratification. We are truly amusing ourselves to death.
The only commentary that will be listened to on this topic will be the bridges burned with ad revenues for the streaming. This is a monstrously expensive mistake by NBC. Even if they won coverage for London, online advertisers, in a world with technology 4 years newer, won't touch them. Apple ought to just move into this massive opportunity.
I echo the complaints about requiring intel-based chipsets to install a crap piece of software. the website was so incredibly slow that it took me enough time to navigate to where I finally learned of the system requirements, I just said screw it. This at 15mb/s.
As far as TV coverage, I was usually able to get 2-4 different channels with coverage, depending upon time of day (Cox AZ). This made catching the women's soccer events easy, since they were live at 6AM (much easier than that Korea world cup). Telemundo was great with classic commentary for all the soccer and boxing events (the latter were not of interest).
Overall, I'd say I logged more than 100 hours of couch time during the event, thankfully missing both the opening and closing ceremonies - though I will probably try to watch them on utube.
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Figures. AZ is a testing ground for some of the most heinous police activity anywhere, as well as crazy legislation. The GOP controls the population center and they test out truly insane policies in places like Tucson to see how the more-liberally minded react to form their strategies without losing power. This has been going on longer than the 20 years I've lived there. This kind of clear unconstitutional action *should* reflect on tourism, and Jan Brewer and the rest of the cretins in PHX should see their political careers ending as the bottom line reflects.
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Other craziness aside, it is hard to argue that Prince doesn't know music. His impact on the industry is huge and lasting, and he was at least a competent musician on several instruments and contributed much to the Minnie music scene. And how many of the similarly huge artists don't have their own closet-fulls of crazy?
That said, I agree that there is a definite difference between analog and digital, even for most people. Decent turntables always provided far more fabulous sound, that was far more realistic and less punchy. Ironically, one could argue Prince added this very digital-like signature to George Clinton's music and reinvigorated GC's career. But back to the point, I've a friend with tinnitus and he cannot listen to any digitally sampled music whatsoever. There is yet to be a real scientific response on this board about what kinds of impact it puts on the brain to jump from one sample to the next.. our capacities are so far beyond what can be interpreted digitally it's a joke, and merely an assumption that we suffer not from it, let alone benefit. I'm with Neil Young on this one.
We take technology like this as good and impartial without due respect to us as organism, like we take for granted just about every other "advance" in technology. It should not be considered crazy to question why the exponential increases in processing power and storage density have netted almost zero improvement in quality of life or anything else truly measurable, except of course, "convenience" in terms of short-term gratification. We are truly amusing ourselves to death.
TV was okay... screw MSNBC et al
The only commentary that will be listened to on this topic will be the bridges burned with ad revenues for the streaming. This is a monstrously expensive mistake by NBC. Even if they won coverage for London, online advertisers, in a world with technology 4 years newer, won't touch them. Apple ought to just move into this massive opportunity.
I echo the complaints about requiring intel-based chipsets to install a crap piece of software. the website was so incredibly slow that it took me enough time to navigate to where I finally learned of the system requirements, I just said screw it. This at 15mb/s.
As far as TV coverage, I was usually able to get 2-4 different channels with coverage, depending upon time of day (Cox AZ). This made catching the women's soccer events easy, since they were live at 6AM (much easier than that Korea world cup). Telemundo was great with classic commentary for all the soccer and boxing events (the latter were not of interest).
Overall, I'd say I logged more than 100 hours of couch time during the event, thankfully missing both the opening and closing ceremonies - though I will probably try to watch them on utube.