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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 21:30:57 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 8/1/2014 4:18 PM, Char Jackson wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:25:39 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote: At 70, I probably am not the oldest, but I just posted that I thought Windows 8.1 good system. On the other have being 70 and seeing things come and go, I realize the initial hype about a system is not necessarily the way things work out. Remember the Segway It's hard to forget the Segway when I see dozens of them nearly every day. Many cities rent Segways to tourists for guided tours of the downtown area, and some airports use Segways for the security folks to ride around. FM radios was suppose to replace AM radios. I'm aware that AM radio still exists, but I haven't listened to AM in probably 40 years or more. I listen to FM radio almost every time I'm in a car, so for me, FM has definitely replaced AM. CD was suppose to replace the 78, AM radio is still going strong and there is still a market for 78RPM phonographs. CDs and 78s aren't from the same era, so I don't agree that CDs were supposed to replace 78s. There were multiple formats in between those two. Also, it would be hard to argue that AM radio is still going strong. It's mostly reduced to the 'talk' format, if what I've read is correct, so I'm guessing that it's a tiny fraction of what it used to be. Far right politics, far left politics, and sports are probably all that are left. Think about this. Who made recordings that has the best sound reproduction; Scott Joplin or Janice Joplin. That's easy: Janice Joplin, and not only because I'm a fan. Technology marches forward, taking almost everything along with it. Scott Joplin never stood a chance. Everyone just responded "Why of course Janice Joplin, as she recorded on CD's" Well, no, no one records on CD's. That's not how music is captured. They forgot that Scott Joplin recorded on a player piano which created the sound of his music on a piano. So which is the better sound reproduction a piano or a CD That's a nonsensical comparison, but I think you're looking for "CD" as the answer, which would be correct if I'm allowed to interpret your question. Do you know what a player piano is? You are saying that music produced on a piano is not as good as music played on a piano. A player piano roll recorded the keys and strength applied on the key. When the roll was played back the music on the roll was reproduced on a piano which was the same instrument as the roll was created. Have you ever heard a piano roll reproduce Glenn Gould's singing along with his playing of The Art of the Fugue? The piano rolls I heard didn't reproduce the players' key pressure (I do know that other pianos and their rolls did so). -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
On 02 Aug 2014, "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-8: Have you ever heard a piano roll reproduce Glenn Gould's singing along with his playing of The Art of the Fugue? The piano rolls I heard didn't reproduce the players' key pressure (I do know that other pianos and their rolls did so). I've heard of recordings made from Gershwin's (and maybe Joplin's) piano rolls where they play them back through a specially fitted 1st class piano, with the dynamics added manually. I suppose the piano rolls were captured as MIDI for playback. |
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Windows 8 is a Flop, just as I predicted
In the last episode of ,
Roderick Stewart said: Or perhaps even phones. Some of the speakers at the TED talks appear to be using smartphones to control the screens, though whether the audiovisual material is actually coming from storage on the phones (which would be possible), or the phone is just acting as a remote control for another device, is not clear. Most likely it's just control. I can do both here, but even on an ideal network, there are hiccups broadcasting directly from the phone. Controlling, on the other hand, can handle hiccups since the worst that happens is a slide/change/etc happens a few seconds late. -- UNIX Sex {look;find;talk;grep;touch;finger;find;flex;unzip; mount;workbone; fsck;yes;gasp;fsck;yes;eject;umount;makeclean;zip; split;done;exit} |
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