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- hobbesPerhaps that's Google's intention. They are using your human intelligence to make educated guesses, rather than using AI. Your choices will be added to their dataset.
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- I agree with all this.
But, a major motivation to remaster old records is due to copyright expiring on the old recordings, particularly in Europe. A remastered release is considered a new release in terms of copyright, which can therefore be protected, I believe.
The depressing mountain of very cheap public domain John Coltrane (for just one example) "reissues" by every man and his dog was foreseen by the record companies.
And, while I'm here, these cheap reissues of expired copyright recordings often say they are "remastered" when all they've done is tweak the equaliser and added some phasing. For no other reason, these RVG remasters are great in order to identify the reference recording amongst the deluge of bedroom re-hashes.
(And, RIP Bobby Hutcherson. RVG's remasters of his recordings sparkle).
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- The only election to be held will be a Tory leadership election, not a general election.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/who-will-be-our-n...
The UK votes for constituency members of parliament, not a prime minister.
- Someone was almost murdered. Of course it matters.
- Give her the phone! GIVE HER THE PHONE!!
edit: OK, I'm being downvoted. That's fine. But, why put your irreplaceable life in mortal danger for the sake of keeping hold of replaceable consumer electronics? That's the disconnect I'm finding hard to process.
- True. But for it to succeed and be widely adopted, it really needs an organization that is able to host it for the masses.
- Email didn't evolve with Gmail. Only the UI evolved.
It could be suggested that Wave was a revolution rather than an evolution, and that was its greatest weakness. I'm sad that it's gone.
- That's not a logo. It's Camelia, the spokesbug for Perl 6!
(Perl reaching out to pre-schoolers, it seems)
UPDATE: It appears that the logo was designed by Larry Wall. I now see its brilliance!
- It appears that that article applies to situations where you need to make a choice.
When you accept the UI defaults, someone has chosen your meal or movie for you - no choice needs to be made.
- Having a choice doesn't mean you need to make a choice. There's a thing called default settings that apply to those who want to be told what to do.
- The choice you are making between different ways of dying has nothing do to with the point being made.
- Well, none of this is communicated by your blog post. The "more" to your story is actually key to your story, it seems to me. Why did you not include it?
- > Huge sections could have been skipped without affecting the plot or anything else.
The same could be said of Dostoyevsky. Those long, drawn out passages are often there to make a psychological impression upon the reader rather than adding anything to the plot line per se.
- I applied for a job a few years ago, which had two interviews.
The first interview was to determine my technical ability and character.
The second interview was for them to gauge my reaction to all the crap parts of the job. They told me about the level of social life, the tedious tasks I will have to do, and so on.
They said that, previously, they had talked-up the position to attract someone only for them to leave once they realized the reality wasn't quite so great. So, if I took the job, I would not be shocked once I got to my desk.
In the end I didn't get the job, but this is the only interview I have been in that didn't try to hide the bad bits or to over-hype the good bits.
So, yeah, unrealistic expectations are an issue. But, I mostly blame the hiring company for talking out of their backsides in order to recruit.
- It depends what you're after. (I have memberships on both)
Bear in mind that chess.com regularly has 10 times the number of players online at any one time, so it's much easier to find a game of your desired time controls and ability level.
Also, chess.com has much better material and functions to improve your rating for lower and intermediate rated players. For this reason alone I would recommend chess.com to lower ability players (although these features require a premium membership).
chessclub.com (ICC) has a greater number of GM's, etc. There are GM's and IM's on chess.com, but not as many as far as I can tell.
Finally, chess.com has outstanding "social" features, like teams and forums, etc, trolls notwithstanding.
So, I would without hesitation recommend chess.com for learners and intermediate players, and ICC for those who want to play against higher-rated players. I spend most of my time on chess.com and don't intend to extend my ICC membership.
UPDATE:
chessclub.com: 897 players currently online.
chess.com: 22,235 players currently online.
There was a time when chess.com didn't exist, and chessclub.com was the place to go. ICC's website now is a dog's breakfast and has been lacking in development for a long time. IMO, ICC had relied too much on the number of GM members at attract players. Chess.com, although more expensive, is a much more vibrant and educational place to be.
- Not removing the client side images is not the bad bit. It's the marketing blurb that claimed they did exactly that.