You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I feel very strange
I'm not exceptionally tired but I'm occupying that weird space between asleep and awake
Like, I close my eyes for 5 minutes and immediately I'm dreaming about nonexistent train drawings and waking up confused that they're not real
Listen, all this takes a lot of getting used to, and you do get used to it, after a while. There's three things I'll always miss though: One, not having to watch my step all the time. Two... ah... forget about two. And three... I miss the songs. Folks from Caelondia knew how to carry a tune. Sure, we've got some songs on the old gramophone, but try and imagine what they sounded like, playing to a room full of fine people unwinding at The Sole Regret after a hard day's work. Those were the days.
I'm trying to be more literally surreal here than figuratively by trying to go with a more stream-of-consciousness dream-logic kind of approach, but that is hard to pull off when you have things planned out.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Cloud computing can be nice
I like, for instance that I can edit files on mobile devices and view them my computer and vice versa, without extra step of plugging device into the computer and manually copying things, like i did ten years ago
i have all my CDs with me everywhere i have internet access (*and i can even download them onto my tablet so i can have them when i don't*) and i never have to worry about forgetting a paper or a powerpoint ever again. thanks to steam, i never have to worry about losing a CD for a game that i on ever again. all i need to do is have my steam password and i can get all my games onto any new computer i get, no muss, no fuss.
I don't disagree with all of your arguments, but ownership is really not necessary to establish a meaningful relationship with a piece of media outside of very particular contexts. Now, may those contexts be important? Yes. Are they immediate concerns for most media? No. And to be honest, is downloading that much less ephemeral or that much more difficult at the end of the day?
> thanks to steam, i never have to worry about losing a CD for a game that i on ever again. all i need to do is have my steam password and i can get all my games onto any new computer i get, no muss, no fuss.
You can do this with any digital distributor.
> And to be honest, is downloading that much less ephemeral or that much more difficult at the end of the day?
Well, it matters who controls access to it. If I have to download it to get to a given piece of data, then I effectively lose some of that control.
Listen, all this takes a lot of getting used to, and you do get used to it, after a while. There's three things I'll always miss though: One, not having to watch my Wi-Fi bars all the time. Two... ah... forget about two. And three... I miss the feeling of ownership. Folks who made Windows PCs knew how to store a file. Sure, we've got some files in the old rented cloud storage, but try and imagine what they looked like, sitting there, on my own hard drive. Those were the days.
> And to be honest, is downloading that much less ephemeral or that much more difficult at the end of the day?
Well, it matters who controls access to it. If I have to download it to get to a given piece of data, then I effectively lose some of that control.
the control you thought you had was only marginal to start with
Exactly. It's the same hurdle to jump as purchasing a piece of media, or streaming it, or ripping it to your computer after you rent/borrow it from somewhere. In fact, it's a much lower bar.
Honestly, it's not impeding your ability to take possession, so why be upset?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
> Exactly. It's the same hurdle to jump as purchasing a piece of media, or streaming it, or ripping it to your computer after you rent/borrow it from somewhere. In fact, it's a much lower bar.
Purchasing a piece of media can produce media of different functionality depending on the format, and it can result in either a physical or digital purchase, so I don't know which you mean by this.
Streaming it is difficult when my connection is slow or spotty. Doubly so if I can't leave it to buffer (which Youtube has a problem with these days). And my connection is frequently slow or spotty.
Ripping it to my computer after I rent or borrow it can sometimes be difficult, depending on the piece of media. (Also technically illegal in some cases.)
But if you mean physical media, then that's closest, as long as it's not region-locked and preventing me from using it. I can just pop it into an appropriate player. With something digital I just pop the data into an appropriate program.
And when I keep a piece of media, it becomes part of my library, which I can refer back to any time.
What I'm saying is this: Why are you so exercised about not owning something? It's not like Netflix or Steam prevents you from owning things, and it certainly makes it easier for people who don't have the money for those things to enjoy them. And if one has no money and no Netflix account but an internet connection, then the Internet itself is the great equaliser! People should be able to immerse themselves in media and have a meaningful relationship with it regardless of economic status.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
New Jersey's State Route 69 was actually renumbered as State Route 31 because they couldn't afford to keep replacing the stolen signs
Dividing the octave into 31 equal parts is the smallest and closest approximation to the quarter-comma meantone tuning system that forms a closed circle of intervals.
That sounds like gibberish, but the principle is actually fairly simple. It just takes a while to explain.
Dividing the octave into 31 equal parts is the smallest and closest approximation to the quarter-comma meantone tuning system that forms a closed circle of intervals.
but what if you divide the octave into 69 equal parts
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Dividing the octave into 31 equal parts is the smallest and closest approximation to the quarter-comma meantone tuning system that forms a closed circle of intervals.
but what if you divide the octave into 69 equal parts
46 is a better multiple of 23 than 69 for various reasons. 23 itself is a very interesting division of the octave, but not very conventionally harmonic.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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i half-knew it was a dream, but i wasn't sure
it was a very unpleasant uncertainty
that ok?
Since @Anonus commented on it in IRC before I wrote this huge post, I figured some of y'all might be interested.
i don't think cloud computing is such a bad thing
in many respects i think it's a very good development
I like, for instance that I can edit files on mobile devices and view them my computer and vice versa, without extra step of plugging device into the computer and manually copying things, like i did ten years ago
i on ever again. all i need to do is have my steam password and i can
get all my games onto any new computer i get, no muss, no fuss.
You can do this with any digital distributor.
> And to be honest, is downloading that much less ephemeral or that much more difficult at the end of the day?
Well, it matters who controls access to it. If I have to download it to get to a given piece of data, then I effectively lose some of that control.
streaming it, or ripping it to your computer after you rent/borrow it
from somewhere. In fact, it's a much lower bar.
Purchasing a piece of media can produce media of different functionality depending on the format, and it can result in either a physical or digital purchase, so I don't know which you mean by this.
Streaming it is difficult when my connection is slow or spotty. Doubly so if I can't leave it to buffer (which Youtube has a problem with these days). And my connection is frequently slow or spotty.
Ripping it to my computer after I rent or borrow it can sometimes be difficult, depending on the piece of media. (Also technically illegal in some cases.)
But if you mean physical media, then that's closest, as long as it's not region-locked and preventing me from using it. I can just pop it into an appropriate player. With something digital I just pop the data into an appropriate program.
And when I keep a piece of media, it becomes part of my library, which I can refer back to any time.
Is it wrong this kind of amuses me
(tachyon's interpretation may not constitute an accurate representation of characters in question)
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead