The article should have mentioned the Japanese phone greeting of Moshi Moshi. Which I think means I’m going to speak now. Which I think has a wonderful respect for stillness or quiet.
Does it (/ did it originally) actually carry such respect from a Japanese perspective? To me, it seems like a pragmatic solution to cope with bad telephone lines more than anything.
From what I've read moshi moshi was originally pronounced "moushi moushi" and comes from the humble form of the verb to say/speak - moushiageru.
I also found it interesting that the original telephone greeting seems to have been either "oi oi" or "kora kora", which is rough sounding "male speech". This was apparently due to the fact that the first telephone users and operators were exclusively men, but as female telephone operators started to become commonplace the greeting changed to the more respectful sounding "moushi moushi".
The repetition does indeed seem to because of the poor quality of the first telephone lines.
When I was making money as a developer I purchased wintel systems to verify my work. I thought of it as the cost of doing business. Many Macs cost less then 2K euros.
When Acrobat came out cross platform was not common. Being able to publish a document that could be opened on multiple platforms was a big advantage. I was using it to distribute technical specifications in the mid 90's. Different pages of these specifications came from, Filemaker, Excel, Word, Mini-Cad, Photoshop, Illustrator, and probably other applications as well. We would combine these into a single PDF file. This simplified version control. This also meant that bidders could not edit the specifications.
None of that could be accomplished with Word alone. I think you are underestimating the qualities of PDF for distribution of complex documents.
> This also meant that bidders could not edit the specifications.
But they can! That's the bug, PDF is a mutable file format owing to Adobe's muckery. And you made the same mistake that every government redactor and censor (up to and including the ?!@$! NSA per the linked article) has in the intervening decades.
The file format you thought you were using was a great fit for your problem, and better than MS Word. The software Adobe shipped was, in fact, something else.
Our use wasn't that high stakes. I also can't remember all the details but were using 3rd party publishing tools beyond Acrobat. Acrobat was the reader that our specifications could be opened in. We had to use additional software and to add consistent headers and get accurate pager numbers.
I can't think of one email I received from sendgrid I would consider legitimate. Anytime I receive an email distributed by sendgrid I have found it actually had no value to me. Sometimes it's from a business I have dealt with but I never wanted or was interested in the content.
Do you specifically go out of your way to check who sent every transactional email you receive and take notes on which email sending service your order confirmation was sent by? That would be a very weird thing to do and would be the only way to know that.
I think with the advancement of manufacturing techniques the future is in small run manufacturing. Manufacturing won’t return with a few companies employing thousands of people. My thinking is that manufacturing will return with thousands of companies employing around 10 people. The future will be more customized solving detailed problems with unique specification.
If it wasn’t for THX-1138 you cynicism might be warranted. The other factor is that the simple matinees are just as tied to the hero’s journey as Star Wars. The hero’s journey is tied to stories from the beginning of storytelling. Lucas experienced his own hero’s journey in producing the movie.
Finally from what I know Cambell ended up living on Skywalker Ranch. I see no reason to minimize connection.
Classical labels were recording digitally even before CD players existed, to avoid the generation loss of recording to tape before transferring to vinyl. These recordings were later released on CD and mostly sound great.
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (1985 release, first CD to sell over a million copies) also sounds great, and IMO better than most modern releases.
Some early CDs were recorded using pre-emphasis, similar to the RIAA equalization used with vinyl records. CDs using this have a flag set in the metadata to tell the player to apply a matching de-emphasis filter. I sometimes see people blaming digital production for early CDs sounding "thin". I think it's more likely they heard rips of CDs using pre-emphasis that didn't have the proper de-emphasis applied.
An average CD from the 80s sounds better than an average CD from any other era, because it pre-dates the loudness war, and because it's intended to be played on a good home stereo (which if you were buying CDs back then you could probably afford).
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