When you walk under the 130ft or so that is composed of the 5 F-1 engines, the LOX and RP1 tanks and you stop to think they’re emptied in less than 2 minutes you understand what an impressive machine it was.
>I actually enjoy reading ads (not to mention reviews and tutorials for various products) in music magazines. It's disappointing that companies seem to have switched to junky web ads instead.
One of the things I miss most from physical media is the sense of discovery it brought, we saw ads or unexpected articles related to the magazine thematic, products or services that you didn’t know existed, same with books, browsing the shelves of the bookstore you found something new that drew you attention on the record store flipping vinyls you saw some weird album art and decided to give it a listening. Now you get ads for things you already bought or the same 5 books everyone sees because they’re “trending”, you have infinite music at your fingertips and yet get the same 10 tracks suggested every time.
I don’t know if it’s true but when backing up locally via Itunes it warns you that if you don’t encrypt the backup, passwords won’t be saved. I don’t save backups on icloud.
Ahh the good times I remember designing and building some configurable audio crossovers with “memories” so they could be adjusted and stored. This was of course before DSPs were even a thing. We gave up because the only solutions were inserting mosfets on the opamp loop or using transconductance opamps. Both solutions were terrible in terms of audio quality, we decided for “cartridges” that were the whole x-over stage.
I find Kia/ Hyundai designs more pleasing and “out of the box” than most other automakers. Of course they have some failures like the Ioniq 6 sedan, the thing looks like the hate child between a 911 and an MB C300.
The concept version was awesome. Somehow the production version got tweaked just enough to break the effect for me. I had no idea that Space Porche and Standard Sedan were so close in my mental space.
For me the first reaction to a design is the one that stays, is very unlikely that it will “grow up” on me afterwards. I don’t know why I despise the cybretruck and I love the Lotus sprit when they’re almost the same lines saving the humongous-ness of the former. Now the interior I hate all teslas, as I see it “minimalism” is an easy exit for lack of creativity.
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