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In Reply to: I understand just fine. Enough with the shouting. posted by AudioMiner on August 3, 2005 at 20:48:14:
... next time before you post something that says "I disagree ...", make sure you engage brain into gear first.
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Forums are all about expressing ideas, being open-minded, and learning new things.This topic is well-suited for an electrical engineer like myself.
... but if you had stopped to read my post a little more carefully, you would have realised your comments were not valid. it could have saved you from typing.and i just *love* it when guys like you try and trumpet your qualifications as somehow supporting a weak and irrelevant post in the first place. tell me again, exactly how is it that being an "electrical engineer" makes you an expert on dualdiscs? am i supposed to be impressed? i currently have someone who has a PhD in engineering reporting to me, and he's way more humble than you are.
"... but if you had stopped to read my post a little more carefully, you would have realised your comments were not valid. it could have saved you from typing."I guess I missed the fine print in the forum’s disclaimer that said you were the final word on what is and isn’t valid, weak, and irrelevant.
"tell me again, exactly how is it that being an "electrical engineer" makes you an expert on dualdiscs?"
First, you tell me again, exactly where I claimed that being an electrical engineer makes me an expert on dualdiscs.
FYI, no one in this forum is an expert in DualDisc – having had a hand in the r&d, design, and manufacturing. Ripping a DD to a PC is an extremely low metric to qualify as an expert.
"i currently have someone who has a PhD in engineering reporting to me"
Congrats, I guess.
"and he's way more humble than you are."
Well maybe. Is he more humble than you?
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is this your best comeback, after a day and half? i noticed you've been very busy using the search key. don't you have better things to do with your time? obviously not. unlike you, my replies take 15 minutes to compose, not a day and a half.
*** I guess I missed the fine print in the forum’s disclaimer that said you were the final word on what is and isn’t valid, weak, and irrelevant. ***No, but your "weak and irrelevant" post is there for all to see, including yourself, since you gone from there into a silly crusade, and if your post had any merit you would have stuck to discussing the topic.
*** First, you tell me again, exactly where I claimed that being an electrical engineer makes me an expert on dualdiscs. ***
Quote from you: "This topic is well-suited for an electrical engineer like myself."
*** Well maybe. Is he more humble than you? ***
Actually, he is. He's a very nice guy. And he's definitely not a stalker.
and i am well known in my organisation for having a huge ego! so huge, that i get regular requests for media interviews, and invited to speak on conferences. it was nice for a while, but it's starting to interfere with my work, so i'm now declining most of them. i'm an invited speaker at a conference next tue, and that's it for this year i think.
believe me, fame is a two edged sword. i'm glad my parents shielded me from media interviews when i came top of the class in high school and won a scholarship, and also top of the class in my honours degree in university (of course, by the time i got top of the class in my masters degree, nobody really cared anymore). in my adult life, i find media interviews very stressful, i always have to watch my words very carefully.
> > my parents shielded me from media interviews when i came top of the class in high school and won a scholarship, and also top of the class in my honours degree in university (of course, by the time i got top of the class in my masters degree, nobody really cared anymore). in my adult life, i find media interviews very stressful, i always have to watch my words very carefully. < <Christine, I don't know what to say. As you know I work in the technical media. In this job I've met and interviewed many talented people. Including a few billionaires. But not ONE of these I recall would ever stoop to the sort of self-praising monologue that I read above.
I'm afraid to say, but you remind me of people at school who've had it drilled into them by their parents from an early age that if they didn't come top in class, music, art, etc. then they were considered failures.
For example, I recall numerous Hong-Kong Chinese students at my boarding school with no personality whatsoever, who just spent ALL their free time studying in the college library. The would never join in an any leisure activities, never spoke to anyone at lunch time (apart from their own group) etc. But sure enough, would come top in all the exams. How sad for them.
if you read what i said carefully, i *wasn't* praising myself. i'm just stating facts. there *is* a difference.i happen to be lucky in possessing good analytical skills and a near photographic memory, which is all you need to get good results (oh, and i'm very opinionated, which helps in English). i've never really studied all that hard, and once surprised a teacher who suspected me of cheating, by sitting down in front of him, and writing out his class notes verbatim from memory. and in university, the faculty wasn't very happy with me because i wasn't very good at attending classes (i was working "part time", but actually i was working nearly 30 hours a week). and i did lots of things outside school - for one thing, hanging around studios, playing music etc. :-)
the point of quoting all that was to show that academic excellence doesn't actually mean much in the real world. despite coming first in every course that i've done, i'm not the Supreme Ruler of the Galaxy, and i'm not even the top dog in my organisation. so i always laugh at people who trumpet their academic qualifications, as if that meant anything.
and the real point was basically to support my point about media interviews. journalists as you know write the story they want to write, which is not necessarily the story you want them to talk about. in hindsight, i'm glad i didn't get interviewed when i was in high school - i only found out about it afterwards because all my friends said "where were you? there's a reporter who has been looking for you for hours!" - in the end my name got mentioned in two papers, but they did a "profile" on someone else.
PS - i know about the tendency for Chinese students to focus on studying above anything else. I'm glad my parents weren't pushy - they basically said I can do anything I want, and I did. And you probably know that I definitely *don't* suffer from a lack of personality :-)
. . . I'll stop now. But this place ain't called the "Asylum" for nothing. ;-)
... Usually doesn't appear until the third or fourth post.
"Blah blah blah",
-Bob"What? you don't make sense.
"Blah blah BLAH blah!"
-Bob"No, you're still wrong."
"Blah blah BLAH BLAH BLAH!"
-Bob, PhD.
i have a degree in engineering, so of course that makes me an instant authority on all matters relating to audio (even though my day job actually has nothing to do with audio)and of course, it means i'm part of the secret club that makes me an expert on all recordings and studio technology (even though i've never even stepped into a real studio in my life)
And *you* of course are a girl, which means you know nothing about any of this. nyah nyah nyah!
“i have a degree in engineering, so of course that makes me an instant authority on all matters relating to audio (even though my day job actually has nothing to do with audio)”Conversely, does not having an engineering degree and never having had a job "having anything to do with audio" make you an expert? More specifically, does your finance degree and UNIX administration background make you an audio expert?
And speaking of audio-on-the-job. The word ‘audio’ isn’t even mentioned one time in your resume.
http://members.value.com.au/christie/full.htm
... i'm not using my background or education to imply that somehow i'm "qualified" to discuss topics on this forum, unlike your pathetic attempt at one-upmanship.Congratulations on finding a resume of myself that is seven years out of date. A *lot* can happen in seven years :-)
I didn't find anything. You've provided us with links to your DVD reviews, magazine articles, etc. Remember?
but i didn't provide a link to that web site that you found, which means you actively went out hunting for it.
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i never volunteered any personal information to AudioMiner, therefore he (i'm assuming it's a he) went actively hunting.similarly, my phone number and home address is available on the phone book, but if i don't volunteer my details in a personal conversation, it doesn't mean it's a good idea to look it up.
Geez, Martin, you're better than this. stop acting like a journalist (that's your day job). Assembling and twisting things to fit the story *you* want to tell may be acceptable in journalism, but not in real life.
... your habit of looking for other people's personal information on the internet is really creepy? i noticed you did a lookup on Michi as well.yes, i know you are accessing publicly available information, but your behaviour more reminiscent of a stalker than a professional engineer (if that's what you really are).
did you mum ever told you that just because you've discovered a way of looking up women's skirts in public doesn't mean you should?
I don't think there's anything unreasonable in what AudioMiner's done. (In fact -- kudos to him!) If you don't want people to see your CV -- out of date or otherwise -- then don't put it on the internet in the first place.The valid point he's making is that you work in a IT/finance oriented field (something like that) -- but whatever it is, it ain't audio related! Audio just happens to be your hobby. ;-)
... that CV is on an old isp, which i haven't subscribed to for a number of years. unfortunately, i can't delete or change the site. and that ISP is very good at ignoring emails.
You're not a woman, so you probably don't understand, but what AudioMiner is doing can be very disconcerting, and it's about time someone told him that. It's the equivalent of a guy looking up a woman's phone number from the phone book, and then calling her in the middle of the night. If a woman wants you to have her phone number, she will give it to you.Anyway, AudioMiner not even very competent or thorough in his search, and he uses an out of date web site to state: never having had a job "having anything to do with audio"
But if he had looked closely at that old web site, he would have realised that I did my honours thesis (for which I won the university medal) on computer music, and I have thanked the University of Sydney Music Department for access to their electronic studio. If he had searched even harder, he would have found out that I've done part time tutoring, and even harder still my software has been used to teach first year music students. If he was very clever, he would have found out my brother was quite a famous recording engineer, and have even played in a band. Audio may be "just" my hobby (and I prefer it that way, since it doesn't pay nearly as well as my current job), but it doesn't mean I don't have any experience in the field.
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