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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
The guy in this comic points out that due to the repetitive nature of techno music, the iTunes 15 second sample can be used to recreate the entire song. The title text refers to the clicking and grinding noises dead hard drives make. He indicates that it sounds similar to some techno songs.
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In this comic, [[Cueball]] points out that due to the repetitive nature of techno music, the iTunes 15 second sample can be used to recreate the entire song. The title text refers to the clicking and grinding noises dead hard drives make. He indicates that it sounds similar to some techno songs.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
:Guy looking over girl's shoulder while girl is clicking her mouse with her other hand on her chin
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:[[Cueball looking over Megan's shoulder while she is clicking her mouse with her other hand on her chin.]
:Guy: Wait, you're buying techno on iTunes?
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:Cueball: Wait, you're buying techno on iTunes?
:Girl: Yeah. So?
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:Megan: Yeah. So?
:Guy: Couldn't you just loop the 15-second free sample 20 times and get basically the same thing?
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:Cueball: Couldn't you just loop the 15-second free sample 20 times and get basically the same thing?
  
 
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Revision as of 23:07, 17 February 2013

Techno
I don't know what's worse -- that there exists broken-hard-drive-sound techno, or that it's not half bad.
Title text: I don't know what's worse -- that there exists broken-hard-drive-sound techno, or that it's not half bad.

Explanation

In this comic, Cueball points out that due to the repetitive nature of techno music, the iTunes 15 second sample can be used to recreate the entire song. The title text refers to the clicking and grinding noises dead hard drives make. He indicates that it sounds similar to some techno songs.

Transcript

[[Cueball looking over Megan's shoulder while she is clicking her mouse with her other hand on her chin.]
Cueball: Wait, you're buying techno on iTunes?
Megan: Yeah. So?
Cueball: Couldn't you just loop the 15-second free sample 20 times and get basically the same thing?


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Discussion

I had a hard drive once, MFM or RLL I cannot recall, which periodically would make an odd RRRRRRRR noise (possibly due to lack of calibration or vibration reduction somewhere) to which I referred as my "heavy metal drive".

Contemporary techno is rather reminiscent of 1541 read/write problems. I aver that technology originally spawned the term "head banging", which completes the cycle of metal versus techno. Thokling (talk) 13:04, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

That example music was obviously created after the comic, and could not be what the comic was referring to. Benjaminikuta (talk) 02:17, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

The title text was referring to the concept, which obviously existed prior to the comic existing. It's irrelevant that the example used was created after this comic. -Pennpenn 108.162.250.162 06:04, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
If it obviously existed prior to the comic existing, it would nice to link to it here. I came to this page after finding the above link as the first hit on google, and no other obvious links to examples. Having written that, I did discover this. 162.158.145.96 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)