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How the iPad Is Already Reshaping the Internet (Sans Flash)
The Internet's already starting to look different, says Gizmodo, in a piece of interest not only to everyone with an iPad floating around the UPS system, but also those of us thinking about some other kind of tablet in the medium-term future. As they put it, "The iPad doesn't run Flash. If your website uses Flash, it won't play well on the iPad. Turns out, a lot of people want their sites to look pretty on the iPad."
And an anonymous reader adds this snippet from Webmonkey: "In anticipation of Saturday's release of the iPad — which doesn't run Flash — Apple has published a list of 'iPad Ready' websites. The sites are all big league sluggers like CNN, The New York Times, People Magazine and MLB.com. Surprisingly, there are also a few video-heavy sites in the mix (Vimeo, Flickr, and TED) which would traditionally rely on Flash Player for video playback."
"There may not have been loss on your side, but there was when it was originally encoded"
You mean like ANY music that has been recorded in the last 70 years???
As a former professional musician, I can safely say that what you hear on the CD is not what we heard in the studio. Or the stage. Or in our cars. Or anywhere else.
One of the reasons I got out and back into academia was that people were commodizing music much further than I could deal with...I know it was always, but there was a balance. In my youth, we'd trade tapes that had been transcribed from machine to machine several dozen times AND WE LOVED IT. I had tapes that were barely audible, but they are still my preferred listening media as they were just so perfect that it didn't matter that something was slightly or even significantly better. The fact that the kids complain about ripping a lossy format to another? Ohes Noes...we would have KILLED to have something as clean as this...but it didn't matter.
Again, what we hear in the studio will never be put down digitally as we hear it...you are hearing a pale imitation of what we heard. You are ALWAYS hearing lossy music unless you are there.
Not wanting to be pedantic, BUT this is one pet peeve I have when I hear people bitching about music quality and otherwise...people like you commoditize music far more than the labels ever did...it isn't about ones and zeros.