Note that MP3 degrades very quickly when you tandem encode.
The basic idea behind MP3 is to add noise where most or all of it will fall below masking thresholds, so either you can't hear the degradation, or you can't hear it very much. When you tandem encode (feed that through a decoder and back into an encoder), you're adding noise again, most likely pushing it well past the masking thresholds. The resulting file, all else equal, will sound quite a bit more than twice as bad as encoding only once.
(This is ignoring other artifacts you're introducing, e.g. most likely a bunch of added digital clipping and the resulting aliasing if the original was anywhere near 0dBFS.)
Short version: if you're going to tandem encode, which you shouldn't, you might as well set the coder to 320kbit to minimize the damage.
I do believe I just failed to make any sense. D'oh.
What I actually meant was, "Google is good at finding bots, but doesn't mind flagging people as bots." Certainly it thinks I'm a bot sometimes, and others I know have had the same experience.
Next time, I'll wait a bit longer and read what i wrote before hitting submit;-)
I've never fired a gun, but one of my coworkers at my first job gave me a pair of (what I believe are called) shooting earmuffs. They do a great job of giving me my own space to work in without damaging my hearing. If you want something more extreme, combine with earplugs.
Even universal homosexuality probably wouldn't lead to the human race dying out. But homosexuality is so far from universal that it's ridiculous to bring up "survival risk", even if you forget how biology works (hint: gay people can have children).
You underestimate Anonymous.
Anonymous is chaos. It's the true consequence of freedom. It's anarchy.
Anonymous is weather and piratebay a butterfly in NY. The comments will have an impact but you won't know what particular impact until after the hurricane has already passed.
Anonymous is, apparently, trying to sound cool. Seriously, did you manage to keep a straight face while typing this stuff?
I think it's also possible that the loudness wars are a contributing factor. Some new music crushed by the studios has an RMS around -4dB (N.B. that's AES-17 RMS, so -7dB if you measure without the offset). Why pay for music you can't enjoy?
it almost seems good to support the music industry in comparison to Hollywod.
Yeah, demonizing the music industry has worked a lot better than the movie industry, even though the movie industry is a hell of a lot more evil. How many people do you know that proudly declare they won't pay for music? Now compare it to how many people you know who decided not to go see Avengers this weekend, because they don't want to support Hollywood.
Mindawn has been around for a while (I've been using them since 2007 or so). They sell FLAC and OGG and have always worked fine on Linux. If you're mostly into major label stuff, it probably won't have much of anything you want, but they have lots of cool indie/prog.
I was living and working in the Bay Area back in 1991. Yahoo! was primarily a massive indexing operation then
They didn't exist for several years after 1991.
the largest employer of library sciences majors outside of the CIA, and employed several friends of mine.
And add a few more years here. Are you thinking around 1998?
Historically, they have always laid off large groups of staff
No. When Yahoo! was on the way up, no one left, willingly or unwillingly. Their first layoff was in 2001. Since I was working there, I remember:-)
and then hired new staff to replace them under different titles, thereby skirting state employment law.
Now you're just making stuff up. Yahoo's not a good company, but they never "historically [..] always" did this. If they do this now, it's a new practice within the last half a decade (since I left).
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RMS and loudness aren't the same thing.
For more information, look up equal-loudness contours (often called Fletcher-Munson curves, after the original researchers).
What sort of artifacts do you typically observe on DVDs?
Note that MP3 degrades very quickly when you tandem encode.
The basic idea behind MP3 is to add noise where most or all of it will fall below masking thresholds, so either you can't hear the degradation, or you can't hear it very much. When you tandem encode (feed that through a decoder and back into an encoder), you're adding noise again, most likely pushing it well past the masking thresholds. The resulting file, all else equal, will sound quite a bit more than twice as bad as encoding only once.
(This is ignoring other artifacts you're introducing, e.g. most likely a bunch of added digital clipping and the resulting aliasing if the original was anywhere near 0dBFS.)
Short version: if you're going to tandem encode, which you shouldn't, you might as well set the coder to 320kbit to minimize the damage.
I do believe I just failed to make any sense. D'oh.
What I actually meant was, "Google is good at finding bots, but doesn't mind flagging people as bots." Certainly it thinks I'm a bot sometimes, and others I know have had the same experience.
Next time, I'll wait a bit longer and read what i wrote before hitting submit ;-)
By "very sophisticated" you mean "designed to minimize false negatives, but false positives are okay". Sheesh, Google, I'm not a bot, already!
You should probably express what you're trying to say differently. 0.0999... = 0.1
Now we just need to check back in a month or two and see if you've gotten increased support from Anonymous Coward!
"Sissy"? Really? What is this, the 60s?
And CPU. Remember when we graduated from MP2 to MP3? I needed a new computer just to play them!
Is the laptop bit some sort of humor I don't understand? As far as I can tell, they weren't especially early on the laptop front.
RequestPolicy will happily prevent a SWF from sending requests to an outside domain.
You've probably already considered this, but have you tried earplugs with headphones over them?
I've never fired a gun, but one of my coworkers at my first job gave me a pair of (what I believe are called) shooting earmuffs. They do a great job of giving me my own space to work in without damaging my hearing. If you want something more extreme, combine with earplugs.
Even universal homosexuality probably wouldn't lead to the human race dying out. But homosexuality is so far from universal that it's ridiculous to bring up "survival risk", even if you forget how biology works (hint: gay people can have children).
Can you explain why that's the safest way? It's not obvious to me, and I'm curious.
Anonymous is, apparently, trying to sound cool. Seriously, did you manage to keep a straight face while typing this stuff?
I think it's also possible that the loudness wars are a contributing factor. Some new music crushed by the studios has an RMS around -4dB (N.B. that's AES-17 RMS, so -7dB if you measure without the offset). Why pay for music you can't enjoy?
Yeah, demonizing the music industry has worked a lot better than the movie industry, even though the movie industry is a hell of a lot more evil. How many people do you know that proudly declare they won't pay for music? Now compare it to how many people you know who decided not to go see Avengers this weekend, because they don't want to support Hollywood.
Mindawn has been around for a while (I've been using them since 2007 or so). They sell FLAC and OGG and have always worked fine on Linux. If you're mostly into major label stuff, it probably won't have much of anything you want, but they have lots of cool indie/prog.
Heh. Ignorant mods, today.
Scrolling wasn't impossible on EGA or VGA, FYI.
They didn't exist for several years after 1991.
And add a few more years here. Are you thinking around 1998?
No. When Yahoo! was on the way up, no one left, willingly or unwillingly. Their first layoff was in 2001. Since I was working there, I remember :-)
Now you're just making stuff up. Yahoo's not a good company, but they never "historically [..] always" did this. If they do this now, it's a new practice within the last half a decade (since I left).
I think you mean 486.
Not that the experiment really needs to be done, but if you look, there's several videos on Youtube of people microwaving thumbdrives.