Apple streams at 256. Others stream at 320 (e.g. Spotify). Free Pandora is the bottom of the barrel for streaming quality at 64K. We're no longer in the dial-up days.
The Dolby tech on cassettes isn't for compression. It's to defeat SNR loss on lossy magnetic media. If you don't play it on a Dolby player that reverses the "compression" it will sound a bit muddy like listening to an FM broadcast.
Digital studio equipment records in and keeps audio in a format at a higher bit-depth AND sample rate. Every edit and every layer of multiple tracks is like resaving a lossy jpeg. Your final result may contain all those extra bits, but they need to be averaged out and resampled away because the detail is already lost by that point. That's why you record in 192KHz / 24-bit and then master to 44.1KHz / 16-bit. GP post is 100% correct.
The noise floor they are talking about is introduced by the editing - not inherent to the recording.
The idea of a directional ethernet cable makes sense, but I'm sure it's probably snake oil. If the shielding was grounded on only one side (the source end), it's less likely to introduce noise into the circuitry on the DAC side. But probably at a level that would make coil whine out to be a jet engine.
Google has already run their own fiber network. I'm saying it's time for Netflix to follow. I didn't say Google covered the whole country, but it's enough to be able to offer Gigabit Internet in a few of the cities they've crossed.
Since a lot of computers can't EFI boot off of DVD, and Windows won't EFI install on a computer if the install media didn't EFI boot from, you're risking a slower boot time by being forced to use BIOS emulation on every boot.
It's annoying, but it's an argument that you probably should do Windows installs via USB.
Adobe went that way with Creative Cloud, and people basically have no choice but to keep paying forever.
Considering that the ancient Photoshop 7 is still better than most alternatives, I bought CS5.5 and am holding off as long as I possibly can. If I can make it the rest of my life without upgrading, I will be perfectly capable. They haven't added much, really. Even screenshots from 1988 are recognizable to today's users.
Back when Google was a significant chunk of the Internet's bandwidth, they started running their own fiber. With Netflix at their likely peak, they should use some of their excess money to start rolling out their own fiber network. If they do it right, they'll be in the market for peering arrangements that are mutually beneficial, and they'll have something to fall back on when the studios decide to cut out their middleman.
Not really relevant when the load for one train per day equals maybe one passenger's fare. Multiplying it into a big number doesn't make it a big percentage of operating expenses.
And that's only in a worst-case scenario where every outlet is in use 24/7. You're sounding ridiculous but don't realize it.
We are definitely tapping into something real, but whether or not it's fundamental is another question entirely. Newton seemed fundamental, but wasn't. Einstein seems fundamental, but might not be. It seems like there's usually another layer of reality below the one which seems to be fundamental.
Now imagine your outlets are in a room filled with 500 people all day long
I didn't create the scenario. 500 charges does not mean that they are using it simulataneously. To compare it with the train scenario, that would be 30 outlets, in transient use across 24 hours of a day.
Because you didn't read. I was responding to a scenario where 500 people are all charging their phones. Multiply your figures by 500 and you'll get what I'm saying.
True - the real risk is raising body temperature in a place that is sensitive to body temperature. It's not going to ionize anything, but it might cause mild infertility.
Slashdot Mirror
Now that digital services (all of them) are streaming 128kbps or better
Pandora's free service is only 64K. Pure garbage.
Apple streams at 256. Others stream at 320 (e.g. Spotify). Free Pandora is the bottom of the barrel for streaming quality at 64K. We're no longer in the dial-up days.
The Dolby tech on cassettes isn't for compression. It's to defeat SNR loss on lossy magnetic media. If you don't play it on a Dolby player that reverses the "compression" it will sound a bit muddy like listening to an FM broadcast.
Digital studio equipment records in and keeps audio in a format at a higher bit-depth AND sample rate. Every edit and every layer of multiple tracks is like resaving a lossy jpeg. Your final result may contain all those extra bits, but they need to be averaged out and resampled away because the detail is already lost by that point. That's why you record in 192KHz / 24-bit and then master to 44.1KHz / 16-bit. GP post is 100% correct.
The noise floor they are talking about is introduced by the editing - not inherent to the recording.
The idea of a directional ethernet cable makes sense, but I'm sure it's probably snake oil. If the shielding was grounded on only one side (the source end), it's less likely to introduce noise into the circuitry on the DAC side. But probably at a level that would make coil whine out to be a jet engine.
Google has already run their own fiber network. I'm saying it's time for Netflix to follow. I didn't say Google covered the whole country, but it's enough to be able to offer Gigabit Internet in a few of the cities they've crossed.
Since a lot of computers can't EFI boot off of DVD, and Windows won't EFI install on a computer if the install media didn't EFI boot from, you're risking a slower boot time by being forced to use BIOS emulation on every boot.
It's annoying, but it's an argument that you probably should do Windows installs via USB.
if you sat at the settings screen around 6 months
I've heard of choice paralysis, but are there really that many options? This sounds a little extreme.
Adobe went that way with Creative Cloud, and people basically have no choice but to keep paying forever.
Considering that the ancient Photoshop 7 is still better than most alternatives, I bought CS5.5 and am holding off as long as I possibly can. If I can make it the rest of my life without upgrading, I will be perfectly capable. They haven't added much, really. Even screenshots from 1988 are recognizable to today's users.
Back when Google was a significant chunk of the Internet's bandwidth, they started running their own fiber. With Netflix at their likely peak, they should use some of their excess money to start rolling out their own fiber network. If they do it right, they'll be in the market for peering arrangements that are mutually beneficial, and they'll have something to fall back on when the studios decide to cut out their middleman.
Vista had its own Service Pack 2. Actually wasn't too bad. Have you been out of touch for a while?
Not really relevant when the load for one train per day equals maybe one passenger's fare. Multiplying it into a big number doesn't make it a big percentage of operating expenses.
And that's only in a worst-case scenario where every outlet is in use 24/7. You're sounding ridiculous but don't realize it.
So when (by your metric) will Windows 7 be stable?
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
two up quarks, one down quark
Still haven't discovered the Konami quark then, yet?
We are definitely tapping into something real, but whether or not it's fundamental is another question entirely. Newton seemed fundamental, but wasn't. Einstein seems fundamental, but might not be. It seems like there's usually another layer of reality below the one which seems to be fundamental.
We haven't even reached turtles yet.
Don't give Netflix any ideas. They've already given us genres like "Imaginitive Time Travel Movies from the 1980s"
Flash + cookie + Web storage + Etags = supercookie
And I'll also add that there is more than one train in their system.
Now imagine your outlets are in a room filled with 500 people all day long
I didn't create the scenario. 500 charges does not mean that they are using it simulataneously. To compare it with the train scenario, that would be 30 outlets, in transient use across 24 hours of a day.
It's something for a young phone to aspire to.
Because you didn't read. I was responding to a scenario where 500 people are all charging their phones. Multiply your figures by 500 and you'll get what I'm saying.
It is if the pocket positions your leg in between the two.
True - the real risk is raising body temperature in a place that is sensitive to body temperature. It's not going to ionize anything, but it might cause mild infertility.
Sure, the iPhone can withstand 1kWh of electricity...eventually. It would take quite a few charges to get there.