It was ridiculous because the main point of 24-bit audio and higher sample rates is having extra precision on the individual recording tracks to reduce the effect of rounding errors in the studio mixing process.
You can't make your own record, but you can record your own tape with the music you like.
That's nice, and sure, mix tapes still have a reason to exist, but this is about pre-recorded cassette sales. If you're going to make a mix tape from that, you need two tape players, one of which has to be able to record. (many portable cassette players are play-only) It's easier to record the mix tape from your phone... if you still have a headphone jack that is!
They were also the recordable format back in the day. There was also 8-track, but it sucked more, in many ways. But that still doesn't explain pre-recorded cassette album sales. How many pre-recorded MDs did you ever buy?
Cassettes used to be cheaper to manufacture, both the tapes and the players. CDs now can be pressed in quantity for pennies, and it might cost a dollar complete with case and booklet. But you do need to press at least a thousand of them to get the good price. Cassettes can be made in low quantity, but the process is still pretty bad for quality.
They were also more portable. The smallest CD players are like 50% bigger than the smallest tape players, and at first CDs were prone to skipping from being bumped around. Then flash memory became cheap, and MP3 players took over. We've got more than enough storage these days for FLAC and 24/96 if you really care about audio quality.
You want a physical object? Get a CD, rip a CD, put it on the shelf. It's even got bigger artwork than a tape! (which is usually one of the arguments for vinyl!)
Cassette tape is literally a "kiddie hipster" format these days.
Boomers/GenX already have all the 60s/70s/80s music and don't need to buy a movie soundtrack album for yet another copy. This is clearly GenZ, to whom cassettes are a novel thing, and who have never seen a tape with its guts spilled out, thrown off the side of the road after being yanked angrily from a car tape player where it had gotten stuck in the mechanism. That was a common sight back in the '70s if you were a kid walking around the neighborhood. 8-tracks were even worse about this, with the tape constantly slipping over itself by design.
That's how it always goes... with the right player! and with the right tape formulation! Except you know that manufacturers of pre-recorded tapes aren't going to spend any more than necessary. I keep wanting to use the word "audiophool", but this is like a hipster mimicry of it.
I remember in the mid-80s I decided to buy a pre-recorded tape. There was a glitch in it, so I took it back for exchange. The replacement had a glitch at the same point. I then realized that it was a glitch in the copying process, and it could be on thousands of copies of this tape, depending on whether it was an electrical glitch while making one batch, or on the master tape at the cassette manufacturing place. I took this as an educational opportunity, and forever struck pre-recorded tape from my potential music formats.
I'm a user of a different Mozilla fork (Seamonkey, which is what became of the original Netscape after Firefox took over), and from what I've been seeing on the support forums, it looks like the Firefox crowd have been Ministry of Information-ing anything related to old style extensions both from the extensions server (even those made for alternate browsers that still support them), and from the Gecko code base in general.
That wikipedia page first appeared in 2017, so it's not exactly showing this as being a well-established "standard" term. But this is par for the course among "UX" types, who have to make up new shit all the time to feel like they have purpose, rather than try to avoid ambiguity. Actually, I think it's more likely that someone in the tech press industry came up with it.
These aren't "UI" people, they're "UX" people. The difference is that one cares about things like usability and understandability, and the other wants to make some kind of artistic statement, rejecting existing UIs as passé and in need of change simply because they are old.
A phone can perhaps be issued to the head flight attendant as well, so there's someone independent of the flight crew to contact.
Maybe not so much if the pilot locks the door when the right seat goes to the head, then puts on his O2 mask and turns off the cabin pressure, which is one of the MH370 scenarios. You go to sleep quite quickly and won't even realize it's happening unless you've had high-altitude training.
CCTV-like live video feeds from the cockpit and cabin going up to a satellite uplink at all times
You do realize that trans-oceanic planes regularly go places where there is no line-of-sight communications to civilization on the ground? Bandwidth over satellite isn't cheap, especially before this new generation of Iridium. The original Iridium didn't even have a digital mode; access devices had to have their own modem circuitry.
They're certainly not going to spend that much just because one (1) pilot (probably) went psycho and deliberately evaded tracking. There have been other cases of pilots going psycho and crashing the plane, but only one was able to hide the plane too. And if you saw some shit going down, what would you do about it anyhow?
A 64-bit CPU is not required to have a 64-bit time. I think OS X has supported a 64-bit double time type since back in the NeXT days. Millisecond accuracy for centuries to come, yet still Y10K compliant!
It may also help cull a lot of old phones, where the manufacturers typically won't give you an update more than a year after purchase, if any at all. How far back are 64-bit Android apps supported? There are still a lot of 4.x-era phones out there!
Now that the DVD format is on the decline, it's no loss since Hollywood movie quality is on the decline too. I finally got to watch Inception last week on a used DVD, and it looks like Avatar is up next when I get some movie watching time. Also, most of my used DVDs come from a by-the-pound bulk thrift store, so they're really cheap too.
The only real problem I have with my antenna is that when sportsball runs overtime (a constant problem with NFL games), usually the rest of programming for the evening is shifted later, and screws up DVR recording unless I'm there to make manual adjustments to the schedule. (Even if I'm watching a show live, I usually care enough to save a copy of it for later.)
I had an OTA DVR once (an old ChannelMaster from 2010 or so), but I went with the extra effort of a MythTV. One big bonus is if you like to keep stuff around, MythTV leaves everything in single MPEG2 transport stream files, and indexes them with MySQL, so you can later move them out of the DVR interface as plain files/folders, if you want, and save the metadata too. Other DVRs don't even necessarily use a public filesystem format, and when they do, they spam it with a bunch of randomly named 1GB segments. (note that HDTV is about 6GB/hour, good luck stitching that up when you don't even know where their shows database is)
I still have that old OTA DVR lying around somewhere, with about 60 shows that I wouldn't mind copying off of it.
If only there was a local store that would stock these blu-ray discs, and let you borrow them for a few days for a small fee. Sort of like a library, but just for movies and TV shows.
My very own personal video streaming service is called "MythTV", with a catalog downloaded for free from this new invention called an "antenna", though most things only get a new episode streamed in every week or two. Except lately I haven't even been able to keep up with how much comes in every week. But it's got The Orville, so I'm keeping it.
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Or as some prefer to say, "12.8 gigajiggers".
It was ridiculous because the main point of 24-bit audio and higher sample rates is having extra precision on the individual recording tracks to reduce the effect of rounding errors in the studio mixing process.
You can't make your own record, but you can record your own tape with the music you like.
That's nice, and sure, mix tapes still have a reason to exist, but this is about pre-recorded cassette sales. If you're going to make a mix tape from that, you need two tape players, one of which has to be able to record. (many portable cassette players are play-only) It's easier to record the mix tape from your phone... if you still have a headphone jack that is!
This is so dumb that it can only be kids.
They were also the recordable format back in the day. There was also 8-track, but it sucked more, in many ways. But that still doesn't explain pre-recorded cassette album sales. How many pre-recorded MDs did you ever buy?
GenZ doesn't drive, that should be a big clue right there!
Cassettes used to be cheaper to manufacture, both the tapes and the players. CDs now can be pressed in quantity for pennies, and it might cost a dollar complete with case and booklet. But you do need to press at least a thousand of them to get the good price. Cassettes can be made in low quantity, but the process is still pretty bad for quality.
They were also more portable. The smallest CD players are like 50% bigger than the smallest tape players, and at first CDs were prone to skipping from being bumped around. Then flash memory became cheap, and MP3 players took over. We've got more than enough storage these days for FLAC and 24/96 if you really care about audio quality.
You want a physical object? Get a CD, rip a CD, put it on the shelf. It's even got bigger artwork than a tape! (which is usually one of the arguments for vinyl!)
Cassette tape is literally a "kiddie hipster" format these days.
Boomers/GenX already have all the 60s/70s/80s music and don't need to buy a movie soundtrack album for yet another copy. This is clearly GenZ, to whom cassettes are a novel thing, and who have never seen a tape with its guts spilled out, thrown off the side of the road after being yanked angrily from a car tape player where it had gotten stuck in the mechanism. That was a common sight back in the '70s if you were a kid walking around the neighborhood. 8-tracks were even worse about this, with the tape constantly slipping over itself by design.
That's how it always goes... with the right player! and with the right tape formulation! Except you know that manufacturers of pre-recorded tapes aren't going to spend any more than necessary. I keep wanting to use the word "audiophool", but this is like a hipster mimicry of it.
I remember in the mid-80s I decided to buy a pre-recorded tape. There was a glitch in it, so I took it back for exchange. The replacement had a glitch at the same point. I then realized that it was a glitch in the copying process, and it could be on thousands of copies of this tape, depending on whether it was an electrical glitch while making one batch, or on the master tape at the cassette manufacturing place. I took this as an educational opportunity, and forever struck pre-recorded tape from my potential music formats.
Seems like I was wrong, it started with one guy registering it as a web site domain? It smelled like a forced meme, and I guess it was.
Q: How do you know when someone programs in Rust (or Go)?
A: They'll tell you.
I'm a user of a different Mozilla fork (Seamonkey, which is what became of the original Netscape after Firefox took over), and from what I've been seeing on the support forums, it looks like the Firefox crowd have been Ministry of Information-ing anything related to old style extensions both from the extensions server (even those made for alternate browsers that still support them), and from the Gecko code base in general.
That wikipedia page first appeared in 2017, so it's not exactly showing this as being a well-established "standard" term. But this is par for the course among "UX" types, who have to make up new shit all the time to feel like they have purpose, rather than try to avoid ambiguity. Actually, I think it's more likely that someone in the tech press industry came up with it.
years ago
So why are most of your links with dates in the URL from 2018?
"Digital" (as in DEC) is also still one. It usually gets abused by submitters who have never heard of DEC.
their UI people
These aren't "UI" people, they're "UX" people. The difference is that one cares about things like usability and understandability, and the other wants to make some kind of artistic statement, rejecting existing UIs as passé and in need of change simply because they are old.
A phone can perhaps be issued to the head flight attendant as well, so there's someone independent of the flight crew to contact.
Maybe not so much if the pilot locks the door when the right seat goes to the head, then puts on his O2 mask and turns off the cabin pressure, which is one of the MH370 scenarios. You go to sleep quite quickly and won't even realize it's happening unless you've had high-altitude training.
CCTV-like live video feeds from the cockpit and cabin going up to a satellite uplink at all times
You do realize that trans-oceanic planes regularly go places where there is no line-of-sight communications to civilization on the ground? Bandwidth over satellite isn't cheap, especially before this new generation of Iridium. The original Iridium didn't even have a digital mode; access devices had to have their own modem circuitry.
They're certainly not going to spend that much just because one (1) pilot (probably) went psycho and deliberately evaded tracking. There have been other cases of pilots going psycho and crashing the plane, but only one was able to hide the plane too. And if you saw some shit going down, what would you do about it anyhow?
There is no such thing. There are transponders, but they aren't "GPS" transponders.
A 64-bit CPU is not required to have a 64-bit time. I think OS X has supported a 64-bit double time type since back in the NeXT days. Millisecond accuracy for centuries to come, yet still Y10K compliant!
It may also help cull a lot of old phones, where the manufacturers typically won't give you an update more than a year after purchase, if any at all. How far back are 64-bit Android apps supported? There are still a lot of 4.x-era phones out there!
Now that the DVD format is on the decline, it's no loss since Hollywood movie quality is on the decline too. I finally got to watch Inception last week on a used DVD, and it looks like Avatar is up next when I get some movie watching time. Also, most of my used DVDs come from a by-the-pound bulk thrift store, so they're really cheap too.
The only real problem I have with my antenna is that when sportsball runs overtime (a constant problem with NFL games), usually the rest of programming for the evening is shifted later, and screws up DVR recording unless I'm there to make manual adjustments to the schedule. (Even if I'm watching a show live, I usually care enough to save a copy of it for later.)
I had an OTA DVR once (an old ChannelMaster from 2010 or so), but I went with the extra effort of a MythTV. One big bonus is if you like to keep stuff around, MythTV leaves everything in single MPEG2 transport stream files, and indexes them with MySQL, so you can later move them out of the DVR interface as plain files/folders, if you want, and save the metadata too. Other DVRs don't even necessarily use a public filesystem format, and when they do, they spam it with a bunch of randomly named 1GB segments. (note that HDTV is about 6GB/hour, good luck stitching that up when you don't even know where their shows database is)
I still have that old OTA DVR lying around somewhere, with about 60 shows that I wouldn't mind copying off of it.
If only there was a local store that would stock these blu-ray discs, and let you borrow them for a few days for a small fee. Sort of like a library, but just for movies and TV shows.
My very own personal video streaming service is called "MythTV", with a catalog downloaded for free from this new invention called an "antenna", though most things only get a new episode streamed in every week or two. Except lately I haven't even been able to keep up with how much comes in every week. But it's got The Orville, so I'm keeping it.