i don't know much about the WIG effect besides what's stated in the article, but it would seem to me that if the train is going to create a cushion of air underneath it to ride on, then the weather would be something very important to consider. how would this be affected by rain/sleet/snow or high and low pressure systems, or high winds in general. if this technology came to fruition could we build and transcontinental line in the USA considering mountain ranges?
the main reason NOT to digitize records is that many people believe (myself included) that vinyl has much better sound. two reasons quickly for are that since cd's are digital the sound information (which is naturaly analog) is treated as only 1's and 0's so it's either on or off. records however can have values from 0-9. this allows for a much broad range of variations in the sound. the other reason is that cd's are limited to a 96 db range. vinyl is limited to something around a 120 db range.
if you've ever heard a record played, you've probably noticed a lot of clicks and pops. this is almost always due to dust and dirt on the record and to inferior recording techniques etc. to get the most out of vinyl it should be cleaned. not only does this reduce/eliminate the dust and static from a record for better sound, for those of us who don't have $13k for one of these things, it reduces wear on the needle.
i agree. no one is screaming for apple to release the source for their player for windows so people can write new versions of it. as far as i'm concerned if apple just releases a version of QT for linux i'd b happy.
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those things are pretty sweet. i wonder how durable they are? perfect thing for a rave/dance club.
i don't know much about the WIG effect besides what's stated in the article, but it would seem to me that if the train is going to create a cushion of air underneath it to ride on, then the weather would be something very important to consider. how would this be affected by rain/sleet/snow or high and low pressure systems, or high winds in general. if this technology came to fruition could we build and transcontinental line in the USA considering mountain ranges?
the main reason NOT to digitize records is that many people believe (myself included) that vinyl has much better sound. two reasons quickly for are that since cd's are digital the sound information (which is naturaly analog) is treated as only 1's and 0's so it's either on or off. records however can have values from 0-9. this allows for a much broad range of variations in the sound. the other reason is that cd's are limited to a 96 db range. vinyl is limited to something around a 120 db range.
if you've ever heard a record played, you've probably noticed a lot of clicks and pops. this is almost always due to dust and dirt on the record and to inferior recording techniques etc. to get the most out of vinyl it should be cleaned. not only does this reduce/eliminate the dust and static from a record for better sound, for those of us who don't have $13k for one of these things, it reduces wear on the needle.
i agree. no one is screaming for apple to release the source for their player for windows so people can write new versions of it. as far as i'm concerned if apple just releases a version of QT for linux i'd b happy.
um just incase you missed the first 40 answers 8*288Mb= 288MB 288MB*= 576MB hope this clears up all of the confusion