no, he's just saying that bandwidth is defined as bits/second, and if the number of bits is immense, then even something as (relatively) slow as a truck can have high bandwidth. of course the latency is ginormous too...
answer 1: that's the only kind of literature they're good at creating. why do you think shakespeare started in comedy but ended up in tragedy?
answer 2: 'cause we don't want to waste perfectly good bombs. they're gonna destroy themselves pretty soon as it is.
yes, i remember how during my time in Auschwitz they'd collect the weakest of us every month into a room, and blast that joke through the speakers. all over the camp the ground would shake for several minutes from the laughter of those inside. once i overheard a few words (they never bothered to put proper sound insulation around the place), and had to tie myself up with some barbed wire that was lying around just to keep my sides from bursting.
aaaah, there's the/. post that's finally gonna guarantee me a place in the warmer parts of hell!
good point, and frankly there's something about the uk that is very baffling to me: they seem to be a very anti-youth and anti-child society. can anyone explain to me why they seem to hate their new generation so much??
human audition, like all perception, is a system that computes a lossy representation of raw stimuli it is presented with. this representation is highly lossy, and while the degree to which it is [in]sensitive to various aspects of the original stimulus varies highly from person to person, certain aspects of this lossiness are almost for very large portions of the population. thus, it is possible to conduct a study measuring the degree to which the difference between on original and reproduced stimulus created by a specific external coding/reproducing mechanism can be perceived by a certain portion of the population. in this case, one could conduct a double-blind study asking individuals to identify the immediate source of a musical piece. if a significant portion of test subjects perform better than random, and also report that, for example, music from an mp3 file played through a computer with a decent sound card is less pleasant for them than a live performance, then your (rather unscientific) claim about losing "the little things that make music alive" would be confirmed. i am not aware of any studies of this nature, and a brief internet search didn't turn up any relevant results. i have heard opinions such as yours before, however, based on my intuition (any nothing more), here's my personal opinion on the matter:
1) the quality difference between an average bitrate mp3, CD quality, and live performance is perceptible for at least some portion of the population, likely a significant one.
2) the average person who listens to music would consider this quality sacrifice negligible. i.e., given the practical impossibility of listening to live performance while driving, studying, working, running, playing, dining, dancing, et cetera, normal encoding of music is "good enough".
3) all human perception is relative in nature. this statement may not be precise (you can't get used to 500F weather), but it is often correct. in this case, i believe that after a period of adjustment, even the most highly trained musical ear can be re-trained to be able to enjoy and appreciate lower-quality musical recordings just as much as it would enjoy perfect reproduction of the music.
well, one problem is that error from reading 1 digit (or hexit, whatever) is much higher - 4 times, to be precise. if the likelihood of making an error in 1 bit reading the matrix is the same as p of error in one digit, then that works out fine. but i don't think that's the case.
you must be blind to think that they give a rat's ass about the family here. they just don't want the olympics to get associated with imagery like that. it's PR, plain and simple.
And if there was nothing wrong with it, why does the school say it won't start using the snooping feature again without "express written notification to all students and families"?
maybe while the feature was introduced for all the right reasons (recovering lost/stolen laptops), they're admitting that students/parents should've been notified? i.e. they're admitting they made a mistake, but denying that they are pedophiles who used this "feature" to spy on acne-faced teenage boys masturbating to vogue magazine.
no, but i do think that all those limits apply to what's possible at any given point in time. considering how quickly theories are discarded in physics, and how frequently technology makes economically infeasible things feasible, i'd be very hesitant to claim that something can never be done. and yes, this even applies to the really-really-theoretically-impossible things like faster than light travel.
you're the kind of guy who predicts that nobody would ever need more than 640k of memory, aren't you? or that airplanes have no military applications whatsoever? or that everything that can be invented, has been invented? (the last 2 are from the 19th century, if i'm not mistaken)
or you could just let them do whatever the fuck they want. even porn gets old eventually. at least for a while. maybe a few hours. or minutes... sorry, gotta go!
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no, he's just saying that bandwidth is defined as bits/second, and if the number of bits is immense, then even something as (relatively) slow as a truck can have high bandwidth. of course the latency is ginormous too...
answer 1: that's the only kind of literature they're good at creating. why do you think shakespeare started in comedy but ended up in tragedy?
answer 2: 'cause we don't want to waste perfectly good bombs. they're gonna destroy themselves pretty soon as it is.
yes, i remember how during my time in Auschwitz they'd collect the weakest of us every month into a room, and blast that joke through the speakers. all over the camp the ground would shake for several minutes from the laughter of those inside. once i overheard a few words (they never bothered to put proper sound insulation around the place), and had to tie myself up with some barbed wire that was lying around just to keep my sides from bursting.
/. post that's finally gonna guarantee me a place in the warmer parts of hell!
aaaah, there's the
good point, and frankly there's something about the uk that is very baffling to me: they seem to be a very anti-youth and anti-child society. can anyone explain to me why they seem to hate their new generation so much??
human audition, like all perception, is a system that computes a lossy representation of raw stimuli it is presented with. this representation is highly lossy, and while the degree to which it is [in]sensitive to various aspects of the original stimulus varies highly from person to person, certain aspects of this lossiness are almost for very large portions of the population. thus, it is possible to conduct a study measuring the degree to which the difference between on original and reproduced stimulus created by a specific external coding/reproducing mechanism can be perceived by a certain portion of the population. in this case, one could conduct a double-blind study asking individuals to identify the immediate source of a musical piece. if a significant portion of test subjects perform better than random, and also report that, for example, music from an mp3 file played through a computer with a decent sound card is less pleasant for them than a live performance, then your (rather unscientific) claim about losing "the little things that make music alive" would be confirmed. i am not aware of any studies of this nature, and a brief internet search didn't turn up any relevant results. i have heard opinions such as yours before, however, based on my intuition (any nothing more), here's my personal opinion on the matter:
1) the quality difference between an average bitrate mp3, CD quality, and live performance is perceptible for at least some portion of the population, likely a significant one.
2) the average person who listens to music would consider this quality sacrifice negligible. i.e., given the practical impossibility of listening to live performance while driving, studying, working, running, playing, dining, dancing, et cetera, normal encoding of music is "good enough".
3) all human perception is relative in nature. this statement may not be precise (you can't get used to 500F weather), but it is often correct. in this case, i believe that after a period of adjustment, even the most highly trained musical ear can be re-trained to be able to enjoy and appreciate lower-quality musical recordings just as much as it would enjoy perfect reproduction of the music.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tapes hurling down the highway - Andrew S. Tanenbaum
well, one problem is that error from reading 1 digit (or hexit, whatever) is much higher - 4 times, to be precise. if the likelihood of making an error in 1 bit reading the matrix is the same as p of error in one digit, then that works out fine. but i don't think that's the case.
what is 'infinite-dimension' effect?
black. you can never go wrong with black. unless you wear all black, 'cause then you look like a waiter.
cutthroat bitches!
you must be blind to think that they give a rat's ass about the family here. they just don't want the olympics to get associated with imagery like that. it's PR, plain and simple.
you're taking the bar tomorrow, and you're posting comments on slashdot? what the hell is wrong with you?
I'd better go now, I have a midterm tomorrow.
care to explain your point of view?
And if there was nothing wrong with it, why does the school say it won't start using the snooping feature again without "express written notification to all students and families"?
maybe while the feature was introduced for all the right reasons (recovering lost/stolen laptops), they're admitting that students/parents should've been notified? i.e. they're admitting they made a mistake, but denying that they are pedophiles who used this "feature" to spy on acne-faced teenage boys masturbating to vogue magazine.
you son of a bitch! i lost some precious tabs because of that. (porn, mostly. but still, i worked very hard to find them...)
i was going to make the same note, only about the "suggestive shape" part...
striations?
how is this flamebait? the guy's simply referring to the common conclusion of reductionism - there's no such thing as life as a separate category.
yeah, and my cat's really into CP.
no, but i do think that all those limits apply to what's possible at any given point in time. considering how quickly theories are discarded in physics, and how frequently technology makes economically infeasible things feasible, i'd be very hesitant to claim that something can never be done. and yes, this even applies to the really-really-theoretically-impossible things like faster than light travel.
well, i've always spelled the past of spell as spelled, and never got into any trouble for it...
you're the kind of guy who predicts that nobody would ever need more than 640k of memory, aren't you? or that airplanes have no military applications whatsoever? or that everything that can be invented, has been invented? (the last 2 are from the 19th century, if i'm not mistaken)
pardon my ignorance, but is spelt really the past tense of spell?
god, or simply giant among men?
or you could just let them do whatever the fuck they want. even porn gets old eventually. at least for a while. maybe a few hours. or minutes... sorry, gotta go!