Actually the real issue is whether or not the "1" is interpreted as a 1. If the signal drops below 70% full voltage the signal falls into the "indeterminate" range, and the computer on the receiving end might see the 1 as a 0 instead. Bit error.
Using a better cable will help avoid these errors. Of course an even better (and cheaper) fix is to simply shorten the cable so the voltage levels won't drop below 70% maximum.
My music is encoded on my iPod at just 48k AAC (no plus). It sounds poor through my headphones, but works just fine when attached to the tiny portable speakers I carry around. Plus it lets me squeeze about 400 songs into a space of only 1/2 gigabyte iPod memory.
- It said "AAC+" which is shorthand for AAC plus SBR, where SBR provides the high-frequency encoding.
- Without SBR the AAC would be limited to about 11,000 hertz max frequency, or about the same as AM radio, but with SBR reconstructing the highs, it can reach as high as 22,000 hertz and give the *illusion* of being as good as 160kbit/s AAC, MP3, or OGG encoded samples.
- Which is what perceptual encoding is about - it doesn't store the actual music, but instead tricks the human ear and gives the illusion that all the music is present. Apparently AAC+SBR at 48 kbit/s tricks one-third of listeners to think it sounds just fine. That's all this article is really saying.
Trivia:
- HD Radio and Digital Radio Mondiale use AAC+SBR to achieve perceived CD quality as low as 64 kbit/s. Ditto the radio stations at Shoutcast.com
- "I don't wanna grow-up. I'm a Toys R Us kid. And have my Daddy Government take care of me with free healthcare, free food stamps, cheap housing, and free retirement (SSI) checks. Yay! There are a million toys to play with!"
I can understand that viewpoint. I've often thought of quitting my job and just living like a parasite off my hard-working neighbors & sucking down the cash from Uncle Sam. But my moral character tells me that's wrong. Meanwhile other persons have no such moral character, so they gladly take-take-take because is makes life EASY rather than having to grow up.
Which is illegal under the Moss-Magnuson Act. Car companies must allow owners to use third-party turbos and other gadgets. That's what we consumers need for computers and computer-run equipment - a law that protects our right to use third party devices.
>>>Consoles have always been a locked down device versus the openness of PC
But at least consoles "just work". I put in my ancient copy of Wing Commander into my Super Nintendo console (or my Amiga computer), and it still works. I try the same thing with my IBM PC version and it refuses to run, even on my old Win98 machine.
Even modern games have erratic behavior that makes the PC version frustrating - I prefer to avoid frustration the same way I avoid Vista.
Why if the UK Post Office goes on strike, and nobody notices, because UPS, FedEx, and other private companies (plus email) fill the gap? It would be ironic if the Government Strike proves that the government-run service is no longer needed.
Hmmmm.
I hope the U.S. Post Office goes on strike next. Who need them? Not me.
>>>some activists are unhappy that they're being associated with the movement they support.
Wow.
Terrible.
The horror.
/end sarcasm. If you support a cause then you ought not be ashamed about it. Hand me that petition; I'll sign it. I don't care if you marry another man, woman, or a whole bunch of women (harem), and I don't care if you find my name on it. It's a free country and you should be free to marry whoever you want to marry. That's what freedom means. ----- Now as for the extra benefits of marriage - those are the things that should be eliminated. A guy and girl who are just living together shouldn't feel pressured to get "married" just to reduce their taxes. Even when married they should still pay the same tax as when they were two singles. I believe in equality - all individuals treated identically.
>>>Are you sure about blaming your local government? In my state, cable companies don't get monopoly agreements.
I think you're probably wrong about that. Typically the local government offered a biddable contract, to which multiple companies applied, and then the winning company was granted the exclusive rights to lay the coaxial television cable. i.e. Government-granted monopoly.
Some of these contracts specify A La Carte must be provided, or local public service/news channels must be provided.
(5) And if turns-out the movie is actually good, you can erase the bootlegged download from your computer, go buy the Bluray when it's released, and watch it on your home stereo/widescreen TV in full quality.
In the alternate history "Fatherland" Hister builds the nuclear bomb first, and uses it, which ends World War 2. A cold war develops between Germany (occupying from Spain to the Ukraine) and the United States. Good book worth checking out.
According to the famous documentary "Why We Fight", the Japanese branch of World War 2 started in 1931. So the invasion of China, Rape of Nanking, and the Pacific war were all part of that overall fight.
And a lot of Chinese, Filipinos, and other occupied Asian nations cheered when Japan fell in 1945. They were just as much celebrating victory as we were.
>>>It wasn't the number of deaths that got the Emperor to take notice, it was the fact that we did it with just one bomb each time.
That's not the end of the story. After the Emperor recorded his formal surrender, to be broadcast over radio to the Japanese people, the Army tried to kill their own leader. If the Japanese are willing to kill their own God-emperor, what would they be willing to do to keep the Americans from landing? They would fight to the last man - it would make our current war in Afghanistan look easy.
>>>1937? Separate, historic issue. Nuclear weapons came a lot later.
According to the famous documentary "Why We Fight", the Japanese branch of World War 2 started in 1931. So the invasion of China, Rape of Nanking, and final surrender of Japan were all part of that overall fight.
The firebombs that Britain used in Germany were FAR more deadly than the 2 nukes the USA dropped. The nukes killed a few thousand, while the firebombs killed hundreds of thousands. Example: It is said the fires in Dresden raged so fiercely that the oxygen was sucked out of the air, and people suffocated to death. They just fell dead whereever they were - in bed, hiding in basements, running down the street.
To me it seems odd to single-out two bombs, while ignoring the millions of other bombs that had been dropped from 1939 through 45. Those non-nukes also killed people, including innocent girls and boys that didn't deserve to die but were caught in the middle of the fight. War is hell, no matter if you use nukes or TNT.
Almost 70 million people died during WW2. Only 0.2% of them died by nuclear fission bomb.
>>>So if you point a gun at me, I can hunt down and disintegrate your entire family tree?
If my family is building guns/bullets that I am using to kill-off your wife, your daughter, your parents, and so on...... then yes I think you have every right to stop them. If you can't find me, then you kill my suppliers so I don't have anything to fire.
>>>If your provider does not support synchronization and data encryption, then it's time to change it.
Well I could but my local government gave Comcast a monopoly. There is nothing else to "change" to. Thanks politicians for taking-away my freedom of choice. I'm losing my liberty.
One reason not to use Cloud Computing is that I can avoid Ribbon Interface crapola (as was in Office 2007), and just keep using my older software. Or I can ignore Vista/ME and just keep using older XP/98 operating systems. With cloud computing using older programs won't be an option, because it will be forced upon you.
Microsoft's share of the OS market has dropped from 89.5% to 89.4%. MSFT stock plummets; the NASDAQ fell. (I kid.) People tend to have short memories. They've already forgotten the mess that was the DTV Coupon program, prevented many from using the coupons to get DTV converter boxes, and affected ~50 million Americans. This Sidekick story about a million users almost-losing data will be forgotten by next week.
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Actually the real issue is whether or not the "1" is interpreted as a 1. If the signal drops below 70% full voltage the signal falls into the "indeterminate" range, and the computer on the receiving end might see the 1 as a 0 instead. Bit error.
Using a better cable will help avoid these errors. Of course an even better (and cheaper) fix is to simply shorten the cable so the voltage levels won't drop below 70% maximum.
You are correct.
My music is encoded on my iPod at just 48k AAC (no plus). It sounds poor through my headphones, but works just fine when attached to the tiny portable speakers I carry around. Plus it lets me squeeze about 400 songs into a space of only 1/2 gigabyte iPod memory.
>>>you need to eliminate 29 out of every 30 bits. If anybody out there is incapable of hearing the difference, they need to go get a hearing test
>>>
Here is what 48 kbit/s AAC+SBR sounds like (requires WinAmp or other AACplus player). Is it CD quality? No. Is it equal to a 160 kbit/s OGG encoding? Apparently 1/3 of people think it is, and even I think it's pretty close.
http://classic.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=520194&file=filename.pls
And here's a 64k AAC+SBR with near-CD quality. Yes it is possible to strip ~96% of a CD's bits and still give a good-quality playback:
http://classic.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=77695&file=filename.pls
And just for fun, the bottom end at AM radio quality for Dialup/phoneline or cellphone listeners:
32k AAC+SBR - http://www.radiojackie.com:11289/listen.pls
12k AAC+SBR - http://www.radiojackie.com:11209/listen.pls
Okay here's an educated guess:
- It said "AAC+" which is shorthand for AAC plus SBR, where SBR provides the high-frequency encoding.
- Without SBR the AAC would be limited to about 11,000 hertz max frequency, or about the same as AM radio, but with SBR reconstructing the highs, it can reach as high as 22,000 hertz and give the *illusion* of being as good as 160kbit/s AAC, MP3, or OGG encoded samples.
- Which is what perceptual encoding is about - it doesn't store the actual music, but instead tricks the human ear and gives the illusion that all the music is present. Apparently AAC+SBR at 48 kbit/s tricks one-third of listeners to think it sounds just fine. That's all this article is really saying.
Trivia:
- HD Radio and Digital Radio Mondiale use AAC+SBR to achieve perceived CD quality as low as 64 kbit/s. Ditto the radio stations at Shoutcast.com
The mindset is this:
- "I don't wanna grow-up. I'm a Toys R Us kid. And have my Daddy Government take care of me with free healthcare, free food stamps, cheap housing, and free retirement (SSI) checks. Yay! There are a million toys to play with!"
I can understand that viewpoint. I've often thought of quitting my job and just living like a parasite off my hard-working neighbors & sucking down the cash from Uncle Sam. But my moral character tells me that's wrong. Meanwhile other persons have no such moral character, so they gladly take-take-take because is makes life EASY rather than having to grow up.
Which is illegal under the Moss-Magnuson Act. Car companies must allow owners to use third-party turbos and other gadgets. That's what we consumers need for computers and computer-run equipment - a law that protects our right to use third party devices.
...where "always" actually means "3-4 years" at which point the game you bought will be yanked by Sony, i.e. no longer available.
PASS. Instead give me a CD or DVD that I can physically own from now 'til the day I die.
>>>Consoles have always been a locked down device versus the openness of PC
But at least consoles "just work". I put in my ancient copy of Wing Commander into my Super Nintendo console (or my Amiga computer), and it still works. I try the same thing with my IBM PC version and it refuses to run, even on my old Win98 machine.
Even modern games have erratic behavior that makes the PC version frustrating - I prefer to avoid frustration the same way I avoid Vista.
Why if the UK Post Office goes on strike, and nobody notices, because UPS, FedEx, and other private companies (plus email) fill the gap? It would be ironic if the Government Strike proves that the government-run service is no longer needed.
Hmmmm.
I hope the U.S. Post Office goes on strike next. Who need them? Not me.
>>>some activists are unhappy that they're being associated with the movement they support.
Wow.
Terrible.
The horror.
Honda Fit? I'd rather have the Insight hybrid. You can buy one used for just over $7000, or new for less than $20000.
I wonder why that doesn't work in politics? When a politicians screws-up his "brand" (name) is sullied forever.
>>>Are you sure about blaming your local government? In my state, cable companies don't get monopoly agreements.
I think you're probably wrong about that. Typically the local government offered a biddable contract, to which multiple companies applied, and then the winning company was granted the exclusive rights to lay the coaxial television cable. i.e. Government-granted monopoly.
Some of these contracts specify A La Carte must be provided, or local public service/news channels must be provided.
I think you missed the point:
- With software you own, you can ignore Microsoft's mistakes (Office2007, Vista) and continue using their older products (Office2003 or 97, XP).
- With software you rent off the internet (cloud), the bad ideas are shoved upon you whether you like them or not.
(5) And if turns-out the movie is actually good, you can erase the bootlegged download from your computer, go buy the Bluray when it's released, and watch it on your home stereo/widescreen TV in full quality.
Was it actual child pornography, or just children without clothes? There's a difference. The former is sick, but the latter is legal.
In the alternate history "Fatherland" Hister builds the nuclear bomb first, and uses it, which ends World War 2. A cold war develops between Germany (occupying from Spain to the Ukraine) and the United States. Good book worth checking out.
According to the famous documentary "Why We Fight", the Japanese branch of World War 2 started in 1931. So the invasion of China, Rape of Nanking, and the Pacific war were all part of that overall fight.
And a lot of Chinese, Filipinos, and other occupied Asian nations cheered when Japan fell in 1945. They were just as much celebrating victory as we were.
>>>It wasn't the number of deaths that got the Emperor to take notice, it was the fact that we did it with just one bomb each time.
That's not the end of the story. After the Emperor recorded his formal surrender, to be broadcast over radio to the Japanese people, the Army tried to kill their own leader. If the Japanese are willing to kill their own God-emperor, what would they be willing to do to keep the Americans from landing? They would fight to the last man - it would make our current war in Afghanistan look easy.
>>>1937? Separate, historic issue. Nuclear weapons came a lot later.
According to the famous documentary "Why We Fight", the Japanese branch of World War 2 started in 1931. So the invasion of China, Rape of Nanking, and final surrender of Japan were all part of that overall fight.
BTW:
The firebombs that Britain used in Germany were FAR more deadly than the 2 nukes the USA dropped. The nukes killed a few thousand, while the firebombs killed hundreds of thousands. Example: It is said the fires in Dresden raged so fiercely that the oxygen was sucked out of the air, and people suffocated to death. They just fell dead whereever they were - in bed, hiding in basements, running down the street.
To me it seems odd to single-out two bombs, while ignoring the millions of other bombs that had been dropped from 1939 through 45. Those non-nukes also killed people, including innocent girls and boys that didn't deserve to die but were caught in the middle of the fight. War is hell, no matter if you use nukes or TNT.
Almost 70 million people died during WW2. Only 0.2% of them died by nuclear fission bomb.
>>>So if you point a gun at me, I can hunt down and disintegrate your entire family tree?
If my family is building guns/bullets that I am using to kill-off your wife, your daughter, your parents, and so on...... then yes I think you have every right to stop them. If you can't find me, then you kill my suppliers so I don't have anything to fire.
>>>If your provider does not support synchronization and data encryption, then it's time to change it.
Well I could but my local government gave Comcast a monopoly. There is nothing else to "change" to. Thanks politicians for taking-away my freedom of choice. I'm losing my liberty.
One reason not to use Cloud Computing is that I can avoid Ribbon Interface crapola (as was in Office 2007), and just keep using my older software. Or I can ignore Vista/ME and just keep using older XP/98 operating systems. With cloud computing using older programs won't be an option, because it will be forced upon you.
This just in:
Microsoft's share of the OS market has dropped from 89.5% to 89.4%. MSFT stock plummets; the NASDAQ fell. (I kid.) People tend to have short memories. They've already forgotten the mess that was the DTV Coupon program, prevented many from using the coupons to get DTV converter boxes, and affected ~50 million Americans. This Sidekick story about a million users almost-losing data will be forgotten by next week.