If they wanted to go commercial, they could for example use SMT356 board from sundance. Granted it is only 14 bits but that's better than what they chose anyway, and I am sure 10 MSPS 16-bit boards are available, you might have to look for more than 5 minutes tho.
It is still dissapointing that they didn't design their own board or didn't choose a better one. If you look at their pix, you'll see lotsa crappy coloring. I guess at least a part of that is due to their 12-bit inputs. Their board uses AD9225 chip for the actual A/D. It would be nice to use a better chip (16-bit or higher), like e.g. AD1377.
If you are going to do pro graphics and precise color of every pixel matters, then use a pro card. Quadro is a fine choice, Fire*** (forgot) is another. Basically souped up versions of consumer grade cards. If you are not trying to do a precise job then consumer cards are just fine. We are using Radeons to render our scientific data. For us having a 128 Mb card vs. 64 Mb makes a huge difference but we wouldn't win from going to pro level cards. Anything from 3DS to Matlab will notice a fast rendering card.
Thing is, I am a scientist who has done a lot of research involving vibration studies. So as far as low freq. part is concerned you can certainly do it, you just need to find all resonant frequencies of your concert hall, figure out where to place your accelerometers and measure away. It's the high frequencies that I wonder about. How do you handle directional sound? So assuming the last question has a well-understood answer, the real question is: who has setups like these? Anyone? Does anyone sell stuff like that? I know that whenever a serious music hall is being built they call in acoustic engineers. Is any hall built to record a fuller frequency range?
This just proves my belief that whenever you think you need to be within certain limits, you need to design about an order of magnitude beyond them. So is there some music recording equipment that goes from tens of millihertz to a megahertz? How difficult would it be to make one?
So does anyone sell HDTV setup with BNC cables. Those I can make myself. Or if a cleaner connector is in order, how about SMA or SMB. Does anyone cater to the no bullshit market?
I personally think ESP is mostly people assigning significance to coincidences and sometime fraud. Yet even if you assume that ESP in some form exists, it is highly doubious that it is an evolutionary advantage, or that being having it are in any way superior to regular humans. Different - yes, superior - says who? The one ability that would really make a huge change for the better is better complexity management. Simply having the brain wired to hold more information and be able to analyze more info at once. Right now a human cannot do the simplest things like visualize something like a DNA molecule on an atomic level. As a scientist I often see people put forth a theory which eventually gets shot down due to an unphysical complication. A member of a superior race would be able to see many more consequences from the get go. And speaking of Go, a superior race should be able to beat humans easily in a game where complexity management is key. Compared to this advantage, ESP pales in comparison.
I think this is bad for Google. I see this as a trend akin to the famous "until it can read email" expansion trend for software. Google has won over users by being a search engine rather than the "portal" that everyone else was pimping at the time. I worry that they are turning into a portal themselves.
There is more to this than a single file. I recall being a summer intern in a corp and I was assigned a task that required some basic database design. Unfortunately I had no clue about SQL or anything like that, but I needed to do the job anyway (with Access). I read in the manual that you could do all programming visually and never enter a single SQL statement. Wouldn't you know it that was true. Everything I needed to do, I did by pointing and clicking, no SQL programming. I doubt OO thingy has that level of polish, though if it does then it really is an Access level piece of software.
0) Your sig is offensive. 1) What suggestion? 2) My question had nothing to do with archiving anything 3) If you decode an mp3 and then reencode it would that reduce quality of sound compared with first mp3? Or do you get the same mp3 back bit for bit? That was my question. I understand that if you resample the decoded mp3 or do anything to it, or use insufficient number of bits to store intermediate calculations etc, then yes, I can see how you would get worse sound with every reencoding. But my question is this: if you take an mp3, decode it (with overkill precision), then reencode that back to mp3, do you get the same mp3 back? And are there decoders/encoders where bit length for intermediate calculations can be an arbitrary user-specified number?
I am curious, why would you lose audio quality with successive reencoding. In theory, mp3 has psychoacoustic model to eliminate frequencies you can't hear. So once that is done on the first pass, the successive passes should find nothing more to eliminate. Where am I wrong?
I singled out research because I believe it is one of the few cases where the government should take the burden upon itself. Commercial interests and impartial research don't mesh. Actual production is another thing entirely since there competition actually improves quality.
As for VCs, the difference between what they do and the bank is that they don't ask for collateral but they get a chunk of your future business instead. Otherwise they are the same thing and should have the same success rates. Or rather, inverting your argument, if the VCs have 90% failure rate they ARE taking on too much risk.
Well, in all cases the business model is screwed up. In the musicians case, it should be: every band for itself. No "signing up". The band makes music, records it, makes CDs, sells CDs. They take the gamble with their own money. Or they could go the venture capitalist route: have people pick out good music, loan money, recoup that from CD sales. Purely - loan money get return - type of business. No promotions no distribution channels. No big offices, no lawyers, accountants etc. Home business on a band by band basis. As far as venture capitalists, their failure rates are not a justification for ripping off inventors. They merely indicate their inability to pick out good business propositions. They are essentially the business equivalent of a quality assurance team: they decide if the product is good enough for packaging. Can you imagine any other QA team with 90% failure rate. In short, if they can't get their failure rate to around 1% that's no reason to charge inventors for their own ineptness. Drug companies are another story entirely. There, markup covers R&D costs. I firmly believe that since R&D is THE reason for existence, it should be sponsored by the entire society. In other words, let NIH fund all drug development and worry about drug success rates. Let drug comanies only worry about production, packaging and distribution. You'll get better pricing on drugs, more thorough and impartial drug evaluations and potentially less messy intellectual property landscape. Basically any time you see private companies fund R&D with 10x markups somethings is wrong.
Now I don't get something. You make a CD. You make a nice little web page to sell CDs, and you are done. If you don't make CDs on demand, then you pay the warehouse and for logistics. If cheapbytes can do it why can't the record companies? And if you allow people to download music, then it figures the fair price is close to $1 per CD. A shipped version should cost $2-$3 plus shipping. Have you seen these prices? If so where?
Well, in an ideal world good music would become popular via word of mouth only. This would ensure that many individuals value the work highly without any outside pressure. So I would factor any and all promotional costs into the price gouging. Also, RIAA artists don't make small to medium size runs, so their cost per CD is cheaper.
So not counting promos, it is $2-$3 per CD for small to medium size runs. That's exactly the range everyone else in this thread is giving, meaning the markup on a typical $20 CD is around 10X, or 1000%. I wonder what other industry has such enormous profit margins.
Well, segway was supposed to revolutionize transportation in a city. Extra traffic lanes are hard to implement in an already congested city and so will not help ease jams. Also, where I live they have some bike lanes. As a pedestrian I often feel like I am playing frogger, because I have to cross six lanes of traffic in interleaving directions to get to the other side of the street. I hate the idea of extra lanes.
My guess: MSN becomes the biggest ISP. It is already huge and it will pick up a lot of those AOLers. I can see how pretty soon MS will have the majority of users get internet from MSN. MS Internet may happen pretty soon.
I'll admit I put Steinbeck in there just to see if anyone reads anymore. So yes, I share your indignation:) On the other hand, you have strengthened my argument by singling out one work that Steinbeck is most known for. As far as wide acclaim is concerned most people only know Grapes of Wrath, i.e. as far as SPP is concerned Steinbeck was a one hit wonder. That is precisely the shortcoming of SPP I was speaking of.
If even one library freely gives away a book in electronic form then anyone interested will be able to download a read it. Sounds good? Maybe, except that now all ineterested readers can get the book for free and the author goes hungry. To date no good solution exists to entice authors into creating and preserve freedom at the same time. Street performer protocol and similar things do work in some cases but only in "niche" cases. For instance many authors have only written one good work in their lives (e.g. Steinbeck). They would starve with SPP. Many singers have had one or two hits (e.g. Billy Ray Cyrus (sp?)). Those guys would starve too. Worse, people would not go to the trouble of creating stuff if they knew in advance that they would have to sustain their production over long stretches of time.
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If they wanted to go commercial, they could
for example use SMT356 board from sundance.
Granted it is only 14 bits but that's
better than what they chose anyway, and I am
sure 10 MSPS 16-bit boards are available, you
might have to look for more than 5 minutes tho.
It is still dissapointing that they didn't design
their own board or didn't choose a better one.
If you look at their pix, you'll see lotsa crappy
coloring. I guess at least a part of that is due
to their 12-bit inputs. Their board uses AD9225 chip
for the actual A/D. It would be nice to use a
better chip (16-bit or higher), like e.g. AD1377.
If you are going to do pro graphics and precise color of every pixel matters, then use a pro card. Quadro is a fine choice, Fire*** (forgot)
is another. Basically souped up versions of
consumer grade cards. If you are not trying to
do a precise job then consumer cards are just
fine. We are using Radeons to render our
scientific data. For us having a 128 Mb card vs.
64 Mb makes a huge difference but we wouldn't
win from going to pro level cards.
Anything from 3DS to Matlab will notice a fast
rendering card.
I know next to nothing about HDTV. Does it really
run over RCA cables? RCA connectors are shitty.
Why not rated high-frequency connectors?
Thing is, I am a scientist who has done a lot of
research involving vibration studies. So as far as
low freq. part is concerned you can certainly do
it, you just need to find all resonant frequencies
of your concert hall, figure out where to place
your accelerometers and measure away. It's the high
frequencies that I wonder about. How do you handle
directional sound?
So assuming the last question has a well-understood
answer, the real question is: who has setups like
these? Anyone? Does anyone sell stuff like that?
I know that whenever a serious music hall is being
built they call in acoustic engineers. Is any
hall built to record a fuller frequency range?
This just proves my belief that whenever you think
you need to be within certain limits, you need to
design about an order of magnitude beyond them.
So is there some music recording equipment that
goes from tens of millihertz to a megahertz?
How difficult would it be to make one?
So does anyone sell HDTV setup with BNC cables.
Those I can make myself. Or if a cleaner connector
is in order, how about SMA or SMB. Does anyone
cater to the no bullshit market?
I personally think ESP is mostly people assigning
significance to coincidences and sometime fraud.
Yet even if you assume that ESP in some form
exists, it is highly doubious that it is an
evolutionary advantage, or that being having it
are in any way superior to regular humans.
Different - yes, superior - says who?
The one ability that would really make a huge
change for the better is better complexity
management. Simply having the brain wired to
hold more information and be able to analyze more
info at once. Right now a human cannot do the
simplest things like visualize something like a
DNA molecule on an atomic level. As a scientist
I often see people put forth a theory which
eventually gets shot down due to an unphysical
complication. A member of a superior race would
be able to see many more consequences from the
get go. And speaking of Go, a superior race
should be able to beat humans easily in a game
where complexity management is key. Compared to
this advantage, ESP pales in comparison.
Aint nothin rong wit bein lazy.
I think this is bad for Google. I see this as a trend akin to the famous "until it can read email" expansion trend for software. Google has won over users by being a search engine rather than the "portal" that everyone else was pimping at the time. I worry that they are turning into a portal themselves.
There is more to this than a single file. I recall being a summer intern in a corp and I was assigned a task that required some basic database design. Unfortunately I had no clue about SQL or anything like that, but I needed to do the job anyway (with Access). I read in the manual that you could do all programming visually and never enter a single SQL statement. Wouldn't you know it that was true. Everything I needed to do, I did by pointing and clicking, no SQL programming.
I doubt OO thingy has that level of polish, though if it does then it really is an Access level piece of software.
Anyone care to translate this post into English.
Max Headroom? Network 23? WTF?
Ok this is getting off-topic.
0) Your sig is offensive.
1) What suggestion?
2) My question had nothing to do with archiving anything
3) If you decode an mp3 and then reencode it would that reduce quality of sound compared with first mp3? Or do you get the same mp3 back bit for bit? That was my question. I understand that if you resample the decoded mp3 or do anything to it, or use insufficient number of bits to store intermediate calculations etc, then yes, I can see how you would get worse sound with every reencoding. But my question is this: if you take an mp3, decode it (with overkill precision), then reencode that back to mp3, do you get the same mp3 back? And are there decoders/encoders where bit length for intermediate calculations can be an arbitrary user-specified number?
I am curious, why would you lose audio quality
with successive reencoding. In theory, mp3
has psychoacoustic model to eliminate frequencies
you can't hear. So once that is done on the first
pass, the successive passes should find nothing
more to eliminate. Where am I wrong?
I singled out research because I believe it is one of the few cases where the government should take the burden upon itself. Commercial interests and impartial research don't mesh.
Actual production is another thing entirely since there competition actually improves quality.
As for VCs, the difference between what they do and the bank is that they don't ask for collateral but they get a chunk of your future business instead. Otherwise they are the same thing and should have the same success rates. Or rather, inverting your argument, if the VCs have 90% failure rate they ARE taking on too much risk.
Well, in all cases the business model is screwed up. In the musicians case, it should be: every band for itself. No "signing up". The band makes music, records it, makes CDs, sells CDs. They take the gamble with their own money. Or they could go the venture capitalist route: have people pick out good music, loan money, recoup that from CD sales. Purely - loan money get return - type of business. No promotions no distribution channels. No big offices, no lawyers, accountants etc. Home business on a band by band basis.
As far as venture capitalists, their failure rates are not a justification for ripping off inventors. They merely indicate their inability to pick out good business propositions. They are essentially the business equivalent of a quality assurance team: they decide if the product is good enough for packaging. Can you imagine any other QA team with 90% failure rate. In short, if they can't get their failure rate to around 1% that's no reason to charge inventors for their own ineptness.
Drug companies are another story entirely. There, markup covers R&D costs. I firmly believe that since R&D is THE reason for existence, it should be sponsored by the entire society. In other words, let NIH fund all drug development and worry about drug success rates. Let drug comanies only worry about production, packaging and distribution. You'll get better pricing on drugs, more thorough and impartial drug evaluations and potentially less messy intellectual property landscape.
Basically any time you see private companies fund R&D with 10x markups somethings is wrong.
Now I don't get something. You make a CD. You make a nice little web page to sell CDs, and you are done. If you don't make CDs on demand, then you pay the warehouse and for logistics. If cheapbytes can do it why can't the record companies? And if you allow people to download music, then it figures the fair price is close to $1 per CD. A shipped version should cost $2-$3 plus shipping. Have you seen these prices? If so where?
Well, in an ideal world good music would become popular via word of mouth only. This would ensure that many individuals value the work highly without any outside pressure. So I would factor any and all promotional costs into the price gouging. Also, RIAA artists don't make small to medium size runs, so their cost per CD is cheaper.
So not counting promos, it is $2-$3 per CD for small to medium size runs. That's exactly the range everyone else in this thread is giving, meaning the markup on a typical $20 CD is around 10X, or 1000%. I wonder what other industry has such enormous profit margins.
Well, segway was supposed to revolutionize transportation in a city. Extra traffic lanes are hard to implement in an already congested city and so will not help ease jams.
Also, where I live they have some bike lanes. As a pedestrian I often feel like I am playing frogger, because I have to cross six lanes of traffic in interleaving directions to get to the other side of the street. I hate the idea of extra lanes.
Why reformat it? Contact people on the list,
and if there is a class action suit, then be
a witness.
My guess: MSN becomes the biggest ISP. It is
already huge and it will pick up a lot of those
AOLers. I can see how pretty soon MS will have
the majority of users get internet from MSN.
MS Internet may happen pretty soon.
The ironic thing is that your complaint ain't
too original either.
I'll admit I put Steinbeck in there just to see :)
if anyone reads anymore. So yes, I share your
indignation
On the other hand, you have strengthened my
argument by singling out one work that Steinbeck
is most known for. As far as wide acclaim is
concerned most people only know Grapes of Wrath,
i.e. as far as SPP is concerned Steinbeck was a
one hit wonder. That is precisely the shortcoming
of SPP I was speaking of.
If even one library freely gives away a book
in electronic form then anyone interested will
be able to download a read it. Sounds good?
Maybe, except that now all ineterested readers
can get the book for free and the author goes
hungry.
To date no good solution exists to entice
authors into creating and preserve freedom at the
same time. Street performer protocol and similar
things do work in some cases but only in
"niche" cases. For instance many authors have only
written one good work in their lives (e.g. Steinbeck).
They would starve with SPP. Many singers have had
one or two hits (e.g. Billy Ray Cyrus (sp?)). Those
guys would starve too. Worse, people would not go
to the trouble of creating stuff if they knew in
advance that they would have to sustain their
production over long stretches of time.