AMD is following a similar path Apple takes with their computers. One day they use the best processors available for the high end, the next day they bump those processors to the low end and get new processors for the high end. It happened a few months ago at Apple, when the iMac gained the G4. Whenever the G5 is released, it will go to the top models first. Apple has, for the most part, always done this...
This is true, it does not tell you answers. For this reason, many fans did not like the original ending of Evangelion (eps 25 and 26) and complained. Anno got pretty mad at this and the fans wanted the series to conclude, so Anno created the End of Evangelion, one of three movies. All is answered in here, and in my opinion, has to be the greatest ending of any series ever (I wont reveal anything). In a way, Anno was saying "fuck you" to all of the fans in End of Evangelion, leaving you with an extremely strange ending that is insanely powerful.
Etymotic's canalphones use passive noise cancelling to cancel around 25dB and is way more effective than most of the active units you get. Most of the active units handle low frequency noise well but the high frequencies pass. Passive noise cancellation (Etymotics use the ol fashion earplugs) blocks the entire frequency range and is more effective than the Bose or Sony units as it does not add additional circuitry that could screw things up.
Whats even more is that the Etymotics have *amazing* sound quality (which both the Bose and Sony truly lack), they are some of the best headphones out there, although a little expensive for most (ER-6 is $130 and ER-4 is $270 at Headroom. And no I do not work for etymotic and I really didn't mean for this post to be an ad, if it came off as one:)
Well you could just keep it as Wave if you really want to protect cd content... uncompressed audio is over 1000kbps, mp3 is no where near this stage. There is quite a bit of data loss even after compression though to most it will sound the same... but it still is not archival.
Double blind testing is a tricky and debated topic... you would also have to consider equipment used. If you are using something like the Klipsch promedias you probably wont notice differences between original and mp3. But, if you use a real sound system, there is going to be a small difference... though for the better or worse is questionable, at least for me... I can hear a difference between well ripped mp3s and cds on my home audio system, however I cannot tell which one is which.
Some of the double blind tests are at r3mix's site, using a $10000 headphone system out of a "HQ sound card" (whatever that is) and a B&W Nautalus setup. Doesn't really get into the details of the setups... I suppose for everyone's purposes mp3 would be a suitable medium, but it is not lossless nor archival... then again, given the horribly equalized and mixed recordings the record companies pump out, I suppose it wouldn't even matter. Go mp3!
Yeah but these are the really expensive $1000 sound cards... External boxes, such as what I use the ART DI/O (which has an awesome D/A) do a very good job at A/D, way better than my sound card (audiophile 24/96)...
Simple way to bypass the copy protection is to play it out of a CD player that plays copy protected cds, hook it up to an Analog/Digital convertor (good ones aren't that expensive, $100 or so), and send it into your computer (you'll need a sound card with a digital input, $150 or so)... the quality will be pretty good to boot. I could do it myself...
I find it funny that Disney has the nerve to accuse Apple of piracy. They even clearly state "don't steal music" in their Rip Mix and Burn campaign.
Disney is really a hypocrite, I mean it has been proven that a lot of their movies have been ripped off of others, such as Lion King from Kimba the White Lion and Atlantis from Nadia. Where has Apple gone wrong?
Maybe it is because of the Disney and Pixar issue (where Pixar is bound by Disney and they really want to get out of the contract) and Disney is really aiming at Steve Jobs... Thats probably completely wrong but is a thought.
Last I checked the gamecube had an ATI board... so if it is based on the gamecube, wouldn't this new board be an ATI? Where is ATI in the mix of this anyway...
Scientific research is a little different...
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I'm a research assistant/student in a biochemistry laboratory, so not exactly "tech" in the terms you put it (software, computers, etc). Do I like my "job"? Yes, I do, very much.
Research in situations such as mine in academic institutions is very different from work elsewhere... you work usually by yourself and just with the higher ups (really, only the professor) and get a lot of work done, by yourself. Thus, there is a self achievement factor involved that motivates you, and a "I must do this so I can figure out if this works and I discover this" driving you to work. You are not slowed down because you are not dependant on other's (directly that is) so you know everything that is happening on your part of the project. Such factors motivate me and even allows me to not even worry about money, but just the work. Setting your hours is another plus, it is a very flexible environment really, and I would not mind research in my future (though, in a slightly more engineering field for myself).
Also, everyone in these workplaces, like academic instututions, are all smart (at least at Yale University); "management" is good and everyone is happy and is willing. What one can do about poor management is something I'm not sure about, without getting yourself fired that is. A new job in a different place/field may help, or getting the courage to do something radically differrent (be creative) may also help. Really, you need to find a job that you will like with management you will like and not move out of it once you find it... little idealistic, but it is possible. Maybe a company is simply not the workplace for you.
Seven hours of any activity is hazardous to my health? Phew! I only get 5 hours of sleep a day, looks like I wont be getting those sleep disorders at this rate:)
Sony also makes a few more good headphones, the discontinued CD1700, the CD3000, and the R10... the last is prohibitively expensive ($4000) and the CD3000 is expensive ($400), but I have the CD3000 and it is pretty damn good (ran out of a dedicated headphone amplifier and a good DAC from my soundcard's unresampled digital out).
Sad to say, even with this equipment, I have diffuculty telling decently encoded mp3s from their originals... I can tell a difference but I can't tell which one is in a lossless format and which one is MP3.
Actually it would increase the entropy, because every energy transformation increases the entropy in the universe... here we have a heat -> electricity conversion.
Personally I have a...
Audiophile 24/96 sound card -> ART DI/O digital analog convertor -> NAD C340 integrated amplifier -> Axiom Millenia M3Ti...
Cost you over $1000 though but will whomp ANY multimedia speaker in existence.
Also try the Acoustic Energy Aegios 1 (sp?), they are by far the BEST multimedia speakers available.
So whose side are you on? Your comments have no useful basis. Aqua is not just a single color, it is a whole user interface, correctly the property of Apple.
Use your home CD Player, let it do the D/A. Send it out on analog (hopefully you have a good cd player) and into an A/D unit (like an ART DI/O, which I have, which also is a *killer* D/A box). Then from the A/D unit send it on digital to your sound card (I have an Audiophile 24/96 that does it).
"It is going to be the next user interface, the last user interface," Dunietz said, explaining that it will replace the mouse, computer pointing devices and the Microsoft Windows environment"
Sure... thats what they all said, until M$ bought them out at least...
In other words:
It will totally ruin the PCM stream.
The SB's digi output is really bad, you cannot do digi outputting properly. Frequencies wil be lost and sound will have lost its original accuracy.
If I upsample on my AP2496 the tempo changes and high freqs dissappear.
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AMD is following a similar path Apple takes with their computers. One day they use the best processors available for the high end, the next day they bump those processors to the low end and get new processors for the high end. It happened a few months ago at Apple, when the iMac gained the G4. Whenever the G5 is released, it will go to the top models first. Apple has, for the most part, always done this...
This is true, it does not tell you answers. For this reason, many fans did not like the original ending of Evangelion (eps 25 and 26) and complained. Anno got pretty mad at this and the fans wanted the series to conclude, so Anno created the End of Evangelion, one of three movies. All is answered in here, and in my opinion, has to be the greatest ending of any series ever (I wont reveal anything). In a way, Anno was saying "fuck you" to all of the fans in End of Evangelion, leaving you with an extremely strange ending that is insanely powerful.
Would be to use Etymotic ER-6 or ER-4 (see etymotic's website).
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Etymotic's canalphones use passive noise cancelling to cancel around 25dB and is way more effective than most of the active units you get. Most of the active units handle low frequency noise well but the high frequencies pass. Passive noise cancellation (Etymotics use the ol fashion earplugs) blocks the entire frequency range and is more effective than the Bose or Sony units as it does not add additional circuitry that could screw things up.
Whats even more is that the Etymotics have *amazing* sound quality (which both the Bose and Sony truly lack), they are some of the best headphones out there, although a little expensive for most (ER-6 is $130 and ER-4 is $270 at Headroom. And no I do not work for etymotic and I really didn't mean for this post to be an ad, if it came off as one
Double blind testing is a tricky and debated topic... you would also have to consider equipment used. If you are using something like the Klipsch promedias you probably wont notice differences between original and mp3. But, if you use a real sound system, there is going to be a small difference... though for the better or worse is questionable, at least for me... I can hear a difference between well ripped mp3s and cds on my home audio system, however I cannot tell which one is which.
Some of the double blind tests are at r3mix's site, using a $10000 headphone system out of a "HQ sound card" (whatever that is) and a B&W Nautalus setup. Doesn't really get into the details of the setups... I suppose for everyone's purposes mp3 would be a suitable medium, but it is not lossless nor archival... then again, given the horribly equalized and mixed recordings the record companies pump out, I suppose it wouldn't even matter. Go mp3!
Yeah but these are the really expensive $1000 sound cards... External boxes, such as what I use the ART DI/O (which has an awesome D/A) do a very good job at A/D, way better than my sound card (audiophile 24/96)...
Simple way to bypass the copy protection is to play it out of a CD player that plays copy protected cds, hook it up to an Analog/Digital convertor (good ones aren't that expensive, $100 or so), and send it into your computer (you'll need a sound card with a digital input, $150 or so)... the quality will be pretty good to boot. I could do it myself...
Disney is really a hypocrite, I mean it has been proven that a lot of their movies have been ripped off of others, such as Lion King from Kimba the White Lion and Atlantis from Nadia. Where has Apple gone wrong?
Maybe it is because of the Disney and Pixar issue (where Pixar is bound by Disney and they really want to get out of the contract) and Disney is really aiming at Steve Jobs... Thats probably completely wrong but is a thought.
Last I checked the gamecube had an ATI board... so if it is based on the gamecube, wouldn't this new board be an ATI? Where is ATI in the mix of this anyway...
Research in situations such as mine in academic institutions is very different from work elsewhere... you work usually by yourself and just with the higher ups (really, only the professor) and get a lot of work done, by yourself. Thus, there is a self achievement factor involved that motivates you, and a "I must do this so I can figure out if this works and I discover this" driving you to work. You are not slowed down because you are not dependant on other's (directly that is) so you know everything that is happening on your part of the project. Such factors motivate me and even allows me to not even worry about money, but just the work. Setting your hours is another plus, it is a very flexible environment really, and I would not mind research in my future (though, in a slightly more engineering field for myself).
Also, everyone in these workplaces, like academic instututions, are all smart (at least at Yale University); "management" is good and everyone is happy and is willing. What one can do about poor management is something I'm not sure about, without getting yourself fired that is. A new job in a different place/field may help, or getting the courage to do something radically differrent (be creative) may also help. Really, you need to find a job that you will like with management you will like and not move out of it once you find it... little idealistic, but it is possible. Maybe a company is simply not the workplace for you.
Seven hours of any activity is hazardous to my health? Phew! I only get 5 hours of sleep a day, looks like I wont be getting those sleep disorders at this rate :)
Indeed. One of the Macintosh labs at Carnegie Mellon is actually called the "Apple Orchard"... more suitible, now just wait for Apple to market it.
Sony also makes a few more good headphones, the discontinued CD1700, the CD3000, and the R10... the last is prohibitively expensive ($4000) and the CD3000 is expensive ($400), but I have the CD3000 and it is pretty damn good (ran out of a dedicated headphone amplifier and a good DAC from my soundcard's unresampled digital out).
Sad to say, even with this equipment, I have diffuculty telling decently encoded mp3s from their originals... I can tell a difference but I can't tell which one is in a lossless format and which one is MP3.
Actually it would increase the entropy, because every energy transformation increases the entropy in the universe... here we have a heat -> electricity conversion.
I *think* cable goes up to around 50Mbps... depends on how many channels are available, but still, WAY above DSL.
Yep, I have optimum online also in CT (woodbridge)... they really kickass, VERY fast... one of the best services in the country I believe...
1Mbps up all the time... and I've seen speeds down as much as 10Mbps... rarely though...
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I have about $1000 worth in headphone gear so I'm qualified
Audiophile 24/96 sound card -> ART DI/O digital analog convertor -> NAD C340 integrated amplifier -> Axiom Millenia M3Ti...
Cost you over $1000 though but will whomp ANY multimedia speaker in existence.
Also try the Acoustic Energy Aegios 1 (sp?), they are by far the BEST multimedia speakers available.
Nah, don't go for bose, look elsewhere, they are overpriced and underperforming (you might as well get a multimedia speaker setup than bose).
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What do you mean, fixed resolution? Are you saying that you cannot change resolutions at all on LCD screens (which I seem to be able to)?
So whose side are you on? Your comments have no useful basis. Aqua is not just a single color, it is a whole user interface, correctly the property of Apple.
Use your home CD Player, let it do the D/A. Send it out on analog (hopefully you have a good cd player) and into an A/D unit (like an ART DI/O, which I have, which also is a *killer* D/A box). Then from the A/D unit send it on digital to your sound card (I have an Audiophile 24/96 that does it).
Copy Protection my @$$!
Thanks for the mirror, mozilla seems swamped (can't connect at all).
Sure... thats what they all said, until M$ bought them out at least...
In other words: It will totally ruin the PCM stream. The SB's digi output is really bad, you cannot do digi outputting properly. Frequencies wil be lost and sound will have lost its original accuracy. If I upsample on my AP2496 the tempo changes and high freqs dissappear.