i'm not currently sure if there are 32 bit DAWs (digital audio workstations) out there yet. the highest sample rate i've seen is on the Pro Tools HD system, that's 192khz/24bit. and yes, there is still a difference between that and full wave analog (what they're talking about in the a/d debate) one gets a full wave analog source from one of two places typicaly: 1) turntables and 2) good reel-to-reel tape machines. whilst even some of the most discerning ears would have difficulty telling the difference between a 192/24 signal and a full wave analog signal. the difference is still there and can still be palpable. just dump a whole lot of DSP and effects on there, and it will start to come out of the woodwork. a sample is basicaly an instantanous picture of a sound wave. they're measure in sample rates (hz) and resolution(bits) the sample rate is just that, how many samples per second. the resolution is how much info is recorded per sample (which can translate roughly into how much headroom one gets) now, basically in order to get an accurate picture of a sound wave, you need to measure it in a couple of places 1) at it's lowest point, and 2) at it's highest point. the midpoint can be defined from these two as well as reference stuff, and i'm not to up on the ee ans such, so this will be basic and/or possible flawed. feel free to straighten out the facts as need be. what this comes down to basically is that you need a sample rate of twice the highst frequency you want to record. (this is why cd's are 44.1 khz) some of the factors to consider here are saturation , dynamic range, and signal to noise ratios. the more complex an audio signal is, the more it can be said to be saturated. this can cause clipping and data loss, and in a digital environment, that results in distortion. in modern electronics you're seeing a constant increase in signal to noise ratio and dynamic ranges. these two factors are linked, as the dynamic range increases, the potential for a better s/n ratio also increases. notice i say potential, having the headroon does not mean it will be noise free. but pick up some data sheets and compare the s/n ratio of cd's and dvd's. there is a difference there of usually 10-20 db. that is one hell of alot of a difference. higher sample rates and more discret electronics allow for this. anyway, i'm starting to think myself in circles, and i fear i have already made a fallacy or two, so i'm going to stop now.
ok, all penal colony's aside, i feel this could be a very prominent step in robotic surgery. with the advances being made both in medicine and robotics, i feel that one day surgeries could be performed with similar robots, differently equipped, of course. all we have to figure out now is how not to kill the person and automatically dump their body into a ditch.
did is strike anyone else as ironic that one of the mentioned websites, theassayer.org, which said it had more than 350 free books on it's site, is not accessable by public?
out of curiosity, are you in the nyc area? if you are, you may have rented from a company called "GSD" we took it to stand for General shit direct. these people did not know how to ship ANYTHING properly, or how to ship the right inventory, either. out of two complete packages (all of the sound and lighting equipment for two stages) the only thing packed properly were the replacement ETC dimmer control cards. they were also one of the few items that actually worked upon arrival. did i mention that the truck was two days and 6 hours late?
load bars? i think i know what those are now, they weren't holding anything down, but we did pull one out of a subwoofer cone, they're about the width of the truck with clips on the end, right?
Yeah, i have also played my fair share of airsoft, one of my friends mods our guns for us, so i've got a cute 'lil hk g3 that will shoot at around 450 fps.
anyway, a side project, that i've been working on for quite some time, is my Nerf dart/Paintball gatling gun, it should fire at around 6,000 Rounds/min top speed theoreticaly. please note that this project is not complete, i'm still prototyping loading and firing mechanisms. one thing is apparent, while more expensive as ammo (unless you make it yourself), the nerf darts are a better choice, for they need less air to fire, and a portable compressed air source that is capable of firing 6,000 of anything a minute is going to be sizeable.
yes, this post is offtopic....
anway, if anyone has ideas/comments/brainstorms about how to complete this project, let me know, it's currently on hold for this semester.
along with multitudes of slashdot readers, i will be very sorry to see this site go, espically when it had just recently made it into my link bar. i stopped by the other site mentioned in the article, and i noticed that it did have a heavier layout. myself, i prefer the simpler ones, but you never know, with the aol-time warner merger, i have a feeling that pop-ups are going to become the billboards of the information superhighway.
i would just like to say that the usps has been very friendly on many more than one occasion. did you know (up untill recently, in my area anyway) that you could mail a letter merely by taping 32 cents to the envelope? you can also send 2x4's through the mail (drilling holes in them makes them lighter, cheaper postage). on the whole, i applaud the people behind the article, espically since they ended prasing the usps for being good sports. well done.
i've had an hdtv set for almost a year now, and i have to say, im significantly less than impressed, there is an extremely poor programming choice available (in my area anyway)
it seems to me that the users of hdtv may make this another one of the pay-per-view options, and make the higher resolutions available at a special higher price (watch this movie in high-resolution, click
Here
)
of course, with the rate of hdtv's inception, i feel it's going to be awhile before this is an extremely pertinent issue.
it seems to me that, plausible or not, this idea may have worked in tesla's time, but not now. today we have many bands of communication freq's out there, and it seems to me (while i am no great educated source on this, mod. accordingly) that broadcasting electricty wirelessly would cause several probelems with cell phones, radios, wireless lan's, you name it. one gets signal interference merely by running an unshielded cable parallel to an a/c cable. of course, that's induction, and i don't know if it applies, but another interesting concept would be it's effects on ic's and the like, wouldn't this be close to an emp of sorts?
it seems to me (And many other posters as well)
that this isn't really that great of a product. of course, if you're like me, and too cheap to afford a second monitor for your server (sits in my closet,humming away silently to itself), this would be a quick way of estimating the traffic on your server. also reminds me of way back when i was on win/95, and would assign sounds to anything and everything i could find, which reminds me of how quickly i tired of having sounds altogether.
is it just me, or would the reductions in size follow the new innovation in fabrication technology? also, if they can now make an transistor that's only 3 atoms, what size would they be after they figure out a new way to make them.
not only that, but other than the fact that speed may be faster due only to the small size, how exactly does a talking computer apply to a 3 atom thick transistor?
2-way tv wristwatches? oh wait, i think they already almost have those.
just think what this could mean for the future of open faced peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches, if they can't land face down predictedly, life as we know it would come to a screeching halt!, speaking of pb&j, I'm getting kinda tired, TAG OUT!.
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i'm not currently sure if there are 32 bit DAWs (digital audio workstations) out there yet. the highest sample rate i've seen is on the Pro Tools HD system, that's 192khz/24bit. and yes, there is still a difference between that and full wave analog (what they're talking about in the a/d debate) one gets a full wave analog source from one of two places typicaly: 1) turntables and 2) good reel-to-reel tape machines. whilst even some of the most discerning ears would have difficulty telling the difference between a 192/24 signal and a full wave analog signal. the difference is still there and can still be palpable. just dump a whole lot of DSP and effects on there, and it will start to come out of the woodwork. a sample is basicaly an instantanous picture of a sound wave. they're measure in sample rates (hz) and resolution(bits) the sample rate is just that, how many samples per second. the resolution is how much info is recorded per sample (which can translate roughly into how much headroom one gets) now, basically in order to get an accurate picture of a sound wave, you need to measure it in a couple of places 1) at it's lowest point, and 2) at it's highest point. the midpoint can be defined from these two as well as reference stuff, and i'm not to up on the ee ans such, so this will be basic and/or possible flawed. feel free to straighten out the facts as need be.
what this comes down to basically is that you need a sample rate of twice the highst frequency you want to record. (this is why cd's are 44.1 khz) some of the factors to consider here are saturation , dynamic range, and signal to noise ratios. the more complex an audio signal is, the more it can be said to be saturated. this can cause clipping and data loss, and in a digital environment, that results in distortion. in modern electronics you're seeing a constant increase in signal to noise ratio and dynamic ranges. these two factors are linked, as the dynamic range increases, the potential for a better s/n ratio also increases. notice i say potential, having the headroon does not mean it will be noise free. but pick up some data sheets and compare the s/n ratio of cd's and dvd's. there is a difference there of usually 10-20 db. that is one hell of alot of a difference. higher sample rates and more discret electronics allow for this. anyway, i'm starting to think myself in circles, and i fear i have already made a fallacy or two, so i'm going to stop now.
ok, all penal colony's aside, i feel this could be a very prominent step in robotic surgery. with the advances being made both in medicine and robotics, i feel that one day surgeries could be performed with similar robots, differently equipped, of course. all we have to figure out now is how not to kill the person and automatically dump their body into a ditch.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
what, you mean an orgy?
did is strike anyone else as ironic that one of the mentioned websites, theassayer.org, which said it had more than 350 free books on it's site, is not accessable by public?
(yeah, it's offtopic. well, not really)
out of curiosity, are you in the nyc area? if you are, you may have rented from a company called "GSD" we took it to stand for General shit direct. these people did not know how to ship ANYTHING properly, or how to ship the right inventory, either. out of two complete packages (all of the sound and lighting equipment for two stages) the only thing packed properly were the replacement ETC dimmer control cards. they were also one of the few items that actually worked upon arrival. did i mention that the truck was two days and 6 hours late?
load bars? i think i know what those are now, they weren't holding anything down, but we did pull one out of a subwoofer cone, they're about the width of the truck with clips on the end, right?
i swear to god that cat's must have these things in them.
which brings up a point in itself, the age old open-faced peanut butter sandwhich on the back of a cat argument.
Yeah, i have also played my fair share of airsoft, one of my friends mods our guns for us, so i've got a cute 'lil hk g3 that will shoot at around 450 fps.
anyway, a side project, that i've been working on for quite some time, is my Nerf dart/Paintball gatling gun, it should fire at around 6,000 Rounds/min top speed theoreticaly. please note that this project is not complete, i'm still prototyping loading and firing mechanisms. one thing is apparent, while more expensive as ammo (unless you make it yourself), the nerf darts are a better choice, for they need less air to fire, and a portable compressed air source that is capable of firing 6,000 of anything a minute is going to be sizeable.
yes, this post is offtopic....
anway, if anyone has ideas/comments/brainstorms about how to complete this project, let me know, it's currently on hold for this semester.
DNA should be patentable, it should say you own it right on your birth certificate
along with multitudes of slashdot readers, i will be very sorry to see this site go, espically when it had just recently made it into my link bar. i stopped by the other site mentioned in the article, and i noticed that it did have a heavier layout. myself, i prefer the simpler ones, but you never know, with the aol-time warner merger, i have a feeling that pop-ups are going to become the billboards of the information superhighway.
i would just like to say that the usps has been very friendly on many more than one occasion. did you know (up untill recently, in my area anyway) that you could mail a letter merely by taping 32 cents to the envelope? you can also send 2x4's through the mail (drilling holes in them makes them lighter, cheaper postage). on the whole, i applaud the people behind the article, espically since they ended prasing the usps for being good sports. well done.
i've had an hdtv set for almost a year now, and i have to say, im significantly less than impressed, there is an extremely poor programming choice available (in my area anyway)
it seems to me that the users of hdtv may make this another one of the pay-per-view options, and make the higher resolutions available at a special higher price (watch this movie in high-resolution, click
- Here
) of course, with the rate of hdtv's inception, i feel it's going to be awhile before this is an extremely pertinent issue.it seems to me that, plausible or not, this idea may have worked in tesla's time, but not now. today we have many bands of communication freq's out there, and it seems to me (while i am no great educated source on this, mod. accordingly) that broadcasting electricty wirelessly would cause several probelems with cell phones, radios, wireless lan's, you name it. one gets signal interference merely by running an unshielded cable parallel to an a/c cable. of course, that's induction, and i don't know if it applies, but another interesting concept would be it's effects on ic's and the like, wouldn't this be close to an emp of sorts?
it seems to me (And many other posters as well) that this isn't really that great of a product. of course, if you're like me, and too cheap to afford a second monitor for your server (sits in my closet,humming away silently to itself), this would be a quick way of estimating the traffic on your server. also reminds me of way back when i was on win/95, and would assign sounds to anything and everything i could find, which reminds me of how quickly i tired of having sounds altogether.
is it just me, or would the reductions in size follow the new innovation in fabrication technology? also, if they can now make an transistor that's only 3 atoms, what size would they be after they figure out a new way to make them.
not only that, but other than the fact that speed may be faster due only to the small size, how exactly does a talking computer apply to a 3 atom thick transistor? 2-way tv wristwatches? oh wait, i think they already almost have those.
just think what this could mean for the future of open faced peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches, if they can't land face down predictedly, life as we know it would come to a screeching halt!, speaking of pb&j, I'm getting kinda tired, TAG OUT!.