Try taking the lid off a well-tuned piano sometime and play the Bb one octave and one tone down from middle-C. You will notice other strings vibrating. If you inspect closely, you will see that they are the ones I listed above. Likewise, inaudible frequencies cause resonation of other notes and thus add to the music even if you can't hear those sounds themselves.
I don't think that point is relevant. What you're describing seems to me more like a performance issue, as opposed to a recording issue. I may be wrong (since I don't know how mp3 selects the frequencies it doesn't include), but I don't think that harmonics really factor into the quality loss much or at all.
I personally thought the sequels got better. At first I thought the same thing, I just couldn't get into Speaker for the Dead. It starts very slowly, but for me each book was more interesting than the previous.
I don't think that's correct. As far as I know, you can still do whatever you want with the bandwidth at your end (which would include more than one computer). Bell Atlantic won't *support* more than on computer (or a LAN even). So basically you get no tech support. Don't even mention a LAN on the phone, because they'll stop any support right away.
Yeah, you're right. The ansibles in the Ender's books are based on "philotic twining". They say that all matter is composed of philotes (sub-quark level afaik), and these philotes can be "twined" together, and they will act as one instantly accross any distance. They do a hell of a lot more, but I won't spoil anything:)
I don't think Einstein really worked on stuff like this... he didn't believe there was any chance in the universe. "God doesn't play dice". Seems kinda contradictory (spelling?) to quantum theory eh?
You're thinking too classical. Quantum stuff afaik is based on probability. We can tell how likely it is that something is somewhere, but the particle isn't in a specific place until we observe it. And there's a reason people study quantum mechanics. Classical physics and relativity still don't explain the universe, and quantum physics is the closest weve come yet afaik to a unified theory.
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Try taking the lid off a well-tuned piano sometime and play the Bb one octave and one tone down from middle-C. You will notice other strings vibrating. If you inspect closely, you will see that they are the ones I listed above.
Likewise, inaudible frequencies cause resonation of other notes and thus add to the music even if you can't hear those sounds themselves.
I don't think that point is relevant. What you're describing seems to me more like a performance issue, as opposed to a recording issue. I may be wrong (since I don't know how mp3 selects the frequencies it doesn't include), but I don't think that harmonics really factor into the quality loss much or at all.
Wild Arms is good too. And it has a nice anime intro to it too. Gotta respect the wild west theme :)
I personally thought the sequels got better. At first I thought the same thing, I just couldn't get into Speaker for the Dead. It starts very slowly, but for me each book was more interesting than the previous.
I don't think that's correct. As far as I know, you can still do whatever you want with the bandwidth at your end (which would include more than one computer). Bell Atlantic won't *support* more than on computer (or a LAN even). So basically you get no tech support. Don't even mention a LAN on the phone, because they'll stop any support right away.
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Yeah, you're right. The ansibles in the Ender's books are based on "philotic twining". They say that all matter is composed of philotes (sub-quark level afaik), and these philotes can be "twined" together, and they will act as one instantly accross any distance. They do a hell of a lot more, but I won't spoil anything :)
I don't think Einstein really worked on stuff like this... he didn't believe there was any chance in the universe. "God doesn't play dice". Seems kinda contradictory (spelling?) to quantum theory eh?
You're thinking too classical. Quantum stuff afaik is based on probability. We can tell how likely it is that something is somewhere, but the particle isn't in a specific place until we observe it. And there's a reason people study quantum mechanics. Classical physics and relativity still don't explain the universe, and quantum physics is the closest weve come yet afaik to a unified theory.
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