Maybe your daughter is smarter than you give her credit for. Much of the problems attributed to CD are due to marketing and the final master. It is quite often the case that the little ignored vinyl sounds objectively better. There's a whole cottage industry of people ripping vinyl, digitising it and then pirating the result as FLAC or whatnot because the vinyl master with it's crappy little 60dB dynamic range outperforms the 96dB but everything crammed up into the top 10dB CD masters.
Hell the best copy of Death Magnetic from Metallica is on neither Vinyl nor CD, but rather ripped from the Guitar Hero soundtrack. Here you go, the full album ripped from guitar hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Keep in mind music is recorded to sound best in the media it's going to be distributed in.
No it's not. Music goes through several stages including recording, mixing, and it is finally "mastered" to sound best in the media in which it s going to be distributed. The ambiance of the media is only factored into the last stage of the production, well after recording is finished and some guy gets the job of making what sounded awesome at super expensive mixing desk, also sound as good as possible at some super shit boombox.
Unfortunately it's the last step that often causes the most problems.
Anyway true audiophiles don't go for vinyl, but rather bootlegged rips of Guitar Hero soundtracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They fool themselves into thinking its better reproduction of the original source that digital - its anything but.
People are rarely if ever in a position to compare their product against the original source. They compare it against another reproduction, and depending on how it was mastered, a shitload of vinyl sounds a lot better than the equivalent CD,.... none of which has anything to do with the medium, and everything to do with mastering and marketing.
Because placebos by definition do not do anything.
Of course they do. They make people think they were taking a certain drug. This alone causes people's minds to have an actual effect on the body. Placebos are widely used in medicine for two purposes:
1. Make the body react by thinking it took a drug. 2. Make the body not react by thinking it took a drug.
The mind is a wonderful thing and prescribing a placebo is only fraud if you are intentionally doing it to achieve a negative outcome. The placebo effect is a documented medical effect and tricking the mind is especially good at treating problems caused by the mind.
knowing whether the original signal WAS a square wave
It doesn't need to. The original signal was a sine wave, as every periodic signal is composed as a sum of sines and we can't heard sines above a certain point. So while a 200Hz square wave and a 200Hz sine wave sound worlds apart, a 20khz Square wave and a 20khz sine wave firstly sound the same as the limits of our hearing is the fundamental and wouldn't even make it to the first harmonic.
There's no waveforms other than sine waves when discussing range limits like human hearing or nyquist. 10kHz is the highest frequency square wave that a human can hear as something other than a sine wave, and a human with perfect hearing will hear that as a combination of a 10kHz sine wave and a 20kHz sine wave, both of which fit just fine in the constraints of a CD.... Unless you're a dog.
By the way probably just an oversight since you at least had some clue, but if you look at a 22kHz unfiltered output from a 44.1kHz system you'll see a triangle wave, not a sine wave.
Note: a properly mastered CD should sound great at 16-bit, giving around 60dB dynamic range.
You could try 96dB, you can also increase this with noise shaping. And these are measurable results, not just some theory that can't ever be achieved, especially with modern equipment.
That is way more than plenty for your super orchestra which when you add a typical noise floor of 30dB in the listening theater. I don't know of any orchestra that I routinely hear while wearing hearing protection.
No, if everything comes from the same digital master, then vinyl's difference in sound quality comes from imperfections in the medium itself.
They come from the same original master, but they don't get down to their medium in the same way. Hell the result of that would sound comical. You'll end up with vinyl groves that deviate back and forth by several mm and you'll be able to fit about 5 min of music per side, oh and the toneup will likely jump out of the groove too.
When either of the latter two start employing thousands of low wage workers you'll see their median salary plummet to Amazon levels.
This. There's no sane way to take the entire group of people and compare them using a normal statistical mean, or median. That alone should be evident by the fact that Facebook has some 25000 people, Google has 70000 people. Amazon has 566000, checking the number of zeros.... yes I wrote it correctly.
Comparing employees between these companies is asinine.
Is fertilizers even the problem here? What does land management have to do with the ocean?
Corals are sensitive to changing environments. Changing temperature is a problem. Changing acidity is a problem. Changing pollution is a problem. Changing light is a problem. Water murkiness is a problem. Phosphates are a problem.
Actually my favourite one: Dumping perfectly clean water on them: HUGE problem.
Isn't this just feel-good stuff?
When the source of the problem ultimately comes back to "people" then raising awareness of said "people" isn't so much feel good, but rather actually addressing the root cause. At best, people change their practices to help contribute to the programs the government is already undertaking. At worst... well we could vote Trump and with it roll back all environmental protections, cut entire departments doing sciency stuff, and just screw things up even more than they already are.
Do not underestimate the power of people, not for government policies, not for small engineering projects.
Google them. There's an entire federal department set up for it. Nice anecdote by the way. I have an anecdote of my own spending lots of my employers money to improve efficiency, reduce sulphur emissions from our facilities, reduce carbon footprints.
Show me where I doubted the department's credentials on the reef?
And I quote: Yeah, and none of that would help
I'm talking about the allocation of money and targeting of policy, not the reef science.
Why don't you start at the GBRMPA's website and read a bit of the science before you crticise where the money is being targeted.
Idiot
Don't be harsh on yourself. Just sign off your post like a normal person.
Yeah, and none of that would help because it all starts from the acidification and warming happening at far larger scales than just the reef.
You may not realise this but there's more than one problem affecting the reef. For instance:
- Fertilizer runoff and silt. You know the thing they are spending $200million on. - Crown of Thorns infestation. You know the thing they are spending $58million on.
Ocean acidification and global warming are already covered under other programs, and it can't hurt to study if species can be resilient to those as well. You know the thing they are spending $100 million on.
But I'm sure you dear Slashdotter know more about this than the largest government department in the world backed by the largest research instituted solely dedicated to studying the reef, the Australian GBRMPA. I'm sure you know more about this topic than the 200 employees of that department that have made it their life's work.
So, France could have reserved france.fr, france.gov.fr, or
If they were going to reserve anything they would have reserved it under {something}.gouv.fr.... which they already do.
But interestingly enough I can find few if any governments that host tourist information under their.gov.tld domains. You will find info on travelling to Australia at Australia.com and not australia.gov.au for example.
What is this 1992?.com stands for common. Okay it doesn't really but the point is that if you don't own the.com domain you probably aren't worth even being around at this day and age. Like the ISPs and network providers who have.com instead of.net.
By the way speaking of commercial, France.com doesn't direct to the government site, but rather a more tourist information oriented site. That is quite consistent with the ways many other governments use their domains. Australia.com gives you holidays in Australia. Holland.com is ironically enough the tourist information site for the Netherlands despite the people there hating the confusion between the two.
Jesus. I remember in the good old days when $200 was a good chunk for a great GPU and $350 was for the very fastest ones.
Wtf happened?
Nothing happened. You just moved the goalpost to an unreasonable position. You'll have no problem playing any modern computer game with a $200 GPU (MSRP that is) and a $350 one will happily get you those high frame rates with your ultra fast g syncing monitor, or whatever the hell you're doing.
If you're pushing 4k at 120Hz in 3D across 2 monitors.... well there have always been $1000 GPUs out there if you cared enough to look.
Personally I have a GTX 1060, MSRP at $249 and I have yet to find a game out there that I don't play with the settings maxed (1080p monitor). The same could NOT be said from the $200 cards back in the days of old. I do not miss running my nice 1600x1200 monitor at 800x600 to play games through a very expensive 3D accellerator.
but do wonder how much life a GPU that has run flat-out 24/7 for a year or two has left.
Is that from the "GPUs have a limited number of instructions they can process before they melt into a puddle" corner of the internet?
Personally I'd much rather a second hand GPU from a company that keeps them cooled racks in airconditioned rooms than some box under the desk being bumped every few days by a vacuum cleaner. Thermal effects are not going to kill a GPU in a few years unless you run them waaaay out of spec.
you obviously lack the fact that many can't afford to PAY A COURT to compel people to hand over identifying information.
Not at all. In much of the world it costs almost nothing to take someone to court, and costs even less if you win. But then you completely missed the entire premise of this post that someone is already taking someone to court over this otherwise they wouldn't need the information in the first place. That is one of the most epic logic fails I've seen posted on Slashdot.
You haven't been in court enough, by any means, because you're missing a lot.
Whatever man, just because your marriage broke up doesn't mean you know jack shit about how civil proceedings work.... evidently.
I didn't say it has no complexity, just reiterated the point you made: It's one of the least complex scenarios there is and is the original design case for the safety features that ultimately collectively became "autopilot". This shit has literally been around for over 5 years from every car manufacturer in some form or another, so to say it's not trustworthy despite it's demonstrated value and the lives it's saved is just foolish.
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Maybe your daughter is smarter than you give her credit for. Much of the problems attributed to CD are due to marketing and the final master. It is quite often the case that the little ignored vinyl sounds objectively better. There's a whole cottage industry of people ripping vinyl, digitising it and then pirating the result as FLAC or whatnot because the vinyl master with it's crappy little 60dB dynamic range outperforms the 96dB but everything crammed up into the top 10dB CD masters.
Hell the best copy of Death Magnetic from Metallica is on neither Vinyl nor CD, but rather ripped from the Guitar Hero soundtrack. Here you go, the full album ripped from guitar hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Compare it to the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... vinyl can often have very similar differences.
Keep in mind music is recorded to sound best in the media it's going to be distributed in.
No it's not. Music goes through several stages including recording, mixing, and it is finally "mastered" to sound best in the media in which it s going to be distributed. The ambiance of the media is only factored into the last stage of the production, well after recording is finished and some guy gets the job of making what sounded awesome at super expensive mixing desk, also sound as good as possible at some super shit boombox.
Unfortunately it's the last step that often causes the most problems.
Anyway true audiophiles don't go for vinyl, but rather bootlegged rips of Guitar Hero soundtracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They fool themselves into thinking its better reproduction of the original source that digital - its anything but.
People are rarely if ever in a position to compare their product against the original source. They compare it against another reproduction, and depending on how it was mastered, a shitload of vinyl sounds a lot better than the equivalent CD, .... none of which has anything to do with the medium, and everything to do with mastering and marketing.
Because placebos by definition do not do anything.
Of course they do. They make people think they were taking a certain drug. This alone causes people's minds to have an actual effect on the body. Placebos are widely used in medicine for two purposes:
1. Make the body react by thinking it took a drug.
2. Make the body not react by thinking it took a drug.
The mind is a wonderful thing and prescribing a placebo is only fraud if you are intentionally doing it to achieve a negative outcome. The placebo effect is a documented medical effect and tricking the mind is especially good at treating problems caused by the mind.
The placebo effect is real but you don't design a medical system around it either
Placebos an actual thing that is part of our medical system and absolutely essential for the purposes of drug testing.
The laws of physics don't change between people, but they do allow our brains to come up with some weird results.
knowing whether the original signal WAS a square wave
It doesn't need to. The original signal was a sine wave, as every periodic signal is composed as a sum of sines and we can't heard sines above a certain point. So while a 200Hz square wave and a 200Hz sine wave sound worlds apart, a 20khz Square wave and a 20khz sine wave firstly sound the same as the limits of our hearing is the fundamental and wouldn't even make it to the first harmonic.
There's no waveforms other than sine waves when discussing range limits like human hearing or nyquist. 10kHz is the highest frequency square wave that a human can hear as something other than a sine wave, and a human with perfect hearing will hear that as a combination of a 10kHz sine wave and a 20kHz sine wave, both of which fit just fine in the constraints of a CD. ... Unless you're a dog.
By the way probably just an oversight since you at least had some clue, but if you look at a 22kHz unfiltered output from a 44.1kHz system you'll see a triangle wave, not a sine wave.
Note: a properly mastered CD should sound great at 16-bit, giving around 60dB dynamic range.
You could try 96dB, you can also increase this with noise shaping. And these are measurable results, not just some theory that can't ever be achieved, especially with modern equipment.
That is way more than plenty for your super orchestra which when you add a typical noise floor of 30dB in the listening theater. I don't know of any orchestra that I routinely hear while wearing hearing protection.
No, if everything comes from the same digital master, then vinyl's difference in sound quality comes from imperfections in the medium itself.
They come from the same original master, but they don't get down to their medium in the same way. Hell the result of that would sound comical. You'll end up with vinyl groves that deviate back and forth by several mm and you'll be able to fit about 5 min of music per side, oh and the toneup will likely jump out of the groove too.
When either of the latter two start employing thousands of low wage workers you'll see their median salary plummet to Amazon levels.
This. There's no sane way to take the entire group of people and compare them using a normal statistical mean, or median. That alone should be evident by the fact that Facebook has some 25000 people, Google has 70000 people. Amazon has 566000, checking the number of zeros.... yes I wrote it correctly.
Comparing employees between these companies is asinine.
Cool, that'll address global warming, but just how will it stop water quality related coral bleaching events?
Is fertilizers even the problem here? What does land management have to do with the ocean?
Corals are sensitive to changing environments. Changing temperature is a problem. Changing acidity is a problem. Changing pollution is a problem. Changing light is a problem. Water murkiness is a problem. Phosphates are a problem.
Actually my favourite one: Dumping perfectly clean water on them: HUGE problem.
Isn't this just feel-good stuff?
When the source of the problem ultimately comes back to "people" then raising awareness of said "people" isn't so much feel good, but rather actually addressing the root cause. At best, people change their practices to help contribute to the programs the government is already undertaking. At worst... well we could vote Trump and with it roll back all environmental protections, cut entire departments doing sciency stuff, and just screw things up even more than they already are.
Do not underestimate the power of people, not for government policies, not for small engineering projects.
Name them.
Google them. There's an entire federal department set up for it.
Nice anecdote by the way. I have an anecdote of my own spending lots of my employers money to improve efficiency, reduce sulphur emissions from our facilities, reduce carbon footprints.
Show me where I doubted the department's credentials on the reef?
And I quote: Yeah, and none of that would help
I'm talking about the allocation of money and targeting of policy, not the reef science.
Why don't you start at the GBRMPA's website and read a bit of the science before you crticise where the money is being targeted.
Idiot
Don't be harsh on yourself. Just sign off your post like a normal person.
TheGarbz.
Bad apples often cheat the procurement such that many orgs end up putting in lots of roadblocks.
Yeah sorry about that. But that $0.30 BIC pen fetches $0.10 on the black market and I can get it for FREE!
Yeah, and none of that would help because it all starts from the acidification and warming happening at far larger scales than just the reef.
You may not realise this but there's more than one problem affecting the reef. For instance:
- Fertilizer runoff and silt. You know the thing they are spending $200million on.
- Crown of Thorns infestation. You know the thing they are spending $58million on.
Ocean acidification and global warming are already covered under other programs, and it can't hurt to study if species can be resilient to those as well. You know the thing they are spending $100 million on.
But I'm sure you dear Slashdotter know more about this than the largest government department in the world backed by the largest research instituted solely dedicated to studying the reef, the Australian GBRMPA. I'm sure you know more about this topic than the 200 employees of that department that have made it their life's work.
What could he do
Sue the registra for handing over the domain without due process and without following the dispute resolution setout in ICANN's rules.
So, France could have reserved france.fr, france.gov.fr, or
If they were going to reserve anything they would have reserved it under {something}.gouv.fr .... which they already do.
But interestingly enough I can find few if any governments that host tourist information under their .gov.tld domains. You will find info on travelling to Australia at Australia.com and not australia.gov.au for example.
like Canada's .gc.ca domain.
Missed the obvious opportunity to point to France's gouv.fr domain. :-)
Isn't this why there are top level .gov sites?
France.com is not running a government site. Just because the government owns it doesn't mean it isn't being used for commercial purposes.
Feel like visiting Australia? You're better off going to http://www.australia.com/ than you are http://www.australia.gov.au/
Likewise the French government domains are hosted under {purpose}.gouv.fr
The .com TLD stands for commercial.
What is this 1992? .com stands for common. Okay it doesn't really but the point is that if you don't own the .com domain you probably aren't worth even being around at this day and age. Like the ISPs and network providers who have .com instead of .net.
By the way speaking of commercial, France.com doesn't direct to the government site, but rather a more tourist information oriented site. That is quite consistent with the ways many other governments use their domains. Australia.com gives you holidays in Australia. Holland.com is ironically enough the tourist information site for the Netherlands despite the people there hating the confusion between the two.
Oh.... LOL hahahahah Click here: http://www.germany.com/ and read the FAQ too. :-)
Jesus. I remember in the good old days when $200 was a good chunk for a great GPU and $350 was for the very fastest ones.
Wtf happened?
Nothing happened. You just moved the goalpost to an unreasonable position. You'll have no problem playing any modern computer game with a $200 GPU (MSRP that is) and a $350 one will happily get you those high frame rates with your ultra fast g syncing monitor, or whatever the hell you're doing.
If you're pushing 4k at 120Hz in 3D across 2 monitors.... well there have always been $1000 GPUs out there if you cared enough to look.
Personally I have a GTX 1060, MSRP at $249 and I have yet to find a game out there that I don't play with the settings maxed (1080p monitor). The same could NOT be said from the $200 cards back in the days of old. I do not miss running my nice 1600x1200 monitor at 800x600 to play games through a very expensive 3D accellerator.
but do wonder how much life a GPU that has run flat-out 24/7 for a year or two has left.
Is that from the "GPUs have a limited number of instructions they can process before they melt into a puddle" corner of the internet?
Personally I'd much rather a second hand GPU from a company that keeps them cooled racks in airconditioned rooms than some box under the desk being bumped every few days by a vacuum cleaner. Thermal effects are not going to kill a GPU in a few years unless you run them waaaay out of spec.
you obviously lack the fact that many can't afford to PAY A COURT to compel people to hand over identifying information.
Not at all. In much of the world it costs almost nothing to take someone to court, and costs even less if you win. But then you completely missed the entire premise of this post that someone is already taking someone to court over this otherwise they wouldn't need the information in the first place. That is one of the most epic logic fails I've seen posted on Slashdot.
You haven't been in court enough, by any means, because you're missing a lot.
Whatever man, just because your marriage broke up doesn't mean you know jack shit about how civil proceedings work. ... evidently.
Since when does Trump have a foreign policy?
Don't flatter yourselves. From other countries both your red and blue tied numpties are equally wrong.
I didn't say it has no complexity, just reiterated the point you made: It's one of the least complex scenarios there is and is the original design case for the safety features that ultimately collectively became "autopilot". This shit has literally been around for over 5 years from every car manufacturer in some form or another, so to say it's not trustworthy despite it's demonstrated value and the lives it's saved is just foolish.