I completely agree... I listen to bad rips of mp3 on my computer at home, and it's not so bad, as long as I can hear it over the fan and hard drive noise - same thing for cars, planes, etc.. for extended periods of time, though (be it at work/home/wherever), listening to a clean signal sure saves on the ears, and the mind (I tend to overreact to small imperfections in a lot of things, especially my phone service).
The times when I want to really *listen* to music... well, there's really no comparison between poor/average and top notch reproduction. It much easier to become immersed in music that has a lot of dynamic contrast and detail (which pretty much rules out any pop/rock/punk music from the 80's, catchy as most of it is;-) Just one of those numerous attmepts to capture a live session or studio session and put it in your own space. The music is wonderful, but when you can listen to the musicians, too... that is a great thing. That being said, the old remasters of Louis/Ella, the Count, and Duke, as scratchy and limited as they might be, are truly a wonderful thing.
(note that I have been on both the studio/stage side and the mixer/master side of the recording process, and have a little too much opinion of what I like in a recording, regardless of the actual music)...
It is fairly easy to do a decent D/A/D rip (heck, the Marantz and Phillips home CD recorders (along with others, I'm sure) will do that for you, transparently, and pretty well, too), and I don't think it will be too much of an issue... and like I mentioned in another post, if you have a regular home CD player that has a digital out, routing that into a soundcard isn't all that tough... not as quick as a rip, but just as fast as D/A/D, and a good transport (and good digital connection) will give you every bit you are looking for... If the new CDs aren't going to work with higher end home CD/DVD decks... well, there's going to be some problems anyway. --
To agree with some of the others here...
DAT, SACD, HDCD, and most notably DVD-A all have better sounding, higher quality digital formats than CD, which is relatively limited in both dynamic range and sampling rate. Granted, most people can't tell, or (more likely) don't have equipment that will reveal the shortcomings of CD (the headphones that came with your $50 portable CD player and/or your JVC KaBoom Box are more definately *not* quality equipment).
MP3 is reduced quality from CD (being a compressed format), and is further damaged by being reproduced by computer soundcards with very noisy power inputs. Piping the digital signal to an external DAC from a computer makes a world of difference, but most computer systems aren't meant to accurately reproduce audio.
As for the size of cassettes, I've never had any problem with DATs (a 4mm DAT cartridge is quite a bit smaller than a cassette), but MiniDiscs are just awful for handling. --
Well, since it probably won't work with car CD players and most higher quality home CD players/transports... a shame to have a CD transport that can't read a CD... that seems to violate the third clause pretty well. --
Heck, you could always take the digital out from a home CD player that plays it correctly and pipe it into the digital in on a sound card, too... of course, most of the good sounding digital transports are (as mentioned in the article) built with the more sophisticated error correction, and will more than likely choke on these CDs... but even a number of relatively cheap players ($200-500(US)) have digital outs, and if you are just planning on compressing it anyway, you aren't that concerned with the quality.
Yeah, I'm a Yankees fan transplanted in Minnesota - If I could pay $10 for a season of games, I'd love it - with this hopefully the coverage will be better, since not all the games were net broadcast last year. I just hope there would be some type of QoS agreement - audio for a game is pretty low bandwidth (and great for daytime (worktime) games), but if you get into the video feeds, there needs to be some minimal quality, or it isn't worth it (baseball is a great game to listen to on radio, if the announcers are worth their salt).
$10... that's just over $0.06/game if you listen to all of your favorite team's games... not too shabby... for those that listen to even more, a real bonus. --
Well, if you don't need a GUI, maybe somebody could hack up something like this for Real Video... Probably not all that great looking, but hey - you don't need X...
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When you said "Pepsi rules", you of course meant: "Mountain Dew rules"...
Tostitos are the best salsa and cheese dipping chips (especially the cute bite sized round ones), but for everyday snacking, Doritos still take the cake: "Now with even more Orange Space Fungus Cheeze(tm)." --
billion n. & adj. --n. (pl. same or (in sense 3) billions) (in sing. prec. by a or one) 1 a thousand million (1,000,000,000 or 10(9)). 2 (now less often, esp. Brit.) a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 10(12)) --
OnStar gets mentioned in a lot of car and car rental commercials...
SAP has several wonderfully boring commercials, but they are fairly frequent.
BASF... about three or four years now, the whole "We don't make the things you buy..." routine...
All of these are featured prominently on CBS/NBC/ABC/ESPN/CNN and any other news related timeframe, or any type of show aimed more at adults than children (like "When MIR Attacks!!!" on Fox)...
Of course, you'll never see these if all you watch is Cartoon Central for Anime or Cow and Chicken... --
Ah yes, the overload situation... I rewired the bedroom at home that serves as my office (it was only two-prong outlets to start with) and added two 20A circuits... one of them feeds my systems, the other one has but a single lamp on it most of the time, but comes in very handy when you have extra people who need a plug...
Plus, who doesn't bring at least a small (400-650kVA) UPS with them:-) --
I think that his subject would have been appropriate for the science section (which most people don't look at anyway), where there are usually more interesting topics ranging across mant different disciplines... it seemed like there used to be a better mix of science and tech topics on slashdot, but it is easier to find more science articles at bottomquark and other resources.../. has been taken over by gaming systems and Katzizms...
>Have you seen the price of a copy of Juggs these days?
You don't mean <A HREF="http://www.thejugscompany.com/products/pitch ing.cfm">these</A>, do you?;-) Of course, these aren't *copies*, they are the originals... --
Having, ah, spent quite a numbah of years in the, ah, New York City area, and having eating in some of, ah, Chicago's finest restaurants, I can say this: Pizzaria Uno is just as good on, ah, the East Coast as it is in the Midwest.
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I completely agree... I listen to bad rips of mp3 on my computer at home, and it's not so bad, as long as I can hear it over the fan and hard drive noise - same thing for cars, planes, etc.. for extended periods of time, though (be it at work/home/wherever), listening to a clean signal sure saves on the ears, and the mind (I tend to overreact to small imperfections in a lot of things, especially my phone service).
;-) Just one of those numerous attmepts to capture a live session or studio session and put it in your own space. The music is wonderful, but when you can listen to the musicians, too... that is a great thing. That being said, the old remasters of Louis/Ella, the Count, and Duke, as scratchy and limited as they might be, are truly a wonderful thing.
The times when I want to really *listen* to music... well, there's really no comparison between poor/average and top notch reproduction. It much easier to become immersed in music that has a lot of dynamic contrast and detail (which pretty much rules out any pop/rock/punk music from the 80's, catchy as most of it is
(note that I have been on both the studio/stage side and the mixer/master side of the recording process, and have a little too much opinion of what I like in a recording, regardless of the actual music)...
It is fairly easy to do a decent D/A/D rip (heck, the Marantz and Phillips home CD recorders (along with others, I'm sure) will do that for you, transparently, and pretty well, too), and I don't think it will be too much of an issue... and like I mentioned in another post, if you have a regular home CD player that has a digital out, routing that into a soundcard isn't all that tough... not as quick as a rip, but just as fast as D/A/D, and a good transport (and good digital connection) will give you every bit you are looking for... If the new CDs aren't going to work with higher end home CD/DVD decks... well, there's going to be some problems anyway.
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Ah, like a Citrix Wincenter session... see - the are getting smarter. That would be handy for quite a few things...
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To agree with some of the others here...
DAT, SACD, HDCD, and most notably DVD-A all have better sounding, higher quality digital formats than CD, which is relatively limited in both dynamic range and sampling rate. Granted, most people can't tell, or (more likely) don't have equipment that will reveal the shortcomings of CD (the headphones that came with your $50 portable CD player and/or your JVC KaBoom Box are more definately *not* quality equipment).
MP3 is reduced quality from CD (being a compressed format), and is further damaged by being reproduced by computer soundcards with very noisy power inputs. Piping the digital signal to an external DAC from a computer makes a world of difference, but most computer systems aren't meant to accurately reproduce audio.
As for the size of cassettes, I've never had any problem with DATs (a 4mm DAT cartridge is quite a bit smaller than a cassette), but MiniDiscs are just awful for handling.
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Well, since it probably won't work with car CD players and most higher quality home CD players/transports... a shame to have a CD transport that can't read a CD... that seems to violate the third clause pretty well.
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It killed my Netscrape, too (browser open, but clicking on anything doesn't work)...
And I am on the One True OS(TM)... AIX! (runs for cover)
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Heck, you could always take the digital out from a home CD player that plays it correctly and pipe it into the digital in on a sound card, too... of course, most of the good sounding digital transports are (as mentioned in the article) built with the more sophisticated error correction, and will more than likely choke on these CDs... but even a number of relatively cheap players ($200-500(US)) have digital outs, and if you are just planning on compressing it anyway, you aren't that concerned with the quality.
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Yeah, I'm a Yankees fan transplanted in Minnesota - If I could pay $10 for a season of games, I'd love it - with this hopefully the coverage will be better, since not all the games were net broadcast last year. I just hope there would be some type of QoS agreement - audio for a game is pretty low bandwidth (and great for daytime (worktime) games), but if you get into the video feeds, there needs to be some minimal quality, or it isn't worth it (baseball is a great game to listen to on radio, if the announcers are worth their salt).
$10... that's just over $0.06/game if you listen to all of your favorite team's games... not too shabby... for those that listen to even more, a real bonus.
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What, do they serve Guinness at smaller parks? Not at my local place...
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Well, if you don't need a GUI, maybe somebody could hack up something like this for Real Video... Probably not all that great looking, but hey - you don't need X...
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How else would you add more horespower to your computer? [ducks flying fruit]
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There's no need to spell it "taco's"... that's like "There are many table's in the restaurant."
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When you said "Pepsi rules", you of course meant: "Mountain Dew rules"...
Tostitos are the best salsa and cheese dipping chips (especially the cute bite sized round ones), but for everyday snacking, Doritos still take the cake: "Now with even more Orange Space Fungus Cheeze(tm)."
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billion n. & adj. --n. (pl. same or (in sense 3) billions) (in sing. prec. by a or one) 1 a thousand million (1,000,000,000 or 10(9)). 2 (now less often, esp. Brit.) a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 10(12))
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I'm more of a Dew/Alpha guy, rather than Jolt :)
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I have an PC164-SX Board with a 533MHz 21164PC that I'm thinking of parting with...
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OnStar gets mentioned in a lot of car and car rental commercials...
SAP has several wonderfully boring commercials, but they are fairly frequent.
BASF... about three or four years now, the whole "We don't make the things you buy..." routine...
All of these are featured prominently on CBS/NBC/ABC/ESPN/CNN and any other news related timeframe, or any type of show aimed more at adults than children (like "When MIR Attacks!!!" on Fox)...
Of course, you'll never see these if all you watch is Cartoon Central for Anime or Cow and Chicken...
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Ah yes, the overload situation... I rewired the bedroom at home that serves as my office (it was only two-prong outlets to start with) and added two 20A circuits... one of them feeds my systems, the other one has but a single lamp on it most of the time, but comes in very handy when you have extra people who need a plug...
:-)
Plus, who doesn't bring at least a small (400-650kVA) UPS with them
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I think that his subject would have been appropriate for the science section (which most people don't look at anyway), where there are usually more interesting topics ranging across mant different disciplines... it seemed like there used to be a better mix of science and tech topics on slashdot, but it is easier to find more science articles at bottomquark and other resources... /. has been taken over by gaming systems and Katzizms...
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Only the 'premium' channels are no-ads... all of the regular cable channels have more all the time...
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Lisa: Dad! That's FOX!
Homer: SELL! SELL!
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>Have you seen the price of a copy of Juggs these days?
h ing.cfm">these</A>, do you? ;-) Of course, these aren't *copies*, they are the originals...
You don't mean <A HREF="http://www.thejugscompany.com/products/pitc
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Real Men don't use Java...
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Having, ah, spent quite a numbah of years in the, ah, New York City area, and having eating in some of, ah, Chicago's finest restaurants, I can say this: Pizzaria Uno is just as good on, ah, the East Coast as it is in the Midwest.
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of course, I wouldn't qualify Uno as real pizza (being a good New Yawker), but heck, it's good eatin' 8^)
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Whew! I was afraid he was talking about Chris Rock's 'Tossed Salad Man'...
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