Or I just download the deck plans off of the internet, use my desktop fabricator to make legos out of grass clippings and epoxy, and make the deck myself
Spoken like a man who hasn't worked a day of manual labor in his life.
The point is that it is becoming less and less economic to exchange services AT ALL as time goes on- and some services are going to drop off the bottom end.
I'm not sure what "less economic" means, but I get the strong impression you don't believe in the concept of "skilled labor" and seem to think you can teach yourself to perform services (at equal quality) for less than you can buy them. This again is the attitude of one who is playing with concepts such as value and skill and finance, not someone who is living them.
Someday those fabricators will be able to rearrange atoms themselves- then where will your "exchange of services for money" be when nobody needs to exchange services anymore?
Someday isn't today. Raw materials do not equal finished products, just as compressed grass clippings and epoxy do not equal a deck.
On a long enough time scale all you predict might come true, until then money isn't outdated. (Paper or electronic doesn't change a thing.) Dollars are dollars. Yen are yen. Just because the transactions are done in computers instead of at a cash register / teller window doesn't change anything. The accounting is exactly the same.
You can see from today's AAPL chart that the average investor thinks this overblown. The dip and the quick recovery occurred when the news about this accusation came out.
That stock price chart merely reflects that the market hates uncertainty, the announcement of anticipated news always brings an up tick, as uncertainty is removed.
The uncertainty, in this case, was on possible "smoking guns" revealed as part of Fred Anderson's settlement. There were none, his "punishment" was minimal, and as soon as the market processed this information the temporary downturn (during the period of imperfect information when traders are unsure if they have the full story) reversed and Apple's stock went higher than opening.
The central idea here is of course, that of Vitalism; vs. the Empiricism of modern, allopathic medicine. Vitalism is the underlying idea of Eclectic, Homeopathic, Naturopathic, Oriental and Chiropractic approaches to health and healing - the concept of the Vis Medicatrix Naturae - or the life force, which has had many names but constitutes one idea.
ECLECTIC MEDICINE IS SYNTHESIS OF OPTIONS SYNTHESIS OF OPTIONS IS FREEDOM OF CHOICE
Best medical site ever! I wonder why they went under? Smells like Bulls *clap* hit.
Seriously, though - if they want to make the hardware a success, go find some balls and tell the recording industry they can take their DRM and shove it where the sun don't shine...Quit trying to help the content industry screw the consumers, and it might have a chance - take that 11 digit warchest and help make DRM a thing of the past, and make the Zune the central figure in the battle.
That sounds like a great long-term strategy. That also sounds like a horrible tactical move. In the short term, giving the metaphorical finger to the RIAA will mean no RIAA music in your online store. No top-100 music in your online store and you can't compete with iTunes.
If humans were simply given sensors for UV, would that be enough? Can the human eye focus UV light, or would the ability to perceive it simply add more noise and glare?
If I were them I would do what prepaid mobile phone has been doing for years: generate completely random keys and at the signing server end just check if that key is in the database and if it's not already used
What would stop you from sniffing the traffic of the on-line checking of a legitimate key, and then faking that traffic to "authorize" illegitimate keys?
Nope - iPod has always used a dual-core ARM PortaPlayer general purpose chip.
iPod Nano.
Nope - First generation iPod Nano used a dual-core ARM PortaPlayer general purpose chip. Second generation iPod Nano uses an Apple branded ARM core general purpose chip.
iPod shuffle
Nope - First generation iPod shuffle used SigmaTel D-Major STMP3550 general purpose chip with a DSP56004 core. Second generation iPod shuffle uses an unknown chip, but there is no reason to believe they went to a hardware decoder.
Portable Music Players will play whatever it's cheapest to get hardware for. Hardware decoders for WMA, AAC, and MP3 are easy to find and often high-quality because they're sold in high-volume.
Try again.
Name me one of the top 10 selling players that use a hardware decoder. Hardware decoders have largely gone the way of 2.5" hard drives.
Tobacco is more addictive than heroin (to the extent you can compare an illegal drug with a legal one), yet smokers are generally law-abiding.
1 - Nicotine may be a harder habit to quit than heroin, but the withdraw symptoms of heroin are much worse. 2 - Tobacco and heroin are apples and oranges when it comes to their psychological effects. The comparison is invalid not because one is legal and the other not, but because heroin has a much more powerful effect on one's mood and behavior than nicotine.
After replying to the grandparent post, I got to thinking a little bit more about your statement that "gmail automatically delivers mail that does not match a gmail recipient to the closest one." So I ran a little experiment. From a variety of email accounts I emailed a message to a collection of misspelled, misread, and mistyped variations on my account name. dmhal@gmail.com, dmhalll@gmail.com, dmhalk@gmail.com, dhall@gmail.com, dmha11@gmail.com, dhall@gmail.com, and dmhalls@gmail.com all came back "PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 5.1.1 No such user"
I get loads of spam in my GMail even though I've never given it to anyone, which I think speaks for itself. 1 or 2 spams a week with Fastmail and I've had it for 8+ years.
Odd, I have two unpublished GMail accounts, and in their seventeen months of life they haven't received over a dozen spams total. The other reply to your post said that GMail has an undocumented feature where improperly addressed mail is delivered to the "nearest neighbor" - a feature (if true) I find offputting - but assuming it is true perhaps my accounts aren't very "neighborly".
Don't tell that to people who swear by vinyl. And furthermore, if your claim is the whole and accurate story, the 22.05 kHz Nyquist limit of a 44.1 kHz is beyond perceptible by almost everyone, even infants. So why, if it's "meaningless" are there systems that record at sample rates of, e.g., 96 kHz? Clearly the reproduction and interpolation of the waveform is meaningful, at least to some.
People try to sell all sorts of snake oil - just because a technology has marketing behind it doesn't mean it is useful - much less discernible.
Good for LAME, again -- that's why I gave them props in grandparent. However, 19kHz is ostensibly not the filter frequency in many MP3 files. In fact, V2 isn't even the default for LAME, V4 is. At that setting, the lowpass filter falls somewhere around 16kHz
When did the discussion turn towards defaults? I was comparing the HA recommended settings for both codecs - not their defaults (whatever those are). Let's not get into the game of shifting targets. If the topic of discussion is audio codec performance - generally accepted "best practices" are the only reasonable basis for comparison.
If
If 'it' == psychoacoustically-attuned codec methodologies, then of course the faithfulness of reproduction doesn't matter.
is true. (Mind you Vorbis too uses a psychoacoustic model) How is
...to argue that spectrographic representations of waveforms don't tell you anything about what the codec is doing -- and thus how to continue to improve them -- is just ignorance.
valid?
It may be a hard concept to grasp - but spectrograms tell you very little about how well a lossy codec is performing. Pretty pictures allow you to sit back in a chair and say "damn that 96kHz sampled waveform is prettier than the 44.1kHz sampled one" - but they don't show you what is perceived by the human ear. Only listening tests can determine that. No collection of sexy waveforms is half as valuable as a well organized group ABX test.
Waveform appearance does not equal audio perception. The eye is a horrible judge of what the ear can distinguish. Considering the very large amount of audio data in the average song which is not discernable by even the most trained human ear - we're talking biological and physical limitations - waveform reproduction is meaningless. Not only is looking at the waveform no indication of audio perception - a codec which seeks to recreate a waveform blindly, without modeling human perception, is simply wasting bits. As for lowpass filter frequency - again we are talking about wasted bits. I don't know what you think LAME -V2's lowpass is, but if you think ~19,000 KHz is too low - you are either a ten year old female, or deluded about what you can hear.
If you want to argue tests show OGG achieving transparency on average around 160, while LAME takes plus or minus 170 to match - I'll grant you that. To argue visual waveform reproduction has anything to do with it is wrong.
No offense, but your anecdotal results are meaningless when taken by themselves. I'm talking about large numbers of people, controlled situations, and equipment running from $50 to $50,000. It is also odd you mention 320Kbps. For well over 99% of the (trained listeners even) population, regardless of equipment, transparency is achieved at much lower bitrates. Now, Vorbis and MP3 both have their set of "problem samples" - but that is a separate issue.
Repeated double-blind listening tests performed at/by HydrogenAudio show that Vorbis and MP3 achieve [i]transparency[/i] at about the same bitrate. Vorbis and AAC are both superior formats when compared to MP3 on their technical merits. LAME, however, is the leveler.
Never underestimate the impact of a mature encoder when it comes to lossy codecs.
A factory does not have to pay more than the current average wage to help a economy. A new factory, assuming its opening does not force the closure of another business, is raising the economic output of the country, it is producing real goods, regardless of if it raises the average wage or not. Using your example, if the average wage is $0.25, and the factory creates new jobs paying $0.24 without causing the removal of other jobs - it is still an economic net gain. More money is in the economy, be the average lower or not. Again, you also seem to not understand what it means if the factory owner "pockets" $19 of every $20 product (to use your example again).
Because the firms running these plants are most likely foreign based. Meaning that the profits are probably shipped outside of the country.
Failure to take Econ 101. How do you ship profits overseas? Do you believe there is a magic wand which allows the transformation of one currency into another?
If you are going to harvest the salt you have only four option that I can see. Option one is to allow your ponds to evaporate dry, and scrape out the salt. This would be costly in terms of growing time and labor to remove the salt. Option two is to pump out the partially evaporated, overly salty, water to a second location for further drying and harvesting. This would once again prevent a continuous growing cycle. Option three would be to continuously cycle in ocean water in such a manner not to lose any algae, but to keep the salt level constant. Still an added expense, though how much I can't be sure. Also involves the loss/dilution of any fertilizer or other crop maintenance chemicals. Option four involves desalination of water in the ponds. This is costly and gets back to my original point that you can only irrigate with sea water once.
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Spoken like a man who hasn't worked a day of manual labor in his life.
I'm not sure what "less economic" means, but I get the strong impression you don't believe in the concept of "skilled labor" and seem to think you can teach yourself to perform services (at equal quality) for less than you can buy them.
This again is the attitude of one who is playing with concepts such as value and skill and finance, not someone who is living them.
Someday isn't today. Raw materials do not equal finished products, just as compressed grass clippings and epoxy do not equal a deck.
On a long enough time scale all you predict might come true, until then money isn't outdated. (Paper or electronic doesn't change a thing.) Dollars are dollars. Yen are yen. Just because the transactions are done in computers instead of at a cash register / teller window doesn't change anything. The accounting is exactly the same.
That stock price chart merely reflects that the market hates uncertainty, the announcement of anticipated news always brings an up tick, as uncertainty is removed.
The uncertainty, in this case, was on possible "smoking guns" revealed as part of Fred Anderson's settlement. There were none, his "punishment" was minimal, and as soon as the market processed this information the temporary downturn (during the period of imperfect information when traders are unsure if they have the full story) reversed and Apple's stock went higher than opening.
105dB of stereo separation on a 16bit (~96dB SNR) medium?
Amazing!
Best medical site ever!
I wonder why they went under?
Smells like Bulls *clap* hit.
spent my mod points a day too early.
That sounds like a great long-term strategy.
That also sounds like a horrible tactical move.
In the short term, giving the metaphorical finger to the RIAA will mean no RIAA music in your online store. No top-100 music in your online store and you can't compete with iTunes.
If humans were simply given sensors for UV, would that be enough?
Can the human eye focus UV light, or would the ability to perceive it simply add more noise and glare?
People are apparently missing the joke.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/
What would stop you from sniffing the traffic of the on-line checking of a legitimate key, and then faking that traffic to "authorize" illegitimate keys?
Nope - iPod has always used a dual-core ARM PortaPlayer general purpose chip.
Nope - First generation iPod Nano used a dual-core ARM PortaPlayer general purpose chip. Second generation iPod Nano uses an Apple branded ARM core general purpose chip.
Nope - First generation iPod shuffle used SigmaTel D-Major STMP3550 general purpose chip with a DSP56004 core. Second generation iPod shuffle uses an unknown chip, but there is no reason to believe they went to a hardware decoder.
Try again.
Name me one of the top 10 selling players that use a hardware decoder.
Hardware decoders have largely gone the way of 2.5" hard drives.
1 - Nicotine may be a harder habit to quit than heroin, but the withdraw symptoms of heroin are much worse.
2 - Tobacco and heroin are apples and oranges when it comes to their psychological effects. The comparison is invalid not because one is legal and the other not, but because heroin has a much more powerful effect on one's mood and behavior than nicotine.
After replying to the grandparent post, I got to thinking a little bit more about your statement that "gmail automatically delivers mail that does not match a gmail recipient to the closest one."
So I ran a little experiment.
From a variety of email accounts I emailed a message to a collection of misspelled, misread, and mistyped variations on my account name.
dmhal@gmail.com, dmhalll@gmail.com, dmhalk@gmail.com, dhall@gmail.com, dmha11@gmail.com, dhall@gmail.com, and dmhalls@gmail.com all came back "PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 5.1.1 No such user"
Odd, I have two unpublished GMail accounts, and in their seventeen months of life they haven't received over a dozen spams total.
The other reply to your post said that GMail has an undocumented feature where improperly addressed mail is delivered to the "nearest neighbor" - a feature (if true) I find offputting - but assuming it is true perhaps my accounts aren't very "neighborly".
of shifting targets. If the topic of discussion is audio codec performance - generally accepted "best practices" are the only reasonable basis for comparison.
If is true.
(Mind you Vorbis too uses a psychoacoustic model)
How is valid?
It may be a hard concept to grasp - but spectrograms tell you very little about how well a lossy codec is performing. Pretty pictures allow you to sit back in a chair and say "damn that 96kHz sampled waveform is prettier than the 44.1kHz sampled one" - but they don't show you what is perceived by the human ear.
Only listening tests can determine that. No collection of sexy waveforms is half as valuable as a well organized group ABX test.
Waveform appearance does not equal audio perception.
The eye is a horrible judge of what the ear can distinguish.
Considering the very large amount of audio data in the average song which is not discernable by even the most trained human ear - we're talking biological and physical limitations - waveform reproduction is meaningless.
Not only is looking at the waveform no indication of audio perception - a codec which seeks to recreate a waveform blindly, without modeling human perception, is simply wasting bits.
As for lowpass filter frequency - again we are talking about wasted bits. I don't know what you think LAME -V2's lowpass is, but if you think ~19,000 KHz is too low - you are either a ten year old female, or deluded about what you can hear.
If you want to argue tests show OGG achieving transparency on average around 160, while LAME takes plus or minus 170 to match - I'll grant you that. To argue visual waveform reproduction has anything to do with it is wrong.
No offense, but your anecdotal results are meaningless when taken by themselves. I'm talking about large numbers of people, controlled situations, and equipment running from $50 to $50,000.
It is also odd you mention 320Kbps. For well over 99% of the (trained listeners even) population, regardless of equipment, transparency is achieved at much lower bitrates.
Now, Vorbis and MP3 both have their set of "problem samples" - but that is a separate issue.
Repeated double-blind listening tests performed at/by HydrogenAudio show that Vorbis and MP3 achieve [i]transparency[/i] at about the same bitrate.
Vorbis and AAC are both superior formats when compared to MP3 on their technical merits. LAME, however, is the leveler.
Never underestimate the impact of a mature encoder when it comes to lossy codecs.
This was true even before generation 5.5.
Not that lack of support stops many of the support queries anyhoo.
Judging from Rockbox install queries, 30GB is far and away the most popular iPod size for generation 5/5.5.
A factory does not have to pay more than the current average wage to help a economy. A new factory, assuming its opening does not force the closure of another business, is raising the economic output of the country, it is producing real goods, regardless of if it raises the average wage or not.
Using your example, if the average wage is $0.25, and the factory creates new jobs paying $0.24 without causing the removal of other jobs - it is still an economic net gain. More money is in the economy, be the average lower or not.
Again, you also seem to not understand what it means if the factory owner "pockets" $19 of every $20 product (to use your example again).
Failure to take Econ 101.
How do you ship profits overseas? Do you believe there is a magic wand which allows the transformation of one currency into another?
Simply use any mail client you can run entirely off of a USB flash drive. There is no need to sync when you only have one client!
If you are going to harvest the salt you have only four option that I can see.
Option one is to allow your ponds to evaporate dry, and scrape out the salt. This would be costly in terms of growing time and labor to remove the salt.
Option two is to pump out the partially evaporated, overly salty, water to a second location for further drying and harvesting. This would once again prevent a continuous growing cycle.
Option three would be to continuously cycle in ocean water in such a manner not to lose any algae, but to keep the salt level constant. Still an added expense, though how much I can't be sure. Also involves the loss/dilution of any fertilizer or other crop maintenance chemicals.
Option four involves desalination of water in the ponds. This is costly and gets back to my original point that you can only irrigate with sea water once.