Mastering to DAT is done at 44.1KHz. Yes, DATs can be recorded at 44.1 and this is desirable because ecoding once at 44.1 gives a vastly superior sound than downsampling to 44.1 to fit it on a CD.
If you find iTunes store tracks at 48KHz, my bet is that it was from a master much higher than 48, like 96/24 or even higher, which is not uncommon these days. Because of the vastly higher bitrates, downsampling to 44.1 for CD is possilble without degradation but 48 could arguably even be better.
That said, no matter how it's sampled, my 256Kbit MP3s (Fraunhofer "Pro" codec) from my own CDs will blow away any AAC at 128, not matter if they came straight from the master or not.
It's not the language or the toolkit!
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So, the author basicaly states PHP scales better than Java because it does not have sessions. So how about not using sessions in Java either? You don't _have_ to use them, you know!
If you have a replicating database backend, use database connection pooling and stay away from sessions, you don't have the inter-JVM messaging problem.
When you do that, you can add as many database and web servers as you want, this is the same for Java and PHP.
Not that I believe Java is a superior solution to PHP, both loose out badly compared to AOLserver in the performance and ease-of-coding department.
I filter 97%+ of Spam (~175/day) and the only false positives I get are from companies just begging to be filtered. Ie: Easyjet.com, in the (massive HTML) conformation of my itinerary trying to sell, sell, sell me hotels, car rentals and the lot.
Those companies should realise that Spam is a problem end even though they are not spammers, they should keep in mind their messages will be sent through a filter, so better make sure they don't look like it.
I have never missed a truly, genuine, personal email with SpamAssassin, nor has anyone I know.
That would need to be one awfully big balloon!
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You need a lot of chemicals to kill any number of people. It took over 1 tonne per soldier killed in WWI.
And remember the Tokyo subway gas attack and how ineffective it was? The same amount of C4 in a place as crowded as that would have done a lot more damage.
Why do you think terrorists stick to explosives and guns?
PHP and Perl are as bad as each other when it comes to having dozens of different ways to do _almost_ the same thing. Have you ever looked at the PHP reference?
I prefer Tcl, it has much fewer commands, which makes it easier to read other people's code as they have to use the exact same commands as you do so it's easy to intimately know each and every one of them.
And that's an advantage, even if it requires you sometimes to write a bit more code rather than using an obscure convenience command to, say, open, read and close a file in one go.
Like the Beatles started an important new trend for popular music, were masters of the genre, and left people in amazement, so too did Star Wars for sci-fi/action movies. When they came out, there was nothing like it and there wasn't anything that quite matched it for a long time as well.
Look at the Beatles now, while they should be reconized for what they did, most of the music itself hasn't aged well and the few gems that are there don't sparkle any more than current music. And don't get me started on Paul McCartney recent work!
Similarly, if you look objectively at the "original 3", without thinking of how you were amazed the first time you saw them, they are not that good when it comes to story line either. Just compare the little ape-men to Jar-Jar and his people, the rubish compressor to the droid factory and the whole Luke/Leia relationship to the Amakin and queen Armadillo one....
The truth is that there is so much out there these days that is as visualy spectecular, we care about a good story line again. In my opinion the new movies aren't any worse than the old ones, they just aren't _better_, and that is what people, without realizing it, are really expecting.
At the end of the day, they are damn good entertainment if you ask me, and that's what counts.
While true, as the article you refer to points out, "Pro Logic" added this to the consumer version. The original Dolby Stereo as used in cinemas had it from the start. When the first home versions appeared, they left it out. "Pro Logic" put it back in.
That got scored insightful? There is no way in hell Fraunhofer would think of "creating" spatial information like those god-awefull annoying sounding "virtual surround" plugins for various media players and settings on cheap A/V systems. These folks are much smarter than that, you, or I for that matter.
Truth is that there is not enough information in the article to tell what they are doing. My best guess is that they are multi channel enabling MP3s. So they would record all the discreet channels from a DTS or Dolby 5/6.1 stream into MP3, somehow in some way that new players play them back and old players don't choke on them.
The system you mention is "Dolby Stereo". But "sum" and "diff" aren't the correct terms. Any signal that is in 100% phase on both left and right will end up in the center channel. Signals that are out of phase end up in the rear.
Now "Dolby Stereo" sounds like it is, well, stereo. So the marketing department decided at some point that it should be called "Dolby Surround", which is fair enough. "Pro Logic" is "Dolby Surround" for use in home A/V amps, but with "Pro" electronics (logic). Another marketing term for the same thing.
That system should work fine on any MP3. Stereo MPEG audio on DVDs (so not the Dolby Digital or DTS tracks) quite often have Dolby Stereo/Surround encoding on them as well.
The truth is that the BBC article doesn't have enough information and I think "Surround" is used as a general term to indicate more than two channels of audio. So no way of knowing what they actualy mean.
IANAL and US law may be different than that used in the UK and the Netherlands, which markets I know more about.
I am not saying they don't have to pay, they do. I am just saying that they probably don't need a special license. AFAIK, the rules here are that you only have to inform the licensing organization (BMI/ASCAP/etc) for use of the song and pay apropriate rates, based on airplay.
I recently read an interview in "Sound On Sound", a UK music mag, with an artist who specializes in sound-a-likes for the major advertising agencies; he re-records songs that sound so close to the orriginal (except vocals, ofcourse) that they often fool even the original artists or their record company. The whole purpose of this is to get out of high license fees for the songs and not requireing their approval.
For the actual use of a recording, you need to directly contact the label and negotiate a license.
In the article, it says that it was a performance of the song done by someone else. This type of use does not need to be cleared, even for advertising. How many ads haven't you seen that have a well known song, but performed by someone else?
Eminem, however, is listed as part composer for this commercial and every time it is played, he will/should be reimbursed for his efforts. But I can tell you that those rates are nothing to write home about.
The only time you need clearance, or a license, to use a recording for a commercial is if you use, well, the actual recording. This could be the case, as the soundtrack for this performance may contain samples from the original, but there is no way to tell from the articles.
If those samples do not exist in the commercial, Mr. Slim is acting kinda Shady in this case...
He understands why you need to do that, at least he says so. It's just that he doesn't see the point in the compiler in the first place.
As for me, I think it's a cute project, but it's only use I see is cross-platform GUI applications. (a good thing for Linux adoption by the masses) And Mono is way off for doing that.
Hopefully that inspriation works both ways, PJ may have inspired Dark Overlord Lucas to make the final three episodes the Jackson way; shoot all three in one go and finish the whole project in 4-5 years time, not 10. That means they may actualy get made before George is too old...
What countries pay is in line with their GDP, the Netherlands being a much smaller country with only a quarter of the population of each of the other countries you mention. Hence they pay less in real terms.
Did I mention how the Netherlands was the first country whose economy was good enough for the Euro? I can assure you that the Netherlands (or "Holland" as you uninformed British twat would probably call it) is not one if those "poorer" countries sponging off you, in fact, it is in the top 5 richest countries in the EU.
What we should also mention is that these people spending 50% of their pay on rent also usualy _share_ a house, often with complete strangers, just so they can afford to live anywhere. I don't know anyone, other than students, in the Netherlands that do that. OK, I know some people that share with friends because they want to, but it is by no means a neccesity.
In London it is the norm and while I do make over twice as much as a teacher, I still share so I can afford to enjoy some time out of the house as well and some other luxuries.
She calls it Adelaide syndrome, you either mary your highschool sweetheart or move out of town and find someone. It seems to hold true for most of her friends! (though most of them went to Perth or Melbourne, not all the way over here!)
Generalisation there... the Dutch all smoke pot. Is that fair?
Excuse me? That's a fact of life in Britain. Everyone speaks about "In Europe [...], in the UK however". In both media, advertising ("free car rental in europe if you rent car x for x amount in the UK" - I am sure that if you come to claim your free rental in the UK, which is after all in europe, you wouldn't get it) and general, "Europe" is used to indicate that part of Europe with is not the UK.
I don't have figures but the govt. is currently throwing/pumping billions of pounds into propping up the railways.
Which is mainly thanks to years of neglect of the privatised railway companies.
Remember, if you don't like it, just go home
Who said I don't like it? Frankly, I don't care. I have private health care and can bare transport. My high wage is fine, but so is my extortionate rent. (and I have to share with others) I have had some opportunities here I didn't have in the Netherlands, but given the same job in either country, pound-for-euro I am no better off here. I have no intention of paying more tax here, however. Even though I pay the same tax as UK citizens, if I get unemployed (or sick for long term) or stick it out here untill I retire, I won't get a penny.
Ofcourse there are super rich in.nl, the super rich will always be there. (and royals especialy don't count in this context) I am not talking about the super rich. There is an incredible difference between rich and poor here, the difference ins't nearly as big in the Netherlands.
Well, that's probably because most of you in your twenties move over to London for a few years and all too many end up bringing a (non-whinging, I assume) pommie back with you!
An I can know, though I am not from the UK (rather Dutch) but I live in London and the same is going to happen to me in a year or two thanks to my Aussie GF!
Well, those "freedoms" are only in respect to dealing with the goverment. The moment you are in your boss's time or on anyone's private property, you are under their dictatorship. Heck, anyhting you say or do in your own free time can be used as reason to fire you or otherwise get screwd over by your employer.
Now ask yourself how much time do you spend dealing with the goverment and how much time do you spend dealing with work or on other people's property? Free my ass.
I am not disputng the bill of rights is a good idea (except that arms part), but you need more than that to be really "free". Australians have a lot more freedom than Americans, because they have more rules protecting them.
Being a European (Dutch) living in the UK, I can assure you that most European laws are beneficial to the UK population. (though maybe not the goverment's corporate campaign contributors) You just don't like being told what to do.
Take for instance healthcare and transport, which are in shambles here and running just fine in the rest of Europe. It's funny how in one article in a paper there is complaint about the fact that "Europe's" (the British talk about Europe as something they are not part of) systems are so much better. Turn over the page and you can read a good whinging on how "we" don't want European laws and regulations (and taxes), the same ones that make public services work that well to begin with!
You can have your cake and eat it to, but the cake comes at a price and that price is that the rich will be less rich and the poor will be less poor. Sounds like a fair deal to me.
I wouldn't be surprised if the main reason behind an IPO is to reward early employees, they would be able to sell their options publicly.
On the other hand, with as much cash as they have, it could be wise for Google to buy the options back directly instead of becomming an entirely different beast altogether, a publicly traded company with investor approved "short term share holder value" obessed CEO...
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With 512K+ broadband connections, 40GB music players and PC storage at $0.50/GB, this is a good trade-off how?
Mastering to DAT is done at 44.1KHz. Yes, DATs can be recorded at 44.1 and this is desirable because ecoding once at 44.1 gives a vastly superior sound than downsampling to 44.1 to fit it on a CD.
If you find iTunes store tracks at 48KHz, my bet is that it was from a master much higher than 48, like 96/24 or even higher, which is not uncommon these days. Because of the vastly higher bitrates, downsampling to 44.1 for CD is possilble without degradation but 48 could arguably even be better.
That said, no matter how it's sampled, my 256Kbit MP3s (Fraunhofer "Pro" codec) from my own CDs will blow away any AAC at 128, not matter if they came straight from the master or not.
So, the author basicaly states PHP scales better than Java because it does not have sessions. So how about not using sessions in Java either? You don't _have_ to use them, you know!
If you have a replicating database backend, use database connection pooling and stay away from sessions, you don't have the inter-JVM messaging problem.
When you do that, you can add as many database and web servers as you want, this is the same for Java and PHP.
Not that I believe Java is a superior solution to PHP, both loose out badly compared to AOLserver in the performance and ease-of-coding department.
You've been using the wrong filter, it seems.
I filter 97%+ of Spam (~175/day) and the only false positives I get are from companies just begging to be filtered. Ie: Easyjet.com, in the (massive HTML) conformation of my itinerary trying to sell, sell, sell me hotels, car rentals and the lot.
Those companies should realise that Spam is a problem end even though they are not spammers, they should keep in mind their messages will be sent through a filter, so better make sure they don't look like it.
I have never missed a truly, genuine, personal email with SpamAssassin, nor has anyone I know.
You need a lot of chemicals to kill any number of people. It took over 1 tonne per soldier killed in WWI.
And remember the Tokyo subway gas attack and how ineffective it was? The same amount of C4 in a place as crowded as that would have done a lot more damage.
Why do you think terrorists stick to explosives and guns?
PHP and Perl are as bad as each other when it comes to having dozens of different ways to do _almost_ the same thing. Have you ever looked at the PHP reference?
I prefer Tcl, it has much fewer commands, which makes it easier to read other people's code as they have to use the exact same commands as you do so it's easy to intimately know each and every one of them.
And that's an advantage, even if it requires you sometimes to write a bit more code rather than using an obscure convenience command to, say, open, read and close a file in one go.
Why would I troll movies I love watching or bands I like listening to and have a great deal of respect for?
Didn't you read the last line of the post?
Like the Beatles started an important new trend for popular music, were masters of the genre, and left people in amazement, so too did Star Wars for sci-fi/action movies. When they came out, there was nothing like it and there wasn't anything that quite matched it for a long time as well.
Look at the Beatles now, while they should be reconized for what they did, most of the music itself hasn't aged well and the few gems that are there don't sparkle any more than current music. And don't get me started on Paul McCartney recent work!
Similarly, if you look objectively at the "original 3", without thinking of how you were amazed the first time you saw them, they are not that good when it comes to story line either. Just compare the little ape-men to Jar-Jar and his people, the rubish compressor to the droid factory and the whole Luke/Leia relationship to the Amakin and queen Armadillo one....
The truth is that there is so much out there these days that is as visualy spectecular, we care about a good story line again. In my opinion the new movies aren't any worse than the old ones, they just aren't _better_, and that is what people, without realizing it, are really expecting.
At the end of the day, they are damn good entertainment if you ask me, and that's what counts.
While true, as the article you refer to points out, "Pro Logic" added this to the consumer version. The original Dolby Stereo as used in cinemas had it from the start. When the first home versions appeared, they left it out. "Pro Logic" put it back in.
That's how I read it anyway...
There is no "data" in the track. The decoder basicaly just dumps everything in-phase to the center speaker and everything out of phase to the rear.
That got scored insightful? There is no way in hell Fraunhofer would think of "creating" spatial information like those god-awefull annoying sounding "virtual surround" plugins for various media players and settings on cheap A/V systems. These folks are much smarter than that, you, or I for that matter.
Truth is that there is not enough information in the article to tell what they are doing. My best guess is that they are multi channel enabling MP3s. So they would record all the discreet channels from a DTS or Dolby 5/6.1 stream into MP3, somehow in some way that new players play them back and old players don't choke on them.
But that is just an educated guess.
The system you mention is "Dolby Stereo". But "sum" and "diff" aren't the correct terms. Any signal that is in 100% phase on both left and right will end up in the center channel. Signals that are out of phase end up in the rear.
Now "Dolby Stereo" sounds like it is, well, stereo. So the marketing department decided at some point that it should be called "Dolby Surround", which is fair enough. "Pro Logic" is "Dolby Surround" for use in home A/V amps, but with "Pro" electronics (logic). Another marketing term for the same thing.
That system should work fine on any MP3. Stereo MPEG audio on DVDs (so not the Dolby Digital or DTS tracks) quite often have Dolby Stereo/Surround encoding on them as well.
The truth is that the BBC article doesn't have enough information and I think "Surround" is used as a general term to indicate more than two channels of audio. So no way of knowing what they actualy mean.
IANAL and US law may be different than that used in the UK and the Netherlands, which markets I know more about.
I am not saying they don't have to pay, they do. I am just saying that they probably don't need a special license. AFAIK, the rules here are that you only have to inform the licensing organization (BMI/ASCAP/etc) for use of the song and pay apropriate rates, based on airplay.
I recently read an interview in "Sound On Sound", a UK music mag, with an artist who specializes in sound-a-likes for the major advertising agencies; he re-records songs that sound so close to the orriginal (except vocals, ofcourse) that they often fool even the original artists or their record company. The whole purpose of this is to get out of high license fees for the songs and not requireing their approval.
For the actual use of a recording, you need to directly contact the label and negotiate a license.
In the article, it says that it was a performance of the song done by someone else. This type of use does not need to be cleared, even for advertising. How many ads haven't you seen that have a well known song, but performed by someone else?
Eminem, however, is listed as part composer for this commercial and every time it is played, he will/should be reimbursed for his efforts. But I can tell you that those rates are nothing to write home about.
The only time you need clearance, or a license, to use a recording for a commercial is if you use, well, the actual recording. This could be the case, as the soundtrack for this performance may contain samples from the original, but there is no way to tell from the articles.
If those samples do not exist in the commercial, Mr. Slim is acting kinda Shady in this case...
While it is cool and all that, forget sending your email address as morse code when your ship is in trouble because nobody is listening!.
He understands why you need to do that, at least he says so. It's just that he doesn't see the point in the compiler in the first place.
As for me, I think it's a cute project, but it's only use I see is cross-platform GUI applications. (a good thing for Linux adoption by the masses) And Mono is way off for doing that.
Hopefully that inspriation works both ways, PJ may have inspired Dark Overlord Lucas to make the final three episodes the Jackson way; shoot all three in one go and finish the whole project in 4-5 years time, not 10. That means they may actualy get made before George is too old...
What countries pay is in line with their GDP, the Netherlands being a much smaller country with only a quarter of the population of each of the other countries you mention. Hence they pay less in real terms.
Did I mention how the Netherlands was the first country whose economy was good enough for the Euro? I can assure you that the Netherlands (or "Holland" as you uninformed British twat would probably call it) is not one if those "poorer" countries sponging off you, in fact, it is in the top 5 richest countries in the EU.
What we should also mention is that these people spending 50% of their pay on rent also usualy _share_ a house, often with complete strangers, just so they can afford to live anywhere. I don't know anyone, other than students, in the Netherlands that do that. OK, I know some people that share with friends because they want to, but it is by no means a neccesity.
In London it is the norm and while I do make over twice as much as a teacher, I still share so I can afford to enjoy some time out of the house as well and some other luxuries.
She calls it Adelaide syndrome, you either mary your highschool sweetheart or move out of town and find someone. It seems to hold true for most of her friends! (though most of them went to Perth or Melbourne, not all the way over here!)
Excuse me? That's a fact of life in Britain. Everyone speaks about "In Europe [...], in the UK however". In both media, advertising ("free car rental in europe if you rent car x for x amount in the UK" - I am sure that if you come to claim your free rental in the UK, which is after all in europe, you wouldn't get it) and general, "Europe" is used to indicate that part of Europe with is not the UK.
I don't have figures but the govt. is currently throwing/pumping billions of pounds into propping up the railways.
Which is mainly thanks to years of neglect of the privatised railway companies.
Remember, if you don't like it, just go home
Who said I don't like it? Frankly, I don't care. I have private health care and can bare transport. My high wage is fine, but so is my extortionate rent. (and I have to share with others) I have had some opportunities here I didn't have in the Netherlands, but given the same job in either country, pound-for-euro I am no better off here. I have no intention of paying more tax here, however. Even though I pay the same tax as UK citizens, if I get unemployed (or sick for long term) or stick it out here untill I retire, I won't get a penny.
Ofcourse there are super rich in
Well, that's probably because most of you in your twenties move over to London for a few years and all too many end up bringing a (non-whinging, I assume) pommie back with you!
An I can know, though I am not from the UK (rather Dutch) but I live in London and the same is going to happen to me in a year or two thanks to my Aussie GF!
Well, those "freedoms" are only in respect to dealing with the goverment. The moment you are in your boss's time or on anyone's private property, you are under their dictatorship. Heck, anyhting you say or do in your own free time can be used as reason to fire you or otherwise get screwd over by your employer.
Now ask yourself how much time do you spend dealing with the goverment and how much time do you spend dealing with work or on other people's property? Free my ass.
I am not disputng the bill of rights is a good idea (except that arms part), but you need more than that to be really "free". Australians have a lot more freedom than Americans, because they have more rules protecting them.
Being a European (Dutch) living in the UK, I can assure you that most European laws are beneficial to the UK population. (though maybe not the goverment's corporate campaign contributors) You just don't like being told what to do.
Take for instance healthcare and transport, which are in shambles here and running just fine in the rest of Europe. It's funny how in one article in a paper there is complaint about the fact that "Europe's" (the British talk about Europe as something they are not part of) systems are so much better. Turn over the page and you can read a good whinging on how "we" don't want European laws and regulations (and taxes), the same ones that make public services work that well to begin with!
You can have your cake and eat it to, but the cake comes at a price and that price is that the rich will be less rich and the poor will be less poor. Sounds like a fair deal to me.
I wouldn't be surprised if the main reason behind an IPO is to reward early employees, they would be able to sell their options publicly.
On the other hand, with as much cash as they have, it could be wise for Google to buy the options back directly instead of becomming an entirely different beast altogether, a publicly traded company with investor approved "short term share holder value" obessed CEO...