People have varying abilities. When I was young, I could hear to about 27 kHz, and some stores with "ultrasonic" burglar detection were painful to enter.
16 bits is roughly 98 dB. That's great for almost all music if the recording engineer is careful. Human audio dynamic range is on the order of 120 dB, depending on how much pain you're willing to endure and whether audio tricks are used to improve low-level detection.
In high fidelity audio, better reproduction is closer to the original.
Lower noise, less distortion, wider bandwidth, flatter frequency response, are better. In one word, accuracy. The only room for subjectivity is when a trade-off must be made.
Note that I'm only referring to hifi; techniques to improve intelligibility or remove noise present in the original environment are a different subject.
Too many people who opposed the Clintons either had their lives ruined or ended up dead, and that's just what's public knowledge. Bringing criminal charges against the Clintons is not a life-enhancing decision.
How thick does someone have to be not to understand how Johann Strauss' The Blue Danube fits with the space scene? Just one aspect of many: the music is a waltz, a dance, synchronized with the dance of the spaceplane and the orbiting space station.
I.T.T. had an internal videophone system in its New York City headquarters circa 1975. There were about 10 units in the system, each about 1 cubic foot. Back then, neither the display (CRT) nor the camera (vidicon) could be small.
It gave dopers time to light up and get in the mood.
More seriously, there is some explanation in the book. The scene was ground-breaking at the time, so dwelling on it helped make a more substantial impression. The length also helped establish that it was a long trip through very different places.
The Carolina parakeet is an excellent candidate for re-establishment -- a beautiful bird, driven to extinction by a foolish fashion that valued the tail feather.
It's been going on for a long time, and the country would be better off with some mechanism to stop it. Kennedy did it to the steel industry, Teddy Roosevelt did it to food processors.
That the Constitution empowers Congress to establish Post Offices, does not mean that Congress should do so. It also does not mean that Congress should set postal rates, which rates are a result of political pressure and bribes.
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People have varying abilities. When I was young, I could hear to about 27 kHz, and some stores with "ultrasonic" burglar detection were painful to enter.
16 bits is roughly 98 dB. That's great for almost all music if the recording engineer is careful. Human audio dynamic range is on the order of 120 dB, depending on how much pain you're willing to endure and whether audio tricks are used to improve low-level detection.
In high fidelity audio, better reproduction is closer to the original.
Lower noise, less distortion, wider bandwidth, flatter frequency response, are better. In one word, accuracy. The only room for subjectivity is when a trade-off must be made.
Note that I'm only referring to hifi; techniques to improve intelligibility or remove noise present in the original environment are a different subject.
That horse is dead. Get out the whips!
Too many people who opposed the Clintons either had their lives ruined or ended up dead, and that's just what's public knowledge. Bringing criminal charges against the Clintons is not a life-enhancing decision.
Contrary to the claim of the article, there are some human females with tetrachromatic vision.
Why are the images in the article of such poor quality?
Take the analogy further. Nutrition and genetics also play a role in musculature, dementia, and Alzheimers.
They ought to be able to get a huge price premium for rare Antarctic produce.
Men generally don't report, so the numbers are intrinsically unavailable.
How thick does someone have to be not to understand how Johann Strauss' The Blue Danube fits with the space scene? Just one aspect of many: the music is a waltz, a dance, synchronized with the dance of the spaceplane and the orbiting space station.
True. Much of what was cut was from the monkey segment.
I.T.T. had an internal videophone system in its New York City headquarters circa 1975. There were about 10 units in the system, each about 1 cubic foot. Back then, neither the display (CRT) nor the camera (vidicon) could be small.
It gave dopers time to light up and get in the mood.
More seriously, there is some explanation in the book. The scene was ground-breaking at the time, so dwelling on it helped make a more substantial impression. The length also helped establish that it was a long trip through very different places.
Had he been alive, Strauss is the one who should have complained about being in the same film as Ligeti.
Highly distorted electric guitar music was being deliberately used in the early 1950's, and was not uncommon by 1962 ("You Really Got Me" by The Kinks).
http://ontheaside.com/uncategorized/a-brief-history-of-guitar-distortion/
The Carolina parakeet is an excellent candidate for re-establishment -- a beautiful bird, driven to extinction by a foolish fashion that valued the tail feather.
But the courts have decided they can overturn any law.
You've been sleeping. It isn't 1972 any more.
Anything other than "winner takes all" greatly reduces the state's clout.
Hillary is not only far more corrupt, she (like Obama) is an enemy of the United States.
It's been going on for a long time, and the country would be better off with some mechanism to stop it. Kennedy did it to the steel industry, Teddy Roosevelt did it to food processors.
"Protesting"? Hah.
Should we have allowed Obama to make coal companies unprofitable (his oft-stated goal), so that they'd be unable to pay their employees?
That the Constitution empowers Congress to establish Post Offices, does not mean that Congress should do so. It also does not mean that Congress should set postal rates, which rates are a result of political pressure and bribes.
Hello, I'm the Chief Justice of Ijustmadeitupistan. Hand over all your data.
The reason we no longer have the old system is that a good country has been defeated by self-righteous statists.