Yeah, OK. That's ONE target audience, but I think just a Bluetooth headset with this kinda capability would be more useful/profitable. Who wants to bet we won't see that kinda thing coming from China in the next 5 years?
The squelch and audible artifacts has been something that has pissed me off ever since the birth of mp3. Admittedly, it has got a lot better over the years but to answer the question, it still very much audible, at least to me, in bit rates up to and exceeding 320kbps. I do accept that mp3 has never sounded better than it does today (depending on the encoder) and to pick out these subtleties does require a bit of concentration to pick it out, but it is still there! The case gets much worse for formats such as aac (eaac+) and other super-high compression formats. They(codecs) do a fantastic job of getting an astonishing amount of high quality audio into smaller and smaller space and as incredible as it is, perfect it is not. (In fact I used to (12-13 yrs ago) use an encoder with a low-pass filter cutoff at 15khz to stop any artifacts above that frequency and to dramatically lower my filesizes as I was trying to fit as much as possible onto a 64Mb Memory Stick Sony Clié. Room for improvement but worked like a charm!
I do also suspect that mobile phone manufacturers are fully aware if this and design their included headphones to filter out the squelches and whatever else to make the audio sound that much better using lossy formats. I'm not convinced this is true but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
" got access to the casino's CCTV systems in the poker room and fed the information he gleaned back to the player via a wireless link"
Who's to say the casinos don't do this themselves on a daily basis? The fact that this was possible at all makes me question the frequency of such an 'exploit', and not only that, the fact that the opposing players cards were 'readable by security camera' is something that should worry pretty much everyone
Kinda reminds me of that weird headset game in Star Trek TNG, maybe the philosophy behind it is true. Turn everyone into game playing soft-brained drone while the nasty guys come to quietly take over hidden in plain sight.
It really annoys me when I hear of somebody playing music on cd decks (or worse - an iPod) and they actually call themselves a DJ. Anyone can buy an mp3 player or even a set of cd decks and play some records but that's all they are doing!
DJing at it's worst is a skill, at it's best it's an art-form! I've been djing for almost 9 years and there are still things I wish I could do, however I do know how to mix and I also beleive I know that the best way to get into djing is to have fun with it.
The first thing you want to ask yourself is "Do I really want to get into mixing properly or do I just want to have some fun trying to match up beats on a pc?", if your answer is the latter then get onto google and download the latest software from whoever but know that you won't learn much if anything at all because djing programs try to do everything for you - where's the fun in that?
Also about Final Scratch, stay well away from it, it's a concept idea and the first model of it's kind which includes all the bugs and glitches you'd expect from suchlike hardware. The idea is a fantastic one, time encoded vinyl which allows you to seamlessly play and manipulate mp3's as if they were real records - i've even considered getting a similar model myself (Serato Scratch) , but this is a seriously expensive piece of kit that most experienced dj's would have trouble with using - not to mention that you need a set of working turntables and mixer to use it.
My advice would be that if you are serious about getting into djing, BUY A SET OF TURNTABLES. You don't need to buy the best to get good, in fact it's quite the opposite, any old cheap shit will do as it will give you a feel for turntables but if possible i'd recommend getting any set of decks with direct-drive. I started out with a set of gemini XL-500 and a numark blu-dog mixer, in total this cost me all under £250 brand new around 6 years ago and was probaly my favourite set-up until i recently upgraded to technics.
It doesn't matter what music you play either, the key to djing is playing what you enjoy! It's very possible that your tastes in music will change as you pick up extra skills and techniques and may well want to try something new, that's great as long as the tracks you play will fit with each other (you'll soon work out when they don't). If you don't know what to start with, try a bit of beat-matching or mixing breakdowns with breakdowns, anything! As long as you enjoy what you're doing you'll soon learn new tricks and before you know it you'll be making hour-long tapes, cd's or mp3's to show your mates and every other music lover you can find.
Could someone please explain why this is such a huge problem??? Being the user of a sony clie I have become almost dependent on the Grafiti system, which would mean tragedy for me if the grafiti idea should be scrapped. However, I have not seen anyone even suggest this to happen, instead a new release of grafiti is to be released! The old grafiti with some new features to make handwriting on your palm easier and faster!! HOW IS THIS A PROBLEM???
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Bad crack at that!
"See? It has already forgotten that I have already given it change. It just wants more change"
Yeah, OK. That's ONE target audience, but I think just a Bluetooth headset with this kinda capability would be more useful/profitable. Who wants to bet we won't see that kinda thing coming from China in the next 5 years?
interestingly, the USA wikipedia uses the British spelling for grey, eh? How hoity-toity!
Implication that there is a whole different wikipedia site catering for American spelling and grammar. Hilarious in itself.
Who said that, exactly? Or did you just make that up? I think you did...
Indirectly, I think they did
I actually spit my coffee out at this! Please tell me this was late for April fool, quite possibly the funniest thing I've read this year!!
After the piss poor April foolery from slashdot this year, this is one of the funniest things I've read the last couple days
... how this is still an april fool's joke without having to click thru the poxy ROT-whatever 'encryption'
The squelch and audible artifacts has been something that has pissed me off ever since the birth of mp3. Admittedly, it has got a lot better over the years but to answer the question, it still very much audible, at least to me, in bit rates up to and exceeding 320kbps. I do accept that mp3 has never sounded better than it does today (depending on the encoder) and to pick out these subtleties does require a bit of concentration to pick it out, but it is still there! The case gets much worse for formats such as aac (eaac+) and other super-high compression formats. They(codecs) do a fantastic job of getting an astonishing amount of high quality audio into smaller and smaller space and as incredible as it is, perfect it is not. (In fact I used to (12-13 yrs ago) use an encoder with a low-pass filter cutoff at 15khz to stop any artifacts above that frequency and to dramatically lower my filesizes as I was trying to fit as much as possible onto a 64Mb Memory Stick Sony Clié. Room for improvement but worked like a charm! I do also suspect that mobile phone manufacturers are fully aware if this and design their included headphones to filter out the squelches and whatever else to make the audio sound that much better using lossy formats. I'm not convinced this is true but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
Comments = Destroyed. Well done! Twat.
" got access to the casino's CCTV systems in the poker room and fed the information he gleaned back to the player via a wireless link" Who's to say the casinos don't do this themselves on a daily basis? The fact that this was possible at all makes me question the frequency of such an 'exploit', and not only that, the fact that the opposing players cards were 'readable by security camera' is something that should worry pretty much everyone
Kinda reminds me of that weird headset game in Star Trek TNG, maybe the philosophy behind it is true. Turn everyone into game playing soft-brained drone while the nasty guys come to quietly take over hidden in plain sight.
I would not be at all surprised if that is the healthier option from Maccy D's!
Name and shame away!! I want to know which companies to avoid in that respect!
what the hell is needle dropping?!? surely u don't mean when u can put a needle onto a record at just the right point where the track starts playing?
It really annoys me when I hear of somebody playing music on cd decks (or worse - an iPod) and they actually call themselves a DJ. Anyone can buy an mp3 player or even a set of cd decks and play some records but that's all they are doing! DJing at it's worst is a skill, at it's best it's an art-form! I've been djing for almost 9 years and there are still things I wish I could do, however I do know how to mix and I also beleive I know that the best way to get into djing is to have fun with it. The first thing you want to ask yourself is "Do I really want to get into mixing properly or do I just want to have some fun trying to match up beats on a pc?", if your answer is the latter then get onto google and download the latest software from whoever but know that you won't learn much if anything at all because djing programs try to do everything for you - where's the fun in that? Also about Final Scratch, stay well away from it, it's a concept idea and the first model of it's kind which includes all the bugs and glitches you'd expect from suchlike hardware. The idea is a fantastic one, time encoded vinyl which allows you to seamlessly play and manipulate mp3's as if they were real records - i've even considered getting a similar model myself (Serato Scratch) , but this is a seriously expensive piece of kit that most experienced dj's would have trouble with using - not to mention that you need a set of working turntables and mixer to use it. My advice would be that if you are serious about getting into djing, BUY A SET OF TURNTABLES. You don't need to buy the best to get good, in fact it's quite the opposite, any old cheap shit will do as it will give you a feel for turntables but if possible i'd recommend getting any set of decks with direct-drive. I started out with a set of gemini XL-500 and a numark blu-dog mixer, in total this cost me all under £250 brand new around 6 years ago and was probaly my favourite set-up until i recently upgraded to technics. It doesn't matter what music you play either, the key to djing is playing what you enjoy! It's very possible that your tastes in music will change as you pick up extra skills and techniques and may well want to try something new, that's great as long as the tracks you play will fit with each other (you'll soon work out when they don't). If you don't know what to start with, try a bit of beat-matching or mixing breakdowns with breakdowns, anything! As long as you enjoy what you're doing you'll soon learn new tricks and before you know it you'll be making hour-long tapes, cd's or mp3's to show your mates and every other music lover you can find.
Could someone please explain why this is such a huge problem??? Being the user of a sony clie I have become almost dependent on the Grafiti system, which would mean tragedy for me if the grafiti idea should be scrapped. However, I have not seen anyone even suggest this to happen, instead a new release of grafiti is to be released! The old grafiti with some new features to make handwriting on your palm easier and faster!! HOW IS THIS A PROBLEM???