I'm not talking about using a compressor for inidividual tracks (which is fine - did you think I record guitar and bass in a hi-fi way?), and the original article wasn't about that either. It's about using limiters and compressors for the final mix in order to "enhance" the audibility in noisy areas or simply to "stick out", which is what most of the mass productions are doing. This is plain nasty.
Nay, nay, and nay. The CD by its architecture has a dynamic headroom of 96 dB. Make it 90, to compensate for poor AD/DA converters. No pop band will ever use this full headroom, no matter what. Maybe classical music does, but not always. It's plenty. As an audio engineer, you can play with it just fine. The artist can express herself by using loudness levels - louder parts, quieter parts, depending on what you want to say. What happens here is audio engineers making the quieter parts louder, and limiting the loud parts so that the average dynamics is less than 30 dB sometimes, hence a millionth of what the transport medium can accomodate. The main reason is to make listening in noisy areas easier - cars, subways, in the street, etc. A song with too quiet parts will hardly get any airplay. This is mass market, not art. Hence the limiters and compressors in the studio.
Compression as such is an absolutely unneccessary part of recording, if the audio engineer knows his job, and the producer keeps his mouth shut.
This is not the case everywhere in the world (as many things are different in the rest of the world compared to the U.S., thankfully). As some of you may remember, a Germany-based mobile Linux web site named mobilix.de had to be renamed (to tuxmobil.de) due to a case brought forward by the copyright holders of Asterix & Obelix, a popular French comic. As if "mobilix" had any similarities with "Obelix", and it is definitely a different "category" according to U.S. trademark law. So in some countries (definitely his own) Monsieur Gildas may have actually a case, and a court may rule that Microsoft must not use the "Vista" brand in Europe for example.
That said, the MS toilet paper brand would immediately be ruled unlawful over here. Especially if "Designed for Microsoft Windows" or "Centrino" were printed all over it. Would be fun, though.
That being said, the "dumbass" is somebody else, actually a person ignorant of foreign law, or ignorant of the fact that there is intelligent life outside of the U.S. borders, even if it is sometimes hard to believe. But what some U.S. citizens believe is an entirely different story;-))
Ooops - you're correct. The Canadian law target at the opposite, and we should praise any government that does! And we should praise any government that bans the use of any genetically modified seeds because the only entity that profits from them is the vendor, at the expense of everybody else.
The ultimate goal is to dominate and rule the whole world of seeds. While this may sound like a conspiracy theory, it is the only explanation that makes sense without thinking the Monsanto management has their head stuck up their arse.
The new Canadian law is exactly this - a lobby effort targeting at domination, against our environment.
Apatosaurus living with Adam and Eve? Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark?
I always knew the world was only 6000 years old, and my granny told me all the true stories of The Holy Bible [TM]. But I also always kept wondering who censored the dinosaurs out of these wonderful stories. Something looks strange here. Can someone help please?
... or even much easier, bacteria stems adapting to various medications like antibiotics at light speed. This goes so blazingly fast (within just tens or hundreads of generations, each taking a mere hours) that one must wonder if some people are just plain stupid. Or not willing to see which is even more stupid.
"bad guys will get caught, and people with nothing to hide will be fine."
The problem is that it's not they who decide if they've got something to hide, but often enough a poorly paid pen-pusher in some obscure police or secret service office. Depending on changes in the political landscape, supervision measures once meant for haunting "terrorists" may sooner or later be used against opposing citizens, or whatever said pen-pusher understands by "opposing". This is what most people simply don't get, and yet they are allowed to vote. This makes me sick. Like preventively collecting personal data just in case, as we now see it over here in Germany. Sick!
California also suffers badly from a lack of a good public transit system. We have buses but it's not good enough.
You could ask this Austrian governor actor of yours to dump the recent death chamber project and throw the money at more reasonable projects. Just a guess.
For whatever reason people equate size with safety even though it's not the actual case.
I love the fact that the only qualification you need to be on the Board of Directors at a billion-dollar company is to have once been on the Board of Directors at *another* billion dollar company.
That interests me for my career. How do I get in the Board of Directors at *another* billion dollar company?
HDMI is not DESIGNED for long runs. Its to go from your TV to your reciever, that's it. No one transmits video over long runs anymore
In terms of long, have you ever tried to connect your receiver to a projector attached to the ceiling? You need a cable of about 30 feet or something. Bad thing. Loses sync all day long. It hasn't even been designed for _that_.
In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce.
Basically correct but should read "In Russia, the government controls the commerce." Soviet Russia has been out of existence for 16 years now, long enough even for/.ers to notice;-)
The point about the management of modern corporations is they want to control the whole thing. They don't care about whether a new generation of musicians can eventually play an instrument or not because in their mind, it is they who generate new musicians. Waiting for somebody to step up and play is too unsafe because no business plan can cover that. This is where talent shows and retort bands come into play. Nobody seriously wants to hear them but for the management they are plannable. Somebody who happens to learn from sheet music is not. It the same phenomenon like the food industry and everywhere else. They want to control the thing, so they produce food that can be easily consumed. People over time will stop learning how to cook things themselves so that they will ultimately depend on industry products. Voila, goal reached, share prices go up, no matter what collateral damage is caused. In the meantime, the management sucks us all out. I am not a commie, mind you, but what happens now is capitalism in its most brutal form. Gains are privatized, and losses are burdened upon the public. It's all the same phenomenon in different incarnations.
It's more likely that a vinyl disc does not store frequencies above 15-16 kHz at all, let alone 20. The Hi-Fi standard was defined to provide frequencies up to 15 kHz, remember? Many people don't hear a lot above 15, in reality, especially not if their second home is discos or rock concerts. My music teacher at school lost his hearing above 8 khz as a lad. Bad luck for an acting musician. I'm now 45 and still hear up to 17-18 kHz, maybe more but my Sennheiser 580 may not reproduce more than that.
There's another legend how the 44.1 kHz came into existence. The CD format was eventually fixed at 650 MBytes per disc, and Herbert Karajan wanted his take of Beethoven's 9th symphony to fit on the disc which is 74 minutes. Go do the math:-) Even if it's an urban legend, it's a nice one. According to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc, the story goes as documented in http://www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~immink/pdf/cdsto ry.pdf
If you're German (if!) then you should think twice before starting to talk such rubbish in the public (I don't mind if you do this in your bathroom, though).
1. Most households already have a TV set before they buy a computer. In this case you are likely to pay the monthly fees already. The vast majority of private households is not affected by classifying computers as TV receivers. You don't pay twice. Nothing to write home about.
2. Running fora in Germany is not forbidden, even not de facto (and certainly not de jure). Otherwise heise.de would have had to close down already.
But I don't think you got the facts right to begin with.
It has been said that people pretty much get the government they deserve. Is it so? Just curious. OTOH, Germany's minister of the interior isn't much better, given his attempts of using the "fight against terrorism" against citizens' rights over here.:-( Privacy ade? 1984?
Still, a user space app should never be able to produce a BSOD, even if it is pushing the limits. It's the OSes job to keep apps from going haywire, no matter what. They use that stuff in medical devices, airplanes and space travel, forget? It's like Windows should never execute (!) a mail attachment only according to the MIME type without looking at the file itself: The single largest problem with trojans and worms. A design error is a design error.
Our customers are happy with the level of protection that our product offers.
Duh.
Does that remind anyone else of "Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care?"
Oh my god, some people are really projecting their own dumbness at their customers. Such marketroids should really be sacrificed to the war against terror. Or cluebatted.
Everybody knows that satellites go round faster than earth rotates. The tubes would certainly break!
Naaah. Tubes are perfect for wiring up geostationary satellites e.g. TV satellites. Since this can hardly be wiretapped, it's a perfect solution for all of RIAA's and MPAA's problems. And many new jobs for RIAAers in orbit as well (shoot 'em up!), as well as in the network tube making business.
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I'm not talking about using a compressor for inidividual tracks (which is fine - did you think I record guitar and bass in a hi-fi way?), and the original article wasn't about that either. It's about using limiters and compressors for the final mix in order to "enhance" the audibility in noisy areas or simply to "stick out", which is what most of the mass productions are doing. This is plain nasty.
Nay, nay, and nay. The CD by its architecture has a dynamic headroom of 96 dB. Make it 90, to compensate for poor AD/DA converters. No pop band will ever use this full headroom, no matter what. Maybe classical music does, but not always. It's plenty. As an audio engineer, you can play with it just fine. The artist can express herself by using loudness levels - louder parts, quieter parts, depending on what you want to say. What happens here is audio engineers making the quieter parts louder, and limiting the loud parts so that the average dynamics is less than 30 dB sometimes, hence a millionth of what the transport medium can accomodate. The main reason is to make listening in noisy areas easier - cars, subways, in the street, etc. A song with too quiet parts will hardly get any airplay. This is mass market, not art. Hence the limiters and compressors in the studio.
Compression as such is an absolutely unneccessary part of recording, if the audio engineer knows his job, and the producer keeps his mouth shut.
That said, the MS toilet paper brand would immediately be ruled unlawful over here. Especially if "Designed for Microsoft Windows" or "Centrino" were printed all over it. Would be fun, though.
That being said, the "dumbass" is somebody else, actually a person ignorant of foreign law, or ignorant of the fact that there is intelligent life outside of the U.S. borders, even if it is sometimes hard to believe. But what some U.S. citizens believe is an entirely different story ;-))
Ooops - you're correct. The Canadian law target at the opposite, and we should praise any government that does! And we should praise any government that bans the use of any genetically modified seeds because the only entity that profits from them is the vendor, at the expense of everybody else.
The ultimate goal is to dominate and rule the whole world of seeds. While this may sound like a conspiracy theory, it is the only explanation that makes sense without thinking the Monsanto management has their head stuck up their arse.
The new Canadian law is exactly this - a lobby effort targeting at domination, against our environment.
I always knew the world was only 6000 years old, and my granny told me all the true stories of The Holy Bible [TM]. But I also always kept wondering who censored the dinosaurs out of these wonderful stories. Something looks strange here. Can someone help please?
... or even much easier, bacteria stems adapting to various medications like antibiotics at light speed. This goes so blazingly fast (within just tens or hundreads of generations, each taking a mere hours) that one must wonder if some people are just plain stupid. Or not willing to see which is even more stupid.
The problem is that it's not they who decide if they've got something to hide, but often enough a poorly paid pen-pusher in some obscure police or secret service office. Depending on changes in the political landscape, supervision measures once meant for haunting "terrorists" may sooner or later be used against opposing citizens, or whatever said pen-pusher understands by "opposing". This is what most people simply don't get, and yet they are allowed to vote. This makes me sick. Like preventively collecting personal data just in case, as we now see it over here in Germany. Sick!
nay, it's cat EOF. vi is too comfortable. I compile my bzlinux this way.
... just wait for the carbon dioxide from China and the US.
You could ask this Austrian governor actor of yours to dump the recent death chamber project and throw the money at more reasonable projects. Just a guess.
Sure is — if the neighbor has a Hummer as well.
That interests me for my career. How do I get in the Board of Directors at *another* billion dollar company?
In terms of long, have you ever tried to connect your receiver to a projector attached to the ceiling? You need a cable of about 30 feet or something. Bad thing. Loses sync all day long. It hasn't even been designed for _that_.
Basically correct but should read "In Russia, the government controls the commerce." Soviet Russia has been out of existence for 16 years now, long enough even for /.ers to notice ;-)
Cot of rims
Scrim foot
Sitcom for (make up your own completion).
The point about the management of modern corporations is they want to control the whole thing. They don't care about whether a new generation of musicians can eventually play an instrument or not because in their mind, it is they who generate new musicians. Waiting for somebody to step up and play is too unsafe because no business plan can cover that. This is where talent shows and retort bands come into play. Nobody seriously wants to hear them but for the management they are plannable. Somebody who happens to learn from sheet music is not. It the same phenomenon like the food industry and everywhere else. They want to control the thing, so they produce food that can be easily consumed. People over time will stop learning how to cook things themselves so that they will ultimately depend on industry products. Voila, goal reached, share prices go up, no matter what collateral damage is caused. In the meantime, the management sucks us all out. I am not a commie, mind you, but what happens now is capitalism in its most brutal form. Gains are privatized, and losses are burdened upon the public. It's all the same phenomenon in different incarnations.
There's another legend how the 44.1 kHz came into existence. The CD format was eventually fixed at 650 MBytes per disc, and Herbert Karajan wanted his take of Beethoven's 9th symphony to fit on the disc which is 74 minutes. Go do the math :-) Even if it's an urban legend, it's a nice one. According to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc, the story goes as documented in http://www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~immink/pdf/cdsto ry.pdf
If you're German (if!) then you should think twice before starting to talk such rubbish in the public (I don't mind if you do this in your bathroom, though).
1. Most households already have a TV set before they buy a computer. In this case you are likely to pay the monthly fees already. The vast majority of private households is not affected by classifying computers as TV receivers. You don't pay twice. Nothing to write home about.
2. Running fora in Germany is not forbidden, even not de facto (and certainly not de jure). Otherwise heise.de would have had to close down already.
But I don't think you got the facts right to begin with.
Next time don't post anonymously, coward.
Yeah sure Windoze XP or Vista for server applications. Can I get some of the stuff you're smoking?
Wait - it's not Friday yet. What are you troll doing here?
It has been said that people pretty much get the government they deserve. Is it so? Just curious. OTOH, Germany's minister of the interior isn't much better, given his attempts of using the "fight against terrorism" against citizens' rights over here. :-( Privacy ade? 1984?
Still, a user space app should never be able to produce a BSOD, even if it is pushing the limits. It's the OSes job to keep apps from going haywire, no matter what. They use that stuff in medical devices, airplanes and space travel, forget? It's like Windows should never execute (!) a mail attachment only according to the MIME type without looking at the file itself: The single largest problem with trojans and worms. A design error is a design error.
Duh.
Does that remind anyone else of "Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care?"
Oh my god, some people are really projecting their own dumbness at their customers. Such marketroids should really be sacrificed to the war against terror. Or cluebatted.
Naaah. Tubes are perfect for wiring up geostationary satellites e.g. TV satellites. Since this can hardly be wiretapped, it's a perfect solution for all of RIAA's and MPAA's problems. And many new jobs for RIAAers in orbit as well (shoot 'em up!), as well as in the network tube making business.
Tubez rock!
Mod _this_ one up please.