The problem when you start to mix sources, even in various speakers, you inevitably get what's known as phase cancellation. What this phenomenon does is literally cancels out sounds at similar dynamic ranges. This ends up reducing your viable number useable samples plus makes your final product sound muddy as you eluded to with your image analogy.
Plus answer the question, is this for video games or music/movies? If this sudden push from Intel is being driven by the video game industry it seems rather frivilous. I can see wanting to seem like you're there for a live recording or something, but to hear an explosion or a gun fire sample at a higher sample rate? The need just seems unfounded.
Or perhaps a Colliseum? Or maybe jousting festivals or something? I think a really cool idea, though probably tough to do, would be to set some sort of trigger once you start killing other players. For example, once you kill a few people, the townspeople begin to talk and lore about that specific character grows and possibly into legend status. This way the game storyline can grow exponentially as far as lore and myth.
Hey how about this? The local magistrates can post bounties and those killed can post rewards for returned items etc. It might make those uber characters that feel it necessary to champion the weak, to become bounty hunters and new quests can develop out of that. Nothing like good old vengence and vigilante justice!
Besides the failsafe would be built into the game itself in that triggers would be tripped to allow the killing of these rogue players. Ah the fun that can be had!
I personally know a guy that sold his company, left his wife and plays EQ all day long! I managed to meet him at a Vikings pregame party where he was pasty and kinda resembled Gollum. His whole life is online. There's a company here in the twin cities that delivers groceries to your house (even produce) and he takes full advantage of it all. I am rather scared that one can exist like this.
After all, my posting was in response to a gaming troll!
Ack!!!
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I'm not sure the whole legal status behind it, but I have been told that there was some sort of trademark or contractual agreement that prevents Apple from making a multi button mouse. I personally have been using a mutli button trackball for 10 years now. Would I like to see Apple make one? Yes, but it doesn't bother me too much. But it irks me not to have it on a PowerBook. Ack!
Remember that the average stack of computer paper back in 1984 came in a tall box and each sheet was connected and perforated so our DOT Matrix printer could feed it through it's track wheels! A lot has changed and hopefully will continue to, for the better!
I mean seriously... Professional recording studios at most record in 24-bit 192kHz. So where would this 32-bit recording come from? Hasn't most of the world been dumbed down to where MP3's sound good or at least good enough? I don't know too many people with a sound system worthy of playing anything 32-bit. Besides what is the point of it all?
The hottest selling gadget of the "music" world is the MP3 player and the seemingly hottest article of contention is the online music store. None of these are even close to being prepared for 32-bit let alone the sizes of the files necessary to create such a file.
There are a lot of comments about 6.1 and 7.1 CD's or recordings and it's all rather silly. There's no real precident of a true recording done in surround. Would you really want the lead guitar only coming from the left rear channel? The only time that I would think that it would be cool would be at a live performance, but as far as I know no one has really done anything like this.
So were looking at several GB of needless information to recreate a CD with most likely marginal musical worth, and Intel is leading the charge? I think they're looking at their dwindling x86 market share (AMD is on the upswing, not pushing my Mac-centric views out there) and trying to find a niche by using it's brand recognition. I think Dolby and DTS will have more to say as to whether this proposed solution will have any legs.
Remember most of the manufacturers and broadcasters still haven't totally agreed upon an officially acceptable HD format! DVD took too long. CD was all Sony, but took long enough for acceptance. Where is this leaving the consumer? A 32-bit 192kHz audio card in their computer, decoding 7.1 channels of information so they can play video games using samples that have been resampled from their original 16 or 8-bit formats.
I think the word is overkill and it's needless. Most people can't tell the difference and for those that can, I scoff at you. I've worked with some of the best audio engineers in the world and they wouldn't be able to hear the nuances you claim. There is "air" there in higher fidelity recordings, but most speakers can't play it back any way. Ah well, thoughts?
Ah let the conspiracies commence! There's a section of the island of Lana'i that's called the Garden of the Gods and it looks spookily like i'd expect Mars to. Perhaps it's just another ploy by our governmet to fool us, maybe not. Odds are we'll never really find out.
Help my government is infested with self serving power mongers!!!
Well I think they could update every year, by licensing the latest version of the text book in electronic form. For those districts that have decided to go modern and get computers for everyone, demand that their text books come in PDF form as opposed to the physical printed analog version. This way you don't have the problem of it being outdated. No missing books. No shipping charges. Nothing for the kids to lug around and lose. Nothing to get defaced. And it can include multimedia in addition to pictures. I think it's a great solution, it just needs to be applied!
Has anyone ever seen what the school board members and the superintendents make? We had one here that was making $250K/yr and left early with a balloon payment of over a million dollars! Seems to me money could be spent elsewhere here. What the hell does a superintendent do except yell at Skinner?
TX already has bigger threats than some imaginary disease brought on by wifi. How about all the brown fields in TX? Pollution from all the factories that dump chemicals into the rivers and water tables that get conveniently overlooked? The idiots running around with their concealed weapons?
Besides books can be issued on the iBooks. More pressure needs to be applied to the publishing companies to make all books available via PDF. Every kid in America should have an iBook!
From what I've been gathering for a bit is that the funding behind this lawsuit of SCO's, is coming from the secret underground police in Redmond, WA. Doesn't it strike anyone strange that in the past few months there has been huge dissension in the open source OS community. There have always been differences amongst UNIX uses as to which flavours of UNIX is better, and then when Linux came along the same thing occurred, to where now there's an underlying company, SCO, that is trying to put claim on anything that is remotely connected to UNIX? Now I'm not completely familiar with all the underpinnings of the UNIX world, but wasn't it originally developed by AT&T or Bell Labs for their computer systems to control the phone systems? And the various branches that developed out of the original structure were more than encouraged?
Now that M$ is finding itself a target, because of it's monopoly (yes it's a monopoly, SEC and the FTC, break that shit up like you did Ma Bell) and skyrocketing licensing and upgrade costs not to mention the lovely folks out there (yes I am applauding you cause I love it) that are creating the various worms and viruses attacking the giant's foundation, isn't it convenient that it's now stirring up trouble in the peace loving hippie world of open source? Divide and conquer. By funding SCO's ephemeral claims to the UNIX world, it's much easier to defeat. By creating exhorbinant costs for licensing OS software on not only the end user, but also the manufacurer or distributor of the particular flavour (RH or SuSE or whatever) it'll drive a stake right into the heart of open source, not only making it look chaotic, but a more difficult enterprise solution.
Granted, I'm an Apple user, so a lot of this beads off of my shoulders as I've committed myself to the fine folks in Cupertino. But we're all family, whether distant or closely related, I haven't quite determined. So I'm trying to figure out how the world can allow M$ to not only dominate everything in the consumer world (and you should care cause it's the reason we have all this trouble in the first place), but also to let them interfere with what was supposed to be a community type effort to make computing a better place?
One question I do have, that's off topic, is why are there so many flavours of Linux and UNIX? Couldn't there be one that is inherently better than the other that will run on any kind of configuration? I could understand going with Apple if you liked there GUI better than say X11, but the engine underneath would still be the same. Kind of like car manufacturers that have the same chassis but different body styles and ammenities. Couldn't we all agree on that or do we have a genuine advantage of BSD vs. Source V or vice versa or whichever? I like Apple's stuff and think as long as they're in business I'll continue to be an enthusiast. Don't get me wrong I am a zealot when it comes to the Mac vs PC arguement, but I'd just like to know where the Linux world is in all of this?
Let's get away from the job security crap as well. Hey if you like a command prompt and that's all, by all means use it! I know it's faster for a lot of things and that's why I have my terminal program. But that again would be the engine running exposed without a body, which will still get you there. We all want functionality. Any thoughts?
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Plus answer the question, is this for video games or music/movies? If this sudden push from Intel is being driven by the video game industry it seems rather frivilous. I can see wanting to seem like you're there for a live recording or something, but to hear an explosion or a gun fire sample at a higher sample rate? The need just seems unfounded.
Peace
Hey how about this? The local magistrates can post bounties and those killed can post rewards for returned items etc. It might make those uber characters that feel it necessary to champion the weak, to become bounty hunters and new quests can develop out of that. Nothing like good old vengence and vigilante justice!
Besides the failsafe would be built into the game itself in that triggers would be tripped to allow the killing of these rogue players. Ah the fun that can be had!
Peace
Peace
Ack!!!
I'm not sure the whole legal status behind it, but I have been told that there was some sort of trademark or contractual agreement that prevents Apple from making a multi button mouse. I personally have been using a mutli button trackball for 10 years now. Would I like to see Apple make one? Yes, but it doesn't bother me too much. But it irks me not to have it on a PowerBook. Ack!
Peace!
If Macs appeal to the feminine side of the world and homosexual males does that mean that lesbians like PC's???
It's all about gameplay, not just pretty graphics!
Peace
I think it appealed to everyone. Cash was just needed to buy one. Then again most computers required cash except maybe a Vic20 or the Sinclair!
I think the proper thing to say is that it's now powered by IBM! Hmmm, it's in a way become an IBM PC!!!
Peace
The hottest selling gadget of the "music" world is the MP3 player and the seemingly hottest article of contention is the online music store. None of these are even close to being prepared for 32-bit let alone the sizes of the files necessary to create such a file.
There are a lot of comments about 6.1 and 7.1 CD's or recordings and it's all rather silly. There's no real precident of a true recording done in surround. Would you really want the lead guitar only coming from the left rear channel? The only time that I would think that it would be cool would be at a live performance, but as far as I know no one has really done anything like this.
So were looking at several GB of needless information to recreate a CD with most likely marginal musical worth, and Intel is leading the charge? I think they're looking at their dwindling x86 market share (AMD is on the upswing, not pushing my Mac-centric views out there) and trying to find a niche by using it's brand recognition. I think Dolby and DTS will have more to say as to whether this proposed solution will have any legs.
Remember most of the manufacturers and broadcasters still haven't totally agreed upon an officially acceptable HD format! DVD took too long. CD was all Sony, but took long enough for acceptance. Where is this leaving the consumer? A 32-bit 192kHz audio card in their computer, decoding 7.1 channels of information so they can play video games using samples that have been resampled from their original 16 or 8-bit formats.
I think the word is overkill and it's needless. Most people can't tell the difference and for those that can, I scoff at you. I've worked with some of the best audio engineers in the world and they wouldn't be able to hear the nuances you claim. There is "air" there in higher fidelity recordings, but most speakers can't play it back any way. Ah well, thoughts?
Peace
Ah let the conspiracies commence! There's a section of the island of Lana'i that's called the Garden of the Gods and it looks spookily like i'd expect Mars to. Perhaps it's just another ploy by our governmet to fool us, maybe not. Odds are we'll never really find out. Help my government is infested with self serving power mongers!!!
Well of course there needs to be some verfication of said spam, but it would deter those that enlist the spamming companies.
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Yes.
Peace
Peace
Besides books can be issued on the iBooks. More pressure needs to be applied to the publishing companies to make all books available via PDF. Every kid in America should have an iBook!
Peace
From what I've been gathering for a bit is that the funding behind this lawsuit of SCO's, is coming from the secret underground police in Redmond, WA. Doesn't it strike anyone strange that in the past few months there has been huge dissension in the open source OS community. There have always been differences amongst UNIX uses as to which flavours of UNIX is better, and then when Linux came along the same thing occurred, to where now there's an underlying company, SCO, that is trying to put claim on anything that is remotely connected to UNIX? Now I'm not completely familiar with all the underpinnings of the UNIX world, but wasn't it originally developed by AT&T or Bell Labs for their computer systems to control the phone systems? And the various branches that developed out of the original structure were more than encouraged? Now that M$ is finding itself a target, because of it's monopoly (yes it's a monopoly, SEC and the FTC, break that shit up like you did Ma Bell) and skyrocketing licensing and upgrade costs not to mention the lovely folks out there (yes I am applauding you cause I love it) that are creating the various worms and viruses attacking the giant's foundation, isn't it convenient that it's now stirring up trouble in the peace loving hippie world of open source? Divide and conquer. By funding SCO's ephemeral claims to the UNIX world, it's much easier to defeat. By creating exhorbinant costs for licensing OS software on not only the end user, but also the manufacurer or distributor of the particular flavour (RH or SuSE or whatever) it'll drive a stake right into the heart of open source, not only making it look chaotic, but a more difficult enterprise solution. Granted, I'm an Apple user, so a lot of this beads off of my shoulders as I've committed myself to the fine folks in Cupertino. But we're all family, whether distant or closely related, I haven't quite determined. So I'm trying to figure out how the world can allow M$ to not only dominate everything in the consumer world (and you should care cause it's the reason we have all this trouble in the first place), but also to let them interfere with what was supposed to be a community type effort to make computing a better place? One question I do have, that's off topic, is why are there so many flavours of Linux and UNIX? Couldn't there be one that is inherently better than the other that will run on any kind of configuration? I could understand going with Apple if you liked there GUI better than say X11, but the engine underneath would still be the same. Kind of like car manufacturers that have the same chassis but different body styles and ammenities. Couldn't we all agree on that or do we have a genuine advantage of BSD vs. Source V or vice versa or whichever? I like Apple's stuff and think as long as they're in business I'll continue to be an enthusiast. Don't get me wrong I am a zealot when it comes to the Mac vs PC arguement, but I'd just like to know where the Linux world is in all of this? Let's get away from the job security crap as well. Hey if you like a command prompt and that's all, by all means use it! I know it's faster for a lot of things and that's why I have my terminal program. But that again would be the engine running exposed without a body, which will still get you there. We all want functionality. Any thoughts? Peace
You can use checks where you live? Trusting fools! =)
Fight the power... -Barney Gumbel
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I've never experienced any problems at all with OSX Server, but then again my needs are on a small scale compared to a fortune 500 company. Peace
I wonder, should that be included in our current list of laws regarding wire tapping? You should be informed, we all should.