I certainly hope it contains the same easy-to use ergonomic AJAX functionality as Web 2.0...I hate having to reload an entire Earth page every time I want to do something...
That's the other one. The one they're not telling you about. This one is the one they use to get funding.
Will they use this one to go collect the other one if it's damaged? I wonder what the evil one looks like...I hope it has, like, a bunny head with red glowing eyes.
Maybe the editors just can't get enough of the guys who feel that their sole purpose in life is to point out Slashdot dupes, and the incredibly boring conversation about dupes one is forced to wade through just to get to the topical discussion...
Apparently you're not familiar with the mystery app!
It's probably something completely benign, like "Test Program 7" that one of the developers installed on an iPhone, and forgot to take off before that shot was filmed for the commercial...
The Red Book standard unfortunately went with 44.1 (for some esoteric reason having to do with syncing with an analog video standard or something back in the 80s).
I always assumed that 44.1kHz was chosen because they took the necessary (Nyquist) sample rate to be able to record up to 20kHz (40kHz), and added a bit for good measure. There's always been that rumor that the time length of a CD was chosen to be able to fit Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, so I always figured they knew they wanted 16 bit, and a length of about 74 minutes, and just picked the >40kHz sampling rate that would get them there with that fancy new "CD" technology that was being developed. I'm happy to know that we're all using 44.1kHz for an even stupider reason;-).
I wouldn't call 24bit 48KHz highly superior - just a bit better.
While listening at 24bit 48kHz is certainly just a bit better, *recording* at 24bit is certainly "highly superior" to recording at 16 bit. The larger dynamic range means that one can record at a much lower level into the computer, and not have to worry about clipping on the high end or quantization error/noise on the low end...just as a matter of convenience, 24bit recording is vastly better than 16bit
In mastering the 16/24bit question is largely irrelavant unless the source has wide dynamic range (like classical not pop/rock/dance)
The mastering process is always done at high bit and sample rates. After that, however, assuming the conversion to 44.1kHz/16bit was done properly with a good lowpass filter and a good dithering algorithm, the audible difference between the original master and the 44.1kHz/16bit master is very slight, even with classical music.
I will not claim to be an audio pro, but I knew I had seen devices that sample at much more than 16 bits/44.1 kHz (CDs), so I googled and found this device http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/FireWire/AudioFi re12/index.php , which is a product that samples 24 bits/192 kHz, which leads me to believe that masters probably are recorded with higher fidelity.
I *will* claim to be an audio pro. Yes, certainly, albums are recorded, mixed, and mastered at higher sample and bit rates than CD. The vast majority of recordings don't see 44.1kHz or 16 bit until the step right before they're put onto a CD. The question, however, is do these higher quality masters get used by ITMS to create the tracks that they sell, or do they just work from a 44.1kZHz/16bit master CD that is of the same quality as the CDs the rest of us have.
I have a hunch it's the latter, not only because it's easier, but because it's likely to be preferable. Converting from high sample and bit rates to low sample and bit rates is a lossy process that is affected by the quality of lowpass filter and dithering algorithms used (respectively). Since the compressed ITMS tracks are likely uncompressed to 44.1kHz/16bit (on the fly) when played back, I'm guessing they convert to 44.1kHz/16bit when encoding, if the files aren't that already. The quality of filter and dither algorithms built into iTunes are very likely to be worse than those at a mastering studio, so it's probable that it's preferable to have Apple working from 44.1kHz/16bit masters, rather than the higher quality masters that the studio has.
That makes this test irrelevant to the music to the iTunes store, since that music comes from the original masters (higher quality than the CD)
Do you have any actual evidence that iTunes tracks are encoded from master tracks that are higher quality than CD (i.e. greater than 44.1kHz/16bit)? I have a hunch they're encoded from the same 44.1kHz/16bit file that you'd get if you ripped the CD yourself...In fact, I know they've done exactly this in at least once case, my own album...but I'm not signed to a major label, so it's possible things are different, but I doubt it...
You *do* realize that your mail is almost certainly delivered to your account via SMTP, don't you?
It may be delivered by the Send Mail Transfer Protocol, but it's not delivered to me by *my* SMTP server, unless, I suppose, I send myself mail. But I don't see any particular reason to filter mail from myself. I rarely send myself spam.
Another culprit would certainly be if any of these folks used public terminals to log in and check their portfolios, or even Wi-Fi in public places that a hacker could sniff out.
With a public terminal, it is possible that there's a keylogger installed on the computer, but since all of the online trading companies that I've seen use SSL, I don't think there's much chance your email address could fall into the hands of a hacker via a public wifi connection just because you logged in to check your portfolio. Now, if you checked your email, that's a different story...
Remember those AT&T commercials back in the nineties, where people would be talking to each other on handheld videophones and using all kinds of other nifty gadgets, and the commercial would tell us that AT&T was bringing these great things to us? Well, I still don't have my handheld videophone, AT&T...
It should be noted that TFA is talking about British ISPs.
Well, American ISPs aren't thrilled about P2P software either. I have reasonably fast 6MPS downstream, but my upstream is throttled to a small fraction of that by my ISP. I don't use P2P applications, but because of the nature of my job, I do often have to transfer large, uncompressed video files, and the paltry upstream bandwidth is a real hindrance.
How I act when I play online is pretty different my normal behavior, and I suspect that it's the same way for most people.
heh, that's true. The only games I play online are first-person shooters...and it's pretty rare that I play capture the flag with live ammunition in real life;-)
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Will we ever find Earth 2.0 candidates?"
I certainly hope it contains the same easy-to use ergonomic AJAX functionality as Web 2.0...I hate having to reload an entire Earth page every time I want to do something...
Wait...they have a patent on contacting somebody via email? WTF?
That's the other one. The one they're not telling you about. This one is the one they use to get funding.
Will they use this one to go collect the other one if it's damaged? I wonder what the evil one looks like...I hope it has, like, a bunny head with red glowing eyes.
Maybe the editors just can't get enough of the guys who feel that their sole purpose in life is to point out Slashdot dupes, and the incredibly boring conversation about dupes one is forced to wade through just to get to the topical discussion...
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Naah. What was that quote about never attribute to evil what can be sufficiently explained by ignorance...?
Based on the last 6 years, the White House must be the world's largest consumer of ignorance...
Apparently you're not familiar with the mystery app!
It's probably something completely benign, like "Test Program 7" that one of the developers installed on an iPhone, and forgot to take off before that shot was filmed for the commercial...
Ever hear of a joke?
are you seriously suggesting that humanity should give up all other pursuits in order to work on this problem? There are other diseases you know
No...it was a joke...I thought it funny that some scientist somewhere might have a to-do list that went something like:
1. Take out garbage
2. Invent Spiderman-web slinger
3. Cure Cancer
Priorities are great, but human diseases are not everything.
Yeah, it was a joke...I thought it funny that some scientist somewhere might have a to-do list that went something like:
1. Take out garbage
2. Invent Spiderman-web slinger
3. Cure Cancer
Well, glad *that's* finally solved. Now, on to cancer...
Maybe they'll just cut the patent in half, and give half to each company...
The Red Book standard unfortunately went with 44.1 (for some esoteric reason having to do with syncing with an analog video standard or something back in the 80s).
;-).
Huh, you're right...
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/audio/44.1.html
I always assumed that 44.1kHz was chosen because they took the necessary (Nyquist) sample rate to be able to record up to 20kHz (40kHz), and added a bit for good measure. There's always been that rumor that the time length of a CD was chosen to be able to fit Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, so I always figured they knew they wanted 16 bit, and a length of about 74 minutes, and just picked the >40kHz sampling rate that would get them there with that fancy new "CD" technology that was being developed. I'm happy to know that we're all using 44.1kHz for an even stupider reason
Yes, I know studios store their masters in high sample and bit rates, but what actually gets sent to iTunes?
I wouldn't call 24bit 48KHz highly superior - just a bit better.
While listening at 24bit 48kHz is certainly just a bit better, *recording* at 24bit is certainly "highly superior" to recording at 16 bit. The larger dynamic range means that one can record at a much lower level into the computer, and not have to worry about clipping on the high end or quantization error/noise on the low end...just as a matter of convenience, 24bit recording is vastly better than 16bit
In mastering the 16/24bit question is largely irrelavant unless the source has wide dynamic range (like classical not pop/rock/dance)
The mastering process is always done at high bit and sample rates. After that, however, assuming the conversion to 44.1kHz/16bit was done properly with a good lowpass filter and a good dithering algorithm, the audible difference between the original master and the 44.1kHz/16bit master is very slight, even with classical music.
I will not claim to be an audio pro, but I knew I had seen devices that sample at much more than 16 bits/44.1 kHz (CDs), so I googled and found this device http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/FireWire/AudioFi re12/index.php , which is a product that samples 24 bits/192 kHz, which leads me to believe that masters probably are recorded with higher fidelity.
I *will* claim to be an audio pro. Yes, certainly, albums are recorded, mixed, and mastered at higher sample and bit rates than CD. The vast majority of recordings don't see 44.1kHz or 16 bit until the step right before they're put onto a CD. The question, however, is do these higher quality masters get used by ITMS to create the tracks that they sell, or do they just work from a 44.1kZHz/16bit master CD that is of the same quality as the CDs the rest of us have. I have a hunch it's the latter, not only because it's easier, but because it's likely to be preferable. Converting from high sample and bit rates to low sample and bit rates is a lossy process that is affected by the quality of lowpass filter and dithering algorithms used (respectively). Since the compressed ITMS tracks are likely uncompressed to 44.1kHz/16bit (on the fly) when played back, I'm guessing they convert to 44.1kHz/16bit when encoding, if the files aren't that already. The quality of filter and dither algorithms built into iTunes are very likely to be worse than those at a mastering studio, so it's probable that it's preferable to have Apple working from 44.1kHz/16bit masters, rather than the higher quality masters that the studio has.
That makes this test irrelevant to the music to the iTunes store, since that music comes from the original masters (higher quality than the CD)
Do you have any actual evidence that iTunes tracks are encoded from master tracks that are higher quality than CD (i.e. greater than 44.1kHz/16bit)? I have a hunch they're encoded from the same 44.1kHz/16bit file that you'd get if you ripped the CD yourself...In fact, I know they've done exactly this in at least once case, my own album...but I'm not signed to a major label, so it's possible things are different, but I doubt it...
You *do* realize that your mail is almost certainly delivered to your account via SMTP, don't you?
It may be delivered by the Send Mail Transfer Protocol, but it's not delivered to me by *my* SMTP server, unless, I suppose, I send myself mail. But I don't see any particular reason to filter mail from myself. I rarely send myself spam.
Another culprit would certainly be if any of these folks used public terminals to log in and check their portfolios, or even Wi-Fi in public places that a hacker could sniff out.
With a public terminal, it is possible that there's a keylogger installed on the computer, but since all of the online trading companies that I've seen use SSL, I don't think there's much chance your email address could fall into the hands of a hacker via a public wifi connection just because you logged in to check your portfolio. Now, if you checked your email, that's a different story...
The old email address keeps getting spam, so I am hard-filtering it on my SMTP server now.
Me too...I receive 0% of my email from my SMTP server...
;-)
I've used aliases with both Fidelity and E*Trade...I haven't gotten any spam from either of them yet.
Remember those AT&T commercials back in the nineties, where people would be talking to each other on handheld videophones and using all kinds of other nifty gadgets, and the commercial would tell us that AT&T was bringing these great things to us? Well, I still don't have my handheld videophone, AT&T...
It should be noted that TFA is talking about British ISPs.
Well, American ISPs aren't thrilled about P2P software either. I have reasonably fast 6MPS downstream, but my upstream is throttled to a small fraction of that by my ISP. I don't use P2P applications, but because of the nature of my job, I do often have to transfer large, uncompressed video files, and the paltry upstream bandwidth is a real hindrance.
Well, Alberto Gonzales *is* the one who proposed the bill...
How I act when I play online is pretty different my normal behavior, and I suspect that it's the same way for most people.
;-)
heh, that's true. The only games I play online are first-person shooters...and it's pretty rare that I play capture the flag with live ammunition in real life