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  1. Re:You're accidentally correct on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: -1, Troll
    The problem with any digital format is the that the sound is broken up into discrete bits. Even a lower quality vinyl can feel rounder and more 3d than a high quality digital recording.

    Even more noticeable when your sense run a lot faster than the average humans, if you can see scan lines on a crt at 120hz it's likely you'll hear the 'holes' and steps in digital music.

  2. Re:Ugh on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    What they need is to do the studies with musicians who play instruments like flutes, trumpets and violins. Once you've worked your ear to the point to hear the subtle differences in tone and pitch needed to play the instruments accurately and have to constantly monitor that sound as you play, even 320kbps sounds like crap.

  3. Re:Culture vs. Genetics on New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    Why not try a new method since the old clearly hasn't worked out for you? Please, no crap about 'oh, i've met some interesting people and had some good conversations...', it isn't working if you're still using the sites and don't have a mate.

  4. Re:Wait wait... on New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but we all know that those female birds are really dikes picking out the nancy boy birds. Just like the females picking those with similar immune systems are just doped up on birth control pills and you know she'll cheat on you once she has to stop the birth control because you guys are trying to conceive, which will take forever because her body will constantly miscarry as more attractive mates pass by that her body can now recognize because it's not doped up on synthetic hormones.
    Ok, so maybe that's not all true, i have no idea about the birds, but all the human stuff is backed up by scientific evidence.

  5. Re:What the bets the first release will be... on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I can't be quite sure but i think that part of the bible might have been backported like several other parts of john's gospel according to new discoveries of early revisions. Too tell the truth, i don't care anymore about bible verse authenticity. I tend to think that the creator can be divined from all the works of mankind as a whole, and not taking one part separate from the father. For example, many other spiritual leaders claimed to be one with god, it doesn't mean one is all of god, but that they were in alignment with the creator, something that several religions/spiritual teachings encourage. Jesus wasn't the first to say "i am the path" after all, it's the whole basis of the Tao(path).

    Anyways, not trying to start a conflict or anything, i believe all paths lead to god eventually, even the self-serving path. The bible talks to much of the right hand path and downplays the left for my liking. I think understanding will only fully happen when we accept all that humanity is capable of.

  6. Re:What the bets the first release will be... on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    but mainly they're just looking at the religious kooks doing evil and not actually looking at the book itself. I guess they can't be blamed because a lot of the religious kooks don't read the bible either! It's kind of funny to see both sides arguing about things that aren't even mentionned in the bible but are just made up make believe by the different churches.

  7. Re:What the bets the first release will be... on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Who says that he can't be god? Jesus certainly didn't. Please be aware that the trinity is a church construct and not something actually taught by jesus. Jesus actually taught that we can all be gods, in fact, it is what is required for heaven on earth.

  8. Re:What the bets the first release will be... on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1
    It's funny how you say not to respond without reading the bible, and then you spout nonsense that isn't in the bible but is simply your churches doctrine.

    You are not infallible and your churches interpretation of the bible is not the be all and end all.

  9. Re:What the bets the first release will be... on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1
    Don't they read the bible in your congregation? I'm constantly suprised by the different nonsense that different congregations teach that have no basis in the bible itself.

    Then again, science isn't much better, e.g., brain cells never grow, female born with set amount of eggs her whole life, etc...

  10. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1
    I've never understood this attitude/perception. Whenever i see someone who does something better than i can, whether mentally or physically, the first thing that pops into my head is 'Great!! Here's a chance to learn how to do something better from an expert!'.

    Do you look down on babies because they can't walk? Because they struggle with complete sentences? (haha, that was funny). Everybody starts from the bottom and moves to the top, anybody who has done that climb understands that and doesn't judge those who are just starting. It's purely logical, while your perception has no basis in logic or reality.

  11. Re:Whats your body fat percentage? on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    What's your running time now if you carry a backpack with all the weight that you lost? Just saying, your example doesn't prove you're more fit, it could just prove that you can run faster at the same fitness level with less weight.

  12. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, i don't speak colloquial, it's the autist in me :) haha, i wish other people didn't either, couldn't we just invest in better educational systems?

  13. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    A skipping rope is cheaper...unless you have a gym membership.

  14. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1
    Try some yoga with a competent instructor, perhaps of the Iyengar variety which focuses on proper alignment.

    I used to have really bad knees. I used to think of them kinesthetically as hinges, so in my head, there was just one point of contact which 'hinged'. Thinking that way got me painful cracking/popping knees. In yoga you learn about energy lines, or what in esoteric knowledge was called the four directions. The knee joint has four points of contact (logical when you think of the anatomy of it, sort of like an digital joypad). If all four are kept balanced with equal weight distribution throughout then the pain, cracking, popping all disappear. Of course, it can take years to reprogram yourself so that it happens automatically.

    Hope that might help you find some relief.

  15. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    Actually, if it's balanced then there is no pain. Just like we can move huge weights by manipulating their center of gravity, if you are balanced you can move large amounts of weight with no discomfort or change in speed. The key of course is being balanced which few human populations are, and each human population has a distribution of imbalances with different foci. Take the americans for example which are tilted forward and usually in a preening/sexual/agressive posture, contrast with the japanese whose spines and pelvic tilts are usually the opposite. Nothing says subservience like a C-spine.

  16. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1
    form and full range of motion is important, ever see the bodies that yogis have?

    Toning muscle is just adjusting the default amount of contraction in the muscle and the locations of that contraction. This is in fact what adjusting posture is all about. The body is like a tensengritic puzzle where if you adjust all tension elements properly the body functions at optimal.

  17. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is such a thing as 'toning'. Any yoga expert can tell you that. There's three types of people, overly lax muscles and tendons, overly constricted and contracted muscles and tendons, and those who are in the sweet spot in the middle. Muscle tone is what disappears when you're knocked unconscious and can then do the splits (if you weren't able to when conscious!)

  18. Re:Random Idea: Rosetta Stone on Computer Activities for Those With Speech and Language Difficulties? · · Score: 1
    Then again, very few languages have the same speech sounds as English does. Nor do they have the same frequency range.

    Now, what helped me with my English pronounciation was yoga and correcting my posture.

    Makes perfect sense when you think about it since how we use the different resonant cavities in our body and how we shape them determines the sound that comes out. In fact, the difference between being able to pronounce r and l has a lot to do with head tilt.

    Just watch a good voice impersonator to see how they contort themselves..

  19. Re:Not to hijack, but I need something for a kid, on Computer Activities for Those With Speech and Language Difficulties? · · Score: 1
    Or you can use python on linux and the open source speech libraries designed by academic linguists to do this sort of thing. A google search for speech analysis/recognition and linux should turn up the necessary libraries.

    Now, understanding the gobbledygook that comes with speech analysis to actually understand the libraries is what might take years.

  20. Re:Ethical use of panic... on How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA · · Score: 1
    We criticize in others the things we do ourselves. Those who believe others are prejudiced towards them are actively prejudging others by that belief.

    It's the way the world works, even animals sense what we project outwards. Most times if you're afraid of an animal it will act in frightening ways, and if you are not afraid it will even ignore you, whether it be cats, dogs, or wild bears.

  21. Re:Ethical use of panic... on How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA · · Score: 1

    It's apparent he doesn't go to any airports because he's too paranoid to leave his parent's basement.

  22. Re:pencil/paper on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 1
    You dont have to tightly grip a pen or pencil either! In fact, you never should. If you do, you obviously dont know how to use one, consider taking lessons.

    Learn to loosen up!

  23. Re:Thanks for finding me a tech website to ignore on Thermonuclear Reactor To Use Coconut Shells · · Score: 1

    um, you just reference it like youre required to reference everything else, with dates and revision/edition numbers. Books change as well you know, thats why we came up this solution a long time ago.

  24. Re:LyX on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 1

    That what $5 mini tripods are for.

  25. Re:Still some very important stuff to fix on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    You might want to check out CoreAVC, seems to work pretty well and not very expensive and there are some pretty simple tutorials for getting it to work under Ubuntu, i.e., cut and paste.