Whether he's guilty or not doesn't matter. The point is that when the patriot act was passed the gov't said don't worry, this is just so we can prosecute terrorists, we have no reason to use this in everyday investigations. And now they are using it in everyday investigations.
I was actually rather disapointed with google advertised 1gb limit displayed as 1000mb. Most advertisements for hard drives and other mediums use the 1000mb=1gb rounding for the public specs cause it makes the drive look bigger then it actually is. It's always struck as just a really cheap shadey thing to do. I'm glad to see that google allows you to use the full gig.
Was it spam? That's a little grey depending on your definition of spam, but yea, it probably counts under most definitions. Was is abuse? Certainly not. He alerted those people to a problem, and nothing gets things fixed quicker then to have your entire customer base aware of the problem. Abuse would be if he sold the email address' to someone else, or sent them a virus or did just about anything that wasn't blatantly in their intrest.
Yeah, but that was more of a crazy thing than a Muslim thing...
There-in lies the point! It's ALL a crazy thing, not a muslim thing. The crazies are using muslim as their excuse, but it comes from the crazy part of them, not the muslim part of them.
For starters they DO believe that america is attacking their country. And secondly someone saying "time to go nuke the towlheads" because Osama and his people organized and carried out 9/11 is the equivilant of me saying "time to go lynch some niggers" cause a black guy committed murder. It's completely ignorant. You don't punish an entire population for what a few of them did.
That was on slashdot. That entire experiment was corrupted, the monkeys were given a diffrent, more dangerous, drug to begin with. It was quite a scandal considering that was the sole experiment that all anti-MDMA information sprang from.
1. Cigarette companies lie because they don't want their product to be made illigal. And the adverse effects of heroine and cocane are already known, the situations simply do not compare.
2. How much do aids meds cost in canada? And how much in africa? No you're right, phamaceutical companies are pillars of morality.
If you played a binaural recording from a non 2 point source system the effect would be destroyed. Binaural stuff is best experienced through headphones, even a normal 2 speaker stereo doesn't work great. The idea with binaural is to have the sound directly enter the ear and minimize the dimentional encoding that your ear does naturally.
Why couldn't two speakers (in a pair of good headphones) reproduce surround sound properly, if the source recording was done right? You have only two ears, after all.
They can to a degree, but it's not perfect. Everyones ears are diffrent so everyones brains decode the stereo signal from your ears slightly diffrently. Binaural recordings and psychoacoustics can kinda split the diffrence between the average human ear to simulate the sort of thing, but it's just not as good as actuall surround. Much like a 3d movie looks 3 dimentional, but isn't quite as 3d as the real world.
Obviously you've never heard a great surround sound system. Seriously though, your ears can tell when things are behind you, above you, etc. Stereo can simulate some of that, but not perfectly.
A 2-speaker headphone can easily re-create a full spherical sound field....
That's abselutely false. The technology has been progressing in that direction, but it is by no means easy, and it certainly doesn't sound anywhere as good as if the sound were truely 3 dimentional. Everyone's ears are diffrent, like fingerprints. That means that everyones brain decodes the signal in a slightly diffrent way. Technology is getting close at being able to simulate 3 dimentional sound from a 2 point source, but it will never be perfect.
Plus who wants to keep your head fixed. That's one of the positives of surround sound. With a stereo setup if you look to the side the image collapses into mono, the illusion is destroyed. With surround sound if you turn your head to the side the illusion is strengthened because the image doesn't collapse.
besides, this tech goes very much against most audiophiles beliefs anyways since they'll believe it'll distort the 'true sound'.
What are you on about? 'True sound'?? What does that have to do with how many speakers there are? It's the quality of the speakers that counts, not the number.
Byt the way, anyone knows how is it related to this: Single Speaker Unit Delivers Surround Sound?
Not at all related. These two approaches are the exact opposites of each other. The system in your link uses a couple speakers all eminating from approximately the same position and psychoacousticly tricks you into thinking its surround. This system actually places a ton of speakers around you and creates a surround enviornment. At the moment this system probably sounds better because research into psychoacoustic's hasn't gone terribly far. But I'd put my money on the technique employed in your link to win out in the end. It's more economical, it's more feasable, the technology just needs to catch up a little bit for it to sound really good.
and your background which qualifies you do judge in this issue is??
I think he's going on common sense. But if that's not good enough for you I work in a recording studio and I think it's a stupid idea. I mean, it's cool to do the research and try out diffrent things, but it's certainly not the latest and greatest thing in audio.
Cinemas need to do something to add to the film experience, and preferably do something that the consumer will not be able to afford for a considerable amount of time.
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Whether he's guilty or not doesn't matter. The point is that when the patriot act was passed the gov't said don't worry, this is just so we can prosecute terrorists, we have no reason to use this in everyday investigations. And now they are using it in everyday investigations.
*when the* google advertised 1gb limit... It's always struck *me* as...
I think the words.... I just forget to type them sometimes....
I was actually rather disapointed with google advertised 1gb limit displayed as 1000mb. Most advertisements for hard drives and other mediums use the 1000mb=1gb rounding for the public specs cause it makes the drive look bigger then it actually is. It's always struck as just a really cheap shadey thing to do. I'm glad to see that google allows you to use the full gig.
Was it spam? That's a little grey depending on your definition of spam, but yea, it probably counts under most definitions. Was is abuse? Certainly not. He alerted those people to a problem, and nothing gets things fixed quicker then to have your entire customer base aware of the problem. Abuse would be if he sold the email address' to someone else, or sent them a virus or did just about anything that wasn't blatantly in their intrest.
There-in lies the point! It's ALL a crazy thing, not a muslim thing. The crazies are using muslim as their excuse, but it comes from the crazy part of them, not the muslim part of them.
For starters they DO believe that america is attacking their country. And secondly someone saying "time to go nuke the towlheads" because Osama and his people organized and carried out 9/11 is the equivilant of me saying "time to go lynch some niggers" cause a black guy committed murder. It's completely ignorant. You don't punish an entire population for what a few of them did.
My sample is more accurate then yours.....
That was on slashdot. That entire experiment was corrupted, the monkeys were given a diffrent, more dangerous, drug to begin with. It was quite a scandal considering that was the sole experiment that all anti-MDMA information sprang from.
2. How much do aids meds cost in canada? And how much in africa? No you're right, phamaceutical companies are pillars of morality.
I don't know, I was too busy trying to kill your high to think about it.
Some people like drugs and do them responcibly.
If one gets a weak high to start with, one would be rather inclined to up the dosage, causing one to become physically addicted much quicker.
If you played a binaural recording from a non 2 point source system the effect would be destroyed. Binaural stuff is best experienced through headphones, even a normal 2 speaker stereo doesn't work great. The idea with binaural is to have the sound directly enter the ear and minimize the dimentional encoding that your ear does naturally.
They can to a degree, but it's not perfect. Everyones ears are diffrent so everyones brains decode the stereo signal from your ears slightly diffrently. Binaural recordings and psychoacoustics can kinda split the diffrence between the average human ear to simulate the sort of thing, but it's just not as good as actuall surround. Much like a 3d movie looks 3 dimentional, but isn't quite as 3d as the real world.
Obviously you've never heard a great surround sound system. Seriously though, your ears can tell when things are behind you, above you, etc. Stereo can simulate some of that, but not perfectly.
That's done, via a binaural recording. It's doesn't work in the same fashion as the speaker array described here.
That's abselutely false. The technology has been progressing in that direction, but it is by no means easy, and it certainly doesn't sound anywhere as good as if the sound were truely 3 dimentional. Everyone's ears are diffrent, like fingerprints. That means that everyones brain decodes the signal in a slightly diffrent way. Technology is getting close at being able to simulate 3 dimentional sound from a 2 point source, but it will never be perfect.
Plus who wants to keep your head fixed. That's one of the positives of surround sound. With a stereo setup if you look to the side the image collapses into mono, the illusion is destroyed. With surround sound if you turn your head to the side the illusion is strengthened because the image doesn't collapse.
What are you on about? 'True sound'?? What does that have to do with how many speakers there are? It's the quality of the speakers that counts, not the number.
Not at all related. These two approaches are the exact opposites of each other. The system in your link uses a couple speakers all eminating from approximately the same position and psychoacousticly tricks you into thinking its surround. This system actually places a ton of speakers around you and creates a surround enviornment. At the moment this system probably sounds better because research into psychoacoustic's hasn't gone terribly far. But I'd put my money on the technique employed in your link to win out in the end. It's more economical, it's more feasable, the technology just needs to catch up a little bit for it to sound really good.
I think he's going on common sense. But if that's not good enough for you I work in a recording studio and I think it's a stupid idea. I mean, it's cool to do the research and try out diffrent things, but it's certainly not the latest and greatest thing in audio.
2 speakers doesn't give you surround sound.
Like having a giant screen to show the movie on??
I've been wanting to try Gmail out, got any invites?
Got any extra invites? My yahoo accounts has sucked ass lately. I can't even connect to the server half the time....
Why report him? He alerted them to a problem, he didn't abuse it by selling the email address's. Looks to me like they should thank him.