Only at the production level. What gets provided to the end user needs not be any higher than 44khz. The same can be said about 16-bit int, 24-bit int, 32-bit float etc - all those do is cram the noise floor even lower - which can be handy in production, but is absolutely overkill for listening to the end result.
It has it's uses. None of which have anything to do with listening:P
I use my field recorder at 96khz a lot... because if I play it back at half-speed, there's double the information in the high end you can get to. This is especially cool with sounds from birds and insects. Things you can't hear normally, and still couldn't hear if I had recorded at 44khz and slowed that down.
The throwaway society (get a new car before you're done with the "old" one's payments) is not something I'm really into.
Nothing to do with gasoline. The combustion engine itself is hardly ever the part of the car that dies - it's the power transfer system (transmission etc) or other auxiliary gear that dies - and that could all be powered by magical pixie farts and it would make no difference. Torque is torque, at that point.
Wow what a pain that would be to administer such a landlocked system. Patching, backups, updating the content, accessing the content. What do they do when they want to access the file to mix it, or to distribute, publish the new song. What do they do when they get a new artist signed and it's time to add a song to the collection. Send in Joe the Admin with his thumbdrive to download or upload the needed song. I agree with you that there security is beyond poor, but land-locking the entire system as a solution to me doesn't seem like the best course of action.
They all (in books etc) bitch about going to hyperspace without charts - stuff about flying through stars and whatnot. Wouldn't the gravitational field knock you out first, and with plenty or room to maneuver?
Or is it that the drive detects the field and aborts as a safety measure, and the interdictors etc just abuse this?
I mean, statistically speaking there are an infinite number of copies of you in the universe, should the universe actually be infinite. But that's not evidence that it is true.
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Only at the production level. What gets provided to the end user needs not be any higher than 44khz. The same can be said about 16-bit int, 24-bit int, 32-bit float etc - all those do is cram the noise floor even lower - which can be handy in production, but is absolutely overkill for listening to the end result.
It has it's uses. None of which have anything to do with listening :P
I use my field recorder at 96khz a lot... because if I play it back at half-speed, there's double the information in the high end you can get to. This is especially cool with sounds from birds and insects. Things you can't hear normally, and still couldn't hear if I had recorded at 44khz and slowed that down.
The throwaway society (get a new car before you're done with the "old" one's payments) is not something I'm really into.
Nothing to do with gasoline. The combustion engine itself is hardly ever the part of the car that dies - it's the power transfer system (transmission etc) or other auxiliary gear that dies - and that could all be powered by magical pixie farts and it would make no difference. Torque is torque, at that point.
Such works are owned by the public unless security requires them to be classified.
It's always been that way. Medicine? Heretic! Heliocentricity? Heretic!
The only difference is now the god is Money.
Oil is organic. There's nothing inorganic about it. Where do you think it comes from?
Lets be fair, the people suing are not always right. There's plenty of assholes out there who just want a fast buck.
mole mole mole mole! (read it like Austin Powers)
Seriously... they scored the head of the organization as a mole? Either blatant luck, or someone knew what they were doing.
Or option C, said head has little scruples.
Sorry, but we can't stop the ride once it's in motion.
Wow what a pain that would be to administer such a landlocked system. Patching, backups, updating the content, accessing the content. What do they do when they want to access the file to mix it, or to distribute, publish the new song. What do they do when they get a new artist signed and it's time to add a song to the collection. Send in Joe the Admin with his thumbdrive to download or upload the needed song. I agree with you that there security is beyond poor, but land-locking the entire system as a solution to me doesn't seem like the best course of action.
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
You're thinking of airgapping, which is well beyond appropriate for this. For critical utilities and such, yes - but not for friggin' music.
You didn't the whole word. He actually wrote some weird hybridization of Republican and Democrat.
I've never heard of "the could" - is that like a cloud of lost opportunities?
Smart idea on several levels. Make a tiny VM, and if your spidey-sense tingles, shred the disk file.
... er, every marine I know damn well knows what it means, even if they can't say it right.
I'm pretty sure any evidence gathered that way will be inadmissible.
That said, that would tell them who to focus their energy on. Once they did that, I'm sure piles of legitimate evidence would start appearing.
What are "now" skills?
Gammas are pretty high energy. I don't know, but I think they either interact or continue on their merry way - eg, there is no lasting effect.
What works against the borg also works for them.
They can do the same fancy trick against us!
Yes, because the economic state is entirely NASA's fault.
Exactly. Why can't you overshoot so anything sensitive is directly behind you?
It still might take a few months to fly in from out there, but it beats the alternatives of killing everything or not traveling faster than c.
Something that's bugged me.
They all (in books etc) bitch about going to hyperspace without charts - stuff about flying through stars and whatnot. Wouldn't the gravitational field knock you out first, and with plenty or room to maneuver?
Or is it that the drive detects the field and aborts as a safety measure, and the interdictors etc just abuse this?
It doesn't "die down" - it's a burst. The gamma rays go out and either continue going, or interact with something and lose energy.
Either that, or move it far enough away that you can use an electromagnetic field to bend the radiation away.
There is?
I mean, statistically speaking there are an infinite number of copies of you in the universe, should the universe actually be infinite. But that's not evidence that it is true.
Yep.
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