I'm about ready to give up and conside to living as a bachelor forever. If something happens, well it happens and was meant to be. If not, well... no sense troubling myself about it.
I probably just convinced myself, but I don't really discount the possibility that I heard the difference. Maybe it was just my speakers over exagurating it (only $40 set, 2 sats and one subwoofer).
Well, its not really like astrology, but here is my explanation. As long winded and postereor drawn as it sounds, it's true.
When I was a little tyke, I had massive clustiotoma and mastoiditis in one ear. Destroyed all the bones, eardrum, and my mastoid. (almost cochlea) After all is said and done, I have an implant that serves as a transfer medium between my new eardrum (made from a vein I think) and my cochlea.
Damaged ear, 37 decibel loss. good ear, 4 decibel loss (loud music and looong flights). But it seems the good ear has a slightly higher frequency range (not much, but enough that I can hear something high pitched and quiet while everyone else gives me wierd looks). A side effect of that implant is it seems to amplify the vibrations of other sounds above normal range. I don't hear it in that ear, it's more of a feeling - but I percieve it almost like hearing. Hard to explain. All this crap happened before I was 5, so my brain was still capable of some rewiring I guess (really no clue. any insights?)
My ear just seems to be trained to pick out quality flaws in sound. Even if I have never heard the song before I can tell if the recording was damaged slightly, or compressed a little too low quality, ect. It's annoying. Half the audio players out there (and my laptop's audio system) output strange noises that sound like bus access. Noone else seems to notice, but it hits my like a Louisville Slugger.
FL Studio can output to 48kHz. I opened a demo track, set all the quality settings to maximum, and dumped it to a 44.1kHz wav, and then did the same thing to a 48mHz wav. It was hard, but I could hear a _slight_ difference.
Yea. It's MP3 in action. It's tossing out audio data that you can hear (I have the same issue) even at high bitrates. That's why I love OGG, it doesn't toss out that particular frequency notch in comparative high bitrate settings.
Most people probably can't hear the difference between 44k and 48k audio (frequency range, not bitrate). I know I can.
Because that would take effort, brains, and (only a little bit) cash.
**AA is greedy, so they don't want to spend ANY cash. They like their system, and have become lazy; don't expect any effort. They obiously have brains, just look at how much cash they have and what a cozy place they set up for themselves.
I never said it was easy... but it can be done. If you really have to. If you have such a crippling un-removable malware infection, it would probably be better to back up your data and wipe it clean. And stop using IE as an Administrator (except for windows update). Half the crap out there won't work without an Admin account (probably more than half)
Using the task manager, kill all explorer.exe processes. Use the task manager to run any applications you need, and use CMD to manage files. Most of the time, those rewrites come from DLLs loaded into explorer.exe.
Chances are though, it's a combination of DLLS in system32, registry startup commands, and IE hooks. Go though the system32 directory with a fine tooth comb, and research each DLL that seems strange on a clean computer (don't forget to search the internet as well).
I understand all of your point, and I tend to have the same issues with PDF manuals. I was only suggesting an alternative on spending cash on printing them all out. That uses lots of cash, and lots of space.
As far as bookmarks go, you can always use a small ledger and note what file, what actual page it's on (not what the TOC wrongly reads), and any notes you need. Keep that with the laptop.
Nothing you can do about not having room, although I can't imagine that you don't have A) crap you can just set it on (papers), B) the floor nearby, or C) your lap. Must be a cramped working space (and dealing with a printed manual would be just as "interesting")
Find an old cheap laptop. All you need is a barebones system with PDF support. If it's small enough, the thing will probably take up less space than the manuals would, and if you were thrifty enough be cheaper than pringing 2 or 3 of them.
Slashdot adds a space every set number of unbroken characters. This is because people used to put huge unbroken lines to make the screen scroll over to the side for miles.
Both to reply to the Troll mod, and the reply to me.
Every time I would use office at High School, half the class would want to know where it went. I would say I hated it and turned it off. They would respond: "But why? Clipply/einstein/dog is so cute/cool/whatever"
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I'm about ready to give up and conside to living as a bachelor forever. If something happens, well it happens and was meant to be. If not, well... no sense troubling myself about it.
I probably just convinced myself, but I don't really discount the possibility that I heard the difference. Maybe it was just my speakers over exagurating it (only $40 set, 2 sats and one subwoofer).
Well, its not really like astrology, but here is my explanation. As long winded and postereor drawn as it sounds, it's true.
When I was a little tyke, I had massive clustiotoma and mastoiditis in one ear. Destroyed all the bones, eardrum, and my mastoid. (almost cochlea) After all is said and done, I have an implant that serves as a transfer medium between my new eardrum (made from a vein I think) and my cochlea.
Damaged ear, 37 decibel loss. good ear, 4 decibel loss (loud music and looong flights). But it seems the good ear has a slightly higher frequency range (not much, but enough that I can hear something high pitched and quiet while everyone else gives me wierd looks). A side effect of that implant is it seems to amplify the vibrations of other sounds above normal range. I don't hear it in that ear, it's more of a feeling - but I percieve it almost like hearing. Hard to explain. All this crap happened before I was 5, so my brain was still capable of some rewiring I guess (really no clue. any insights?)
My ear just seems to be trained to pick out quality flaws in sound. Even if I have never heard the song before I can tell if the recording was damaged slightly, or compressed a little too low quality, ect. It's annoying. Half the audio players out there (and my laptop's audio system) output strange noises that sound like bus access. Noone else seems to notice, but it hits my like a Louisville Slugger.
Yep.
:)
Well, not really
I did mean sample rate, actually. Brain cramp. Nearly terminal.
FL Studio can output to 48kHz. I opened a demo track, set all the quality settings to maximum, and dumped it to a 44.1kHz wav, and then did the same thing to a 48mHz wav. It was hard, but I could hear a _slight_ difference.
And when it does, hopefully the FCC will toss the airwaves out to the public.
Please. Maybe? (sad puppy face)
Yea. It's MP3 in action. It's tossing out audio data that you can hear (I have the same issue) even at high bitrates. That's why I love OGG, it doesn't toss out that particular frequency notch in comparative high bitrate settings.
Most people probably can't hear the difference between 44k and 48k audio (frequency range, not bitrate). I know I can.
For those who don't recognize it, thats the commands you enter into debug.[exe/com ?] (back in the DOS days) to erase the partition tables
Because that would take effort, brains, and (only a little bit) cash.
**AA is greedy, so they don't want to spend ANY cash. They like their system, and have become lazy; don't expect any effort. They obiously have brains, just look at how much cash they have and what a cozy place they set up for themselves.
I never said it was easy... but it can be done. If you really have to. If you have such a crippling un-removable malware infection, it would probably be better to back up your data and wipe it clean. And stop using IE as an Administrator (except for windows update). Half the crap out there won't work without an Admin account (probably more than half)
Using the task manager, kill all explorer.exe processes. Use the task manager to run any applications you need, and use CMD to manage files. Most of the time, those rewrites come from DLLs loaded into explorer.exe.
Chances are though, it's a combination of DLLS in system32, registry startup commands, and IE hooks. Go though the system32 directory with a fine tooth comb, and research each DLL that seems strange on a clean computer (don't forget to search the internet as well).
I understand all of your point, and I tend to have the same issues with PDF manuals. I was only suggesting an alternative on spending cash on printing them all out. That uses lots of cash, and lots of space.
As far as bookmarks go, you can always use a small ledger and note what file, what actual page it's on (not what the TOC wrongly reads), and any notes you need. Keep that with the laptop.
Nothing you can do about not having room, although I can't imagine that you don't have A) crap you can just set it on (papers), B) the floor nearby, or C) your lap. Must be a cramped working space (and dealing with a printed manual would be just as "interesting")
Pringing. What is pringing?
I meant to say printing...
Find an old cheap laptop. All you need is a barebones system with PDF support. If it's small enough, the thing will probably take up less space than the manuals would, and if you were thrifty enough be cheaper than pringing 2 or 3 of them.
OK, but use personal certificates directly from Microsoft. Ignore crap from Verisign.
How often does Microsoft hand out certificates to third parties?
Yes, but does that crappy AC'97 audio you have support EAX2 and above?
go to http://gmail.google.com/gmail instead. That works. It's the www.gmail.com domain that's down I think.
Their web server runs as poorly as the elevator....only six comments and already slashdotted into oblivion.
Wrong article. I think you meant to put it somewhere else. This article is about aviation equipment.
Slashdot adds a space every set number of unbroken characters. This is because people used to put huge unbroken lines to make the screen scroll over to the side for miles.
Hey, it's not stale, it's Vintage!
Parent is a troll, read the last line.
Both to reply to the Troll mod, and the reply to me.
Every time I would use office at High School, half the class would want to know where it went. I would say I hated it and turned it off. They would respond: "But why? Clipply/einstein/dog is so cute/cool/whatever"
While not completely useless, I do find PowerPoint very overused.
Then just turn it off!
I think it is there to help bring in the people who always thought Clippy and Friends were cute. Yes, such people are out there.