This is why they do a "radio edit" of popular songs.
It's really a "radio mix" - zero dynamic range, designed to be broadcast over FM and listened to on crappy speakers over a backdrop of engine/tire noise.
You are 100% correct, I have sat in a $100k studio with $5k reference monitors and heard my tracks played back at both 192k and at 44.1k and honestly? Couldn't tell the difference, i really couldn't.
The difference is something you have to learn. You can't just sit a random person down and expect them to pick out (eg.) a tiny bit of pre-echo on the cymbals. You have to know what pre-echo is, and how to listen for it.
Until then you're just a redneck saying "I don't know much about art but I know what I like..."
You can actually practice listening to music, it's something you learn.
Sometimes the difference between two sets of speakers can be as little as one clarinet in the middle of an orchestral piece. On one set it sounds good, on another it doesn't (or it's hardly there at all).
It's not something you can pick out just by putting on a rap CD for ten seconds and turning the bass up to maximum in a store (which is how most "HiFi" systems are chosen these days and why the manufacturers produce so much garbage).
Nor can they afford any better so while they are listening to a lesser quality, they couldn't begin to purchase equipment to give them what these artists say they are missing.
Plus none of them have a special quiet room where they go to to sit down and do nothing but listen to music.
They want music/noise constantly and as a backdrop to whatever else they're doing at the time.
This is the real point: People are so used to listening to music with no dynamic range, on ear buds, in crappy acoustic environments that they wouldn't know where to start listening for a difference.
Canned air? I use 120 psi from an air compressor. I wonder if the fan is rated for 10,000 rpm. And if you're blowing air into a vent without taking the device apart, all you're really doing is distributing the dust evenly inside the case.. and you're not going to get at everything.
You know that when DC motors spin they generate electricity, right?...and your fan motor is connected to your motherboard.
Most of our refineries have been modified to produce more gasoline than diesel now. If we were to switch the buying habits, they would have be be changed back.
It's done by fractional distillation. All they need to change is a thermostat.
It's a hard sell to say, spend an extra $3,000 on the car to get a diesel engine to improve your fuel economy when your 0-60 speed will drop by 15-20% and you'll need to keep the car 8 years to save the extra cost through efficiency.
Your 0-60 speed may rise by 15% but your 40-80 speed will drop due to all the extra torque. Which matters most?
Plus...8 years to get back $3000 when you can 60-70% better mileage? Have you looked at the cost of filling up a gas guzzler recently? It's more like two years. If you keep it for three years you'll most likely make a profit (not to mention the resale value of a diesel will be higher).
60% of new cars in Europe are diesels, including Fords, Toyotas, Hondas, etc. so it's safe to assume that major American manufacturers could put diesel cars/trucks/minivans on the road with very little effort.
If they aren't doing so it's because something over there is fucked up. I don't think it's the consumers (I mean, who doesn't want to halve their fuel bill?) so I'm assuming it's the oil barons who run the country who are screwing with the system.
Because our NANNY GOVERNMENT has rigged the emissions and mileage games so that the only cars sitting in dealer lots are enormous gasoline guzzling full size trucks.
Not only that, Americans love having high torque at low engine revolutions, something gasoline engines are bad at but where diesel excels.
That's why all those trucks have 5-liter V8s in them where they should have a 2.5 liter TDi.
Doesn't even need a warhead. I'll wager that a 500...1000 mph impact from a 10 lb missile would seriously impede the idiot holding the laser without a lot of collateral damage. Well, maybe some. Oh well.:)
This only happens at night so a big bag of ultra-violet dye should do it. You can send the choppers over to pick them up and they'll have no trouble finding the perps.
My experience with other people and normal-powered lasers means I wouldn't trust anybody else to have it within a mile of other people's eyes. Constantly having to tell people "no" and "because you're an idiot, that's why" isn't worth it.
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Nah.... if you were running Autocad you wanted a 386DX40 with third party math coprocessor (eg. Cyrix/ULSI).
This is why they do a "radio edit" of popular songs.
It's really a "radio mix" - zero dynamic range, designed to be broadcast over FM and listened to on crappy speakers over a backdrop of engine/tire noise.
You are 100% correct, I have sat in a $100k studio with $5k reference monitors and heard my tracks played back at both 192k and at 44.1k and honestly? Couldn't tell the difference, i really couldn't.
The difference is something you have to learn. You can't just sit a random person down and expect them to pick out (eg.) a tiny bit of pre-echo on the cymbals. You have to know what pre-echo is, and how to listen for it.
Until then you're just a redneck saying "I don't know much about art but I know what I like..."
Really? There's no audible difference between a 22kHz sine wave and a 22kHz sawtooth?
Your 44.1khz sampler can't distinguish them.
It's not mutually exclusive. Some of us manage to listen to more than one type of music..._including_ classical.
You can actually practice listening to music, it's something you learn.
Sometimes the difference between two sets of speakers can be as little as one clarinet in the middle of an orchestral piece. On one set it sounds good, on another it doesn't (or it's hardly there at all).
It's not something you can pick out just by putting on a rap CD for ten seconds and turning the bass up to maximum in a store (which is how most "HiFi" systems are chosen these days and why the manufacturers produce so much garbage).
Nor can they afford any better so while they are listening to a lesser quality, they couldn't begin to purchase equipment to give them what these artists say they are missing.
Plus none of them have a special quiet room where they go to to sit down and do nothing but listen to music.
They want music/noise constantly and as a backdrop to whatever else they're doing at the time.
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The 50Mhz 486DX was widely believed to be faster than the 66Mhz 486DX2.
That was the theory: 50MHz bus beats 33MHz bus.
In practice: The DX was much more expensive and the extra 16mHz of the DX2 kicked the DX's ass when you were playing Doom. Which you were.
The rest of us made do with 60MHz versions.
We couldn't afford the cooling systems for the 66MHz version?
(Or didn't want to live in a wind tunnel...)
I sent my fdiv bug chip back to Intel for replacement. I should have kept it, it'd be worth $5 on eBay.
This is the real point: People are so used to listening to music with no dynamic range, on ear buds, in crappy acoustic environments that they wouldn't know where to start listening for a difference.
There are no valid excuses.
Since when is a company not allowed to charge whatever it likes for its products...?
Canned air? I use 120 psi from an air compressor. I wonder if the fan is rated for 10,000 rpm.
And if you're blowing air into a vent without taking the device apart, all you're really doing is distributing the dust evenly inside the case.. and you're not going to get at everything.
You know that when DC motors spin they generate electricity, right? ...and your fan motor is connected to your motherboard.
It's both of those things.
because of those taxes, diesel has been more expensive than gasoline for a long long time.
It still has to be worth it though, or trucks would use gasoline engines.
I bet they could figure out a way to charge cars less. All it needs is enough people to ask for it.
Most of our refineries have been modified to produce more gasoline than diesel now. If we were to switch the buying habits, they would have be be changed back.
It's done by fractional distillation. All they need to change is a thermostat.
It's a hard sell to say, spend an extra $3,000 on the car to get a diesel engine to improve your fuel economy when your 0-60 speed will drop by 15-20% and you'll need to keep the car 8 years to save the extra cost through efficiency.
Your 0-60 speed may rise by 15% but your 40-80 speed will drop due to all the extra torque. Which matters most?
Plus...8 years to get back $3000 when you can 60-70% better mileage? Have you looked at the cost of filling up a gas guzzler recently? It's more like two years. If you keep it for three years you'll most likely make a profit (not to mention the resale value of a diesel will be higher).
60% of new cars in Europe are diesels, including Fords, Toyotas, Hondas, etc. so it's safe to assume that major American manufacturers could put diesel cars/trucks/minivans on the road with very little effort.
If they aren't doing so it's because something over there is fucked up. I don't think it's the consumers (I mean, who doesn't want to halve their fuel bill?) so I'm assuming it's the oil barons who run the country who are screwing with the system.
Why aren't diesel spouts square?
Because engineers assume everybody thinks like them and would never make such an elementary mistake.
Because our NANNY GOVERNMENT has rigged the emissions and mileage games so that the only cars sitting in dealer lots are enormous gasoline guzzling full size trucks.
Not only that, Americans love having high torque at low engine revolutions, something gasoline engines are bad at but where diesel excels.
That's why all those trucks have 5-liter V8s in them where they should have a 2.5 liter TDi.
It's doubleplus-lose.
They were so freaked out by OMG diesel!! in a car they assumed something must be wrong.
The important opinions are of the two people who are getting married.
No, it's a legally binding contract, subject to various laws.
Having said that I see no reason why a Jedi would be worse at doing the paperwork than a pedophile.
I think that the government can take care of idiots who shine laserpointers at them... without a ban...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eb3_1361179577
Yep, all they have to do is keep a fleet of Apache gunships in the air at all times. Problem solved!
Doesn't even need a warhead. I'll wager that a 500...1000 mph impact from a 10 lb missile would seriously impede the idiot holding the laser without a lot of collateral damage. Well, maybe some. Oh well. :)
This only happens at night so a big bag of ultra-violet dye should do it. You can send the choppers over to pick them up and they'll have no trouble finding the perps.
I bought an overpowered green laser "pointer"
I didn't.
My experience with other people and normal-powered lasers means I wouldn't trust anybody else to have it within a mile of other people's eyes. Constantly having to tell people "no" and "because you're an idiot, that's why" isn't worth it.