I occasionally listen to the music streams from http://www.di.fm/. Since I have a 64kbps connection, I usually choose the low bit rate 24kbps Winamp stream or the 20kbps Windows Media stream.
A couple of days ago, I noticed that they switched to aac+ for Winamp and the quality difference was simply astounding. I wouldn't believe it was 24kbps, I thought they had a 96kbps stream in there or higher.
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I agree absolutely. I know I wanted to use a calculator 10 odd years ago when I was learning math, but I'm glad now that we were't allowed to.
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Ditto for log tables vs scientific calculators in junior college later on.
We finally did get to use Scientific Calculators for everything in Engineering; and I believe *that* is the right time.
Reminds me of "A Feeling of Power" by Asimov
http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/Asimov/Stories/
With the way things are going, a future like that is not hard to percieve anymore.
"beware of the tiger"
You mean "beware of the leopard"...
I occasionally listen to the music streams from http://www.di.fm/. Since I have a 64kbps connection, I usually choose the low bit rate 24kbps Winamp stream or the 20kbps Windows Media stream.
A couple of days ago, I noticed that they switched to aac+ for Winamp and the quality difference was simply astounding. I wouldn't believe it was 24kbps, I thought they had a 96kbps stream in there or higher.