Real data thieves don't even bother with a keystroke sniffer: they know the sound of each key, so they only have to hear your password being typed to know it.
All the players are consolidated into 1 place, and I can trust Blizzard to keep all the data trustworthy and not tamper with it (like giving their buddies free epics or the like).
I don't know PA law, but in NH it's not that you are found automatically guilty, it's that you automatically get a license suspension. When you get a license, you sign away your right to refuse a breathalyzer as part of the license agreement. If you refuse the test, they take away your license, because you didn't uphold your end of the contract.
On a related note, both The Simpsons and King of the Hill went to HD broadcast recently -- I heard one person remark that The Simpsons' opening sequence looks like a high-school student's CAD project, while King of the Hill's opening allows you to see every stroke of the hand that Mike Judge made 13 years ago.
And as for the recording "sounding the way it's supposed to sound," that's not true if the record was sourced from digital masters, which is true for all new music. You're just taking digitally recorded music with its limited sampling qualities and adding the fragility of the vinyl format.
The reason that even digitally-mastered vinyl has the potential for sounding better than a CD is that the vinyl was cut from the masters, which are like 24-bit/96kHz, or higher. CDs are restricted to 16-bit/44.1kHz by the Red Book standard. So while the fragility of vinyl is the primary reason I buy CDs instead, it doesn't mean the vinyl is necessarily better or worse in sound quality on the first listen (since subsequent listens will inherently degrade the record's quality).
Trent Reznor released his last album as 24/96 FLACs, along with other formats. Assuming that the 24/96 copy is the master, then that means the digitally-released copy has the same audio quality as a vinyl copy will on the first listen. However, in most cases, the master has to be downsampled to 16/44.1 before release, since your only choice is CD or vinyl. In those cases, on the first listen the vinyl copy will have a greater potential sound quality.
Long story short: we should have better-than-CD-quality music available to the consumer, in a non-physical format.
In any case, RSS reading functionality on a torrent client does make it so you start downloading things without user interaction, but it's very configurable. I've only had one item start that I didn't want, and that's because I didn't do enough specification on my regular expression. For the most part, it's a huge time-saver, because I can sit back on my couch and watch TV, without having to check my computer every few minutes to see if an item I want has been posted yet. That may sound crazy, but I want to watch something as soon as it's available. It helps avoid spoilers.
Taking any pill without the nurse's authorization was against camp policy. They wanted to make sure that no pills were taken outside of the nurse's cabin so that some camper or adult leader wouldn't see a staff member "popping pills" and think it was ok for them to not give their pills to the nurse. Doesn't matter if the pills contained just sugar. It's a reasonable policy, IMO.
The 12kHz figure is from the low-pass filter, and that can be configured. I think default for LAME nowadays is around 18kHz.
Also, with modern versions of LAME 128kbps isn't all that bad, compared to 5+ years ago. You can still hear artifacts, yes, but 128kbps now is at least acceptable, IMO. As in, if I were to download a 128kbps copy of a song nowadays, I wouldn't try to find another copy unless I was ready to buy the album.
This coming from a guy who rips to FLAC and only transcodes to ~192kbps Oggs for the sake of his 2GB Rockbox'd Sansa.;)
Shameless plug, while I'm at it: I wrote FlacSquisher to do that transcoding. I released a new version last week, which now uses NSIS to install!
On a related note, I had a tequila expert/snob tell me to never ever ever use good tequila in a margarita. A waste of money.
I hate tequila. That said, I never use good liquor in a mixed drink, especially one with as strong a mixer as a margarita. You're tasting mostly fruit, with a mild aftertaste from the tequila.
In my cabinet, I have two bottles of rum: a cheap bottle that I use for Rum and Cokes, and a more expensive bottle that's good for sipping on its own. A Rum and Coke would taste roughly the same if I use either rum, so why bother using the expensive one?
For composed music, there's certainly at least some amount of accuracy involved. If you, as the recording artist, don't play what's written on the page, then you're not being accurate to the composer's instructions. Now, sometimes that's a good thing, like when you're improvising a little bit off of a written jazz score. But regardless, if you do that, you're not reproducing the song accurately.
For non-composed music, a performing artist can still have a mental state of what he wants the recording to sound like in the end, and everything that happens in the studio (punch-ins, EQ, etc) works towards that end goal.
As for 48/24 vs 44.1/16, or any other combination of sampling rate and sample size, that's usually only to conform to pre-existing technical specifications. I'm sure if a studio could release a 48/24 CD, they would. If they have a digital distribution method, or if they use SACD or DVD-Audio, they can. But most albums are only released on CD, so they must conform to the Red Book standard, which mandates 44.1/16.
Slashdot Mirror
Well played...
The site's working fine for me... after seeing it initially in Firefox, I tried again in Firefox, just to make sure it wasn't just cached.
To be pedantic, it's "deja vu".
To be really pedantic, the "e" and the "a" have accents, but slashdot can't display them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu
It's "Sup dawg", not "Yo dawg".
Get the meme right. I mean come on. This is important.
Heh... I guessed it was possible, but I hadn't figured it had been done already!
What is this "Va Neck" you speak of?
Real data thieves don't even bother with a keystroke sniffer: they know the sound of each key, so they only have to hear your password being typed to know it.
Quick, call Cory Doctorow!
Or worse...
If you want...games, then expect them to use last year's technology, be late...
Cool, more Valve games!
No kidding. Polish people are cool enough that they don't have to rely on glitz.
All the players are consolidated into 1 place, and I can trust Blizzard to keep all the data trustworthy and not tamper with it (like giving their buddies free epics or the like).
Are you sure? ;)
Reminds me of this, in a way:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/02/09/
Fox News Channel != local Fox station
I don't know PA law, but in NH it's not that you are found automatically guilty, it's that you automatically get a license suspension. When you get a license, you sign away your right to refuse a breathalyzer as part of the license agreement. If you refuse the test, they take away your license, because you didn't uphold your end of the contract.
Yes, an appropriate sample rate is determined by the Nyquist theorem, but what about the bits per sample?
On a related note, both The Simpsons and King of the Hill went to HD broadcast recently -- I heard one person remark that The Simpsons' opening sequence looks like a high-school student's CAD project, while King of the Hill's opening allows you to see every stroke of the hand that Mike Judge made 13 years ago.
Especially when you're a stranger.
And as for the recording "sounding the way it's supposed to sound," that's not true if the record was sourced from digital masters, which is true for all new music. You're just taking digitally recorded music with its limited sampling qualities and adding the fragility of the vinyl format.
The reason that even digitally-mastered vinyl has the potential for sounding better than a CD is that the vinyl was cut from the masters, which are like 24-bit/96kHz, or higher. CDs are restricted to 16-bit/44.1kHz by the Red Book standard. So while the fragility of vinyl is the primary reason I buy CDs instead, it doesn't mean the vinyl is necessarily better or worse in sound quality on the first listen (since subsequent listens will inherently degrade the record's quality).
Trent Reznor released his last album as 24/96 FLACs, along with other formats. Assuming that the 24/96 copy is the master, then that means the digitally-released copy has the same audio quality as a vinyl copy will on the first listen. However, in most cases, the master has to be downsampled to 16/44.1 before release, since your only choice is CD or vinyl. In those cases, on the first listen the vinyl copy will have a greater potential sound quality.
Long story short: we should have better-than-CD-quality music available to the consumer, in a non-physical format.
On most car stereos it's hard to tell the difference.
I'm guessing you do know what RSS is, just not how it applies to torrents:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
In any case, RSS reading functionality on a torrent client does make it so you start downloading things without user interaction, but it's very configurable. I've only had one item start that I didn't want, and that's because I didn't do enough specification on my regular expression. For the most part, it's a huge time-saver, because I can sit back on my couch and watch TV, without having to check my computer every few minutes to see if an item I want has been posted yet. That may sound crazy, but I want to watch something as soon as it's available. It helps avoid spoilers.
Taking any pill without the nurse's authorization was against camp policy. They wanted to make sure that no pills were taken outside of the nurse's cabin so that some camper or adult leader wouldn't see a staff member "popping pills" and think it was ok for them to not give their pills to the nurse. Doesn't matter if the pills contained just sugar. It's a reasonable policy, IMO.
The 12kHz figure is from the low-pass filter, and that can be configured. I think default for LAME nowadays is around 18kHz.
Also, with modern versions of LAME 128kbps isn't all that bad, compared to 5+ years ago. You can still hear artifacts, yes, but 128kbps now is at least acceptable, IMO. As in, if I were to download a 128kbps copy of a song nowadays, I wouldn't try to find another copy unless I was ready to buy the album.
This coming from a guy who rips to FLAC and only transcodes to ~192kbps Oggs for the sake of his 2GB Rockbox'd Sansa. ;)
Shameless plug, while I'm at it: I wrote FlacSquisher to do that transcoding. I released a new version last week, which now uses NSIS to install!
On a related note, I had a tequila expert/snob tell me to never ever ever use good tequila in a margarita. A waste of money.
I hate tequila. That said, I never use good liquor in a mixed drink, especially one with as strong a mixer as a margarita. You're tasting mostly fruit, with a mild aftertaste from the tequila.
In my cabinet, I have two bottles of rum: a cheap bottle that I use for Rum and Cokes, and a more expensive bottle that's good for sipping on its own. A Rum and Coke would taste roughly the same if I use either rum, so why bother using the expensive one?
For composed music, there's certainly at least some amount of accuracy involved. If you, as the recording artist, don't play what's written on the page, then you're not being accurate to the composer's instructions. Now, sometimes that's a good thing, like when you're improvising a little bit off of a written jazz score. But regardless, if you do that, you're not reproducing the song accurately.
For non-composed music, a performing artist can still have a mental state of what he wants the recording to sound like in the end, and everything that happens in the studio (punch-ins, EQ, etc) works towards that end goal.
As for 48/24 vs 44.1/16, or any other combination of sampling rate and sample size, that's usually only to conform to pre-existing technical specifications. I'm sure if a studio could release a 48/24 CD, they would. If they have a digital distribution method, or if they use SACD or DVD-Audio, they can. But most albums are only released on CD, so they must conform to the Red Book standard, which mandates 44.1/16.