missing the point. this isn't manning's account, it's an account set up to defend him.
paypal are basically saying that they reserve the right to screw anyone for no reason if they so choose. politics be damned.
i think the internet backlash might just hurt their business a little more than threats from a bankrupt government... it's a dumb decision on paypal's part.
some CDs published in the last 15 years can't be ABX'd at 8-bit, let alone 24... try "parallel universe" off californication truncated to 8 bit. beside the guitar intro you will not hear a difference from the original.
hopefully apple might encourage better mastering practices. they can start by having "soundcheck" turned on by default, on iTunes and iPods
mpeg-2 is just not anywhere near good enough for the bandwidths these greedy arseholes are pushing on us.
more channels = more ads. who cares that even the ads are such low quality that if i'd paid to put them on air, i'd call a face-to-face meeting with the station execs just so i could puke on them in person?
having seen all steps in the post-production chain, then seeing the result on DVB-T, i find it awful what they can do to something i worked hard to make look perfect.
what if you wanted to use it for a soundtrack or something? transcoding something, no matter how transparent the source is, will bugger the sound. best start from as high a quality source as possible and degrade it from there.
then there's format shifting the master file (that you buy) into all kinds of other formats (iPod, car stereo, etc) so you get more use out of the same file.
personally, i think more bits is not as useful as something like offering the multitrack stems (guitar-hero style) in some kind of encapsulated format with mix parameters built in. this would allow interesting remix and mash-up possibilities.
or course, i doubt a record company would ever agree to that unless the asking price was astronomical (ie what you pay to license a track commercially)
i don't know what dogfooding means in this context. i take it as a substitute for some kind of actual argument.
mp3 v flac? the flacs sit on a backup drive gathering dust. every now and then i dig it up to burn a disc or use a track for a showreel or some such thing, or to re-burn a disc i can't find anymore.
my workmates would not appreciate me bringing in 50 gigs of flacs rather than 10 gigs of mp3s to play in the noisy office environment. likewise i can fit more mp3s on my iriver than i can flacs (which i'm not sure actually play on it). considering i can't hear the difference, it's a fair compromise.
i don't get anxiety over things i can't hear.
into hifi since you were six? nice one. not sure how old i was. i gave up hifi for modestly priced pro gear yonks ago though. occasionally i'll troll the local bang and oluffsen store, but i haven't bought anything "audiophile" for ages since i heard proper stuff rather than rich-kid toys.
"Are you just trolling me?"
trolling is making psychoacoustic decisions based on an oscilloscope. i'm replying to a troll because i'm bored and feel like stroking my e-penis a bit.
missed the big "A" on "Anonymous". makes it a noun, you see.
also, i was very impressed that they attributed that quote to Beatrice Hall and not Voltaire, who that quote usually is attributed to. it seems anon has good command of google and wikipedia.
perceptual transparency means that a listener in a double-blind test cannot tell the difference between source and the mp3.
LAME at it's current default settings will produce mp3 files that are transparent in 99.9% of cases (there's a few known "problem samples" out there that will sound a little tiny bit different. most of these are extreme cases of transients).
i backup to flac (i like the ability to format-shift, or re-burn a CD if a housemate loses the original), but most of my listening is in mp3.
i'm sorry. you can't out-geek me in any of my areas of expertise.
they haven't fixed the false positives in their billing system yet... i still get called at work by them, asked if i'm someone else, hassled for money and when i ask to see a bill, they say i'm not such-and-such and thus am not entitled to know. when i ask why my number is connected to that account, they hang up.
musician's ears = irrelevant, as proven by the last 10-15 years of terrible mastering on CDs.
CRT's = blurry, distorty, colour-drifty, and have problems with colour if they're not north-south aligned. LCD has beaten them on contrast for years, and on resolution for longer.
a hifi setup is a matter of taste. i have one that sounds pretty (1970's amp, 130W speakers), and one that sounds accurate (bi-amped nearfield pro-monitors).
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missing the point. this isn't manning's account, it's an account set up to defend him.
paypal are basically saying that they reserve the right to screw anyone for no reason if they so choose. politics be damned.
i think the internet backlash might just hurt their business a little more than threats from a bankrupt government... it's a dumb decision on paypal's part.
lol, you just betrayed your sig
autotune and automated call centres would show that it's not disturbing like it's visual counterpart, just grievously annoying.
[citation needed]
nyquist frequency has little relevance to phase information, which you're referring to.
i can't believe this was modded down :)
puts me in mind of those cables on amazon where the comments say all manner of things like "these cables gave me the ability to fly!"
some CDs published in the last 15 years can't be ABX'd at 8-bit, let alone 24... try "parallel universe" off californication truncated to 8 bit. beside the guitar intro you will not hear a difference from the original.
hopefully apple might encourage better mastering practices. they can start by having "soundcheck" turned on by default, on iTunes and iPods
h.264 will save the world.
mpeg-2 is just not anywhere near good enough for the bandwidths these greedy arseholes are pushing on us.
more channels = more ads. who cares that even the ads are such low quality that if i'd paid to put them on air, i'd call a face-to-face meeting with the station execs just so i could puke on them in person?
having seen all steps in the post-production chain, then seeing the result on DVB-T, i find it awful what they can do to something i worked hard to make look perfect.
what if you wanted to use it for a soundtrack or something? transcoding something, no matter how transparent the source is, will bugger the sound. best start from as high a quality source as possible and degrade it from there.
then there's format shifting the master file (that you buy) into all kinds of other formats (iPod, car stereo, etc) so you get more use out of the same file.
personally, i think more bits is not as useful as something like offering the multitrack stems (guitar-hero style) in some kind of encapsulated format with mix parameters built in. this would allow interesting remix and mash-up possibilities.
or course, i doubt a record company would ever agree to that unless the asking price was astronomical (ie what you pay to license a track commercially)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_listening_test
plenty there to look at.
i don't know what dogfooding means in this context. i take it as a substitute for some kind of actual argument.
mp3 v flac? the flacs sit on a backup drive gathering dust. every now and then i dig it up to burn a disc or use a track for a showreel or some such thing, or to re-burn a disc i can't find anymore.
my workmates would not appreciate me bringing in 50 gigs of flacs rather than 10 gigs of mp3s to play in the noisy office environment. likewise i can fit more mp3s on my iriver than i can flacs (which i'm not sure actually play on it). considering i can't hear the difference, it's a fair compromise.
i don't get anxiety over things i can't hear.
into hifi since you were six? nice one. not sure how old i was. i gave up hifi for modestly priced pro gear yonks ago though. occasionally i'll troll the local bang and oluffsen store, but i haven't bought anything "audiophile" for ages since i heard proper stuff rather than rich-kid toys.
"Are you just trolling me?"
trolling is making psychoacoustic decisions based on an oscilloscope. i'm replying to a troll because i'm bored and feel like stroking my e-penis a bit.
how the fuck did this get modded insightful?
nice one, Iran.
you guys are next in this revolution wave thing...
the only crime here is that site's design. eww. must. wash. eyes.
what about the examples gallery? looks like copyright infringement to me, though they do display the blender foundation copyright on them.
it's HBGary Federal again.
the only answer is censorship on slashdot...
the whole double-edged sword thing.
the only acceptible solution is that people develop better bullshit detectors and participate more in the pruning of submissions.
but me? i like to watch the shitstorm. it's good entertainment and small things amuse small minds.
missed the big "A" on "Anonymous". makes it a noun, you see.
also, i was very impressed that they attributed that quote to Beatrice Hall and not Voltaire, who that quote usually is attributed to. it seems anon has good command of google and wikipedia.
i happily used several 2560x1536 monitors. even 2 years ago, they were not that pricey, considering (AUD$1300 i think)
i would have got one myself, but the colour profile that came with it was inadequate. the more expensive (1 year older) version was a bit nicer.
ever see a CRT that goes to 2560x1536?
didn't think so.
transparent != lossless
perceptual transparency means that a listener in a double-blind test cannot tell the difference between source and the mp3.
LAME at it's current default settings will produce mp3 files that are transparent in 99.9% of cases (there's a few known "problem samples" out there that will sound a little tiny bit different. most of these are extreme cases of transients).
i backup to flac (i like the ability to format-shift, or re-burn a CD if a housemate loses the original), but most of my listening is in mp3.
i'm sorry. you can't out-geek me in any of my areas of expertise.
anonymous always trolls itself.
if the WBC have access to fox news, they could have thought this up.
i'm not sure about opening their ports to harvest IPs. their ports are probably open because they don't know how to close them.
i'm not sure to what extent the GPL has been tested in court anywhere. its legally binding in the sense that nobody has sued over it yet.
they haven't fixed the false positives in their billing system yet... i still get called at work by them, asked if i'm someone else, hassled for money and when i ask to see a bill, they say i'm not such-and-such and thus am not entitled to know. when i ask why my number is connected to that account, they hang up.
pricks.
mp3 = transparent
musician's ears = irrelevant, as proven by the last 10-15 years of terrible mastering on CDs.
CRT's = blurry, distorty, colour-drifty, and have problems with colour if they're not north-south aligned. LCD has beaten them on contrast for years, and on resolution for longer.
a hifi setup is a matter of taste. i have one that sounds pretty (1970's amp, 130W speakers), and one that sounds accurate (bi-amped nearfield pro-monitors).
in b4 refugees!
*ducks for cover
because advertising dollars determine what i choose to watch, too.
perhaps if geeknet had a budget they'd start spamming the science channel with TVCs?
maybe it bombed because the fans all downloaded it and hence didn't go to the cinema?
just sayin' :)