AptX is lossy, too, and I have read the chipset datasheets, and the minimum delay is 50 ms. That's quite audible! For example, A Rockabilly slap back echo is only around 64ms.
Note that I also state that I use AptX in my truck. That is, as with all other bluetooth audio protocols, it is not fit for studio use.
I wouldn't call ANY wireless audio protocol low-enough latency for audio production/recording.
Bingo. That's been my point this whole time.
While I know there is some recording sw and hw centered around iOS devices, I'm not sure I would call any of it "Pro", sorry.
There are a few mic inputs that hit 192/24 with low latency and no noise. Not sure if they have headphone jacks, as I don't do audio work on an iPhone or iPad, but these are aimed at the pro market as replacements for standalone recorders.
W1's AAC is still lossy compression and non-zero latency, therefore not suitable for audio production and less than ideal for FPS gaming. Add to that the fact that it's not available in any form of studio monitor headphone and, well... yeah. And it never will be, because it's not suitable for the application in the first place.
And yes, there is a fair bit of pro recording gear centered around the iPhone, so this is an actual market segment I am talking about, here.
And I'd rather have to reconsider and rethink old memes and longstanding habits once in awhile, than be that "Get off my lawn!" luddite...
And I'd rather have headphones with full-range hi-fi audio and no drop-outs. When I can get that from bluetooth, I'll agree with Apple that it's a better way. For the record, I happily use Apt-X in my truck, so, not quite a "Get off my lawn!" luddite.
Well, here's the thing: a large portion of the population uses their phone's headphone jack often and its waterproofing rarely, if ever. If a simple market study were done, it would likely reveal that people prefer the headphone jack, if they really have to choose.
And I've lost 0 of them to water. Including a Palm Pixi Plus that went for an unplanned swim and had no water resistance rating. Even working outdoors in the Ohio rain (I haven't always been a developer), long before phones had water resistance ratings, I've never had one water damaged. I'm not thoroughly convinced it's all that necessary.
I seem to recall a prolific Slashdot Mac advocate going back and forth with me re: my keyboard issue not long ago, insisting that this issue was fixed in the 2nd generation of this keyboard, and that that's what Apple would replace my keyboard with if I took it in.
I contested the latter point, but it turns out it doesn't matter, because it's still not (by Apple's own admission) fixed in the 3rd gen.
Eventually, I hope this individual realizes that, every time we have disagreed about what Apple was doing, or was going to do, it has only been a matter of weeks before an Apple press release, legal filing, or a quote by a reputable publication (often one that is pro-Apple, at that) confirms what I had been trying to point out. Maybe then he (and others like him) will finally be able to get on board with pressuring Apple to change direction, rather than remaining blind to the fact that Apple seems to be hell-bent on seeing how long they can coast on their pile of money when they design themselves out of the market.
I want to start liking Apple's computers again, but I can't do that while they're so comfortable with knowingly selling defective products that they openly admit that their new, not even released yet, laptops are just as defective as the last two generations. Who's with me?
Turnaround is a bit quicker when you can deliver the change on the spot. Sure, you wouldn't design the whole part on a laptop, but why not have the capability to answer "what would it look like if we..." questions in real-time and on-site if it's available?
How does that apply to CAD? Generally, if a part is off by a few mm, it's gonna be off be a few mm no matter who you're showing it to and can be adjusted on-site.
It's easy to forget that fields other than your own exist, but they do.
I still use my 17" 2011 MBP as my main computer. Sure it only has 8 GB RAM
Just a heads-up: despite Apple's claims, it will happily take (and use) 16GB. I have a a 17" 2011 MBP with a dead GPU that won't boot into Windows or OSX (not even the installers) but runs Linux just fine with integrated graphics; with that upgrade it's not a bad machine, even today.
But in most cases, if you need that much RAM, you probably need a desktop with it.
Unless you also need portability. Think being able to not only demo your work to a client (which you can do with pre-rendered files on basically any machine) but also implement requested changes right there during the demo.
I don't think it's accurate to say "odds" when talking about stuff that has already happened
That depends, really, on whether you're referring to the time before it happened, or the time after. When I talk about what the odds were, I'm talking about the time before. Of course, once it's happened the odds are 100% and it's really not proper to discuss odds in that manner; I was following the convention someone else had used earlier in an adjacent thread for simplicity's sake, as the point I was making referred to odds before there was life and the propriety of discussing odds after the fact really didn't come into play in that.
Is that overall or per-capita? Assuming it's per-capita, you must be looking at (and misinterpreting) this.
While the murder rate for the Americas is about 5x that of Europe (as a whole), that includes all of North, Central, and South America, not just the US. The murder rate in Europe is 3:100,000, whereas it is 5.35:100,000 in the US; not quite double. If we restrict to Western Europe, it's still about double; unless you include the French territories of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which reside in North America (as that page defines it, at least) have a per-capita murder rate 3x higher than the US.
That's right, outside of the mainland, gun-free France has a higher murder rate than the US; and by a greater factor than the difference between the US and Europe.
Slashdot Mirror
AptX is lossy, too, and I have read the chipset datasheets, and the minimum delay is 50 ms. That's quite audible! For example, A Rockabilly slap back echo is only around 64ms.
Note that I also state that I use AptX in my truck. That is, as with all other bluetooth audio protocols, it is not fit for studio use.
I wouldn't call ANY wireless audio protocol low-enough latency for audio production/recording.
Bingo. That's been my point this whole time.
While I know there is some recording sw and hw centered around iOS devices, I'm not sure I would call any of it "Pro", sorry.
There are a few mic inputs that hit 192/24 with low latency and no noise. Not sure if they have headphone jacks, as I don't do audio work on an iPhone or iPad, but these are aimed at the pro market as replacements for standalone recorders.
W1's AAC is still lossy compression and non-zero latency, therefore not suitable for audio production and less than ideal for FPS gaming. Add to that the fact that it's not available in any form of studio monitor headphone and, well... yeah. And it never will be, because it's not suitable for the application in the first place.
And yes, there is a fair bit of pro recording gear centered around the iPhone, so this is an actual market segment I am talking about, here.
Oh, I forgot to ass zero-latency to the requirements. In recording (and FPS gaming), that matters. A lot.
And I'd rather have to reconsider and rethink old memes and longstanding habits once in awhile, than be that "Get off my lawn!" luddite...
And I'd rather have headphones with full-range hi-fi audio and no drop-outs. When I can get that from bluetooth, I'll agree with Apple that it's a better way. For the record, I happily use Apt-X in my truck, so, not quite a "Get off my lawn!" luddite.
*whoosh*
can *also* do facial recognition OCR.
Well, I don't have to worry about that, then. You do, of course, because you're quite the character.
Well, here's the thing: a large portion of the population uses their phone's headphone jack often and its waterproofing rarely, if ever. If a simple market study were done, it would likely reveal that people prefer the headphone jack, if they really have to choose.
Not sure if funny or insightful...
And I've lost 0 of them to water. Including a Palm Pixi Plus that went for an unplanned swim and had no water resistance rating. Even working outdoors in the Ohio rain (I haven't always been a developer), long before phones had water resistance ratings, I've never had one water damaged. I'm not thoroughly convinced it's all that necessary.
Sadly, you're not wrong.
I seem to recall a prolific Slashdot Mac advocate going back and forth with me re: my keyboard issue not long ago, insisting that this issue was fixed in the 2nd generation of this keyboard, and that that's what Apple would replace my keyboard with if I took it in.
I contested the latter point, but it turns out it doesn't matter, because it's still not (by Apple's own admission) fixed in the 3rd gen.
Eventually, I hope this individual realizes that, every time we have disagreed about what Apple was doing, or was going to do, it has only been a matter of weeks before an Apple press release, legal filing, or a quote by a reputable publication (often one that is pro-Apple, at that) confirms what I had been trying to point out. Maybe then he (and others like him) will finally be able to get on board with pressuring Apple to change direction, rather than remaining blind to the fact that Apple seems to be hell-bent on seeing how long they can coast on their pile of money when they design themselves out of the market.
I want to start liking Apple's computers again, but I can't do that while they're so comfortable with knowingly selling defective products that they openly admit that their new, not even released yet, laptops are just as defective as the last two generations. Who's with me?
Turnaround is a bit quicker when you can deliver the change on the spot. Sure, you wouldn't design the whole part on a laptop, but why not have the capability to answer "what would it look like if we..." questions in real-time and on-site if it's available?
Could be a spec change on their end that you weren't informed of. Shit happens in the real world.
And waterproofing doesn't have to preclude a headphone jack. My last 5 phones have had IP68 or better ratings and a headphone jack.
How does that apply to CAD? Generally, if a part is off by a few mm, it's gonna be off be a few mm no matter who you're showing it to and can be adjusted on-site.
It's easy to forget that fields other than your own exist, but they do.
It was gonna be either that or war.
I still use my 17" 2011 MBP as my main computer. Sure it only has 8 GB RAM
Just a heads-up: despite Apple's claims, it will happily take (and use) 16GB. I have a a 17" 2011 MBP with a dead GPU that won't boot into Windows or OSX (not even the installers) but runs Linux just fine with integrated graphics; with that upgrade it's not a bad machine, even today.
But in most cases, if you need that much RAM, you probably need a desktop with it.
Unless you also need portability. Think being able to not only demo your work to a client (which you can do with pre-rendered files on basically any machine) but also implement requested changes right there during the demo.
I've needed it a few times, actually.
but they killed off the headphone jack in their phones so that they could go thinner
I keep hearing this, yet the current iPad models, which have headphone jacks, are thinner than the current iPhone models, which do not.
I don't think it's accurate to say "odds" when talking about stuff that has already happened
That depends, really, on whether you're referring to the time before it happened, or the time after. When I talk about what the odds were, I'm talking about the time before. Of course, once it's happened the odds are 100% and it's really not proper to discuss odds in that manner; I was following the convention someone else had used earlier in an adjacent thread for simplicity's sake, as the point I was making referred to odds before there was life and the propriety of discussing odds after the fact really didn't come into play in that.
Is that overall or per-capita? Assuming it's per-capita, you must be looking at (and misinterpreting) this.
While the murder rate for the Americas is about 5x that of Europe (as a whole), that includes all of North, Central, and South America, not just the US. The murder rate in Europe is 3:100,000, whereas it is 5.35:100,000 in the US; not quite double. If we restrict to Western Europe, it's still about double; unless you include the French territories of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which reside in North America (as that page defines it, at least) have a per-capita murder rate 3x higher than the US.
That's right, outside of the mainland, gun-free France has a higher murder rate than the US; and by a greater factor than the difference between the US and Europe.
Ironic, isn't it, the way he used a racist term often used by white supremacists while calling someone else a white supremacist?
Picture this:
You just won the lottery.
Therefore, the odds that you won the lottery are 100%, because it has happened.
Before you won, the odds were considerably slimmer.
Follow?
Very well said.