its not like the old days when devices were dumb and we had new physical formats for every music generation.
The "having new physical formats" is a relatively recent thing. From 1894 for the next hundred years phonographs changed little, and it was always backwards-compatible. When it changed from 78 RPM to 33.3 and 45, newer players would still play the old 78s. When stereo was introduced the new stereo records would play on old monophonic players with both channels playing through its one speaker. The design was engineered that way. A monophonic record had the up and down motions translated to sound, while a stereo record had both channels in the up and down motion and a single channel in the sideways motion, which combined with the up and down signal filtered that channel out through destructive interference.
With cassettes and 8 tracks (I never had an 8 track, I was using cassettes before 8 tracks were popular) most people recorded the record the first time they played it so they could hear it in the car. My old '02 has both cassette and CD. It was probably 1995 before I had a CD player. And a turntable bought today will play records from 1894.
Of course not, but posting anonymously won't keep them from knowing who you are.
I just upgraded to an Android phone from my old feature phone and find it annoying when a pre-installed app wants me to turn GPS and Location Services on. Those are supposed to be for my benefit, not doubleclick and the NSA's.
We use kelvin in space. Not old and outdated Fahrenheit.
In space, Kelvin makes the most sense. Celsius logical, but a degree C is too broad a measurement and.1C is too fine for air temperature. Fahrenheit was obviously designed for air temperature measurement. Zero is damned cold, a hundred is damned hot, and a degree F is about the smallest temperature change skin can sense.
For cooking and chemistry Celsius makes the most sense. Different scales for different purposes.
Why didn't you submit it two days ago? It doesn't say "FPhyler writes" on it. And if you didn't want to see it, did you vote against it in the firehose? That's what the "stale" button is for.
Bitching about something you could have done something about but didn't is pretty lame.
Indeed, we're talking Chopin here, not Kidd Rock. With classical music you need dynamic range. With other classical composers you need even more; the 1812 overture comes to mind. I'm not sure 24 bit would be high enough, provided you had some REALLY big amplifiers in your stereo. I mean, cannons are a lot louder than drums.
Besides the fact that 24bit 192kHz audio is retarded audiophile snakeoil and provides zero audio quality improvement over 16bit 44.1kHz as a end user format this is a good idea.
Wrong.
There's some research suggesting that humans can hear transient sounds with frequency components theoretically beyond the normally recognized 20kHz or so "audible" limit.
Now if I could just find it - my Google-fu is weak and all I get are audiophile regurgitation of that.:-(
It has everything to do with harmonics. At CD sampling rates a 15 kHz sine wave is indistinguishable from a 15 kHz sawtooth wave -- you only have three samples per crest. Whether or not a human ear could discern the difference has afaik not been studied.
I mentioned coincidences. I don't think there's anywhere near enough evidence as to whether or not climate change played a role in it. They get few hurricanes that far north and the few they get are seldom (never?) severe. I was in one when I was stationed in Delaware in the Air Force. It was an F1, they condemned my barracks afterwards.
And the latest climate models are showing the likelihood of Sandys in New York decreasing because of climate change.
Categories only measure wind speed. What made it a "superstorm" was an improbable set of coincidences, such as being at high tide when the moon was in perigee, and another storm intersecting Sandy. What made it a superstorm was the amount of damage it caused, not its wind.
And it isn't just New Yorkers, it's the entire news media that always calls it a superstorm.
Chevrolet did reasonably well with the Nova in Latin America, even exceeding its sales projections in Venezuela. The story of the Chevy Nova is a classic example of an urban legend, a story that is told and retold so often that it is believed to be true even though it isn't. Like most other urban legends, there is some element of truth in the story (no va indeed means "it doesn't go")
ReÃr, es gracioso. Si, yo hablo poquito Espanol. I didn't say they couldn't sell them.
FOSS may have GIMP, but Microsoft has WiMP and WinCE. But software names are far less stupid than automobile names.
I just saw a truck in the parking lot with the trunk emblazoned "Toyota TRD". I had to do a double take, Toyota Turd? That's what it says in txtspk.
How about the Dodge Startus, er, Stratus? The Chevy Nova? "No va" is Spanish for "doesn't go." Worse yet is the KIA. What damned fool named a car company the military acronym for Killed In Action??
How about Nestea? Yassah, I'm gonna love me some o'thet Nasty!
Does your town have an oriental restaurant named the Dynasty? Come on, I'm going to eat in a restaurant named "die nasty"??
I just now saw your comment while metamoderating, that was an excellent comment. The two guys who modded you up did well.
A bitmap ASCII (CP437) font? Done. I can crank one out in an hour, tops
You're better than I ever was, then. Of course, my tools were primitive. That took me back to 1984 when I discovered that the video circuit in Radio Shack's MC10 was capable of NTSC standard format quality video (but only in 8 colors) and decided to write a graphics program for it. It was great fun.
Anyway, I decided to add text capabilities to the drawing program, and it took a hell of a lot longer than an hour. I mapped it out on graph paper first, which took hours in itself and probably an hour to input the codes.
Since I'd made it so you could print your artwork on it's plotter, I eventually made it into a word processor. In 20k running on a 6802 chip IIRC.
Primitive times, a year later when I was looking for work the guy who interviewed me bragged about his mainframe, which had a whopping two megabytes of memory. I didn't get the job.
I haven't done any "real" programming since they ditched NOMAD and dBase and switched to MS Access at work ten years ago. Yech, glad I retire next year.
My problem with it was that it wasn't really a search engine. It did no web crawling and sites were added by hand -- and it was damned hard to get your site on it. I was on all the rest of them, and I argued with them about the poor selection of Quake sites they had, some of the worst, content-free crap out there, while mine was actually excellent (other webmasters listed by Altavisa told me "your site puts mine to shame").
Infoseek was IMO the best one before Google came along. I fell in love with Google when I discovered it mostly because a search for just the word "quake" brought my site in something like third place. Of course, lots of folks linked to me.
Indeed. The AC obviously knows nothing about Christianity. Christians are judged not for our sins but for our good works, the price of our sins has been paid in blood, as long as we repent our wrongdoing. Forgiveness and love is what Christianity is all about.
The fact that Linux has every feature Windows has while Windows lacks features that Linux has had for years is fact, not opinion. The fact that Linux is faster on the same machine is not opinion, but fact.
I use both OSes. Windows falls short everywhere except eye candy and gaming, which they excel at. Fact, not opinion.
Obviously when there is 50% unemployment something will have to change (like doubling wages and cutting hours in half).
When unemployment and poverty get high enough it's amazing how many conservatives become liberals. Look at the depression -- most of today's social programs started then.
As to "our inbred desire to kill people", that is certainly NOT inbred. Violence is a learned reaction, not hereditary.
Excellent comment. To my fellow slashdotters, it's obvious that caseih is a farmer from his user name. CaseIH makes tractors. It used to be two companies; Case and International Harvester. We used Case tractors on the flightline when I was in the USAF; they don't (or didn't) only make farm equipment then.
I see their ads all the time on TV.
And if anyone is wondering what a farmer is doing at slashdot, farming isn't for dumb people any more; farmers have to know chemistry, biology, and tech. Today's farmers are nerds.
You were modded troll because "To be honest I have enough trouble leaving Microsoft products at times, although often it's because they are the best at what they do" is incorrect. Nobody would replace the OS that came on their computer unless the replacement was superior, and Linux IS superior. My W7 notebook will be joining the tower in running kubuntu very soon -- Windows gets slower and slower all the time as its registry becomes hugely bloated. It seems uninstalling a program seldom deletes any registry keys; I'm using the Windows AV (can't remember its name) and have uninstalled AVG, yet Windows keeps nagging my to turn AVG on.
Windows lacks features, has to be rebooted monthly, its useability is awful, and it's slow as molasses compared to Linux.
As to "Explorer file manager has no equivalent in terms of speed, functionality and usability compared to anything in Linux", that is PURE troll. Windows file manager was all right in XP but the one in W7 is klunky as hell. I don't remember the name of kubuntu's file manager, but it's heads and shoulders above Windows'.
As to MS Office I'll agree Excel is the best spreadsheet, but Word has few advantages over Oo, and MS Access is one of the reasons I'm glad I retire next year. I miss real DBMS languages like NOMAD and it's little brother dBase. I'm still pissed about what MS did to FoxPro after buying it. It was a great little DBMS before Microsoft bought and ruined it.
And Outlook is the absolute WORST email client I've ever had the misfortune of using. They went all MS a couple of years ago where I work and I miss the Novell email client.
I use MS products at work and absolutely HATE them. Microsoft makes the absolute WORST products of anyone's in my opinion.
You were modded troll because it was a troll. I completely agree with the guy who modded you down.
People keep saying that private corporations can always do things cheaper than government.
They say that, but they're wrong. Springfield's power company CWLP has cheaper rates, less downtime, and better customer service than any other power company in Illinois. The reason is, as a natural monopoly, the CEO of Amerin is only beholden to the stockholders. What are the customers going to do, use a different power company?
Springfield's ratepayers ARE the stockholders. If the price goes up too much, the service deteriorates, the Mayor loses his job next election.
Oh, and CWLP keeps taxes down by actually turning a profit for the city.
What the hell am I supposed to do with the books? I have an entire wall covered in them.
Donate them to the public library; donate them to organizations that provide books for the poor; sell them at a used book store, there are all sorts of solutions.
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its not like the old days when devices were dumb and we had new physical formats for every music generation.
The "having new physical formats" is a relatively recent thing. From 1894 for the next hundred years phonographs changed little, and it was always backwards-compatible. When it changed from 78 RPM to 33.3 and 45, newer players would still play the old 78s. When stereo was introduced the new stereo records would play on old monophonic players with both channels playing through its one speaker. The design was engineered that way. A monophonic record had the up and down motions translated to sound, while a stereo record had both channels in the up and down motion and a single channel in the sideways motion, which combined with the up and down signal filtered that channel out through destructive interference.
With cassettes and 8 tracks (I never had an 8 track, I was using cassettes before 8 tracks were popular) most people recorded the record the first time they played it so they could hear it in the car. My old '02 has both cassette and CD. It was probably 1995 before I had a CD player. And a turntable bought today will play records from 1894.
Secret oversight can't be trusted
Of course not, but posting anonymously won't keep them from knowing who you are.
I just upgraded to an Android phone from my old feature phone and find it annoying when a pre-installed app wants me to turn GPS and Location Services on. Those are supposed to be for my benefit, not doubleclick and the NSA's.
We use kelvin in space. Not old and outdated Fahrenheit.
In space, Kelvin makes the most sense. Celsius logical, but a degree C is too broad a measurement and .1C is too fine for air temperature. Fahrenheit was obviously designed for air temperature measurement. Zero is damned cold, a hundred is damned hot, and a degree F is about the smallest temperature change skin can sense.
For cooking and chemistry Celsius makes the most sense. Different scales for different purposes.
Uh, whoever modded that guy's comment offtopic needs more coffee. It wasn't a hilarious joke and was kind of obvious, but it's on topic.
OK, I guess I need to metamoderate...
BTW, my comment is off topic (yes, I checked the "no bonus" buttons").
Why didn't you submit it two days ago? It doesn't say "FPhyler writes" on it. And if you didn't want to see it, did you vote against it in the firehose? That's what the "stale" button is for.
Bitching about something you could have done something about but didn't is pretty lame.
Indeed, we're talking Chopin here, not Kidd Rock. With classical music you need dynamic range. With other classical composers you need even more; the 1812 overture comes to mind. I'm not sure 24 bit would be high enough, provided you had some REALLY big amplifiers in your stereo. I mean, cannons are a lot louder than drums.
It has everything to do with harmonics. At CD sampling rates a 15 kHz sine wave is indistinguishable from a 15 kHz sawtooth wave -- you only have three samples per crest. Whether or not a human ear could discern the difference has afaik not been studied.
Thanks for all the comments and for those that have backed us. I'll be here if anyone has any questions/comments they'd like answered. -Aaron
Your accolades are well deserved and it's you who deserve our thanks, not the other way around.
The only question I have is, why isn't your comment nodded to +5? Come on, mods!
I'm wondering why video? 18th century empty-v?
And yes, especially Black Keys. Which IIRC isn't the tune's real name.
I mentioned coincidences. I don't think there's anywhere near enough evidence as to whether or not climate change played a role in it. They get few hurricanes that far north and the few they get are seldom (never?) severe. I was in one when I was stationed in Delaware in the Air Force. It was an F1, they condemned my barracks afterwards.
And the latest climate models are showing the likelihood of Sandys in New York decreasing because of climate change.
Categories only measure wind speed. What made it a "superstorm" was an improbable set of coincidences, such as being at high tide when the moon was in perigee, and another storm intersecting Sandy. What made it a superstorm was the amount of damage it caused, not its wind.
And it isn't just New Yorkers, it's the entire news media that always calls it a superstorm.
If he's an adult then why is it illegal for him to drink?
ReÃr, es gracioso. Si, yo hablo poquito Espanol. I didn't say they couldn't sell them.
I was going to try it out but I couldn't get in the site. It didn't seem slashdotted, it just seemed to not work. Now I see why.
You think FOSS has a monopoly on idiotic names?
FOSS may have GIMP, but Microsoft has WiMP and WinCE. But software names are far less stupid than automobile names.
I just saw a truck in the parking lot with the trunk emblazoned "Toyota TRD". I had to do a double take, Toyota Turd? That's what it says in txtspk.
How about the Dodge Startus, er, Stratus? The Chevy Nova? "No va" is Spanish for "doesn't go." Worse yet is the KIA. What damned fool named a car company the military acronym for Killed In Action??
How about Nestea? Yassah, I'm gonna love me some o'thet Nasty!
Does your town have an oriental restaurant named the Dynasty? Come on, I'm going to eat in a restaurant named "die nasty"??
I just now saw your comment while metamoderating, that was an excellent comment. The two guys who modded you up did well.
A bitmap ASCII (CP437) font? Done. I can crank one out in an hour, tops
You're better than I ever was, then. Of course, my tools were primitive. That took me back to 1984 when I discovered that the video circuit in Radio Shack's MC10 was capable of NTSC standard format quality video (but only in 8 colors) and decided to write a graphics program for it. It was great fun.
Anyway, I decided to add text capabilities to the drawing program, and it took a hell of a lot longer than an hour. I mapped it out on graph paper first, which took hours in itself and probably an hour to input the codes.
Since I'd made it so you could print your artwork on it's plotter, I eventually made it into a word processor. In 20k running on a 6802 chip IIRC.
Primitive times, a year later when I was looking for work the guy who interviewed me bragged about his mainframe, which had a whopping two megabytes of memory. I didn't get the job.
I haven't done any "real" programming since they ditched NOMAD and dBase and switched to MS Access at work ten years ago. Yech, glad I retire next year.
And what was your problem with Altavista?
My problem with it was that it wasn't really a search engine. It did no web crawling and sites were added by hand -- and it was damned hard to get your site on it. I was on all the rest of them, and I argued with them about the poor selection of Quake sites they had, some of the worst, content-free crap out there, while mine was actually excellent (other webmasters listed by Altavisa told me "your site puts mine to shame").
Infoseek was IMO the best one before Google came along. I fell in love with Google when I discovered it mostly because a search for just the word "quake" brought my site in something like third place. Of course, lots of folks linked to me.
Indeed. The AC obviously knows nothing about Christianity. Christians are judged not for our sins but for our good works, the price of our sins has been paid in blood, as long as we repent our wrongdoing. Forgiveness and love is what Christianity is all about.
The fact that Linux has every feature Windows has while Windows lacks features that Linux has had for years is fact, not opinion. The fact that Linux is faster on the same machine is not opinion, but fact.
I use both OSes. Windows falls short everywhere except eye candy and gaming, which they excel at. Fact, not opinion.
Obviously when there is 50% unemployment something will have to change (like doubling wages and cutting hours in half).
When unemployment and poverty get high enough it's amazing how many conservatives become liberals. Look at the depression -- most of today's social programs started then.
As to "our inbred desire to kill people", that is certainly NOT inbred. Violence is a learned reaction, not hereditary.
Excellent comment. To my fellow slashdotters, it's obvious that caseih is a farmer from his user name. CaseIH makes tractors. It used to be two companies; Case and International Harvester. We used Case tractors on the flightline when I was in the USAF; they don't (or didn't) only make farm equipment then.
I see their ads all the time on TV.
And if anyone is wondering what a farmer is doing at slashdot, farming isn't for dumb people any more; farmers have to know chemistry, biology, and tech. Today's farmers are nerds.
You were modded troll because "To be honest I have enough trouble leaving Microsoft products at times, although often it's because they are the best at what they do" is incorrect. Nobody would replace the OS that came on their computer unless the replacement was superior, and Linux IS superior. My W7 notebook will be joining the tower in running kubuntu very soon -- Windows gets slower and slower all the time as its registry becomes hugely bloated. It seems uninstalling a program seldom deletes any registry keys; I'm using the Windows AV (can't remember its name) and have uninstalled AVG, yet Windows keeps nagging my to turn AVG on.
Windows lacks features, has to be rebooted monthly, its useability is awful, and it's slow as molasses compared to Linux.
As to "Explorer file manager has no equivalent in terms of speed, functionality and usability compared to anything in Linux", that is PURE troll. Windows file manager was all right in XP but the one in W7 is klunky as hell. I don't remember the name of kubuntu's file manager, but it's heads and shoulders above Windows'.
As to MS Office I'll agree Excel is the best spreadsheet, but Word has few advantages over Oo, and MS Access is one of the reasons I'm glad I retire next year. I miss real DBMS languages like NOMAD and it's little brother dBase. I'm still pissed about what MS did to FoxPro after buying it. It was a great little DBMS before Microsoft bought and ruined it.
And Outlook is the absolute WORST email client I've ever had the misfortune of using. They went all MS a couple of years ago where I work and I miss the Novell email client.
I use MS products at work and absolutely HATE them. Microsoft makes the absolute WORST products of anyone's in my opinion.
You were modded troll because it was a troll. I completely agree with the guy who modded you down.
People keep saying that private corporations can always do things cheaper than government.
They say that, but they're wrong. Springfield's power company CWLP has cheaper rates, less downtime, and better customer service than any other power company in Illinois. The reason is, as a natural monopoly, the CEO of Amerin is only beholden to the stockholders. What are the customers going to do, use a different power company?
Springfield's ratepayers ARE the stockholders. If the price goes up too much, the service deteriorates, the Mayor loses his job next election.
Oh, and CWLP keeps taxes down by actually turning a profit for the city.
What the hell am I supposed to do with the books? I have an entire wall covered in them.
Donate them to the public library; donate them to organizations that provide books for the poor; sell them at a used book store, there are all sorts of solutions.
There needs to be a safety net for the people who end up structurally unemployed as a result, however.
Agreed completely.