Ok, I haven't read all of the comments yet so there's a chance I may be rudundant (but I doubt it). My questiosn is, why is war between Russia and Georgia any of our damned business, anyway?
How would we feel if we attacked Mexico and Russia butted in? It seems Sen. Bill "ha ha" Nelson and the rest of his co-conspirators in the Senate and Congress needs to butt out of Russia's and Georgia's business.
If NATO or the UN steps in then that's different, but afaik they haven't.
I'm sick of my country playing the world's policeman.
I had enough empathy not to suggest killing them off outright.
Y9ou have to die; everyone has to die. However, everyone does NOT have to have their civil rights and human dignity stripped from them. What you said further illustrates your lack of empathy, as well as your lack of communication skills.
Given our overpopulation right now we really should think about genetic cleansing seriously
Go for it; if you jump off a tall building the population will be reduced by one. And, there is no evidence that the planet can't sustain six billion people, most of whom live in China. It isn't overpopulated where I live.
I saw AFA on this a couple of days ago. They're not referring to observed star systems; we can't yet detect earth sized (or earth massed) planets yet.
They ran a computer simulation of star formation and the simulations had gas giants migrating inward, which ate rocky planets like ours. It is yet to be determined how accurate the simulations are.
What you say is true, but most Americans (at least the middle class "normal" people) still get almost all their news fro NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and FOX. Some still read dead-tree newspapers, but fewer and fewer of them.
And a newspaper from Tierra Del Fuego is little use if you don't know how to read Spanish. An English speaking person is pretty much limited to Canada, the US, Australia, and Great Britain.
As I understand it, pop is sometimes caused by buildup and sudden release of static electricity
I'm 56 and listened to a LOT of vinyl, and can tell you that pop is caused by the needle gouging the record when it first is laid on the record, or if you drop and scratch it. Sometimes the master itself had pops.
Your method would only work if you had two or more copies of the original media, and if the master had a pop, the pop would remain.
Amen. Charlie (she's a girl, guys; journal nsfw) wanted to move in with me. I had to tell her she could crash there for a few days, but I'm not taking in any roomers. I've had a few in the last year (ioncluding her over a year ago), and they were all pains in the ass one way or another.
The next woman that moves in with me is going to have to be my lover in a monogamous relationship.
One would think from my username that I'm into S&M, but my username is my initials and the zip code I was living in when I registered my/. account. So out of a sample of one, the research is bogus.
I chose my screenname/email address when I was in 4th grade. my email address is about my personality ~10 years ago.
I'm 56, and even I'm not much at all like I was ten years ago.
Ten years ago I was married with a teenaged daughter and a preteen daughter, smoked cigarettes, wore coke-bottle glasses and a mustache, played a lot of videogames, almost never went out, had a fairly popular quake site.
Now I don't smoke, don't wear glasses, wear a goatee, and live alone (I raised the daughters by myself after Evil-X left us; they're grown now). I go out damned near every night, abandoned the Quake site.
I'm not as nerdy as I used to be, although I'm a cyborg now but wasn't then (my implant is my favorite piece of technology).
You find a good lawyer (no longer a contradiction in terms, thanks to NYCL)
Actually, Ray's only my third favorite lawyer. My favorite is the very nice lady who handled my divorce, and my second favorite is her boss, who handled my bankrupcy. Without them I'd have been fuX0red.
The vinyl is elastic; it gives. Making LPs of a harder material would have mede them wear out faster.
I'm 56, I've had quite a bit of experience with vinyl records, and have never had one "wear out". I've seen them wear out - on turntables with heavy tone arms and steel needles, rather than ultralightweight tonearms with styluses that have a diamond needle suspended on a springy steel plate.
The biggest problem is a gouge when the needle hits the record, introducing a pop, or if you drop the damned thing and scratch it. I used to only play a vinyl record once, and record it to cassette. The cassette doesn't sound as good as a pristine vinyl record, but it sounded good enough and you can throw it around without worry, and it's going to sound better than a scratched up LP. If it gets "eaten" you can re-record it from your LP that has only been played once.
A friend and I have been digitizing our collections and putting them on CD for years. Often the homemade CD will sound better than the store-bought one, mostly because of bad digital remastering. I wish when they made CDs of records that were originally mastered in analog they would just sample the analog stereo master that fed the cutting machine, rather than trying to recreate it digitally.
there is no real technical reason for vinyl to sound better
Sorry, but your link is woefully ignorant and has some really bad inaccuracies. For instance, "The vinyl surface is heated to several hundred degrees on playback, and repeat play of the same track should wait at least several hours until the vinyl has cooled". That is just utter bullshit. Not everything in that article is wrong, but there is much wefully inaccurate information in it.
The 44k samples per second of the CD limits the upper frequencies to 22kHz. Yes, that's higher than you can hear, but all the high frequency harmonics are gone. Those harmonics color the frequencies you CAN hear. Plus, the closer you get to that 22k, the more aliasing you have.
Analog mastering introduces noise, but digital mastering introduces rounding errors and aliasing.
If you have an analog medium from a digital master, or a digital medium from an analog master, you have the worst of both worlds, with th edisadvantages of both and the advantages of neither. The LP of Led Zeppelin's Presence will sound better than the CD (provided your turntable is good enough), while the CD of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit will sound better than an LP version no matter how good your turntable is.
Digital has a far larger dynamic range than analog, but oddly the only place you see those dynamics is in the movies, and they're done badly there. I've wished for a "dynamics compression" module so I could watch a movie where the music wasn't thundering while the speech is berely audible. CDs, OTOH, almost never use the dynamic range they are capable of. I can NOT for the life of me figure out why the LP version of Boston's first album has so much more dynamics than the CD version; technically, the CD should have more dynamics. It's just a matter of bad remastering.
Also if you want to digitize your own vinyl, read How to rip from vinyl or tape. I should have more strongly stressed in both articles that with analog, the quality of the playback device is of utmost importance for fidelity. Usually with analog equipment (although not always) the more you pay, the better it will sound, even to untrained old ears.
How can voters be informed when the media aren't? It seem that whenever I see anything whatever about science on the TV news, they get something wrong, usually badly wrong and backwards.
The average American (at least the ones I talk to) don't think that scientific consensis is that the globe is heatihng and we are responsible.
I don't know about the rest of the world's media, but ours is abysmal. Without an informed media you can't have an informed populace. Perhaps that's what our corporate-controled media wants?
If you haven't read the link, it refers to the fact that first I was "four eyes" with my coke bottle glasses, then I was "six eyes" with my contacts for nearsightedness and my reading glasses for my age related farsightedness, then I got the CrystaLens implant in my left eye for a cataract that was caused by prescribed steroid eyedrops. The implant cured the cataract, nearsightedness, and farsightedness in that eye; it's a new type that actually lets your eye focus like a young eye.
I still wore a contact in my right eye, which was where the "three eyes" comes from, although I haven't worn the contact for a while now; I just rely on the good eye. I should probably change my sig...
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Ok, I haven't read all of the comments yet so there's a chance I may be rudundant (but I doubt it). My questiosn is, why is war between Russia and Georgia any of our damned business, anyway?
How would we feel if we attacked Mexico and Russia butted in? It seems Sen. Bill "ha ha" Nelson and the rest of his co-conspirators in the Senate and Congress needs to butt out of Russia's and Georgia's business.
If NATO or the UN steps in then that's different, but afaik they haven't.
I'm sick of my country playing the world's policeman.
Wanting something and being able to find it are two different things. And having the roommates (especially female ones) makes it that much harder.
I've had people in meatspace tell me that it surprises them that I'm looking for a serious relationship, too.
Not just financially inefficient but impossible. The system will be gamed; how badly is the question.
I had enough empathy not to suggest killing them off outright.
Y9ou have to die; everyone has to die. However, everyone does NOT have to have their civil rights and human dignity stripped from them. What you said further illustrates your lack of empathy, as well as your lack of communication skills.
Given our overpopulation right now we really should think about genetic cleansing seriously
Go for it; if you jump off a tall building the population will be reduced by one. And, there is no evidence that the planet can't sustain six billion people, most of whom live in China. It isn't overpopulated where I live.
You have some serious moral deficiencies.
Seems like this article belongs in the "Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science?" thread if you ask me.
If you're an American then you made your own point. TFA isn't talking about observation, but theory and computer simulation.
We're going to have a new Commander in Chief next January. Did they ask any of the five people running for President what their opinion on it was?
With my new email I probably score good in both openness and narcissism!
I don't know whether to laugh or barf!
I saw AFA on this a couple of days ago. They're not referring to observed star systems; we can't yet detect earth sized (or earth massed) planets yet.
They ran a computer simulation of star formation and the simulations had gas giants migrating inward, which ate rocky planets like ours. It is yet to be determined how accurate the simulations are.
What you say is true, but most Americans (at least the middle class "normal" people) still get almost all their news fro NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and FOX. Some still read dead-tree newspapers, but fewer and fewer of them.
And a newspaper from Tierra Del Fuego is little use if you don't know how to read Spanish. An English speaking person is pretty much limited to Canada, the US, Australia, and Great Britain.
As I understand it, pop is sometimes caused by buildup and sudden release of static electricity
I'm 56 and listened to a LOT of vinyl, and can tell you that pop is caused by the needle gouging the record when it first is laid on the record, or if you drop and scratch it. Sometimes the master itself had pops.
Your method would only work if you had two or more copies of the original media, and if the master had a pop, the pop would remain.
Tough room, eh?
...says the guy whose username starts with "Mrs" and ends with "Guido"?
1. I'm not average
2. I have fat, clumsy fingers
Amen. Charlie (she's a girl, guys; journal nsfw) wanted to move in with me. I had to tell her she could crash there for a few days, but I'm not taking in any roomers. I've had a few in the last year (ioncluding her over a year ago), and they were all pains in the ass one way or another.
The next woman that moves in with me is going to have to be my lover in a monogamous relationship.
One would think from my username that I'm into S&M, but my username is my initials and the zip code I was living in when I registered my /. account. So out of a sample of one, the research is bogus.
I chose my screenname/email address when I was in 4th grade. my email address is about my personality ~10 years ago.
I'm 56, and even I'm not much at all like I was ten years ago.
Ten years ago I was married with a teenaged daughter and a preteen daughter, smoked cigarettes, wore coke-bottle glasses and a mustache, played a lot of videogames, almost never went out, had a fairly popular quake site.
Now I don't smoke, don't wear glasses, wear a goatee, and live alone (I raised the daughters by myself after Evil-X left us; they're grown now). I go out damned near every night, abandoned the Quake site.
I'm not as nerdy as I used to be, although I'm a cyborg now but wasn't then (my implant is my favorite piece of technology).
You find a good lawyer (no longer a contradiction in terms, thanks to NYCL)
Actually, Ray's only my third favorite lawyer. My favorite is the very nice lady who handled my divorce, and my second favorite is her boss, who handled my bankrupcy. Without them I'd have been fuX0red.
No, it stands for Ruthless Idiots Against America. The proper organization is the Music And Film Association of America (M.A.F.I.A.A.)
He's not THAT new, but he's a law geek, not a computer geek. He is, however, one of US.
The vinyl is elastic; it gives. Making LPs of a harder material would have mede them wear out faster.
I'm 56, I've had quite a bit of experience with vinyl records, and have never had one "wear out". I've seen them wear out - on turntables with heavy tone arms and steel needles, rather than ultralightweight tonearms with styluses that have a diamond needle suspended on a springy steel plate.
The biggest problem is a gouge when the needle hits the record, introducing a pop, or if you drop the damned thing and scratch it. I used to only play a vinyl record once, and record it to cassette. The cassette doesn't sound as good as a pristine vinyl record, but it sounded good enough and you can throw it around without worry, and it's going to sound better than a scratched up LP. If it gets "eaten" you can re-record it from your LP that has only been played once.
A friend and I have been digitizing our collections and putting them on CD for years. Often the homemade CD will sound better than the store-bought one, mostly because of bad digital remastering. I wish when they made CDs of records that were originally mastered in analog they would just sample the analog stereo master that fed the cutting machine, rather than trying to recreate it digitally.
there is no real technical reason for vinyl to sound better
Sorry, but your link is woefully ignorant and has some really bad inaccuracies. For instance, "The vinyl surface is heated to several hundred degrees on playback, and repeat play of the same track should wait at least several hours until the vinyl has cooled". That is just utter bullshit. Not everything in that article is wrong, but there is much wefully inaccurate information in it.
The 44k samples per second of the CD limits the upper frequencies to 22kHz. Yes, that's higher than you can hear, but all the high frequency harmonics are gone. Those harmonics color the frequencies you CAN hear. Plus, the closer you get to that 22k, the more aliasing you have.
Analog mastering introduces noise, but digital mastering introduces rounding errors and aliasing.
If you have an analog medium from a digital master, or a digital medium from an analog master, you have the worst of both worlds, with th edisadvantages of both and the advantages of neither. The LP of Led Zeppelin's Presence will sound better than the CD (provided your turntable is good enough), while the CD of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit will sound better than an LP version no matter how good your turntable is.
Digital has a far larger dynamic range than analog, but oddly the only place you see those dynamics is in the movies, and they're done badly there. I've wished for a "dynamics compression" module so I could watch a movie where the music wasn't thundering while the speech is berely audible. CDs, OTOH, almost never use the dynamic range they are capable of. I can NOT for the life of me figure out why the LP version of Boston's first album has so much more dynamics than the CD version; technically, the CD should have more dynamics. It's just a matter of bad remastering.
I got a few things wrong in Digital vs. analog- which is better? (tape speed for one), but whoever wrote that wiki you linked should read it.
Also if you want to digitize your own vinyl, read How to rip from vinyl or tape. I should have more strongly stressed in both articles that with analog, the quality of the playback device is of utmost importance for fidelity. Usually with analog equipment (although not always) the more you pay, the better it will sound, even to untrained old ears.
He can put them on Archive.org as lossless FLAC or SHN.
How can voters be informed when the media aren't? It seem that whenever I see anything whatever about science on the TV news, they get something wrong, usually badly wrong and backwards.
The average American (at least the ones I talk to) don't think that scientific consensis is that the globe is heatihng and we are responsible.
I don't know about the rest of the world's media, but ours is abysmal. Without an informed media you can't have an informed populace. Perhaps that's what our corporate-controled media wants?
It suggests a high rate of infant mortality, poor neonatal care, high risk of accident among the young, and likely high incidence of disease.
What the actual reasons for short average lifespan I have no idea.
If you haven't read the link, it refers to the fact that first I was "four eyes" with my coke bottle glasses, then I was "six eyes" with my contacts for nearsightedness and my reading glasses for my age related farsightedness, then I got the CrystaLens implant in my left eye for a cataract that was caused by prescribed steroid eyedrops. The implant cured the cataract, nearsightedness, and farsightedness in that eye; it's a new type that actually lets your eye focus like a young eye.
I still wore a contact in my right eye, which was where the "three eyes" comes from, although I haven't worn the contact for a while now; I just rely on the good eye. I should probably change my sig...
I was in seventh grade in 1965, I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations have run out.