however a human listener can't distinguish 16-bit from 24-bit. A person like you, on a consumer device, likely not. But from proffesional sound engineers it is expected that they can.
More important, all those digital processing tools that are in the chain, from EQs to delays and dynamics processors and pitch correction, etc can most definitely tell the difference between a 16-bit signal and a 24-bit signal.
There's really no point in 96khz ever. You can fully reproduce an analog signal with a digital one by simply making the sample rate double the spectrum that you need to capture. Since human hearing tops out at 20khz, there's no point in sampling more than the 44khz found in CD's,
Here's the thing: In modern music production, there's a lot of processing that goes on in the box, and outside the realm of human hearing. Working at higher resolutions and bitrates that are outside the spectrum of human hearing can make a big difference. There are good reasons that 24-bit 128khz is a standard resolution for professional music production. Of course, the file that's going to be distributed won't be at that resolution, but during production, it helps.
For example, with a high-quality EQ plugin, or delay, you can hear an audible difference if it's printing at 96khz than at 44.1khz.
It's the same reason movies are shot in HD even though they might eventually viewed at 480i. Because stuff has to be done to that signal before it gets to you.
To be fair, it used to nearly be true before computers became cheap.
Also nonsense. No matter how cheap computers get, they don't come out of the factory knowing how to error-correct a wave simulation. For that, you need the BBM equation and for that, you need mathematicians.
Even gay marriage entered public discourse only after it became an issue in the US.
You're conflating social issues with economic issues. If there's one thing that we know, they are not the same thing, and they are not predictors of one another.
Hundreds of little 2-seater Google self-driving cars can already be seen driving everywhere in Santa Clara and Mountain View.
There are no pedestrians in Santa Clara or Mountain View. I'm serious.
And if there were and they were run over by a Google Car, they probably wouldn't be missed until they didn't show up for their hot yoga class on Thursday.
"First, you'll have to sign this waiver of our liability, because motherfucker, if it was a "self-driving car" we wouldn't need you to be our crash-test dummy.
If they really want to test their self-driving cars, they should hire unemployed "software engineers" to lay down in the road in front of a fleet of self-driving cars. That's the test that matters.
But historically, water itself has been rather dangerous stuff. Consider all the other people and animals upstream who have been using it for both bathing and disposing of waste of various sorts. Do you want to drink that water? Not if you want a long, healthy life.
Plus, fish fuck in that water. That's why I stick to beer and brown liquor for my hydration needs.
Confirmation bias -- you sure that the American students realize that those higher level math courses are only needed if one wants to become a math professor themselves?
Nonsense. Those higher-level math courses are the ones that get used in applied science. For example, my wife's specialty is in numerical analysis and simulation of waves. Used in everything from climate science to wireless communications and acoustics and even nuclear physics.
If you think all math above the level of Calculus is only for academics, then you must be an American.
The only criticism I have is that Donald gave his sock puppet the same name as one of his kids (Barron). He's got a little something to learn about coming up with better aliases.
I've been in American college classrooms. This won't work unless Jill has a thick, unintelligble accent.
Hey, watch it buddy, you're talking about my wife. After decades, she still has her Eastern European accent and teaches grad-level math. Fortunately, by the time they're going for a PhD in math at an American university, the only students left all have thick accents themselves so they don't notice hers. Most of the US students are still struggling with Calculus.
For example, the entire developed world has a huge and growing problem with intergenerational wealth transfer from working age to the elderly.
I don't know if you were raised by wolves, but in most civilized human cultures, a "transfer of wealth" from healthy young people to the elderly would not be seen as a problem, but a good thing.
There are no socialist countries in Europe. They all folded and dissolved decades ago.
You know that, and I know that. But to many Americans in and out of power, European countries represent "socialism" just because they happen to be social democracies with robust welfare systems, universal health care, etc.
A better way to see it is that there are European countries who have found solutions that lead to better lives for people. "Capitalist" and "socialist" are just word games. Unfortunately, these solutions seem to have eluded the United States, which seems intent on riding our stage-four trickle-down economy right down the crapper.
Because both your premise are wrong. Finland isn't "socialist", it's a "social democracy" currently governed by a coalition of three center-right parties.
You are absolutely correct. However, in the US the Overton window has shifted so far to the Right that all social democracies are considered "socialist" for purposes of political discourse.
Any welfare state in the US will always be called "socialism". You don't seem to realize just how much farther to the Right the United States is to countries in Europe.
Sounds like you're saying that when a black person is in one party they are representational of a non-discriminatory body of collectively-minded people, but in the other party they are just a token.
That's correct.
That could be true, but if you're going to make that claim you can't say, 'We're not racist because we have a guy with ethnicity X'.
It's not just that we have a guy of ethnicity X, but that the leader of the entire party is of ethnicity X.
Small societies where everyone has a lot in common can sometimes succeed using some collectivist structures.
Socialism is not "collectivism", and the socialist countries of Europe comprise can hardly be called "small societies".
(Also, were you really in Finland? There's no reason to believe you were.)
Yes, I was there. I have very good friends that live there and I go every few years for the annual Tangomarkkinat festival. I play free-reed instruments and love to participate. There are a lot of first-rate players there.
Why do people try to claim that countries like Finland are not capitalist? Nokia is not a "socialist" company,
Your question should be, "Why do people say that capitalism/socialism is a binary, one-or-the-other choice?"
This happens every time socialism is mentioned around here. People try to argue that you can either have socialism or capitalism, but not both, when there are very successful countries that have found a way for the two to co-exist and work together.
Again, what laws were broken, and what crimes were committed. You need to give examples
OK, here's an example that was used in the Malasian trials:
The court heard how Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his fingernails removed by pliers; Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and hung from a wall; Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement, Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield whilst being transported by helicopter. The witnesses also detailed how they have residual injuries till today.
Pure and simple. Wages are likely half of their expenses. This would be a 25% increase from $12/hr to $15/hr. So about a 12.5% increase. The price of a dollar burger goes up 13 cents.
I question the entire premise that any of this has to do with an increase in the minimum wage.
If you can replace a $15/hr worker with a machine, then you're probably also going to replace an $7/hr worker with a machine. The effort to paint fast-food automation as some response to efforts to increase the minimum wage is just FUD coming from our neoliberal corporate overlords. When they inevitably replace workers with machines, they can simply point to "those greedy minimum wage workers" the same way companies who have outsourced their jobs pointed to "those greedy unionized workers".
It's all horseshit. They're hoping to increase profits by using machines to serve fast food to unemployed people who will be using taxpayer money to buy their shitty food. It's more of their "privatize the profits/socialize the costs" strategy that's been going on since the days of Ronald Reagan.
From what I have understood they are only removing the person that will mishear what I say and pushes the wrong button in the register and instead lets me do the pushing.
So, I'm gonna have to push buttons that thousands of grimy, disease-ridden, greasy-fingered Wendy's eaters have smeared with their stubby digits before me?
Hell no. I'd take my chances with a person getting my order wrong and me having to correct him. That is, if I were the type of person to go into a Wendys in order to eat garbage.
But socialism as a political system requires high levels of taking at the barrel of a gun.
You're a drama queen. I was in Finland last summer, and I didn't see any "high levels of taking at the barrel of a gun".
When mentioning "socialism", why do people like you immediately jump to North Korea or Mao's Great Leap Forward without acknowledging that there are socialist countries that have better outcomes, more economic and social mobility, greater liberty and more stable economies than anything that capitalism has ever produced?
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More important, all those digital processing tools that are in the chain, from EQs to delays and dynamics processors and pitch correction, etc can most definitely tell the difference between a 16-bit signal and a 24-bit signal.
Here's the thing: In modern music production, there's a lot of processing that goes on in the box, and outside the realm of human hearing. Working at higher resolutions and bitrates that are outside the spectrum of human hearing can make a big difference. There are good reasons that 24-bit 128khz is a standard resolution for professional music production. Of course, the file that's going to be distributed won't be at that resolution, but during production, it helps.
For example, with a high-quality EQ plugin, or delay, you can hear an audible difference if it's printing at 96khz than at 44.1khz.
It's the same reason movies are shot in HD even though they might eventually viewed at 480i. Because stuff has to be done to that signal before it gets to you.
Also nonsense. No matter how cheap computers get, they don't come out of the factory knowing how to error-correct a wave simulation. For that, you need the BBM equation and for that, you need mathematicians.
You just don't hear about the ones who get run over by Google Cars, because they're immediately replaced by clones with HB1 visas.
You're conflating social issues with economic issues. If there's one thing that we know, they are not the same thing, and they are not predictors of one another.
There are no pedestrians in Santa Clara or Mountain View. I'm serious.
And if there were and they were run over by a Google Car, they probably wouldn't be missed until they didn't show up for their hot yoga class on Thursday.
"First, you'll have to sign this waiver of our liability, because motherfucker, if it was a "self-driving car" we wouldn't need you to be our crash-test dummy.
If they really want to test their self-driving cars, they should hire unemployed "software engineers" to lay down in the road in front of a fleet of self-driving cars. That's the test that matters.
Plus, fish fuck in that water. That's why I stick to beer and brown liquor for my hydration needs.
Nonsense. Those higher-level math courses are the ones that get used in applied science. For example, my wife's specialty is in numerical analysis and simulation of waves. Used in everything from climate science to wireless communications and acoustics and even nuclear physics.
If you think all math above the level of Calculus is only for academics, then you must be an American.
As we've learned in today's news, Donald Trump saves money by just becoming his own shills.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The only criticism I have is that Donald gave his sock puppet the same name as one of his kids (Barron). He's got a little something to learn about coming up with better aliases.
Hey, watch it buddy, you're talking about my wife. After decades, she still has her Eastern European accent and teaches grad-level math. Fortunately, by the time they're going for a PhD in math at an American university, the only students left all have thick accents themselves so they don't notice hers. Most of the US students are still struggling with Calculus.
I don't know if you were raised by wolves, but in most civilized human cultures, a "transfer of wealth" from healthy young people to the elderly would not be seen as a problem, but a good thing.
And is now grinding their children and grandchildren into dust.
You know that, and I know that. But to many Americans in and out of power, European countries represent "socialism" just because they happen to be social democracies with robust welfare systems, universal health care, etc.
A better way to see it is that there are European countries who have found solutions that lead to better lives for people. "Capitalist" and "socialist" are just word games. Unfortunately, these solutions seem to have eluded the United States, which seems intent on riding our stage-four trickle-down economy right down the crapper.
You aren't listening. The societies we're talking about are not "smaller societies" and not everyone in them shares common values.
You are absolutely correct. However, in the US the Overton window has shifted so far to the Right that all social democracies are considered "socialist" for purposes of political discourse.
Any welfare state in the US will always be called "socialism". You don't seem to realize just how much farther to the Right the United States is to countries in Europe.
Well, that's depending on your value for "the long run".
You could also say that we have yet to see how capitalism will play out in the long run, but it's looking increasingly bleak.
That's correct.
It's not just that we have a guy of ethnicity X, but that the leader of the entire party is of ethnicity X.
Maybe you don't understand how war crimes work.
And yes, he ordered the torture:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Socialism is not "collectivism", and the socialist countries of Europe comprise can hardly be called "small societies".
Yes, I was there. I have very good friends that live there and I go every few years for the annual Tangomarkkinat festival. I play free-reed instruments and love to participate. There are a lot of first-rate players there.
Your question should be, "Why do people say that capitalism/socialism is a binary, one-or-the-other choice?"
This happens every time socialism is mentioned around here. People try to argue that you can either have socialism or capitalism, but not both, when there are very successful countries that have found a way for the two to co-exist and work together.
OK, here's an example that was used in the Malasian trials:
I question the entire premise that any of this has to do with an increase in the minimum wage.
If you can replace a $15/hr worker with a machine, then you're probably also going to replace an $7/hr worker with a machine. The effort to paint fast-food automation as some response to efforts to increase the minimum wage is just FUD coming from our neoliberal corporate overlords. When they inevitably replace workers with machines, they can simply point to "those greedy minimum wage workers" the same way companies who have outsourced their jobs pointed to "those greedy unionized workers".
It's all horseshit. They're hoping to increase profits by using machines to serve fast food to unemployed people who will be using taxpayer money to buy their shitty food. It's more of their "privatize the profits/socialize the costs" strategy that's been going on since the days of Ronald Reagan.
So, I'm gonna have to push buttons that thousands of grimy, disease-ridden, greasy-fingered Wendy's eaters have smeared with their stubby digits before me?
Hell no. I'd take my chances with a person getting my order wrong and me having to correct him. That is, if I were the type of person to go into a Wendys in order to eat garbage.
You're a drama queen. I was in Finland last summer, and I didn't see any "high levels of taking at the barrel of a gun".
When mentioning "socialism", why do people like you immediately jump to North Korea or Mao's Great Leap Forward without acknowledging that there are socialist countries that have better outcomes, more economic and social mobility, greater liberty and more stable economies than anything that capitalism has ever produced?