I understand that China is a trading partner but in so many other spheres (human rights, pollution, animal cruelty, IP theft, etc etc ) they're a disgrace and yet they always seem to get a pass, unlike some other countries the US has gone to war with over nothing.
If the US blocked all Chinese IP addresses, what would be the worst that could happen? How about raising import tariffs?
Yes it does, there's time to organize still. The only way to get through to these elected bastards is to let them know you'll be throwing your money and vote at the other guy when they're next up for reelection. If enough people do that, they'll cave.
My hearing tails off at 16 khz too. Even so, why design a system that works for most people when it's just as easy to design one that works for everybody?
Check out the low pass filter slope on a DAC, it's not like 20kHz is played back accurately and 20,001Hz is filtered completely. Filtering causes distortion. I'm just saying that it's better to take all of that and move it up to 24kHz by using a 48kHz sample rate. Ideally it would be even higher at 60kHz. 96kHz is overkill once the material has been mixed and mastered though.
"Almost all..."
I tend to agree. Most people don't have speakers that can get higher than 20kHz or ears that would be able to hear the benefit anyway. Some people do though.
Mine are flat up to 50kHz.
The problem with 44.1kHz is that the highest frequency possible is 22.5kHz, dangerously close to the upper range of human hearing of around 20kHz. Add to that possible DAC high pass filtering artifacts, etc and there's a good argument for moving to a sample rate of 48kHz or higher.
If they have nothing to do except introduce bullshit bills, we should stop paying them and send them home. We could use the money to hire better teachers, fix up a crumbling bridge or something.
Exactly. If I can't sell a $60 game on eBay after I'm done with it, the amount of $60 games I buy will be a big fat zero.
I'm happy to buy a non-resalable game from Steam for $15.
The iPad is just like an ultra book, let me log in to my user account on my iPad... Oh.
Maybe I'll install steam and play some Crysis 2... nope.
How is it like an Ultrabook again?
I suspect it's only a matter of time before Apple tie iOS and OSX together and it's laptops get touch screens. Retina touch screens at that.
Another issue I have with these is that I have no faith that they won't be tomorrow's Zunes. At least an Air is going to stick around and be supported for a while.
An iPad at $400 cheaper and a MacBook Air for only $100 more.
I'm not sure, at this price point, what MS are trying to accomplish. It just reeks of a hurried "oh hell, we must release something to counter Apple'
Well, here's your something.
Well maybe not 99c.
I just checked iTunes, The Avengers is mine to own for only $19.99! That's the reason I have spent exactly $0 on buying movies for the past several years.
I guess some people are ponying up $20 per movie, I'll never be one of them.
How to stop piracy:
1 Create great stuff
2 Make it easy to buy
3 Same day worldwide release
4 Fair price
5 Works on any device
Either do that or go after your customers and threaten them with a lawsuit. See how much they like being your customers after that.
Because driving a high efficiency or electric vehicle should be encouraged, not penalized.
It's not a penalty, you faint-hearted, lame, shit-eating excuse for a tree hugger. It's an attempt to spread the cost of BUILDING roads fairly across the people who USE those roads. It's about how miles rolled diverge from gallons pumped; not how your little junkmobile sips fuel while barely being able to push its thin-walled, plastic self down an onramp faster than an old lady in a walker, all the while you're bleeding off what little speed your tiny, tiny engine has managed to impart to your sorry amalgamation of mismatched parts as you leave skinny little tire marks dodging squirrels in abject fear of thousands of dollars of body damage.
Personally, I think you little turdlets in your I'm-so-hip tinycockmobiles should be penalized by being run off the fucking road, where your little texting-phones would get driven through your misshapen skulls until they met your little white earbuds in an explosion of angsty fucktard granola-fed brain matter. Then your remains should be fed to wildlife, while your complete piece of shit can't-go-in-snow junker gets crushed and recycled into a respectable 4WD with a bench seat so that adults with functioning gonads can sit together, rather than strapped into your paper-thin faggotty bucketass seats, seatbelts on, faces perpetually ready for immersion in a fucking airbag. We'll hang a rainbow-colored, bio-degradable kitchen apron on a reflector post to celebrate your erasure from the planet.
Get a VPN service and use the iplayer to get BBC content. Sadly, they have to negotiate rights for the UK only for a lot of content.
The iplayer standalone app is great too, episodes are downloaded automatically so the buffered issues from streaming through a VPN are bypassed.
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True. We're in unchartered waters here. At least if a nation physically attacks another there's precedent. How bad do cyber attacks have to get?
Good talk, thanks for sharing.
How so? I'm not American.
I understand that China is a trading partner but in so many other spheres (human rights, pollution, animal cruelty, IP theft, etc etc ) they're a disgrace and yet they always seem to get a pass, unlike some other countries the US has gone to war with over nothing. If the US blocked all Chinese IP addresses, what would be the worst that could happen? How about raising import tariffs?
Yes it does, there's time to organize still. The only way to get through to these elected bastards is to let them know you'll be throwing your money and vote at the other guy when they're next up for reelection. If enough people do that, they'll cave.
My hearing tails off at 16 khz too. Even so, why design a system that works for most people when it's just as easy to design one that works for everybody?
Check out the low pass filter slope on a DAC, it's not like 20kHz is played back accurately and 20,001Hz is filtered completely. Filtering causes distortion. I'm just saying that it's better to take all of that and move it up to 24kHz by using a 48kHz sample rate. Ideally it would be even higher at 60kHz. 96kHz is overkill once the material has been mixed and mastered though.
"Almost all ..."
I tend to agree. Most people don't have speakers that can get higher than 20kHz or ears that would be able to hear the benefit anyway. Some people do though.
Mine are flat up to 50kHz. The problem with 44.1kHz is that the highest frequency possible is 22.5kHz, dangerously close to the upper range of human hearing of around 20kHz. Add to that possible DAC high pass filtering artifacts, etc and there's a good argument for moving to a sample rate of 48kHz or higher.
Wish I had mod points for this ...
I'd love to learn more about the legality of this. How can they demand a fee in order to share the accusation with the accused?
If they have nothing to do except introduce bullshit bills, we should stop paying them and send them home. We could use the money to hire better teachers, fix up a crumbling bridge or something.
Yep. They've years to develop something that doesn't suck balls and failed miserably.
Exactly. If I can't sell a $60 game on eBay after I'm done with it, the amount of $60 games I buy will be a big fat zero. I'm happy to buy a non-resalable game from Steam for $15.
It's not illegal. Still, a scumbag former manager threatened me with dismissal if I spoke to anyone about salary.
The iPad is just like an ultra book, let me log in to my user account on my iPad ... Oh.
Maybe I'll install steam and play some Crysis 2 ... nope.
How is it like an Ultrabook again?
I suspect it's only a matter of time before Apple tie iOS and OSX together and it's laptops get touch screens. Retina touch screens at that. Another issue I have with these is that I have no faith that they won't be tomorrow's Zunes. At least an Air is going to stick around and be supported for a while.
An iPad at $400 cheaper and a MacBook Air for only $100 more. I'm not sure, at this price point, what MS are trying to accomplish. It just reeks of a hurried "oh hell, we must release something to counter Apple' Well, here's your something.
Well maybe not 99c. I just checked iTunes, The Avengers is mine to own for only $19.99! That's the reason I have spent exactly $0 on buying movies for the past several years. I guess some people are ponying up $20 per movie, I'll never be one of them.
How to stop piracy: 1 Create great stuff 2 Make it easy to buy 3 Same day worldwide release 4 Fair price 5 Works on any device Either do that or go after your customers and threaten them with a lawsuit. See how much they like being your customers after that.
You're looking for spending cuts to balance tax increases? I think I just found one!
It's not a penalty, you faint-hearted, lame, shit-eating excuse for a tree hugger. It's an attempt to spread the cost of BUILDING roads fairly across the people who USE those roads. It's about how miles rolled diverge from gallons pumped; not how your little junkmobile sips fuel while barely being able to push its thin-walled, plastic self down an onramp faster than an old lady in a walker, all the while you're bleeding off what little speed your tiny, tiny engine has managed to impart to your sorry amalgamation of mismatched parts as you leave skinny little tire marks dodging squirrels in abject fear of thousands of dollars of body damage.
Personally, I think you little turdlets in your I'm-so-hip tinycockmobiles should be penalized by being run off the fucking road, where your little texting-phones would get driven through your misshapen skulls until they met your little white earbuds in an explosion of angsty fucktard granola-fed brain matter. Then your remains should be fed to wildlife, while your complete piece of shit can't-go-in-snow junker gets crushed and recycled into a respectable 4WD with a bench seat so that adults with functioning gonads can sit together, rather than strapped into your paper-thin faggotty bucketass seats, seatbelts on, faces perpetually ready for immersion in a fucking airbag. We'll hang a rainbow-colored, bio-degradable kitchen apron on a reflector post to celebrate your erasure from the planet.
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No, raise revenues on the cars that pollute the most. Once they're gone and high MPG/EVs are ubiquitous, then tax them.
Because driving a high efficiency or electric vehicle should be encouraged, not penalized.
Get a VPN service and use the iplayer to get BBC content. Sadly, they have to negotiate rights for the UK only for a lot of content. The iplayer standalone app is great too, episodes are downloaded automatically so the buffered issues from streaming through a VPN are bypassed.