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  1. Re:Just sneak past the entire recompression proces on Sneaking Past Heavy-Handed Audio Compression on YouTube · · Score: 2, Informative

    youtube reencodes any flv now, before you uploaded an flv with a total bitrate under 350kbps and it WASN'T re encoded, thus stereo sound, they re encode EVERYTHING now, even a 100 kbps total flv was re encoded

  2. Re:and who came up with it? on Sneaking Past Heavy-Handed Audio Compression on YouTube · · Score: 1

    compression is ok, its 20 dB of automatic make-up gain that is not human (and upward expansion to bring the low levels at the average RMS(which is even more painfull to my engineers ears)

  3. Re:This hurts on Sneaking Past Heavy-Handed Audio Compression on YouTube · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=muzik4machines listen to the 1st 5 clips for bad compression, listen to anything older and it is significantly better, even the quick capture ones

  4. Re:This hurts on Sneaking Past Heavy-Handed Audio Compression on YouTube · · Score: 2, Informative

    see my newest videos, uplaoded this week, as soon as I drop the kick the level jumps 6-10 dB and when the kicks come back it squashes and pumps like a benassi bassline (not in a good way) http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=muzik4machines compare the newest one (destroyed by youtube) and some older ones where it sounds almost exactly like my original mix (at 22KHz, but still, not squashed) and t does so with the quick uploader as well as the uploaded videos, which is even worse, the quick uploader, i would understand as people uses built in mics and stuff, but my final, mastered HD performance is squashed all life out of it, mono-ified and downsampled to 22, 050 KHz, it's not really an incentive for artists to upload their stuff anymore, it makes you sound liek you don't know how to mix properly (and it does it with the qui

  5. Re:Some numbers on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Results 1 - 10 of about 195 for "why does it hurt when I read". (0.12 seconds)

  6. Re:Some numbers on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    "interspecies gangbang" 7 results now, your post being the first result now

  7. Re:200MB? on Delivering 8K VFX Shots For the Dark Knight · · Score: 1

    they were just doing a few scenes, so 4-5 hours is right (the 3 scenes they talk are about 20 minutes total) I guess teh facility doing the final editing has way more then 100TB of strage(which in 2008, is pretty small, major editing facility probably habe petabytes of storage)

  8. Re:Obviously on Troll Patents Lists In Databases, Sues Everyone · · Score: 1, Interesting

    the real one is worse Abstract A fish stringer for use in tournament fishing is provided having a weight indicator attached thereto which can be manually adjusted to indicate the weight of the fish attached to the stringer. A clip attached through the fish's gill and thereby fastens the fish to a suitable cord which attaches to a floating weight indicating device. The weight indicating device contains a number of disks bearing numbers which may be manually rotated to create a display of the weight of the fish. This device floats on the surface of the water and thereby allows a fisherman to efficiently locate the lightest fish held in his live well. Fish stringer with floating weight indicator - US Patent 5987808

  9. Re:Room for both on Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction · · Score: 0

    I agree with the proposition that the mouse is essentially a substitute for touch-screen control, and given my own usage patterns, I could probably do away with my mouse for pretty much everything except drawing in GIMP. (Those of you talking about how people can't hold their arms out for hours on end: Do you really sit around with one hand on the mouse for hours on end, rather than both hands on the keyboard most of the time? I don't know, maybe you do; just something to think about.) There are certainly interface issues to be dealt with, like the fact that you can't "hover" or click with multiple buttons, but I think the iPhone has shown that it's quite possible to deal with them. As for fingerprints--think of it as an incentive to practice good hygiene; do you really want to know what's living on the surface of your mouse? So to the extent they suggest touch-based controls will become mainstream for PCs, I consider that likely.

    On the other hand, for the aforementioned case of drawing and similar cases where fine, continuous control is needed, the mouse definitely wins out: it's flat on the desk, it gives you pinpoint precision, and you can map large mouse movements to finer pointer motion. (You could use a zoomable tablet and stylus, granted, but would you want to be hunched over a horizontal display for hours on end?) So I wouldn't go so far as to say the mouse is headed for extinction. It'll simply be one tool in a growing toolbox.

    i actually most of the time have the right ahnd on th emouse and the right on the keys for key comands (final cut pro/logic) really, it depends n what you work, if you code i guess the hands are mostly on the keyboard, but for edition, the mouse is the primary element

  10. from my cold dead hands on Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction · · Score: 0

    touch is good but for audio/video edition sometimes a mouse is just better

  11. Re:Tomorrow's news on UK Mobile Operator O2 Leaks MMS Photos · · Score: 0

    google search still works and find ugly pictures of dirty babies and stuff, no couples fucking or girl showing off, boring

  12. Re:A lot of energy and CO2 for one guy's amusement on Google's Brin Books a Space Flight · · Score: 0

    will you people please stop it with these green crap thing, can't we just be jealous/happy for a second without hippies barfing on our parade all the time?

  13. Re:Green Space Adventures on Google's Brin Books a Space Flight · · Score: 0

    as if we give a crap about being green, he is going to the ISS with a scheduled flight, there is nothing added to what was previously calculated and , will people let go that stupid carbon thing, it's starting to get boring

  14. Re:Based on my personal experience, possibly on Is Streaming Video the Real Throttling Target? · · Score: 0

    totally agree, even off peak, youtube is really choppy for the last couple of days

  15. Re:Thank God on WarGames and the Great Hacking Scare of 1983 · · Score: 0

    i had one with my trs80 arounf the time this movie came out (not mine mind you I was 5, but my dad)

  16. Re:Kudos to Google! on Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View · · Score: 0

    so lol, if you look at the previou spics, you see she saw the gogle truck coming and that she prepared herself, too bad she missed the pic lol

  17. Re:Math is fun. on 80 Gbps Deep Packet Inspection Hardware Announced · · Score: 0

    it's called a torrent and it runs 24/7 lol

  18. Re:Not just the laptop front on War Brewing on the Inexpensive Laptop Front · · Score: 0

    a mac mini?

  19. Re:iPhone w/o Flash... on War Brewing on the Inexpensive Laptop Front · · Score: 0

    exactly, they serve h264 videos to iphone/itouch and apple tv, hence the fact not all videos are yet available for those devices

  20. Re:Defence agains silverlight? on Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats · · Score: 0

    actually now more than ever we need to turn off crap-a-script, that is why there is no script and such extensions, javascript is one of the worse PITA on the net, preventing simple task like opening a link in a new tab (damn I hate webmasters that dumb)

  21. Would I ever BUY a metalica album? on Metallica May Follow In Footsteps of Radiohead, NIN · · Score: 0

    I would NEVER buy a metallica album after what they did, even if it was 5 cents for their site, i'd still torrent it just cause they are assholes and I would not listen to it unless they pey me good money to do so if its anything like st anger

  22. Re:Capacity on Apple Prepares For the Coming iPod Slump · · Score: 0

    sorry but 40 cd is not enormous my lib is at 320 mp3, 322 GB if it was wav it would be about 1TB or so(that is a lot, not 32 measy GB of Wav(1411 Kbps, 10 MB/minute stereo 16/44.1) I happen to go for long trips where I simply cannot bring my NAS+RAID array just to refill the iPod, and a 100 GB drive on my laptop already has 50 GB of drum samples/sampler files/reason refills, there is no way i can also carry some spare music with me other than on my iPod, so i really wait patiently for NAND prices to fall so I can get a 64 or 128GB touch to feel at ease not having to plan a week or 2 in advance to what I cold want to listen and keep the major part of my lib on it, always and don't get me started with videos it would require a 256 GB drive to be useable (again going on a 1-2 week trip with tv shows for the plane/bus/hotel nights and music for the rest of the time

  23. Re:Usability Issues on The End of Non-Widescreen Laptops? · · Score: 0

    i beg to differ, besides Logic and Final cut, i NEVER EVER use a maximized window, I HATE them with a passion, as they hide all others(and I like to arrange my workspace to browse, see the side of my IM, th ebottom of my RDC'ed torrent client, the VNC'd itunes window at the bottom, etc I wish my screen was even wider than 16:10, a 2.35:1 screen with a complete keyboard would make me pretty happy

  24. Re:Will it exist in 30 days on $399 Mac Clone Most Likely a Hoax · · Score: 0

    didn't steve and steve sold blue boxes to fund Apple?

  25. Re:Mainstream now... on BitTorrent Use Up 24% Since November · · Score: 0

    no, we happen to use good torrent sites, not crappy public trackers I have never waited for anything besides the crap from TPB, demonoid or mininova, all real sites don't have those issues @miro miro sucks ass, lacks 90% of proper bit torrent clients and 90% of a good video player/organizer, really no use for a cumbersom epiece of shit like this