Yes, compression works better on less complex sounds. It takes less data to describe a simple sound and most of the waveform information can be thrown away. However, it's much preferable to mix together the uncompressed tracks and then compress. This is because some frequencies may get cancelled out, while others may add together to produce a significant frequency which would have been thrown away had the individual instruments been compressed.
Additionally, I seriously doubt the studios would like to give you the data for each individual track if such a format existed for consumers.
wouldn't it be smarter to build these in myself and charge more for the device?
Their business model requires selling the device below market value, then recouping that loss by increasing the cost of games (indirectly through licensing).
Imagine this: A man walks up to your house while you're gone and tests each lock on every door and window. He finds a way to break in -- but claims that he hasn't. Then he sends you a letter saying he knows your security vulnerabilities and requests payment for that knowledge.
Is it better or worse that he actually walked around inside your house?
The analogy is flawed. How about: "Some people steal cars, so we should outlaw locks". Which, of course, is just as ridiculous. The problem with the grandparent is not that it is a bad idea, but was a non-sequitor from the original post and should be modded off-topic. There may be good reason to repeal software patents, but Windows possibly misusing a word is not one of them.
We've got architects over here in Europe using the metric system.
And look where that's gotten them. Err, maybe I'm making the wrong point.
His point is that the system he learned as a kid seems better to him.
That's false. I preferred metric.
he cannot convey the purported superiority...
My foot is exactly one foot long. My height is two yards. My thumb is one inch wide. The span of my hand is eight inches. It's also good for computers: inches are repeatedly split in half, which is perfect for representing in binary. An acre is the amount of land one man can plough in one day (ok, I'm reaching on that one). But my point is, these are units which can easily be felt as a part of you, not as an arbitrary definition. A room twelve feet wide is twice your wingspan. If it's eight feet tall, that's about how high you can reach. A piece of wood shouldn't be 13 millimeters thick and 1.23 meters wide.
Yes, I would kill myself if I had to calculate atomic forces in slug-feet per second per second. The US is going to have to switch someday -- I just hope it's after I die.
P.S.: The only other area that imperial might beat metric is in cooking. A pint is a pound the world round, even if it's not liquid (a dry pint is different from a wet pint). Any chefs care to comment?
I'm with you generally -- but that's a hard one. As a physicist: good definitions guide good decisions. As an architect: the "standard" system kicks the metric system's ass. But which is "man-made" and which was created by "god". My double-quote qouta is just now finished.
Perhaps what we should all be asking ourselves: what is the purpose of classification?
break..........The purpose is conversation. Can you hear me now. Two by four. Not thirty-eight by eighty-nine.
Get over it. Some dipshit named the neutron as an element because he wanted his name in the paper. As it turns out, it doesn't have any similarities to any other element. Oh well, what's done is done -- we should define it to be an element anyways.
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Sublimation is solid to gas. Deposition is gas to solid.
Vaporization is conversion to gas, regardless of original state (sublimation and evaporation are both types of, and the only types of, vaporization).
And my CAPTCHA is "inform".
Yes, compression works better on less complex sounds. It takes less data to describe a simple sound and most of the waveform information can be thrown away. However, it's much preferable to mix together the uncompressed tracks and then compress. This is because some frequencies may get cancelled out, while others may add together to produce a significant frequency which would have been thrown away had the individual instruments been compressed.
Additionally, I seriously doubt the studios would like to give you the data for each individual track if such a format existed for consumers.
Of course, IANASE (Sound Engineer).
Lemme get this straight: Is Mexico supposed to be Apple or Microsoft?
And what kind of fruit is this... an apple?
wouldn't it be smarter to build these in myself and charge more for the device?
Their business model requires selling the device below market value, then recouping that loss by increasing the cost of games (indirectly through licensing).
mod parent "funny troll"
What is this, a casino? Are they hoping people will forget that it points = money?
Imagine this: A man walks up to your house while you're gone and tests each lock on every door and window. He finds a way to break in -- but claims that he hasn't. Then he sends you a letter saying he knows your security vulnerabilities and requests payment for that knowledge.
Is it better or worse that he actually walked around inside your house?
There are always people who control the landscape of the market, whether it is the big boys (AT&T, Microsoft, oil cartels, etc)
That's like saying the race wasn't fair because the fastest horse won. They're part of the market just like you and me.
or the government (often the proxy for the big boys).
If the government controls the market, I fail to see how it is free.
The analogy is flawed. How about: "Some people steal cars, so we should outlaw locks". Which, of course, is just as ridiculous. The problem with the grandparent is not that it is a bad idea, but was a non-sequitor from the original post and should be modded off-topic. There may be good reason to repeal software patents, but Windows possibly misusing a word is not one of them.
We've got architects over here in Europe using the metric system.
And look where that's gotten them. Err, maybe I'm making the wrong point.
His point is that the system he learned as a kid seems better to him.
That's false. I preferred metric.
he cannot convey the purported superiority...
My foot is exactly one foot long. My height is two yards. My thumb is one inch wide. The span of my hand is eight inches. It's also good for computers: inches are repeatedly split in half, which is perfect for representing in binary. An acre is the amount of land one man can plough in one day (ok, I'm reaching on that one). But my point is, these are units which can easily be felt as a part of you, not as an arbitrary definition. A room twelve feet wide is twice your wingspan. If it's eight feet tall, that's about how high you can reach. A piece of wood shouldn't be 13 millimeters thick and 1.23 meters wide.
Yes, I would kill myself if I had to calculate atomic forces in slug-feet per second per second. The US is going to have to switch someday -- I just hope it's after I die.
P.S.: The only other area that imperial might beat metric is in cooking. A pint is a pound the world round, even if it's not liquid (a dry pint is different from a wet pint). Any chefs care to comment?
I'm with you generally -- but that's a hard one. As a physicist: good definitions guide good decisions. As an architect: the "standard" system kicks the metric system's ass. But which is "man-made" and which was created by "god". My double-quote qouta is just now finished.
Perhaps what we should all be asking ourselves: what is the purpose of classification?
break..........The purpose is conversation. Can you hear me now.
Two by four. Not thirty-eight by eighty-nine.
Yes, because a planet was well-defined before.
Get over it. Some dipshit named the neutron as an element because he wanted his name in the paper. As it turns out, it doesn't have any similarities to any other element. Oh well, what's done is done -- we should define it to be an element anyways.