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Is this guy kidding 3596
On 8 Apr 2006 15:13:32 -0700, Richard Smol Only if you play the drums as well :) The rise of personal project studios has made just about everyone dispensable these days. Your comparison...
Is this guy kidding 3597
On 8 Apr 2006 20:09:22 GMT, Unruh Can it be done? Sure it can, but at what cost in time and at what level of sacrafice of plugins, outboard...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3598
begin oeprotect.scr Well, the issue is that every device which the sound pbuttes through causes some degradation of some kind. A conversion to...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3599
Mark Kent There were certainly several others. Among those I have heard where for sure...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3600
begin oeprotect.scr Sorry, but digital recording is done at all kinds of sampling rates in all kinds of different ways. The most common kind...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3601
begin oeprotect.scr No, it's far from easily measured, it's extremely difficult to measure. Indeed, huge amounts of work have been done...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3602
Mark Kent It appears that you are talking about the field of codec development, which is not what I've been talking about. Of course 'subjective testing' is needed in that field, to...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3603
Mark Kent Must you antagonize on EVERY FSCKING POINT? "you don't seem to know much about this" "You don't seem to have a clue". "did you skip your lectures?" GOD DAMMIT MAN, can...
Digital Rules
I'll summarize my position below. Note that I'm limiting my summary to high-fidelity music recording, delivery, and playback. Note also that...
Digital Rules
chrisv This is all old news, haveing been covered numerous times by any number of people from as far back as 1978 (cf Blesser JAES...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3606
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:49:03 +0100 I think chrisv is partially right in that mixing products can be limited by simply sampling at twice the maximum desired frequency...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3607
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:57:42 GMT, The Ghost In The Machine That's not his theory. That's Shannon and Nyquist's theory. It is a well-understood theoretical result. Yes, high-order analog filters are...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3608
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ruel Smith wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:01:00 -0400 There are several artifacts. The ones I know of...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3609
The Ghost In The Machine If? ALL digital playback equipment has a low-pbutt filter on the output. Irrelvant, since ALL digital recording equipment low-pbuttes the audio BEFORE the...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3610
begin oeprotect.scr You're quite right, which was rather the point. My issue is that chris seems more than a little confused about where the components are...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3611
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:52:09 +0100 I for one would...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3612
Mark Kent I did nothing of the kind. Please mind your manners, and don't buttume the worst. I think Ghost's message was a bit of a hodge-podge, and that...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3613
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:57:49 GMT, The Ghost In The Machine Those filters are not optional. If...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3614
begin oeprotect.scr Well, how many filters have you got in your system then, and how good are they...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3615
begin oeprotect.scr I used to do maintenance work on analogue and early digital stuff long long ago. I was quite good at it, but as you say, it wasn't easy. The analogue stuff...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3616
That brings to mind the old line about "Windows always crashes" against "my Windows box never crashes". I have two XP boxes. One crashes reasonably often, the other (my music box) has only crashed once...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3617
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:57:44 GMT, The Ghost In The Machine That's why a lowpbutt filter is always used for both recording and playback. It can be done in a couple of...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3618
begin oeprotect.scr No, you can't. The only way it could betheoreticallyeliminated would be if you have an infinitely small sample size, which you...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3619
begin oeprotect.scr Ahhh, someone who actually knows what he's talking about... well met, Sir! I think they often get hung up on the wrong...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3620
begin oeprotect.scr I don't think you've remotely comprehend what I'm referring to. Let's try again - because vinyl is limited in bandwidth and dynamic range, it acts...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3621
begin oeprotect.scr As you clearly didn't get it, I reproduce from above: Yes, I can, which is perhaps where we have a problem. No, it's not speculation...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3622
It's not that simple and I certainly don't think that's anything to do with CD. Heavy compression done well can increase the excitement of the music and is a technique that well predates digital audio...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3623
begin oeprotect.scr The Debt Reduction of dynamic range merely does what it says on the tin. It's not exciting, unless you equate *lack* of dynamics with exciting, of course. The easy ways of manipulating...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3624
Except it's not as simple as a mere Debt Reduction in dynamic range, at least at the creative stage - using attack and release on a compressor creatively can create a more punch...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3625
begin oeprotect.scr Still depends on what you mean by exciting, I think - I suspect that much of the perspective on exciting is more by buttociation than anything else, or perhaps, just...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3626
I think the difference is just the direction from which we are coming from - I use compression mostly as a creative tool, whereas...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3627
begin oeprotect.scr Ok... I'm quite sure that if you can produce an unexpected change in level...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3628
BTW I think that if we're going to continue this, taking it to email would be an idea, as I'm sure no-one else is reading this anymore! Pop...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3629
begin oeprotect.scr Whilst it was a little off-topic, the subject was still around engineering, so it was a lot less off-topic than some...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3630
Mark Kent Then you must have the greatest ears ever. Okay, we've been mis-communicating. *Obviously...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3631
begin oeprotect.scr Hardly. We have a lot of expert listeners, however. I'm by no means the best, but I'm pretty good. What point? You...
Red Hat admits it would "destroy itself" if it included popular featuers 3632
Don't get too carried away, I'm still sequencing under Windows (I know, I know, but I'm not flatfish, don't worry!) Must delve in to the audio and MIDI side of Linux again...
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RedHat in India
It's going to come from *all* directions. From the schools: Linux for rural schools in MP Red Hat India has partnered with Madhya Pradesh government consbreastuted Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission (RGSM), to help...
Hey, I'm
While performing an interpretive dance to Enya's Carribean Blue, Larry Qualig exclaimed: Nope, Triple person refers to my dearly departed...
Hey, I'm
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:51 +0000 (UTC), Depends on the rifle...
Could this be the QNext big thing
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linonut wrote on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:09:55 -0500 Isn't that the idea, though? Of...
Reflections on good and evil
My name is Lorenzo Crescini and I'm Italian. These "Flashes on Good and evil" reflect the same mood characterizing the Flashes on the Holy Gospels and Turin's Holy Shroud I wrote...
Observations on a few distros long
Over the weekend I've been playing around with some different distros on a couple of old machines of...
Observations on a few distros long
I've found Elive to be quite impressive. It is probably my favourite Live CD. I normally run: (K)Ubuntu on most of my 'productive' computers (I run a...
Observations on a few distros**This IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF WHY LINUX IS NOT
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:44:45 -0400, Clock King I don't need 500 'different versions' of it. And to be accurate there are, according to distrowatch.com, about 360 active Linux distributions. Personally...
Observations on a few distros**This IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF WHY LINUX IS NOT
You mean how Windwoes does it? Oh! That's right. You can have Winders any way you like it, just...
Observations on a few distros**This IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF WHY LINUX IS NOT
But you can't really change distributions "just by downloading some new files". There are choices about init scripts, filesystem layout, and base components that affect how the system will work and operate...
Observations on a few distros
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kier wrote on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:58:08 +0100 The non-exhaustive list on...
Boot Camp is a gimmick" C. Net
ZnU This is bullpoo. The same kernel is running on a G4, which is not 64bit. You need a G5 to have 64bit support. How then...
MS confesses: "Malware Reinstalling often the only remedy." 3646
Op Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:38:46 -0500, schreef chrisv: Most home users *are* in exactly this kind of trouble, once...
MS confesses: "Malware Reinstalling often the only remedy." 3647
Richard Rasker True. If my Amptron 9900 mobo and AMD 450K2 hadn't bellied up, I'd still be using SuSE 6.4. It ran...
MS confesses: "Malware Reinstalling often the only remedy." 3648
begin oeprotect.scr This debate has been around the block a few times, but fundamentally, a lot of people have made a 'nice little earner' from reinstalling windows, and calling it "support...
iApple: No original ideas 3649
Alan Baker You didn't say it directly, but your words carried that implication. Your stock in trade...
a project I would like advicehelp with
begin oeprotect.scr Well, that and the water type, the salts in it, the yeast culture, the...
XP keeps me awake at night because windope eXpee installer is viral
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, 7 wrote on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:29:14 GMT ntfsresize and grub worked real well for me. :-) Of course, this isn't eactly...
OT People
I went to see Queen and Paul Rodgers at the Key Arena tonight. A spectacular show, but that's another story. On my way there, I took the bus in...
60% Of Windows Vista Code to be Rewritten 3654
No, there aren't. See here: ----------------- "Tabulating only MSCORLIB.DLL and those buttemblies that begin with word System, we have over...
60% Of Windows Vista Code to be Rewritten 3655
This looks like an interesting strategy. Appearantly, Microsoft wants to "rein in" Vista customers, making it harder to NOT use services like MSN and other Microsoft controlled venues...
It Only Cost A Dime...IF....You've Got The TIme
Linux is free, well almost free if you consider the blank CD cost about a dime. BUT...
It Only Cost A Dime...IF....You've Got The TIme!!! 3657
Linux costs a lot more than that. I've only got 20K dial-up here at home but things get a little crazy when I'm on the road and can...
It Only Cost A Dime...IF....You've Got The TIme!!! 3658
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:48:54 -0700, colin.singh Well, sure. I need to constantly find new projects to keep me busy with...
It Only Cost A Dime...IF....You've Got The TIme!!! 3659
rapskat Why? Too incompetent to protect your Windows system? Why? Why? No worse than Linux...
It Only Cost A Dime...IF....You've Got The TIme!!! 3660
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: I don't care about boot times, really. It's the time to login that counts for me, and Linux wins in my...
It Only Cost A Dime...IF....You've Got The TIme!!! 3661
DFS ... If it's unneeded why were you enabling it in the first place? To have it disabled if unneeded sounds like a good idea to me. ... I bet most Windwos users have edited...
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