Comment Re:Apple (Score 1) 348
What you call a "necessary evil" is what we call "capitalism" and some people call "making a living."
Had to use compression otherwise the hiss would make dynamic range pretty small.
You mean, like Dolby B/C? Yeah, that went with the territory. You got 60 dB S/N on a good deck with Dolby on, maybe 70 if you used chrome tapes. Use high quality TDK, Maxell, or Memorex in a quality deck, and they rarely broke. Couldn't burn to a CD back then. That S/N ratio rivaled vinyl. I bet your PC sucked back then, too. Total garbage, couldn't even do 4K res video at 60 fps!
That's like something we had here in the USA when I was growing up: What's worse than...
Q. What's worse than a barrel of dead babies?
A. One still alive at the bottom.
Q. What's worse than that?
A. He has to eat his way out.
And one that only works if you speak North American English:
Q. What's worse than ants in your pants?
A: Uncles in your pants!
abortion and gay rights and drugs
One of these is not like the others.
His face started getting a very deep red color
Like rust?
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
