The 192 is the red-herring. 44/24 would be fine (we don't need more than 44kHz sampling once processing has been done, but having the recording mastered to a 24bit format would change the requirements for compressing the dynamic range. Also, in the case of hi-hats being tapped, they are quite quiet, and so don't use all of the 16bit dynamic range of CD. You'd be lucky to be hearing 9bits of it unless the mastering engineer has overdone the compression. The effect, then is one of bitcrushing to 8-9bits (vs 16-17bits dynamic range left in a 24bit recording) which one can learn to hear even when subtle.

The problem with modern marketing, and the skinny model thing is but one example of this, is that it is easier to sell something to someone who is dissatisfied with what they already have. Thus much marketing aims to induce this kind of dissatisfaction with the status quo in the hope that you'll plump for their 'fix'. The real solution is to change how you view yourself and the world, but this is not easy, and not easy to educate about when the media and marketing people have a vested interest in spreading the opposite. What's needed is satisfaction, joy with life and general responsibility rather then dissatisfaction, greed and selfishness, which is alas the norm for the modern world.

Doing what you suggest tends to fall in to the remit of theologians, and we have plenty of them. It's just that churches tend not to listen to them when they don't come out with the same conclusions that come down from the pulpit each Sunday morning.

As for the Council of Nicea, you appear to be confusing reality with DanBrownLand -- the council did the creed and a few other things, but not standardising the bible.

There's no one perfect way to translate the Bible. Compromises always have to be made in making translation choices, and different translations make different decisions based on the intended audience etc. of the translation. Take a look at Dao de jing translations and you'll see that there are plenty again, each with different aims for translation and thus slightly different results.

I often use Youtube to check out a track before purchase. For this and publicity if's fine, but if you can seriously enjoy listening to a track on youtube through a decent (note, not audiophile) hifi, you need help.

And if the stock crashes, he's landed with a massive loan and no way to pay it back. Thus bankruptcy.

I recall hearing about mark-to-market in a documentary about the Enron disaster. Think about this though: if I hold $500m of shares in a company at today's valuation, then next year they're worth $2b, and the following year they are down to $500m again, should I pay tax on the 'gain' in between? (approx $500 say) and then do I get that tax back when the shares go down? Without care, mark-to-market taxation would be a tax on volatility of shares, rather than one on real value. As for borrowing using shares as collateral, maybe there should be some tax there, but I can still see problems.

The classic in English is the ough ending. Count how many different ways it can be prounouced. (Oooh, Uff, Ow, Oh, Uh... any more? And I have no explantion for a non-native speaker as to how that came about.)

And on the UK Mac keyboard, you then have to use option-3 to get a hash(#), whereas typical UK keyboards have dedicated keys for both. Makes programming certain languages on the Mac a little tedious (having to use a shift-key combination everytime you want to comment in e.g. PERL or Ruby).

Computer Music is a refreshing exception. There's enough free plugins and samples for a beginner to get started, and a video by a major producer in their studio illustrating one of their tracks production. CM are generally the only cover DVDs I go for and hang onto.

Computer Music, Digital Camera (Future, via MyFavouriteMagazines.co.uk), Sound on Sound (though not currently) via their website, Linux Magazine (not current) via ads in their magazine, Amateur Photographer (via their website). Currently trying to kick my sub habit, or at least get it under control. That said, I am UK based, so I'm not sure what its like subscribing to UK magazines from overseas.

Better delete that crypto volume ;-)

Time frequency uncertainty is a known issue in signal processing, and an explanation can be found early on in A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing, for example. The post you are replying to stated that this is a fundamental property of the discrete Fourier transform, which it is.

To be able to personally tailor medicine to an individual, you need an effective diagnostic mechanism, and an effective way to decide, based on the diagnosis and the patient, what course of treatment will work. Trying to do this on the basis of a patient's genetics is unlikely to be effective in the near future, if at all.

Te begin with, studies of the kind we see today tend to give results like 'gene X affects incidence of disease Y by n%'. To rely on this for a diagnosis and treatment amounts to a guessing game, and the number of such n% guesses compounded together will cause accuracy of the diagnosis to be little better than random chance, yet appear to have the certain blessing of the medical establishment. Establishing the effect of a gene is, in any case, far less certain than seems to be made out, because there is little understanding of how an altered gene causes a problem even if a correlation is detected.

I fear personalised medicine is the road to mass Russian Roulette medicine, and I hope the 'brave new and shiny' factor doesn't cause it to be overly relied upon.

"Land of the Free: Freedom and equality for all, God Bless America" is now "Land of the Free Market Free-for-all: God Help America"