I haven't tried that. Is it really much better with other codecs or uncompressed music though? Seems like if you don't have the vocals in a separate track, you're going to have to try to remove them algorithmically, which is going to be tricky but shouldn't be worse with Mp3 than any other format. If all the tracks are flattened into one, they're flattened into one regardless of the encoding.
Speakers have different efficiency levels. Better speakers are more efficient and need less amperage to create the same volume of sound.
Nice. I have the RF-62 II's. I love Klipsch too.
Nice jab! Would be better if it were relevant though: we're discussing 40KHz dynamic range and MP3 sounding shittier than uncompressed, which simply isn't true (unless you're using a very old encoder or very low quality settings).
To each his own. I fatigue more rapidly with the headphones than with the stereo.
I mostly agree, but I think two good speakers make music sound better than 5 shitty ones.
That makes the technical argument even weaker.
The counter-techincal argument is that those users already don't get h.264 on XP. So what's the difference between not having it because the browser doesn't let you use the system libraries and not having it because there are no system libraries? As presented, the difference appears to be that you aren't really getting the same browser on different OSes if there are dependencies on your OS and OS version.
I think the technical retort there doesn't hold a lot of water. After all, your OS probably came with a browser that isn't Mozilla-based which will gladly use native libraries for this kind of thing. Moreover, whether or not they decide to do this, the amount of work developers have to do to support the ridiculous WebM format alongside H.264 isn't going to change: you'll still have to have your content encoded twice and you'll still have to sniff out which version to show.
I think if you frame the argument as "why aren't we doing this?" instead of "why should we do this?" it becomes a lot more clear which course of action is the right one: the one that means a better experience for your users, which means better OS and hardware integration and better battery life when using your browser. Users plural may care about consistency, but a single user is much more interested in features and performance.
promising that you will never have to worry about losing or moving them across devices ever again.
You know, until they shut down the service in 18 months because it isn't popular enough...
One thing I remember very clearly from my college physics course was an explanation of how going faster than the speed of light leads to causality violations. I suppose it's possible that causality isn't something we "need" but it's going to be very hard to have a sensible concept of physics if "A causes B" has to be thrown out the window. I find the probability that ONE instrument doing ONE experiment that shows that maybe something went faster than light a lot less likely to be true than "A causes B" being true and that ONE experiment simply being bad.
I quite agree with you about strings, but FTL is completely insane.
I agree. The scandals, if there are any real ones, are going to amount to fancy new kinds of insider trading and tax evasion, with some outing of dirty politicians on the side.
The problem is that we have one peephole and one organization looking through it and crying wolf. Under normal scientific circumstances, if you say something preposterous, I go spend my $20 replicating your experiment and prove you're a fool. But when your instrument costs us billions dollars and you use it to make absurd, demonstrably insane claims, only to admit you're working the instrument wrong—and you do this repeatedly—you make us all look like fools for spending the money on you. Which is a shame, because the world would be a better place with more research.
How many gratuitous errors and claimed impossibilities do you generally consider acceptable in your version of science?
All relational databases did was allow the relationships to be more freely defined.
That, and had an underlying theory of data storage, management and querying based on math. Apart from all that, yeah.
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