But the analogue master has a lower upper frequency response than the CD, and a higher noise floor...
Sampling rate is irrelevant; what matters is the corner frequency and slope of the shelving filter before the ADC and the reconstruction filter after the DAC. I guarantee you that even the cheapest shittiest CD player will be wider than your analogue master.
No, that's the multitrack. The master is the final mix to a stereo pair once it's gone off to the mastering suite and had various EQ and compression applied, ready to stick onto the final print.
If it's a CD, it's printed pretty much flat. If it's going to vinyl then the cutting engineer will tweak the compression and EQ further to make it more suitable for vinyl (mostly, removing all the low and high frequencies so the lathe doesn't freak out).
By Young's estimation, CDs can only offer about 15% of the data that was in a master sound track
Where does that figure come from? A CD is a perfect reproduction of the analogue master.
A proper "cookbook for geeks" wouldn't have complete recipes, it would have a bunch of examples of techniques - here's how to make a roux, here's how to make that into a white sauce, you can do a bunch of stuff to that white sauce now like make it a cheese sauce, that kind of thing.
Reading the "review" it sounds like he really doesn't have much idea about food or cooking. I don't really understand how someone can grow up not knowing the basics of cooking and eating.
for example, I didn't know what a "dry wine" was
How on earth do you reach adulthood without knowing what a dry wine is?
If they want it to go at speed then they can get more output for less weight than with a gas motor.
Only at very high revs, with low torque. If you want to haul around a big heavy vehicle (which this is, and *then* some) you want a diesel.
My Mercedes can suffer complete electrical system failure and still retain all the important features but forced kickdown, and it's got a four speed automatic transmission. Even the vehicles with automatically leveling rear suspension retain this feature, since it's hydraulically driven.
I've done this with one of my old Citroen CXes - I picked it up from the guy I got it from with a blown alternator and no battery. All I needed to do was remove the brass slug in the injector pump for the stop solenoid, and push-start the car, and all was just fine thanks. Well, mostly. After the first 15 seconds or so...
You see, as you point out, the self-levelling suspension is hydraulically driven by a pump on the engine. On old Citroens like that, it's a pump about the size of a coffee mug - about the same size as the hydraulic pump on a smallish tipper truck or farm tractor. This pump also provides the hydraulic power for the steering and braking system. Now, once the engine is running, there's a reservoir that keeps the brakes up for an hour or so, but for the first few seconds after starting one that hasn't been run for a week or so, there's no pressure at all. No brakes, steering locked straight ahead (no pressure means no way to release the steering ram) and no ground clearance...
... did you actually RTFA? No? Thought not...
What the article actually says is that a spokesman for the Free Church of Scotland - a fundamentalist group with beliefs roughly aligned with Wahhabi Islam or Haredi Judaism. He is using the example of having Jedi wedding ceremonies as Appeal To Ridicule.
The government has not "made Jedi marriage legal", except in a very indirect sense.
Smash the art smash the art!!!
They did, by cancelling the gig in which they smash the art. By doing so they can deconstruct the event of smashing the purpose-built sculpture.
It's pretty clever stuff.
I don't know where you are, but over here everyone runs their heavy electrical loads in the home at night...
So at night, when all the really heavy electrical loads (heating, washing machines) are on? Yeah, that'll work just fine...
Because if you have them in everyone's driveway, you have to upgrade your electricity distribution pretty drastically.
That electricity doesn't just magically appear...
Yes, you can; you say "here you go, here is the truth" and then you win.
In Simon Singh's much-publicised case, about the only way he could have lost is if he stood in the courtroom making chimpanzee noises and throwing excrement at the judge.
Uhm, no, you've got that backwards. In the UK, the truth is *always* a valid defence. If you were telling the truth, you will always win a libel suit - there is no way for you to lose.
The reason the UK has a "bad reputation when it comes to libel laws" is because lawyers think it should be like the American system, where it doesn't matter what the truth is as long as you can pay more money than the other guy.
So, you work your life away for a few pennies? That's pretty sad, really. Have you ever done anything worthwhile?
My job is split about 50/50 between sitting in front of a computer designing complicated radio systems, and the manual labour involved in hauling all the kit up to the roofs of very tall buildings and putting it together. It's still only about 30 hours a week.
Never trust a computer you can't repair yourself.
