I would say that advertising the 'service' as end to end when it isn't even legal for it to actually be end to end is a legitimate moral shortcoming.

But they DIDN'T have to falsely advertise it as end-to-end encryption when it clearly is not.

And nobody would willingly buy a vehicle new unless/until they dropped the price enough to not lose a quarter to nearly half of their value the moment they drive off the lot.

Perhaps it isn't specific to IT but for whatever reason, fads run rampant in IT.

Limited compression is fine. If that compression includes DSP simulation the behavior of a tube beginning to clip, the listener will hear it as louder than it actually is.

For the third point, there is necessarily an analog stage in front of the ADC. On the listener side, the brick wall filter needed after the DAC to get rid of the aliasing before it screws with the amplifier can have all sorts of nasty effects. That's the REAL reason higher sample rates (and so nyquist limit) makes it sound better.

All of this absolutely can be dealt with in a digital system, it's just a matter of actually doing it (avoiding the under-design so common in consumer gear these days).

But all of this suggests that if people still swear the analog sounds better, it's worth considering that we might have overlooked something before we write it off as audioweenie gibberish.

What attitude would you suggest when your budget gets jacked around every year. What attitude can fix having more expenditures towards various multi-year projects than you have money to spend? In the '60s they had full support from Congress and a growing budget.

Exactly! The blame goes directly to Congress as they were the ones making the bad decisions.

See Mork and Mindy talking about not having enough money at a restaurant on Ork. "We had to tip the waiter".

They could equip the robots with tasers, including embedded in their outer shells. A truly determined thief could probably find a way, but most would end up on the floor.

First, see again the part about skill level and quality of gear. Next, consider that since the mild clipping produced harmonics that make the human ear perceive the sound as louder, the tube system will effectively have a bit more dynamic range than the equal on paper transistor system even though going by the numbers the systems performed identically. They just weren't capturing ALL of the relevant numbers.

Then there's things like guitar amps where the clipping and distortion are desirable.

But for the real question, transients are a funny thing. They show up in odd places. It takes a surprising amount of headroom to have no clipping at all. That's especially true when recording since you don't have the ability to run through it once to find the best level. The real world can get messy sometimes.

Given the equipment of the day, the people swearing tubes sounded better were right even if they didn't know why. The problem was solvable but first it had to be recognized and characterized.

So where did all that traffic go? All you did was make it more expensive to take a triop that the people must take (unless they quit their jobs). There's not a lot of elasticity in rush hour demand. The people who could choose to travel earlier or later already did because of the traffic.

Some people wait for the little red light to change their oil. That sort of person should pay someone to look after their car and computer.

Of course, that sort of person probably won't read TFA or /. and probably has no idea how to change the update settings.

If a bad surgeon was no more likely to cause injury or death than a bad driver, then yes, it might be OK.

As for the taxes and fees, that's between Uber, the driver, and the local government. Not my problem.

Actually, there is a reason. The needle would jump off of the record if you tried to make it as loud as CDs are now. They were physically constrained to not overdo the loudness TOO MUCH.

The loudness on CDs could be reduced if the executives weren't tasteless and tin-eared.

Actually, the tube thing turned out to be valid. It seems that when a tube is starting to overload, it just happens to generate harmonic distortion that makes the human ear perceive the sound as louder while transistor amps produce different harmonics. Given a really good engineer with top notch gear, that may not matter much, but it matters a lot for average skills and average gear. Of course, we now know that and the effect can be created digitally.

Now if we could sack the guys that crank the knobs to 11 and compress the result until it stops pegging the needle, we might get clean digital sound.