Comment Re:You could almost get the vinyl (Score 1) 551
If you can't tell a vinyl record from a CD in the same sound system you've probably burned your ears away.
My question is - what do you think I think I hear?
Comment Re:You could almost get the vinyl (Score 1) 551
This is not a discussion on turntables. I simply pointed out that $80 buys a spinning device of some sort, perhaps, but not a decent turntable, which *starts* at SL-1200; far from me to say that it's the best one available, but it definitely is a very good start.
I think you might be mistaken about the wow and flutter performance of the Technics, but again, this is not about the SL-1200 (I personally own a high-end ClearAudio paired with a Graham Slee phono stage).
Comment Re:You could almost get the vinyl (Score 1) 551
Let me start off by saying that I completely agree regarding classic rock (and not only!) and vinyl as the perfect marriage.
However you have given out the perfect recipe for a sub-mediocre listening experience in your post. Here's why:
- there's nothing decent about a $80 turntable, and you will never get "the sound" out of it. Ever. A decent turntable is $500 and up, for fairly low values of decent, and without a pre-amp (e.g. Technics SL-1200);
- all recent Beatles vinyls are made from digital sources, so you get an analogue medium storing a digital transfer (designed for CD production) of an analogue original; there's nothing gained here.
Beatles vinyls cut from analogue source in near-mint or excellent condition are quite expensive and not easy to find.
Also there's a fair bit of music produced after 1995 (which is by the way a year completely randomly picked) that's been given good analogue vinyl releases, cut from original master tapes without an intermediary digital step. Of course "fair bit" and "music" are subject to personal interpretation.
Comment Re:Ok great for beginners (Score 1) 640
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
Comment Re:Rough times (Score 1) 342
Who the fuck voted this insightful? It's just an inflammatory zealot opinion.
Apple Outs Anti-Jailbreak Update 429
Stoobalou writes "Apple has issued an emergency update for devices running the iOS 4 mobile operating system. iOS 4.0.2 plugs the security hole exploited by the iPhone Dev Team to allow pain-free jailbreaking of the iPhone 4 and its manifold siblings as well as... actually, that's about it."
Comment Re:Amazon? (Score 3, Informative) 228
Don't be ignorant - ipods support Apple Lossless.
Wisconsin DA Threatens Arrests Over Sex Ed 703
WrongSizeGlass writes "USA Today is reporting that the DA of Juneau County, Wisconsin, is warning teachers that they could face arrest over the new sex-ed curriculum. District Attorney Scott Southworth said a new state law that requires students learn to use condoms and other contraceptives 'promotes the sexualization — and sexual assault — of our children.' Southworth also said, 'I'm not looking to charge any teachers. I've got enough work to do.'"
Sony Update Bricks Playstations 510
Stoobalou writes "A controversial update which was seeded by Sony in order to remove the ability to run Linux on the Playstation 3 games console has caused a storm of complaints.
The 3.21 firmware upgrade, which removes the security hole provided by the 'Install Other OS' widget used by lots of educational institutions and hackers alike, also removes the console's ability to play games... turning it into a very expensive doorstop."
Largest Sodium Sulfur Battery Powers a Texas Town 301
separsons writes "The largest sodium sulfur battery in America, nicknamed 'BOB,' can provide enough electricity to power all of Presidio, Texas. Until now, the small town relied on a single 60-year-old transmission line to connect it to the grid, so the community frequently experienced power outages. BOB, which stands for 'Big-Old Battery,' began charging earlier this week. The house-sized battery can deliver four megawatts of power for up to eight hours. Utilities are looking into similar batteries to store power from solar and wind so that renewables can come online before the country implements a smart grid system."
C Programming Language Back At Number 1 535
derrida writes "After more than 4 years C is back at position number 1 in the TIOBE index. The scores for C have been pretty constant through the years, varying between the 15% and 20% market share for almost 10 years. So the main reason for C's number 1 position is not C's uprise, but the decline of its competitor Java. Java has a long-term downward trend. It is losing ground to other languages running on the JVM. An example of such a language is JavaFX, which is now approaching the top 20."
Music By Natural Selection 164
maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."
Man "Beats" World of Warcraft 655
Precision pointed out that a Taiwanese man has been named the first ever person to successfully beat World of Warcraft, getting all 986 achievements, completing 5906 quests and /hugging 11 players. Insert joke here. There are many.
Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331
Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."
Comment Re:Words Fail Me - no, really?! (Score 1) 309
Oh come off it. Where did you get this "condemned for being marketable" from? I see words don't fail you, you're bursting with cheap drama actually.
Condemning and executing people for their political views, that's wrong. That's a crime.
Using the organs of executed prisoners to save lives? Nope, not a problem - it's a good thing, and I think it's still good even if you charge for it. It's not like healthcare is free everywhere in the world, or is it?
Please try and leave horror movies and all that religious crap out of it for a second - less drama, more fact and though. Stop mixing the issues.
And I can't believe that shit you wrote about how America's better because you're not selling the organs after killing people in places you don't belong - excellent, I can see how limiting yourself to dismemberment is what Jesus would do.
I wonder - will words fail you over this as well? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Condemning and executing people for their political views, that's wrong. That's a crime.
Using the organs of executed prisoners to save lives? Nope, not a problem - it's a good thing, and I think it's still good even if you charge for it. It's not like healthcare is free everywhere in the world, or is it?
Please try and leave horror movies and all that religious crap out of it for a second - less drama, more fact and though. Stop mixing the issues.
And I can't believe that shit you wrote about how America's better because you're not selling the organs after killing people in places you don't belong - excellent, I can see how limiting yourself to dismemberment is what Jesus would do.
I wonder - will words fail you over this as well? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
