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Comment Re:Most people don't understand CD sampling (Score 1) 278

The graph doesn't show a specific time for (t), I don't know why you would conclude it's a full second.

Read the table under "Audio Sampling > Sampling Rate," you can see telephone is 8000Hz (samples per second), not 8Hz. For CDs it's 44,100 samples per second.

"Not a reproduction as one was missing the other 92 points" Other 92 points? There's no set limit of 100 anywhere, you can sample as fast or slow as you like. Once per second or a million times per second, and nothing will be missing as long a you meet the Nyquist limit for your signal spectrum.

It's not enough to read about it, you have to read and understand!

I did read it and saw the increased sampling rate, not to of posted it wouldn't of been right. What I was getting at was if you connect the sampling "points" you will come up with a graph.

I understood sampling when CD's first came out and defended vinyl by CD's very nature.

I honestly don't download much music, I found MTV right after it came on the air, it was always on 24/7; now preferring youtube videos of music I like much more (even at low resolutions).

  I do have a mess of them (songs) on a hard drive I purchased at Good Will, whoever put it together grabbed about any artist you can think, of sadly lots of cRAP. I was just after the hard drive the songs/music was a hell of a bonus.

So not able to get into a discussion of recording of the music as time has progressed, just the fact it's sampled and not a true wave form.

Comment Re:The longer you live...Cancer could be your rewa (Score 1) 273

I've posted this in another post, and yet again.

A certain irreducible background incidence of cancer is to be expected regardless of circumstances

I think you have mutations and cancer confused. If cancer was a unavoidable fact then we would not have creatures like the naked mole rat that does not EVER

get cancer. I remember hearing that sharks don't get cancer either, but they are not being used in labs to study why they don't get cancer like the naked mole rat is, so it is perhaps less of a scientific fact and more conjecture.

I came across another one following links on the /. article of possible life on mars, killing time research of mine came across this article of a life form that hasn't changed for 3 million years, so no mutation nor cancer which is a mutation (in cancers case, a cell reproduced wrong, and of no benefit).

http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

Also when I came across the cite given.

Comment Re:The longer you live...Cancer could be your rewa (Score 2) 273

I kinda doubt that telomeres are the key to aging. Rather, I think they are strictly a method for preventing cancer. Instead, I think that something is happening to cause a decline in the number of stem cells in the body as you get older, likely something to do with NAD.

As unscientifically as possible and no cite to really get your questions going (but I'd search /.):

There is (call it a rod) in each cell, each time the cell divides this rod loses a bit of length.

Say this rod is half the size it started at, then you are at half of your life (age).

If this rod shorting can be stopped a longer life should be a result.

Comment 500+ question psychological tests (Score 1) 80

Really get to know someone, I've taken many. One a year while working in the nuclear field (a requirement).

The problem that's surfacing is it's biased towards the standard white American (ie: there is no Mexican version, even it's text is in English). This even outside of the nuclear field.

Comment The longer you live...Cancer could be your reward. (Score 5, Interesting) 273

I've posted this in another post, and yet again.

A certain irreducible background incidence of cancer is to be expected regardless of circumstances: mutations can never be absolutely avoided, because they are an inescapable consequence of fundamental limitations on the accuracy of DNA replication, as discussed in Chapter 5. If a human could live long enough, it is inevitable that at least one of his or her cells would eventually accumulate a set of mutations sufficient for cancer to develop. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bo...

Comment Re:Modem connection tones (Score 1) 790

Ahh yes. Wish I had mod points for you. I ran a BBS too for a while back in high school - on a Commodore 64 using CNET. Had a couple of 1541 floppy drives and an SFD 1001 (1 MB, baby!).

Be darn, never ran a Commodore (one of the few) but Cnet was my BBS software for the Amiga's, one of the best BBS programs out at the time.

Cnet could pull in newsgroups and was getting ready for the Internet by having a cookie.txt file that did nothing, just in place. It was his wifes chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Comment Re:Most people don't understand CD sampling (Score 1) 278

You would do well to read the article you linked. Nobody samples audio at 8Hz-- you couldn't reproduce anything over 4Hz at that rate.

I had read it, 20 samples would be for phones it was for the graph alone. I've always pirated my stuff and never had a problem, it was when everybody started downloading music it became one - I don't download music. 20 was the example I used when CD's first came out and it's what I've run with.

Comment Re:Movie projector. Reel-to-reel tape recorder. (Score 1) 790

My entire music collection at the time is still on reel to reel tapes, not sure how long they last but got some good stuff waiting. I had cassettes I could of used but wanted the best reproduction I could get.

Depends when the tape hails from, and in particular, what it's made of. Tape made between 1975 and 1994 used a synthetic replacement for whale oil that was later found to decay and causes the tape to shed goo all over the transport. This can be fixed if you need to recover the audio.

Tape made before that period should be good, from 1995 onwards they switched to a new formulation which seems to be holding up so far. Oh, note that Maxell tape continued to use whale oil so it isn't prone to this failure mode.

If the tape is shedding, it can be recovered by baking it using a food dehydrator. Look up "sticky shed syndrome" for more details.

Thanks for the tip, the tape would of been made prior to 1994.

Comment Re: Factory passwords is not an exploit. (Score 1) 65

I've been power cycling mine for years and it just keeps on going. I've never lost my settings, especially not the password I set.

You both must be doing more with your router then I am to be needing to re-setup the router every week.

Firewall was asking for access from different IP's while playing full screen games; so I reset my old router. My Charter.com DNS server.1 should be "Primary DNS: 24.196.64.53" https://www.whatsmydns.net/dns... my router shows what has been my dynamic address.1 and my dynamic address.2 as my DNS servers.

The router claims what has been the proper setup as invalid, my dynamic address being DNS as being valid; who am I to argue, it's working. Yet my IP address is of a different nature (it's always started with a 7 and sometimes never changed), not now.

It's been claimed Comcast was buying out Charter (shutter!) this may be the start.

Comment Re:loud (Score 2) 790

The occasional sonic boom from fighters breaking the sound barrier, it has been years since I heard that while I was on land.

Lived near an Air Base a lot of time, never know when one was coming. I think it was the SST that had the sonic boom stopped, they didn't want it booming every time it flew over and it took nation wise.

Many years ago I did hear a sonic boom in a remote area and surprised, but more so when a cop pulled, drew his gun on me ordering me out of the car, he had thought I was shooting a gun. Apparently he had never hard one before.

Comment Re:Movie projector. Reel-to-reel tape recorder. (Score 1) 790

The very characteristic rattle of a motion picture projector--most familiar from 16 mm projectors in classrooms or 8 mm projectors showing home movies, but also faintly audible in many movie theatres. Probably around 1900 to 1980 or so.

The whine of a reel-to-reel tape recorder rewinding, rising in pitch as the diameter of the remaining tape decrees, followed by the dramatic snapping noise as the end of the tape comes off the reel. 1945 to 1990 maybe.

My entire families history are on projector slides, so many to scan in the future.

My entire music collection at the time is still on reel to reel tapes, not sure how long they last but got some good stuff waiting. I had cassettes I could of used but wanted the best reproduction I could get.

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