Producers and publishers could produce and sell two-tier CDs:

One CD with compression though not as vile as today. It's ok for poor soundsystems and noisy enviroments. Car, iPod, work(?) etc.

Two: A well-mastered record. Preferably a DVD or Blu-ray with higher sample depth (24 bit) and frequency.

And in addition they can give the radio-stations a super-compressed version.

This requires more work of the Audio Demeneers, though.

Good: CD quality 44kHz / 16-bit sans lossy data compression.

Slightly better: 24 bit in 96kHz or 192kHz.

Requirement: A recording sans post-performance bullshit like volume dynamic compression, supersampling, multi-recording, reverb, auto-tune, filters, mixing or whatever the stuido cheats are called.

Musician ==> microphone ==> recording.

Note: I deliberately oversimplified this.
I do understand that heavy processed music may be needed in noisy enviroments, but I want none of it on my high fidelity sound system.

Amen!

24-bit and 192kHz is probasbly nice, but it is pointless unless the performance, recording and processing is well done.

How much of a philantropist is B.G. any way?
I mean; isn't the anti-malaria project just another business?

I know little about this (thus I'm likely wrong), but don't they demand reciving countries to accept some crazy silly copyright agreements?
Which of course is getting B.G.Foundation or whatever it's called quite a bit of money from 'someone' ( *IAA I assume?)

Or I do recall reading some such. Please correct & enlighten me.

Taiwan is an island. Its governement is the Republic of China. Which is not to be confused with the People's Republic of China.

So there are two countries that call themselves China.

This post is not meant to argue with Parent Poster, but to make an effort into combating ignorance.

Was that a bird? a plane? no it's the SUPERJOKER!

With Supreme Commander 2 being the disappointment it is*, what's the need of 8-core? =-D

* It runs on XBOX. It's dumbed down and it looks and plays like SC&C ( Supreme Command and Conquer). Though the game is not all bad. It seems to be what C&C should have been.

Only three moves? That's pretty easy to beat! (even for me :)

This seems relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmotic_power#Possible_negative_environmental_impact

You may have misunderstood Captain Splendid.

Such an installation *may* have impact on the wild life (local ecology), depending on how obtrusive it is.

"The osmotic power plant guides sea water and fresh water into separate chambers, which are divided by an artificial membrane."

Seems like it could be done without harming local ecology, but I do not know. Do you?

Is 25% VAT absurd in your opinion?

Also, in addition to the hours spent watching porn, one have to add the time spent with the extra paperwork too ...

What Parent said

Supreme commander (with exp Forged alliance) is an innovative (OMG! using scroll wheel for awesome zoom!) RTS game quite unlike e.g. C&C. IMO it's a damn good war game.

The game stress your CPU a lot ( calculating arch from ammo of hundreds or thousands of units, the path of moving units, AI etc), you'll want a faster Intel Core 2 Duo or better.