Yes. These are from my days of reading high-end hi-fi magazines that don't have the content online, so I don't have links, but one of the more definitive double blind studies proved that people who claimed they preferred the LP sound over CD (including both "golden ear" audiophiles and professional sound people) indeed were able to reliably identify and prefer the LP sound in controlled double blind experiments. But, when the same experiment compared with CD-R recorded from LP as source, they were not able to identify the difference at all. CD-R from LP as source was equally preferred over CD as LP.

This corresponds exactly with the science of the technical characteristics of the two technologies, signal theory and human hearing. The "warm, analogue" LP sound carried perfectly over to the CD-R, as it is distortion characteristics of LP playback that CD is perfectly able to replicate (Nyquist theorem).

HDCD is a different discussion. I was myself a HDCD supporter in my (luckily now behind me) audiophile days. But HDCD mainly sounded better because the mastering was better, not because of technical specs of the format. HDCD productions took greater care with quality of mastering, not at least avoiding the overuse of dynamic compression.

..is to not have a backspace ruin everything you just did just because you didn't have the focus you thought you had (Chrome!). And to work offline as good as online. Take email as an example. I really like using travel time to catch up on, reply to and delete email. But often travel time does not have internet access (train, plane). For now, email clients are superior to web email because of this.

I have a 40/20 mbps broadband, and independent local non-ISP speed tests give the same result on WiFi as ethernet, around 37-38/18-19 mbps. But, I do agree that if you get shitty results, you should try to rule out that shitty WiFi is the reason.

I've been running "full-fat" Windows 7 on an Atom D510 in my Shuttle XS35GT media center PC for more than 3 years. Still runs fine, with MSE AV always on. Only thing it struggles with is some of the more demanding 1080P video files, 720P is always fine (but this is likely more due to graphic chip than processor).

I'm itching to buy a X99 PC build but waiting for exactly this reason. Anybody happen to have any insights on "normal" timing for revised motherboards (rev A/B/C etc.) -- how long it usually takes after launch of a new platform like this before the first minor/major revisions of the motherboards are out?

What happens when your 200 bucks router is compromised?

NT3.x was on the right path as a fairly well implemented micro-kernel OS, with graphic subsystem completely in user space. This was changed with NT4 for performance and compatibility reasons. (or, what we asked for, where we=market). There was a reason a lot of us clinged to our NT3.51 and refused to "update", like others cling to Win7 now.

A privacy free future envisioned: The Light Of Other Days, by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. http://www.sfsite.com/06a/lod82.htm

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Just a small nitpick in case you are interested: Baud symbol rate != bitrate. The V.32 9.600 kbit/s modems were 2400 baud. The V.34 33.6 kbit/s modems were 3,429 baud.

This might very well have been Spry Internet in a Box. Used it myself, was a very good product at the time. It included a full winsock tcp/ip stack, and AirMosaic browser, in addition to clients for Usenet, Telnet, Gopher, FTP and email.

There is a hipster resurgence for vinyl yes, but that is rather niche. I think music is an interesting example though. Because a lot of people I know, including myself, who swore they would never get rid of their physical CD collection and replace it with only digital music, have actually ended up doing so. And with the current sales trend I see that accellerating. I'm not at the stage where I see myself dropping my book shelves for my Kindle anytime soon, but as I said that about music too and turned out proving myself wrong - a couple of more apartment moves and they might be left in the moving boxes like the music and DVD collection finally did.

Indeed. I built a 6502 machine with the help of an electronics magazine, starting with actually etching my own circuit boards. It had an hexadecimal display and keyboard (thanks to manual Dymo of old), only the imagination was the limitation. And yes, I did write a game for it.