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Comment: Re:LOL! (Score 3, Informative) 446

by Centurix (#38951307) Attached to: Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS

Mastering vinyl is a pain in the ass, you can't just send music to a vinyl factory and get it pressed. You have to get test pressings (white pressing) done first. The reason for this is that average vinyl can't reproduce everything flawlessly. Vinyl comes in different grades, highest grade (audiophile) costs $$$'s and can produce low frequencies quite well, but the stuff you get at the vinyl store will buckle badly in the white pressing stage if you're not careful. Low frequencies reduce the groove gap and if you push it too far the grooves will collide and cause the needle to skip. Not good.

Mastering to CD is much easier. Producing things like downloadable FLAC is the easiest and best method.

Comment: Re:And so comes the market... (Score 3, Informative) 174

by Centurix (#38186136) Attached to: Restaurants Plan DNA-Certified Seafood Program

I've been fishing for over 30 years and I can taste the difference between Whiting caught off the Brisbane Bar and Whiting caught further up the sunshine coast. It's subtle, but environment always plays a major role.

Just on a side note, most Australian Cod don't belong to the Gadus genus, they're closer to perciformes. So they're not really Cod. From memory, they collectively get called Cod, like Murray Cod. You're right though, terrible eating.

Comment: Re:who wants to work for google? (Score 1) 743

by Centurix (#37945990) Attached to: Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates

Ninemsn is a company formed in Australia between Microsoft's MSN and Channel 9, a free to air Australian TV station.

And yes, it happens like that. Not by LinkedIn, but certainly by other sources of information with which the employers can rely on. It would be naive to think the employers are gullible.

John McCarthy, creator of LISP closes his last par->

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Centurix writes "The creator of Lisp and arguably the father of modern artificial intelligence, John McCarthy, died today. He studied mathematics with the famous John Nash at Princeton and, notably, held the first “computer-chess” match between scientists in the US and the USSR. He transmitted the moves by telegraph."
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