Dumb, dumb, dumb. An ideal sample rate upconversion results in something that *is* identical to the source. Mathematically. It's like re-encoding a 64kbps MP3 to 192kbps. If anything you are going to *lose* quality due to inherent errors in the process.

Mod parent up.. If streaming video is the necessity, 50ms or 300ms don't really make a difference when buffering.

What makes you think that whatever you're hearing has anything to do with that one specific variable (the sample rate) and nothing to do with any of the millions of other other variables (microphone selection and placement, preamps, mixers, A/D converters, processing, your D/A converter, amplifier and speaker system) inherent to the process of recorded music?

Typically, when a single person experiences reality in a way that the majority of people don't, we consider them delusional, yes.

If you want to not be considered delusional, pass a double-blind ABX test where A is a direct feed from an analog signal source and B is the same source being run through an A/D and D/A conversion at 44.1/16bit.

I know 99%ers who are anarchists and I know 99%ers who are communists... You're ignoring the over-arching theme of the movement, which is that the type of concentrated power we have in our political system, where folks with money can de-facto buy laws in their favor, is unjust. Just because folks disagree on the exact way in which it should be reformed doesn't mean that the idea that it should be reformed is invalid.

Given the fact that a significant portion of the human race can't even agree about providing a national infrastructure for healing sick people without placing them into massive personal debt, I have absolutely no faith that our civilization will ever be able to agree to the kind of coordinated worldwide effort that would be required to colonize space. The human race *will* go extinct, and personally, I'm not even sure that that's a such a bad thing.

You can't automate soldered-through component assembly. SMD can be automated, and is therefore vastly cheaper to do. That's the attraction.

American TV has been 60hz since it was invented, even when interlacing meant that the "complete" frame was only refreshed 30 times a second, each interlaced field is a distinct temporal sample, giving 60Hz motion. The new 720p standard (used by FOX and ABC networks over the air, plus FSN, ESPN, and many others over cable/satellite) is 60Hz progressive, and 1080 is 60hz interlaced.

Put away the pitchfork, he was talking about the mandatory military service in South Korea, he was not expressing the opinion that military service should be mandatory.

In the recent MLG, there were 4 foreigners in the top 8... Two Americans, a Canadian and a Swede. The Swede made it to the final, only to be defeated by a 16-year-old South Korean kid. It was quite the tournament.

If you don't think playing games is mentally exerting, you're not playing the right games. Starcraft in particular is one of the most popular games in South Korea, and is frequently compared to chess.

Exactly what steps is an adult supposed to take to go from being a toll booth operator to being a robotics engineer? Half the population is below median intelligence, and I want you to think for a moment about what median intelligence is, and imagine half the entire Earth's population being below that. A significant number of people have only their muscles and their ability to follow instructions to contribute to the world, and as long as the distribution of intelligence doesn't change, it will be that way for the foreseeable future. You automate their jobs away, they're not becoming fucking robot designers or computer programmers, they're becoming homeless.

Because people who are working jobs that can be replaced by robots are *totally* smart enough to design robots.

It does take resources to maintain things, but isn't it cheaper in the long run that to replace it? And while I do agree with you on the road department, it's not only that, but also with key buildings like the power generators in the article. It makes me wonder if they ever, ever constructed a train system in the US, if they would be able to maintain it.

I read somewhere that one of the first signs of a civilization deterioration is the inability/unwillingness to repair infrastructure.

While looking for a reference online, I found this, and it's eerily accurate.

The refractive index is the ratio of the difference in speed between light in a medium and light in a vacuum. If a material has a different index of refraction at different wavelengths, then by definition the light is traveling at a different speed at different wavelengths in that material.