When two or more instruments play a loud chord, the interference of the inaudible overtones from each instrument produce a distinct "ring" of audible difference tones, audible only at live gigs and on well reproduced SACD recordings. I've seldom heard the same effect to the same degree from a CD. Don't be fooled, this is a real and reliable enough effect for us classical musicians to use it to tune chords. This "ring" should be reproducible in 24/192 when these HF overtones in the stereo or surround channels interfere, which a CD cannot reproduce since there's nothing > 20kHz.

Granted, as mentioned in TA, the amp and speakers need to not be so rubbish as to introduce distortion > 20kHz.

Whilst I can tell in a blind test between the CD and SACD mode of the same disc of a recent BIS recording of Carmina Burana, it's only during certain passages of music where I am listening out for the difference tone "ring". Most of the rest of the time, I can't tell, and 16/44 CDs sound great. I don't think the fact that I am a classically trained musician matters.

That said, I think it's important NOT to be under the illusion that, just because you can't hear anything over 20 kHz (actually, ~16 kHz for most people), that there are no audible consequences when there is more than one channel.

In fact, given that well mastered vinyl played on good cartridges can reproduce fequencies to 60 kHz and beyond, this live "ring" may help explain why some folks still prefer vinyl recordings of classical music to the CD.

I meant that spending money improving teaching, while laudible, won't be as beneficial as spending money improving the home life of children by addressing poverty, domestic violence and healthcare, independent of schooling. Unfortunately this reality does not match up with the right-wing reality distortion field, so the chances of this boring truth getting any air time in the US is approximately naught.

Large quantitative HLM studies show that (the variance in) academic success at school is determined more by home life (social capital - upbringing basically, positive self concept) than by any other factor - the school, the teaching or genetics (although they are contributing factors). If governments - or indeed the Bill Gates Foundation - want to raise student results, then the best place to spend the money is to address poverty, domestic violence and healthcare.

T.S.Eliot wrote (in a play about religious decline, in 1933):

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Which is pretty much the tl;dr of TFA.

My thoughts: 1. SugarCRM, at least when I was using/hacking it (version 4.5 - 5), was an unmitigated pile of PHP spaghetti crapness. 2. They are a proprietary software company that periodically dumps a six-month-old, pared-down zip file of their code on a "community" of people who haven't realised they're wasting their time. 3. They use "open source" as a marketing gimmick to attract people who don't want to pay shitloads of cash for Salesforce et al. 4. They are not in the slightest bit interested in community contributed patches, code, or design ideas. 5. Periodic requests on the forums for access to their SVN repo are not even denied, it's all "oh yeah, we'll do that next week". And sorry, but all I've ever been able to get out of the vtiger developers is an inactive mailing list, a silent IRC channel, and one guy in India occasionally updating his blog with "went to some conference yesterday" every few weeks.

Because Apple along with a bunch of other large institutions earn MPEG-LA royalties for usage and implementation of H.264. If everyone stopped using it in favour of VP8 then that's a bunch of investment in patents wasted, and a bunch of future royalty income down the tube.

Telcos don't want interconnected community wifi spots all over urban areas, because everyone with a phone or laptop would bypass their precious mobile networks and use VoIP over Wifi instead.

What the fuck. Have you even looked at that graph? Here's a real one. http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/last_400k_yrs.html

Like I said, you're wrong, and I'm sick of listening to you. I'm not going to bother pointing out why you're wrong either, because like I said, you are so obviously ignorant.

Oh fuck off. I don't know what planet you are on, but on Earth CO2 and temperature are linked. Try reading a paper about it instead of trying to look clever. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5934/1551

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you people? Every Slashdot story about climate change brings out all you whinging Americans spouting a load of nonsense you've read on the train in the Wall Street Journal. Clearly, none of you are conversant in the finer details of climatology. If you were, you would realise how ridiculous you sound. Honestly, you sound like the dribbling fuckwits who deny evolution. You may as well be trying to argue that the world is flat. It's embarrassing.

Who cares what some scientists are scheming or emailing each other? The facts will remain long after they've been and gone. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has not been this high for several million years. We know the excess can only have come from fossil fuels because the carbon isotope ratios would be wrong otherwise. We know that temperature tracks CO2. We know it's not vulcanism or solar variations (give me a fucking break) because of the trace element data. We know all this shit because oxygen isotope ratios, dating, trace elements, and so on in ice cores, deep sea sediments, coral reefs, tree rings, stalactites and thousands of other independent datasets from all around the world, all say the same thing.

No modeling required.

It's all actually very interesting, not that difficult, and you should read it all and attempt to understand it yourself. But seriously, trying to argue that either climate change isn't happening, or that it is but it isn't us, just makes you all look like a bunch of ignorant arse-hats, and I'm fucking sick of listening to your drivel.

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you people? Every Slashdot story about climate change brings out all the whinging Americans spouting a load of nonsense they read on the train in the Wall Street Journal. Clearly, none of you are conversant in the finer details of climatology. If you were, you would realise how ridiculous you sound. Honestly, you sound like the dribbling fuckwits who deny evolution. You may as well be trying to argue that the world is flat. It's embarrassing. Who cares what some scientists are scheming or emailing each other? The facts will remain long after they've been and gone. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has not been this high for several million years. We know the excess is from fossil fuels because the carbon isotope ratios match what is expected. We know that temperature tracks CO2. We know it's not vulcanism or solar variations (give me a fucking break) because of the trace element data. We know all this shit because oxygen isotope ratios, dating, trace elements, and so on in ice cores, deep sea sediments, coral reefs, tree rings, stalactites and thousands of other independent datasets from all around the world, all say the same thing. No modeling required. It's all actually very interesting, not that difficult, and you should read it all and attempt to understand it yourself. But seriously, trying to argue that either climate change isn't happening, or that it is but it isn't us, just makes you all look like a bunch of ignorant arse-hats, and I'm fucking sick of listening to your drivel.

Try this: rar x myretardedrarfile.rar

Hey - all I said was the parent post was bullshit. I hear it bandied about that the floors were strung up all flimsy and hammock-like from the outer load-bearing columns, which is completely wrong, as the load was designed to be transmitted to the ground through the central core.

However if you want to extrapolate from there that I obviously believe that it fell due to some crack government demolition squad, or aliens using gravity rays, or whatever, I couldn't care less, be my guest, but you'd be the idiot.