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Comment Re:Cassesstts sounded way better most think (Score 2) 38

by 2000 you get a teac that would do 15-25k metal tape and 80+ and 60db of dynamic range with almost zero noise. If you wen hi fi VHS you get et 100db and 80db of range and almost 50db channel seperation with zero noise since the singles was FM encoded on the tape with a carrier wave around 10mhz

By 2000, no one into live concert recording would touch analog cassettes tapes; everyone in the scene by 2000 all used DAT and some were moving to hard disk/solid state recording. The only folks using cassette by as last as the mid-90s didn't know what there were doing or were extremely poor (portable DATs could be had for $400).

Comment Expensive and reminder of death (Score 2) 58

There are two main drivers of age bias:

1) The conscious, economic one.
Experienced workers cost more. While experience can generate efficiency gains, those gains rarely show up on a balance sheet after the first year. The loss of that institutional knowledge only becomes visible later—often when organizations end up rebuilding or reinstalling the very systems they dismantled.

2) The subconscious, psychological one.
Older people remind younger colleagues of aging and mortality, which creates discomfort and bias even when no one intends it.

Comment Game Support and MS Office Apps (Score 1) 231

If MS Office were available on Linux and games had direct support (not just interpretative engines) then Linux would take off. MS office on MacOS is partly why MacOS is a viable OS platform. Unfortunately, what MS did with its office formats makes other office app suites unable to perfectly render its files

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