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Best Telephone For Datacenters? 110

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 10, 2010 @01:43PM from the repeat-charlie-3-oclock-over dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I've been struggling to find an effective wireless/cordless phone headset for use in high noise environments, such as a datacenter. I'd love to have something like the helicopter pilots or aircraft carrier deckmen wear, but that can hook up to a pots line (or Bluetooth to a workstation with Skype). Has anybody found a solution they like for datacenter applications?"

Airborne Boeing Laser Blasts Ground Target 419

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 03, 2009 @12:34AM from the lazlo-approved dept.

coondoggie writes "The airborne military laser which promises to destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage has for the first time actually blown something up. Boeing and the US Air Force today said that on Aug. 30, a C-130H aircraft armed with Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) blasted a target test vehicle on the ground for the first time. Boeing has been developing the ATL since 2008 under an Air Force contract worth up to $30 million."

Sneaking Past Heavy-Handed Audio Compression on YouTube 234

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 27, 2008 @03:22PM from the sine-language-for-the-hearing dept.

niceone writes "Recently YouTube seems to have started applying extreme compression to the audio of uploaded clips. This is the type of compressions used by radio stations to make everything louder, but in this case applied extremely badly. In quiet passages, breathing and shuffling become overpoweringly loud. A gently plucked guitar chord becomes a distorted thud. Listen to an example here. And here's what it could sound like — still not perfect, but a whole lot better. The fixed version is thanks to a workaround proposed by Sopranoguitar — the idea is to turn down the audio and mix in a high frequency sine wave (I used 19kHz). The sine wave fools YouTube's compressor into thinking that the file is at a uniform level (and does not need the volume changing at all) but is filtered out by the encoding process (so, no need to worry about deafening any dogs)."

Comment Re:I've always thought that ... (Score 1) 390

by lilchris on Sunday April 10, 2005 @10:43AM (#12193141) Attached to: Music Industry P2P Claims Dismantled

Well, there are likely some sale of lower costs items (such as CDs) that people would have paid for, but didn't because it was also available free. The existance of paid-download music sites demonstrates that.

I don't follow your logic. How does the existance (and success) of paid-download music sites demonstrate that people downloading music for free would have paid for it if it wasn't available for free? All it demonstrates is that some people will pay to download some music. Any argument claiming that downloading (or piracy of any kind) causes lost revenue is only a theory.

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