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Child Abuse Verdict Held Back By MS Word Glitch 191

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 12, 2010 @05:17AM from the messy-verdict dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last week several defendants including one high-profile TV presenter were sentenced in Portugal in what has been known as the Casa Pia scandal. The judges delivered on September 3 a summary of the 2000-page verdict, which would be disclosed in full only three days later. The disclosure of the full verdict has been postponed from September 8 to a yet-to-be-announced date, allegedly because the full document was written in several MS Word files which, when merged together, retained 'computer related annotations which should not be present in any legal document.' (Google translated article.) Microsoft specialists were called in to help the judges sort out the 'text formatting glitch,' while the defendants and their lawyers eagerly wait to access the full text of the verdict."

Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 04, 2010 @03:11PM from the pricepoint-better-be-right dept.

Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."

Comment Load of nonsense, and I have over 2000 records... (Score 1) 751

by youbiquitous on Sunday January 13, 2008 @04:23AM (#22023074) Attached to: Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back

There is nothing inherently better about the way vinyl sounds. It's down to the mastering. A lot of modern music has the life pummelled out of it during mastering due to the so-called "loudness wars" - my album has to sound louder than yours. CDs would sound much better than they do if the music industry were willing to take advantage of their vastly superior dynamic range.

When a track destined for vinyl is mastered, there are compression and equalization limitations due to the mechanical transducer used to reproduce that music - you just cannot squash the mix and pump up the bass as many people do with CD mastering. If you tried pressing a record with many modern CD master recordings, the stylus would jump out of the groove.

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