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Quote: Originally Posted by mrstep Totally agree. It's like if people argued that 256-color or 16-bit graphics are plenty either because they have bad monitors are can't be bothered with looking at 2 pictures side by side to see the difference t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ksec I found it hard to believe that SJ listened to vinyl. This is truly amazing! Given that he was an old hippie, it isn't all that surprising to me. The reason would have been partly that he no doubt had a huge co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BenJammin54 While I agree there is some quality lost in most of our digital music, I find it really hard to believe we're only hearing "5%". Really? Is he just making up numbers? Off and on over the years I have bee…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast I agree. But audiophiles will always think that can hear something that the human ear cannot detect; well at least the difference between one recording and the next. It's the same people who think super …
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The true benefit of compressing audio in like manner as any other data is compressed, i.e., without using perceptual encoding that produces a bit stream from which the original bit stream cannot be recovered, is with archiving. For any large-scale …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta ... Solar actually makes a good bit of sense in some areas. In parts of the south, it can have a payback period as short as 5-10 years. While that's longer than most companies would typically invest in, it is…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fecklesstechguy The clearing that they are doing is only on a part of the property acquired, the rest was farm fields. Burning at the level required to eliminate the consumable brush and wood doesn't contribute materia…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTac So burning coal for electricity is bad but burning vegetation to clear land for solar panels is good. Somewhere in Al Gore's world this makes sense. As you put it, I doubt seriously if that make's sense to an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by echosonic Here's a novel idea....Next time how about you show us all just how clever you are by aiming that oh-so-eager-to-offend "wit" of yours toward that Mohammad Pedophile and the society of murdering terrorist hea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii I am not a big believer in solar power. Apple's new UFO campus uses all natural gas, and I think that is what most companies will do (switch from coal to natural gas). I agree. Solar power has always been sor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by WelshDog Why would they use burning to clear land? Do they not have bulldozers in North Carolina? Burning is just primitive. When land is covered with trees, as is normally the case in North Carolina, you have to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mcarling It would be much better for the environment to plant trees and reforest the land than to cover it with solar panels. I completely agree.
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox You mention three issues to support your contention that Apple has become a company that puts design before functionality: Apple branded keyboards, Apple branded mice, and glossy screens. As you acknowledge…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bkerkay I have no issues with the current keyboards. But more interestingly, my mother who has been typing for over 50 years on many different types of keyboards. Starting with good ol' fashion typewriters to the vir…
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Quote: Originally Posted by brutus009 All of your stated supporting reasons are entirely subjective. I'd be interested to hear your objective reasoning regarding this matter as referenced in bold. You seem to be trying to say that you have a …
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It isn't easy to criticize Apple's designs when they are as commercially successful as they are. But commercial success does not equate to objective superiority. Particularly when commercial success is dictated more by form than by function. …
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What a strange article. It takes power to operate RAM. The more RAM, the more power required. Did anything that Microsoft said really shed any light on this? This clearly is the main point of the article, and I find that very strange. There…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rebelminion They have gotten it wrong. The update to the nano is SOFTWARE ONLY. ... It is simply the 1.2 software update to the existing 6th Gen Nano. You can take the first 6th Gen Nano ever built, run the 1.2 u…
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One comment: Not familiar with the Nike thing, but even with an accelerometer in the Nano and no matter the software, it seems apparent to me that having an accelerometer hanging from a belt or even on a wrist can't work the same as having an accel…
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I just question whether greater resolution is really needed. My eyes aren't the best, but even with reading glasses on, I don't see the individual pixels on the original iPad. Even when text is rendered too small for me to make out, the individual…