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by cc439 9y ago
That's true up to a point but there are many classic albums and entire genres (jazz, big band music, beach music/swing music) where the only widely available digital offerings are horrifically mastered.
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by cc439 9y ago
You're right in that the loudness war wasn't the result of the limitations of the CD format, it was the result of the newfound capability inherent in the format. The "loudness war" was a continual ratcheting up of dynami
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by cc439 9y ago
Intel did the same thing with their first Core 2 Quad processors. The Kentsfield generation may have had more limitations to it's multithreaded performance than the single-die Yorkfields but the performance penalty was so negligible th
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by cc439 9y ago
That's also the fundamental problem with all existing forms of autonomous vehicle AI. Google was the furthest along with Level 4 and 5 autonomy but even they have backed off that development track as they couldn't muster the resou
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by cc439 9y ago
Then you can't see what's in front of you. Take away the "R" in "AR" and all you've done is stuck another screen in front of your face, albeit much closer than any previous technology.
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by cc439 9y ago
The free market has made this work in the realm of electronics and electrical devices (UL), as well as the automobile industry (TS16949). The risks posed by bad products in the healthcare sector are perceived as far more dangerous but the s
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by cc439 9y ago
The up front cost of icemaker/dispeners?carbonator is high but the cost of electricity, water, and CO2 tanks is basically nothing on a per drink basis. Just think about everything that went into the factory which makes that syrup, the
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by cc439 9y ago
"2) there's a natural limit - there's only so much food a family needs" There's also a point where a family may demand more food but providing them with it actually harms society. The obesity epidemic is the biggest
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by cc439 9y ago
Super, super dumb question here, but now that memory is approaching an incredibly low $/byte ratio, would it be possible to use a large portion of the available memory to "index" the location of bytes to improve access time?
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by cc439 10y ago
If they, or someone else close to you, doesn't inform you of a major life event like that outside of Facebook, maybe those people aren't anywhere near as close as you believe them to be.
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by cc439 10y ago
Kubota and New Holland dominate the southeast in my experience. I've even seen several John Deere dealers convert over to other lines recently.
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by cc439 10y ago
"Why can't a company take the initiative and grab all the customers who value this?" They are, that's why companies like Kubota are expanding their US-based manufacturing capacity like crazy. Capital equipment like a Har
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by cc439 10y ago
"This has pretty frightening implications for the state of consumer goods, if industrial goods are already going this direction." This scenario has played out thousands of times in the manufacturing/industrial sector over the
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by cc439 10y ago
That's interesting because I have an Oculus DK2 with an OLED panel (Galaxy Note 3 panel) and I've experienced 0 issues in what many consider the most sensitive display environment.
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by cc439 10y ago
The desktop PC became the dominant computing platform almost 40 years ago with the introduction of the first generation of affordable home computers (Apple II being the primary example). Even though laptop sales have overtook desktop sales
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by cc439 10y ago
>Unless they're purposely cutting lines or just rebadging stuff This is exactly what they're doing. Your example, GE, actually sold off it's appliance division to Haier. They had also been relabeling LG appliances for year
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by cc439 10y ago
>I do know one company that has a reputation for not doing this. Miele in Europe but then their appliances are double to triple the price of typical companies. I think Miele serves as an excellent example for why the market has moved awa
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by cc439 10y ago
>(W)hich I bought second hand a couple of years ago Would you consider buying a NEW Volvo? If not, your purchase exerts little to no pressure on the only market which Volvo is concerned with, namely the market for new cars. Yes, a reputa
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by cc439 10y ago
>if the federal US government imposes a rule like "have scrubbers or you don't have access to our ports" Or they just offload their cargo to a "clean" ship just outside our jurisdiction in international waters. T
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by cc439 10y ago
I think there's a reasonable argument for Craigslist's aversion to offering an API and it's all down to performance and operating costs. Craigslist manages to offer what may be the last free webservice that hasn't been f
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by cc439 10y ago
Now you have me wondering how that site managed to retain its position at the top of the regional heap. My dad was obsessed with Saturday morning tag sales when I was a kid so he was an early adopter of various local proto-Craigslists. I ca
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by cc439 10y ago
I bought into the 3D gaming hype early (I bought one of the first 3D monitors made by Samsung for ~$700) only to be massively disappointed by how "small" it made games appear. Despite the prodigious 27" monitor in front of me
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by cc439 10y ago
The era of humanity's initial diaspora is truly fascinating. I'm particularly awed by just how quickly humans managed to colonize the Americas. By any account, humanity progressed from the just a few thousand people gaining their
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by cc439 10y ago
This might be one of the reasons I've always tended to prefer games that trend toward or actually are simulators. It's very hard to notice a "luck" mechanism designed by a skilled and thoughtful developer but those are f
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by cc439 10y ago
I'm assuming they must have been in unincorporated/county jurisdiction as it was the county DA prosecuting and not the city one. County police are also far more likely to fail to respond in many places as county departments have v
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by cc439 10y ago
>If a homeowner considers their home an "investment" that means they should be willing to liquidate that investment This is a point which is missed by so many people. Every empty-nester I know and consider well prepared for ret
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by cc439 10y ago
>I love my record player but when audiophiles say 'it sounds better' than the raw mix-down digital masters, in terms of the amount of audible audio content objectively this isn't the case. It sounds different from what you
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by cc439 10y ago
Failed handoffs are a process issue and working doctors and nurses harder is just a bandaid on a broken process. I'm viewing this from a manufacturing quality system perspective and while manufacturing a product is far different from t
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by cc439 10y ago
>(T)he AWD system has some interesting 4WD simulation modes, so it's not a complete departure, but I have no idea how well those perform in practice. The Explorer is still solid enough to get you through most winter conditions but i
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by cc439 10y ago
The problem with USB-C as "the one port to rule them all" is that it is impossible to produce a cheap cable and still meet the design spec. Even major smartphone manufacturers have been caught including underspec cables with their

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