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They both look like they're designed for catching seagulls.
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Meh, I'm a little sceptical that any new format (as described in that link) would be audibly better than a FLAC or Apple Lossless version of a CD track.
Neil's probably talking about a higher-res format (his Archives Vol. 1 was released on blu-ray, ie 192/24 rather than CD's 44/16) but flac is already capable of 192/24.
Whether such high-resolution releases would generally be much of an improvement, given all of the other variables, or even whether it would even be wanted by very many customers, are open questions.
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Oh god yeah. Audio compression has ruined so many albums in the last twenty years.
Hasn't it just? For those who don't yet get the concept, here's the first beat of Amy Winehouse's Rehab (2011 edition).
What should be a nice big wave has been just wrecked by having the peaks sheared right off. And this is just a typical example; far from the worst.
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I wonder if anyone's considered whether this "inauthenticity scandal" is in fact one of the most fiendishly clever marketing strategies of all time.
And the song. Oh, the song.
Yep, as a song it's a pop classic, but the singing is a bit of a worry. Frankly, I think she's struggling with her new lips.
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Perhaps the CD will be more expansive.
Unlikely, but the vinyl might be.
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Anyone catch that bit on the news last night about there being no legal basis for the council-observer?
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I must say, I've heard a few times that non-premium Megaupload users' link would automatically expire. I've not found this to be the case. While many other cyberlockers would delete non-premium uploads a month after its last download, I - never a premium user - found that my Megaupload links would usually survive for years, even in circumstances where its likely that it was not accessed for a year at a time.
Should also mention that it was well known amongst sharers that MU had, by some stretch, the most long-lived links generally. Occasionally one would come across a dead MU link, but less often than for any of the others.
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I just wonder what these guys are about.
With you on that one. I'm still waiting for each of them to say something I can either agree or disagree with.
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Shouldn’t that be titled getting to the bottom of the barrel
Or, perhaps, "Comparing apples with apples" (or something like that).
I don't know about all this. At least, I don't find the argument that there are even worse jobs in the world tremendously convincing. This report from the South China Morning Post (11 Oct., 2010) sez:
Technology giant Foxconn has been described as a labour camp that severely violates China's labour laws and abuses workers physically and mentally, in a research report jointly produced by 20 universities in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland.
The 83-page report draws on interviews with more than 1,800 workers from 12 Foxconn-owned factories in nine mainland cities. It found fresh evidence that the Taiwanese giant forces assembly-line employees to work double or triple the legal limit on overtime. It describes a Spartan management style, extensive employment of teenage students, and failure to report a considerable number of industrial injuries for which workers were unable to receive statutory compensation.
It found that at least 17 Foxconn workers had attempted to commit suicide since January - of whom 13 died - rather than the 14 suicide attempts widely reported by the Hong Kong media.
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"... because it's still an illegal recording". - Jim Mora, today.
Is there any topic about which that guy is not completely clueless?
