Posts by Peter 5 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Sep 2007
People are forever talking about bitrates and lossy compression, but they don't often discuss the Analog D/A converters, amplifiers and transducers between the digital bits and our ears.
Perhaps that's because these things are so much harder to measure.
There is plenty of evidence on the Web that Apple is using conversion chipsets without the best audio quality
I'm really disappointed that the TheRegister posted such a publically damaging article about someone without any suggestion of recent impropriety on Carolyn's part with respect to Wikipedia.
Perhaps Wikipedia was helping her get her life back together again, but that seems unlikely for now.
As it is, with the new DUI, they were right to let her go, but were also right to let her go quietly.
If she had embezzled funds from Wikipedia, then that /would/ be a story ...
It worries me to see so many people argue against BitTorrent because its users download so much more than everyone else.
This is the wrong argument. We should instead argue for internet users paying for what they actually use. There is no god-given right to "unlimited" plans, and, indeed, such plans do not actually exist.
In Australia, every plan is explicitly limited, and you simply buy the bandwidth and volume you want. Some plans charge for excess volume; some throttle to 64kbps. Some charge for uploads; some don't.
It's entirely rational, and most people know what they are buying.
BitTorrent costs money: let the users pay.
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