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Comment: Re:Coastline Paradox & Audiophilia (Score 1) 255

Low sampling rate MP3s can be obviously and audibly pretty bad on a good pair of headphones. Once you get to higher sampling rates you are generally in pretty good shape.

The comment in the story about CDs is really ridiculous. A properly mastered CD is really about as good as you need even on a very high end music system in a purpose built room with carefully designed acoustics.

There is no need for a new format. The idea that LPs are better is hogwash. The only time LPs sound better is when they are mastered with more dynamic range than whatever you are comparing them to is.

Now if he were talking about fixing the mastering process that would be a different kettle of fish. What is done to popular music in mastering, especially with dynamic range compression should be a crime. It has destroyed the value of music produced during the last 30 years.

Neil Young is selling bullshit. This is a complete scam he's trying to pull off.

Comment: Re:This is why I'm leaving IT (Score 2, Insightful) 382

Law is a crappy field. Most lawyers earn half of what a senior engineer does and spend most of their time in divorce court. Plus you come out of school loaded with debt.

You can make good money in Big Law. However few last more than 3-5 years in that area. The weed out rate is incredible.

It's like going into a career like acting. The few at the top are wealthy. The rest wait tables.

Comment: Re:It's the economy, stupid (Score 1) 646

Is social security really the 'dole'? It's a program that you qualify for by working, and the amount you receive from it depends on the amount of employment tax paid into the program.

Yes the number of people on it depends on unemployment to a certain extent, but that's because high unemployment often leads to people taking benefits early. The amount of benefits granted by social security is actuarially neutral though - increasing the number of beneficiaries doesn't lead to increased payment.

Comment: Re:Comcast's DNS has been spotty for a while (Score 1) 336

by the eric conspiracy (#46456521) Attached to: Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast

I do the same thing on Cablevison. In fact I run my own caching DNS server because I find having something in house improves performance of a number of pieces of software I use including spam filters.

ISP DNS servers quite often suck.

I'd tend to apply Hanlon's Razor to this situation.
