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Old July 9th 12, 11:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Bill in Co
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Lostgallifreyan wrote:
"Bill in Co" wrote in
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Fortunately I haven't run into any problems with CPU usage so far. Even
on the Win98SE computer, although granted, it doesn't have as much of
the later audio restoration stuff.


It's relative... Less CPU is always good, I hate waiting for NR to finish
before I can do HR.


HR? What does that stand for?
Just grab a cup of coffee. (Or perhaps tea, over on that side of the pond
:-) (how long are you waiting?)

It's ok if I know what HR I'll do already, I can just
chain them and do something else, but on any new material I never know the
HR choice until NR is done.



About lots of filters, I think if the calculations get too complex, phase
shifts might get confusing. I never grasped the business of filtering very
well. I find that a few simple ones usually do ok. Also, I think that
while
digital methods can do things analog stuff can't, it often makes sense to
stay with methods that analog means can do, because otherwise we can end
up with un-natural stuff our brains won't interpolate for. (Think of some
of
those REALLY weird mobile phone artifacts heard on some news reports,
and you get the idea..)



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Old July 10th 12, 12:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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"Bill in Co" wrote in
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HR? What does that stand for?


Harmonic regeneration. It's like Aphex' Aural Exiter but more subtle, it uses
even- or all-harmonic distortion to extend HF into the upper range (and it
sharpens time domain shapes too), and it's ideal for improving clarity in
string sounds, vocals, reverb, all the kinds of stuff that NR tends to
damage, which is why the symbiosis of the two is so effective.

The combination is a trick I worked out, and as far as I know, I'm the only
person to ever do so. I have never seen any description of such a process.
I've even considered that it could regerate HR after transmitting HF-reduced,
extra-compressed audio signals, and in that context too, I never saw any
description of the like. It may exist, but I never found one, and I do look
occasionally. Maybe I don't know how to look, but nae matter, I can make the
thing happen, so I do ok.
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Old July 10th 12, 12:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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"Bill in Co" wrote in
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how long are you waiting?


A little too much longer than the proverbial piece of string.
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Old July 10th 12, 10:29 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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What exactly is RSS anyways?

I mean, beyond the technical explanation, what exactly is it?

What does it do for the end-user that viewing a simple web-page doesn't
do?

How does it convey information (text, graphics, images, etc) differently
vs a web browser?


I only opened this thread for grins, because I have never understood
what RSS did either.

You've essentially answered your own question. There are no "simple"
web-pages.

An RSS feed reader presents articles in a format which is very similar
to that which I consider ideal, namely the plain-text, no frills
format that I'm using right now. Contrast this to the bloated,
convoluted, ad-infested, Javascript based web forums such as
Seagate's, Western Digital's, and Tom's Hardware.

For example, to read a Seagate post and reply to it, and then see the
updated thread, I have to put up with around 1.5MB of crap. And all
this is required just to exchange a couple of paragraphs of plain
text. I remember that in the early 1990s I accessed Seagate's
Singapore BBS via a 2400bps dialup modem with a 286 PC running MS-DOS.
Today I need an octuple core CPU and a 200Mbps broadband connection to
achieve the same end. BTW Seagate's reply box requires HTML or "rich
text" input. There is no plain text option.


Here comes the BIG statement......
Why the **** do these companies have all this **** on their websites
anyhow? Why do any of us need all this crap? A website is supposed to
provide information, similarly to a newspaper. What do you see on a
newspaper? Text and some pictures. Back in the 90's we had geocities
sites. They were simply text and pictures. They got the message
across. A few had animated gifs and some midi or wav sounds. What more
was really needed?

I'm running a 56K modem on dialup. Being rural, that is my only choice
unless I want to spend close to $100 a month for satellite tv and
internet. I rarely even turn on a tv, nor will I pay that kind of
money.

Why do websites need all that **** on them these days? I have no
problem with flash videos like the ones on youtube. Some of them are
great to watch, but I can choose to watch them, and that is rare on my
dialup connection because they are slow to download. But I have the
choice. What annoys the hell out of me are web pages that are actually
created out of flash. Try budweiser.com for example. If you dont load
their annoying flash page, you cant even get to their site. What's the
point? If anything, they are losing customers who dont want to ****
around with all their nonsense **** content on their sites. The media
sites, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CBS, and all the local tv stations are just as
bad. Their pages are filled with flash ads, flash headlines, flash
****, and much of the time they wont even show a simple photo of a car
crash anymore, you have to watch a goddamn video.

Wasn't the original reasoning for the internet to provide an electronic
newspaper/magazine format, along with a means to contact others online
(email and usenet)?

Somewhere along the line, we've lost the whole purpose of simple
communication in favor of all kinds of gizmos, gadgets, jumping,
flashing, annoying scrollarounds, popups and other irritating worthless
things on our screens.

Stop just a minute, and answer this. Do we HAVE to put up with this
****? What if all of us got together and started telling these
companies to either provide a simple easy to use website, or we'll hit
them in the pocketbook...... If enough people did this, they would
listen.

One last thing. Why is RSS different from a PDF file?

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Old July 11th 12, 02:48 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Franc Zabkar wrote in
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I hear you. That's why I use RSS, OffByOne, and Google's text-only
cache.


Now that's just ruthless.
I really need to look into RSS.
 




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