Month: August 2006

Link to Bob Dylan says modern music is worthless, and I agree. CD’s were bleeding edge when they came out over 25 years ago. But it’s only 16 bits of resolution (only 8 bits per channel!) and 44 khz sampling! (http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/Multimedia/node150.htm…). 8 bits per channel means a signal to noise ratio of 50 dB. 44… Continue reading Bob Dylan says modern music is worthless

Wired News asks if Has Steve Jobs Lost His Magic in it’s "Cult of Mac" blog. It sure felt like it watching the video of Jobs’ keynote. Instead of seeing signs that Mac OS X is leaping ahead of Vista, we saw: Backup and Versioning – already in Vista. Of course Apple has done it with… Continue reading Has Steve Jobs Lost His Magic?

Grant just got mentioned on Raymond Chen’s weblog, OldNewThing, for his posts on anonymous methods. Congratulations – wonder how much traffic you’ll see from that? For those that don’t know, Raymond is a very famous (I guess famous is relative) developer that works on the Windows User Interface (known as "the shell" internally). He did… Continue reading Grant gets mentioned on OldNewThing!