Torpedo

Glad you found it interesting, sorry for the raving, it's not very frequently that I can see my town used as background for that kind of pics. SFO, NY, Paris, Rome or London are way more photogenic

That city is Madrid, right the confluence of Gran Via with Alcalá. Behind the Schweppes ad there are very expensive hotel suites. They shoot there the film "The Day of the Beast" (el día de la bestia) by Alex de Laiglesia, who was one of the Oscar nominees this year. The painter Antonio Lopez (rather respected, his works sell for high hundred thousand euros) captured that street (Gran Vía) in several of his works

Happy Birthday

Very sad, very sorry

Come on guys, you need to take better care of yourselves. You all get well soon please

FTFY

Small Talking Heads spree here First was Speaking in Tongues Now is Little Creatures

Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer

Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting

It was this: The Sounds - Dying to Say This to You Then Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part And now Joshua Redman Quartet - MoodSwing

Yep, as much of a classic as the Submariner. Congrats Mike.

Happy Birthday Nate, I truly wish you're having a great one

Happy Birthday Craig!

This is what 3rd World is about. I'm paying about 57 euros/month for this crap, and what's worse, no company can give me higher speeds. Cable company doesn't cover my street. And I live pretty downtown the capital, not the suburbs

OMG, best of lucks! Way more money for less work... That's one of my wet dreams besides winning lottery

Good luck Jacob. 33% wage increase for about the same work load is a great deal. Dinny, get well soon. Or not, staying at home, if you're not feeling dying sick, is nice too. Take care mate

Happy B-Day!!!!

Congrats Alex, being an uncle is cool, you can spoil the kid much more than his parents

The Durutti Column - LC

Adapters? Nyam nyam, that sounds really good then. I suppose iMacs will be using TB on the next upgrade...

We'll see Al, I wouldn't be that enthusiastic about it. Some external HDD manufacturers have recently released USB 3.0 drives but nothing about Thunderbolt. I wish you're right, it looks a better interface, but USB's universality is a factor.

I made some transcoding experiments with dBPoweramp some time ago. If my memory isn't failing on me (which is quite likely lately) somehow the thing manages to fit 24bits from a lossless file into mp3. Don't ask me how, nor if the result had indeed any extra info resulting from the 24 bits source. The file was bigger than the one made previously processing to down into 16 bits. I can't recall if I tried making V0 and 320 or only 320 files. In any case I see no point at all in using a "higher information" source for the 24 bits, if you're fitting them into a lossy format which is discarding information to begin with. I could consider purchasing Hi-res lossless files from Apple if price is more or less sensible in the HDTracks range, but not at a silly high price. Not that I see much benefit to those 24 bits if they don't come with some extra sampling rate. Sound-wise 24/48 doesn't make much of a difference (and depending on the systems for worse) compared to 16/44.

Why the fuck would I want 24 bit lossy files if they can't even supply me Redbook lossless ones?

Happy birthday to both