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saintcarl
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Posted : Oct 8, 2008 02:06
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On 2008-10-04 16:01:03, Suicide Boom Bass wrote:
I do not get that same feel when i listen to decade old mp3s...dont know the reason for this.
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I do not have any 10 years old MP3 track yet!
So behind the time sometimes. Vinyl, Tape, CD, MP3 ?? am I missing the next big thing? |
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La Magica Boutique
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Posted : Oct 8, 2008 17:12
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On 2008-10-06 19:50, Suicide Boom Bass wrote:
the thing is when you buy a cd its an experience...you go online, you find the cd you place the order, it takes 3-20 days...you keep checking your mailbox to see if your package has arrived or not..you go to the dhl site and locate your paracel and see where in transit it is. Then you read its in your city, but its late in the evening...next day you wake up hoping to hear the door bell and wishing that its your cd. the door bell rings you jump out and open the door,and its the newspaper boy. you go and check online again and it reads should be at your door step by 1pm...you skip work as you want that cd...by then 45 new psychedelic trance albums have released and yours is probably too old for the dancefloor by the time you remove the plastic wrapper.
Long behold you get your cd and sometimes even if you dont like it you say, "i think with time i might like it or if its played on the dancefloor i will recognize it and then begin to like it because i was dancing to it" ...but now you own this piece of psychedelic culture, you say u will throw it away but then you feel that oh that experience of ordering and waiting and getting all anxious for 15 days in anticipation of the cd...finally it reaches...its end destination...in your hand...even bad albums sound good because sometimes you realize the number of hands and number of countries that 12 by 12 piece of metal coated plastic wrapped thing has been through...and compared to that
you go on Beatport, download a track and while you are downloding you get pissed because your connection is not fast enough...pretty ironic dont you think
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That's really funny.. It's a metaphor, but i guess you got the poetic view of the story, and i agrre with you.
It's also true that digital download allows you to buy a single track that you like on a compilation that you won't buy in cd support otherwise..
I am buying original cd.. sometimes I bought wav from websites, and of course i was able to buy just what i liked without spending a bit more than 10 euro for an album that has just one good track..
Still my case it's full of original, and i have a special connection when I open it, like a lot of people do.. but it happened that one year ago my case was stolen with a huge amount of original album.. when u download you immediately keep a copy of the file on the hard disk, and it's nice and easy..
I'm supporting cd anyway!
hihihihi
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Outolintu
IsraTrance Full Member
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Posted : Oct 8, 2008 20:24
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ah, nice to have a decent discussion about this  thanks to basilisk for digging out some numbers. i found also a research about the energy consumption of interent servers:
http://enterprise.amd.com/Downloads/svrpwrusecompletefinal.pdf
here are some quotes:
Total electricity use and expenditures
Electricity use associated with servers doubled from 2000 to 2005, representing an
aggregate annual growth rate of 14% per year for the U.S. and 16% per year for the
world. Almost all of this growth is attributable to growth in the numbers of servers
(particularly volume servers), with only a small percentage associated with increases in
the power use per unit.
Total direct power consumption for all servers in the U.S. in 2005 is about 2.6 million
kW. Including cooling and auxiliary equipment increases that total to about five million
kW, which is equivalent (in capacity terms) to five 1000 MW power plants. Total server
electricity consumption in the U.S. is 23 billion kWh in 2005. When electricity use for
cooling and auxiliary equipment is included, that total rises to 45 billion kWh, or about
1.2% of retail electricity sales in that year2, resulting in a total utility bill of $2.7 billion
(2006 dollars) when valued at U.S. industrial electricity prices (see Figure 2). Total
server power and electricity consumption for the world as a whole is about two and a half
times bigger than for the U.S.
Forecasts of future electricity use
It is particularly difficult to forecast trends in the IT industry. If the current IDC
worldwide forecast holds true, installed base for volume servers will grow by more than
50% from 2005 levels by 2010, while mid-range and high-end installed base will decline
20-30%. If power per server remains constant, those trends would imply an increase in
electricity used by servers worldwide of about 40% by 2010. If in addition the average
power use per unit goes up at the same rate for each class as our analysis indicates that it
did from 2000 to 2005, total electricity used by servers by 2010 would be 76% higher
than it was in 2005.
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