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"Haven't seen one of these in a while....
Come on, what do you know? I'll start with......
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously."
Eating an entire nutmeg in one go (ground obviously) would cause a heart attack. |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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CDs can fit 74 minutes of audio on because that was the longest recorded length of Beethoven's 9th Symphony when they came up with the standard and the president of Sony was a massive Beethoven fan. |
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"CDs can fit 74 minutes of audio on because that was the longest recorded length of Beethoven's 9th Symphony when they came up with the standard and the president of Sony was a massive Beethoven fan."
You're just weird...  |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
Bristol |
"CDs can fit 74 minutes of audio on because that was the longest recorded length of Beethoven's 9th Symphony when they came up with the standard and the president of Sony was a massive Beethoven fan.
You're just weird... "
I rock in a pub quiz though.  |
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"Haven't seen one of these in a while....
Come on, what do you know? I'll start with......
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Eating an entire nutmeg in one go (ground obviously) would cause a heart attack. "
. . . . .real men get hard at the sight of a messi nutmeg . . . . |
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"CDs can fit 74 minutes of audio on because that was the longest recorded length of Beethoven's 9th Symphony when they came up with the standard and the president of Sony was a massive Beethoven fan."
I think that's wrong.... I found another reason....
I’m not much for using the blog to share works in progress or even discoveries that I hope to share in print, but this one’s too good not to get out there right away.
So today while working on The Book I stumbled across this article, which is recommended reading for anyone interested in the history of digital audio.
There is a standard story about the history of the compact disc that says that it became a 74-minute medium because the then-president of Sony wanted to be able to hear all of Beethoven’s 9th symphony without interruption. It turns out that’s not the case at all, at least not according to an engineer who worked on the CD. Instead, he said, it was Philips, not Sony, who were pushing, and they were pushing for the CD to be close in size to the “compact cassette tape” (what I simply knew as “tapes” growing up)
Now, it turns out that a CD is slightly wider than that — 120mm instead of 115mm, but the basic premise holds. And yes, the article also explains why CDs are 16 bit and 44.1khz. Not as arbitrary as we are usually told.
This story clearly is not nearly as sexy or as cult-of-personality as the “we did it for the pres” version but eminently interesting in its own right. The reference points for CD design were — surprise — common consumer electronics standards in use at the time. |
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously."
I wouldn't recommend ingesting large quantities ( 5g) either. It appears to be hallucinogenic and also cardio toxic but the chemical pathways are not, entirely, clear. It's certainly got a profile similar to amphetamines. |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
Bristol |
"CDs can fit 74 minutes of audio on because that was the longest recorded length of Beethoven's 9th Symphony when they came up with the standard and the president of Sony was a massive Beethoven fan.
I think that's wrong.... I found another reason....
I’m not much for using the blog to share works in progress or even discoveries that I hope to share in print, but this one’s too good not to get out there right away.
So today while working on The Book I stumbled across this article, which is recommended reading for anyone interested in the history of digital audio.
There is a standard story about the history of the compact disc that says that it became a 74-minute medium because the then-president of Sony wanted to be able to hear all of Beethoven’s 9th symphony without interruption. It turns out that’s not the case at all, at least not according to an engineer who worked on the CD. Instead, he said, it was Philips, not Sony, who were pushing, and they were pushing for the CD to be close in size to the “compact cassette tape” (what I simply knew as “tapes” growing up)
Now, it turns out that a CD is slightly wider than that — 120mm instead of 115mm, but the basic premise holds. And yes, the article also explains why CDs are 16 bit and 44.1khz. Not as arbitrary as we are usually told.
This story clearly is not nearly as sexy or as cult-of-personality as the “we did it for the pres” version but eminently interesting in its own right. The reference points for CD design were — surprise — common consumer electronics standards in use at the time."
I know, I also heard they simply rounded the size up hence the audio length you can fit. I prefer the more romantic apocryphal tale though; especially since I've also heard it was because it was his wife's favourite piece. |
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By *r-UniqueMan
over a year ago
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"Single women cant fart, apparently they only get an arsehole when they marry "
If your average bloke marries at 20 and dies at 85. Then your average spending for a wedding for a man would take 65 years to pay for   |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Haven't seen one of these in a while....
Come on, what do you know? I'll start with......
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously."
I'm just curious .... what happens to the injectee then? |
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"CDs can fit 74 minutes of audio on because that was the longest recorded length of Beethoven's 9th Symphony when they came up with the standard and the president of Sony was a massive Beethoven fan.
I think that's wrong.... I found another reason."
I think the real reason was Sonys intent to thwart Philips technological advantage and manufacturing process.
It's possible to extend the capacity of a CD to beyond 80 minutes, but only with the loss of recorded frequencies, and the relatively low risk that the disc will not play on some CD players. I believe that the maximum recorded track duration was over 82 minutes.
Doctor Nasty
My original Sony CD player ...00006 is still working
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Haven't seen one of these in a while....
Come on, what do you know? I'll start with......
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Eating an entire nutmeg in one go (ground obviously) would cause a heart attack. "
and you haven't told me this before ... why?? |
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By *r-UniqueMan
over a year ago
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"Our ears never stop growing and our eyes remain the same size as the day we were born
that's why babies (animals included) look cute
And why old people have bigger ears"
If you live long enough some of your body parts grow up to 50% longer. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Shakespeare was just an agent and never actually wrote any of the works attributed to him.
(I don't actually believe this but it makes for an interesting read) |
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Artificial sweeteners are exactly the same chemically as sugars, the difference is that the artificial molecule is a mirror image of its equivalent sugar and as a result the bodies enzymes cant attach to the molecules and digest them. |
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