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Re: The best computer bag I’ve owned: STM Journey

Mark Mitchell — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:03:50 -0000

my favorite laptop bag is a totally free not very fancy semi-briefcase given to me by the wonderful people at Absolut Vodka. The thing that makes it so special is it has a padded inner core. The laptop is easily accesable but also well protected.

Re: The best Fortune Brainstorm Tech Talk: Neil Young challenges tech industry

Mark Mitchell — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:55:19 -0000

Ok here is the story. I am a former professional audio engineer. The Analog-to-Digital conversion process makes a big difference. Today most albums are recorded into a MAC usually with a program called Protools. This digital equipment is than run back through an analog console to finally be mixed down again back to digital. This mixed version is then converted again to analog in mastering and made digital once again for production. So the conversion process occurs a multitude of times even in a professional environment. Granted most likely with fairly good converters. The average person in my opinion can not tell the difference between 16 bit 44.1 k (cd quality audio) and a compressed MP3. Good work Rob.

Re: A new search engine appears: will you use it?

Mark Mitchell — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:50:39 -0000

Cuil. I must admit I spelled it wrong the first time I looked for it and got an Italian porn site. Seems as though Culi is something totally different :)

On thing I noticed with Cuil is it's lack of monetization or advertising. Granted they are new the layout doesn't seen to really lend itself to ads. In the end maybe they will invent some small piece of technology that one of the big 3 deem useful enough to buy them.