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Do All MP3 Players Sound Alike?

http://mobilitysite.com/2008/07/do-...ers-sound-alike "Recently I read a review of an mp3 player where the author purposely chose not to discuss sound quality because, in the author’s words, 'The chosen player has a great deal to do with how you access your music, but very little to do with how it sounds…' That got me thinking.

Do All MP3 Players Sound Alike?

"Recently I read a review of an mp3 player where the author purposely chose not to discuss sound quality because, in the author’s words, 'The chosen player has a great deal to do with how you access your music, but very little to do with how it sounds…' That got me thinking. Do all mp3 players sound alike? They are all digital, so it’s the same 1’s and 0’s playing the music, so how can there be a difference in sound quality? I have tested some mp3 players myself and have noticed drastic differences. I have trouble believing that mp3 players don’t influence sound quality that much. They have different components, circuitry, software and build tolerances, so how can there not be a difference?"

Poll: What do you do when you can't design?

This week I had guests over the weekend, then I got sick, and in the middle of all that, our back-end servers went down. So, even if I had had some time to work on my site, I couldn't do anything live.

LC Googles Dates

Lauren ConradYou ever think that ’stars’ are completely different from the rest of us? And then you’re like, “hey, you know, I bet that Brad Garrett from Everybody Love Raymond occasionally eats, sleeps, and excretes. And he’s a pretty big star. Do you think other stars have to do the gross stuff that we peasants do?” And then you read on Digital Spy about Lauren Conrad googling dates and you’re like, “Damn, I do that. I might have to start watching this The Hills program. Maybe they’re doing some other awesome stuff I should get into, like kickboxing.”

How to Do People Search Online

Do you want to locate a person or want to have an access to the public records of a person? Yes, that is possible. In the past, if you wanted to have personal records or identify someone, you have to hire a private investigator to do the work for you. Indeed, private investigators have their ways to locate someone, but this method takes time and it is expensive. These days, there are several ways for you to locate and investigate someone.

Patents do not require big bucks

New Delhi, June 5 Patents do not require big bucks and nor do massive R&D spends necessarily translate into an increase in patent filing.

What do you think makes someone a Webmaster?

As opposed to a Web designer, Web developer, or Web producer? This month I received 6 submissions to the "What is a Webmaster" survey. What do you think a Webmaster is? What do you use as your job title? Most people who read this site don't like the title "webmistress", but beyond that there isn't a lot of consensus. The following comments are the latest I've received, but you can read all of them in What is a Webmaster 4 - Reader Comments.

Freelancers - do you feel exploited?

Remember the writer's strike last year? You know, the one where all the movie and TV writers stopped writing and we were forced to watch hours and hours of "reality TV" and re-runs? Well, Copyblogger wrote an article at the time called What Web Writers Can Learn from the Writer's Strike. Now you may not consider yourself a Web writer, but chances are you do freelance work. And many of you blog and you may even do blogging for hire. Well, Brian Clark said:

What public authorities do with our personal information

Every day we are handing over ever more personal information to retailers, public authorities and others, but what do they do with it

The future is what we do now

I’ve said before that I prefer that governments spend money on stuff like public transport—where business won’t invest—than give handouts to industry to do what they would probably do anyway. As with subsidies to Toyota announced a few weeks back, the same with these ones being announced for other car makers.

What Do You Do If Someone Blows Up Your Satellite? Call a Space Lawyer

As space travel becomes routine and private enterprise gets a foothold in low Earth orbit, it is becoming clear that specialists in the field of space law are required. Until now, lawyers here on the surface have extended their knowledge into space, but there will be a time when terrestrial lawyers will need to be superseded by a space equivalent. For example space lawyers could wrangle who is accountable for the space debris left behind after a satellite gets shot down. What happens if a nation accidentally (or deliberately) destroys another nation's spy satellite? Does this cause retaliation with global consequences or can the dispute be easily settled in "Space Court" with the help of space lawyers? These are extreme examples, but space lawyers may eventually become a part of everyday life for manned excursions into the cosmos.

So What Do You Do, Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor and Columnist, Newsweek?

This reporter scours the globe for the grittiest expos? trying to keep the "public service" of journalism alive.

So What Do You Do, Arianna Huffington?

Tokyo-based correspondent Julian Ryall gives us the scoop on juggling time zones for The Telegraph (London), The South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) and The Hollywood Reporter, and why he loves going to work (almost) every day.

TechShop: Where do-it-yourself inventors do R&D

Former Hewlett-Packard engineer Chris Tacklind, left, works with Daniel Fukuba in TechShop's welding lab. Jim Newton, the man behind TechShop, wants to expand the concept to 50 sites in five years.

The End of Gamers

Think of all the things you can do with a photograph. You can document the atrocities of war, as photojournalists sometimes do. You can record fleeting moments in time, as did documentarians like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank. You can capture the ordinary moments of family life, as many people do at birthday parties or holidays for an album or shoebox archive. You can take a snapshot reminder of a home improvement project in order to buy the right part at the hardware store. An automated street intersection photograph can capture license plate for future ticketing, and a pornographer can capture a nude body for future titillation.

Why Social Networking?

Why join a social networking site? There are many reasons, most having to do with networking, communicating with and meeting new people on the Net. There are other reasons too, some of which have to do with meeting old friends. Other's have to do with meeting people with similar interests as you.

Sowing Nanophobia to Reap Regulation?

With the recent publication of a particular MWCNTs-in-mice experiment, and pundits' various comments thereupon, we're back where we always are on the "unknown risks" of nanotechnology. Do we embrace innovation or fear it? Do we seek to build communities and business networks based on knowledge and trust, or do we imagine that a comprehensive scheme of prohibitions and penalties will lead to better outcomes? The answer is by no means an anarchical free-for-all (we're way past that), but rather collaborative and interdisciplinary mechanisms for reducing uncertainty that are as innovative and forward-looking as nanotechnology itself.

Travel Guru Arthur Frommer Posts 1000th Blog Entry

Travel authority Arthur Frommer has posted his 1000th blog entry on Frommers.com. Mirroring his classic best-selling "Europe on $5 a Day," Frommer's first blog post on May 8, 2007 was titled "Europe and the sinking dollar: what do we do now?" Since then, Frommer has posted 1,000 short, often humorous, takes on the latest travel trends and advice on affordable travel. Spanning topics from sea-sickness remedies (ginger) to the most gay-friendly vacation spot (Bermuda), Frommer's blog is read religiously by thousands of travel enthusiasts each month. Frommer also utilizes his blog to solicit contributions from readers to create an interactive forum for fellow travelers, posing such questions as: Do Power Bars join peanut butter as essential "don't leave home without them" items?

Does Open Java Matter?

IconNow that Java has a fully open sourced implementation in RedHat's IcedTea, Neil McAllister questions whether an open Java even matters: "Even as Java has stretched outward to embrace more concepts and technologies - adding APIs and language features as it goes - newer, more lightweight tools have appeared that do most of what Java aims to do. And they often do it better."

Should I pay a fee to recover $14K in lost assets?

Question: My wife was contacted by a firm called Keane Tracers that told her my mother-in-law, who passed away in 2001, has a mutual fund worth $14,000. For 25% of that amount, Keane will do the paperwork to get us the money; for 15% it will tell us where the money is so we can recover it ourselves. Then the company sent us a contract quoting 35% for full recovery and 25% to do it ourselves. Either way, the fees seem high. What should we do? - Robert Chaplow, Chester, Va.

What's the Solution To Intellectual Property?

StealthyRoid writes "I'm an anarcho-capitalist, and a huge supporter of property rights, both physical and intellectual. At the same time, I find the current trend of increasing penalties for minor violations, criminalizing civil IP matters, anti-consumer technologies like DRM, and abuse of the legal system by the *AA's of the world really disturbing. You'd think that by now, there'd be a reasonable solution to the problem of protecting intellectual property while at the same time maintaining the rights of consumers and protecting individuals from absurd litigation, but I have yet to find one. So, I pose these questions to the Slashdot community: 1 — Do you acknowledge the legitimacy of intellectual property to begin with? That is, do you believe that intellectual property is a valid construct equivalent to physical property, or do you

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