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Happens with TV shows all the time

This is what we were all told for years and years- that it was impossible that anyone could hear anything in vinyl that was supposed to be there but that couldn't be reproduced with digital at cd quality. Then DVD came out And people could genuinely hear the difference from CD quality audio even in stereo. It turns out that dynamic range is limited by the audio sampling rate and the human ear can easily detect a far greater range CD audio supports.

'Jolene' and 'Blackbird' were covers of black songs? Which ones?

A number of tracks on cowboy carter are covers of songs performed by often well-known white artists previously

Strictly speaking, you cannot make an ISO from an audio CD. Yes, you can make a bin cue file pair as another commenter has suggested. But realistically what you've then got is uncompressed wav audio with the metadata in separate files. The only real advantage this gives you is something that theoretically allows you to recreate precisely the original layout of the audio CD, together with the appropriate length of silence in between the tracks, etc.

When you convert to FLAC there is no loss in audio quality, you use approximately half of the storage space compared to wav, and you can have all of the metadata such as tags and art images embedded in the file itself.

Bin/cue is not really very useful unless you're not listening directly from a computer or burning to a CD and listening to that. For every other use case, it's better to have a file that you can play directly and index directly.

FFS! Yeah, right. Let's all learn about init.d , Xfree86.conf, samba, and how to recompile a kernel using curses.

Yeah, those old books were out of date when they came out.

A lot of 'samurai swords' in media are really just machetes frankly. The linked article describes

Gus Lawrence admitted to using his feet to bend his brother’s “prized samurai sword” into an L-shape while trying to break it, according to a bail memo.

Yeah it's mall ninja kit.

It's a bit like 'the Beatles Pete Best'...

But the reality is this: they are the only company that has turned UNIX into a multi decade, multi platform success with no insight. They’ve adapted across three different processor architectures. No one in the Lennox community has come close. And those who take their inspiration from Apple design and Apple coating of philosophy would never admit it.

[Cough] Android [Cough] Chromebooks. It's also debatable if Apple produce an actual Unix (although also debatable how much that matters)

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Would it make a difference if they did? Here in the UK every supermarket has a loyalty card scheme. I held out for a long time but eventually I simply couldn't afford to pay the effective 20% premium for not using it

The guy who left The Cure 36 years ago?