Dmitry Linkov

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Archive for December, 2006

mp3 files quality

December 9th, 2006. Published under General. 1 Comment.

I was interested, what is the most popular bit rate of mp3 files in the internet? Made very rough investigation just typing in the “128 kbps” in the search and checking the number of links. Here is what i get:

96 kbps (poor quality) – 74 879 links
112 kbps (slightly better) – 19 919 links
128 kbps (medium quality, standart) – 333 791 links
160 kbps (slightly better) – 109 617 links
192 kbps (good quality, standart) – 544 506 links
256 kpbs (high quality) – 254 740 links
320 kpbs (best possible quality) – 201 695 links

What can we say about this? Nothing new but anyway – the quality of files is growing, so the speed of internet access is growing too, because people are able to downlaod bigger files.

Moving in the city

December 6th, 2006. Published under General. No Comments.

Is this a problem of Moscow or of every city in the world? Sometimes I think that people who built underground and structure of the streets just didn’t think of how people will move there!

The most common problem of Moscow underground system is that there is not enough escalators and a lot of bottleneck places everywhere! Is it so difficult to make some places wider then they are?
The second problem is the people. Sometimes the horde is just moving forward. No matter that there is no way or any other problems – they move. The solution is to invent more passages and other stuff that let’s you move only in one direction and it’s clear what direction particularly.

It’s becoming tougher even in the underground these days – crowds everywhere. Using car is even worth – traffic jams everywhere. And when I say everywhere it means ABSOLUTELY everywhere.