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Tubes vs Transistors: An Audible Difference?

Posted by michael on from the vi-emacs-vi-emacs-tastes-great-less-filling dept.

cgenman writes "Are those vaccuum tubes worth the extra price? This paper, a transcript of a speech to the Audio Engineering Society of New York, indicates so, though the reason is surprising: Overloaded tubes behave better. While the speech itself is from the early 70's, the paper takes on new importance with the recent trend in louder is better music."

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  1. But then I'm writing my own language, Version II by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    File reference data type? Give me a break. Haven't you used a char or varchar to store a filename before? Or heck, generate the filename using your primary key, if possible.

    Compare my recent rant:

    True 64-bit Environment w/ Strong Primitive Typing
    If I'm in the business of writing address-mapping software that translates things like binary file nodes to ASCII characters, then, for all intents and purposes, I'm writing a new computer programming language. [Hell, in this case, I'm practically writing a new operating system.]

    Look, it's 2004, not 1984 - all of this stuff should have been done for me by now. I shouldn't have to spend weeks upon weeks of my life writing this kind of crap.

    Arcserve and backup exec will backup all files in a directory hierarchy, at least if the hierarchy is the only thing defined. Otherwise more than a few sysadmins would have to rebuild backup jobs every single day.

    But do they do it in conjunction with the database itself, or separately? I.e. can I get one single BackupExec/ArcServe copy of both the database and the file system, or do I have to do two backups every night?

    And the overwhelming majority of shops that do scientific computing, or multimedia computing, don't have a budget to hire a bunch of $75,000 administrators. Remember that each of your $75,000 administrators costs about $150,000 a year [or more] when you factor in all the overhead of benefits and office space and the like.

    Rsync or a shell script can duplicate the data between servers.

    Will Rsync talk to Oracle/DB2/SQLServer? Will Oracle/DB2/SQLServer talk to Rsync? What if someone makes a change [i.e. a delta] to the file? Will Rsync tell Oracle/DB2/SQLServer? What if someone makes a change [i.e. a delta] to the Metadata? Will Oracle/DB2/SQLServer inform the filesystem about it?

    Like I said above, in 2004, we shouldn't have to be worrying about all of this crap.