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Tubes vs Transistors: An Audible Difference?
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."
If i'm not mistaken, hitler was the one trying to find the final solution to that pretty girl and her countrymen?
Usually the "dept." things are kind of funny, but I am just totally confused on this articles use of from the vi-emacs-vi-emacs-tastes-great-less-filling dept.
Didn't really think that this had anything to do with vi or emacs...
Ironically, Hitler was actually incredibly pro-Zionist. The original draft "final solution" was to dump all the Jews in Palestine, but the British controlled all that region, and, given the fact that the two countries were at war at this stage, circumstances were not at all conducive to the idea.
In practical terms, as you've indicated, the hardware side of things just ain't the Great Satan that everyone makes it out to be.
The real problem is software compression. What we need on the software side is, basically, no intereference whatsoever: Record the sound at 96,000+ samples per second per channel, at 24+ bits of resolution, and just dump it to a hard drive. Screw all of these damned compression technologies that give us altered sound - we want the real thing.
PS: For those of you who remember any of your grade school mathematics,
and we're at about 576,000 bytes per second just for stereo [i.e for two channels]. Multiply that figure appropriately if you're interested in 5+1, 7+1, or 9+2 different channels].That's looking like about
So we can fit at most about two hours worth of two channels worth of medium-quality sound into 2^32 bytes.Here's my dilemma: WHAT WERE THE IDIOTS THINKING WHO DESIGNED SQL-99 AND THE 32-BIT [SO-CALLED] "BINARY LARGE OBJECT" [BLOB]?
Why don't they be honest, and call it what it really is - the Binary SMALL Object [BSOB]?
32-bits are absolutely worthless. We need true 64-bit platforms so that we can dump these things into our databases.
I've asked this until I'm blue in the face, but I'll do it again: Does anyone know of a company [preferably using some sort of ANSI or IEEE standard] that has a product that will allow us to dump truly large [i.e. necessarily 64-bit] amounts of data into a database?
And yes, we are generating this kinds of datasets, but no one seems to want to create a product for us to house them in...
That would be conceding defeat
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Our adversaries "Hate us because of our freedom and democracy" we have heard our President say it. Whether you agree with his policies or not, there is some sense of truth in it. A prominent target could very well be our elections, and an intent to interfere with our democracy!
If we, greatest democracy in the world, postpone our elections because of terrorist threats or actions, then we are letting the terrorists win a prominent battle. We would be conceding defeat to the terrorists, and to all those who hate us and who "hate our democracy".
The true patriotic American response to such attempts to derail our democratic process is an absolute refusal to let ANYONE interfere with our most important political process: choosing our leaders through an election. Our response MUST be non-negotiable. We will carry on. We will defy all terroristic attempts to impede our democracy in any way. We will vote with gas masks on. We will vote with bombs going off. We will vote with the threat of bodily injury and even death hanging over us.
Did the Spanish people call off their elections when multiple bombs exploded in their trains shortly before their elections? No. Did the Spanish people cower in their homes, did they let their fears get the best of them? No. They continued with their elections.
So should the American people.
The United States of America is NOT a nation of cowards, who hide at the first sign of danger, who let terrorism derail their political processes.
Our boys are in Afghanistan and Iraq and in many other places in the world, risking their lives doing what? Defending our right to elect our own leaders! If we at home choose to cower in fear of terrorism and let our elections be postponed, wouldn't we be committing the ultimate betrayal of all the sacrifices of our soldiers?
The Home Front is the most important front in this War on Terror! Sept 11th showed us that we are not safe, even here at home. So we cannot hide. We must be brave, for we are soldiers on the lines of battle, too.
Our nation must go on with our elections no matter what.
Anyone who suggests we should do differently is plainly a coward, and is not worthy of the right to vote. Any suggestion of postponing our elective process is DEFEATIST. Freedom comes at a price. It is time to stop asking others to defend our rights and our freedoms.
True Patriots of America, it is time to show your true colors. Let the terrorists see that these colors don't run!
America, damn the torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!
You are confusing Hitler with Eichman, who nearly got kicked out of the Nazi Party by circulating copies of Herzl's "Der Judenstatd" around the office.
That said, Zionism and Naziism are similar ideologies with many shared goals. There was some cooperation between the two in Europe, and for all intents and purposes, the Lehi fought on the German side in WWII.
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:
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.