"...because we recognized customers' interest in the standardization of document formats"
"Microsoft has determined that it is important to shine a bright light on IBM's activities that will have a negative impact on the IT industry and customers, including taking concrete steps to prevent customer choice, engaging in hypocrisy, and working against the industry and against customer needs," said the spokesperson. "Microsoft will continue to be public in identifying the ways that IBM is trying to prevent customer choice."
Is there a class in Business School that teaches this stuff? That transparently stupid statements are ok to make because only your "reality" counts?
On day one of this class do you walk in the door and the professor says "The sky is blue. Unless you don't want it to be."
Humor noted but that kind of leads to my point. One of four things can happen:
1) You relent and the charge is correctly applied. Story ends.
2) You refuse and drive off. The manager calls the police. Would your average Joe police officer care about the subtleties of the situation? Again, this the physical every day world we're talking about.
3) You refuse and drive off. The manager goes back in the store and charges your card the correct amount. Later you find out about it and dispute the charge. This requires bringing the original $0.00 charge to light. Realistically, the outcome of this scenario depends on how much the CC company makes from your account. AMEX will almost always side with you if you're running tens of thousands of dollars through their card every year (from personal experience). Those with less leverage (e.g. poor college students) will fare less well. Merchants are low on the totem pole but not that low.
4) The merchant relents. Seems unrealistic for any larger size store in this day and age.
Strict legality aside, let's sit back, take a deep breath, and test out your comment in the physical world.
You walk into Best Buy, select your merchandise then take it to a checkout counter. The clerk charges you $0.00 and the receipt reflects that. You exit the store and on the way to your car the manager approaches you with the error.
Datasheets aren't perfect but for an item as big as this, you'd expect some mention. Only Ogg is mentioned in section 7.5 of the datasheet (see the VLSI site). Perhaps there's a firmware upgrade in the future that marketing didn't catch in the revision.
Nevertheless, it's sampled around 48KHz so the device is certainly applicable to both high and low end audio applications. Lower end applications are definitely in the target market:
"Sample rates above 46875 Hz are played back at 46875 Hz. There are no sample rate restrictions for lower sample rates: non-standard sample rates can be played back without a performance penalty."
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"...because we recognized customers' interest in the standardization of document formats"
"Microsoft has determined that it is important to shine a bright light on IBM's activities that will have a negative impact on the IT industry and customers, including taking concrete steps to prevent customer choice, engaging in hypocrisy, and working against the industry and against customer needs," said the spokesperson. "Microsoft will continue to be public in identifying the ways that IBM is trying to prevent customer choice."
Is there a class in Business School that teaches this stuff? That transparently stupid statements are ok to make because only your "reality" counts?
On day one of this class do you walk in the door and the professor says "The sky is blue. Unless you don't want it to be."
Wow.
Humor noted but that kind of leads to my point. One of four things can happen:
1) You relent and the charge is correctly applied. Story ends.
2) You refuse and drive off. The manager calls the police. Would your average Joe police officer care about the subtleties of the situation? Again, this the physical every day world we're talking about.
3) You refuse and drive off. The manager goes back in the store and charges your card the correct amount. Later you find out about it and dispute the charge. This requires bringing the original $0.00 charge to light. Realistically, the outcome of this scenario depends on how much the CC company makes from your account. AMEX will almost always side with you if you're running tens of thousands of dollars through their card every year (from personal experience). Those with less leverage (e.g. poor college students) will fare less well. Merchants are low on the totem pole but not that low.
4) The merchant relents. Seems unrealistic for any larger size store in this day and age.
5) Profit!
Strict legality aside, let's sit back, take a deep breath, and test out your comment in the physical world.
You walk into Best Buy, select your merchandise then take it to a checkout counter. The clerk charges you $0.00 and the receipt reflects that. You exit the store and on the way to your car the manager approaches you with the error.
Realistically, what's going to happen next?
Interesting, never knew that it also meant "pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality".
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pansexual
It's difficult to come up with an instance where this isn't true.
Datasheets aren't perfect but for an item as big as this, you'd expect some mention. Only Ogg is mentioned in section 7.5 of the datasheet (see the VLSI site). Perhaps there's a firmware upgrade in the future that marketing didn't catch in the revision.
Nevertheless, it's sampled around 48KHz so the device is certainly applicable to both high and low end audio applications. Lower end applications are definitely in the target market:
"Sample rates above 46875 Hz are played back at 46875 Hz. There are no sample rate restrictions for lower sample
rates: non-standard sample rates can be played back without a performance penalty."