If you're an idiot and break your processor while overclocking on it, why should AMD pay?
I had to underclock my 1.2 GHz Athlon to 900 MHz to keep it from overheating in the summer in my unairconditioned apartment. In the winter, I had to keep my apartment uncomfortably cold to keep the thing from overheating, because the air vents for my heater are too near the computer area.
This was after trying a couple different heatsinks, and getting thermal grease.
Now both my systems are 2.4 GHz P4s. They run way cooler than the AMDs, even when I let my heater make my apartment toasty warm.
Well, interesting idea. But, I'd never be interested in BUYING a song in a lossy format. I'd be willing to pay for songs in a lossless format, and then compress on my own (to mp3, ogg..whatever)
So what format do you buy in? CD throws out high frequencies, and quantizes to 16 bits. Some people can hear the losses these cause (or they can hear the things that are done to try to make those losses less annoying).
Furthermore, the fact that you are willing to compress on your own shows that you DO value the compressed versions. What's wrong with buying something that has value to you?
It doesn't say in the article what they compared. Many (most?) cable companies offer one speed plan, whereas many (most?) DSL companies offer several speed plans.
I occasionally get sore wrists or arms, and have to stop using my computer for a while.
I notice that I've never had problems in both hands at the same time.
So, what I want is a keyboard/pointer that can be reasonably operated with one hand. I expect to lose about half my typing speed, or more...that's OK. It needs to be good for both email/browsing type stuff AND coding!
Browsers, especially Mozilla, are becoming complete application deveopment platforms. Such applications often deal with a database. It will be confusing if the browser and the database have the same name.
Your argument could be applied to everything else...so why not rename Apache to be Firebird, too? And PHP. People can then use Firebird to talk to Firebird pages on Firebird, generated using Firebird's excellent Firebird connectivity.
From there, we are only a step away from Marklar!
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This technology is great for increasing your overall battery life by reclaiming a small portion of the energy expended to make your phone ring/vibrate
Except it would be easier and more effective to simply vibrate less vibrantly.
What would make sense (in theory...not necessarily in practice!) would be if you had two battery powered devices with this technology, each recoverying some energy from the other's vibration. That would be energy that otherwise went to waste, by transmitting vibration to the other device rather than the user.
Basically, what makes sense is to recover misdirected vibration, not excees vibration.
headphones are not as good (the sounds always move with your head)
Well, not always. Sony had (I don't know if they still sell them) wireless headphones once designed for TV watching. They had a sensor that sensed head direction, and they adjusted the sound if you turned your head so it still sounded like it was coming from the direction of the TV.
It's not meant to store your entire music collection; it would be silly to do that, because you could loose your entire collection after dropping it on the floor just once, or if it accidentially comes near a strong magnet or it's stolen or... you get the idea
Believe it or not, some of us actually buy music instead of download it from filesharing services. Unless we dropped it on our CDs, we'd not lose our entire collection. We'd just have to rerip our entire collection.
Furthermore, you assume that we don't have a backup rip. With 80+ gig hard drives being cheap, it's not too hard to devote 20 gig on the computer to storing music.
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With people out there who say they can hear the difference between a CD and an MP3, I wonder if people won't complain about this, even if they can't see it.
I'm very far from being one of those "golden eared" people (hell...I did some double-blind A/B testing, and was unable to detect when the music was run through a 12 KHz low pass filter, so my ears suck).
Nevertheless, in double-blind A/B testing, I can spot the difference between MP3s made with iTunes using default settings and the original, 100% of the time, on music I'm familiar with. Same with MP3s made on Linux using Bladeenc at 128 kbits/second. If I use Lame on Linux, or whatever MusicMatch uses on Windows, my results are no better than what random guessing would produce.
I've been testing this because I ripped for my Archos at the highest bitrate that I thought would let me fit everything...and I was wrong by about two gig.:-) So, I need to rerip a few things at a lower bitrate to make room, and I'm trying to find out just what bitrate I actually need.
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Oh well...at least this time it uses the little pig icon, instead of the AOL icon, so it's not a complete dupe of another story that is still on the fucking front page.
Question: how fucking hard would it be for Slashdot editors to at least read the current front page before posting stories????.
There's already been a fee added to blank media (CDs, etc) for precisely the purpose he describes
There's a fee on some kinds of media for audio recording. I don't think that media for data has this fee. Most copying is done using data media (people rip to MP3, and then treat the MP3 as an ordinary file).
The majority of the music I listen to is on casette tapes[...]I have absolutely no desire to pay for someone else's music downloads
So?
That's how taxes work.
Most of my income tax goes to things I don't need, but that the government thinks are good for society as a whole, so I have to pay my share.
How come everyone seems to call any new hard disk MP3 player an iPod clone now? It's not like Apple was first. Might as well call them Archos clones, especially since the Philips unit is a recorder, like most Archos models, and unlike iPod.
As far as I can see, the only innovation Apple did was pick a 1.8" hard disk instead of a 2.5" hard disk to save size (and greatly increase cost), and eventually add some rudimentary PDA functions.
DSL is the the only reason I have a phone line (my cell phone plan has enough minutes to cover all my voice calls). It would be nice to be able to drop that
Phone lines and CATV lines don't necessarily come into the house where I want the computer. I've got power sockets all over the place
Both DSL and cable have limitations that power lines might not have
Make it a requirement for the people that approve posts that those people regularly read slashdot.
Hell, I only spend a few minutes a day reading slashdot, and I have no trouble instantly spotting the dupes, so it wouldn't be too onerous a burden on your editors, would it?
So, honestly, how much longer can the RIAA keep doing this before *everyone* turns against them?
Why would it turn anyone against them? That one kid allegedly had 652000 songs up for sharing. That goes way beyond any conceivable fair use sharing of music he had legitimately obtained.
this is so retarded.. replying to your own comment? what am i missing here?
What you are missing are the 0 and -1 comments. So, when you have X, reply-to-X, reply-to-reply-to-X, and reply-to-X is below your threshold, it looks like the second reply is to X, instead of to reply-to-X.
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I had to underclock my 1.2 GHz Athlon to 900 MHz to keep it from overheating in the summer in my unairconditioned apartment. In the winter, I had to keep my apartment uncomfortably cold to keep the thing from overheating, because the air vents for my heater are too near the computer area.
This was after trying a couple different heatsinks, and getting thermal grease.
Now both my systems are 2.4 GHz P4s. They run way cooler than the AMDs, even when I let my heater make my apartment toasty warm.
So what format do you buy in? CD throws out high frequencies, and quantizes to 16 bits. Some people can hear the losses these cause (or they can hear the things that are done to try to make those losses less annoying).
Furthermore, the fact that you are willing to compress on your own shows that you DO value the compressed versions. What's wrong with buying something that has value to you?
How would that be a problem?
It doesn't say in the article what they compared. Many (most?) cable companies offer one speed plan, whereas many (most?) DSL companies offer several speed plans.
I notice that I've never had problems in both hands at the same time.
So, what I want is a keyboard/pointer that can be reasonably operated with one hand. I expect to lose about half my typing speed, or more...that's OK. It needs to be good for both email/browsing type stuff AND coding!
Is there anything reasonable like that?
It sure confused the hell out of me when I checked my logs and wondered why a bootloader was reading my site!
Browsers, especially Mozilla, are becoming complete application deveopment platforms. Such applications often deal with a database. It will be confusing if the browser and the database have the same name.
Your argument could be applied to everything else...so why not rename Apache to be Firebird, too? And PHP. People can then use Firebird to talk to Firebird pages on Firebird, generated using Firebird's excellent Firebird connectivity.
From there, we are only a step away from Marklar!
Except it would be easier and more effective to simply vibrate less vibrantly.
What would make sense (in theory...not necessarily in practice!) would be if you had two battery powered devices with this technology, each recoverying some energy from the other's vibration. That would be energy that otherwise went to waste, by transmitting vibration to the other device rather than the user.
Basically, what makes sense is to recover misdirected vibration, not excees vibration.
Well, not always. Sony had (I don't know if they still sell them) wireless headphones once designed for TV watching. They had a sensor that sensed head direction, and they adjusted the sound if you turned your head so it still sounded like it was coming from the direction of the TV.
Believe it or not, some of us actually buy music instead of download it from filesharing services. Unless we dropped it on our CDs, we'd not lose our entire collection. We'd just have to rerip our entire collection.
Furthermore, you assume that we don't have a backup rip. With 80+ gig hard drives being cheap, it's not too hard to devote 20 gig on the computer to storing music.
I'm very far from being one of those "golden eared" people (hell...I did some double-blind A/B testing, and was unable to detect when the music was run through a 12 KHz low pass filter, so my ears suck).
Nevertheless, in double-blind A/B testing, I can spot the difference between MP3s made with iTunes using default settings and the original, 100% of the time, on music I'm familiar with. Same with MP3s made on Linux using Bladeenc at 128 kbits/second. If I use Lame on Linux, or whatever MusicMatch uses on Windows, my results are no better than what random guessing would produce.
I've been testing this because I ripped for my Archos at the highest bitrate that I thought would let me fit everything...and I was wrong by about two gig. :-) So, I need to rerip a few things at a lower bitrate to make room, and I'm trying to find out just what bitrate I actually need.
Question: how fucking hard would it be for Slashdot editors to at least read the current front page before posting stories????.
Idiots.
No, that's not the premise. Think "tax".
There's a fee on some kinds of media for audio recording. I don't think that media for data has this fee. Most copying is done using data media (people rip to MP3, and then treat the MP3 as an ordinary file).
So? That's how taxes work. Most of my income tax goes to things I don't need, but that the government thinks are good for society as a whole, so I have to pay my share.
No
AOL is following accepted practice. Blocking direct SMTP connections from residential addresses is quite common, and has been for years.
As far as I can see, the only innovation Apple did was pick a 1.8" hard disk instead of a 2.5" hard disk to save size (and greatly increase cost), and eventually add some rudimentary PDA functions.
Hell, I only spend a few minutes a day reading slashdot, and I have no trouble instantly spotting the dupes, so it wouldn't be too onerous a burden on your editors, would it?
Why would it turn anyone against them? That one kid allegedly had 652000 songs up for sharing. That goes way beyond any conceivable fair use sharing of music he had legitimately obtained.
What you are missing are the 0 and -1 comments. So, when you have X, reply-to-X, reply-to-reply-to-X, and reply-to-X is below your threshold, it looks like the second reply is to X, instead of to reply-to-X.
Next year, Slashdot...post one or two good jokes, and that's all. They are much more effective that way.
yes.