End of the day, half the time when stuff like that goes wrong, windows makes sure it will not let you find out the real reason Bad Stuff is happening. If you don't have a memtest tool on you, you just have to make your best guess.
$2000 for HDD recovery is a con tho for sure!
I take it this is a fake announcement to highlight the dangers of censorship?
Ah, proposals, where you can say anything to appease the masses with no intent or method of implimentation.
FM isn't lossless; It's concievable people will be able to stream lossless audio streams on home connections in the near future. In fact, people could stream multi-track lossless streams. They could stream an entire Album in lossless format in the length for the longest song to play.
Multi-track streaming is something that net radio can really offer over traditional radio, with little effort you can have alternate playlists, with the same inter-song content and advertising. However this could be easily set up as a lossless distribution center.
I'm not against piracy, but I have my own ideas about how I'd use an excuse of net radio to aid distribution.
Well that's a result! Hopefully these guys will make good progress. In the end though with net radio streams getting higher and higher quality how long will it be before people use net radio as a content distribution mechanism with an excuse to get around copyright?
Editting text files over SSH is clunky? It's exactly the same experience as editting text files as if you were standing at the physical machine. If you don't run a GUI you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between a shell over SSH and a shell at the machine itself.
In it's efficiency graphs they order the negative scoring ratios wrong!
Afterall, they considering something that adds 1MB in 2 seconds to be worse than one that increases the size by 1MB in 2 minutes. So doing the same thing *slower* actually ranks it ABOVE the other one.
Plus, what matters, even for large files, is NOT the time for compression. What you REALLY want to compare is the ratio and the time for EXTRACTION on those settings. Any file will be compressed once, decompressed thousands of times. A minute longer to produce means little. A minute longer to extract for everyone extracting it matters a lot.
If Microsoft lose their hold on the document format then there would be little to tie people to office, and through that, windows. Every time I try and 'sell' openoffice to my family they scoff and say "but it's NOT office" despite the fact they're using office 97 that can barely handle office 2000 documents.
There is a perception that people NEED office to function, getting ODF widely accepted would be a huge blow to Microsoft.
You can just "upgrade" by changing a word in a config file somewhere, there's no reinstallation involved; You'll just be bumped with a few programs to download and you're done, there's little reason *not* to.
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End of the day, half the time when stuff like that goes wrong, windows makes sure it will not let you find out the real reason Bad Stuff is happening. If you don't have a memtest tool on you, you just have to make your best guess. $2000 for HDD recovery is a con tho for sure!
Most people can't tell what you're thinking when you're there talking to them trying to get them to understand what you're thinking.
I take it this is a fake announcement to highlight the dangers of censorship? Ah, proposals, where you can say anything to appease the masses with no intent or method of implimentation.
FM isn't lossless; It's concievable people will be able to stream lossless audio streams on home connections in the near future. In fact, people could stream multi-track lossless streams. They could stream an entire Album in lossless format in the length for the longest song to play. Multi-track streaming is something that net radio can really offer over traditional radio, with little effort you can have alternate playlists, with the same inter-song content and advertising. However this could be easily set up as a lossless distribution center. I'm not against piracy, but I have my own ideas about how I'd use an excuse of net radio to aid distribution.
Well that's a result! Hopefully these guys will make good progress. In the end though with net radio streams getting higher and higher quality how long will it be before people use net radio as a content distribution mechanism with an excuse to get around copyright?
Editting text files over SSH is clunky? It's exactly the same experience as editting text files as if you were standing at the physical machine. If you don't run a GUI you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between a shell over SSH and a shell at the machine itself.
In it's efficiency graphs they order the negative scoring ratios wrong! Afterall, they considering something that adds 1MB in 2 seconds to be worse than one that increases the size by 1MB in 2 minutes. So doing the same thing *slower* actually ranks it ABOVE the other one. Plus, what matters, even for large files, is NOT the time for compression. What you REALLY want to compare is the ratio and the time for EXTRACTION on those settings. Any file will be compressed once, decompressed thousands of times. A minute longer to produce means little. A minute longer to extract for everyone extracting it matters a lot.
If Microsoft lose their hold on the document format then there would be little to tie people to office, and through that, windows. Every time I try and 'sell' openoffice to my family they scoff and say "but it's NOT office" despite the fact they're using office 97 that can barely handle office 2000 documents.
There is a perception that people NEED office to function, getting ODF widely accepted would be a huge blow to Microsoft.
You can just "upgrade" by changing a word in a config file somewhere, there's no reinstallation involved; You'll just be bumped with a few programs to download and you're done, there's little reason *not* to.