Yes, digital data is digital data but the CDs reader allows error for skip/glitch free playing, remember Audio CD has been around for more than 20 years, the technology when it first appeared is limited, they can't provide accuracy and skip-free at the same time.
Data is often put in one track of a CD with extra information to check for error. If your reader meets an error while reading the data from CD, it will have to re-read it again, but they can't do it while playing audio CD, as it will cause skips and glitches. And while you can read data on CD at high speed (52x), your CD driver only read audio CD at 1x, just enough for playing and not enough time for re-read the errors parts.
For more information you can check Exact Audio Copy document, as I am not an expert at this.
How do you verify that? After finishing reading Audio CD (which take a looong time), EAC can check if it is accurate or not by comparing its checksums with another people's one.
Oh, and I am talking about Audio CD, not the one with data:)
Yeah, in this case they can't apply DRM, but with format like SACD you can use normal CD player to read them but it still has DRM protected data (the 'high fidelity one').
If i'm not wrong, Audio CD are error tolerant, they was designed to play without being interrupted by ignoring minor errors while reading. Because everyone will be more angry if their CD is skipping like crazy than having little distortion in the sound. That is why programs like EAC exist, they can check if the reader are bypassing errors or not so a (near) perfect copy of the audio data on the CD can be created.
I keep my CDs carefully and I don't have a great ear so I can't say that my CDs give different sound over years. But there are a lot of audiophiles around, and when they want to create a lossless copy of the CD, everything has to be 'lossless', from the source to the encoding.
But IMO, this technology is useless as some other ones from Sony.
I wouldn't even consider the software piracy as a threat to Microsoft. The corporation benefits hugely from high level of piracy in emerging markets. Only because of pirates it is able to hold absolute monopoly in many countries without spending a penny for it.
And you expect Ballmer to say that piracy is MS best friend?
Firefox is too slow for me, I am using Ubuntu 8.10, and if I try to scroll in pages like slashdot (heavy JS usage?) the music will become glitched like crazy (smooth scrolling turned off). Also, Firefox will often get frozen if the HDD is heavily utilized.
This happen both on my laptop (C2D 1.8Ghz - 2GBs Ram) and my desktop (P4 3GHz - 1GB RAM), which should be powerful enough to run firefox. At first I though it was related the nvidia driver but the problem is still there after I fixed the driver.
If you are talking about suspend to disk then I don't think it is 'dual hibernate'/hybrid, hybrid suspend is saving information to both disk and ram so you can resume faster, and won't lost all the work if run out of power.
And for the mounting problem, I just make a ext3 partition and store all the things that need to be shared between two OSes, then install ext2ifs so windows can read them.
I don't think there are many people who is retarded enough to contribute code that contain backdoor to a FOSS project. And even if they do, most won't be accepted.
And yeah, tell us other ways to detect the backdoor that are better than viewing the source.
Also, IIRC, Linux's uptime is quite good, but according to netcraft (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html), except one BSD server at #1, number 2 to 6 run Windows. I am confused, so does Linux server have high uptime or not?
Yeah, this sure isn't serious benchmarking, and TFS is also misleaded, for example "From install time to GUI efficiency, Ubuntu beats Windows and is often twice as fast", there is no benchmark in the article about GUI efficiency, or does he mean the number of mouse clicks?
That's aside, I think an installation of an OS would not be completed without install all the update. The last time I installed Vista SP1, it even take longer than install the OS itself! And I even have to reboot 2 or 3 times, this might related to.NET programs compilation. While in Ubuntu it is faster to upgrade the system.
Also, Windows tend to grow overtimes faster than Linux, MS decided to avoid dll hell by keep multi versions of dlls file in windows\winsxs.
A little bit offtopic but anyone knows a good cross platform benchmark suite?
Another important thing, VDPAU can't utilize memory allocated by Turbo Cache, and 9400M don't has enough integrated RAM to decode HD video (not sure about 720p, but sure it can't do 1080p)
Suspend to Ram is fixed in 180.25 too, I don't have the latter problem with previous driver so I don't know if it is fixed or not, though some people said it is fixed on Nvidia forum
And does Windows 7 still burn my laptop like Vista did?
On my laptop, Vista basic (mean no Aero) is much much more hotter than XP/Linux. And with recent infamous Nvidia defect, I would like to keep my laptop cool.
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Google Chrome (or some other browsers) has incognito mode for that purpose.
Until my CAD programs use DirectX, I won't call it 'standard', sure most games on Windows use DirectX, but that doesn't mean OpenGL pointless.
Yes, digital data is digital data but the CDs reader allows error for skip/glitch free playing, remember Audio CD has been around for more than 20 years, the technology when it first appeared is limited, they can't provide accuracy and skip-free at the same time.
Oh and please read this article from Wiki-sensei:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#Obtaining_an_accurate_rip
Oh no, they are different.
Data is often put in one track of a CD with extra information to check for error. If your reader meets an error while reading the data from CD, it will have to re-read it again, but they can't do it while playing audio CD, as it will cause skips and glitches. And while you can read data on CD at high speed (52x), your CD driver only read audio CD at 1x, just enough for playing and not enough time for re-read the errors parts.
For more information you can check Exact Audio Copy document, as I am not an expert at this.
How do you verify that? After finishing reading Audio CD (which take a looong time), EAC can check if it is accurate or not by comparing its checksums with another people's one.
Oh, and I am talking about Audio CD, not the one with data :)
Yeah, in this case they can't apply DRM, but with format like SACD you can use normal CD player to read them but it still has DRM protected data (the 'high fidelity one').
If i'm not wrong, Audio CD are error tolerant, they was designed to play without being interrupted by ignoring minor errors while reading. Because everyone will be more angry if their CD is skipping like crazy than having little distortion in the sound. That is why programs like EAC exist, they can check if the reader are bypassing errors or not so a (near) perfect copy of the audio data on the CD can be created.
I keep my CDs carefully and I don't have a great ear so I can't say that my CDs give different sound over years. But there are a lot of audiophiles around, and when they want to create a lossless copy of the CD, everything has to be 'lossless', from the source to the encoding.
But IMO, this technology is useless as some other ones from Sony.
I wouldn't even consider the software piracy as a threat to Microsoft. The corporation benefits hugely from high level of piracy in emerging markets. Only because of pirates it is able to hold absolute monopoly in many countries without spending a penny for it.
And you expect Ballmer to say that piracy is MS best friend?
Firefox is too slow for me, I am using Ubuntu 8.10, and if I try to scroll in pages like slashdot (heavy JS usage?) the music will become glitched like crazy (smooth scrolling turned off). Also, Firefox will often get frozen if the HDD is heavily utilized.
This happen both on my laptop (C2D 1.8Ghz - 2GBs Ram) and my desktop (P4 3GHz - 1GB RAM), which should be powerful enough to run firefox. At first I though it was related the nvidia driver but the problem is still there after I fixed the driver.
+1
In a large area like a campus, cat is the best choice. At least they don't eat my mouse cable like mouse do.
You will have a hard time finding their corpse after they die, and they won't smell so good :)
If you are talking about suspend to disk then I don't think it is 'dual hibernate'/hybrid, hybrid suspend is saving information to both disk and ram so you can resume faster, and won't lost all the work if run out of power.
And for the mounting problem, I just make a ext3 partition and store all the things that need to be shared between two OSes, then install ext2ifs so windows can read them.
I don't think there are many people who is retarded enough to contribute code that contain backdoor to a FOSS project. And even if they do, most won't be accepted.
And yeah, tell us other ways to detect the backdoor that are better than viewing the source.
Thank you and everyone for clarify things up for me. But I can't still argue with them because they have the numbers while I don't have.
Well, maybe I should just ignore them and get my works done :)
Also, IIRC, Linux's uptime is quite good, but according to netcraft (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html), except one BSD server at #1, number 2 to 6 run Windows. I am confused, so does Linux server have high uptime or not?
I have said it before, but someone replied me with this information from ZoneH:
O.S. Defs. %
Linux 6693 76.60%
Win 2003 1583 18.12%
Win 2000 189 2.16%
FreeBSD 104 1.19%
Unknown 88 1.01%
Other 81 0.93%
I am not a security expert, so how I can argue back?
Yeah, this sure isn't serious benchmarking, and TFS is also misleaded, for example "From install time to GUI efficiency, Ubuntu beats Windows and is often twice as fast", there is no benchmark in the article about GUI efficiency, or does he mean the number of mouse clicks?
That's aside, I think an installation of an OS would not be completed without install all the update. The last time I installed Vista SP1, it even take longer than install the OS itself! And I even have to reboot 2 or 3 times, this might related to .NET programs compilation. While in Ubuntu it is faster to upgrade the system.
Also, Windows tend to grow overtimes faster than Linux, MS decided to avoid dll hell by keep multi versions of dlls file in windows\winsxs.
A little bit offtopic but anyone knows a good cross platform benchmark suite?
VDPAU still can't play a lot of video.
Another important thing, VDPAU can't utilize memory allocated by Turbo Cache, and 9400M don't has enough integrated RAM to decode HD video (not sure about 720p, but sure it can't do 1080p)
Yes, It worked in 17x, then broke in 180.* prior to 180.25. It is fixed in the beta version now.
Suspend to Ram is fixed in 180.25 too, I don't have the latter problem with previous driver so I don't know if it is fixed or not, though some people said it is fixed on Nvidia forum
It is fixed now, after a few F5 and it is back to normal.
Or maybe they just add an extra '!' somewhere...
And does Windows 7 still burn my laptop like Vista did?
On my laptop, Vista basic (mean no Aero) is much much more hotter than XP/Linux. And with recent infamous Nvidia defect, I would like to keep my laptop cool.
Why mod this flamebait?
It is true, here is what exactly Bill Gates said:
"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not"
Yes, because everyone here want to use pirated software :)
So I think forcing here is a good idea.