Wrong. Your ears may not be able to tell the difference, but I can, blindfolded, and with a set of $50 powered speakers. Every single time. With MP3s encoded at 320Kbps, at that.
Its hard to describe, but MP3's sound like they have the "breath" knocked out of them.
This is a result of having a trained ear, being a musician, and spending many hours in a recording studio. So my ears or trained. But again, the blindfold test. I can beat it every single time, without exeption. So the difference between CD's and MP3's is there, its just that you can't tell the difference because your ears aren't trained to notice.
take a look at tpc.org. Sorry, but the worlds best transaction processor runs on Win2K and IIS. How can a server/database platform that almost doubles what the closest Sun or IBM machine running Oracle can do be crap? This is the pure performance statistic BTW - has nothing to do with price(all the price/performance stats have been dominated by MS for years) And we are talking about a 4 million dollar Compaq setup vs. over 7 million for the IBM setup and 13 million for the Sun setup. I'd call Win2K an industrial strength solution. And ASP is the defacto standard for programming websites with W2K. I think I'll stick with the facts vs. someones anecdotal evidence. I'd love to know what sort of data modeling you can do with WO that you can't do with ASP(as I have complete control over my SQL Server and Oracle databases) but alas you did not back up what you said with any relevant examples. Slamming MS is not getting the open source movement anywhere. As an ASP Developer I find your comments offensive and lacking credibility. There is certainly nothing in your message convincing me to switch. Gotta go, my AIX machine needs rebooting...
I'd have to agree with you. A simple analogy: Owning a gun is not illegal in itself. However, using the gun in a crime is. Its exactly the same with l0phtcrack - it was illegal to use the tool to commit the crime. I'm also suprised that this story was posted this way usually the/. folks have better common sense.
It is a little curious that MS has been unscathed thus far in the series of DoS attacks. I have been following this closely, also paying attention to their security site Today, they posted a page on how to prevent this type of attack. A buddy of mine looked at the netcraft info of the sites that were attacked, and although 25 of the top 50 sites on the internet use NT/IIS, a much smaller proportion(something like 1 in 10) of the sites attacked used NT/IIS. Seems to be too much of a coincidence for an attack that supposedly doesn't discriminate against OS's.
I work for Page One, http://www.page1book.com, a smaller independent bookstore struggling from being squashed by Amazon, BN, etc. I've proposed to the owner that we openly violate this patent and put our own 1-click technology in place. It is trivial. If the owner goes for it, I have no doubt I can code it in less than two days.
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Its hard to describe, but MP3's sound like they have the "breath" knocked out of them.
This is a result of having a trained ear, being a musician, and spending many hours in a recording studio. So my ears or trained. But again, the blindfold test. I can beat it every single time, without exeption. So the difference between CD's and MP3's is there, its just that you can't tell the difference because your ears aren't trained to notice.
take a look at tpc.org. Sorry, but the worlds best transaction processor runs on Win2K and IIS. How can a server/database platform that almost doubles what the closest Sun or IBM machine running Oracle can do be crap? This is the pure performance statistic BTW - has nothing to do with price(all the price/performance stats have been dominated by MS for years) And we are talking about a 4 million dollar Compaq setup vs. over 7 million for the IBM setup and 13 million for the Sun setup. I'd call Win2K an industrial strength solution. And ASP is the defacto standard for programming websites with W2K. I think I'll stick with the facts vs. someones anecdotal evidence. I'd love to know what sort of data modeling you can do with WO that you can't do with ASP(as I have complete control over my SQL Server and Oracle databases) but alas you did not back up what you said with any relevant examples. Slamming MS is not getting the open source movement anywhere. As an ASP Developer I find your comments offensive and lacking credibility. There is certainly nothing in your message convincing me to switch. Gotta go, my AIX machine needs rebooting...
I'd have to agree with you. A simple analogy: Owning a gun is not illegal in itself. However, using the gun in a crime is. Its exactly the same with l0phtcrack - it was illegal to use the tool to commit the crime. I'm also suprised that this story was posted this way usually the /. folks have better common sense.
It is a little curious that MS has been unscathed thus far in the series of DoS attacks. I have been following this closely, also paying attention to their security site Today, they posted a page on how to prevent this type of attack. A buddy of mine looked at the netcraft info of the sites that were attacked, and although 25 of the top 50 sites on the internet use NT/IIS, a much smaller proportion(something like 1 in 10) of the sites attacked used NT/IIS. Seems to be too much of a coincidence for an attack that supposedly doesn't discriminate against OS's.
I work for Page One, http://www.page1book.com, a smaller independent bookstore struggling from being squashed by Amazon, BN, etc. I've proposed to the owner that we openly violate this patent and put our own 1-click technology in place. It is trivial. If the owner goes for it, I have no doubt I can code it in less than two days.