Totally agree. Majority of TV viewers are those who like to do something which requires the least amount of effort, that is, snoozing in front on TV, with 6 pack and some chips. Having something so complicated as a SmartCard will be well above their mental capabilities, so most likely they will revert to something like listening the Radio talk shows + 6 packet and some chips. I really really hope it will happen so the number of TV viewers will decrease. Well, probably a few will read the book, go out, etc, but I believe the majority of TV viewers are what I've just described. Cheers.
When I've worked for BBN Planet, they did not do ANY spam filtering, whatsoever. Since I've made a mistake posting a few messages on usenet with my corporate e-mail address (which apparently got harvested by bots), in a few month my e-mail box became overflown with spam for the next several years while I was working for BBN. I no longer make the same mistake since, and all my usenet postings contain completely fake address. The bottom line - some companies do and some companies simply don't care.
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This reminds me the situation with IBM and their main-frame competitors, Amdahl and Fujitsu. The simplest thing to get a steep discount from IBM was to have a meeting with IBM salesperson while having either Amdahl or Fujitsu brochure on your desk. Worked like a charm! Yet with this practice widespread, it has slowly downed to all IBM customers that they pay too much in a first place, and may be they should look for mainframe alternatives. That was about 10-15 years ago. I hope the same will happen with Microsoft customers.
my handwriting is horrible, and typing is very good. yet I would like the ability to quickly alternate between typing and sketching something, like some drawings with annotations. may be something like tablet PC with attached keyboard and the ability to quickly alternate between either mode.
Here is my problem: my handwriting is awful, my typing skills are fairly decent. During the lecture I have to draw some charts or graphs -- sometime. I need something I can combine the typing with some minimal handwriting but fairly extensive drawing. Something not too big I can take with me in classroom. Seems like Palm/Pocket PC screen size is too small. Any recommendations? TIA.
Note: this is not the issue how many people browse the slashdot using Windows or whatever, but how many people use Windows to do REAL WORK (as in a original posting). At this moment I use Windows to post this message, but at the same time I'm connected via Hummingbird to Sun and AIX servers where I do some REAL WORK, so in essense I'm using Windows as glorified X-terminal.
Not universally available. Can't play on portable player. Can't play on CD-Rom drive. Some SACDs are double layer media (have both SACD and Red Book format), but on double layer Red Book format (that is, 'classical CD format' has a higher than usual error rate. This is not just a hearsay. This has been repeatedly observed and measured.
Built-in encryption. You cannot duplicate SACD, period. Encryption is the integrated part of SACD format. At least it doesn't affect its sound quality. With DVD-A situation is even worse. Encryption comes as an afterthought, in a form of watermarks, which does interfere with quality and defeats the original purpose of having the higher quality audio in a first place.
Improvement in quality due to format is mostly marginal. A Red Book format is 16-bit format. it has been shown that a human hearing can distinguish dynamic levels which can be encoded with at most 18-bit format. With a properly applied dithering, you can make 16-bit encoding sufficiently close. So we really don't need 20 or 24 bit based encoding. It is true that many new releases on SACD or DVD-A sound better that the old Red Book releases, but this is primarily because of better remastering of the original analog tapes. Using the same remastered tape for Red Book format would produce roughly the same level of improvement.
Many alternative and independent artists release their own CDs and do not contemplate moving to neither SACD or DVD-A media.
Probably can think of few more, but that's already enough.
I'm ready to buy ANY self-published book ...
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Thanks, Jack, your free consulting services are very valuable. I'll be using them every time I need somebody to remind me to turn the clock back. I'll let all my friends know about it as well.
Hmmm... reminds me of Tobacco Research Institute founded by guess whom? For years they've been claiming that the smoke is good for you. Expect the same level of integrity from Institute for Software Choice.
Vint apparently is still trying to find some justification for moving to IPv6. Oh yes, with inter-gallactic internet we'll surely run out of the valid address space available in IPv4. I'm finally convinced IPv6 is the answer.
Someone has tested the quality of CD layer on two-layer media, and noticed that it was noticeably worse than a single layer CD. Much higher error rate.
My undestanding of SACD is that it does not have a watermark but rather some encoding scheme which prevents it from being decoded. This is DVD-A which has a watermark.
Both formats may be marginally better than CD (there are mix opinions on this matter). Seems like that the properly mastered CD sounds just fine. Rolling Stones recordings certainly need new remastering, incidently I got rid of my CD Rolling Stones because coudln't stand the sound ('brittle highs'), but once again, that was not a CD limitation per se, but very bad mastering. Even so, I'm not going to jump into the SACD bandwagon because both SACD and DVD-A are mostly a gimmick and its real purpose is to introduce a built-in copy protection you can't defeat.
as I'm typing this message, I'm sitting at BU lab. A guy in the window presumably is hired to do some lab works. What he's been doing for the last several hours was (i) playing video games with speakers turned up sufficiently loud for everyone in a lab to hear, and (ii) screaming 'OH SHIT' every couple of minutes, also sufficiently loud for everyone to hear. I wish I would strangle the bastard.
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Oh my God! 'Our media is willing to whore themselves like this just to entertain the masses' Is the world coming to its end or what?
GNU/Hurd. Has been promised to us for eons.
but not Mandrake. Mandrake is here to make money. As such it is a swim or drawn situation. Sorry, no lifesavers.
and he says in this article: "I'm not eager to see it".
Totally agree. Majority of TV viewers are those who like to do something which requires the least amount of effort, that is, snoozing in front on TV, with 6 pack and some chips. Having something so complicated as a SmartCard will be well above their mental capabilities, so most likely they will revert to something like listening the Radio talk shows + 6 packet and some chips. I really really hope it will happen so the number of TV viewers will decrease. Well, probably a few will read the book, go out, etc, but I believe the majority of TV viewers are what I've just described. Cheers.
When I've worked for BBN Planet, they did not do ANY spam filtering, whatsoever. Since I've made a mistake posting a few messages on usenet with my corporate e-mail address (which apparently got harvested by bots), in a few month my e-mail box became overflown with spam for the next several years while I was working for BBN. I no longer make the same mistake since, and all my usenet postings contain completely fake address. The bottom line - some companies do and some companies simply don't care.
This reminds me the situation with IBM and their main-frame competitors, Amdahl and Fujitsu. The simplest thing to get a steep discount from IBM was to have a meeting with IBM salesperson while having either Amdahl or Fujitsu brochure on your desk. Worked like a charm! Yet with this practice widespread, it has slowly downed to all IBM customers that they pay too much in a first place, and may be they should look for mainframe alternatives. That was about 10-15 years ago. I hope the same will happen with Microsoft customers.
Well, certainly it's not equal to even a single paperback. You can't wipe your ass with DVD.
No, it's not. Apparently you don't follow the news.
my handwriting is horrible, and typing is very good. yet I would like the ability to quickly alternate between typing and sketching something, like some drawings with annotations. may be something like tablet PC with attached keyboard and the ability to quickly alternate between either mode.
what Martin Luter could have written to Vatican.
Here is my problem: my handwriting is awful, my typing skills are fairly decent. During the lecture I have to draw some charts or graphs -- sometime. I need something I can combine the typing with some minimal handwriting but fairly extensive drawing. Something not too big I can take with me in classroom. Seems like Palm/Pocket PC screen size is too small. Any recommendations?
TIA.
Note: this is not the issue how many people browse the slashdot using Windows or whatever, but how many people use Windows to do REAL WORK (as in a original posting). At this moment I use Windows to post this message, but at the same time I'm connected via Hummingbird to Sun and AIX servers where I do some REAL WORK, so in essense I'm using Windows as glorified X-terminal.
that's why they prefer San Francisco.
Not universally available. Can't play on portable player. Can't play on CD-Rom drive. Some SACDs are double layer media (have both SACD and Red Book format), but on double layer Red Book format (that is, 'classical CD format' has a higher than usual error rate. This is not just a hearsay. This has been repeatedly observed and measured.
Built-in encryption. You cannot duplicate SACD, period. Encryption is the integrated part of SACD format. At least it doesn't affect its sound quality. With DVD-A situation is even worse. Encryption comes as an afterthought, in a form of watermarks, which does interfere with quality and defeats the original purpose of having the higher quality audio in a first place.
Improvement in quality due to format is mostly marginal. A Red Book format is 16-bit format. it has been shown that a human hearing can distinguish dynamic levels which can be encoded with at most 18-bit format. With a properly applied dithering, you can make 16-bit encoding sufficiently close. So we really don't need 20 or 24 bit based encoding. It is true that many new releases on SACD or DVD-A sound better that the old Red Book releases, but this is primarily because of better remastering of the original analog tapes. Using the same remastered tape for Red Book format would produce roughly the same level of improvement.
Many alternative and independent artists release their own CDs and do not contemplate moving to neither SACD or DVD-A media.
Probably can think of few more, but that's already enough.also for a reasonable fee, of course.
Thanks, Jack, your free consulting services are very valuable. I'll be using them every time I need somebody to remind me to turn the clock back. I'll let all my friends know about it as well.
Darwin? Built with GCC 3.1? uses bash? RMS, did you hear that?
Hmmm ... reminds me of Tobacco Research Institute founded by guess whom? For years they've been claiming that the smoke is good for you. Expect the same level of integrity from Institute for Software Choice.
Vint apparently is still trying to find some justification for moving to IPv6. Oh yes, with inter-gallactic internet we'll surely run out of the valid address space available in IPv4. I'm finally convinced IPv6 is the answer.
Someone has tested the quality of CD layer on two-layer media, and noticed that it was noticeably worse than a single layer CD. Much higher error rate.
My undestanding of SACD is that it does not have a watermark but rather some encoding scheme which prevents it from being decoded. This is DVD-A which has a watermark.
Both formats may be marginally better than CD (there are mix opinions on this matter). Seems like that the properly mastered CD sounds just fine. Rolling Stones recordings certainly need new remastering, incidently I got rid of my CD Rolling Stones because coudln't stand the sound ('brittle highs'), but once again, that was not a CD limitation per se, but very bad mastering. Even so, I'm not going to jump into the SACD bandwagon because both SACD and DVD-A are mostly a gimmick and its real purpose is to introduce a built-in copy protection you can't defeat.
Yes, all those developments never wrote anything bigger than 'Hello world!'.
That explains why they love Vi.
do you suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder or something like that?
as I'm typing this message, I'm sitting at BU lab. A guy in the window presumably is hired to do some lab works. What he's been doing for the last several hours was (i) playing video games with speakers turned up sufficiently loud for everyone in a lab to hear, and (ii) screaming 'OH SHIT' every couple of minutes, also sufficiently loud for everyone to hear. I wish I would strangle the bastard.
oldie but goodie. it will be a good start.