sometime in a future we'll all realize that Ms. Spears in fact was the major driving force behind the major Internet-related multimedia innovations. Including the recent IETF proposal on multimedia chat attachments. (not that I'm going to start listening to her music, of course)
No, he isn't. This is exactly the problem I have. There is no MS Office suite where I work, and I am not going to get it illegally. So when I'm asked by some 3rd party to submit something in *.doc format, it is always a problem. Ditto for receiving the *.doc.
And so I agree with RMS. Plain ASCII text, HTML, or PDF. If you have the tools to create PDF files.
Not many people realize that this is actually a Phillips, not Sony who has invented CD-DA. Sony did come up with a number of substantial enhancements. If I remember correctly, the whole error-correction scheme belongs to Sony. Yet the main inventor is Phillips. Now Sony's position regarding the whole issue is completely schizoid. Parts of Sony which are involved in music business fight the parts of Sony involved in A/V equipment. A good example is Minidisc vs MP3. In case you are not familiar with technology, Minidisc is heavily copy-protected, extremely unflexible, this is its major limitation as a coding scheme, yet Sony doesn't want to open it up. For instance, you cannot digitally copy one MD to another - unless you have a high-end expensive professional MD mastering equipment. From what I've head there was a big conflict inside Sony between those who wanted to release Sony CD/MP3 player, and those against MP3 (for obvious reasons). (the 'good guys' won, btw)
Well, apparently Phillips doesn't have such type of mentality and this is nice. I'm not sure if they are involved into recording business (I vaguelly remember seeing LPs with 'Phillips' label, but that was many years ago). Probably it is mostly company specializing on A/V equipment
Now this is what I've been saying all along. So-called 'copy-protected' CDs are nothing else but the violation of Red Book standard. I'm glad to hear it from Phillips.
Incidently, there is a good article on copyrighted CDs by Steve Rochlin, at http://www.enjoythemusic.com. It also contains some good URLs.
and not only that. in case you don't now, there is lots of high-end audio gear (amps, pre-amps, and even CP players) which use the tubes. Take a look at http://www.balanced.com for instance.
I had 760ED a while ago, and now I got T20. Both models are extremely reliable. T20 rocks. Really. In between I had Compaq portable and I had a bunch of problems with it. Defective display (had to replace two times), defective built-in mouse. Problems with built-in modem. With Thinkpad T20 I don't feel like I need a desktop (ok, I also have Sparcstation if I need to do something heavy).
I know it is slightly off-topic but LAME 3.9x has been released. I don't remember seeing any announcements on slashdot. it has a new set '--alt-preset' settings, and default setting, '--alt-preset standard' which gives about 192Kbps on average is *quite* good. The fact is that mp3 still dominates, and hence the rationalle for improving LAME. If you don't mind the rate > 128Kbps, give new LAME a try.
yes, he was a ship builder. Eventually he has emigrated to England and worked as engineer overthere till his death.
'We' in a sense is a precursor of both '1984' and 'a brave new world'.
Incidently 'we' is the only his SF work, so strictly speaking he is not a SF writer. A very good writer by the way. Actually the only thing I read (in addition to 'We') is his short stories.
Interesting tidbit of information, by the way: Zamyatin was the last russian who has managed to emigrate in early 30s through the official channels.
Here is URL to the best collection of books in russian - Strugatsky brothers section. If you scroll down, you'll see 'Translation...'. There are few in English. I highly recommend 'Snail on a slope'. This is my favorite. There are few others, I don't remember one. Unfortunately, the really good one, translated into English, 'Ugly swans', is not on-line.
http://lib.ru/STRUGACKIE/
The most comprehensive site on Russian SF is
http://rusf.ru
but it is in Russian.
I read them all, in Russian. I've just started reading Ph. K. Dick and seems like they are somehow similar. The same level of brilliance and imagination, sort of. Also quite depressing, most of the time. Strugatsky brothers at this time is really russian SF classic. Arkady has passed away a while ago. Boris is alive and maintains on-line interview, at rusf.ru. You can ask him anything you want - but without knowing Russian you'll get lost on that site.
there is freely available software to crack those CDs. So: buy it, crack+rip it, return it. Now you've saved around 10 bucks on that, right? You can make some extra copies and give them away right outside the store you've bought that CD in a first place. Piss them off! They've deserved it.
I have fairly low-end PC dedicated for Win98 (Pentium III, 128MB). Somehow I've found performance of IE6 (compared with IE5) is seriosly degraded. Have no idea why. So I have finally bit the bullet and started using Mozilla for the most of the time. Boy, it REALLY makes the difference. No longer annoying waits.
By using Mozilla most of the time, we can help the developers by discovering and reporting bugs. (I've found a few and reported every one of them. At least one of them should have been fixed, I haven't check it yet). It is outstanding browser, as compared with IE6. I did try to use Opera but it is very unstable, keeps crashing, so I give up on it. Mozilla - not a single crash for over a week - and I've used it extensively.
It's great someone maintains the list of copy-protected CDs.
Personally, I consider it as an insult. I have a moderate collection of CDs (close to a 1000). I habitually play them on my computer and want to keep it this way.
In addition, I am thinking of getting the professional CD recorder/player (such as Yamaha CDR1000 or Sony CDR W66, or HBB) to use as a high-end transport, and to feed digital output into DAC. All these devices is professional equipment, never intended to deal with non-red book compliant CDs. Incidently there is lots of high-end equipment on a market also no capable to deal with non-compliant CDs.
I'm not sure how to deal with those CDs. One possible scenario is to simply let the vendor know that you are not going to buy it and the reason why. Another is to do what the article recommend. Purchase it, and then return. Which is probably better. An active resistance is always better than passive resistance.
while United States have fought against Nazis, french happily submitted to them. no french resort to these stupid token gestures like outlawing Nazi memorabilia.
The real reason why software projects fail is that software engineers are not really engineers. Take some arbitrary CS cirriculum and compare it with EE cirriculum and you'll know what I mean. Software engineering is the oximoron. Engineering isn't just being taught as a part of CS. Period. I hate to think what would have happened if EE was taught the same way CS taught. Your PC would have been DOA. Ever.
being Sun user for quite a long time (starting with Sun/OS 4.1.3), I *do* prefer CDE to GNOME. Solaris is a premier operating system, probably the best implementation of System V, and it has been always my first choice of desktop. I can't imagine putting on a top of it something as flaky as GNOME. I hope CDE still would be available as an option.
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That was my attitude all along. So called 'copy-protected CDs' are corrupted, not copy-protected. I have a right to either fixed them or return them.
what I've just heard - the otput via SPDIF may actually get corrupted as well, so don't count on it.
as the saying goes, 'All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
So assuming this model is useful, the question is: "useful for whom?"
sometime in a future we'll all realize that Ms. Spears in fact was the major driving force behind the major Internet-related multimedia innovations. Including the recent IETF proposal on multimedia chat attachments. (not that I'm going to start listening to her music, of course)
No, he isn't. This is exactly the problem I have. There is no MS Office suite where I work, and I am not going to get it illegally. So when I'm asked by some 3rd party to submit something in *.doc format, it is always a problem. Ditto for receiving the *.doc.
And so I agree with RMS. Plain ASCII text, HTML, or PDF. If you have the tools to create PDF files.
Not many people realize that this is actually a Phillips, not Sony who has invented CD-DA. Sony did come up with a number of substantial enhancements. If I remember correctly, the whole error-correction scheme belongs to Sony. Yet the main inventor is Phillips. Now Sony's position regarding the whole issue is completely schizoid. Parts of Sony which are involved in music business fight the parts of Sony involved in A/V equipment. A good example is Minidisc vs MP3. In case you are not familiar with technology, Minidisc is heavily copy-protected, extremely unflexible, this is its major limitation as a coding scheme, yet Sony doesn't want to open it up. For instance, you cannot digitally copy one MD to another - unless you have a high-end expensive professional MD mastering equipment. From what I've head there was a big conflict inside Sony between those who wanted to release Sony CD/MP3 player, and those against MP3 (for obvious reasons). (the 'good guys' won, btw)
Well, apparently Phillips doesn't have such type of mentality and this is nice. I'm not sure if they are involved into recording business (I vaguelly remember seeing LPs with 'Phillips' label, but that was many years ago). Probably it is mostly company specializing on A/V equipment
Now this is what I've been saying all along. So-called 'copy-protected' CDs are nothing else but the violation of Red Book standard. I'm glad to hear it from Phillips.
Incidently, there is a good article on copyrighted CDs by Steve Rochlin, at http://www.enjoythemusic.com. It also contains some good URLs.
well, WITH RPN, the college students never learn how do anything more complex than 2 ENTER 3 +.
and not only that. in case you don't now, there is lots of high-end audio gear (amps, pre-amps, and even CP players) which use the tubes. Take a look at http://www.balanced.com for instance.
why don't you take this barbed wire and stick it into your High Barrass?
I had 760ED a while ago, and now I got T20. Both models are extremely reliable. T20 rocks. Really. In between I had Compaq portable and I had a bunch of problems with it. Defective display (had to replace two times), defective built-in mouse. Problems with built-in modem. With Thinkpad T20 I don't feel like I need a desktop (ok, I also have Sparcstation if I need to do something heavy).
Chomsky is well respected around the world by whom? Only by his likes, the same crackpots.
Chomsky is a kind of Pavlov's dog: if this is something originated in USA, it must be bad.
I know it is slightly off-topic but LAME 3.9x has been released. I don't remember seeing any announcements on slashdot. it has a new set '--alt-preset' settings, and default setting, '--alt-preset standard' which gives about 192Kbps on average is *quite* good. The fact is that mp3 still dominates, and hence the rationalle for improving LAME. If you don't mind the rate > 128Kbps, give new LAME a try.
actually there is an english version of rusf.ru.
Go on site (http://rusf.ru) and then select 'english' on a top right corner.
yes, he was a ship builder. Eventually he has emigrated to England and worked as engineer overthere till his death.
'We' in a sense is a precursor of both '1984' and 'a brave new world'.
Incidently 'we' is the only his SF work, so strictly speaking he is not a SF writer. A very good writer by the way. Actually the only thing I read (in addition to 'We') is his short stories.
Interesting tidbit of information, by the way: Zamyatin was the last russian who has managed to emigrate in early 30s through the official channels.
Here is URL to the best collection of books in russian - Strugatsky brothers section. If you scroll down, you'll see 'Translation ...'. There are few in English. I highly recommend 'Snail on a slope'. This is my favorite. There are few others, I don't remember one. Unfortunately, the really good one, translated into English, 'Ugly swans', is not on-line.
http://lib.ru/STRUGACKIE/
The most comprehensive site on Russian SF is
http://rusf.ru
but it is in Russian.
I read them all, in Russian. I've just started reading Ph. K. Dick and seems like they are somehow similar. The same level of brilliance and imagination, sort of. Also quite depressing, most of the time. Strugatsky brothers at this time is really russian SF classic. Arkady has passed away a while ago. Boris is alive and maintains on-line interview, at rusf.ru. You can ask him anything you want - but without knowing Russian you'll get lost on that site.
there is freely available software to crack those CDs. So: buy it, crack+rip it, return it. Now you've saved around 10 bucks on that, right? You can make some extra copies and give them away right outside the store you've bought that CD in a first place. Piss them off! They've deserved it.
anything which lessen our dependence on Saudi Arabia and OPEC in general is a GOOD THING (TM)
I have fairly low-end PC dedicated for Win98 (Pentium III, 128MB). Somehow I've found performance of IE6 (compared with IE5) is seriosly degraded. Have no idea why. So I have finally bit the bullet and started using Mozilla for the most of the time. Boy, it REALLY makes the difference. No longer annoying waits.
By using Mozilla most of the time, we can help the developers by discovering and reporting bugs. (I've found a few and reported every one of them. At least one of them should have been fixed, I haven't check it yet). It is outstanding browser, as compared with IE6. I did try to use Opera but it is very unstable, keeps crashing, so I give up on it. Mozilla - not a single crash for over a week - and I've used it extensively.
It's great someone maintains the list of copy-protected CDs.
Personally, I consider it as an insult. I have a moderate collection of CDs (close to a 1000). I habitually play them on my computer and want to keep it this way.
In addition, I am thinking of getting the professional CD recorder/player (such as Yamaha CDR1000 or Sony CDR W66, or HBB) to use as a high-end transport, and to feed digital output into DAC. All these devices is professional equipment, never intended to deal with non-red book compliant CDs. Incidently there is lots of high-end equipment on a market also no capable to deal with non-compliant CDs.
I'm not sure how to deal with those CDs. One possible scenario is to simply let the vendor know that you are not going to buy it and the reason why. Another is to do what the article recommend. Purchase it, and then return. Which is probably better. An active resistance is always better than passive resistance.
Real men write machine code directly, in hexes. Who needs the pinko sissy commy fag Assembly Language?
while United States have fought against Nazis, french happily submitted to them. no french resort to these stupid token gestures like outlawing Nazi memorabilia.
Kolmogorov algorithm, Goedel incompleteness, Heisenberg indeterminism, holy Moses ...
The real reason why software projects fail is that software engineers are not really engineers. Take some arbitrary CS cirriculum and compare it with EE cirriculum and you'll know what I mean. Software engineering is the oximoron. Engineering isn't just being taught as a part of CS. Period. I hate to think what would have happened if EE was taught the same way CS taught. Your PC would have been DOA. Ever.
enough said
I can't imagine anything *less* exciting than meeting the President (President of the States, that is).
being Sun user for quite a long time (starting with Sun/OS 4.1.3), I *do* prefer CDE to GNOME. Solaris is a premier operating system, probably the best implementation of System V, and it has been always my first choice of desktop. I can't imagine putting on a top of it something as flaky as GNOME. I hope CDE still would be available as an option.