you've been taking too much sociology lately, dude. relax. drink some beer. it might help. (do make sure the brand you pick up isn't imposed on you by some corporate power structures. some local brew is the best bet)
As long as you limit yourself to correcting the spelling (yes, I am not a native English speaking person), we can happily co-exist. (with you - in glass house). Cheers.
those with less spare time and with some extra moneys on their hands. it is quicker to purchase CD from some on-line store than spending hours searching for some song, then download it in a highly-questionable quality mp3 format (and probably burning onto CD-ROM as well).
First, you price calculations is a total bullshit. It all depends on a media type. You take the most expensive one - solid state memory. How about MP3 on CD-R? 700MB for a buck. Second, you are mixing up ATRAC and ATRAC3. ATRAC, the original format of MD is fairly decent quality, it is 5:1 compression. ATRAC3 is more like FM quality, 10:1 compression. ATRAC3 is what Sony uses on Palm, and it is also avaliable on some of the latest MD recorders and players. ATRAC is very limited in the respect that you must record from the source directly to MD. With ATRAC3 you can compress WAV to a hard drive, then copy to a player (as a perfect digital copy), similar to mp3, however sony has built some copyright-protection nonsense so in reality it is not that easy.
that's the type of news we would like to hear, not that 'another clueless M@#$^F%$#&ER can't figure out how to run Linux', so he believes M$ is better.
ideally I would like to see Compact Flash II compatible palm device - even if it makes it thicker, and DSP capable of playing back MP3. I don't want to touch Sony memory stick and ATRAC3. period.
The alternative is to have a sufficient fast processor like strongarm (which as I understand palm will be moving to next year), and run the decoder as a software. however this will eat lots of power. dsp is more efficient. of course having decoder as a software gives you the ultimate flexibility. mp+ or aac decoders can be ported to strongarm and probably will be at some point. at 128Kbps aac is a viable alternative to MP3, and at 192KBps+, mpplus really rocks. so - for the time being - MP3-CD is the only inexpensive solution. but I would LOVE to see digital audio playback device as a part of palm. just think of all the possibilities! Cheers.
The original ATRAC is a minidisc compression scheme. It's quite refined, provides the 5:1 compression. A newer one, ATRAC3 is avialable on the latest minidisk recorders/player models and this is the one used by Clio. It provides the compression roughly 10:1, a quality is substantially lower than ATRAC. But my major complain is all those security features built in. Even if this is your own recording, from your own CD, Sony does really bizarre things like allowing to playback only 8 times (or so), then you have to sign in again. A memory stick is proprietory and too expensive. Finally MP3 to ATRAC3 conversion is not a good idea, it will substantially degrade the quality. These are the reasons I'm going to stay away from this box even from the technical perspective it looks quite amazing.
I've also received the same publication, eDirections. They have asked me to evaluate it or something. Hopelessly Microsoft-skewed staff. Brrrrrr... Found it in my mailbox right after read this news.
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you've been taking too much sociology lately, dude. relax. drink some beer. it might help. (do make sure the brand you pick up isn't imposed on you by some corporate power structures. some local brew is the best bet)
with a weapon like this you can cure world peace rather quickly ...
you are obviously not aware all this wonderful GNU staff comes on a separate CD as a part of Solaris distribution.
on a related topik our lokal (Kambridge MA) maoist-stalinist nuts refer to USA as Amerikka. doesn't seem like they endorse it though.
As long as you limit yourself to correcting the spelling (yes, I am not a native English speaking person), we can happily co-exist. (with you - in glass house). Cheers.
they've called him a 'lawyer'.
better yet, a fuel-cell powered Harley's. Will be quite a site. a ful-cell is bigger than bike.
I imagine somebody riding with a trained monkey on his back. When ran out of fuel, monkey climbs the tree and picks up some coconuts.
even with anti Jon Katz filters
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those with less spare time and with some extra moneys on their hands. it is quicker to purchase CD from some on-line store than spending hours searching for some song, then download it in a highly-questionable quality mp3 format (and probably burning onto CD-ROM as well).
then X-Windows *might* have a competitor. If Spruce Goose takes off, then F-22 *might* have a competitor as well. Cheers.
no, there is somebody else somewhere who things the same way. you task now is to find him.
GO RAMBUS GO
yes. just like religion.
First, you price calculations is a total bullshit. It all depends on a media type. You take the most expensive one - solid state memory. How about MP3 on CD-R? 700MB for a buck. Second, you are mixing up ATRAC and ATRAC3. ATRAC, the original format of MD is fairly decent quality, it is 5:1 compression. ATRAC3 is more like FM quality, 10:1 compression. ATRAC3 is what Sony uses on Palm, and it is also avaliable on some of the latest MD recorders and players. ATRAC is very limited in the respect that you must record from the source directly to MD. With ATRAC3 you can compress WAV to a hard drive, then copy to a player (as a perfect digital copy), similar to mp3, however sony has built some copyright-protection nonsense so in reality it is not that easy.
He-he, they aren't THAT desperate I guess. Unless some of them are Russians, eh? ;-)
what's going to happen now with all Rambus shareholders?
vandalize the stores, burn some cars, this is a fight against capitalism, folks! (and I hate those snobby frenchies anyway)
Zapatistas is to win once Tux is on their side!
that's the type of news we would like to hear, not that 'another clueless M@#$^F%$#&ER can't figure out how to run Linux', so he believes M$ is better.
'MOMMY'? They are already fucking assholes ...
ideally I would like to see Compact Flash II compatible palm device - even if it makes it thicker, and DSP capable of playing back MP3. I don't want to touch Sony memory stick and ATRAC3. period. The alternative is to have a sufficient fast processor like strongarm (which as I understand palm will be moving to next year), and run the decoder as a software. however this will eat lots of power. dsp is more efficient. of course having decoder as a software gives you the ultimate flexibility. mp+ or aac decoders can be ported to strongarm and probably will be at some point. at 128Kbps aac is a viable alternative to MP3, and at 192KBps+, mpplus really rocks. so - for the time being - MP3-CD is the only inexpensive solution. but I would LOVE to see digital audio playback device as a part of palm. just think of all the possibilities! Cheers.
The original ATRAC is a minidisc compression scheme. It's quite refined, provides the 5:1 compression. A newer one, ATRAC3 is avialable on the latest minidisk recorders/player models and this is the one used by Clio. It provides the compression roughly 10:1, a quality is substantially lower than ATRAC. But my major complain is all those security features built in. Even if this is your own recording, from your own CD, Sony does really bizarre things like allowing to playback only 8 times (or so), then you have to sign in again. A memory stick is proprietory and too expensive. Finally MP3 to ATRAC3 conversion is not a good idea, it will substantially degrade the quality. These are the reasons I'm going to stay away from this box even from the technical perspective it looks quite amazing.
I've also received the same publication, eDirections. They have asked me to evaluate it or something. Hopelessly Microsoft-skewed staff. Brrrrrr... Found it in my mailbox right after read this news.