And, IIRC, your average supermodel weighs something to the tune of seven-and-a-half pounds. Your "ugly southern dirty hos" probably weigh more in the neighborhood of two-hundred.
So, to fit in the same space...are they amazingly dense?
(Oh, wait, you said "southern." They must be dense! MWA HA HA!)
Oh the pain that my southern hick relatives would inflict on me for saying this...
With this technology, there's a good change you could charge the batteries in a drastically shortened time. If the individual cells were connected properly, one could pass a massive amount of energy through the pack and charge all the cells quickly. Since there will be much more surface area for the cathodes and anodes, there will be much more/active/ area for the LiIon to react against, thuis speeding the process.
This works, but only for movies that do not have CSS encryption. The DVD keys do not show up in the normal filesystem; they are part of a special data area of the disc. Copying all the files (namely the VIDEO_TS files) to another media will get you the content, but it's still encrypted. You have to decrypt it to play, and the Apple DVD Player does not have code in it to dodge CSS - it can just play encrypted content off the original media easily, or play files that are NOT encrypted on any media just as easily.
Oh, that's right, Napster *was* a crappy product, despite the fact that it was one of the first of its kind, and managed to almost single-handedly change the face of music online. Napster was the cream of the crop when it started, despite the fact that it started to tank later on in its life.
Napster was written by a teenager, and his inexperience showed through. Most of the problems (like clipping the last few kB from most downloads) were fixed toward the end, but the architecture still left much to be desired.
The most obvious one that remained until the end was the fact that searches were done by un-escaped strings. Try searching for a song that contains double-quote characters (") in the name. Good luck.
I think that's the point of the poster you replied to - Napster, though it sparked a revolution yadda yadda, was not in itself a very good product.
See the AudioGalaxy client for an example of a system that worked well. Improvement was still to be had, though, and soem of the systems out now are quite excellent; definitely better than Napster ever was. In fact, better than Napster ever could be because the old mistakes held them back.
If Apple sticks to their old game, there will be no DRM whatsoever.
After all, iTunes rips audio into MP3 formats instead of some "protected" format. QuickTime does not (IIRC) support DRM, except for (weak) protections on streamed movies to prevent a person from saving the movie.
Apple has made a market by keeping a user's options open. Closing that up is not a priority for them. The infrastructure to do such things is not only not there, it would take a lot of time to implement. I am sure Apple is more interested in getting a new processor to market than they are in restricting the rights of their target market - content creators.
Actually, I believe the MS software uses another (similar) system, and I've noticed it is much less accurate than Gracenote's system, CDDB. Still CDDB is not perfect, and frequently cannot tell you exactly what a CD is without user intervention.
If you read the article it says Marsh didn't believe the database possible..."until I read a story in J@pan Inc Magazine (June 26) about a company called Gracenote, which specializes in "music recognition service," the software that lets your CD player tell you which artist and track are currently playing."
As many of you know, Gracenote offers the CDDB service. It does not do any fancy music waveform checking. It checks song lengths and a few other points of data off a CD. It is only useful for CDs. CDDB, though it is handy for getting CD info, contains user-entered data, and often has duplicate entries. Using it for such a system as the author described would be a bad idea. At this point, the chances of a certain CD "matching" another in CDDB's eyes is higher than you might think. Sometimes, I'll put in a disc and have three or four separate albums come up.
That's a generic fallback - and exactly what you should see with the way/. operates. Any time a dynamic page can't be generated, for whatever reason, you get the static page.
Granted, maybe it could work a bit differently, produce an error, and be a bit more user-friendly. But then think to yourself, "what target market does/. cater to?" They cater to geeks, the kind of people that say "screw user-friendliness, give me features!" The static front page is invariably more useful than an error page would be, so that's what you get when there's a problem.
The best part is, there may still be some social stigma to the phrase "retarded" but in the business, (as far as I can tell) it's politically correct again.
So, I was telling my friend "I help retarded people all day. You know what it's like, you worked help desk."
I just moved from being a sys/net admin to a job where I act as direct, personal support for adults with developmental disabilities. So, I know what the people in the article have gone through.
My new job has taken me in a totally different direction from everything I've ever done. Instead of babysitting computers all day, I now help people do things that their mental and/or physical disabilities preclude them from doing. It's basic day-to-day things like laundry and lunch, but it's much more fulfilling on a personal level. I know that if it weren't for people like me, these people could not live on their own.
Now, I harbor no illusions about my geek-ness. I will most likely be back to a system/network admin job in a few years. It's just that right now, I want to stretch myself in other directions, and this provides a suitable challenge. Geeks are traditionally not so great when it comes to social skills, so this will continue to help me grow in that area. In effect, this job will help me do my old (and future) job better. (I think.)
So any latency you have in the DAW can put skips or glitches in your recorded input....Linux is perfect for this, because comparatively MacOS 9, MacOS X, and all versions of Windows except CE are complete pigs.
Except Linux has traditionally been horrible for latency. There is work being done to make the kernel both interruptable and low-latency, and it shows a lot of improvement in the patches available for 2.4. The necessary patches are still not in the mainstream kernel, IIRC, but they may make it into 2.6.
Furthermore, you are totally incorrect when it comes to Windows and Mac OS. Classic versions of both OSes suck for latency, but OS X is great, and Win2k (and presumable WinXP) do rather decently when it comes to low-latency audio. At the moment, Mac OS X wins under the non-ideal conditions that are likely to be expereinced in the field. (PDF here, Google html)
I think Linux has one really tough competitor in Mac OS X when it comes to this arena. Apple already has mindshare, market share, and a kick-ass audio subsystem. Linux has none of those three, so it'll be an uphill battle. After ALSA is standardized and rolled out completely, maybe we'll talk.
Every docking station I have seen has been in a business environment. In ohter words, 100% of the consumer laoptops I have had ocntact with have spent 100% of their lives non-docked. It's the business models that seen to get the docks.
This includes numerous Latitude CPi models - a seies I am none too happy with. Out department ordered a few dozen of them three years ago. Within a week, a third of them died. I haven't worked at the place for a few years, so I don't know about their long-term reliability. All I know is the OmniBooks that the Latitudes were replacing were tough as nails, and the Dells just didn't live up to their charge in life.
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How do you think they made little baby Puritans?
Spores, IIRC.
What, you're not willing to share? =)
And, IIRC, your average supermodel weighs something to the tune of seven-and-a-half pounds. Your "ugly southern dirty hos" probably weigh more in the neighborhood of two-hundred.
So, to fit in the same space...are they amazingly dense?
(Oh, wait, you said "southern." They must be dense! MWA HA HA!)
Oh the pain that my southern hick relatives would inflict on me for saying this...
Ah Grasshopper! You've obviously never tried to compile the KDE source tree.
Ah, but with souce that size, the greater addressing space 64 bits gives ya' has got to be a great benefit too!
With this technology, there's a good change you could charge the batteries in a drastically shortened time. If the individual cells were connected properly, one could pass a massive amount of energy through the pack and charge all the cells quickly. Since there will be much more surface area for the cathodes and anodes, there will be much more /active/ area for the LiIon to react against, thuis speeding the process.
86% pr0n, 95% moviez/warez.
SO, 81% pr0n movies, 5% other pr0n, 14% other moviez/warez.
It all works out.
I was feeling somewhat cranky. I'm not normally such a bastard, honest. ;)
God, if it's not one fuck-up it's another.
If you're adding Sodium, the water's going to head toward alkalinity - so your number there should be "~8.33" not "~5.67."
This works, but only for movies that do not have CSS encryption. The DVD keys do not show up in the normal filesystem; they are part of a special data area of the disc. Copying all the files (namely the VIDEO_TS files) to another media will get you the content, but it's still encrypted. You have to decrypt it to play, and the Apple DVD Player does not have code in it to dodge CSS - it can just play encrypted content off the original media easily, or play files that are NOT encrypted on any media just as easily.
Oh, that's right, Napster *was* a crappy product, despite the fact that it was one of the first of its kind, and managed to almost single-handedly change the face of music online. Napster was the cream of the crop when it started, despite the fact that it started to tank later on in its life.
Napster was written by a teenager, and his inexperience showed through. Most of the problems (like clipping the last few kB from most downloads) were fixed toward the end, but the architecture still left much to be desired.
The most obvious one that remained until the end was the fact that searches were done by un-escaped strings. Try searching for a song that contains double-quote characters (") in the name. Good luck.
I think that's the point of the poster you replied to - Napster, though it sparked a revolution yadda yadda, was not in itself a very good product.
See the AudioGalaxy client for an example of a system that worked well. Improvement was still to be had, though, and soem of the systems out now are quite excellent; definitely better than Napster ever was. In fact, better than Napster ever could be because the old mistakes held them back.
RISC chips are so much more turquoise, too.
It's true, you know.
If Apple sticks to their old game, there will be no DRM whatsoever.
After all, iTunes rips audio into MP3 formats instead of some "protected" format. QuickTime does not (IIRC) support DRM, except for (weak) protections on streamed movies to prevent a person from saving the movie.
Apple has made a market by keeping a user's options open. Closing that up is not a priority for them. The infrastructure to do such things is not only not there, it would take a lot of time to implement. I am sure Apple is more interested in getting a new processor to market than they are in restricting the rights of their target market - content creators.
Actually, I believe the MS software uses another (similar) system, and I've noticed it is much less accurate than Gracenote's system, CDDB. Still CDDB is not perfect, and frequently cannot tell you exactly what a CD is without user intervention.
If you read the article it says Marsh didn't believe the database possible ..."until I read a story in J@pan Inc Magazine (June 26) about a company called Gracenote, which specializes in "music recognition service," the software that lets your CD player tell you which artist and track are currently playing."
As many of you know, Gracenote offers the CDDB service. It does not do any fancy music waveform checking. It checks song lengths and a few other points of data off a CD. It is only useful for CDs. CDDB, though it is handy for getting CD info, contains user-entered data, and often has duplicate entries. Using it for such a system as the author described would be a bad idea. At this point, the chances of a certain CD "matching" another in CDDB's eyes is higher than you might think. Sometimes, I'll put in a disc and have three or four separate albums come up.
It's all 'cause they Freed Kevin. It's the only possibility.
I want an IDE-to-PCI adaptor and a PS/2-to-USB adaptor while we're at it. Maybe a USB-to-AGP adaptor, too, if you can find the time.
GeForce 3 MX, huh?
As far as I know...they don't exist. Did you manage to get your hands on some super-special one-off engineering sample or something?
I'm much more of an Unorthodox Geek, thank you.
I'm thinking maybe Gecko Darts.
That's a generic fallback - and exactly what you should see with the way /. operates. Any time a dynamic page can't be generated, for whatever reason, you get the static page.
/. cater to?" They cater to geeks, the kind of people that say "screw user-friendliness, give me features!" The static front page is invariably more useful than an error page would be, so that's what you get when there's a problem.
Granted, maybe it could work a bit differently, produce an error, and be a bit more user-friendly. But then think to yourself, "what target market does
The best part is, there may still be some social stigma to the phrase "retarded" but in the business, (as far as I can tell) it's politically correct again.
So, I was telling my friend "I help retarded people all day. You know what it's like, you worked help desk."
I just moved from being a sys/net admin to a job where I act as direct, personal support for adults with developmental disabilities. So, I know what the people in the article have gone through.
My new job has taken me in a totally different direction from everything I've ever done. Instead of babysitting computers all day, I now help people do things that their mental and/or physical disabilities preclude them from doing. It's basic day-to-day things like laundry and lunch, but it's much more fulfilling on a personal level. I know that if it weren't for people like me, these people could not live on their own.
Now, I harbor no illusions about my geek-ness. I will most likely be back to a system/network admin job in a few years. It's just that right now, I want to stretch myself in other directions, and this provides a suitable challenge. Geeks are traditionally not so great when it comes to social skills, so this will continue to help me grow in that area. In effect, this job will help me do my old (and future) job better. (I think.)
Ignore my comment abotu Windows 2000 beign sufficient, I was not paying attention to it properly. Apparently MS still sucks. =)
Still, my comments about Linux and Mac OS X still stand.
So any latency you have in the DAW can put skips or glitches in your recorded input. ...Linux is perfect for this, because comparatively MacOS 9, MacOS X, and all versions of Windows except CE are complete pigs.
Except Linux has traditionally been horrible for latency. There is work being done to make the kernel both interruptable and low-latency, and it shows a lot of improvement in the patches available for 2.4. The necessary patches are still not in the mainstream kernel, IIRC, but they may make it into 2.6.
Furthermore, you are totally incorrect when it comes to Windows and Mac OS. Classic versions of both OSes suck for latency, but OS X is great, and Win2k (and presumable WinXP) do rather decently when it comes to low-latency audio. At the moment, Mac OS X wins under the non-ideal conditions that are likely to be expereinced in the field. (PDF here, Google html)
I think Linux has one really tough competitor in Mac OS X when it comes to this arena. Apple already has mindshare, market share, and a kick-ass audio subsystem. Linux has none of those three, so it'll be an uphill battle. After ALSA is standardized and rolled out completely, maybe we'll talk.
Every docking station I have seen has been in a business environment. In ohter words, 100% of the consumer laoptops I have had ocntact with have spent 100% of their lives non-docked. It's the business models that seen to get the docks.
This includes numerous Latitude CPi models - a seies I am none too happy with. Out department ordered a few dozen of them three years ago. Within a week, a third of them died. I haven't worked at the place for a few years, so I don't know about their long-term reliability. All I know is the OmniBooks that the Latitudes were replacing were tough as nails, and the Dells just didn't live up to their charge in life.
Uh...the original .sig made much more sense than your version.