It's not about making the sound EXACT, it's about making the sound BETTER.
CDs win for exact replication, but for things like club music, with lots of sharp synth sounds, bass, etc. A little "natural interference" from the actual physical motion of the vibrating stylus can make it sound "naturally artificial", or, quite to the effect such music attempts to achieve, surreal.
Plus, spinning vinyl is a HELL of a lot of fun. CD decks, not so much.
How potentially damaging to a system could this be? I'd love to implement it on my work machine but fear coming in the next morning to have hosed Lotus Notes and some of the other software we run.
There was supposed to be a patch for that back in 2004, but it keeps getting pushed back while we work to develop new weapons technologies, and to fix all those bugs in our middle east release. It could be another year or so before they announce a date.
You might be surprised to find people can understand you better.
Agreed. I work on the phone all day, and especially with people who have strong non-american accents (and even some who have strong american accents, it is MUCH more difficult when their voice signal starts quantizing and just sounds like a buzzing tone with a linguistic rhythm I cannot understand.
Speak softly, move away from the microphone.
On a slightly seperate note, how hard would it be to implement sidetone in a cellular device? Couldn't you just overlay the microphone input into the speaker at a level that wouldn't feed back?
When it comes to capturing murderers, rapists, druglords, and pedophiles, the government has decided that this method has too much potential for misuse, even in cases of good intent....but the RIAA feels it's ok to use it for something as minor as copyright infringement?
A prefect example of what is wrong with this world. Rampant fucking greed.
IANALOLS, but I seem to remember reading somewhere in the article that there is a law which claims an automated process can electronically enter a business into a contractual agreement through it's automated actions, even if the human operators are unaware of the transaction.
I'm sure this was designed to protect banks connected to ATM networks, for example. However, the law may not have been specific enough for a case like this.
Either way, she added a contract for human use but not one for machine use, and since such a method has existed for well over a DECADE now, I believe this case will be thrown out. She didn't take the proper procedure and she got burned. It's like leaving your door wide open and trying to sue the police when they enter without a warrant and say "Hey, is everything ok in here?"
I think this woman is more than likely overzealously protecting her web site without thought or consideration of the implications she may have on technology as a whole. What a bitch.
For example. Take littlekuriboh. For anyone who doesn't know him he created a parody called "Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series". Basically a poke at the stupid cartoon. Perfectly legal (as its parody and not a straight rip of the cartoon).
...except, is that actually considered legal parody? Taking straight footage and dubbing audio over it? Can I do that with a full length feature film and distribute it legally?
Corprate It guy: Hey boss I just bought a bunch of macs at 20% over retail of similiar PC's. It seems the key application we make most our money on doesn't function on it so I bought new copies of the XP and reinstalled them. don't worry they dual boot.
Corprate IT VP: Ohh wonderful. Why don't you give yourself a raise and have sex with my wife. While your ate it do my 19 year old daughter too. I'm going to go give my mercded to the next homeless person I see and donate all the company bank accounts to UNICEF.... I doubt any IT decision maker will really risk changing and changing back. The cost of conversion sttill exists even wiht dual booting. Unless there is a seriously compelling reason to change, people and organizations won't change.
Point is, while you're ironing out the kinks, you're not SOL with the new machines. Now you HAVE options BESIDES Microsoft, whether they treat you good or not.
PS: If you somehow think for one second that situation is any worse than any other technology transition in corporate IT today, you've never had a job.
Disk space is cheap, so file size isn't much of an issue. I encode MP3 at 192 kbps and sometimes 256 kbps. That's good enough quality for me and the file sizes are still reasonable.
While I wholeheartedly agree with your points, I have to think to myself: Exactly what pair of consumer headphones/earbuds does someone own that allow you to even distinguish 128kbps MP3 from 256kbps MP3? If it's on your iPod, it seems to me that it's for on-the-go listening. Does anyone really wear $200 headphones with a nice full response range? I bet those are the same fools who complain their battery life is shit.
Grandparent poster seems to want his cake without a fork to eat it, and that will be messy no matter how careful you are.
Yes, exceptions to this are iPod docks, car stereos, etc. but for simple, casual listening, is it REALLY that awful? I vote no. I've heard MP3 sound great at 64kbps, and iTunes encoded it. If you need the quality from iTunes for some big stereo because you're an audiophile or whatever, then why don't you just buy a 30GB iPod with all your money and encode at 320kbps MP3?
...just like buying a tank of diesel fuel and then complaining you needed to buy a diesel car to use it.
This is how searches work in OS X by default as well. There is a little pull down menu that allows you to select your search scope.
Too bad MS zealots make complete fucking assholes about themselves everytime they type a single key to prove a point against any other vendors, be it Apple, Linux, or anyone.
Please kill yourself.
Should I break into a bank and stand in the vault with bags of money and wait for the employees to come in in the morning and say "Hi, no harm done, here is your money. I just wanted to show you that you are at risk of an attack!"
I'd probably be arrested on the spot.
You should consider yourself lucky that I the computer world, finding and describing bugs and other problems to those they affect is appreciated and not considered criminal (nor should it ever be), but exploiting that bug is wrong in the first place.
It doesn't matter that his program did "no harm". It used a fault in the code to do something it shouldn't have. Illegal. Wrong. End of case. He is no one's hero, get over it.
It's got an 8GB drive at MOST, a mobile processor, and probably not massive amounts of RAM, plus limited battery life. Sorry, but you'll still have to stay indoors to play World of Warcraft.
I, and many of my friends agree with the pants ban, 100%.
What it has to do with school shootings...well no. It doesn't. Obviously sarcasm, but you've hit on another topic worth mentioning.
VIVA LA PANTLESS
...is all the media glamor and shock that is the result of school shootings. These kids want to "make a statement". They're so hurt or outcast and they shoot up their school to lash back and to make the world notice, as if to say "It's that bad here." It's essentially an act of terrorism.
I'm pretty sure Islamic extremist groups didn't become violent from video games, but because they felt a need to lash out. The behavior is, plain and simple, unchecked immaturity combined with a little knowledge.
If I am not a sex offender (which I am not), then I am not registering with any "central email database". If this requires me to stop using certain websites, then they can lose my business and the business of many others. What you may see if that happens is the slow collapse of modern internet commerce as we know it.
And, if a sex offender gets caught using an email address they did not register, they'll go to jail. It won't even matter if they have commited any other crimes. They can now be jailed for attempted stalking, and in the case of sex offenders, I don't see how that can be a bad thing.
Unless you are one of those people who got slapped with a sex offense rap for peeing outdoors behind a bar, or in the bushes; but how often does that really happen?
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That about sums it up, yea.
I've heard these used...
It's not about making the sound EXACT, it's about making the sound BETTER.
CDs win for exact replication, but for things like club music, with lots of sharp synth sounds, bass, etc. A little "natural interference" from the actual physical motion of the vibrating stylus can make it sound "naturally artificial", or, quite to the effect such music attempts to achieve, surreal.
Plus, spinning vinyl is a HELL of a lot of fun. CD decks, not so much.
How potentially damaging to a system could this be? I'd love to implement it on my work machine but fear coming in the next morning to have hosed Lotus Notes and some of the other software we run.
There was supposed to be a patch for that back in 2004, but it keeps getting pushed back while we work to develop new weapons technologies, and to fix all those bugs in our middle east release. It could be another year or so before they announce a date.
I just filed my taxes with TurboTax Online! Great, now I'm going to be hacked, and then audited and the IRS is going to repossess all of my belon
NO CARRIER
Speak softly, move away from the microphone.
On a slightly seperate note, how hard would it be to implement sidetone in a cellular device? Couldn't you just overlay the microphone input into the speaker at a level that wouldn't feed back?
When it comes to capturing murderers, rapists, druglords, and pedophiles, the government has decided that this method has too much potential for misuse, even in cases of good intent. ...but the RIAA feels it's ok to use it for something as minor as copyright infringement?
A prefect example of what is wrong with this world. Rampant fucking greed.
It's called a "console". They even come with special keyboards you can hold in your hand.
IANALOLS, but I seem to remember reading somewhere in the article that there is a law which claims an automated process can electronically enter a business into a contractual agreement through it's automated actions, even if the human operators are unaware of the transaction.
I'm sure this was designed to protect banks connected to ATM networks, for example. However, the law may not have been specific enough for a case like this.
Either way, she added a contract for human use but not one for machine use, and since such a method has existed for well over a DECADE now, I believe this case will be thrown out. She didn't take the proper procedure and she got burned. It's like leaving your door wide open and trying to sue the police when they enter without a warrant and say "Hey, is everything ok in here?"
I think this woman is more than likely overzealously protecting her web site without thought or consideration of the implications she may have on technology as a whole. What a bitch.
...except, is that actually considered legal parody? Taking straight footage and dubbing audio over it? Can I do that with a full length feature film and distribute it legally?
Does anyone want to play an MMOPRG where all the characters are fat, bearded nerds with Star Wars t-shirts?
Corprate It guy: Hey boss I just bought a bunch of macs at 20% over retail of similiar PC's. It seems the key application we make most our money on doesn't function on it so I bought new copies of the XP and reinstalled them. don't worry they dual boot.
... I doubt any IT decision maker will really risk changing and changing back. The cost of conversion sttill exists even wiht dual booting. Unless there is a seriously compelling reason to change, people and organizations won't change.
Corprate IT VP: Ohh wonderful. Why don't you give yourself a raise and have sex with my wife. While your ate it do my 19 year old daughter too. I'm going to go give my mercded to the next homeless person I see and donate all the company bank accounts to UNICEF.
Point is, while you're ironing out the kinks, you're not SOL with the new machines. Now you HAVE options BESIDES Microsoft, whether they treat you good or not.
PS: If you somehow think for one second that situation is any worse than any other technology transition in corporate IT today, you've never had a job.
Disk space is cheap, so file size isn't much of an issue. I encode MP3 at 192 kbps and sometimes 256 kbps. That's good enough quality for me and the file sizes are still reasonable.
While I wholeheartedly agree with your points, I have to think to myself: Exactly what pair of consumer headphones/earbuds does someone own that allow you to even distinguish 128kbps MP3 from 256kbps MP3? If it's on your iPod, it seems to me that it's for on-the-go listening. Does anyone really wear $200 headphones with a nice full response range? I bet those are the same fools who complain their battery life is shit.
Grandparent poster seems to want his cake without a fork to eat it, and that will be messy no matter how careful you are.
Yes, exceptions to this are iPod docks, car stereos, etc. but for simple, casual listening, is it REALLY that awful? I vote no. I've heard MP3 sound great at 64kbps, and iTunes encoded it. If you need the quality from iTunes for some big stereo because you're an audiophile or whatever, then why don't you just buy a 30GB iPod with all your money and encode at 320kbps MP3?
...just like buying a tank of diesel fuel and then complaining you needed to buy a diesel car to use it.
This is how searches work in OS X by default as well. There is a little pull down menu that allows you to select your search scope. Too bad MS zealots make complete fucking assholes about themselves everytime they type a single key to prove a point against any other vendors, be it Apple, Linux, or anyone. Please kill yourself.
Should I break into a bank and stand in the vault with bags of money and wait for the employees to come in in the morning and say "Hi, no harm done, here is your money. I just wanted to show you that you are at risk of an attack!"
I'd probably be arrested on the spot.
You should consider yourself lucky that I the computer world, finding and describing bugs and other problems to those they affect is appreciated and not considered criminal (nor should it ever be), but exploiting that bug is wrong in the first place.
It doesn't matter that his program did "no harm". It used a fault in the code to do something it shouldn't have. Illegal. Wrong. End of case. He is no one's hero, get over it.
He never worked in retail, either!
It's got an 8GB drive at MOST, a mobile processor, and probably not massive amounts of RAM, plus limited battery life. Sorry, but you'll still have to stay indoors to play World of Warcraft.
I, and many of my friends agree with the pants ban, 100%. What it has to do with school shootings...well no. It doesn't. Obviously sarcasm, but you've hit on another topic worth mentioning. VIVA LA PANTLESS
...is all the media glamor and shock that is the result of school shootings. These kids want to "make a statement". They're so hurt or outcast and they shoot up their school to lash back and to make the world notice, as if to say "It's that bad here." It's essentially an act of terrorism.
I'm pretty sure Islamic extremist groups didn't become violent from video games, but because they felt a need to lash out. The behavior is, plain and simple, unchecked immaturity combined with a little knowledge.
If I am not a sex offender (which I am not), then I am not registering with any "central email database". If this requires me to stop using certain websites, then they can lose my business and the business of many others. What you may see if that happens is the slow collapse of modern internet commerce as we know it. And, if a sex offender gets caught using an email address they did not register, they'll go to jail. It won't even matter if they have commited any other crimes. They can now be jailed for attempted stalking, and in the case of sex offenders, I don't see how that can be a bad thing. Unless you are one of those people who got slapped with a sex offense rap for peeing outdoors behind a bar, or in the bushes; but how often does that really happen?
The thought of trying to play Zelda with a SIXAXIS controller made me throw up in my mouth a little. Don't even joke about that.
Katamari Damacy
Will people have digital displays that will take the place of paper?
Yeah, they have these things now called "computers"...