Increasing game demands drive hardware sales which let us all encode DIVX movies faster and render our star wars fan-film CG. You're asking for the speed of progress to decrease? Ask the medical community how many lives have been saved because progress in computer fields allowed the costs of medical devices to drop. Computers are facilitating unraveling the mysteries of DNA. If you can't handle the speed of progress that's your fault. Buy a new computer every five years instead of three. Spend the first three years with the hottest games around. Spend the last two with bargain bin titles from last year you overlooked. Or get hooked on MMORPGs. Those only get complete overhauls every two to four years.
but will they remember how to do it in five years without a calc? If they have a calc available, what do you think they'll do? Not every situation requires memorization of the underlying concept, though some do.
What if we could make two copies of each song. Every copy would be kept track of on the original computer / device. Want to make a copy for your laptop? Done. Want to let a friend hear it on his portable player? Done. Laptop hard drive just failed? Hook it up to the original computer. Since the file could only be deleted on the laptop, not transfered, you can then make another copy.
DRM is inevitable, its up to the industry to decide how much they'll screw the consumer.
Why stop at 44.1KHz PCM? Why don't you demand 92KHz and 24bit sampling or whatever DVD-Audio has? You're being unreasonable. The data will be compressed either losslessly or with loss, but you will NEVER get the raw file from the record companies. What about DVD-A quality compressed at 320kbps Liquid Audio or other DRM format? DRM is the wave of the future. It will happen one way or another. DRM doesn't have to be evil if users can retain some rights and control over what they buy. It remains to be seen if the music industry will let us have any, however.
At the end of the cold war, didn't the USA have about three times as many nuclear devices as the USSR? Did we need three times as many? Wouldn't matching the USSR one-for-one have been good enough? I'm pretty sure we overspent out of stupidity, and corporate / political greed.
How do you explain the Miata and new Beetle? Is it just because they're cute? They aren't all that safe, but then nothing is going up against a Lincoln Navigator.
The EV1 strikes me as being incredibly aerodynamic and therefore getting more miles per charge. PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume an enlongated sphere which comes to a point at the front and back is the most aerodynamic shape possible that holds any volume inside. Therefore all our cars should be bubble shaped. Unfortunately most of our eyes are drawn to cars that have defined "lines." Even the Miata and Corvette have lines of a mild sort, but the McLaren F1 gets our serious attention for styling.
If the carpool lane was full of cars, it wouldn't be any faster than all the other lanes in the parking lot. The solution is carpool lanes filled so drivers can safely travel the speed limit.
well then just buy 3 delta 120mm and toss them in your case, you don't even have to mount them, they'll blow enough that it won't matter. Few people buy a Harley because of how loud they are. The muffler reduces engine performance, so it makes sense. Using quiet but equally effective fans is a no-brainer.
Think about how hot the air is coming out the back of a modern computer? What, not hot at all? Congrats, you have plenty of fans in there. Now think about a friend's computer that has only a front, rear case fan, and power supply fan. That air is hot compared to the temperature of the case. Cases are often sheet steel, and not designed for heat transfer. I doubt the paint is anything special. Unless the case is un-painted aluminum, I doubt there is significant heat dissipation.
If you have mini-towers in your pad you probably don't have much room for more fans. If you want to have fun and have two 3.5" slots directly above each other, try this. Get a $15 Antec 5.25 to 3.5" drive bay converter. Put the floppy there. Remove the covers to the 3.5" slots. Buy two (2) fifty milimeter (50mm) quiet running fans, and stick them in the slots. They should fit almost perfectly.
Call me crazy, but when your comment is at score 3, is it not? I clicked on the #3652860 but it has no moderation. I thought "underrated" shows up. On the reply screen, your comment is rated score 2. I refreshed the first screen and it is still score 3. What the hell? What bug is this, how does it happen?
What part of "embrace and extend" aren't you worried about? If MS gets to call the shots on new browsing standards, Mozilla and everyone else is one step behind their latest version. MS will create tags and non-compliant crap to try and break other browsers or operating systems. If MS wants new tags they can work on getting the official standards updated.
Now go search google for "maxivision" and shut up about DLP being better. It isn't. It sucks, and hard. Until the resolution quadruples I'll stick with film, preferrably Maxivision 48. Not every theater sucks, you know.
You are correct that a non-repeating random play is not really random. Keeping track of the order songs have played in does not affect the randomness of it. I'm guessing that like my Iomega HipZip (which I don't recommend anyone buy), it will not remember the last song played on random mode.
I understand your frustration with how austere the features are now. Consider what they are trying to do, however. Their idea of 1.0 is to make it work, bug free, and at least play some mp3s. That in itself is a huge accomplishment. Sure 2.0 will be the version that everyone loves. 3.0 will have everything but the kitchen sink (and perhaps vorbis). I think we should commend what an accomplishment its been just to get this far. They just baked a cake, and now its time to frost/decorate it. They just cooked roast beef, now pour on the gravy. Pick your analogy, or suggest your own.
As cool as that sounds, I'm just a little confused. If the door opens outward into the hall, he has to tug it open (I know, caulk and all in the way). Now he gets it partway open and some air gets in which reduces the pressure. How does he get sucked in? Was he yanking sooooooo hard that the door swung wide open and then he was blown in?
If the door opened inward he'd start ramming it with his shoulder and then the same thing would happen.
So, I'm assuming one of you told him to stop playing the music all the time? Or did he figure it out on his own?
Can a SACD player still be redbook compliant if the firmware recognizes Cactus Data Shield and other copy-protection? At any rate, the players don't currently offer a digitial out.
Civil unrest is a social problem, right? Does the military count as a technological fix? After all, there's all those guns and tanks, those are technology, right?
...once the digital tool is out, it will be instantly all over the known universe...
Unless the drives that read SACD require a firmware or hardware modification to extract the data. Ya know, kinda like Dataplay drives??? Even if the protection is cracked, the knowledge may be all over the internet, but only a few will be able to use it. Those few are much more vulnerable as pirates than the millions of rippers today.
end up forcing people to only use the heavily protected version that would be unplayable in many players (due to copy prevention)
That makes no sense what-so-ever. The first layer of SACD is redbook compatible. The second layer requires a SACD player with a blue laser. Requiring a different laser is not copy protection. It is the evolution of the technology.
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Increasing game demands drive hardware sales which let us all encode DIVX movies faster and render our star wars fan-film CG. You're asking for the speed of progress to decrease? Ask the medical community how many lives have been saved because progress in computer fields allowed the costs of medical devices to drop. Computers are facilitating unraveling the mysteries of DNA. If you can't handle the speed of progress that's your fault. Buy a new computer every five years instead of three. Spend the first three years with the hottest games around. Spend the last two with bargain bin titles from last year you overlooked. Or get hooked on MMORPGs. Those only get complete overhauls every two to four years.
but will they remember how to do it in five years without a calc? If they have a calc available, what do you think they'll do? Not every situation requires memorization of the underlying concept, though some do.
What if we could make two copies of each song. Every copy would be kept track of on the original computer / device. Want to make a copy for your laptop? Done. Want to let a friend hear it on his portable player? Done. Laptop hard drive just failed? Hook it up to the original computer. Since the file could only be deleted on the laptop, not transfered, you can then make another copy.
DRM is inevitable, its up to the industry to decide how much they'll screw the consumer.
128kbps Liquid Audio sounds better than 128kbps mp3. Just like 700kbps mpeg4 is watchable at 640x288 while 700kbps mpeg2 looks like CRAP at 640x288.
Why stop at 44.1KHz PCM? Why don't you demand 92KHz and 24bit sampling or whatever DVD-Audio has? You're being unreasonable. The data will be compressed either losslessly or with loss, but you will NEVER get the raw file from the record companies. What about DVD-A quality compressed at 320kbps Liquid Audio or other DRM format? DRM is the wave of the future. It will happen one way or another. DRM doesn't have to be evil if users can retain some rights and control over what they buy. It remains to be seen if the music industry will let us have any, however.
At the end of the cold war, didn't the USA have about three times as many nuclear devices as the USSR? Did we need three times as many? Wouldn't matching the USSR one-for-one have been good enough? I'm pretty sure we overspent out of stupidity, and corporate / political greed.
How do you explain the Miata and new Beetle? Is it just because they're cute? They aren't all that safe, but then nothing is going up against a Lincoln Navigator.
The EV1 strikes me as being incredibly aerodynamic and therefore getting more miles per charge. PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume an enlongated sphere which comes to a point at the front and back is the most aerodynamic shape possible that holds any volume inside. Therefore all our cars should be bubble shaped. Unfortunately most of our eyes are drawn to cars that have defined "lines." Even the Miata and Corvette have lines of a mild sort, but the McLaren F1 gets our serious attention for styling.
If the carpool lane was full of cars, it wouldn't be any faster than all the other lanes in the parking lot. The solution is carpool lanes filled so drivers can safely travel the speed limit.
well then just buy 3 delta 120mm and toss them in your case, you don't even have to mount them, they'll blow enough that it won't matter. Few people buy a Harley because of how loud they are. The muffler reduces engine performance, so it makes sense. Using quiet but equally effective fans is a no-brainer.
Define most people? I would bet you that most people don't leave a fan running in their room.
Think about how hot the air is coming out the back of a modern computer? What, not hot at all? Congrats, you have plenty of fans in there. Now think about a friend's computer that has only a front, rear case fan, and power supply fan. That air is hot compared to the temperature of the case. Cases are often sheet steel, and not designed for heat transfer. I doubt the paint is anything special. Unless the case is un-painted aluminum, I doubt there is significant heat dissipation.
If you have mini-towers in your pad you probably don't have much room for more fans. If you want to have fun and have two 3.5" slots directly above each other, try this. Get a $15 Antec 5.25 to 3.5" drive bay converter. Put the floppy there. Remove the covers to the 3.5" slots. Buy two (2) fifty milimeter (50mm) quiet running fans, and stick them in the slots. They should fit almost perfectly.
Call me crazy, but when your comment is at score 3, is it not? I clicked on the #3652860 but it has no moderation. I thought "underrated" shows up. On the reply screen, your comment is rated score 2. I refreshed the first screen and it is still score 3. What the hell? What bug is this, how does it happen?
What part of "embrace and extend" aren't you worried about? If MS gets to call the shots on new browsing standards, Mozilla and everyone else is one step behind their latest version. MS will create tags and non-compliant crap to try and break other browsers or operating systems. If MS wants new tags they can work on getting the official standards updated.
Now go search google for "maxivision" and shut up about DLP being better. It isn't. It sucks, and hard. Until the resolution quadruples I'll stick with film, preferrably Maxivision 48. Not every theater sucks, you know.
You are correct that a non-repeating random play is not really random. Keeping track of the order songs have played in does not affect the randomness of it. I'm guessing that like my Iomega HipZip (which I don't recommend anyone buy), it will not remember the last song played on random mode.
he's either karma whoring from moderators who don't understand this but figure it must be insightful, or he's trolling, ignore him.
Read the website and you'll see it probably isn't, now go back to posting at +1 where you apparently belong.
I understand your frustration with how austere the features are now. Consider what they are trying to do, however. Their idea of 1.0 is to make it work, bug free, and at least play some mp3s. That in itself is a huge accomplishment. Sure 2.0 will be the version that everyone loves. 3.0 will have everything but the kitchen sink (and perhaps vorbis). I think we should commend what an accomplishment its been just to get this far. They just baked a cake, and now its time to frost/decorate it. They just cooked roast beef, now pour on the gravy. Pick your analogy, or suggest your own.
As cool as that sounds, I'm just a little confused. If the door opens outward into the hall, he has to tug it open (I know, caulk and all in the way). Now he gets it partway open and some air gets in which reduces the pressure. How does he get sucked in? Was he yanking sooooooo hard that the door swung wide open and then he was blown in?
If the door opened inward he'd start ramming it with his shoulder and then the same thing would happen.
So, I'm assuming one of you told him to stop playing the music all the time? Or did he figure it out on his own?
Can a SACD player still be redbook compliant if the firmware recognizes Cactus Data Shield and other copy-protection? At any rate, the players don't currently offer a digitial out.
Civil unrest is a social problem, right? Does the military count as a technological fix? After all, there's all those guns and tanks, those are technology, right?
WMA was broken? What programs are available to convert WMA to .wav or .mp3?
Unless the drives that read SACD require a firmware or hardware modification to extract the data. Ya know, kinda like Dataplay drives??? Even if the protection is cracked, the knowledge may be all over the internet, but only a few will be able to use it. Those few are much more vulnerable as pirates than the millions of rippers today.
That makes no sense what-so-ever. The first layer of SACD is redbook compatible. The second layer requires a SACD player with a blue laser. Requiring a different laser is not copy protection. It is the evolution of the technology.