You will still experience better sound quality with a 16-bit CD than with 24-bit FLAC files.
This is because CDs are recorded and played back with lasers, meaning they are essentially an analog medium, because light is analog.
FLAC files, on the other end, are made of bits - sharp little bastions of absolute certainty, having a value of either or one, with nothing in between.
So, in essence, while CDs are recorded in analog bits, whereas FLAC files are recorded with digital, electronic bits. This means that CDs will sound better, because each bit is closer to the original recording; and, remember, that the whole is even more than the sum of it's bits!
PS: Make sure you orient your Monster Cable wires in the appropriate direction to maximize electron flow! There should be an arrow on the insulation pointing toward the speakers.
Hey, thanks for those comments, some issues there I hadn't considered, in particular the TCP slow start.
> Your ping on the T1 is probably about 10-15ms lower > than it was on the ADSL, and that makes a big difference > for subjective experience.
Yeah - 4.3ms from the workstation to the ISP's core router.
My home ADSL 2+ connection is 27.4ms to the same router, and that is without Bell's ATM network in the way (Bell doesn't have ADSL at my CO so the ISP/CLEC co-los their own DSLAM).
There is nothing wrong with having telnet enabled: the problem arises when you *use* it.
Telnet access is a great way to get in if something goes horribly, horribly wrong, sshd is hung, and you need to fix the box *NOW*.
Unfortunately, *using* telnet means you have to essentially treat the box as if it was rooted, once you have the sshd running again -- although telnetting in from another box on the same switch mitigates a lot of risk.
> Even if there are not Cable or DSL providers there are always more traditional connectivity options, of > course those might be cost prohibitive for a small company.
Only if said company is already on the verge of collapse.
I live in a small city (105,000?) in Canada and pay less than $400/month for T1 service with a/28.
This gives me a *real*, business-class connection, with IP addresses in a suitable range, with no restrictions other than the size of the pipe.
We run small-small "production" infrastructure off the T1 (mail, mild web, primary DNS) and use it for the office internet connection as well.
Even in the case where the OP can't be served by T1, he can probably pick up ISDN service for a couple of hundred bucks a month. Two B channels is plenty for outbound SMTP.
Incidentally, you'd be surprised at how much better the casual surfing experience is on an unladen T1 compared to even a 5meg ADSL connection. I'm not sure if it's traffic shaping, the faster upload, or the lower latency that's in play, but it's definitely a good experience.
We were running a 3meg wireless connection for surfing for awhile, and frankly, don't miss it in the least.
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No only this, but most email forwarders do not alter the To:/Cc: fields. This means that all mail that is sent this way would like it was originally a Bcc.
The last time I logged into a UNIX box -- which was yesterday -- "vi" was exactly the same program it was 15 years ago.
It sure as hell didn't do source-code highlighting, auto-indent, blah de blah.
I use emacs to write code, and vi to edit config files. If I have happen to be on a Linux box (rare) and vi is linked vim, well, so be it - but that doesn't make them the same thing.
> If a hottie with pipes like this going unsigned for 10 years doesn't > convince you that piracy is killing the industry, nothing will.
This year's Grammy for "Best Album" was awarded to a Canadian band that is not signed to a major record label.
This is a tough, transitional period but -- mark my words -- the major studios are on their way out.
And your friend is probably unsigned because the studios don't have A&R men any more. They have computers that listen to songs and decide if you sound enough like the Black Eyed Peas to be "awarded" an eggregious contract or not.
It's 07:23, I've been up for about ten minutes, and I look at the Slashdot front page, trying to decipher the headline describing wonderful new hardware from one of my favourite companies.
Then I realized they don't exist any more and this is just about a big ball of gas.
Thanks, Slashdot, my day's off to a *great* start.
It's completely irrelevant if the person performing repair work is qualified or not.
It is only relevant whether the actions taken by the person cause the failure that the company is being asked to repair.
For example, if my 8-year old changes the oil in my car, and then something goes wrong with my airbags, the car manufacturer MAY NOT deny the airbag warranty claim, even though the person changing the oil is clearly not qualified to do so.
In fact, even if the 8-year old who changes the oil re-fills the crankcase with Kool-Aid, it *still* does not void the warranty on the airbags.
In the US at least, this is black letter law.
Previous repairs, alterations, etc, are not grounds to dismiss warranty claims, unless the manufacturer is able to prove that these are the proximate cause of the failure that the claimant is asking the manufacturer to address.
> Yes, you may have a legal right to do whatever, it is your property, but that doesn't > mean the company has the legal right to fix your mistake.
The OP never claimed that you could fix a board yourself, have the repair go sour, and then expect the company to fix that.
If, OTOH, you fix caps on the board, and then something else goes wrong, which is not provably related to your repair, then the board is *still* under warranty, at least in the US.
You need to read the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975.
That is the same law that allows you to have your oil changed at your local garage, rather than your car maker's local dealership, and still have an intact warranty (unless the local garage screws up).
> There is a reason Apple is trying to kill GSM and pick up CDMA: > they probably see they aren't going to win the GSM patent lawsuits that Nokia > have filed against them.
Are you daft?
There is no way that Apple is going to drop the GSM iPhone. CDMA is used almost nowhere outside of the US and Australia (do they still use it?).. Well, and Iraq, due to American colonial imperliasm.
The rest of the planet uses GSM, even the Canadian CDMA carriers are migrating away and sell GSM iPhones. And no carrier is going to roll out a CDMA network because Apple tells them to. Get real.
You know, maybe you are unable to grasp the deep concepts here, but here it is anyhow: it is possible to (*gasp*) own more than one device, and (*shudder*) pick the right device for the task at hand!
To hell with the computing neophytes in the house, some of us grey-beard hackers like iPads, too.
Why? No pissing around! Buy it, turn it on, download apps, and use them.
If it doesn't do what you want it to, you shouldn't have bought it. It's an appliance, not a dev platform.
I've screwed with R&D hardware and software all my career, customized a bajillion things, and when I go home... I just want to use stuff. Not fix it. Not tweak it. Just use it.
Why the hell is there some much hate for just wanting to use the damn device as shipped?
> I've played around with one of the test devices and I > can't imagine actually getting work done on these things.
Only morons choose tools and then go to look for jobs to do with them.
I'm a programmer, I would have a very hard time getting work done on a hammer.
This does not mean a hammer is not a useful tool.
As an amateur musician, I find the iPad to be pretty close to the ideal form-factor for displaying sheet music. The only thing I think I would change is better dedicated software (which is coming along nicely) and a 9x12" screen.
> The response to overheating was just to ignore it, > the Iphone 4 antenna was to first to pretend it didn't > exist, then blame the users and finally hand out free > cases without an admission that the problem was > systemic.
I have to admit, I'm not familiar with the overheating problem at all, and I'm a heavy iPhone-4 user.
You missed the conclusion of antenna-gate, however -- they actually quietly fixed the problem. Phones purchased after ~ Oct 5 (in Canada anyhow) got a slight hardware rev -- there is some kind of coating on the antenna, which completely eliminates the death grip problem.
You can tell the phones apart easily by looking at the proximity sensor; it is almost invislble on the phones shipped in August and September, but it's quite a bit easier to see on the later phones.
That's an interesting conjecture -- Newton as tablet.
It *does* fit a very similar market-niche. It struck more as a failed PDA -- but I definitely buy the tablet-prototype hypothesis.
In fact, Tablet XP featured voice and hand-writing recognition as major input modes. And my Tablet XP tablet was ridiculously unwieldy, used a stylus, and had miserable battery life.
I don't know - if you've got, say, a million boards in the pipeline and you can fix them for $20 each then sell them for $60, it seems like there would be some money to be made.
"Fix for $20" might seem unreasonable, but I don't think so, based on the economies of scale available to Asus and Gigabyte. They already have 100% of the requisite QA/QC ability, and access to cheap labour. I'm sure Intel will give them the chips for free.
That said, the other poster's idea is more likely IMHO - re-badge the boards, rip off the defective ports, and sell them as-is.
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You will still experience better sound quality with a 16-bit CD than with 24-bit FLAC files.
This is because CDs are recorded and played back with lasers, meaning they are essentially an analog medium, because light is analog.
FLAC files, on the other end, are made of bits - sharp little bastions of absolute certainty, having a value of either or one, with nothing in between.
So, in essence, while CDs are recorded in analog bits, whereas FLAC files are recorded with digital, electronic bits. This means that CDs will sound better, because each bit is closer to the original recording; and, remember, that the whole is even more than the sum of it's bits!
PS: Make sure you orient your Monster Cable wires in the appropriate direction to maximize electron flow! There should be an arrow on the insulation pointing toward the speakers.
Hey, thanks for those comments, some issues there I hadn't considered, in particular the TCP slow start.
> Your ping on the T1 is probably about 10-15ms lower
> than it was on the ADSL, and that makes a big difference
> for subjective experience.
Yeah - 4.3ms from the workstation to the ISP's core router.
My home ADSL 2+ connection is 27.4ms to the same router, and that is without Bell's ATM network in the way (Bell doesn't have ADSL at my CO so the ISP/CLEC co-los their own DSLAM).
> yet still have telnet access enabled.
There is nothing wrong with having telnet enabled: the problem arises when you *use* it.
Telnet access is a great way to get in if something goes horribly, horribly wrong, sshd is hung, and you need to fix the box *NOW*.
Unfortunately, *using* telnet means you have to essentially treat the box as if it was rooted, once you have the sshd running again -- although telnetting in from another box on the same switch mitigates a lot of risk.
> Even if there are not Cable or DSL providers there are always more traditional connectivity options, of
> course those might be cost prohibitive for a small company.
Only if said company is already on the verge of collapse.
I live in a small city (105,000?) in Canada and pay less than $400/month for T1 service with a /28.
This gives me a *real*, business-class connection, with IP addresses in a suitable range, with no restrictions other than the size of the pipe.
We run small-small "production" infrastructure off the T1 (mail, mild web, primary DNS) and use it for the office internet connection as well.
Even in the case where the OP can't be served by T1, he can probably pick up ISDN service for a couple of hundred bucks a month. Two B channels is plenty for outbound SMTP.
Incidentally, you'd be surprised at how much better the casual surfing experience is on an unladen T1 compared to even a 5meg ADSL connection. I'm not sure if it's traffic shaping, the faster upload, or the lower latency that's in play, but it's definitely a good experience.
We were running a 3meg wireless connection for surfing for awhile, and frankly, don't miss it in the least.
No only this, but most email forwarders do not alter the To:/Cc: fields. This means that all mail that is sent this way would like it was originally a Bcc.
You and 16 of your closest friends could always each donate the value of one byte..
> what about usability, user friendliness ?
Look at the pot calling the kettle black!
I can't count how many times I've gotten excited by your signature, only to realize upon closer inspection that it says, "Giri" not "Girl".
The older Elvis got, the fatter he got. Elvis was also the most ground-breaking early in his career, resting on his laurels at the end.
If anything, Jobs is the anti-Elvis.
Worse yet, he somehow conflates vi and vim.
The last time I logged into a UNIX box -- which was yesterday -- "vi" was exactly the same program it was 15 years ago.
It sure as hell didn't do source-code highlighting, auto-indent, blah de blah.
I use emacs to write code, and vi to edit config files. If I have happen to be on a Linux box (rare) and vi is linked vim, well, so be it - but that doesn't make them the same thing.
> If a hottie with pipes like this going unsigned for 10 years doesn't
> convince you that piracy is killing the industry, nothing will.
This year's Grammy for "Best Album" was awarded to a Canadian band that is not signed to a major record label.
This is a tough, transitional period but -- mark my words -- the major studios are on their way out.
And your friend is probably unsigned because the studios don't have A&R men any more. They have computers that listen to songs and decide if you sound enough like the Black Eyed Peas to be "awarded" an eggregious contract or not.
It's 07:23, I've been up for about ten minutes, and I look at the Slashdot front page, trying to decipher the headline describing wonderful new hardware from one of my favourite companies.
Then I realized they don't exist any more and this is just about a big ball of gas.
Thanks, Slashdot, my day's off to a *great* start.
> Wow, I was hungry but maybe what I really need are some brake pads?
Make sure you ask for organic pads!
It's completely irrelevant if the person performing repair work is qualified or not.
It is only relevant whether the actions taken by the person cause the failure that the company is being asked to repair.
For example, if my 8-year old changes the oil in my car, and then something goes wrong with my airbags, the car manufacturer MAY NOT deny the airbag warranty claim, even though the person changing the oil is clearly not qualified to do so.
In fact, even if the 8-year old who changes the oil re-fills the crankcase with Kool-Aid, it *still* does not void the warranty on the airbags.
In the US at least, this is black letter law.
Previous repairs, alterations, etc, are not grounds to dismiss warranty claims, unless the manufacturer is able to prove that these are the proximate cause of the failure that the claimant is asking the manufacturer to address.
> Yes, you may have a legal right to do whatever, it is your property, but that doesn't
> mean the company has the legal right to fix your mistake.
The OP never claimed that you could fix a board yourself, have the repair go sour, and then expect the company to fix that.
If, OTOH, you fix caps on the board, and then something else goes wrong, which is not provably related to your repair, then the board is *still* under warranty, at least in the US.
You need to read the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975.
That is the same law that allows you to have your oil changed at your local garage, rather than your car maker's local dealership, and still have an intact warranty (unless the local garage screws up).
> There is a reason Apple is trying to kill GSM and pick up CDMA:
> they probably see they aren't going to win the GSM patent lawsuits that Nokia
> have filed against them.
Are you daft?
There is no way that Apple is going to drop the GSM iPhone. CDMA is used almost nowhere outside of the US and Australia (do they still use it?).. Well, and Iraq, due to American colonial imperliasm.
The rest of the planet uses GSM, even the Canadian CDMA carriers are migrating away and sell GSM iPhones. And no carrier is going to roll out a CDMA network because Apple tells them to. Get real.
Wait, you have used 3 recent apple products, one of which was an eMac, which was discontinued 5 years ago?
Try the latest beta. They have been doing a *lot* of work on CC + GC -- and they know they have more work to do in future versions.
What's with the false dichotomies?
You know, maybe you are unable to grasp the deep concepts here, but here it is anyhow: it is possible to (*gasp*) own more than one device, and (*shudder*) pick the right device for the task at hand!
Oh my God! Can you imagine?!
To hell with the computing neophytes in the house, some of us grey-beard hackers like iPads, too.
Why? No pissing around! Buy it, turn it on, download apps, and use them.
If it doesn't do what you want it to, you shouldn't have bought it. It's an appliance, not a dev platform.
I've screwed with R&D hardware and software all my career, customized a bajillion things, and when I go home... I just want to use stuff. Not fix it. Not tweak it. Just use it.
Why the hell is there some much hate for just wanting to use the damn device as shipped?
> Could I be on to something?
Rozwell.. Rothwell..
By golly, yes!
It seems that aliens are naming the places where they land -- and some of them lisp!
> I've played around with one of the test devices and I
> can't imagine actually getting work done on these things.
Only morons choose tools and then go to look for jobs to do with them.
I'm a programmer, I would have a very hard time getting work done on a hammer.
This does not mean a hammer is not a useful tool.
As an amateur musician, I find the iPad to be pretty close to the ideal form-factor for displaying sheet music. The only thing I think I would change is better dedicated software (which is coming along nicely) and a 9x12" screen.
> The response to overheating was just to ignore it,
> the Iphone 4 antenna was to first to pretend it didn't
> exist, then blame the users and finally hand out free
> cases without an admission that the problem was
> systemic.
I have to admit, I'm not familiar with the overheating problem at all, and I'm a heavy iPhone-4 user.
You missed the conclusion of antenna-gate, however -- they actually quietly fixed the problem. Phones purchased after ~ Oct 5 (in Canada anyhow) got a slight hardware rev -- there is some kind of coating on the antenna, which completely eliminates the death grip problem.
You can tell the phones apart easily by looking at the proximity sensor; it is almost invislble on the phones shipped in August and September, but it's quite a bit easier to see on the later phones.
That's an interesting conjecture -- Newton as tablet.
It *does* fit a very similar market-niche. It struck more as a failed PDA -- but I definitely buy the tablet-prototype hypothesis.
In fact, Tablet XP featured voice and hand-writing recognition as major input modes. And my Tablet XP tablet was ridiculously unwieldy, used a stylus, and had miserable battery life.
Hm, maybe Tablet XP was trying to copy Newton? :)
Actually... this sounds pretty much like what I'd expect.
What do you think doesn't jive?
I don't know - if you've got, say, a million boards in the pipeline and you can fix them for $20 each then sell them for $60, it seems like there would be some money to be made.
"Fix for $20" might seem unreasonable, but I don't think so, based on the economies of scale available to Asus and Gigabyte. They already have 100% of the requisite QA/QC ability, and access to cheap labour. I'm sure Intel will give them the chips for free.
That said, the other poster's idea is more likely IMHO - re-badge the boards, rip off the defective ports, and sell them as-is.