I have to agree to many things you say e.g. the car being noisy and audio being much distorted (it's mainly the car's DAC though). But again, why do *other* people have to decide what *I* hear. I really don't get this?
In my personal opinion > 99% are used to compression, don't listen to real physical classical instruments daily, and just don't care. Or maybe their ears are trained to filter out the artifacts, the human brain is truly amazing in that respect (e.g. you don't hear the air conditioning noise until it shuts down at 18.00). Lossless would indeed be of no added value. Totally agree. But please leave the option open for those 1% who truly care.
I will be the first to admit there are many audiophile insanities [http://www.head-fi.org/t/486598/testing-audiophile-claims-and-myths].
Happy to do a blind test, with classical music, while driving. It's not just tiny details, it's the punch/speed/phase/artifacts. Even if you doubt that... should the option to play lossless audio be removed, because *other* people decide that *I* cannot hear the difference?
PS Volvo C30 with laminated windows and High Performance audio.
That's what USB connectors are for: you can plug in flash drives with your music collection on them.
USB is great indeed... and of course, we need support for lossless audio formats. My 2009 Volvo supports.wav on a 250 GB partition. That's a lot of lossless music. Current Volvo models do not support any lossless audio format. And, their user interface is much much slower. I've been shopping around and most brands (even the top ones) seem to focus now on mp3 and bluetooth solutions only, even in their top audio systems. AFAIK the bluetooth connections shall be lossy (A2DP / SBC) by default?
Regardless of this, I am still not sure if I shall even have the guts to buy a car without a real HAND brake... which seems to be another trend.
That's the other good thing about ADSL - I don't have to worry about shit like this. No (traditional) modem, no way it can dial out.
Unless you live in the Netherlands and you have an evil big telco (KPN) that changes your DSL line into an electronic payment facility, with a risk of EUR 3.000 per incident. The technology they used is called 'Klipping' to link the IP number to the phone number of the DSL connection being used. No matter who has access to your machine (could be a remote connection with a stealth web proxy) payments can be made and will be automatically subscribed from your bank account.
This 'service' has been activated for all customers, without any notification at all, and with lies and cheats from KPN about the actual risks. For instance they clame that someone would have to literally dig up your phone line cable to abuse this system, which is a plain lie (wireless LANs, remote connections, etc.).
Sorry I am still a bit upset about all this.;) For more information search on google for 'Klipping' and 'Switchpoint'.
So, where does this leave Apple / QuickTime?
Maybe MPEG-4 can be added as an additional
compression module inside QuickTime, but it
looks like Apple is not playing its innovative
role anymore in this area.
Doesn't anybody remember archie then? "The archie information system is a network-based information tool offering proactive data retrieval and indexing for widely distributed collections of data." (see About Archive)
Heck, these days people might have totally forgotten about gopher **grin**. Systems come, systems go, and http is here to stay. Napster isn't...
Recently, I've been playing with softraid under linux using 4 x 8 Gb IDE disks. As long as you use only one disk per controller, things are great! I get 25 Mb/s using this cheap setup. Results: here. UDMA support makes a big difference when using Softraid! Also, "mke2fs -b 4096 -R stride=4/dev/md0" helped me alot!
As for SCSI comparison, my Adaptec 2920 does only 10 Mb/s; need I try?;)
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Ok, I will put "master" and "slave" on my blacklist then.
No, this means that instead of Global warming, we shall be worried about Galactic warming pretty soon!
I have to agree to many things you say e.g. the car being noisy and audio being much distorted (it's mainly the car's DAC though). But again, why do *other* people have to decide what *I* hear. I really don't get this?
In my personal opinion > 99% are used to compression, don't listen to real physical classical instruments daily, and just don't care. Or maybe their ears are trained to filter out the artifacts, the human brain is truly amazing in that respect (e.g. you don't hear the air conditioning noise until it shuts down at 18.00). Lossless would indeed be of no added value. Totally agree. But please leave the option open for those 1% who truly care.
I will be the first to admit there are many audiophile insanities [http://www.head-fi.org/t/486598/testing-audiophile-claims-and-myths].
Happy to do a blind test, with classical music, while driving. It's not just tiny details, it's the punch/speed/phase/artifacts. Even if you doubt that ... should the option to play lossless audio be removed, because *other* people decide that *I* cannot hear the difference?
PS Volvo C30 with laminated windows and High Performance audio.
That's what USB connectors are for: you can plug in flash drives with your music collection on them.
USB is great indeed ... and of course, we need support for lossless audio formats. My 2009 Volvo supports .wav on a 250 GB partition. That's a lot of lossless music. Current Volvo models do not support any lossless audio format. And, their user interface is much much slower. I've been shopping around and most brands (even the top ones) seem to focus now on mp3 and bluetooth solutions only, even in their top audio systems. AFAIK the bluetooth connections shall be lossy (A2DP / SBC) by default?
Regardless of this, I am still not sure if I shall even have the guts to buy a car without a real HAND brake ... which seems to be another trend.
Clearly, you must be an above average driver! (like me, btw)
I've had a quick look, this is still about "bigger numbers are better". It would be nice te have more focus on power usage of modern computers!
... this:
http://flobbe.net/pics/unix-brandblusser.jpg
That's the other good thing about ADSL - I don't have to worry about shit like this. No (traditional) modem, no way it can dial out.
;) For more information search on google for 'Klipping' and 'Switchpoint'.
Unless you live in the Netherlands and you have an evil big telco (KPN) that changes your DSL line into an electronic payment facility, with a risk of EUR 3.000 per incident. The technology they used is called 'Klipping' to link the IP number to the phone number of the DSL connection being used. No matter who has access to your machine (could be a remote connection with a stealth web proxy) payments can be made and will be automatically subscribed from your bank account.
This 'service' has been activated for all customers, without any notification at all, and with lies and cheats from KPN about the actual risks. For instance they clame that someone would have to literally dig up your phone line cable to abuse this system, which is a plain lie (wireless LANs, remote connections, etc.).
Sorry I am still a bit upset about all this.
char fname[8]; strcpy( fname, "foo" );
char exten[3]; strcpy( exten, "c" );
Nice, but how is "txt" or "zip" going to fit in exten if you only have room for two chars and a null-char?
Same problem in the previous post, ".txt" (as a string!) does not fit in a char[4].
So, where does this leave Apple / QuickTime?
Maybe MPEG-4 can be added as an additional
compression module inside QuickTime, but it
looks like Apple is not playing its innovative
role anymore in this area.
Heck, these days people might have totally forgotten about gopher **grin**. Systems come, systems go, and http is here to stay. Napster isn't...
As for SCSI comparison, my Adaptec 2920 does only 10 Mb/s; need I try? ;)