I'm serious. I do real work in MATLAB. I work in the automotive industry. We use a lot of MATLAB. I have never, ever seen Mathematica used. MATLAB is part of our electrical engineers standard software install, along with PSpice (circuit simulation) and Mentor (schematic capture). We don't even own Mathematica licenses.
So, you can call it trolling, but I was just being accurate.
Seriously, on a 4 hour car ride I go through most of the (16, at last check) GBs of songs on my iPod, because I hit skip, a lot. I don't like Smart Playlists because I really do want randomness, and because I don't generally decide if I want to listen to a song until I hear the first couple notes.
As to bulk - I have to wear dress shirts at work. They have shirt pockets. All of my jackets, from winter weight to summer weight, have pockets. I've never really found it to be an issue.
It is possible that it could be made *illegal* to build a decoder, but it is possible to build a decoder from publicly available information without any reverse engineering work. That's how I define an open standard. Its different from open source, true. But remember that a lot of open standards require licensing fees to be used - they're open because they're publicly available, not because some OSS hippy said they are. See: MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1 (I believe), and anything GPL licensed.
Yes, the GPL has a licensing fee. My time and effort is worth money, and in order to use GPL software as a basis for a product, I am required to pay for it with my time and effort. Its a licensing fee; a very benign one, but a licensing fee.
They get 20-30 seconds for traffic. We have 16-20 (depending on how you count them) major freeways in the Chicago metro area that most Chicago stations cover. They pick and choose - I'm lucky if I get my Edens report before I have to decide whether to take the highway or not.
I would HAPPILY pay $2.99 a month for this, if it was offered on my carrier.
Nonetheless, there are applications where (gold/silver/copper/rareearthelement) would be just great... if they weren't so freaking expensive. So, while the ROI might not be as good as these people think, there would definitely be a market for umpteenhundred tons of platinum on earth.
Mathematica is worthless, but where I work, probably 85% of our control algorithms are developed in MATLAB and then proved on a real-time system (usually a custom DSP board) in C.
Did I mention Mathematica is worthless? Did I mention MATLAB makes me smile?
You said "Winamp is going back to being a paid-for product" which implies that the free version of Winamp is being discontinued, when a more accurate way of saying it would have been "Winamp is once again adding a paid premium version to its product line".
Audiophile is a dirty word. Shame on you for using it.
I have studied, and occasionally use in the real world, acoustic engineering. That's why I'm skeptical of anyone claiming their 3" diameter speaker tucked away in the middle of a laptop case is a "subwoofer".
Subwoofer has a pretty well defined meaning - specifically, a speaker designed to emit frequencies from 20 to 80 Hz. A speaker that can fit into a laptop case is physically incapable of emitting a signficant quantity of sound at those frequencies due to restrictions on cone displacement. In addition, a laptop case is not designed with the idea of being a good acoustic baffle, which hurts low-frequency efficiency even further.
I'm just pointing out that it isn't a subwoofer - it may help, but it isn't putting out much sound anyway, and it certainly isn't putting out usable amounts at typical subwoofer frequencies.
I'm not being an elitist prick. I don't run Linux. I don't even want to. I run a Windows machine and an OS X machine.
Most people I know live in multi-computer households. By default, they have a firewall/router. The few who don't have multi-computer households often have a router anyway because they wanted wireless. From my experience, MOST PEOPLE HAVE FW/ROUTERS.
That's why I said he's an idiot for getting infected. When I was working tech support, we knew better than to connect our unpatched Windows machines to the network, because our network was on public IP space. Yes, this sucks, but that doesn't change the fact that home users (after being bombarded with "Firewalls make your computer safe!" by ZoneAlarm and BlackICE and all of them) should be bright enough to firewall their machine before connecting it to a network.
A subwoofer that fits into a laptop ain't much of a subwoofer.
I hate to say it, but... you've been had, my friend. (note: H-K speakers aren't a bad thing, in fact quite a decent thing, but if you bought it based on the claim of "We've got a subwoofer" then, well...)
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Is 50 per semester expensive for the service they get? No. But it is something the students must pay for, just as they pay for cable TV in the dorms.
An Aussie dollar is currently worth ~0.74 USD.
Be worth less, but the USD has been falling and all that.
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I'm serious. I do real work in MATLAB. I work in the automotive industry. We use a lot of MATLAB. I have never, ever seen Mathematica used. MATLAB is part of our electrical engineers standard software install, along with PSpice (circuit simulation) and Mentor (schematic capture). We don't even own Mathematica licenses.
So, you can call it trolling, but I was just being accurate.
Seriously, on a 4 hour car ride I go through most of the (16, at last check) GBs of songs on my iPod, because I hit skip, a lot. I don't like Smart Playlists because I really do want randomness, and because I don't generally decide if I want to listen to a song until I hear the first couple notes.
As to bulk - I have to wear dress shirts at work. They have shirt pockets. All of my jackets, from winter weight to summer weight, have pockets. I've never really found it to be an issue.
The standard is open.
It is possible that it could be made *illegal* to build a decoder, but it is possible to build a decoder from publicly available information without any reverse engineering work. That's how I define an open standard. Its different from open source, true. But remember that a lot of open standards require licensing fees to be used - they're open because they're publicly available, not because some OSS hippy said they are. See: MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1 (I believe), and anything GPL licensed.
Yes, the GPL has a licensing fee. My time and effort is worth money, and in order to use GPL software as a basis for a product, I am required to pay for it with my time and effort. Its a licensing fee; a very benign one, but a licensing fee.
I carry my 30 gig everywhere. Why?
One word: shuffle.
Uhm...
I'm pretty sure my iPod supports MP3s. You know. The most common open format.
Hey, I use it as a portable HDD for my PCs all the time.
That functionality is cross-platform, not just for the Mac.
Their fault for ripping their collection to a format they knew damn well was not going to be well-supported in portable players.
(Yes, yes, I know... iRiver and Karma and... WHO CARES... I said *well* supported.)
Hmm, didn't know 1610 carried traffic info for the highways.
That's gonna be useful when I move and have to fight with 53/Kennedy traffic every day.
Its obvious you don't live in Chicago.
They get 20-30 seconds for traffic. We have 16-20 (depending on how you count them) major freeways in the Chicago metro area that most Chicago stations cover. They pick and choose - I'm lucky if I get my Edens report before I have to decide whether to take the highway or not.
I would HAPPILY pay $2.99 a month for this, if it was offered on my carrier.
You are correct. I assumed the parent poster knew something about what he was talking about; always dangerous when reading /.
I thought they aired it in Europe, but I may well be wrong.
Nonetheless, there are applications where (gold/silver/copper/rareearthelement) would be just great... if they weren't so freaking expensive. So, while the ROI might not be as good as these people think, there would definitely be a market for umpteenhundred tons of platinum on earth.
And not just as jewelry.
I'd contend that space exploration drove significantly faster development in computers and electronics, yeah.
ME, no, but it also drove significant research work in materials engineering.
How about fuel cells? Apollo was an early application of those.
Before you mock (teflon, velcro *are* useful) do some reading and make sure mocking is appropriate.
Turbo codes. The chirp-Z transform.
I'd have to check, but I think LDPC was post-Quicksort.
Uhm, pretty much all of post-modern control methods? Things like fuzzy control, sliding mode control, etc, etc...
Interestingly enough, some quick research turned up the fact that Gauss wrote down the C-T FFT back in 1805. Who knew?
Mathematica is worthless, but where I work, probably 85% of our control algorithms are developed in MATLAB and then proved on a real-time system (usually a custom DSP board) in C.
Did I mention Mathematica is worthless? Did I mention MATLAB makes me smile?
You mislead, though.
You said "Winamp is going back to being a paid-for product" which implies that the free version of Winamp is being discontinued, when a more accurate way of saying it would have been "Winamp is once again adding a paid premium version to its product line".
Audiophile is a dirty word. Shame on you for using it.
I have studied, and occasionally use in the real world, acoustic engineering. That's why I'm skeptical of anyone claiming their 3" diameter speaker tucked away in the middle of a laptop case is a "subwoofer".
I haven't exactly heard a lot of iPod owners demanding Vorbis support.
Subwoofer has a pretty well defined meaning - specifically, a speaker designed to emit frequencies from 20 to 80 Hz. A speaker that can fit into a laptop case is physically incapable of emitting a signficant quantity of sound at those frequencies due to restrictions on cone displacement. In addition, a laptop case is not designed with the idea of being a good acoustic baffle, which hurts low-frequency efficiency even further.
I'm just pointing out that it isn't a subwoofer - it may help, but it isn't putting out much sound anyway, and it certainly isn't putting out usable amounts at typical subwoofer frequencies.
I'm not being an elitist prick. I don't run Linux. I don't even want to. I run a Windows machine and an OS X machine.
Most people I know live in multi-computer households. By default, they have a firewall/router. The few who don't have multi-computer households often have a router anyway because they wanted wireless. From my experience, MOST PEOPLE HAVE FW/ROUTERS.
That's why I said he's an idiot for getting infected. When I was working tech support, we knew better than to connect our unpatched Windows machines to the network, because our network was on public IP space. Yes, this sucks, but that doesn't change the fact that home users (after being bombarded with "Firewalls make your computer safe!" by ZoneAlarm and BlackICE and all of them) should be bright enough to firewall their machine before connecting it to a network.
Right, because nobody could possibly want to spend 4 days in NYC. That would suck.
Wait. Wait.
No, it wouldn't.
He gets 4 days in NYC... AND a cheap laptop. Sign me up!
A subwoofer that fits into a laptop ain't much of a subwoofer.
I hate to say it, but... you've been had, my friend. (note: H-K speakers aren't a bad thing, in fact quite a decent thing, but if you bought it based on the claim of "We've got a subwoofer" then, well...)