Comparing "distortion" that is digital artifacts from lossy compression to a distortion pedal is like comparing a bad xerox of a photo to an original Picasso. You're equating "best approximation of something given a limited set of parameters" (i.e., represent this 1.4 mbps/sec song in 128 kbps/sec) with something that is used specifically for artistic expression.
I would say that tapping millions of calls simultaneously is going too far to protect from terrorism, and should be rejected.
A wire tap is a tool used to pin down one guy, or see who picks up on a specific phone, to stop crime. Monitoring a million calls at once is not wiretapping, it's surveillance, and should be, would be, and is prohibited by the 4th amendment. Bush's new laws essentially nullify the 4th and Bush's actions go beyond the bill he himself requested!
Does anyone care about Napster anymore? I mean seriously, for a tech-minded reader of Slashdot like you and me, news about new Napster filters is like news about buggy whip trade restrictions.
Well, I posted this 2 days ago actually, so the person credited for posting it must have beaten me...but there was a backlog of like 250 stories for the slashdot people to go through, so get over it!
I was just relaying hearsay, which I denoted as such ("I've been told..."). Sorry it was wrong. And just because there are only English in Miami doesn't mean the majority of the signs aren't in Spanish. But I'm not confirming that they are, I've never been there.
When you quoted me, you forgot the important part:
"~s~"
Which denotes sarcasm. Methinks you should learn standard symbols used in chats/bb's before getting offended and replying to a bb.
Or in short, RTFM!
And I love the fact that because of one commment, that makes you assume I'm a racist and want me to die. Now replace the word "racist" with "homosexual" in my last sentence, and see how the tables have turned...it is YOU who are the intolerant one, you are racist against racists! You certainly stereotype as much as your run of the mill racist. But this is inconsequential anyway, because I was being sarcastic. Again, read carefully before you post. You might find things to be not as they first seemed!
I find this article HILARIOUS, though I admit I didn't follow the link and read the whole thing. You've got my family 1 to 3 generations above me bitching (all born, raised, and dying in Chicago) bitching because the Mexican immigrants are the first and only minority who refuse to learn the English language, so as a result they have Spanish phonebooks and stuff in certain areas. I've also heard reports from friends that have visited Miami that it's (understandably, but still) 99% Spanish signs and stuff. Now usually I'm not some sort of USA/English homer, but come on, LEARN THE FUCKING LANGUAGE (LTFL, my new acronym:) ). When in Rome, do as the Romans do, unless you outnumber the Romans. I wouldn't go to Spain and expect the people to speak my language, rather I'd take a crash course in Spanish about a month beforehand so I could at least get by. If you dirty Spaniards ~s~ don't like the proliferation of English on the internet, even when there are many websites in just Spanish AND many in both languages (not to mention the number of IRC channels), turn off your computer and go turn on your transeestor radio and pout.
Why is this post flamebait? I'll admit I side with the libretarians quite a bit myself, but the poster brought up some valid points. Nader and Biafra are leftists nearly to the point of socialism, and some people need this pointed out to them.
No kidding! You can check out my full specs at my webpage if you are that bored, but I have a 400 PII w/ 128mb of ram and a voodoo banshee for chrissakes. However, I don't really play games, so I guess I wouldn't notice it as much!
I posted about having a clip from the Weezer show I taped in another thread, it's the C>A>R>S page off my website...I think it turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the consumer level stuff has some sort of digital copy protection, though on second thought that confuses me because you can make direct digital transfers to mp3 with an adapter? Anywho I have a pro recorder, therefore I don't have to worry about such copy protection schemes:)
Plus, one thing you didn't mention is that the SACD should appease the Hi-Fi market much better than DVD-A...DVD-A is going to use a 96khz, 24-bit audio format, which is MUCH nicer than CD's, but the sampling rate of the SACD is in the mhz...that's going to sound amazing, and I'll go as far to say that it's without a doubt better than the highest quality analog (unlike CD's).
Well, I am one of the few, the proud, the USA minidisc users. They are quite popular in the tape trading communities, because they allow your average joe to have a digital recorder at half the cost of a comparable DAT Walkman. I myself own a Sharp model, and you can hear a full mp3 of the song "Tired of Sex" from the Weezer show that I taped in Chicago at the C>A>R>S page off my website. I love it for its portability, I mean the way I got it into the concert was wearing a baseball jockey without the plastic cup...I fit the recorder, my binaural mics, the battery box, and 2 minidiscs in that pouch! I wish minidisc would take it's intended role as the replacement for the cassette, but it needs to have more market presence and blank media needs to drop in cost. Oh well.
I really agree with many of the comments in this post, but you're neglecting to see their side of it...they KNOW that the average consumer is NOT a savvy one, and so they can pull this bullshit and 99 times out of 100 get away with it. Here is that one time, and they're more than happy to refund that $1.40 on a DVD or whatever because that is BULLSHIT MONEY. This isn't a $50 million lawsuit here, this is a dollar here and two there. I'll bet this "refund" doesn't amount to more than a 6 digit number, and they'll easily get that back the next 99 times they rape you.
You next ask why they don't ask you, Joe Consumer (or me, Bob Consumer) what you want, is because frankly they don't care. The American business is used to telling you the way you want things, because it's not hardly a matter of whose product is better anymore, products are pretty similar nowadays, its who can make my shopping experience for the product the easiest and most pleasant? And they don't even have to DO that, they just have to CONVINCE you that theirs is! The end result (yes there is a point), is all these tailored emails and advertisements and other "personal" bollocks. If you haven't noticed, you don't have a lot of choice whether or not to participate in these things, if you want to buy your product from a certain place.
The bottom line is, you're a Slashdot poster/reader, you have at least half a brain, probably more. Most people don't have this privelege.
They list it on the front page, but upon searching deeper, you can only choose up to 1ghz in any configuration, at least from the ones that I found. Maybe you can provide an exact link to a configuration you made with a 1.13ghz processor in it?
I was just over in Germany for a few weeks and was astounded by the proliferation of ISDN. My host family has a 3 number, 2 line ISDN service and it is actually cheaper than having 2 analog phone lines! Also, I wish USA cellular companies would impliment the SMS (short message service), where people can type a message on their cellphone to someone else's cellphone. Stupid country. Chris M. Hickman
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You were a little late with the glasses there, David ;)
...read this as "Anus slaps Linux in the face"?
Comparing "distortion" that is digital artifacts from lossy compression to a distortion pedal is like comparing a bad xerox of a photo to an original Picasso. You're equating "best approximation of something given a limited set of parameters" (i.e., represent this 1.4 mbps/sec song in 128 kbps/sec) with something that is used specifically for artistic expression.
I would say that tapping millions of calls simultaneously is going too far to protect from terrorism, and should be rejected.
A wire tap is a tool used to pin down one guy, or see who picks up on a specific phone, to stop crime. Monitoring a million calls at once is not wiretapping, it's surveillance, and should be, would be, and is prohibited by the 4th amendment. Bush's new laws essentially nullify the 4th and Bush's actions go beyond the bill he himself requested!
You mean home of the college of Ronald Reagan? I lived in nearby Washington for quite some time....
Does anyone care about Napster anymore? I mean seriously, for a tech-minded reader of Slashdot like you and me, news about new Napster filters is like news about buggy whip trade restrictions.
That's such crap though. MSN's messenger is the worst program ever put to code!
Well, I posted this 2 days ago actually, so the person credited for posting it must have beaten me...but there was a backlog of like 250 stories for the slashdot people to go through, so get over it!
I was just relaying hearsay, which I denoted as such ("I've been told..."). Sorry it was wrong. And just because there are only English in Miami doesn't mean the majority of the signs aren't in Spanish. But I'm not confirming that they are, I've never been there.
When you quoted me, you forgot the important part:
"~s~"
Which denotes sarcasm. Methinks you should learn standard symbols used in chats/bb's before getting offended and replying to a bb.
Or in short, RTFM!
And I love the fact that because of one commment, that makes you assume I'm a racist and want me to die. Now replace the word "racist" with "homosexual" in my last sentence, and see how the tables have turned...it is YOU who are the intolerant one, you are racist against racists! You certainly stereotype as much as your run of the mill racist. But this is inconsequential anyway, because I was being sarcastic. Again, read carefully before you post. You might find things to be not as they first seemed!
I find this article HILARIOUS, though I admit I didn't follow the link and read the whole thing. You've got my family 1 to 3 generations above me bitching (all born, raised, and dying in Chicago) bitching because the Mexican immigrants are the first and only minority who refuse to learn the English language, so as a result they have Spanish phonebooks and stuff in certain areas. I've also heard reports from friends that have visited Miami that it's (understandably, but still) 99% Spanish signs and stuff. Now usually I'm not some sort of USA/English homer, but come on, LEARN THE FUCKING LANGUAGE (LTFL, my new acronym :) ). When in Rome, do as the Romans do, unless you outnumber the Romans. I wouldn't go to Spain and expect the people to speak my language, rather I'd take a crash course in Spanish about a month beforehand so I could at least get by. If you dirty Spaniards ~s~ don't like the proliferation of English on the internet, even when there are many websites in just Spanish AND many in both languages (not to mention the number of IRC channels), turn off your computer and go turn on your transeestor radio and pout.
What system does he have C: SotN listed for? It did indeed come out for Playstion a while back. The FF9 IS very suspicious though.
Why is this post flamebait? I'll admit I side with the libretarians quite a bit myself, but the poster brought up some valid points. Nader and Biafra are leftists nearly to the point of socialism, and some people need this pointed out to them.
Everyone knows the REAL pumpkins-being-shot-out-of-an-apparatus event is in Morton, IL!
No kidding! You can check out my full specs at my webpage if you are that bored, but I have a 400 PII w/ 128mb of ram and a voodoo banshee for chrissakes. However, I don't really play games, so I guess I wouldn't notice it as much!
I posted about having a clip from the Weezer show I taped in another thread, it's the C>A>R>S page off my website...I think it turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the consumer level stuff has some sort of digital copy protection, though on second thought that confuses me because you can make direct digital transfers to mp3 with an adapter? Anywho I have a pro recorder, therefore I don't have to worry about such copy protection schemes :)
Plus, one thing you didn't mention is that the SACD should appease the Hi-Fi market much better than DVD-A...DVD-A is going to use a 96khz, 24-bit audio format, which is MUCH nicer than CD's, but the sampling rate of the SACD is in the mhz...that's going to sound amazing, and I'll go as far to say that it's without a doubt better than the highest quality analog (unlike CD's).
Well, I am one of the few, the proud, the USA minidisc users. They are quite popular in the tape trading communities, because they allow your average joe to have a digital recorder at half the cost of a comparable DAT Walkman. I myself own a Sharp model, and you can hear a full mp3 of the song "Tired of Sex" from the Weezer show that I taped in Chicago at the C>A>R>S page off my website. I love it for its portability, I mean the way I got it into the concert was wearing a baseball jockey without the plastic cup...I fit the recorder, my binaural mics, the battery box, and 2 minidiscs in that pouch! I wish minidisc would take it's intended role as the replacement for the cassette, but it needs to have more market presence and blank media needs to drop in cost. Oh well.
I really agree with many of the comments in this post, but you're neglecting to see their side of it...they KNOW that the average consumer is NOT a savvy one, and so they can pull this bullshit and 99 times out of 100 get away with it. Here is that one time, and they're more than happy to refund that $1.40 on a DVD or whatever because that is BULLSHIT MONEY. This isn't a $50 million lawsuit here, this is a dollar here and two there. I'll bet this "refund" doesn't amount to more than a 6 digit number, and they'll easily get that back the next 99 times they rape you.
You next ask why they don't ask you, Joe Consumer (or me, Bob Consumer) what you want, is because frankly they don't care. The American business is used to telling you the way you want things, because it's not hardly a matter of whose product is better anymore, products are pretty similar nowadays, its who can make my shopping experience for the product the easiest and most pleasant? And they don't even have to DO that, they just have to CONVINCE you that theirs is! The end result (yes there is a point), is all these tailored emails and advertisements and other "personal" bollocks. If you haven't noticed, you don't have a lot of choice whether or not to participate in these things, if you want to buy your product from a certain place.
The bottom line is, you're a Slashdot poster/reader, you have at least half a brain, probably more. Most people don't have this privelege.
They list it on the front page, but upon searching deeper, you can only choose up to 1ghz in any configuration, at least from the ones that I found. Maybe you can provide an exact link to a configuration you made with a 1.13ghz processor in it?
-Chris
I was just over in Germany for a few weeks and was astounded by the proliferation of ISDN. My host family has a 3 number, 2 line ISDN service and it is actually cheaper than having 2 analog phone lines! Also, I wish USA cellular companies would impliment the SMS (short message service), where people can type a message on their cellphone to someone else's cellphone. Stupid country. Chris M. Hickman