I know of one company called Mannheim Steamroller that swears by these two formats and has been shipping 'em to customers for years. Oh yeah, the fact that they're SACD's and DVD-A's are one of their selling points...
The company's main customer base is primarily audiophiles... it's new agey music, so it's really not my thing, but the sound quality on their products is amazing - I'll give 'em that.
You've never actually looked at the standards, have you? Oh, I'll agree, that the extra DRM stuff thrown in isn't good, but the specs on the formats speak for themselves... It isn't so much expanded quality on a single audio channel as it is bring current sound quality levels to ALL channels on a multi-channel system... (I believe, I'm going off memory here...)
Audiophiles just love the stuff because it gives them multichannel full quality sound on almost all seperate channels. CD's just don't have anywhere near the capacity to do this just based on the amount of data being pushed...
Anyway, I don't understand how these two formats are so freaking "new", I've done some work for a company called Mannheim Steamroller that has been producing and selling these commercially for (I think) around a year or so now...
It's amazing how low the information content is in this - especially considering how much some people are getting whipped up and making sweeping generalizations.
How many qbits? What kind of bandwidth? All optical point to point or switched? Transmission distance? What materials are being used for transport?
I'd love to know how many qbits they're playing with here to at least have a minor clue as to where the SOTA is...
The only way to "fix" the current generation of machines is to throw out the design completely Bolding mine...
Ug, I missed the part about the current generation of machines. Sorry 'bout that, I do completely agree with you. Current stuff isn't built that way and can't be modified to that standard (easily or cost effectively anyway).
Imho, you'd pretty much have to start from scratch to come up with anything reasonable, completely open, and fair. Anyway...
Ug, why throw out what can work? Just use a publically available source model so that all the bright boys and girl in the world can make sure it's secure and go from there. Shouldn't we be able to see that our voting and the mechanisms that process it are correct, after all?
Now what we really need is for all laws on the books to be reviewed ever 1-10 years to get rid of the overly general and selectively enforced bullshit on the books (or more for really really general stuff).
Granted, you can never be sure when some assmunch plows into *you*, but in 20 years of driving (4 years of driving 8+ hours a day professionally) I've never had a problem when I "just couldn't help but hit someone". I mean, get a grip... If it was a choice between hitting someone and ditching it, I'd take the ditch/median every time. It's just common sense, and deeply ingrained for anyone that hasn't grown up in cities that only sport highways.
How often am I the "only one on the road"? You've obviously never lived in a rural area. Since I work nights, the answer is about %90 of the time.
How can you be sure that "another car isn't coming at you from just around the bend?"
Ever hear of headlights? They're the bright shiny things at night that light up the road a good distance in front of you?
I regularly travel @90 mph on the hick backroads I travel when I'm in a hurry at night. Never had a ticket, and prob never will. It's easy to tell when anyone else is around - cause there's light. Imagine that.
And during the day, I keep my eyes open. Trust me, it helps.
What if interlocking companies all share your info and track you down to an individual user? (not like they'd need to, they've only agreed not to share your info.)
Sure you get what you want to watch more, but do you really want to get put on lists because of what you happen to channel surf to and leave in the background when you're off doing something else?
Yeah, this sounds paranoid as hell, but since we can merge databases based on just about anything from any source based on some idiot DBA thinks works - and and how selectively enforced our laws are...
Do you want to bet your sanity and livelyhood on what you'd just happened to get redirected to one too many times?
I work for one of the biggest (if not the biggest) privately owned company in the US of A, and we collect *incredibly way* more information than we ever give out. It's all just marketing fodder, trust me.
I always forget how big we are since we're HQ'd in such a rural environment, but we've got terrabytes on all of our customers. Buying habits, *any* poll we've ever put out, anything anyone buys that we know about, anything from *any* business unit and cross correlated, and all tamped down to individual people.
It's funny! I tracked down a "long lost Aunt" of mine that I haven't seen and have wanted to chit-chat with for 15 years or so with our company records.
(Sad part is, within the company, anyone could do this, and we have 50 million customers or so with at least 15k employees)
When she asked me how I got her number (wasn't upset, just curious) I let her know that she buys frozen pizzas that we sell from her local grocer with a credit card that we (apparently) track.
It's almost sad how technology has totally boned our personal privacy without %95 of us knowing it. I've got a credit card and debit card, but if you expect *any* privacy these days with anything, use cash - if possible.
The day I dread most is when cash is no longer accepted. We'll be able to be tracked almost down to the day/hour just off our electronic signatures of whatever sort. *sighs*
This is the kind of crap I hate. So what who watches what?
But someone might frequent watching things with lots of explosions and bomb making instructions!!!
Good god, maybe they're just sheeple that just like big bangs...
I just hate being tracked for everyfuckingthingunderthesun just in case I happen to have an opinion against the norm, in which case I'll be subject to overly general laws that are selectively enforced.
Blah, if we didn't make nudity taboo, there wouldn't be issues regarding it. What's the big deal anyway... Anyone that really wants to can see untold numbers of basically anything they want to. (except for my person, which would just break camera lenses.:P)
It may (and probably does) depend on state and any recent rulings, but I've been involved in private law enforcement. (think rent-a-cop, but the kind that actually have legal, social, and firearm training - and carry.)
The only answer is to check your local regs, because many companies I've worked for have trained their security officers on the finer points - mostly centered around trespass law and what class of laws you can and cannot use reasonable force to detain someone for breaking.
Also, another point, there is a major difference in the eyes of the law when you look at a situation involving a private individual, and someone employed and sanctioned by an organization to enforce/protect/whatever it is that you're doing.
Anyway, hope I haven't been too incoherent here, in a hurry to correct this, because I'm on break and it all comes down to your local jurisdiction. If you're really interested, get some security training in your local area, or retain an expensive lawyer. Mistakes in this area cost megabucks.
Yeah, but with legal situations being so complex these days, anyone who wants to could almost certainly nail someone else on some charge.
That tends to piss me off and start ranting about selectively enforced laws and the number of laws on the books that can be enforced that way though...
The radioisotope thermal generators (RTGs) that many of our current probes use are far more dangerous. They carry a considerable amount of a highly radioactive isotope of plutonium that has a half life of a few decades. The decay (not fission) of this isotope generates the heat to generate electricity with a thermocouple.
UG! I didn't even realize that something this inefficient and crude would be worthwhile enough to be considered for space applications...
Just make clearer to me how primitive our efforts have been so far when it comes to space. (NOT like I've got better ideas, but c'mon...)
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I know of one company called Mannheim Steamroller that swears by these two formats and has been shipping 'em to customers for years. Oh yeah, the fact that they're SACD's and DVD-A's are one of their selling points...
The company's main customer base is primarily audiophiles... it's new agey music, so it's really not my thing, but the sound quality on their products is amazing - I'll give 'em that.
You've never actually looked at the standards, have you? Oh, I'll agree, that the extra DRM stuff thrown in isn't good, but the specs on the formats speak for themselves... It isn't so much expanded quality on a single audio channel as it is bring current sound quality levels to ALL channels on a multi-channel system... (I believe, I'm going off memory here...)
Audiophiles just love the stuff because it gives them multichannel full quality sound on almost all seperate channels. CD's just don't have anywhere near the capacity to do this just based on the amount of data being pushed...
Anyway, I don't understand how these two formats are so freaking "new", I've done some work for a company called Mannheim Steamroller that has been producing and selling these commercially for (I think) around a year or so now...
It's amazing how low the information content is in this - especially considering how much some people are getting whipped up and making sweeping generalizations.
How many qbits? What kind of bandwidth? All optical point to point or switched? Transmission distance? What materials are being used for transport?
I'd love to know how many qbits they're playing with here to at least have a minor clue as to where the SOTA is...
Anyone who needs antivirus software to protect or even diagnose their machine, is doomed before they start. (emphasis mine)
Is that like they theory that if you drink too much and don't remember, you can insist that the previous night's events never happened?
I've had nights like those...
Very sloppy...um...Sloppy.
The only way to "fix" the current generation of machines is to throw out the design completely Bolding mine...
Ug, I missed the part about the current generation of machines. Sorry 'bout that, I do completely agree with you. Current stuff isn't built that way and can't be modified to that standard (easily or cost effectively anyway).
Imho, you'd pretty much have to start from scratch to come up with anything reasonable, completely open, and fair. Anyway...
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Ug, why throw out what can work? Just use a publically available source model so that all the bright boys and girl in the world can make sure it's secure and go from there. Shouldn't we be able to see that our voting and the mechanisms that process it are correct, after all?
Wow, sane laws, I'm impressed!
Now what we really need is for all laws on the books to be reviewed ever 1-10 years to get rid of the overly general and selectively enforced bullshit on the books (or more for really really general stuff).
Bah, mandatory insurance IS a scam.
Granted, you can never be sure when some assmunch plows into *you*, but in 20 years of driving (4 years of driving 8+ hours a day professionally) I've never had a problem when I "just couldn't help but hit someone". I mean, get a grip... If it was a choice between hitting someone and ditching it, I'd take the ditch/median every time. It's just common sense, and deeply ingrained for anyone that hasn't grown up in cities that only sport highways.
How often am I the "only one on the road"? You've obviously never lived in a rural area. Since I work nights, the answer is about %90 of the time.
How can you be sure that "another car isn't coming at you from just around the bend?"
Ever hear of headlights? They're the bright shiny things at night that light up the road a good distance in front of you?
I regularly travel @90 mph on the hick backroads I travel when I'm in a hurry at night. Never had a ticket, and prob never will. It's easy to tell when anyone else is around - cause there's light. Imagine that.
And during the day, I keep my eyes open. Trust me, it helps.
In other news, new research has shown that research causes cancer in rats. More at 11...
I *wish* it was derivative, it might make it more reliable...
Are you an idiot, or have you just not read the news in 10 years? Or not looked at tech specifications in that time? Get a grip...
What if interlocking companies all share your info and track you down to an individual user? (not like they'd need to, they've only agreed not to share your info.)
Sure you get what you want to watch more, but do you really want to get put on lists because of what you happen to channel surf to and leave in the background when you're off doing something else?
Yeah, this sounds paranoid as hell, but since we can merge databases based on just about anything from any source based on some idiot DBA thinks works - and and how selectively enforced our laws are...
Do you want to bet your sanity and livelyhood on what you'd just happened to get redirected to one too many times?
Christ, people are idiots.
I work for one of the biggest (if not the biggest) privately owned company in the US of A, and we collect *incredibly way* more information than we ever give out. It's all just marketing fodder, trust me.
I always forget how big we are since we're HQ'd in such a rural environment, but we've got terrabytes on all of our customers. Buying habits, *any* poll we've ever put out, anything anyone buys that we know about, anything from *any* business unit and cross correlated, and all tamped down to individual people.
It's funny! I tracked down a "long lost Aunt" of mine that I haven't seen and have wanted to chit-chat with for 15 years or so with our company records.
(Sad part is, within the company, anyone could do this, and we have 50 million customers or so with at least 15k employees)
When she asked me how I got her number (wasn't upset, just curious) I let her know that she buys frozen pizzas that we sell from her local grocer with a credit card that we (apparently) track.
It's almost sad how technology has totally boned our personal privacy without %95 of us knowing it. I've got a credit card and debit card, but if you expect *any* privacy these days with anything, use cash - if possible.
The day I dread most is when cash is no longer accepted. We'll be able to be tracked almost down to the day/hour just off our electronic signatures of whatever sort. *sighs*
This is the kind of crap I hate. So what who watches what?
But someone might frequent watching things with lots of explosions and bomb making instructions!!!
Good god, maybe they're just sheeple that just like big bangs...
I just hate being tracked for everyfuckingthingunderthesun just in case I happen to have an opinion against the norm, in which case I'll be subject to overly general laws that are selectively enforced.
This gets old really quick.
Blah, if we didn't make nudity taboo, there wouldn't be issues regarding it. What's the big deal anyway... Anyone that really wants to can see untold numbers of basically anything they want to. (except for my person, which would just break camera lenses. :P)
So what's the big deal?
God man, you are such a troll...
Do you get paid off of subscriber info only? Is that your beef? God knows your pron site sucks since the administrator is a dumb ass...
Do you just get off on opposing a viewpoint vs anyone wanting their privacy or what?
Heh, I have a military friend at work that thinks exactly like the grandparent poster.
"The NSA can crack anything/everything and have already done it. Oh, no, I don't know how exactly, but..."
He just refuses to believe that the gov't of the USA can't do anything if it wants to, even change the way math works.
It's amusing and scary at the same time...
Bullshit. :) You're either a really shitty judge or just yet another /. poseur who doesn't have a clue.
Ta!
Wrong.
It may (and probably does) depend on state and any recent rulings, but I've been involved in private law enforcement. (think rent-a-cop, but the kind that actually have legal, social, and firearm training - and carry.)
The only answer is to check your local regs, because many companies I've worked for have trained their security officers on the finer points - mostly centered around trespass law and what class of laws you can and cannot use reasonable force to detain someone for breaking.
Also, another point, there is a major difference in the eyes of the law when you look at a situation involving a private individual, and someone employed and sanctioned by an organization to enforce/protect/whatever it is that you're doing.
Anyway, hope I haven't been too incoherent here, in a hurry to correct this, because I'm on break and it all comes down to your local jurisdiction. If you're really interested, get some security training in your local area, or retain an expensive lawyer. Mistakes in this area cost megabucks.
Simple, he doesn't include the controller software. He says so in at least a few different places...
Yeah, but with legal situations being so complex these days, anyone who wants to could almost certainly nail someone else on some charge.
That tends to piss me off and start ranting about selectively enforced laws and the number of laws on the books that can be enforced that way though...
The radioisotope thermal generators (RTGs) that many of our current probes use are far more dangerous. They carry a considerable amount of a highly radioactive isotope of plutonium that has a half life of a few decades. The decay (not fission) of this isotope generates the heat to generate electricity with a thermocouple.
UG! I didn't even realize that something this inefficient and crude would be worthwhile enough to be considered for space applications...
Just make clearer to me how primitive our efforts have been so far when it comes to space. (NOT like I've got better ideas, but c'mon...)
And yes, I DO read way too much sci-fi...
Needless to say, things have gotten a LOT better since then - at least from what I've seen.
The company I work for has several very valid uses for this type of tech by it's staff...
Smug yeah, but how was that sexist? Because the poster used a feminine instead of a gender neutral term when the auther of the article was female?
It's seriously amazing to me how many people get seriously bent (or at least a little sprained) over nothings like this...