So you mean a computer at home is not the same as home audio... and you assume tht everyone hookes their compute rup to one of those subwoofer/2 tiny speakers deal?
Yup. Because many audiophlies have average hearing. If anything, they may be a bit more practiced.
THe mind is a powerful thing. It's hard to listen to two pieces of equipment and compare fairly if you know that one is supposed to be better. The mind plays tricks.
And regarding cabling...
Those audiophiles who blow amazing amounts of cash on their setups often have far better equpimetn than the sound engineer who produced the album in the first place. Now, given that, what is it exactly that they are trying to reproduce exactly? The mastering engineer's equipment? You can't, you don't know what it was. The original performance? YOu can't, the mastering engineer has already tweaked the recording repeatedly to get it so it sounds the way HE wants it to sound on average equipment.
Wow. What exactly is a real gamer? someone with no job who plays games all day?
The point is that you can get reasonably good game performance in a laptop now. Sure, for the same money you can get a faster desktop.. but that doesn't mean the laptop is not adequate.
The point is that only a year ago laptops were basically *useless for gaming*. Crappy 3d support.
Now you can get a very decent Nvidia chipset in a laptop, and enough memory and horsepower to actually play *all* the latest games at acceptable fun speeds.
And what's with the heat comment? Any laptop you buy dissipates the heat it generates. They are DESIGNED to work with the components they contain.
Did you mean that "They don't put a faster video card in" because it can't dissipate the heat? That's not true. They could easily engineer it to use a faster card. This would jack up the price even more, and there is no demand.. so they don't. Marketing baby.
Uhh. real gamers being stuck with the base configuration? No overclocking? Get real.
Overclocking a celeron 300A to 450Mhz was useful.
Overlocking a 1.6Ghz P4 to 1.8Ghz is so marginal it's not even funny.
Oh. And if you look at cost.. lots of 'overclocking' projects end up costing more than just BUYING THE FASTER CHIP IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Why do you need a new video card? How often do you, as a 'real gamer' buy a new video card? I bet it's about as often as I buy a new laptop. Hmm. See the connection?
I guess you are referring to the clean-room type reverse engineering you use int he professoional world?
For those that don't know, this involoves. 1) one team of people reverse engineers the software down to a specification on paper. 2) This team gives this to a lawyer or something 3) A totally different team with no connection to the first team is given the spec and implements it. This is totally, completely legal. Nobody is copying anything.
The reason it's done this way is so there can be no doubt as to whether anything was 'copied'. If the same engineer worked on both sides of the project, it is possible to cast doubt as to whether he maybe 'cut some corners' or what not.
That doesn't mean it's illegal for one person to do it.
Or if it simply has nothing to do with a copy control mechanism. Remember, reverse engineering is not illegal. The DMCA deals with copy control mechanisms, DRM type stuff. Region coding & CSS, etc. Not software in general.
Reverse engineering softward and hardware is expressley allowed for any reason.
As for trade secret, you could be in shit for releasing trade secret information. If it's trade secret. A proprietary file format is NOT trade secret information, neither is a proprietary protocol.
Trade secret information is information they are protecting. Like the formula to Coca Cola.
They reverse engineered a product. That's 100% legal.
What the DMCA makes illegal is reverse engineering mechanisms that either control copying or control access of copyrighted material for the sole purpose of circumventing that control.
But he was right. He stated that it's common knowledge among audiophiles that tube amps are superior. Just like they know that vinyl is superior to anything digital.
That I'll agree with. Not that they are right.. but they definately think so.
Look. For a guitar amp, I can see it.. the tube amp is as much part of the insturment as the guitar. It definately does mess with the sound.
How ever, as with many things that 'audiophiles' think, tube amps are NOT better than solid state at reproducing sound. Tubes mess with the sound. Yes, they sound good. But not as accurate as a good solid state amp.
Now, I'm not saying there aren't extremely high quality tube amps.. there are. But companies make these things so they can sell them at rediculous prices to audiophiles who mistakenly think tube amps are more accurate.
Guess what. The recording engineer who mastered the thing didn't use a tube amp.
I have to say.. if you are having problems like that, then two things are happening.
- You don't have adequate resources to handle what you are doing - Your administrators have no idea how to maintain large sun servers. You should NOT have reboots that frequently. Once or twice a year, if that is adequate.
You can't measure a system based on the cost per workstation alone. What about software? Maintenance? Etcetera?
Maintaing a network of PCs is HUGELY expensive compared to a network of sunray machines.
Six hundred bucks per workstation? I've seen sunrays for a fraction of that. Those must be the ones with built in displays.
If you say sun claimed one e4500 (or whatever oyu have with 16 processors) could handle 700 desktops, I'd say you, or whoever told you that, is lying, or didn't understand what they said. THat is such outrageous bullshit I can't believe even sun would say that. You'd need an E10k loaded out to the nuts to even *maybe* do that.
Also, did you have sun factor in the applications you would be running? You see...
If you tell sun precisely what you want, they will give you a price *and deliver*
And Sun didn't just discover them. They've been using them for a long, long, long time.
The SunRay, though, is different from your standard X-terminal. It's not an X-terminal.
It's a remote framebuffer, smartcard reader, keyboard, mouse, and audio device.
When you see an X screen on a sunray terminal, the X server is actually running on a Sun server somewhere, not on the workstation. You are only getting the display; hence there is 0 processing on the terminal, hence it can crash and you can just go to another and re-attach.
This is nothing new, the SunRay has been out for years.
Collisions will happen just the same. You can pack more data in, yes, but the time between a node beginning to transmit and the other nodes seeing that it starts to transmit will be exactly the same. Thank Einstein for that.
1) so-called Wi-Fi, usually 802.11b, uses the 2.4Ghz ism band, not the 900Mhz one. Most wifi is therefore NOT 900Mhz.
2) Of course it's going to be congested! There is a REASON the 2.4Ghz band is where it is. It's dirty, and unlicensed. It was designated in the first place as an ISM band because it's dirty; it's not as commercially attractive as other bands in the same area. The fcc regulations REQUIRE you to accept interference from other devices.
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Someone forgot to tell the guy that the color is totally irrelevant, and has nothing to do with the recording surface where the laser actually works.
A guitar amp is a different story.. the amp is part of the instrument. That's sound production, not reproduction.
Doesn't ac'97 specify a 20 bit architecture for sound processing? is this not even higher than what is coming off a CD?
So you mean a computer at home is not the same as home audio...
and you assume tht everyone hookes their compute rup to one of those subwoofer/2 tiny speakers deal?
Interesting.
This is not a tube amp! It's is a preamp tube.
The point is that it has a tube on it so they can jack up the price and sell it to wannabe audiophiles for lots of greenbacks.
Yup.
Because many audiophlies have average hearing.
If anything, they may be a bit more practiced.
THe mind is a powerful thing. It's hard to listen to two pieces of equipment and compare fairly if you know that one is supposed to be better. The mind plays tricks.
And regarding cabling...
Those audiophiles who blow amazing amounts of cash on their setups often have far better equpimetn than the sound engineer who produced the album in the first place. Now, given that, what is it exactly that they are trying to reproduce exactly? The mastering engineer's equipment? You can't, you don't know what it was.
The original performance? YOu can't, the mastering engineer has already tweaked the recording repeatedly to get it so it sounds the way HE wants it to sound on average equipment.
Why? if you are making a purchase decision, it's doubtful you would choose between the two based on this.
Either you want a laptop, or not.
A desktop is still more powerful for the same money, that is not in question.
Heh. Yeah. But you have to lug your whole system around and look like a nerd.
Wheras I can just open my briefcase and play some quake.
Wow. What exactly is a real gamer? someone with no job who plays games all day?
The point is that you can get reasonably good game performance in a laptop now. Sure, for the same money you can get a faster desktop.. but that doesn't mean the laptop is not adequate.
The point is that only a year ago laptops were basically *useless for gaming*. Crappy 3d support.
Now you can get a very decent Nvidia chipset in a laptop, and enough memory and horsepower to actually play *all* the latest games at acceptable fun speeds.
And what's with the heat comment? Any laptop you buy dissipates the heat it generates. They are DESIGNED to work with the components they contain.
Did you mean that "They don't put a faster video card in" because it can't dissipate the heat? That's not true. They could easily engineer it to use a faster card. This would jack up the price even more, and there is no demand.. so they don't. Marketing baby.
Uhh. real gamers being stuck with the base configuration? No overclocking? Get real.
Overclocking a celeron 300A to 450Mhz was useful.
Overlocking a 1.6Ghz P4 to 1.8Ghz is so marginal it's not even funny.
Oh. And if you look at cost.. lots of 'overclocking' projects end up costing more than just BUYING THE FASTER CHIP IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Why do you need a new video card? How often do you, as a 'real gamer' buy a new video card?
I bet it's about as often as I buy a new laptop. Hmm. See the connection?
It's 15.
You can hardly call it a subwoofer. It sounds good for a laptop.. but I'd rather they just made the damn thing smaller and left it out.
ANd it's not a far cry at all from a 1.6Ghz P4 w/Gf4.
The Geforce4 440go is only marginally better than the gf2mx. It has some new features.. but overall, playin gquake and such, it's similar.
ANd 1.6Ghz -vs- 1.2Ghz is a marginal improvement.
But that reverse engineering for interoperability is tricky.
IF the DeCSS guys had a) reverse eingineered it and
b) produced a binary-only player
they could have claimed that it was for interoperability.
THis is one place where the DMCA is not compatable with open-source stuff.
If Archos tried to sue they would have to show copyright infringement before they could show damages.
That woudl mean they would have to show that code was actually copied verbatim.
Ripping something down to a spec and re-implementing it is legal, and is NOT copyright infringement.
I guess you are referring to the clean-room type reverse engineering you use int he professoional world?
For those that don't know, this involoves.
1) one team of people reverse engineers the software down to a specification on paper.
2) This team gives this to a lawyer or something
3) A totally different team with no connection to the first team is given the spec and implements it.
This is totally, completely legal. Nobody is copying anything.
The reason it's done this way is so there can be no doubt as to whether anything was 'copied'. If the same engineer worked on both sides of the project, it is possible to cast doubt as to whether he maybe 'cut some corners' or what not.
That doesn't mean it's illegal for one person to do it.
Or if it simply has nothing to do with a copy control mechanism. Remember, reverse engineering is not illegal.
The DMCA deals with copy control mechanisms, DRM type stuff. Region coding & CSS, etc. Not software in general.
Reverse engineering softward and hardware is expressley allowed for any reason.
As for trade secret, you could be in shit for releasing trade secret information. If it's trade secret. A proprietary file format is NOT trade secret information, neither is a proprietary protocol.
Trade secret information is information they are protecting. Like the formula to Coca Cola.
They reverse engineered a product. That's 100% legal.
What the DMCA makes illegal is reverse engineering mechanisms that either control copying or control access of copyrighted material for the sole purpose of circumventing that control.
But as they are selling you the device outright.. they may still be up against a stiff lawsuit if they trash someone's device.
You can't sell someone something and then dictate what happens afterwards. Sorry.
They can refuse to provide service, of course.. but a service contract and a sale of a device are totally different things.
This is just more incentive to hack the damn thing and make sure they can't wipe it.
But he was right. He stated that it's common knowledge among audiophiles that tube amps are superior.
Just like they know that vinyl is superior to anything digital.
That I'll agree with. Not that they are right.. but they definately think so.
Look. For a guitar amp, I can see it.. the tube amp is as much part of the insturment as the guitar. It definately does mess with the sound.
How ever, as with many things that 'audiophiles' think, tube amps are NOT better than solid state at reproducing sound. Tubes mess with the sound. Yes, they sound good. But not as accurate as a good solid state amp.
Now, I'm not saying there aren't extremely high quality tube amps.. there are. But companies make these things so they can sell them at rediculous prices to audiophiles who mistakenly think tube amps are more accurate.
Guess what. The recording engineer who mastered the thing didn't use a tube amp.
I have to say.. if you are having problems like that, then two things are happening.
- You don't have adequate resources to handle what you are doing
- Your administrators have no idea how to maintain large sun servers. You should NOT have reboots that frequently. Once or twice a year, if that is adequate.
You can't measure a system based on the cost per workstation alone.
What about software? Maintenance? Etcetera?
Maintaing a network of PCs is HUGELY expensive compared to a network of sunray machines.
Six hundred bucks per workstation? I've seen sunrays for a fraction of that. Those must be the ones with built in displays.
If you say sun claimed one e4500 (or whatever oyu have with 16 processors) could handle 700 desktops, I'd say you, or whoever told you that, is lying, or didn't understand what they said. THat is such outrageous bullshit I can't believe even sun would say that. You'd need an E10k loaded out to the nuts to even *maybe* do that.
Also, did you have sun factor in the applications you would be running? You see...
If you tell sun precisely what you want, they will give you a price *and deliver*
It's solid state. It's entirely hot swappable (you can smash it with a bat, go to the next one, pop your smartcard in, and your session is intact)
You could buy shit workstations for $500. Then you have to load them out with the software you want. Then you have maintenance.
I *guarantee* that doing this with normal pc's will cost you more than double this.
And Sun didn't just discover them. They've been using them for a long, long, long time.
The SunRay, though, is different from your standard X-terminal.
It's not an X-terminal.
It's a remote framebuffer, smartcard reader, keyboard, mouse, and audio device.
When you see an X screen on a sunray terminal, the X server is actually running on a Sun server somewhere, not on the workstation. You are only getting the display; hence there is 0 processing on the terminal, hence it can crash and you can just go to another and re-attach.
This is nothing new, the SunRay has been out for years.
Collisions will happen just the same. You can pack more data in, yes, but the time between a node beginning to transmit and the other nodes seeing that it starts to transmit will be exactly the same. Thank Einstein for that.
That's because adjacent channels interfere with each other. They are not completely isolated channels as would seem logical.
The three in common use you will notice are the lowest, middlemost, and highest channels. Lots of space in betwen.
Devices DO indicate if they are having problems.. they give you indications of signal strength.
Of course it's prone to collisions. The protocol is the same, the frequency is just different.
It's not fundamentally any different.
It is no more or less prone to interference than 802.11b.
It may be that there IS less interference because it's a relatively new band, but it's no less prone to it.
1) so-called Wi-Fi, usually 802.11b, uses the 2.4Ghz ism band, not the 900Mhz one. Most wifi is therefore NOT 900Mhz.
2) Of course it's going to be congested! There is a REASON the 2.4Ghz band is where it is. It's dirty, and unlicensed. It was designated in the first place as an ISM band because it's dirty; it's not as commercially attractive as other bands in the same area. The fcc regulations REQUIRE you to accept interference from other devices.