No... Lead in/out is irrelevant. He's saying that if a drive can burn a cd in 2.5 minutes, it's 28 times faster than one that can do it in 70 minutes (the reference).. therefore, is a 28x burner, by definition (rather than look at max spindle speed)
You forgot support costs..
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It's not the up-front cost of the machine, it's the ongoing support costs. Thin client has a much longer working life, and takes much less time to support.
You compare your IT spending to other companies. You point out that, though perhaps your IT guys are paid a relatively high salary compared to the rest of the company, your time between failures, and your overall spending are much less than that of similar companies. THAT is what the suits understand.
If your IT guy is some kind of stinky zen monk who does nothing all day but medidate or work in the zen garden he build in his office, the suits will be happy if they are spending 1/10th as much as the competition, and everything just plain works.
Believe me... every manager out there, ever CEO, gets to hear from every company he deals with, in the news, and his mother in law about how computers don't work, the network screwed up, etcetera. When he sits back and thinks "Man, mine works fine..." he will have better faith in his IT guys.
If you think "no matter how it would be encrypted, it would be cracked 2 hours after release" then explain why it took years to crack rc5-64.
This isn't about client software doing ANY calculation; it's about the client software storing a block of encrypted data. It doesn't know how to DO anything with it other than send it back to the server. It has no keys.
If the client somehow could manipulate it, yes, you would be correct.. but as long as we are dealing with nothing but pure data storage, this is a great idea.
I was not arguing the case for ebooks. I made no comment about whether or not I read them.
I'm only pointing out that "convenience" takes price into account. It's hardly convenient if it's not affordable.
The POINT is that, in order for it to take off, it has to be perceived as more conveneint to them than books. Whether that means "cheaper" or "more portable" or WHATEVER, doesn't matter. When people percieve it as a better option, they will use it. If they don't, they won't.
some of us can just kill the lights, plop down in a beach chair in the back yard, and watch for meteors while sipping a corona or three and listening to the multitudes of small creatures hidden in the trees chirping contently.
Yes, with ebooks, it may be that they will have to be cheaper.. that seems to make sense.. but it's not necessarily true.
With any new product.. convenience is decided by many things, including price. With many products, it's more convenient for me to pay a little more oney to get something that will break down 1/10th as much, for instance.
I'm talking about cashing a cheque in-person at the bank it is written against, not depositing it into your bank account/cashing it at your bank.
You see, we use banks so much people don't even realize this.
A cheque is a negotiable insturment. It's an instruction for a given bank to give a certain person a certain amount of money from a designated account. They have to honor these. If I write you a cheque form my account at Bank Four International, you can walk into that bank, with ID, and they will give you cash for that cheque. Thta's what the cheque represents. When you cash it at your bank, it takes a while for them to do what you could have done manually.
A bank cannot refuse to cash a cheque written on that bank because you don't have an account with them.
Saying "We won't cash a cheque unless you have an equal amount in your account" is just twisting words.. even though all banks say it. They deposit the cheque, put the funds on hold, then give you cash from your existing funds. IT's not different than saying "You can't withdraw $X unless you have $X in your account"
It also failed because people were choosing between DVD and DIVX... not simply because divx was partially pay-per-view. There was simply no obvious REASON to buy a DIVX player... all the titles anyone wanted were out on dvd, ath the right price.
Folks will buy e-books when the convenience is more than that of a book.
That is where the 10 business days come from. After 10 business days, the bank can't backpedal and say the funds aren't yours. They have 10 days to complete their clearing process.
They also have to notify you of NSF issues within 48 hours of finding out about it... not that you have any easy way of finding out if they followed this rule or not.
With regards to certified cheques, anyway... certified cheques and money orders are widely considered as good as cash.
The best way to deal with these things is NOT to put them in your bank account... but, if you can, to have them cashed on the spot. A postal money order can be cashed at the post office with ID. A certified cheque (or any cheque. for that matter) can usually be cashed at the bank it was issued from, with proper ID. Some banks will insist they only have to do this if you take it to the branch it was issued from. Some will let you do it at other branches, but will require a small wait for confirmation. This is because, by law, a cheque is simply instructions for a bank to give you money from someone's account. There is no requirement that the receiver must use a bank account.
The average consumer is an obedient sheep who buys what they are told to buy.
Who are you kidding? If poeple don't upgrade their gadgets every couple years, they feel like they MUST be getting outdated, regardless of what else is out there.
Except moores law is about the number of transistors in a given area, as the process is refined... not about "raw speed". The speed increase is a side effect.
First "some can hear 25kHz, some cannot" is rather inaccurate. The vast majority can't hear 25kHz. The vast majority can't hear 20kHz. Yes *SOME* people can, but not many.
CDs are filtered at 21.5kHz, at the nyquist limit for 44.1kHz sampling. Not "plus or minus a few hertz for data". You MUST cut off at this limit, because if you try to sample anything higher than that, you get "reflections" in the sampling, and all kinds of nasty frequencies end up resulting.
Dynamic range.. okay... Yes, a nice fat analog studio tape has better dynamic range and response than a good digital recording.... no argument there. But we don't have nice, big, fat calibrated analog tapes in our homes. We have vinyl and compact disc. Virgin high quality vinyl has a dynamic range of about 60dB. Average vinyl has a range of 50dB. CDs have a range of 90dB. That's a really big difference, and many would argue it MORE than makes up for some less than perfect intensity algorithms.
As for 96dB being somehow "not useful" because nobody uses a totally silent environment.. that's a misinterpretation of what dynamic range means. It's nto a measure of spl.. it's relative. It's the difference between the loudest and softest sound that can be recorded... and translates to a relative difference in SPL, not directly to SPL, that's up to your output gear. If you have 50dB dynamic range, and you have your quietest sounds set to, say, 10dB SPL, then your loudest will be about 60dB, gear permitting, etc.
Of course, CDS don't make use of the full dynamic range they could... modern recordings are often lacking here.. so score a point for analog (but it's the fault of the recording studio, not the medium!)
No processing? Bass is compressed in vinyl... that needs to be accounted for. You might not think of it as "processing", but there are filters that shape the sound several different ways coming out of your turntables.
As to your last sentence.. RIGHT ON MAN. It's all about personal satisfaction. I agree, vinyl sounds great!
But it's not technically superior, and trying to argue that it is is pointless. It's just like those who argue about tubes being superior... To tube amps sound great? Survey says yes.. does that make them more accurate? Heck no.
Now I'm not joining the vinyl/cd debate.. but it is absolutley true that many of the CDs you get in the music shop are NOT taking full advantage of the medium.
I have heard that Sony Music actually degrades it's recordings even further (through some psychoacoustic model) so that when transferred to MD(minidisc, which uses lossy ATRAC compression) the sound is percieved to be the same. That's dirty. And quite brilliant from a marketing point of view.
Right.But the DMCA specifically makes it illegal to traffic in devices and methos who's primary purpose is to circumvent access controls to copyrighted works.
They don't have to be guilty of contributory infringement.. they already broke the dmca.
This is where things get silly though, Skylarov wasn't kidnapped or extradited from Russia...
He was in the US. And as his software was also made available in the US, they percieve him to have broken US law.
If I'm standing on a boat in international waters with a cruise missile, and I blow up a ship IN the us.... and kill all the senior citizens on the cruise.. should I then be able to dock in the US and hang out iwthout fear of being prosecuted for murder? (nevermind that it would be terrorism nowadays.. humor me here). Are you saying tha tbecause I was not physically in the US when this hpapened, the US can't charge me?
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How do you transfer data at 52x the speed if you can't even read it that fast off the disc?
The only way to read data at 52x the speed is to spin it 52x as fast....
No...
Lead in/out is irrelevant. He's saying that if a drive can burn a cd in 2.5 minutes, it's 28 times faster than one that can do it in 70 minutes (the reference).. therefore, is a 28x burner, by definition (rather than look at max spindle speed)
It's not the up-front cost of the machine, it's the ongoing support costs. Thin client has a much longer working life, and takes much less time to support.
You compare your IT spending to other companies.
You point out that, though perhaps your IT guys are paid a relatively high salary compared to the rest of the company, your time between failures, and your overall spending are much less than that of similar companies. THAT is what the suits understand.
If your IT guy is some kind of stinky zen monk who does nothing all day but medidate or work in the zen garden he build in his office, the suits will be happy if they are spending 1/10th as much as the competition, and everything just plain works.
Believe me... every manager out there, ever CEO, gets to hear from every company he deals with, in the news, and his mother in law about how computers don't work, the network screwed up, etcetera. When he sits back and thinks "Man, mine works fine..." he will have better faith in his IT guys.
So you can, like, crack AES & 3DES in a couple days?
How?
Maybe you should get a job with the NSA.... I'm sure they'd be interested.. especially if you can crack AES. Or maybe they'd just kill you.
you don't understand encryption.
If you think "no matter how it would be encrypted, it would be cracked 2 hours after release" then explain why it took years to crack rc5-64.
This isn't about client software doing ANY calculation; it's about the client software storing a block of encrypted data. It doesn't know how to DO anything with it other than send it back to the server. It has no keys.
If the client somehow could manipulate it, yes, you would be correct.. but as long as we are dealing with nothing but pure data storage, this is a great idea.
I was not arguing the case for ebooks. I made no comment about whether or not I read them.
I'm only pointing out that "convenience" takes price into account. It's hardly convenient if it's not affordable.
The POINT is that, in order for it to take off, it has to be perceived as more conveneint to them than books. Whether that means "cheaper" or "more portable" or WHATEVER, doesn't matter. When people percieve it as a better option, they will use it. If they don't, they won't.
Not sure what you are arguing about.
some of us can just kill the lights, plop down in a beach chair in the back yard, and watch for meteors while sipping a corona or three and listening to the multitudes of small creatures hidden in the trees chirping contently.
Price has nothing to do with it; not directly.
Yes, with ebooks, it may be that they will have to be cheaper.. that seems to make sense.. but it's not necessarily true.
With any new product.. convenience is decided by many things, including price.
With many products, it's more convenient for me to pay a little more oney to get something that will break down 1/10th as much, for instance.
Please re-read what I said.
I'm talking about cashing a cheque in-person at the bank it is written against, not depositing it into your bank account/cashing it at your bank.
You see, we use banks so much people don't even realize this.
A cheque is a negotiable insturment. It's an instruction for a given bank to give a certain person a certain amount of money from a designated account. They have to honor these.
If I write you a cheque form my account at Bank Four International, you can walk into that bank, with ID, and they will give you cash for that cheque. Thta's what the cheque represents. When you cash it at your bank, it takes a while for them to do what you could have done manually.
A bank cannot refuse to cash a cheque written on that bank because you don't have an account with them.
Saying "We won't cash a cheque unless you have an equal amount in your account" is just twisting words.. even though all banks say it. They deposit the cheque, put the funds on hold, then give you cash from your existing funds. IT's not different than saying "You can't withdraw $X unless you have $X in your account"
It also failed because people were choosing between DVD and DIVX... not simply because divx was partially pay-per-view.
There was simply no obvious REASON to buy a DIVX player... all the titles anyone wanted were out on dvd, ath the right price.
Folks will buy e-books when the convenience is more than that of a book.
Or... alternatively...
stop fixing everyone elses computer for them.
OTHER people have tons of problems with windows. Mine, on the other hand, seems to work just fine.
Plus the plane tickets.. don't forget the plane tickets.
That is where the 10 business days come from. After 10 business days, the bank can't backpedal and say the funds aren't yours. They have 10 days to complete their clearing process.
They also have to notify you of NSF issues within 48 hours of finding out about it... not that you have any easy way of finding out if they followed this rule or not.
With regards to certified cheques, anyway...
certified cheques and money orders are widely considered as good as cash.
The best way to deal with these things is NOT to put them in your bank account... but, if you can, to have them cashed on the spot. A postal money order can be cashed at the post office with ID.
A certified cheque (or any cheque. for that matter) can usually be cashed at the bank it was issued from, with proper ID. Some banks will insist they only have to do this if you take it to the branch it was issued from. Some will let you do it at other branches, but will require a small wait for confirmation. This is because, by law, a cheque is simply instructions for a bank to give you money from someone's account. There is no requirement that the receiver must use a bank account.
I didn't say anything about being sold out by the government or "Pleasing the MPAA"
I'm talking about people buying new toys.
I said that consumers like to buy shiny new toys. Because they do.
If they don't.. explain why we have useless shiny new toys all over the place?
And how, exactly, are you comparing Canada & China? I'm curious.
The average consumer is an obedient sheep who buys what they are told to buy.
Who are you kidding? If poeple don't upgrade their gadgets every couple years, they feel like they MUST be getting outdated, regardless of what else is out there.
Except moores law is about the number of transistors in a given area, as the process is refined... not about "raw speed". The speed increase is a side effect.
Yeah. A palladium protected DVD won't be dvd compliant.
SO what? At some point. all the major companies come out with palladium dvd players.
Then you are fucked.
First "some can hear 25kHz, some cannot" is rather inaccurate.
The vast majority can't hear 25kHz. The vast majority can't hear 20kHz. Yes *SOME* people can, but not many.
CDs are filtered at 21.5kHz, at the nyquist limit for 44.1kHz sampling. Not "plus or minus a few hertz for data". You MUST cut off at this limit, because if you try to sample anything higher than that, you get "reflections" in the sampling, and all kinds of nasty frequencies end up resulting.
Dynamic range.. okay...
Yes, a nice fat analog studio tape has better dynamic range and response than a good digital recording.... no argument there. But we don't have nice, big, fat calibrated analog tapes in our homes. We have vinyl and compact disc.
Virgin high quality vinyl has a dynamic range of about 60dB. Average vinyl has a range of 50dB.
CDs have a range of 90dB.
That's a really big difference, and many would argue it MORE than makes up for some less than perfect intensity algorithms.
As for 96dB being somehow "not useful" because nobody uses a totally silent environment.. that's a misinterpretation of what dynamic range means. It's nto a measure of spl.. it's relative. It's the difference between the loudest and softest sound that can be recorded... and translates to a relative difference in SPL, not directly to SPL, that's up to your output gear. If you have 50dB dynamic range, and you have your quietest sounds set to, say, 10dB SPL, then your loudest will be about 60dB, gear permitting, etc.
Of course, CDS don't make use of the full dynamic range they could... modern recordings are often lacking here.. so score a point for analog (but it's the fault of the recording studio, not the medium!)
No processing? Bass is compressed in vinyl... that needs to be accounted for. You might not think of it as "processing", but there are filters that shape the sound several different ways coming out of your turntables.
As to your last sentence.. RIGHT ON MAN.
It's all about personal satisfaction. I agree, vinyl sounds great!
But it's not technically superior, and trying to argue that it is is pointless. It's just like those who argue about tubes being superior...
To tube amps sound great? Survey says yes.. does that make them more accurate? Heck no.
CDS have a much larger dynamic range than most recordings let on. A properly mastered recording can easily sound as good as vinyl.
Now I'm not joining the vinyl/cd debate.. but it is absolutley true that many of the CDs you get in the music shop are NOT taking full advantage of the medium.
I have heard that Sony Music actually degrades it's recordings even further (through some psychoacoustic model) so that when transferred to MD(minidisc, which uses lossy ATRAC compression) the sound is percieved to be the same.
That's dirty. And quite brilliant from a marketing point of view.
Right.But the DMCA specifically makes it illegal to traffic in devices and methos who's primary purpose is to circumvent access controls to copyrighted works.
They don't have to be guilty of contributory infringement.. they already broke the dmca.
Firstly, Mom doens't use a walker.
Secondly, we are talking about information gathering, not assault.
This is where things get silly though, Skylarov wasn't kidnapped or extradited from Russia...
He was in the US.
And as his software was also made available in the US, they percieve him to have broken US law.
If I'm standing on a boat in international waters with a cruise missile, and I blow up a ship IN the us.... and kill all the senior citizens on the cruise.. should I then be able to dock in the US and hang out iwthout fear of being prosecuted for murder? (nevermind that it would be terrorism nowadays.. humor me here). Are you saying tha tbecause I was not physically in the US when this hpapened, the US can't charge me?
Doesn't work that way.