The problem is that at 24 bits per channel, it is impossible to fully realize that sort of dynamic range with physical objects.
The extra eight bits to get to 32 bits is simply a waste. The best I can think of is steganography where you can hide data in the least significant byte and few would catch on unless the data was carefully analyzed.
I think that assumes that where gamers go, there follow the rest of the world. Granted, for a while they helped push faster CPUs, and for longer they paid for the development of consumer 3D video cards.
I think Linux has a great chance at a lot of corporate desktops [i]now[/i], in part because they roll out lots of similar to identical machines at the same time, and in part because the system seems a lot easier to lock down and replicate.
Properly configured and rolled out, end users can't screw up their machines so easily, but that depends on proper corporate policy. I've heard of one installation where the CEO required that users had root passwords for their own system, you bet that roll-out went to hell quickly.
For one, the tapers likely aren't distributing copies ad nausium. And they are still watching or at least still see the ads, even on fast forward, so the intended revenue stream is still at least marginally functioning.
Another thing is that the Supreme Court ruling used available data at the time to see that people were taping for time convenience and generally to tape over them again, and not library building. I doubt that the MP3 downloaders aren't library building, particularly with the boasts of how many dozens of gigabytes of music they likely don't own.
Well, I have been watching TV shows, but the catch is that I've been watching them from DVDs that I bought. There are a few interesting shows on TV but I guess I never watch them until they are on DVD.
One thing that people forget about is that the legal limit for personal time shifting is seven days unless you have written permission from the TV station. After that, you are technically supposed to blank the tape.
So really, just about every American breaks this judicial law. According to a broadcast major I knew, some people do get charged with this, but often it is simply an add-on to other charges to worse stuff prosecutors think might not stick.
Don't ever get married, I doubt a spouse would appreciate having a computer in the bedroom. Not that I think you are at that much risk of getting married.
I wouldn't spend $1400, my computer only sounds like a gentle wind anyways (not the flatulence either), no high pitch crap either.
I am disturbed by how the educators seem treat the service as infallible, but technically, the paper does belong to the school, it is a long standing tradition, and if you check the student contract of any educational institution, it is probably there.
GPL protects users by guaranteeing access to code, reducing the chance of abandonware should the original maintainers go out of business and quit, at least there is nothing preventing other maintainers from stepping up and continuing the torch. BSD doesn't necessarily help in this regard if a business takes BSD licened code, makes changes but does not release changes, so the users are SOL if they need a fix. Granted, Apple does release at least some changes, I don't track it so that isn't something I am qualified to say how much.
To go without a zoom lens, it is best to make sure that it allows attachment of lenses of different focal lengths.
Not all digital cameras have zooms either. Some may say they have zoom, it is not optical, they just interpolate the heck out of it. I haven't checked, but I think if you pay the same money like a photographer would for a film camera, you'll find digital cameras with the same kind of detaching mechanisms.
The estate of the writer (usu. the surviving family) still owns a good many years after the death of the writer. Something like 75 or so years, check the copyright laws.
I hate the letter-character substitutions, while it may foil some spam busters it only makes things harder to read. For English, automatic character substitution fixing should be pretty easy, but then the spammers can throw in extra letters. It should be easy to toss out emails with character substitutions, on the plus side it would kill the "leet" speak emails too.
I think the problem is that so many people use closed source personal spam filters. Heck, even Thunderbird's "adaptive" filter is crap, and there is no way of adjusting it without the source.
I thought like AFX, Opteron supports ECC, not requires it. IIRC it does require registered memory though.
Not that it matters to me, I just stick ECC into everything I can, it really isn't that much more expensive. While it might slow performance a tad, ECC becomes even more necessary if you need to use multiple gigabytes of RAM.
It'll be cooler and more reliable than some 64 bit god
While I agree that with a well-designed computer, 500MHz is very good for most people, I would bet that most of the 64 bit RISC systems are more reliable than most of the x86 systems, although I can't say much about Athlon 64 / Opteron, it hasn't been around for long enough. My daily-use Alpha built in 1997 ran Windows NT 4.0 to an uptime of 104 days. After that I quit just because it was a waste of power, although certainly more efficient than most of the P4 and Athlon systems sold in the last three years.
32GB is clear into the heavier iron territory and not for toys.
I think the Tyan K8W Thunder may be your best bet, but I'm not sure it can do 32GB. It is Opteron-only. If you need it that sort of power, it is well worth it.
Apparently some people have a use for them. I necessarily wouldn't knock a product that I have no need for, because sometimes they really are needed by people that aren't me outside of my circles of perception that have different needs than myself.
I would think that Microsoft wouldn't have gone through five major revisions on their CE product if it were this way, same with Palm. If it were an unnecessary and worthless product, neither version would have gotten off the ground.
I use PDAs routinely. I keep my shopping list and jot notes all the time, and they are routinely backed up and I have a track record. Keeping the address book is nice, but I suppose not needed for on the road, cell phones track phone numbers.
I really don't know what power is needed for, but some Palms can play full motion video.
Well, I think people should have thought of the ethical concerns about allowing building in earthquake prone zones in the first place.
If an entire country will be asked to pay for disaster relief, I think it behooves the entire country to keep a cap on construction in known disaster prone areas.
Heck, I had to drill some ventillation holes into my sister's Ape-X to get it working right again. Now, thankfully, it is working more often than not but sometimes the spindle motor doesn't start right.
I did buy their original AD-600 too. It had inconsistent playback performance, wildly inaccurate component jacks and even crashed in the sort time I owned it.
I've never had these sorts of problems with any of my other home electronics.
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The problem is that at 24 bits per channel, it is impossible to fully realize that sort of dynamic range with physical objects.
The extra eight bits to get to 32 bits is simply a waste. The best I can think of is steganography where you can hide data in the least significant byte and few would catch on unless the data was carefully analyzed.
I think that assumes that where gamers go, there follow the rest of the world. Granted, for a while they helped push faster CPUs, and for longer they paid for the development of consumer 3D video cards.
I think Linux has a great chance at a lot of corporate desktops [i]now[/i], in part because they roll out lots of similar to identical machines at the same time, and in part because the system seems a lot easier to lock down and replicate.
Properly configured and rolled out, end users can't screw up their machines so easily, but that depends on proper corporate policy. I've heard of one installation where the CEO required that users had root passwords for their own system, you bet that roll-out went to hell quickly.
For one, the tapers likely aren't distributing copies ad nausium. And they are still watching or at least still see the ads, even on fast forward, so the intended revenue stream is still at least marginally functioning.
Another thing is that the Supreme Court ruling used available data at the time to see that people were taping for time convenience and generally to tape over them again, and not library building. I doubt that the MP3 downloaders aren't library building, particularly with the boasts of how many dozens of gigabytes of music they likely don't own.
OK, you may be right. I had a reference in the past, but since I can't find it I'll concede for now.
g ht_and_Fair_Use _Overview/chapter0/0-e.html
I did find something very similar for educational institutions:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyri
Well, I have been watching TV shows, but the catch is that I've been watching them from DVDs that I bought. There are a few interesting shows on TV but I guess I never watch them until they are on DVD.
One thing that people forget about is that the legal limit for personal time shifting is seven days unless you have written permission from the TV station. After that, you are technically supposed to blank the tape.
So really, just about every American breaks this judicial law. According to a broadcast major I knew, some people do get charged with this, but often it is simply an add-on to other charges to worse stuff prosecutors think might not stick.
Sorry, a dedicated shuttle mission probably costs $500M. At least I am certain it costs at least $300M
Sounds really sad to me.
Don't ever get married, I doubt a spouse would appreciate having a computer in the bedroom. Not that I think you are at that much risk of getting married.
I wouldn't spend $1400, my computer only sounds like a gentle wind anyways (not the flatulence either), no high pitch crap either.
I am disturbed by how the educators seem treat the service as infallible, but technically, the paper does belong to the school, it is a long standing tradition, and if you check the student contract of any educational institution, it is probably there.
bsdl = protects user
gpl = protects developer
Huh? Please support this better.
GPL protects users by guaranteeing access to code, reducing the chance of abandonware should the original maintainers go out of business and quit, at least there is nothing preventing other maintainers from stepping up and continuing the torch. BSD doesn't necessarily help in this regard if a business takes BSD licened code, makes changes but does not release changes, so the users are SOL if they need a fix. Granted, Apple does release at least some changes, I don't track it so that isn't something I am qualified to say how much.
To go without a zoom lens, it is best to make sure that it allows attachment of lenses of different focal lengths.
Not all digital cameras have zooms either. Some may say they have zoom, it is not optical, they just interpolate the heck out of it. I haven't checked, but I think if you pay the same money like a photographer would for a film camera, you'll find digital cameras with the same kind of detaching mechanisms.
They wouldn't, but there is still the chance that the product would misidentify a legit image as that of money.
The estate of the writer (usu. the surviving family) still owns a good many years after the death of the writer. Something like 75 or so years, check the copyright laws.
I hate the letter-character substitutions, while it may foil some spam busters it only makes things harder to read. For English, automatic character substitution fixing should be pretty easy, but then the spammers can throw in extra letters. It should be easy to toss out emails with character substitutions, on the plus side it would kill the "leet" speak emails too.
I think the problem is that so many people use closed source personal spam filters. Heck, even Thunderbird's "adaptive" filter is crap, and there is no way of adjusting it without the source.
I thought like AFX, Opteron supports ECC, not requires it. IIRC it does require registered memory though.
Not that it matters to me, I just stick ECC into everything I can, it really isn't that much more expensive. While it might slow performance a tad, ECC becomes even more necessary if you need to use multiple gigabytes of RAM.
It'll be cooler and more reliable than some 64 bit god
While I agree that with a well-designed computer, 500MHz is very good for most people, I would bet that most of the 64 bit RISC systems are more reliable than most of the x86 systems, although I can't say much about Athlon 64 / Opteron, it hasn't been around for long enough. My daily-use Alpha built in 1997 ran Windows NT 4.0 to an uptime of 104 days. After that I quit just because it was a waste of power, although certainly more efficient than most of the P4 and Athlon systems sold in the last three years.
32GB is clear into the heavier iron territory and not for toys.
I think the Tyan K8W Thunder may be your best bet, but I'm not sure it can do 32GB. It is Opteron-only. If you need it that sort of power, it is well worth it.
are like solutions waiting for a problem.
Apparently some people have a use for them. I necessarily wouldn't knock a product that I have no need for, because sometimes they really are needed by people that aren't me outside of my circles of perception that have different needs than myself.
I would think that Microsoft wouldn't have gone through five major revisions on their CE product if it were this way, same with Palm. If it were an unnecessary and worthless product, neither version would have gotten off the ground.
I use PDAs routinely. I keep my shopping list and jot notes all the time, and they are routinely backed up and I have a track record. Keeping the address book is nice, but I suppose not needed for on the road, cell phones track phone numbers.
I really don't know what power is needed for, but some Palms can play full motion video.
A clue for Dell: iPod and iTMS is the industry standard.
Only if you pick industry standard simply by dominance.
Microsoft would then have the industry standards in OS, despite the fact that only one player, and not the industry, controll those standards.
Well, I think people should have thought of the ethical concerns about allowing building in earthquake prone zones in the first place.
If an entire country will be asked to pay for disaster relief, I think it behooves the entire country to keep a cap on construction in known disaster prone areas.
I couldn't agree.
Heck, I had to drill some ventillation holes into my sister's Ape-X to get it working right again. Now, thankfully, it is working more often than not but sometimes the spindle motor doesn't start right.
I did buy their original AD-600 too. It had inconsistent playback performance, wildly inaccurate component jacks and even crashed in the sort time I owned it.
I've never had these sorts of problems with any of my other home electronics.
How about a confirmation from a source that isn't Infinium labs?
The whole room gives off a rich-bachelor feeling to me, though,
What gave you that hint, the big rooms, plasma TV, LCD TV or the insane number of odd colored LEDs?
Stop creating products that feature factures.
Huh?