I've had a little bit of experience with lasers, and I'm pretty sure that the modulation required to accomplish this is going to be orders of magnitude higher than what is needed to burn data, and the time required for the on/off function just ain't gonna happen at 12X (or possibly even 1X). I'm betting that there's a physical shutter mechanism involved.
Assuming it's the same dog *I'm* thinking of, is your new game anywhere as good as the old 16-bitter for Sega Genesis, or a Bow-wow like they made for SNES?
Infinitely cooler to me is that fact that one co-plaintiff is none other than Glenn Fleishman, author of the Furioso Font, recognizable to "Prisoner" fans everywhere as a clone of the "Albertus" font used in the classic TV show.
I don't think downloading is exactly practical. The manager at the DLP theater where I saw AotC mentioned in his pre-show spiel that the movie had arrived on a 470 Gigabyte Hard Drive.
I *did* have the misfortune of staying in a Marriot for that long back in March/April, and another important caveat for STSN is that their billing period of 24 hours is noon-to-noon. The clock does not start ticking when you first log in.
For 16 bit sampling the data rate would be 200k * 16 = 3.2 M bit/sec.
Maybe you should say theoretical sampling rate of vinyl. At a groove spacing of 100 grooves/inch, and assuming that the stylus can only move half of this distance (because there still has to be a physical barrier between grooves) your stylus would have to move laterally at 909 miles per hour to achieve 3.2 Mbit/second. I haven't even started to calculate the G-forces. Unless you're hearing tiny sonic booms from your turntable, I just don't think you can call the LP sample rate "practically infinite."
I'm just concerned that there's no black-and-white line drawn between acceptable and unacceptable.
Actually, I think there is. They've been promoting 128 kbit as "CD Quality" for almost three years now, and this is the milestone that the portable player manufacturers use in their specs for play-time capacity. Changing it at this point would threaten to cause consumer backlash.
And, while on the subject of what bitrate really is acceptable, I'll throw in my 2 cents: in the locations where I choose the convenience of mp3's (sitting in front of a computer with small speakers or driving in a car with an ambient SPL of 60+ dB), 128 kbit is just fine. If I'm going to be doing critical listening, I'll be at my full-size stereo system with CD/DVD/turntable, where there's no need or desire to use any lossy music playback at all. Just who needs 192 or 256 kbit? We all have the original CD's already, right?
To any SFWA and/or WSFS members out there, when the next nominating cycle rolls around, please be sure to consider Lucuis Shepard's review of 'The Time Machine'. It's the best SF short story I've read in about five years!
Which all makes me wonder why the studios haven't pulled out the ULTIMATE weapon against "DVD Back-Up" software: the lifetime replacement guarantee. If your DVD ever becomes unwatchable due to physical damage, simply bring it in and exchange it for a new one. Then there would be be no reason for people attempting to preserve their property to resort to potentially infringing methods, and Sony et al could sue firms like 321 into oblivion.
If there was an official site where I could legally download professionally made MP3 or OGGs of all of my favorite tracks for two bucks a pop, I would be all over it in a second.
Well, my favorite music of the last two years has all come from either eMusic (at about a buck a track) and mp3.com (free mp3's, $6 CD's).
Nope, sorry, I'm dead wrong. Didn't read far enough myself. The CO Supremes would have found the warrant enforceable ONLY if the actual content of the books were completely irrelevant to the case.
Actually, the receipt *did* name the purchaser ("Suspect A"), but not the titles of the books s/he bought. The police, who apparently did a pretty shoddy job of questioning the suspects they found at the scene, had no other means of linking Suspect A to the bedroom in which the books (available from Tattered Cover's catalogue) were found.
the court feels that the 1st ammendment covers anonymous book buying
Read the brief. Anonymous book-buying involves walking into a store and plunking down cash. There's nothing anonymous about using a credit card and having Meth recipes mailed to your trailer home. The warrant in question *could* have been enforceable if there were a strong enough link between the evidence and the crime, but to me the bottom line of this case looks like the warrant fell apart because there was no sign that the books in question had ever actually been opened.
Wow. A/. reader who doesn't play video games? They're simply not the same thing. "Rumble" is just a bigger version of the off-center disc used to vibrate pagers. So, if you drive your MarioKart off the road, the wheel will start to shake. Force, or haptic, feedback, will impart a restoring force to a steering wheel greater than that of the return spring alone. It's best in flight sims, where if you try some particularly tricky maneuvers, it requires a great deal of force to get the control surfaces where you want them.
they cannot continue like this indefinately...unless you would like them to raise normal registration fees to support it.
If that's what it takes to keep the system above-board, yes. My problem is that I have a
typosquatter [definition] who has registered a lookalike domain name, with "Domain for sale" on the top line of his whois registry. I'm waiting him out, and plan to register the domain when he finally gets tired of spending money on it (no, my domain is not a trademark, and I can't afford to sue). The last thing I want to do is put up a billboard at NetSol telling him what I'm thinking.
Unfortunately they have not been able to do that using purely technical means.
As you seem to be in the know, can you tell us what is considered "reasonable steps?" Exactly how much money did they spend on fatter pipes and faster servers before deciding that extortion is a better option?
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I've had a little bit of experience with lasers, and I'm pretty sure that the modulation required to accomplish this is going to be orders of magnitude higher than what is needed to burn data, and the time required for the on/off function just ain't gonna happen at 12X (or possibly even 1X). I'm betting that there's a physical shutter mechanism involved.
Assuming it's the same dog *I'm* thinking of, is your new game anywhere as good as the old 16-bitter for Sega Genesis, or a Bow-wow like they made for SNES?
Infinitely cooler to me is that fact that one co-plaintiff is none other than Glenn Fleishman, author of the Furioso Font, recognizable to "Prisoner" fans everywhere as a clone of the "Albertus" font used in the classic TV show.
I don't think downloading is exactly practical. The manager at the DLP theater where I saw AotC mentioned in his pre-show spiel that the movie had arrived on a 470 Gigabyte Hard Drive.
Nope, no Ogg. FAQ Answer 17 says "not very likely". In other words, what's the point of this whole effort?
Save work on the download, and money on the license: Sun will send it to you for free (assuming you can read a DVD).
I *did* have the misfortune of staying in a Marriot for that long back in March/April, and another important caveat for STSN is that their billing period of 24 hours is noon-to-noon. The clock does not start ticking when you first log in.
And, while on the subject of what bitrate really is acceptable, I'll throw in my 2 cents: in the locations where I choose the convenience of mp3's (sitting in front of a computer with small speakers or driving in a car with an ambient SPL of 60+ dB), 128 kbit is just fine. If I'm going to be doing critical listening, I'll be at my full-size stereo system with CD/DVD/turntable, where there's no need or desire to use any lossy music playback at all. Just who needs 192 or 256 kbit? We all have the original CD's already, right?
I hate to have to do my own follow-ups, but here it is: timothy posted this today, and it's just another re-hash of this. Sheesh. Wake up already.
What the heck? timothy just got busted yesterday for duplicating a recent article. This makes two days in a row. Three strikes and you're out, buddy.
To any SFWA and/or WSFS members out there, when the next nominating cycle rolls around, please be sure to consider Lucuis Shepard's review of 'The Time Machine'. It's the best SF short story I've read in about five years!
Which all makes me wonder why the studios haven't pulled out the ULTIMATE weapon against "DVD Back-Up" software: the lifetime replacement guarantee. If your DVD ever becomes unwatchable due to physical damage, simply bring it in and exchange it for a new one. Then there would be be no reason for people attempting to preserve their property to resort to potentially infringing methods, and Sony et al could sue firms like 321 into oblivion.
Nope, sorry, I'm dead wrong. Didn't read far enough myself. The CO Supremes would have found the warrant enforceable ONLY if the actual content of the books were completely irrelevant to the case.
Actually, the receipt *did* name the purchaser ("Suspect A"), but not the titles of the books s/he bought. The police, who apparently did a pretty shoddy job of questioning the suspects they found at the scene, had no other means of linking Suspect A to the bedroom in which the books (available from Tattered Cover's catalogue) were found.
Read the brief. Anonymous book-buying involves walking into a store and plunking down cash. There's nothing anonymous about using a credit card and having Meth recipes mailed to your trailer home. The warrant in question *could* have been enforceable if there were a strong enough link between the evidence and the crime, but to me the bottom line of this case looks like the warrant fell apart because there was no sign that the books in question had ever actually been opened.
Perhaps he's talking about the classic B film The Monolith Monsters?
Wow. A /. reader who doesn't play video games? They're simply not the same thing. "Rumble" is just a bigger version of the off-center disc used to vibrate pagers. So, if you drive your MarioKart off the road, the wheel will start to shake. Force, or haptic, feedback, will impart a restoring force to a steering wheel greater than that of the return spring alone. It's best in flight sims, where if you try some particularly tricky maneuvers, it requires a great deal of force to get the control surfaces where you want them.