Not useful. If you instead stored a hundred separate files, each optimized for its bitrate, with each being half the bitrate of the previous one, you'd still have a set of files less than twice the size of the largest file. Plus, you'd have no bit-peeling overhead.
No, you're right, the overhead would instead be up-front, having to encode at multiple bitrates, and more overhead in storage costs. It's a tradeoff.
Suppose the full file is 10 meg, and you download a 1 meg sample. Are you really going to opt to download the 9 meg "patch" file, rather than the 10 meg complete version?
Why are you assuming the worst-case scenario? What if I downloaded a 5MB version, and now I only need the other 5MB? Multiple that times 10 tracks, and that's only 50 more MB I need to download, instead of another 100MB. Now assume the client you're using to handle these purchases is smart and does this all in the background. Yes, it's a great benefit!
Just keep in mind also that MP3 is the same type of compression than DTS & AC3 (Dolby Digital) and I've never heard someone complain about those (especially DTS).
Yes I've heard Dolby Digital compression is similar to MP3 compression. However, DTS uses very little compression, which is why it sounds better and takes up more space on your DVD disc. Check out the DTS FAQ.
I wouldn't expect a ton of originality from Spielberg, his claim to fame is the lowest common denominator
If you mean "regular people," you're right, he makes movies lots of regular people like to watch. However, he has done his share of weighty matter...
Schindler's List Saving Private Ryan Amistad The Color Purple Band of Brothers AI (even though I didn't like it) Empire of the Sun E.T. (both weighty AND appeals to the masses) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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I bet you re-installed your Windows.
Uhh no, why the hell would I do that? All I did was change my CPU.
Fresh Windows is allways running better, since most of Windowses do have degrading performance in desktop use. Registry is for one. Don't know much about Windows XP, but at least NT 4.0 and Windows 9.x does this.
You might want to look into something called 'disk defrag.' Uhhhhhhhh
In a few minutes, I'm going to take a dump. No wait, I might wait until tonight, and take a "Super Mega Ultra Complete (until the Sequel/Prequel) Collectors Version Directors Cut" dump.
Or I might just keep my poop inside me and read a good book.
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You can barely, oh so barely, tell the difference between 866MHz and 2.4GHZ, and only then when running certain high-end games or 3D modelling packages.
Sorry. Wrong. I went from a 1Ghz Athlon to an 1850Mhz AthlonXP. I use Windows XP. Programs opened faster. And when you're talking about Mozilla, or Office, or Photoshop, or Dreamweaver, or anything more complicated than notepad, really, you DO notice this. Especially when you're opening and closing programs all day long.
When I come across a webpage designed with complex tables and CSS elements, the speed improvement is noticeable (e.g. my banking website, which I frequent, is complex and now renders much faster).
You can never have enough speed. You will always notice a difference, eventually, because the more power that becomes available, the more complex things become that we use frequently.
And believe it or not, but many people like to play new games. Not just "gamers." Regular people, too. My dad can barely turn around in Quake, but he loves wandering around in god mode and shooting things. He wants to play Doom3 when it comes out. He will need new hardware.
I'm just sick of this lame argument that people aren't interested in new processors because they can't tell the difference between 800Mhz and 2Ghz. Bullshit. They might be able to LIVE with the difference in speed, especially if money is tight, but you can never have "too much" speed.
I know! Just think of what PURE EVIL the goverment could do with a database filled with coordinates of where people travel the most. The horror!::shudder::
I'd like to see Corporate America swallow that wad...
I dunno, I've seen Microsoft polish a turd and sell it as chocolate before.
You say it's giving Microsoft control over their computers. Microsoft will sell it based on the "increased security -- no more computer breakins at your company, no more viruses, no more downtime, reduced IT staff, and lower TCO."
I'm using XP right now, but Apple is looking better every day.
I'm a be fan myself, but you left out a quote that explains what they meant when they said "creating such a file system is an extraordinarily difficult task." They weren't talking about the ability to handle 1 terabyte of data. They were talking about this:
"To make life easier for computer users, it will simplify locating data by using the file name or content, regardless of whether data is contained in a spreadsheet, a word-processing document or an e-mail. After-market products do this now, but they impose a performance penalty."
They are implying that with this new filesystem from Microsoft, you will be able to have all that without a performance penalty...
Uhhh yeah.
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Why isn't there a "Cringely" icon for slashdot? It seems that every time he publishes something, it ends up here!
Fuck that, why isn't there a "-1 Same-Old-Cringely-Complaints" moderation option for every time I read this exact same comment in a Cringely talkback?
There are many things that REQUIRE a larger, high-color screen to be of any use, otherwise you'd just use your PDA for everything. I will leave it at that.
If you write a book and send it to millions of random people, have you forfeited your copyright? No.
If you write a program, license it under the GPL, and millions of random people download it, do you forfeit your copyright? No.
If you write an email that contains an original work, however shitty that work might be, you own the copyright on it, regardless of how it's distributed.
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In Soviet Russia, wireless technology transmits YOU at high speed!
(Sorry, I don't even know where this joke comes from.)
It gets somewhere between 144 to 230 kbps
Can you do some tests and give us real world numbers?
The only thing that's been kinda sucky so far is the slow upload speeds
How slow? I was under the impression the technology was full duplex. It's not?
Have you tried using the PC card in your desktop computer for internet access?
Hint for those that haven't reached the required caffeine level yet: you're sitting on it.
Chair?
Isn't it obvious?
...towards people with feet!
Diodegredation. When god is disgraced?
Nah...
Diodegration. When something decomposes due to the work of God?
Nah...
Biodegration. When something decomposes due to the work of biological agents.
BINGO!
Not useful. If you instead stored a hundred separate files, each optimized for its bitrate, with each being half the bitrate of the previous one, you'd still have a set of files less than twice the size of the largest file. Plus, you'd have no bit-peeling overhead.
No, you're right, the overhead would instead be up-front, having to encode at multiple bitrates, and more overhead in storage costs. It's a tradeoff.
Suppose the full file is 10 meg, and you download a 1 meg sample. Are you really going to opt to download the 9 meg "patch" file, rather than the 10 meg complete version?
Why are you assuming the worst-case scenario? What if I downloaded a 5MB version, and now I only need the other 5MB? Multiple that times 10 tracks, and that's only 50 more MB I need to download, instead of another 100MB. Now assume the client you're using to handle these purchases is smart and does this all in the background. Yes, it's a great benefit!
...but how many vacuum tubes do you have in your system?
The true measure of an audiophile.
Just keep in mind also that MP3 is the same type of compression than DTS & AC3 (Dolby Digital) and I've never heard someone complain about those (especially DTS).
Yes I've heard Dolby Digital compression is similar to MP3 compression. However, DTS uses very little compression, which is why it sounds better and takes up more space on your DVD disc. Check out the DTS FAQ.
I wouldn't expect a ton of originality from Spielberg, his claim to fame is the lowest common denominator
If you mean "regular people," you're right, he makes movies lots of regular people like to watch. However, he has done his share of weighty matter...
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
Amistad
The Color Purple
Band of Brothers
AI (even though I didn't like it)
Empire of the Sun
E.T. (both weighty AND appeals to the masses)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
"Lowest common denominator," indeed.
I went ahead and pooped.
Just want to keep slashdot apprised.
I bet you re-installed your Windows.
Uhh no, why the hell would I do that? All I did was change my CPU.
Fresh Windows is allways running better, since most of Windowses do have degrading performance in desktop use. Registry is for one. Don't know much about Windows XP, but at least NT 4.0 and Windows 9.x does this.
You might want to look into something called 'disk defrag.' Uhhhhhhhh
Thanks for filling us in on your plans!
In a few minutes, I'm going to take a dump. No wait, I might wait until tonight, and take a "Super Mega Ultra Complete (until the Sequel/Prequel) Collectors Version Directors Cut" dump.
Or I might just keep my poop inside me and read a good book.
You can barely, oh so barely, tell the difference between 866MHz and 2.4GHZ, and only then when running certain high-end games or 3D modelling packages.
Sorry. Wrong. I went from a 1Ghz Athlon to an 1850Mhz AthlonXP. I use Windows XP. Programs opened faster. And when you're talking about Mozilla, or Office, or Photoshop, or Dreamweaver, or anything more complicated than notepad, really, you DO notice this. Especially when you're opening and closing programs all day long.
When I come across a webpage designed with complex tables and CSS elements, the speed improvement is noticeable (e.g. my banking website, which I frequent, is complex and now renders much faster).
You can never have enough speed. You will always notice a difference, eventually, because the more power that becomes available, the more complex things become that we use frequently.
And believe it or not, but many people like to play new games. Not just "gamers." Regular people, too. My dad can barely turn around in Quake, but he loves wandering around in god mode and shooting things. He wants to play Doom3 when it comes out. He will need new hardware.
I'm just sick of this lame argument that people aren't interested in new processors because they can't tell the difference between 800Mhz and 2Ghz. Bullshit. They might be able to LIVE with the difference in speed, especially if money is tight, but you can never have "too much" speed.
I know! Just think of what PURE EVIL the goverment could do with a database filled with coordinates of where people travel the most. The horror! ::shudder::
ummm oh nevermind.
More likely he meant "incredibly bad business decisions -- like firing me!"
He wasn't there for the entire decade, dude.
I'd like to see Corporate America swallow that wad ...
I dunno, I've seen Microsoft polish a turd and sell it as chocolate before.
You say it's giving Microsoft control over their computers. Microsoft will sell it based on the "increased security -- no more computer breakins at your company, no more viruses, no more downtime, reduced IT staff, and lower TCO."
I'm using XP right now, but Apple is looking better every day.
I'm a be fan myself, but you left out a quote that explains what they meant when they said "creating such a file system is an extraordinarily difficult task." They weren't talking about the ability to handle 1 terabyte of data. They were talking about this:
"To make life easier for computer users, it will simplify locating data by using the file name or content, regardless of whether data is contained in a spreadsheet, a word-processing document or an e-mail. After-market products do this now, but they impose a performance penalty."
They are implying that with this new filesystem from Microsoft, you will be able to have all that without a performance penalty...
Uhhh yeah.
Why isn't there a "Cringely" icon for slashdot? It seems that every time he publishes something, it ends up here!
Fuck that, why isn't there a "-1 Same-Old-Cringely-Complaints" moderation option for every time I read this exact same comment in a Cringely talkback?
C'mon, you're a robot, aren't you?
that fit in your shirt pocket.
There are many things that REQUIRE a larger, high-color screen to be of any use, otherwise you'd just use your PDA for everything. I will leave it at that.
Areas that you've never even though of...
Tablet pc + wifi + barcode scanner + rugged outer shell == new possibilities for information access.
I would give you a great, specific example, but I don't want potential competitors to get wind.
It allows someone without a real life to simulate one.
If you write a book and send it to millions of random people, have you forfeited your copyright? No.
If you write a program, license it under the GPL, and millions of random people download it, do you forfeit your copyright? No.
If you write an email that contains an original work, however shitty that work might be, you own the copyright on it, regardless of how it's distributed.
IANAL, but I do have some common sense.
They consolidated the word consolidated.
... impotence."