While in the tropics, I learned to keep the data dry. Keep it in a metal gasketed box (army navy surplus stuff is great) and keep lots of silica gel recharged. Plastic baggies do not seal well enough to keep out the humidity for long periods of time. Silica Gel is avaliable in large packages that can be reactivated in the oven. Use an indicator and recharge the gel anytime the humidity gets over 20%. I did this for my tools, test equipment, backup tapes, and important papers. They all survived while most everything else mildewed, coroded, or warped. Do not use the tiny packets that come in products. They can not repeatidly dry the air in a container each time you open it to retrieve something. They are only good to keep something from rusting on the boat trip to the market. Get the big bag.
I have full knowledge that if I stick cash in a box in the basement for 20 years, it will buy much less later. It will not keep it's value. I keep my wallet mostly empty. I have invested in more durable goods. Anybody properly investing in realestate? The market may slump, but they can't print more land on demand. If you can't research realestate yourself, buy anyplace a new Wal Mart is going in. They have done the research already. They build in fringe areas that they know are going to grow. My last property I bought 2 years before Wal Mart built. It's doing very well.
They are the richest software company. They can afford to use the best software that can be found at any price. What's your excuse for not using the best software?
It stopped working when the government provided the certificates for the real gold and silver people had in the bank. Then they did not allow cashing the soft currency back in for the full value of the real gold and silver. The people were robbed of the hard currency and it was replaced by easily printed soft currency. The government made it not work. If they were required to always provide hard currency at face value upon request, then it would still be a valuable currency based on a gold and silver standard. Sadly this is not the case. This is where many people got a big distrust of banks in the US. They were robbed by uncle sam.
Those who do not learn from history are condemmed to repeat it.
If it is really gold, will they send it to me? I don't trust any credit I can't immediatly cash in for face value at any time. If I have to cash in more than one troy oz of the credit certificate to receive a real troy oz of gold, then I firmly believe it's not really worth an oz of gold.
Anyone having any credits (currency) that has the value of gold better be ready to cash it in for it's full value in gold. Otherwise it inflates and becomes worthless. Remember a dollar could pay a days wages to a good worker at one time. It has de-valued some since.
I know it's really personal information. I'm sure a few hundred other people have purchased the same version from the same store. While you are there looking up the ISBN or UPC to see what software I use, pick up a copy for yourself. Hints; Cauldra Systems, Sun Microsystems and Osborne. An OC38 isn't too uncommon to some of the larger employers. Therfore you may correctly assume I am one of several thousand employees at one of the hundreds of megacorporations. So it's not too personal.
Just to show it, My Linux UPC is 761480502506 and it's ISBN number is 0-9672852-3-2. My office suite UPC is 614647624897 and it's ISBN number is 1-892488-06-X. My Linux Manual is UPC 783254035027 and it's ISBN number is 0-07-212940-9. Many Slashdot users are not leeches. Don't stereotype us. We are individuals, not a collective. I know I could have downloaded all of that for free. My desk at work is tied into an OC38 line. (I checked a DSL speed check site and clocked 40 MEG at my desk) It wouldn't have taken long to download, but I support getting this stuff on the shelf out to the masses, hence supporting the retail distro's.
The CD will never play back in the 19-40 Khz randge the vinyl does. (remember the quad records, They had a high frequency pilot that the turntable was able to repoduce to make the decoder work.) This is unable to be recorded on a CD because it is higher than the sampling frequency of the CD. It is true the CD has a flatter requency response over a smaller bandwidth. It is also true the CD recording is more linear (less distortion) within that range, However the vinyl does not have ailising and quanitization noise added to the recording. These artifacts are many times more offensive to some people than a little hiss. Adding warmth to a CD does not remove these artifacts while adding the artifacts of tone-arm resonance and surface noise to an already flawed recording.
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Wrong... The audiophile next door did not break into my shed and steal my lawn mower, trimmer, rototiller.. They got their money the old fashioned way. They inherited it and invested it.
The mistake is thinking it's a 2 horse town. It's not. Regardless of who it's from, DSL has gotten a very black eye. Cable has a reputation for decreasing speed as more users connect and all the script kiddies to deal with. Dial-ups are taking the market. Why do you think less than aprox 3% of the USA has high speed. I'm not paying more for a connection that is going to make life miserable. Some day high speed will be ready for prime time and the masses, but not yet.
They design a new chip using an established process. This gives a stable process to debug the new logic. At high speeds one thing that needed fixed was how to get the clock signal to arrive at all parts of the chip at the same time. This debugging and design was done on a known working process. Later they migrate the chip to the new process that that was developed. Making new logic and a new process at the same time is the same thing as going up the stairs 10 steps at a time. Few people make it even after many failed trys. Working out the bugs and tweaking to perfection a step at a time will get you there faster. The latest migration is from the 858 to the 860 process which uses copper interconnects. They are testing it on an established processor (PIII). I also think the marketing department noticed the problem with Rambus and decided the need for fast chips that use cheap memory may sell better. After all they do produce to fill the customers orders. Right now in a stagnet market, faster and cheaper is what sells. Faster cutting edge at any price is a slow market.
I don't subcribe to any magazines because of all the paper junk mail that comes because of it. It takes about 3 years for all the hot prospect chasers to decide to save the postage after letting the subscription lapse. If you don't believe it, subscribe to anything for your cat. Watch the mail come for your cat! I had a wrong initial on my car registration. I didn't fix it after I started getting junk with the same error. It was interesting to find out Uncle Sam can't keep personal information confidential.
Either dual boot or have machines of all flavors.
Windows ME/2000/98/95/31/CE/Pocket, Mac, OS/2, PC DOS, MS DOS, DR DOS, UNIX, PICK, Netware,... It's too much to learn all of them well enough to be proficient in them all, so they tend to favor one over the other for whatever reason. Usualy the reasons has to do with compatibility, ease of use, application requirements, and support.
Makes sense. It's aimed at the same group that would watch the show. Remember Digital Convergence did market research and know what they are doing. They goofed on the first one and got caught by the number of Geeks that would get the cats and tinker with them AND under-estimated the number of users that couldn't type a product into a search engine, but still could plug in the cat and actualy scan something.
I know this is too late to be noticed by most of the Slashdot crowd, but the USB adaptor does not need the Cue Cat software or scanner! It does the job of other adaptors costing up to $40 US. I needed to teach computer skills to a handicapped person and needed to add a second keyboard. This little jewel did the trick. It does not work with PS2 Mice however.
I decided to play the devil's advocate and think what was goin on when the regions were considered. Play along... If a Player is considered a cineplex or movie house, even a Home Theater stuck in a paticular town, then the price of a ticket (the disk) can change depending on the market. They are trying not to sell movies as a tradable commodity. They are trying to sell tickets (software license) into markets. Last weeks Broadway Play ticket has no value elsewhere and this is the model they are trying to keep. Remember the DIVIX? This was the ultimate ticket.
In the service, I bought a player also. It got shipped with my household goods. No problem. I have a very wide range of media and no single player will touch all of it.
Examples of changing times are, reel to reel tapes (1/2 inch video and 1/4 inch audio), cassette tapes, betamax, VHS, 12 inch laserdisks, 12 inch LP's, CD's, etc. By the way, the 1/4 inch reel to reel still works fine and is on it's 3rd set of belts. I do plan to drop it next year after I transfer all my old radio tapes to CDR's. It's like the old polorid film, you got the matching camera because you couldn't put it into your Kodak camera. Compatibility was not an issue. Deal with it.
Think how many people do not have a registration on NY Times, even though it is free. I am one of them. I want to go freely anywhere on the web without too much data being gathered on my travels. If slashdot required one of the smart cards, then I would not be a member and never discovered the gems here. I would have been locked out in the early days. I was reading Slashdot for almost a year before I signed up. It is true it may remove some of the trolls, but limiting it to only those with subscriptions (free or otherwise) would make the slashdot crowd a very small uninteresting group. There are other places.
The other problem with smartcards is I am very mobile. I check into Slashdot from at least 5 diffrent computers on a regular basis. I am not going to carry the smart card from place to place and possibly forget in in some machine along the way. Places requiring smartcards would simply no longer be visited and fall off the internet to me.
This IS what is wrong with the subscription software model. You can and will be held hostage for the cost of the service. Be prepared to pay $0 for the software as that is what it is worth without the service. Think AOL disks. The new version of MS Office should be distributed in this fashion. However if I pay anything for software, I expect it to do something usefull by itself.
I think it's time to remove all software of the TVIO boxes and get OSS replacement software written. Please keep me posted. You paid nothing for the new upgrade version of the software and it's worth every cent.
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Instead of just fluff, like FM radio, how about the change of the engine control software to add a speed limiter that can not be suspended unless you subscribed to a safe driver course needing monthly issues. You can still drive your car safely. You can even go up to 30 MPH! I think your description is right on. A 30 minute record feature is like a speed limiter. It forces the non-subscriber to much less than the full functionality of the hardware. Non subscribed TVIO's will be like the cripled cars. They are useful for the occasional trip to the corner 7-11 and nothing else. I expect to find them cheap in the local classified ads.
Remember, XP is crippled in the CD ripping department. It's a feature to reduce casual piracy as the rips are low quality. Aftermarket ripping software may get past this, but it may be crippled at the low level. Anybody know for sure?
Compare that with the Magellan GPS 315. For about the same money you get much more ability to preload tracks from TOPO GPS maps. Just draw where you want to go on the map, print it for reference and upload the track to the GPS. With the Datasend Software, thousands of points of interest are uploadable.
It takes awhile to produce a new product. Rambus promised Intel the hottest thing in new memory and got it set as a standard. Intel's R&D department in partnership with Rambus got blindsided. It has high power, high price and didn't compete with the advances in DDR RAM. SDRAM went beyond PC100 with lower prices to boot. This left Intel with a committment to something stillborn and playing catch-up with the field. Look out. With the new memory hub chip, they got the train on the right track now. They know the overall cost of the system does affect the ability to sell cutting edge chips. They are not sitting still on this one. They need the market share back and they won't let Rambus problems hold them back.
Those who ride the cutting edge often get cut by it.
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Hmm. Another Ham Radio Operator doing EME (earth moon earth) signal bounce.
While in the tropics, I learned to keep the data dry. Keep it in a metal gasketed box (army navy surplus stuff is great) and keep lots of silica gel recharged. Plastic baggies do not seal well enough to keep out the humidity for long periods of time. Silica Gel is avaliable in large packages that can be reactivated in the oven. Use an indicator and recharge the gel anytime the humidity gets over 20%. I did this for my tools, test equipment, backup tapes, and important papers. They all survived while most everything else mildewed, coroded, or warped. Do not use the tiny packets that come in products. They can not repeatidly dry the air in a container each time you open it to retrieve something. They are only good to keep something from rusting on the boat trip to the market. Get the big bag.
I have full knowledge that if I stick cash in a box in the basement for 20 years, it will buy much less later. It will not keep it's value. I keep my wallet mostly empty. I have invested in more durable goods. Anybody properly investing in realestate? The market may slump, but they can't print more land on demand. If you can't research realestate yourself, buy anyplace a new Wal Mart is going in. They have done the research already. They build in fringe areas that they know are going to grow. My last property I bought 2 years before Wal Mart built. It's doing very well.
Please smile. It's funny, not flaimbait.
Those who do not learn from history are condemmed to repeat it.
Anyone having any credits (currency) that has the value of gold better be ready to cash it in for it's full value in gold. Otherwise it inflates and becomes worthless. Remember a dollar could pay a days wages to a good worker at one time. It has de-valued some since.
I know it's really personal information. I'm sure a few hundred other people have purchased the same version from the same store. While you are there looking up the ISBN or UPC to see what software I use, pick up a copy for yourself. Hints; Cauldra Systems, Sun Microsystems and Osborne. An OC38 isn't too uncommon to some of the larger employers. Therfore you may correctly assume I am one of several thousand employees at one of the hundreds of megacorporations. So it's not too personal.
Just to show it, My Linux UPC is 761480502506 and it's ISBN number is 0-9672852-3-2. My office suite UPC is 614647624897 and it's ISBN number is 1-892488-06-X. My Linux Manual is UPC 783254035027 and it's ISBN number is 0-07-212940-9. Many Slashdot users are not leeches. Don't stereotype us. We are individuals, not a collective. I know I could have downloaded all of that for free. My desk at work is tied into an OC38 line. (I checked a DSL speed check site and clocked 40 MEG at my desk) It wouldn't have taken long to download, but I support getting this stuff on the shelf out to the masses, hence supporting the retail distro's.
The CD will never play back in the 19-40 Khz randge the vinyl does. (remember the quad records, They had a high frequency pilot that the turntable was able to repoduce to make the decoder work.) This is unable to be recorded on a CD because it is higher than the sampling frequency of the CD. It is true the CD has a flatter requency response over a smaller bandwidth. It is also true the CD recording is more linear (less distortion) within that range, However the vinyl does not have ailising and quanitization noise added to the recording. These artifacts are many times more offensive to some people than a little hiss. Adding warmth to a CD does not remove these artifacts while adding the artifacts of tone-arm resonance and surface noise to an already flawed recording.
Wrong... The audiophile next door did not break into my shed and steal my lawn mower, trimmer, rototiller.. They got their money the old fashioned way. They inherited it and invested it.
The mistake is thinking it's a 2 horse town. It's not. Regardless of who it's from, DSL has gotten a very black eye. Cable has a reputation for decreasing speed as more users connect and all the script kiddies to deal with. Dial-ups are taking the market. Why do you think less than aprox 3% of the USA has high speed. I'm not paying more for a connection that is going to make life miserable. Some day high speed will be ready for prime time and the masses, but not yet.
They design a new chip using an established process. This gives a stable process to debug the new logic. At high speeds one thing that needed fixed was how to get the clock signal to arrive at all parts of the chip at the same time. This debugging and design was done on a known working process. Later they migrate the chip to the new process that that was developed. Making new logic and a new process at the same time is the same thing as going up the stairs 10 steps at a time. Few people make it even after many failed trys. Working out the bugs and tweaking to perfection a step at a time will get you there faster. The latest migration is from the 858 to the 860 process which uses copper interconnects. They are testing it on an established processor (PIII). I also think the marketing department noticed the problem with Rambus and decided the need for fast chips that use cheap memory may sell better. After all they do produce to fill the customers orders. Right now in a stagnet market, faster and cheaper is what sells. Faster cutting edge at any price is a slow market.
8 hours with out a single channel surfing kinda indicates a dead viewer.
I don't subcribe to any magazines because of all the paper junk mail that comes because of it. It takes about 3 years for all the hot prospect chasers to decide to save the postage after letting the subscription lapse. If you don't believe it, subscribe to anything for your cat. Watch the mail come for your cat! I had a wrong initial on my car registration. I didn't fix it after I started getting junk with the same error. It was interesting to find out Uncle Sam can't keep personal information confidential.
Either dual boot or have machines of all flavors. Windows ME/2000/98/95/31/CE/Pocket, Mac, OS/2, PC DOS, MS DOS, DR DOS, UNIX, PICK, Netware, ... It's too much to learn all of them well enough to be proficient in them all, so they tend to favor one over the other for whatever reason. Usualy the reasons has to do with compatibility, ease of use, application requirements, and support.
Makes sense. It's aimed at the same group that would watch the show. Remember Digital Convergence did market research and know what they are doing. They goofed on the first one and got caught by the number of Geeks that would get the cats and tinker with them AND under-estimated the number of users that couldn't type a product into a search engine, but still could plug in the cat and actualy scan something.
I know this is too late to be noticed by most of the Slashdot crowd, but the USB adaptor does not need the Cue Cat software or scanner! It does the job of other adaptors costing up to $40 US. I needed to teach computer skills to a handicapped person and needed to add a second keyboard. This little jewel did the trick. It does not work with PS2 Mice however.
I decided to play the devil's advocate and think what was goin on when the regions were considered. Play along... If a Player is considered a cineplex or movie house, even a Home Theater stuck in a paticular town, then the price of a ticket (the disk) can change depending on the market. They are trying not to sell movies as a tradable commodity. They are trying to sell tickets (software license) into markets. Last weeks Broadway Play ticket has no value elsewhere and this is the model they are trying to keep. Remember the DIVIX? This was the ultimate ticket.
In the service, I bought a player also. It got shipped with my household goods. No problem. I have a very wide range of media and no single player will touch all of it. Examples of changing times are, reel to reel tapes (1/2 inch video and 1/4 inch audio), cassette tapes, betamax, VHS, 12 inch laserdisks, 12 inch LP's, CD's, etc. By the way, the 1/4 inch reel to reel still works fine and is on it's 3rd set of belts. I do plan to drop it next year after I transfer all my old radio tapes to CDR's. It's like the old polorid film, you got the matching camera because you couldn't put it into your Kodak camera. Compatibility was not an issue. Deal with it.
The other problem with smartcards is I am very mobile. I check into Slashdot from at least 5 diffrent computers on a regular basis. I am not going to carry the smart card from place to place and possibly forget in in some machine along the way. Places requiring smartcards would simply no longer be visited and fall off the internet to me.
I think it's time to remove all software of the TVIO boxes and get OSS replacement software written. Please keep me posted. You paid nothing for the new upgrade version of the software and it's worth every cent.
Instead of just fluff, like FM radio, how about the change of the engine control software to add a speed limiter that can not be suspended unless you subscribed to a safe driver course needing monthly issues. You can still drive your car safely. You can even go up to 30 MPH! I think your description is right on. A 30 minute record feature is like a speed limiter. It forces the non-subscriber to much less than the full functionality of the hardware. Non subscribed TVIO's will be like the cripled cars. They are useful for the occasional trip to the corner 7-11 and nothing else. I expect to find them cheap in the local classified ads.
Remember, XP is crippled in the CD ripping department. It's a feature to reduce casual piracy as the rips are low quality. Aftermarket ripping software may get past this, but it may be crippled at the low level. Anybody know for sure?
Compare that with the Magellan GPS 315. For about the same money you get much more ability to preload tracks from TOPO GPS maps. Just draw where you want to go on the map, print it for reference and upload the track to the GPS. With the Datasend Software, thousands of points of interest are uploadable.
Those who ride the cutting edge often get cut by it.