Actually, amazingly enough the link to the CCFL site was not wasted, I just had a laptop go dark on me, and was needing information on parts to fix it.
That's why I posted on Slashdot. For most of the Slashdot readers that posted link is a total waste of bits. For you, a simple Google search would have found it. That is how I found it. Many advertisements are the same to most people a waste of bandwidth. They then complain when we don't view the useless bandwidth sucking flash animations.
I got the redirect once a couple weeks ago. Just by the unwelcome mat presented, I went on to other search results instead. I treated it like a 404 page in search results. Why bother to get up in search results and then turn people away. Made no sense to me.
I've always told people, put your ads in the yellow pages and in proper review sites. When I am looking for your product, be there. When my printer had the coating peel on the fuser, I'll then search for a replacement part. When comparing printers for Linux compatibility and compatibility with Network Print servers, I don't need pages full of ink refill and discount ink advertisements. I am interested in which printer will work on a D-link, Hawking, or Linksys printserver while supporting the IPP protocol so everything from Windows 98-Vista, Mac, and Linux can use it.
The Dell all in one printer that came with my Wife's XP machine a few years ago is an excellent example of a bad purchase. I can't buy ink locally. The estimated page yield data is absent from all printer and cartridge data. It has drivers for Windows 2000 and XP only. It is incompatible with USB printservers. In a nutshell, no local ink, no price competition for ink, poor undocumented page yield, drivers incompatible with everything on my LAN except the XP machine it arrived with and unable to be placed on the LAN except as a SMB printer. With all the rest of the faults, I had no reason to bother buying replacement ink. I bought a compatible replacement printer instead. I gave the Dell printer to Goodwill and plainly marked it Windows XP and 2000 only.
I do shop online. Most of the time, I'm doing research, not writing checks. Blinking advertisements seldom provide product details and are useless. Therefore I have good reason to block the ads. They provide little useful data to my search results. 200 advertisements does not equal 200 useful new product facts.
Maybe the original poster is right. I spend (waste) less money online. Instead of buying a new laptop, I'm buying a new lamp. Instructions for changing the lamp are online. The laptop service manual is online. The T21 Thinkpad takes the 2mm X 292mm lamp. The site which had the lamp data and replacement instructions is getting my order. They were there when I searched for the information and parts. At any other time, being bombarded with advertisements for CF lamps, ink, and refinance is just useless noise.
Anyone savvy enough to block ads is probably savvy enough to have their browser present its user-agent as Internet Explorer if necessary.
Anyone savy enough to present its user-agent as Internet Explorer is savvy enough to use a hosts file when forced to use Internet Explorer. The hosts file isn't just for ads. It's also for malware sites. I use a hosts file, Firefox, flashblock, and block images on anything that gets past that.
I do shop online. I seldom buy online. I buy my printer ink in 1 pint bottles. I just bought replacement fuser parts and will soon by buying a replacement lamp for my Thinkpad screen.
I do know the best places in town to buy network cable, video capture cards, Lightscribe blanks, and what Wireless NIC's are compatible with Linux and how has them and other handy supplies. Just because I don't buy online doesn't mean I don't shop online. Brick and mortar stores don't let you read the owners manual to find out the details of a product. Online I can find out lots about a product including downloading a PDF manual in most cases. For example, before heading out to the store, I already knew which version of the Linksys router I wanted to buy to install DD-WRT. I now have a Linksys WRT54g V4 with DD-WRT installed. I didn't buy it online. I bought it locally and avoided the S&H charges.
I agree. It's too bad Vista blew it with all the DRM and stuff. Mac and Linux has never had a better promotion.
DVD ripping, ISO burning, and even DVD watching is better in something other than Windows.
In Windows, insert DVD - Get warning, Anti-piracy PSA, maybe an install program, maybe a menu In Linux, insert DVD - Movie starts playing
Any questions?
Answer - Install non-free codecs..
Answer - Install Flash (The Linux version)
Answer - Don't subscribe to pay content. You don't get to keep it, it will break and die later. That's DRM stuff. You will need Windows or Mac and a credit card for that.
I'd be willing to bet that Microsoft, the BSA and the court systems are going to rule this installation "pirated" and I can't blame them. However, what was I to do? This machine was reinstalled way before Ubuntu became viable. (I reinstalled it in 2004 or so, I think...)
For a while I ran a pirated version of EZ CD Creator. I freely admit it. How was it justified? I have an older HP computer that did come with a wonderful recovery CD. My copy of the CD burning software became corrupted and would no longer launch. No problem. Uninstall the corrupt one and reinstall from original CD.
The uninstall went fine without a hitch. The OEM restore CD was a problem. The entire disk was just a Norton Ghost image. There was no way to reinstall my legal copy of the CD burning software without completely dumping my existing configuration, files, data, and later installed software.
To legally reinstall my software comes with the penalty of wiping my hard drive! This was unacceptable, so a replacement was borrowed from a friend. I would gladly tell the software vendors that I would stay legal if they provided installation disks that work without hosing the installation for the products provided with the hardware.
This is one of the issues that got me to seriously consider Linux. Software that works, is legal, and can be reinstalled without problems.
I am no longer running the pirated software so at the moment I am safe from a BSA raid. The older machine came with Windows 98 SE. It came to the point of the annual reformat/reinstall cycle and things were back to normal except now it's dual boot with Ubuntu. I still use Windows with the serial port to use my GPS software and National Geographic "Back Roads Explorer" topographic map software. For the occasional gig, I use Freestyler. Qlight is getting better, but not yet as functional.
Now that MS Office 97 is getting obsolete, the real cost in upgrading was a prime reason to dual boot the machine. Windows 98 didn't come with MS Office. Ubuntu does come with Open Office. I couldn't justify the cost of Photoshop. I used Arcsoft software that came bundled with my camrera on Windows 98. I now use The Gimp. Instead of pirating a copy of a CD burning software when my Windows 98 copy goes south, I use Ubuntu. A Right click on an iso in the OS gives me the option to burn to CD. Nice. No 3rd party software needed at all. Instead of Voyetra for recording audio, I use Audacity.
When you add up all the costs with a Windows install and typical applications, Ubuntu was an easy switch. Of course there is still a dual boot partition for the occasional GPS map load and gig. The rest of my machines are not dual boot.
What really puzzles me is this part: "and no upgrades past breezy due to problems with the network cards and later kernels."
I put together a new machine Core 2 Duo on a new Asus board. I put Fiesty Fawn on it. It works great. I did notice a networking problem with the built-in NIC when trying to transfer large files to my fileserver. (DVD ISO) It would start and then hang with less then 1K transfered. Web, small transfers and such worked fine. I finaly had to make a SMB share on the machine and use my Dapper Drake laptop to transfer the file from that machine to the fileserver.
When I get some time, I'll stick in another NIC and see if that fixes the problem. I have a Intel card and a D-Link card I can try.
One of our neighbors in central Oregon built a double shell home with passive solar heat. We visited in Febuary and noticed they had a flowerpot in the woodstove. We asked about the flowers. They said they tried the woodstove earlier but it took 3 days to cool the house back down.
This makes me wonder if there are other mobile space entities smaller than planets which harbor our earlier form of life. It seems extremely unlikely it was just once and the random chance it hit Earth seems far far too unlikely. So should we be looking at things smaller than planets for life or keep searching how we are now?
Having seen things arrive on our planet from space, I have my doubts on the chances something living made it to the surface. Even an orbiting space shuttle with people inside don't fare well if the special heat protection fails. Something with much higher speed than a low earth orbit has even poorer chances of making it to the surface alive.
Originating life in space is a nice theory. Getting life to the planet is another problem. Maybe God in his space ship delivered us. (UFO's for the non-christians)
have been in constant communication with them every day for over two (2) years in a multitude of cases, and have never had a single instance that I can recall of any email communication going astray.
Care to post their address here so we can also inquire into the lack of payment?;-)
However, the court clearly determined that SCO owns the copyrights to the technology developed or derived by SCO after Novell transferred the assets to SCO in 1995.
Instead of the word transferred which implies ownership, use licensed. The SCO group is still confusing the facts by implying that ownership transferred. Remember, the royalty payments are badly in default with no liquid assets. Novell may soon own SCO code. Don't count on SCO making lots of money with this asset. They will likely forfet it to Novell.
Go ahead and laugh at me but my Bose 901s I still use from the 70s still kick my ass.
I'll admit they didn't sound too bad when properly installed and used with the EQ to straighten out their quirky response curve. Just don't use them without the proper EQ.
Stair steps at any sampling rate can't reach analog. It just can't happen.
Dude, again, invest in some test equipment. Analog has a noise floor. Most digital has steps way below the analog recording medium noise floor. Stair step artifacts contribute a much lower noise in the mix than analog tape hiss or turntable rumble. One of the advantages of the original uncompressed CD format was much better dynamic range (killed to sound loud nowdays). Look up the CD Redbook spec. To reduce the stairstep noise, there was a pre-emphasis that could be switched on further improving noise in the high frequencies since they have much less power than the lower frequencies. In multi-track analog mastering and mixing the noise adds. In digital, in mixing and layering, no additional noise in introduced. You are not recording tape hiss on a tape.
Do your research.. What is the S/N ratio of studio tape? What is the dynamic range of a CD? Besides the convience of a digital workstation, there are technical advantages to digital mastering and production. Analog has it's real world limits.
"Older DAT and other digital recorders sometimes used a system of 'pre-emphasis' on recorded material, with a corresponding 'de-emphasis' on playback. Pre-emphasis boosts the high frequencies prior to A/D conversion, while de-emphasis removes the boost after D/A conversion. De-emphasis circuitry is built into all CD players to provide compatibility with any material recorded using pre-emphasis. However, the emphasis bit must be set to 'on' in the track's Q code so that the CD player will know that it should use the de-emphasis circuitry while this track plays back."
In a nutshell the stairstep distortion can be reduced by boosting the high frequencies prior to A/D conversion so the portion of the digital step noise (quanitization error) is a smaller part of the S/N ratio. De-emphasis on playback reduces the high frequencies back to original levels and reduces the noise by the same amount.
Unfortunately modern CD's are not mastered to take advantage of the quality possible.
Forget that $1000 Sony, Pioneer, Fisher, Bose integrated amplifier with 5-speaker surround sound. It ain't gonna matter.
Invest in some good test equipment. It is true most of the equipment is matched in quality to the typical MP3, but the noise level, phase shift, THD, crosstalk, etc on some of the upper lines of the stuff from Japan is nothing to scoff at.
Bose is built on reflections and echos to fill a room. They were not designed to be studio gear.
If you look you can still find stuff with less than 0.005% THD, good damping, no measurable crosstalk, and very low noise. My current reciever has a main power amp with 3DB points at 5 Hz and 100 KHZ. 20 HZ to 20 KHZ is flat within 0.1 DB. There are not any CD's that will chalange the reciever's limits.
Most consumer grade Walmart stuff is 0.01% to 0.1% THD or worse. Many don't even spec the response or distortion. They do a peak power rating instead of an RMS power rating. Most true 30 Watt amplifiers will blow the socks off most 250 Watt peak rated amplifiers.
Compared to a pair of properly tuned 3-ways with 12 inch drivers, they sound like ass because you have probably a couple of octaves of upper bass to lower mids that are mostly missing because it's too high for the sub to generate it and too low for the tiny 4 inch (or smaller) main speakers to generate it.
Reflex speakers are designed to be effecient at the expense of being flat. They have a fairly high Q at the tuned port frequency. This is fine with much modern music which is designed to boom, but it isn't nice on wide band music. Many studio monitors are acoustic suspension with a high degree of damping. They are typicaly 10 or more db less effecient, but the boom is now related to the room acoustics and not the speaker.
Sure, the 24/96 source sounds better, but you can't actually buy that anywhere so it's a moot point.
Often overlooked, direct recording of a live performance is excelent source material. Start with an uncompressed WAV file then par it as nessary for the end uses such as CD, MP3, low bandwidth webpage, ringtone, etc.
Your list like many list only one side of the data. None of the links are to any data supporting influences other than human caused theories. Is there any way humans and their activity is causing global climate change on Mars also? How much of our change is from humans and how much is from the Sun?
Here on Slashdot with the scientific community, I was hoping for a full data set instead of lists of polarized data sets.
Be fair, don't omit data that does not support your theory. It is part of the equasion and part of the overall picture. Don't leave relevant data out.
I don't like DRM because of all the compatibility issues and ease of use issues, but if it stops people from pirating (it doesn't, really), then it may be worth it.
Unfortunately, it stops people from buying music as well. I don't buy any CD without a Compact Disc tm logo. The logo is my assurance the CD isn't copy protected. Unfortunately, almost everything is missing the logo. The entire pot is poisoned with Defective by Design stuff, I no longer bother to visit the CD section anymore.
The industry seems to have forgotten that less then 20% of the music on most i-pods is from an online store. The rest is from ripped CDs and podcasts. Making the Defective by Design CDs is a quick trip to dead sales as i-pod owners find other places to get music that works. Talk about a bunch of marketing droids that are totally out of touch with market demands. Piracy may be a problem. CDs that don't work is an even bigger problem and is part of the root of the piracy problem.
High prices is the other part of the sales problem. I spend my money on things that provide more value. Instead of buying CDs, I buy high speed internet, DVDs (except SONY), faster computer, CDRs, DVDRs, DVD burners, wireless router, wireless NIC, TV capture card, LCD TV, LCD Monitors, computer upgrade parts, second hard drive, etc. The RIAA and members think they can do monopoly pricing instead of value volume pricing. They are getting away with it, but the market that sees value at their prices is shrinking rapidly as markets expand elsewhere including online radio, XM, podcasts, viral video, my-space and others take up a large share of the entertainment. CDs are a rapidly shrinking section of the pie and have failed to compete for their share of the market.
Nobody thought the offer was too good to be true? I think the court may have saved this guy from a fraudulent buyer. Who offers 100,000 over the sales price without being in the bidding? That alone is a red flag. How many times are sellers items up for bid send offers outside the auction channel offering more money but avoiding pay-pal and etc. Here is an extra $5,000 for the item. Please forward 2,000 to my shipping agent by Western Union and keep the extra 3,000 for yourself.
Just what were the terms of the offer outside the auction channel?
The court decision may have saved the seller a bundle of money.
I finally bought a flat panel TV. Just for kicks I kicked on the filters an only filtered content based on SEX, Violence, Adult Situations, and Language. For the most part is is the same as turning off the TV. Prime time, ABC CBS, NBC and FOX are pretty much blue screened "Content Blocked"
This is over the air TV. Not subscription. The filters are ineffective because with the filters on, there is nothing on TV. (I guess there is nothing changed)
We rent movies. We pick our ratings there. We don't just turn on the TV to be fed whatever runs out of the sewer pipe anymore. We have a life instead of vegging. This weekend I'm attending a Steam up/Tracter pull. I'll ride the trolley cars, the minature steam trains, help fire up some steam tractors, and watch a steam sawmill operate. It's interactive, hands-on and a lot better than being a couch potato. (It's a lot cheaper than cable.)
It has plenty of storage space even by todays standards. The word length is a little non-standard in today's 23 bit and 64 bit archatectures. It includes a drain for when it gets full. The bucket under the drain provides little protection to the contents. This is a serious design flaw for data retention.
"The Signetics Write-Only Memory is a completely interated solid-state device that employs both enhancement and depletion modes. It is organized to store "N" number of words which consist of 9,046 bits each (the term "N" may equal anything to infinity, and then some)"
If you read the original specs, the cooling requirement is a little agressive.
"The 25120 is easily cooled by employment of a six-foot fan, 1/2" from the package. If the device fails, you have exceeded the ratings. In such case, more air is recommended."
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Actually, amazingly enough the link to the CCFL site was not wasted, I just had a laptop go dark on me, and was needing information on parts to fix it.
That's why I posted on Slashdot. For most of the Slashdot readers that posted link is a total waste of bits. For you, a simple Google search would have found it. That is how I found it. Many advertisements are the same to most people a waste of bandwidth. They then complain when we don't view the useless bandwidth sucking flash animations.
I got the redirect once a couple weeks ago. Just by the unwelcome mat presented, I went on to other search results instead. I treated it like a 404 page in search results. Why bother to get up in search results and then turn people away. Made no sense to me.
I've always told people, put your ads in the yellow pages and in proper review sites. When I am looking for your product, be there. When my printer had the coating peel on the fuser, I'll then search for a replacement part. When comparing printers for Linux compatibility and compatibility with Network Print servers, I don't need pages full of ink refill and discount ink advertisements. I am interested in which printer will work on a D-link, Hawking, or Linksys printserver while supporting the IPP protocol so everything from Windows 98-Vista, Mac, and Linux can use it.
The Dell all in one printer that came with my Wife's XP machine a few years ago is an excellent example of a bad purchase. I can't buy ink locally. The estimated page yield data is absent from all printer and cartridge data. It has drivers for Windows 2000 and XP only. It is incompatible with USB printservers. In a nutshell, no local ink, no price competition for ink, poor undocumented page yield, drivers incompatible with everything on my LAN except the XP machine it arrived with and unable to be placed on the LAN except as a SMB printer. With all the rest of the faults, I had no reason to bother buying replacement ink. I bought a compatible replacement printer instead. I gave the Dell printer to Goodwill and plainly marked it Windows XP and 2000 only.
I do shop online. Most of the time, I'm doing research, not writing checks. Blinking advertisements seldom provide product details and are useless. Therefore I have good reason to block the ads. They provide little useful data to my search results. 200 advertisements does not equal 200 useful new product facts.
Maybe the original poster is right. I spend (waste) less money online. Instead of buying a new laptop, I'm buying a new lamp. Instructions for changing the lamp are online. The laptop service manual is online. The T21 Thinkpad takes the 2mm X 292mm lamp. The site which had the lamp data and replacement instructions is getting my order. They were there when I searched for the information and parts. At any other time, being bombarded with advertisements for CF lamps, ink, and refinance is just useless noise.
Here is the link http://www.ccfldirect.com/index.html
How many of you did not follow the link? The link to replacement lamps is just useless to you. It was wasted bandwidth.
The important thing here is to be found when needed.
Anyone savvy enough to block ads is probably savvy enough to have their browser present its user-agent as Internet Explorer if necessary.
Anyone savy enough to present its user-agent as Internet Explorer is savvy enough to use a hosts file when forced to use Internet Explorer. The hosts file isn't just for ads. It's also for malware sites. I use a hosts file, Firefox, flashblock, and block images on anything that gets past that.
I do shop online. I seldom buy online. I buy my printer ink in 1 pint bottles. I just bought replacement fuser parts and will soon by buying a replacement lamp for my Thinkpad screen.
I do know the best places in town to buy network cable, video capture cards, Lightscribe blanks, and what Wireless NIC's are compatible with Linux and how has them and other handy supplies. Just because I don't buy online doesn't mean I don't shop online. Brick and mortar stores don't let you read the owners manual to find out the details of a product. Online I can find out lots about a product including downloading a PDF manual in most cases. For example, before heading out to the store, I already knew which version of the Linksys router I wanted to buy to install DD-WRT. I now have a Linksys WRT54g V4 with DD-WRT installed. I didn't buy it online. I bought it locally and avoided the S&H charges.
I think the desktop war is over.
I agree. It's too bad Vista blew it with all the DRM and stuff. Mac and Linux has never had a better promotion.
DVD ripping, ISO burning, and even DVD watching is better in something other than Windows.
In Windows, insert DVD - Get warning, Anti-piracy PSA, maybe an install program, maybe a menu
In Linux, insert DVD - Movie starts playing
Any questions?
Answer - Install non-free codecs..
Answer - Install Flash (The Linux version)
Answer - Don't subscribe to pay content. You don't get to keep it, it will break and die later. That's DRM stuff. You will need Windows or Mac and a credit card for that.
I'd be willing to bet that Microsoft, the BSA and the court systems are going to rule this installation "pirated" and I can't blame them. However, what was I to do? This machine was reinstalled way before Ubuntu became viable. (I reinstalled it in 2004 or so, I think...)
For a while I ran a pirated version of EZ CD Creator. I freely admit it. How was it justified? I have an older HP computer that did come with a wonderful recovery CD. My copy of the CD burning software became corrupted and would no longer launch. No problem. Uninstall the corrupt one and reinstall from original CD.
The uninstall went fine without a hitch. The OEM restore CD was a problem. The entire disk was just a Norton Ghost image. There was no way to reinstall my legal copy of the CD burning software without completely dumping my existing configuration, files, data, and later installed software.
To legally reinstall my software comes with the penalty of wiping my hard drive! This was unacceptable, so a replacement was borrowed from a friend. I would gladly tell the software vendors that I would stay legal if they provided installation disks that work without hosing the installation for the products provided with the hardware.
This is one of the issues that got me to seriously consider Linux. Software that works, is legal, and can be reinstalled without problems.
I am no longer running the pirated software so at the moment I am safe from a BSA raid. The older machine came with Windows 98 SE. It came to the point of the annual reformat/reinstall cycle and things were back to normal except now it's dual boot with Ubuntu. I still use Windows with the serial port to use my GPS software and National Geographic "Back Roads Explorer" topographic map software. For the occasional gig, I use Freestyler. Qlight is getting better, but not yet as functional.
Now that MS Office 97 is getting obsolete, the real cost in upgrading was a prime reason to dual boot the machine. Windows 98 didn't come with MS Office. Ubuntu does come with Open Office. I couldn't justify the cost of Photoshop. I used Arcsoft software that came bundled with my camrera on Windows 98. I now use The Gimp. Instead of pirating a copy of a CD burning software when my Windows 98 copy goes south, I use Ubuntu. A Right click on an iso in the OS gives me the option to burn to CD. Nice. No 3rd party software needed at all. Instead of Voyetra for recording audio, I use Audacity.
When you add up all the costs with a Windows install and typical applications, Ubuntu was an easy switch. Of course there is still a dual boot partition for the occasional GPS map load and gig. The rest of my machines are not dual boot.
So wait, this old hardware has no PCI slots? No USB ports? Nothing that could allow one to simply NOT USE THE UNSUPPORTED NIC CARD???
I wonder if they could use some of my NE2000 NICs. They should be compatible. I'll even toss in some 50 ohm terminations.
What really puzzles me is this part: "and no upgrades past breezy due to problems with the network cards and later kernels."
I put together a new machine Core 2 Duo on a new Asus board. I put Fiesty Fawn on it. It works great. I did notice a networking problem with the built-in NIC when trying to transfer large files to my fileserver. (DVD ISO) It would start and then hang with less then 1K transfered. Web, small transfers and such worked fine. I finaly had to make a SMB share on the machine and use my Dapper Drake laptop to transfer the file from that machine to the fileserver.
When I get some time, I'll stick in another NIC and see if that fixes the problem. I have a Intel card and a D-Link card I can try.
One of our neighbors in central Oregon built a double shell home with passive solar heat. We visited in Febuary and noticed they had a flowerpot in the woodstove. We asked about the flowers. They said they tried the woodstove earlier but it took 3 days to cool the house back down.
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v eler/local/97756?lswe=97756&lwsa=Weather36HourBusi nessTravelerCommand&from=whatwhere
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/a-home-
Having a house that doesn't follow the outside temprature swings requiring heating and cooling is an energy saver.
They do have some nice temprature swings there. For example, today's range is 50-95 degrees F.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstra
It's a matter of public record.
I know. Humor is lost when used with lawyers..
This makes me wonder if there are other mobile space entities smaller than planets which harbor our earlier form of life. It seems extremely unlikely it was just once and the random chance it hit Earth seems far far too unlikely. So should we be looking at things smaller than planets for life or keep searching how we are now?
Having seen things arrive on our planet from space, I have my doubts on the chances something living made it to the surface. Even an orbiting space shuttle with people inside don't fare well if the special heat protection fails. Something with much higher speed than a low earth orbit has even poorer chances of making it to the surface alive.
Originating life in space is a nice theory. Getting life to the planet is another problem. Maybe God in his space ship delivered us. (UFO's for the non-christians)
My car won't start in space, you insensitive clod!
You don't realy know that until you try it.
Until then, it's just a theory.
have been in constant communication with them every day for over two (2) years in a multitude of cases, and have never had a single instance that I can recall of any email communication going astray.
;-)
Care to post their address here so we can also inquire into the lack of payment?
Here, they are trying to make show that even if you fight and win, you still lose.
Nice theory. I like my theory better.
They have a long history of not paying artists. Nothing has changed.
A shower before the interview with some Cologne and deoderant can really go a long way to avoiding those "you stink" comments.
Avoid the cologne.. Trust me..
However, the court clearly determined that SCO owns the copyrights to the technology developed or derived by SCO after Novell transferred the assets to SCO in 1995.
Instead of the word transferred which implies ownership, use licensed. The SCO group is still confusing the facts by implying that ownership transferred. Remember, the royalty payments are badly in default with no liquid assets. Novell may soon own SCO code. Don't count on SCO making lots of money with this asset. They will likely forfet it to Novell.
Go ahead and laugh at me but my Bose 901s I still use from the 70s still kick my ass.
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I'll admit they didn't sound too bad when properly installed and used with the EQ to straighten out their quirky response curve. Just don't use them without the proper EQ.
Stair steps at any sampling rate can't reach analog. It just can't happen.
Dude, again, invest in some test equipment. Analog has a noise floor. Most digital has steps way below the analog recording medium noise floor. Stair step artifacts contribute a much lower noise in the mix than analog tape hiss or turntable rumble. One of the advantages of the original uncompressed CD format was much better dynamic range (killed to sound loud nowdays). Look up the CD Redbook spec. To reduce the stairstep noise, there was a pre-emphasis that could be switched on further improving noise in the high frequencies since they have much less power than the lower frequencies. In multi-track analog mastering and mixing the noise adds. In digital, in mixing and layering, no additional noise in introduced. You are not recording tape hiss on a tape.
Do your research.. What is the S/N ratio of studio tape? What is the dynamic range of a CD? Besides the convience of a digital workstation, there are technical advantages to digital mastering and production. Analog has it's real world limits.
There is some discussion on that here.
http://www.dsprelated.com/showmessage/2587/1.php
This information is gleaned from here;
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan98/articles/cd
"Older DAT and other digital recorders sometimes used a system of 'pre-emphasis' on recorded material, with a corresponding 'de-emphasis' on playback. Pre-emphasis boosts the high frequencies prior to A/D conversion, while de-emphasis removes the boost after D/A conversion. De-emphasis circuitry is built into all CD players to provide compatibility with any material recorded using pre-emphasis. However, the emphasis bit must be set to 'on' in the track's Q code so that the CD player will know that it should use the de-emphasis circuitry while this track plays back."
In a nutshell the stairstep distortion can be reduced by boosting the high frequencies prior to A/D conversion so the portion of the digital step noise (quanitization error) is a smaller part of the S/N ratio. De-emphasis on playback reduces the high frequencies back to original levels and reduces the noise by the same amount.
Unfortunately modern CD's are not mastered to take advantage of the quality possible.
Forget that $1000 Sony, Pioneer, Fisher, Bose integrated amplifier with 5-speaker surround sound. It ain't gonna matter.
Invest in some good test equipment. It is true most of the equipment is matched in quality to the typical MP3, but the noise level, phase shift, THD, crosstalk, etc on some of the upper lines of the stuff from Japan is nothing to scoff at.
Bose is built on reflections and echos to fill a room. They were not designed to be studio gear.
If you look you can still find stuff with less than 0.005% THD, good damping, no measurable crosstalk, and very low noise. My current reciever has a main power amp with 3DB points at 5 Hz and 100 KHZ. 20 HZ to 20 KHZ is flat within 0.1 DB. There are not any CD's that will chalange the reciever's limits.
Most consumer grade Walmart stuff is 0.01% to 0.1% THD or worse. Many don't even spec the response or distortion. They do a peak power rating instead of an RMS power rating. Most true 30 Watt amplifiers will blow the socks off most 250 Watt peak rated amplifiers.
Compared to a pair of properly tuned 3-ways with 12 inch drivers, they sound like ass because you have probably a couple of octaves of upper bass to lower mids that are mostly missing because it's too high for the sub to generate it and too low for the tiny 4 inch (or smaller) main speakers to generate it.
Reflex speakers are designed to be effecient at the expense of being flat. They have a fairly high Q at the tuned port frequency. This is fine with much modern music which is designed to boom, but it isn't nice on wide band music. Many studio monitors are acoustic suspension with a high degree of damping. They are typicaly 10 or more db less effecient, but the boom is now related to the room acoustics and not the speaker.
Sure, the 24/96 source sounds better, but you can't actually buy that anywhere so it's a moot point.
Often overlooked, direct recording of a live performance is excelent source material. Start with an uncompressed WAV file then par it as nessary for the end uses such as CD, MP3, low bandwidth webpage, ringtone, etc.
Be sure to use quality hardware for encoding.
I remember AM tube radios.
I still have my grandfathers battery powered tube portable AM radio.
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/CO2_Science_re l/
Your list like many list only one side of the data. None of the links are to any data supporting influences other than human caused theories. Is there any way humans and their activity is causing global climate change on Mars also? How much of our change is from humans and how much is from the Sun?
Here on Slashdot with the scientific community, I was hoping for a full data set instead of lists of polarized data sets.
Be fair, don't omit data that does not support your theory. It is part of the equasion and part of the overall picture. Don't leave relevant data out.
I don't like DRM because of all the compatibility issues and ease of use issues, but if it stops people from pirating (it doesn't, really), then it may be worth it.
Unfortunately, it stops people from buying music as well. I don't buy any CD without a Compact Disc tm logo. The logo is my assurance the CD isn't copy protected. Unfortunately, almost everything is missing the logo. The entire pot is poisoned with Defective by Design stuff, I no longer bother to visit the CD section anymore.
The industry seems to have forgotten that less then 20% of the music on most i-pods is from an online store. The rest is from ripped CDs and podcasts. Making the Defective by Design CDs is a quick trip to dead sales as i-pod owners find other places to get music that works. Talk about a bunch of marketing droids that are totally out of touch with market demands. Piracy may be a problem. CDs that don't work is an even bigger problem and is part of the root of the piracy problem.
High prices is the other part of the sales problem. I spend my money on things that provide more value. Instead of buying CDs, I buy high speed internet, DVDs (except SONY), faster computer, CDRs, DVDRs, DVD burners, wireless router, wireless NIC, TV capture card, LCD TV, LCD Monitors, computer upgrade parts, second hard drive, etc. The RIAA and members think they can do monopoly pricing instead of value volume pricing. They are getting away with it, but the market that sees value at their prices is shrinking rapidly as markets expand elsewhere including online radio, XM, podcasts, viral video, my-space and others take up a large share of the entertainment. CDs are a rapidly shrinking section of the pie and have failed to compete for their share of the market.
Nobody thought the offer was too good to be true? I think the court may have saved this guy from a fraudulent buyer. Who offers 100,000 over the sales price without being in the bidding? That alone is a red flag. How many times are sellers items up for bid send offers outside the auction channel offering more money but avoiding pay-pal and etc. Here is an extra $5,000 for the item. Please forward 2,000 to my shipping agent by Western Union and keep the extra 3,000 for yourself.
Just what were the terms of the offer outside the auction channel?
The court decision may have saved the seller a bundle of money.
I finally bought a flat panel TV. Just for kicks I kicked on the filters an only filtered content based on SEX, Violence, Adult Situations, and Language. For the most part is is the same as turning off the TV. Prime time, ABC CBS, NBC and FOX are pretty much blue screened "Content Blocked"
n d%20Photo%20Gallery/Sawmill/index.html
n d%20Photo%20Gallery/Oregon%20Electric%20Railway%20 Historical%20Society/index.html
n d%20Photo%20Gallery/Willow%20Creek%20Railroad/a%20 train%20movie.MOV
n d%20Photo%20Gallery/Oregon%20Tractor%20Pullers/sli des/DCP_1069.html
n d%20Photo%20Gallery/Oregon%20Tractor%20Pullers/Kid s%20Pedal%20Pulling/slides/2.html
This is over the air TV. Not subscription. The filters are ineffective because with the filters on, there is nothing on TV. (I guess there is nothing changed)
We rent movies. We pick our ratings there. We don't just turn on the TV to be fed whatever runs out of the sewer pipe anymore. We have a life instead of vegging. This weekend I'm attending a Steam up/Tracter pull. I'll ride the trolley cars, the minature steam trains, help fire up some steam tractors, and watch a steam sawmill operate. It's interactive, hands-on and a lot better than being a couch potato. (It's a lot cheaper than cable.)
Event
http://www.antiquepowerland.com/info/annual.html
Sawmill Photos
http://www.antiquepowerland.com/Antique%20Powerla
Trolley Photos
http://www.antiquepowerland.com/Antique%20Powerla
Willow Creek Railroad Movie
http://www.antiquepowerland.com/Antique%20Powerla
Tractor Pull
http://www.antiquepowerland.com/Antique%20Powerla
Tractor pull for kids
http://www.antiquepowerland.com/Antique%20Powerla
Geeks, Don't forget the sunscreen!
It has plenty of storage space even by todays standards. The word length is a little non-standard in today's 23 bit and 64 bit archatectures. It includes a drain for when it gets full. The bucket under the drain provides little protection to the contents. This is a serious design flaw for data retention.
"The Signetics Write-Only Memory is a completely interated solid-state device that employs both enhancement and depletion modes. It is organized to store "N" number of words which consist of 9,046 bits each (the term "N" may equal anything to infinity, and then some)"
If you read the original specs, the cooling requirement is a little agressive.
"The 25120 is easily cooled by employment of a six-foot fan, 1/2" from the package. If the device fails, you have exceeded the ratings. In such case, more air is recommended."
If you don't have the catalog from the 1970's, the text without the graphics is here. Enjoy.
http://www.ariplex.com/tina/tsignet1.htm