Is that an argument? Should one sell Mercedes, Caterpillars, and Boeings there for lower prices too?
That's completely different, the difference with digital information is that is that digital information is expensive to produce but cheap to copy whereas with "material" products the cost of "copying" is much higher relatively. Therefore information providers gain more from selling someone something very cheap instead of selling him nothing at all, the cost of copying is neglible. With material products like cars the manufacturer can actually lose from selling at too low a price.
wtf, I'm just saying what I think and you call me names. I think that's quite rude and sad. As for your argument, I can that you have a point a little but you are clearly overstating it. It's just a fact that entry level systems these days are almost all 800-900Mhz+ and that's enough to run the latest Netscape/ie/java/activex/whatever bloat decently. Furthermore, prices of entry level systems are very low these days so it's really not true that you have to be rich to be able to afford a system that will run bloatware browsers fast.
I have never paid for MS product. Sure, I've used them countless times, buy not a single dollar of mine has gone to the evil empire.
Just by using their products you are already helping MS. If you use their products there's one more person increasing MS
' domincance in formats. MS makes a lot of money because they own the dominant formats for things like office-suites etc.
I think the essence of what is going on here is on the character of the internet. Is it a broadcast type medium like tv? or is more like a book or a video which you can buy/rent personally?
I think the internet can be regarded as both which is why there are so many problems with decency legislation.
If one would regard the internet as a broadcast medium such as tv it would make sense to try and restrict it's content like on tv; for example "adult" material can only be shown late at night.
However someone that would regard the internet more like a book would feel like some freedom is taken away from him, since right now he has the freedom to read his playboy anytime he wants too.
I am all for freedom of speech etc. but I don't think the German government is doing something strange by trying to impose decency laws on the internet(only from a technological viewpoint maybe) Every media (apart) from the internet has been subject to decency laws so what's so different about the internet?
The essence is what kind of laws to impose. The type of laws we have for books, videos etc. (ie. age checks etc.) or the type of laws for tv (ie. hours)? The us govt. tried to impose some sort of age law for porn sites, (with the cc number thing) which shows they regard the internet more as a personal media type thing wheras the German government is trying to impose the hours type legislation, which shows they regard the internet more like a tv type medium.
I don't think the German government is stupid enough to demand the shutdown of sites outside their country at certain hours like so many people seem to suggest here. More likely it will be some kind of filtering device.
Here's something I haven't understood about digital sampling rates and "analog" sound. If your final format is CD, then won't you loose the same "coloration" of the sound if your guitar/keyboard/mixer is digital? In which case, as long as your equipment has a high quality A/D converter, it really shouldn't make a difference.
It's not about recording sound, it's about producing sound. Digital recording does a good job of recording sound. However most components in a typical guitar system all produce a specific sound; pickups, amp, speakers, etc. If you bypass all those things you will lose a lot of the sound color because it is never produced.
I can tell you one thing: "digital" is not so popular with guitar players. Guitar players tend to like something that predates even solid state: vacuum tubes for the amplification of sound. Tubes are expensive, require heavy amps (big transformers) and are *not* maintenance friendly. However, even though there are plenty of solid state and digital modeling amps, most guitar players like amplification through vacuum tubes.
...use whatever gets the job done the fastest way. That's why when it comes to writing reports, creating slideshows, spreadsheets and graphs I use Office. In my youth I almost fucked up my graduation because I was foolish enough to start writing the last, crucial essays with LaTeX. Now, LaTeX is not a bad tool once you learn it but learning it takes LOTS OF TIME which I didn't have so much at the time.
Does it really take more time to learn LaTeX than Word? Sure, if all you want to do is print typed text Word might be a lot faster. My experience with Word and large reports is not so good however. Word has it's own way of messing up things especially with pictures/objects. LaTeX takes some time to learn but once learned it's the fastest for creating big reports IMO, especially if you have lots of equations. I think LaTeX usually looks a lot better too. There's got to be a reason why most academic papers/reports use it...
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for every more powerful cpu to come out there's people saying we don't need it. I wonder how long it has been going on? Windows 3.11 was nice on a 486 66Mhz but I'm sure happy that chip development didn't stop there.
I think it would be interesting to see the effect of CPU power on software pricing. With faster CPUs software might be less optimised thus costing less programmer time. It's just a thought...
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caused me some concern, why don't you give me any sense of security about what you're planning on doing with my email headers ?
yeah, that's right, I don't really see the difference between banning the paper version of "mein kampf" and blocking access to the electronic version.I guess that people think of blocking as being more censorship-like then banning.
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I think that if you record FM digitally you still will get higher quality then 128kb mp3s....
Besides that, how many people have high speed internet access compared to the number of people that have radios? And in cars?
These guys also have an article on it...
Is that an argument? Should one sell Mercedes, Caterpillars, and Boeings there for lower prices too?
That's completely different, the difference with digital information is that is that digital information is expensive to produce but cheap to copy whereas with "material" products the cost of "copying" is much higher relatively. Therefore information providers gain more from selling someone something very cheap instead of selling him nothing at all, the cost of copying is neglible. With material products like cars the manufacturer can actually lose from selling at too low a price.
even if you don't buy windows you help MS by using it.
You're an idiot!
wtf, I'm just saying what I think and you call me names. I think that's quite rude and sad. As for your argument, I can that you have a point a little but you are clearly overstating it. It's just a fact that entry level systems these days are almost all 800-900Mhz+ and that's enough to run the latest Netscape/ie/java/activex/whatever bloat decently. Furthermore, prices of entry level systems are very low these days so it's really not true that you have to be rich to be able to afford a system that will run bloatware browsers fast.
What's the advantage of having a *fast* browser in days like these where entry 1Ghz systems are more or less entry level?
well, what if it doesn't record the actual key pressed, just that there *was* a key pressed?
Maybe,but how about the intelligent people that bash piracy prevention over concerns about freedom and privacy?
I think he said that it's not the most influentual book. That's a point that is not so difficult to prove.
Just by using their products you are already helping MS. If you use their products there's one more person increasing MS
' domincance in formats. MS makes a lot of money because they own the dominant formats for things like office-suites etc.
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They did it at a 20 something story building at my university a while ago. IIRC they used it to play tetris.
I think the essence of what is going on here is on the character of the internet. Is it a broadcast type medium like tv? or is more like a book or a video which you can buy/rent personally?
I think the internet can be regarded as both which is why there are so many problems with decency legislation.
If one would regard the internet as a broadcast medium such as tv it would make sense to try and restrict it's content like on tv; for example "adult" material can only be shown late at night.
However someone that would regard the internet more like a book would feel like some freedom is taken away from him, since right now he has the freedom to read his playboy anytime he wants too.
I am all for freedom of speech etc. but I don't think the German government is doing something strange by trying to impose decency laws on the internet(only from a technological viewpoint maybe) Every media (apart) from the internet has been subject to decency laws so what's so different about the internet?
The essence is what kind of laws to impose. The type of laws we have for books, videos etc. (ie. age checks etc.) or the type of laws for tv (ie. hours)? The us govt. tried to impose some sort of age law for porn sites, (with the cc number thing) which shows they regard the internet more as a personal media type thing wheras the German government is trying to impose the hours type legislation, which shows they regard the internet more like a tv type medium.
I don't think the German government is stupid enough to demand the shutdown of sites outside their country at certain hours like so many people seem to suggest here. More likely it will be some kind of filtering device.
The site www.whitehouse.gov is running unknown on Linux.
I like it...
It's not about recording sound, it's about producing sound. Digital recording does a good job of recording sound. However most components in a typical guitar system all produce a specific sound; pickups, amp, speakers, etc. If you bypass all those things you will lose a lot of the sound color because it is never produced.
yeah, but all solid state and modeling amps do is try to reproduce "tube" sound. Why not go for the real thing is you can?
I can tell you one thing: "digital" is not so popular with guitar players. Guitar players tend to like something that predates even solid state: vacuum tubes for the amplification of sound. Tubes are expensive, require heavy amps (big transformers) and are *not* maintenance friendly. However, even though there are plenty of solid state and digital modeling amps, most guitar players like amplification through vacuum tubes.
Does it really take more time to learn LaTeX than Word? Sure, if all you want to do is print typed text Word might be a lot faster. My experience with Word and large reports is not so good however. Word has it's own way of messing up things especially with pictures/objects. LaTeX takes some time to learn but once learned it's the fastest for creating big reports IMO, especially if you have lots of equations. I think LaTeX usually looks a lot better too. There's got to be a reason why most academic papers/reports use it...
for every more powerful cpu to come out there's people saying we don't need it. I wonder how long it has been going on? Windows 3.11 was nice on a 486 66Mhz but I'm sure happy that chip development didn't stop there.
I think it would be interesting to see the effect of CPU power on software pricing. With faster CPUs software might be less optimised thus costing less programmer time. It's just a thought...
since when is CNN conservative? I thought it was more left-wing if anything.
caused me some concern, why don't you give me any sense of security about what you're planning on doing with my email headers ?
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yeah, that's right, I don't really see the difference between banning the paper version of "mein kampf" and blocking access to the electronic version.I guess that people think of blocking as being more censorship-like then banning.