...fonts look worse and more blurry as they do on most Linuxes *because* of this LCD and the lack of Clear Type...
Mac OSX does sub-pixel font rendering (it even did this on an old clamshell iBook). This guy might need to change his font settings to actually do it though.
The limiting factor for syncing most PDAs is the speed of their connection. The Palm IIIxe and earlier palms use a standard serial connection to sync. All the current Palms (except the m100 and m105), all the Handsprings, and all of the Sony CLIEs use USB for syncing. USB is _far_ faster than the old style serial connection.
I disagree, I think voice recognition will (eventually) become the way of interacting with computers. Think Sci-Fi TV; being able to just speak and have the computer respond to your requests.
I guess you haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey....
"Open the pod bay doors HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
Maybe it wasn't that Hal was insane, just his speech recognition software failed....
If your computer crashes, a dedicated ramdrive would presumably survive the reboot. Adding 2 GB of main memory wouldn't provide that kind of functionality.
While I don't doubt that you believe you can hear a difference, it is highly unlikely that what you perceive is something that you can attribute to real physical phenomina. There have yet to be any published studies which show a difference between 96kHz/24 bit and a downsampled 44.1kHz/16 bit double-blind, level-matched presentation of the same source material.
If you'd like to conduct some experiments on yourself to see how good your hearing really is, I highly recommend going to PCABX.com and going through some of the materials there.
As an aside, even comparing the "CD-Compatible" layer on many SACDs isn't necessarily a fair comparison. Some record companies modify the equalization settings between the different pressings and even down-sampled versions are perceived as different.
Heck, even a 0.5 dB change in level is small enough that most people don't perceive it as a level difference, but large enough that they perceive it as being "more airy" or "detailed" or whatever.
While high-resolution formats might have advantages on the production/mixing side, and certainly on the DRM side, they have yet to be demonstrated that they show any real advantage to the consumers.
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Anything above CD's 16 bits/44.1 kHz is imperceptible unless you're a dog, a bat, or a child with unusual ears. Hearing loss increases with age, and with the advent of rock concerts, the problem is worse than in previous generations.
This leads to the question: what are they implementing if they don't have a design? How can they implement something if they don't have a reference to go by? This is a poor design methodology for large and complex projects. Sure, it works fine if you're just coding up a something small and straight forward, but audio encoding is a complex task. If you don't have a standard, how do you know if something is a bug or a feature? Documentation isn't something that's just going to magically appear once you have an implentation.
The criticisms of Xiph's progress with Ogg Vorbis are spot on.
The client generates a series of random numbers to use as an encryption key. This is number is exchanged with the server through a secure process known only to Prescient, the server uses it to encrypt any information it sends back to the client, and then the key is destroyed and a new one is created.
Proprietary, secret algorithms? Security through obscurity is not security at all....
An algorithmically generated sequence of pseudo-random numbers is not a one time pad. They are misusing the term "Vernam Cipher" in the description of their product. Vernam/One Time Pads require truely randomly generated data, not a sequence you can determine with a small seed value.
Did anyone else read the End User License Agreeement that you have to agree to to pre-order? Quoted in part:
You may install and use the Software only with a PlayStation 2 Computer Entertainment System. You may not copy, modify or transfer the Software and its accompanying manual.
Seems like it violates the terms of the GPL, doesn't it?
This device appears to be totally solid state. Minidisc and DAT both have moving parts. This recorder should be shock-proof and shouldn't be able to physically damage the media.
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I did the same thing for Doom and Xwing.... Then I added a WaveBlaster daughterboard and the music was much better.
Mac OSX does sub-pixel font rendering (it even did this on an old clamshell iBook). This guy might need to change his font settings to actually do it though.
Oh come on, it was a perfectly cromulent idea.
The limiting factor for syncing most PDAs is the speed of their connection. The Palm IIIxe and earlier palms use a standard serial connection to sync. All the current Palms (except the m100 and m105), all the Handsprings, and all of the Sony CLIEs use USB for syncing. USB is _far_ faster than the old style serial connection.
I guess you haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey....
"Open the pod bay doors HAL."
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
Maybe it wasn't that Hal was insane, just his speech recognition software failed....
It has it backwards though. Star Wars is controlled by a Bradley Trainer style yoke controller.
If your computer crashes, a dedicated ramdrive would presumably survive the reboot. Adding 2 GB of main memory wouldn't provide that kind of functionality.
While I don't doubt that you believe you can hear a difference, it is highly unlikely that what you perceive is something that you can attribute to real physical phenomina. There have yet to be any published studies which show a difference between 96kHz/24 bit and a downsampled 44.1kHz/16 bit double-blind, level-matched presentation of the same source material.
If you'd like to conduct some experiments on yourself to see how good your hearing really is, I highly recommend going to PCABX.com and going through some of the materials there.
As an aside, even comparing the "CD-Compatible" layer on many SACDs isn't necessarily a fair comparison. Some record companies modify the equalization settings between the different pressings and even down-sampled versions are perceived as different.
Heck, even a 0.5 dB change in level is small enough that most people don't perceive it as a level difference, but large enough that they perceive it as being "more airy" or "detailed" or whatever.
While high-resolution formats might have advantages on the production/mixing side, and certainly on the DRM side, they have yet to be demonstrated that they show any real advantage to the consumers.
Anything above CD's 16 bits/44.1 kHz is imperceptible unless you're a dog, a bat, or a child with unusual ears. Hearing loss increases with age, and with the advent of rock concerts, the problem is worse than in previous generations.
You're thinking of the Atari Lynx handheld. The Jaguar is a console, the Lynx was a handheld.
Has anyone ever heard of an LCD actually suffering from burn-in?
I heard this a while back and it's been true in the majority of the technical situations I've been in:
The number of women present is less than or equal to the number of men named David.
"Mr. Fusion powers the time circuits and the flux capacitor. But the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline; it always has."
-Doc Brown, Back to the Future Part III
The RIAA isn't charging $20 each for a CD that cost them $35 each to produce. They're charging $20 for a CD that cost them pennies to produce.
Tax write-offs from unsold inventory would probably help MS though...
I know the parent is just a joke, but if you don't buy the console in the first place, isn't Microsoft eating a $350 loss instead of just $150?
The criticisms of Xiph's progress with Ogg Vorbis are spot on.
Proprietary, secret algorithms? Security through obscurity is not security at all....
An algorithmically generated sequence of pseudo-random numbers is not a one time pad. They are misusing the term "Vernam Cipher" in the description of their product. Vernam/One Time Pads require truely randomly generated data, not a sequence you can determine with a small seed value.
Seems like it violates the terms of the GPL, doesn't it?
This device appears to be totally solid state. Minidisc and DAT both have moving parts. This recorder should be shock-proof and shouldn't be able to physically damage the media.
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The new CLIE's have a stronger IR LED than previous Palms.