I was reading quietly, but started laughing when I read this: 'the HD model is to provide you with quality programming'
Clearchannel crap radio has alot of the stations in this market, consequently in an hour there is 25 minutes of music, 15 minutes of commercials, 15 minutes of station self promotion, and five minutes of stuff that I have a hard time categorizing...
The quality programming was immediately followed by: 'along with the added bonuses of CD quality sound on FM and FM quality on AM for the same price you've always paid for broadcast, FREE!!!'
I wonder if this moron actually uses HD radio, or is just using this as a promotion attempt, so his company can sell more crap transmitters to the radio cartel ? Actual users of HD, who have commented here, dispute the claims of CD quality sound, and, in fact, say that the sound quality (on FM band) IS USUALLY MUCH WORSE than regular FM radio.
So... with the same crap programming, incessant commercials, repetive station promotion, and worse sound quality when the station actually does play a little bit of music, tell me again why this HD stuff is an improvement...
What about all the other MP3/OGG units on the market ?
My MPIO 20GB unit is 1/4 filled, only because I haven't spent the time yet to drop in another 50-90 albums (Whoops- CD's). Too much music for you ? Try touring 2 weeks on a motorcycle & see if having to listen to the same tunes 20 times doesn't get just a little bit irritating (like almost every commercial radio station out there, playing the same crap over & over, songs you've heard every week for the last 20 years of your life).
I've checked out the Wikipedia site a few times and saw information that looked pretty accurate and detailed.
Then I heard on the radio that Capitol Hill staffers had edited/rewritten entries about their bosses to remove or slant all sorts of information, to make their reps or senators look better, remove divorces, etc etc.
How do you expect someone like me, a Wikipedia neophyte, to trust the information in Wikipedia when it can be so easily changed/falsified/distorted ?
How are we to know that there are not more back doors built into Windows like the GDI back door ? How are we supposed to trust an operating system that has such obvious flaws built-in ?
I'm not surprised that the collegiate types that put together this history of languages missed out on this BASIC variant, called 'Business Basic'. It was created by the BASIC FOUR corporation, in California, on their proprietary hardware. It ties the simpleness of BASIC with relative record and keyed files, business math that assumed 2 digits to the right of the decimal point but could go to 12, extended variable names, data dictionary integration with the language, callable programs/routines, definable functions, etc etc etc. At the time, the BASIC FOUR systems were the best small business 'Minis' around. Unfortunately, the company tried to attack their VAR base and ended up planting the seeds of their own demise.
Currently still being developed and used globally, with at least 750,000 + users all around the world.
Currently offered by multiple vendors, runs on all Unix, Linux, M$ systems, except maybe on the 'big iron' IBM boxes. Current vendors with products that are supported are Thoroughbred, Basis, and Providex.
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I had a Linux enthusiast I worked quite close to in 2000, and he just raved & raved about Linux, so I decided to see what all the fuss was about. Built a medium speed box with good IO, hot SCSI disks & an AMI raid controller with lots of memory. Looked for a distro that said they supported the AMI raid card, found Mandrake (loved by the enthusiast).Mandrake didn't work out of the box with the AMI card. OK, I'll try another... Tried Red Hat, they also said they supported the AMI card. Red Hat didn't work with the AMI card either. OK, I'll try one more. Found a copy of SuSE 6.4 at a videogame store. Worked fine right out of the box, no issues no problems.
Since then I've supported SuSE by buying each & every release (rather support them than M$) and I can honestly say that they get better with each & every release (except 8.0, what a pain).
The 9.1 Pro upgrade came in last week, but I've been up to my ass in alligators so haven't had time to finish the install on the new box with an Adaptec 2100S controller with 128 MB memory, there's a precedence issue with the onboard Adaptec MB SCSI that I have to work around (want the raid to be the boot disk, MB wants it's own SCSI first).
The big home server currently runs 8.1, will upgrade to 9.1 when the other boxen are done. Portable has 9.0, office boxen are 9.0. Just waiting for down time to upgrade all to 9.1.
Yes I've tried other distros, Gentoo, Mandrake 10, that Red Hat community thing, but they all lack polish & immediate usability for my purposes.
SuSE best features for me:
1) Sucker just installs & runs, finds all the hardware
2) Yast Online Update to install latest bug fixes, painless.
3) Relatively up to date packages, less build by hand.
4) 9 times out of 10, if I look for something it's in the distro
5) Well integrated, well packaged, they dot all the i's and cross all of the t's when they do a release
All of the other companies than signed a 'non-disclosure' agreement with M$ and then had their technology stolen ?
IIRC, most of the lawsuits ended up being sealed so the results couldn't be used against M$ in the future. You know, 'We'll give you 10 million only if you never tell anybody how we screwed you'.
It would be interesting to see how long the list is...
My epiphany came after many years of buying vinyl and then CD's. Hundreds of records and many hundreds of CD's. We had been told that CD's were very expensive to produce (at the beginning of the CD era) and that the price would come down when the cost of the machines were amortised.
I didn't think that the price was too high because I accepted the 'cost to produce story'. After I received 10 different CD's from AOL, I started to realize that those AOL cd's had to cost only 5-10 cents each. And if AOL could produce millions of CD's that cheaply, that meant the record industry was doing the same thing and laughing all the way to the bank.
It took me awhile, but I figured out the breakdown of CD costs:
Cost of production of CD, Box, and cover art-30 cents
Payment to artist (if any)-50 cents
Sell price to Distributor- 9.99
Profit per CD - $$9.19
And it's even worse for dead artists, the record companies pay even less royalties, sometimes none at all. Why is a John Coltrane CD (dead quite awhile) the same price as a brand new artist? Also, I think the price to distributors may now be 10.50 or more, so these figures are conservative.
Now, I buy CD's at used CD stores or directly from the artist themselves. I'm fed up with being gouged and abused, and will no longer buy new CD's from a record store. The only exception so far is Virgin, which imports DCs from Europe that have come off copyright after 50 years so they are _almost_ reasonable. Go ahead RIAA, sue me for not buying new CD's. Whine about 'lost sales' while you peddle lip syncing droids with no talent.
The RIAA can whine all they want to, but I will be abused no more.
Let's call it a 'Freedom Certificate'. All the yahoos that believe that the 'Patriot Act' means patriotism will suck it right up.
Only those people signed up & 'Authenticated' will be afforded the rights & freedoms described in the constitution. All others pay cash.
Unless you are suspected of a crime, of course, which will automatically 'entitle' you to a 2 year stay in the wonderful vacation facility of Guantanamo Bay.
I went to the Inktomi site, asked it to search it's own site for McFarland, Alberg, 37, which should find 1 or 2 pages at the Alberg 37 (sailboat web site), or nothing if it was a real Inktomi 'internal' search.
It gave me back ten totally irrelevant, unconnected hits.
As a Loooong time record buyer (since 64), who still has each and every one of his vinyl LP's along with lots & lots of CD's, I have to say that I have focused on used CD's now for a couple of years. We (the buying public) were told, when CD's first came out at twice the price of vinyl, that the price would come down once the special CD manufacturing machinery was paid for. Unfortunately prices have not come down. Also, artists are routinely 'misaccounted' so the level of royalty payments benefits the record companies and not the artist. Jazz artists that have been dead for 30 years, and get no royalties, still have CD's priced at $13-16. Artists get, what, twenty cents for a CD that I pay fifteen bucks for ? And now Hilary Rosen is accusing the public at large of grand theft audio because company revenues have dropped off a cliff ? Have you heard any of the mindless dreck that is being promoted as music these days?
My solution: Most of the time (90+%) I either buy a CD used (pay less, not directly supporting record company ripoff) or buy it directly from the artist at either a concert or a website (support the creator not tha machine.
It may not be much, but there's 600-1000 bucks a year they aren't getting from me.
(tongue firmly in cheek) Wow, can't believe the wonderful performance & stability of the M$ software at this site! Must be run by M$ staffers... Since the site either can't provide selected pages (never responds) or the site replys with a 'nebulous error' page, I have to assume they are runn9ing their site on M$ products...
Watched a movie instead. I did tune in for a few moments, though, and saw two kicks and then two run
backs for touchdowns. After that... turned the movie back on .
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I was reading quietly, but started laughing when I read this:
'the HD model is to provide you with quality programming'
Clearchannel crap radio has alot of the stations in this market, consequently in an hour there is 25 minutes of music, 15 minutes of commercials, 15 minutes of station self promotion, and five minutes of stuff that I have a hard time categorizing...
The quality programming was immediately followed by:
'along with the added bonuses of CD quality sound on FM and FM quality on AM for the same price you've always paid for broadcast, FREE!!!'
I wonder if this moron actually uses HD radio, or is just using this as a promotion attempt, so his company can sell more crap transmitters to the radio cartel ? Actual users of HD, who have commented here, dispute the claims of CD quality sound, and, in fact, say that the sound quality (on FM band) IS USUALLY MUCH WORSE than regular FM radio.
So... with the same crap programming, incessant commercials, repetive station promotion, and worse sound quality when the station actually does play a little bit of music, tell me again why this HD stuff is an improvement...
that one of his products was so bad...
who's gonna set up the Paypal account so we can contribute some $$ to help pay for his lawyer ?
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Way to go crew !
hear the same songs over & over & over & over & over ?
Do people really not remember a song ( or never get sick of a song ) after they've heard it five thousand million billion times ?
What about all the other MP3/OGG units on the market ?
My MPIO 20GB unit is 1/4 filled, only because I haven't spent the time yet to drop in another 50-90 albums (Whoops- CD's). Too much music for you ? Try touring 2 weeks on a motorcycle & see if having to listen to the same tunes 20 times doesn't get just a little bit irritating (like almost every commercial radio station out there, playing the same crap over & over, songs you've heard every week for the last 20 years of your life).
I've checked out the Wikipedia site a few times and saw information that looked pretty accurate and detailed.
Then I heard on the radio that Capitol Hill staffers had edited/rewritten entries about their bosses to remove or slant all sorts of information, to make their reps or senators look better, remove divorces, etc etc.
How do you expect someone like me, a Wikipedia neophyte, to trust the information in Wikipedia when it can be so easily changed/falsified/distorted ?
How are we to know that there are not more back doors built into Windows like the GDI back door ? How are we supposed to trust an operating system that has such obvious flaws built-in ?
did M$ have to do to get you to commit this ?
Why update GLibc ? What was the point of that, to do something on Linux that you couldn't do on Winblows ? & then say Gee we had some problems !
Yet another person shilling for the great multi billion dollar monopolist...
Currently still being developed and used globally, with at least 750,000 + users all around the world.
Currently offered by multiple vendors, runs on all Unix, Linux, M$ systems, except maybe on the 'big iron' IBM boxes. Current vendors with products that are supported are Thoroughbred, Basis, and Providex.
Since then I've supported SuSE by buying each & every release (rather support them than M$) and I can honestly say that they get better with each & every release (except 8.0, what a pain).
The 9.1 Pro upgrade came in last week, but I've been up to my ass in alligators so haven't had time to finish the install on the new box with an Adaptec 2100S controller with 128 MB memory, there's a precedence issue with the onboard Adaptec MB SCSI that I have to work around (want the raid to be the boot disk, MB wants it's own SCSI first).
The big home server currently runs 8.1, will upgrade to 9.1 when the other boxen are done. Portable has 9.0, office boxen are 9.0. Just waiting for down time to upgrade all to 9.1.
Yes I've tried other distros, Gentoo, Mandrake 10, that Red Hat community thing, but they all lack polish & immediate usability for my purposes.
SuSE best features for me:
1) Sucker just installs & runs, finds all the hardware
2) Yast Online Update to install latest bug fixes, painless.
3) Relatively up to date packages, less build by hand.
4) 9 times out of 10, if I look for something it's in the distro
5) Well integrated, well packaged, they dot all the i's and cross all of the t's when they do a release
6) Gecko Gecko Gecko
Didn't get any spam from the Democrats...
Too many cooks, not enough broth.
All of the other companies than signed a 'non-disclosure' agreement with M$ and then had their technology stolen ?
IIRC, most of the lawsuits ended up being sealed so the results couldn't be used against M$ in the future. You know, 'We'll give you 10 million only if you never tell anybody how we screwed you'.
It would be interesting to see how long the list is...
It's all about 'THE UNIX' & Darl McBride & the wording is perfect
My epiphany came after many years of buying vinyl and then CD's. Hundreds of records and many hundreds of CD's. We had been told that CD's were very expensive to produce (at the beginning of the CD era) and that the price would come down when the cost of the machines were amortised.
I didn't think that the price was too high because I accepted the 'cost to produce story'. After I received 10 different CD's from AOL, I started to realize that those AOL cd's had to cost only 5-10 cents each. And if AOL could produce millions of CD's that cheaply, that meant the record industry was doing the same thing and laughing all the way to the bank.
It took me awhile, but I figured out the breakdown of CD costs:
Cost of production of CD, Box, and cover art-30 cents
Payment to artist (if any)-50 cents
Sell price to Distributor- 9.99
Profit per CD - $$9.19
And it's even worse for dead artists, the record companies pay even less royalties, sometimes none at all. Why is a John Coltrane CD (dead quite awhile) the same price as a brand new artist? Also, I think the price to distributors may now be 10.50 or more, so these figures are conservative.
Now, I buy CD's at used CD stores or directly from the artist themselves. I'm fed up with being gouged and abused, and will no longer buy new CD's from a record store. The only exception so far is Virgin, which imports DCs from Europe that have come off copyright after 50 years so they are _almost_ reasonable. Go ahead RIAA, sue me for not buying new CD's. Whine about 'lost sales' while you peddle lip syncing droids with no talent.
The RIAA can whine all they want to, but I will be abused no more.
Ahhh, Mr Gates, I was wondering when you would show up here on slashdot !
Let's call it a 'Freedom Certificate'. All the yahoos that believe that the 'Patriot Act' means patriotism will suck it right up.
Only those people signed up & 'Authenticated' will be afforded the rights & freedoms described in the constitution. All others pay cash.
Unless you are suspected of a crime, of course, which will automatically 'entitle' you to a 2 year stay in the wonderful vacation facility of Guantanamo Bay.
I went to the Inktomi site, asked it to search it's own site for McFarland, Alberg, 37, which should find 1 or 2 pages at the Alberg 37 (sailboat web site), or nothing if it was a real Inktomi 'internal' search.
It gave me back ten totally irrelevant, unconnected hits.
Not so hot, EH ?
As a Loooong time record buyer (since 64), who still has each and every one of his vinyl LP's along with lots & lots of CD's, I have to say that I have focused on used CD's now for a couple of years. We (the buying public) were told, when CD's first came out at twice the price of vinyl, that the price would come down once the special CD manufacturing machinery was paid for.
Unfortunately prices have not come down.
Also, artists are routinely 'misaccounted' so the level of royalty payments benefits the record companies and not the artist. Jazz artists that have been dead for 30 years, and get no royalties, still have CD's priced at $13-16. Artists get, what, twenty cents for a CD that I pay fifteen bucks for ? And now Hilary Rosen is accusing the public at large of grand theft audio because company revenues have dropped off a cliff ? Have you heard any of the mindless dreck that is being promoted as music these days?
My solution: Most of the time (90+%) I either buy a CD used (pay less, not directly supporting record company ripoff) or buy it directly from the artist at either a concert or a website (support the creator not tha machine.
It may not be much, but there's 600-1000 bucks a year they aren't getting from me.
I feel better now...
(tongue firmly in cheek) Wow, can't believe the wonderful performance & stability of the M$ software at this site! Must be run by M$ staffers... Since the site either can't provide selected pages (never responds) or the site replys with a 'nebulous error' page, I have to assume they are runn9ing their site on M$ products...
Watched a movie instead. I did tune in for a few moments, though, and saw two kicks and then two run backs for touchdowns. After that... turned the movie back on .