Look at drivers put out by Creative Labs... they're reputed to be really buggy in a dual-processor setup.
Confirmed in my my experiences with an AWE64 and a dual 533Mhz Celeron setup. I moved to a Santa Cruz Turtle Beach - no problems.
And as far as "Is there something magical about MP3s?," I think he's talking about standard wave output support...
Many card/driver combinations are supposed to be able to recognise the kind of data put through them. The Santa Cruz, for example, had a 'Hardware MP3 accelerator' option in the control panel. I really don't know how they recognise it though - by instinct I'd agree that surely the waveform has been decoded by the main CPU anyway? Be interested to hear from anyone who knows more about this point.
Totally agree. I bought my last two albums after hearing tracks on Epitonic. I've listend to a lot more tracks from there I enjoyed, but not quite enough to buy an album. I've also listened to utter rubbish as well of course, but then this site let me find that out before I bought.
I have no commercial relationship to the site, nor am I suggesting this site is unique. But as the parent poster says, why steal stuff if you can try things out for free anyway?
Get a baby. Preferably a bright one that's into everything and doesn't settle easily. Now try to put this baby in its own bed instead of yours.
In the words of a friend currently going through the exact same thing I'm going through, "you'll soon discover why sleep deprivation is one of the world's purest forms of torture"...
Sorry, bit of a tangent. This subject header reminded me of one of my favourite films, A Matter of Life and Death.
Trying not to ruin the film - at one point a trial takes place with an American prosecuter from the War of Independence versus a British doctor defender from World War II. The prosecutor argues that no American could possibly live in Britain, and to prove it he produces a radio on which the most boring cricket commentary known to man is playing, which he declares to be "The Voice of England". The Briton's defence? He produces a radio playing 40s American Blues, "Sho shoooo, baby", which he declares to be "The Voice of America". The prosecuter looks downcast and confesses he doesn't understand a word of it, to which the Briton replies neither does he.
Ah well, perhaps you have to see things in order for it to be funny. But if you're interested, I wholeheartedly recommand A Matter of Life and Death to anyone that's a fan of quality filmaking
I'm amazed at seeing so heavily negative a reaction to this gadget. Come on, isn't anyone pleased to see this?
Personally, I'd love one. I currently own a Sony PC9e miniDV thingy, and it's excellent. This look better though. An annoyance I have is the capture time - basically, it dumps camcorder footage out to the firewire port at x1 speed. This device would overcome the 1x playback limitation. As the article says, it would also stop me getting through tapes at an ungodly speed. Plus there's the benefit that each clip has already been stored seperately, so no more sitting at the editing software checking the results of basic imports.
Isn't anyone pleased to see this except me? Lighten up! This thing is cool.
The reason I mentioned it is due to your use of the word 'tarrif'. Tarrifs are levied on classes of goods, and by definition only on those goods which another producer can make.
A copyright, on the other hand, equally by definition prevents another producer from making the same good. Thus the copyright acts as a barrier to market entry, which in turn allows supernormal profits for the entity which holds that copyright.
When I said short term, I really meant short/mid-term. Poor phrasing, my apologies. The point I was trying to make was that since copyrights expire, the barrier to entry won't last and hence the market will eventually return to equilibrium. A strong argument against extending copyrights is that the mechanism described would break down as barrier to entry would remain. That in turn would mean supernormal profits in perpetuity for the copyright holder (at least, until people stopped buying the copyrighted good anyway).
Virtual PC (or VMWare or whatever), whereby various different OS installations are contained within their own virtual file systems (usually a single file of over three gig).
Video capture, whereby raw footage from my digital camcorder is dumped down onto the hard drive ready to be edited. Those files can be pretty vast as well.
Copyrights are like tariffs. They distort the true value of goods...
Not in classical economic terms, no. Copyrights allow short term supernormal profits, by which an economic entity may benefit by being first to market. This is right - the creator of an idea is the first to expoit it, and so gains supernormal profits before the market returns to equilibrium. For more about monopolistic profits, see here
The opposition to long copyrights should come by pointing out that it prevents market correction since 'short term' becomes 'infinite term'.
[I fully concur]...with his gripe about custom interfaces. Xine is a desktop nightmare. Ditto with most of the other multimedia players I've encountered. They sacrifice high-tech intuitive controls for some made-up high-tech LOOK.
Absolutely. Sadly, this follows you around by platform too. The Linux apps tend to have it, Windows apps certainly do (there are some terrible offenders bundled with sound cards), and Apple with its Quicktime player does as well.
Apple in particular ought to know better. Standards are standards for good reason, and a consistent user-interface is key. The writer of The Apple Human Interface Guidelines, which was written years ago for System 7 and which I still retain my copy of even though I'm no longer on a Mac, has many relevant things to say about such nonsense.
I'm curious as to why no-one has brought out a hard drive-based PDA as yet.
I'm an iPod owner, and when it came out I thought that very soon there'd be a ton of PDAs ditching their 32Mb RAM and moving over to fitting the same sort of mini hard drive that the iPod has. However, none have arrived that I'm aware of. Strange, I honestly believed that would be the next step. The iPod has shown that music listening is popular, so I would have thought that there's room for a PDA which does more than just the classic contacts/calendar/task list.
Does anyone know of a PDA which is hard drive-based?
Some years ago, I tested this theory with a couple of old 686 chips - one 200, one 233. I benchmarked the 200 and 233 both at 75MHz bus - virtually identical results. Then I ran them at the same CPU speed, but 83MHz bus, and the benchmark results improved by exactly 83/75. What does this tell you?:-)
That you were running a single thread computationally-intensive task as a benchmark.
Dual CPUs are there to help parallism. They won't show great increases on pure number-crunching. For example, my previous machine was a dual-533 Celeron, and it would be nice and responsive whilst running multiple apps, even if one of them (say, my MP3 encoder) decided to max out one of the CPUs.
What must happen is legislation that makes every person running a computer personably responsible for the security of that same computer.
And in which country would that legislation be enacted?
I prefer the idea of handling with ISP peering agreements, in a similar fashion to how spam is handled today. Too many virus requests from an ISP's IP range results in that ISP being refused backbone peering rights.
It would be nice to see one of these new zeroconf enabled TiVo reading its music off one of these.
Agreed. Additionally, I would like to see Tivo come out with its own device - a Tivo with a CD drive that could rip tracks itself and present them via the normal Tivo menu.
In addition, a 'Treat as audio'-type option could inform Tivo that certain TV recordings should be treated as audio tracks, not TV broadcasts. That covers the case where digital cable supplies a lot of radio stations.
I like Tivo's interface, and would be interested to see them move out slightly beyond their current TV-only remit.
Could they please send the team now in charge of Cobalt Raq updates there?
They've managed to introduce remote exploits via their alleged Security Hardening Package, and recent posts on the Cobalt developers lists show that their latest kernel update caused some machines to crash unrecoverably. They've promised an updated PHP on the Raq4 for an age now, but no sign.
That, coupled with the inordinate delay in patching OpenSSL when slapper appeared makes me a tad more unhappy than I used to be. Used to be a good service, but now seems to be in shambles.
So, what this means is that people were able to go late to the polls, and cast a vote free from the influence of network
I'm hoping someone with more up-to-date knowledge will fill in for my sketchiness here, but...
In the UK, there are laws about broadcasting political material during (and I believe immediately preceding?) an election. Additionally, I seem to remember that you are not allowed to report on the progress of that election whilst the voting booths are still open. I'm open to correction on that last point though - I'm sure some news programmes broadcast latest exit polls during the last few General Elections. However, it's a rule I definitely recall from somewhere.
Regardless of my shaky memory, they both seem like a very good rules to me. An election's point is not to win ratings for some TV programme, and it really won't kill you to know the result a couple of hours later.
Cheers,
Ian
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Or is it/opt? Or/usr? And where are the config files, all in/etc as they should be? Named by package...?
I'd love what you said to be true, and I personally agree with/usr/local being the most logical place. But unfortunately it's not as neat as that right now.
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Confirmed in my my experiences with an AWE64 and a dual 533Mhz Celeron setup. I moved to a Santa Cruz Turtle Beach - no problems.
And as far as "Is there something magical about MP3s?," I think he's talking about standard wave output support...
Many card/driver combinations are supposed to be able to recognise the kind of data put through them. The Santa Cruz, for example, had a 'Hardware MP3 accelerator' option in the control panel. I really don't know how they recognise it though - by instinct I'd agree that surely the waveform has been decoded by the main CPU anyway? Be interested to hear from anyone who knows more about this point.
Cheers,
Ian
Phhh. I knew that and I'm not even American...
Cheers,
Ian
Totally agree. I bought my last two albums after hearing tracks on Epitonic. I've listend to a lot more tracks from there I enjoyed, but not quite enough to buy an album. I've also listened to utter rubbish as well of course, but then this site let me find that out before I bought.
I have no commercial relationship to the site, nor am I suggesting this site is unique. But as the parent poster says, why steal stuff if you can try things out for free anyway?
Cheers,
Ian
In the words of a friend currently going through the exact same thing I'm going through, "you'll soon discover why sleep deprivation is one of the world's purest forms of torture"...
Cheers,
Ian
Customer: "But it doesn't work."
Salesman: "That is the state of the art..."
To be honest, I wasn't aware there was any base in teleportation from which to improve.
Cheers,
Ian
Trying not to ruin the film - at one point a trial takes place with an American prosecuter from the War of Independence versus a British doctor defender from World War II. The prosecutor argues that no American could possibly live in Britain, and to prove it he produces a radio on which the most boring cricket commentary known to man is playing, which he declares to be "The Voice of England". The Briton's defence? He produces a radio playing 40s American Blues, "Sho shoooo, baby", which he declares to be "The Voice of America". The prosecuter looks downcast and confesses he doesn't understand a word of it, to which the Briton replies neither does he.
Ah well, perhaps you have to see things in order for it to be funny. But if you're interested, I wholeheartedly recommand A Matter of Life and Death to anyone that's a fan of quality filmaking
Cheers,
Ian
Glad to hear they're living up to the illustrious reputation of their predecessor then...
Cheers,
Ian
Personally, I'd love one. I currently own a Sony PC9e miniDV thingy, and it's excellent. This look better though. An annoyance I have is the capture time - basically, it dumps camcorder footage out to the firewire port at x1 speed. This device would overcome the 1x playback limitation. As the article says, it would also stop me getting through tapes at an ungodly speed. Plus there's the benefit that each clip has already been stored seperately, so no more sitting at the editing software checking the results of basic imports.
Isn't anyone pleased to see this except me? Lighten up! This thing is cool.
Cheers,
Ian
A copyright, on the other hand, equally by definition prevents another producer from making the same good. Thus the copyright acts as a barrier to market entry, which in turn allows supernormal profits for the entity which holds that copyright.
When I said short term, I really meant short/mid-term. Poor phrasing, my apologies. The point I was trying to make was that since copyrights expire, the barrier to entry won't last and hence the market will eventually return to equilibrium. A strong argument against extending copyrights is that the mechanism described would break down as barrier to entry would remain. That in turn would mean supernormal profits in perpetuity for the copyright holder (at least, until people stopped buying the copyrighted good anyway).
I think we're saying roughly the same thing.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Not in classical economic terms, no. Copyrights allow short term supernormal profits, by which an economic entity may benefit by being first to market. This is right - the creator of an idea is the first to expoit it, and so gains supernormal profits before the market returns to equilibrium. For more about monopolistic profits, see here
The opposition to long copyrights should come by pointing out that it prevents market correction since 'short term' becomes 'infinite term'.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
In other words, what's ask_for_date()'s return value if !free_friday()? Clearly you just didn't want to interpret the result...
Cheers,
Ian
Absolutely. Sadly, this follows you around by platform too. The Linux apps tend to have it, Windows apps certainly do (there are some terrible offenders bundled with sound cards), and Apple with its Quicktime player does as well.
Apple in particular ought to know better. Standards are standards for good reason, and a consistent user-interface is key. The writer of The Apple Human Interface Guidelines, which was written years ago for System 7 and which I still retain my copy of even though I'm no longer on a Mac, has many relevant things to say about such nonsense.
Cheers,
Ian
I'm an iPod owner, and when it came out I thought that very soon there'd be a ton of PDAs ditching their 32Mb RAM and moving over to fitting the same sort of mini hard drive that the iPod has. However, none have arrived that I'm aware of. Strange, I honestly believed that would be the next step. The iPod has shown that music listening is popular, so I would have thought that there's room for a PDA which does more than just the classic contacts/calendar/task list.
Does anyone know of a PDA which is hard drive-based?
Cheers,
Ian
That you were running a single thread computationally-intensive task as a benchmark.
Dual CPUs are there to help parallism. They won't show great increases on pure number-crunching. For example, my previous machine was a dual-533 Celeron, and it would be nice and responsive whilst running multiple apps, even if one of them (say, my MP3 encoder) decided to max out one of the CPUs.
Cheers,
Ian
And in which country would that legislation be enacted?
I prefer the idea of handling with ISP peering agreements, in a similar fashion to how spam is handled today. Too many virus requests from an ISP's IP range results in that ISP being refused backbone peering rights.
Cheers,
Ian
Agreed. Additionally, I would like to see Tivo come out with its own device - a Tivo with a CD drive that could rip tracks itself and present them via the normal Tivo menu.
In addition, a 'Treat as audio'-type option could inform Tivo that certain TV recordings should be treated as audio tracks, not TV broadcasts. That covers the case where digital cable supplies a lot of radio stations.
I like Tivo's interface, and would be interested to see them move out slightly beyond their current TV-only remit.
Cheers,
Ian
They've managed to introduce remote exploits via their alleged Security Hardening Package, and recent posts on the Cobalt developers lists show that their latest kernel update caused some machines to crash unrecoverably. They've promised an updated PHP on the Raq4 for an age now, but no sign.
That, coupled with the inordinate delay in patching OpenSSL when slapper appeared makes me a tad more unhappy than I used to be. Used to be a good service, but now seems to be in shambles.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
I'm hoping someone with more up-to-date knowledge will fill in for my sketchiness here, but...
In the UK, there are laws about broadcasting political material during (and I believe immediately preceding?) an election. Additionally, I seem to remember that you are not allowed to report on the progress of that election whilst the voting booths are still open. I'm open to correction on that last point though - I'm sure some news programmes broadcast latest exit polls during the last few General Elections. However, it's a rule I definitely recall from somewhere.
Regardless of my shaky memory, they both seem like a very good rules to me. An election's point is not to win ratings for some TV programme, and it really won't kill you to know the result a couple of hours later.
Cheers,
Ian
I'd love what you said to be true, and I personally agree with /usr/local being the most logical place. But unfortunately it's not as neat as that right now.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Ah yes, but what's C:\Program Files?
More rationalisation about where things get installed would be useful, I feel.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian