why should the screen resolution matter? Shouldn't it be the printer resolution that matters?
Probably 200 dpi looked ok, but a nice printer should be able to do much, much better. But yeah, you approach the land of diminishing returns at some point. 1200 dpi is not 6 times the quality of 200.
The sgi workstations have been pushing 64 for 5-10 years, there is something to say for maturity. The terzo also holds 4 cpu's (and probably faster i/o) which would outpace the mac by quite a bit.
Well, yeah, I knew you were trying to be funny and you were.... but I really like XP (with sensible defaults of course), it is smooth as glass.
And yet I know that the command line is not its strong point, although I hear they may put a real shell into Longhorn.
Even so, I've used unix for years too. I intend to move to open source soon just out of principle. Don't like giving my rights away every time I install some new software.
I've found the average cd is more like 400 or 500 meg and a certain percentage, lets say 20% have only one good song on them. You don't want the whole album.
I have a little ide disk array for cheap that holds my music with room to spare. DVD's are my real storage problem.
If you start now, by the time you are finished ripping you can buy a few of the 3 or 400 gig drives for $250 =).
Well, I'm not the parent poster, but consider this....
My time is much more valuable than disk space. (I'm over 30 =) My 600 cd's are in wav format because I'm not ripping the fuckers again when mp4 or wma.10.pro.AAC(TM) comes out. I made that mistake once in '98, never again.
When 250gig drives are $250 you are wasting your time on anything else but wav. I don't even consider FLAC anymore even though I think it is great and once thought it would be my main format.
Now, mp3 is great for transfering over the internet.... no argument there, but guess what? When I need to transfer an album to a friend or an ipod...... I encode them at the perfect bitrate I need AT THE TIME I NEED THEM !!!! WOO HOOOOOOO!!!
I didn't have time to write yesterday that I value the security of my computer and personal privacy (ie, freedom from popups and animations) much more than a hacked up IE scripting feature that allows me to run CrappyApplicationX 1.0.
Sounds like you don't have the luxury of making that decision. I'm sorry about that. I still recommend not using IE on your main machine, better to run on a test machine/vmware etc, so it can be wiped out frequently. That is how I check the occasional flash-only site.
Well, I use 1.3 and while not a speed demon its pretty fast, except at load time. I keep it running all the time so it doesn't matter.
Funny, I use mozilla when I don't want Flash, etc. I use IE on the rare occasion I want it. Because it was already installed with Flash.
The current right click behavior is the standard windows behavior. What you describe is the X windows,(maybe mac too) standard. I would bet there is a preference to change it, but I don't know it off-hand.
The preference I do know about is in the advanced section\mouse wheel. Go in there and set Ctrl+Mouse Wheel to change font size. Works Great.
Every site I encounter with microfonts gets Ctrl+Mouse Wheel zoomed up to 20 points!!
Many times I zap the background color with a bookmarklet also. I hate all these bright white pages, that have become the norm.
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you must have missed the "COD."
It means cash on delivery. I didn't know retailers/ups would do this kind of transaction but I will keep it in mind when I need privacy.
why should the screen resolution matter? Shouldn't it be the printer resolution that matters?
Probably 200 dpi looked ok, but a nice printer should be able to do much, much better. But yeah, you approach the land of diminishing returns at some point. 1200 dpi is not 6 times the quality of 200.
duff? lame?
Well, yeah, it probably would....
if it existed!
The sgi workstations have been pushing 64 for 5-10 years, there is something to say for maturity. The terzo also holds 4 cpu's (and probably faster i/o) which would outpace the mac by quite a bit.
Personally, I would take either.
There is the theory of the moebius. Seems like we have all done this before....
Hey! Wait a minute...
Yeah, but it goes off in her mouth...
Well, yeah, I knew you were trying to be funny and you were.... but I really like XP (with sensible defaults of course), it is smooth as glass.
And yet I know that the command line is not its strong point, although I hear they may put a real shell into Longhorn.
Even so, I've used unix for years too. I intend to move to open source soon just out of principle. Don't like giving my rights away every time I install some new software.
I tried the url, but there is nothing there.
It certainly does not. :-/ command dot com is only comparable to a real shell in that you type commands with a keyboard.
It is a pathetic, primitive program loader at best.
Well, I'm not striping. I need space, not speed for media. But, I do feel vulnerable with only a parity drive.
Soon, I will aquire another chunk of storage and then sync the files ocasionally.
-Mike
I'm doing it now. 600 cd's and ~50 dvd's on my ide raid. Hopefully by next year it will fit on one disk or two.
Not trivial, but more trivial than your time.
I've found the average cd is more like 400 or 500 meg and a certain percentage, lets say 20% have only one good song on them. You don't want the whole album.
I have a little ide disk array for cheap that holds my music with room to spare. DVD's are my real storage problem.
If you start now, by the time you are finished ripping you can buy a few of the 3 or 400 gig drives for $250 =).
Well, I'm not the parent poster, but consider this....
.. I encode them at the perfect bitrate I need AT THE TIME I NEED THEM !!!! WOO HOOOOOOO!!!
My time is much more valuable than disk space. (I'm over 30 =) My 600 cd's are in wav format because I'm not ripping the fuckers again when mp4 or wma.10.pro.AAC(TM) comes out. I made that mistake once in '98, never again.
When 250gig drives are $250 you are wasting your time on anything else but wav. I don't even consider FLAC anymore even though I think it is great and once thought it would be my main format.
Now, mp3 is great for transfering over the internet.... no argument there, but guess what? When I need to transfer an album to a friend or an ipod....
The best of both worlds, I must say =)
Yeah, I read this and thought the same thing. Can anyone fill us in here?
I would read it, but the server is on some whacked port I don't have access to because I am behind a firewall.
Why the nonstandard port?
I wouldn't worry about that, nullsoft was bought for 11 bills as I seem to remember.
I'm sure justin got a significant portion of that. If he's somewhat smart with his money, he shouldn't have to work again, ever.
Yes... That's because your brain normalizes to whatever input it receives. e.g. we watched VHS for years, no?
I didn't have time to write yesterday that I value the security of my computer and personal privacy (ie, freedom from popups and animations) much more than a hacked up IE scripting feature that allows me to run CrappyApplicationX 1.0.
Sounds like you don't have the luxury of making that decision. I'm sorry about that. I still recommend not using IE on your main machine, better to run on a test machine/vmware etc, so it can be wiped out frequently. That is how I check the occasional flash-only site.
Thats a feature, not a problem. =)
From the article:
But how does the Celeron processor differ from a convectional P4 processor?
A pretty accurate slip of the tongue there =).
maybe, maybe not.
Arent companies super cheap now? Arent stocks at a 6 year low?
Nope, the G4 is still great for notebooks, etc
Well, I use 1.3 and while not a speed demon its pretty fast, except at load time. I keep it running all the time so it doesn't matter.
Funny, I use mozilla when I don't want Flash, etc. I use IE on the rare occasion I want it. Because it was already installed with Flash.
The current right click behavior is the standard windows behavior. What you describe is the X windows,(maybe mac too) standard. I would bet there is a preference to change it, but I don't know it off-hand.
The preference I do know about is in the advanced section\mouse wheel. Go in there and set Ctrl+Mouse Wheel to change font size. Works Great.
Every site I encounter with microfonts gets Ctrl+Mouse Wheel zoomed up to 20 points!!
Many times I zap the background color with a bookmarklet also. I hate all these bright white pages, that have become the norm.
Anyway, good luck.
I recommend mozilla with everything disabled. Mighty nice.
ooh, thanks, dl'ing now...