Maybe I'm just misreading this, but, as I already replied to another post, I think he meant that Usenet was the second of the big three services to be created.
The wording of the statement could have been a little better, I know I had to re-read it, but I'm pretty sure that's what he meant.
After all, his forum is on the Web... it seems unlikely that one of the Lords of Slashdot would assign more importance to another medium than his own.:)
I think he meant Usenet was second to be created of the big three, after email, and before the WWW... which IIRC had its real genesis somewhere between 1992-early1994.
Actually, it's not nVidia anymore. I'm too lazy to actually find when they did this, but as I recall, the name was officially changed to NVIDIA a while back. If you don't believe me, check out their website, they write it all in caps wherever it is mentioned.
I have a cable modem, which is probably fairly comparable to your T1, and including downloads and "re-downloads" (that doesn't need to be done nearly as often as you make it seem) it doesn't take me anywhere *near* 5.5 hours to make an mp3 cd.
Download multiple copies of each song, all going at once, in *maybe* 45 minutes, usually less. Quality check randomly throughout songs (just to make sure I didn't download "Disney Silly Songs" labelled as whatever I was interested in, I don't listen to each song all the way through, cdrs cost $1 a piece, I could care less if one or two songs has a pop in it) while converting to wav (that takes you 45 minutes? Give me a break, Winamp does that with lightning speed, convert all of them in maybe 3-4 minutes, and thats if you have a slow machine) and burning (8 minutes for me on my 8x burner per full cd).
That's about an hour, total. Maybe it takes you 5.5 hours to make each mp3 cd, but I would be willing to bet the vast majority of people burning mp3s are more in my category. I don't often make mp3 cds, not because of the "immorality" of doing so, but because I guess I'm one of the rare few to whom MP3 cds (at any bitrate less than 192kbps, and try to find any non-mainstream cd entirely online at 192kbps and up... good luck) sound like complete and utter feces.
Plus there's just that, I dunno, *nice* feeling of unwrapping a new cd and knowing it belongs to you. Blank cdr discs with CD-pen labels on them are so ugly.:)
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Maybe I'm just misreading this, but, as I already replied to another post, I think he meant that Usenet was the second of the big three services to be created.
:)
The wording of the statement could have been a little better, I know I had to re-read it, but I'm pretty sure that's what he meant.
After all, his forum is on the Web... it seems unlikely that one of the Lords of Slashdot would assign more importance to another medium than his own.
I think he meant Usenet was second to be created of the big three, after email, and before the WWW... which IIRC had its real genesis somewhere between 1992-early1994.
I love it... you write a post correcting someone's word usage and you can't even properly spell "speech".
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Actually, it's not nVidia anymore. I'm too lazy to actually find when they did this, but as I recall, the name was officially changed to NVIDIA a while back. If you don't believe me, check out their website, they write it all in caps wherever it is mentioned.
I have a cable modem, which is probably fairly comparable to your T1, and including downloads and "re-downloads" (that doesn't need to be done nearly as often as you make it seem) it doesn't take me anywhere *near* 5.5 hours to make an mp3 cd.
:)
Download multiple copies of each song, all going at once, in *maybe* 45 minutes, usually less. Quality check randomly throughout songs (just to make sure I didn't download "Disney Silly Songs" labelled as whatever I was interested in, I don't listen to each song all the way through, cdrs cost $1 a piece, I could care less if one or two songs has a pop in it) while converting to wav (that takes you 45 minutes? Give me a break, Winamp does that with lightning speed, convert all of them in maybe 3-4 minutes, and thats if you have a slow machine) and burning (8 minutes for me on my 8x burner per full cd).
That's about an hour, total. Maybe it takes you 5.5 hours to make each mp3 cd, but I would be willing to bet the vast majority of people burning mp3s are more in my category. I don't often make mp3 cds, not because of the "immorality" of doing so, but because I guess I'm one of the rare few to whom MP3 cds (at any bitrate less than 192kbps, and try to find any non-mainstream cd entirely online at 192kbps and up... good luck) sound like complete and utter feces.
Plus there's just that, I dunno, *nice* feeling of unwrapping a new cd and knowing it belongs to you. Blank cdr discs with CD-pen labels on them are so ugly.