in jr/highschool, my home computer was a Commodore Vic20/C64. in school we only used Apple IIc's. I was one of the very few who could do any "homework" for the computer class because of the fact the Commodores were BASIC. the others in class either didnt have a home computer or they were Wintel/DOS machines(yes, they had QBasic, but c'mon, that wasnt real BASIC!
get to college in fall 90, and the instructor and most students waere so happy that they had a system running a GUI(Windows) as it was brand new(a horrible kludge compared to even GEOS!). he couldnt understand that I knew so much about computers...he thought they were one of the few to ever have a GUI. he didnt grasp the fact that both Commodore and Apple had GUIs YEARS before Windows. when I explained this to him, he questioned the ability to cross platforms...he couldnt grasp that all GUIS were the same...point/click, drag/drop. in his mind it was Windows only/allways, and if you didnt use Windows you would never succeed in the "world". needlesss to say I was bored silly for my entire time in college with exception to the COBOL/PASCAL classes...wish I had taken those classes more to heart:(
nowadays at work, all I ever see is companies miserable with Windows and looking for alternatives to ease their headaches. they dont care if they end up with a mixed network because they know the systems will integrate regardless.
in my experience, the more you know about different platforms, the farther you will go. getting stuck in a rut is the quickest way to becoming "dumb".
they have a section for software where they are getting old software from the likes of Macromedia and others for preservation. havent seen any source-code listed, but its still a good service for history
check out http://www.livephish.com/ they do the same thing with live shows, except the user has a choice of mp3 format or flac. you can download a pdf of liner notes and cover art to go with for self-printing as well with each show
minidisc is actually low quality(compressed 32KHz)...not even CD quality(44.1KHz).
the reason they are using optical s/pdif as oppossed to coax s/pdif is for surround sound and that most digital audio equipment tends to use the optical format over the coax format
something about that doesnt make sense. in my Win2000 workstation I have a couple of removable drive sleds that I am constantly swapping.(2 swappable bays with 4 drives that are in/out)
even when I reload my main OS partition on my c drive I never have any problems accessing the data on my swappable drives. these same swappable drives have been in NT4, XP and 2000 machines and mever been any problem reading or accessing data on any machine with any drive regardless of the datas origin
it is perfectly legal for a performer to PLAY other people songs live without paying any royalty or even acknowledging the originator. the performer ONLY has to pay royalties for that cover song if he tries to SELL a RECORDING of the cover song
Last time I checked, publishers and record labels didnt SELL lyrics. (note: lyrics != song) So whats the beef? Posting lyrics isnt stealing anything unlike posting mp3 tracks taken from the latest album.
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maybe only certain versions of HTTT have the copy protection.
mine doesnt.
(I have the "special edition" with the big case/book)
with 6days and 4+hours left...thats a nice return on investment...
whats next, mpaa/riaa will try to ban phone service because you can still tell friends or whomever that such and such movie/cd stinks via voice?
didnt the cheese linux worm do this same thing last year or the year before that? (ie, fix a security vulnerability)
in jr/highschool, my home computer was a Commodore Vic20/C64. in school we only used Apple IIc's. I was one of the very few who could do any "homework" for the computer class because of the fact the Commodores were BASIC. the others in class either didnt have a home computer or they were Wintel/DOS machines(yes, they had QBasic, but c'mon, that wasnt real BASIC!
:(
get to college in fall 90, and the instructor and most students waere so happy that they had a system running a GUI(Windows) as it was brand new(a horrible kludge compared to even GEOS!). he couldnt understand that I knew so much about computers...he thought they were one of the few to ever have a GUI. he didnt grasp the fact that both Commodore and Apple had GUIs YEARS before Windows.
when I explained this to him, he questioned the ability to cross platforms...he couldnt grasp that all GUIS were the same...point/click, drag/drop.
in his mind it was Windows only/allways, and if you didnt use Windows you would never succeed in the "world".
needlesss to say I was bored silly for my entire time in college with exception to the COBOL/PASCAL classes...wish I had taken those classes more to heart
nowadays at work, all I ever see is companies miserable with Windows and looking for alternatives to ease their headaches.
they dont care if they end up with a mixed network because they know the systems will integrate regardless.
in my experience, the more you know about different platforms, the farther you will go. getting stuck in a rut is the quickest way to becoming "dumb".
just yesterday afternoon, they were asking for only $150 for cpu/install.
that is a very interesting FAQ
they have a section for software where they are getting old software from the likes of Macromedia and others for preservation. havent seen any source-code listed, but its still a good service for history
good thing Windows 2000 w/ DirectX 8.1 is NOT on the list of affected configurations
may I ask why you change the buffer from the default to 500ms?
even if you leave the buffer at default but just disable fades you wont get gaps.
granted, I'm not an expert on winamp or its api or whatever you want to call it, but it *appears* as if you are TRYING to have a gap.
the mp3s I had to create this past weekend play flawlessly without any gaps using the gapless plugin.
I can only speak from experience.
"FLAC should play gapless by design"
thats why when you install the FLAC plugin for winamp, you have to install the gapless plugin??
that plugin has worked flawlessly with my mp3, shn, wav and flac files for years.
ever think that maybe your Queesnryche mp3's may not be encoded correctly?
since Linux is the kernel the GNU software is run on
guess you havent tried the gapless plugin for winamp?
its been available for a few years now and it works.
check out http://www.livephish.com/
they do the same thing with live shows, except the user has a choice of mp3 format or flac.
you can download a pdf of liner notes and cover art to go with for self-printing as well with each show
Im mostly a dat user as well. give me my 24/48!
yeah, my PII450 w/ 512Ram wan XP slow/rough as well, while my G3800 w/ 512Ram ran OSX10.2.5 very smoothly
minidiscs use a compressed 32KHz stream, not 22KHz.
not sure of the bit-rate
please read the article.
do wintel/amd systems feature a 900MHz or a 1GHz system bus? not that Ive seen, so how is this half as fast as wintel/amd?
minidisc is actually low quality(compressed 32KHz)...not even CD quality(44.1KHz).
the reason they are using optical s/pdif as oppossed to coax s/pdif is for surround sound and that most digital audio equipment tends to use the optical format over the coax format
"Let's face it, not one new machine built today comes with Windows 98 SE"
hm, maybe you should tell that to Dell(Business Division). we just bought 10 NEW machines with Win98SE factory installed
something about that doesnt make sense.
in my Win2000 workstation I have a couple of removable drive sleds that I am constantly swapping.(2 swappable bays with 4 drives that are in/out)
even when I reload my main OS partition on my c drive I never have any problems accessing the data on my swappable drives. these same swappable drives have been in NT4, XP and 2000 machines and mever been any problem reading or accessing data on any machine with any drive regardless of the datas origin
it is perfectly legal for a performer to PLAY other people songs live without paying any royalty or even acknowledging the originator. the performer ONLY has to pay royalties for that cover song if he tries to SELL a RECORDING of the cover song
Last time I checked, publishers and record labels didnt SELL lyrics. (note: lyrics != song)
So whats the beef? Posting lyrics isnt stealing anything unlike posting mp3 tracks taken from the latest album.
I work for a band(s)
how many versions of Office 2000 exist?(besides standard, professional, etc)
my Office 2000 Professional has never required any activation/registrastion over the course of the 4 years its been in use here.
was this "end-of-life" code added in some service pack or SR?
this is also begs the question others have asked: why didn't the sysadmin test this patch?!
clueless paper mcse's...