Documentation/specifications, cable specifications/assemblies, overview drawings, interwiring diagrams, etc are depicted *so well* in a 3D parametric environment.
Sure, the modern set of design tools is far above AutoCAD, but there are quite a few situations where 2D modelling (which AutoCad excels at) is required.
"Also, since most of the talk radio is syndicated from 3rd parties, you'll have ads there, while the inhouse produced talk radio isn't (like why you don't have ads on Stern (Sirius) or Ron & Fez and the like, but on channels like CNN, BBC, etc. you have ads)."
Not to mention that most of the feeds like CNN, BBC, etc are the audio-only feeds of the TV channel. Nice bonus and suprisingly effective.
Why would you want to flip it on the fly? I thought the parent thread's point was to get the OS setup and secured, and then hardware jumper it to read only.
All the relevant data and/var/tmp are placed on another *physical* drive.
See you got lucky. I bought the Diamond Rio, which was falsely advertised as the world's first MP3 player (the Eiger MPMan came out first in the US by a few months). My Rio broke within a year, and it was a joke compared to cd players (32MB of storage FTW).
We're getting ahead of ourselves right here. The US online music sales industry has a reluctance (pressure from the RIAA?) to release anything in a format they can control (other than eMusic, which primarily represents independent labels). The article in question really is just a test to see how accepting the public is of MP3 versus a DRM format (although eMusic seems to be quite successful with their model).
Even under that assumption, I'd think that it's somewhat pointless to re-encode MP3 into OGG or whatever other format (and completely defeats the purpose of FLAC). With all of the "audio quality debates" going on, applying two types of lossy compression on top of each other probably is not a good idea. I'd almost say for certain that the distribution system of these online music stores does not carry the original CD or even the original raw WAV files in stock to do so, when it's much more economically feasable to have the audio pre-packaged and converted (and DRM applied as it's being sent to the customer).
A lot of these issues stem from each individual user's hardware (ie sound card, speakers/headphones, etc). People also generally percieve louder as "higher quality."
For MP3, even with the excellent quality of LAME, you start hearing a decent amount of audio distortion on hardware of decent quality at around 112kbps and lower. 128kbps and higher, the percieved loss of quality drops of pretty sharply.
It was actually only after I got my audiophile headphones that I started encoding my music at much higher bitrates. The "swishing" sensation can be percieved at 128kbps audio and lower with a good sound card and decent quality headphones ($250+).
In my previous life as a computer hardware reviewer, I actually did get a chance to play around with AOpen's (now discontinued) line of motherboards with vaccum tube amplified audio. In terms of audio quality, those boards beat the socks off of any other sound card I compared them to (again in a double blind test). The noise isolation was also superior to anything else I've heard, which was quite suprising, given that the sound card is from on-board electronics. I actually still have my two boards lying around, although the chipsets are long obsolete.
Taking your computer/portable music player out of the loop, and using high quality audio gear will differ your perspective on the various bit rates for MP3 encoding.
"Try offering some rock and some jazz, EMI, in either OGG or 320kbps+ MP3 format, then I'll buy."
Good luck trying to sell the public something in OGG format. The majority of the portable players out there do NOT support OGG, this would be is contary to what Yahoo is trying to do (test the effectiveness and demand of selling MP3s versus DRMed WMA).
I'd be very suprised if those tracks weren't released as 192kps MP3s. All of the PlayforSure music stores have switched over to 192kps WMAs in a "music quality" war.
"It should be noted that this trial is an attempt to increase sales and competition with online music that is not necessarilary available on iTunes."
I don't get how the OP infered that statement from the article. Both of the songs cited in the article (A single from Norah Jones and two tracks from Reliant K) should be on iTunes. Apple has an agreement with EMI, just as Yahoo Music/Musicnet has an agreement with EMI.
eMusic on the other hand, representing a much larger percentage of the independent labels out there, has a selection of music that can't be found on iTunes.
An index of "the pill" and "pill" are two different queries becuase matching the whole phrase will get you more relevant results. This is built into the code that interprets queries (this is completely different from PageRank, which deals with cross linking between sites to get the highest probability of relevance -- AFTER the query is interpreted and a set of pages is generated). Almost all search engines work that way.
There's much more to sales than just the attach rate.
Sure, attach rate measures direct sales (how many games are bought with a console). However, people are much less likely to buy games when they know they're flipping a console on ebay. Anyone can buy games for the PS3, and people on ebay actually are LESS likely to pay a premium on included software (primarily because typically, you don't have a choice what games you're picking up)
Completely unrelated, but a quick ebay check on completed listings reveals that the PS3 is selling for $700-$1100 (depending on which version -- $499/$599 MSRP). The Wii is selling for ~$500 (for about $250 MSRP).
RTFA please. It deals with determining relevance, not the optimal method of indexing pages.
In regards to your comment: Verbs play an extremely important role when dealing with relevancy based on phrases.
The small snippet that was posted was just cut and pasted from the opening hook of the article. It just leads into a mathematical discussion how to sort through the thousands of results that are returned.
1. Audiovisual works included in the educational library of a college or university's
film or media studies department, when circumvention is accomplished for the
purpose of making compilations of portions of those works for educational use in
the classroom by media studies or film professors.
2. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become
obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access,
when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival
reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be
considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work
stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available
in the commercial marketplace.
3. Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or
Recommendation of the Register of Copyrights November 17, 2006 Page 2
damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no
longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available
in the commercial marketplace.
4. Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the
work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain
access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book's read-aloud function or
of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.
5. Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets
to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is
accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone
communication network.
6. Sound recordings, and audiovisual works associated with those sound recordings,
distributed in compact disc format and protected by technological protection
measures that control access to lawfully purchased works and create or exploit
security flaws or vulnerabilities that compromise the security of personal
computers, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good
faith testing, investigating, or correcting such security flaws or vulnerabilities.
I thought this article was solely to analyze the scaling of processors of this family, and less of how well the processors perform in comparison to other processors out there.
Well, If spam legislation actually was effective and 99.9% of all spammers are eliminated, Microsoft would have a huge chunk of the spam market (hell, it could be a spam monopoly) under this law. =P
Well, aspects of the bill exempt commercial email from ISPs. It's a relatively well known fact that certain ISPs are the very source of spam, and under this, it would make it perfectly legal to spam under the guise of an ISP.
You can't really blame every Athlon mobo out there just becuase they didn't know about this feature 2 years ago when it didn't exist. That's just like saying that I want to run a p3 in a p2 board, it might work, but then it might not. hell, lets see if a p3 in an old outdated motherboard still has thermal control and move on from there (if you really want to compare technology vs outdated mobos, but who cares?)
It basically depends on your mobo, if your mobo features chipguard protection (aka, autopoweroff if no cpu fan is detected on post), your computer wouldn't even turn on. Perfect for people like me who forget to plug in fans =P.
The BIOS will not shut down the computer once it reaches a certain temp, the chip protect feature inside the bios will basically turn off your computer if it detects 0 RPM (aka, no fan or dead fan) on the header FAN1.
Although I kinda welcome AMD stepping up to the PR rating system, they're gonna have a lot of confused consumers when they see that the XP is based on a PR system, and the MP is just given a mhz rating.
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Documentation/specifications, cable specifications/assemblies, overview drawings, interwiring diagrams, etc are depicted *so well* in a 3D parametric environment.
Sure, the modern set of design tools is far above AutoCAD, but there are quite a few situations where 2D modelling (which AutoCad excels at) is required.
"Also, since most of the talk radio is syndicated from 3rd parties, you'll have ads there, while the inhouse produced talk radio isn't (like why you don't have ads on Stern (Sirius) or Ron & Fez and the like, but on channels like CNN, BBC, etc. you have ads)." Not to mention that most of the feeds like CNN, BBC, etc are the audio-only feeds of the TV channel. Nice bonus and suprisingly effective.
In terms of board games, Wizards of the Coast only a small handful of games.
Of the 10 that were listed by the Morning News article, only one is made by Wizard's board game division, Avalon Hill.
Wizards does do quite a few card games though.
But then, the parent was talking about Gentoo.
Why would you want to flip it on the fly? I thought the parent thread's point was to get the OS setup and secured, and then hardware jumper it to read only.
/var/tmp are placed on another *physical* drive.
All the relevant data and
See you got lucky. I bought the Diamond Rio, which was falsely advertised as the world's first MP3 player (the Eiger MPMan came out first in the US by a few months). My Rio broke within a year, and it was a joke compared to cd players (32MB of storage FTW).
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Re the Eiger / Hango: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-5622055-1.htm
You know, encoding a 45 minute TV episode to double pass Xvid takes about 4-5 hours on a 2.4GHz P4 (~350MB).
But I can say that quality has gotten better from the DivX 3.11 days to modern codecs.
I noticed that he never mentioned how OpenDivX was once open-source, and then abruptly pulled away.
"What the community really wants is a Winamp, not a Linux."
We're getting ahead of ourselves right here. The US online music sales industry has a reluctance (pressure from the RIAA?) to release anything in a format they can control (other than eMusic, which primarily represents independent labels). The article in question really is just a test to see how accepting the public is of MP3 versus a DRM format (although eMusic seems to be quite successful with their model).
Even under that assumption, I'd think that it's somewhat pointless to re-encode MP3 into OGG or whatever other format (and completely defeats the purpose of FLAC). With all of the "audio quality debates" going on, applying two types of lossy compression on top of each other probably is not a good idea. I'd almost say for certain that the distribution system of these online music stores does not carry the original CD or even the original raw WAV files in stock to do so, when it's much more economically feasable to have the audio pre-packaged and converted (and DRM applied as it's being sent to the customer).
A lot of these issues stem from each individual user's hardware (ie sound card, speakers/headphones, etc). People also generally percieve louder as "higher quality."
For MP3, even with the excellent quality of LAME, you start hearing a decent amount of audio distortion on hardware of decent quality at around 112kbps and lower. 128kbps and higher, the percieved loss of quality drops of pretty sharply.
It was actually only after I got my audiophile headphones that I started encoding my music at much higher bitrates. The "swishing" sensation can be percieved at 128kbps audio and lower with a good sound card and decent quality headphones ($250+).
In my previous life as a computer hardware reviewer, I actually did get a chance to play around with AOpen's (now discontinued) line of motherboards with vaccum tube amplified audio. In terms of audio quality, those boards beat the socks off of any other sound card I compared them to (again in a double blind test). The noise isolation was also superior to anything else I've heard, which was quite suprising, given that the sound card is from on-board electronics. I actually still have my two boards lying around, although the chipsets are long obsolete.
Taking your computer/portable music player out of the loop, and using high quality audio gear will differ your perspective on the various bit rates for MP3 encoding.
"Try offering some rock and some jazz, EMI, in either OGG or 320kbps+ MP3 format, then I'll buy."
Good luck trying to sell the public something in OGG format. The majority of the portable players out there do NOT support OGG, this would be is contary to what Yahoo is trying to do (test the effectiveness and demand of selling MP3s versus DRMed WMA).
I'd be very suprised if those tracks weren't released as 192kps MP3s. All of the PlayforSure music stores have switched over to 192kps WMAs in a "music quality" war.
AllofMP3 was directly cited as an example of an issue that Russia has to address in order to join the WTO.
"It should be noted that this trial is an attempt to increase sales and competition with online music that is not necessarilary available on iTunes."
I don't get how the OP infered that statement from the article. Both of the songs cited in the article (A single from Norah Jones and two tracks from Reliant K) should be on iTunes. Apple has an agreement with EMI, just as Yahoo Music/Musicnet has an agreement with EMI.
eMusic on the other hand, representing a much larger percentage of the independent labels out there, has a selection of music that can't be found on iTunes.
It's not entirely excluded.
An index of "the pill" and "pill" are two different queries becuase matching the whole phrase will get you more relevant results. This is built into the code that interprets queries (this is completely different from PageRank, which deals with cross linking between sites to get the highest probability of relevance -- AFTER the query is interpreted and a set of pages is generated). Almost all search engines work that way.
There's much more to sales than just the attach rate.
Sure, attach rate measures direct sales (how many games are bought with a console). However, people are much less likely to buy games when they know they're flipping a console on ebay. Anyone can buy games for the PS3, and people on ebay actually are LESS likely to pay a premium on included software (primarily because typically, you don't have a choice what games you're picking up)
Completely unrelated, but a quick ebay check on completed listings reveals that the PS3 is selling for $700-$1100 (depending on which version -- $499/$599 MSRP). The Wii is selling for ~$500 (for about $250 MSRP).
RTFA please. It deals with determining relevance, not the optimal method of indexing pages.
In regards to your comment:
Verbs play an extremely important role when dealing with relevancy based on phrases.
The small snippet that was posted was just cut and pasted from the opening hook of the article. It just leads into a mathematical discussion how to sort through the thousands of results that are returned.
1. Audiovisual works included in the educational library of a college or university's film or media studies department, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of making compilations of portions of those works for educational use in the classroom by media studies or film professors. 2. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace. 3. Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or Recommendation of the Register of Copyrights November 17, 2006 Page 2 damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace. 4. Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book's read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format. 5. Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network. 6. Sound recordings, and audiovisual works associated with those sound recordings, distributed in compact disc format and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully purchased works and create or exploit security flaws or vulnerabilities that compromise the security of personal computers, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing, investigating, or correcting such security flaws or vulnerabilities.
I thought this article was solely to analyze the scaling of processors of this family, and less of how well the processors perform in comparison to other processors out there.
Well, If spam legislation actually was effective and 99.9% of all spammers are eliminated, Microsoft would have a huge chunk of the spam market (hell, it could be a spam monopoly) under this law. =P
Well, aspects of the bill exempt commercial email from ISPs. It's a relatively well known fact that certain ISPs are the very source of spam, and under this, it would make it perfectly legal to spam under the guise of an ISP.
You can't really blame every Athlon mobo out there just becuase they didn't know about this feature 2 years ago when it didn't exist. That's just like saying that I want to run a p3 in a p2 board, it might work, but then it might not. hell, lets see if a p3 in an old outdated motherboard still has thermal control and move on from there (if you really want to compare technology vs outdated mobos, but who cares?)
It basically depends on your mobo, if your mobo features chipguard protection (aka, autopoweroff if no cpu fan is detected on post), your computer wouldn't even turn on. Perfect for people like me who forget to plug in fans =P.
The BIOS will not shut down the computer once it reaches a certain temp, the chip protect feature inside the bios will basically turn off your computer if it detects 0 RPM (aka, no fan or dead fan) on the header FAN1.
Although I kinda welcome AMD stepping up to the PR rating system, they're gonna have a lot of confused consumers when they see that the XP is based on a PR system, and the MP is just given a mhz rating.