It has already begun, on the Canadian version of Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, you are forced to view a Macrovision add (wtf?), the ads about the distributors, and an add about wine.
You have no way to FF this shit, as soon as you insert the disc, you have to wait about 3 minutes before being able to access the main menu.
Hey! I bought this freaking disc!!! I paid 25$ to buy it, why do you force me to view those adds EVERY TIME???
Here at my work we have a tape archive system (a Sony robot) and the tapes in that machine are used daily, multiple times a day, and they have an average life expentency of 2 years.
Remember that these tapes are used to archive/restore a lot of files randomly, as they are used (to save disk space). So they are mounted/dismounted, fast forwarded, rewinded every day, 24 hours a day, and they last 2 years.
I think that you could then view your movie every day for the next coulple of years and you would see no degradation (if your vcr doesn't eat it of course!). With a 2k$ VCR, I think they used quality mechanical components...
The number of bits affect the resolution of the sound.
Think of it as a graphic mode, if you draw a curve in 320x240, it will not be a curve. It will have a lot of steps.
It's the same with CD, with only 16 bits, you have 32768 different levels. If you try to reproduce a sine wave, it will not be a true sine wave anymore. It becomes a kind of square wave.
If you only increase sample frequency, you still have this problem. By increasing the number of bits, your output wave will look a lot more like a real sine wave, wich is much smoother sounding than the CD version.
With SACD, 24 bits give you about 16 millions levels...
This is typical of Slashdot, a bunch of teenagers who never heard anything else than CD, who understand nothing of digital musing encoding/decoding, and yet are able to say that CD is better than anything else... if that was true, why are studios recording at 24bits/96Khz?
Remember that CD are a 20 years old technology, and that the choice of 16 bits at the time was to lower the cost of manufacturing the hardware to record it and reproduce music from it.
You obviously never heard high quality audiophile gear...
Just remember that a properly built turntable with and audiophile grade cartridge/arm, and a professionnaly recorded vynyl you can get as much as 100Khz of headroom. And being analog, it's much more like the real thing than low resolution digital...
Anyway, I don't know why I'm ranting, a lot of you can't even hear the difference between CD and MP3.
How can you have the same password everywere when:
1- they don't expire the same day (some expire after 20 days, some after 60 days) 2- they don't accept the same format (alpha, only numerics, mixed case, some are limited to 8 chars max, others are 12 chars min, some accept repeated characters, some don't)
And, before calling someone a moron, maybe you could have the courage to log in.
I have also to remeber my credit card PIN, my debit card PIN, my home alarm PIN, my garage door PIN, my root and user password for my Linux box, my password for my internet account, my password for Slashdot, my codeword if the alarm goes off and they call me, my numeric password on my cell phone, my pin for accessing my bank account on the internet (2 pins since I do business with 2 banks)...
Treating your users as morons will not solve this problem.
I'm not a moron and there is no way I can remember all the passwords I need on a daily basis.
We're talking about 20 passwords, because I work on a lot of applications on multiple environments (mainframe, unix, Oracle, windows network, etc...). Multiply this by 2 because we have test and production environment (and sometimes multiple level of test).
So, how am I supposed to remember all this, when we have to change every 20 days dans use letters/numbers, and not reuse a password from the last 6 months???
It's my third install of Linux since a couple of years to try it.
I will probably uninstall it because:
1- installation was a pain in the a** because it didn't detect my plain jane TNT2 Ultra, my Microsoft wheel mouse and my LG monitor (very common hardware).
2- It took me at least 2 evenings to be able to change my resolution from 1024x768 70hz to 1152x864 75Hz, because it was always detecting a "compatible" VGA monitor, I had to search the internet to find that I had to force my settings with XFdrake -noauto, and that by logging as root in the console...
3- After that it took 3 reboots before X started
4- I crashed my computer 3-4 times since last week in Linux
5- When I went on the internet, I wanted to view a PDF. Then I remembered that Acrobat wasn't installed yet on my Linux partition. I went to Adobe web site, downloaded a.tar.gz, unpacked it, followed instructions and the install script never got to the end... so I deleted it...
6- I saw that I had only KDE 2.2, and that KDE 3.0 was out. So I read the install instructions and saw that I had to download 20-something packages manually, and that the install would take me an hour or two. I finally decided not to do it for now.
7- I downloaded nVidia drivers, and I had to manually change a configuration file for it to work. But OpenGL doesn't work since then???
Understand me, these are all issues that I could fix given some time (I'm on computers since the first tandy color computer went on sale so... we're talking 20 years!). But there is no way that a normal person with minimum computer knowledge can accept this! And I was told that the Mandrake distro is the easiest to install!!!
All I can say is that when it was time for my mom to buy a computer, I made her buy an iMac, with system 9. And I don't have to be ready for 10 hours of family tech support a week...
Don't get me wrong, I love unix (I work on AIX daily), but It's not ready for consumer's desktop yet. It needs a little polishing...
That's a common misconception about atheists. Everyone think we don't care about anything since we don't believe about a god or an afterlife.
Actually, it's quite the opposite. Since I believe that this life i'm living right now is the only one I'll have, then I must do everything in my power to make it worthwhile. Since I have the same feelings as any human (I love my daughter for example), and that i'm smart enough to know that we must have rules so that everyone can live decently in our society, I don't need someone trying to scare me about going to hell just to be sure I will behave correctly. I don't need a religion to teach me about morality, I can think it myself.
As any living being on this planet, our main goal is to survive. We are a social animal, just like wolves. In a wolf pack, there is nothing to gain if one of the wolf kill every other. The survival is best served by being in a group. So it is with humans, I would gain nothing by killing, raping, stealing every one in sight. It's so evident for me that I don't understand why someone would do it, maybe because of a mental disorder?
Please excuse my poor english since it's my second language... but I think you can understand my point.
The problem is, given that there is no proof of the existence of the judeo-christian god (or zeus, or the tooth fairy etc.), why must I fear eternal damnation?
What I fear from this is not based on mythology, but on the fact that the governements in some countries could use this to control the population, and that's scarier than what will happen after I die (wich is, nothing).
If rear wheel drive v8 cars are so much better than front wheel drive 4 bangers, then why are the Camaro an Firebird being put out of production because of low sales? Maybe because people don't want to buy 60's technology...
Maybe you can outrun a 4cyl in a straigth line, but it will eventually be faster than your brick for top speed and it will beat you on the first turn.
You americans are very difficult to understand... what is the fun of accelereting for 10sec in a straight line? Or going 200mph in circles? Or watching tube frame cars with fiberglass bodys that try to look like the front drive family sedan that ford or chevrolet is trying to sell you?
If you want to send a secret message to someone, you can use ordinary mail. It's a crime to open mail (or is it? since 9/11 they may hav changed this?)
I saw a documentary where there was a rat (I think, or another small furry ball of some sort) that was given a small piece of food. This piece of food was dropped in a hole in front of the animal's eyes and was exiting on the bottom. There was several holes on the top of the box and another row of holes in the bottom.
The experiment was to drop the piece and see where the animal would expect it to fall. Well, it seems that the animal always expected it to fall from the hole directly under the one it was dropped into, and when it wasn't the case the animal was confused.
So they found that this animal was expecting the piece of food to follow the law of gravity.
The canadian air force is also putting a lot of pressure on punch card manufacturers to force them to close a lot a security holes in their software...
Slashdot Mirror
It has already begun, on the Canadian version of Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, you are forced to view a Macrovision add (wtf?), the ads about the distributors, and an add about wine.
You have no way to FF this shit, as soon as you insert the disc, you have to wait about 3 minutes before being able to access the main menu.
Hey! I bought this freaking disc!!! I paid 25$ to buy it, why do you force me to view those adds EVERY TIME???
That's cool, except that most contracts for DSL or Cable connections forbid you to share or sell bandwith...
Here at my work we have a tape archive system (a Sony robot) and the tapes in that machine are used daily, multiple times a day, and they have an average life expentency of 2 years.
Remember that these tapes are used to archive/restore a lot of files randomly, as they are used (to save disk space). So they are mounted/dismounted, fast forwarded, rewinded every day, 24 hours a day, and they last 2 years.
I think that you could then view your movie every day for the next coulple of years and you would see no degradation (if your vcr doesn't eat it of course!). With a 2k$ VCR, I think they used quality mechanical components...
who makes more money than God
Actually, the preachers are the one making money...
They do this by trying to fool you in believing in a non-existent being called god.
The number of bits affect the resolution of the sound.
Think of it as a graphic mode, if you draw a curve in 320x240, it will not be a curve. It will have a lot of steps.
It's the same with CD, with only 16 bits, you have 32768 different levels. If you try to reproduce a sine wave, it will not be a true sine wave anymore. It becomes a kind of square wave.
If you only increase sample frequency, you still have this problem. By increasing the number of bits, your output wave will look a lot more like a real sine wave, wich is much smoother sounding than the CD version.
With SACD, 24 bits give you about 16 millions levels...
+4 Funny for the parent?
This is typical of Slashdot, a bunch of teenagers who never heard anything else than CD, who understand nothing of digital musing encoding/decoding, and yet are able to say that CD is better than anything else... if that was true, why are studios recording at 24bits/96Khz?
Remember that CD are a 20 years old technology, and that the choice of 16 bits at the time was to lower the cost of manufacturing the hardware to record it and reproduce music from it.
You obviously never heard high quality audiophile gear...
Just remember that a properly built turntable with and audiophile grade cartridge/arm, and a professionnaly recorded vynyl you can get as much as 100Khz of headroom. And being analog, it's much more like the real thing than low resolution digital...
Anyway, I don't know why I'm ranting, a lot of you can't even hear the difference between CD and MP3.
Go on, moderate me -1, I don't care.
The CD standard output 20Hz - 20Khz.
True, this is the boundaries of human hearing.
But you forget that the harmonics above 20Khz, wich are cut out from CD, influence the sound we hear.
Also, 16 bits of encoding is pretty lame, and produce a lot of aliasing of the music.
With 24 bits, you get something much more pleasant to the ear, and wit a higher sample rate you have the benefit pf reproducing a lot more harmonics.
For more details you could read this very interesting article:
http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?282
This article explain exactly the difference between CD and SACD in term of the benefit of having a higher sample rate.
I'd like to have those small red squares to carry data... They're small and solid (no moving parts!!!) I wonder how much Gb you could put on these?
How can you have the same password everywere when:
1- they don't expire the same day (some expire after 20 days, some after 60 days)
2- they don't accept the same format (alpha, only numerics, mixed case, some are limited to 8 chars max, others are 12 chars min, some accept repeated characters, some don't)
And, before calling someone a moron, maybe you could have the courage to log in.
Oh! and I forgot:
I have also to remeber my credit card PIN, my debit card PIN, my home alarm PIN, my garage door PIN, my root and user password for my Linux box, my password for my internet account, my password for Slashdot, my codeword if the alarm goes off and they call me, my numeric password on my cell phone, my pin for accessing my bank account on the internet (2 pins since I do business with 2 banks)...
Treating your users as morons will not solve this problem.
I'm not a moron and there is no way I can remember all the passwords I need on a daily basis.
We're talking about 20 passwords, because I work on a lot of applications on multiple environments (mainframe, unix, Oracle, windows network, etc...). Multiply this by 2 because we have test and production environment (and sometimes multiple level of test).
So, how am I supposed to remember all this, when we have to change every 20 days dans use letters/numbers, and not reuse a password from the last 6 months???
I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on my computer.
.tar.gz, unpacked it, followed instructions and the install script never got to the end... so I deleted it...
It's my third install of Linux since a couple of years to try it.
I will probably uninstall it because:
1- installation was a pain in the a** because it didn't detect my plain jane TNT2 Ultra, my Microsoft wheel mouse and my LG monitor (very common hardware).
2- It took me at least 2 evenings to be able to change my resolution from 1024x768 70hz to 1152x864 75Hz, because it was always detecting a "compatible" VGA monitor, I had to search the internet to find that I had to force my settings with XFdrake -noauto, and that by logging as root in the console...
3- After that it took 3 reboots before X started
4- I crashed my computer 3-4 times since last week in Linux
5- When I went on the internet, I wanted to view a PDF. Then I remembered that Acrobat wasn't installed yet on my Linux partition. I went to Adobe web site, downloaded a
6- I saw that I had only KDE 2.2, and that KDE 3.0 was out. So I read the install instructions and saw that I had to download 20-something packages manually, and that the install would take me an hour or two. I finally decided not to do it for now.
7- I downloaded nVidia drivers, and I had to manually change a configuration file for it to work. But OpenGL doesn't work since then???
Understand me, these are all issues that I could fix given some time (I'm on computers since the first tandy color computer went on sale so... we're talking 20 years!). But there is no way that a normal person with minimum computer knowledge can accept this! And I was told that the Mandrake distro is the easiest to install!!!
All I can say is that when it was time for my mom to buy a computer, I made her buy an iMac, with system 9. And I don't have to be ready for 10 hours of family tech support a week...
Don't get me wrong, I love unix (I work on AIX daily), but It's not ready for consumer's desktop yet. It needs a little polishing...
I receive a lot of these offers in my email, by users with Yahoo adresses...
Then, it doesn't count! I'd really love to have one of these... or just a plain old bug...
That's a common misconception about atheists. Everyone think we don't care about anything since we don't believe about a god or an afterlife.
Actually, it's quite the opposite. Since I believe that this life i'm living right now is the only one I'll have, then I must do everything in my power to make it worthwhile. Since I have the same feelings as any human (I love my daughter for example), and that i'm smart enough to know that we must have rules so that everyone can live decently in our society, I don't need someone trying to scare me about going to hell just to be sure I will behave correctly. I don't need a religion to teach me about morality, I can think it myself.
As any living being on this planet, our main goal is to survive. We are a social animal, just like wolves. In a wolf pack, there is nothing to gain if one of the wolf kill every other. The survival is best served by being in a group. So it is with humans, I would gain nothing by killing, raping, stealing every one in sight. It's so evident for me that I don't understand why someone would do it, maybe because of a mental disorder?
Please excuse my poor english since it's my second language... but I think you can understand my point.
Thanks for replying to my post.
Because they are racing cars and they don't have to take this into account:
1- have you tried to drive a rwd car in the snow?
2- packaging, a fwd car has a bigger interior and trunk
The problem is, given that there is no proof of the existence of the judeo-christian god (or zeus, or the tooth fairy etc.), why must I fear eternal damnation?
What I fear from this is not based on mythology, but on the fact that the governements in some countries could use this to control the population, and that's scarier than what will happen after I die (wich is, nothing).
If rear wheel drive v8 cars are so much better than front wheel drive 4 bangers, then why are the Camaro an Firebird being put out of production because of low sales? Maybe because people don't want to buy 60's technology...
Maybe you can outrun a 4cyl in a straigth line, but it will eventually be faster than your brick for top speed and it will beat you on the first turn.
You americans are very difficult to understand... what is the fun of accelereting for 10sec in a straight line? Or going 200mph in circles? Or watching tube frame cars with fiberglass bodys that try to look like the front drive family sedan that ford or chevrolet is trying to sell you?
LAST POST!!!
If you want to send a secret message to someone, you can use ordinary mail. It's a crime to open mail (or is it? since 9/11 they may hav changed this?)
I wonder what they will do with all the april fool jokes polluting their data?
I saw a documentary where there was a rat (I think, or another small furry ball of some sort) that was given a small piece of food. This piece of food was dropped in a hole in front of the animal's eyes and was exiting on the bottom. There was several holes on the top of the box and another row of holes in the bottom.
The experiment was to drop the piece and see where the animal would expect it to fall. Well, it seems that the animal always expected it to fall from the hole directly under the one it was dropped into, and when it wasn't the case the animal was confused.
So they found that this animal was expecting the piece of food to follow the law of gravity.
You would still have to put your data and applications on a dedicated server? And if that server crash you'll still loose your access...
And what about software licence? can you put an application on a server and access it thru a remote desktop (Microsoft doesn't permit this I think)
I'm a canadian... and yes they took our Arrows!!!
The canadian air force is also putting a lot of pressure on punch card manufacturers to force them to close a lot a security holes in their software...