Get a 6 way power switch. I don't use the power button on my computer case(soft power off.) With one flick of switch, you can turn your monitor and your computer off at the same time and power them back up(still slower then a reset button). I still prefer reset buttons, especially when I'm running windows, and I try to avoid cases that do not include them. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer companies are making cases with "true" reset/power buttons(hard power off.) If this is the only thing that is preventing you from buying from a company, get over it. Buy a six way power strip. It works almost as well. ----
Don't forget about logical compression(the ability to take very large random data files(a minimal of 1K and maximum to what the processor can handle) and try to find a pattern that compresses quite well such as being a perfect root or having a relatively close log, etc.) These all can require lots of memory and lots of CPU power(more than SETI?) ----
You need 2 gigs of RAM! For what? I have 320 in my system and have completely disabled SWAP because I have never hit it. I don't know what you are going to be doing with that RAM or how you expect to be able to use all of it but that is a lot of memory. You can easily run quake3, X11, an FTP server, and HTTP server, SMB server on 128 megs of ram all at the same time. I just don't see it yet. Software hasn't caught up yet. ----
Try Gateway. My cousin bought one of them(he is not a techie) and has been nothing but pleased. I build my own so I can't give you any personal experience. ----
Remember, some of the benchmarks that P4s excelled on were due to memory bandwidth of RDRAM and with SDRAM, they may not be so high - only time will tell of course. Depends what the program is doing. If it is a CPU intensive task(like calculating the perfect root of a number like k*2^1048576(where k.5), most of the memory can sit in the L1/L2 cache and it won't matter what type of memory you get. If it is a memory intensive task, you might notice a hit in performance(like crunching thousands of graphics(which is CPU and Memory Intensive.)
As for your original question, I prefer the Athlon just because of my ideology, price/performance ratio, and actual performance. Intel once had a monopoly and that thought is hard to get out of my mind. If the P4 was priced at the same price at the Athlon and gave significant performance increase, naturally I would buy a P4. Right now, that is not the case. I can get a 1.4ghz Athlon or 1.8ghz P4 and expect them to perform about the same with the P4 priced higher. Since RDRAM sucks and DDR is better and since the article said Intel is going to SDRAM and eventually to DDR, I'm more likely now to buy an Athlon right now. My last three computers have been by AMD and their is no reason to stop that trend when their prices are still lower then Intels for comparable performance. ----
You would need a hell of a lot of CPU cycles those types of numbers by trial and error. In theory, if you could make the numbers somehow linear with a formula using Logarithms, derivatives, etc. you could highly simplify the logic in calculating these. Also, in theory, their is atleast one formula that will give you the amount of compression you need in order to perform this task. Problem is, factorials are not that linear and trying to get them linear is a major task. If a person could find that formula, they could just solve for N and get the answer using many less CPU cycles. Trying to find the formula is the problem. ----
I check back later and I've been modded down. Fair enough. But SIX replies filled with abuse? I thought I gave you a very valid, very straight to the point reply. ----
What would be even more scarier if Microsoft or the corporate giant IBM stepped in and "merged" with AOLTIMEWARNERAMAZONAT&T and the DOJ did nothing about it. What would be even more scarier is trying to take one big giant breath and having to say MICROSOFTAOLTIMEWARNERAMAZONAT&T without pausing inbetween. ----
AOL has an excellent strategy. Get into as many markets as possible so that if one market crashes, they will have something to fall back on. The problem is, if they get into too many markets, they'll start looking more and more like a monopoly. They are working on becoming Microsoft 2. They are not yet. They are just a big company who is trying to get as many slices of different types of pies as possible. As you can tell, I am not an AOL fan. Nonetheless, AOL is a company to watch out for. Someone is going to get rich off of them and many more will be hurt. ----
If you weren't so brain-washed, you could understand my opinion. I'm not trying to convince you, you have to convince yourself of what you believe. If you are going to have a democracy, the people should have the right to vote or not to vote. It is not a true democracy if you force people to be democratic even if they "donkey" vote. This should be obvious.
I know it's not a two-party system but since I LIVE in a mostly two-party system, what else am I going to give an example against. Take two minutes and think about it. Having a preferential system of selecting your leaders is a cool idea but should always be based on popular vote or atleast popular representation instead of the "Least Unpopular." In my mind, their is something wrong with that. Somehow, this seems like it would turn in favor of the minority factions.
Bullshit. In 90% of situations, only number 1 and 2 votes are counted. The average of the populace can understand it, and
even if they cant, there is STILL the news. Remember Decision2000? Why in the hell would you assume there wasnt
soemthing like that there? The keyword here is MOST. I agree with, when their is a clear winner, their is no problem. What happens if this is not the case. Do you really want Statisticians having the last nod?
In conclusion: I have an opinion. This is ok. I'm allowed. I make fun of my own screwed up system. It's called idealism. No system is ideal. All systems are trying to approach idealism. If no one had an opinion about how a system should be ran than we wouldn't have a system. Like myself, I'm still trying to remove "In God We Trust" off all coinage and legal tender because it violates the US Bill of Rights(freedom of religion.) You may not agree with that and that's ok. Keep your opinion. Express it with all your hearts content. I have no problem with this. If you don't have controversy, you can't have a healthy democracy, no matter what country you live in and you can't take offense because a foreigner pokes fun at your system. You have to look at it, see if it needs changed, and do what is necessary. My opinion. ----
They probably did. They just decided to follow idealism rather then Economics. Their was a great product that they loved out their that they could sell and do minimal research. The problem is, too many companies in the market decided to do the same thing which significantly lowered the price of the saling OS and didn't significantly increase the market share. The morale of the story is, don't start a business on idealism unless their is a well defined market with limited competition or you can significantly stimulate without competing too much at the same time. In the end, whoever survives and is successful will become rich while sucking the life out of the other competitors. ----
The GPL says that you only have to provide the source code for your product upon request, you do not have to provide the binaries. So, if it boils down to one or two companies and they distribute 4 gigs of source code and no binaries, all of a sudden the GPL doesn't work. Few people are going to manually compile 4 gigs of source code. It is true that once you get a copy of the product, you can burn it and distribute it among your hearts content which will generally lower the price but how many copies can an individual with a burner really distribute? Most people are not going to give copies of their products to 20 or 30 people. The GPL doesn't prevent skyrocketing prices, it just makes it extremely unlikely. The president of the US could be killed and a Military dictator could rise to power at anytime but how likely is that to happen(it did happen once for a few days, look up Gen. Eisenhower.) Never is too strong of a word. Just because a license makes it highly unlikely that a product will be monopolized, it can never completely prevent it. Their maybe a way around the GPL that highly encourages everybody to own a copy of the Linux distribution(say forcing OEMs) so you copying Linux in your little lab will have no real effect because everybody already owns a copy. Like I said, this is unlikely but possible. ----
The general rule is: If it hasn't broke yet, you can add more features. I think this applies here. Since Digital is easier to change, more people are likely to do it. ----
Sooo.... Another Microsoft would be a *good* thing? It doesn't have to balance out to one company. It could balance to maybe the top 3, each one competing against each other but each capable of holding their own. It's like Cyrix, AMD, and Intel. Cyrix never had a chance and dropped mostly out of the market. For a while, Intel was big guy on street and AMD was less known. Slowly AMD rose until the Athlon blew Intel chips out of the water. Intel lowered their chip prices and started advertising more. Consumers benefitted as a whole because computers were now cheaper and one manufacturer didn't have practically the whole market. If you think of this on a more grand scale, it works with Linux. If we end with only one Linux company, prices are going to skyrocket(unless for some reason their ideology keeps the prices low(not likely)) but if their are several companies, they will compete. Each will be able to make a profit but none will be able to control the market or the prices of the other company. It is a form of check and balances that works pretty well most of the time. Nobody wants a Linux Monopoly and that is not likely to happen(but can) due to the GPL set-up. ----
Meant to say: Do you have a clue or did you leave your brain at Redmond? Linux is not dead, it is just settling itself. Too many companies in a small(but quickly
growing) market equals no money. If more people leave, those who are left are more likely to make money. Economics 101. ----
Second Thought: If you really, REALLY want to stop using M$, give Darwin (and Mac OSX) a try. Apple may make the best OS in the world, I'm still not going to pay their over-inflated prices for their hardware that still won't run half the games I want to play or be quite as fast except at photoshop. You can trade one tyrant for another(say Adolf Hitler to Stalin) but you'll still be ruled by a Tyrant. Apple has been in the market as long as MS and has a mini-monopoly on hardware. ----
Do you have a clur or did you leave it at Redmond? Linux is not dead, it is just settling itself. Too many companies in a small(but quickly growing) market equals no money. If more people leave, those who are left are more likely to make money. Economics 101. ----
Too many competitors in a market will result in low product prices and nobody making any money. When it is like this, it is really good for the consumer but does nothing for the companies. Once we get fewer companies, each with enough market share to maintain itself or actually make money, fewer companies will go out of business and more will actually try to enter the market(potential profit with growth.) This is also what is happening with dot-coms. Companies just can't exist in small markets with super-competition. ----
1) You should've had an amplifier before you even tried it. Low sounds when amplified digitally will also amplify static which defeats the purpose. If you keep the original sounds at high volume(you don't have to listen to the sounds at the same time you record them, just look at digital output), you can decrease the volume digitally and limit static.
2) Impedance and capacitance is always a problem. This is why the cables must be short and have gold leds.
I've managed to do many rips from cassette disks and the radio(although Radios are always a problem because of Electro Magnetic Forces.) I'm not a big sound guy so a little distortion doesn't hurt and is Ok for most people. You are right, the process would be easier with a digital rip and using logic to filter out those pops and cracks but it is possible both ways and an excellent DAD conversion will never have the same quality as a Digital rip(except with DAD, their might be some smoothing of the sounds together which CAN actually sound better if recorded at a high enough bit rate.) It's not the be all, end all solution but it works, especially when the data you're recording is not initially digital.
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Now I can have a website with URLs such as armsagainstwashington.us or whycantwedestroythe.us or charlesmansonlivesamong.us or slashdot.us or wearethebulliesoftheworld.us or Democracyisgreatintheold.us. The possibilities are endless. ----
A digital rip is the only way to preserve your digital music. MP3 is a lossy compression. So, in theory, you could get some gold tipped audio cables, output the data from a cd-rom and input it into the soundcard. The result would be a file of less quality than the original rip but still very high quality and once it is converted to MP3, 99.99% of the people out their would not be able to tell the difference between a digital rip and an D-A-D rip. That is the point, not being able tell the difference. I've did this and you really can't tell the difference if you keep the audio cables short. ----
Even if you were to copy protect the CD and prevent people from "ripping," what is going to prevent people from taking an audio cable and take the output from a CD player capable of playing this and plugging it into the sound card or getting a really low-level cdrom driver that can rip the music and than emulate it. Their are literally hundreds of ways to get the file in satisfactory format. If you can get it to sound good, you can rerecord or find a way to rip it. Plain and simple. This is stupidity and a waste of money on the music industry part. ----
The keynote demoed a 867mhz PowerMac next to a 1.7 ghz Intel box. Guess who won. PowerMacs won because their is optimized for tasks like Photoshop. They are not optimized for games with MMX or 3dnow instructions. Big difference. When the processor and the program are both optimized and compared to a processor and a programmer who is not optimized to do that task, you are going to see a big difference in performance. The real way to test the processor is not doing one-sided tests but doing a more complicated, long term tasks like trying to find perfect roots for every single bit of a very large number up to something like 2^8388608(largest number representable at 1 megabyte or 8 megabits as an integer.) This task takes a very very long time to perform and that is why it is not used in compression(perfect roots compress quite well with large numbers) but it will give you a time easily comparable to both computers, as long as you used the same cpp source code and very similiar compilers.) ----
Guido van Rossum disagrees. Perhaps you should correct him. I've seen some slow Java programs in my days and then I've seen a few slow python games. Guido van Rossum might be right but I don't have any evidence to be convinced otherwise. Games like Pysol are pretty fast, not as fast as the cpp equivalent but still pretty fast while Java games are rough, very interpreted, and have games that are generally slow when doing lots of processing. Look at limewire, the Gnutella client. It is useable but sometimes when you click on something, their may be a 2 second delay before something occurs. I haven't seen that in Python. It might be my lack of sample size of python programs vs. my sample size of Java programs but I'm still leaning toward Python. ----
Interesting: You are assuming that you won't be a productive on the new OS as on the old palm OS and will have to wait for an upgrade to be able to do all the things you currently do. Being a non-palm user, I find this intrigueing that people presume that just because it is different.
I want to know what sort of tools for development on LinuxDA are available *now*. Are they as good as the PalmOS tools that are available too? If it's not super brainfart easy to develop apps for the LinuxDA environment, without any monkery, then it should be... as soon as possible. Good point. My question is, will they develop a big enough market for people to develop for it. ----
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Get a 6 way power switch. I don't use the power button on my computer case(soft power off.) With one flick of switch, you can turn your monitor and your computer off at the same time and power them back up(still slower then a reset button). I still prefer reset buttons, especially when I'm running windows, and I try to avoid cases that do not include them. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer companies are making cases with "true" reset/power buttons(hard power off.) If this is the only thing that is preventing you from buying from a company, get over it. Buy a six way power strip. It works almost as well.
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Don't forget about logical compression(the ability to take very large random data files(a minimal of 1K and maximum to what the processor can handle) and try to find a pattern that compresses quite well such as being a perfect root or having a relatively close log, etc.) These all can require lots of memory and lots of CPU power(more than SETI?)
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You need 2 gigs of RAM! For what? I have 320 in my system and have completely disabled SWAP because I have never hit it. I don't know what you are going to be doing with that RAM or how you expect to be able to use all of it but that is a lot of memory. You can easily run quake3, X11, an FTP server, and HTTP server, SMB server on 128 megs of ram all at the same time. I just don't see it yet. Software hasn't caught up yet.
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Try Gateway. My cousin bought one of them(he is not a techie) and has been nothing but pleased. I build my own so I can't give you any personal experience.
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Remember, some of the benchmarks that P4s excelled on were due to memory bandwidth of RDRAM and with SDRAM, they may not be so high - only time will tell of course. Depends what the program is doing. If it is a CPU intensive task(like calculating the perfect root of a number like k*2^1048576(where k.5), most of the memory can sit in the L1/L2 cache and it won't matter what type of memory you get. If it is a memory intensive task, you might notice a hit in performance(like crunching thousands of graphics(which is CPU and Memory Intensive.)
As for your original question, I prefer the Athlon just because of my ideology, price/performance ratio, and actual performance. Intel once had a monopoly and that thought is hard to get out of my mind. If the P4 was priced at the same price at the Athlon and gave significant performance increase, naturally I would buy a P4. Right now, that is not the case. I can get a 1.4ghz Athlon or 1.8ghz P4 and expect them to perform about the same with the P4 priced higher. Since RDRAM sucks and DDR is better and since the article said Intel is going to SDRAM and eventually to DDR, I'm more likely now to buy an Athlon right now. My last three computers have been by AMD and their is no reason to stop that trend when their prices are still lower then Intels for comparable performance.
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You would need a hell of a lot of CPU cycles those types of numbers by trial and error. In theory, if you could make the numbers somehow linear with a formula using Logarithms, derivatives, etc. you could highly simplify the logic in calculating these. Also, in theory, their is atleast one formula that will give you the amount of compression you need in order to perform this task. Problem is, factorials are not that linear and trying to get them linear is a major task. If a person could find that formula, they could just solve for N and get the answer using many less CPU cycles. Trying to find the formula is the problem.
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I check back later and I've been modded down. Fair enough. But SIX replies filled with abuse? I thought I gave you a very valid, very straight to the point reply.
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What would be even more scarier if Microsoft or the corporate giant IBM stepped in and "merged" with AOLTIMEWARNERAMAZONAT&T and the DOJ did nothing about it. What would be even more scarier is trying to take one big giant breath and having to say MICROSOFTAOLTIMEWARNERAMAZONAT&T without pausing inbetween.
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AOL has an excellent strategy. Get into as many markets as possible so that if one market crashes, they will have something to fall back on. The problem is, if they get into too many markets, they'll start looking more and more like a monopoly. They are working on becoming Microsoft 2. They are not yet. They are just a big company who is trying to get as many slices of different types of pies as possible. As you can tell, I am not an AOL fan. Nonetheless, AOL is a company to watch out for. Someone is going to get rich off of them and many more will be hurt.
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If you weren't so brain-washed, you could understand my opinion. I'm not trying to convince you, you have to convince yourself of what you believe. If you are going to have a democracy, the people should have the right to vote or not to vote. It is not a true democracy if you force people to be democratic even if they "donkey" vote. This should be obvious.
I know it's not a two-party system but since I LIVE in a mostly two-party system, what else am I going to give an example against. Take two minutes and think about it. Having a preferential system of selecting your leaders is a cool idea but should always be based on popular vote or atleast popular representation instead of the "Least Unpopular." In my mind, their is something wrong with that. Somehow, this seems like it would turn in favor of the minority factions.
Bullshit. In 90% of situations, only number 1 and 2 votes are counted. The average of the populace can understand it, and even if they cant, there is STILL the news. Remember Decision2000? Why in the hell would you assume there wasnt soemthing like that there? The keyword here is MOST. I agree with, when their is a clear winner, their is no problem. What happens if this is not the case. Do you really want Statisticians having the last nod?
In conclusion: I have an opinion. This is ok. I'm allowed. I make fun of my own screwed up system. It's called idealism. No system is ideal. All systems are trying to approach idealism. If no one had an opinion about how a system should be ran than we wouldn't have a system. Like myself, I'm still trying to remove "In God We Trust" off all coinage and legal tender because it violates the US Bill of Rights(freedom of religion.) You may not agree with that and that's ok. Keep your opinion. Express it with all your hearts content. I have no problem with this. If you don't have controversy, you can't have a healthy democracy, no matter what country you live in and you can't take offense because a foreigner pokes fun at your system. You have to look at it, see if it needs changed, and do what is necessary. My opinion.
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They probably did. They just decided to follow idealism rather then Economics. Their was a great product that they loved out their that they could sell and do minimal research. The problem is, too many companies in the market decided to do the same thing which significantly lowered the price of the saling OS and didn't significantly increase the market share. The morale of the story is, don't start a business on idealism unless their is a well defined market with limited competition or you can significantly stimulate without competing too much at the same time. In the end, whoever survives and is successful will become rich while sucking the life out of the other competitors.
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The GPL says that you only have to provide the source code for your product upon request, you do not have to provide the binaries. So, if it boils down to one or two companies and they distribute 4 gigs of source code and no binaries, all of a sudden the GPL doesn't work. Few people are going to manually compile 4 gigs of source code. It is true that once you get a copy of the product, you can burn it and distribute it among your hearts content which will generally lower the price but how many copies can an individual with a burner really distribute? Most people are not going to give copies of their products to 20 or 30 people. The GPL doesn't prevent skyrocketing prices, it just makes it extremely unlikely. The president of the US could be killed and a Military dictator could rise to power at anytime but how likely is that to happen(it did happen once for a few days, look up Gen. Eisenhower.) Never is too strong of a word. Just because a license makes it highly unlikely that a product will be monopolized, it can never completely prevent it. Their maybe a way around the GPL that highly encourages everybody to own a copy of the Linux distribution(say forcing OEMs) so you copying Linux in your little lab will have no real effect because everybody already owns a copy. Like I said, this is unlikely but possible.
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The general rule is: If it hasn't broke yet, you can add more features. I think this applies here. Since Digital is easier to change, more people are likely to do it.
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Sooo.... Another Microsoft would be a *good* thing? It doesn't have to balance out to one company. It could balance to maybe the top 3, each one competing against each other but each capable of holding their own. It's like Cyrix, AMD, and Intel. Cyrix never had a chance and dropped mostly out of the market. For a while, Intel was big guy on street and AMD was less known. Slowly AMD rose until the Athlon blew Intel chips out of the water. Intel lowered their chip prices and started advertising more. Consumers benefitted as a whole because computers were now cheaper and one manufacturer didn't have practically the whole market. If you think of this on a more grand scale, it works with Linux. If we end with only one Linux company, prices are going to skyrocket(unless for some reason their ideology keeps the prices low(not likely)) but if their are several companies, they will compete. Each will be able to make a profit but none will be able to control the market or the prices of the other company. It is a form of check and balances that works pretty well most of the time. Nobody wants a Linux Monopoly and that is not likely to happen(but can) due to the GPL set-up.
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Meant to say: Do you have a clue or did you leave your brain at Redmond? Linux is not dead, it is just settling itself. Too many companies in a small(but quickly growing) market equals no money. If more people leave, those who are left are more likely to make money. Economics 101.
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Second Thought: If you really, REALLY want to stop using M$, give Darwin (and Mac OSX) a try. Apple may make the best OS in the world, I'm still not going to pay their over-inflated prices for their hardware that still won't run half the games I want to play or be quite as fast except at photoshop. You can trade one tyrant for another(say Adolf Hitler to Stalin) but you'll still be ruled by a Tyrant. Apple has been in the market as long as MS and has a mini-monopoly on hardware.
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Do you have a clur or did you leave it at Redmond? Linux is not dead, it is just settling itself. Too many companies in a small(but quickly growing) market equals no money. If more people leave, those who are left are more likely to make money. Economics 101.
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Too many competitors in a market will result in low product prices and nobody making any money. When it is like this, it is really good for the consumer but does nothing for the companies. Once we get fewer companies, each with enough market share to maintain itself or actually make money, fewer companies will go out of business and more will actually try to enter the market(potential profit with growth.) This is also what is happening with dot-coms. Companies just can't exist in small markets with super-competition.
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1) You should've had an amplifier before you even tried it. Low sounds when amplified digitally will also amplify static which defeats the purpose. If you keep the original sounds at high volume(you don't have to listen to the sounds at the same time you record them, just look at digital output), you can decrease the volume digitally and limit static.
2) Impedance and capacitance is always a problem. This is why the cables must be short and have gold leds.
I've managed to do many rips from cassette disks and the radio(although Radios are always a problem because of Electro Magnetic Forces.) I'm not a big sound guy so a little distortion doesn't hurt and is Ok for most people. You are right, the process would be easier with a digital rip and using logic to filter out those pops and cracks but it is possible both ways and an excellent DAD conversion will never have the same quality as a Digital rip(except with DAD, their might be some smoothing of the sounds together which CAN actually sound better if recorded at a high enough bit rate.) It's not the be all, end all solution but it works, especially when the data you're recording is not initially digital.
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Now I can have a website with URLs such as armsagainstwashington.us or whycantwedestroythe.us or charlesmansonlivesamong.us or slashdot.us or wearethebulliesoftheworld.us or Democracyisgreatintheold.us. The possibilities are endless.
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A digital rip is the only way to preserve your digital music. MP3 is a lossy compression. So, in theory, you could get some gold tipped audio cables, output the data from a cd-rom and input it into the soundcard. The result would be a file of less quality than the original rip but still very high quality and once it is converted to MP3, 99.99% of the people out their would not be able to tell the difference between a digital rip and an D-A-D rip. That is the point, not being able tell the difference. I've did this and you really can't tell the difference if you keep the audio cables short.
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Even if you were to copy protect the CD and prevent people from "ripping," what is going to prevent people from taking an audio cable and take the output from a CD player capable of playing this and plugging it into the sound card or getting a really low-level cdrom driver that can rip the music and than emulate it. Their are literally hundreds of ways to get the file in satisfactory format. If you can get it to sound good, you can rerecord or find a way to rip it. Plain and simple. This is stupidity and a waste of money on the music industry part.
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The keynote demoed a 867mhz PowerMac next to a 1.7 ghz Intel box. Guess who won. PowerMacs won because their is optimized for tasks like Photoshop. They are not optimized for games with MMX or 3dnow instructions. Big difference. When the processor and the program are both optimized and compared to a processor and a programmer who is not optimized to do that task, you are going to see a big difference in performance. The real way to test the processor is not doing one-sided tests but doing a more complicated, long term tasks like trying to find perfect roots for every single bit of a very large number up to something like 2^8388608(largest number representable at 1 megabyte or 8 megabits as an integer.) This task takes a very very long time to perform and that is why it is not used in compression(perfect roots compress quite well with large numbers) but it will give you a time easily comparable to both computers, as long as you used the same cpp source code and very similiar compilers.)
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Guido van Rossum disagrees. Perhaps you should correct him. I've seen some slow Java programs in my days and then I've seen a few slow python games. Guido van Rossum might be right but I don't have any evidence to be convinced otherwise. Games like Pysol are pretty fast, not as fast as the cpp equivalent but still pretty fast while Java games are rough, very interpreted, and have games that are generally slow when doing lots of processing. Look at limewire, the Gnutella client. It is useable but sometimes when you click on something, their may be a 2 second delay before something occurs. I haven't seen that in Python. It might be my lack of sample size of python programs vs. my sample size of Java programs but I'm still leaning toward Python.
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Interesting: You are assuming that you won't be a productive on the new OS as on the old palm OS and will have to wait for an upgrade to be able to do all the things you currently do. Being a non-palm user, I find this intrigueing that people presume that just because it is different.
I want to know what sort of tools for development on LinuxDA are available *now*. Are they as good as the PalmOS tools that are available too? If it's not super brainfart easy to develop apps for the LinuxDA environment, without any monkery, then it should be... as soon as possible. Good point. My question is, will they develop a big enough market for people to develop for it.
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