Signals over copper wire benefit from stranded cable over solid core wire because the majority of the signal is passed along the surface atoms of the material. Solid core has a lot less surface area than stranded wires. Solid core has the advantage of standing up against current that leads to heat generation since the solid core can absorb and dissipate more heat and so it is better suited to high current applications.
Also note that Sony BMG is only part of Sony's music division, and a recently acquired one at that. It has only existed since 2004.
It's the result of the merger between Sony Music (which includes Capitol Records, Columbia Records, and a whole lot more) and Bertlesmann. So it's not correct to say that the group has existed only since 2004.
1.5 seconds if you all of your components were fast enough. The drive won't be. Exactly. There's still the slowdown associated with the mechanical aspects of the hard drive -- spin rate (RPM), average seek time (ms), etc. On top of that, most hard drive controllers are limited by the technology they use. For instance, a SATA hard drive, even plugged into a USB 2 or 3 port, is limited to 150 MB/s -- but, that's burst speed, not sustained transfer rate.
you people are all missing the point.
It's obvious that the 4.8 Gbps link is faster than the device... but recall that all USB devices on a port share the bandwidth. A faster link will allow a lot more devices to simultaneously transfer data at their maximum-possible speed.
One example: You'll be able to put a multichannel audio I/O device and hard disks on the same bus without worrying about dropouts, etc.
As for "Isn't 4.8 Gbps faster than the computer can handle?" That's true, and it's already the case when you have Gigabit Ethernet plugged into 33 MHz/32-bit PCI. But remember that 4.8 GBps is the wire speed, not the data rate, which will ultimately be controlled by how fast the host computer can get data onto and off of the bus.
what if I took a stereo mini to mini and plugged the output from my computer to the audio input, then used an audio recording software (audacity, its free)
to record it. Simple analog hack defeats complicated DRM encryption thingy.
Better than the analog hack, use a digital hack: don't go out the analog out and back in through analog in. Instead, get a sound card with S/PDIF ins and outs. Loop from the out to the in with the appropriate cable, press record on the recording program and play on the other, and off you go. Digital copies!
It's probably best to choose a sound card that uses its own drivers and does NOT use the Windows mixer.
Also note that modern Macs have TOSLINK (basically S/PDIF over an optical connection) capability built into the 1/8" analog in and out jacks, so get an optical fiber and connect them together and go. (Or use Audio Hijack and be done with it.) Oh, yeah, I realize that whatever the original subject here was doesn't support Macs, but whatever.
As an additional disclaimer in addition to the fact that my purchase decision was made over a year ago, I was looking in the "large hard-drive based" not "small solid-state" category. Sandisk does not appear to compete in this segment, or at least they did not back when I was looking at portable players.
Note that Sandisk is a manufacturer of (partnering with Toshiba) of NAND flash memory, and as such have a lot to gain with the sale of flash-based players and nothing to gain with a hard-disk unit.
A DHS study must have determined that its effectiveness at revealing dirt on Democratic Congressmen was insignificant compared with traditional NSA phone taps.
No, they realized that they were pulling up too much dirt on Republicans. You know, the party of Law and Order and Family Values and other meaningless talking points.
And draft standards have large-type caveats on their first pages: DO NOT DESIGN PRODUCTS TO THIS DRAFT STANDARD.
The implication, of course, is that the final released standard most likely will deviate from draft standards in some manner. Some deviances might be fixable via a simple firmware update. Other deviances may require ASIC respins ($$$$) or PCB spins due to form-factor changes.
Yet the various network-products manufacturers got themselves into a bind: in order to make their products seem faster than the next guy, someone jumped the gun and released a product based on a draft standard. Of course, since that industry is made up of sheep, the others followed in short order, releasing products also based on a draft. And guess what? The stuff from Vendor A doesn't play well, if at all, with the stuff from Vendor B.
There's a reason why various vendors' so-called 802.11N products have serious interoperability issues: there's no standard yet!
This particular standard is quite complex (see the article in EDN magazine) and it seems like every vendor implements different features in their own way. Of course each vendor wants their particular features to be part of the standard, and that's one reason why the standard has been delayed. The industry can't stand the delay; after all, 802.11g products are dead since 802.11n became "imminent," and if they can't sell anything, they have problems. So they sell products that are not ready for prime time, promising firmware upgrades if/when the standard is actually ratified. It'll be interesting to see how that all shakes out.
In that same issue of EDN, an editorial makes clear that basically consumers should just wait for the standard. Gimme gigabit Ethernet on a wire any day.
If this is why you worship the you don't truly believe. You are just playing along in order to get the prize at the end (if there is one). From what I have read (of Christianity anyway) this isn't good enough to get you in, you have to have complete faith and "accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior."
And from the way some Xtians act, clearly they view their acceptance of Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior gives them a get-out-of-jail-free card. "I've sinned, but I've accepted Jesus, so I'm saved." I mean, just look at all the hypocrites like Ted Haggard and David Vitter and Larry Craig and any number of these holier-than-thou bullshitters.
Even Michael Vick started believing in God after he pled guilty.
I've had Cingular for two years, and had no problem with them at all. My bill has been less than fifty bucks (it went up once last year from 42), and I've never used all my minutes, always had them roll over.
Then AT&T bought them out. My last bill was a hundred dollars, and it wasn't itemised as it had been previously! On top of that it said that since I'd been on the contract for 12 months, they wouldn't roll over my minutes.
That's pretty funny, since I've had Cingular for ages (too lazy to switch) and when AT+T took over, the only change was in the URL one uses to log into the account for billing purposes. The plan remained the same, no changes in cost, nothing.
This may be somewhat off-topic, but I can't mourn this passing. "URGE" always seemed to me to be one of the ugliest, dumbest-sounding names of all the music download services available.
> Define "proper". Subversion does handle tags and branches a little strangely, but once I figured it out, everything works fine.
Proper tagging: a specific snapshot is marked with a name, only metadata is added to the repository.
Improper tagging (SVN's hacked way): the whole repository is duplicated.
That's not true -- the whole repository is NOT duplicated. When you create a tag, you make a "cheap" copy of the stuff tagged. (Unless, of course, you choose to make a tag of the entire repository, in which case you make a cheap copy of the whole repo. But why would you do that?) A "cheap" copy is smart and knows that it doesn't have to make a physical copy of the data, as the repo structure just stores diffs between revisions. The tag just points to the last revision.
Proper branching: a specific snapshot is marked as being the root of a branch, only metadata and changes made since the branch was created are added to the repository.
Improper branching (SVN's hacked way): the whole repository is duplicated.
In Subversion, a branch and a tag are the same thing (cheap copies). By convention, tags are considered immutable.
I don't know about you, but the idea of having whole copies of the same repository in which only a few bytes differ is not appealing to me, and I would definitely not call that branching or tagging. I like the idea of being able to tag my projects as much as I want without having to worry about countless old snapshots cluttering up the repository, but that's just me.
I suppose if you knew more about how Subversion worked, you'd worry less.
You don't remember Ronald Reagan, who basically ran on civil rights and limitations on federal government power, and who actually popularized "The scariest words in the English Language: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Nothing like that self-fulfilling prophecy the Republicans (fuck you, Grover Norquist) like to push. Defund all of the useful social services (like, um, inspecting and repairing highway bridges, or inspecting imported food), and then when the bridge falls down, or tainted food from China sickens people and kills pets, they can say, "well, it's the government's fault."
Songs bought form iTMS can be played on 5 computers and an unlimited number of iPhones and iPods. That's all well and good until your iPod breaks and you're in the market for another player. Who knows what could be available years from now - there could be some very compelling products on the market that compare quite favorably to the iPod, but you won't have the choice if your music collection is locked with iTunes DRM.
Or you could do what I do, which is to rip the couple thousand CDs I own into iTunes. No DRM, and ripped at the highest bitrate.
Dana Scully was hot initially, but over time she got older, and whinier, and then the whole hooking up with Fox, and the child and the.... oh man, totally sucked the hot right out and replaced it with booooring.
Scully was a bit husky initially and she had that big "Maniac Cop" chin. She didn't get hot until about the third season.
LK
Well, Gillian Anderson WAS pregnant during the second season...
An X-Files movie would be great. But you don't need Fox or Dana to do it. Fresh faces, fresh talent, less annoying. Although, if they could get W. B. Davis back as the C.S.M in a major plot part that would be fine by me, I liked that guy. It could be a pre-quel, before the X-Files, examining some aspect of the origins of the whole back story. That'd be cool.
The episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" did a pretty great job setting up CSM's back-story. He killed both JFK and MLK Jr, and explained that he did the latter himself because he respected the man too much to leave the job to someone else.
The kicker is when CSM's short story gets published -- in a porn rag.
If I had to choose between a Senator who hires prostitutes or one who was elected by dead people, I'd choose the former. But then again, as a libertarian I don't see a problem w/ prostitution, I guess...:P
I don't particularly have a problem with a senator who hires prostitutes.
I have a problem with someone who campaigns on "Family Values" and "Protect Marriage" and hires prostitutes.
And then they "corrected" the problem by putting USB1.1 ports in the keyboard that are so weak they overpower with certain thumbdrives.
You're an idiot and you don't understand how USB works.
The ports on the keyboard are limited, per the USB spec, to supplying only 100 mA because the hub in the keyboard is bus powered. If the thumb drive requires more than 100 mA (it tells the computer during enumeration that it needs x mA), then if attached to a bus-powered hub's downstream port, it will not enumerate.
Try that thumb drive with any standard bus-powered hub (one that doesn't need a wall wart), and it should fail enumeration in the same way.
Then you get introduced to the other fine-print-fucking you get when reading your receipt from the Apple Store: "10% Restocking fee on opened items". Lamest policy EVAR. How the hell are you going to know if you're satisfied with the iPhone until you open it? Once you open it you're out $60 instantly at BEST. Nice racket they've got going on there Steve.
Go buy a big-ticket item at Best Buy or Circuit Shitty... their restocking fees are higher.
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Skin effect is IRRELEVANT at audio frequencies.
It's the result of the merger between Sony Music (which includes Capitol Records, Columbia Records, and a whole lot more) and Bertlesmann. So it's not correct to say that the group has existed only since 2004.
I'd mod this as Funny, but there's an egregious spelling error (you're instead of your). Nice try, though.
you people are all missing the point.
It's obvious that the 4.8 Gbps link is faster than the device ... but recall that all USB devices on a port share the bandwidth. A faster link will allow a lot more devices to simultaneously transfer data at their maximum-possible speed.
One example: You'll be able to put a multichannel audio I/O device and hard disks on the same bus without worrying about dropouts, etc.
As for "Isn't 4.8 Gbps faster than the computer can handle?" That's true, and it's already the case when you have Gigabit Ethernet plugged into 33 MHz/32-bit PCI. But remember that 4.8 GBps is the wire speed, not the data rate, which will ultimately be controlled by how fast the host computer can get data onto and off of the bus.
to record it. Simple analog hack defeats complicated DRM encryption thingy.
Better than the analog hack, use a digital hack: don't go out the analog out and back in through analog in. Instead, get a sound card with S/PDIF ins and outs. Loop from the out to the in with the appropriate cable, press record on the recording program and play on the other, and off you go. Digital copies!
It's probably best to choose a sound card that uses its own drivers and does NOT use the Windows mixer.
Also note that modern Macs have TOSLINK (basically S/PDIF over an optical connection) capability built into the 1/8" analog in and out jacks, so get an optical fiber and connect them together and go. (Or use Audio Hijack and be done with it.) Oh, yeah, I realize that whatever the original subject here was doesn't support Macs, but whatever.
Note that Sandisk is a manufacturer of (partnering with Toshiba) of NAND flash memory, and as such have a lot to gain with the sale of flash-based players and nothing to gain with a hard-disk unit.
That's only true if the government in question is exceptionally small, and heavily restricted.
I really wish we could drown THIS Administration in a bathtub.
No, they realized that they were pulling up too much dirt on Republicans. You know, the party of Law and Order and Family Values and other meaningless talking points.
...which means it's NOT a standard at all.
And draft standards have large-type caveats on their first pages: DO NOT DESIGN PRODUCTS TO THIS DRAFT STANDARD.
The implication, of course, is that the final released standard most likely will deviate from draft standards in some manner. Some deviances might be fixable via a simple firmware update. Other deviances may require ASIC respins ($$$$) or PCB spins due to form-factor changes.
Yet the various network-products manufacturers got themselves into a bind: in order to make their products seem faster than the next guy, someone jumped the gun and released a product based on a draft standard. Of course, since that industry is made up of sheep, the others followed in short order, releasing products also based on a draft. And guess what? The stuff from Vendor A doesn't play well, if at all, with the stuff from Vendor B.
There's a reason why various vendors' so-called 802.11N products have serious interoperability issues: there's no standard yet!
This particular standard is quite complex (see the article in EDN magazine) and it seems like every vendor implements different features in their own way. Of course each vendor wants their particular features to be part of the standard, and that's one reason why the standard has been delayed. The industry can't stand the delay; after all, 802.11g products are dead since 802.11n became "imminent," and if they can't sell anything, they have problems. So they sell products that are not ready for prime time, promising firmware upgrades if/when the standard is actually ratified. It'll be interesting to see how that all shakes out.
In that same issue of EDN, an editorial makes clear that basically consumers should just wait for the standard. Gimme gigabit Ethernet on a wire any day.
And from the way some Xtians act, clearly they view their acceptance of Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior gives them a get-out-of-jail-free card. "I've sinned, but I've accepted Jesus, so I'm saved." I mean, just look at all the hypocrites like Ted Haggard and David Vitter and Larry Craig and any number of these holier-than-thou bullshitters.
Even Michael Vick started believing in God after he pled guilty.
Got any proof of that assertion?
Then AT&T bought them out. My last bill was a hundred dollars, and it wasn't itemised as it had been previously! On top of that it said that since I'd been on the contract for 12 months, they wouldn't roll over my minutes.
That's pretty funny, since I've had Cingular for ages (too lazy to switch) and when AT+T took over, the only change was in the URL one uses to log into the account for billing purposes. The plan remained the same, no changes in cost, nothing.
The word you're looking for is "exacerbates."
You're welcome.
Clearly, there was no Urge Overkill here.
Proper tagging: a specific snapshot is marked with a name, only metadata is added to the repository.
Improper tagging (SVN's hacked way): the whole repository is duplicated.
That's not true -- the whole repository is NOT duplicated. When you create a tag, you make a "cheap" copy of the stuff tagged. (Unless, of course, you choose to make a tag of the entire repository, in which case you make a cheap copy of the whole repo. But why would you do that?) A "cheap" copy is smart and knows that it doesn't have to make a physical copy of the data, as the repo structure just stores diffs between revisions. The tag just points to the last revision.
Proper branching: a specific snapshot is marked as being the root of a branch, only metadata and changes made since the branch was created are added to the repository.Improper branching (SVN's hacked way): the whole repository is duplicated.
In Subversion, a branch and a tag are the same thing (cheap copies). By convention, tags are considered immutable.
I don't know about you, but the idea of having whole copies of the same repository in which only a few bytes differ is not appealing to me, and I would definitely not call that branching or tagging. I like the idea of being able to tag my projects as much as I want without having to worry about countless old snapshots cluttering up the repository, but that's just me.I suppose if you knew more about how Subversion worked, you'd worry less.
Why couldn't you have just written, 'My fiance and I are big fans ...' rather than the twisted 'Myself and my fiance are both big fans ...' ???
Nothing like that self-fulfilling prophecy the Republicans (fuck you, Grover Norquist) like to push. Defund all of the useful social services (like, um, inspecting and repairing highway bridges, or inspecting imported food), and then when the bridge falls down, or tainted food from China sickens people and kills pets, they can say, "well, it's the government's fault."
I'm sure the git and the bitkeeper people might have something to say about that.
It's great that the dynamic range is being extended beyond eight bits per channel. That's good news for high-quality print processes, etc.
If only my monitor and graphics card could handle, say, a 16-bit greyscale, so I could do a proper preview.
Or you could do what I do, which is to rip the couple thousand CDs I own into iTunes. No DRM, and ripped at the highest bitrate.
Scully was a bit husky initially and she had that big "Maniac Cop" chin. She didn't get hot until about the third season.
LK
Well, Gillian Anderson WAS pregnant during the second season ...
The episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" did a pretty great job setting up CSM's back-story. He killed both JFK and MLK Jr, and explained that he did the latter himself because he respected the man too much to leave the job to someone else.
The kicker is when CSM's short story gets published -- in a porn rag.
I don't particularly have a problem with a senator who hires prostitutes.
I have a problem with someone who campaigns on "Family Values" and "Protect Marriage" and hires prostitutes.
You're an idiot and you don't understand how USB works.
The ports on the keyboard are limited, per the USB spec, to supplying only 100 mA because the hub in the keyboard is bus powered. If the thumb drive requires more than 100 mA (it tells the computer during enumeration that it needs x mA), then if attached to a bus-powered hub's downstream port, it will not enumerate.
Try that thumb drive with any standard bus-powered hub (one that doesn't need a wall wart), and it should fail enumeration in the same way.
Go buy a big-ticket item at Best Buy or Circuit Shitty ... their restocking fees are higher.