You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between AAC (MP3 on steroids) and the original CD music.
yeah, if your playback hardware is a cheap MP3 player with cheap earbuds, or worse, played through an FM modulator into your car stereo, you can't tell much of a difference.
but if you have a decent stereo system, the difference is obvious.
On a related question, can y'all be sent to prison for failing to testify against yourself? I'm really not seeing how this is different?
Good question; the 5th Amendment plainly says that "No person... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Pretty cut and dried.
However, as Jon Stewart so ably demonstrated, the Bush Administration's complete evisceration of habeus corpus essentially nullifies the entire Bill Of Rights (except for the 3rd Amendment). So, if you don't give up your key, you'll be extraordinarily rendered to [REDACTED].
Clearly all of you whiney-ass titty-babies don't use your computers to do Real Work. All electronic-design automation (EDA) software uses FlexLM. Lots of high-end audio- and video-editing software uses an iLok key or similar. Yeah, it's all a big pain in the ass (I used to regularly fight with lmgrd) , but when the software costs tens of thousands of dollars per seat, there's a great incentive for vendors to lock it down.
Face it, software activation is here, and here to stay. Get used to it. For the legit user, it's not a problem.
One real issue that vendors need to address is 24/7 availability of support staff so that legit users can get new license keys if a machine dies after hours or on the weekend.
-a
PS: Having said all of that, vendors who charge a fee to move a license from one machine to another need to get their attitudes adjusted.
In a capitalist system corporations do whatever is require to maximise profit. If government intervention maximises profit so be it. They operate purely on this single pragmatic principle. If they lobby against government intervention they do so in the belief that this will, in the long term, maximise profit.
Government intervention usually leads to regulation, which is anathema to free-market true believers.
We live in a capitalist system. In such a system if Sony can sue the ass off LikSang, and they feel that will increase their revenue, then they should.
You're an idiot; a true capitalist would never resort to using the court system to achieve their goals. The courts are representatives of the government, after all, and capitalists want governments to stay out of business matters entirely.
HTML formatting is the crap packing peanuts you get in a box containing an item 1/10th the size of the carton used to ship it.
One point, though, is that those packing peanuts are intended to protect the valuable contents of the package during shipment. Without them, you'll see a pile of broken junk when you open the box.
HTML formatting is like doodling on the envelope and using a fancy stamp to mail your mortgage payment. It's worthless and will probably be ignored.
I'm an EE, and I've found that the more screen real-estate, the better. You can have a ModelSim wave display open enough to see the signals of interest, while still having its "project" window and a bunch of emacs windows open at the same time, and I don't need to alt-tab between them.
It's also useful if you're doing PCB layout: you can have the schematic window and the layout window open and visible at the same time.
Of course, the reason for using two monitors was that one large monitor to cover that real estate was usually a lot more money than two smaller monitors, although you needed a dual-head graphics card. Now, pretty much every graphics card supports two displays.
I still think a pair of Apple 20" Cinema Displays makes more sense than a single 23" job; more pixels for the same cost.
One thing I really don't like is the takeover of the 16x9 screen aspect ratio. It doesn't serve text-based design entry very well at all, although you can have several different editor windows open next to each other.
The main problem that I forsee is that it seems to me like os many different companies are pursuing their own form of what will be the successor to flash. What kind of implementation will this have, and is it going to negatively affect the customer by increasing the number of devices that are incompatible?
It will have zero impact on computer users.
Engineers designing with these parts will have to implement some kind of controller that sits on either the processor's local bus or a mezzanine bus, and eventually (if the technology becomes a standard), the controller will be integrated into the chipset.
In other words, just like every other memory and peripheral device...
And exactly what do you use such a server for? Not for internet, that's for damned sure, 115kbaud is far too slow to serve a 1.5TB line....
Ummmm... The serial port is the console interface for each server, and a terminal server allows an admin to access all of the servers' consoles (think command-line interface) from one machine. Pretty standard datacenter policy, methinks.
Video cards use a ton of 12v power, enough that high-end cards get a dedicated connector featuring two wires of it.
Video cards with a disk-drive-type power connector always use point-of-load switch-mode supplies to convert the +12V to whatever voltages are needed by the chips on the board. Nothing on the board uses the 12V directly, except maybe the fan (if that).
They use the disk-drive connector because:
The GPUs and other devices on the board use more current than you can push through the PCI/AGP or PCIe connector pins.
Most computers have power supplies with several unused disk-drive power connections, which provide a convenient source of both +5V and +12V.
Most computer power supplies have excess +12V capacity.
That is because it just uses the power from the USB port, and is not an actual USB device. Since it is not an actual USB device, it doesn't have a USB logo. Why was the parent modded insightful?
Because, Mr. Anonymous Coward, you're only supposed to plug USB devices into the USB port. And you clearly didn't understand my point about power consumption. Read the spec and learn about how USB hubs control power.
Obviously, this thing doesn't meet any of the applicable specs, especially the specs that address power consumption when a device is not configured. I don't see a USB logo anywhere on their web site.
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somehow slashdot material?
Word!
yeah, if your playback hardware is a cheap MP3 player with cheap earbuds, or worse, played through an FM modulator into your car stereo, you can't tell much of a difference.
but if you have a decent stereo system, the difference is obvious.
Ilford Delta 3200 in 120 roll-film size. Ooooo yeah!
11 No Fuji Velveetachrome, either.
And it's fun pushing Fuji Provia 400 to 1600 ... talk about red shift ...
on this 19" CRT running FireFox at 1600x1200, this article showed up in the bookmark bar and I thought the title was "How To Sue The Auto DEALERS."
I hate auto dealers much more than I hate auto dialers.
Excellent analogy.
Good question; the 5th Amendment plainly says that "No person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Pretty cut and dried.
However, as Jon Stewart so ably demonstrated, the Bush Administration's complete evisceration of habeus corpus essentially nullifies the entire Bill Of Rights (except for the 3rd Amendment). So, if you don't give up your key, you'll be extraordinarily rendered to [REDACTED].
What Real Work do you do?
Clearly all of you whiney-ass titty-babies don't use your computers to do Real Work. All electronic-design automation (EDA) software uses FlexLM. Lots of high-end audio- and video-editing software uses an iLok key or similar. Yeah, it's all a big pain in the ass (I used to regularly fight with lmgrd) , but when the software costs tens of thousands of dollars per seat, there's a great incentive for vendors to lock it down.
Face it, software activation is here, and here to stay. Get used to it. For the legit user, it's not a problem.
One real issue that vendors need to address is 24/7 availability of support staff so that legit users can get new license keys if a machine dies after hours or on the weekend.
-a
PS: Having said all of that, vendors who charge a fee to move a license from one machine to another need to get their attitudes adjusted.
You're an idiot; a true capitalist would never resort to using the court system to achieve their goals. The courts are representatives of the government, after all, and capitalists want governments to stay out of business matters entirely.
While I agree with your sentiment, I think you spent too much time playing tag and not enough time studying grammar and spelling.
One point, though, is that those packing peanuts are intended to protect the valuable contents of the package during shipment. Without them, you'll see a pile of broken junk when you open the box.
HTML formatting is like doodling on the envelope and using a fancy stamp to mail your mortgage payment. It's worthless and will probably be ignored.
I'm an EE, and I've found that the more screen real-estate, the better. You can have a ModelSim wave display open enough to see the signals of interest, while still having its "project" window and a bunch of emacs windows open at the same time, and I don't need to alt-tab between them.
It's also useful if you're doing PCB layout: you can have the schematic window and the layout window open and visible at the same time.
Of course, the reason for using two monitors was that one large monitor to cover that real estate was usually a lot more money than two smaller monitors, although you needed a dual-head graphics card. Now, pretty much every graphics card supports two displays.
I still think a pair of Apple 20" Cinema Displays makes more sense than a single 23" job; more pixels for the same cost.
One thing I really don't like is the takeover of the 16x9 screen aspect ratio. It doesn't serve text-based design entry very well at all, although you can have several different editor windows open next to each other.
It will have zero impact on computer users.
Engineers designing with these parts will have to implement some kind of controller that sits on either the processor's local bus or a mezzanine bus, and eventually (if the technology becomes a standard), the controller will be integrated into the chipset.
In other words, just like every other memory and peripheral device ...
My prediction: everyone who eats cheese will die.
Ummmm ... The serial port is the console interface for each server, and a terminal server allows an admin to access all of the servers' consoles (think command-line interface) from one machine. Pretty standard datacenter policy, methinks.
Video cards with a disk-drive-type power connector always use point-of-load switch-mode supplies to convert the +12V to whatever voltages are needed by the chips on the board. Nothing on the board uses the 12V directly, except maybe the fan (if that).
They use the disk-drive connector because:
What, it's not cool that she busted someone for plagarism, or that someone plagarized in the first place?
And Jeff Goldblum's character was using a Powerbook ...
-a
Because, Mr. Anonymous Coward, you're only supposed to plug USB devices into the USB port. And you clearly didn't understand my point about power consumption. Read the spec and learn about how USB hubs control power.
Obviously, this thing doesn't meet any of the applicable specs, especially the specs that address power consumption when a device is not configured. I don't see a USB logo anywhere on their web site.
Use at your own risk.