That's why both of the items I talked about use ADC's in external enclosures =) Trying to get decent sound doing the conversion inside a PC is a nightmare.
Is there a reason that this stuff can't be saved to 44.1 16bit PCM with one track per file? I know that's what I did when recording my friends album and then I just used the multitracking interface in the software to layer it all and create the final stereo track for the CD. 44.1 16bit PCM is already a quarter decade old, I don't think the ability to play it back is going away anytime soon!
Dude, even consumer gear gets WAY better than 80dB, a SB Extigy does better than 90dB (100dB rated) and Prosumer gear like the stuff from RME does real world 96dB, that's a lot better than all but the best studio analog equipment gets with regular maintenance (and most studio gear gets zero maintenance).
If you local power company was unable to keep the power on 99.9999+ percent of the time, and instead was only able to keep it on 95% of the time and they were able to get the local PUC and a trade organization to define 95% uptime as "acceptable industry practice" would you find that ok because it was a "standard". NO, and for people that aren't blind dead pixels are just as agregious a breech. Hell I have one dead pixel on my 5 megapixel digital camera and if it hadn't developed after the waranty period you bet your ass I would have had it repaired. As it is I have to go through an annoying process of batch processing my photo's to average the surrounding pixel values over top the stuck pixel, quite time consuming and agrevating. I spend 12+ hours per day looking at my screen, if it had a dead pixel I would be furious.
It is, but they are able to turn off sections of the ondie cache by cutting lines or setting certain pins. This way if there is a fault in the high address lines of the cache they can disable the high address block and package the chip as a celeron. The reality is that this practice is only usefull early in a stepping, after a little while they get all of the kinks worked out and everything is coming out correctly. At that point the distinction is artificial, they package based on what they percieve demand to be rather than on testing based bining. This is why it is often possible to overclock a low end chip in a series to the same speed as the fastest speed part, they are the same chip just with different manufacturer labels.
Yep, the area where they think the light origionated in Cleveland is ~3-4 miles from the airport and directly along the main fair weather decent path. That means it's less than a minute from touchdown and fairly low altitude. At that kind of range a laser like the green one linked to in the article could easily have a beam spread tight enough to look like a baseball to basketball sized dot on the cockpit window. Targeting an airliner moving at around 300mph wouldn't be THAT hard, and who knows the culprit(s) may have targeted many planes before hitting the cockpit of the reported plane.
Because if they DON'T offer some discounted fairs to fill the seats then they have a HUGE fixed cost being spread over even fewer full fare customers. Basically your discount butt pays for the interest on the money it costs to lease the plane, and the only chance of making money they have is business class customers paying full fare. Unfortunatly for the airlines there aren't as many businesses willing to pay full fare, they would rather allow flexibility in their employees schedule than pay the full fare last minute price most of the time. Add to that the short haul carriers with reduced overhead and lower cost due to less senior pilots and reduced (until this season) overall passenger flights and you've got a hurting industry. Of course the goverment is really, really hurting the industry by proping up the old failed airlines rather than allowing business darwanism to get rid of the failed models. Government subsidised competitiors which can afford to lose money because they know that the taxpayers will most likely bail them out are NOT a good thing for the industry.
They HAD outgrown their current system, and they knew it. That's why the new system was scheduled to go online in the next couple months. Unfortunatly they met with a perfect storm of problems just at the wrong time. If you've ever worked with retail you know that NOTHING gets changed from mid November to early January unless god and the CEO both say it has to be so, I imagine airlines are pretty much the same. Heck airlines probably have an even larger freeze window since few people book flights at the last minute for holiday travel.
$79*200~=$16,000 or enough for a few extra servers per year =) Most IT directors will take that anytime! Not only that but it also means a few tons less sulphur dioxide and quite a few tons less CO2 produced, which if you're even a little interested in the environment is a good thing. All of that benifit at basically zero opertunity cost, why not?!?!
electricity is expensive and certainly isn't getting cheaper. If you can get a new box with a Pentium M and a LCD then you are going to use less power even for a more capable rig. This might not matter for your home PC, but it matters if you are running an office with a couple hundred PC's or a business with thousands of them. It also matters if you want a box capable of decoding video but don't want a bunch of noisy fans, or if you run on alternative power. A capable, low power cpu is definitly going to find a niche for itself. Oh yeah and throw 4 of them on a die with a couple megs shared cache and you now have a chip that draws about the same amount of power as a P4 but kicks its butt all over the place on multithreaded code.
MAC addresses are stripped at the first hop so unless someone is specifically looking for you and has a valid search warant I wouldn't be too worried about your MAC address.
Well if you increase data density 250 times you can probably increase data transfer almost the same amount, so in theory these drives will do ~20GB/s. Now today trying to feed data that fast would be a problem since even the fastest Fiberchannel is 10Gb/s or 1GB/s. I imagine in 5 years that they can figure out how to improve Fiberchannel performance a measly 20x =) 1.4 hours to fill a 100TB tape sounds pretty damn good to me!
Actually 18 wheelers should speed up! It's not speed that kills so much as people driving at different speeds that causes accidents which kill. Ohio's DOT recently saw the light and raised the heavy vehicle speed limit on the turnpike to match that of cars, causing much less congestion and fewer accidents.
Actually the registration server being swamped scenario seems to be precisly the kind of thing that IBM's capacity on demand service would solve, pay for additional capacity when it's generating revenue and don't when it's not.
Watermarks are easy to remove with simple filters, if they are unobtrusive enough to not mess with the sound they are unobtrusive enough to be filtered out without affecting the sound too =)
I'm using EAC 0.95 prebate 5 from March 2004 with an Imation 12x10x32 CDRW drive and I average around 20x ripping using secure mode. Encoding to LAME with --extreme VBR settings on my Athlon 1.2Ghz is around 3.5x realtime for rip+encode, it's even faster on my Athlon XP 2100+ with Toshiba DVD-ROM but I haven't looked at just how fast.
No you can't because there have been literally dozens of exploits which take advantage of holes in the IE security model to get around trusted vs internet zones. AFAIK there is no way for a piece of ActiveX code to modify the NTFS ACL's to change the permissions on that folder, basically I trust the work done by the guys from DEC a lot more than the work of MS's IE code monkeys.
Get VoIP service from broadvoice, they offer unlimited in-state calling for ~$12/month (9.95 + some fees) with an initial setup of only ~$70 and out of state calls costing only 3.9 cents per minute anywhere in the US and Canada. International rates are lower than anywhere else I've seen. I'm not afiliated with them other than being a satisfied customer.
Actually I have come up with an almost perfect solution for most people. I have a pair of scripts that use the Microsoft command line ACL tool from the 2000 server resource kit. The first one sets the downloaded program files directory to read only for everyone, and the other sets it to read for everyone and full controll for the person running the script (they obviously must have permissions on the parent container in order to be able to change the ACL's on the downloaded program files directory). Basically you normally run with read only permissions and only change to full permission to allow trusted ActiveX controlls to install. This gets you most of the protection of disabling ActiveX without breaking things like the Adobe Reader plugin. I expect Microsoft might include something like this in the next major revision of IE, there is precidense with the run as restricted user feature in XP.
It's also nice because latency is a fraction of what is to even a LEO satelite so you could use it for things that are latency sensitive like gaming and VoIP.
Weight dumbass, a base station weighs a pound or less, hundreds of runs of cat5 weighs hundreds of pounds. Hauling around all of that wiring and equipment instead of paying cargo is stupid if you have an easy out like wireless.
The program you are speaking of is aparantly an aprox 9 Billion dollar a year program to build a small fleet of "stealth" spy satelites. Like the Crusader it is a weapon system from a different era created to fight a different war. Unfortunatly political momentum keeps these kinds of wastes going when the money could be spent on things like up-armoring Humvee's so that fewer soldiers die to improvised explosives in the presidents illfated war in Iraq. North Korea is not an immediate risk to the US, they pose more of a threat to Japan right now. However if the Chinese were to give them tech and a little financial assistance they could quickly become a problem. North Korea is probably the only likely threat to justify the missle defense shield, they have nuclear capability without the command and controll structure to insure that it is not used spuriously. Even India and Pakistan are wising up to the fact that their nuclear arsenals bear grave responsibility (see their mutual agreement recently on things like prenotice of missle tests). Basically no other nuclear state would be crazy enough to start a rocket war with the US, which means that the money would likely be MUCH better spent on improved radiation detection facilities at all ports of call around the country including docks, border crossings, etc since the more plausible threat is a terrorist organization smugling a low yield device into the country through the shipping channels.
Likewise it drives my Sennheiser HD 555's just fine for accurate sound reproduction. Of course I specifically avoided another model of Sennheiser's because headphone.com mentioned that they were a bit murky without an amp and I didn't want the expense and bulk of carrying a seperate headphone amp.
No, no it's not. In fact ATRAC is a horrible format. Just check out the listening tests here and here , they along with countless other listening tests show that ATRAC3 (and it's newest variants) are crap compared to the Free and Open LAME MP3 and Ogg Vorbis codec's. There's simple zero reason to use ATRAC as it always underperforms just about every other codec except WMA.
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That's why both of the items I talked about use ADC's in external enclosures =) Trying to get decent sound doing the conversion inside a PC is a nightmare.
Is there a reason that this stuff can't be saved to 44.1 16bit PCM with one track per file? I know that's what I did when recording my friends album and then I just used the multitracking interface in the software to layer it all and create the final stereo track for the CD. 44.1 16bit PCM is already a quarter decade old, I don't think the ability to play it back is going away anytime soon!
Dude, even consumer gear gets WAY better than 80dB, a SB Extigy does better than 90dB (100dB rated) and Prosumer gear like the stuff from RME does real world 96dB, that's a lot better than all but the best studio analog equipment gets with regular maintenance (and most studio gear gets zero maintenance).
If you local power company was unable to keep the power on 99.9999+ percent of the time, and instead was only able to keep it on 95% of the time and they were able to get the local PUC and a trade organization to define 95% uptime as "acceptable industry practice" would you find that ok because it was a "standard". NO, and for people that aren't blind dead pixels are just as agregious a breech. Hell I have one dead pixel on my 5 megapixel digital camera and if it hadn't developed after the waranty period you bet your ass I would have had it repaired. As it is I have to go through an annoying process of batch processing my photo's to average the surrounding pixel values over top the stuck pixel, quite time consuming and agrevating. I spend 12+ hours per day looking at my screen, if it had a dead pixel I would be furious.
It is, but they are able to turn off sections of the ondie cache by cutting lines or setting certain pins. This way if there is a fault in the high address lines of the cache they can disable the high address block and package the chip as a celeron. The reality is that this practice is only usefull early in a stepping, after a little while they get all of the kinks worked out and everything is coming out correctly. At that point the distinction is artificial, they package based on what they percieve demand to be rather than on testing based bining. This is why it is often possible to overclock a low end chip in a series to the same speed as the fastest speed part, they are the same chip just with different manufacturer labels.
Yep, the area where they think the light origionated in Cleveland is ~3-4 miles from the airport and directly along the main fair weather decent path. That means it's less than a minute from touchdown and fairly low altitude. At that kind of range a laser like the green one linked to in the article could easily have a beam spread tight enough to look like a baseball to basketball sized dot on the cockpit window. Targeting an airliner moving at around 300mph wouldn't be THAT hard, and who knows the culprit(s) may have targeted many planes before hitting the cockpit of the reported plane.
Because if they DON'T offer some discounted fairs to fill the seats then they have a HUGE fixed cost being spread over even fewer full fare customers. Basically your discount butt pays for the interest on the money it costs to lease the plane, and the only chance of making money they have is business class customers paying full fare. Unfortunatly for the airlines there aren't as many businesses willing to pay full fare, they would rather allow flexibility in their employees schedule than pay the full fare last minute price most of the time. Add to that the short haul carriers with reduced overhead and lower cost due to less senior pilots and reduced (until this season) overall passenger flights and you've got a hurting industry. Of course the goverment is really, really hurting the industry by proping up the old failed airlines rather than allowing business darwanism to get rid of the failed models. Government subsidised competitiors which can afford to lose money because they know that the taxpayers will most likely bail them out are NOT a good thing for the industry.
They HAD outgrown their current system, and they knew it. That's why the new system was scheduled to go online in the next couple months. Unfortunatly they met with a perfect storm of problems just at the wrong time. If you've ever worked with retail you know that NOTHING gets changed from mid November to early January unless god and the CEO both say it has to be so, I imagine airlines are pretty much the same. Heck airlines probably have an even larger freeze window since few people book flights at the last minute for holiday travel.
$79*200~=$16,000 or enough for a few extra servers per year =) Most IT directors will take that anytime! Not only that but it also means a few tons less sulphur dioxide and quite a few tons less CO2 produced, which if you're even a little interested in the environment is a good thing. All of that benifit at basically zero opertunity cost, why not?!?!
electricity is expensive and certainly isn't getting cheaper. If you can get a new box with a Pentium M and a LCD then you are going to use less power even for a more capable rig. This might not matter for your home PC, but it matters if you are running an office with a couple hundred PC's or a business with thousands of them. It also matters if you want a box capable of decoding video but don't want a bunch of noisy fans, or if you run on alternative power. A capable, low power cpu is definitly going to find a niche for itself. Oh yeah and throw 4 of them on a die with a couple megs shared cache and you now have a chip that draws about the same amount of power as a P4 but kicks its butt all over the place on multithreaded code.
MAC addresses are stripped at the first hop so unless someone is specifically looking for you and has a valid search warant I wouldn't be too worried about your MAC address.
Well if you increase data density 250 times you can probably increase data transfer almost the same amount, so in theory these drives will do ~20GB/s. Now today trying to feed data that fast would be a problem since even the fastest Fiberchannel is 10Gb/s or 1GB/s. I imagine in 5 years that they can figure out how to improve Fiberchannel performance a measly 20x =) 1.4 hours to fill a 100TB tape sounds pretty damn good to me!
Actually 18 wheelers should speed up! It's not speed that kills so much as people driving at different speeds that causes accidents which kill. Ohio's DOT recently saw the light and raised the heavy vehicle speed limit on the turnpike to match that of cars, causing much less congestion and fewer accidents.
Actually the registration server being swamped scenario seems to be precisly the kind of thing that IBM's capacity on demand service would solve, pay for additional capacity when it's generating revenue and don't when it's not.
Watermarks are easy to remove with simple filters, if they are unobtrusive enough to not mess with the sound they are unobtrusive enough to be filtered out without affecting the sound too =)
I'm using EAC 0.95 prebate 5 from March 2004 with an Imation 12x10x32 CDRW drive and I average around 20x ripping using secure mode. Encoding to LAME with --extreme VBR settings on my Athlon 1.2Ghz is around 3.5x realtime for rip+encode, it's even faster on my Athlon XP 2100+ with Toshiba DVD-ROM but I haven't looked at just how fast.
No you can't because there have been literally dozens of exploits which take advantage of holes in the IE security model to get around trusted vs internet zones. AFAIK there is no way for a piece of ActiveX code to modify the NTFS ACL's to change the permissions on that folder, basically I trust the work done by the guys from DEC a lot more than the work of MS's IE code monkeys.
Get VoIP service from broadvoice, they offer unlimited in-state calling for ~$12/month (9.95 + some fees) with an initial setup of only ~$70 and out of state calls costing only 3.9 cents per minute anywhere in the US and Canada. International rates are lower than anywhere else I've seen. I'm not afiliated with them other than being a satisfied customer.
Indoor plumbing
The electric light
The telephone
The jetliner
The internal combustion engine
I'd say any of those had had a MUCH more profound impact on most peoples lives then the internet has.
Actually I have come up with an almost perfect solution for most people. I have a pair of scripts that use the Microsoft command line ACL tool from the 2000 server resource kit. The first one sets the downloaded program files directory to read only for everyone, and the other sets it to read for everyone and full controll for the person running the script (they obviously must have permissions on the parent container in order to be able to change the ACL's on the downloaded program files directory). Basically you normally run with read only permissions and only change to full permission to allow trusted ActiveX controlls to install. This gets you most of the protection of disabling ActiveX without breaking things like the Adobe Reader plugin. I expect Microsoft might include something like this in the next major revision of IE, there is precidense with the run as restricted user feature in XP.
It's also nice because latency is a fraction of what is to even a LEO satelite so you could use it for things that are latency sensitive like gaming and VoIP.
Weight dumbass, a base station weighs a pound or less, hundreds of runs of cat5 weighs hundreds of pounds. Hauling around all of that wiring and equipment instead of paying cargo is stupid if you have an easy out like wireless.
The program you are speaking of is aparantly an aprox 9 Billion dollar a year program to build a small fleet of "stealth" spy satelites. Like the Crusader it is a weapon system from a different era created to fight a different war. Unfortunatly political momentum keeps these kinds of wastes going when the money could be spent on things like up-armoring Humvee's so that fewer soldiers die to improvised explosives in the presidents illfated war in Iraq. North Korea is not an immediate risk to the US, they pose more of a threat to Japan right now. However if the Chinese were to give them tech and a little financial assistance they could quickly become a problem. North Korea is probably the only likely threat to justify the missle defense shield, they have nuclear capability without the command and controll structure to insure that it is not used spuriously. Even India and Pakistan are wising up to the fact that their nuclear arsenals bear grave responsibility (see their mutual agreement recently on things like prenotice of missle tests). Basically no other nuclear state would be crazy enough to start a rocket war with the US, which means that the money would likely be MUCH better spent on improved radiation detection facilities at all ports of call around the country including docks, border crossings, etc since the more plausible threat is a terrorist organization smugling a low yield device into the country through the shipping channels.
Likewise it drives my Sennheiser HD 555's just fine for accurate sound reproduction. Of course I specifically avoided another model of Sennheiser's because headphone.com mentioned that they were a bit murky without an amp and I didn't want the expense and bulk of carrying a seperate headphone amp.
No, no it's not. In fact ATRAC is a horrible format. Just check out the listening tests here and here , they along with countless other listening tests show that ATRAC3 (and it's newest variants) are crap compared to the Free and Open LAME MP3 and Ogg Vorbis codec's. There's simple zero reason to use ATRAC as it always underperforms just about every other codec except WMA.