I mean, Ethernet isn't really designed for real-time connections. I realize that it can work when you get to the really high speeds, but wouldn't that be expensive.
I guess what I'm wondering is, why did they chose Ethernet rather then Fire wire, or even S/PDIF? Do you need to use special switching hardware that insures real-time communication? What about packet loss?
Personally, I'd like it if everything used Ethernet, it really does seem to be the most convenient form of networking out there. Hopefully all the work put in by Gibson will be adopted and we'll be able to plug our stereo, TV, VCR and everything directly into our home gigabit LAN. It would make things a lot easier, that's for sure.
Good open source/non-evil file filesharing stuff?
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If RIAA thinks going after KAZAA is difficult, imagine them going after something like Freenet. The way I figure, if there's a way to send money to something, there's a way to take it back. A system with no financial structure won't be attackable in a cort of law (not that they can't do something like try to DOS the network out of existance)
Anyway, what are some good non-evil P2p services? I've stayed away from kazaa, as I'm not really a big fan of spyware. I've been using WinMX to find realy rare stuff, but most of my downloading, untill thirsday night, was done over the campus lan. Thirsday night they busted into a few dorms and shut down the central searching system (Strangesearch) for our campus. Are their any other good ones out there based on open source stuff?
Ok, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that you're the same guy posting anon to protect his oh-so-precious karma. Otherwise the "anonymous" quip would just be to hypocritical to believe.
Where? Don't just fucking say it sucks because he did it cheap, enlighten all the rest of us as to WHERE and WHY it sucks.
Well it doesn't help that the timing of the guitarist is off, that the singer's voice is flat and practically cracking, and the lyrics are trite, insipid, uninspired boring emo BULLSHIT. but that's really beyond the scope of this flame.
Out of my hands:
The highs in the guy's voice are way to high, listen to the Ss and even the Ks somewhat, they blast out in the high range. The high hats are the same. In fact, it's so loud that I think it might be getting cut off or something, it also sounds like the singer has a cold, but maybe it's just him sucking Also, not nearly enough bass.
track6/7:
The whole song is to quiet. and when the guy yells "party at the drug store" it's softer then his regular singing voice, which is odd (did he pull away from the mic or something). The bass gets washed out too, it seems.
Lower Providence:
This is the best of the bunch, actually. We can hear how bad the singer's voice is nice and clearly. Was this song really recorded along with the others? If I'd downloaded this one rather then out of my hands (or track6/7, which is even worse) I probably wouldn't have. The other guitar that comes in at 2:47 is really loud and jarring, though.
The honest truth is that you couldn't tell the difference if someone didn't tell you.
perhaps, but I doubt it.
If you can, you are in a tiny, tiny minority and, therefore, don't fucking matter for shit to the rest of us.
Yeah, whatever. If I can tell the difference with my $35 RCA/Radio shack speakers and $60 sub, a real Audiophile would probably shit a brick. The difference would be palpable on anything but the lowest end boom boxes and headphones. Just because someone can express the difference doesn't mean they can't tell. Otherwise, why would anyone buy a nice stereo?
Have a nice anonymous fucking life...
Yeah, whatever Mr. unsigned emo boi. There are more former band members in this country then people of Asian decent, by an order of magnitude. We can measure our respective anonymity in the future, AC.
When you're talking about standards you need to have things specified exactly, and schemas give you a standard way to do that. And they also allow you to do things like automatically generate code blocks to represent your data in memory, saving developers of data-processing apps a lot of time. And not only that, they create a simple way to communicate between organizations. What would you have people do, look at the XML themselves and guess it's structure (which would work about 95% of the time, but that 5% will bite you in the ass when you get something unexpected).
And finally, Schemas don't force any of that on you. If you don't need schema support, then don't turn it on in your parser. You can still grab what you need out of the tree. Although you might not be able to throw just anything into it, that's probably a good thing. The last thing the world needs is thousands of tiny, ill-conceived exotic extensions to various Datatypes. It would make achieving universal compatibility a nightmare.
If your app doesn't need schemas, don't use 'em. If you don't need to validate, don't check em. If you need to put more data into your tree, maybe you should rethink what your doing or rewrite maybe your schema.
I don't see what's wrong with Rip/Mix/Burn. The record companies have weasled the gubmint into levies on CDR/DVD-R media, MP3 Players etc.; so I pay for the right to R/M/B even if I don't often excursive that right.
Do you live in Canada? If you are in the united states, only "Music" CD-Rs are taxed. "Data" CD-Rs are not, even though you can record music to a data CD-R and play it back on anything. The only difference between the two is that the Music CD-R costs more and it can be burned by special, expensive stereo components, which in turn cost more then whole computers with burners.
In other words, for all practical purposes there are not levies on data storage systems in the US (CDs, memory sticks, DVDs, etc) only on audio systems (audio tape, DAT, crippled CDs for component recording).
What they plan to do is, flood Kazaa with tons of bogus files and data and try to make it worthless, then people will have to use their pay services if they want music. Lots of people pirate music, but even more people are willing to pay for music.
I actually got a CD this summer when I couldn't find it on the depleted campus LAN.
The music industry won't die. They may be dinosaurs, but there are lots of people who will be happy to take over and make it into something else.
Rather then some grandiose claims, what will happen is the following: Hillary Rosen will resign, along with several top record execs (we already know this is happening) the price of CDs will come down to a reasonable level ($6-$8 I'd guess), and a reasonably priced online service will be launched with some sort of DRM, the service may or may not succeed, depending on customer adoption of DRM software. Considering what people are willing to put up with in order to get music (tons of spy ware from Kazaa, and by the way you'd be surprised at how many use windows media player to listen to MP3s)
I predict that eventually there will be some service where you pay $20-$50/mo for all the music you want, downloaded to your computer/pda/walkman. You'll 'own' the files even after the service expires. The money will be distributed to the parent companies based on their percentage of the downloads.
That will be it, that will be the "death". No grandiose flameouts, no seeing Kid-rock getting a job at K-mart, no Britney as a porn star (sorry), etc. The music industry will continue as long as people are willing to pay for music. There will be a change from viewing music as a product to viewing it as a service, but it will still exist, and will be controlled by mostly the same people.
Well, here's one idea. If you have a hardware (or really fast software) DV compressor(s) that can do multiple bit rates you could interleave the data with data from other tuner/compressors. That way, you would be able specify a maximum data rate, and you could record as much video as you wanted, although quality would go down as you started to record more and more channels. You could split the video signal again later.
Here's what I would do if I was designing hardware. I would have 'nodes' with a tuner and a variable compressor. Nodes could be Firewire devices or something like a PCI card. Cards or cartages would be better, because if you had a ton of devices it could get to be a mess of wires and such. The host computer, which the nodes are plugged into would then interleave the data stream and record it to the hard drive. The device would also have a network interface (say Ethernet) so that it could coordinate with other hosts on the network. The thing would almost certainly have enough CPU power left over to some management software, so one would be delegated 'master' roll which would coordinate all the nodes. Theoretically, you could record as much data as you'd like without any practical limit (since the control data is just stuff like 'channel 3, 6-8pm').
I mean, maybe teenagers shouldn't be making decisions about economics or whatever, but I think they should have some say in what happens to them. I mean that the law treats everyone under 18 the same is ridiculous. I think it's time the government started differentiating between the two, and I think teens should have some say in government.
I especially support teens being able to vote in city and state elections so they can hopefully avoid being hassled by the cops and such, and having idiotic curfews imposed on them.
Obviously SCO, but who uses that? More to the point, I think it would be in our best interests to avoid using (and especially paying for) any products from their parent companies and the parent's subsidiaries. In other words, we should avoid the whole corporate tree.
Caldera is the owner, right? And what about it's subsidiaries? Don't they have an embedded Linux biz, Lineo or something?
What these guys are doing is way worse then Amazon, and we (well, some people, not me personally) are boycotting them.
The closest definition to your is Of or relating to the central government of a federation as distinct from the governments of its member units.
But then that would only be the case if this decision were related to the san-Francisco central government, rather then any of SF's subunits. Since SF has no sub units, it does not apply.
In fact, federal is most often used to contrast the nature of the government described to 'local' governments. I.E federal vs. state. A city government is not a federal government at all. In fact, it's almost the exact opposite.
Besides, its clear from the context that the author meant 'democratic' or something, not 'federal', which is even more ironic since the original Federalists (in US history) were far less democratically inclined then their opponents, the Democratic Republicans.
If you read the artical there was also an anecdote about a board who stared calling eachother by the 1000monkey's names, including a woman who called herself "JamCracker."
I thought it was helarious (even registed the slashdot name jamcracker, btw).
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but using a 'Magic' Les Paul would force you entirely into the digital domain
If you read the fucking artical, you'd see that the Guitar will also have anlog pickups and outputs. It won't force you to do shit.
I mean, Ethernet isn't really designed for real-time connections. I realize that it can work when you get to the really high speeds, but wouldn't that be expensive.
I guess what I'm wondering is, why did they chose Ethernet rather then Fire wire, or even S/PDIF? Do you need to use special switching hardware that insures real-time communication? What about packet loss?
Personally, I'd like it if everything used Ethernet, it really does seem to be the most convenient form of networking out there. Hopefully all the work put in by Gibson will be adopted and we'll be able to plug our stereo, TV, VCR and everything directly into our home gigabit LAN. It would make things a lot easier, that's for sure.
If RIAA thinks going after KAZAA is difficult, imagine them going after something like Freenet. The way I figure, if there's a way to send money to something, there's a way to take it back. A system with no financial structure won't be attackable in a cort of law (not that they can't do something like try to DOS the network out of existance)
Anyway, what are some good non-evil P2p services? I've stayed away from kazaa, as I'm not really a big fan of spyware. I've been using WinMX to find realy rare stuff, but most of my downloading, untill thirsday night, was done over the campus lan. Thirsday night they busted into a few dorms and shut down the central searching system (Strangesearch) for our campus. Are their any other good ones out there based on open source stuff?
Stealing service from an organization making money from other people's copyrights. Oh, the horror!
Ok, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that you're the same guy posting anon to protect his oh-so-precious karma. Otherwise the "anonymous" quip would just be to hypocritical to believe.
Where? Don't just fucking say it sucks because he did it cheap, enlighten all the rest of us as to WHERE and WHY it sucks.
Well it doesn't help that the timing of the guitarist is off, that the singer's voice is flat and practically cracking, and the lyrics are trite, insipid, uninspired boring emo BULLSHIT. but that's really beyond the scope of this flame.
Out of my hands:
The highs in the guy's voice are way to high, listen to the Ss and even the Ks somewhat, they blast out in the high range. The high hats are the same. In fact, it's so loud that I think it might be getting cut off or something, it also sounds like the singer has a cold, but maybe it's just him sucking Also, not nearly enough bass.
track6/7:
The whole song is to quiet. and when the guy yells "party at the drug store" it's softer then his regular singing voice, which is odd (did he pull away from the mic or something). The bass gets washed out too, it seems.
Lower Providence:
This is the best of the bunch, actually. We can hear how bad the singer's voice is nice and clearly. Was this song really recorded along with the others? If I'd downloaded this one rather then out of my hands (or track6/7, which is even worse) I probably wouldn't have. The other guitar that comes in at 2:47 is really loud and jarring, though.
The honest truth is that you couldn't tell the difference if someone didn't tell you.
perhaps, but I doubt it.
If you can, you are in a tiny, tiny minority and, therefore, don't fucking matter for shit to the rest of us.
Yeah, whatever. If I can tell the difference with my $35 RCA/Radio shack speakers and $60 sub, a real Audiophile would probably shit a brick. The difference would be palpable on anything but the lowest end boom boxes and headphones. Just because someone can express the difference doesn't mean they can't tell. Otherwise, why would anyone buy a nice stereo?
Have a nice anonymous fucking life...
Yeah, whatever Mr. unsigned emo boi. There are more former band members in this country then people of Asian decent, by an order of magnitude. We can measure our respective anonymity in the future, AC.
Note that this was a no-name studio, with a no-name engineer, and self-produced.
Yeah, and it shows.
Is that related to Linear Object Language?
When you're talking about standards you need to have things specified exactly, and schemas give you a standard way to do that. And they also allow you to do things like automatically generate code blocks to represent your data in memory, saving developers of data-processing apps a lot of time. And not only that, they create a simple way to communicate between organizations. What would you have people do, look at the XML themselves and guess it's structure (which would work about 95% of the time, but that 5% will bite you in the ass when you get something unexpected).
And finally, Schemas don't force any of that on you. If you don't need schema support, then don't turn it on in your parser. You can still grab what you need out of the tree. Although you might not be able to throw just anything into it, that's probably a good thing. The last thing the world needs is thousands of tiny, ill-conceived exotic extensions to various Datatypes. It would make achieving universal compatibility a nightmare.
If your app doesn't need schemas, don't use 'em. If you don't need to validate, don't check em. If you need to put more data into your tree, maybe you should rethink what your doing or rewrite maybe your schema.
Some people need to do better jobs thinking up domain names.
I don't see what's wrong with Rip/Mix/Burn. The record companies have weasled the gubmint into levies on CDR/DVD-R media, MP3 Players etc.; so I pay for the right to R/M/B even if I don't often excursive that right.
Do you live in Canada? If you are in the united states, only "Music" CD-Rs are taxed. "Data" CD-Rs are not, even though you can record music to a data CD-R and play it back on anything. The only difference between the two is that the Music CD-R costs more and it can be burned by special, expensive stereo components, which in turn cost more then whole computers with burners.
In other words, for all practical purposes there are not levies on data storage systems in the US (CDs, memory sticks, DVDs, etc) only on audio systems (audio tape, DAT, crippled CDs for component recording).
What they plan to do is, flood Kazaa with tons of bogus files and data and try to make it worthless, then people will have to use their pay services if they want music. Lots of people pirate music, but even more people are willing to pay for music.
I actually got a CD this summer when I couldn't find it on the depleted campus LAN.
The music industry won't die. They may be dinosaurs, but there are lots of people who will be happy to take over and make it into something else. Rather then some grandiose claims, what will happen is the following: Hillary Rosen will resign, along with several top record execs (we already know this is happening) the price of CDs will come down to a reasonable level ($6-$8 I'd guess), and a reasonably priced online service will be launched with some sort of DRM, the service may or may not succeed, depending on customer adoption of DRM software. Considering what people are willing to put up with in order to get music (tons of spy ware from Kazaa, and by the way you'd be surprised at how many use windows media player to listen to MP3s)
I predict that eventually there will be some service where you pay $20-$50/mo for all the music you want, downloaded to your computer/pda/walkman. You'll 'own' the files even after the service expires. The money will be distributed to the parent companies based on their percentage of the downloads.
That will be it, that will be the "death". No grandiose flameouts, no seeing Kid-rock getting a job at K-mart, no Britney as a porn star (sorry), etc. The music industry will continue as long as people are willing to pay for music. There will be a change from viewing music as a product to viewing it as a service, but it will still exist, and will be controlled by mostly the same people.
I'd like to see this paper, it would certanly make life in the dorms much easier!
The bitch be dead.
Imagine if you had spent all that time and mental something, anything, more important then spending more of your life in front of the tube.
the tuner/soundcard connection is just there so the tuner can dump audio to the speakers in real time without using the host computer.
Well, here's one idea. If you have a hardware (or really fast software) DV compressor(s) that can do multiple bit rates you could interleave the data with data from other tuner/compressors. That way, you would be able specify a maximum data rate, and you could record as much video as you wanted, although quality would go down as you started to record more and more channels. You could split the video signal again later.
Here's what I would do if I was designing hardware. I would have 'nodes' with a tuner and a variable compressor. Nodes could be Firewire devices or something like a PCI card. Cards or cartages would be better, because if you had a ton of devices it could get to be a mess of wires and such. The host computer, which the nodes are plugged into would then interleave the data stream and record it to the hard drive. The device would also have a network interface (say Ethernet) so that it could coordinate with other hosts on the network. The thing would almost certainly have enough CPU power left over to some management software, so one would be delegated 'master' roll which would coordinate all the nodes. Theoretically, you could record as much data as you'd like without any practical limit (since the control data is just stuff like 'channel 3, 6-8pm').
I mean, maybe teenagers shouldn't be making decisions about economics or whatever, but I think they should have some say in what happens to them. I mean that the law treats everyone under 18 the same is ridiculous. I think it's time the government started differentiating between the two, and I think teens should have some say in government.
I especially support teens being able to vote in city and state elections so they can hopefully avoid being hassled by the cops and such, and having idiotic curfews imposed on them.
Obviously SCO, but who uses that? More to the point, I think it would be in our best interests to avoid using (and especially paying for) any products from their parent companies and the parent's subsidiaries. In other words, we should avoid the whole corporate tree.
Caldera is the owner, right? And what about it's subsidiaries? Don't they have an embedded Linux biz, Lineo or something?
What these guys are doing is way worse then Amazon, and we (well, some people, not me personally) are boycotting them.
What the hell is the deal with that?
he definition is here
The closest definition to your is Of or relating to the central government of a federation as distinct from the governments of its member units.
But then that would only be the case if this decision were related to the san-Francisco central government, rather then any of SF's subunits. Since SF has no sub units, it does not apply.
In fact, federal is most often used to contrast the nature of the government described to 'local' governments. I.E federal vs. state. A city government is not a federal government at all. In fact, it's almost the exact opposite.
Besides, its clear from the context that the author meant 'democratic' or something, not 'federal', which is even more ironic since the original Federalists (in US history) were far less democratically inclined then their opponents, the Democratic Republicans.
If you read the artical there was also an anecdote about a board who stared calling eachother by the 1000monkey's names, including a woman who called herself "JamCracker."
I thought it was helarious (even registed the slashdot name jamcracker, btw).
and they actually use spread-spectrum radio to communicate the level back to the driver in real time.
Cost a lot more then RFID tags, I'm sure.
You can't put fuck in a book title? That licks monkey choad. When is society going to grow up and stop being a bunch uptight cunts?
You know, it might help if you learned what words meant before you use them.
Just a suggestion.