You miss the point of the iPhone completely. It whips the ass off Windows Mobile because of its seamless integration. Everything Just Works. There's the AppStore, right there, so you have a one-stop-shop to get all the add-on goodness you could possibly want - no more web-trawling to find a half-baked PoS app. The thing shifts to landscape because it can feel that's what you want - no pressing buttons or configuring. The network knows you'd prefer to use WiFi rather than 3G so it connects silently and pumps your data that way.
The iPhone is the most 'personal' personal computing device I've ever used and hands down wipes the floor with Windows Mobile, even despite the feature limitations. I just ditched my Windows Mobile 6.1 device and haven't looked back.
If you'd actually listened to some of the (admittedly small amount of) material available on SACD then you'd realise that the high cost and format lock-in are small prices to pay for an extraordinary step forwards in high-fidelity music. SACDs sound phenomenal compared to vanilla CDs.
After using AmiPro, anything else is a pale imitation.
Having your styles mapped to function keys was the only way to roll - I produced multi-hundred page documents with consistent, high quality style that way. On a 486, with 16MB of memory.
Infobox was lousy because you couldn't drive it from the keyboard. *duh*
Yes, but if you sample a 400Hz sine wave at 810Hz you do not get perfect reproduction. In fact you end up reducing the amplitude of the original 400Hz signal and introducing a 10Hz component too. *that's* why the super-high frequency formats are important.
Trust me, you can totally hear the difference between CD and SACD, golden ears or no...
But what happens in 2011 when a company decides to provide internet access for its users. It needs an IPv4 address in order for it's internet gateway to route its traffic out to the internet so that all it's internal users (IPv4 or v6, doesn't matter) can access the internet. But there's no more v4 addresses for the company so they can't provide the gateway service.
Will we see an emergence of gateway services from 3rd-party vendors which are effectively super-NATs that provide NAT-ing services for multiple organizations at once? That would also require that all inbound services (Web, email, VPN etc) also pass through another 3rd-party simply to gain v4 presence.
Doyle and his colleagues can now blast the entire text of all the books in the library of Congress across the United States in 15 minutes.
Now that would be something to see. Presumably launch from Cape Kennedy, touch-down somewhere over California? I suppose because they're just books you could just let the launch vehicle go *pop* and all the books would flutter down to the ground like so many leaves in autumn. Ah what a sight that shall be...
Can we make sure they're connected via PCI-Express rather than PCI please? PCI is just too slow. I used a solid-state disk that plugged into the PCI bus a while ago and didn't get the expected performance improvements. Good ol' RAM-disks worked tho because they weren't limited by PCI.
Have you heard the CD version on the SACD release of DSOTM? It sounds *awesome* and just shows (a) how good the original recording was, and (b) what a phenomenal job can be done when mastering for CD these days.
With CD sales haemorrhaging the music industry needs something to prop up sales. So why not actually get behind SACD/DVD-Audio and give us truly high-fidelity recordings that are mixed for dynamic range? CDs can then be left as source for MP3s / car stereos while the hifi version can command a premium and give us a reason to shell out our hard-earned on the premium format. But *please* let's make sure they mix hifi disks to -18db to ensure a consistent amount of headroom.
The problem for the music labels is that music is now a disposable item. As the size of music collections has increased, the perceived value of each item in that collection has reduced. If my collection is 10-times the size, each item is worth one-tenth the amount. Therefore the street-value today of one album is about $1.50 and hence AllOfMP3.com became hugely successful because they charged to the perceived value of the music being purchased.
Personally I do have a decent home stereo and would buy SACD/DVDA material if it made sense. But there's next to no material available in these formats, so I don't intend to crash the cash on the hardware.
Quite right - Australia only has 2 major international links. There's 20 million Aussies. Lets be generous and say 10 million households. That would work out at about 2kbps per household overseas.
OK, you got me.
My microwave pet peeve - that when the timer reaches zero it beeps 5 times and scrolls a message. OK fine, the beeps lets you know you're food is done. The scrolling message is cutsie/lame but no great problem.
But if you're hovering beside the thing and yank the door open the moment its finished it still insists in beeping 5 times. Why??? I've just opened the door ergo I know it's finished so JUST SHUT THE F**K UP!!!
Have you ever tried explaining to your mum why she can't watch that Divx-encoded AVI on her computer? What's that wierd error message that pops up when she tries?
I tell you, PCs will never catch on...
I completely agree with Joel's comments. Similarly, what about the installation process? Surely I just want an application to install itself and then run. Why do I have to click through screen after screen of wizard? Shouldn't the system know where to install my applications (i.e. the "Program Files" folder)? Why do I need to be involved with any of this? Any configuration should take place from within the application, not the installer.
Talk about making a mountain out of a mole-hill...
That's a bonus for all those boot-sector virus writers - 8 times more space to do their dirty deeds...
Previous experience with Sony digital camera woes
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I had a DSC-P1. Turns out that camera line bad a problem with the charger that would eventually kill the battery. Sony replaced the battery, charger and on-board hardware to rectify the problem, no questions asked. The camera was out of warrenty.
Well done Sony!
Having metadata is one thing. Having a database engine that can actually perform magic with that metadata is another.
Unless ReiserFS implements a DB engine as well, then comparisons against WinFS are pointless.
Why not just strip all the metadata extensions out and provide us with a real-fast OS that we can drop in and use today, no modifications required?
Heck, why not even port it to Windows and give us an alternative to NTFS?
*bzzzt* - incorrect. Typical wind turbines are less than one megawatt. Really large turbines (those deployed out at sea for instance) may be 1, 2 or occassionally 3MW.
Multi-megawatt turbines aren't installed on land because they're really big and people don't like big turbines in their backyards.
The article mentions support for International Domain Names.
If they're serious about security then they'll pull the pin on this 'feature' quick smart.
Otherwise, bring the Phishers....
...except that Apple Computers managed to get Apple Communications (who ran cheap long distance phone services in Australia) to change their name to iGreen
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So they haven't even established procedures for evaluating human exposure of 5G radiation (6 GHz-100 GHz) but hey don't let a little microwave radiation get in the way of 'progress'
You miss the point of the iPhone completely. It whips the ass off Windows Mobile because of its seamless integration. Everything Just Works. There's the AppStore, right there, so you have a one-stop-shop to get all the add-on goodness you could possibly want - no more web-trawling to find a half-baked PoS app. The thing shifts to landscape because it can feel that's what you want - no pressing buttons or configuring. The network knows you'd prefer to use WiFi rather than 3G so it connects silently and pumps your data that way.
The iPhone is the most 'personal' personal computing device I've ever used and hands down wipes the floor with Windows Mobile, even despite the feature limitations. I just ditched my Windows Mobile 6.1 device and haven't looked back.
If you'd actually listened to some of the (admittedly small amount of) material available on SACD then you'd realise that the high cost and format lock-in are small prices to pay for an extraordinary step forwards in high-fidelity music. SACDs sound phenomenal compared to vanilla CDs.
After using AmiPro, anything else is a pale imitation. Having your styles mapped to function keys was the only way to roll - I produced multi-hundred page documents with consistent, high quality style that way. On a 486, with 16MB of memory. Infobox was lousy because you couldn't drive it from the keyboard. *duh*
Total Harmonic Distortion 0,0023%
Frequency Response 4 - 44 Hz
Signal-to-Noise Ratio 115 dB
Dynamic Range 100 dB
http://www.pioneerfaq.info/dv600.php?player=DV-600AV&fraga=Ljudegenskaper
Yes, but if you sample a 400Hz sine wave at 810Hz you do not get perfect reproduction. In fact you end up reducing the amplitude of the original 400Hz signal and introducing a 10Hz component too. *that's* why the super-high frequency formats are important.
Trust me, you can totally hear the difference between CD and SACD, golden ears or no...
But what happens in 2011 when a company decides to provide internet access for its users. It needs an IPv4 address in order for it's internet gateway to route its traffic out to the internet so that all it's internal users (IPv4 or v6, doesn't matter) can access the internet. But there's no more v4 addresses for the company so they can't provide the gateway service.
Will we see an emergence of gateway services from 3rd-party vendors which are effectively super-NATs that provide NAT-ing services for multiple organizations at once? That would also require that all inbound services (Web, email, VPN etc) also pass through another 3rd-party simply to gain v4 presence.
Can we make sure they're connected via PCI-Express rather than PCI please? PCI is just too slow. I used a solid-state disk that plugged into the PCI bus a while ago and didn't get the expected performance improvements. Good ol' RAM-disks worked tho because they weren't limited by PCI.
Have you heard the CD version on the SACD release of DSOTM? It sounds *awesome* and just shows (a) how good the original recording was, and (b) what a phenomenal job can be done when mastering for CD these days.
With CD sales haemorrhaging the music industry needs something to prop up sales. So why not actually get behind SACD/DVD-Audio and give us truly high-fidelity recordings that are mixed for dynamic range? CDs can then be left as source for MP3s / car stereos while the hifi version can command a premium and give us a reason to shell out our hard-earned on the premium format. But *please* let's make sure they mix hifi disks to -18db to ensure a consistent amount of headroom.
The problem for the music labels is that music is now a disposable item. As the size of music collections has increased, the perceived value of each item in that collection has reduced. If my collection is 10-times the size, each item is worth one-tenth the amount. Therefore the street-value today of one album is about $1.50 and hence AllOfMP3.com became hugely successful because they charged to the perceived value of the music being purchased.
Personally I do have a decent home stereo and would buy SACD/DVDA material if it made sense. But there's next to no material available in these formats, so I don't intend to crash the cash on the hardware.
Quite right - Australia only has 2 major international links. There's 20 million Aussies. Lets be generous and say 10 million households. That would work out at about 2kbps per household overseas.
Australians - no YouTube for you.
OK, you got me. My microwave pet peeve - that when the timer reaches zero it beeps 5 times and scrolls a message. OK fine, the beeps lets you know you're food is done. The scrolling message is cutsie/lame but no great problem. But if you're hovering beside the thing and yank the door open the moment its finished it still insists in beeping 5 times. Why??? I've just opened the door ergo I know it's finished so JUST SHUT THE F**K UP!!!
Have you ever tried explaining to your mum why she can't watch that Divx-encoded AVI on her computer? What's that wierd error message that pops up when she tries? I tell you, PCs will never catch on...
That's nothing - I'm going to use it as my password! (starts typing frantically)
I completely agree with Joel's comments. Similarly, what about the installation process? Surely I just want an application to install itself and then run. Why do I have to click through screen after screen of wizard? Shouldn't the system know where to install my applications (i.e. the "Program Files" folder)? Why do I need to be involved with any of this? Any configuration should take place from within the application, not the installer. Talk about making a mountain out of a mole-hill...
That's a bonus for all those boot-sector virus writers - 8 times more space to do their dirty deeds...
I had a DSC-P1. Turns out that camera line bad a problem with the charger that would eventually kill the battery. Sony replaced the battery, charger and on-board hardware to rectify the problem, no questions asked. The camera was out of warrenty. Well done Sony!
Having metadata is one thing. Having a database engine that can actually perform magic with that metadata is another. Unless ReiserFS implements a DB engine as well, then comparisons against WinFS are pointless.
Why not just strip all the metadata extensions out and provide us with a real-fast OS that we can drop in and use today, no modifications required? Heck, why not even port it to Windows and give us an alternative to NTFS?
*bzzzt* - incorrect. Typical wind turbines are less than one megawatt. Really large turbines (those deployed out at sea for instance) may be 1, 2 or occassionally 3MW. Multi-megawatt turbines aren't installed on land because they're really big and people don't like big turbines in their backyards.
The article mentions support for International Domain Names. If they're serious about security then they'll pull the pin on this 'feature' quick smart. Otherwise, bring the Phishers....
...except that Apple Computers managed to get Apple Communications (who ran cheap long distance phone services in Australia) to change their name to iGreen
And if you integrate solar cells with the whole kit and caboodle then you've got one smart sheet of glass...!