Disclaimer: No links to sites will be given, so people don't think I'm spamming referrals. I don't plan to do any referral-based offers in the future anyway. Additionally, I'm not affiliated with any of these sites.
So far, I've received: $170 check from a free green xbox offer (now closed) Xbox, from another free xbox offer. (Anyfreegift) ipod, from freeipods.com $700 check, from freelaptops4you.
Only freeipods.com required referrals. The other grand worth of money/stuff didn't. I'm currently working on a deal for a laptop from another site.
Are some of the sites scams? Yeah. But some of them are legit, or close enough for you to get your stuff.
Some things, such as cymbals, sound noticeably bad in 192 or 224 kbit AAC, even on the junk earphones included with the iPod. (Incidentally, I've also noticed that the same MP3 file will sound worse on an ipod than on a PC when listening with the same headphones.)
The "Fusion is a fairy tale" post is a troll because fusion has been powering the Earth since before mankind existed. (Stars are "powered" by fusion.) Fusion has also been demonstrated in laboratories; self-sustaining, profitable fusion hasn't been reached yet, but there is no reason whatsoever to think that it won't be achieved in the future. Cold fusion is a fairy tale, but that's another story.
Re. the mod system: Yes, it's got its ups and downs, but in this case, a troll was modded as a troll.
"...if further research reveals that Life begins at conception..." This is a religious/ethical question, not a biological one. Thus no amount of research or medical data can "answer" it. (What, do you think that someone with a really big microscope is going to say "This is when the soul goes in?") We know about the stages of embryo development, but the idea of Life with a capital L is subjective and very personal.
Search for Pink Floyd. "Animal Instincts," "Ultra Rare Trax," "Wembley Pre-FM," the whole tree full of secrets collection, etc are all bootleg and/or fanmade releases. (The latter not being intended for sale by anyone, ever.)
People, THIS IS A PIRATE SITE. They sell bootleg recordings, the kind that people make when they sneak microphones into concerts. Last time I looked, they had live bootlegs of Pink Floyd, Bowie, U2, and others. They do this both for bands/artists that allow taping (but not sales of tapes) and for bands/artists that explicitly ban it.
They claim they pay royalties, but I don't believe that they're legit, and the evidence seems to back me up on it.
First of all, digital TV isn't necessarily HDTV. 480i digital broadcasts are perfectly possible. In addition, HDTV broadcasts don't have to be 16:9, although they frequently are. It's also worth remembering that the analog to digital spectrum change only applies to over the air broadcasts; cable companies can do as they wish, and pretty much all satellite broadcasts have been digital for a while now.
Actually, to the best of my knowledge, it does apply to bits, just not with line speeds. (Modem baud rates, for example.) For example, when you hear about a 2 kilobit rom chip, it's a safe bet that it's 256 bytes, and not 250.
(Note: I'm aware of the SI attempt to redefine the prefixes. I think it's a very bad idea to redefine existing measurements, even if they are confusing to some.)
2 bits = 4 possibilities. Nope, not right. My example was meant for good, secure passwords. It's true that if you just add an "a" to your old password, you're not doing much to help yourself, but my numbers assumed good passwords, for which each character would be "worth" a little less than 6 bits.
Every time you add another character onto an alphanumeric, case-sensitive password, the total number of possibilities is multiplied by 62. CPU throughput takes a very long time to increase 62-fold. So going from 8 to 10 characters increases the passwordspace 3844 times, and that's assuming only uppercase, lowercase, and numbers.
There's nothing to worry about until quantum computers can handle problems like this AND are available by someone you don't want accessing your data.
My uncle had both a wifi setup and 2.4ghz phones; when the phones were used, the signal strength decreased sharply. So he gave me the phones, and then they interfered with my network, even when I changed the channel that they were operating on. (This reduced the interference but didn't eliminate it.) It looks like computers will win 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz phones will become more popular. The microwave problem is also a common one and one which I've experienced firsthand.
The only players I know of that transcode to something other than mp3 are sony's ATRAC devices, which remain unpopular. iPods play MP3s and all the other formats listed as being supported unmodified.
A rather cheap one, sadly, but the sound is still incredibly good. Dylan's Blonde on Blonde sounds fantastic in 5.1, and the choir in the Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want has never sounded better. Dark Side of the Moon is, of course, astounding. In all cases, higher frequencies sound better than they do on standard CDs. As far as pricing, I bought most of the SACDs new for about $10-11/disc.
AllofMP3 is not a legitimate site. They have fanmade live and/or bootleg albums listed right next to legitimate ones for bands including Pink Floyd, U2, The Ramones, etc. That's something of a dead giveaway. (Some of the "bootleg" albums were actually fanmade for free distribution, so I'd love to see anybody profiting from them get shut down.)
If the percentage of dialup users remained the same and the absolute number of dialup users decreased, that would mean the total number of internet users decreased. Not bloody likely. (Do the math if you don't believe me.)
Should I let the people at Google know that I do have the Pink Floyd 1968 BBC appearance that they're looking for? Do you think they'd give me, like, stock in exchange?
I have to wonder if download/upload limits will be enforced on this system. Think of what we get in the US with many cable ISPs and especially college connections: high speed, as long as you barely use it at all. There are 2-3 GB/month limits, in some places. Or, perhaps, they could charge by usage instead of offering a flat rate.
(There's no mention of this in the article, so perhaps they haven't decided yet.)
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Disclaimer: No links to sites will be given, so people don't think I'm spamming referrals. I don't plan to do any referral-based offers in the future anyway. Additionally, I'm not affiliated with any of these sites.
So far, I've received:
$170 check from a free green xbox offer (now closed)
Xbox, from another free xbox offer. (Anyfreegift)
ipod, from freeipods.com
$700 check, from freelaptops4you.
Only freeipods.com required referrals. The other grand worth of money/stuff didn't. I'm currently working on a deal for a laptop from another site.
Are some of the sites scams? Yeah. But some of them are legit, or close enough for you to get your stuff.
Some things, such as cymbals, sound noticeably bad in 192 or 224 kbit AAC, even on the junk earphones included with the iPod. (Incidentally, I've also noticed that the same MP3 file will sound worse on an ipod than on a PC when listening with the same headphones.)
The "Fusion is a fairy tale" post is a troll because fusion has been powering the Earth since before mankind existed. (Stars are "powered" by fusion.)
Fusion has also been demonstrated in laboratories; self-sustaining, profitable fusion hasn't been reached yet, but there is no reason whatsoever to think that it won't be achieved in the future. Cold fusion is a fairy tale, but that's another story.
Re. the mod system: Yes, it's got its ups and downs, but in this case, a troll was modded as a troll.
"...if further research reveals that Life begins at conception..."
This is a religious/ethical question, not a biological one. Thus no amount of research or medical data can "answer" it. (What, do you think that someone with a really big microscope is going to say "This is when the soul goes in?")
We know about the stages of embryo development, but the idea of Life with a capital L is subjective and very personal.
Search for Pink Floyd. "Animal Instincts," "Ultra Rare Trax," "Wembley Pre-FM," the whole tree full of secrets collection, etc are all bootleg and/or fanmade releases. (The latter not being intended for sale by anyone, ever.)
People, THIS IS A PIRATE SITE. They sell bootleg recordings, the kind that people make when they sneak microphones into concerts. Last time I looked, they had live bootlegs of Pink Floyd, Bowie, U2, and others. They do this both for bands/artists that allow taping (but not sales of tapes) and for bands/artists that explicitly ban it.
They claim they pay royalties, but I don't believe that they're legit, and the evidence seems to back me up on it.
First of all, digital TV isn't necessarily HDTV. 480i digital broadcasts are perfectly possible. In addition, HDTV broadcasts don't have to be 16:9, although they frequently are. It's also worth remembering that the analog to digital spectrum change only applies to over the air broadcasts; cable companies can do as they wish, and pretty much all satellite broadcasts have been digital for a while now.
Actually, to the best of my knowledge, it does apply to bits, just not with line speeds. (Modem baud rates, for example.) For example, when you hear about a 2 kilobit rom chip, it's a safe bet that it's 256 bytes, and not 250.
(Note: I'm aware of the SI attempt to redefine the prefixes. I think it's a very bad idea to redefine existing measurements, even if they are confusing to some.)
2 bits = 4 possibilities. Nope, not right.
My example was meant for good, secure passwords. It's true that if you just add an "a" to your old password, you're not doing much to help yourself, but my numbers assumed good passwords, for which each character would be "worth" a little less than 6 bits.
Every time you add another character onto an alphanumeric, case-sensitive password, the total number of possibilities is multiplied by 62. CPU throughput takes a very long time to increase 62-fold. So going from 8 to 10 characters increases the passwordspace 3844 times, and that's assuming only uppercase, lowercase, and numbers.
There's nothing to worry about until quantum computers can handle problems like this AND are available by someone you don't want accessing your data.
My uncle had both a wifi setup and 2.4ghz phones; when the phones were used, the signal strength decreased sharply. So he gave me the phones, and then they interfered with my network, even when I changed the channel that they were operating on. (This reduced the interference but didn't eliminate it.) It looks like computers will win 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz phones will become more popular.
The microwave problem is also a common one and one which I've experienced firsthand.
The only players I know of that transcode to something other than mp3 are sony's ATRAC devices, which remain unpopular. iPods play MP3s and all the other formats listed as being supported unmodified.
An actual price drop! eCOST has them for that price.
(There's no referral ID in that link, btw. I just happened to see this in their e-mail newsletter.)
Nope. The master tape for Blonde on Blonde is 4 channels, and 16 for DSOTM. (Which was quite a feat for the time, incidentally.)
Very few recordings are made directly to stereo; this would force the mixing to be done in realtime which would be very inconvenient.
A rather cheap one, sadly, but the sound is still incredibly good. Dylan's Blonde on Blonde sounds fantastic in 5.1, and the choir in the Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want has never sounded better. Dark Side of the Moon is, of course, astounding. In all cases, higher frequencies sound better than they do on standard CDs.
As far as pricing, I bought most of the SACDs new for about $10-11/disc.
AllofMP3 is not a legitimate site. They have fanmade live and/or bootleg albums listed right next to legitimate ones for bands including Pink Floyd, U2, The Ramones, etc. That's something of a dead giveaway.
(Some of the "bootleg" albums were actually fanmade for free distribution, so I'd love to see anybody profiting from them get shut down.)
When I saw this many caps in one place, I thought I was going to be seeing a request for my assistance in helping money leave a small country.
Megaman 3 for GB!
(Yes, charged shots were introduced in MM4 for NES, but for the PDA aspect, the first GB game to feature them was MM3.)
Nah, they went over in the B ark.
If the percentage of dialup users remained the same and the absolute number of dialup users decreased, that would mean the total number of internet users decreased.
Not bloody likely.
(Do the math if you don't believe me.)
Should I let the people at Google know that I do have the Pink Floyd 1968 BBC appearance that they're looking for?
Do you think they'd give me, like, stock in exchange?
So I can download that Duke Nukem Forever ISO. They should be coming out at about the same time, I think.
I have to wonder if download/upload limits will be enforced on this system. Think of what we get in the US with many cable ISPs and especially college connections: high speed, as long as you barely use it at all. There are 2-3 GB/month limits, in some places. Or, perhaps, they could charge by usage instead of offering a flat rate.
(There's no mention of this in the article, so perhaps they haven't decided yet.)
You see, the FCC also recently mandated that all broadcasts be digital by 2006
Broadcasts, yes.
Cable, no.
I've got another set of two words that could be directed at that individual to whom you are responding, but I believe I shall restrain myself.