apt and rpm are different things. apt is a package manager for - mostly - the.deb package format.
rpm is both the file format and *a* tool to work with them, just like you can use apt to install a single, downloaded.deb. But in the Fedora world, "yum" compares to apt as a package manager and performs pretty much the same role and does it pretty much as well as apt does.
Another major RPM distro is Suse. In their world, YAST compares to apt.
What it means to me is that the data is kept in a 30-60 second buffer. When it does start recording, it flushes out the buffer to disk and records the rest after it. It certainly does not mean everything is always recorded and available like you suggest!
The article seems quite clear, the guy was the MANAGER of the place, that he was the performer too was probably inconsequential; it just makes for a better fear-inducing story...
Three seconds per vote? I recon it would be much much faster. Take a deck of cards, shuffle them and put the different suits in 4 different stacks in front of you. I suspect you will do it faster than one per second.
The Canadians tend to do it this way with volunteers and anyone can look over their shoulder, so there are always enough eyes to spot mistakes. And they have a solid, trustworthy result in hours without spending billions in machines and paid workers. They must be on to something.
I think we'll never know. I am pretty sure the labels like it this way, but we'll never know if Apple minds, or even how hard they bargained with the labels to allow re-downloads/upgrades...
I am not trying to blame anyone in this as I don't have the facts, I am just blaming the system.:P
People generally smarter than Forbes when it comes to technology seem to think YouTube pays a lot less in bandwidth; indeed, just look at how much it costs to store on and stream from Amazon's S3 service. Surely, the cost for Apple can't be orders of magnitude higher than that? On top of that, "upgrades" and (also paid!) re-downloads should be a fraction of new purchases in volume anyway.
Besides, I never said the cost was zero; just that you should have to pay for the cost of getting the upgrade and not for the license, which is much, much greater than the infrastructure and bandwidth cost.
Distributing physical media is expensive and an exchange program makes it even more expensive.
Apple knows exactly what you bought and allowing you to download it again would cost them a few cents per download. (which they could easily charge for and make a buck; "upgrade for just $1.99!")
Not having *anything* in place for upgrades or replacements of lost downloads is a farce in the internet age; you already own a license, why should you pay for that part again?
FM (and AM!) stations process themselves this loud mostly to gain a competitive advantage; there is no technical requirement to do this (only to limit your maximum modulation) and nor is there for broadcast TV. Yet most of the networks seem to do it. If you are louder, you stand out on the dial and it helps with listening in noisy enviroments, as well as - to a lesser extent - blasting through multipath distortion.
And here in the UK, TV stations don't process their programming very loud. I often download shows that we don't get here or get much later and I have to say, when they are recorded off broadcast TV in the US, the sound is usually appalling over-processed, distorted crap. I feel sorry you guys have to put it with this as there is no need for it at all. Luckily, the files recorded from HD cable or satelite don't suffer this problem.
The "volume" actually remains the same as that is what the maximum level is. As others have pointed out, commercials tend to have much more *loudness* than your average TV show through the use of compression. For the same reasons radio sounds so much louder than a CD you have just been playing.
So yeah, it can and has been done. It worked so well that the networks sued ReplayTV out of business...
I still don't think you get it: music ripped in iTunes does not have DRM on it. I have an iPod and use iTunes all the time. But I have no DRMed music at all; everything is ripped off CDs I own. I now rip to ALC (Apple Lossless) but my wife uses 128K AAC because she only has a 4GB player. Again, these AAC files have NO DRM on them; only files *bought* from the iTunes Store are DRMed.
iTunes doesn't work on Linux because Apple hasn't bothered porting it to it; the DRM has nothing to do with it. (if they did decide to port it, it obviously would have the DRM features for music bought from their store, but I guess selling DRMed music to your average linux user is like selling sunscreen to eskimos!)
Until someone starts selling unprotected major-label music in a high bitrate, I'll stick with CDs. No DRM to deal with and if you know where to shop, they are even slightly cheaper than DRMed and terrible sounding 128K AAC files...
Uninstall iTunes or whichever thing is giving you this unplayable worthless crap to begin with
When did iTunes ever give you "unplayable worthless crap"? It's the iTunes Store that sells you that. iTunes the application merely provides a way to play it back. Nothing you rip yourself in iTunes has any DRM on it whatsoever.
Two things: first of all, while they do not break, glass/metal platters do stop working after a head strike. In the case of rigid disks, some specialist company might be more able to recover (some of) your data for hundreds or thousands of units of your favourite currency, but the drive is still dead. So that makes the drives not folding or having heads rip through the completely irrelevant. Floppy or hard, the disk would die.
Secondly, the quote you chose - while stating that they believe it is more restantant to shock - misses the all important "how". While the quote isn't wrong, I believe the one I used is so much better at taking away fears of head crashes by explaing how they are dealt with that I couldn't help but wonder if you stopped reading after the first quote about reliability you could find.
I hope you can see both these things as constructive criticism!
Yeah, I though about that too. But it all hinges in how much movement these heads can make in the case of a drop and how far away the next platter/head is. Obviously, the distance between different two sets of platters and disks can be greater than the distance between a head the disk it is reading/writing.
I hate spinning disks too, but they are the fastest, cheapest and most durable thing we have for big storage right now, unfortunately.
Seeing is believeing, so Mr. Cringely better be showing in that promised year from now!
Uhm, did you read the entire article? It seems you missed the part where he says:
The nature of our drives is such that they are very resistant -- almost immune -- to shock damage, making head crashes a non-event because the flexible metal foil yields to the head, pushed away by a layer of compressed air, rather than being struck by it.
While your statement about dangerous "placebos" is true, you are forgetting that no doubt the vast majority of the amount of money listed comes from countries creating "generic" versions of patented Big Pharma drugs.
Because they don't pay royalties, they end up on this list, but at the same time they are very high quality and save many, many lives of people who could otherwise not afford these drugs.
On top of that, you can manufacture solar panel with power created by solar panels.
This is also what always bugs me about the nuclear debate; all the idiots claiming that it takes almost as much fossil fuels for mining/refining of nuclear fuel than it takes to turn the coal/gas/oil into electricity directly. Nobody seems to see that wouldn't be the case if you powered those operations by nuclear power itself...
Moon orbit is no different from earth orbit; all you have to do is fire an engine to slow down and you will crash into it. Although hitting exactly the right spot - as well is getting into the right orbit to begin with - is rocket science, crashing into it in priciple decidedly is not; gravity will do that for you if you give it a chance.
Your stone and string example is completely irrelevant; unless you do it very far away from the surfice of the earth, of course!
Why? TV warning millions of people to get out before Katrina hit saved a lot more lives than the HAMs relaying messages for emergency crews afterwards.
Both are important, but if we're keeping a bodycount, the original poster's "DTV sure as hell doesn't save lives" is just dead wrong.
Neither should have to put up with interference, but I would argue TV has saved many more lives than HAMs do.
Rarely as direct, but TV has spread a lot of knowledge about health and how to deal with emergencies; worldwide that is no doubt saving many lives every day.
On the flip side, it's also filled with junk food ads...
Speakers have to be seriously crappy not to hear the artifacts. But if you use seriously crappy speakers, you probably don't seriously care about music anyway!:)
No, they are not. LCD is the better technology, whereas in the VHS vs. BetaMax wars the lesser technology won on price and the better tech dissapeared. (or, more acurately, was relegated to the pro arena)
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apt and rpm are different things. apt is a package manager for - mostly - the .deb package format.
.deb. But in the Fedora world, "yum" compares to apt as a package manager and performs pretty much the same role and does it pretty much as well as apt does.
rpm is both the file format and *a* tool to work with them, just like you can use apt to install a single, downloaded
Another major RPM distro is Suse. In their world, YAST compares to apt.
What it means to me is that the data is kept in a 30-60 second buffer. When it does start recording, it flushes out the buffer to disk and records the rest after it. It certainly does not mean everything is always recorded and available like you suggest!
The article seems quite clear, the guy was the MANAGER of the place, that he was the performer too was probably inconsequential; it just makes for a better fear-inducing story...
Three seconds per vote? I recon it would be much much faster. Take a deck of cards, shuffle them and put the different suits in 4 different stacks in front of you. I suspect you will do it faster than one per second.
The Canadians tend to do it this way with volunteers and anyone can look over their shoulder, so there are always enough eyes to spot mistakes. And they have a solid, trustworthy result in hours without spending billions in machines and paid workers. They must be on to something.
I think we'll never know. I am pretty sure the labels like it this way, but we'll never know if Apple minds, or even how hard they bargained with the labels to allow re-downloads/upgrades...
:P
I am not trying to blame anyone in this as I don't have the facts, I am just blaming the system.
Besides, I never said the cost was zero; just that you should have to pay for the cost of getting the upgrade and not for the license, which is much, much greater than the infrastructure and bandwidth cost.
Distributing physical media is expensive and an exchange program makes it even more expensive.
Apple knows exactly what you bought and allowing you to download it again would cost them a few cents per download. (which they could easily charge for and make a buck; "upgrade for just $1.99!")
Not having *anything* in place for upgrades or replacements of lost downloads is a farce in the internet age; you already own a license, why should you pay for that part again?
Absolutely, but there is no reason to go quite as loud as US stations do, as proven by pretty much every station in Europe...
FM (and AM!) stations process themselves this loud mostly to gain a competitive advantage; there is no technical requirement to do this (only to limit your maximum modulation) and nor is there for broadcast TV. Yet most of the networks seem to do it. If you are louder, you stand out on the dial and it helps with listening in noisy enviroments, as well as - to a lesser extent - blasting through multipath distortion.
And here in the UK, TV stations don't process their programming very loud. I often download shows that we don't get here or get much later and I have to say, when they are recorded off broadcast TV in the US, the sound is usually appalling over-processed, distorted crap. I feel sorry you guys have to put it with this as there is no need for it at all. Luckily, the files recorded from HD cable or satelite don't suffer this problem.
Apperantly, that is how ReplayTV did it.
The "volume" actually remains the same as that is what the maximum level is. As others have pointed out, commercials tend to have much more *loudness* than your average TV show through the use of compression. For the same reasons radio sounds so much louder than a CD you have just been playing.
So yeah, it can and has been done. It worked so well that the networks sued ReplayTV out of business...
I still don't think you get it: music ripped in iTunes does not have DRM on it. I have an iPod and use iTunes all the time. But I have no DRMed music at all; everything is ripped off CDs I own. I now rip to ALC (Apple Lossless) but my wife uses 128K AAC because she only has a 4GB player. Again, these AAC files have NO DRM on them; only files *bought* from the iTunes Store are DRMed.
iTunes doesn't work on Linux because Apple hasn't bothered porting it to it; the DRM has nothing to do with it. (if they did decide to port it, it obviously would have the DRM features for music bought from their store, but I guess selling DRMed music to your average linux user is like selling sunscreen to eskimos!)
Until someone starts selling unprotected major-label music in a high bitrate, I'll stick with CDs. No DRM to deal with and if you know where to shop, they are even slightly cheaper than DRMed and terrible sounding 128K AAC files...
When did iTunes ever give you "unplayable worthless crap"? It's the iTunes Store that sells you that. iTunes the application merely provides a way to play it back. Nothing you rip yourself in iTunes has any DRM on it whatsoever.
Just to set the record straight...
Not in my experience; I have seen a fair few laptop drives die from drops and all of them died pretty good.
Two things: first of all, while they do not break, glass/metal platters do stop working after a head strike. In the case of rigid disks, some specialist company might be more able to recover (some of) your data for hundreds or thousands of units of your favourite currency, but the drive is still dead. So that makes the drives not folding or having heads rip through the completely irrelevant. Floppy or hard, the disk would die.
Secondly, the quote you chose - while stating that they believe it is more restantant to shock - misses the all important "how". While the quote isn't wrong, I believe the one I used is so much better at taking away fears of head crashes by explaing how they are dealt with that I couldn't help but wonder if you stopped reading after the first quote about reliability you could find.
I hope you can see both these things as constructive criticism!
Yeah, I though about that too. But it all hinges in how much movement these heads can make in the case of a drop and how far away the next platter/head is. Obviously, the distance between different two sets of platters and disks can be greater than the distance between a head the disk it is reading/writing.
I hate spinning disks too, but they are the fastest, cheapest and most durable thing we have for big storage right now, unfortunately.
Seeing is believeing, so Mr. Cringely better be showing in that promised year from now!
Ever taken apart a 3.5" floppy? How "floppy" is that disk really? I assume this will be much the same...
While your statement about dangerous "placebos" is true, you are forgetting that no doubt the vast majority of the amount of money listed comes from countries creating "generic" versions of patented Big Pharma drugs.
Because they don't pay royalties, they end up on this list, but at the same time they are very high quality and save many, many lives of people who could otherwise not afford these drugs.
Just to put things into perspective.
On top of that, you can manufacture solar panel with power created by solar panels.
This is also what always bugs me about the nuclear debate; all the idiots claiming that it takes almost as much fossil fuels for mining/refining of nuclear fuel than it takes to turn the coal/gas/oil into electricity directly. Nobody seems to see that wouldn't be the case if you powered those operations by nuclear power itself...
'nough said,
Moon orbit is no different from earth orbit; all you have to do is fire an engine to slow down and you will crash into it. Although hitting exactly the right spot - as well is getting into the right orbit to begin with - is rocket science, crashing into it in priciple decidedly is not; gravity will do that for you if you give it a chance.
Your stone and string example is completely irrelevant; unless you do it very far away from the surfice of the earth, of course!
Why? TV warning millions of people to get out before Katrina hit saved a lot more lives than the HAMs relaying messages for emergency crews afterwards.
Both are important, but if we're keeping a bodycount, the original poster's "DTV sure as hell doesn't save lives" is just dead wrong.
Neither should have to put up with interference, but I would argue TV has saved many more lives than HAMs do.
Rarely as direct, but TV has spread a lot of knowledge about health and how to deal with emergencies; worldwide that is no doubt saving many lives every day.
On the flip side, it's also filled with junk food ads...
Speakers have to be seriously crappy not to hear the artifacts. But if you use seriously crappy speakers, you probably don't seriously care about music anyway! :)