Ask a Rio Karma owner who has tried using FLAC and they'll tell you the battery life is cut by about 40%
Actually, FLAC will cut the battery life to 75% of what you'd get with.mp3 on a Karma. Assuming you're playing the music continualy (not messing with the EQ, playlist, whatever) you'll get 11.5 rather than 15 hours.
Curiously, Vorbis on the Karma cuts the battery life even more than FLAC
True, but this is because the Vorbis codec uses floating point precision in the decoding process rather than fixed point like other codecs. MP3 players are generally designed to utilize fixed point precision, so Ogg's floating point requires significatly more CPU usage and power to decode. Hence, shorter battery life per charge.
In conclusion, this lower battery life is not curious at all (btw, vorbis cut's battery life to around 8-10 hours on the Karma).
Because listening to something in iTunes that you couldn't then sync to your iPod would defeat the purpose, which is to provide the complete iPod experience and sell more iPods.
So the only reason iTunes doesn't support OGG/MPC/FLAC/APE/etc. is because the iPod doesn't support them?
Why would Apple retard the development of its software because it has retarded the development of its hardware (seriously, I want to know)? If the whole purpose of iTunes is to sell more iPods why doesn't Apple make the iPod a more attractive player by adding more file-support while also making iTunes a more attractive piece of software by doing the same?
Apple's reason for this ridiculous file-support system has to be more than "the iPod doesn't support it", right?
Choice and flexibility are the main reasons 20GB's of storage is worth it to me.
I can listen to the vast majority of my record collection at any time I wish, and I don't have to worry about switching anything out. If I want to take the Karma on a trip, all I have to do is take it's charger.
And there's no reason anymore for new computers to go out the door in any shop without those types of programs installed if they are going to use MS.
You mean other than money, right? The only way consumer's are willingly going to shell out money for these types of programs is if:
1. They realize Windows is not secure. This simply isn't going to happen. The only company that I feel is powerful enough (in terms of consumer confidence) to assert this and have everyone believe it is Microsoft. Microsoft is not going to admit that Windows is insecure.
or
2. These programs are bundled with Windows and the consumer is given the impression that they are necessary (or Microsoft makes them necessary, which is more likely). This is why everyone has a web browser, an e-mail client (I guess people get this from their ISP more often these days, but it's usually Outlook regardless), and the various networking protocols that come with Windows.
Obviously, it would help if the web browser and the e-mail client that people are using were secure right after installation, and that definately makes a strong point in favor of some kind of class action suit, but still I feel the ball is in the consumer's court.
Let's not pretend this top of the line motherboard is going to make it into that $600 computer said yahoo is buying.
I'm not saying that these computers shouldn't have a firewall, only that because you can't measure a firewall in Gigabits, Gigahertz, or any other such marketable moniker they won't make it under Dell's or Compaq's bottom line..
Perhaps 5 years from now this kind of feature set will be common place, but until then this motherboard will largely be in high end workstations and gamestations (whose users are probably smart enough to keep their own computers secure in the first place).
I just don't understand why anyone is buying music in a lossy format. Yes, it's compressed so it's easy to download, but once you've downloaded it you're stuck with a 192 kbps (or lower) mp3 file.
Aside from just sounding worse than a wav or flac file you're also stuck with that format (unable to update to newer codecs when they're released) unless you want to put 1 lossy format on top of another.
If the prices go up it's just one less reason to buy these files, and if they're going to bundle them with filler anyway I might as well just buy the album. Right now, it's not that much more expensive to buy straight from a label's website than it is to buy mp3's for a buck a pop.
Oh well, just one more reason to avoid artists under the RIAA's influence..
I'm not interested in worthless comentary and having someone else determine which part of the match I'm watching.
The only reason to watch it is to see what "uber-l33t" cs players play like and video of monitors showing them in third person is pretty useless. Why not just release the hltv demo and let me decide what part of the match I'm watching?
As previously stated the cost increase will be fairly insignificant (otherwise Intel wouldn't be doing it).
And as for the amount of lead in a CPU being too little to do any serious damage I'll have you know that according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency water with more than 15 parts per billion of lead poses potential health risks. So (let's see if I can divide correctly) 0.000000015% is a health risk. Obviously even if the amount of lead is in the grams or milligrams range it's enough for just 1 cpu to cause serious drinking water risks.
I'm sure some of us geek's will be confused by this "sand" thing they're using in between the pots. This "sand" they talk about is actually just our friend silicon.
Just thought I'd throw that out there to avoid some confusion.
As long as you keep it in the shade I doubt you need to rewet the sand too often. Two layers of clay (or whatever the pots are made out of) as well as a few inches of sand should insulate fairly well. If anyone has a site that lists the "R" values (insulation coefficiants) of sand and clay all you'd need to do is compare that to something like a cooler (at least to get an idea on how effective this is).
Just like your refridgerator at home the main limitation\factor in terms of heat loss is going to be how often you open the fridge and whether you cover it with something more substantial than a cloth once the water is done evaporating.
This same man (and invention) won an invention of the year award from time (as seen here) in 2001.
I guess it's interesting that he also won this award, but why is Rolex handing out awards years after the fact?
Maybe I'm just used to the break neck pace of computer advancement, but this seems a little.. late.
What I still don't understand is why they're subsidizing this antiquated industry. Traditionally when new technology comes along that makes the old way of doing things inferior industry is forced to abandon that old way and adapt to "the new hotness." As capitalists, this is essentially our mantra.
For instance: The method of marketing the recording industry has been using for years is no longer viable. I'm talking about the way they hype and market sole tracks (singles) of an album while filling much of the rest with filler (remixes, reissues, live songs, half-assed songs, etc.)
Capitalist/Traditional Solution: Produce real albums (with direction, emotion, and *gasp* content) that are actually worth $18.00 or do away with the album idea all together and simply release singles in a lossless format (FLAC for instance). Prices for these singles would have to be reasonable. How can you expect someone to pay $1 for what will most likely amount to under 30 minutes of entertainment.
Current "Solution:" Allow the major record companies to sue anyone unwilling to waste their money on filler or buy tracks that are already encrypted in a lossy format for $1/song (which really is not much of an improvement in terms of price point).
Canada and the United States should be more concerned with maintaining an entertainment industry that isn't feared and loathed by the general populace. I think Washington and groups like the CRIA\RIAA have forgotten this is an entertainment industry and have become far too worried about the bottom line.
Another question is why the pop fed record industry is subject to this favorable treatment while industries which actually produce valuable services and technologies are outsourced (IT).
I'm sorry, but the iPod's terrible battery life (forget about the alledged replacement issues, those aren't important) keeps it out of the "worth having" category in my book.
Even playing ogg-vorbis files while I braving the cold of minnesota (cold>batteries) I still get over 8 hours on my Karma (obviously I'm keeping it in my jacket pocket, but the thing still gets cold)...
Apparently there's no such thing as an audiophile who would dare stand up and leave his or her stationary system.
Fact of the matter is if you really care that much about sound quality and are that in to music why wouldn't you rip in flac?
Furthermore if ripping to flac doesn't even make a difference what's the point in ripping to ogg-vorbis (which will drain the battery of your portable faster)?
If you pay for a decent ($100+) set of cans, you will notice a substantional difference..
The price and the freatures are reason enough for me to look at Neuros. I'm thinking about getting a 20gb HD based player from them, simply because they're $100-$200 cheaper than other HD players on the market right now. Decent battery life and some awesome features (ability to broadcast to an FM radio).
Only drawback is the size.. little bit bigger than other players on the market, but still small enough to fit easily into (my) pockets..
I've ordered a few aquatic plants, as well as a filter, light, aqaurium hood, and a few other things from them and all in all I've been pretty satisfied by their service.
Wouldn't really be surprised if they did have quite a few problems though, just seem like the kind of company that would:)
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Ask a Rio Karma owner who has tried using FLAC and they'll tell you the battery life is cut by about 40%
.mp3 on a Karma. Assuming you're playing the music continualy (not messing with the EQ, playlist, whatever) you'll get 11.5 rather than 15 hours.
Actually, FLAC will cut the battery life to 75% of what you'd get with
Curiously, Vorbis on the Karma cuts the battery life even more than FLAC
True, but this is because the Vorbis codec uses floating point precision in the decoding process rather than fixed point like other codecs. MP3 players are generally designed to utilize fixed point precision, so Ogg's floating point requires significatly more CPU usage and power to decode. Hence, shorter battery life per charge.
In conclusion, this lower battery life is not curious at all (btw, vorbis cut's battery life to around 8-10 hours on the Karma).
Because listening to something in iTunes that you couldn't then sync to your iPod would defeat the purpose, which is to provide the complete iPod experience and sell more iPods.
So the only reason iTunes doesn't support OGG/MPC/FLAC/APE/etc. is because the iPod doesn't support them?
Why would Apple retard the development of its software because it has retarded the development of its hardware (seriously, I want to know)? If the whole purpose of iTunes is to sell more iPods why doesn't Apple make the iPod a more attractive player by adding more file-support while also making iTunes a more attractive piece of software by doing the same?
Apple's reason for this ridiculous file-support system has to be more than "the iPod doesn't support it", right?
Everything I'm typing is a question?
Choice and flexibility are the main reasons 20GB's of storage is worth it to me.
I can listen to the vast majority of my record collection at any time I wish, and I don't have to worry about switching anything out. If I want to take the Karma on a trip, all I have to do is take it's charger.
And there's no reason anymore for new computers to go out the door in any shop without those types of programs installed if they are going to use MS.
You mean other than money, right? The only way consumer's are willingly going to shell out money for these types of programs is if:
1. They realize Windows is not secure. This simply isn't going to happen. The only company that I feel is powerful enough (in terms of consumer confidence) to assert this and have everyone believe it is Microsoft. Microsoft is not going to admit that Windows is insecure.
or
2. These programs are bundled with Windows and the consumer is given the impression that they are necessary (or Microsoft makes them necessary, which is more likely). This is why everyone has a web browser, an e-mail client (I guess people get this from their ISP more often these days, but it's usually Outlook regardless), and the various networking protocols that come with Windows.
Obviously, it would help if the web browser and the e-mail client that people are using were secure right after installation, and that definately makes a strong point in favor of some kind of class action suit, but still I feel the ball is in the consumer's court.
Let's not pretend this top of the line motherboard is going to make it into that $600 computer said yahoo is buying.
I'm not saying that these computers shouldn't have a firewall, only that because you can't measure a firewall in Gigabits, Gigahertz, or any other such marketable moniker they won't make it under Dell's or Compaq's bottom line..
Perhaps 5 years from now this kind of feature set will be common place, but until then this motherboard will largely be in high end workstations and gamestations (whose users are probably smart enough to keep their own computers secure in the first place).
I just don't understand why anyone is buying music in a lossy format. Yes, it's compressed so it's easy to download, but once you've downloaded it you're stuck with a 192 kbps (or lower) mp3 file.
Aside from just sounding worse than a wav or flac file you're also stuck with that format (unable to update to newer codecs when they're released) unless you want to put 1 lossy format on top of another.
If the prices go up it's just one less reason to buy these files, and if they're going to bundle them with filler anyway I might as well just buy the album. Right now, it's not that much more expensive to buy straight from a label's website than it is to buy mp3's for a buck a pop.
Oh well, just one more reason to avoid artists under the RIAA's influence..
I'm not interested in worthless comentary and having someone else determine which part of the match I'm watching. The only reason to watch it is to see what "uber-l33t" cs players play like and video of monitors showing them in third person is pretty useless. Why not just release the hltv demo and let me decide what part of the match I'm watching?
As previously stated the cost increase will be fairly insignificant (otherwise Intel wouldn't be doing it).
And as for the amount of lead in a CPU being too little to do any serious damage I'll have you know that according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency water with more than 15 parts per billion of lead poses potential health risks. So (let's see if I can divide correctly) 0.000000015% is a health risk. Obviously even if the amount of lead is in the grams or milligrams range it's enough for just 1 cpu to cause serious drinking water risks.
I'm sure some of us geek's will be confused by this "sand" thing they're using in between the pots. This "sand" they talk about is actually just our friend silicon. Just thought I'd throw that out there to avoid some confusion.
As long as you keep it in the shade I doubt you need to rewet the sand too often. Two layers of clay (or whatever the pots are made out of) as well as a few inches of sand should insulate fairly well. If anyone has a site that lists the "R" values (insulation coefficiants) of sand and clay all you'd need to do is compare that to something like a cooler (at least to get an idea on how effective this is).
Just like your refridgerator at home the main limitation\factor in terms of heat loss is going to be how often you open the fridge and whether you cover it with something more substantial than a cloth once the water is done evaporating.
This same man (and invention) won an invention of the year award from time (as seen here) in 2001. I guess it's interesting that he also won this award, but why is Rolex handing out awards years after the fact? Maybe I'm just used to the break neck pace of computer advancement, but this seems a little.. late.
"Anyone who's interested should note that the buyer must collect the item themselves, and returns will not be accepted."
Is this really a problem? Can't I just bore it back to my house?
What I still don't understand is why they're subsidizing this antiquated industry. Traditionally when new technology comes along that makes the old way of doing things inferior industry is forced to abandon that old way and adapt to "the new hotness." As capitalists, this is essentially our mantra.
For instance: The method of marketing the recording industry has been using for years is no longer viable. I'm talking about the way they hype and market sole tracks (singles) of an album while filling much of the rest with filler (remixes, reissues, live songs, half-assed songs, etc.)
Capitalist/Traditional Solution: Produce real albums (with direction, emotion, and *gasp* content) that are actually worth $18.00 or do away with the album idea all together and simply release singles in a lossless format (FLAC for instance). Prices for these singles would have to be reasonable. How can you expect someone to pay $1 for what will most likely amount to under 30 minutes of entertainment.
Current "Solution:" Allow the major record companies to sue anyone unwilling to waste their money on filler or buy tracks that are already encrypted in a lossy format for $1/song (which really is not much of an improvement in terms of price point).
Canada and the United States should be more concerned with maintaining an entertainment industry that isn't feared and loathed by the general populace. I think Washington and groups like the CRIA\RIAA have forgotten this is an entertainment industry and have become far too worried about the bottom line.
Another question is why the pop fed record industry is subject to this favorable treatment while industries which actually produce valuable services and technologies are outsourced (IT).
I'm sorry, but the iPod's terrible battery life (forget about the alledged replacement issues, those aren't important) keeps it out of the "worth having" category in my book.
Even playing ogg-vorbis files while I braving the cold of minnesota (cold>batteries) I still get over 8 hours on my Karma (obviously I'm keeping it in my jacket pocket, but the thing still gets cold)...
Apparently there's no such thing as an audiophile who would dare stand up and leave his or her stationary system.
Fact of the matter is if you really care that much about sound quality and are that in to music why wouldn't you rip in flac?
Furthermore if ripping to flac doesn't even make a difference what's the point in ripping to ogg-vorbis (which will drain the battery of your portable faster)?
If you pay for a decent ($100+) set of cans, you will notice a substantional difference..
The price and the freatures are reason enough for me to look at Neuros. I'm thinking about getting a 20gb HD based player from them, simply because they're $100-$200 cheaper than other HD players on the market right now. Decent battery life and some awesome features (ability to broadcast to an FM radio). Only drawback is the size.. little bit bigger than other players on the market, but still small enough to fit easily into (my) pockets..
Hit up pricewatch and you can find an 8500 for under $200.. You pay a lot for that NVidia stamp of approval :)
I've ordered a few aquatic plants, as well as a filter, light, aqaurium hood, and a few other things from them and all in all I've been pretty satisfied by their service. Wouldn't really be surprised if they did have quite a few problems though, just seem like the kind of company that would :)