Perhaps he meant unlimited quantities of high quality at absolutely no cost with no need to surrender any personal info, or risk of that info being discovered.
No one's figured out how to rake in the bucks providing that yet.
If I buy their software and pay whatever it's selling for, isn't it up to me whether I install it (on one machine in compliance with the license terms) or just stick it in a drawer, so how do they have the right to know which I did or just what kind of hardware I own as long as I'm not using it on more than one machine?
We just replaced a fried VCR and the new one's warranty registration form has more (and more intrusive) questions than a census form. How long until you have to answer questions like these in order to register your new software in order to get it to work?
There's a telco pedestal in my front yard, a switching station (windowless brick building) about a third of a mile down the street and my DSL speed is..."real soon now".:-(
Why not go to cable modem? 'Cause I've seen how well our local cable company (Time Warner) doesn't do television, which they've been at for years. Their technical expertise seems centered around breaking compatibility with older equipment in order to increase their converter box and remote control rental fees. And that's with televisions, where there are actually fairly stable standards (not great, but stable). Imagine what they could do along those lines with computer stuff.
Even if you're tracking below 1 gram with a stylus as close to perfect as possible, the tiny area of contact between stylus and groove wall translates into tons of pressure, which tends to melt and deform the vinyl.
The vinyl does have a certain amount of "memory" that lets it return to nearly the same shape as it cools, but not quite. The before and after difference adds up.
Playing the same part of the (continuous) groove over again before the vinyl has a chance to recover tends to deform the deformity and the vinyl can't restore itself back to the first deformity and then back to the pre-deformed state.
As far as junk in the groove on new records I believe the appropriate phrase is "abso-stinkin-lutely filthy".
He was probably using that Simpson meter because he knows that he can trust it year after year, and if it's analog instead of digital you can spot transients and intermittents with it that won't show up in an understandable way on a digital.
The company that seems to have a much greater than average fear of being cheated, stolen from, etc. by employees and/or customers is the one that's going to screw you every chance they get.
Actually Slashdot is kind of out-of-date on this one. The Register had this story about a month ago and I'm pretty sure I saw it linked in a post here on Slashdot a day or two before that.
The way I heard it glass doesn't melt because it's not a solid in the first place, just an *extremely* viscous liquid. Mind you, this is not the area of expertise of either myself or the E.E. that I heard it from.
Nonsense, lots of people get stuff (good and bad) that they don't deserve.
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Perhaps I should have been more clear in my wording of that last sentence. Let's try again
I don't consider anyone who's worked with MSware disqualified from commenting on MSware, but MSware does tend to provoke comments that shouldn't be uttered in polite society (and cause the realization that one knows more of those impolite phrases than one previously realized).
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I'm pretty sure that Miranda was the last name of the suspect, not the first name of the victim.
No one's figured out how to rake in the bucks providing that yet.
It's really spelled "evidence". April Fool.
Does AT&T have any cable television operations, including cable modem service, going on in any of the affected areas?
Could we then use the Freedom of Information Act to sue for access to MS code, along with other eveidence of atrocities?
Oh, come on. It's far too well thought out and coherent to be Katz.
Just think of Ayn Rand's stuff as comic books on the wrong end of the 1 picture = 1000 words equation.
Has anyone searched Professor Lirpa's work for prior art?
We just replaced a fried VCR and the new one's warranty registration form has more (and more intrusive) questions than a census form. How long until you have to answer questions like these in order to register your new software in order to get it to work?
Oh, you mean the Backhoe Operator From Hell :-)
1. Time-Warner cable doesn't get any more of our money.
2. Doesn't tie up the phone.
3. Should let me connect to the same ISP and not have to change e-mail addresses (again).
Why not go to cable modem? 'Cause I've seen how well our local cable company (Time Warner) doesn't do television, which they've been at for years. Their technical expertise seems centered around breaking compatibility with older equipment in order to increase their converter box and remote control rental fees. And that's with televisions, where there are actually fairly stable standards (not great, but stable). Imagine what they could do along those lines with computer stuff.
This isn't a reflection upon your worth as a human being or, for that matter, the level of his talent or the quality of his music.
The vinyl does have a certain amount of "memory" that lets it return to nearly the same shape as it cools, but not quite. The before and after difference adds up.
Playing the same part of the (continuous) groove over again before the vinyl has a chance to recover tends to deform the deformity and the vinyl can't restore itself back to the first deformity and then back to the pre-deformed state.
As far as junk in the groove on new records I believe the appropriate phrase is "abso-stinkin-lutely filthy".
He was probably using that Simpson meter because he knows that he can trust it year after year, and if it's analog instead of digital you can spot transients and intermittents with it that won't show up in an understandable way on a digital.
In the meantime those of us stuck with dialup are members of the ISP of the month club.
The company that seems to have a much greater than average fear of being cheated, stolen from, etc. by employees and/or customers is the one that's going to screw you every chance they get.
Actually Slashdot is kind of out-of-date on this one. The Register had this story about a month ago and I'm pretty sure I saw it linked in a post here on Slashdot a day or two before that.
Do you think that you're the first sig nazi I've dealt with?
The way I heard it glass doesn't melt because it's not a solid in the first place, just an *extremely* viscous liquid. Mind you, this is not the area of expertise of either myself or the E.E. that I heard it from.
It would be both a site to see and a sight to see.
Which would be fine if they could agree on when 2 in the morning is.
It doesn't matter how fast or affordable cable and DSL are if they aren't *available* in the area where you want internet access.
Nonsense, lots of people get stuff (good and bad) that they don't deserve.
I don't consider anyone who's worked with MSware disqualified from commenting on MSware, but MSware does tend to provoke comments that shouldn't be uttered in polite society (and cause the realization that one knows more of those impolite phrases than one previously realized).