Despite Dell having spanked everyone in the industry, computer builders still ship inventory to sit on Best Buy's (and Fry's and Comp USA's) shelves.
Despite iTunes, the recording industry can't imagine a world where people don't drive to the store to buy a physical piece of music.
Despite the growing ubiquity of broadband, AOL just can't get past the memory of the sweet markup they commanded with their modem bank in the glory days.
IMHO, the only thing that could have saved them (it's too late now) was to do what Microsoft is trying to do with webTV and the XBox: become the home entertainment center. AOL had some pretty unique content licensing deals back in the day: major magazines, features like The Motley Fool. If they had added on-demand streaming media and games on broadband while phasing out the dialup it might have been different.
I think you are confusing Shoutcast with something else.
Shoutcast is just an MP3 server. You can play whatever you want on it. I use it to stream my personal collection of MP3s. So I play EXACTLY what I want to play, 100% of the time.
Clearchannel (which is of course evil as you have noted) has nothing to do with how you use the software.
If MP3 jukeboxes are a dime a dozen, then MP3 servers are probably a quarter a dozen. However, in my own humble little quest to set up an Intranet radio station for my fellow workers, I found Nullsoft's Shoutcast to be MUCH better than the alternatives I tried.
I especially like the fact that it has a.conf file similar to Apache for all of the options. Compared to Windows Media Services for example, which has to sit on top of IIS (gack!) and is not very straightfoward (IMHO) to configure, Shoutcast was a dream.
It's a WD 74GB Serial ATA SATA150 10000 RPM Raptor. When I bought it a few months ago it retailed for around $199 from http://www.compuplus.com
I use it for home recording, and that model was recommended in a DIY audio workstation article (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,156504 0,00.asp). So far I've been very happy with it, although like I said in my original post I can still hear it when I'm trying to sleep.
I have two machines side by side. One has a brand new SATA drive in it, the other a Maxtor 7200 IDE. The SATA makes a very quiet hum. The Maxtor is louder than hell. And, it's actually the 2nd drive that's been in that machine, the first one being an IBM that died - which also droned. Clearly this is anecdotal evidence, but hey it's my experience (besides, I didn't know Slashdot posts had such rigorous research requirements!).
At any rate, I'm sure you're right about interface, and that the difference has to do with the quality and other factors. You must excuse me, though, I almost mistook your techical genius with condescending assholedom!
Being a light sleeper, I already have to turn off my computer every night - and it has an Antec quiet case and a SATA (that I like to think is quiter than a standard IDE 7200 RPM ChugMaster).
As far a hard drive that shakes... TFA doesn't say anything about noise factor, but I'm imagining the sound of forgetting to take your car keys and some loose change out of your jeans when you put them in the dryer.
Lesssee here. You willingly re-elected a president who has done more damage to the bill of rights than any person in the country's history. A man who has shown a clear preference for the interests of large corporations over the people he is supposed to lead. So the *AA's abusive and heavy handed tactics are surprising... how?
It seems that this is clearly the kind of thing Americans want. If the capacity for outrage doesn't exist for prisoners of war abused in Iraq, if it doesn't exist for voting machine manufacturers pledging money and support for only one party, if it doesn't exist for the zero accountability expected of the Enron, Worldcom, and Haliburton criminals... why should any American give a second thought to the people who will be fscked by the MPAA?
As has been said by people more eloquent than I, it's too late anyway.
You are vastly overlooking the effects of movies, music, pop icons, celebrities, TV shows, magazines, and just about everything else that has an influence on young people's sexual mores over the last 40 years. Even more importantly, what about the availability of birth control pills (which became widespread in the 60s - coinciding with your claim about sex ed's history). Many of the historians I've heard actually attribute the pill more than anything else to the explosion in sexual activity since the mid 60s.
Yet you attribute the rise in pregnancy and STDs all to a rinky dink health course that most high schoolers probably slept through, giggled at, or ignored completely?
This is your idea of setting is all straight on our history???
And also my sister's hamster just had babies, which are free to good homes. Oh wait, this is Slashdot? For some reason I thought it was the Greensheet.
How am I supposed to lure people into my web of decadent online perversion if the thing automatically answers A/S/L for me!? No more 18/f/Cali? Who's going to talk to a 47/m/OK? Next they'll be saying my screen name can't be.~h0ttieGrrl69~.
...as requiring a government-issued ID to travel on an airplane to combat terrorism. No terrorist has ever had a government-issued ID, and email accounts are a 100% reliable way to pin-point someone by geographic location.
sarcasm */
You're right. It is idiotic to correlate the amount of information in a signal path with its quality.
Throwing away information doesn't affect quality - just ask all the poor fools who rightly realize (too late now) that cassette tapes sound every bit as good as CDs. We all just fell for recording industry's marketing ploy.
If only we had had a fine, reasoned, thoughtful person like you to show us the way, maybe we could all be listening to 8-tracks. Whee!
CD quality is 1411 kbps. Certainly 192 is higher than the commonly seen 128, but at less than 14% of CD quality I wouldn't call it "near" CD quality. 320 kbps, which is the highest my chosen ripping software will go, is still roughly 1/4 CD quality.
It sickens me that because of where I live (Texas) my vote is essentially worthless. It's already been decided. Whether I'm pro-Bush, Kerry, or other, there isn't a damn thing I can personally do to influence the election.
As stated in the article as well as my first post, Badnarik is not defending the Electoral College (nor am I). In fact, he has proposed a rather interesting alternative. But allowing only the most densely populated parts of America do decide the fate of the rest of the country seems to fall short.
OK, so at the risk of inviting a semantics war, here is my favored dictionary definition of "democracy":
a way of governing a country in which the people elect representatives to form a government on their behalf a country with such a government the idea that everyone in a country has equal rights
So again. California (roughly 35,000,000 people) votes to disposses all the residents of Wyoming (493,782 people as of 2000), confiscate all the money in their bank accounts and use it to solve the state's budget problem. Please explain how that satisfies the requirement that "everyone in a country has equal rights."
I take his point to mean that, since politicians will always pander to groups from whom they want votes, the "one person one vote" method has the potential to disenfranchise too many people.
Hypothetical example. The entire state of Wyoming has a population of around 500,000 people. That's about half of the city of Austin, Texas where I live (and where you-know-who lived as governor). With a one person one vote system, a politician could direct a marketing blitz on an urban area like mine, get his votes, and not even bother with the entire state of Wyoming. How is that democratic?
And of course Austin vs. Wyoming is a silly example. The reality is what Badnarik described: a concentration of power in the most heavily populated urban areas like the Eastern and Western seaboards. Voters in sparsely populated areas would cease to matter. How is that democractic?
Of course there needs to be a balance, which is why the House is represented according to a state's population, and the Senate gets exactly two representatives, whether you are California or Wyoming. Badnarik acknowledged that the Electoral College system has flaws, and has proposed solutions. But the one person one vote is not one of them, and it's very apparent to me why not.
Since Microsoft has vowed to incorporate anti-virus software into coming versions of Windows, does it make sense for current anti-virus vendors to bet the future on that type of product?
On the one hand, this seems like a rehash of Microsoft incorporating IE (ay-eee!) into the OS for free, scuttling (so it seemed) Netscape. On the other hand, maybe Microsoft's anti-virus efforts will be as ham-fisted as their security efforts.
But I don't think so. I think that top-to-bottom security is a mind-bogglingly complicated universe, while simple anti-virus is more or less just a simple widget. If I were the anti-virus companies, I'd be spending my money diversifying rather than trying to grow into the greatest horse & buggy outfit in the face of imminent automobiles.
I agree, this seems wrong. But it already happens. You don't think the families of high-ranking military, high-level politicians, diplomats, etc., get special treatment, or early warnings of imminent threats that Joe Civilian is expected to deal with as it comes? Do you think there would be a difference today if Bill Gates called 911 vs. a poor person in a poor minority neighborhood? Sorry, but wake up.
Washington D.C. - Congress today announced that the Office of President of the United States will be outsourced overseas as of October 30th, the end of this fiscal year. The move is being made to save $400K a year in salary,and a record $521 Billion in deficit expenditures and related overhead.
The cost savings will be quite significant," says Congressman Adam Smith(D-Wash), who, with the aid of the Congressional research arm, the General Accounting Office, has studied outsourcing of American jobs extensively. "We simply can no longer afford this level of outlay and remain competitive on the world stage," Congressman Smith said. Exporting American jobs has been a popular trend lately, ironically at the urging of President Bush.
Mr. Bush was informed by email this morning of the termination of his position. He will receive health coverage, expenses and salary until his final day of employment. After that, with a two week waiting period, he will then be eligible for 240 dollars a week from unemployment insurance for 13 weeks. Unfortunately, he will not be able to receive Texas state Medicaid health insurance coverage as his unemployment benefits exceed the maximum income that qualifies for such coverage.
"I'm in shock," Mr. Bush stated. "I thought for sure I'd have some job security around this here place. I have no idea what I'll do now," he further lamented.
Preparations have been underway for some time for the job move.
Sanji Gurvinder Singh of Indus Teleservices, Mumbai, India, will be assuming the Office of President of the United States as of September 1. Mr. Singh will receive a salary of $320 a month but with no health coverage or other benefits. Due to the time difference between the US and India, Mr. Singh will be working primarily at night, when offices of the US Government will also soon be open.
"I am excited to serve in this position," Mr. Singh stated in an exclusive interview. "Working nights will let me keep my day job at the American Express call center. I always knew I could be President someday."
Congress stressed patience when calling Mr. Singh as he may not be fully aware of all the issues involved with his new position. A Congressional spokesperson noted that Mr. Singh has been given a script tree to follow which will allow him to respond to most topics of concern. The spokesperson further noted that "additional savings will be realized as these scripting tools have "already been used previously by Mr. Bush here in the USA." Such scripts will enable Mr. Singh continue to provide an answer without having to actually fully understand the issue itself."
Congress continues to explore further possible cost cutting relating to the Supreme Court and Pentagon. "Why should any western government pay high salaries to figureheads when their duties can easily be performed on movie sets in Calcutta?" said Mr Smith.
I've gently pushed Mozilla/Firefox whenever I can for the last few years. Whenever someone complains to me about pop-ups, I tell them about Firefox. Whenever someone asks how I've made my browser have such cool buttons, I tell them about Firefox. Whenever someone asks my advice about viruses, worms, spyware, adware, etc., from websites, I tell them about Firefox.
My experience is that most people think that the switch will be too painful. The tipping point is convincing them to download the thing and just try it for a week. After all, you can just delete it if you don't like it. Again, in my experience, the hurdle is just getting someone to try it. Everybody who's tried it has kept it. Maybe they could do some kind of "Pepsi Challenge" marketing event where they dare people to use only Mozilla for a week and go back?
Of course sadly they also have to keep IE (ay-eee!) for those sites with Active X, such as microsoft updates.
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Despite Dell having spanked everyone in the industry, computer builders still ship inventory to sit on Best Buy's (and Fry's and Comp USA's) shelves.
Despite iTunes, the recording industry can't imagine a world where people don't drive to the store to buy a physical piece of music.
Despite the growing ubiquity of broadband, AOL just can't get past the memory of the sweet markup they commanded with their modem bank in the glory days.
IMHO, the only thing that could have saved them (it's too late now) was to do what Microsoft is trying to do with webTV and the XBox: become the home entertainment center. AOL had some pretty unique content licensing deals back in the day: major magazines, features like The Motley Fool. If they had added on-demand streaming media and games on broadband while phasing out the dialup it might have been different.
I think you are confusing Shoutcast with something else.
Shoutcast is just an MP3 server. You can play whatever you want on it. I use it to stream my personal collection of MP3s. So I play EXACTLY what I want to play, 100% of the time.
Clearchannel (which is of course evil as you have noted) has nothing to do with how you use the software.
If MP3 jukeboxes are a dime a dozen, then MP3 servers are probably a quarter a dozen. However, in my own humble little quest to set up an Intranet radio station for my fellow workers, I found Nullsoft's Shoutcast to be MUCH better than the alternatives I tried.
.conf file similar to Apache for all of the options. Compared to Windows Media Services for example, which has to sit on top of IIS (gack!) and is not very straightfoward (IMHO) to configure, Shoutcast was a dream.
I especially like the fact that it has a
It's a WD 74GB Serial ATA SATA150 10000 RPM Raptor. When I bought it a few months ago it retailed for around $199 from http://www.compuplus.com
4 0,00.asp). So far I've been very happy with it, although like I said in my original post I can still hear it when I'm trying to sleep.
I use it for home recording, and that model was recommended in a DIY audio workstation article (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,15650
Good luck!
I have two machines side by side. One has a brand new SATA drive in it, the other a Maxtor 7200 IDE. The SATA makes a very quiet hum. The Maxtor is louder than hell. And, it's actually the 2nd drive that's been in that machine, the first one being an IBM that died - which also droned. Clearly this is anecdotal evidence, but hey it's my experience (besides, I didn't know Slashdot posts had such rigorous research requirements!).
At any rate, I'm sure you're right about interface, and that the difference has to do with the quality and other factors. You must excuse me, though, I almost mistook your techical genius with condescending assholedom!
Being a light sleeper, I already have to turn off my computer every night - and it has an Antec quiet case and a SATA (that I like to think is quiter than a standard IDE 7200 RPM ChugMaster).
As far a hard drive that shakes... TFA doesn't say anything about noise factor, but I'm imagining the sound of forgetting to take your car keys and some loose change out of your jeans when you put them in the dryer.
Lesssee here. You willingly re-elected a president who has done more damage to the bill of rights than any person in the country's history. A man who has shown a clear preference for the interests of large corporations over the people he is supposed to lead. So the *AA's abusive and heavy handed tactics are surprising... how?
It seems that this is clearly the kind of thing Americans want. If the capacity for outrage doesn't exist for prisoners of war abused in Iraq, if it doesn't exist for voting machine manufacturers pledging money and support for only one party, if it doesn't exist for the zero accountability expected of the Enron, Worldcom, and Haliburton criminals... why should any American give a second thought to the people who will be fscked by the MPAA?
As has been said by people more eloquent than I, it's too late anyway.
I think by flamebait the moderator meant you were at risk of drawing Godzilla's famous firey breath. It's a compliment.
I will be drinking and fucking, same as any other day.
You are vastly overlooking the effects of movies, music, pop icons, celebrities, TV shows, magazines, and just about everything else that has an influence on young people's sexual mores over the last 40 years. Even more importantly, what about the availability of birth control pills (which became widespread in the 60s - coinciding with your claim about sex ed's history). Many of the historians I've heard actually attribute the pill more than anything else to the explosion in sexual activity since the mid 60s.
Yet you attribute the rise in pregnancy and STDs all to a rinky dink health course that most high schoolers probably slept through, giggled at, or ignored completely?
This is your idea of setting is all straight on our history???
And also my sister's hamster just had babies, which are free to good homes. Oh wait, this is Slashdot? For some reason I thought it was the Greensheet.
69, dude!
(actually, 69.6969696969... you can keep 69'ing forever!)
... really seemed to be a lot more about his parents' basement than the Microsoft jpeg vulnerability.
How am I supposed to lure people into my web of decadent online perversion if the thing automatically answers A/S/L for me!? No more 18/f/Cali? Who's going to talk to a 47/m/OK? Next they'll be saying my screen name can't be .~h0ttieGrrl69~.
...as requiring a government-issued ID to travel on an airplane to combat terrorism. No terrorist has ever had a government-issued ID, and email accounts are a 100% reliable way to pin-point someone by geographic location. sarcasm */
You're right. It is idiotic to correlate the amount of information in a signal path with its quality.
Throwing away information doesn't affect quality - just ask all the poor fools who rightly realize (too late now) that cassette tapes sound every bit as good as CDs. We all just fell for recording industry's marketing ploy.
If only we had had a fine, reasoned, thoughtful person like you to show us the way, maybe we could all be listening to 8-tracks. Whee!
CD quality is 1411 kbps. Certainly 192 is higher than the commonly seen 128, but at less than 14% of CD quality I wouldn't call it "near" CD quality. 320 kbps, which is the highest my chosen ripping software will go, is still roughly 1/4 CD quality.
You are exactly right.
It sickens me that because of where I live (Texas) my vote is essentially worthless. It's already been decided. Whether I'm pro-Bush, Kerry, or other, there isn't a damn thing I can personally do to influence the election.
As stated in the article as well as my first post, Badnarik is not defending the Electoral College (nor am I). In fact, he has proposed a rather interesting alternative. But allowing only the most densely populated parts of America do decide the fate of the rest of the country seems to fall short.
I take his point to mean that, since politicians will always pander to groups from whom they want votes, the "one person one vote" method has the potential to disenfranchise too many people.
Hypothetical example. The entire state of Wyoming has a population of around 500,000 people. That's about half of the city of Austin, Texas where I live (and where you-know-who lived as governor). With a one person one vote system, a politician could direct a marketing blitz on an urban area like mine, get his votes, and not even bother with the entire state of Wyoming. How is that democratic?
And of course Austin vs. Wyoming is a silly example. The reality is what Badnarik described: a concentration of power in the most heavily populated urban areas like the Eastern and Western seaboards. Voters in sparsely populated areas would cease to matter. How is that democractic?
Of course there needs to be a balance, which is why the House is represented according to a state's population, and the Senate gets exactly two representatives, whether you are California or Wyoming. Badnarik acknowledged that the Electoral College system has flaws, and has proposed solutions. But the one person one vote is not one of them, and it's very apparent to me why not.
Since Microsoft has vowed to incorporate anti-virus software into coming versions of Windows, does it make sense for current anti-virus vendors to bet the future on that type of product?
On the one hand, this seems like a rehash of Microsoft incorporating IE (ay-eee!) into the OS for free, scuttling (so it seemed) Netscape. On the other hand, maybe Microsoft's anti-virus efforts will be as ham-fisted as their security efforts.
But I don't think so. I think that top-to-bottom security is a mind-bogglingly complicated universe, while simple anti-virus is more or less just a simple widget. If I were the anti-virus companies, I'd be spending my money diversifying rather than trying to grow into the greatest horse & buggy outfit in the face of imminent automobiles.
I agree, this seems wrong. But it already happens. You don't think the families of high-ranking military, high-level politicians, diplomats, etc., get special treatment, or early warnings of imminent threats that Joe Civilian is expected to deal with as it comes? Do you think there would be a difference today if Bill Gates called 911 vs. a poor person in a poor minority neighborhood? Sorry, but wake up.
Washington D.C. - Congress today announced that the Office of President of the United States will be outsourced overseas as of October 30th, the end of this fiscal year. The move is being made to save $400K a year in salary,and a record $521 Billion in deficit expenditures and related overhead.
The cost savings will be quite significant," says Congressman Adam Smith(D-Wash), who, with the aid of the Congressional research arm, the General Accounting Office, has studied outsourcing of American jobs extensively. "We simply can no longer afford this level of outlay and remain competitive on the world stage," Congressman Smith said. Exporting American jobs has been a popular trend lately, ironically at the urging of President Bush.
Mr. Bush was informed by email this morning of the termination of his position. He will receive health coverage, expenses and salary until his final day of employment. After that, with a two week waiting period, he will then be eligible for 240 dollars a week from unemployment insurance for 13 weeks. Unfortunately, he will not be able to receive Texas state Medicaid health insurance coverage as his unemployment benefits exceed the maximum income that qualifies for such coverage.
"I'm in shock," Mr. Bush stated. "I thought for sure I'd have some job security around this here place. I have no idea what I'll do now," he further lamented.
Preparations have been underway for some time for the job move.
Sanji Gurvinder Singh of Indus Teleservices, Mumbai, India, will be assuming the Office of President of the United States as of September 1. Mr. Singh will receive a salary of $320 a month but with no health coverage or other benefits. Due to the time difference between the US and India, Mr. Singh will be working primarily at night, when offices of the US Government will also soon be open.
"I am excited to serve in this position," Mr. Singh stated in an exclusive interview. "Working nights will let me keep my day job at the American Express call center. I always knew I could be President someday."
Congress stressed patience when calling Mr. Singh as he may not be fully aware of all the issues involved with his new position. A Congressional spokesperson noted that Mr. Singh has been given a script tree to follow which will allow him to respond to most topics of concern. The spokesperson further noted that "additional savings will be realized as these scripting tools have "already been used previously by Mr. Bush here in the USA." Such scripts will enable Mr. Singh continue to provide an answer without having to actually fully understand the issue itself."
Congress continues to explore further possible cost cutting relating to the Supreme Court and Pentagon. "Why should any western government pay high salaries to figureheads when their duties can easily be performed on movie sets in Calcutta?" said Mr Smith.
Well, at least I guess we wouldn't have to worry too hard about offending the Amish.
I've gently pushed Mozilla/Firefox whenever I can for the last few years. Whenever someone complains to me about pop-ups, I tell them about Firefox. Whenever someone asks how I've made my browser have such cool buttons, I tell them about Firefox. Whenever someone asks my advice about viruses, worms, spyware, adware, etc., from websites, I tell them about Firefox.
My experience is that most people think that the switch will be too painful. The tipping point is convincing them to download the thing and just try it for a week. After all, you can just delete it if you don't like it. Again, in my experience, the hurdle is just getting someone to try it. Everybody who's tried it has kept it. Maybe they could do some kind of "Pepsi Challenge" marketing event where they dare people to use only Mozilla for a week and go back?
Of course sadly they also have to keep IE (ay-eee!) for those sites with Active X, such as microsoft updates.