Wouldn't it just be easier to just not allow pop near the computer. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Decrease likelihood of diabetes and save a few dollars on keyboards.
Seems like a pretty bad selection whether you choose SACD or DVDA. I'd much rather have a recording I liked on CD, than some recording I didn't like on SACD, just because it has higher quality audio.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't buy higher quality recordings. I'm saying you shouldn't something that's recorded at higher quality, simply because it is higher quality. Obviously if you upgraded from a cassette tape version of Pink Floyd's The Wall, to the CD version, or SACD, or DVD-Audio, it would probably be worth it. However, if you see a copy of William Hung's Hung For The Holidays on SACD, that doesn't mean you should run out and buy it. I can't believe half the crap they put out on HDDVD and BluRay. There's no point in buying it, because it has nothing to offer from being high def.
I'm not too up-to-date on my set theory, but are there any weird mathematical instances where A is a subset of B, and B is a subset of A? It seems like it would be impossible, unless A and B are equal sets (and therefore not subsets).
It seems like a lot of trouble to go through, when you could solve 99% of the worlds traffic problem with a small sensor on the front of each vehicle to allow the vehicle to sense the movement of the car directly in front of them. This would be useful at red lights. The red light turns green, and all the cars that were stopped at the light, start to move at once. Instead of waiting 10 seconds for the one 10 cars back to start moving, they all start moving instantly, or within a second.
So my sibling poster mentions that your car is not roadworthy. And whether or not it is, it brings up a good point. Many people drive around in very mechanically unsound vehicles. Now just imagine if all those cars were flying. It would be insane. They'd be dropping out of the sky left right and centre.
Is the maximum range 3cm? Because that could cause problems. I've heard of many problems with bluetooth devices that are supposed to work up to 10 meters away start to fail at 3 or 4. 3 cm leaves very little room for error.
Can you really even get SACD anymore? I would think that it would have died out and been replaced by DVD-Audio now. I wasn't aware they were even made anymore. And unless you're an audiophile with very specific music tastes, I can't see how owning an SACD player would give you much. Buying something just because it's available in higher quality is stupid. It would be like buying "Snakes on a Plane" on BluRay, just because it's high def. It doesn't make the movie any better. Sure SACD sounds better, but if it doesn't have music you like, there's no point in having it.
Apart with the obvious bandwidth issues with streaming HD video, why would you really need HD video. Most of the stuff you're getting from Netflix in the mail is only 480p (DVD). Why are you complaining that the streaming content isn't HD, when most of their in-the-mail selection isn't HD either.
I'll sign up as soon as I can forgo the DVD delivery option. I used to use Zip.Ca (Basically netflix for Canada), but cancelled after too many movies got lost in the mail.
Like I said, I prefer the Linux way of doing things, most specifically for the reasons you mentioned. However, there are some advantages to have all the settings in your system in the exact same format, and all able to be edited by the same API, or with a small set of commands.
I guess that is one advantage of having a single registry for all system settings. You can easily change tons of settings easily with just a single script file. Changing a bunch of settings in Linux would required a much more complicated script, or a lot more file editing. Still I think that having all the settings in a single file is not a great idea, but it has it's advantages.
Comparing Mandriva 2008 to Vista, I'd have to say Vista is actually the lame duck. Especially if you have less than stellar hardware. You can buy a $500 laptop and Mandriva will scream on it. Do the same with Vista, and you'll be cursing.
I've always said that autoexecuting stuff on any media inserted was the stupidest feature ever created. It's just asking for viruses to be installed. Actually strike that. It's the second stupidest thing. The stupidest thing is Windows being configured by default to restart for updates after the user doesn't respond for some very short amount of time.
People pay all the time for things they can't hold in their hand. You can't hold a long distance phone call in your hand, why should you pay for that. You've already bought the phone. You can't hold a haircut in your hand. Sure you can look at and appreciate the haircut, but you can use the software too. People are just cheap. But they just know they can get software for free. Commercial software thrives off this. Let the software be free for everyone, and some percentage of people and businesses will pay for it, allowing you to make money. Make it impossible to copy, and it won't get popular enough to make any money. Very few software packages could survive without being free to those who weren't willing to pay.
One way to help is refuse to install unlicensed software on people's computers. Somebody says, I want a copy of photoshop. Say, go buy Photoshop Elements for $100, or here's a copy of GIMP for free. It doesn't have all the same features, and is kind of different. Most people will choose the free software over paying for something. I actually got my wife to use GIMP in this way. Actually we downloaded a trial of photoshop, and she found that she actually liked GIMP more. Give open source software a fair trial, and then compare it to the commercial alternative. Most people would rather have the free one than pay for MS Office, Photoshop, or most of the other stuff that people usually only have because they pirate it.
Rock concerts are usually performed in hockey arenas and football stadiums, with terrible acoustics. The only reason to go to a rock concert is to experience the atmosphere, and be part of the show. You don't go to a rock show to listen to high quality music. Classical concerts on the other hand are often performed in acoustically correct music halls, designed by sound engineers to ensure that everything has exactly the right effect on the sound of the music. Also, you generally don't get bumped around by the guy standing next to you, or have him saying "I love you Angus" in your ear. You don't go to a rock concert to listen to music.
You're still getting pretty expensive. Compare that to the cost of a similar system for CDs. The machine that just spins and reads the media costs $450. I don't think any CD player has cost that much in many years. Unless you count the jukebox ones that can flip through 200 CDs. Not to mention you have to replace the cartridge every once in a while, which adds maintenance costs.
My personal favourite way to listen to music is on my $30 headphones. Big Sony (yes I know we are supposed to hate them, but they make good, affordable, headphones,) home theatre headphones. I could probably get better quality if I bought some more expensive equipment, but if you only want to spend $30 on speakers, get a pair of headphones and skip the computer speakers. Your ears (and the neighbours) will thank you.
I think that vinyl only sounds better because the producers who still put stuff out on vinyl actually care about the way their music sounds, and they don't compress the dynamic range to the size of a pinhead. CDs have lots of room for dynamic range, and they can sound perfectly fine. A properly produced CD will sound just as good as a vinyl recording. The only reason CDs don't sound good is because the producers make them sound that way.
Yeah, but if the music is distributed digitally, and the company lets you redownload stuff you've already paid for, then it goes a long way to ensuring that you never are without a copy of a song you had paid for. If I downloaded music from a service that didn't let me redownload music, then I would not feel guilty in the least if I redownloaded off P2P after I had lost the music due to some catastrophic hard drive failure.
The logic could go something like this. We have copyright for 75 years. However, we've found that 10% of people pirate our music. Therefore, We think that copyright should be extended for 7.5 years, to account for the profit we are missing out on from the 10% of people who pirate. Repeat same argument every 5 years.
Probably not. There would only be a few (possibly many, but not more that 1000) servers that would be serving content. Include in each one, a special chip that can watermark a stream, at very high speed. TV Tuners have chips that encode in MPEG, which means you can use your computer as a PVR without even affecting the CPU. I don't see why a similar chip couldn't be made to process the outgoing streams an attach watermarks to them.
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Wouldn't it just be easier to just not allow pop near the computer. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Decrease likelihood of diabetes and save a few dollars on keyboards.
That's why they need to start putting real bumpers back on cars. Ones that can actually take a little bump.
Seems like a pretty bad selection whether you choose SACD or DVDA. I'd much rather have a recording I liked on CD, than some recording I didn't like on SACD, just because it has higher quality audio.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't buy higher quality recordings. I'm saying you shouldn't something that's recorded at higher quality, simply because it is higher quality. Obviously if you upgraded from a cassette tape version of Pink Floyd's The Wall, to the CD version, or SACD, or DVD-Audio, it would probably be worth it. However, if you see a copy of William Hung's Hung For The Holidays on SACD, that doesn't mean you should run out and buy it. I can't believe half the crap they put out on HDDVD and BluRay. There's no point in buying it, because it has nothing to offer from being high def.
I'm not too up-to-date on my set theory, but are there any weird mathematical instances where A is a subset of B, and B is a subset of A? It seems like it would be impossible, unless A and B are equal sets (and therefore not subsets).
It seems like a lot of trouble to go through, when you could solve 99% of the worlds traffic problem with a small sensor on the front of each vehicle to allow the vehicle to sense the movement of the car directly in front of them. This would be useful at red lights. The red light turns green, and all the cars that were stopped at the light, start to move at once. Instead of waiting 10 seconds for the one 10 cars back to start moving, they all start moving instantly, or within a second.
So my sibling poster mentions that your car is not roadworthy. And whether or not it is, it brings up a good point. Many people drive around in very mechanically unsound vehicles. Now just imagine if all those cars were flying. It would be insane. They'd be dropping out of the sky left right and centre.
Is the maximum range 3cm? Because that could cause problems. I've heard of many problems with bluetooth devices that are supposed to work up to 10 meters away start to fail at 3 or 4. 3 cm leaves very little room for error.
Can you really even get SACD anymore? I would think that it would have died out and been replaced by DVD-Audio now. I wasn't aware they were even made anymore. And unless you're an audiophile with very specific music tastes, I can't see how owning an SACD player would give you much. Buying something just because it's available in higher quality is stupid. It would be like buying "Snakes on a Plane" on BluRay, just because it's high def. It doesn't make the movie any better. Sure SACD sounds better, but if it doesn't have music you like, there's no point in having it.
Apart with the obvious bandwidth issues with streaming HD video, why would you really need HD video. Most of the stuff you're getting from Netflix in the mail is only 480p (DVD). Why are you complaining that the streaming content isn't HD, when most of their in-the-mail selection isn't HD either.
I'll sign up as soon as I can forgo the DVD delivery option. I used to use Zip.Ca (Basically netflix for Canada), but cancelled after too many movies got lost in the mail.
Like I said, I prefer the Linux way of doing things, most specifically for the reasons you mentioned. However, there are some advantages to have all the settings in your system in the exact same format, and all able to be edited by the same API, or with a small set of commands.
I guess that is one advantage of having a single registry for all system settings. You can easily change tons of settings easily with just a single script file. Changing a bunch of settings in Linux would required a much more complicated script, or a lot more file editing. Still I think that having all the settings in a single file is not a great idea, but it has it's advantages.
Comparing Mandriva 2008 to Vista, I'd have to say Vista is actually the lame duck. Especially if you have less than stellar hardware. You can buy a $500 laptop and Mandriva will scream on it. Do the same with Vista, and you'll be cursing.
I've always said that autoexecuting stuff on any media inserted was the stupidest feature ever created. It's just asking for viruses to be installed. Actually strike that. It's the second stupidest thing. The stupidest thing is Windows being configured by default to restart for updates after the user doesn't respond for some very short amount of time.
People pay all the time for things they can't hold in their hand. You can't hold a long distance phone call in your hand, why should you pay for that. You've already bought the phone. You can't hold a haircut in your hand. Sure you can look at and appreciate the haircut, but you can use the software too. People are just cheap. But they just know they can get software for free. Commercial software thrives off this. Let the software be free for everyone, and some percentage of people and businesses will pay for it, allowing you to make money. Make it impossible to copy, and it won't get popular enough to make any money. Very few software packages could survive without being free to those who weren't willing to pay.
One way to help is refuse to install unlicensed software on people's computers. Somebody says, I want a copy of photoshop. Say, go buy Photoshop Elements for $100, or here's a copy of GIMP for free. It doesn't have all the same features, and is kind of different. Most people will choose the free software over paying for something. I actually got my wife to use GIMP in this way. Actually we downloaded a trial of photoshop, and she found that she actually liked GIMP more. Give open source software a fair trial, and then compare it to the commercial alternative. Most people would rather have the free one than pay for MS Office, Photoshop, or most of the other stuff that people usually only have because they pirate it.
Rock concerts are usually performed in hockey arenas and football stadiums, with terrible acoustics. The only reason to go to a rock concert is to experience the atmosphere, and be part of the show. You don't go to a rock show to listen to high quality music. Classical concerts on the other hand are often performed in acoustically correct music halls, designed by sound engineers to ensure that everything has exactly the right effect on the sound of the music. Also, you generally don't get bumped around by the guy standing next to you, or have him saying "I love you Angus" in your ear. You don't go to a rock concert to listen to music.
You're still getting pretty expensive. Compare that to the cost of a similar system for CDs. The machine that just spins and reads the media costs $450. I don't think any CD player has cost that much in many years. Unless you count the jukebox ones that can flip through 200 CDs. Not to mention you have to replace the cartridge every once in a while, which adds maintenance costs.
Dust isn't your problem. It's your wife's job to make sure there's no dust in the house. If there is, she's not doing her job right.
My personal favourite way to listen to music is on my $30 headphones. Big Sony (yes I know we are supposed to hate them, but they make good, affordable, headphones,) home theatre headphones. I could probably get better quality if I bought some more expensive equipment, but if you only want to spend $30 on speakers, get a pair of headphones and skip the computer speakers. Your ears (and the neighbours) will thank you.
I think that vinyl only sounds better because the producers who still put stuff out on vinyl actually care about the way their music sounds, and they don't compress the dynamic range to the size of a pinhead. CDs have lots of room for dynamic range, and they can sound perfectly fine. A properly produced CD will sound just as good as a vinyl recording. The only reason CDs don't sound good is because the producers make them sound that way.
Yeah, but if the music is distributed digitally, and the company lets you redownload stuff you've already paid for, then it goes a long way to ensuring that you never are without a copy of a song you had paid for. If I downloaded music from a service that didn't let me redownload music, then I would not feel guilty in the least if I redownloaded off P2P after I had lost the music due to some catastrophic hard drive failure.
The logic could go something like this. We have copyright for 75 years. However, we've found that 10% of people pirate our music. Therefore, We think that copyright should be extended for 7.5 years, to account for the profit we are missing out on from the 10% of people who pirate. Repeat same argument every 5 years.
Probably not. There would only be a few (possibly many, but not more that 1000) servers that would be serving content. Include in each one, a special chip that can watermark a stream, at very high speed. TV Tuners have chips that encode in MPEG, which means you can use your computer as a PVR without even affecting the CPU. I don't see why a similar chip couldn't be made to process the outgoing streams an attach watermarks to them.