Same here. I've been bitching for quite some time that there was no way to purchase songs online that weren't less than CD quality...if they will offer lossless formats, with no DRM, I'll pay a fair fee. I want to use what I purchase in lossless format on my home system, and be able to rip it to mp3 or whatever for poorer listening environments like the car or the portable for the gym. I too would buy more music online if they offer it lossless and at a reasonable rate. Unfortunately I feel like even if apple ends up selling lossless music, it'd still be more worthwhile to buy it on CD instead and rip it. They can only get me on price or better quality, and I can already buy the used CD for less than the mp3s on iTunes.
It's the same deal with the tv shows. Sure, I might buy one or two in case I missed them. But when I can own the DVD set for $10 more (or in some cases $10-20 less) why would I want to buy it in iTunes?
Meh, since when does the post -90s (or post 80s for that matter) music industry care about something as silly as dynamic range? You need to hear our music without having to turn up your radio! 3dB of dynamic range should be enough for anyone.
There's only 3 laser turntables. They're around $10-14k, and don't get very good reviews. These models were actually invented in '83, but never gained widespread sales due to the CD coming out soon after. I've never heard of it being anything other than a novelty. Due to it's sensitivity it's not even useful to read old vinyls without damaging them. That's usually done by taking high resolution photos and tracking the groove with software.
3. A previous customer is helping themselves to a free hard drive and they own a shrink wrap machine. (This is actually very possible and could be happeneing in this case) Even if they don't own a shrink wrap machine maybe they bought the hard drive, took it home, replaced the item with tiles, took it back and the Best Buy employee doing the return was a button pressing monkey and didn't look inside the obviously opened box. This probably happens more often than we'd think. I had a friend who for years did this for nearly every video game and video game system he bought. Probably other electronics too.
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Yeah, Halo 3 is the first system seller for this new generation of consoles. There hasn't really been any other games released on any of them that would make a lot of people go 'wow, I gotta drop $250-$600 just to play that!'
There's software you can use to generate frequency response graphs and spl and use that to EQ your system (by either moving speakers around or using some kind of EQ component)
http://www.hometheatershack.com/roomeq/
Of course due to 2:3 pulldown and some other things, a 1080i movie will look pretty much the same as 1080p.. unless it's 1080p at it's native framerate of 24fps. Of course, many 1080p drives also convert the video to 1080i and then back to 1080p (most of the bluray players do this, not sure of the xa2 does)
Yes, but as a users bandwidth goes up, their connection times will go down. Unless your so popular that everyone is hitting your site at the exact same time, you shouldn't notice too much of a difference.
Yeah, but what most people don't realize is that using some of the more experimental features in the kernel (such as raid 6) Caused George Bush to be re-elected.
131 ---help---
132 WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
133 use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
134 destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
135 or re-appoint George W. Bush.
Ninja Gaiden Sigma is a ps3 exclusive. It's basically a remake of Ninja Gaiden black for the original xbox. It's also the main reason why I'd pick up a Ps3..but I still don't plan on getting one until January.
Are they even putting out any SACDs these days? I don't know of any place to get them locally anymore, nor do I know of any place that sells the non-combo players.
Pfffh. $1000 cables are cheap. You need to go for some by a company called Transparent Cable. 1ft of their best XLR will run you around $19k retail. The single RCA 1ft cable would run you a fair bit cheaper..$11k. And for people who think that optical cables do make a difference..They sell one for $1495 for 1ft.
IMHO, the main reason why vinyl tends to sound better than CDs is because they are (in general) better mastered (especially newer releases). The same goes for SACD/DVD-A. Since they targeted the Audiophile market, they tended to be better mastered. I'm not sure what real benefit you get when you go past 24bit 48khz, except maybe a lower sound floor. Vinyl also takes a lot more money to setup a good system. That being said, I've pretty much gone to all digital. Ripping CDs to ALAC. Once iTunes starts offering ALAC, then maybe I'll go all digital.
MS wouldn't have to show any of their source, nor would they have to do anything about their patents that are in their software. However, I believe they would be required to give out the source or point in the direction of where the source can be found of all the programs that are shared on the ubuntu iso. GPL also has some crazy things like having to provide it for 3 years.
You do know that Apple discontinued G5 machines over a year ago...I'm sure you can save a lot of money by comparing 1-2 year old technology prices now to what they were 1-2 years ago. I think your post is a good title, because it is a horrible comparison.
ZFS cannot be added to the linux kernel due to licensing issues. However, there is work being done on a FUSE module for ZFS support. Though I'm not sure if it'll be worth using for anything more than accessing existing ZFS partitions.
Santa Rosa still has problems addressing a full 4GiB of RAM. This is a limitation of running the processor in 32bit mode. In this mode a maximum of 4GiB can be addressed, but some of that space is mapped to system devices such as the dedicated video memory. So how much memory is addressable under Santa Rosa with an operating system like OS X Tiger (or Leopard)?
This extra ram is the main thing that makes me look at getting this to replace my iMac instead of waiting for an ultraportable.
a 2GB Dimm would increase the price of the macbook pro by around $200-300. (The cheap ram people normally buy to put in these are Micron. Micron prices are $47 for 1GB and $199 for 2GB Dimms. Apple would charge a bit of a premium. They also probably use better ram)
One thing about macs. When they first come out, they'll generally be cheaper than a similarly spec'd Windows machine. However, apple doesn't do as frequent price changes as the other companies do. Within the first six months the windows machines will be the same or cheaper. Guess it's kind of an incentive to buy now;) I'm debating on if I should get rid of my iMac and get a new macbook pro. Especially now that they support 4GB ram. (Third party ram is around $400 vs the $750 apple charges)
DDR is harder. Of course, it also requires being in some kind of shape and have stamina to be able to play the higher songs without passing out halfway through.
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Meh, since when does the post -90s (or post 80s for that matter) music industry care about something as silly as dynamic range? You need to hear our music without having to turn up your radio! 3dB of dynamic range should be enough for anyone.
There's only 3 laser turntables. They're around $10-14k, and don't get very good reviews. These models were actually invented in '83, but never gained widespread sales due to the CD coming out soon after. I've never heard of it being anything other than a novelty. Due to it's sensitivity it's not even useful to read old vinyls without damaging them. That's usually done by taking high resolution photos and tracking the groove with software.
Yeah, Halo 3 is the first system seller for this new generation of consoles. There hasn't really been any other games released on any of them that would make a lot of people go 'wow, I gotta drop $250-$600 just to play that!'
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There's software you can use to generate frequency response graphs and spl and use that to EQ your system (by either moving speakers around or using some kind of EQ component) http://www.hometheatershack.com/roomeq/
Of course due to 2:3 pulldown and some other things, a 1080i movie will look pretty much the same as 1080p.. unless it's 1080p at it's native framerate of 24fps. Of course, many 1080p drives also convert the video to 1080i and then back to 1080p (most of the bluray players do this, not sure of the xa2 does)
Yes, but as a users bandwidth goes up, their connection times will go down. Unless your so popular that everyone is hitting your site at the exact same time, you shouldn't notice too much of a difference.
Yeah, but what most people don't realize is that using some of the more experimental features in the kernel (such as raid 6) Caused George Bush to be re-elected.
131 ---help---
132 WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
133 use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
134 destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
135 or re-appoint George W. Bush.
Ninja Gaiden Sigma is a ps3 exclusive. It's basically a remake of Ninja Gaiden black for the original xbox. It's also the main reason why I'd pick up a Ps3..but I still don't plan on getting one until January.
Are they even putting out any SACDs these days? I don't know of any place to get them locally anymore, nor do I know of any place that sells the non-combo players.
If you had the right car you could (well, they used a proprietary record format..but still): Highway Hifi In car record player
Pfffh. $1000 cables are cheap. You need to go for some by a company called Transparent Cable. 1ft of their best XLR will run you around $19k retail. The single RCA 1ft cable would run you a fair bit cheaper..$11k. And for people who think that optical cables do make a difference..They sell one for $1495 for 1ft.
I'd hate to have hearing that high. Do you hear the buzz coming off a lot of electronics (TVs and such?)
IMHO, the main reason why vinyl tends to sound better than CDs is because they are (in general) better mastered (especially newer releases). The same goes for SACD/DVD-A. Since they targeted the Audiophile market, they tended to be better mastered. I'm not sure what real benefit you get when you go past 24bit 48khz, except maybe a lower sound floor. Vinyl also takes a lot more money to setup a good system. That being said, I've pretty much gone to all digital. Ripping CDs to ALAC. Once iTunes starts offering ALAC, then maybe I'll go all digital.
MS wouldn't have to show any of their source, nor would they have to do anything about their patents that are in their software. However, I believe they would be required to give out the source or point in the direction of where the source can be found of all the programs that are shared on the ubuntu iso. GPL also has some crazy things like having to provide it for 3 years.
Your microwave is a great place to dry off your child after his or her bath. It's true! I read it on the internet
You do know that Apple discontinued G5 machines over a year ago...I'm sure you can save a lot of money by comparing 1-2 year old technology prices now to what they were 1-2 years ago. I think your post is a good title, because it is a horrible comparison.
ZFS cannot be added to the linux kernel due to licensing issues. However, there is work being done on a FUSE module for ZFS support. Though I'm not sure if it'll be worth using for anything more than accessing existing ZFS partitions.
a 2GB Dimm would increase the price of the macbook pro by around $200-300. (The cheap ram people normally buy to put in these are Micron. Micron prices are $47 for 1GB and $199 for 2GB Dimms. Apple would charge a bit of a premium. They also probably use better ram)
One thing about macs. When they first come out, they'll generally be cheaper than a similarly spec'd Windows machine. However, apple doesn't do as frequent price changes as the other companies do. Within the first six months the windows machines will be the same or cheaper. Guess it's kind of an incentive to buy now ;) I'm debating on if I should get rid of my iMac and get a new macbook pro. Especially now that they support 4GB ram. (Third party ram is around $400 vs the $750 apple charges)
AFAIK you've been able to resize a software raid5 since the 2.4 days. I know I've done it a few times on a 2.6.9 kernel.
DDR is harder. Of course, it also requires being in some kind of shape and have stamina to be able to play the higher songs without passing out halfway through.