And why I say that is not because your theory is wrong, but the practice.
If a digital interconnect is working, it works.
If it's not working, YOU'LL KNOW BECAUSE YOU'LL HEAR AND SEE STATIC OR HICCUPS.
So next time, try using a radio shack RCA audio cable instead of a "digital cable" to hook up your DVD player video/5.1 SPDIF to your receiver or amplifier. (I've done this successfully EVERY TIME)
If it works, you win! If not, get a more expensive one, repeat.
They borrow their terminology, their reasoning behind various choices, and run with it to an extreme. Unchecked it kind of drifts off into money-orgy-jargon-infused lala land.
If it were me who had a few grand burning a hole in my pocket, I'd just call up whatever studio mastered my favorite band's last great album, and ask them what they use in the mixing room, and go with that.
Those musicians are working joes, they can't afford bullshit, but it's gotta sound good.
Safe bet there.
The problem is when audiophiles parrot, interact with or try to outdo other audiophiles. Christ.
Well, actually I work for the contractor that provides information systems to the DoD, IRS, Customs, Coast Guard, etc.
Honest to god... it's bunk. Paranoid ramblings.
COTS is the big push, or big iron. You have to realize that the end users are not that bright. They pay us to figure out what can make it simplest.
Put a card in each persons' machine? SUPPORT NIGHTMARE. Not going to happen. They want us to deliver "something", a nice packaged-up solution. Usually it's based off commodity parts, so they can drop and switch vendors on a dime.
The NSA is the only group that might have been using something like that so secretly, but a little birdie tells me that they are basically the only people that buy the 9 micron Alpha EV7 chips, and the sole reason HP keeps that contract alive.
Those monsters would eat your "tv card" alive. ^_^;;;
Oh, and speaking of proprietary programming languages: who's going to teach them to learn it?
You might be confusing that with Ada (which the US Gov still likes for some reason), or Smalltalk. Powerful languages that only still exist in the government nowadays.
Did you know that Microsoft has it's own programming language that looks like Objective C that they program all their operating systems in? And that every developers' computer is used in parallel when making daily builds of software!? THAT's probably the closest thing to what you are implying.
Guys with the money in government are suspicious of technology, and costs. That kind of fantasy story is NOT characterstic of even crazy, tech-happy places like ONR or JPL.
Sorry. If you worked for SAIC or some place like that for a few weeks, you'd get the idea.
Take off the tin foil hat, man. I'm not saying the US Government DOESN'T have huge computing power, but it's not so silly sounding. Kind of boring, really. BUt very expensive, don't kid yourself.
The thing you might want to start worrying about is "netted sensors". I keep hearing that word thrown around a lot, and it's going to become real hard to sneak out of the country in a few years, I GUARANTEE THAT.
I'm implying the iPod knows there will be a difference in the lead-in required for low bitrate MP3s and high bitrate AIFF. It's just that it probably has a little more leeway in MP3/AAC mode, or maybe because it doesn't have to spin all the way up to fill the buffer fast enough in MP3 mode.
for all you know, in MP3 mode your drive is spinning a lot more than it should be just to keep up, and it's wearing down your batteries.
The iPod firmware knows how far in advance it needs to spin up the drive to read enough data to fill the memory buffer it uses to play the next few hundred seconds. It waits until the very last second to help save your battery. Of course, if the hard drive isn't spinning up fast enough or throwing errors, then it won't read the data in time to make that deadline. It probably doesn't attempt to adjust the lead-in thinking that any errors would be temporary, perhaps due to a sudden shock.
But yours sounds permanently disabled. Send it to get serviced.
that $2000 can go a long way provided you avoid anything labeled "hi-fi", "prosumer", "audiophile", etc. Look for equipment designed for businesses, musicians, theater companies. If you see a speaker you like, find out who they OEM'd it from, and buy their generic line. And that way you can get straight performance numbers out of them.
That $2000 spent intelligently and efficiently can get you a system that you KNOW sounds better than anything you can buy in a showroom.
And if you only have $500, you can get something that's really worth it, even if it isn't top of the line.
I will tell you in confidence that the US GOVERMENT (as you so capitalized, would you care to be more specific?) is the sole entity keeping SGI alive.
No one would pop it into their desktop. Most spooks with desktops wouldn't be allowed to open their damn computers, lest they violate the service contract with whomever their superiors pork-rolled.
No, that kind of thing stays in the data center, where it can bought by writing a few short purchase orders for inordinate amounts of budget padding money.
finally, the board is double-sided, and you can find all 16 UARTS if you are bored. The resistors on this board are actual soldered-on carbon film tubes.:-) Ugly as sin, and just as unwieldly. Yet it does less than a modern (tiny) WinBond chip on your southbridge. Sigh.
Pentium 166, with MMX (ooooooh!). I upgraded it to a whopping 64 MB of EDO RAM, the max.
3GB HD, ESS sound that buzzes when you use the CD-ROM, etc. No USB. It feels really awkward. And heavy! The advertisements calling it a multimedia laptop when it was new were being really generous.
Until I picked up a Chicony KBP9805. (see also the KU9865)
It's good an old school solid feel, but it only has a single aluminum plate inside, which makes it easy to carry around.
Best part? Not only is it spill resistant, you can disassemble the plastic components (base, key tray) and put it in the dishwasher. The contact sheet is a clever enclosed rubber design, which is itself washable, and the controller a very simple PCB that snaps in and out of place.
There are good keyboards out there that aren't 20 years old if you do a little searching. Sometimes you have to go straight to the OEM manufacturers out in Asia to get what you want.
Anyway, back on topic... The oldest part I'm still using is the stereo attached to my PC so I can hear my music. I ditched the elderly floppy drive about a year ago.:-(
which ones are designed to explicitly forward ANI information for caller identification? Or is that controlled by whomever provides the service at the junction between the public telco network and the Internet?
the workstations are still ass for the price compared to Dell or Apple. It's a shame too.
What's interesting is the new line of Sun Fires. That v440 is pretty damn good for $10,000, comapred to their offering a year ago. Which means, well, I don't know what, but their high-entry/middle-tier is becoming more accessible.
Sun can't compete on the low end, it may improve their profit margin to justify having those product lines, but it doesn't improve sales any.
That suddenly makes the Sun workstations look like a good deal. Much easier to deal with, and they have the same level of hardware support (essentially).
You don't heat anyone calling for Sun to sell their HD's for $100 because people do it anyway and don't tell them (sshh!!! I was never here.)
You try to avoid going through Sun as much as possible. This is why they are losing money in a painful fashion.
at this point, the only thing that makes an Apple different from an AMD64 system is OpenFirmware and the instruction set ever since they went to HyperTransport.
And it's not like people would be trying to run Windows apps on the machines, because Darwin has yet another executable format (not ELF, not W32). Apple could probably charge for an Apple localized version of Crossover Office or WineX to get full Windows compatibility.
Tout it like this new whizbang feature (no VirtualPC needed) without explictly stating why.
In fact, the best trick they could pull on that front too is to require Opterons, you know, and certain chipsets that are known to be working. You could limit yourself to NForce3 and AMD8151 and be done with it.
Another idea: ring-1 USB, serial, etc. periphial drivers that act like libraries so that quick-n-dirty manufacturers can write periphial drivers for shit made in Tawain, and when they die they don't bring down the OS. (That's why I love how gphoto2 uses libusb, such a good idea)
hey computar plz draw a box enuf to fit 3 peoples heads then on top of dat google for "sum41 group photo" an put tat on top. oh yah and center it please. engage!!1
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I don't really see the problem. SVG is probably the easiest way to describe a picture structurally behind, I don't know, AppleScript or forth.
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And why I say that is not because your theory is wrong, but the practice.
If a digital interconnect is working, it works.
If it's not working, YOU'LL KNOW BECAUSE YOU'LL HEAR AND SEE STATIC OR HICCUPS.
So next time, try using a radio shack RCA audio cable instead of a "digital cable" to hook up your DVD player video/5.1 SPDIF to your receiver or amplifier. (I've done this successfully EVERY TIME)
If it works, you win!
If not, get a more expensive one, repeat.
Audiophiles are by-and-large sideline musicians.
They borrow their terminology, their reasoning behind various choices, and run with it to an extreme. Unchecked it kind of drifts off into money-orgy-jargon-infused lala land.
If it were me who had a few grand burning a hole in my pocket, I'd just call up whatever studio mastered my favorite band's last great album, and ask them what they use in the mixing room, and go with that.
Those musicians are working joes, they can't afford bullshit, but it's gotta sound good.
Safe bet there.
The problem is when audiophiles parrot, interact with or try to outdo other audiophiles. Christ.
I get it now. thanks!
I work for the government.
Well, actually I work for the contractor that provides information systems to the DoD, IRS, Customs, Coast Guard, etc.
Honest to god... it's bunk. Paranoid ramblings.
COTS is the big push, or big iron. You have to realize that the end users are not that bright. They pay us to figure out what can make it simplest.
Put a card in each persons' machine? SUPPORT NIGHTMARE. Not going to happen. They want us to deliver "something", a nice packaged-up solution. Usually it's based off commodity parts, so they can drop and switch vendors on a dime.
The NSA is the only group that might have been using something like that so secretly, but a little birdie tells me that they are basically the only people that buy the 9 micron Alpha EV7 chips, and the sole reason HP keeps that contract alive.
Those monsters would eat your "tv card" alive. ^_^;;;
Oh, and speaking of proprietary programming languages: who's going to teach them to learn it?
You might be confusing that with Ada (which the US Gov still likes for some reason), or Smalltalk. Powerful languages that only still exist in the government nowadays.
Did you know that Microsoft has it's own programming language that looks like Objective C that they program all their operating systems in? And that every developers' computer is used in parallel when making daily builds of software!?
THAT's probably the closest thing to what you are implying.
Guys with the money in government are suspicious of technology, and costs. That kind of fantasy story is NOT characterstic of even crazy, tech-happy places like ONR or JPL.
Sorry. If you worked for SAIC or some place like that for a few weeks, you'd get the idea.
Take off the tin foil hat, man. I'm not saying the US Government DOESN'T have huge computing power, but it's not so silly sounding. Kind of boring, really. BUt very expensive, don't kid yourself.
The thing you might want to start worrying about is "netted sensors". I keep hearing that word thrown around a lot, and it's going to become real hard to sneak out of the country in a few years, I GUARANTEE THAT.
I'm implying the iPod knows there will be a difference in the lead-in required for low bitrate MP3s and high bitrate AIFF. It's just that it probably has a little more leeway in MP3/AAC mode, or maybe because it doesn't have to spin all the way up to fill the buffer fast enough in MP3 mode.
for all you know, in MP3 mode your drive is spinning a lot more than it should be just to keep up, and it's wearing down your batteries.
The iPod firmware knows how far in advance it needs to spin up the drive to read enough data to fill the memory buffer it uses to play the next few hundred seconds. It waits until the very last second to help save your battery.
Of course, if the hard drive isn't spinning up fast enough or throwing errors, then it won't read the data in time to make that deadline. It probably doesn't attempt to adjust the lead-in thinking that any errors would be temporary, perhaps due to a sudden shock.
But yours sounds permanently disabled. Send it to get serviced.
Unless your AIFF is really a generic IFF in disguise with things besides a COMM and SSND chunk, it's always linear PCM.
This is the Audio Codec used by the iPod.
It has an internal clock generator for the DACs.
The data isn't "clocked" anywhere until the DAC is literally pulling the data out of the filter output buffer. Everything else is asyncronous.
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that $2000 can go a long way provided you avoid anything labeled "hi-fi", "prosumer", "audiophile", etc.
Look for equipment designed for businesses, musicians, theater companies. If you see a speaker you like, find out who they OEM'd it from, and buy their generic line. And that way you can get straight performance numbers out of them.
That $2000 spent intelligently and efficiently can get you a system that you KNOW sounds better than anything you can buy in a showroom.
And if you only have $500, you can get something that's really worth it, even if it isn't top of the line.
I will tell you in confidence that the US GOVERMENT (as you so capitalized, would you care to be more specific?) is the sole entity keeping SGI alive.
No one would pop it into their desktop. Most spooks with desktops wouldn't be allowed to open their damn computers, lest they violate the service contract with whomever their superiors pork-rolled.
No, that kind of thing stays in the data center, where it can bought by writing a few short purchase orders for inordinate amounts of budget padding money.
finally, the board is double-sided, and you can find all 16 UARTS if you are bored. The resistors on this board are actual soldered-on carbon film tubes. :-)
Ugly as sin, and just as unwieldly. Yet it does less than a modern (tiny) WinBond chip on your southbridge. Sigh.
lying around somewhere. Can you imagine the excitement when I upgraded to a S3 VirGE!?!
and it's my firewall box, which I shouldn't ever need to use up close and personal anyway...
It just looks nice on top, I guess. Oh well.
Those things look like something out of a VME bus machine. But if they gots to dial in, well, you know. ;=)
Pentium 166, with MMX (ooooooh!). I upgraded it to a whopping 64 MB of EDO RAM, the max.
3GB HD, ESS sound that buzzes when you use the CD-ROM, etc.
No USB. It feels really awkward. And heavy!
The advertisements calling it a multimedia laptop when it was new were being really generous.
Until I picked up a Chicony KBP9805. (see also the KU9865)
:-(
It's good an old school solid feel, but it only has a single aluminum plate inside, which makes it easy to carry around.
Best part?
Not only is it spill resistant, you can disassemble the plastic components (base, key tray) and put it in the dishwasher. The contact sheet is a clever enclosed rubber design, which is itself washable, and the controller a very simple PCB that snaps in and out of place.
There are good keyboards out there that aren't 20 years old if you do a little searching. Sometimes you have to go straight to the OEM manufacturers out in Asia to get what you want.
Anyway, back on topic... The oldest part I'm still using is the stereo attached to my PC so I can hear my music. I ditched the elderly floppy drive about a year ago.
Between H.323, SIP, and skinny:
:-)
which ones are designed to explicitly forward ANI information for caller identification? Or is that controlled by whomever provides the service at the junction between the public telco network and the Internet?
You sounded like the guy who might know.
the Canopy group and it's ill-conceived demon spawn and the relationships between them make my head hurt.
I wish they would all go away.
Let them give it to me. I'll take proper care of it.
the workstations are still ass for the price compared to Dell or Apple. It's a shame too.
What's interesting is the new line of Sun Fires. That v440 is pretty damn good for $10,000, comapred to their offering a year ago. Which means, well, I don't know what, but their high-entry/middle-tier is becoming more accessible.
Sun can't compete on the low end, it may improve their profit margin to justify having those product lines, but it doesn't improve sales any.
That suddenly makes the Sun workstations look like a good deal. Much easier to deal with, and they have the same level of hardware support (essentially).
You don't heat anyone calling for Sun to sell their HD's for $100 because people do it anyway and don't tell them (sshh!!! I was never here.)
You try to avoid going through Sun as much as possible. This is why they are losing money in a painful fashion.
at this point, the only thing that makes an Apple different from an AMD64 system is OpenFirmware and the instruction set ever since they went to HyperTransport.
And it's not like people would be trying to run Windows apps on the machines, because Darwin has yet another executable format (not ELF, not W32). Apple could probably charge for an Apple localized version of Crossover Office or WineX to get full Windows compatibility.
Tout it like this new whizbang feature (no VirtualPC needed) without explictly stating why.
In fact, the best trick they could pull on that front too is to require Opterons, you know, and certain chipsets that are known to be working. You could limit yourself to NForce3 and AMD8151 and be done with it.
Another idea: ring-1 USB, serial, etc. periphial drivers that act like libraries so that quick-n-dirty manufacturers can write periphial drivers for shit made in Tawain, and when they die they don't bring down the OS. (That's why I love how gphoto2 uses libusb, such a good idea)
I bet you they cost ten times more and are 40 times more latent, and they run Windows CE which is even LESS clusterable than a slow copy of XP HOME.
OH WAIT IT'S NOT FUCKING FUNNY!! SO WHY BOTHER?
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hey computar plz draw a box enuf to fit 3 peoples heads
then on top of dat google for "sum41 group photo" an
put tat on top. oh yah and center it please.
engage!!1
EOF
I don't really see the problem. SVG is probably the easiest way to describe a picture structurally behind, I don't know, AppleScript or forth.
He's good at playing the "karma game"
Why can't those who don't want to really contribute just go back to crapflooding? It's more entertaining.