You like every other apple zealout refused to understand what you read. The cost of the dells is the total cost of the 5 year project. This includes interconnects, support, the building, cooling, electricity, and the cost of more computers in the future. The actual cost of the computers was much cheaper. Not to mention the Dells are rack mounted and actually meant to be servers. They include things like hot swapable parts.
I agree. Those IBM drives were bad... of course I've still got one... it's the third one I had and it's now lasted 3 years, so go figure.:)
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No, I'm just smart. I don't leave ports open. I run a firewall. I run a firewall on the PC. I don't use outlook. I don't run attachements. I don't download worms from Kazaa. It's not hard to avoid these things.
who would you suggest then? I've had to RMA WD drives... I had to RMA 3 IBM drives during their whole fiasco. I've never RMA'd a Maxtor drive, but people are scared of them. I'm crossing my fingers on my Seagate SATA drive.
About the only drives I've never had problems with were Micropolis (now defunct) and fujitsu. But both of these were SCSI drives. I just think that IDE drives pretty much suck now, and that's why the manufacturers are lowering the waranty.
what are you going to do with it that you need a fast drive? My OS and apps are on a fast serial ATA drive. Everything else (MP3's, pr0n, archives) are on other drives. This is the perfect drive for that situation.
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I don't remember the 266MHz PIII. But I have a 450MHz PII on my desk at work. And you know what, it does 95% of everything I could ask in a timely fashion.
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I don't have a sobig variant on my computer. I'm connected to the internet. Of course I do have a netgear router/firewall and a software firewall on my computer. And the first thing I did after installing was to run windows update. Of course if I didn't have iptables running on my redhat machine and hadn't done the security updates, how long do you think it would take for it to be owned?
What did RCA have to do with the VCR? I thought sony invented Beta and JVC invented VHS... was their some third format I've never heard of? I know RCA had VideoDiscs back in the day, but you couldn't record on them.
The only reason I got a choice was because my the CD failed repeatedly on the OSX machine in the house. I figured it was a problem with the software and called them. Turns out they didn't have the connection set up right (and it took them 3 days to fix it without them telling me it was fixed). But in testing the connection they showed me how to use the web form. After that I ditched the CD.
It is true that you can set up your connection throught the web-from, I bet it might be too difficult for a novice user. For me setting up my comcast connection involved setting proxies and typing in weird urls. If you run one of the programs off the CD, not the entire CD this is done automatically. Of course I elected to use the webform.
If I only want a single track on a CD, the album is not worth listening. Any album of any quality is one continuous work. If a band only has one good song, chances are you'll tire of that song quickly and there's no need to buy the damn thing.
That would be true if cd's were more expensive than this service. But they're not. The average CD i buy costs 11.99. The last cd I bought was the outkast double album for 17.99. I'm not sure how iTunes charges for double albums, but I'll assume they're both about $2 more than the iTunes version. For that $2 I get the artwork, a physical cd, and the jewel case. In my opinion those alone are worth more than $2, so I don't feel like the iTunes store is offering me a discount for inferior quality. Now if it was only a few cents per track I might feel differently.
I hear the thinness on pretty much every compressed audio format I've listened to. Even out of my cheap nomad player. Where I really hear the difference is on my home stereo. If I play a CD created from compressed files it just sounds like shit to me, can't be used for much more than background listening.
Did you ever think that the reason alot of indie bands are on indie labels is because they want to be? You might actually make more money selling 50,000 records on an indie label than you would selling 500,000 on a major label.
But with a tangible CD, I can rip the songs as FLAC, OGG Vorbis, MP3, AAC, or anything I choose. Then if some other superior format comes along next year, I can pull the CD out of the case and do it all over again. With an actual CD I can touch and read the liner notes. With and actual CD I can sell the thing when I get tired of it.
Yes you can, but you're going to get a fairly bad sounding song. Why? because both MPEG-4 and MPEG-1 are lossy compression formats. The problem is that they don't necessairly throw away the same bits. So the iTunes song will have certain bits thrown out and the MP3 will have other bits thrown out. The combination will sound worse than either one of them made from the original source.
MS makes an OS that 90% of the x86 users use. Apple makes an OS which 99% of the apple pc users use. They are both a monopoly. You just feel the effects of MS more because there are alot more x86 machines floating around.
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It's only with NTSC... that's why NTSC sucks and is never the same color.
You like every other apple zealout refused to understand what you read. The cost of the dells is the total cost of the 5 year project. This includes interconnects, support, the building, cooling, electricity, and the cost of more computers in the future. The actual cost of the computers was much cheaper. Not to mention the Dells are rack mounted and actually meant to be servers. They include things like hot swapable parts.
I agree. Those IBM drives were bad... of course I've still got one... it's the third one I had and it's now lasted 3 years, so go figure. :)
No, I'm just smart. I don't leave ports open. I run a firewall. I run a firewall on the PC. I don't use outlook. I don't run attachements. I don't download worms from Kazaa. It's not hard to avoid these things.
who would you suggest then? I've had to RMA WD drives... I had to RMA 3 IBM drives during their whole fiasco. I've never RMA'd a Maxtor drive, but people are scared of them. I'm crossing my fingers on my Seagate SATA drive.
About the only drives I've never had problems with were Micropolis (now defunct) and fujitsu. But both of these were SCSI drives. I just think that IDE drives pretty much suck now, and that's why the manufacturers are lowering the waranty.
Better yet you could start encoding them all as FLAC.
what are you going to do with it that you need a fast drive? My OS and apps are on a fast serial ATA drive. Everything else (MP3's, pr0n, archives) are on other drives. This is the perfect drive for that situation.
I don't remember the 266MHz PIII. But I have a 450MHz PII on my desk at work. And you know what, it does 95% of everything I could ask in a timely fashion.
I don't have a sobig variant on my computer. I'm connected to the internet. Of course I do have a netgear router/firewall and a software firewall on my computer. And the first thing I did after installing was to run windows update. Of course if I didn't have iptables running on my redhat machine and hadn't done the security updates, how long do you think it would take for it to be owned?
Linux is gaining on the desktop? I must have missed the memo. This is a desktop OS, not a server OS.
I agree... I like to write in C or C++... I haven't mucked with any assembly on the x86 since college.
What did RCA have to do with the VCR? I thought sony invented Beta and JVC invented VHS... was their some third format I've never heard of? I know RCA had VideoDiscs back in the day, but you couldn't record on them.
Of course if $your_distro_of_choice was as popular as windows you would start to see many third party apps of dubious quality and not review committee
The only reason I got a choice was because my the CD failed repeatedly on the OSX machine in the house. I figured it was a problem with the software and called them. Turns out they didn't have the connection set up right (and it took them 3 days to fix it without them telling me it was fixed). But in testing the connection they showed me how to use the web form. After that I ditched the CD.
It is true that you can set up your connection throught the web-from, I bet it might be too difficult for a novice user. For me setting up my comcast connection involved setting proxies and typing in weird urls. If you run one of the programs off the CD, not the entire CD this is done automatically. Of course I elected to use the webform.
If I only want a single track on a CD, the album is not worth listening. Any album of any quality is one continuous work. If a band only has one good song, chances are you'll tire of that song quickly and there's no need to buy the damn thing.
You can if you want. That's how DRM is generated on the files sold at the iTMS.
You can, but your not legally allowed to. The same is true of iTunes, there is something similar in their terms of service.
That would be true if cd's were more expensive than this service. But they're not. The average CD i buy costs 11.99. The last cd I bought was the outkast double album for 17.99. I'm not sure how iTunes charges for double albums, but I'll assume they're both about $2 more than the iTunes version. For that $2 I get the artwork, a physical cd, and the jewel case. In my opinion those alone are worth more than $2, so I don't feel like the iTunes store is offering me a discount for inferior quality. Now if it was only a few cents per track I might feel differently.
As far as I know he didn't copyright the performance. Only the Sheet Music. Cage is a composer, not a perfomer or a recording artist.
I hear the thinness on pretty much every compressed audio format I've listened to. Even out of my cheap nomad player. Where I really hear the difference is on my home stereo. If I play a CD created from compressed files it just sounds like shit to me, can't be used for much more than background listening.
Did you ever think that the reason alot of indie bands are on indie labels is because they want to be? You might actually make more money selling 50,000 records on an indie label than you would selling 500,000 on a major label.
But with a tangible CD, I can rip the songs as FLAC, OGG Vorbis, MP3, AAC, or anything I choose. Then if some other superior format comes along next year, I can pull the CD out of the case and do it all over again. With an actual CD I can touch and read the liner notes. With and actual CD I can sell the thing when I get tired of it.
Yes you can, but you're going to get a fairly bad sounding song. Why? because both MPEG-4 and MPEG-1 are lossy compression formats. The problem is that they don't necessairly throw away the same bits. So the iTunes song will have certain bits thrown out and the MP3 will have other bits thrown out. The combination will sound worse than either one of them made from the original source.
MS makes an OS that 90% of the x86 users use. Apple makes an OS which 99% of the apple pc users use. They are both a monopoly. You just feel the effects of MS more because there are alot more x86 machines floating around.