You best notify the audiophile magazines then, they still rate tube gear highly. Oh, and recording studios, with their tube compressors and levelers, tube amplified microphones, tube monitor amps, etc. Or did you mean that in the 'real men don't drink wine' sense?
"I'm sick of all the "audiophiles" who claim that a non-overdriven tube amp provides a better reproduction of any given sound than a similar, transistor-based amp. The fact of the matter is, transistors provide a better sound reproduction.."
You find nothing ironic about your assertion?
"...as there's less interference from things like the tube's heater or outside magnetic fields."
What is it with this forum and the audiophile hatred coupled with a lack of knowledge about the most fundamental elements of circuit design? Tubes literally have a heater coil at the bottom (the source of that glow) driven orange-hot by 6.3 or 5 volt AC. It generates the electrons to be amplified. 'Heater interference' has been a non-issue since the industry turned away from direct-heating in the 1930's, and even then simple and effective means to reduce its effect below the threshold of audibility were widely known and employed. The same is true of 'outside magnetic fields'. How did you think TV's, FM tuners, scientific measurement equipment, the entire electronics industry until the '70's in fact, could operate otherwise?
Tubes are still heavily employed in the studios which create the source material you claim tubes degrade. Hate tubes all you want, but please get clue before ranting on technical issues.
No tucking here. It's true at the end of a tube's service life, but the slow gain reduction over that time typically causes little measured performance change over most of it. You imply the sound of a tube amp undergoes audible change from the first power up. Topology counts too, a high loop feedback amp such as a MacIntosh will compensate for tube aging much better than a no-feedback single-ended triode. Finally, solid state ages too, a consequence of being typically packed with electrolytic caps in the signal path which dry out and change characteristics over time.
" Just another round of MP/RI-AA trying to make the money they're used to.
And it's working. RIAA: legal threats, suing users and advertising it, ad campaigns castigating typical consumers, criminalizing legislation, and falling markets. MPAA, relative to the RIAA keeping very quiet, a billion dollar month. Correlation isn't causation true, but it certainly merits a look.
Not at all. Mozilla falls down by trusting the multiple OSs it supports to securely handle something it doesn't understand. You did notice the part of the story that specifies this as a Mozilla/XP/2K exploit, right? No problem in Linux or *Bsd, etc., so I don't know how this OS intregration angle is relevant at all.
One month, but reel to reel tapes are long gone. Most all radio loggers are now clone computers recording low bitrate audio with proprietary software. The KTC Reelogger is most popular here, followed by Mediatouch. Both come with some sort of remote access to the audio files - web interface or client player - so progamming departments can listen from their desktops . A few stations still use a bank of VHS machines if their formats require staff on site 24/7, rare with the advent of computer automation systems.
I was more surprised American stations weren't under a requirement to record. It's been mandatory in Canada for the twenty years I've worked in the industry.
The meat of it - the amount of installed software in use - appears almost totally derived from interviews. Sounds vauge to me, but yet more interesting, by page 2 a disclaimer appears that, due to completely different methodologies, this year's figures can't be accurately compared with last's. So, what's the origin of this 'doubling' claim in the original story?
"There is absolutely No justification for stealing..."
For me, you lost the argument right there. Applying this term ignores the history and intent of copyright, the recent manipulation of political processes by monied interests, the difference between ideas and property, a healthy society's need for free flow of information, and pretty much anything that doesn't fit in a tiny black/white conceptual box.
"Yes they incorporated it into the product, meaning they aren't simply reselling OpenSSL libraries, but it is a part of a larger whole."
Re-read the article. When the "National Security Agency promulgated a policy that required any military program using information assurance" to have NIST FIPS 140-2 validation, that "...led Steve Marquess, the technical manager of DMLSS, to the job of finding replacements for the OpenSSL libraries so prominently used in DMLSS." The article strongly implies their 'product' was a exactly a repackaging of the OpenSSL libraries because it's what Marquess was tasked to find.
"Once again, quit whining about someone making money."
Nowhere in my post did I express my opinion about making money, I simply relayed the opinion of Marquess. I have nothing against people making an honest living.
"Because OpenSSL has a BSD-style license, many vendors simply grabbed the source code and incorporated it into their proprietary products. Those vendors wanted literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing fees.
Steve Marquess, the technical manager of DMLSS, had no issue with vendors making money, it was the means they chose that annoyed him. If everyone in government felt as he did, taxpayers like you and me would have a lot more money in our pockets.
Unfettered, unrestricted capitalism is a fantasy that's neither democratic or American. It's only in the last couple of decades following Reagan that this particularly virulent form of ideology has become popular, the founding of America and most of its history had little to do with it. It's more corporatist than capitalist. The typical pejorative labeling of anyone who disagrees as 'socialist' or 'communist', by far the majority of the world incidentally, I can only hope is a sign of the end days of this world view.
"Everything is a control issue. Companies want to control their product. Zealots want to control the companies. As a user (who happens to be running FC1 waiting on nvidia to do this...), I find the latter position far less defensible.
Companies want to control their product in order to control markets. 'Zealots' want to limit any one company's control of markets to keep them open, and it works. Are you really implying the world and the state of computer technology would both be better had IBM retained monopoly control of hardware? I'll wager most historians of technology will disagree.
"Environment - ever heard of Litestep? Completely replaces Explorer. As well as BB4Win, ObjectDesktop and several others."
Yep, a clone of the ancient *Nix window manager Afterstep, itself a clone of Nextstep. BB4Win is BlueBox for Win, another clone of one of the many minimalist 'box' window managers for *Nix. Two of the three examples provided are cllones of a very small subset of the desktops available for Linux, not exactly great support for the argument Windows has real desktop variety. I wish it did, the need to run certain apps has me stuck in XP world for now and I miss my Linux desktop(s).
Maybe Representative Duncan Hunter's intent is to keep all P4's in Malaysia and out of the hands of domestic terrorists. Ironic that someone from a technology centre like San Diego can be such a dimwit about technology, politician or not.
Two questions. Are you prepared for the consequences if you're caught? Being fired for lying on your resume could have a far more serious impact on your future than lack of early experience, especially in the more tightly knit (and typically higher paying) specialized fields. If you don't have the experience, how do you know you really have the proficiency? Proficiency is more than just hardware and software, it's knowing how to take direction, manage budgets, work within corporate systems guidelines you don't agree with, and much more.
Most people who are 'just downloaders' don't realize they're sharing at the same time. Is there any P2P software that doesn't install with this default? And IPs are typically visible in both directions.
No, but if she wasn't born in the US she could be picked up by well dressed and efficient members of your internal security forces and forcibly 'returned' to a counrtry she hasn't lived in for decades, without contact, legal representation, notifying the family or financial means, to face imprisonment and torture. This isn't hypothetical, it happened to at least one Canadian catching a connecting flight throught the US.
You were better off under a King. Royalty didn't have the 21st century technology available to Presidents and had to make due with barrel-loaders, swords, wooden boats and spies. One has to wonder if the reduced need for accomplices among the general public emboldens them to make these moves.
Let's see, militarized internal police force? Check. Widespread domestic surveillance? Check. Remote prison camps outside the reach of domestic laws? Check. No right to privacy? Check. An administartion which decides who's a citizen worthy of legal protection and who's a 'terrorist'? Check. Institute internal travel visas and you'll have all the makings for a new Soviet Union.
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You best notify the audiophile magazines then, they still rate tube gear highly. Oh, and recording studios, with their tube compressors and levelers, tube amplified microphones, tube monitor amps, etc. Or did you mean that in the 'real men don't drink wine' sense?
You find nothing ironic about your assertion?
"...as there's less interference from things like the tube's heater or outside magnetic fields."
What is it with this forum and the audiophile hatred coupled with a lack of knowledge about the most fundamental elements of circuit design? Tubes literally have a heater coil at the bottom (the source of that glow) driven orange-hot by 6.3 or 5 volt AC. It generates the electrons to be amplified. 'Heater interference' has been a non-issue since the industry turned away from direct-heating in the 1930's, and even then simple and effective means to reduce its effect below the threshold of audibility were widely known and employed. The same is true of 'outside magnetic fields'. How did you think TV's, FM tuners, scientific measurement equipment, the entire electronics industry until the '70's in fact, could operate otherwise?
Tubes are still heavily employed in the studios which create the source material you claim tubes degrade. Hate tubes all you want, but please get clue before ranting on technical issues.
No tucking here. It's true at the end of a tube's service life, but the slow gain reduction over that time typically causes little measured performance change over most of it. You imply the sound of a tube amp undergoes audible change from the first power up. Topology counts too, a high loop feedback amp such as a MacIntosh will compensate for tube aging much better than a no-feedback single-ended triode. Finally, solid state ages too, a consequence of being typically packed with electrolytic caps in the signal path which dry out and change characteristics over time.
And it's working. RIAA: legal threats, suing users and advertising it, ad campaigns castigating typical consumers, criminalizing legislation, and falling markets. MPAA, relative to the RIAA keeping very quiet, a billion dollar month. Correlation isn't causation true, but it certainly merits a look.
Not at all. Mozilla falls down by trusting the multiple OSs it supports to securely handle something it doesn't understand. You did notice the part of the story that specifies this as a Mozilla/XP/2K exploit, right? No problem in Linux or *Bsd, etc., so I don't know how this OS intregration angle is relevant at all.
I was more surprised American stations weren't under a requirement to record. It's been mandatory in Canada for the twenty years I've worked in the industry.
The meat of it - the amount of installed software in use - appears almost totally derived from interviews. Sounds vauge to me, but yet more interesting, by page 2 a disclaimer appears that, due to completely different methodologies, this year's figures can't be accurately compared with last's. So, what's the origin of this 'doubling' claim in the original story?
For me, you lost the argument right there. Applying this term ignores the history and intent of copyright, the recent manipulation of political processes by monied interests, the difference between ideas and property, a healthy society's need for free flow of information, and pretty much anything that doesn't fit in a tiny black/white conceptual box.
Re-read the article. When the "National Security Agency promulgated a policy that required any military program using information assurance" to have NIST FIPS 140-2 validation, that "...led Steve Marquess, the technical manager of DMLSS, to the job of finding replacements for the OpenSSL libraries so prominently used in DMLSS." The article strongly implies their 'product' was a exactly a repackaging of the OpenSSL libraries because it's what Marquess was tasked to find.
"Once again, quit whining about someone making money."
Nowhere in my post did I express my opinion about making money, I simply relayed the opinion of Marquess. I have nothing against people making an honest living.
Steve Marquess, the technical manager of DMLSS, had no issue with vendors making money, it was the means they chose that annoyed him. If everyone in government felt as he did, taxpayers like you and me would have a lot more money in our pockets.
One reason.
Unfettered, unrestricted capitalism is a fantasy that's neither democratic or American. It's only in the last couple of decades following Reagan that this particularly virulent form of ideology has become popular, the founding of America and most of its history had little to do with it. It's more corporatist than capitalist. The typical pejorative labeling of anyone who disagrees as 'socialist' or 'communist', by far the majority of the world incidentally, I can only hope is a sign of the end days of this world view.
Companies want to control their product in order to control markets. 'Zealots' want to limit any one company's control of markets to keep them open, and it works. Are you really implying the world and the state of computer technology would both be better had IBM retained monopoly control of hardware? I'll wager most historians of technology will disagree.
Yep, a clone of the ancient *Nix window manager Afterstep, itself a clone of Nextstep. BB4Win is BlueBox for Win, another clone of one of the many minimalist 'box' window managers for *Nix. Two of the three examples provided are cllones of a very small subset of the desktops available for Linux, not exactly great support for the argument Windows has real desktop variety. I wish it did, the need to run certain apps has me stuck in XP world for now and I miss my Linux desktop(s).
Maybe Representative Duncan Hunter's intent is to keep all P4's in Malaysia and out of the hands of domestic terrorists. Ironic that someone from a technology centre like San Diego can be such a dimwit about technology, politician or not.
Leaked code.
Two questions. Are you prepared for the consequences if you're caught? Being fired for lying on your resume could have a far more serious impact on your future than lack of early experience, especially in the more tightly knit (and typically higher paying) specialized fields. If you don't have the experience, how do you know you really have the proficiency? Proficiency is more than just hardware and software, it's knowing how to take direction, manage budgets, work within corporate systems guidelines you don't agree with, and much more.
Given the probable low payload capacity, I think most New Yorkers would be more concerned about them coming from New Jersey.
Most people who are 'just downloaders' don't realize they're sharing at the same time. Is there any P2P software that doesn't install with this default? And IPs are typically visible in both directions.
Is that the same definition of 'reasonable' SCOTUS used to uphold the last copyright extensions?
No, but if she wasn't born in the US she could be picked up by well dressed and efficient members of your internal security forces and forcibly 'returned' to a counrtry she hasn't lived in for decades, without contact, legal representation, notifying the family or financial means, to face imprisonment and torture. This isn't hypothetical, it happened to at least one Canadian catching a connecting flight throught the US.
Let's see, militarized internal police force? Check. Widespread domestic surveillance? Check. Remote prison camps outside the reach of domestic laws? Check. No right to privacy? Check. An administartion which decides who's a citizen worthy of legal protection and who's a 'terrorist'? Check. Institute internal travel visas and you'll have all the makings for a new Soviet Union.
Ironic answer to post on a web forum: Internet servers.
Or bribing them for the cipher keys?
Unfortunately, much easier to use too for Capital, Gator, klez,....