Isn't amazing how many people in this computer literate forum miss something so simple? Holding to two simple rules - use a daily account with "User" permissions only and never use Microsoft internet software (IE, OE) - I never get spyware or viruses. Scams like this Capitol one wouldn't work in a non-admin world.
I didn't see the irony until reading your post. Those same Geneva Conventions determining who is considered a soldier are the ones Bush + Rummy are using to deny Geneva Convention rights to the Guantanamo detainees. By not being in uniform they claim these people are 'enemy combatants' and subject to no rights or protections outside the military whim of the US. Domestically though, when used against his own citizens, Bush considers this OK. You have never had a worse president.
Somewhere above I posted a link to an editorial regarding this. The Act is still on the books but has been rendered effectively toothless by a century of law following.
I wish it were really that simple. Old hands here will recall the same discussions and outrage surround Clinton's War on Drugs and its damage to privacy and freedom. Republican or Democrat, it doesn't appear to make much difference.
Perhaps true, probably irrelevant on most home networks. Unless the NICs are gigabit the throughput bottleneck is the LAN. The last server I had which couldn't saturate 100 Mbits was P133-based
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An inventive and daring use of the word "community".
Isn't it fun? In my case Corpse-erate is trying to force the conversion of user profiles on production (non-office desktop) machines from 'User' to 'Power User' so we 'adhere' to standard. They're not swayed by our history of never having a virus or issues with spyware, nor by the hours they've spent this week alone removing animated emoticons, re-directs to URLs with the words "buy" and "track" in them, or software named after Florida lizards from office machines. "My standards, right or wrong."
Wrong. Transmission lines are no more effecient than the raw drivers used in construction, typically mid-eighties. Horns are notable for high efficiency, TLs are not. And speaking of math, where (from your following post) do you get 112 dB as CD's signal to noise ratio? That implies a dynamic range, given 20 db headroom above the nominal recording level (square waves and Slipnot excepted of course) of over 130 dB. From 16 bit PCM? Not in this world.
Italian steel is 'lively'. Reynolds 853 it 'harsh', as is aluminum, unless it's thinned to the point of becoming 'noodley'. Carbon is 'dead and wooden'. Bars, seats, seat post, bottom brackets, welding techniques, fork materials, for every piece on a bike there's a similar subjective assessment. To the general riding public it's all 'piffle'. I'm not saying these subjective opinions are wrong. Far from it, there's more to perception than weighing a bike or measuring the frequency distribution of an amp's distortion. What is wrong is, as is so often seen on this forum though not perhaps in your case or the grandparent, when people who don't know anything of either topic dismissively ridicule the opinions of those who do.
It is the same thing to the general riding public, especially when it's a casual rider astride one of these creations. Slashdot is the general listening public. Neither speaks to the quality of the device itself.
BTW, nice to see another another solder hand in the mix here. I'll see that challenge and raise you the $10 EL84's in my parts bin.;)
What about my passive selector/pre-amp driving a tube amp? (Amp for free, passive about $150 CDN in parts, just in case this comes across as "look how much I spent" audiophile thing.)
That doesn't explain CD. Many audiophiles didn't want it, and the buying public were content with vinyl and cassette. CDs took over so quickly because record companies unilaterally stopped pressing vinyl and shifted production to CDs where the margin was much higher. Don't believe the hype that hundreds of millions willing threw out perfectly good record players over the euphoria of CD sound, they had to if they wanted to buy new music.
I think it has more to do with the absolute peak recording ceiling of digital formats. Fifteen ones followed by a zero is withing design parameters, sixteen ones and up is clipped. Analogue technologies tended to compress and strain as limits were approached, making 9.99/10ths mastering levels impractical. As a side note, many would be surprised just how poorly a lot of CDs are mastered. We hooked the analogue output of a CD player being used for digital transfers to an oscilliscope diagnosing a problem at work. Many CDs were obviously clipped hard in mastering, the waveforms flat-topped. Must be part of the secret to Slipnot's signature sound.;)
That explains why most audiophiles I know own orders of magnitude more music than any i-Pod toting, music for jogging "true music lover" who sings in the car. They're into chain lube.
Ironic you should pick pro cyclists as an example though, the +$7000 titanium/carbon/kevlar creations they ride (and inspire) are as likely to be ridiculed by the general riding public as a 300B SET amp is by MP3 aficionados.
Of course. Everything science will ever know about auditory processes was locked in stone in the '70's, when CD's current format was set. All those musicians and producers who feel there is a compelling difference in the studio are wrong and delusional, the guys on Slashdot with the Visual Basic chops have all the answers.
At the start of the twentieth century many claimed wax cylinders captured the live event perfectly. In the mid-fifties Paul Klipsch (IIR) demonstrated it once again with vinyl and corner horn speakers. Mid-eighties, yet again with CD + 'insert your favourite Japanese receiver here'. The only true constant is how many times technology has achieved 'perfect sound' without ever once recreating a sonic event indistinguishable from the original.
They know that. A transmitter manufacturer at the last Vega NAB also related to me how very few American broadcasters have adopted digital because of the technical demands. This isn't about 'protecting the artist', digital's penetration and permanently limited bitrate will forever prevent 'perfect' copies being made for distribution. This is about the filling legal holes and setting the legal precedent to skim fees for all audio distribution, a strong form of anti-free market protectionism.
I thought you meant Dell's idealism must mesh with reality at some point. There is simply no excuse for a one-OS, non-standard web presence representing a company of that size. It can't be for the cost of adding Javascript support, which I wager 90% of desktops now have. It must be idealism.
"Would you blame Ford if your friend borrowed your car and wrecked it?
A better analogy would be if a friend wrecked your Ford just by driving it in the rain. Browsing the internet isn't abuse, it's probably the core use for home users, and if I read it correctly Windows was being used as MS intended.
"My former slight thoughts of Canada's intelligence are withering."
Given the tortured grammar of that sentence, Canada feels no loss.
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"....you most likely are an advanced computer user, prolly use linux at times, and etc. Most people aren't. The people who we want to convert from MSIE don't like change.
You fall prey to the same perspective you feel blinds advanced users about change. Not a newbie I've recommended try Firefox has been anything but thrilled by the change, and to my genuine surprise continue to use it long afterwards. People aren't as stupid as we make them out to be.
"Office (specifically Word) is a complex tool. It can do a lot, but with that level of flexibility comes a certain level of complexity and obfuscation."
Interesting. This is precisely what's been held up as the main flaw with open source operating systems.
"I've programmed C for 10+ years, but I still make mistakes now and again and can't figure out why the hell I'm leaking memory here or there. It's not the compiler's fault, certainly not the languages fault, it's my dumb ass missing or not understanding something."
Ah, now I understand. Using Word is effectively is like programming in C. Thanks.;)
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Isn't amazing how many people in this computer literate forum miss something so simple? Holding to two simple rules - use a daily account with "User" permissions only and never use Microsoft internet software (IE, OE) - I never get spyware or viruses. Scams like this Capitol one wouldn't work in a non-admin world.
I didn't see the irony until reading your post. Those same Geneva Conventions determining who is considered a soldier are the ones Bush + Rummy are using to deny Geneva Convention rights to the Guantanamo detainees. By not being in uniform they claim these people are 'enemy combatants' and subject to no rights or protections outside the military whim of the US. Domestically though, when used against his own citizens, Bush considers this OK. You have never had a worse president.
Somewhere above I posted a link to an editorial regarding this. The Act is still on the books but has been rendered effectively toothless by a century of law following.
I wish it were really that simple. Old hands here will recall the same discussions and outrage surround Clinton's War on Drugs and its damage to privacy and freedom. Republican or Democrat, it doesn't appear to make much difference.
From your country's laws.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020731_c arter.html
Perhaps true, probably irrelevant on most home networks. Unless the NICs are gigabit the throughput bottleneck is the LAN. The last server I had which couldn't saturate 100 Mbits was P133-based
Look here.
An inventive and daring use of the word "community".
Isn't it fun? In my case Corpse-erate is trying to force the conversion of user profiles on production (non-office desktop) machines from 'User' to 'Power User' so we 'adhere' to standard. They're not swayed by our history of never having a virus or issues with spyware, nor by the hours they've spent this week alone removing animated emoticons, re-directs to URLs with the words "buy" and "track" in them, or software named after Florida lizards from office machines. "My standards, right or wrong."
Wrong. Transmission lines are no more effecient than the raw drivers used in construction, typically mid-eighties. Horns are notable for high efficiency, TLs are not. And speaking of math, where (from your following post) do you get 112 dB as CD's signal to noise ratio? That implies a dynamic range, given 20 db headroom above the nominal recording level (square waves and Slipnot excepted of course) of over 130 dB. From 16 bit PCM? Not in this world.
Italian steel is 'lively'. Reynolds 853 it 'harsh', as is aluminum, unless it's thinned to the point of becoming 'noodley'. Carbon is 'dead and wooden'. Bars, seats, seat post, bottom brackets, welding techniques, fork materials, for every piece on a bike there's a similar subjective assessment. To the general riding public it's all 'piffle'. I'm not saying these subjective opinions are wrong. Far from it, there's more to perception than weighing a bike or measuring the frequency distribution of an amp's distortion. What is wrong is, as is so often seen on this forum though not perhaps in your case or the grandparent, when people who don't know anything of either topic dismissively ridicule the opinions of those who do.
BTW, nice to see another another solder hand in the mix here. I'll see that challenge and raise you the $10 EL84's in my parts bin. ;)
What about my passive selector/pre-amp driving a tube amp? (Amp for free, passive about $150 CDN in parts, just in case this comes across as "look how much I spent" audiophile thing.)
That doesn't explain CD. Many audiophiles didn't want it, and the buying public were content with vinyl and cassette. CDs took over so quickly because record companies unilaterally stopped pressing vinyl and shifted production to CDs where the margin was much higher. Don't believe the hype that hundreds of millions willing threw out perfectly good record players over the euphoria of CD sound, they had to if they wanted to buy new music.
I think it has more to do with the absolute peak recording ceiling of digital formats. Fifteen ones followed by a zero is withing design parameters, sixteen ones and up is clipped. Analogue technologies tended to compress and strain as limits were approached, making 9.99/10ths mastering levels impractical. As a side note, many would be surprised just how poorly a lot of CDs are mastered. We hooked the analogue output of a CD player being used for digital transfers to an oscilliscope diagnosing a problem at work. Many CDs were obviously clipped hard in mastering, the waveforms flat-topped. Must be part of the secret to Slipnot's signature sound. ;)
Ironic you should pick pro cyclists as an example though, the +$7000 titanium/carbon/kevlar creations they ride (and inspire) are as likely to be ridiculed by the general riding public as a 300B SET amp is by MP3 aficionados.
At the start of the twentieth century many claimed wax cylinders captured the live event perfectly. In the mid-fifties Paul Klipsch (IIR) demonstrated it once again with vinyl and corner horn speakers. Mid-eighties, yet again with CD + 'insert your favourite Japanese receiver here'. The only true constant is how many times technology has achieved 'perfect sound' without ever once recreating a sonic event indistinguishable from the original.
They know that. A transmitter manufacturer at the last Vega NAB also related to me how very few American broadcasters have adopted digital because of the technical demands. This isn't about 'protecting the artist', digital's penetration and permanently limited bitrate will forever prevent 'perfect' copies being made for distribution. This is about the filling legal holes and setting the legal precedent to skim fees for all audio distribution, a strong form of anti-free market protectionism.
The new monopoly math.
I thought you meant Dell's idealism must mesh with reality at some point. There is simply no excuse for a one-OS, non-standard web presence representing a company of that size. It can't be for the cost of adding Javascript support, which I wager 90% of desktops now have. It must be idealism.
A better analogy would be if a friend wrecked your Ford just by driving it in the rain. Browsing the internet isn't abuse, it's probably the core use for home users, and if I read it correctly Windows was being used as MS intended.
Given the tortured grammar of that sentence, Canada feels no loss.
You fall prey to the same perspective you feel blinds advanced users about change. Not a newbie I've recommended try Firefox has been anything but thrilled by the change, and to my genuine surprise continue to use it long afterwards. People aren't as stupid as we make them out to be.
Can they understand the nature of advertising? If not there's little hope of mastering Linux.
Interesting. This is precisely what's been held up as the main flaw with open source operating systems.
"I've programmed C for 10+ years, but I still make mistakes now and again and can't figure out why the hell I'm leaking memory here or there. It's not the compiler's fault, certainly not the languages fault, it's my dumb ass missing or not understanding something."
Ah, now I understand. Using Word is effectively is like programming in C. Thanks. ;)