Given the rapid technology curve for storage, processing and network bandwidth, non-lossy storage will soon be practical. The hard part will be convincing a world of mp3-is-perfect listeners to shift.
The number one axiom of audio electronic design is: do not alter the input. Doing so will always favour one group of listeners over another, in this case musicians ove rthose who value accuracy, or classical vs. rap listeners (the old east-coast/west-coast dichotomy.) Musicians favouring a particular sound doesn't make it desirable, musicians are legendary for listening on poor equipment and filling in the rest of the music mentally.
On the other hand, an Industry Canada official told me about a recent event in which a passenger liner landing in Vancouver found themselves more than thirty degrees off beam. The cause was later discovered to be a handheld Chinese-English electronic translator belonging to one of the passengers. Industry Canada was able to track down the Canadian retailers, who quickly agreed to remove that particular device from their shelves.
This tells me that the most unexpected devices can cause life-threatening interference to aviation systems. It also explains why carriers are so cautious about devices designed to radtiate.
My Win 2K servers aren't ever rebooted. One has an uptime of at least a year. Generic Win Pro machines doing FTP work have never dumped on me and run for seasons. My Slack 8 ssh/sftp/NFS server (a broken AST P133 with defective riser board) only goes down for equipment moves, the longest uptime so far at two months. My FreeBSD NFS/Samba server on a suspect Abit board never burps.
It must be you.
Don't forget the always-abused X window managers. Ion in particular taught me a whole new way to see, or more correctls in this case not see, the desktop.
1. Education won't guarantee the elimination of bad ideas, it most certainly guarantees fewer followers. Few syncophants are using original arguments, education greatly raises the chance of having seen refutations. (BTW, which leaders have been the best educated? Hitler (nope), Stalin (seminary school dropout), Idi Amin?)
2. The original talks of 'need', you bait-and-switches with 'want'. It's axiomatic that people with something to lose will hesitate at the risk and will want less. That a few extreme counter-examples exist is no counter to the general trend.
Blaming the fates of ignorant, starving people on the victims for not chasing an unknowable 'absolute truth' smacks of the cold, unyielding elitism of those you probably don't want to be associated with.
SSL, SSH, PGP, there are plenty of means freely available to preserve your privacy. You chose convenience over privacy. It doesn't say anything bad about you, but it does say your post has more to do with personal preferences than social realities.
I was able to achieve the same result on my notebook by playing with the sub-pixel rendering options in X. Nothing scientific, just go through the options one at a time looking for the best result.
VNC is totally different, you would have to scroll around to get to everything,...
Minor nitpick, if I recall the VNC server can be started in any display geometry you want and point to its own X settings. It would be a trivial, if cumbersome, task to create an Openbox environment suitable for a PDA VNC session.
The apps are a different story though.
Actually, some distributions make Linux trival to install. From what I've seen Knoppix is easier then 2K in this regard. The real next hurdle is post-installation maintenance.
Please make my day and back that up this time. All the Lycoris slams I read before your post were from Windows users. Show me the 'Linux purist' in contact with regular users advising them not to use Lycoris. You can't because they don't exist. Your post is just another of the false, ad hominem Windows trolls that makes Slashdot so much less than it used to be.
In a home environment the extra functionality is argueable. Linux does more than enough: well, fast and securely. You make it sound as if Windows is becoming the Hugo Boss sweater of the OS world, spend more to be seen spending more.
The vast majority of people don't care and are perfectly happy to spend the day listening to highly processed, equalized and distorted AM and FM broadcasts which don't sound like CDs either. Sonic accuracy isn't decided by vote.
Yep, nothing says efficient surveillance like 24 bit, 192 kHz PCM stereo. My advice would be to invest now in Seagate, Maxtor and WD. The next order from the Department of Homeland Security will have their factories running three shifts for years.
24 bit, 192 kHz linear and 10:1 compressed ATRAC are not meant for the same markets. It's not an either/or scenario, each are tools optimized for different applications.
Isn't a 'Slashdotted' business server more properly the result of incompetent configuration or an accounting department run amok? My single CPU 733 Compaq 2K server moves audio and text 24/7 for over twenty desktops and CPU utilization never exceeds 5%. It could easily handle hundreds. The IT department's (not mine!) Novell 3.11 file server handles a hundred desktops on a ~P500.
When the network is down, other things might grind to a halt but there is no reason my word processing should.
Yes there is, and it's measured in dollars. If it's much cheaper to centralize applications and data on a server (note the 'if'), the risk of you not working during blackouts is factored into the cost analysis. If it's critically important, and redundant servers don't push the cost of centralization over that of the app-on-desktop model, it still makes sense.
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If Ogg is audibly better and 'you' = customer, then yes it is all about 'you'.
Given the rapid technology curve for storage, processing and network bandwidth, non-lossy storage will soon be practical. The hard part will be convincing a world of mp3-is-perfect listeners to shift.
The number one axiom of audio electronic design is: do not alter the input. Doing so will always favour one group of listeners over another, in this case musicians ove rthose who value accuracy, or classical vs. rap listeners (the old east-coast/west-coast dichotomy.) Musicians favouring a particular sound doesn't make it desirable, musicians are legendary for listening on poor equipment and filling in the rest of the music mentally.
What, and leave regular Slashdot the domain of Linux bashers and MS apologists? Oh, wait...
This tells me that the most unexpected devices can cause life-threatening interference to aviation systems. It also explains why carriers are so cautious about devices designed to radtiate.
My Win 2K servers aren't ever rebooted. One has an uptime of at least a year. Generic Win Pro machines doing FTP work have never dumped on me and run for seasons. My Slack 8 ssh/sftp/NFS server (a broken AST P133 with defective riser board) only goes down for equipment moves, the longest uptime so far at two months. My FreeBSD NFS/Samba server on a suspect Abit board never burps. It must be you.
Can't argue with that reasoning (?!?!?).
Don't forget the always-abused X window managers. Ion in particular taught me a whole new way to see, or more correctls in this case not see, the desktop.
If you don't agree with Kelz, don't post.
If it's done with Ewoks shot from a cannon, I'll see your bid and double it.
1. Education won't guarantee the elimination of bad ideas, it most certainly guarantees fewer followers. Few syncophants are using original arguments, education greatly raises the chance of having seen refutations. (BTW, which leaders have been the best educated? Hitler (nope), Stalin (seminary school dropout), Idi Amin?)
2. The original talks of 'need', you bait-and-switches with 'want'. It's axiomatic that people with something to lose will hesitate at the risk and will want less. That a few extreme counter-examples exist is no counter to the general trend.
Blaming the fates of ignorant, starving people on the victims for not chasing an unknowable 'absolute truth' smacks of the cold, unyielding elitism of those you probably don't want to be associated with.
You should get your monitor checked, it's apparently generating text unrelated to this forum. If that isn't the problem, maybe check your medication?
I gave up the ability to have privacy when I started using the internet in 1994.
The gist of it was: using the Internet meant loss of privacy. You objections has no bearing.
SSL, SSH, PGP, there are plenty of means freely available to preserve your privacy. You chose convenience over privacy. It doesn't say anything bad about you, but it does say your post has more to do with personal preferences than social realities.
I was able to achieve the same result on my notebook by playing with the sub-pixel rendering options in X. Nothing scientific, just go through the options one at a time looking for the best result.
Minor nitpick, if I recall the VNC server can be started in any display geometry you want and point to its own X settings. It would be a trivial, if cumbersome, task to create an Openbox environment suitable for a PDA VNC session. The apps are a different story though.
Mutella, a command line Gnutella client/server, does the same.
You're never applying for a job with the Consumer Protection Agency, are you?
Actually, some distributions make Linux trival to install. From what I've seen Knoppix is easier then 2K in this regard. The real next hurdle is post-installation maintenance.
Please make my day and back that up this time. All the Lycoris slams I read before your post were from Windows users. Show me the 'Linux purist' in contact with regular users advising them not to use Lycoris. You can't because they don't exist. Your post is just another of the false, ad hominem Windows trolls that makes Slashdot so much less than it used to be.
In a home environment the extra functionality is argueable. Linux does more than enough: well, fast and securely. You make it sound as if Windows is becoming the Hugo Boss sweater of the OS world, spend more to be seen spending more.
The vast majority of people don't care and are perfectly happy to spend the day listening to highly processed, equalized and distorted AM and FM broadcasts which don't sound like CDs either. Sonic accuracy isn't decided by vote.
Yep, nothing says efficient surveillance like 24 bit, 192 kHz PCM stereo. My advice would be to invest now in Seagate, Maxtor and WD. The next order from the Department of Homeland Security will have their factories running three shifts for years.
24 bit, 192 kHz linear and 10:1 compressed ATRAC are not meant for the same markets. It's not an either/or scenario, each are tools optimized for different applications.
When the network is down, other things might grind to a halt but there is no reason my word processing should.
Yes there is, and it's measured in dollars. If it's much cheaper to centralize applications and data on a server (note the 'if'), the risk of you not working during blackouts is factored into the cost analysis. If it's critically important, and redundant servers don't push the cost of centralization over that of the app-on-desktop model, it still makes sense.