Wouldn't it have made more sense to just include two extra copies of the CD instead of two blanks? At least then you wouldn't end up using the blanks for something you REALLY want extras of, like Fedora Core or Led Zeppelin.
That's a good question, but I think the reduction in warranty is related more to the economics of the hard drive market. Drives have become SO inexpensive now that it's not feasible for the manufacturer to warranty them for three years. If they kept the 3 year warranty, I doubt we'd be seeing the 2GB/$1 we're seeing now.
Not that I'm defending the reduction in warranty, of course. I'm mad as hell that I've had many drives go bad in less than two years of service.
Synopsys is in the process of releasing 64-bit Opteron executables for the Linux platform.
So for those of us engineers who do very large synthesis and place-n-route work, yes, there's a very good reason to start thinking about 64-bit Linux systems.
If you chaps have a shred of decency in you, jump ship, even if it means a lower paying job.
Well, that's easy to say if you're not in their shoes. I can tell you with 100% certainty that I wouldn't be able to quit my job based on principle. Fact is, I've got a family to support and bills to pay, and with the job market as crappy as it's been, there's no way I'd give up a secure position right now.
Fortunately for me, I'm not in that position - I work for a reputable company whose policies and practices I can be proud of (hi boss, shall we do my annual review soon???).
That's not my point. I understand the concept of the increase in velocity. However, the fundamental problem is that in addition to the multitudes being able to simultaneously borrow from the same person, there's no need to return the original product after the "evaluation" stage.
Saying that it's just lending on a larger scale is inaccurate. It's no longer lending at all.
Exchanging music is not about piracy, it is about exchanging culture, just like when my grandfather leant me some old Jazz records and said, "here, you might like this".
A well-intentioned, but flawed analogy. The problem that the RIAA faces is more analogous to your grandfather simultaneously lending out his records to 1000's of other people, and never needing them returned, because he's still got his copies.
I'm shocked that any slashdot reader would find this objectionable, on the grounds that everyone saavy enough to be here SHOULD have a spam-sinkhole-hotmailish account that is never read, but used for just this sort of thing (as well as purchases from your favorite online bookstore).
I'm hoping this will work better than the do-not-call list in Texas. Maybe other Texans have had better luck, but I'm still swamped with calls that fall under the "legal" umbrella (such as shady real estate dealings that somehow claim they fall under the non-profit clause).
Hey, at least the national list doesn't make you fork out a couple bucks to sign up, unlike the Texas list.
The speed you're seeing is normal behavior for FLAC. According to the FLAC features page,
FLAC is asymmetric in favor of decode speed. Decoding requires only integer arithmetic, and is much less compute-intensive than for most perceptual codecs. Real-time decode performance is easily achievable on even modest hardware.
It takes longer to encode to FLAC than to Monkey's, but it should be much quicker to decode. This was done intentionally, to reduce the burden on the playback system.
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Wouldn't it have made more sense to just include two extra copies of the CD instead of two blanks? At least then you wouldn't end up using the blanks for something you REALLY want extras of, like Fedora Core or Led Zeppelin.
Not that I'm defending the reduction in warranty, of course. I'm mad as hell that I've had many drives go bad in less than two years of service.
Synopsys is in the process of releasing 64-bit Opteron executables for the Linux platform. So for those of us engineers who do very large synthesis and place-n-route work, yes, there's a very good reason to start thinking about 64-bit Linux systems.
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/
...PETA's gonna be pissed.
Fortunately for me, I'm not in that position - I work for a reputable company whose policies and practices I can be proud of (hi boss, shall we do my annual review soon???).
That's not my point. I understand the concept of the increase in velocity. However, the fundamental problem is that in addition to the multitudes being able to simultaneously borrow from the same person, there's no need to return the original product after the "evaluation" stage. Saying that it's just lending on a larger scale is inaccurate. It's no longer lending at all.
I'm shocked that any slashdot reader would find this objectionable, on the grounds that everyone saavy enough to be here SHOULD have a spam-sinkhole-hotmailish account that is never read, but used for just this sort of thing (as well as purchases from your favorite online bookstore).
I'm hoping this will work better than the do-not-call list in Texas. Maybe other Texans have had better luck, but I'm still swamped with calls that fall under the "legal" umbrella (such as shady real estate dealings that somehow claim they fall under the non-profit clause). Hey, at least the national list doesn't make you fork out a couple bucks to sign up, unlike the Texas list.