If you seriously think that ripping a CD and compressing to 320kbps is yielding a 75% quality loss then there's something wrong with you, or you haven't listened to an audio CD and/or a 320 kbps mp3.
FYI, the quality loss in the case you described is negligible.
1. burn it to a CD, then rip the CD, thus losing quality
I see this getting mentioned pretty frequently and I don't think it's right. Yeah, in theory you do lose quality every time you recompress, but I don't think it's a big enough loss to mention. Note that you can always rip the CD and not lossy-compress the files.
Which raises the question, should the grandparent post remain modded +5? I mean, there will be lots of people browsing at +5 seeing that Amazon is a spammer.
You know, on second thought, the better idea is just get a Mac. The average PC user will find it safer and they can do 99% of what they were going to do anyways.
Wow. Thanks for posting that. I've been using an ECS L7S7A2 mainboard for about two years now with an Athlon XP 2000+ (overclocked to 2200+) and I don't believe it has ever crashed on me (except for the times I went too high with the overclocking).
The primary reason I bought it was because it was about half the price of other mainboards. It seems I got lucky.
This wouldn't work! The malware deletes the file itself and creates it again under a different name on shutdown! You can't end the malware process either, a new one with another random name appears immediately!
I had one of those the other day. After cleaning up a bit with Ad-Aware I found out that it would rename the registry entries on every shutdown restart etc. So I just deleted them and pulled the plug instead of doing a normal shutdown. This did the trick.
My story is similar. I've been a windows user since I began working on computers. First 98 and then XP (yeah I'm young). I started reading on/. and other places how linux is the greatest thing and completely free and lets you do anything and much more.
I got hold of Mandrake 8.1 then. I installed it. Results: PS/2 simple 2-button mouse wasn't working properly, sound wasn't working, modem wasn't working. Tried to find info/help on linux IRC channels and newsgroups, everyone would suggest his thing, editing endless text files, nothing worked. I finally uninstalled.
After a couple of years I find a Fedora Core 3 DVD. I install on a small 3 GB partition I had (manually partitioning because the auto-partitioning tool would report for some reason that there was inadequate space). I chose the "Personal" installation settings because this is my desktop computer.
I have 3 internal modems, zero work under linux. It's ok, as they're winmodems and the like, ok.
I try to listen to some mp3's, turns out I can't do it. RedHat hasn't included mp3 support for legal reasons. Ok. I go and download xmms. It needs gcc or something. Gcc wasn't installed with my personal profile. I try to install it, add/remove program reports that there are dependency errors (even though I haven't changed a thing after installing). After trying again without absolutely no changes, it proceeds but reports that it has failed because 200 MB are needed and they're not available, even though 500 MB are available. I look online, people tell me to use yum. I try to use yum, turns out it tries to download those 200 MB from the internet, which would be a no-no even if any of my 56k modems did work. I try to uninstall something using yum, it still tries to connect to the net. I give up.
(By the way, trying to uninstall anything of the useless (for me) server software FC3 chose to install on my desktop computer throws dependency errors)
I go to http://rpm.pbone.net/, I download an xmms version for FC3, I install, turns out it doesn't have mp3 support either because the rpm was prepared by Redhat. At that point I gave up and went back to Windows XP. I still have FC3 installed though. Maybe it'll come in handy. I doubt so.
I've been using xp at home for years. I never had any patches or sp's installed. If you use the built-in firewall always and I mean always, use firefox, be careful what you install, use an antivirus program and adaware, then chances of getting infected are low.
I know because that's the way I was doing it. Why didn't I apply the patches and everything? Because I'm on 56k (and an unreliable one) and it takes ages to download them. I'd rather download porn.
Don't expect me to spend my Saturday doing free support work for Microsoft.
I'd rather spend my Saturday masturbating and playing EverQuest than help my friends out! It's just more fun.
It is simply another indicator of USENET's decline. And that's a Bad Thing, because the alternatives (the web-based forums, many of them excellent--let me plug bikeforums.net as a superb example) are all under corporate, rather than community control.
Hm, usenet is normally under no control whatsoever. And of course people can still setup forums moderated by the community (no corporate stuff), as it's done with moderated newsgroups.
I think 15 years is quite some time, yes. But I also think he knew beforehand. He got pretty far off his road to pirate other people's property. And he got caught. Take it like a man, I say.
Very informative. I think/. should stop linking to that guy's site. And if it does, then he'll probably find some other way to do the same thing. Maybe he'll make a new account and a new website and spend a little time altering the articles he copies.
Heck, maybe I'll do the same if I'm in the mood for some easy money. What's better than some geeks making money for a geek?
There used to be a website that listed people that burned romsets for free. You paid for postage, packaging and the media to write on of course but that was it. Of course this is illegal. Then the site was taken down, and to my surprise I saw that it was taken down not for this but because the MPAA claimed they hosted some movies.
Of course they didn't host anything, no roms and no movies, so when they posted the notice I was puzzled. Now I understand. This was like two years ago.
I've been using gaim for windows and I think it's great being able to talk in all those networks without having to have ten different clients.
What I don't like though is that the windows version doesn't have the option to send the buddy list to the tray instead of having it sitting on the taskbar.
Anybody can help me with that?
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It's not my perception, it's human perception. Your mind and/or ear can't tell the difference. The information thrown away is mostly useless.
If you seriously think that ripping a CD and compressing to 320kbps is yielding a 75% quality loss then there's something wrong with you, or you haven't listened to an audio CD and/or a 320 kbps mp3.
FYI, the quality loss in the case you described is negligible.
1. burn it to a CD, then rip the CD, thus losing quality
I see this getting mentioned pretty frequently and I don't think it's right. Yeah, in theory you do lose quality every time you recompress, but I don't think it's a big enough loss to mention. Note that you can always rip the CD and not lossy-compress the files.
Which raises the question, should the grandparent post remain modded +5? I mean, there will be lots of people browsing at +5 seeing that Amazon is a spammer.
You know, on second thought, the better idea is just get a Mac. The average PC user will find it safer and they can do 99% of what they were going to do anyways.
And pay 99% more.
Way to go! FUD companies with AC! Modded up, too!
An MSI FX5200 has no moving parts, gets ~30-45FPS at 800x600 or so [1024x768x16bpp works fine too] in games like UT2K4.
... but it's also only 100 bucks and doesn't make noise ;-)
Yeah, sure it isn't 1600x1200 with 16xAA and 78-bit colour
It's way less than 100 bucks and its performance sucks. Tried to play Halo or Doom 3 with it? Don't.
Wow. Thanks for posting that. I've been using an ECS L7S7A2 mainboard for about two years now with an Athlon XP 2000+ (overclocked to 2200+) and I don't believe it has ever crashed on me (except for the times I went too high with the overclocking).
The primary reason I bought it was because it was about half the price of other mainboards. It seems I got lucky.
I don't think you should worry about that. Just shut down all programs yourself and then do it. Not too much to worry about.
This wouldn't work! The malware deletes the file itself and creates it again under a different name on shutdown! You can't end the malware process either, a new one with another random name appears immediately!
I had one of those the other day. After cleaning up a bit with Ad-Aware I found out that it would rename the registry entries on every shutdown restart etc. So I just deleted them and pulled the plug instead of doing a normal shutdown. This did the trick.
The point is that anyone can download and burn Linux to a CD nowadays.
No.
My story is similar. I've been a windows user since I began working on computers. First 98 and then XP (yeah I'm young). I started reading on /. and other places how linux is the greatest thing and completely free and lets you do anything and much more.
I got hold of Mandrake 8.1 then. I installed it. Results: PS/2 simple 2-button mouse wasn't working properly, sound wasn't working, modem wasn't working. Tried to find info/help on linux IRC channels and newsgroups, everyone would suggest his thing, editing endless text files, nothing worked. I finally uninstalled.
After a couple of years I find a Fedora Core 3 DVD. I install on a small 3 GB partition I had (manually partitioning because the auto-partitioning tool would report for some reason that there was inadequate space). I chose the "Personal" installation settings because this is my desktop computer.
I have 3 internal modems, zero work under linux. It's ok, as they're winmodems and the like, ok.
I try to listen to some mp3's, turns out I can't do it. RedHat hasn't included mp3 support for legal reasons. Ok. I go and download xmms. It needs gcc or something. Gcc wasn't installed with my personal profile. I try to install it, add/remove program reports that there are dependency errors (even though I haven't changed a thing after installing). After trying again without absolutely no changes, it proceeds but reports that it has failed because 200 MB are needed and they're not available, even though 500 MB are available. I look online, people tell me to use yum. I try to use yum, turns out it tries to download those 200 MB from the internet, which would be a no-no even if any of my 56k modems did work. I try to uninstall something using yum, it still tries to connect to the net. I give up.
(By the way, trying to uninstall anything of the useless (for me) server software FC3 chose to install on my desktop computer throws dependency errors)
I go to http://rpm.pbone.net/, I download an xmms version for FC3, I install, turns out it doesn't have mp3 support either because the rpm was prepared by Redhat. At that point I gave up and went back to Windows XP. I still have FC3 installed though. Maybe it'll come in handy. I doubt so.
If you have to buy people jewelry to have sex you're probably a regular slashdot poster.
Luckily I'm only a regular reader so far.
You have to be pretty dumb to use MSN for your web searching.
I've been using xp at home for years. I never had any patches or sp's installed. If you use the built-in firewall always and I mean always, use firefox, be careful what you install, use an antivirus program and adaware, then chances of getting infected are low.
I know because that's the way I was doing it. Why didn't I apply the patches and everything? Because I'm on 56k (and an unreliable one) and it takes ages to download them. I'd rather download porn.
Don't expect me to spend my Saturday doing free support work for Microsoft.
I'd rather spend my Saturday masturbating and playing EverQuest than help my friends out! It's just more fun.
It's like reading Nazi-authored documents taken from the Nurnberg trial. Anybody else thought this way? No, really.
It is simply another indicator of USENET's decline. And that's a Bad Thing, because the alternatives (the web-based forums, many of them excellent--let me plug bikeforums.net as a superb example) are all under corporate, rather than community control.
Hm, usenet is normally under no control whatsoever. And of course people can still setup forums moderated by the community (no corporate stuff), as it's done with moderated newsgroups.
I think 15 years is quite some time, yes. But I also think he knew beforehand. He got pretty far off his road to pirate other people's property. And he got caught. Take it like a man, I say.
Very informative. I think /. should stop linking to that guy's site. And if it does, then he'll probably find some other way to do the same thing. Maybe he'll make a new account and a new website and spend a little time altering the articles he copies.
Heck, maybe I'll do the same if I'm in the mood for some easy money. What's better than some geeks making money for a geek?
There used to be a website that listed people that burned romsets for free. You paid for postage, packaging and the media to write on of course but that was it. Of course this is illegal. Then the site was taken down, and to my surprise I saw that it was taken down not for this but because the MPAA claimed they hosted some movies. Of course they didn't host anything, no roms and no movies, so when they posted the notice I was puzzled. Now I understand. This was like two years ago.
I've been using gaim for windows and I think it's great being able to talk in all those networks without having to have ten different clients. What I don't like though is that the windows version doesn't have the option to send the buddy list to the tray instead of having it sitting on the taskbar. Anybody can help me with that?
What do you mean? Here in Greece ADSL 256 is 75 euros a month, this is like $100.
What, you want to tell them who they're gonna sue now?