a single song at (say) 24bits 60kHz sample rate, it would definitely be "higher-than-CD quality", whatever that means
Umm, you said what it means right in your comment.
I've been thinking about starting to record vinyl LPs that I care about at a higher bit-resolution and sample rate. An album side would still fit on a CDR uncompressed.
Nope. Windows 3 had the Virtual 8086 subsystem, and made use of the hardware 'protected mode' built into the 80386 chip. This means that the virtual subsystems spawned with it were stunted 8086 VMs, but they were in hardware. A problem with this is that it made DOS applications run better in Windows, even sometimes better than they did on DOS alone, which actually retarded the demand for true Windows apps. Lotus 123 and Wordperfect for DOS both thrived (in spite of fabled 'sabatogue' that detractors speak of) in that world of virtual DOS machines.
Most businesses of the time were interested in running the software they'd been running for the last 6-8 years so Windows 3.1 in '386 enhanced mode' was a fine multitasking system for their purposes.
As much of a product disaster, but not as visible, was IBM's first laptop, the PC Convertible. It was sort of a mirror-image of the PC/XT hardware wise, except it had dual 720K 3-1/1" floppy drives in place of dual 360K 5-1/4" floppy drives. It weighed a ton, and like the Junior, you strapped on additional 'pieces' to the case to expand it. You could even add a 'snap on the back' thermal printer that added about 8 inches to the length. And the monster weighed a ton, even before adding expansion parts.
I have in my collection the only PC Convertible I've ever known to actually have all 640K of RAM. Ram modules for it were expensive and hard to find. Most languished with 384K or at most 512K.
Legend has it there's a huge landfill somewhere full of PC Convertible parts and systems, because it was such a commercial disaster.
And the perceived foe bandied about in said 'introduction' now makes critical components in the Mac. I guess they weren's so evil after all. Or did marketing contrive a new boogeyman to keep with the times?
Now, that would be cool. Defining seconds to be some arbitrary length that can change every year. I'll get out my rattail file and start trimming the thickness on the quartz crystals in all my gear!
'Nationalist' Iranians who 'wave the flag' for their country, no matter what it's government does, are no better than 'wave the flag' Americans who do the same.
The irony that I think you may have missed is that you just used the binary/usr/local/bin/python (or/usr/bin/python on some installs, I suppose) to mount/usr.
My Macintosh SE/30 (please don't accuse it of being a mere SE) runs NetBSD some of the time, which makes it vastly more powerful than an ordinary $300 PC. At least under the right operator, it does.
But I run MacOS 9.2 on the Beige G3, which you chose to ignore in your reply.
Apple has had a culture that fosters 'different but superior' for decades now.
It's yet to be seen wether there's a 'superior,' but Apple will be gleeful if the 'different' means that two years from now people have to visit the official Apple Store to buy blank media for their drives.
If we're talking 'benchmarks' why not just run a stream of NOPs?
Sometimes it gets to seem very similar to the old trick of changing the jumpers on the little card in your 486's case so it reads 99 on those seven segment digits. Clever, but it's still a 486SX-25 chip.
'Freedom' justifies many of the things that people label as 'capitalism' when arguing about government policy.
Freedom isn't an economic ideology. Perhaps people should stop mis-using the term 'capitalism.' I certainly wouldn't mind a lot more self-proclaimed 'anti-capitalists' having to admit they're really anti-freedom.
I don't mind people doing whatever they want with their own hardware. What does piss me off about the overclocking culture is what it's done to the clone hardware market.
Many hardware vendors won't issue any warranty at all for processors anymore, because overclockers stress their parts well beyond what the manufacturer designed them for, and traditionally bring them back to return if they 'fail' the test and burn up.
The market, i.e. eBay, is flooded with screwed up processors that some overclocker has burned out.
Hardware vendors test their product, and verify that they'll work to the specifications they cite. Exceeding said specifications might work, it might now. But it by definition means a less reliable system. As long as people understand that (and I don't know of anybody who doesn't) it's fine.
But the numbered points above demonstrate why overclockers annoy some of us.
I overclocked my 12 MHz 286 motherboard (actually, just the ISA buss- I had set the ISA bus clock multiplier wrong and the AT bus was running at 12 MHz.) It made Wolfenstein 3D run faster, but it also made some of the cards I plugged into the motherboard not work. I corrected my error when I figured out what I had done. I consider it as having been a stupid mistake. I didn't think I was 'socking it to the man' by doing what I did. Even though it made Wolfenstein 3D slightly more fun to play.
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by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 31, @12:57AM (#7843108) Spammers are not part of whatever "community" exists. They are invaders and they must be destroyed.
Yep. Thanks for the validation of what I just said.
If 'teeth' are put into enforcement of said laws, it would make a difference. However, I suspect that probably 10% or more of the people who are 'regulars' here at Slashdot would eventually find themselves in the slammer over it. Which I don't mind, actually, as I have little interest in breaking into other people's systems.
But I know other people wouldn't be happy about it, and I know there are all sorts of 'civil liberties' types who'd spin off into a frenzy if the dragnet went into operation.
So what you're really saying is you came up with an idea, you patented it, and you got your dollars for it. Now it sits in legal limbo because you've gotten your dollar but it's locked up with whomever and whatever investors have their hooks in your idea.
Usually I don't rant too much about 'patents' but in this case I have to say: gee thanks. What did you spend the money on?
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a single song at (say) 24bits 60kHz sample rate, it would definitely be "higher-than-CD quality", whatever that means
Umm, you said what it means right in your comment.
I've been thinking about starting to record vinyl LPs that I care about at a higher bit-resolution and sample rate. An album side would still fit on a CDR uncompressed.
the extension cords bearing the stickers saying they were approved by American safety organizations were forged
It's gotten bad enough that the actual UL labels are holograms, now.
How did Newton 'spawn' Palm and PocketPC?
It entered the market earlier than either, but neither is a direct descendent. Jobs killed Newton dead, and it has no lineage.
Nope. Windows 3 had the Virtual 8086 subsystem, and made use of the hardware 'protected mode' built into the 80386 chip. This means that the virtual subsystems spawned with it were stunted 8086 VMs, but they were in hardware. A problem with this is that it made DOS applications run better in Windows, even sometimes better than they did on DOS alone, which actually retarded the demand for true Windows apps. Lotus 123 and Wordperfect for DOS both thrived (in spite of fabled 'sabatogue' that detractors speak of) in that world of virtual DOS machines.
Most businesses of the time were interested in running the software they'd been running for the last 6-8 years so Windows 3.1 in '386 enhanced mode' was a fine multitasking system for their purposes.
As much of a product disaster, but not as visible, was IBM's first laptop, the PC Convertible. It was sort of a mirror-image of the PC/XT hardware wise, except it had dual 720K 3-1/1" floppy drives in place of dual 360K 5-1/4" floppy drives. It weighed a ton, and like the Junior, you strapped on additional 'pieces' to the case to expand it. You could even add a 'snap on the back' thermal printer that added about 8 inches to the length. And the monster weighed a ton, even before adding expansion parts.
I have in my collection the only PC Convertible I've ever known to actually have all 640K of RAM. Ram modules for it were expensive and hard to find. Most languished with 384K or at most 512K.
Legend has it there's a huge landfill somewhere full of PC Convertible parts and systems, because it was such a commercial disaster.
And the perceived foe bandied about in said 'introduction' now makes critical components in the Mac. I guess they weren's so evil after all. Or did marketing contrive a new boogeyman to keep with the times?
Now, that would be cool. Defining seconds to be some arbitrary length that can change every year. I'll get out my rattail file and start trimming the thickness on the quartz crystals in all my gear!
'Nationalist' Iranians who 'wave the flag' for their country, no matter what it's government does, are no better than 'wave the flag' Americans who do the same.
There, did I end the clever exchange of $7 words?
The irony that I think you may have missed is that you just used the binary /usr/local/bin/python (or /usr/bin/python on some installs, I suppose) to mount /usr.
Maybe that's the target for all of YOUR scripts.
Some of us live in the bigger world, i.e. with solaris boxes out there we need to do work on that we only have user accounts on.
My Minix box doesn't have perl or python.
No room for that kind of bloat. The entire install media set, including all source, fits on 9 floppies.
And the worst thing about mermaids is they're all fish from the waist down.
Not an issue if you're in the Navy, of course...
*rim shot*
That's spelled 'Little Debian' when you're on slashdot.
Try the new maple cream pies. They're good too.
My Macintosh SE/30 (please don't accuse it of being a mere SE) runs NetBSD some of the time, which makes it vastly more powerful than an ordinary $300 PC. At least under the right operator, it does.
But I run MacOS 9.2 on the Beige G3, which you chose to ignore in your reply.
When I bought my 486 I paid $1200 for 16 MB of RAM.
Apple has had a culture that fosters 'different but superior' for decades now.
It's yet to be seen wether there's a 'superior,' but Apple will be gleeful if the 'different' means that two years from now people have to visit the official Apple Store to buy blank media for their drives.
When you children have stopped jockeying around for attention here I'll mention what I paid for 16Kx1 bit memory chips in the old days.
If we're talking 'benchmarks' why not just run a stream of NOPs?
Sometimes it gets to seem very similar to the old trick of changing the jumpers on the little card in your 486's case so it reads 99 on those seven segment digits. Clever, but it's still a 486SX-25 chip.
I sold an adjustable 2000 volt bench power supply on eBay last month. Now I know where it ended up!
They gave me good feedback, anyhow.
'Freedom' justifies many of the things that people label as 'capitalism' when arguing about government policy.
Freedom isn't an economic ideology. Perhaps people should stop mis-using the term 'capitalism.' I certainly wouldn't mind a lot more self-proclaimed 'anti-capitalists' having to admit they're really anti-freedom.
Many hardware vendors won't issue any warranty at all for processors anymore, because overclockers stress their parts well beyond what the manufacturer designed them for, and traditionally bring them back to return if they 'fail' the test and burn up.
The market, i.e. eBay, is flooded with screwed up processors that some overclocker has burned out.
Hardware vendors test their product, and verify that they'll work to the specifications they cite. Exceeding said specifications might work, it might now. But it by definition means a less reliable system. As long as people understand that (and I don't know of anybody who doesn't) it's fine.
But the numbered points above demonstrate why overclockers annoy some of us.
I overclocked my 12 MHz 286 motherboard (actually, just the ISA buss- I had set the ISA bus clock multiplier wrong and the AT bus was running at 12 MHz.) It made Wolfenstein 3D run faster, but it also made some of the cards I plugged into the motherboard not work. I corrected my error when I figured out what I had done. I consider it as having been a stupid mistake. I didn't think I was 'socking it to the man' by doing what I did. Even though it made Wolfenstein 3D slightly more fun to play.
Yep. Thanks for the validation of what I just said.
If 'teeth' are put into enforcement of said laws, it would make a difference. However, I suspect that probably 10% or more of the people who are 'regulars' here at Slashdot would eventually find themselves in the slammer over it. Which I don't mind, actually, as I have little interest in breaking into other people's systems.
But I know other people wouldn't be happy about it, and I know there are all sorts of 'civil liberties' types who'd spin off into a frenzy if the dragnet went into operation.
Its almost to the point where 'spammer' is the kind of term that 'communist' has been in certain circles in the past.
You just waited for someone to 'rear their ugly head' and admit they send commercial email so you could unload that flame, didn't you?
All the hatred is going to consume the whole sense of 'community' online that may have once existed.
Oh well.
So what you're really saying is you came up with an idea, you patented it, and you got your dollars for it. Now it sits in legal limbo because you've gotten your dollar but it's locked up with whomever and whatever investors have their hooks in your idea.
Usually I don't rant too much about 'patents' but in this case I have to say: gee thanks. What did you spend the money on?