Dude, anyone who thinks that the iPod's expensive add-on 8KHz Mono abomination is acceptable recording needs to get out more. And recording PCM is major because it is relatively non-lossy, compared to recording MP3.
I wrote this back in 1997. Not much has changed except fatter pipes.
Although the act of breaking computer codes may seem a barren process, there is intense competition. Crackers form themselves into exotic groups14 and use individual names15 as rich as in any youth subculture argot. Attached to 'gifts', they leave dated message files that carry taunts and boasts about their prowess and storied accounts of their progression and advancement.
This program is the hardest in my life,
it have a propietary variable code serial dongle.
The program send to key a variable stream
and the key answer
with some data depending from data received.
I have captured the data exchange
from program to key
and viceversa
and I have rewrited the DLL to emulate this flow.
But unlucky is not sufficent
because every time you start a program
another flow is needed.
Then I have modified a executable
to make a flow ever the same
and my dongle emulator now work 100%.
This crack has required 2 week of hard work,
and the original dongle.
Thanx to Paul Leadle for dongle,
thanx Jabbar for help about rewriting.
(BLASTSOFT [RBS] 1997)
Frequently, they contain social exchanges or denigrations of others, defined by their arbitrary group monikers or genre conventions:
When so many groups bring you crap fakes non-working,
X-FORCE always gets you
the Best of the Best.
ACCEPT NO IMITATION!
X-Force 1997!
Group News & Greetings
A warm welcome to Tragic Kingdom
as a new XFORCE HQ
OUR DiAMONDS-4-EVER GREETiNGS
MUST GO TO:
Stingray,
Mach One,
Ones Wally,
Slain,
Wildchild,
Roamer.
They're private, not public, so they don't sell stock.
No, one difference between a public and a private company is that everyone can buy non-preferred stock in a public company, but only insiders (VCs, friends, investors, family) can buy stock in a private company. Just because a company is private does not mean that it cannot exchange stock for money, to buy marketing, or for quanxi.
For a home user, what do they run that really requires multitasking? What applications need to be multitasked
So you never rip DVDs, convert DIVXs (or other CPU-intensive tasks), convert music files from mp3 into something else, do transcoding to fit mp3s onto smaller devices, or play games that want to grab an entire CPU?
a lot of programs either dont make use of smp or use it very poorly for any number of reasons
I'm well aware of that. I've been enjoying personal homebrew SMP rigs since the days of the P1. My approach has always been if you want it done properly do it yourself. Support has been improving, especially of late.
Even without programs that intelligently distribute load across the CPUs, you can still use processor affinity to restrict one of the SMP-unaware processes to a single CPU, maxing it out, while you enjoy gaming (or whatever) on the other CPU(s).
Really, no matter how fast you think your current CPU is, in a multitasking modern OS you would probably get abetter computing experience (less lag, reduced thrashing, smoother playback) with two (or more) slower CPUs taking up the slack.
I have an old dual P3 1GHz that still gives me a smoother ride than my P4 3.2 GHz in work. If I was single-tasking, like running a demanding game exclusively, then that newer P4 is probably going to win out - but in that case I'd rather use a console, frankly. YMMV.
Scientologists will waste few opportunities to pimp their dangerous rituals and dodgy theologies (probably because many of them are in on the take from this multi-level marketing theological scam). More info at Clambake or FactNet.
If you are going to repost an entire article from a site that would barely notice the "Slashdot Effect" at least have the decency to post anonymously and not be such a blatant Karma Whore.
Venus - No Direct Sunlight But Hottest Planet
on
Global Dimming
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· Score: 2, Informative
North America sucks. We only have the first 2 here so far. On the bright side, I can skip through the copyright warnings pretty easily:)
This is common. You will find that the Euros are always one or two seasons ahead with TV Series DVDS. Consider the Euro Buffy on DVD, now at season 6 and in all seasons in widescreen while the US is stuck with always 4:3 and just-released Season 5.
Yep, Media Center has one-click switching between different libraries, either on-device or shared over LAN or WAN. Invaluable when I want to switch away from my girlfriend's mostly showtunes library.
Flexible Smart Playlists
Media Center has been working on SmartLists for years so their implementation is a good deal more advanced than Apple's. Don't believe me?
How is that useful? Well, for example, I have a playlist of background music for dinner parties. If I'm serving Mexican food one night, I can whip up a quick smartlist that says, "Play all the songs on both the Dinner playlist and the Latin playlist." Or better, if I decide I only want instrumental pieces, "Play all the songs on both the Dinner playlist and the Latin playlist, except ones on the Has Lyrics playlist."
As far as I can tell, other than putting lists of keywords in the Comments field and doing string searches, there's no way to do flexible user-data-driven queries like that in iTunes. You can add a song to a playlist, but the playlist is a data sink -- you can't leverage it for anything else. (If I'm wrong about that, please clue me in!)
My library is 1TB+ of mp3, ogg, rm, mov, avi. iTunes dies horribly trying to catalogue it but Media Center manages it very well, even if it does take a few hours. Then it scores extra brownie points by serving up its catalogued library (within seconds) including playlists to other Media Center Clients, either over LAN or WAN.
iTunes schmeyechoonz, I am not interested in dinky little audio eyecandy, I want to know how the new WinAmp fares against some real competition, like Media Center. Can anyone with experience of both comment?
MJ has had the "make a playlist out of query parameters" feature for years, but takes it further: you can define custom fields in the database and search on them (though to be fair, iTunes already includes the things I used those custom fields for.) More importantly, its notion of (non-dynamic) playlists is much more flexible -- you can use a song's presence on a static playlist as a query parameter for a smartlist. I've come to think of playlists as a way of attaching attributes to songs. It's a much more flexible, nuanced way to represent things like genre, where multiple values can easily apply to a song.
How is that useful? Well, for example, I have a playlist of background music for dinner parties. If I'm serving Mexican food one night, I can whip up a quick smartlist that says, "Play all the songs on both the Dinner playlist and the Latin playlist." Or better, if I decide I only want instrumental pieces, "Play all the songs on both the Dinner playlist and the Latin playlist, except ones on the Has Lyrics playlist."
As far as I can tell, other than putting lists of keywords in the Comments field and doing string searches, there's no way to do flexible user-data-driven queries like that in iTunes. You can add a song to a playlist, but the playlist is a data sink -- you can't leverage it for anything else. (If I'm wrong about that, please clue me in!)
MJ also has a robust plugin interface for audio codecs, rip/burn capability, a built-in sound editor if you want to make a mix CD with fancy effects, ReplayGain support (same as iTunes' volume leveling), and supports downloading to a variety of portable MP3 players. The latest incarnation can also manage libraries of video files.
Other than the selection at the iTunes Store, I don't see a single thing iTunes gives me that I haven't already been enjoying for years with my existing software.
I had Speakeasy for two years and it was great, though expensive. Then I saw what for me was a better offer. No caps, no port blocks, static IP, no limit on servers, 1500 down and 768 (!) upload.
All for $50/month. $40 with a fixed-term service agreement. 768K upload is great - I can stream all my audio no problems, and lots of moderate bitrate DIVX. I have on occasion maxed out my upload for several *weeks*. In 18 months I've had a single outage that lasted more than 8 hours.
Speakeasy does nice things like have a truly "unlimited" policy. For around US$60 a month, I get a 640/128k pipe
I had Speakeasy for two years and it was great, though expensive. Then I saw what for me was a better offer. No caps, no port blocks, static IP, no limit on servers, 1500 down and 768 (!) upload.
All for $50/month. $40 with a fixed-term service agreement. 768K upload is great - I can stream all my audio no problems, and lots of moderate bitrate DIVX. I have on occasion maxed out my upload for several *weeks*. In 18 months I've had a single outage that lasted more than 8 hours.
I think the point you make is spurious. We are talking about a significantly smaller form factor drive. Remember when Appl brought out the iPod it was a year later than Archos and Creative and offered only 5GB (compared to their 10GB and 15GB models).
Apple traded capacity for size. At the time some people commented that people wanted and were used to more than 5Gb so the iPod was doomed. They were wrong.
Now today you can get 80GB in the 2.5" factor, 40GB in the iPod's 1.5' factor, and some companies are creating a new niche with these sub 1" drives.
And you are putting yourself in the same position as Apple's competitors a couple of years ago. Do you really feel that confident, to say that the current iPod form factor and capacity is the optimal handheld audio size?
If Apple or anyone else bring out a model using these 22mm drives, then they will be limited to around a GB at present. But they will have marvellously small drives with long battery life.
Maybe they will compete well with flash ram players, maybe not. Personally I think they will have to wait for a year or two so their capacity can exceed the 1GB and 4GB CF cards now available at a lower cost.
Once the whole Christmas fiasco is out of the way, I'll be upgrading to the 40GB
A friend of mine swapped out her Archos 20GB for an 80GB and she still runs out of space. This thread is discussing small-factor drives so I think that in a way you are thread crapping.
But there is a more general issue. The drive to ever larger capacity for a media handheld is a symptom of there not being sufficient broadband wireless. Eventually, when everyone can get decent 100+ Kbps downloads, then all you will need will be a relatively small hard drive such as the Cornice or the Toshiba. Streaming is the way to go!
I have 1TB+ of mp3s and video that I stream over land line internet (I have Cyberonic DSL 786K upload) so for me it's a relief not to have to carry that damn file server everywhere. Future generations will wonder why everyone assumed they had to sneakernet their entire music collections around with them...
If you want something like this then check out the Frontier Labs Nex IA. It's got that iPod white goods plastic look and takes Type I & II Compact Flash memory cards or MicroDrives (I think these go to 4GB now with the latest models). Built-in FM tuner and voice/FM recording. You can swap in and out media cards with music or data on them. All the no-skip benefit of static devices with some expandability. Runs on AA. Nice.
Why wait for Apple? Creative, Rio, and RCA are already using 1" 1.5GB Cornice drives in some tiny mp3 players that make the iPod seem oversized. Cornice says they will have a 5GB model around the middle of 2004...
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Dude, anyone who thinks that the iPod's expensive add-on 8KHz Mono abomination is acceptable recording needs to get out more. And recording PCM is major because it is relatively non-lossy, compared to recording MP3.
Whatever about the spam blockers, the eye candy and the new wireless widget, I wonder if SP2 will detect and disable XP installations with illegally generated corporate volume license keys in the same fashion that SP1 did.
They're private, not public, so they don't sell stock.
No, one difference between a public and a private company is that everyone can buy non-preferred stock in a public company, but only insiders (VCs, friends, investors, family) can buy stock in a private company. Just because a company is private does not mean that it cannot exchange stock for money, to buy marketing, or for quanxi.
For a home user, what do they run that really requires multitasking? What applications need to be multitasked
So you never rip DVDs, convert DIVXs (or other CPU-intensive tasks), convert music files from mp3 into something else, do transcoding to fit mp3s onto smaller devices, or play games that want to grab an entire CPU?
Live a little.
a lot of programs either dont make use of smp or use it very poorly for any number of reasons
I'm well aware of that. I've been enjoying personal homebrew SMP rigs since the days of the P1. My approach has always been if you want it done properly do it yourself. Support has been improving, especially of late.
Even without programs that intelligently distribute load across the CPUs, you can still use processor affinity to restrict one of the SMP-unaware processes to a single CPU, maxing it out, while you enjoy gaming (or whatever) on the other CPU(s).
Really, no matter how fast you think your current CPU is, in a multitasking modern OS you would probably get abetter computing experience (less lag, reduced thrashing, smoother playback) with two (or more) slower CPUs taking up the slack.
I have an old dual P3 1GHz that still gives me a smoother ride than my P4 3.2 GHz in work. If I was single-tasking, like running a demanding game exclusively, then that newer P4 is probably going to win out - but in that case I'd rather use a console, frankly. YMMV.
Dualies or Quaddies would be a much better approach than this kind of nonsense. Why have a single (admittedly fast) CPU bottleneck?
Racing for higher MHz is a mug's game - that's why Intel, IBM, Sony, AMD, etc are moving to multi-core chips.
Scientologists will waste few opportunities to pimp their dangerous rituals and dodgy theologies (probably because many of them are in on the take from this multi-level marketing theological scam). More info at Clambake or FactNet.
If you are going to repost an entire article from a site that would barely notice the "Slashdot Effect" at least have the decency to post anonymously and not be such a blatant Karma Whore.
It's interesting to note that Earth's closest twin planet in terms of position and size is Venus, where a runaway Greenhouse Effect keeps surface temperatures around Venusian a toasty 480C (894F) but the entire planet is mired in a perpetual twilight gloom (verified by the Russian landers) due to the extraordinarily thick atmosphere (around 9000 kPa or around 90 times Earth's atmospheric pressure). Venus's oceans long ago boiled away in this runaway Greenhouse Effect. The oceanographic runaway Greenhouse Effect begins to occur over large bodies of water at around 27C (80F). Even ignoring current human-directed climate change, the increasing solar output of the Sun as it moves along a typical Main Sequence stellar evolutionary path means that sooner or later the Earth's oceans will also vaporise and temperatures soar quickly to Venusian levels. Strange days indeed lie ahead of us...
North America sucks. We only have the first 2 here so far. On the bright side, I can skip through the copyright warnings pretty easily :)
This is common. You will find that the Euros are always one or two seasons ahead with TV Series DVDS. Consider the Euro Buffy on DVD, now at season 6 and in all seasons in widescreen while the US is stuck with always 4:3 and just-released Season 5.
I note that Media Center supports Oggs, both decoding and encoding.
MC also supports a whole heap of other formats, including:
I note that Media Center supports Oggs, both decoding and encoding.
MC also supports a whole heap of other formats, including:
I have to doubt that WinAmp doesn't support Oggs, especially given the quantity of plugins available.
I note that Media Center supports Oggs, both decoding and encoding.
MC also supports a whole heap of other formats, including:
Multiple Libraries
Yep, Media Center has one-click switching between different libraries, either on-device or shared over LAN or WAN. Invaluable when I want to switch away from my girlfriend's mostly showtunes library.
Flexible Smart Playlists
Media Center has been working on SmartLists for years so their implementation is a good deal more advanced than Apple's. Don't believe me?
MC has had the "make a playlist out of query parameters" feature for years, but takes it further: you can define custom fields in the database and search on them (though to be fair, iTunes already includes the things I used those custom fields for.) More importantly, its notion of (non-dynamic) playlists is much more flexible -- you can use a song's presence on a static playlist as a query parameter for a smartlist. I've come to think of playlists as a way of attaching attributes to songs. It's a much more flexible, nuanced way to represent things like genre, where multiple values can easily apply to a song.
How is that useful? Well, for example, I have a playlist of background music for dinner parties. If I'm serving Mexican food one night, I can whip up a quick smartlist that says, "Play all the songs on both the Dinner playlist and the Latin playlist." Or better, if I decide I only want instrumental pieces, "Play all the songs on both the Dinner playlist and the Latin playlist, except ones on the Has Lyrics playlist."
As far as I can tell, other than putting lists of keywords in the Comments field and doing string searches, there's no way to do flexible user-data-driven queries like that in iTunes. You can add a song to a playlist, but the playlist is a data sink -- you can't leverage it for anything else. (If I'm wrong about that, please clue me in!)
My lib is 55GB now, and not cluggy at all.
My library is 1TB+ of mp3, ogg, rm, mov, avi. iTunes dies horribly trying to catalogue it but Media Center manages it very well, even if it does take a few hours. Then it scores extra brownie points by serving up its catalogued library (within seconds) including playlists to other Media Center Clients, either over LAN or WAN.
iTunes sets the bar here, as far as anything I've tried on Windows
You obviously haven't tried Media Center yet then?
Aside from static playlists, Media Center has SmartLists that are more flexible then the ones in iTunes.
iTunes schmeyechoonz, I am not interested in dinky little audio eyecandy, I want to know how the new WinAmp fares against some real competition, like Media Center. Can anyone with experience of both comment?
I love its song rating system and smart playlists
Media Center 9 has simply the best Ratings and SmartLists.
If I were looking at iTunes as a WinAmp or MusicMatch user, it would probably seem absolutely amazing. But although it's a pretty nice app and reasonably powerful, I'm pretty sure I won't switch over from Media Jukebox, which I've been using for the last couple of years, because iTunes' playlist management is a lot less powerful than I'm used to.
MJ has had the "make a playlist out of query parameters" feature for years, but takes it further: you can define custom fields in the database and search on them (though to be fair, iTunes already includes the things I used those custom fields for.) More importantly, its notion of (non-dynamic) playlists is much more flexible -- you can use a song's presence on a static playlist as a query parameter for a smartlist. I've come to think of playlists as a way of attaching attributes to songs. It's a much more flexible, nuanced way to represent things like genre, where multiple values can easily apply to a song.
How is that useful? Well, for example, I have a playlist of background music for dinner parties. If I'm serving Mexican food one night, I can whip up a quick smartlist that says, "Play all the songs on both the Dinner playlist and the Latin playlist." Or better, if I decide I only want instrumental pieces, "Play all the songs on both the Dinner playlist and the Latin playlist, except ones on the Has Lyrics playlist."
As far as I can tell, other than putting lists of keywords in the Comments field and doing string searches, there's no way to do flexible user-data-driven queries like that in iTunes. You can add a song to a playlist, but the playlist is a data sink -- you can't leverage it for anything else. (If I'm wrong about that, please clue me in!) MJ also has a robust plugin interface for audio codecs, rip/burn capability, a built-in sound editor if you want to make a mix CD with fancy effects, ReplayGain support (same as iTunes' volume leveling), and supports downloading to a variety of portable MP3 players. The latest incarnation can also manage libraries of video files.
Other than the selection at the iTunes Store, I don't see a single thing iTunes gives me that I haven't already been enjoying for years with my existing software.
I've had SpeakEasy for 3 years now
I had Speakeasy for two years and it was great, though expensive. Then I saw what for me was a better offer. No caps, no port blocks, static IP, no limit on servers, 1500 down and 768 (!) upload.
All for $50/month. $40 with a fixed-term service agreement. 768K upload is great - I can stream all my audio no problems, and lots of moderate bitrate DIVX. I have on occasion maxed out my upload for several *weeks*. In 18 months I've had a single outage that lasted more than 8 hours.
I got it from Cyberonic, who are basically a reseller of UUNet. I have been as happy with them as I was with Speakeasy. There are other resellers.
Speakeasy does nice things like have a truly "unlimited" policy. For around US$60 a month, I get a 640/128k pipe
I had Speakeasy for two years and it was great, though expensive. Then I saw what for me was a better offer. No caps, no port blocks, static IP, no limit on servers, 1500 down and 768 (!) upload.
All for $50/month. $40 with a fixed-term service agreement. 768K upload is great - I can stream all my audio no problems, and lots of moderate bitrate DIVX. I have on occasion maxed out my upload for several *weeks*. In 18 months I've had a single outage that lasted more than 8 hours.
I got it from Cyberonic, who are basically a reseller of UUNet. I have been as happy with them as I was with Speakeasy. There are other resellers.
I think the point you make is spurious. We are talking about a significantly smaller form factor drive. Remember when Appl brought out the iPod it was a year later than Archos and Creative and offered only 5GB (compared to their 10GB and 15GB models).
Apple traded capacity for size. At the time some people commented that people wanted and were used to more than 5Gb so the iPod was doomed. They were wrong.
Now today you can get 80GB in the 2.5" factor, 40GB in the iPod's 1.5' factor, and some companies are creating a new niche with these sub 1" drives.
And you are putting yourself in the same position as Apple's competitors a couple of years ago. Do you really feel that confident, to say that the current iPod form factor and capacity is the optimal handheld audio size?
If Apple or anyone else bring out a model using these 22mm drives, then they will be limited to around a GB at present. But they will have marvellously small drives with long battery life.
Maybe they will compete well with flash ram players, maybe not. Personally I think they will have to wait for a year or two so their capacity can exceed the 1GB and 4GB CF cards now available at a lower cost.
Once the whole Christmas fiasco is out of the way, I'll be upgrading to the 40GB
A friend of mine swapped out her Archos 20GB for an 80GB and she still runs out of space. This thread is discussing small-factor drives so I think that in a way you are thread crapping.
But there is a more general issue. The drive to ever larger capacity for a media handheld is a symptom of there not being sufficient broadband wireless. Eventually, when everyone can get decent 100+ Kbps downloads, then all you will need will be a relatively small hard drive such as the Cornice or the Toshiba. Streaming is the way to go!
I have 1TB+ of mp3s and video that I stream over land line internet (I have Cyberonic DSL 786K upload) so for me it's a relief not to have to carry that damn file server everywhere. Future generations will wonder why everyone assumed they had to sneakernet their entire music collections around with them...
If you want something like this then check out the Frontier Labs Nex IA. It's got that iPod white goods plastic look and takes Type I & II Compact Flash memory cards or MicroDrives (I think these go to 4GB now with the latest models). Built-in FM tuner and voice/FM recording. You can swap in and out media cards with music or data on them. All the no-skip benefit of static devices with some expandability. Runs on AA. Nice.
1GB, $250
512MB, $250
256MB, $150
Yes, I know the 1GB/512MB pricing is screwed. Go figure.
Why wait for Apple? Creative, Rio, and RCA are already using 1" 1.5GB Cornice drives in some tiny mp3 players that make the iPod seem oversized. Cornice says they will have a 5GB model around the middle of 2004...