First we get people saying Brighton is a suburb of London (it's 60-bloody-miles away on the coast, ffs), now we get people saying Hastings is "just down the road from" Brighton - there's quite a distance, you know... (Multimap reckons 40 miles by road.)
I know that even large radio stations use 128Kbit sampling frequency.
Sampling frequency would typically be 44.1KHz, bitrate would be 128kbps. Also, FM radio quality (with good reception) compares to about 96kbps well-encoded mp3, so there's not much point in them recording higher except for archival purposes.
I have switched from 128K to VBR 320K
You should be using LAME to encode, and LAME only goes up to 320kbps (blade for instance goes up to 384kbps, but is much lower quality), ergo you can only have 320kbps CBR, not VBR.
And to everybody else out there who complains about background noise, you should be extracting digitally from the CD!
flac doesn't seem to have come far enough yet for me (500+ albums is a lot of diskspace if it's around 300MB/album), but to my ears on my equipment (Klipsch £250 (pound sterling if that doesn't come out) speakers, cheapo SB Audigy2 soundcard), lame --preset standard (around 200kbps VBR) sounds damn near perceptual transparency.
Alexa's page ranking also puts Wikipedia well above Slashdot.
Whilst I don't doubt that wikipedia is useful to a far wider audience (and receives more hits) than slashdot, your logic neglects to take into account where alexa's page ranking comes from. It is apparently taken from "aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users" - is the proportion of slashdot visitors with this toolbar going to be lower than that for wikipedia or other sites, given slashdot's target audience?
Both SCSI and most IDE drives have had staggered start up for ages, you just needed to enable it with a jumper. SCSI for instance most drives it would delay spin up by, say, 4 seconds times the SCSI ID when enabled. Most IDE drives were/are a little less sophisticated, I think you could enable 4 or 8s delay and that was it.
Whoops, forgot to hit post anonymously, so allow me to add:
Seriously now, have a heart. This is a single Xeon 2.4GHz with only (I think) a T1 line, so if he does actually manage to even half stand up to the whirlwind of slashdotters, then deep kudos to him...
I know about directional microphones and the principles of noise suppression. What I want to know is are there ways to cancel out a known (or nearly-known) signal with an unknown volume - the computer has no idea what volume I have the amplifier on my speakers set to...
No headphones are ever going to replace my Klipsch speakers...
As an aside, would headphones/earphones reduce the feedback you get on your own voice just through hearing yourself, and would this have an affect on how accurate the voice recognition was?
Exactly. Also, when will these programs start filtering for what the computer is putting out of the speakers (is there a sensible way to do this, to compensate for manual volume controls that the PC doesn't know about/control?)? I nearly always have some music on in the background...
Now, I should probably remove this filter from my adblock, but there is very very very little chance that I'm ever going to click any, so I'm actually saving bandwidth for me, google, and any site advertising. Also, a fair few of the links seem to feed through to scam sites. ("Free Playstation 2! Worth $149.99" Then in small text at the bottom: "You must earn at least $150 with MaxMoolah..."). I know this isn't the case for a lot of the google adsense ads, but it should be the case for precisely none.
Speeding ahead is part of the problem. As the submitter says:
...when you're in a hurry and all the traffic lights seem to intentionally switch to red just in front of your car.
I don't know about the US, but in major cities here in the UK, traffic lights along high volume traffic routes are synchronised (or at least as good as they can get them to be taking into account intersections with other large roads) such that if you drive at 30mph, you will go through one green light after another after another. By contrast, if you travel at 20mph you'll be too slow and get caught by red lights, and if you go at 40mph, it will seem like every set of lights is turning red in front of you and you have to stop and wait for the 'green wave' to catch you up.
Of course, this may just be a myth that I picked up, but it seems to a) be sensible, b) be possible, and c) fit circumstantial evidence - seems to work for me most of the time.
What if (as in every case I've seen on win2k, but it probably depends upon the device or controller or something), the write caching option is greyed out, yet write caching is evidently enabled as it still blows rasberries when you yank it out without first having told it to eject it?
Indeed, it has been on texturizer.net's tips and tricks page (don't bother clicking, it redirects to mozilla.org's firefox documentation now) for as long as I can remember. It can now be found here. Maybe these executables have just been altered so the hardcoded profile directory is in the same place as the executable (i.e. on the flash drive), just to save you the huge effort of creating a shortcut or batch file or something specifying where it should look for the profile. (For those who can't be bothered to look, the switch is apparently:
No, that's mercury vapour lamps (don't get in my way, I just got off a 3-hour interferometry lab dealing with the bastards). Fluoresecnt tubes tend to be filled with noble gases, e.g. Neon.
Actually (and this goes for aldoman's reply too), gnutella1 does have "super-nodes" from version 0.6 of the protocal (IIRC, G0.4 didn't have them) - they're known as ultrapeers. Gnutella2 is just generally much more efficent as I understand it.
As The Register pointed out, the X800XT PE is only just now becoming available, and it's already been superseded. Indeed, if you look at the family it may go out of production just as it hits the shelves/websites as the X850XT (non-PE) is almost exactly the same (e.g. same core frequency) as the X800XT PE.
Only old people read slashdot. Same applies to the rest of the world. Has something to do with the incessant "In Korea...", "In Soviet Russia...", "...in Japan", "In Nazi Germany..." jokes, apparently.
Seriously, every article on the front page has an "In Korea..." right now. If I see another, I'm going to cry...
My beloved Casio Exilim EX-Z40 is the size of a pack of cards (yes, literally). There is nothing to stop me holding it with one hand at waist height, where nobody will notice.
Or, for that matter, taking a picture when somebody is looking the other way...
It's almost an admision of defeat to install the firewall by default.
Why? Is there a reason that a computer should by default allow all traffic to flow in and out without any user interaction at all? Firewalls are not just an indispensible first line of defence (for while you're getting those patches, be your OS Windows, Linux, BSD, whatever), but also an essential tool for you to retain some control over your network/internet connection.
Do I want foo to access the internet? Yes, it's my IM client/email client/browser.
Do I want bar to be able to contact some website for updates? Yes, but only this website.
Do I want baz to have access to the internet? Yes. Do I want it to be able to accept connections/open ports? No, I'm not crazy about it security wise (maybe it has issues not yet fixed, maybe there is no sensible reason for it to have open ports).
Do I want qux to access the internet? No, it's just a media player, why should it need interent access? I don't want album information, I already have it in tags!
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First we get people saying Brighton is a suburb of London (it's 60-bloody-miles away on the coast, ffs), now we get people saying Hastings is "just down the road from" Brighton - there's quite a distance, you know... (Multimap reckons 40 miles by road.)
BOSE = Buy Other Sound Equipment. Expensive, and they sound like dirt.
Sampling frequency would typically be 44.1KHz, bitrate would be 128kbps. Also, FM radio quality (with good reception) compares to about 96kbps well-encoded mp3, so there's not much point in them recording higher except for archival purposes.
You should be using LAME to encode, and LAME only goes up to 320kbps (blade for instance goes up to 384kbps, but is much lower quality), ergo you can only have 320kbps CBR, not VBR.
And to everybody else out there who complains about background noise, you should be extracting digitally from the CD!
flac doesn't seem to have come far enough yet for me (500+ albums is a lot of diskspace if it's around 300MB/album), but to my ears on my equipment (Klipsch £250 (pound sterling if that doesn't come out) speakers, cheapo SB Audigy2 soundcard), lame --preset standard (around 200kbps VBR) sounds damn near perceptual transparency.
Why is google news still in beta?
Whilst I don't doubt that wikipedia is useful to a far wider audience (and receives more hits) than slashdot, your logic neglects to take into account where alexa's page ranking comes from. It is apparently taken from "aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users" - is the proportion of slashdot visitors with this toolbar going to be lower than that for wikipedia or other sites, given slashdot's target audience?
Both SCSI and most IDE drives have had staggered start up for ages, you just needed to enable it with a jumper. SCSI for instance most drives it would delay spin up by, say, 4 seconds times the SCSI ID when enabled. Most IDE drives were/are a little less sophisticated, I think you could enable 4 or 8s delay and that was it.
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Whoops, forgot to hit post anonymously, so allow me to add:
Seriously now, have a heart. This is a single Xeon 2.4GHz with only (I think) a T1 line, so if he does actually manage to even half stand up to the whirlwind of slashdotters, then deep kudos to him...
Whilst you're at it, why don't you "accidentaly" install reloadevery and set to reload every, say, 2 seconds...?
5 days ago...
I know about directional microphones and the principles of noise suppression. What I want to know is are there ways to cancel out a known (or nearly-known) signal with an unknown volume - the computer has no idea what volume I have the amplifier on my speakers set to...
No headphones are ever going to replace my Klipsch speakers...
As an aside, would headphones/earphones reduce the feedback you get on your own voice just through hearing yourself, and would this have an affect on how accurate the voice recognition was?
Exactly. Also, when will these programs start filtering for what the computer is putting out of the speakers (is there a sensible way to do this, to compensate for manual volume controls that the PC doesn't know about/control?)? I nearly always have some music on in the background...
Tools --> Account Settings --> Server Settings (for each account individually) --> Local Directory
Maybe you want to try:
Or more specifically:
Now, I should probably remove this filter from my adblock, but there is very very very little chance that I'm ever going to click any, so I'm actually saving bandwidth for me, google, and any site advertising. Also, a fair few of the links seem to feed through to scam sites. ("Free Playstation 2! Worth $149.99" Then in small text at the bottom: "You must earn at least $150 with MaxMoolah..."). I know this isn't the case for a lot of the google adsense ads, but it should be the case for precisely none.
Lol, no, just a student busy failing my degree. I can see why now! :-P
Speeding ahead is part of the problem. As the submitter says:
I don't know about the US, but in major cities here in the UK, traffic lights along high volume traffic routes are synchronised (or at least as good as they can get them to be taking into account intersections with other large roads) such that if you drive at 30mph, you will go through one green light after another after another. By contrast, if you travel at 20mph you'll be too slow and get caught by red lights, and if you go at 40mph, it will seem like every set of lights is turning red in front of you and you have to stop and wait for the 'green wave' to catch you up.
Of course, this may just be a myth that I picked up, but it seems to a) be sensible, b) be possible, and c) fit circumstantial evidence - seems to work for me most of the time.
What if (as in every case I've seen on win2k, but it probably depends upon the device or controller or something), the write caching option is greyed out, yet write caching is evidently enabled as it still blows rasberries when you yank it out without first having told it to eject it?
No, that's mercury vapour lamps (don't get in my way, I just got off a 3-hour interferometry lab dealing with the bastards). Fluoresecnt tubes tend to be filled with noble gases, e.g. Neon.
Actually (and this goes for aldoman's reply too), gnutella1 does have "super-nodes" from version 0.6 of the protocal (IIRC, G0.4 didn't have them) - they're known as ultrapeers. Gnutella2 is just generally much more efficent as I understand it.
As The Register pointed out, the X800XT PE is only just now becoming available, and it's already been superseded. Indeed, if you look at the family it may go out of production just as it hits the shelves/websites as the X850XT (non-PE) is almost exactly the same (e.g. same core frequency) as the X800XT PE.
Only old people read slashdot. Same applies to the rest of the world. Has something to do with the incessant "In Korea...", "In Soviet Russia...", "...in Japan", "In Nazi Germany..." jokes, apparently.
Seriously, every article on the front page has an "In Korea..." right now. If I see another, I'm going to cry...
My beloved Casio Exilim EX-Z40 is the size of a pack of cards (yes, literally). There is nothing to stop me holding it with one hand at waist height, where nobody will notice.
Or, for that matter, taking a picture when somebody is looking the other way...
Why? Is there a reason that a computer should by default allow all traffic to flow in and out without any user interaction at all? Firewalls are not just an indispensible first line of defence (for while you're getting those patches, be your OS Windows, Linux, BSD, whatever), but also an essential tool for you to retain some control over your network/internet connection.