They do. Samsung's SP-series drives *are* a bit quieter than current-production Seagates. They're not native SATA, and only 80 GB per platter, but quiet and reliable.
The old Seagate Barracuda IV and V models were even quieter, but the 7200.7 is a bit noisier than the Samsungs. Check out StorageReview's database for a detailed comparison.
The governments of the respective countries were the entities to ask for a new start of the process. The commission is an independent body elected by the council.
No, no and no.
The European Council consists of members of the governments of the member states. They are the ones that have to accept this directive proposal for it to become law. There are obviously countries that want the proposal to go through very badly, and some (maybe enough) that don't. The prospect of opposition is why they are afraid to reopen discussion on the proposal inside the Council.
The Parliament asked for the restart. The Commission chose not to listen to the parliament, but instead listen to the countries on the Council who want the proposal to go through.
The Commission is an independent body, but the members are chosen by the council and approved by the Parliament. Both the Council and the Parliament would have the power to fire the Commission(which will NOT happen, believe me), but the Parliament has no power whatsoever over the Council.
So yes, the GP post was correct -- at this stage the *only* people to complain to are the ministers in your government. They're the ones who will make the vote when the item comes up in a Council meeting.
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Who cares? But when, oh when will they implement gapless mp3 playback?
...however as OSS supporter do we want the restart? or do we not want the restart? Are we on the side of the commision refusing to restart or the parliment?
Right now, the Commission is pushing forward a directive proposal that would allow for software patents. It just needs to be approved by the Council of Ministers. This is the directive that the Council stripped of the Parliament's amendments last spring.
If the directive were to be returned to the Parliament, it would surely be amended (again) to explicitly disallow software patentability. This is even more certain now than a year ago, since the new Parliament now has members from the new East European member states, which are mostly anti-patent(think Poland).
Sure, sounds like we'd be going in circles, but the Council and Commission would probably not have the nerve to throw out the amendments a second time. So -- yes, we do want the restart.
There can be an EU, but the current incarnation is closer to Stalinism than democracy. The council of ministers prove that with their constant denials of reality and their deafness to anyone opposed to their point of view.
Yes, but the council of ministers consists of ministers of the member states, so it is (indirectly) elected. It's the commission that has too much power IMO, they should be responsible to the Parliament for things to work right.
Kyoto would immeadiatly force us to take most of our energy sources offline.
With no more coal and no more oil food would rot before it got to the supermarket.
No it wouldn't. The treaty comes to force gradually, so in the first stage you would only have to commit to not increasing CO2 output. And of course, the US can afford to buy emission rights from other Kyoto participants and pollute more, but keep the total in check.
I once heard an anecdote (and have no reason to believe it's just an urban legend) about a Finnish man who went to visit some relatives in the USA. He didn't know much, if any English. When they handed out the immigration forms on the plane, he apparently checkmarked every intended crime, including selling drugs, attacking the White House, committing fraud, and using illegal firearms.
The really scary part is that the FBI was waiting for him at the airport -- they do take the stuff seriously, even though anyone who was really planning something would never confess to it like that.
...probably not just for that. The simple thing is, the stock iPod headphones suck ass. And suck at that, too. Any sane person would buy a better pair.
Take a look at the brick of a controller that MS ship with the X-Box in comparison with others. It's just a bigger clunkier mish-mash of the Dreamcast and Nintendo controllers.
You're talking about the *old* controller, which isn't available any more. The new S(for small) controller is even worse. It's way too small for an average adult, causing wrist pains for users. Thankfully Logitech has (for now) a bigger controller available.
Another thing that bugs me about MS ergonomics is the function keys on the new keyboards. The idiots have turned them *all* into shortcuts to "useful" things, like copy, paste, and all those things that already had keyboard shortcuts. To top it off, you have to press a Fn-lock key every time you boot your computer if you want to use them as regular function keys. Horrible, horrible idea.
Of course, Logitech just has to have the same features on their keyboards. The big difference is that their stuff remembers whether the Fn-lock is on or off, you don't have to mess with it every time you start the computer.
The fact that Sony is traded at NASDAQ does not make it an American company...
I remember an anecdote about how over a third of Honda buyers in the US thought that it was an American brand. Could be (and probably is) just an urban legend, though.
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Are you asleep or just stupid?
Apparently not as stupid as you are. I know Rio make a gapless player. I just want one from Sony. Or Apple. From everyone, actually -- it should be a standard feature on *any* mp3 player.
Mp3 support now, gapless mp3 support tomorrow?
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Good start. Now they should implement mp3 gapless playback as in the Rio Karma. They're working on it, according to rumours. Sadly, at least the new flash player doesn't do gapless mp3.
...does it do gapless playback? That's one feature the iPod doesn't have, and I mean one of the only few features on offer that is *relevant* to people.
Part of this phenomenon is explainable by the remastering of the SACD layer in many releases. After all, they do want to make sure the SACD version sounds better than the CD version.
"I think Thinkpad and other IBM gadgets will decrease as much in quality under Lenovo as Volvo has decreased in quality under Ford's"
So quality is going to go massively up, and the computers will become very trendy and liked instead of mocked by the masses? Sales will increase, and people won't think of their products as boxes anymore.
Umm. If you happen to remember, the Volvo-Ford merger happened in 1999, and in 1999 Volvos weren't especially boxy... it just happens to be *your* image of the brand associated with the 240/740 cars. And from what I've heard, the build quality hasn't gone up, at least. This isn't Jaguar we're talking about.
Yeah, you could just get an Audigy 2 ZS or whatever, but it's not the same AND it's another $80+. The nForce motherboards were about the same price as the VIA motherboards, but they had far superior integrated audio.
Well, yes, if the feature you were after was just DD encoding. But since the VIA mobos started coming with ALC655 (or newer) codecs that were bundled with the Sensaura suite, VIA's 3D sound support was way beyond Nvidia. Oh yes, I know, the APU does the same in hardware -- except that it doesn't. It's terminally broken, no amount of driver upgrades has been able to fix EAX support in games. Plain DS3D does work great however.
Furthermore, since Nvidia's dumped soundstorm, I can't imagine why an Intel user would buy a nForce board over one of Intel's own.
I don't see why Soundstorm would have been the killer app. The APU was a broken design that tried to implement Sensaura's EAX algorithms in hardware, but failed. EAX support *never* worked correctly, in spite of dozens of audio driver versions. No wonder they dropped the whole thing.
How can I afford to go back to college and learn enough management and political science to know what the heck I'm doing should I get elected?
Don't they teach you that in high school?
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Unlike the knuckle-dragging meeting dwellers that "run" companies, I actually have skills that I can and do put to use, and unlike the suckers at EA games, the first time someone who doesn't have any skills - that is a manager - starts giving me shit I don't feel like dealing with, I'll stick my middle finger up his left nostril, tell him to kiss my sweaty nutsack and go stack boxes at the warehouse around the corner while they run around trying to find someone who can manage our systems like I did at my pay.
So are you saying that you rate people's credibility on how well they code? I can tell you now you wouldn't be a very good manager. And you know, Dilbert *is* a satire.
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The old Seagate Barracuda IV and V models were even quieter, but the 7200.7 is a bit noisier than the Samsungs. Check out StorageReview's database for a detailed comparison.
No, no and no.
The European Council consists of members of the governments of the member states. They are the ones that have to accept this directive proposal for it to become law. There are obviously countries that want the proposal to go through very badly, and some (maybe enough) that don't. The prospect of opposition is why they are afraid to reopen discussion on the proposal inside the Council.
The Parliament asked for the restart. The Commission chose not to listen to the parliament, but instead listen to the countries on the Council who want the proposal to go through.
The Commission is an independent body, but the members are chosen by the council and approved by the Parliament. Both the Council and the Parliament would have the power to fire the Commission(which will NOT happen, believe me), but the Parliament has no power whatsoever over the Council.
So yes, the GP post was correct -- at this stage the *only* people to complain to are the ministers in your government. They're the ones who will make the vote when the item comes up in a Council meeting.
Who cares? But when, oh when will they implement gapless mp3 playback?
Right now, the Commission is pushing forward a directive proposal that would allow for software patents. It just needs to be approved by the Council of Ministers. This is the directive that the Council stripped of the Parliament's amendments last spring.
If the directive were to be returned to the Parliament, it would surely be amended (again) to explicitly disallow software patentability. This is even more certain now than a year ago, since the new Parliament now has members from the new East European member states, which are mostly anti-patent(think Poland).
Sure, sounds like we'd be going in circles, but the Council and Commission would probably not have the nerve to throw out the amendments a second time. So -- yes, we do want the restart.
Yes, but the council of ministers consists of ministers of the member states, so it is (indirectly) elected. It's the commission that has too much power IMO, they should be responsible to the Parliament for things to work right.
No it wouldn't. The treaty comes to force gradually, so in the first stage you would only have to commit to not increasing CO2 output. And of course, the US can afford to buy emission rights from other Kyoto participants and pollute more, but keep the total in check.
That's the American way...
The really scary part is that the FBI was waiting for him at the airport -- they do take the stuff seriously, even though anyone who was really planning something would never confess to it like that.
...probably not just for that. The simple thing is, the stock iPod headphones suck ass. And suck at that, too. Any sane person would buy a better pair.
You're talking about the *old* controller, which isn't available any more. The new S(for small) controller is even worse. It's way too small for an average adult, causing wrist pains for users. Thankfully Logitech has (for now) a bigger controller available.
Another thing that bugs me about MS ergonomics is the function keys on the new keyboards. The idiots have turned them *all* into shortcuts to "useful" things, like copy, paste, and all those things that already had keyboard shortcuts. To top it off, you have to press a Fn-lock key every time you boot your computer if you want to use them as regular function keys. Horrible, horrible idea.
Of course, Logitech just has to have the same features on their keyboards. The big difference is that their stuff remembers whether the Fn-lock is on or off, you don't have to mess with it every time you start the computer.
The fact that Sony is traded at NASDAQ does not make it an American company... I remember an anecdote about how over a third of Honda buyers in the US thought that it was an American brand. Could be (and probably is) just an urban legend, though.
Apparently not as stupid as you are. I know Rio make a gapless player. I just want one from Sony. Or Apple. From everyone, actually -- it should be a standard feature on *any* mp3 player.
Good start. Now they should implement mp3 gapless playback as in the Rio Karma. They're working on it, according to rumours. Sadly, at least the new flash player doesn't do gapless mp3.
...does it do gapless playback? That's one feature the iPod doesn't have, and I mean one of the only few features on offer that is *relevant* to people.
Not only that, he created the chipset in the Atari 400/800 computers.
Part of this phenomenon is explainable by the remastering of the SACD layer in many releases. After all, they do want to make sure the SACD version sounds better than the CD version.
Now that's only true at low bitrates. The point becomes moot when you get to damn-near-cd quality encoding, like --alt-preset standard on LAME.
Umm. If you happen to remember, the Volvo-Ford merger happened in 1999, and in 1999 Volvos weren't especially boxy... it just happens to be *your* image of the brand associated with the 240/740 cars. And from what I've heard, the build quality hasn't gone up, at least. This isn't Jaguar we're talking about.
The lineup in 1999:
S/V40
S/V70
S80
C70
C70 Convertible.
Are you aware that Porche is, in fact, *not* owned by Volkswagen, but is an independent public company?
Couldn't you just take a train? At least over here public transport is way cheaper than paying for petrol.... and I don't even enjoy long drives.
Smarts have been available in Scandinavia for a couple of years now, and I haven't heard any complaints about winter performance.
Well, yes, if the feature you were after was just DD encoding. But since the VIA mobos started coming with ALC655 (or newer) codecs that were bundled with the Sensaura suite, VIA's 3D sound support was way beyond Nvidia. Oh yes, I know, the APU does the same in hardware -- except that it doesn't. It's terminally broken, no amount of driver upgrades has been able to fix EAX support in games. Plain DS3D does work great however.
I don't see why Soundstorm would have been the killer app. The APU was a broken design that tried to implement Sensaura's EAX algorithms in hardware, but failed. EAX support *never* worked correctly, in spite of dozens of audio driver versions. No wonder they dropped the whole thing.
Don't they teach you that in high school?
So are you saying that you rate people's credibility on how well they code? I can tell you now you wouldn't be a very good manager. And you know, Dilbert *is* a satire.