"he notes that the problem is largely with C/C++ and mostly because of the buffer overflow problems"
More accurately, brain-underflow problems. Can someone show me a buffer-overflow problem that couldn't have been anticipated and avoided by a responsible, diligent, professional developer? Yes, it's tedious, especially when having to use repeated reads for asynchronous input in TCP, but it CAN be done, if you can be bothered.
I read your sig/link. It would be nice if you'd at least acknowledge cognizance of the fact that there are almost 50% of us -- about 150 MILLION -- who are AT LEAST as unhappy about it as you are. Remember: we also suffer all the consequences experienced by the rest of you, AND we LIVE here.
Did you feel the same animus against the millions of ordinary nameless faceless Soviet citizens, when their government invaded Afghanistan?
Now I'm seriously confused. Sites like this -- http://www.musiq.com/recording/digaudio/index. html http://www.musiq.com/recording/digaudio/bitrates .h tml http://www.musiq.com/recording/digaudio/intro 2.htm l -- and others, seem to say that >20-bit is both achievable and worthwhile.
OTOH, this page http://timefordvd.com/tutorial/DVD-AudioTuto rial.s html seems to say that the practical effect of the 20-bit limitation (which you discussed) is restricted to issues of dynamic range -- which I would think has nothing to do with other significant issues of audio quality, such as fidelity of higher-order harmonics.
"I've personally used software costing hundreds of thousands of pounds."
Did you mean this literally? Hundreds (plural) OF thousands? I presume you're not referring to something like "five thousand pounds per single-PC license, multiplied across 40+ seats" -- because, if that's what you meant, then it would be somewhat misleading.
Just out of curiosity, what PC-based software do you personally use which costs a minimum of 200K *GBP* for a SINGLE user?
"Current hardware is only really able to achieve an effective ~20bit resolution due to thermal noise in the components."
Do you mean all audio components, or just PC-based components?
If it's just a PC issue, how does that affect recording vs. playback? -- Is resolution lost (at the permanent media) when I copy & store a sound-file or stream from the net? -- If not, then is resolution lost during playback of the stored copy? Does it depend on the playback chain (i.e. PC vs. line-out to conventional audio equipment)? -- Is resolution lost if I'm playing-back a sound-file or stream in real-time as it comes off the net? Does that case likewise depened on the playback chain? -- Is resolution lost if use PC components to copy (or play-back) from commercially-recorded media? How about if I'm getting the signal into the PC from conventional audio equipment?
On non-commercial channels in the US you may have seen an educational series called "The Western Tradition", by Eugen Weber, a renowned UCLA history scholar from Romania with a fascinating verbal style and voice, something like Jacob Bronowski. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/web er "Western Tradition" was produced in 1988 but is still frequently broadcast.
Here's something he said 16 years ago, in a segment about the decline and fall of the Roman empire...
"It has always been a problem, for a society faced by a serious challenge, to decide just what measures it can take, and how far it can go, in opposing and meeting that challenge. If you argue that you can only preserve your way of life by adopting certain means which *negate* that way of life -- that you can only preserve democracy or free speech by limiting them, for example -- or preserve liberty by regimentation, or moral order by inquisition -- then you run the risk of sacrificing exactly the things you say you are fighting for. You run the risk of sacrificing precisely those things that you used to justify the sacrifices in the first place. And you risk becoming so like your enemy, that the differences matter very little."
Independently of the idea's faults, I'm surprised that you sound (to me) as though you'd never seen or heard of them.
"Those IDE cables were flat for many reasons... Bundling control lines next to data lines is not a good idea."
I realize that, but thought that perhaps the round cables compensated for it with additional shielding, etc.
But since you mention it, I'd like your opinion on something else. If you've read TFA, then you've seen how some people fold a flat cable over itself. Doesn't this risk similar problems?
I contend that the main reason for purchases of AAA memberships -- FAR outweighing the TOTAL import of ALL other reasons COMBINED -- is roadside service.
If you then consider the revenue from auto insurance and auto-purchase financing, I think that website traffic is virtually irrelevant to their revenue.
In my own case, I discovered their online app only accidentally, after years of being an AAA member.
Anyhow, I was suggesting NOT that AAA might sell their own app (although I still don't see why not), but rather that perhaps their app comes from another vendor who also has a PC version.
Just out of curiosity, why did you reference an "anandtech" article when linking to an article from tomshardware? Is there an additional article which we should read?
Why not just do what I do? My *usual* browser setting is to force everything to black-on-gray, choose my own (un-)visited colors, and ignore page settings for colors/fonts/backgrounds/etc.
"Frankly, if you think we're so bad, come and get us. Get all of your pansy you're-a-peon buddies over here and take us out. I and many others would be perfectly happy to pull all of our troops home and let the rest of the world go to hell."
Boy, was THAT a.c. off the mark. I think it's pretty clear that you were referring to issues like the Oz-US copyright pacts.
Please don't regard him as typical of USers. And you have my sympathies about the problem of US corporate&legal hegemony: it has also happened to the EU, and it's making it VERY hard for me to find an attractive place to emigrate.
...AAA, even though it's not a local host app as you're seeking. Yes, you DO have to be a member of AAA. Its benefit is NOT merely that it allows multiple intermediate waypoints: it has the smoothest, most flexible, useful, time-saving UI I've seen for such apps, MUCH better than mapquest, mapblast, etc.
Borrow someone's ID and try it, especially the mouse-over and "modify trip" functions. If you like it, maybe you can find a PC-based version of whatever they use.
...round IDE cables? (TFA site still inaccessible.) I've tried several "respectable" brands, both floppy and HD, and they're all worthless -- cause hangs, missed interrupts, device not found, etc.
I've been down this road. In the USA, for about $500-$2000 (depending on your location and willingness to do your own busy-work), you can get a patent atty to help you with an expedited (less paper-work) "provisional patent", which protects you for a year or two while you get your act together.
Search the web for patent attys in your area -- as far away as possible from an expensive big-city downtown location. I'm sure that there are online directories (by specialty) of orgs such as the state bar assoc, assoc of IP lawyers, etc. Some will even have emails, which you can shotgun to ask their minimum charge (for provisional) and initial consult. That's how I found mine, in the fall of 2001.
btw, you might even get it done cheaper with a "patent agent".
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"he notes that the problem is largely with C/C++ and mostly because of the buffer overflow problems"
More accurately, brain-underflow problems.
Can someone show me a buffer-overflow problem that couldn't have been anticipated and avoided by a responsible, diligent, professional developer?
Yes, it's tedious, especially when having to use repeated reads for asynchronous input in TCP, but it CAN be done, if you can be bothered.
"What do you GUYS think, is open source a good model for politics?"
/.?
What do you think, is open GENDER a good model for
clever idea
...for standardized, reliable, secure, auditable national voting procedures & infrastructure --
but we have plenty to use for Pentagon studies on psychic teleportation.
I read your sig/link.
It would be nice if you'd at least acknowledge cognizance of the fact that there are almost 50% of us -- about 150 MILLION -- who are AT LEAST as unhappy about it as you are.
Remember: we also suffer all the consequences experienced by the rest of you, AND we LIVE here.
Did you feel the same animus against the millions of ordinary nameless faceless Soviet citizens, when their government invaded Afghanistan?
Now I'm seriously confused.. html s .h tmlo 2.htm l
o rial.s html
Sites like this --
http://www.musiq.com/recording/digaudio/index
http://www.musiq.com/recording/digaudio/bitrate
http://www.musiq.com/recording/digaudio/intr
-- and others, seem to say that >20-bit is both achievable and worthwhile.
OTOH, this page
http://timefordvd.com/tutorial/DVD-AudioTut
seems to say that the practical effect of the 20-bit limitation (which you discussed) is restricted to issues of dynamic range -- which I would think has nothing to do with other significant issues of audio quality, such as fidelity of higher-order harmonics.
What am I missing?
...and spend money on psy projects,
then why can't the USA get standardized, reliable, auditable voting procedures & infrastructure?
"I've personally used software costing hundreds of thousands of pounds."
Did you mean this literally? Hundreds (plural) OF thousands?
I presume you're not referring to something like "five thousand pounds per single-PC license, multiplied across 40+ seats" --
because, if that's what you meant, then it would be somewhat misleading.
Just out of curiosity, what PC-based software do you personally use which costs a minimum of 200K *GBP* for a SINGLE user?
"Current hardware is only really able to achieve an effective ~20bit resolution due to thermal noise in the components."
Do you mean all audio components, or just PC-based components?
If it's just a PC issue, how does that affect recording vs. playback?
-- Is resolution lost (at the permanent media) when I copy & store a sound-file or stream from the net?
-- If not, then is resolution lost during playback of the stored copy? Does it depend on the playback chain (i.e. PC vs. line-out to conventional audio equipment)?
-- Is resolution lost if I'm playing-back a sound-file or stream in real-time as it comes off the net? Does that case likewise depened on the playback chain?
-- Is resolution lost if use PC components to copy (or play-back) from commercially-recorded media? How about if I'm getting the signal into the PC from conventional audio equipment?
On non-commercial channels in the US you may have seen an educational series called "The Western Tradition",b er
by Eugen Weber, a renowned UCLA history scholar from Romania with a fascinating verbal style and voice,
something like Jacob Bronowski.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/we
"Western Tradition" was produced in 1988 but is still frequently broadcast.
Here's something he said 16 years ago, in a segment about the decline and fall of the Roman empire...
"It has always been a problem, for a society faced by a serious challenge,
to decide just what measures it can take, and how far it can go,
in opposing and meeting that challenge.
If you argue that you can only preserve your way of life
by adopting certain means which *negate* that way of life --
that you can only preserve democracy or free speech by limiting them, for example --
or preserve liberty by regimentation, or moral order by inquisition --
then you run the risk of sacrificing exactly the things you say you are fighting for.
You run the risk of sacrificing precisely those things
that you used to justify the sacrifices in the first place.
And you risk becoming so like your enemy, that the differences matter very little."
It has motivated me to start planning to emigrate (i.e., *from* the USA).
This country will never again be the country where I grew up.
"Round IDE? Who designed such a thing?"
Independently of the idea's faults, I'm surprised that you sound (to me) as though you'd never seen or heard of them.
"Those IDE cables were flat for many reasons... Bundling control lines next to data lines is not a good idea."
I realize that, but thought that perhaps the round cables compensated for it with additional shielding, etc.
But since you mention it, I'd like your opinion on something else.
If you've read TFA, then you've seen how some people fold a flat cable over itself.
Doesn't this risk similar problems?
Well, yes and no.
I contend that the main reason for purchases of AAA memberships -- FAR outweighing the TOTAL import of ALL other reasons COMBINED -- is roadside service.
If you then consider the revenue from auto insurance and auto-purchase financing, I think that website traffic is virtually irrelevant to their revenue.
In my own case, I discovered their online app only accidentally, after years of being an AAA member.
Anyhow, I was suggesting NOT that AAA might sell their own app (although I still don't see why not), but rather that perhaps their app comes from another vendor who also has a PC version.
..if this has any effect on the problem of bit-rot.
Just out of curiosity, why did you reference an "anandtech" article when linking to an article from tomshardware?
Is there an additional article which we should read?
More than a year ago, there were some reputable studies which demonstrated that the life-time TCO is lower for LCDs, even for home users.
"there really is no excuse to carry that 100kg monstrocity"
100kg?!
what monitor weighs that much?
My 21-inch (8.5cm) Hitachi high-end CRT weighs about 60kg.
"There was a tech site that I went to that detailed the spectrum analysis of the VP171b and that's what got me to buy into it."
WHAT site?
(please)
"Ugh, your site gives me a headache"
Why not just do what I do?
My *usual* browser setting is to force everything to black-on-gray, choose my own (un-)visited colors, and ignore page settings for colors/fonts/backgrounds/etc.
It makes his site quite readable.
"Frankly, if you think we're so bad, come and get us. Get all of your pansy you're-a-peon buddies over here and take us out. I and many others would be perfectly happy to pull all of our troops home and let the rest of the world go to hell."
Boy, was THAT a.c. off the mark.
I think it's pretty clear that you were referring to issues like the Oz-US copyright pacts.
Please don't regard him as typical of USers.
And you have my sympathies about the problem of US corporate&legal hegemony:
it has also happened to the EU, and it's making it VERY hard for me to find an attractive place to emigrate.
...AAA, even though it's not a local host app as you're seeking.
Yes, you DO have to be a member of AAA.
Its benefit is NOT merely that it allows multiple intermediate waypoints:
it has the smoothest, most flexible, useful, time-saving UI I've seen for such apps, MUCH better than mapquest, mapblast, etc.
Borrow someone's ID and try it, especially the mouse-over and "modify trip" functions.
If you like it, maybe you can find a PC-based version of whatever they use.
...round IDE cables?
(TFA site still inaccessible.)
I've tried several "respectable" brands, both floppy and HD, and they're all worthless -- cause hangs, missed interrupts, device not found, etc.
Your experiences? (Name the brand. please.)
TFA doesn't even give the impression that they know the difference, let alone break-out the results by flavor. :-
"I have 5 pair of Docker mobile pants I wear on a daily basis"
So, what idiosyncracy requires that you change your pants 4 times in one day?
I've been down this road.
In the USA, for about $500-$2000 (depending on your location and willingness to do your own busy-work), you can get a patent atty to help you with an expedited (less paper-work) "provisional patent", which protects you for a year or two while you get your act together.
Search the web for patent attys in your area -- as far away as possible from an expensive big-city downtown location.
I'm sure that there are online directories (by specialty) of orgs such as the state bar assoc, assoc of IP lawyers, etc.
Some will even have emails, which you can shotgun to ask their minimum charge (for provisional) and initial consult.
That's how I found mine, in the fall of 2001.
btw, you might even get it done cheaper with a "patent agent".