Every time you need physical access to a machine (either for HW operations or console access) you need to be in a server room. It's some people job, and some spend most of their time in a server room.
Your problem is in the plugin architecture, Not firefox. I found out that every time I see FF using up 99% CPU, I just needed to close the page with the huge PDF or the huge flash loaded to fix it. Hardly FF's fault...
Of course, this would never happen with IE: It is not tabbed and hence becomes unmanageable after a 5-8 concurrent windows opened at the same time.
You might be interested in knowing that the SPDIF signal is carried over a signal oscillating at the sample rate. So as far as SPDIF is concerned, both devices have a synchronized clock, through the carrier of the SPDIF stream.
Dude, his post was ironic, of course none of these are innovations.
The point was: If they are not lagging too much, they'll remain dominant because people usually require a pretty decent incentive to change OS. Just arguing a few features that MS Win will have in a year anyways (because they'll "innovate" the next year by integrating it) is not enough to move the mass market away from them. At least not quickly (as in the next 10 years)...
I can't tell the difference in quality if there was any
Trust me, there is some difference. The fact that you (a person nobody here knows anything about such as his eyes conditions, viewing equipment, etc...) doesn't see something obvious is hardly a proof this thing does not exist.
but to say that stealing music over I2 is therefore ok simply does not follow
You're not getting it. He does not say that it is ok to steal music. The RIAA called at him to help stop I2 piracy, he is saying: Why should I help one evil against another? Prove me you're good and all, and I'll help you. Until then I won't interfere.
I think he is ultimately right.
The key to a stable MS install: 1. Keep from using anything else than the OS (See mine: Firefox, Tomcat, Thunderbird, etc...) 2. Install a proper firewall. Any router/modem/wifi piece of equipment should do the trick. Just block anything incoming. 3. NEVER install any update. From both first points, they are not required anymore. When you prepare to reboot (hardware change, or other) you just install them all in a batch.
Since my server (at home) died, I hastily installed all my stuff on my XP desktop. While that is running (not much: Tomcat, James, MySql, cvs-nt) I do all my regular stuff (DVD backup, scan, print, photoshop, mail, browse, well... all of it). I haven't rebooted my machine in 2 month since the last power outage.
Ah, my bad then. But let me ask you this: What makes a "computer" different than another one for the file? Are the mobo serial number stored in the AAC file?
My post was not flamebait nor stupid. I was just trying to make a joke, but I obviously did strike on a sensible point. You need to relax, I am not of the ??AA...
has it ever occured to you that it's possible to just *look* at a website Yet, I usually look at websites whose subject I'm interested in. Maybe you don't;-)
Like the one on the iTMS seem to be On how many computers are you allowed to play your DRMed files? 5? Giving that you change computers every 5 years (and that's a low figure), your song will expire in 25 years. And that's only if you don't upgrade OS in between.
And you thought you bought a song.... Poor little you, you just rented it.
I never claimed there was no difference, only that I can't hear one Totally agreed. Let's think about it for a small second:
- I buy an album on iTunes because quality is good enough for my iPod (train, plane, car, etc...). And then I find that I like the music so much that I'd like to listen to it on my stereo. Now I have to buy the music again? I actually have to go to a CD store and buy it?
Another example: I have a crappy stereo, so I am content in crappy 128kbps AAC files. I dl tons of them and spends $500 in songs because I love music. I love it so much that I am upgrading my stereo to a decent one (let's say $2000). All of a sudden, all of these AAC files doesn't sound so good anymore. I check with one song that I actually have on a good old CD, and I find out that AAC has become the weakest link in my audio chain. And I have to buy my music collection all over again.
I could go on, but if you don't get it already, then I don't know what to tell you.
The encoding format is just one link in your audio chain. It might be good enough today, but other links will change and mature as you get older/richer/more demanding. But if you have ONE weak link, your entire chain will suck.
Sometimes, Good Enough really is good enough. Totally agreed. Let's think about it for a small second:
- I buy an album on iTunes because quality is good enough for my iPod (train, plane, car, etc...). And then I find that I like the music so much that I'd like to listen to it on my stereo. Now I have to buy the music again? I actually have to go to a CD store and buy it?
Another example: I have a crappy stereo, so I am content in crappy 128kbps AAC files. I dl tons of them and spends $500 in songs because I love music. I love it so much that I am upgrading my stereo to a decent one (let's say $2000). All of a sudden, all of these AAC files doesn't sound so good anymore. I check with one song that I actually have on a good old CD, and I find out that AAC has become the weakest link in my audio chain. And I have to buy my music collection all over again.
I could go on, but if you dodn't get it already, then I don't know what to tell you.
The encoding format is just one link in your audio chain. It might be good enough today, but other links will change and mature as you get oldeer/richer/more demanding. But if you have ONE weak link, your entire chain will suck.
They can't update their website every 10 seconds can they? When the menu on the door also advertise shrimps and you go in, sit, and are told that they are out of shrimps you don't start a lawsuit don't you?
Their website, menu on their door and everything else has to be reasonably up to date. You can't expect it to exact. Because life is not so.
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Did you read the page you
Every time you need physical access to a machine (either for HW operations or console access) you need to be in a server room. It's some people job, and some spend most of their time in a server room.
And I got laid!
Congratulations. Tell us a little more !
Your problem is in the plugin architecture, Not firefox. I found out that every time I see FF using up 99% CPU, I just needed to close the page with the huge PDF or the huge flash loaded to fix it. Hardly FF's fault... Of course, this would never happen with IE: It is not tabbed and hence becomes unmanageable after a 5-8 concurrent windows opened at the same time.
I entirely stopped using Windows a month ago
And your new OS do not have Firefox ?
If you are running on Windows, Just try to use ac3filter (sourceforge project). It does encode AC3 realtime (v1+ at least)
You might be interested in knowing that the SPDIF signal is carried over a signal oscillating at the sample rate. So as far as SPDIF is concerned, both devices have a synchronized clock, through the carrier of the SPDIF stream.
What is it you were saying about jitter again?
I'm sure most of the battery life goes to spinning the platter
I'm not so sure. Most of these have a few MBs of RAM, so the platters just spin once in a little while to fill-up the 10 min buffer.
Dude, his post was ironic, of course none of these are innovations.
The point was: If they are not lagging too much, they'll remain dominant because people usually require a pretty decent incentive to change OS. Just arguing a few features that MS Win will have in a year anyways (because they'll "innovate" the next year by integrating it) is not enough to move the mass market away from them. At least not quickly (as in the next 10 years)...
Did you mean the GNAA? The Global Nintendo Association of America?
And now, mirrordot is slashdotted as well... What a pity.
We need a mirror-mirrordot.org!
I can't tell the difference in quality if there was any Trust me, there is some difference. The fact that you (a person nobody here knows anything about such as his eyes conditions, viewing equipment, etc...) doesn't see something obvious is hardly a proof this thing does not exist.
Oh, and MS invented webservices too! It's only fair if you consider that they invented the web in the first place... Talk about an inovative company !
Are you aware of the JPEG exploit? No file is safe.
but to say that stealing music over I2 is therefore ok simply does not follow You're not getting it. He does not say that it is ok to steal music. The RIAA called at him to help stop I2 piracy, he is saying: Why should I help one evil against another? Prove me you're good and all, and I'll help you. Until then I won't interfere. I think he is ultimately right.
You do install that??? Are you crazy or mad?
The key to a stable MS install:
1. Keep from using anything else than the OS (See mine: Firefox, Tomcat, Thunderbird, etc...)
2. Install a proper firewall. Any router/modem/wifi piece of equipment should do the trick. Just block anything incoming.
3. NEVER install any update. From both first points, they are not required anymore. When you prepare to reboot (hardware change, or other) you just install them all in a batch.
Since my server (at home) died, I hastily installed all my stuff on my XP desktop. While that is running (not much: Tomcat, James, MySql, cvs-nt) I do all my regular stuff (DVD backup, scan, print, photoshop, mail, browse, well... all of it). I haven't rebooted my machine in 2 month since the last power outage.
Yes, sure, but that was in the release notes of the 1.03 installer.... Unless 1.03 1.0, of course.
Ah, my bad then. But let me ask you this: What makes a "computer" different than another one for the file? Are the mobo serial number stored in the AAC file?
My post was not flamebait nor stupid. I was just trying to make a joke, but I obviously did strike on a sensible point. You need to relax, I am not of the ??AA...
;-)
has it ever occured to you that it's possible to just *look* at a website
Yet, I usually look at websites whose subject I'm interested in. Maybe you don't
And how exactly would you know that? That's unless you are a pirate yourself of course...
Like the one on the iTMS seem to be
On how many computers are you allowed to play your DRMed files? 5? Giving that you change computers every 5 years (and that's a low figure), your song will expire in 25 years. And that's only if you don't upgrade OS in between.
And you thought you bought a song.... Poor little you, you just rented it.
I never claimed there was no difference, only that I can't hear one
Totally agreed. Let's think about it for a small second:
- I buy an album on iTunes because quality is good enough for my iPod (train, plane, car, etc...). And then I find that I like the music so much that I'd like to listen to it on my stereo. Now I have to buy the music again? I actually have to go to a CD store and buy it?
Another example:
I have a crappy stereo, so I am content in crappy 128kbps AAC files. I dl tons of them and spends $500 in songs because I love music. I love it so much that I am upgrading my stereo to a decent one (let's say $2000). All of a sudden, all of these AAC files doesn't sound so good anymore. I check with one song that I actually have on a good old CD, and I find out that AAC has become the weakest link in my audio chain. And I have to buy my music collection all over again.
I could go on, but if you don't get it already, then I don't know what to tell you.
The encoding format is just one link in your audio chain. It might be good enough today, but other links will change and mature as you get older/richer/more demanding. But if you have ONE weak link, your entire chain will suck.
Sometimes, Good Enough really is good enough.
Totally agreed. Let's think about it for a small second:
- I buy an album on iTunes because quality is good enough for my iPod (train, plane, car, etc...). And then I find that I like the music so much that I'd like to listen to it on my stereo. Now I have to buy the music again? I actually have to go to a CD store and buy it?
Another example:
I have a crappy stereo, so I am content in crappy 128kbps AAC files. I dl tons of them and spends $500 in songs because I love music. I love it so much that I am upgrading my stereo to a decent one (let's say $2000). All of a sudden, all of these AAC files doesn't sound so good anymore. I check with one song that I actually have on a good old CD, and I find out that AAC has become the weakest link in my audio chain. And I have to buy my music collection all over again.
I could go on, but if you dodn't get it already, then I don't know what to tell you.
The encoding format is just one link in your audio chain. It might be good enough today, but other links will change and mature as you get oldeer/richer/more demanding. But if you have ONE weak link, your entire chain will suck.
They can't update their website every 10 seconds can they? When the menu on the door also advertise shrimps and you go in, sit, and are told that they are out of shrimps you don't start a lawsuit don't you?
Their website, menu on their door and everything else has to be reasonably up to date. You can't expect it to exact. Because life is not so.
In that case, your bad, not their.