Weatherman : 'Dude, the weather is gonna get warmer and warmer! We are all doomed!' Me : 'OMFG! How hot will it be in my garden next summer? Should I buy higher albedo tinfoil for my hat?' Weatherman : 'Hard to say, dude. Weather is a chaotic system and cannot be predicted with any accuracy!'
How about encoding digital information (oooh. early home computing flashback!) onto vinyl ? You would get all the audiophile warmness from using lumps in a groove, there would be the fun of keeping dust at bay and using incredibly expensive stylussisses, the RIAA would get to sell you new units when they get scratched/warped/covered in marmalade, you could argue endlessly about where the imperfections in the reproductions are occurring.... everybody wins.
I can't believe that this kind of misinformation keeps getting repeated on a so-called technical site. Young, stupid kids with little or no appreciation of quality may not be able to tell the difference, but any audiophile can easily hear the difference between the windows startup sound on an original copy of windows and that of a pirate copy. The pirate copy has a brassy colouration in the second quarter.
I am sure that having spent so much time and money setting up kit to avoid advertising for moronic products, once my systems are bypassed i will rush out and buy said moronic products. Yeah. Bound to happen. Way to go, advertising guys. Have another few lines and come up with another winning plan. You're doing a great job.
I would guess that vista will enable some more eye candy for powerpoint presentations, thus occupying the highly-paid management in longer meetings. Without new eye candy features the management will become bored and wander out of the meeting, distracting the workers with stupid questions and running up big expense account lunches.
I think it was so that nobody would try to make a better encryption than enigma, just variations on it. Thus the codebreakers would have a head start at cracking any postwar encrypted traffic.
You say 'the motor vehicle is still one of the worst possible solutions to the problem of getting a 150lb occupant from one place to another', but how often is that the problem?
The personal transport problem is more often 'how do i quickly transport myself and some luggage 5 miles or more to a specific location at little notice?'
Bicycles are fine for short journeys on flat ground in good weather with no luggage and no schedule to keep. Ditto segways.
WTF? This is the kind of approach that would be used on someone else's propriatary legacy software, or on some piece of hardware to keep it working without altering the thing itself. What are m$ saying? 'Our browser code is such a POS that we don't know how it works anymore'? 'We lost the source code ages ago and we cannot be bothered doing the job right'? 'We have so much market share that we really don't give a crap anymore, pass the crack pipe and the stock options'?
Heh:-) That is a chicken/egg thing that hadn't occurred to me. Nice one.
Sadly, being a cheapskate doesn't seem to have improved my own tough economic times. Or does my miserliness cloud my view of how many blessings i have?
I think the reason that so many people have little respect for licence fees, royalties etc is that so few people individuals receive them. Most folks' employment is of the form "i get a flat rate and any beneficial thing i come up with benefits only my employer, if i don't come up with beneficial things i get fired". The employer gets to make as much money as it can prise out of the marketplace for the employees ideas/labour etc. Since business is obliged to seek the lowest bidding supplier unless they are forced to do otherwise, ordinary wage slaves feel justified in seeking the lowest cost supplier, such as P2P.
Are you stupid or something? It isn't going to be anywhere near 40% improvement. That is just to lure you in. Real-world improvement will be 10% max, you gullible fool.
Wow. I thought america was going through tough economic times, with people taking 2nd jobs and stuff. My impulse purchase ceiling is about £3 ($5). Maybe it is because i can remember when £3 bought 5 (6) gallons of petrol.
This was my cheap ass setup for a few years...... 1. Pentium II 600MHz win2k box in celler(basement, for americans) with tv-out and audio wires running through floorboards into living room tv. Wireless keyboard and mouse in living room that could be put neatly away when not in use. Couldn't hear the PC at all through the floorboards. 2. Pentium II 350MHz file server with whatever hard disks availible stuck in it.
I used whatever 'main' computer i had to rip dvd to the fileserver. The 600MHz PII was just good enough to render divx (encoded at full dvd resolution) with lovely lovely lovely VLC.:-)
All hand-me-down boxes for nothing. No fancy schmancy silent pc bits:-) And I could net the intersurf on the tv to watch weebl and bob! Still can, although i have upgraded with more hand-me-down abandonware boxes.
What similar projects are they funding with tax payers money without public consultation?
Well, I would guess at 'many'.
When did the public last get consulted about whether to spend tax money? And voting some suit into power who then does things in your name is not real consultation.
On the contrary, it can be hard to stop liquid moving down narrow tubes. They used to call it capillary action when i was at school. Plants seem to use it a lot.
The difficulty is in assessing the quality of a product. You only get what you pay for if you are lucky. Often an item costing over twice as much is just as crappy as the cheap one, especially since all manufacturing is now outsourced to one insomniac in a mud hut somewhere.
If you want to compare it to audio, i am saying that until you get to a 'reasonable' bitrate,an expensive amp and fancy speakers or even a studio quality microphone will not do much better than walmart ones.
"the number of pixels is simply not as important as the optical properties of the system" -
True, but only for similar numbers of pixels. How good a lens would it take to get a good picture from a 320x240 CCD?
More pixels make better pictures until you get over a few megapixels or so, then you can see the difference the optics makes, and at that point, once 4 megapixel CCD are standard kit in phones, there will be a few more cents spent on the optics.
Not only is the camera in a camera phone inferior to a purpose built camera, but the audio quality of the phone is inferior to just standing in front of the person you are talking to! Why does anyone buy these things?
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Weatherman : 'Dude, the weather is gonna get warmer and warmer! We are all doomed!'
Me : 'OMFG! How hot will it be in my garden next summer? Should I buy higher albedo tinfoil for my hat?'
Weatherman : 'Hard to say, dude. Weather is a chaotic system and cannot be predicted with any accuracy!'
How about encoding digital information (oooh. early home computing flashback!) onto vinyl ? You would get all the audiophile warmness from using lumps in a groove, there would be the fun of keeping dust at bay and using incredibly expensive stylussisses, the RIAA would get to sell you new units when they get scratched/warped/covered in marmalade, you could argue endlessly about where the imperfections in the reproductions are occurring.... everybody wins.
...... and yet when the police shoot someone there is no footage. Weird coincidence.
I can't believe that this kind of misinformation keeps getting repeated on a so-called technical site.
Young, stupid kids with little or no appreciation of quality may not be able to tell the difference, but any audiophile can easily hear the difference between the windows startup sound on an original copy of windows and that of a pirate copy. The pirate copy has a brassy colouration in the second quarter.
I am sure that having spent so much time and money setting up kit to avoid advertising for moronic products, once my systems are bypassed i will rush out and buy said moronic products. Yeah. Bound to happen. Way to go, advertising guys. Have another few lines and come up with another winning plan. You're doing a great job.
I would guess that vista will enable some more eye candy for powerpoint presentations, thus occupying the highly-paid management in longer meetings.
Without new eye candy features the management will become bored and wander out of the meeting, distracting the workers with stupid questions and running up big expense account lunches.
I think it was so that nobody would try to make a better encryption than enigma, just variations on it. Thus the codebreakers would have a head start at cracking any postwar encrypted traffic.
Er..... some bible quote to do with a final empire? It is way over my head. Care to enlighten me?
You say 'the motor vehicle is still one of the worst possible solutions to the problem of getting a 150lb occupant from one place to another', but how often is that the problem?
The personal transport problem is more often 'how do i quickly transport myself and some luggage 5 miles or more to a specific location at little notice?'
Bicycles are fine for short journeys on flat ground in good weather with no luggage and no schedule to keep. Ditto segways.
Solid crap? or solid gold?
WTF? This is the kind of approach that would be used on someone else's propriatary legacy software, or on some piece of hardware to keep it working without altering the thing itself. What are m$ saying? 'Our browser code is such a POS that we don't know how it works anymore'? 'We lost the source code ages ago and we cannot be bothered doing the job right'? 'We have so much market share that we really don't give a crap anymore, pass the crack pipe and the stock options'?
Heh :-)
That is a chicken/egg thing that hadn't occurred to me. Nice one.
Sadly, being a cheapskate doesn't seem to have improved my own tough economic times. Or does my miserliness cloud my view of how many blessings i have?
I think the reason that so many people have little respect for licence fees, royalties etc is that so few people individuals receive them.
Most folks' employment is of the form "i get a flat rate and any beneficial thing i come up with benefits only my employer, if i don't come up with beneficial things i get fired". The employer gets to make as much money as it can prise out of the marketplace for the employees ideas/labour etc. Since business is obliged to seek the lowest bidding supplier unless they are forced to do otherwise, ordinary wage slaves feel justified in seeking the lowest cost supplier, such as P2P.
Are you stupid or something? It isn't going to be anywhere near 40% improvement. That is just to lure you in. Real-world improvement will be 10% max, you gullible fool.
Wow. I thought america was going through tough economic times, with people taking 2nd jobs and stuff.
My impulse purchase ceiling is about £3 ($5). Maybe it is because i can remember when £3 bought 5 (6) gallons of petrol.
Just what I was going to say! :-)
How about calling it a 'pwnzi' scheme?
This was my cheap ass setup for a few years......
:-)
:-)
1. Pentium II 600MHz win2k box in celler(basement, for americans) with tv-out and audio wires running through floorboards into living room tv. Wireless keyboard and mouse in living room that could be put neatly away when not in use. Couldn't hear the PC at all through the floorboards.
2. Pentium II 350MHz file server with whatever hard disks availible stuck in it.
I used whatever 'main' computer i had to rip dvd to the fileserver. The 600MHz PII was just good enough to render divx (encoded at full dvd resolution) with lovely lovely lovely VLC.
All hand-me-down boxes for nothing. No fancy schmancy silent pc bits
And I could net the intersurf on the tv to watch weebl and bob!
Still can, although i have upgraded with more hand-me-down abandonware boxes.
....On your fileserver?
Well, I would guess at 'many'.
When did the public last get consulted about whether to spend tax money? And voting some suit into power who then does things in your name is not real consultation.
On the contrary, it can be hard to stop liquid moving down narrow tubes. They used to call it capillary action when i was at school. Plants seem to use it a lot.
Heh. House himself uses his walking stick in the wrong hand all the time.
The difficulty is in assessing the quality of a product. You only get what you pay for if you are lucky. Often an item costing over twice as much is just as crappy as the cheap one, especially since all manufacturing is now outsourced to one insomniac in a mud hut somewhere.
If you want to compare it to audio, i am saying that until you get to a 'reasonable' bitrate ,an expensive amp and fancy speakers or even a studio quality microphone will not do much better than walmart ones.
"the number of pixels is simply not as important as the optical properties of the system" - True, but only for similar numbers of pixels. How good a lens would it take to get a good picture from a 320x240 CCD?
More pixels make better pictures until you get over a few megapixels or so, then you can see the difference the optics makes, and at that point, once 4 megapixel CCD are standard kit in phones, there will be a few more cents spent on the optics.
Not only is the camera in a camera phone inferior to a purpose built camera, but the audio quality of the phone is inferior to just standing in front of the person you are talking to!
Why does anyone buy these things?