Re:It is better, but...
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Broadband Bits
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· Score: 2, Informative
"Rivernet charges $97.45 per month, with $37.50 going to Verizon, for a 1.5 megabyte-per-second line. Verizon will now charge $29.95 for the same line.
I heard that in Japan you can get a 100Mbits (http://www.odn.ne.jp/english/course/bflets/index. html )for only USD 15.50 a month, with the 3 months free of charges!"
I'm sorry, but America complaining that other people are getting better deals with broadband is like Northern Canadians complaining they don't get enough snow because Siberea gets more.
Here in New Zealand I'm paying the equivalent of US$50 for a massive 128bit connection, that isn't even considerd broadband! I'm afraid you won't find many bleeding hearts here, given that you're paying less than double for twelve times the connection speed.
Decline in press freedom
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Press freedom
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· Score: 2, Interesting
It is sad and somewhat disturbing that my old home country, South Africa is only four places behind the bastion of the free world. Remembering back to the censorship and talking to those still there, I worry about what we don't hear in the mainstream (or perhaps any) press in the US. When did this situation start to occur, i wonder?
Too easy. I no longer read Toms, the bias is simply too strong. Where, you ask? Take this example. In the same week, Tom abused ATI and nVidia (rightly so, IMO) for paper launches, then does a serious review of an Intel chipset that not only isn't available yet, but won't be for another 6 months!
A great quote, from the Xeon vs. Opteron battleground: "AMD can consider itself lucky, because due to the dual channel memory controller that is part of each processor, the dual Opteron has a nice advantage, despite having a clock speed that is 1.2 GHz slower."
Let me get this right, AMD is lucky that they designed the chip archetecture properly? This makes it seem like AMD are somehow 'cheating' Intel out of a win, I fail to understand how this is not bias.
Read the conclusions they come to, read into how they analyse the chips and you too will see the level of bias. Most of the benchmarks are fine, although they do seem to weight them towards the pro-intel ones, and I have no problem with the test systems used, but there is so much bullshit padding before and after the actual numbers that I no longer care what Tom and his minions say.
Wouldnt an athlon 64 without 64 bit capability be an athlon XP with a new core and new socket?
Yeah, just like how a pentium 4 is like a pentium 2 with a new core and new socket... I'm not sure I get your point, the core is completely different, what more do you want?
I would guess that this is aimed more at your average mom and pop internet users, not/. readers. As such, if they can avoid the whole keyword problem, it will be useful for their target audience. After all, how many readers use IE anyway?
I agree the idea is good./. did a story on a KDE version a day or two ago, its not the same, but it is a step in the right direction. It seemed to want developers, so if you wanna help out, hunt out the story
In my opinion, yes, Fahrenheit 9/11 is biased, but no more than mainstream media is, in the opposite direction. Nothing Mr. Moore says is strictly untrue, but it is portrayed in such a way to make the Bush Administration look bad. I don't think that he ever claimed to not be biased, and perhaps its not such a bad thing that people will see the other side of the coin of mass media. After all, he doesn't claim to be impartial, the news does, and is often hopelessly unblalanced. I say show it and let people make up their own minds!
I was wondering when the blamestorming was going to finally hit the Diebold fiasco. At what stage will people realise that with something as important as a voting machine, independently checking its secrity would be a good idea?
Sure, Diebold is partially responsible, but so are the people that decided to pay for their flawed systems.
"Or maybe I'm just going deaf. It still bothers me, though, that I honestly heard no difference in the samples, and I've worked as a sound technician before!"
This only confirms what I think of sound techies in general... In any concert, the most cloth-eared person in the room is the man at the sound board:(
In my experience, the difference between different codecs/bitrates are pretty clear... I'm using slightly pricer gear than most (M-Audio Revolution soundcard, Yamaha AX-396, JBL LX-2004 floorstanders/Sennheiser HD 497s), but the difference is pretty big. In blind testing, i picked even vorbis at 320kb/s as worse than FLAC or Monkey lossless. the nuances of a good recording make life more enjoyable, so why get rid of them? But, each to their own
firstly, the lotus exige is 550kg unfuelled, so about 50-100kg heavier than an F1 car. i have no doubt that an F1 car could do 2g lateral on a skidpad, but not 5. hell, under the right circumstances, i can pull 5g in a honda civic, i just crank the wheel, pull the handbrake... i'm saying that a controlled 5gs is not possible.
I'm sorry, but 5g's? do the math! a lotus exige (converted elise racing model) has phenomenally high lateral grip, and its best effort is 0.98g. F1 cars don't even get close to that figure under breaking, which is always your highest acceleration figure, i believe that under breaks, they can do about 3.
Sure they can do 5g's around a corner, but they'll be spinning towards the runoff area at the time...
If I remember correctly, the LD50, or lethal dose for 50 out of 100 people, is 10 grams in 24 hours. This situation will probably kill you, one way or another
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"Rivernet charges $97.45 per month, with $37.50 going to Verizon, for a 1.5 megabyte-per-second line. Verizon will now charge $29.95 for the same line.
. html )for only USD 15.50 a month, with the 3 months free of charges!"
I heard that in Japan you can get a 100Mbits (http://www.odn.ne.jp/english/course/bflets/index
I'm sorry, but America complaining that other people are getting better deals with broadband is like Northern Canadians complaining they don't get enough snow because Siberea gets more.
Here in New Zealand I'm paying the equivalent of US$50 for a massive 128bit connection, that isn't even considerd broadband! I'm afraid you won't find many bleeding hearts here, given that you're paying less than double for twelve times the connection speed.
It is sad and somewhat disturbing that my old home country, South Africa is only four places behind the bastion of the free world. Remembering back to the censorship and talking to those still there, I worry about what we don't hear in the mainstream (or perhaps any) press in the US. When did this situation start to occur, i wonder?
Too easy. I no longer read Toms, the bias is simply too strong. Where, you ask? Take this example. In the same week, Tom abused ATI and nVidia (rightly so, IMO) for paper launches, then does a serious review of an Intel chipset that not only isn't available yet, but won't be for another 6 months!
A great quote, from the Xeon vs. Opteron battleground: "AMD can consider itself lucky, because due to the dual channel memory controller that is part of each processor, the dual Opteron has a nice advantage, despite having a clock speed that is 1.2 GHz slower."
Let me get this right, AMD is lucky that they designed the chip archetecture properly? This makes it seem like AMD are somehow 'cheating' Intel out of a win, I fail to understand how this is not bias.
Read the conclusions they come to, read into how they analyse the chips and you too will see the level of bias. Most of the benchmarks are fine, although they do seem to weight them towards the pro-intel ones, and I have no problem with the test systems used, but there is so much bullshit padding before and after the actual numbers that I no longer care what Tom and his minions say.
Wouldnt an athlon 64 without 64 bit capability be an athlon XP with a new core and new socket?
Yeah, just like how a pentium 4 is like a pentium 2 with a new core and new socket... I'm not sure I get your point, the core is completely different, what more do you want?
I would guess that this is aimed more at your average mom and pop internet users, not /. readers. As such, if they can avoid the whole keyword problem, it will be useful for their target audience. After all, how many readers use IE anyway?
I agree the idea is good. /. did a story on a KDE version a day or two ago, its not the same, but it is a step in the right direction. It seemed to want developers, so if you wanna help out, hunt out the story
In my opinion, yes, Fahrenheit 9/11 is biased, but no more than mainstream media is, in the opposite direction. Nothing Mr. Moore says is strictly untrue, but it is portrayed in such a way to make the Bush Administration look bad. I don't think that he ever claimed to not be biased, and perhaps its not such a bad thing that people will see the other side of the coin of mass media. After all, he doesn't claim to be impartial, the news does, and is often hopelessly unblalanced. I say show it and let people make up their own minds!
I was wondering when the blamestorming was going to finally hit the Diebold fiasco. At what stage will people realise that with something as important as a voting machine, independently checking its secrity would be a good idea? Sure, Diebold is partially responsible, but so are the people that decided to pay for their flawed systems.
Hmmm, American political debates... Alright mods, get your "flamebait" modstick ready for action!
"Or maybe I'm just going deaf. It still bothers me, though, that I honestly heard no difference in the samples, and I've worked as a sound technician before!" This only confirms what I think of sound techies in general... In any concert, the most cloth-eared person in the room is the man at the sound board :(
In my experience, the difference between different codecs/bitrates are pretty clear... I'm using slightly pricer gear than most (M-Audio Revolution soundcard, Yamaha AX-396, JBL LX-2004 floorstanders/Sennheiser HD 497s), but the difference is pretty big. In blind testing, i picked even vorbis at 320kb/s as worse than FLAC or Monkey lossless. the nuances of a good recording make life more enjoyable, so why get rid of them? But, each to their own
firstly, the lotus exige is 550kg unfuelled, so about 50-100kg heavier than an F1 car. i have no doubt that an F1 car could do 2g lateral on a skidpad, but not 5. hell, under the right circumstances, i can pull 5g in a honda civic, i just crank the wheel, pull the handbrake... i'm saying that a controlled 5gs is not possible.
I'm sorry, but 5g's? do the math! a lotus exige (converted elise racing model) has phenomenally high lateral grip, and its best effort is 0.98g. F1 cars don't even get close to that figure under breaking, which is always your highest acceleration figure, i believe that under breaks, they can do about 3. Sure they can do 5g's around a corner, but they'll be spinning towards the runoff area at the time...
If I remember correctly, the LD50, or lethal dose for 50 out of 100 people, is 10 grams in 24 hours. This situation will probably kill you, one way or another