I think he's referring to 'audiophile grade' speaker cable, which as we know is of specified purity, and the metallurgical components of which are tracable all the way back to the name and pedigree of the burro who hauled the copper ore out of the mine in Chile.
I have Microsoft brand USB Speakers, which are from the Windows 98 era. Their only connection to the PC is the USB cable, and there's no DRM in them. There was a certain appeal back then to doing away with the sound card entirely, in the era where the growing pains of ISA-to-PCI were showing.
And there's some sort of Linux support for these speakers. Not that I've interacted with directly, but I think I remember trying a version of Mandrake where the speakers worked 'out of the box' without any fooling around on my part.
It's fairly important to acknowledge that there are actual audiophiles out there who do know what they're talking about.
The fact that there are charlatans, too, shouldn't come as a surprise. I've hated 'stereo store salesmen' since back in my youth when those smug f*cks always had an attitude to cop when I came in the store needing audio connectors.
To write off the whole 'audiophile' community is to buy into the shit that certain sales-types want us to believe. In fact there IS such a thing as High Fidelity, and it isn't just sales numbers and/or a table printed in the manual that comes with junk components from Japan.
Last I checked Dell and every other major brandname use the cheapest proprietary components on the market that will get them up to the "specs" that consumers are looking for.
All my Dell machines (older Optiplexes, not the awful consumer-line Dell crap) have integrated ATI graphics and integrated 3C905 ethernet. The whitebox clone machines all have awful Taiwanese garbage peripherals builtin, or you pay the big bucks for brandname plugins.
Yes, but the RF modulator and screwdriver terminals, let ALONE the slide switch to select channel 2 or 3, would make it a big bulky package, unlike the sleek modern 'Industrial Design' that gets such hype.
To suit my tastes, I would reverse Firefox and Mozilla in your sentence. I'm not at all sure why people are so enamored with Firefox, when they could use Mozilla.
I'm sorry. I just don't find Firefox as configurable, and it's a naked plain browser without the integrated HTML editor. (yes, I know you can install the HTML editor as a separate component. I like the idea of it being there preinstalled for people to discover and maybe start actually CREATING some of their own web content with) Firefox just seems like the tricked out lightweight alternative.
You can probably bring up X and display it on another machine, or an Xterm, over the ethernet, though. Or don't you have the X libraries and binaries installed?
(My POWER1 Generation RS/6000 machine is too old for that, maybe your HP is too.)
Or, rather, it's Mozilla. (which I personally prefer strongly over Firefox anyway).
A lot of the tweaks and configs for Mozilla can be manually patched into Netscape, even if not in the Netscape 'options' menu. Actually, it's one step toward Mozilla/Firefox to get users onto Netscape. And a Netscape friendly Web is by design an identically friendly Firefox friendly web.
Yes, but the browser wars were started because Netscape got uppity and played 'chicken' with Microsoft. Andreesen got up on the stage and started hyping web applications as if it would replace Microsoft. This 'woke up the bear' who then went on a rampage. Which is NOT to excuse Microsoft, just to point out Netscape wasn't the 'good guy' either.
Remember, Netscape hoped to own the web. They were the ones who first started introducing non-standard tags and features that only their server technology could serve up to their browser. They were NOT the good guys, just one of the elephants fighting in the commons and stomping on the little guys.
People who do this should be thrown into an American rape torture prison for years.
Why? Is what they are doing far worse than thugs who knock an old woman on the head and steal her purse? Or is it just that it destablizes your world so it is really really bad?
I know, this 'shakes the world' of people trying to live an online existence. And it's wrong. But let's not roll out the storm troopers IRL because it interferes with your 'online experience.'
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
If Tesla had thought smarter, books about him wouldn't mostly be on the remainder table at Barnes & Noble. It wouldn't mostly be crackpot websites championing his place in history.
Probably, if he hacks an Arabic site and plans to blather on the pages, he'll have a competent Arabic speaker help compose the text. Really, that's the point.
Possibly the solution to problems with pension funds, Social Security, etc. is going to be Asian Bird Flu (the old and the very young are most vulnerable).
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I think he's referring to 'audiophile grade' speaker cable, which as we know is of specified purity, and the metallurgical components of which are tracable all the way back to the name and pedigree of the burro who hauled the copper ore out of the mine in Chile.
But now I'm being silly.
I have Microsoft brand USB Speakers, which are from the Windows 98 era. Their only connection to the PC is the USB cable, and there's no DRM in them. There was a certain appeal back then to doing away with the sound card entirely, in the era where the growing pains of ISA-to-PCI were showing.
And there's some sort of Linux support for these speakers. Not that I've interacted with directly, but I think I remember trying a version of Mandrake where the speakers worked 'out of the box' without any fooling around on my part.
It's fairly important to acknowledge that there are actual audiophiles out there who do know what they're talking about.
The fact that there are charlatans, too, shouldn't come as a surprise. I've hated 'stereo store salesmen' since back in my youth when those smug f*cks always had an attitude to cop when I came in the store needing audio connectors.
To write off the whole 'audiophile' community is to buy into the shit that certain sales-types want us to believe. In fact there IS such a thing as High Fidelity, and it isn't just sales numbers and/or a table printed in the manual that comes with junk components from Japan.
If you wipe the disk, what do you sell?
Last I checked Dell and every other major brandname use the cheapest proprietary components on the market that will get them up to the "specs" that consumers are looking for.
All my Dell machines (older Optiplexes, not the awful consumer-line Dell crap) have integrated ATI graphics and integrated 3C905 ethernet. The whitebox clone machines all have awful Taiwanese garbage peripherals builtin, or you pay the big bucks for brandname plugins.
You keep your device drivers in your home directory?
/dev/null ?
Or did you mean
Yes, but the RF modulator and screwdriver terminals, let ALONE the slide switch to select channel 2 or 3, would make it a big bulky package, unlike the sleek modern 'Industrial Design' that gets such hype.
You know, my idea of a good time is watching a full length movie on a little postage stamp sized screen.
They will if use becomes widespread.
Actually, since it won't scale to become widespread, they probably wouldn't have to.
Dense areas can't support this kind of thing for thousands of people in a square mile.
Netscape are some of the people with money behind the Mozilla project.
And the modern Netscape browser is just Netscape's skin over Mozilla.
I can't believe that people think 'Netscape' still means Netscape 4.7 built on the old codebase.
To suit my tastes, I would reverse Firefox and Mozilla in your sentence. I'm not at all sure why people are so enamored with Firefox, when they could use Mozilla.
I'm sorry. I just don't find Firefox as configurable, and it's a naked plain browser without the integrated HTML editor. (yes, I know you can install the HTML editor as a separate component. I like the idea of it being there preinstalled for people to discover and maybe start actually CREATING some of their own web content with) Firefox just seems like the tricked out lightweight alternative.
You can probably bring up X and display it on another machine, or an Xterm, over the ethernet, though. Or don't you have the X libraries and binaries installed?
(My POWER1 Generation RS/6000 machine is too old for that, maybe your HP is too.)
Uh, Netscape is Firefox under a different skin.
Or, rather, it's Mozilla. (which I personally prefer strongly over Firefox anyway).
A lot of the tweaks and configs for Mozilla can be manually patched into Netscape, even if not in the Netscape 'options' menu. Actually, it's one step toward Mozilla/Firefox to get users onto Netscape. And a Netscape friendly Web is by design an identically friendly Firefox friendly web.
Think about it.
Yes, but the browser wars were started because Netscape got uppity and played 'chicken' with Microsoft. Andreesen got up on the stage and started hyping web applications as if it would replace Microsoft. This 'woke up the bear' who then went on a rampage. Which is NOT to excuse Microsoft, just to point out Netscape wasn't the 'good guy' either.
Remember, Netscape hoped to own the web. They were the ones who first started introducing non-standard tags and features that only their server technology could serve up to their browser. They were NOT the good guys, just one of the elephants fighting in the commons and stomping on the little guys.
People who do this should be thrown into an American rape torture prison for years.
Why? Is what they are doing far worse than thugs who knock an old woman on the head and steal her purse? Or is it just that it destablizes your world so it is really really bad?
I know, this 'shakes the world' of people trying to live an online existence. And it's wrong. But let's not roll out the storm troopers IRL because it interferes with your 'online experience.'
Or have a major online service you bought run Solaris when you happen to make Windows, for that matter.
Isn't the main (or one of the main) OpenBSD sites still running on Solaris?
It's surprising given that the iPod usually takes a couple of slots in the top ten on lists like these.
Yeah, the marketing staff at Apple and their teams of astroturfers usually are MUCH more on the ball.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
If Tesla had thought smarter, books about him wouldn't mostly be on the remainder table at Barnes & Noble. It wouldn't mostly be crackpot websites championing his place in history.
Why is there such a noise being made about some MP3 player?
'Biggest consumer electronics thing' this year? Has it really been THAT boring a year?
'Linux Secure By Design'???
When has anybody actually done design work on Linux in the first place? Isn't the plan just to copy UNIX?
Probably, if he hacks an Arabic site and plans to blather on the pages, he'll have a competent Arabic speaker help compose the text. Really, that's the point.
(like $2m USD for a nice three bedroom house that would cost ~$400k in a typical "farm belt" community of the US).
Umm, try like maybe $220K.
Possibly the solution to problems with pension funds, Social Security, etc. is going to be Asian Bird Flu (the old and the very young are most vulnerable).
Well, I am 8 megs into the bigger video with plain old FTP, in less than 3 minutes.
All the fancy 'torrent' stuff seems like idle chatter.
Try adjective.com and look for a verb.