MS-DOS is one of the biggest abortions since the rise of modern technologies (find me a single OS expert who will give it high marks).
Require said OS expert to run it on a machine with 32K of RAM for a week before listening to him, though. Then allow him to run whatever other OS he chooses on the same platform.
You can also write software that doesn't suck. You can write programs that don't crash. You can make things that are secure. These are things you can control.
What you can't control, obviously, is staying on topic. There's no software that crashed in the topic article. But with people like you here, I'm sure we can transform this into a gigantic hate-Microsoft rally.
If by 'stable' you mean 'Linux either runs it (4 year old hardware very well) or it doesn't run it at all (latest multimedia hardware with features people really want).'
There should be no doubt that a big rock out in the middle of a field is stable. Damned stable.
As has been documented elsewhere in this discussion, Apple refuses to let any other hardware marketer connect their device to iTunes. They also have a significant marketing arrangement with a large number of music publishers that gives them sole online marketing rights.
When third party MP3 players are licensed to play the 'protected' AAC files sold on iTunes, they will cease to be a vertical marketer engaging in monopoly-building tactics.
No. Microsoft was found to be abusing their monopoly in certain markets. Apple is a monopoly in certain market segments. Wether they are abusing said monopoly is what has to be determined.
There isn't even an architectural reason to consider the Win32 subsystem as part of the NT kernel. The laywered model of Windows NT means that almost nothing that is directly manipulable is in the kernel.
There isn't any 'color' in the path of a Dynaco tube pre-amp. The whole purpose in that grade of gear is complete transparency.
It can be replaced by modern silicon. I can't afford the grade of modern equipment that would replace the Dynaco preamp. It has low-noise performance that is scary (no 'hiss' at all at max volume, then you notice how high it's cranked when the sound of the tone arm being lifted makes a rumble)
Sorry. If I build a 96KHz 24 bit A/D converter (a formidable task) I would build a 96KHz 24 bit D/A converter to play it back. Not do whatever awkward downconverting or whatever in the discussion you cite, which sounds like audiophile babble. If the stuff being said there were true, digital oscilloscopes wouldn't be possible.
If I decide to go nuts with resolution, it would definitely be from a turntable and through my Dynaco pre-amp. I definitely could never afford a better pre-amp than that thing, with it's 12U7 tubes, 1% coupling caps, and the filtered DC filament voltage. I think before I use it again I'll replace the selenium rectifier with one of the audiophile 'upgrades' (a silicon diode) that is well documented.
I don't have a good cartridge for my Dual turntable at present, tho.
Actually, tho, if you want the detail, aka Dynamic Range, you don't use (regular) analog formats, either.
Standard 'CD' audio has a wider dynamic ranger (louder louds, softer softs) than (regular) LPs.
This is at the consumer level, of course. Still the best sound I've heard in my own home was through my Dynaco Pre-amp and Harmon-Kardon power amp (both all tube).
A CD has response to only 22.05kHz, and even studio digital equipment has a hard time working up to 48kHz.
Naw. There's nothing preventing anybody from doing digital audio sampling at 96kHz or more, except implementation details. I have been thinking of doing high-rate sampling of my vinyl collection. It would put the kibosh on the whole contoversey to sample it at high bit resolution and a high sampling rate.
Well, I have an old Revere machine. But all I listen to on it are the odd tapes I pick up at auctions.
I have a few good tapes. One is a 'Christmas 1954' tape, recorded by a geek-Dad. They hand the microphone around and all the family say what they got for Christmas. At the beginning the say 'and this, hopefully, will be syncronized well with the film.'
Definitely a 1950's AV-nerd geek event!
Also, some sound tracks of 'I Love Lucy' episodes, that might not even exist in any other form. Who knows...
It's a mono tape-deck and far more ancient than most Reel-Reel decks still in existence.
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MS-DOS is one of the biggest abortions since the rise of modern technologies (find me a single OS expert who will give it high marks).
Require said OS expert to run it on a machine with 32K of RAM for a week before listening to him, though. Then allow him to run whatever other OS he chooses on the same platform.
That was a target machine with PC-DOS 1.0.
I've seen FAR more of your pro-Microsoft sympathizers around here lately.
Yikes! They're not mine. Really, they're not.
I am getting sick of this. It used to be that one could get away from the bullshit by putting the line:
/etc/host file. Now you shills and shucksters have spread out and taken over the whole site.
127.0.0.1 apple.slashdot.org
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Can't you go back to your cheerleader fansites and leave us geeks alone?!?
You can also write software that doesn't suck. You can write programs that don't crash. You can make things that are secure. These are things you can control.
What you can't control, obviously, is staying on topic. There's no software that crashed in the topic article. But with people like you here, I'm sure we can transform this into a gigantic hate-Microsoft rally.
If by 'stable' you mean 'Linux either runs it (4 year old hardware very well) or it doesn't run it at all (latest multimedia hardware with features people really want).'
There should be no doubt that a big rock out in the middle of a field is stable. Damned stable.
As has been documented elsewhere in this discussion, Apple refuses to let any other hardware marketer connect their device to iTunes. They also have a significant marketing arrangement with a large number of music publishers that gives them sole online marketing rights.
When third party MP3 players are licensed to play the 'protected' AAC files sold on iTunes, they will cease to be a vertical marketer engaging in monopoly-building tactics.
Until then, that's what they're building.
I still run Novell Netware 3.11 with Dos 6.22 workstations on the latest PIV and Athlon systems.
Good lord! Why?
I have a bunch of Pentium I Dell Optiplexes out in the garage I should clue you into.
No. Microsoft was found to be abusing their monopoly in certain markets. Apple is a monopoly in certain market segments. Wether they are abusing said monopoly is what has to be determined.
You're using a 'marketspeak' definition of 'high performance.' The kind of shit that's decaled onto hyped parts at the auto parts store.
Do we let the marketing guys on Slashdot these days??
There isn't even an architectural reason to consider the Win32 subsystem as part of the NT kernel. The laywered model of Windows NT means that almost nothing that is directly manipulable is in the kernel.
Get. A. Clue.
Whoops. It looks like 'security through obscurity' has again failed.
You're warming up a bunch of the arguements people used to defend Microsoft awhile back.
Microsoft was convicted of engaging in monopolistic practices in a particular market.
This does not 'make Microsoft a monopoly' in all regards. It means Microsoft was a monopoly in said particular market.
The kid's table is in the living room.
Don't worry, the turkey platter will be coming out there shortly...
There isn't any 'color' in the path of a Dynaco tube pre-amp. The whole purpose in that grade of gear is complete transparency.
It can be replaced by modern silicon. I can't afford the grade of modern equipment that would replace the Dynaco preamp. It has low-noise performance that is scary (no 'hiss' at all at max volume, then you notice how high it's cranked when the sound of the tone arm being lifted makes a rumble)
Power consumption and dissipation are performance parameters.
Big power-pig processors are actually 'low' performance, when it's MIPS-per-watt being considered.
Sorry. If I build a 96KHz 24 bit A/D converter (a formidable task) I would build a 96KHz 24 bit D/A converter to play it back. Not do whatever awkward downconverting or whatever in the discussion you cite, which sounds like audiophile babble. If the stuff being said there were true, digital oscilloscopes wouldn't be possible.
substitute 12AU7 in above.
If I decide to go nuts with resolution, it would definitely be from a turntable and through my Dynaco pre-amp. I definitely could never afford a better pre-amp than that thing, with it's 12U7 tubes, 1% coupling caps, and the filtered DC filament voltage. I think before I use it again I'll replace the selenium rectifier with one of the audiophile 'upgrades' (a silicon diode) that is well documented.
I don't have a good cartridge for my Dual turntable at present, tho.
But my LPs aren't going anywhere.
Disco also served an important function: the death of 'psuedo-hippy.'
Though it's cooler to see 80's punks stomp hippies than it is to seem them driven away wild-eyed by the sound of disco music...
Actually, tho, if you want the detail, aka Dynamic Range, you don't use (regular) analog formats, either.
Standard 'CD' audio has a wider dynamic ranger (louder louds, softer softs) than (regular) LPs.
This is at the consumer level, of course. Still the best sound I've heard in my own home was through my Dynaco Pre-amp and Harmon-Kardon power amp (both all tube).
A CD has response to only 22.05kHz, and even studio digital equipment has a hard time working up to 48kHz.
Naw. There's nothing preventing anybody from doing digital audio sampling at 96kHz or more, except implementation details. I have been thinking of doing high-rate sampling of my vinyl collection. It would put the kibosh on the whole contoversey to sample it at high bit resolution and a high sampling rate.
Well, I have an old Revere machine. But all I listen to on it are the odd tapes I pick up at auctions.
I have a few good tapes. One is a 'Christmas 1954' tape, recorded by a geek-Dad. They hand the microphone around and all the family say what they got for Christmas. At the beginning the say 'and this, hopefully, will be syncronized well with the film.'
Definitely a 1950's AV-nerd geek event!
Also, some sound tracks of 'I Love Lucy' episodes, that might not even exist in any other form. Who knows...
It's a mono tape-deck and far more ancient than most Reel-Reel decks still in existence.
I still live in 'the days before RedHat 5.0. RH 4.3 was the last Red Hat distro I could/would tolerate. I went back to Slackware after trying 5.0.
You're plain crazy if you think it's a good idea to shunt criminals off into the military.
In actual fact, the Military isn't very enthusiastic about enlisting criminals. Nor should they be.