It is not safe to drink milk while reading the following:
"Any policy that favours one thing over another isn't helpful," a Microsoft Europe spokeswoman told the Journal."..."It limits choice rather than increasing choice."
Not necessary. Tubes will run at relatively low voltages. The entire early history of radio was powered by low voltage batteries. It's why the power supply voltage came to be know as B+. Decades of car radios ran on tubes.
Don't look at it as a stab at high end audio, but as a classic example of the wonderful lunacy of the Far East audiophilia. This is after all the region where audiophiles first went nuts over the sound of 1930's film-house Western Electric tube amplifiers, some powerhouses at 10 watts, spawning hundreds of lower power (!) iterations costing thousands per channel.
As someone who's spent the last twenty years in and about all kinds of recording studios, I don't find your opinion regarding 44.1/16 echoed by those working in the field. That includes engineers doing film work. Most lean towards 24 bit 96 khz sampling, partly because of the extra data overhead required for serious mixdowns projects.
I'd say we've seen a little too much innovation in this particular area, to the point where a couple of thousand producers of essentially disposable content are trying to control the dissemination of information between billions in order to protect the money from a cartoon mouse. Not everyone's greed should be give safe harbour or encouraged.
You point out something that perfectly demonstrates the extent to which these companies are lying. Cable and DSL use completely different hardware and transport models, yet arrived at the same cost to move a byte of information. This is without taking into consideration the difficulties different geographical regions pose to constructing a network. Different equipment, different network ages, different costs of conversion, different costs of doing business, all areas the same $/byte.
Really, and does it cost the $7.95 per gigabyte Bell Sympatico will start charging my brother's account on anything over 5 gig per month? Those are damn expensive electrons. Face facts, this is a bald money grab by the Telcos time perfectly with the announcement that they aren't legally required to sell bandwidth to competitors any longer.
Although it would have better software for core fuctions, it's playablity would suffer from poor graphics, and sad user friendlyness.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein plays better, with less lag and with a typically 20-25% lower ping online in Mandrake 8.1 than Win 2000 Pro on my computer. Same with Quake and UT. Get some experience before making these claims.
When did Marx become far Right? Of course, after the collapse of Communism. The entire century before he was far the Left's concept of the future of society. Guess the Right can lay claim to Fascism and Marxism now, both extremist ends of the political spectrum. Gotta love those rose colored glasses.
No, the artist pays to record the song. It comes out of their advance from the label and my understanding is unless they're already succesful they have very little say about how it's spent. Most artist promotion today is also little better than sanitized radio station payola (do a search on Clear Channel.) The labels still do something but not anything that couldn't be done better elsewhere.
This was probably no more than a standard program line, common in radio for decades. In the past it was a series of amplifiers with adjustable equalization interconected with a few miles of unloaded (the filtering you mentioned, a passive resonant filter placed on the line to boost the voice presence range at the expense of higher frequencies) copper wire. On long hauls most telcos now convert to digital PCM at a nearby central office and use analogue amplification for the last mile either end. My guess is that the 70's Tanglewood circuit isn't a good example as it would have likely covered most of the distance by analogue microwave.
However, simply observing the planetary motions proved him right. Nothing extraordinary there.
It's been a long time since I read deeply on the matter, but I believe this is incorrect. The accepted theory in Galileo's time - spheres within spheres with Earth at the centre - predicted positions of the planets visible to the naked eye quite well. However as the data improved the old model required more and more additions to explain small perturbations. Galileo did provide evidence extraordinary for his time, observations via the telescope.
Wow, you've researched every claim and every test of those claims?
Meaningless. I can lift the pen on my desk up six inches and release it, it will fall back to the desk. If I do this the rest of my waking hours until I die without it ever once falling up, it doesn't prove that when whoever pries it from my cold hands releases the pen it won't fall up, but at some point you have to move on.
And I find just the opposite, moving from Fluxbox back to the Win desktop is getting to be painful. Care should be taken to differentiate between the raw desktop functionality and the configuration helper apps. Windows is certainly far ahead in the latter, but to my mind primitive in day-to-day use unless you feel the need to change desktop backgrounds hourly. You may be right that a familiar desktop will be the more popular one, but popularity has nothing to do efficiency. The QWERTY example is apt, it was intentionally designed to be slow in order to prevent jamming the mechanical keyboards of the day. The Windows desktop is designed to be familiar. Though there are are plenty more, here are three reasons I find the Win desktop lacking.
Start Button: Starting applications is the primary function of the desktop. Limiting this function to a one one-hundreth the screen space in the most unused corner of the monitor is almost perverse. Right-clicking the desktop makes so much more sense.
Single desktop: Still! It's unbelievable that a Windows user still can't arrange applications on a desktop and then move on to other work without messing it up. Think the difference between the old Staroffice desktop and Openoffice. Windows desperately needs a proper pager.
Tabs: After using them in Mozilla and Fluxbox there's no going back. Turn on sloppy mouse focus and navigating the desktop(s) is immediate, intuitive and click-free.
To reiterate, MS makes some very elegant user apps and the Linux desktops would do very well to mimic some of the configuration modules Windows has, but when it comes down to a mouse-click per mouse-click, day-to-day usability comparison between it and the best desktops out there, Windows is still 95.
I'm wondering how much Counterpane Technologies paid to have the article posted. It's nothing but a contentless paranoia raising exercise to generate hits for their web site.
Possibly true, however for every revered Shakespeare there are thousands completely forgotten not-Shakespeares drwaing from the same sources, the difference between them of course is that the former wrote timeless material. Only then did he become canonized.
The point is they're threatening a company doing perfectly legal business to the consumer's benefit in order maximize profit solely for the members of their Guild. If the Author's Guild is justified in acting in such a selfish manner, so is Amazon. And since Amazon's act is to the vast majority's benefit, screw the Guild.
Man, I'm so tired of seeing this sentiment moderated as insightful. Slashdot and Microsoft are not two sides of the same coin. Slashdot is a collection of freely expressed opinions (save for corporate astroturf) submitted by a voluntary and constantly varying group of submitters displayed in a public forum. Microsoft is a highly structured top-down corporation with goals set by one man and an army beneath him to out carry his directives. The opinions on Slashdot are a random sampling from individuals working, or interested, in the tech industry, the opinions from Microsoft are marketting stances. To equate the two is the most simplistic form of hardcore dualism, a complete denial of anything beyond black or white.
"But what's the possible justification for continuing to use Usenet to share files? Aside from inertia."
Discovery, that's why. Napster (Napster?, talk about dead!) and the like are great for finding a name you already know. By design, that's all it can do. Do a search for "early '80's Boston punk" for example and see what you get. This is where Usenet excels. Enthusiasts congregate into groups and upload files they enjoy, meaning a far better chance that I'll enjoy them too. I'm continually discovering great bands through Usenet that would remain unknown had I relied on name-search based file sharing.
If you're really going to talk TCO, then include the costs of recovering from Mellissa and I Love You, plus the additional anti-virus software no business desktop does without.
There were no Native Americans when the continent was first discovered. Only after thousands of years of settlement did the original nomads become Native Americans. So yes, it's quite possible North America was ultimately dicovered by the northern Chinese.
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"Any policy that favours one thing over another isn't helpful," a Microsoft Europe spokeswoman told the Journal."..."It limits choice rather than increasing choice."
Your nose will pay for it.
Not necessary. Tubes will run at relatively low voltages. The entire early history of radio was powered by low voltage batteries. It's why the power supply voltage came to be know as B+. Decades of car radios ran on tubes.
Don't look at it as a stab at high end audio, but as a classic example of the wonderful lunacy of the Far East audiophilia. This is after all the region where audiophiles first went nuts over the sound of 1930's film-house Western Electric tube amplifiers, some powerhouses at 10 watts, spawning hundreds of lower power (!) iterations costing thousands per channel.
Dual tubes aren't rare, and they are usually small (proper term: receiving tubes, probably from the original use in radios.)
Reading the article impedes Karma.
As someone who's spent the last twenty years in and about all kinds of recording studios, I don't find your opinion regarding 44.1/16 echoed by those working in the field. That includes engineers doing film work. Most lean towards 24 bit 96 khz sampling, partly because of the extra data overhead required for serious mixdowns projects.
I'd say we've seen a little too much innovation in this particular area, to the point where a couple of thousand producers of essentially disposable content are trying to control the dissemination of information between billions in order to protect the money from a cartoon mouse. Not everyone's greed should be give safe harbour or encouraged.
You point out something that perfectly demonstrates the extent to which these companies are lying. Cable and DSL use completely different hardware and transport models, yet arrived at the same cost to move a byte of information. This is without taking into consideration the difficulties different geographical regions pose to constructing a network. Different equipment, different network ages, different costs of conversion, different costs of doing business, all areas the same $/byte.
Really, and does it cost the $7.95 per gigabyte Bell Sympatico will start charging my brother's account on anything over 5 gig per month? Those are damn expensive electrons. Face facts, this is a bald money grab by the Telcos time perfectly with the announcement that they aren't legally required to sell bandwidth to competitors any longer.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein plays better, with less lag and with a typically 20-25% lower ping online in Mandrake 8.1 than Win 2000 Pro on my computer. Same with Quake and UT. Get some experience before making these claims.
When did Marx become far Right? Of course, after the collapse of Communism. The entire century before he was far the Left's concept of the future of society. Guess the Right can lay claim to Fascism and Marxism now, both extremist ends of the political spectrum. Gotta love those rose colored glasses.
No, the artist pays to record the song. It comes out of their advance from the label and my understanding is unless they're already succesful they have very little say about how it's spent. Most artist promotion today is also little better than sanitized radio station payola (do a search on Clear Channel.) The labels still do something but not anything that couldn't be done better elsewhere.
Let me put it to you this way, "Clones" is not a good movie - but it is an incredibly awesome Star Wars movie!
If this is an example of a Chris Gore rave, I'm dying to read one of his pans.
This was probably no more than a standard program line, common in radio for decades. In the past it was a series of amplifiers with adjustable equalization interconected with a few miles of unloaded (the filtering you mentioned, a passive resonant filter placed on the line to boost the voice presence range at the expense of higher frequencies) copper wire. On long hauls most telcos now convert to digital PCM at a nearby central office and use analogue amplification for the last mile either end. My guess is that the 70's Tanglewood circuit isn't a good example as it would have likely covered most of the distance by analogue microwave.
It's been a long time since I read deeply on the matter, but I believe this is incorrect. The accepted theory in Galileo's time - spheres within spheres with Earth at the centre - predicted positions of the planets visible to the naked eye quite well. However as the data improved the old model required more and more additions to explain small perturbations. Galileo did provide evidence extraordinary for his time, observations via the telescope.
Wow, you've researched every claim and every test of those claims?
Meaningless. I can lift the pen on my desk up six inches and release it, it will fall back to the desk. If I do this the rest of my waking hours until I die without it ever once falling up, it doesn't prove that when whoever pries it from my cold hands releases the pen it won't fall up, but at some point you have to move on.
Not if you're Yoda.
Start Button: Starting applications is the primary function of the desktop. Limiting this function to a one one-hundreth the screen space in the most unused corner of the monitor is almost perverse. Right-clicking the desktop makes so much more sense.
Single desktop: Still! It's unbelievable that a Windows user still can't arrange applications on a desktop and then move on to other work without messing it up. Think the difference between the old Staroffice desktop and Openoffice. Windows desperately needs a proper pager.
Tabs: After using them in Mozilla and Fluxbox there's no going back. Turn on sloppy mouse focus and navigating the desktop(s) is immediate, intuitive and click-free.
To reiterate, MS makes some very elegant user apps and the Linux desktops would do very well to mimic some of the configuration modules Windows has, but when it comes down to a mouse-click per mouse-click, day-to-day usability comparison between it and the best desktops out there, Windows is still 95.
I'm wondering how much Counterpane Technologies paid to have the article posted. It's nothing but a contentless paranoia raising exercise to generate hits for their web site.
Lucas won't.
The point is they're threatening a company doing perfectly legal business to the consumer's benefit in order maximize profit solely for the members of their Guild. If the Author's Guild is justified in acting in such a selfish manner, so is Amazon. And since Amazon's act is to the vast majority's benefit, screw the Guild.
And in other news, Microsoft Astroturfers working overtime as Slashdot moderators...
Man, I'm so tired of seeing this sentiment moderated as insightful. Slashdot and Microsoft are not two sides of the same coin. Slashdot is a collection of freely expressed opinions (save for corporate astroturf) submitted by a voluntary and constantly varying group of submitters displayed in a public forum. Microsoft is a highly structured top-down corporation with goals set by one man and an army beneath him to out carry his directives. The opinions on Slashdot are a random sampling from individuals working, or interested, in the tech industry, the opinions from Microsoft are marketting stances. To equate the two is the most simplistic form of hardcore dualism, a complete denial of anything beyond black or white.
Discovery, that's why. Napster (Napster?, talk about dead!) and the like are great for finding a name you already know. By design, that's all it can do. Do a search for "early '80's Boston punk" for example and see what you get. This is where Usenet excels. Enthusiasts congregate into groups and upload files they enjoy, meaning a far better chance that I'll enjoy them too. I'm continually discovering great bands through Usenet that would remain unknown had I relied on name-search based file sharing.
If you're really going to talk TCO, then include the costs of recovering from Mellissa and I Love You, plus the additional anti-virus software no business desktop does without.