They shouldn't have anything to worry about.... Unless they're afriad that a potentially poorly done Microsoft product is going to outdo them at what they do best - which appears to be their thinking, I suppose?
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To specify on what I believe the grandparent was trying to say: Whenever you try to save something in a Gnome-based app, the Save As... dialog that pops up only gives you a few options for the folder to save in: your Home directory, the Desktop, or the root of a mounted partition. If you want to save it anywhere else, you have to click the "Browse for other folders..." option or click the dropdown button below the box, similarly named.
Yes, but those same transistors are used to create processors. The article claims that 70GhZ transistor technology allows the potential for 7GhZ chips. 110GhZ technology would allow 11GhZ chips. I meant the first post sarcastically, but why would mobile phones be one of the primary applications for faster transistors?
Actually, as far as I understand, the service only keeps track of what music you purchased, which Apple already has records of anyway. You can also tell it voluntarily if an album it recommends fits your tastes or not, by indicating if you already own an album not purchased through iTMS.
I wonder why it is cheaper to buy a new $400 PC than paying top rate of, say $100 per machine, to get someone to insert the recovery CD and get everything back to factory defaults.
Because it's a lot faster, and comes in a shiny new case with a smell of new plastic.
Occasionally, a good amound of money is to be had in this field for more ameteur geeks sometimes. A year ago, one of my parents' friends asked me to clean out all the spyware from their aging system (it was 2 years old at the time, running, [GASP!] Windows ME), and do a clean re-install of WinXP for them. I was only 18 at the time, and have no certifications or any kind of professional experience. But they knew I was good with "that computer stuff". They loaned me their box for a week, and I reformatted and reinstalled all their software, and ended up replacing their CD-RW drive too, in my spare time. Ended up making about $75 on the labor. That's less than most professionals charge, but the reason they charge more is because they're professionals -- people trust them and they do this sort of thing for a living.
Of course, the whole problem with this proposition is that the people allowing you to play with their PC have to trust you first.
'd prefer to get the physical CD at a negligible amount more, most CDs I buy are priced around $10-$12 anyway
I agree with your main point, but where do you find all your CD's for that cheap? Most stores that I have been to sell CD's mainly for $14-18, depending on how popular they are. However, the strangest part is that prices on CD's usually go up as they get older and harder to find. I personally like how iTunes has (more or less) adopted a flat pricing system, regardless of how much they could gouge people for the most popular, or most hard to find, music.
Although these could all be rash generalizations on my part, I admit.
Campuses were 'shrinking the [available] bandwidth on the network to discourage' illegal downloading
Remind me how offering faster legal downloads will help this problem? People who download illegally will still continue to download illigally (at least most of them) regardless of how fast legal downloads are. Especially in college, time isn't always more important than money. Sounds to me to be just a money-making PR ploy...
At my school, last year our IT department was forced to start limiting bandwidth, not because there were a bunch of people downloading an album here or there, but because a select few people would download 7-8 GB torrents of entire TV series and seed them for weeks and weeks...
I believe this is true because before the limits, I was getting slower-than-dialup speeds and crazy pings around 1100ms, and afterwards (the limits only cap after downloading or uploading a large amount of data, over 300MB in a day) I got over 300KB/s down and pings around 100...
13.1 is just silly for a single listener. The speaker system in a theater is doing a different job - it can't be set up with just one sweet spot, because there are people spread out over a huge area in the room. In your living room, you only need the sound to be right in one place. It's entirely possible a 5.1 system does a better job for one listener than a 13.1 in a theater.
Exactly. Also, I would imagine interference would complicate the problem even more. For instance, if you don't place each of the 14(!!!) speakers *exactly* in the right spot, or, actually, even when you would position them in exactly the same spot, certain frequencies would turn out much, much louder than intended due to constructive interferences, while other frequencies could apparently disappear completely due to descructive interference. This is a problem whenever you have more than one speaker, but the more you add, the more complicated it becomes and the easier it is to become a problem.
Actually about a year and a half ago, I was very seriously planning on doing exactly that. Even got a motor for opening and closing the fridge door (which would be controlled using a microcontroller) and got a lot of things planned out... But then I realized that a PC, and a fridge, cost money... and that's about where I stopped.
Parent has a good insight here, along with other things I've been hearing.
The main thing is, in the US, there are only a handful of people controling broadband access. In addition, the population density here in the US is (comparitively) very low. Thus, what is going to be the incentive for a handful of telecom giants to spend billions to upgrade aging landlines in the US to give people higher speed?
People will pay more for faster connections, but not at the rate at which US telecom companies are experiencing revenue right now. In other words, for them to make up the money spent on your faster DSL line, you'd have to pay, say (completely hypothetically!) $100 a month for a 100mbit+ line. No home users are going to pay that much for a faster line, when a lot of people in the US are perfectly happy with their ~1mbit connections, since they've never experienced anything faster than that.
This is also a known problem with a lot of Compaq Presario R3000 Series laptops. The have the same issue, with the non-OSS friendly Broadcom 802.11g mini-PCI cards pre-installed. Apparently, the BIOS is built to only allow that card becasue the FCC-ID for the wireless device is for the card and the internal antenna *together*. When you change the card, the system is no longer legal, according to the FCC, so they put in BIOS protection to keep you from breaking FCC rules.
If this comforts anyone, CNN.com has an article up here, which claims that according to "a U.S. Official" (whoever that is) claims that this was not a nuclear blast.
However, in said article, the said U.S. Official also suggested that the cloud may have been because of a forest fire. I never knew trees can explode like that... And if they do, I'd like to see that happen some time!
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They shouldn't have anything to worry about.... Unless they're afriad that a potentially poorly done Microsoft product is going to outdo them at what they do best - which appears to be their thinking, I suppose?
To specify on what I believe the grandparent was trying to say: Whenever you try to save something in a Gnome-based app, the Save As... dialog that pops up only gives you a few options for the folder to save in: your Home directory, the Desktop, or the root of a mounted partition. If you want to save it anywhere else, you have to click the "Browse for other folders..." option or click the dropdown button below the box, similarly named.
Yes, but those same transistors are used to create processors. The article claims that 70GhZ transistor technology allows the potential for 7GhZ chips. 110GhZ technology would allow 11GhZ chips. I meant the first post sarcastically, but why would mobile phones be one of the primary applications for faster transistors?
Now remind me why exactly we need 110GhZ moblie phone processors?
Actually, as far as I understand, the service only keeps track of what music you purchased, which Apple already has records of anyway. You can also tell it voluntarily if an album it recommends fits your tastes or not, by indicating if you already own an album not purchased through iTMS.
Because it's a lot faster, and comes in a shiny new case with a smell of new plastic.
Of course, the whole problem with this proposition is that the people allowing you to play with their PC have to trust you first.
I agree with your main point, but where do you find all your CD's for that cheap? Most stores that I have been to sell CD's mainly for $14-18, depending on how popular they are. However, the strangest part is that prices on CD's usually go up as they get older and harder to find. I personally like how iTunes has (more or less) adopted a flat pricing system, regardless of how much they could gouge people for the most popular, or most hard to find, music.
Although these could all be rash generalizations on my part, I admit.
I can imagine the next headline:
Study finds that previous study is also nonsense
Remind me how offering faster legal downloads will help this problem? People who download illegally will still continue to download illigally (at least most of them) regardless of how fast legal downloads are. Especially in college, time isn't always more important than money. Sounds to me to be just a money-making PR ploy...
At my school, last year our IT department was forced to start limiting bandwidth, not because there were a bunch of people downloading an album here or there, but because a select few people would download 7-8 GB torrents of entire TV series and seed them for weeks and weeks... I believe this is true because before the limits, I was getting slower-than-dialup speeds and crazy pings around 1100ms, and afterwards (the limits only cap after downloading or uploading a large amount of data, over 300MB in a day) I got over 300KB/s down and pings around 100...
13.1 is just silly for a single listener. The speaker system in a theater is doing a different job - it can't be set up with just one sweet spot, because there are people spread out over a huge area in the room. In your living room, you only need the sound to be right in one place. It's entirely possible a 5.1 system does a better job for one listener than a 13.1 in a theater.
Exactly. Also, I would imagine interference would complicate the problem even more. For instance, if you don't place each of the 14(!!!) speakers *exactly* in the right spot, or, actually, even when you would position them in exactly the same spot, certain frequencies would turn out much, much louder than intended due to constructive interferences, while other frequencies could apparently disappear completely due to descructive interference. This is a problem whenever you have more than one speaker, but the more you add, the more complicated it becomes and the easier it is to become a problem.
Actually about a year and a half ago, I was very seriously planning on doing exactly that. Even got a motor for opening and closing the fridge door (which would be controlled using a microcontroller) and got a lot of things planned out... But then I realized that a PC, and a fridge, cost money... and that's about where I stopped.
It's ironic that this comes right at the same time that the search is down and /. is relying on google for everything...
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Parent has a good insight here, along with other things I've been hearing.
The main thing is, in the US, there are only a handful of people controling broadband access. In addition, the population density here in the US is (comparitively) very low. Thus, what is going to be the incentive for a handful of telecom giants to spend billions to upgrade aging landlines in the US to give people higher speed?
People will pay more for faster connections, but not at the rate at which US telecom companies are experiencing revenue right now. In other words, for them to make up the money spent on your faster DSL line, you'd have to pay, say (completely hypothetically!) $100 a month for a 100mbit+ line. No home users are going to pay that much for a faster line, when a lot of people in the US are perfectly happy with their ~1mbit connections, since they've never experienced anything faster than that.
It's all about location and competition
This is also a known problem with a lot of Compaq Presario R3000 Series laptops. The have the same issue, with the non-OSS friendly Broadcom 802.11g mini-PCI cards pre-installed. Apparently, the BIOS is built to only allow that card becasue the FCC-ID for the wireless device is for the card and the internal antenna *together*. When you change the card, the system is no longer legal, according to the FCC, so they put in BIOS protection to keep you from breaking FCC rules.
If this comforts anyone, CNN.com has an article up here, which claims that according to "a U.S. Official" (whoever that is) claims that this was not a nuclear blast. However, in said article, the said U.S. Official also suggested that the cloud may have been because of a forest fire. I never knew trees can explode like that... And if they do, I'd like to see that happen some time!