First off, as digital music becomes the norm which it practically is, people are becoming more savvy to it. With tapes, vinyl or 8-tracks, there was one quality essentially and thats it. But when you get into encoding its a whole new ballgame. There have been many comparisons of the current big formats. In the end, unless you listen ONLY to simple electronic music (dance) and encode at very high rates, mp3 is pretty crappy at replicating the source. Most tests show WMA as the best, which i personally find hard to believe, with aac and ogg performing in the middle neither having any strong advantage over the other unless you consider specific music types. But the strength of mp3 lies in its accessibility, space impact, and reach by having existed for so long. I dont see a reason to replace mp3, and i doubt it will, but i wouldnt rely on it for EVERYTHING.
At the end of the day, mp3 wont be the one and only thing, doesnt mean its dying, it means there are more options. Not need for the doom and gloom on mp3. You can just say, its not the 100 lb. gorrilla it once was.
We could go on all day about how easy (for a few bucks extra initial) it would be to make our living structures more environmentally friendly. We are demanding the corporations who make our products to clean up so it is only fair that we do the same. Actually its imperative. For those who think an 800 sq ft home isnt large enough for a family of five or whatever, perhaps you need to realize that jus because you have the ability to build 10,000 sq ft homes and drive 5 metric ton cars (yes we all saw the Hummer replacement marketed on TV & the internet this week) doesnt mean we SHOULD!
There are endless techniques that we can integrate into new homes, many of which should be REQUIRED, including solar panels which are yes very expensive now and not very efficient in energy producing terms, but what about new designs for homes including bigger windows and skylights using low emissivity glass. There have been advancements in new heating technologies like using heat tapped from the Earth's Core, and using renewed and recylced building materials. We have the tech, lets put it to use!
I smell mass-internet conspiracy. Look, its not a bad thing, trying to show the environmentally friendly side to tech. I greatly welcome it but we have this story and the OLED following it above here on slashdot. This crap on i4u. Plus, The OLED PDA there too. FREAKING DEALNEWS has the SuperFlower P/S giveway deal, (hey dont enter i was jus showing, i wanna win!).
But yesterday it was all doom and gloom with the tech sector research going to China, IT jobs plummetting, Toshiba ditching the NA market.... Ok is it Bush or the Internet Illuminati Collective responsible for the maniacness going on out there?!?!!!
hate to burst your bubble but just because they are made out of 'organic' materials doesnt mean they are natural. All it means is that instead of oil based acrylics, and metal laden materials, they are using carbon-based materials that have fast-transfer dendric properties. These materials are about as natural as DDT. They are still really cool devices tho and have a great contribution to technology, just dont go around thinking its like an extenstion of the human body or about to go reproducing on its own now...
Not if you paint them blue. Eh?! Or Make them look like a Starbucks, then everyone will love them. No wait, let Matt Barnes design them...
Acutually if you took that land mass of 500 rhode islands or whatever it adds up to, and spread it out over the E_N_T_I_R_E US, i bet it wouldnt be as bad as say, an 800 K atmosphere.
ok it may have been the stupidest response of all time (my point was that you told me you were at shiva, whether or not you think its a god or, if god exists (that one might matter), the fact is you told me yr password was shiva...), but at least i got a couple pretty interesting sub threads goin... not so stupid after all, eh!
This post has got to be influenced by the booming LCD market. Come on, unless you have ONE 15" window, there is no freaking way the average joe could afford to plaster say four windows averaging about 50" (in my TINY apt) with LCDs... and why would you want to, why not jus put up tin foil and look all fifties sci-fi like everyone else?!
ok, i didnt rtfa till after i posted but still even if it is a textbook (the price shoulda gave it away...) the review didnt give hint to this fact. Only following the bnr link did i get it. Anyway, i wasnt going to read it either way.
Im really surprised at some of these responses... i would really have expected most of you folks out there to be able to understand the chain rule and poisson notation. Granted its a little lame to be in a fantasy book, but sounds pretty interesting and a good quality review. Thats my two bits.
Being as rampantly anti-american as i am (aka liberal) i welcome a future challenge to american political/economic hegemony. But looking at China's environmental history as evidinced in this book, including the mass devastation that occured in the three gorges dam project and the fact that China has allowed for themselves to become a major tech dumping ground for the worlds unwanted 386s and floppy drives and the like as became big news over two years ago. Perhaps this isnt the best thing for China and the worlds environmental health.
Lets hope China's future bring both technological revolution and acknowledgement of environemtal respect!
Dont forget the junk fax as well, a more intermediate aged form of spam. Similar idea as telemarketing but the spiel is on a piece of paper sent en masse to number after number sans the annoying college kid trying to get rent or smack money.
Tired of at homezzzzzz money making schems. Heres the REEL DEEL!!!! seng 19.99,99 to 456 Happee Striet in Delanore, Island, NYC.. for yr paket(swtiching) 2dey!>!!>>!
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First off, as digital music becomes the norm which it practically is, people are becoming more savvy to it. With tapes, vinyl or 8-tracks, there was one quality essentially and thats it. But when you get into encoding its a whole new ballgame. There have been many comparisons of the current big formats. In the end, unless you listen ONLY to simple electronic music (dance) and encode at very high rates, mp3 is pretty crappy at replicating the source. Most tests show WMA as the best, which i personally find hard to believe, with aac and ogg performing in the middle neither having any strong advantage over the other unless you consider specific music types.
But the strength of mp3 lies in its accessibility, space impact, and reach by having existed for so long. I dont see a reason to replace mp3, and i doubt it will, but i wouldnt rely on it for EVERYTHING.
At the end of the day, mp3 wont be the one and only thing, doesnt mean its dying, it means there are more options. Not need for the doom and gloom on mp3. You can just say, its not the 100 lb. gorrilla it once was.
We could go on all day about how easy (for a few bucks extra initial) it would be to make our living structures more environmentally friendly. We are demanding the corporations who make our products to clean up so it is only fair that we do the same. Actually its imperative. For those who think an 800 sq ft home isnt large enough for a family of five or whatever, perhaps you need to realize that jus because you have the ability to build 10,000 sq ft homes and drive 5 metric ton cars (yes we all saw the Hummer replacement marketed on TV & the internet this week) doesnt mean we SHOULD!
There are endless techniques that we can integrate into new homes, many of which should be REQUIRED, including solar panels which are yes very expensive now and not very efficient in energy producing terms, but what about new designs for homes including bigger windows and skylights using low emissivity glass. There have been advancements in new heating technologies like using heat tapped from the Earth's Core, and using renewed and recylced building materials. We have the tech, lets put it to use!
I smell mass-internet conspiracy. Look, its not a bad thing, trying to show the environmentally friendly side to tech. I greatly welcome it but we have this story and the OLED following it above here on slashdot. This crap on i4u. Plus, The OLED PDA there too. FREAKING DEALNEWS has the SuperFlower P/S giveway deal, (hey dont enter i was jus showing, i wanna win!).
But yesterday it was all doom and gloom with the tech sector research going to China, IT jobs plummetting, Toshiba ditching the NA market.... Ok is it Bush or the Internet Illuminati Collective responsible for the maniacness going on out there?!?!!!
perhaps one day we will have an organic computer!
hate to burst your bubble but just because they are made out of 'organic' materials doesnt mean they are natural. All it means is that instead of oil based acrylics, and metal laden materials, they are using carbon-based materials that have fast-transfer dendric properties. These materials are about as natural as DDT. They are still really cool devices tho and have a great contribution to technology, just dont go around thinking its like an extenstion of the human body or about to go reproducing on its own now...
Not if you paint them blue. Eh?! Or Make them look like a Starbucks, then everyone will love them. No wait, let Matt Barnes design them... Acutually if you took that land mass of 500 rhode islands or whatever it adds up to, and spread it out over the E_N_T_I_R_E US, i bet it wouldnt be as bad as say, an 800 K atmosphere.
do you realize you have the word electrode in your generation of hydrogen?
ok it may have been the stupidest response of all time (my point was that you told me you were at shiva, whether or not you think its a god or, if god exists (that one might matter), the fact is you told me yr password was shiva...), but at least i got a couple pretty interesting sub threads goin... not so stupid after all, eh!
This post has got to be influenced by the booming LCD market. Come on, unless you have ONE 15" window, there is no freaking way the average joe could afford to plaster say four windows averaging about 50" (in my TINY apt) with LCDs... and why would you want to, why not jus put up tin foil and look all fifties sci-fi like everyone else?!
ok, i didnt rtfa till after i posted but still even if it is a textbook (the price shoulda gave it away...) the review didnt give hint to this fact. Only following the bnr link did i get it. Anyway, i wasnt going to read it either way.
Im really surprised at some of these responses... i would really have expected most of you folks out there to be able to understand the chain rule and poisson notation. Granted its a little lame to be in a fantasy book, but sounds pretty interesting and a good quality review. Thats my two bits.
I'm up to Shiva
MWHAHAHAHA SUCKER! Now i kno yr password and you didnt even get my candy bar!!!!!
About 10,000 to be exact ok im correcting my own lame statement even tho no one else prolly read it. No About 10,000 is not the exact number. :)
All the U.S. has is nukes.
About 10,000 to be exact... and we're finding more EVERYDAY!!!!
Being as rampantly anti-american as i am (aka liberal) i welcome a future challenge to american political/economic hegemony. But looking at China's environmental history as evidinced in this book, including the mass devastation that occured in the three gorges dam project and the fact that China has allowed for themselves to become a major tech dumping ground for the worlds unwanted 386s and floppy drives and the like as became big news over two years ago. Perhaps this isnt the best thing for China and the worlds environmental health. Lets hope China's future bring both technological revolution and acknowledgement of environemtal respect!
Dont forget the junk fax as well, a more intermediate aged form of spam. Similar idea as telemarketing but the spiel is on a piece of paper sent en masse to number after number sans the annoying college kid trying to get rent or smack money.
Tired of at homezzzzzz money making schems. Heres the REEL DEEL!!!! seng 19.99,99 to 456 Happee Striet in Delanore, Island, NYC.. for yr paket(swtiching) 2dey!>!!>>! f.a.444fasklag3m3f0ckerrrzrite,//noew