FLAC is great. But it still can't capture the nuances of vinyl
What does that have to do with choosing FLAC over MP3? Regardless of whether either format can "capture the nuances" of vinyl, FLAC is obviously a better alternative to MP3 for archival purposes, which is what this guy is doing.
And the format he's using still doesn't influence whether he could "capture the nuances"; both are just recording the audio signal send to them from the turntable, except one compresses it losslessly and the other uses lossy compression.
I use FLAC to encode CDs onto my HTPC for my home stereo. As far as I can tell, it's indistinguishable from the CD.
Of course FLAC is indistinguishable from the CD. This and the above point makes me think that you don't know what FLAC, or lossless audio compression in general, is at all.
Was parent a troll? I honestly can't tell anymore.
Of what? Everything that needs to be accelerated is already accelerated.
2) Only two versions. Home and Pro.
Who cares? Just buy the version you want.
3) An expose function that is actually useful
Sorry that it's not OSX. Also, third party software.
4) Multiple desktops
Again, third party software. Supposed to be one of the advantages of Windows, you know.
5) IP over 1394a/b
IP over Firewire? Why in the hells?
6) NTFS support for Readyboost
Readyboost already works with NTFS formatted drives. Maybe you meant fixed HDDs, in which case you have no idea how or why Readyboost works (psst, look up "swap file").
7) Built-in support for running on a virtual machine
Already does. Not that you need built-in support for that, making it work is the virtualization software's job.
8) Better organization in the control panel and start menu.
"Better organization" is highly subjective. In fact, I find that the start menu and control panel are organized just fine! Not that it matters with Desktop Search.
I fail to see why China has to subscribe to your model of democracy. There seems to be some sort of preconceived notion that Democracy Is Great! And that everyone should live by it. Well you know what, some places don't give a damn how democracy works. Their own system works fine, they don't need you pushing your democracy down their throats.
Heh. These same 'photographic professionals' will be bitterly disappointed with higher-end software like Apple's Aperture and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - I didn't see any references to CMYK in the fully-functional trial versions I played round with the other week. Plus I liked the latter program so much that I bought it - and the only colour-space options I can find are 'ProPhoto RGB', 'AdobeRGB (1998)' and 'sRGB'.
What impact is this going to have on the carbon cycle? There is a set amount of carbon and oxygen on the earth, if we take a bunch and store them in crystals, it would cause a deficit in our supply. While this solves a short term problem, the long term effects are going to come back and bite us in the ass a few generations down.
Well given that 1 mol of gas in STP is 22.4L, 83L of CO2 comes to about 3.7 mol. The molar mass of CO2 is about 44 g/mol (12 + 16 + 16), so 83L comes to about 162.8g. Now I don't know what the density of this crystal is, but it's hard to believe that it's less than 0.1628g/cm^3, at which point the absorption mass ratio is 1:1. So I think it's safe to say that the absorption ratio will be more than 1:1 (that is, more crystal mass is required to capture a significantly smaller mass of gas).
I'm guessing they decided to go by the volume ratio of 1:83 to hype it up a bit (Wow! That must be a lot!), but anyone who's had basic chemistry education would know that gas densities are so low that a high volume compared to a solid means nothing.
It got too expensive. I recently looked into purchasing an USB arcade joystick for use with 2D fighter games, and the only ones worth looking at (X-Arcade, Hori) cost about $100, for a single controller. In comparison, a new PS2 can be had now for $130. $100 is just too much to shell out for a gaming peripheral.
Anonymous doesn't actually care about any of the crap people hate Scientology for ("But Scientology sucks because they don't publish their teachings!" - does anyone actually care about their teachings?), they just want to stir up shit. Except a few of them get a little too into it and the result is stuff like http://www.partyvan.info/index.php/GoddessMine and http://www.partyvan.info/index.php/Habbo_Hotel. They're just doing the same thing except now they have a more publicized target that is more hated, so suddenly they become interweb heroes.
I would question, though, why it is that you're defending them so carefully--it's very rare to find someone online defending scientology who is not themselves a member.
WGA is a solid failure in preventing J. Random Geek from getting around it, but that wasn't its main goal from the start. WGA was designed to combat real pirates - the ones who print millions of copies packaged just like the real thing, and sell them just slightly cheaper. Essentially they are printing money, reaping the benefits without the cost of developing the software.
Those polite messages that inform you that your copy isn't "genuine" isn't to tell J. Random Geek "ha-ha, we caught you using our software without paying for it!", it's to tell customers who have legitimately purchased it "your suppliers suck and you got scammed with a counterfeit copy." In this sense, WGA was a success by preventing pirates from selling a copy that works exactly the same as a genuine version. Even if they sell it pre-cracked, every time the user tries to get updates they would be informed of their copy's counterfeit status, and hopefully re-evaluate their suppliers so that no more money flows to the pirates.
If you manage to read down a few paragraphs you'll see the part where he explains why Vista does things differently than previous versions of Windows, and why it's better.
A little off topic, but just pointing out that if you can freely make copies of that money, then that money is in infinite supply and thus worthless. I don't think you would appreciate (hah!) your money being devalued. Also, this is generally referred to as counterfeiting, and quite illegal:^)
But with the ICT token, I cannot view HD (and ICT has just started to be enabled by Studio Canal for some HD-DVD releases). Pisses me off, but at least its limited to my dedicated HD-DVD player. I wouldn't tolerate this on my computer.
Well, unless your computer has an operating system that supports DRM (not Linux, BSD, or Solaris!), that is exactly what you will get on your computer. So how are you going to cope with your intolerable computer?
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We do that here in Canada too. It's called paying attention and helping commit things to memory.
FLAC is great. But it still can't capture the nuances of vinyl
What does that have to do with choosing FLAC over MP3? Regardless of whether either format can "capture the nuances" of vinyl, FLAC is obviously a better alternative to MP3 for archival purposes, which is what this guy is doing.
And the format he's using still doesn't influence whether he could "capture the nuances"; both are just recording the audio signal send to them from the turntable, except one compresses it losslessly and the other uses lossy compression.
I use FLAC to encode CDs onto my HTPC for my home stereo. As far as I can tell, it's indistinguishable from the CD.
Of course FLAC is indistinguishable from the CD. This and the above point makes me think that you don't know what FLAC, or lossless audio compression in general, is at all.
Was parent a troll? I honestly can't tell anymore.
sadly, most won't get the reference.
/Sadly/?
Are you suggesting that the fact most people don't understand references to Japanese cartoons is somehow a sad state of affairs?
Certainly, lets let users replace or augment functionality with third-party software, but that's no excuse for not providing usable defaults.
Default third party software? I smell antitrust...
1) Hardware acceleration
???
Of what? Everything that needs to be accelerated is already accelerated.
2) Only two versions. Home and Pro.
Who cares? Just buy the version you want.
3) An expose function that is actually useful
Sorry that it's not OSX. Also, third party software.
4) Multiple desktops
Again, third party software. Supposed to be one of the advantages of Windows, you know.
5) IP over 1394a/b
IP over Firewire? Why in the hells?
6) NTFS support for Readyboost
Readyboost already works with NTFS formatted drives. Maybe you meant fixed HDDs, in which case you have no idea how or why Readyboost works (psst, look up "swap file").
7) Built-in support for running on a virtual machine
Already does. Not that you need built-in support for that, making it work is the virtualization software's job.
8) Better organization in the control panel and start menu.
"Better organization" is highly subjective. In fact, I find that the start menu and control panel are organized just fine! Not that it matters with Desktop Search.
And that's just off the top of my head!
No wonder it's a load of rubbish then!
Think of [my] children!
I fail to see why China has to subscribe to your model of democracy. There seems to be some sort of preconceived notion that Democracy Is Great! And that everyone should live by it. Well you know what, some places don't give a damn how democracy works. Their own system works fine, they don't need you pushing your democracy down their throats.
Since the material in question is graphene, I'm going to take a wild guess and say... carbon.
Not welding the engine shut works because you can't just copy-paste the engine and put your own label on it.
CMYK, unlike sRGB, is not a colour space, it is a colour model.
"Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"?
You can't, because you didn't file a patent for it!
And, uh, HD?
What impact is this going to have on the carbon cycle? There is a set amount of carbon and oxygen on the earth, if we take a bunch and store them in crystals, it would cause a deficit in our supply. While this solves a short term problem, the long term effects are going to come back and bite us in the ass a few generations down.
I'm guessing they decided to go by the volume ratio of 1:83 to hype it up a bit (Wow! That must be a lot!), but anyone who's had basic chemistry education would know that gas densities are so low that a high volume compared to a solid means nothing.
It got too expensive. I recently looked into purchasing an USB arcade joystick for use with 2D fighter games, and the only ones worth looking at (X-Arcade, Hori) cost about $100, for a single controller. In comparison, a new PS2 can be had now for $130. $100 is just too much to shell out for a gaming peripheral.
Anonymous doesn't actually care about any of the crap people hate Scientology for ("But Scientology sucks because they don't publish their teachings!" - does anyone actually care about their teachings?), they just want to stir up shit. Except a few of them get a little too into it and the result is stuff like http://www.partyvan.info/index.php/GoddessMine and http://www.partyvan.info/index.php/Habbo_Hotel. They're just doing the same thing except now they have a more publicized target that is more hated, so suddenly they become interweb heroes.
SIR! Are you a COMMUNIST?!
To clarify, I believe the grandparent is pointing out that the described harassment tactics seem to be exactly what the masked avengers are doing.
Those polite messages that inform you that your copy isn't "genuine" isn't to tell J. Random Geek "ha-ha, we caught you using our software without paying for it!", it's to tell customers who have legitimately purchased it "your suppliers suck and you got scammed with a counterfeit copy." In this sense, WGA was a success by preventing pirates from selling a copy that works exactly the same as a genuine version. Even if they sell it pre-cracked, every time the user tries to get updates they would be informed of their copy's counterfeit status, and hopefully re-evaluate their suppliers so that no more money flows to the pirates.
Wait, Bootcamp and Parallels didn't work as advertised, so Vista sucks?
If you manage to read down a few paragraphs you'll see the part where he explains why Vista does things differently than previous versions of Windows, and why it's better.
A little off topic, but just pointing out that if you can freely make copies of that money, then that money is in infinite supply and thus worthless. I don't think you would appreciate (hah!) your money being devalued. Also, this is generally referred to as counterfeiting, and quite illegal :^)
Alas, one does not exist, since your definition of "Fully Functional" seems to be "plays HD content with the ICT bit set without HDCP support".
Well, unless your computer has an operating system that supports DRM (not Linux, BSD, or Solaris!), that is exactly what you will get on your computer. So how are you going to cope with your intolerable computer?