This may cause customers who value these services to switch to more reasonable internet providers, thus ensuring a steady supply of business for them.
Yes, and when it comes to broadband, most have such a WIDE and RICH array of providers from which to choose!!!:-P
I have Charter Pipeline, and that's it, although their 3 Gbps service has been pretty sweet, I must admit. DSL ping tests rate me for a paltry 128 kbps despite the fact that I am in the middle of a large metropolitan area. I think Verizon must bounce my land line off the moon or something, or I'm on some long overlooked, rusted out stub.
SO if you all block Charter, I switch to... who exactly? I get punished for the actions of others. Isn't this the sort of behavior for which everyone rails against the RIAA and MPAA?
Uh, in a free market economy, no one. Isn't a classless society is generally the goal of a socialist system? It doesn't work there, either, BTW.
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I'm as far from an animal rights person as you can get, but that's pretty funny.:) I once toyed with turning one into a part of a home automation system. Billy Bass would announce someone at the door or wake me up in the morning or something.
That's just it. I tend to get my contact lenses overcorrected for driving and outdoor stuff. I get my glasses slightly undercorrected for reading and closeup work. I might have the over/under terms reversed, but the point is that I can see every little LED from across the street, but my brain is thinking it's something on my eye making it... prickly is the only word I can come up with. You know in the morning when there's crap in your eyes? That's the effect, except it's not crap, it's the little lights.
Well, I figured Gabreil was a fairly low probability. I liked Ray on COS, but I'd like to see Phil back. Heck, I'd like to see Peter back, but I try not waste time hoping for high improbablies.
With Phil or Ray singing? Personally, I liked Calling All Stations, but I think I'm the only one. I could tell some of the songs were written with Phil's voice in mind, though.
I'm sorry, but didn't anyone else ever end up buying an album for just that one "must have" song?
No. Never.
If an artist only produced one song out of ten I wanted to have, I generally move on to an artist where I like most of the album.
There's more music out there than ever before, and the Internet helps me find it no matter where in the world (or in time... I discover lots from previous decades I never knew about back then) it's hiding. Anyone who can't find *any* artists where they enjoy the bulk of their albums, well, I'm not sure what that's about. Unreasonably narrow musical tastes? Not looking hard enough?
I wrote a prorgam that did this on my old Atari 800 back in the computer Steam Age.
I got:
44% "Happy"
12% "Baffled"
21% "Knowing lesbian smirk"
19% "Get your hand off my knee, Leo"
55% "Planning to start new religion"
8% "file not found"
I also analyzed the brush strokes and built a picture of DaVinci:
54% "Depressed"
61% "Inventive"
10% "Horny"
30% "That's not my hand, Mona"
71% "Must encode holy grail into here somehwere"
11% "She'd make a good tank"
16 bits is 65536 *levels* of amplitude.That's a difference of 15 microvolts per level for each volt of audio signal level. You think the human ear is going to differentiate between two adjacent levels? Not to mention that the level is always changing (if not, you have silence). Also, when you convert back to analog, the digital data is filtered which smooths it back out to, in theory, the original waveform.
Now for frequency, the top end of the human perceptual spectrum is about 22 KHz. All those nuances and tones and shading occur in that range. The Nyquist sampling rate to be able to perfectly reproduce (again, in theory) the original waveform is 2x your top frequency, so you sample at 44 KHz.
So you have your frequency spectrum covered, and way more amplitude levels than you need. Add some Reed Solomon error correction to account for scratches and other damage, and you have a decent audio standard despite what some audiophiles claim. When they were developing the standard, Sony and Philips even debated using 14 bit samples.
Well, the DVD playing capability is sort of a gimme, though, and one of the few logical extra functions of a game machine. The hardware is already in there. It's mainly a little extra software.
I dig the games that come out for the PS series, but I sit hear and read about all the functions they stuff into it, and some executiove from Sony talking about how hugely expensive it might be... I know a lot of PS2 owners like myself who are annoyed at the the fact that they may have to pay (or not) some big ticket just to play PS3 games.
Stop trying to make them an all in one box that will do everything from play games to media center to feeding the cat. All in one boxes teh suxxor, as the young 'uns say today, not to mention a single point of failure and all that jazz.
I just wish more developers would use GTA as a model. In addition to being fun games, the GTA3 series games are fun *toys* in the sense you can turn them on and just wander about a virtual world that reacts to your actions. I probably spend more time exploring and testing the limits of the game's law enforcement personnel:) than on the actual missions. And Rockstar must have a team of people who just design the various neighborhoods the way you can wander down back alleys and find lots of details.
I want my RPGs, platformers and adventure games to be like this now: an endless world where there's no map screens with limited areas. I want the world to just go and go and go. Shadow Of The Colussus did this well. I know a lot of the online worlds are like this, but those seem to require more free time than I have. I need the console stuff where I can play a bit and save and come back days later.
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Yup, you're boring. ;-)
I know. I was just teasing. Geez. :(
Someone told me the rage goes all the way back to 19th century Japan, but I told them that's crazy talk.
You don't have kids, so why "dada21"? The artform? Just curious.
I can't find ONE evil robot Santa from Futurama reference in this whole thread. For shame!
Yes, and when it comes to broadband, most have such a WIDE and RICH array of providers from which to choose!!! :-P
I have Charter Pipeline, and that's it, although their 3 Gbps service has been pretty sweet, I must admit. DSL ping tests rate me for a paltry 128 kbps despite the fact that I am in the middle of a large metropolitan area. I think Verizon must bounce my land line off the moon or something, or I'm on some long overlooked, rusted out stub.
SO if you all block Charter, I switch to... who exactly? I get punished for the actions of others. Isn't this the sort of behavior for which everyone rails against the RIAA and MPAA?
Uh, in a free market economy, no one. Isn't a classless society is generally the goal of a socialist system? It doesn't work there, either, BTW.
I'm as far from an animal rights person as you can get, but that's pretty funny. :) I once toyed with turning one into a part of a home automation system. Billy Bass would announce someone at the door or wake me up in the morning or something.
That's just it. I tend to get my contact lenses overcorrected for driving and outdoor stuff. I get my glasses slightly undercorrected for reading and closeup work. I might have the over/under terms reversed, but the point is that I can see every little LED from across the street, but my brain is thinking it's something on my eye making it... prickly is the only word I can come up with. You know in the morning when there's crap in your eyes? That's the effect, except it's not crap, it's the little lights.
I really hate those things. The big cluster of dots always looks out of focus to me, and I find myself blinking more to try and refocus them.
Well, I figured Gabreil was a fairly low probability. I liked Ray on COS, but I'd like to see Phil back. Heck, I'd like to see Peter back, but I try not waste time hoping for high improbablies.
Depends on what you do. In my R&D work, if I'm successful 37% of the time, people begin to wonder if I'm pushing the envelope hard enough.
With Phil or Ray singing? Personally, I liked Calling All Stations, but I think I'm the only one. I could tell some of the songs were written with Phil's voice in mind, though.
No. Never.
If an artist only produced one song out of ten I wanted to have, I generally move on to an artist where I like most of the album.
There's more music out there than ever before, and the Internet helps me find it no matter where in the world (or in time... I discover lots from previous decades I never knew about back then) it's hiding. Anyone who can't find *any* artists where they enjoy the bulk of their albums, well, I'm not sure what that's about. Unreasonably narrow musical tastes? Not looking hard enough?
I got:
44% "Happy"
12% "Baffled"
21% "Knowing lesbian smirk"
19% "Get your hand off my knee, Leo"
55% "Planning to start new religion"
8% "file not found"
I also analyzed the brush strokes and built a picture of DaVinci:
54% "Depressed"
61% "Inventive"
10% "Horny"
30% "That's not my hand, Mona"
71% "Must encode holy grail into here somehwere"
11% "She'd make a good tank"
I was talking about ONE step between adjacent levels from, say 0x2F50 to 0x2F51, and not the full dynamic range (0x0000 to 0xFFFF).
Who wants to start a CD ripping service with me?
16 bits is 65536 *levels* of amplitude.That's a difference of 15 microvolts per level for each volt of audio signal level. You think the human ear is going to differentiate between two adjacent levels? Not to mention that the level is always changing (if not, you have silence). Also, when you convert back to analog, the digital data is filtered which smooths it back out to, in theory, the original waveform.
Now for frequency, the top end of the human perceptual spectrum is about 22 KHz. All those nuances and tones and shading occur in that range. The Nyquist sampling rate to be able to perfectly reproduce (again, in theory) the original waveform is 2x your top frequency, so you sample at 44 KHz.
So you have your frequency spectrum covered, and way more amplitude levels than you need. Add some Reed Solomon error correction to account for scratches and other damage, and you have a decent audio standard despite what some audiophiles claim. When they were developing the standard, Sony and Philips even debated using 14 bit samples.
Nyquist
Well, you have three of the horsemen already. Sun is Famine, MS is Pestilence and Google is... um... either Death or War, I guess um...
OK, so the funny analogy fell apart. And wasn't funny. Sue me.
Can we have get extra Babylonian whores with that?
Um, OK. Be very afraid.
Good.
Now jump up and down on one leg and squeal like a pig.
Sun Search
Sun Maps
Sun Earth
Sun Blogger
Sun Froogle
Sun Groups
And so on...
If you're doing any kind of information/knowledge search, you never rely on a single source anyway. Unless you're a journalist.
I dig the games that come out for the PS series, but I sit hear and read about all the functions they stuff into it, and some executiove from Sony talking about how hugely expensive it might be... I know a lot of PS2 owners like myself who are annoyed at the the fact that they may have to pay (or not) some big ticket just to play PS3 games.
Stop trying to make them an all in one box that will do everything from play games to media center to feeding the cat. All in one boxes teh suxxor, as the young 'uns say today, not to mention a single point of failure and all that jazz.
I want my RPGs, platformers and adventure games to be like this now: an endless world where there's no map screens with limited areas. I want the world to just go and go and go. Shadow Of The Colussus did this well. I know a lot of the online worlds are like this, but those seem to require more free time than I have. I need the console stuff where I can play a bit and save and come back days later.