Ok, first of all, as I stated, it wasn't me that did this. My friend Saagar, who is now a Junior at Carnegie-Mellon University did.
His AIM screen name is saagar734, feel free to IM him and ask him if this story is true, he's the one who told me about it.
He told me this story, ask him about it. It might be bullshit for all I know, maybe he told me as a joke or something, but I have heard it from more people than just him at my school.
Also, who said he was writing device drivers? Who said he was using a proper OS, and not one that one of the very talented programming teachers at our school wrote?
As further proof that he exists and that he is also a very talented programmer, here's a website listing winners of a programming competition that he competed in during his attendance at my high school: link. Check out spring and fall of 2002 and look for Saagar Patel.
At my old high school, there were about 5 uber-geeks (myself included) that always knew the root password for one reason or another (cracked, admin trusted one person, etc). Anyway, we were all learning to program and one of the more savvy programmers wrote a program to calculate PI and store the results to the HD. Once he finally got it working he wanted to try to run it on the server as a benchmark. Well, we were all new to programming and it turned out that the program used an infinite loop and wrote directly to the HD. Yes, that's right, it accessed the HD directly, on the hardware level. Well, sure enough, he left it running for the weekend, and we came back to see that it had overwritten a large number of user storage space!
Luckily, we went to a school who was pretty cool about it. We had an awesome admin who understood that it was all part of a learning process and the only result of it was that all 5 of us were required to stay after school for the next week helping him fix everything.
Ironically, another kid did the same thing about 3 years later but although he was smart enough not to have the program write the output of the PI calculation to the HD, he wrote a wonderful algorithm that saved RAM to the HD when the computer ran out of RAM (similar to a page file aka virtual memory) which ended up overwriting the main server's operating system requiring a full reformat.
Regardless of whether ot not it "seems" illogical is irrelevant, due to the fact that making a claim like that is inherently fallicious.
Useful, yes. Slashdot worthy, no. It's your job as a consumer to look beyond the adverts, and showing you how is not "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters."
Dare accepted. I've already stated that I believe the difference to be minimal, and linked a page with a real world comparison that agrees with that statement. Where's yours?
I don't usually (like others, I suspect) randomly click on links on pages that are complete gibberish to me.
Actually, trying to claim that all iRiver models have ogg problems based on a review of one model would be Hasty Generalization which is a common logical fallacy. Whoops!
Nobody buys an iPod Photo just to look at photos (well maybe somebody, but it isn't very common.) People buy the iPod photo because it's a color iPod with more storage space.
Or you could just use MP3s..
Is a moral crusade really worth carrying a huge, heavy, small storage space device (all by portable music standards) with you jogging?
I own a SL-5500 and it's a big pain to even carry in my pocket walking.
The iRiver and the shuffle are both catagorically placed together in competition (price, size, and storage space wise), so it only makes sense to compare them.
I won't feel safe until I see gun turrets atop of every data warehouse!
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The Airport specs aren't being withheld by Apple, it's a Broadcom chipset which is proprietary.
There's a petition for Broadcom to release opensource drivers on PetitionOnline.com.
Why not dual core?
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Is it just me, or does this seem like a waste of space? CPU technology is heading towards dual core, doesn't this seem like the next step for video cards?
Personally, I wouldn't buy a SLI cardset. Top of the line video cards are already $500. What kind of person really needs that much fps or resolution? It gets beyond a point of recognition, where the difference is so small that it isn't noticed. The only real reason people would spend that much money is for bragging rights, which is an absurd principle to spend money on.
This is great, but EULAs are still way to long to read. Maybe if they made them like 2 paragraphs and included a summary above them, more people would read them.
When I say digital, I don't mean HDTV. I get a digital signal that is decoded by the set top box on my TV. Basically, as you stated, its really just NTSC upsampled to "digital."
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"Piracy will never stop, because there will always be people with more time than money" -Shawn Fanning (The Napster guy)
Had TFSH (The Fine Slashdot Headline) been accurate
;-)
Something tells me that the F doesn't stand for "fine"
"PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?"
As much as I hate Microsoft, he's right.
Capitalism at it's finest...
Ok, first of all, as I stated, it wasn't me that did this. My friend Saagar, who is now a Junior at Carnegie-Mellon University did.
His AIM screen name is saagar734, feel free to IM him and ask him if this story is true, he's the one who told me about it.
He told me this story, ask him about it. It might be bullshit for all I know, maybe he told me as a joke or something, but I have heard it from more people than just him at my school.
Also, who said he was writing device drivers? Who said he was using a proper OS, and not one that one of the very talented programming teachers at our school wrote?
As further proof that he exists and that he is also a very talented programmer, here's a website listing winners of a programming competition that he competed in during his attendance at my high school: link. Check out spring and fall of 2002 and look for Saagar Patel.
Funny (off topic) story here -
At my old high school, there were about 5 uber-geeks (myself included) that always knew the root password for one reason or another (cracked, admin trusted one person, etc). Anyway, we were all learning to program and one of the more savvy programmers wrote a program to calculate PI and store the results to the HD. Once he finally got it working he wanted to try to run it on the server as a benchmark. Well, we were all new to programming and it turned out that the program used an infinite loop and wrote directly to the HD. Yes, that's right, it accessed the HD directly, on the hardware level. Well, sure enough, he left it running for the weekend, and we came back to see that it had overwritten a large number of user storage space!
Luckily, we went to a school who was pretty cool about it. We had an awesome admin who understood that it was all part of a learning process and the only result of it was that all 5 of us were required to stay after school for the next week helping him fix everything.
Ironically, another kid did the same thing about 3 years later but although he was smart enough not to have the program write the output of the PI calculation to the HD, he wrote a wonderful algorithm that saved RAM to the HD when the computer ran out of RAM (similar to a page file aka virtual memory) which ended up overwriting the main server's operating system requiring a full reformat.
Regardless of whether ot not it "seems" illogical is irrelevant, due to the fact that making a claim like that is inherently fallicious.
Useful, yes. Slashdot worthy, no. It's your job as a consumer to look beyond the adverts, and showing you how is not "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters."
Dare accepted. I've already stated that I believe the difference to be minimal, and linked a page with a real world comparison that agrees with that statement. Where's yours?
I don't usually (like others, I suspect) randomly click on links on pages that are complete gibberish to me.
Actually, trying to claim that all iRiver models have ogg problems based on a review of one model would be Hasty Generalization which is a common logical fallacy.
Whoops!
Although it was meant to be funny, my comment was also showing that what the parent was asking for was unreasonable, and very unlikely to occur.
Although ogg does sound better at lower bitrates, a quick google search reveals that the difference is minimal.
Also, the link you provided is either in another language or won't open properly in firefox. Either way, I see gibberish.
Rare creatures indeed.
"Results 1 - 10 of about 1,150 confirmed / 13,300 total results for ogg player."
Froogle is useful =P
Nobody buys an iPod Photo just to look at photos (well maybe somebody, but it isn't very common.) People buy the iPod photo because it's a color iPod with more storage space.
wake UP!
f) The device plays Duke Nukem Forever.
Or you could just use MP3s..
Is a moral crusade really worth carrying a huge, heavy, small storage space device (all by portable music standards) with you jogging?
I own a SL-5500 and it's a big pain to even carry in my pocket walking.
The iRiver and the shuffle are both catagorically placed together in competition (price, size, and storage space wise), so it only makes sense to compare them.
You mean like an iPod shuffle, which is designed exactly for people with those needs, and is smaller and cheaper than the iRiver?
I agree.
I won't feel safe until I see gun turrets atop of every data warehouse!
The Airport specs aren't being withheld by Apple, it's a Broadcom chipset which is proprietary.
There's a petition for Broadcom to release opensource drivers on PetitionOnline.com.
Is it just me, or does this seem like a waste of space? CPU technology is heading towards dual core, doesn't this seem like the next step for video cards?
Personally, I wouldn't buy a SLI cardset. Top of the line video cards are already $500. What kind of person really needs that much fps or resolution? It gets beyond a point of recognition, where the difference is so small that it isn't noticed. The only real reason people would spend that much money is for bragging rights, which is an absurd principle to spend money on.
This is great, but EULAs are still way to long to read. Maybe if they made them like 2 paragraphs and included a summary above them, more people would read them.
How is it pronounced? Is it like "Spics?"
I bet it's a bitch to try and upgrade. Your best bet is to hire a midget with small hands to help out...
What makes this any different from mini-ATX?
Looks very alike to me
When I say digital, I don't mean HDTV. I get a digital signal that is decoded by the set top box on my TV. Basically, as you stated, its really just NTSC upsampled to "digital."