Socialism does NOT recommend Governmrnt control over means of production. It reccomends that each individual has as much right to means of produciton, and goods produced, as every other individual. Govenmental contorl is merely a means to that end, and is a historiclly demonstratable bad one. Ina true socialist society, there would be no need for government to have any control over the economy whatsoever, including taxation.
OK, I'll concede that your turntable most likely did sound much better than your CD. However, this doesn't mean (as your square wave vs. sine wave implies) that analog cannot be perectly represented in digital form. Given a frequent enough number of samples, a sine wave can be represented indistiguishable ( to a human, at least) as a sum of square waves (digital). It just has to do with the size you have to work with. Anyone who continues to claim (once it has been released) that DVD audio is inferior to turntables will be, I expect, deluding themselves.
I read this page, but I am at a loss to see what the difference would be between using this and say, bzip2, which is a lossless compression scheme. Unless this is optimized especially for audio, and gets you smaller filesizes? THough I can't see that, if the best possble compression is 45%.
Was this a blind test? I.E., did you get someone else to play the audio, from somewhere you and the participants couldnt see? If not, it isn't much of a test. Anyone asked would pick the turntable, since it's generally common knowledge that "turntables sound better", so your mind plays tricks on you. It wouldn't be much of a test unless it was run like 10 times, each time blind, with different tracks, switching the 2 sources randomly. THEN we'll see which one really sounds better to you.
To be able to tell the difference between an MP3 encoded at 640 kbps and the actual wav file. Just because the shit you dl off napster's quality sucks, doesn't mean the whole format does.
The e570 is one of the smallest devices on the market; its only bulge appears in its thickness because of the two slots. Both a lightweight and a small guy.
Try again genius. Maybe next time by READING the article, instead of glancing at the pictures and making a lame first post attempt.
GNOME is not an independent software project; it is a part of the GNU system
Somehow, I don't see Sun agreeing with this. Sun was one of the major backers of Gnome, and it's adoption in SOlaris was going to expose a whole new class of people to Free Software. But if GNOME exists soley for the GNU system, surely this is a bad thing? Personally, I think RMS is a bit of a fanatic, and shoul not be elected to this board.
Well, I'm not siding with MS, but don't forget to include the cost of packaging (Those boxes are huge!), shipping, distribution, keeping track of 3 more CD keys, etc. It's probably close to 5 or 6 dollars at least.
It's been happening to me ever since they moved to this new slashcode (aka garbage). ALthough I whack it up to more of the fact that they use MySQL (not designed for this heavy a load).
Quick question: I was wondering why there is so much fuss about this KBuild thing, and why there is going to be so much time / resouces spent on it in 2.5. I have never had a problem with the current kernel config, and find it quite intuitive (make xconfig especially). I can think of many more things which I would think deserve a higher priority than this. Someone care to enlighten me?
Needing a license to practice only applys to CERTAIN types of engineers doing CERTAIN projects. I can tell you right now that if you go to work for Intel, but don't have an EE, you're not going to be arrested or anything. Sure, Intel may be taking a chance, but that's their problem. Now, Civil Engineers designing bridges is a different issue.
I expect it would be the same for software engineering. Good (and neerly necessary) to have the certification, but it won't impede Free Software in any way.
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Hrm... if you are right, and they are reading this, I hope they plan to package it as a seperate addon when KDE 3 comes out then. I realy watt to try reaktivate, but I can't bother going through the whole hassle of buildin KDE3 beta to do it. When it is released however, you can be damn sure I'll want it.
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The crossov rplugin has nothing t all to do with KDe... it's a Netscape/Mozilla plugin. It does work in Konqueror, but the KDe team had nothing to do with it.
You're thinking about reaktivate, which is the KPart in KDE-CVS which does essentially the same as the crossove plugin (runs windows AcitveX controls ), but with one big difference - its free, as in beer and speech. It's nowhere near ready for primetime yet though (I don't even think its planned for release with KDE 3.
I don't think anyone has even read this guy's page. He does not want, and will not accept contributions to AtheOS. It's a hobby project for him, for fun. He doesn't want it to be the next great OS, he just wants to learn.
The way I am deducing this is that Sega stopped producing the dreamcats MONTHS ago, just previous to which I bought a dreamcast, which can boot CD's. Sega would not change a product's design (this is expensive) weeks before trashing it totally. It makes 0 business sense.
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Socialism does NOT recommend Governmrnt control over means of production. It reccomends that each individual has as much right to means of produciton, and goods produced, as every other individual. Govenmental contorl is merely a means to that end, and is a historiclly demonstratable bad one. Ina true socialist society, there would be no need for government to have any control over the economy whatsoever, including taxation.
Good price on it here. Check out their other MP3 players too, some good deals.
Seriously, are moderators smoking crack nowadays or what? How MORE ON-TOPIC can this post get???
ttp://, is that the "tele-transport protocol, or what?
Please, PLEASE editors CHECK the submissions!
OK, I'll concede that your turntable most likely did sound much better than your CD. However, this doesn't mean (as your square wave vs. sine wave implies) that analog cannot be perectly represented in digital form. Given a frequent enough number of samples, a sine wave can be represented indistiguishable ( to a human, at least) as a sum of square waves (digital). It just has to do with the size you have to work with. Anyone who continues to claim (once it has been released) that DVD audio is inferior to turntables will be, I expect, deluding themselves.
I read this page, but I am at a loss to see what the difference would be between using this and say, bzip2, which is a lossless compression scheme. Unless this is optimized especially for audio, and gets you smaller filesizes? THough I can't see that, if the best possble compression is 45%.
Was this a blind test? I.E., did you get someone else to play the audio, from somewhere you and the participants couldnt see? If not, it isn't much of a test. Anyone asked would pick the turntable, since it's generally common knowledge that "turntables sound better", so your mind plays tricks on you. It wouldn't be much of a test unless it was run like 10 times, each time blind, with different tracks, switching the 2 sources randomly. THEN we'll see which one really sounds better to you.
To be able to tell the difference between an MP3 encoded at 640 kbps and the actual wav file. Just because the shit you dl off napster's quality sucks, doesn't mean the whole format does.
Too bad the video clips are unviewable for most of us.
The e570 is one of the smallest devices on the market; its only bulge appears in its thickness because of the two slots. Both a lightweight and a small guy.
Try again genius. Maybe next time by READING the article, instead of glancing at the pictures and making a lame first post attempt.
GNOME is not an independent software project; it is a part of the GNU system
Somehow, I don't see Sun agreeing with this. Sun was one of the major backers of Gnome, and it's adoption in SOlaris was going to expose a whole new class of people to Free Software. But if GNOME exists soley for the GNU system, surely this is a bad thing? Personally, I think RMS is a bit of a fanatic, and shoul not be elected to this board.
Gimme a break. /.'s Groupthink is really annoying. I really DO wish the editors payed a ttention to stuff that's been posted before.
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I think they'd have to port Qt to windows natively
Thats what you said. You never said anything about porting it from QT/X11, and neither did the parent.
Ummmm, qt has already been ported to windows natively... Actually, it's neve rbeen a port, since it was designed to run on both.
Well, I'm not siding with MS, but don't forget to include the cost of packaging (Those boxes are huge!), shipping, distribution, keeping track of 3 more CD keys, etc. It's probably close to 5 or 6 dollars at least.
More due to the fact that /.'s MySQL and CrapCode have been pukeing again today, as usual
It's been happening to me ever since they moved to this new slashcode (aka garbage). ALthough I whack it up to more of the fact that they use MySQL (not designed for this heavy a load).
Quick question: I was wondering why there is so much fuss about this KBuild thing, and why there is going to be so much time / resouces spent on it in 2.5. I have never had a problem with the current kernel config, and find it quite intuitive (make xconfig especially). I can think of many more things which I would think deserve a higher priority than this. Someone care to enlighten me?
Needing a license to practice only applys to CERTAIN types of engineers doing CERTAIN projects. I can tell you right now that if you go to work for Intel, but don't have an EE, you're not going to be arrested or anything. Sure, Intel may be taking a chance, but that's their problem. Now, Civil Engineers designing bridges is a different issue.
I expect it would be the same for software engineering. Good (and neerly necessary) to have the certification, but it won't impede Free Software in any way.
Hrm... if you are right, and they are reading this, I hope they plan to package it as a seperate addon when KDE 3 comes out then. I realy watt to try reaktivate, but I can't bother going through the whole hassle of buildin KDE3 beta to do it. When it is released however, you can be damn sure I'll want it.
The crossov rplugin has nothing t all to do with KDe... it's a Netscape/Mozilla plugin. It does work in Konqueror, but the KDe team had nothing to do with it.
You're thinking about reaktivate, which is the KPart in KDE-CVS which does essentially the same as the crossove plugin (runs windows AcitveX controls ), but with one big difference - its free, as in beer and speech. It's nowhere near ready for primetime yet though (I don't even think its planned for release with KDE 3.
I don't think anyone has even read this guy's page. He does not want, and will not accept contributions to AtheOS. It's a hobby project for him, for fun. He doesn't want it to be the next great OS, he just wants to learn.
The way I am deducing this is that Sega stopped producing the dreamcats MONTHS ago, just previous to which I bought a dreamcast, which can boot CD's. Sega would not change a product's design (this is expensive) weeks before trashing it totally. It makes 0 business sense.
1 Very short audio track and no data tracks... you mean kinda like EVERY bootable CD I burn for my dreamcast? Yeah.. exactly like that.
It's PCI. All the spccs for all the Dreamcast hardware are described in detail here.