My apologiebs... I meant to say coaxial not toslink.
My point is that the shielding provided by coaxial cables is useless in most environments, and any normal RCA cable will do an equally handsome job. When it comes to jitter correction, most DACs are eqippped with some kind of buffer which prevents the loss of data.
The coat-hanger expression btw was simply a hyperbole. I certainly do not intend to do such a thing. Wrestling with a hanger to turn it into a cable is not my cup of tea.
Think about it for a second. Even if you _need_ a coaxial cable, any cheap cable would suffice. The reason I hate monster cable is because they sell $200 cables which claim to drastically improve sound. If you want you can get a device that detects jitter, and compare cables yourself. People have already done this btw.
Furthermore, there are some magazines that write things like, "the moment we switched to cable, the bottom-end came to life and the bass could now be felt." Can you smell the ignorance now?
Talking about cables...
Do you really think that putting a high quality cable in a _digital_ environment is going to make any difference? Think about how your computers cables work. My mouse is connected to the ps/2 controller without any special shielding, and it still works perfectly. The goal is to transfer the bits to and fro, and putting a monster cable is not going to improve it.
Right, so basically I should first get a $30 manual, then replace all the caps with $50 ones, and change the RCA jacks with gold-plated ones? I am pretty sure that if one conducts double blind tests there will be no difference. This crap is a lot like the monster cable crap I used to here--to use a *high quality* cable for the toslink digital jack. I mean, I could use my coat hanger instead and still make the bits pass. All BS.
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I think we seriously need to think about this whole issue _right_now_, since it is important to development. QWERTY was developed a long time ago, for typewriters; and while DVORAK solves some of its problems, it was still designed (by Dvorak) using nothing but pen and paper. Today we already have algorithms (some open sourced too) to generate new keymaps based on writing efficiency, usually language based. Such programs use rules such as -- two far off keys typed by the same hand is a negative; alternating between hands is usually good; and two keys together are also a plus. One can feed large amounts of data--text in different languages (to get to a mean) or even C code, in order to generate the "perfect" keymap. This can take a long time, but this is what our clusters are for...
I have been thinking of doing this for a long time now. I did find open source code to do just this, but none were usable enough while still having complex-enough rules.
I think It'll be good if we have a mass-switching now (promoted by the governments), since the computer-using population is growing every day.
If someone wants to help me in keymap generation you may contact me.
Coke was actually the leading soft drink in India till 1977, when it left due to certain government policies. It returned later in 1993 (i think). I remember the good Campa Cola days though, thats when I was growing up...
yea Dude, and they are apparently _not_ microsoft programs. Think before you write crap.
The point is that I really don't see people switching, free cds or not.
I spent years trying to persuade highschool teachers, friends, relatives, whatever without success. People have IE so they don't want Firefox, they have their one dollar msoffice so they don't want ooffice, they have outlook so they don't want some crappy mail client.
So much for the native languages, the fact of the matter is that nobody even cares about writing in Tamil or Hindi on his computer since it is simply not practical, given the english keyboards. English is one of the official languages of India, and when it comes to documents, the language of choice. I don't see where all this is going.
I think the anti-piracy steps taken by micrsoft is the one thing that'll make people switch. I think its a blessing in disguise.
Well this is good to hear, but the biggest problem in India is software piracy--as long as people continue to get WinXP and MSOffice cdroms for less than a dollar, I don't see how their (our) ignorant minds will agree to trash Microsoft and go open source...
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My apologiebs... I meant to say coaxial not toslink. My point is that the shielding provided by coaxial cables is useless in most environments, and any normal RCA cable will do an equally handsome job. When it comes to jitter correction, most DACs are eqippped with some kind of buffer which prevents the loss of data. The coat-hanger expression btw was simply a hyperbole. I certainly do not intend to do such a thing. Wrestling with a hanger to turn it into a cable is not my cup of tea. Think about it for a second. Even if you _need_ a coaxial cable, any cheap cable would suffice. The reason I hate monster cable is because they sell $200 cables which claim to drastically improve sound. If you want you can get a device that detects jitter, and compare cables yourself. People have already done this btw. Furthermore, there are some magazines that write things like, "the moment we switched to cable, the bottom-end came to life and the bass could now be felt." Can you smell the ignorance now?
Talking about cables... Do you really think that putting a high quality cable in a _digital_ environment is going to make any difference? Think about how your computers cables work. My mouse is connected to the ps/2 controller without any special shielding, and it still works perfectly. The goal is to transfer the bits to and fro, and putting a monster cable is not going to improve it.
Right, so basically I should first get a $30 manual, then replace all the caps with $50 ones, and change the RCA jacks with gold-plated ones?
I am pretty sure that if one conducts double blind tests there will be no difference.
This crap is a lot like the monster cable crap I used to here--to use a *high quality* cable for the toslink digital jack. I mean, I could use my coat hanger instead and still make the bits pass. All BS.
I think we seriously need to think about this whole issue _right_now_, since it is important to development. QWERTY was developed a long time ago, for typewriters; and while DVORAK solves some of its problems, it was still designed (by Dvorak) using nothing but pen and paper. Today we already have algorithms (some open sourced too) to generate new keymaps based on writing efficiency, usually language based. Such programs use rules such as -- two far off keys typed by the same hand is a negative; alternating between hands is usually good; and two keys together are also a plus. One can feed large amounts of data--text in different languages (to get to a mean) or even C code, in order to generate the "perfect" keymap. This can take a long time, but this is what our clusters are for... I have been thinking of doing this for a long time now. I did find open source code to do just this, but none were usable enough while still having complex-enough rules. I think It'll be good if we have a mass-switching now (promoted by the governments), since the computer-using population is growing every day. If someone wants to help me in keymap generation you may contact me.
Coke was actually the leading soft drink in India till 1977, when it left due to certain government policies. It returned later in 1993 (i think). I remember the good Campa Cola days though, thats when I was growing up...
Torvalds' employer is OSDL. He left Transmeta years ago.
yea Dude, and they are apparently _not_ microsoft programs. Think before you write crap. The point is that I really don't see people switching, free cds or not. I spent years trying to persuade highschool teachers, friends, relatives, whatever without success. People have IE so they don't want Firefox, they have their one dollar msoffice so they don't want ooffice, they have outlook so they don't want some crappy mail client. So much for the native languages, the fact of the matter is that nobody even cares about writing in Tamil or Hindi on his computer since it is simply not practical, given the english keyboards. English is one of the official languages of India, and when it comes to documents, the language of choice. I don't see where all this is going. I think the anti-piracy steps taken by micrsoft is the one thing that'll make people switch. I think its a blessing in disguise.
Well this is good to hear, but the biggest problem in India is software piracy--as long as people continue to get WinXP and MSOffice cdroms for less than a dollar, I don't see how their (our) ignorant minds will agree to trash Microsoft and go open source...