Yet sadly, Kenwood's multi-track read system -- which gave it 50-70x read speeds at ~15x spin speeds -- is no longer available. Kenwood got out of the CD business and don't seem to have licensed the technology to anyone else.
I for one would love a fast CD reader that doesn't sound like an airplane taking off...
So technically you got me, but the people in general in the Mideast don't seem to like us (with the exception of the saudi's)
15 of the 19 9/11 attackers were Saudis. You're confusing the attitude of the government with that of the people. Indeed, a key motivation of the kidnappers is that we help keep the Saudi government in power. I for one am happy we're pulling our troops out of Saudi Arabia.
I still wonder what sites Mozilla doesn't work on for you?
http://www.dynamism.com/zaurus7xx/pricing.shtml is the one I hit today. Sometimes it works close to right in full-fledged Mozilla, sometimes not; I tried loading it multiple times in Firebird but it never appeared correct.
They say the rate hasn't changed in years, and therefore we need to raise it. They don't seem to understand that with inflation, wages should also increase, so the revenue from an income tax increases as well.
Oh, they generally do understand it, they just hope you're dumb enough not to realize they're comparing apples and oranges and will go along with their increase. Maybe you can't fool all the people all the time, but you just have to confuse enough -- rename estate taxes to death taxes, complain about double taxation, etc.
Corporations will automate the process of offering $100 for the rights to every item about to go off-copyright, then pay the buck, and then nothing will pass into the public domain.
How would they keep track of it all? It's not the $1 renewal fee, it's the book-keeping overhead that really would limit the number of copyrights renewed. Also, I think the $1 is a one-time thing, not something you can pay every 50 years to keep the copyright going.
What boggles me is that no one I know of has come out with a good captioner. They all do that white or colored text over a solid black background square for each character, including the blanks, which blocks so much of the picture. Do a font with just a black outline around the letters and it would be so much nicer. If regs require the current mode, have the other mode as an option. I'd pay good money for such a captioning system built into my next TV.
Do TiVo, ReplayTV, or even computer PVRs support closed captioning or open captioning? My wife is hearing-impaired, so that would be a good thing. Or if there are computer formats that support captioning/subtitling, perhaps the captions could be merged into the video file?
Because then I'll feel no compulsion to watch it when it comes on the air. Those of us who remember the pre-VCR days remember seeing that, say, "The Great Escape" was coming on, and arranging one's schedule to watch it.
Kids watch the same thing numerous times, so they're more likely to want things recorded. A computer PVR is also useful for making CDs/VCDs/DVDs of home videos, which are worth archiving.
I suppose one might also end up trading for shows one hasn't seen.
Hey, dummy. It is Democrats who want to spend, spend, spend....which is why the last two presidents to submit balanced budgets were Clinton and Johnson, and Carter's deficits were ~1/5 the average deficit Reagan submitted.
Democrats want to spend, so do Republicans. The Democrats are just more honest about it.
There was talk about the concept of independent invention, which means that if someone comes up with a solution that someone else has a patent on, the situation isn't a clear-cut matter of infringement.
Tell that to e-bay and the nonsense $35 million judgement against them....and someone send the judge the dictionary definitions of "novel" and "obvious."
In light of this report, Tom Ridge is adding Rubber Rafts, or some other floatation devices to the list of items everyone should have on hand....and then we'll pile 'em all up, and the asteroid will just bounce off! Cool!
Your one of those folks who thinks the amount of money in a system is a limited amount, sort of like a pie which never shrinks or grows larger.
There is a finite resource: people time. The more that is spent on figuring out better ways to blow things up, the less there is to spend on other research. And the more people on active duty, the fewer potential researchers there are.
The question, though, is what those people would do without the military research with its spin-offs. Certainly there's plenty of non-military research, from the human genome project to the NIH, NSF, drug companies, et al. But the military emphasis has at times led to technological leaps (the jet engine, rockets, integrated circuits, etc.) that may not have come so quickly by the non-military approach.
Here's a question: could this be a pathway to video on demand services? Ok, you have to do something to prevent the pay stuff distributing over the free channel, but free stuff with banner/footer ads could be distributed this way, and perhaps some encryption system could be developed to prevent most of the piracy of other things.
The people who create the commercials go for the higher volume (often amplifying them into distortion, especially local commercials), even if the TV engineers don't munge with the audio level themselves.
My intravenous connection to alt.b.e.p.b has had to be shut down due to the weight of spam....and you don't think spammers would be all over a push network like white on rice?
This is neat stuff sure, but reading from a screen is hard, and most people will print it out anyways.
Am I the only person reading Slashdot who gets amused by someone who says that?
You won't get first post that way, anyways...
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They should just kill pennies anyway.
Make sales and other taxes round prices up to the nearest nickel. Banks could still have rolls of pennies for those desperate for Mr. Lincoln's face, but otherwise I'd be happy to see them disappear.
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For most music, the CD is identical to the master!
Isn't 24 bit, 96 khz recording becoming the standard?
Back in my day I had to write games in BASIC, on a 4.7Mhz computer with no hard disk and 128K of RAM.
Hmmph. After a few years of programming, I moved *up* to assembly language on a 1 Mhz 6502 with 64K of RAM.
These young whippersnappers...
Yet sadly, Kenwood's multi-track read system -- which gave it 50-70x read speeds at ~15x spin speeds -- is no longer available. Kenwood got out of the CD business and don't seem to have licensed the technology to anyone else.
I for one would love a fast CD reader that doesn't sound like an airplane taking off...
But alot of people on slashdot dont care because they are CEOs or upper level management, not level 1 programmers.
You're new here, aren't you?
Do you have any recommendations?
How about a white noise generator? After a bit you don't think about it, it's the variations in sound that usually are more distracting/disturbing.
So technically you got me, but the people in general in the Mideast don't seem to like us (with the exception of the saudi's)
15 of the 19 9/11 attackers were Saudis. You're confusing the attitude of the government with that of the people. Indeed, a key motivation of the kidnappers is that we help keep the Saudi government in power. I for one am happy we're pulling our troops out of Saudi Arabia.
no I'm saying it all started with the americans coming to industrialize, then the other nations, who are actully producing terrorists (like Iraq)
Name one anti-US terrorist "produced" by Iraq.
I still wonder what sites Mozilla doesn't work on for you?
http://www.dynamism.com/zaurus7xx/pricing.shtml is the one I hit today. Sometimes it works close to right in full-fledged Mozilla, sometimes not; I tried loading it multiple times in Firebird but it never appeared correct.
w3c's validator doesn't give useful info.
(You asked...)
They say the rate hasn't changed in years, and therefore we need to raise it. They don't seem to understand that with inflation, wages should also increase, so the revenue from an income tax increases as well.
Oh, they generally do understand it, they just hope you're dumb enough not to realize they're comparing apples and oranges and will go along with their increase. Maybe you can't fool all the people all the time, but you just have to confuse enough -- rename estate taxes to death taxes, complain about double taxation, etc.
Corporations will automate the process of offering $100 for the rights to every item about to go off-copyright, then pay the buck, and then nothing will pass into the public domain.
How would they keep track of it all? It's not the $1 renewal fee, it's the book-keeping overhead that really would limit the number of copyrights renewed. Also, I think the $1 is a one-time thing, not something you can pay every 50 years to keep the copyright going.
What boggles me is that no one I know of has come out with a good captioner. They all do that white or colored text over a solid black background square for each character, including the blanks, which blocks so much of the picture. Do a font with just a black outline around the letters and it would be so much nicer. If regs require the current mode, have the other mode as an option. I'd pay good money for such a captioning system built into my next TV.
Do TiVo, ReplayTV, or even computer PVRs support closed captioning or open captioning? My wife is hearing-impaired, so that would be a good thing. Or if there are computer formats that support captioning/subtitling, perhaps the captions could be merged into the video file?
Why would you want to burn stuff to CD to keep?
Because then I'll feel no compulsion to watch it when it comes on the air. Those of us who remember the pre-VCR days remember seeing that, say, "The Great Escape" was coming on, and arranging one's schedule to watch it.
Kids watch the same thing numerous times, so they're more likely to want things recorded. A computer PVR is also useful for making CDs/VCDs/DVDs of home videos, which are worth archiving.
I suppose one might also end up trading for shows one hasn't seen.
However, I'd still like to see a quality open source FPS sometime.
Hopefully, keeping it closed may slow down the cheats a bit.
Hey, dummy. It is Democrats who want to spend, spend, spend. ...which is why the last two presidents to submit balanced budgets were Clinton and Johnson, and Carter's deficits were ~1/5 the average deficit Reagan submitted.
Democrats want to spend, so do Republicans. The Democrats are just more honest about it.
PS: fist post fools
No, the fist post has a goatse.cx link.
('Cause he's clearly been... no, if you're too young to understand, it's not my place to explain.)
There was talk about the concept of independent invention, which means that if someone comes up with a solution that someone else has a patent on, the situation isn't a clear-cut matter of infringement.
...and someone send the judge the dictionary definitions of "novel" and "obvious."
Tell that to e-bay and the nonsense $35 million judgement against them.
whoops... I called him Brain not Bram... my bad...
"Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Pinky?"
"Well I think so, Brain, but burlap chafes me so."
In light of this report, Tom Ridge is adding Rubber Rafts, or some other floatation devices to the list of items everyone should have on hand. ...and then we'll pile 'em all up, and the asteroid will just bounce off! Cool!
Your one of those folks who thinks the amount of money in a system is a limited amount, sort of like a pie which never shrinks or grows larger.
There is a finite resource: people time. The more that is spent on figuring out better ways to blow things up, the less there is to spend on other research. And the more people on active duty, the fewer potential researchers there are.
The question, though, is what those people would do without the military research with its spin-offs. Certainly there's plenty of non-military research, from the human genome project to the NIH, NSF, drug companies, et al. But the military emphasis has at times led to technological leaps (the jet engine, rockets, integrated circuits, etc.) that may not have come so quickly by the non-military approach.
Here's a question: could this be a pathway to video on demand services? Ok, you have to do something to prevent the pay stuff distributing over the free channel, but free stuff with banner/footer ads could be distributed this way, and perhaps some encryption system could be developed to prevent most of the piracy of other things.
The people who create the commercials go for the higher volume (often amplifying them into distortion, especially local commercials), even if the TV engineers don't munge with the audio level themselves.
My intravenous connection to alt.b.e.p.b has had to be shut down due to the weight of spam. ...and you don't think spammers would be all over a push network like white on rice?
This is neat stuff sure, but reading from a screen is hard, and most people will print it out anyways.
Am I the only person reading Slashdot who gets amused by someone who says that?
You won't get first post that way, anyways...
They should just kill pennies anyway.
Make sales and other taxes round prices up to the nearest nickel. Banks could still have rolls of pennies for those desperate for Mr. Lincoln's face, but otherwise I'd be happy to see them disappear.