I think it's up to the parents to take control over what their children can handle. The parent knows best what's best for the kid. I know a 10-year old that plays GTA, but he still knows the difference between games and real life. The parents need to know if their child can draw that line, before their children cross it.
Right, and what better way to give parents control by ensuring they are the only ones who can buy the games?
This has proven useful since the other developers using Windows have had several problems with end of line characters in Windows causing issues with files
They need a better text editor, not a whole new OS;)
Voting for a 3rd party sends a message to both major parties that you are fed up with both of them, and that you aren't going to fall for the "throwing your vote away" lie any more. That's the only message they truly fear. If 20% voted for a 3rd party, one or both other parties would try to change to win back those votes.
I'm sure the 20% of voters who voted for Ross Perot in 1992 would disagree with you.;)
Suprised this wasn't modded "funny".. and if it is true, it really speaks to the craptacity of most music for sale if it's purchased (or otherwise obtained) by consumers who aren't even interested in listening to it as much as using it to provide background noise.
The viewer's acoustic privacy is maintained by the
irreversibility of the mapping from audio to
summary statistics. Unlike the speech-enabled
proactive agent by Hong et al. (2001), our approach
will not "overhear" conversations. Furthermore, no
one receiving (or intercepting) these statistics is
able to eavesdrop, on such conversations, since the
original audio does not leave the viewer's computer
and the summary statistics are insufficient for
reconstruction. Further, the system can easily be
designed to use an explicit 'mute/un-mute' button,
to give the viewer full control of when acoustic
statistics are collected for transmission
Honestly, I think there might be some false advertising in this, but my honest opinion is that we need to fight fire with fire and get the tech companies to start advertising as well.
Net Neutrality advocates already "fight fire with fire" when they spew their own lies and misinformation implying the end of the internet if NN is not enforced.
I agree with the poster upthread who said the problem isn't lack of NN, but lack of ISP options.
$50/mo for DSL? I don't know where you live, but SBC Yahoo offers it for 12.99/mo..
I agree with you on cell phones, but DSL is so cheap these days it's pointless to have dial-up unless it's your only option
"When Internet distribution starts, you can say goodbye to quality, and hello to DRM madness"
When internet distribution starts? Movies have been distributed on the internet for quite a while now. Just not by the copyright holders. Quality is often top notch, and it's a lot faster than Netflix too.;)
it has nothing to do with being an apple drone.. i just dropped a decent chunk of change a month ago (a mere three months after the product came out) on one of these things and now -- if this rumor is true -- i could have a bigger screen and possibly more funcitonality for around the same amount of money? that sucks. it kinda makes me wanna see if i can return mine or something, though if apple is gonna keep releasing new ones every 6 months there's not really much point
The people at Computer Shopper obviously know nothing about audio if you they are complaining about distortion after increasing the bass while listening to bass heavy music. Thats what is supposed to happen. If you get distortion when the EQ is turned off, chances are the source material is distorted.
I haven't compared the 5g ipod to any other portable devices except $70 a cd/mp3 player from Sony, and I'd say the audio quality is much greater than that device. The ipod sounds better than a lot of entry level component home audio equipment, though it's still not top of the line. The fact that the output comes from a headphone jack as opposed to 2 analog cables or 1/4" plugs means you will get line noise, and all the electronics that close together is begging for interference, though I haven't noticed anything in the two weeks i've owned it.
My higher bitrate (192+) mp3s sound just fine coming out of my home system which includes a sub woofer and 2 large bookshelf speakers (ie not some typical computer speaker setup).
I was even surprised with the the ear buds; everyone makes fun of them but they are definitely the highest quality ear buds i've ever owned. They don't match speakers that cover your ears but they are completely acceptable for everything I've played so far. My preferred genre is drum and bass and the bass is well reproduced on the little buds. I was expecting for the bass to roll off around 100Hz or higher but it kicks all the way down to the sub bass frequencies.
Bottom line is the audio is fine. It's certainly better than most portable music devices of the past, and unless you have a card better than a soundblaster it probably even sounds better than mp3s out of your computer.
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Been using it for years and years. No debugger but oh well.
Wow freeweed's post was oddly prescient!
I think it's up to the parents to take control over what their children can handle. The parent knows best what's best for the kid. I know a 10-year old that plays GTA, but he still knows the difference between games and real life. The parents need to know if their child can draw that line, before their children cross it.
Right, and what better way to give parents control by ensuring they are the only ones who can buy the games?
This has proven useful since the other developers using Windows have had several problems with end of line characters in Windows causing issues with files
;)
They need a better text editor, not a whole new OS
Voting for a 3rd party sends a message to both major parties that you are fed up with both of them, and that you aren't going to fall for the "throwing your vote away" lie any more. That's the only message they truly fear. If 20% voted for a 3rd party, one or both other parties would try to change to win back those votes.
;)
I'm sure the 20% of voters who voted for Ross Perot in 1992 would disagree with you.
Suprised this wasn't modded "funny".. and if it is true, it really speaks to the craptacity of most music for sale if it's purchased (or otherwise obtained) by consumers who aren't even interested in listening to it as much as using it to provide background noise.
The viewer's acoustic privacy is maintained by the irreversibility of the mapping from audio to summary statistics. Unlike the speech-enabled proactive agent by Hong et al. (2001), our approach will not "overhear" conversations. Furthermore, no one receiving (or intercepting) these statistics is able to eavesdrop, on such conversations, since the original audio does not leave the viewer's computer and the summary statistics are insufficient for reconstruction. Further, the system can easily be designed to use an explicit 'mute/un-mute' button, to give the viewer full control of when acoustic statistics are collected for transmission
Social- and Interactive-Television Applications Based on Real-Time Ambient-Audio Identification
If anybody believes this story I've got some oceanside property in Nevada I'd like to sell them.
Honestly, I think there might be some false advertising in this, but my honest opinion is that we need to fight fire with fire and get the tech companies to start advertising as well. Net Neutrality advocates already "fight fire with fire" when they spew their own lies and misinformation implying the end of the internet if NN is not enforced. I agree with the poster upthread who said the problem isn't lack of NN, but lack of ISP options.
Am I the only one who was suprised there was no mention of assembly language in a review about retro gaming hacks?
I turned into kind of a hobbie. Do you mean hobby? :D
A batch file is a program...
$50/mo for DSL? I don't know where you live, but SBC Yahoo offers it for 12.99/mo.. I agree with you on cell phones, but DSL is so cheap these days it's pointless to have dial-up unless it's your only option
"When Internet distribution starts, you can say goodbye to quality, and hello to DRM madness"
;)
When internet distribution starts? Movies have been distributed on the internet for quite a while now. Just not by the copyright holders. Quality is often top notch, and it's a lot faster than Netflix too.
Yes, Netflix has been doing this for years. They acknolesged it to me when I asked them back in 2004 or whenever I quit my subscription.
nm i am a retard and didn't read the whole post
Try pressing F3 in windows explorer sometime.
it has nothing to do with being an apple drone.. i just dropped a decent chunk of change a month ago (a mere three months after the product came out) on one of these things and now -- if this rumor is true -- i could have a bigger screen and possibly more funcitonality for around the same amount of money? that sucks. it kinda makes me wanna see if i can return mine or something, though if apple is gonna keep releasing new ones every 6 months there's not really much point
Yeah, if i had known about this I would have waited as well. Son of a...
I bet /. will pay more in bandwidth to answer this question than it would cost to buy a soundcard
Just buy a super cheap sound card and run the audio out to the line in on the entertainment box. you'll get better performance that way anyways
The people at Computer Shopper obviously know nothing about audio if you they are complaining about distortion after increasing the bass while listening to bass heavy music. Thats what is supposed to happen. If you get distortion when the EQ is turned off, chances are the source material is distorted.
I haven't compared the 5g ipod to any other portable devices except $70 a cd/mp3 player from Sony, and I'd say the audio quality is much greater than that device. The ipod sounds better than a lot of entry level component home audio equipment, though it's still not top of the line. The fact that the output comes from a headphone jack as opposed to 2 analog cables or 1/4" plugs means you will get line noise, and all the electronics that close together is begging for interference, though I haven't noticed anything in the two weeks i've owned it.
My higher bitrate (192+) mp3s sound just fine coming out of my home system which includes a sub woofer and 2 large bookshelf speakers (ie not some typical computer speaker setup).
I was even surprised with the the ear buds; everyone makes fun of them but they are definitely the highest quality ear buds i've ever owned. They don't match speakers that cover your ears but they are completely acceptable for everything I've played so far. My preferred genre is drum and bass and the bass is well reproduced on the little buds. I was expecting for the bass to roll off around 100Hz or higher but it kicks all the way down to the sub bass frequencies.
Bottom line is the audio is fine. It's certainly better than most portable music devices of the past, and unless you have a card better than a soundblaster it probably even sounds better than mp3s out of your computer.