Analogue amplification gives even harmonics whereas digital amplification gives odd harmonics. And even harmonics are more pleasing to the ear. You can obviate the problem of odd harmonics by producing more harmonics to nudge the signal back to more pleasing shapes, but that means that an op-amp running at 192kHz can produce a pseudo-analogue amplified signal equating to an analogue amplifier with a ceiling of 30kHz.
It's one reason why early CDs were, frankly, crap: the sound engineers used the same techniques making the sound track for the CD that they did for the analogue LP. But the CD has different strengths and weaknesses and some processes that utilised the strength of LP and avoided the weakness of them were unsuited to the CD characteristics.
AFAIR, the re-release of the White Album was the first one where they went back to the original tapes and worked the signal to accord with the CD and digital amplification strengths.
Now they're ditching the high dynamic range of CD in the loudness war.
Way to go, guys.
All I hear is: "Blah blah blah tube blah blah loud blah blah" *ringing in my ears*
Unless you live in New York, where 5GB is the most you can possibly ever pull down in a month due to network issues and speeds. That makes it unlimited! Who needs thottling or limits, when you can just overload your network and overcharge your customers!
And this is why I don't understand why companies would spend so much on throttling; it's a naturally self-limiting system.
btw mark, youre fuckerberg for me from now on. your numerous failures in regard to privacy policies and flops with pr earned you an f in place of the z in your last name. enjoy.
I used to call him that as a joke. Maybe now Dumbfuckerberg would be more apropos?
"But this time it is different - instead of downloading the app from a website, you get them from an app store!" Yeah, right.
But it is different; because of perception. People think "Oh, the Apple App store; everything here has been thoroughly vetted by Apple and given the thumbs-up" when in reality, the vetting process is: "does it crash? does it look like it does what it says?" and maaaybe: "are there any obvious hooks into user data that the stated purpose of the App doesn't need?" Almost assuredly nothing that checks for obfuscated code,
Wow, Apple zealots really didn't like that post. Up to 5, then down to 0. Steve Jobs will be proud of your moderations. You might get a VIP ticket to the next Macworld expo.
One of my concerns is that the things I'll remember into my twilight years are all the different passphrases I have to use at work. I still remember passwords I created in 1995.
Time to move.gov off of Microsoft entirely. This negates some of the protection afforded by our nation in the event of a cyberwar.
Actually, it's more an indication that everyone except.gov needs to ditch MS entirely. As this Anon-coward has pointed out, ordinary folk are made more vulnerable by this program. Just imagine if country X got a hold of the specifics of a wormable exploit with the assurance that ordinary folk in the U.S. won't get the patch until later. The U.S. govt would be potentially protected, but.coms,.nets,.edus... http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1656658&cid=32257956
and i am the future. as oil prices creep up inevitably, inexorably, and permanently, the suburbs will die. we'll live like our great granfathers: dense urban centers, lots of public transportation
And manure clogging the streets. I'm glad my great grandfather was a subsistence farmer in what is still considered wilderness. Your ideal world of tomorrow sounds like hell.
On the plus side, with recent advances in DNA computing, we should just be able to introduce bzip2-capable e. coli into the environment, which will shrink the tarballs to a more manageable size in no time...
Completely unnecessary if the tar was made from GNUs. Just throw a Jay into the slick.
It only takes about 20 minutes to educate a neophyte, if they're willing to learn, how to lock down privacy on Facebook....
Until Facebook changes it again. Two years ago, I had everything locked down to friends only. Since that time, they've forced profile picture, current city, home town, likes/interests, work history, education history (and approximate age by proxy), to be public. There are still options to prevent non-friends from seeing some of those things via Facebook, but the Facebook Connections API allows anyone on the internet access to all those things for every user (further confusing the issue, because people are "sure" they locked things down, and I have to argue with them to show them that they really don't). I'm curious whether a court will determine that providing fake privacy controls constitutes a "reasonable expectation of privacy", and smack Facebook hard in the near future.
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb f***s.
I usually mask out dirty words too, but if you're quoting someone directly, and are doing so to make a point, altering their words doesn't help.
Zuckerberg, in that last exchange, called all Harvard Facebook patrons...
Lets say that I send information about bypassing censorship to someone living in China. Should I be sent to China to be prosecuted about this? Of course not: The deed should be judged based on the laws of the country where I was when I committed the deed. Even if the target is in another country.
Now, you can say "But that isn't illegal in the country in which you live. It is different.". I don't think that changes anything (because it still means that I should be judged by the country in which I am) but let's look at another example where this isn't the case.
Let's say I download the latest blockbuster movie through the bittorrent network. It is illegal here and it is illegal in the USA. Most likely the company that owns the rights to the movie is in USA and it might even be that some of the people I downloaded the movie from (for simplicty's sake, let's even say that all of them) could be located in the USA. Does that mean that I should be sent to USA to be prosecuted instead of being prosecuted by them in the justice system of this country? I certainly don't see the logic here.
The guy lives in UK and was in UK when the crime was committed. As such, can you explain why he should be sent to USA to be prosecuted instead of being trialed in the UK
And if the crime was done from international waters, where it's not illegal? How about that cruise missile example from OP? What about Sideshow Bob's plan to kill Bart Simpson at Five Corners National Park? "I fire the gun in the first State, the bullet passes through States two and three, killing you in the fourth State. No individual State's laws are broken. It's foolproof!"
Sounds like what you want is Gentoo: phone edition. Plug in your phone, type emerge --sync && emerge phone-image on the PC, wait overnight while the image compiles, then dd onto/dev/phone. If it crashes, do another emerge --sync and see if emerge phone-image compiles something new, then dd that. Call^W Email work and tell them you'll be late because you're compiling your phone OS again. They'll understand.
Symantec Endpoint Protection, iPhone Edition has scanned its own jail space and found no viruses. Would you like to enable real-time protection (until you close the SEP iPhone Edition App)?
"But this time it is different - instead of downloading the app from a website, you get them from an app store!" Yeah, right.
But it is different; because of perception. People think "Oh, the Apple App store; everything here has been thoroughly vetted by Apple and given the thumbs-up" when in reality, the vetting process is: "does it crash? does it look like it does what it says?" and maaaybe: "are there any obvious hooks into user data that the stated purpose of the App doesn't need?" Almost assuredly nothing that checks for obfuscated code,
The thing that makes an aircraft so interesting as a target is because it can fly anywhere. If you can't reach the cockpit the aircraft is no more intresting as a target than for example a train or a bus.
People can always attempt to stop or jump off of a train or bus when a guy starts lighting his crotch on fire. A plane can get a 100% casualty rate easily. The captivity of the victims makes it seem scarier.
how about this for airport security: stop blowing up brown people and start working with countries other than china, canada, and mexico to ensure we're better global citizens...
Was it the most recent war in Afghanistan that prompted the 9/11 attacks? Maybe it was Desert Shield/Storm? I just want to get my "cause and effect" straight. How many "brown people" were blown up by US forces in 2000 and the first 3/4 of 2001?
I've already predicted your response, and "Iraq didn't cause 9/11" is a strawman because I never said it did.
What purpose does this serve that sleep/WOL does not? I'm honestly curious.
End users turn off their machines (yay, we're Green! f'ing hippies), forcing me to walk the aisles turning them on for updates, new software installs, etc. In a corporate environment, being able to spam subnets with their respective magic packets before sending out ARD or ssh floods would be really handy. It's what we do for Windows and Linux hardware, so it's not like the capability doesn't exist. Thankfully, the lack of real WOL (and physical security) is what is keeping Apple out of corporate except in small numbers (100's instead of 1000's).
Apple is not selling the iPad as a PC or even as a computer. It's a device.
Ah, but the PC Folks' world is slipping away. When iPads are all that exist, no one can compute anything Jobs doesn't allow. And that happy thought is what keeps him alive.
Apple has no idea how to support corporate customers.
I'm still waiting for Wake-On-Lan for Apple hardware. And if you're an Apple Apologist (Applologist) reading this, don't feed me that line about Wake-On-Lan for sleep-mode, and "what I want is really 'Power-On-Lan' (boot up from power off state with magic packet)". Only Apple Xserves have true WOL, and Apple refuses to add the feature to iMacs, Mac Pros, Mac minis, Macbooks, etc. And no, user education to not turn off the computers doesn't work (although replacing shutdown functions with reboot functions does trick some of them).
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Analogue amplification gives even harmonics whereas digital amplification gives odd harmonics. And even harmonics are more pleasing to the ear. You can obviate the problem of odd harmonics by producing more harmonics to nudge the signal back to more pleasing shapes, but that means that an op-amp running at 192kHz can produce a pseudo-analogue amplified signal equating to an analogue amplifier with a ceiling of 30kHz.
It's one reason why early CDs were, frankly, crap: the sound engineers used the same techniques making the sound track for the CD that they did for the analogue LP. But the CD has different strengths and weaknesses and some processes that utilised the strength of LP and avoided the weakness of them were unsuited to the CD characteristics.
AFAIR, the re-release of the White Album was the first one where they went back to the original tapes and worked the signal to accord with the CD and digital amplification strengths.
Now they're ditching the high dynamic range of CD in the loudness war.
Way to go, guys.
All I hear is: "Blah blah blah tube blah blah loud blah blah" *ringing in my ears*
Unless you live in New York, where 5GB is the most you can possibly ever pull down in a month due to network issues and speeds. That makes it unlimited! Who needs thottling or limits, when you can just overload your network and overcharge your customers!
And this is why I don't understand why companies would spend so much on throttling; it's a naturally self-limiting system.
btw mark, youre fuckerberg for me from now on. your numerous failures in regard to privacy policies and flops with pr earned you an f in place of the z in your last name. enjoy.
I used to call him that as a joke. Maybe now Dumbfuckerberg would be more apropos?
Zuck: They "Trust me"
Zuck: Dumb Fucks
"But this time it is different - instead of downloading the app from a website, you get them from an app store!" Yeah, right.
But it is different; because of perception. People think "Oh, the Apple App store; everything here has been thoroughly vetted by Apple and given the thumbs-up" when in reality, the vetting process is: "does it crash? does it look like it does what it says?" and maaaybe: "are there any obvious hooks into user data that the stated purpose of the App doesn't need?" Almost assuredly nothing that checks for obfuscated code,
Wow, Apple zealots really didn't like that post. Up to 5, then down to 0. Steve Jobs will be proud of your moderations. You might get a VIP ticket to the next Macworld expo.
One of my concerns is that the things I'll remember into my twilight years are all the different passphrases I have to use at work. I still remember passwords I created in 1995.
Time to move .gov off of Microsoft entirely. This negates some of the protection afforded by our nation in the event of a cyberwar.
Actually, it's more an indication that everyone except .gov needs to ditch MS entirely. As this Anon-coward has pointed out, ordinary folk are made more vulnerable by this program. Just imagine if country X got a hold of the specifics of a wormable exploit with the assurance that ordinary folk in the U.S. won't get the patch until later. The U.S. govt would be potentially protected, but .coms, .nets, .edus ...
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1656658&cid=32257956
Bad guys like China? Aren't they a government of some sort in South America or Australia?
Sorry for replying to self: I forgot about a couple forced public changes: Networks, Friend list (but only if you have a friend list on your profile).
and i am the future. as oil prices creep up inevitably, inexorably, and permanently, the suburbs will die. we'll live like our great granfathers: dense urban centers, lots of public transportation
And manure clogging the streets. I'm glad my great grandfather was a subsistence farmer in what is still considered wilderness. Your ideal world of tomorrow sounds like hell.
On the plus side, with recent advances in DNA computing, we should just be able to introduce bzip2-capable e. coli into the environment, which will shrink the tarballs to a more manageable size in no time...
Completely unnecessary if the tar was made from GNUs. Just throw a Jay into the slick.
It only takes about 20 minutes to educate a neophyte, if they're willing to learn, how to lock down privacy on Facebook....
Until Facebook changes it again. Two years ago, I had everything locked down to friends only. Since that time, they've forced profile picture, current city, home town, likes/interests, work history, education history (and approximate age by proxy), to be public. There are still options to prevent non-friends from seeing some of those things via Facebook, but the Facebook Connections API allows anyone on the internet access to all those things for every user (further confusing the issue, because people are "sure" they locked things down, and I have to argue with them to show them that they really don't). I'm curious whether a court will determine that providing fake privacy controls constitutes a "reasonable expectation of privacy", and smack Facebook hard in the near future.
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb f***s.
I usually mask out dirty words too, but if you're quoting someone directly, and are doing so to make a point, altering their words doesn't help.
Zuckerberg, in that last exchange, called all Harvard Facebook patrons...
Dumb fucks.
A French person with a rifle shoots across the France/Germany border and kills a German. In which country did the murder occur?
It occurred in the country where the Frenchman was firing the rifle.
Heh, ambiguous English. In the same vein, it also occurred in the country where the Frenchman was aiming the rifle (hint:that's both countries). :D
Lets say that I send information about bypassing censorship to someone living in China. Should I be sent to China to be prosecuted about this? Of course not: The deed should be judged based on the laws of the country where I was when I committed the deed. Even if the target is in another country.
Now, you can say "But that isn't illegal in the country in which you live. It is different.". I don't think that changes anything (because it still means that I should be judged by the country in which I am) but let's look at another example where this isn't the case.
Let's say I download the latest blockbuster movie through the bittorrent network. It is illegal here and it is illegal in the USA. Most likely the company that owns the rights to the movie is in USA and it might even be that some of the people I downloaded the movie from (for simplicty's sake, let's even say that all of them) could be located in the USA. Does that mean that I should be sent to USA to be prosecuted instead of being prosecuted by them in the justice system of this country? I certainly don't see the logic here.
The guy lives in UK and was in UK when the crime was committed. As such, can you explain why he should be sent to USA to be prosecuted instead of being trialed in the UK
And if the crime was done from international waters, where it's not illegal? How about that cruise missile example from OP? What about Sideshow Bob's plan to kill Bart Simpson at Five Corners National Park? "I fire the gun in the first State, the bullet passes through States two and three, killing you in the fourth State. No individual State's laws are broken. It's foolproof!"
And you could have a front row seat, if you weren't getting crushed back into an infinitesimal ball of energy
It worked for Galan of Taa. Side effect: munchies.
Sounds like what you want is Gentoo: phone edition. Plug in your phone, type emerge --sync && emerge phone-image on the PC, wait overnight while the image compiles, then dd onto /dev/phone. If it crashes, do another emerge --sync and see if emerge phone-image compiles something new, then dd that. Call^W Email work and tell them you'll be late because you're compiling your phone OS again. They'll understand.
Norton AntiVirus: iPhone edition.
Symantec Endpoint Protection, iPhone Edition has scanned its own jail space and found no viruses. Would you like to enable real-time protection (until you close the SEP iPhone Edition App)?
"But this time it is different - instead of downloading the app from a website, you get them from an app store!" Yeah, right.
But it is different; because of perception. People think "Oh, the Apple App store; everything here has been thoroughly vetted by Apple and given the thumbs-up" when in reality, the vetting process is: "does it crash? does it look like it does what it says?" and maaaybe: "are there any obvious hooks into user data that the stated purpose of the App doesn't need?" Almost assuredly nothing that checks for obfuscated code,
The thing that makes an aircraft so interesting as a target is because it can fly anywhere. If you can't reach the cockpit the aircraft is no more intresting as a target than for example a train or a bus.
People can always attempt to stop or jump off of a train or bus when a guy starts lighting his crotch on fire. A plane can get a 100% casualty rate easily. The captivity of the victims makes it seem scarier.
Well, some people care. You've got a one in four chance of being permanently misshapen, but a guarantee at some kind of super power.
how about this for airport security: stop blowing up brown people and start working with countries other than china, canada, and mexico to ensure we're better global citizens...
Was it the most recent war in Afghanistan that prompted the 9/11 attacks? Maybe it was Desert Shield/Storm? I just want to get my "cause and effect" straight. How many "brown people" were blown up by US forces in 2000 and the first 3/4 of 2001?
I've already predicted your response, and "Iraq didn't cause 9/11" is a strawman because I never said it did.
What purpose does this serve that sleep/WOL does not? I'm honestly curious.
End users turn off their machines (yay, we're Green! f'ing hippies), forcing me to walk the aisles turning them on for updates, new software installs, etc. In a corporate environment, being able to spam subnets with their respective magic packets before sending out ARD or ssh floods would be really handy. It's what we do for Windows and Linux hardware, so it's not like the capability doesn't exist. Thankfully, the lack of real WOL (and physical security) is what is keeping Apple out of corporate except in small numbers (100's instead of 1000's).
Apple is not selling the iPad as a PC or even as a computer. It's a device.
Ah, but the PC Folks' world is slipping away. When iPads are all that exist, no one can compute anything Jobs doesn't allow. And that happy thought is what keeps him alive.
You're welcome. Glad I could help.
Apple has no idea how to support corporate customers.
I'm still waiting for Wake-On-Lan for Apple hardware. And if you're an Apple Apologist (Applologist) reading this, don't feed me that line about Wake-On-Lan for sleep-mode, and "what I want is really 'Power-On-Lan' (boot up from power off state with magic packet)". Only Apple Xserves have true WOL, and Apple refuses to add the feature to iMacs, Mac Pros, Mac minis, Macbooks, etc. And no, user education to not turn off the computers doesn't work (although replacing shutdown functions with reboot functions does trick some of them).