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DRM Resoures needed
wrote on 18 May 2005 05:02:12 -0700 This could get interesting, as it gets to very basic principles. 1...
Instantly report phishing with gmail 15778
account, account. If you report it within a few hours of it being sent, they might get the warning out sooner. Otherwise I don't bother. The...
Instantly report phishing with gmail 15779
begin KillFileMe.vbs People have been warned on and on about Windross and I'net Expletive and Outhouse excess, but they continue to use them, right? Same same. The...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15780
Digital artifacts are difficult to measure because they are generally not present on sine wave tones used to measure distortion. They are a product of the dynamic, ever changing nature...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15781
Since I was talking about compressed music, I buttumed that you were as well. Sorry about that. Redbook CD (if that's what you mean) has no "artifacts" per se. But the CD...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15782
Yeah, I'm wrong. You'd be surprised by the the people who agree with me. If...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15783
George Graves Idiot. Reading comprehension problems, or are you just dishonest? Have you read what I've written? CD is better because, compared to vinyl, it has less noise, less distortion, more dynamic range...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15784
I didn't say that, you did. And you obviously have little experience with these things or this...
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George Graves Your claims are not a "revelation" at all, as you would know, if you'd follow the discussion. Ha! Yeah, that's real obvious, George. (rolling eyes) The "warmth" comes from the...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15786
Here's what I mean when I say that you don't know what you are talking about. M-L didn't *choose* to put an SS amp on their cone woofer, I...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15787
Struggling with reality again, Snit? I have yet to see the moderator point out anything where you weren't involved. Aside from that obvious fact, the moderator hasn't posted...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15789
chrisv there's nothing wrong with tube amps. Some of the richest sounds I've ever heard have come from valve amps. Namely, the Garrard Philharmonia, a mbuttive beastie which...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15790
It tells me that people take what they are sold, just like Windows PCs. OTOH, more tube...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15791
George Graves The Windows analogy does not fly here. There is no "lock in" to SS amps. Anyone can switch any time. Sorry, but I simply do not believe that. It tells...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15792
Accuracy is a very good thing. It's just that I take my accuracy requirements further back...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15793
Audio is one science which does not respond well to measurement. In other words. The things that we can measure...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15794
Chad Irby I've spent a lot of time playing with home-built amp gear. Just...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15795
chrisv Thing with audio technology is you have to strike a balance between: - your playback equipment (be it turntable, digital sound processor, CD player, tape deck, tuner...); - the patch...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15796
I agree for the most part, Lisa. BUT I must say, there is a lower limit cutoff point for everything and...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15797
Different kind of distortion. Quantization noise is a nasty, buzzy, totally correlated distortion that is far more annoying than the harmonic distortion...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15798
chrisv I should have responded in more detail to the above statement of George's. It is really...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15799
begin oeprotect.scr To get to the bottom of this, you'd need to do a formally structured...
Cheeseball pricing on 'music download' services 15800
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Rick wrote on Fri, 27 May 2005 15:47:27 GMT Simple. Walk through the Gentoo handbook, for example. (It's the distro I'm familiar with. It's a...
open source business strategies
1. Any form of customization, installation, service, support, or other direct support for customers will be a big boost. If a large corporation wants to install...
IBM targets Solaris with Linux initiatives
IBM has been going after both Sun and Microsoft for years, but even this has been focused on the hardware division. IGS and software division are still pretty much platform neutral. Solaris on...
New directions for kernel development
Hi all, Recently, I've been thinking a lot about where Linux development should head now that 2.4 is out. Specifically, I've been thinking...
Dvorak: "Linux community implodes" 15804
On Wed, 18 May 2005 02:22:48 -0400, rapskat That there are a significant number of people who think that the Linux community is filled with fanatics...
Dvorak: "Linux community implodes" 15805
begin Error Log for Thu, 19 May 2005 00:02:27 -0700 - Quag7 Thank you for that...
Dvorak: "Linux community implodes" 15806
begin oeprotect.scr Umm, Linux is an operating system kernel. Free Software is a movement, in that there is a philosophy and a...
Dvorak: "Linux community implodes" 15807
On Thu, 19 May 2005 09:16:26 +0100, Mark Kent Yes, we're going to stick in a sort of placeholder here with the boilerplate about the definition of and differences...
Dvorak: "Linux community implodes" 15808
begin oeprotect.scr It's a very important distinction, though. This goes both ways. At the moment, I think you're bording on...
Dvorak: "Linux community implodes" 15809
On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:27:28 +0100, Mark Kent I don't think you at all...
Dvorak: "Linux community implodes" 15810
begin oeprotect.scr I find some of your remarks extremely offensive. Whether you think that they are or not is not of any particular interest to me. I'm also...
Dvorak: "Linux community implodes" 15811
On Fri, 20 May 2005 15:34:35 +0100, Mark Kent I called for more politeness; that is all. If you...
My new operating system
The original note from Linus Torvalds didn't look too much different from this. Of course the difference is that Linux DID get lots of suggestions, including patches, and DID...
PS3 is unveiled... 15813
Nobody ever gets very close to the 'theoretical' specs of *any* hardware. This will include the XBox. Here's a report from Sony about how close people got to reaching the theoretical performance of the PS2...
PS3 is unveiled... 15814
John Bailo Small and slim: "The device measures about 3 inches high (8.3 centimeters) by 10 inches deep and 12 inches wide and weighs 7.7 pounds (3.5 kilograms)." Extremely...
PS3 is unveiled... 15815
DFS Well, I would trust the word of Sony+Toshiba+IBM over number mbuttaging, FUDding twits at MS...
IE 7 Tabs Will Be 'Basic,' Says Microsoft
Mark Kent poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Be sure to pay your protection money to Monkey Boy Ballmer...
the franken.TROLL at work
A lot of the cola folk periodically throw mud at Microsoft for their so-called "vendor lock-in" .. if you...
Linux has to be stolen
The open source code I see is not developed by a bunch of people that after work, go home, help make dinner, and play with the kids. They make love to their spouse, and after...
Linux has to be stolen.... 15820
On Wed, 18 May 2005 10:11:32 -0700, tab Actually the code I write is generally in lulls between firefights in obscure...
Linux has to be stolen.... 15821
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, tab wrote on 18 May 2005 10:11:32 -0700 No one can *release* code...
simple task from linux where windows has failed 15822
philo I currently use one WinXP machine (plus three running Linux and one elderly Mac). The Windows box is for digital photography - but there's...
simple task from linux where windows has failed 15823
srm Here are some things to try: 1. open Windows Explorer. Go to Tools Folder Options View, and under Advanced Settings Files...
Cuba to Dump Windows for Linux 15824
billwg I suspect you may see that starting to happen with the advent of (expensive and bloated) Longhorn, the "paid-for" AV and Antispam service...
Cuba to Dump Windows for Linux 15825
Gordon Lie. MS doesn't impose anything on anybody. Lie. You have no inkling of the terms of those agreements the OEMs willingly sign. You're just parroting the cola line, like a typical Like most...
Cuba to Dump Windows for Linux 15826
Gordon Now you put it in quotes? An imposition is done by force. So give us...
Cuba to Dump Windows for Linux 15827
DFS No. Not now. But up till now, 99% of buyers have HAD no choice AT ALL because of MS restrictice practices. Software isn't "mechanical" and MS don't...
Cuba to Dump Windows for Linux 15828
Gordon Ridiculous. Since nearly day one, sometime in 1984, you could buy and build computers without any MS software at all. So what? The fact that software isn't mechanical doesn't lessen...
Cuba to Dump Windows for Linux 15829
DFS poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Buy, sure. Build? Well, IBM PC clones running MS-DOS, PC-DOS, or DR-DOS. Naturally, since this is an...
Cuba to Dump Windows for Linux 15830
Linønut How? You're all Linux users. You should have long ago wiped the MS cobwebs from the corners of your brains. Instead, they pretty much dominate your minds. Like...
Cuba to Dump Windows for Linux 15831
DFS poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Naturally, since many of us are still perforce hooked to the Microsoft yoke...
Study shows Australia's software piracy rate remains higher than the US 15832
I'm very curious as to exactly how they obtained these numbers. What was pirated? How many copies of each? How was the...
Study shows Australia's software piracy rate remains higher than the US 15833
Sandlin I can't find that either. I can find... "Good evidence that the BSA is, in fact, a front for Microsoft." "... no further risk of another hit from Microsoft and...
Asterisk PBX
Well, got a praise report here. Not strictly Linux, but definitely OSS. I started a new job with...
good reading
O say, can you C? If you can, you need to grab a copy of Darwin, the open source guts of OS X. This blended BSD is...
Microsoft OneCare gets a bashing
On Tue, 17 May 2005 16:08:41 +0200, Roy Culley The question is what is sadder, that Microsoft is trying to charge for security on an already somewhat expensive...
Windows is better! 15837
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Windows is better! 15838
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Windows is better! 15839
On Fri, 20 May 2005 05:00:09 -0700, * * * Y o u r . S h e p h e r d . A q u i l a . D e u s . ( d 2 0 0 5 x...
Replacing windopes peer networking
Keep in mind that Linux has true peer-to-peer networking (as opposed to some "man in the middle server" that can be easily wire-tapped), and supports a number of tools to provide excellent...
This Week Changed the World of High Tech Forever, Though Most of Us Still Don't
May 12, 2005 Inflection Point By Robert X. Cringely It's an expression made popular in...
Let's start a Rumor for Tuesday June 7th at 9am 15842
Oxford What's the difference? The OS is the same. How does not having a keyboard change anything? BTW, a tivo connected to a Monitor ( A TV ) and a...
Let's start a Rumor for Tuesday June 7th at 9am 15843
Oxford Squirm, squirm, squirm. An OS does not stop being an OS because it is embedded. I have a...
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