Comment Re:compression (Score 1) 265
Nitpick: AIFF AND FLAC are lossless compression format, while MP3 is a lossy compression format.
Nitpick: AIFF AND FLAC are lossless compression format, while MP3 is a lossy compression format.
I have an ASUS rt n16 with 128 MB RAM and a Broadcom4718A at 480 MHz, an external 2TB drive. By early 2000 standards that's a heck of a rig.
I was going to use an old p3 and use that as a router, but I guess it wouldn't work if I went to the Netherlands?
This is surprising to me.
I would guess that more than half of my friends have heard of groupon and at least 10% have used it. At least a few of my friends check it everyday.
A 1990s Toyota is "easy" to make today, but if China starts making them in bulk then Toyota wouldn't be happy.
In a world where slightly outdated chips are "good enough", and the marginal cost of making them is probably a few bucks, I'd be very worried if a really big competitor was breathing down my neck.
It would be commercially suicidal to try and undercut AMD, because a price war would leave no profits for either competitor. So even if it's "easy" to start a price war, nobody wants one. Unless, of course, they happen to be a very large country, that would like to buttress their national accounts by driving down the price of chips.
Chip manufacturers are near monopolies, who invest their profits into research. Great. But chip design is becoming one of those problems that doesn't *really* need solving. Incremental upgrades will be nice, and I'm sure that there will still be some innovation, but many people would rather have slower innovation and cheaper parts than expensive parts and faster innovation.
I was under the impression that CPUs generally had fairly large profit margins. A price war might be exactly what China would want. Especially since these days China seems interested in world wide prestige for their firms and might back them with there very deep pockets.
Exactly, you might just as well say the FF takes a full day to hack because it wasn't scheduled until the next day.
If you're paying $1000+ in texts per semester you are do it wrong. I made it through my last 2 years paying $500 (nope not $500/semester, $500 total over 2 years) doing a math degree. It would have been less but I prefer not to sell most of my texts back.
Buy your texts as ebooks saves you roughly 50%
Borrow them from the library save 100% (pay some late fees and keep it the full semester save 90%)
Buy the "international edition" (questionable legality?....oh well like you said "fuck McGraw Hill") I paid as little as $17 for a softcover international shipped when the book store wanted $150 (hardcover edition). The pages were thiner, and there was some chinese characters on the front but it was otherwise identical on the inside.
Buy/borrow from a friend
Buy used from Amazon, you can sometimes even make money doing this. I bought a physics text and then sold it back to the book store for more than I paid.
The book store is only for if you really want to take the plastic off or you put off buying book until classes started (even still there rush shipping on almost any site).
Exactly!
Already in Canada you CANNOT BE SUED FOR DOWNLOADING MUSIC for personal use*. Let me be clear, I do not mean I song that you own, I just mean any old song. This is due to our copyright laws which are admittedly a bit strange compared to other countries. This has been tested in the Supreme Court of Canada.
This essential is forcing you to buy a right** that you already have (and already pay for again with the blank media tax).
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMG_v._John_Doe
**I'm abusing this word I know
I thought it was 2000 for a second there.
Some observations I didn't notice elsewhere (I didn't look very hard)
1. Autoscroll is annoying to use in Opera 11 (build 1156). The side bar goes up and down and that's annoying as hell. Not true in FF or Chrome so it could just be Opera's fault.
2. Holy crap! Slashdot actually works in the default Android browser. Reading AND replying!
3. Replying to comments doesn't work well in Miren. This was true before.
4. Opera Mini and Mobile are still hopeless with this site, but they at least can load the front page now.
I like that it has flac support (no fiddling required) and it's not bogged down with 1TB of music (30000 songs) like most others seem to. Also you can probably sync your iPod with it. I can't verify this because I don't have one, but others have said it works fine, while others can't get it to work without specific versions or something.
Good read.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
