Posts by Jess

Re: What about the cost of upgrading ?

> then why should a customer demand the right to have access to the source code just because they don't want to upgrade?

There is a relatively simple way for a company to avoid this, if such rules were introduced. Keep a current supported core of code. Upgrades give more features, which earlier buyers would not have access to.

Re: Do we know enough about gorilllas?

I bet if they sat at a desk all day and spent the evenings in front of a TV eating junk food they would have heart attacks.

Re: Elop wrong?

Actually I want a phone that *is* a tiny computer. I rarely use the phone function (other than for internet.).

But one big reason I don't really want an expensive tablet or laptop, is that I get mobile phone insurance with my bank account, not tablet or laptop insurance.

Re: Potentially history repeating

IBM made the choice not to fully implement the win32 api, had they done so history might have been somewhat different.

let IE6 apps run inside proper browsers (such as FF

as IETab does? (assuming you still have IE 6 installed)

shannon

> Another lesser problem with signals resulting from D->A conversion is the sampling noise at frequencies above 22.1kHz - while inaudible to adults it may affect the performance of equipment that was designed on the

That is a problem, but the frequencies above 22Khz are not passed on to the amplifier (on any decent equipment) the problem is that the level of filtering required causes phase distortions in the frequencies you want to keep. This is solved by digital oversampling, shifting the unwanted frequencies to 98 KHz and above.

> But these three effects pale into insignificance when compared with the destruction wreaked by modern dynamic range compression.

Yes.

> Although the technical performance of CD is better than vinyl, the debate still rages

This will probably be down the fact the majority of harmonic distortion in a vinyl system is even harmonics, and therefore musically related to the original frequency (i.e. the same note an octave higher, for example), D-A distortion is more odd order harmonics, which just sound wrong. (Which is also true for valve vs. transistor).

However I doubt this is an issue in any decent quality D-A from the last decade or newer.

Also on a decent vinyl system pops and clicks actually have a position in the stereo sound field and can be ignored just as a noise in the room can.

Re: Their abnormally large heads indicate hydrocephalus.

That couldn't possibly be caused by exposure to EM radiation at too early an age could it?

Re: I would rename it to something that I would expect to be on the whitelist

That certainly was the case a few years ago. I renamed certain admin tools to word.exe, etc. (I was in the IT department, not a hacker, BTW) and logged in as a normal use on a "locked down" citrix system. They ran (within the limits of the account).

One would *hope* that this is no longer the case (digital signing like on a PS3).

re: everyone had to turn the things on to know which one was theirs.

That'll be why they need cases with Bananas (etc) on.

> They are effectively screwed - they can't upgrade the browser because the web services won't run on the new versions, and they can't upgrade a given web utility because the upgraded/replacement version won't run on the IE6 that everybody has.

Fortunately there is a solution (partial at least) with chromeframe, at least for sites with the correct header or tag.

Although I was surprised that youtube reported that ie 6 with chromeframe was out of date. Why can't they use their own products?

i thought it was because

Microsoft paid Nokia to kill it.

Everyone I know with an N8 loves it.

Don't totally agree

> Roy Orbison - fat, cloying warbler.

He was a bloody good singer, I wasn't too impressed with the songs he chose to sing though.

> Paul McCartney - Wings and the Frog Chorus, need I say more?

The Frog Chorus Rocks.

> Bruce Springsteen - pub singer who made it because they're are no pubs in the US

I have to give you that one.

Seems like the core of a good idea.

> You'd get 7 ppl complaining they couldn't use their preferred DNS server, but it wouldn't affect VPN users and any "normal" users.

All that is needed is a whitelist of known good DNS servers. e.g. opendns

You actually bought those shoes? Yoga too?

You need something to even out weight training and high impact aerobic classes.