Trust a veteran audiophile here, HD2 sounds good, on par with Zune 120G and clearly better than iPod Classic 6th Generation. It was a surprise for me too (as was the weak sound quality of iPod Classic 6th gen).
I agree with HD/HD2 being good choices and they sound pretty decent even for well trained years but unfortunately there's no good music player capable of gapless playback so serious listening of some rock, electronic or classical music is out of the question on WinMobile 6.5 or less. It's a pitty because otherwise HD/HD2 would be nearly perfect portable media devices.
The missing of gapless playback pretty much discredits a serious quality portable audio player. Too bad for Cowon - seems the only major problem but it ruins the whole experience as a premium PMP.
I was one of the few who wanted to quit. It is almost impossible to find the page where you can delete your account. I found it with a search engine and with documents about how to delete the profile, not because Facebook allowed me to do it.
Moreover, I requested my account to be deleted. It wasn't delete as I requested but i was informed that it will be in 14 days if I won't login during this period of time. I didn't and I am absolutely sure NOONE did with my account.. With all these I today got an email from Facebook that informed me that my account was reactivated.
This is lowest than I imagined a legal entity could perform in a civilized society. I am deeply disgusted by their tactics Today again I asked for my account to be deleted. I again have to wait for 14 days and maybe the'll inform me again that my account is forcefully reactivated.
Facebook owners are kind of guys you really don't want to mess with. I regret the second I tried their services and I think authorities should really step in.
This soap Opera of complaining over and over again for something you clearly are not able to be up to is embarrassing. The pseudo random was not enough pseudo-random, now it is too hidden. There's nothing less than shipping windows with Opera as the only default browser and without any ballot that will make them behave like men.
Hey Opera guys there: put yourselves together and come with a better v11. I tried my best to use 10.5 and it is ridden of UI problems. At 500MB memory usage with 3 tabs open after few hours of work, Opera is not qualifying to be a credible alternative. That's unfortunate since there are a lot of good things inside there and a lot of polish mixed with very lousy UI decisions. Put yourselves together and fight. If Firefox did that good, you can do better! Complaining to authorities for every single imaginable issue is not the way to gain market share.
Let's say the attacker really have a complete and intact image of your RAM. An update to the encryption software can in a future revision dedicate say 64MB of RAM to store the key (that is say 2K). It can be stored at any location and scrambled. Just keep the offset of the key somewhere else, not in RAM (register/hdd?). If the attacker has the image of the RAM he can identify the 64MB zone where you have the key but he doesn't have the offset so he needs to try a lot of possible keys (about 64milions). I imagine this methond can be elaborated further.
Also consider a machine with soldered RAM if you are concerned :) Further fixes may be done as noted in BIOS. The good thing is that this is fixable, is not a principle problem, it's just about the implementation.
48K Spectrums come with 3.5MHz (and 128K also). Back then the CPU frequency was imposed for strict compatibility reasons. There is no Spectrum at a lower frequency than 3.5MHz actually. Trust me because I counted cycles in the machine code over and over again to be sure that the code can finish until the next interrupt arrives :) (interrupts were generated at 20ms each and in some cases you should be absolutely sure that the processing will finish in less than 20ms).
What times - what amazing speeds... :) Anyone doing a lot of stuff in under 20ms nowadays?
I repeatedly saw the assertion that the new 256Kbit/s AAC format from EMI / Apple means doubling the audio quality (I saw it even quoted from mr Jobs Himself).
Well, this is absolutely incorrect (and it is a damaging misinformation of customers). Doubling the bitrate for AAC from 128 to 256 means *LITTLE* in audio quality - for most untrained years there is no difference (however - non DRM infection make a difference for a lot of people who may want to switch to a different player).
Not that I don't mind the quality - I mind it - that's why I will never buy lossy format music. I highly encourage anyone that cares about quality to buy a non-lossy format and the best by far is the classical Audio CD. From that point you can get whatever format/bitrate you want - whenever you want and for ANY player.
Or you may opt for buying the 256Kbit/s AAC now just to be lured in 2 or 3 years to upgrade to a newer-all-shinny-much-better 320kbit/s format that will work just on their players. Your money - your choice.
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/^v.+b$/ipascal for me but D's not russian
You may want to check again the nationality of that D language book - he's definitely not russian.
HD2 sounds really good
Trust a veteran audiophile here, HD2 sounds good, on par with Zune 120G and clearly better than iPod Classic 6th Generation. It was a surprise for me too (as was the weak sound quality of iPod Classic 6th gen).
no good gapless in WinMo
I agree with HD/HD2 being good choices and they sound pretty decent even for well trained years but unfortunately there's no good music player capable of gapless playback so serious listening of some rock, electronic or classical music is out of the question on WinMobile 6.5 or less. It's a pitty because otherwise HD/HD2 would be nearly perfect portable media devices.
no gapless - too bad
The missing of gapless playback pretty much discredits a serious quality portable audio player. Too bad for Cowon - seems the only major problem but it ruins the whole experience as a premium PMP.
sick
Makes me sick.
account forcefully reactivated
I was one of the few who wanted to quit. It is almost impossible to find the page where you can delete your account. I found it with a search engine and with documents about how to delete the profile, not because Facebook allowed me to do it.
Moreover, I requested my account to be deleted. It wasn't delete as I requested but i was informed that it will be in 14 days if I won't login during this period of time. I didn't and I am absolutely sure NOONE did with my account.. With all these I today got an email from Facebook that informed me that my account was reactivated.
This is lowest than I imagined a legal entity could perform in a civilized society. I am deeply disgusted by their tactics Today again I asked for my account to be deleted. I again have to wait for 14 days and maybe the'll inform me again that my account is forcefully reactivated.
Facebook owners are kind of guys you really don't want to mess with. I regret the second I tried their services and I think authorities should really step in.
embarrassing soap opera
This soap Opera of complaining over and over again for something you clearly are not able to be up to is embarrassing. The pseudo random was not enough pseudo-random, now it is too hidden. There's nothing less than shipping windows with Opera as the only default browser and without any ballot that will make them behave like men.
Hey Opera guys there: put yourselves together and come with a better v11. I tried my best to use 10.5 and it is ridden of UI problems. At 500MB memory usage with 3 tabs open after few hours of work, Opera is not qualifying to be a credible alternative. That's unfortunate since there are a lot of good things inside there and a lot of polish mixed with very lousy UI decisions. Put yourselves together and fight. If Firefox did that good, you can do better! Complaining to authorities for every single imaginable issue is not the way to gain market share.
This won't be the end of it
Let's say the attacker really have a complete and intact image of your RAM. An update to the encryption software can in a future revision dedicate say 64MB of RAM to store the key (that is say 2K). It can be stored at any location and scrambled. Just keep the offset of the key somewhere else, not in RAM (register/hdd?). If the attacker has the image of the RAM he can identify the 64MB zone where you have the key but he doesn't have the offset so he needs to try a lot of possible keys (about 64milions). I imagine this methond can be elaborated further.
Also consider a machine with soldered RAM if you are concerned :) Further fixes may be done as noted in BIOS. The good thing is that this is fixable, is not a principle problem, it's just about the implementation.
Spectrum 48k speed
To Nick Ryan:
48K Spectrums come with 3.5MHz (and 128K also). Back then the CPU frequency was imposed for strict compatibility reasons. There is no Spectrum at a lower frequency than 3.5MHz actually. Trust me because I counted cycles in the machine code over and over again to be sure that the code can finish until the next interrupt arrives :) (interrupts were generated at 20ms each and in some cases you should be absolutely sure that the processing will finish in less than 20ms).
What times - what amazing speeds... :) Anyone doing a lot of stuff in under 20ms nowadays?
Ovi
audio quality
I repeatedly saw the assertion that the new 256Kbit/s AAC format from EMI / Apple means doubling the audio quality (I saw it even quoted from mr Jobs Himself).
Well, this is absolutely incorrect (and it is a damaging misinformation of customers). Doubling the bitrate for AAC from 128 to 256 means *LITTLE* in audio quality - for most untrained years there is no difference (however - non DRM infection make a difference for a lot of people who may want to switch to a different player).
Not that I don't mind the quality - I mind it - that's why I will never buy lossy format music. I highly encourage anyone that cares about quality to buy a non-lossy format and the best by far is the classical Audio CD. From that point you can get whatever format/bitrate you want - whenever you want and for ANY player.
Or you may opt for buying the 256Kbit/s AAC now just to be lured in 2 or 3 years to upgrade to a newer-all-shinny-much-better 320kbit/s format that will work just on their players. Your money - your choice.