The AMD-iville Horror - Transcript

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No it*s operating exactly the way it should operate, think about this like you can either drink through a straw you know, you can drink a soda through a straw or you can have a fire hose turned on at you. And if the fire hose is turned on at you believe me, you know you are going to miss some of that data. But in the case of the computer it actually puts it in a great big holding tank and then when your mouth is empty, it selves more, this is becoming really far a field. But you get my drift, the point is the way computers work, they don*t get rid of the data, they simply put it in a cash or a buffer and as your machine doles it out, it brings it back in. The higher the bit rate, the more likely it is it will overrun or overflow your computers ability to grab the data. So what happens is the data gets sent down the pipe and your machine says did I get that next packet okay, wait I am still playing okay send it on down. Now there are other ways, when you use iTunes you are listening to an MP3 stream or a QuickTime stream or something that iTunes, you are not listening to real audio, you are now listening to Windows Media. There are some ways of getting audio to you that aren*t so polite, so the higher the bit rate with iTunes and the lower your ability because your dialup versus broadband to hear that bit rate, the more likely it is that it would re-buffer. Below that it will come in just fine, the quality just won*t be as crisp and as sharp, one thing you probably notice is that when you listen to that stream it*s of much higher quality it*s just very choppy. Because the data comes in and it gets played and then you know more data is on it*s way and it*s not ready yet because the bandwidth isn*t there for it, so that*s yet another reason to get broadband not the least, which is the savings that you have. 180039 Online, Angelia did I get that right? Is that right Angelia?

Angela: Angela.

David Lawrence: Angela okay how can I help you?

Angela: Well we have 4 Macs and two of them there about 9 years old and one of them isn*t powering up any longer and our community is having a E-Waste day next week and we were thinking about turning it in there but I am kind of leery of doing that since it still has information about us.

David Lawrence: So pull the hard drive out.

Angela: Pull the hard drive out.

David Lawrence: Yeah pull the hard drive out, take a hammer to it, smash it up cut it into little pieces or do whatever you want you know run it through a bus, just take the hard drive out before you give the machine to anybody. They are use to that, trust me the e-waste people are use to getting machine that have had the hard drive removed. Now you can also use Norton Utilities and wipe the drive, you can wipe it and lay down random data you know you erase the entire drive and lay down random data. But the e-waste day it means they are going to break it up and use it in components anyways right.

Angela: Hopefully yeah, I am not exactly sure what the community does with it monthly--

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