"Hi-res" does not imply that it has not been DRCed or that it was properly mastered. A recent Bowie CD, for example, that was brickwalled also had hi-res audio that suffered the same issue. "Hi-res" is mostly audiophile marketing fluff.
Said by someone who doesn't do anything involving multimedia or DSP. Compilers are horrendous at vectorization. It's why things like ffmpeg, x264, libjpeg-turbo, and pretty much any video/audio/image codec that has any decent performance has SIMD assembly for all platforms that support it. Otherwise they would be well more than a magnitude and then some slower.
If you don't believe me compile x264 for without ASM optimizations even at your compilers highest optimization level and watch how it slows to a crawl compared to the hand-written SIMD version. Same with ffmpeg, etc.
Why not design multi-purpose chips that have some cores optimized for some tasks, and other cores optimized for others
We do have those. Any CPU with an iGPU is such a chip. We've had such CPUs for years and years now. Have you missed out on the last decade of CPU design?
There's a fairly huge difference, however, between following the process to change it, and changing how you interpret what it says.
Apparently it wasn't to the founders. I suggest you re-read some of the rulings of the John Jay Supreme Court. John Jay being a founder and all.
That's how you end up with torture being OK, killing American citizens without due process being OK, arbitrary suspension of habeus corpus being OK, attacking other countries at the whim of the president being OK...
Never learned about the Alien and Sedition Acts, eh? That was passed during an undeclared naval war on France. It also allowed the imprisonment and deportation of people considered "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States" and suppression of free speech by the government. You aren't actually naive enough to really think the people who wrote the Patriot Act were the first ones to invent that whole "enemy combatant" thing, did you? A group of "The Founders" were doing that 200 years before it.
It is impossible in a number of states whose licensing board requires that the doctor's keep the original records. If you're in the US, what state do you live in?
No, it's not. For example, the State of New Jersey requires that doctor's keep the original records.
Do I have a right to my medical records? In most instances, the patient has a right to receive a copy of his or her medical records, not the original. Although most patients assume that the records belong to them, the Board requires that the physician to maintain the original to ensure that the patient’s medical history is available to any subsequent treating physician or health care provider. Copies may be given to the patient, another doctor, your attorney, your insurance company or another family member if the patient expressly authorizes it. If a patient is deceased, the duly appointed executor or administrator of the estate may obtain copies also. Medical records cannot be released to a spouse, family member (except in the case of a child), attorney or any other person unless the patient gives his/her express consent to release them to that specific person.
Yeah if you want easy and fast access you'd just break in and steal the paper records. Or you can also just steal the paper records from an unlocked van.
If you have physical access to those same offices you could can easily steal their paper records. Most such offices have horrendous physical security.
During high school and college I worked in the medical records department of a mid-size hospital. It would have been trivially easy to tamper with or even photocopy and walk out with patient records.
How exactly are paper records any more secure? I've gone into a number of clinics and doctor's offices were the only "security" of their medical records is an easily broken into cabinet.
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No, it's just normal FLAC.
"Hi-res" does not imply that it has not been DRCed or that it was properly mastered. A recent Bowie CD, for example, that was brickwalled also had hi-res audio that suffered the same issue. "Hi-res" is mostly audiophile marketing fluff.
Your question is irrelevant as you're presenting two options that are not the only two options on the table.
Yes, they are the only options given to Netflix. The content providers require the region blocks for licensing their content.
They used to build things to last.
Nope. Companies have always built things to last just as long as they found economically viable.
Your falsely extrapolating your life to everyone. There are plenty of people over 50 who can't fix shit.
How is it more foolish than losing their content licenses?
99.9% of the time, no.
Said by someone who doesn't do anything involving multimedia or DSP. Compilers are horrendous at vectorization. It's why things like ffmpeg, x264, libjpeg-turbo, and pretty much any video/audio/image codec that has any decent performance has SIMD assembly for all platforms that support it. Otherwise they would be well more than a magnitude and then some slower.
If you don't believe me compile x264 for without ASM optimizations even at your compilers highest optimization level and watch how it slows to a crawl compared to the hand-written SIMD version. Same with ffmpeg, etc.
It may, but it's pretty rare that it's worth it and it also increases the cost of maintaining. Though a function in glibc, might be an exception.
There's nothing rare about it. SIMD vectorization is useful in tons of applications.
Why not design multi-purpose chips that have some cores optimized for some tasks, and other cores optimized for others
We do have those. Any CPU with an iGPU is such a chip. We've had such CPUs for years and years now. Have you missed out on the last decade of CPU design?
Sure bro. Keep telling us how tough you are behind your keyboard.
Big words to write from an Internet Tough guy who hasn't received an NSL.
There's a fairly huge difference, however, between following the process to change it, and changing how you interpret what it says.
Apparently it wasn't to the founders. I suggest you re-read some of the rulings of the John Jay Supreme Court. John Jay being a founder and all.
That's how you end up with torture being OK, killing American citizens without due process being OK, arbitrary suspension of habeus corpus being OK, attacking other countries at the whim of the president being OK...
Never learned about the Alien and Sedition Acts, eh? That was passed during an undeclared naval war on France. It also allowed the imprisonment and deportation of people considered "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States" and suppression of free speech by the government. You aren't actually naive enough to really think the people who wrote the Patriot Act were the first ones to invent that whole "enemy combatant" thing, did you? A group of "The Founders" were doing that 200 years before it.
It was a joke link... The aspergers is strong in this one.
That's a great idea... for being red flagged in their system. Enjoy your TSA detention.
Euro, is very spendable, mostly stable.
Then you've never watched it's 25%+ fluctuations up and down over the last 10 years.
It is impossible in a number of states whose licensing board requires that the doctor's keep the original records. If you're in the US, what state do you live in?
No one is going to be modifying a million records at once anyway. If people are forging records it's going to be selected targets.
So that's why there are dozens of stories about stolen paper records just in the last 5 years? And that's just what is caught and reported.
Or it would be a great alias for getting a Ryan C in trouble.
That would be entirely up to that doctor
No, it's not. For example, the State of New Jersey requires that doctor's keep the original records.
Do I have a right to my medical records?
In most instances, the patient has a right to receive a copy of his or her medical records, not the original. Although most patients assume that the records belong to them, the Board requires that the physician to maintain the original to ensure that the patient’s medical history is available to any subsequent treating physician or health care provider. Copies may be given to the patient, another doctor, your attorney, your insurance company or another family member if the patient expressly authorizes it. If a patient is deceased, the duly appointed executor or administrator of the estate may obtain copies also. Medical records cannot be released to a spouse, family member (except in the case of a child), attorney or any other person unless the patient gives his/her express consent to release them to that specific person.
http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/...
So it's highly likely that if that situation is true that the doctors he is dealing with could be breaking the requirements of their medical license.
Yeah if you want easy and fast access you'd just break in and steal the paper records. Or you can also just steal the paper records from an unlocked van.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
If you have physical access to those same offices you could can easily steal their paper records. Most such offices have horrendous physical security.
During high school and college I worked in the medical records department of a mid-size hospital. It would have been trivially easy to tamper with or even photocopy and walk out with patient records.
How exactly are paper records any more secure? I've gone into a number of clinics and doctor's offices were the only "security" of their medical records is an easily broken into cabinet.
The key difference was/is that without the government mandate it would have happened as medical care providers found it economically valuable.
Translation: Never.