At this point, Podcast App Breaker is following the herd; anybody who's been tracking it has seen most of the actively-developed feed readers support the new JSON feed format - and why not - it's something 'new' for the developers to do, so it's a bit more fun than the normal drudgery.
The problem that remains, though, is that there aren't too many publishing apps that use it yet.
It's not about revenue at all. The goal is a federal government so weak that "we can drown in a bathtub". If that means bankrupting the federal government, so be it.
The tax cut serves two purposes:
- To hasten the process of dismantling the only power capable of holding the wealthiest Americans in check: the US federal government. - To further consolidate power into the hands of the wealthiest, whom can then live with complete impunity, as was the case a century ago.
There's a difference between Sony being a small player in big field, vs a wholly in-house design.
The DVD comes from Toshiba/Panasonic's Super Density disc.
Sony and Phillips's competing disc format (MMCD) did not become DVD.
Sony's role in the DVD is largely in deciding they would never win that particular format war, and dropping their own format. They did allow DVD to use a couple of technologies that came from MMCD, to strengthen the format.
The DVD is not Sony format. That fact is why Sony spent over half a billion dollars in marketing alone to undermine the DVD consortium's successor, HD-DVD -- including hundreds of millions of dollars to movie studios to dump HD-DVD.
Having bought both, I can say without reservation: The only thing Blu-ray has over HD-DVD is storage space, and nobody uses the extra space. Otherwise, HD-DVD is a much nicer experience - from the menu system to the ways it can present extra content.
In the end, though, both Blu-ray and HD-DVD are losers, though: Streaming & download sales have clearly come out on top.
Aside from the basic "well it's mine and I do with it whatever I want", which is categorically untrue for all aircraft
Never forget that John Adams - one of the founding fathers, the 2nd POTUS, co-author of the Declaration of Independence, argued in court (and won) that British soldiers were justified in opening fire on a crowd for throwing 'snowballs.' Courts have more or less followed that line of reasoning ever since -- even throwing popcorn is assault and can get you jail time.
Could there be a better example to illustrate why ensuring strong Net Neutrality protections by regulating ISPs as common carriers is so important?
Well, throttling my non-Comcast VoIP provider would be one. Especially for cellphones that can use WiFi instead of the cell phone network in areas with lousy reception.
I certainly don't want them degrading a VoIP call to 911 or another emergency service (poison control, etc.), and in spite of the minuscule amount of bandwidth VoIP takes, Comcast has been happy in the past to throttle it to uselessness.
And what are my other options? DSL from my local telephone company? Satellite internet via AT&T's DirecTV? They also have a vested interest in making sure only their voice service works.
So, yeah... let's start with 911 service, and go from there.
the alternative of "giant alien megastructure" tends to sound reassuringly better to academics who are very uncomfortable admitting they don't have a fucking clue what's happening.
You seriously misunderstand the emotions and motivations of academics: they're excited that they have something they can't explain. An oft quoted phrase is: "The most wonderful words in all of science is 'Huh...that's funny...'" It means there's something new to observe and learn from. It could make their career even if they don't figure it out, because they'll have the opportunity to get grant money, telescope time, and data that can be published - all of which both helps human knowledge and their personal careers. However, they're not fools - they know how to set expectations, and not one has said anything other than it "would be a good candidate" - which is practically worthless. It's like saying a rocky planet in the Goldilock's zone is a good candidate for life.
Science reporters, on the other hand, are a different story. They don't like saying "we don't know," because that doesn't often make headlines. However, if you can throw "aliens" and "science" into the same story, you can just watch the page views roll in, which helps with your next employee review.
Just imagine the new wave of proprietary software Ford's going to try to jam down our throats.
How is that different from the status quo? I'll admit I don't track what Ford does with a great deal of interest, but has any car manufacturer released the source to anything - including traction control, stability control, ABS brakes, airbags, throttle control, temperature control, electronic suspension, electronic transmission, valve timing... the list goes on and on.
And this is exactly where bitcoin loses entirely. Nobody wants to deal with a currency that requires fractional exponential notation. Not even scientists and engineers.
Nobody wants to buy a loaf of bread in micro-units of anything, and very few of the world's keyboard have the mu symbol on it.
I'll begin to worry when they start using Akkadian Cuneiform, because they've run out of characters in every other alphabet.
However, I think the trend will continue until they use a symbol to include the opressed minority who find themselves - through no fault of their own - sexually attracted to women with the breasts of Claire Danes and the abs of Dwayne Johnson.
You have it backwards, I'm afraid. It became a political issue only after the IPCC - which was set up with the aid of the Reagan administration - started publishing its results.
When the results showed that there was a problem that needed attention in the next 30 years, and every viable solution required an expensive shift in industry practices to avoid a much more expense solution 70-80 years down the road - that is when it became a political issue.
Because, let's face it, as a species we're happy to kick the can down the road if it means we can be wealthy and more comfortable now, and American society in particular has trouble thinking past the next quarterly earnings report.
Humor aside, the lack of ability to reproduce experiments doesn't necessarily make a field of study more or less scientific
More than anything, it shows a bias: There is a big misconception that science requires experiment; this misconception is widely used by denialists of all stripes.
Observation is absolutely science.
Astronomy, for example, is very soundly in the observational field of science. They observe the universe, and look at past observations. Then they create a mathematical model to describe the observations, make predictions based on the model, and continue to make new observations. If the model is good, then it's carried forward; if not, we try to observe more and figure out why we were wrong. Eventually, we get it right.
That's how we knew that orbits were elliptical long before we sent a rocket into space. It's how we knew the orbital radii of the planets long before more direct measurements like RADAR or sending a satellite to the planet.
Yeah, I was about to shout "Bingo!" There's a difference between political activism and studying the world; there's also a difference between voluntary support, and compelled groupthink.
Scientists aren't known for going along with compelled groupthink, especially as disproving groupthink can make their career.
Agreed. The scientific community does have issues of its own to address (and there are many).
However, this article reads along the lines of "I consider myself part of a community, and my community should think just like I do, and support the causes I want them to."
The author seems to be trying to 'shame' those who feel that "That has nothing to do with me, I feel no need to support it."
Like it or not, we have to move from "trust the user" to "trust no one". You aren't the market. Your idiot cousin is. The rest is economies of scale.
It's rare a day goes by that you don't hear about a major new hack hitting any of the major desktop or server OSes. We're finding root-escalation exploits on Linux far too often, to say nothing of Windows.
We can bellyache all day about how insecure ${PLATFORM} is, but requiring "trusted" signed binaries is the closest anybody has come to addressing the "user executes a trojan horse" problem.
Until somebody comes up with a better way to protect our idiot cousins from malware, that's the future we're going to get.
Never underestimate the ease you can tell an MCSE that Microsoft will keep his systems secure and easy to manage, and the conviction with which they will follow it.
I certainly know most enterprises I know of require boot-locked machines; my office laptop is absolutely boot-locked.
They do it to prevent a number of boot malware, require whole-disk encryption, prevent tampering, and preventing assholes like me from removing Microsoft Joke.
We don't get to retroactively change a standard; it's not going to magically play anywhere but on a software implementation, because the chips are designed to the standard.
Besides: A higher bitrate than 320 kbit/s has no measurable effect on MP3 quality. We can't really squeeze any more blood from the MP3 stone.
So while MP3 is decent, and it's now free, there are other free alternatives which are much better -- We're even starting to see support in hardware, thanks to RFC 6716, which standardized OPUS for internet audio.
The reason AAC sounds better is because it is better - it has several years worth of additional research and development that MP3 didn't have.
It's not all that different from how Vorbis is generally better than AAC, and Opus is better than both. The experts learn more, and do better the next time.
It's a minor nit, but AAC isn't an Apple format - it is an international ISO/IEC standard intended to replace MP3; it's also specified in MPEG-2 part 7, and MPEG-4, part 3, dating all the way back to April 1997. Apple simply adopted the standard a bit earlier - which isn't unusual for them.
Can we please ignore the lunatic ravings of the audiophiles? I'm tired of lunatic ravings by goons claiming they have hearing better than the rest of the animal kingdom combined, and lack the most basic understanding of how signals work.
True, but an electrical signal generally can travel a significant faction of c, with ladder line achieving 95-99% of c.
An imperfect model would be the same way sound can travel very quickly in a block of solid steel (~5700 m/s) while an individual atom of steel doesn't really move at all.
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Using the number of "cores" as a metric is misleading with 2013-era technology.
AMD didn't have multiple threads per core, while Intel did.
Both have the same number of executable threads, and /proc/cpuinfo would show the same number of CPU's.
At this point, Podcast App Breaker is following the herd; anybody who's been tracking it has seen most of the actively-developed feed readers support the new JSON feed format - and why not - it's something 'new' for the developers to do, so it's a bit more fun than the normal drudgery.
The problem that remains, though, is that there aren't too many publishing apps that use it yet.
The article only considers the dangers of the drug's interaction with the body...
I'm sure there are a lot of drugs which are pretty safe, provided you're in a situation where you can't injure yourself.
The danger happens when you can do things like walk into a busy street, or up a flight of stairs, believe you can fly...
Marketing is what it is:
Nobody wants to feel "scientific" when they take a recreational drug.
Feeling "magical," however, is another matter entirely.
It's not about revenue at all. The goal is a federal government so weak that "we can drown in a bathtub". If that means bankrupting the federal government, so be it.
The tax cut serves two purposes:
- To hasten the process of dismantling the only power capable of holding the wealthiest Americans in check: the US federal government.
- To further consolidate power into the hands of the wealthiest, whom can then live with complete impunity, as was the case a century ago.
There's a difference between Sony being a small player in big field, vs a wholly in-house design.
The DVD comes from Toshiba/Panasonic's Super Density disc.
Sony and Phillips's competing disc format (MMCD) did not become DVD.
Sony's role in the DVD is largely in deciding they would never win that particular format war, and dropping their own format. They did allow DVD to use a couple of technologies that came from MMCD, to strengthen the format.
The DVD is not Sony format. That fact is why Sony spent over half a billion dollars in marketing alone to undermine the DVD consortium's successor, HD-DVD -- including hundreds of millions of dollars to movie studios to dump HD-DVD.
Having bought both, I can say without reservation: The only thing Blu-ray has over HD-DVD is storage space, and nobody uses the extra space. Otherwise, HD-DVD is a much nicer experience - from the menu system to the ways it can present extra content.
In the end, though, both Blu-ray and HD-DVD are losers, though: Streaming & download sales have clearly come out on top.
Aside from the basic "well it's mine and I do with it whatever I want", which is categorically untrue for all aircraft
Never forget that John Adams - one of the founding fathers, the 2nd POTUS, co-author of the Declaration of Independence, argued in court (and won) that British soldiers were justified in opening fire on a crowd for throwing 'snowballs.' Courts have more or less followed that line of reasoning ever since -- even throwing popcorn is assault and can get you jail time.
This (And its thread lineage) are probably the best thread I've read in a long time.
My compliments, good humans!
Could there be a better example to illustrate why ensuring strong Net Neutrality protections by regulating ISPs as common carriers is so important?
Well, throttling my non-Comcast VoIP provider would be one. Especially for cellphones that can use WiFi instead of the cell phone network in areas with lousy reception.
I certainly don't want them degrading a VoIP call to 911 or another emergency service (poison control, etc.), and in spite of the minuscule amount of bandwidth VoIP takes, Comcast has been happy in the past to throttle it to uselessness.
And what are my other options? DSL from my local telephone company? Satellite internet via AT&T's DirecTV? They also have a vested interest in making sure only their voice service works.
So, yeah... let's start with 911 service, and go from there.
the alternative of "giant alien megastructure" tends to sound reassuringly better to academics who are very uncomfortable admitting they don't have a fucking clue what's happening.
You seriously misunderstand the emotions and motivations of academics: they're excited that they have something they can't explain. An oft quoted phrase is: "The most wonderful words in all of science is 'Huh...that's funny...'" It means there's something new to observe and learn from. It could make their career even if they don't figure it out, because they'll have the opportunity to get grant money, telescope time, and data that can be published - all of which both helps human knowledge and their personal careers. However, they're not fools - they know how to set expectations, and not one has said anything other than it "would be a good candidate" - which is practically worthless. It's like saying a rocky planet in the Goldilock's zone is a good candidate for life.
Science reporters, on the other hand, are a different story. They don't like saying "we don't know," because that doesn't often make headlines. However, if you can throw "aliens" and "science" into the same story, you can just watch the page views roll in, which helps with your next employee review.
Just imagine the new wave of proprietary software Ford's going to try to jam down our throats.
How is that different from the status quo? I'll admit I don't track what Ford does with a great deal of interest, but has any car manufacturer released the source to anything - including traction control, stability control, ABS brakes, airbags, throttle control, temperature control, electronic suspension, electronic transmission, valve timing... the list goes on and on.
one ten hundredth of a bitcoin
And this is exactly where bitcoin loses entirely. Nobody wants to deal with a currency that requires fractional exponential notation. Not even scientists and engineers.
Nobody wants to buy a loaf of bread in micro-units of anything, and very few of the world's keyboard have the mu symbol on it.
I'll begin to worry when they start using Akkadian Cuneiform, because they've run out of characters in every other alphabet.
However, I think the trend will continue until they use a symbol to include the opressed minority who find themselves - through no fault of their own - sexually attracted to women with the breasts of Claire Danes and the abs of Dwayne Johnson.
You have it backwards, I'm afraid. It became a political issue only after the IPCC - which was set up with the aid of the Reagan administration - started publishing its results.
When the results showed that there was a problem that needed attention in the next 30 years, and every viable solution required an expensive shift in industry practices to avoid a much more expense solution 70-80 years down the road - that is when it became a political issue.
Because, let's face it, as a species we're happy to kick the can down the road if it means we can be wealthy and more comfortable now, and American society in particular has trouble thinking past the next quarterly earnings report.
Humor aside, the lack of ability to reproduce experiments doesn't necessarily make a field of study more or less scientific
More than anything, it shows a bias: There is a big misconception that science requires experiment; this misconception is widely used by denialists of all stripes.
Observation is absolutely science.
Astronomy, for example, is very soundly in the observational field of science. They observe the universe, and look at past observations. Then they create a mathematical model to describe the observations, make predictions based on the model, and continue to make new observations. If the model is good, then it's carried forward; if not, we try to observe more and figure out why we were wrong. Eventually, we get it right.
That's how we knew that orbits were elliptical long before we sent a rocket into space. It's how we knew the orbital radii of the planets long before more direct measurements like RADAR or sending a satellite to the planet.
Yeah, I was about to shout "Bingo!" There's a difference between political activism and studying the world; there's also a difference between voluntary support, and compelled groupthink.
Scientists aren't known for going along with compelled groupthink, especially as disproving groupthink can make their career.
Agreed. The scientific community does have issues of its own to address (and there are many).
However, this article reads along the lines of "I consider myself part of a community, and my community should think just like I do, and support the causes I want them to."
The author seems to be trying to 'shame' those who feel that "That has nothing to do with me, I feel no need to support it."
Like it or not, we have to move from "trust the user" to "trust no one". You aren't the market. Your idiot cousin is. The rest is economies of scale.
It's rare a day goes by that you don't hear about a major new hack hitting any of the major desktop or server OSes. We're finding root-escalation exploits on Linux far too often, to say nothing of Windows.
We can bellyache all day about how insecure ${PLATFORM} is, but requiring "trusted" signed binaries is the closest anybody has come to addressing the "user executes a trojan horse" problem.
Until somebody comes up with a better way to protect our idiot cousins from malware, that's the future we're going to get.
Never underestimate the ease you can tell an MCSE that Microsoft will keep his systems secure and easy to manage, and the conviction with which they will follow it.
I certainly know most enterprises I know of require boot-locked machines; my office laptop is absolutely boot-locked.
They do it to prevent a number of boot malware, require whole-disk encryption, prevent tampering, and preventing assholes like me from removing Microsoft Joke.
If I had a dime for every time you have yet to buy the White Album, I could retire.
It'll be a while before we see the White Album mastered for 24.1.10 channel (Horizontal, Subwoofer, Overhead) , but it is on the roadmap.
That's just for those that are slumming with Dolby Atmos, mind you.
We've only started to map out the shift to the DTS:X format preferred by true audiophiles.
We don't get to retroactively change a standard; it's not going to magically play anywhere but on a software implementation, because the chips are designed to the standard.
Besides: A higher bitrate than 320 kbit/s has no measurable effect on MP3 quality. We can't really squeeze any more blood from the MP3 stone.
So while MP3 is decent, and it's now free, there are other free alternatives which are much better -- We're even starting to see support in hardware, thanks to RFC 6716, which standardized OPUS for internet audio.
The reason AAC sounds better is because it is better - it has several years worth of additional research and development that MP3 didn't have.
It's not all that different from how Vorbis is generally better than AAC, and Opus is better than both. The experts learn more, and do better the next time.
It's a minor nit, but AAC isn't an Apple format - it is an international ISO/IEC standard intended to replace MP3; it's also specified in MPEG-2 part 7, and MPEG-4, part 3, dating all the way back to April 1997. Apple simply adopted the standard a bit earlier - which isn't unusual for them.
Can we please ignore the lunatic ravings of the audiophiles? I'm tired of lunatic ravings by goons claiming they have hearing better than the rest of the animal kingdom combined, and lack the most basic understanding of how signals work.
What are you smoking?
This new model is pretty modern - touchscreen, apps, wireless, and even has a software emulator for iOS, Android, and Windows.
Electrons don't move at the speed of light.
True, but an electrical signal generally can travel a significant faction of c , with ladder line achieving 95-99% of c.
An imperfect model would be the same way sound can travel very quickly in a block of solid steel (~5700 m/s) while an individual atom of steel doesn't really move at all.
You're right, but it won't be the SLS's first flight (...and Orion has already flown).