64kbps AAC+ is not equivalent to 128kbps MP3. I can see some advantages to your situation: you don't need to invest in as much storage space per song, or as hefty hardware to play it back; you can be satisfied if you can't find something better.
But that only makes you better off if you don't actually care about sound quality beyond that point. Fair enough. I don't care about HD video, because my eyes aren't good enough to tell the difference. But personally I'm glad my ears and equipment are good enough. You may be better off, but I would be sad in your situation.
I can almost always tell the difference with 128kbps MP3, which is abysmal quality; at 192kbps, less often, and at 256kbps, I can generally only tell the difference on something I mixed, and sometimes I get that wrong, too. That's with studio monitors properly placed with a LynxONE, so that's as good as my ears get. (Of course, in a common listening environment like a car, none of this matters at all, since the quality just won't be there. 128kbps is fine in a car.)
Of course, to bring this back on topic, no one can tell the difference between a good quality 16-bit version and its 24-bit original, so this article is kind of silly:-)
Add Winamp (or some other program you always have open) to your Steam games list, then rename it in Steam. Now you'll always show up to your friends as playing some game you made up;-) Well, that's the only reason I can think of to do it, anyway.
In case anyone gets confused trying to figure out which word the above poster intended, it's futokuteitasuu (fu non + tokutei specific + tasuu large number). (I'm doubling the u here, since I don't think macrons work on Slashdot, and macrons to indicate long vowels suck anyway.)
It's two years older than Wikipedia, so if by "a take on Wikipedia" you meant they decided to do their own version of Wikipedia, then that's false. If you meant that they're quite similar, then I have no argument, so carry on:-)
So if, for example, you chose to vote against Bush, you deserve to have your rights taken away? "The public" is not an entity, and voting is done by individuals who disagree with one another. And more importantly, while voting (in national elections) is a choice, it's one with either an extremely small or zero chance to significantly affect your own life. It's ridiculous that you think that being able to vote somehow moves the responsibility away from the elected officials onto "the public". But then, that's the main effect of voting in national elections in the US--to make you feel like you have some power, when you really don't.
I think it's funny that all the responses are trying to one-up watching the Holiday Special, when this clearly can't be done. Instead, I'll offer my condolences, as a fellow victim:-(
For people who want to know more about retardpicnic's statement, "A problem commonly cited by older Germans is that the polulace simply had little to no idea about what the govt what actually doing during the war years. There was secrecy and disinformation and little else", I recommend reading _They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945_ by Milton Mayer. (I'm not trying to make an argument to the parent or grandparent with this post, but I do recommend the book.)
With the increased rune drop rates, I found both a Jah and a Ber within a week of making it to Hell mode. Yeah, that includes an unreasonable amount of grinding, but not cheating. (It was about the span of getting from level 81 to 86.) You can get an Enigma "easily" without cheating or depending on other users who cheat, these days. I still think it's a waste of time grinding for things, but it's a waste of a much smaller amount of time than it was before.
From what I understand, people still attack the servers to lag and crash them, in order to cheat (dupe items), despite the much lower values of high runes in 1.13. I have never played in a game without a password (except by accident, which I discover when I am immediately spammed), but I was quite unhappy to read that the reason my games lag out / crash and I lose items, is so that people can cheat and dupe items. I'd been under the naive impression that if I played on battle.net, and didn't trade with people I didn't know, that rampant cheating wouldn't affect me, but from what I'm told (by my friends who DO play/trade with random people), duping is still very common despite all the half-measures Blizzard has taken. I consider this the real problem, mainly because besides ruining the economy, having your game drop and losing something nice is really frustrating:-(
I've managed to stay calm whenever my life's been in danger. Sometimes, this didn't seem like a big deal afterwards. Other times, it ended up seeming fairly traumatic after the fact, even though it certainly wasn't at the time! But in either case, I don't think I was *trying* to stay calm--it just happened.
My favorite car has a sentence misusing the word "preclude" in a Jesus-related rant scrawled across the side door. I don't think there are too many like it around here:-(
I just looked at the article briefly, and it states "A second high-priority flaw, a sandbox parameter deserialization error, was discovered by two members of Adobe's Reader Sandbox Team." What the--Adobe has a security team? That's crazy talk!
Your comment makes sense. However, I'd say that antidepressants don't break any habits for you. What they do is make it easier for you to break your own habits, but it still requires work! That said, they can reduce compulsions significantly and make addictive cravings less intense, so depending on the type of habit, it can help more directly. (Though from what I understand not all ADs have these effects for all people.)
I've been on Zoloft twice. The first time, I gained quite a bit of weight. Serotonin plays a major role in appetite regulation. In my experience, that means the feelings of hunger and satiety change, and if you don't adapt to these changes, you might just end up eating a lot more! My eating habits were poor, and I indulged these habits a lot more without the normal feelings to guide me. I never adapted, and I blamed Zoloft for the weight gain.
Back on Zoloft, I've lost weight. About a year before starting Zoloft, I changed my diet completely and started exercising, and immediately began losing weight. While on Zoloft, that has continued (or perhaps accelerated a bit). Once again, my sense of hunger is a bit off, but with good eating habits in place, the only real difference is forgetting to eat sometimes.
Of course, I can't generalize from my experience to everyone. But I'd still suggest working on your eating habits before going on an anti-depressant, simply because it is helpful outside that context, as well:-)
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64kbps AAC+ is not equivalent to 128kbps MP3. I can see some advantages to your situation: you don't need to invest in as much storage space per song, or as hefty hardware to play it back; you can be satisfied if you can't find something better.
But that only makes you better off if you don't actually care about sound quality beyond that point. Fair enough. I don't care about HD video, because my eyes aren't good enough to tell the difference. But personally I'm glad my ears and equipment are good enough. You may be better off, but I would be sad in your situation.
I can almost always tell the difference with 128kbps MP3, which is abysmal quality; at 192kbps, less often, and at 256kbps, I can generally only tell the difference on something I mixed, and sometimes I get that wrong, too. That's with studio monitors properly placed with a LynxONE, so that's as good as my ears get. (Of course, in a common listening environment like a car, none of this matters at all, since the quality just won't be there. 128kbps is fine in a car.)
Of course, to bring this back on topic, no one can tell the difference between a good quality 16-bit version and its 24-bit original, so this article is kind of silly :-)
Read "Pin", by Robert R. McCammon. It's a short story about precisely this topic...
Add Winamp (or some other program you always have open) to your Steam games list, then rename it in Steam. Now you'll always show up to your friends as playing some game you made up ;-) Well, that's the only reason I can think of to do it, anyway.
"Do not want" seems like the most appropriate response here. Sheesh.
In case anyone gets confused trying to figure out which word the above poster intended, it's futokuteitasuu (fu non + tokutei specific + tasuu large number). (I'm doubling the u here, since I don't think macrons work on Slashdot, and macrons to indicate long vowels suck anyway.)
It's two years older than Wikipedia, so if by "a take on Wikipedia" you meant they decided to do their own version of Wikipedia, then that's false. If you meant that they're quite similar, then I have no argument, so carry on :-)
So if, for example, you chose to vote against Bush, you deserve to have your rights taken away? "The public" is not an entity, and voting is done by individuals who disagree with one another. And more importantly, while voting (in national elections) is a choice, it's one with either an extremely small or zero chance to significantly affect your own life. It's ridiculous that you think that being able to vote somehow moves the responsibility away from the elected officials onto "the public". But then, that's the main effect of voting in national elections in the US--to make you feel like you have some power, when you really don't.
I think it's funny that all the responses are trying to one-up watching the Holiday Special, when this clearly can't be done. Instead, I'll offer my condolences, as a fellow victim :-(
For people who want to know more about retardpicnic's statement, "A problem commonly cited by older Germans is that the polulace simply had little to no idea about what the govt what actually doing during the war years. There was secrecy and disinformation and little else", I recommend reading _They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945_ by Milton Mayer. (I'm not trying to make an argument to the parent or grandparent with this post, but I do recommend the book.)
With the increased rune drop rates, I found both a Jah and a Ber within a week of making it to Hell mode. Yeah, that includes an unreasonable amount of grinding, but not cheating. (It was about the span of getting from level 81 to 86.) You can get an Enigma "easily" without cheating or depending on other users who cheat, these days. I still think it's a waste of time grinding for things, but it's a waste of a much smaller amount of time than it was before.
From what I understand, people still attack the servers to lag and crash them, in order to cheat (dupe items), despite the much lower values of high runes in 1.13. I have never played in a game without a password (except by accident, which I discover when I am immediately spammed), but I was quite unhappy to read that the reason my games lag out / crash and I lose items, is so that people can cheat and dupe items. I'd been under the naive impression that if I played on battle.net, and didn't trade with people I didn't know, that rampant cheating wouldn't affect me, but from what I'm told (by my friends who DO play/trade with random people), duping is still very common despite all the half-measures Blizzard has taken. I consider this the real problem, mainly because besides ruining the economy, having your game drop and losing something nice is really frustrating :-(
This is my perspective as a d2 "n00b" anyway.
Sure, but we teach the results poorly. How many people actually know what "statistically significant" means?
No.
That's not what turning yourself in means. It means you're saving them the trouble of hunting you down on a warrant, not that you're admitting guilt.
Ah, yes. Jesus was known for talking about his nasal sex with plants.
I've managed to stay calm whenever my life's been in danger. Sometimes, this didn't seem like a big deal afterwards. Other times, it ended up seeming fairly traumatic after the fact, even though it certainly wasn't at the time! But in either case, I don't think I was *trying* to stay calm--it just happened.
To my eye, there is a slight difference. But my eye isn't very good, so I don't care about HD.
Just FYI, the word you're looking for is pseudonymity.
Funny. iTunes is a bloated hog on my mac, too :-)
My favorite car has a sentence misusing the word "preclude" in a Jesus-related rant scrawled across the side door. I don't think there are too many like it around here :-(
Linus refuses to offer Video4Linux support in the 1.2.x series of kernels. Could FreeBSD support Video4Linux better than Linux itself?
Hey, I've got lots of domains, and I never get offers for $100 of free stamps. What's your secret, CEO of Mike Inc.? ;-)
or $HOME, though that is of course not exactly the same thing.
I just looked at the article briefly, and it states "A second high-priority flaw, a sandbox parameter deserialization error, was discovered by two members of Adobe's Reader Sandbox Team." What the--Adobe has a security team? That's crazy talk!
Your comment makes sense. However, I'd say that antidepressants don't break any habits for you. What they do is make it easier for you to break your own habits, but it still requires work! That said, they can reduce compulsions significantly and make addictive cravings less intense, so depending on the type of habit, it can help more directly. (Though from what I understand not all ADs have these effects for all people.)
I've been on Zoloft twice. The first time, I gained quite a bit of weight. Serotonin plays a major role in appetite regulation. In my experience, that means the feelings of hunger and satiety change, and if you don't adapt to these changes, you might just end up eating a lot more! My eating habits were poor, and I indulged these habits a lot more without the normal feelings to guide me. I never adapted, and I blamed Zoloft for the weight gain.
Back on Zoloft, I've lost weight. About a year before starting Zoloft, I changed my diet completely and started exercising, and immediately began losing weight. While on Zoloft, that has continued (or perhaps accelerated a bit). Once again, my sense of hunger is a bit off, but with good eating habits in place, the only real difference is forgetting to eat sometimes.
Of course, I can't generalize from my experience to everyone. But I'd still suggest working on your eating habits before going on an anti-depressant, simply because it is helpful outside that context, as well :-)