While this is mostly accurate, articles like this fail to mention where 192KHz is useful. That is, for certain types of digital post-processing and effects. Doing a digital time or frequency shift (not a re-sample, that's simple and effectively lossless) yields atrociously poor results if using 44.1 or even 48 KHz. With 192KHz, you can't hear the difference, and that is why it is used in the studio. Auto-tune is a decent example of that kind of processing. It works much better at higher bit rates.
None of this matters to the average listener though, or to the DJ who only cares about a simple speed up or slow down (or re-sample).
Wrong. Article mentions it as being useful for processing. Article uses oversampling for antialiasing / cutoff as an example. At no point would the signal have to be stored in a high sampling rate to get this benefit. Article mentions most ADCs/DACs handle this shit transparently.
"Sampling rates over 48kHz are irrelevant to high fidelity audio data, but they are internally essential to several modern digital audio techniques. Oversampling is the most relevant example [7]."
I sure as fuck only have 1 phone and 0 tablets, and that's won't even change. Everyone I know who has a tablet and a phone pretty much only uses the phone.
Despite what DC Comics might think, you do not pluralize a proper noun that is homonymous with a non-proper noun by changing its form in the same manner as the non-proper form of the noun.
"Reign of the Supermen!" should have been "Reign of the Supermans". "Rails is shit" is both correct and true.
This is what happens when you hire Carly Fiorina. Just don't do it. Take 5 seconds to look at her track record. She will neuter your company's ability to adapt and innovate and respond to the market by repeating the age-old mantra of "just screw the customer more". She will poison your company from within so they continue to flail and flop about years after she's left. She's absolutely not worth the "diversity" PR bonus point.
He WAS abiding by the law by exposing illegal activities carried out by the government on an ongoing basis. How is what he did illegal or wrong, by any stretch of the imagination? A law instructing any citizen to not report any illegal activity is itself an illegal law.
What activity by the government, in this case, has been shown to be illegal?
Uh, the massive spying program that spies on American citizens without warrant or just cause?
Or how about the fact that the program is so vast and pervasive, with laws passed specifically to enable it (laws that are laughably unconstitutional) that the program is a direct assault on the US Constitution, making all involved guilty of treason?
The government's activities weren't illegal. They were authorized into law by congress. You might contend that the new laws are *unconstitutional*, but that's a contention you have to make before the Supreme Court if you want to legally revert an unconstitutional law passed by Congress that they don't want to repeal on their own. There's a process here, and what the leaker did *is* illegal, while what the government did *is not illegal*.
When you have secret programs with secret rules and secret courts making secret decisions about them, NOTHING is legal. Hammurabi wrote shit down for people to see for a fucking reason.
Excel is so far removed from those two options that the fact that you even mention them tells me you either:
A) Don't actually use them (because you would know how shitty they are and wouldn't recommend them) B) Have never used Excel beyond "Hurr derr my first mail merge and pivot table!"
Of course, those apps that have four little input boxes and only support hard coding an IP for a connection still won't work. Have any of those? I don't.
The fact that you call everything an "app" and then claim you don't have any piece of software that uses hard-coded IPs tells me you are a 14 year old kiddo. K I D D O.
Go buy a new router off the shelf from your favorite retailer. How are you gonna config the thing? Are you gonna head over to 2000:FF01:B4F1:A020:0000:0000:0000:0001 ? Or are you gonna head over to 192.168.1.1?
Or are you gonna hook it up to your PC and run the fucking setup wizard from the CD that came with it? (Hint - the setup wizard just hopes you're NIC is configured in DHCP herpus derpus mode and spams the subnet looking for a response from any ol' IPv4 IP).
I very much doubt most carjackers will kill you. Stealing a car might get you on the cops list, but not terribly high. Murder will get you all the way to the top in an instant. Not to mention a bit more of a prison sentence.
Murder gets you to about 20th:
1: Kill a cop. 2: Kill a cop's family member or dog. 3: Expose corruption within the police force. 4: Be accused of having child porn. 5: Protest government officials or actions in a public space. 6: Exercise your rights when arrested, pulled over, stopped for a random search, etc. 7: Sell drugs. 8: Fail to file your tax return or make an error when filing. 9: Be black outside a low-income area. 10: Download a movie. 11: Buy an iPhone prototype someone left behind in a bar. 12: Have child porn. 13: Be male and get into an argument with a female. 14: Have drugs in your possession. 15: Organized gambling. 16: Make or sell moonshine. 17: Create or distribute child porn. 18: Steal from the government or a corporation. 19: Steal from rich people. 20: Murder.
I can open a car in under 5 seconds. faster then most people can with a key. And it isn't obtrusive.
I'm just gonna go ahead and call you out on this right now.
A cop can't do that. A AAA guy can't do that. A mechanic can't do that. A locksmith can't do that. The car's manufacturer can't do that. You can't do that.
Your options for getting in are:
Pick the lock. Not quick and easy. Often obtrusive. No matter how much you practice, each time you go to a lock you're feeling your way around blindly. It takes the most skilled of nerds an average of 3 attempts to plug in a USB cable in the back of a host.
Forcing the window down. Not quick and easy. Obtrusive.
Using a coat hanger or slim jim to trip the door latch. Not quick and easy. Obtrusive.
Smashing the window with a rock. Quick and easy. Very obtrusive.
Hacking the remote entry system. Quick and easy once you set it up and test it at home. Unobtrusive.
But please continue to sell us your bullshit about your 1337 skillz.
AMD does really well on multi-threaded performance as well.. I went with the 8-core AMD for my development workstation, as it handles the background services during development (webserver, sql database, no-sql database) etc better... at the same price AMD spanks Intel for my use case, and would have to spend a lot more to get the same level of performance (more expensive MB and CPU).. Of course most people would be happy with any >= $150 CPU combined with enough ram and an SSD these days.
Lately I've suggested people get the cheapest laptop they can find (mostly in the $300-450 range) and max out the RAM and put in an SSD. Generally a better experience than more expensive laptops... unless you need a high end display.
Oh absolutely. Everyone who considers Bulldozer a failure is obviously not doing any heavily-multi threaded work. We recently bought a new server (ESXi host) and we went with AMD because of the cost and scalability. We ended up spending the $3000 difference (had we gone with Intel) on SSDs (vs. 15k SCSI drives).
The whole heat spreader design is so stupid. Instead of a thin aluminum (or whatever) cap, why not make it a thick copper block with fins and fan mounting points, and attach that directly to the core right at the factory? You'd get much better results.
Yeah, then you have a larger and less flexible design that OEMs have to deal with. I say fuck em.
CPUs: AMD wins in the $/performance category but loses in terms of pure performance. For 2 generations AMD won the pure performance crown as well.
Onboard (or on-die) GPUs: Intel's implementation will get you moderate FPS on games released in [PurchaseYear - 1] at a sub-native resolution. AMD's implementation will at least run medium settings around 30 fps at native resolution. AMD wins in the $/performance category AND the pure performance category.
Discrete GPUs: AMD wins in the $/performance category but loses in terms of pure performance. If you want the top of the line, you spend big money on two of Nvidia's top-end cards every year.
CPU performance has been good enough for the vast majority of tasks that it's taking a back seat for me. I still need it for video encoding since the x264 kids don't want to do an OpenCL version. If the DivX can get their HEVC encoder running on OpenCL (or if the x264 team does the same), then I'll see no reason to go with Intel in the near future. I'd rather spend the $ difference on more SSDs.
I'm not sure where the hell you got any of your numbers from.
It's CajunArson, he's a known fanboi/troll, and he loves to reply to himself with additional info to whore +1 Informative mods.
Dell tried a very similar thing with a "Linux button" on it's windows consumer laptops. The idea was that a very fast booting Linux distribution designed as a media player could be used, instead of completing a full windows boot.
I don't think it was very successful. There are parallels to Metro.
Jason.
It was fucking terrible. 99% of the time you booted into it was by accident, and 60% of the time you would get stuck in that mode. I don't remember the exact procedure to force a regular boot, but it was nearly impossible to relay to someone over the phone. "Press and hold the power button." "No, the other power button." "Yes, you have two power buttons, that's how you got into that piece of shit media player and web browser mode."
I'm as liberal as they come...and I really don't see the issue here.
I don't know if you've been paying attention for the past 8 or so years or not, but liberals are now all about giving control of their lives (and, as usual, income) to the government. The fact that 3 "liberals" on the supreme court voted for personal rights in this instance isn't some indicator of what a liberal is today, it's an indicator of how old the supreme court justices are.
Now, like fingerprints, once charges are dropped, all such collected evidence should be destroyed.
We've got national databases now. Nothing is ever removed from them. Even if you spend a fortune on fancy lawyers to sue for deletion and win the case, they won't ever actually do it.
Just an FYI for everyone reading the terrible summary.
Switchboard was advertised as a "MAGIC OMG FASTER INNERNETS BECUZ POWER OF TEH CLOUD" thing.
What it actually was:
A VPN client that aggregated all internet-connected links you had, split up packets across all your pipes (you have to have multiple ISPs), and then sent them off to some server they leased which has a fatter pipe, reconstructed your packets from the split up packets, and then routed your traffic to its intended destination, and did the reverse for traffic going to you.
Irrelevant. If Facebook wants to do business in EU, then Facebook will follow the EU rules. Period. Otherwise, a widespread ban. End Of Story.
facebook.com isn't doing business in the EU, it's simply accessible in the EU.
Oh, you mean those random offices scattered about that aren't really related to Facebook's main operations? Yeah, they can shut those down if they really wanted to. So what? facebook.com is the money maker. The EU couldn't shut that down even if they tried. Period. End Of Story.
They do not need to block Facebook. They will sue Facebook and as Facebook is doing business in their jurisdiction, Facebook will have to pay. There is no option. Or do you think that America will want to waive it's right to sue foreign businesses the to business in America?
They have one satellite office for ads. The best Italy can do is shut that office down. Operating facebook.com doesn't mean facebook has to abide by Italian law.
In your fantasy world: Every country where porn is banned could sue every porn site. Canada could sue every site that doesn't have both an English and a French version. Shitstain middle eastern countries could sue every site that posts a picture of Mohammad.
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While this is mostly accurate, articles like this fail to mention where 192KHz is useful. That is, for certain types of digital post-processing and effects. Doing a digital time or frequency shift (not a re-sample, that's simple and effectively lossless) yields atrociously poor results if using 44.1 or even 48 KHz. With 192KHz, you can't hear the difference, and that is why it is used in the studio. Auto-tune is a decent example of that kind of processing. It works much better at higher bit rates.
None of this matters to the average listener though, or to the DJ who only cares about a simple speed up or slow down (or re-sample).
Wrong. Article mentions it as being useful for processing. Article uses oversampling for antialiasing / cutoff as an example.
At no point would the signal have to be stored in a high sampling rate to get this benefit. Article mentions most ADCs/DACs handle this shit transparently.
"Sampling rates over 48kHz are irrelevant to high fidelity audio data, but they are internally essential to several modern digital audio techniques. Oversampling is the most relevant example [7]."
Define "In Use".
I sure as fuck only have 1 phone and 0 tablets, and that's won't even change.
Everyone I know who has a tablet and a phone pretty much only uses the phone.
Rails is shit anyways.
grammar sucks too
Despite what DC Comics might think, you do not pluralize a proper noun that is homonymous with a non-proper noun by changing its form in the same manner as the non-proper form of the noun.
"Reign of the Supermen!" should have been "Reign of the Supermans".
"Rails is shit" is both correct and true.
This is what happens when you hire Carly Fiorina.
Just don't do it.
Take 5 seconds to look at her track record.
She will neuter your company's ability to adapt and innovate and respond to the market by repeating the age-old mantra of "just screw the customer more".
She will poison your company from within so they continue to flail and flop about years after she's left.
She's absolutely not worth the "diversity" PR bonus point.
Yes, they have been shown to be illegal. Read the Bill of Rights.
Regular laws passed by Congress do not supersede the Constitution or its amendments.
He WAS abiding by the law by exposing illegal activities carried out by the government on an ongoing basis. How is what he did illegal or wrong, by any stretch of the imagination? A law instructing any citizen to not report any illegal activity is itself an illegal law.
What activity by the government, in this case, has been shown to be illegal?
Uh, the massive spying program that spies on American citizens without warrant or just cause?
Or how about the fact that the program is so vast and pervasive, with laws passed specifically to enable it (laws that are laughably unconstitutional) that the program is a direct assault on the US Constitution, making all involved guilty of treason?
The government's activities weren't illegal. They were authorized into law by congress. You might contend that the new laws are *unconstitutional*, but that's a contention you have to make before the Supreme Court if you want to legally revert an unconstitutional law passed by Congress that they don't want to repeal on their own. There's a process here, and what the leaker did *is* illegal, while what the government did *is not illegal*.
When you have secret programs with secret rules and secret courts making secret decisions about them, NOTHING is legal.
Hammurabi wrote shit down for people to see for a fucking reason.
Hmm...
For Spreadsheets, have you had a look at:
http://www.libreoffice.org/features/calc
and
http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric
>
Excel is so far removed from those two options that the fact that you even mention them tells me you either:
A) Don't actually use them (because you would know how shitty they are and wouldn't recommend them)
B) Have never used Excel beyond "Hurr derr my first mail merge and pivot table!"
You might as well compare Photoshop to MS Paint.
Of course, those apps that have four little input boxes and only support hard coding an IP for a connection still won't work. Have any of those? I don't.
The fact that you call everything an "app" and then claim you don't have any piece of software that uses hard-coded IPs tells me you are a 14 year old kiddo.
K I D D O.
Go buy a new router off the shelf from your favorite retailer.
How are you gonna config the thing? Are you gonna head over to 2000:FF01:B4F1:A020:0000:0000:0000:0001 ? Or are you gonna head over to 192.168.1.1?
Or are you gonna hook it up to your PC and run the fucking setup wizard from the CD that came with it? (Hint - the setup wizard just hopes you're NIC is configured in DHCP herpus derpus mode and spams the subnet looking for a response from any ol' IPv4 IP).
Surely, this is the year of the Linux Desktop^W^W the really long and unwieldy IP addresses.
I very much doubt most carjackers will kill you. Stealing a car might get you on the cops list, but not terribly high. Murder will get you all the way to the top in an instant. Not to mention a bit more of a prison sentence.
Murder gets you to about 20th:
1: Kill a cop.
2: Kill a cop's family member or dog.
3: Expose corruption within the police force.
4: Be accused of having child porn.
5: Protest government officials or actions in a public space.
6: Exercise your rights when arrested, pulled over, stopped for a random search, etc.
7: Sell drugs.
8: Fail to file your tax return or make an error when filing.
9: Be black outside a low-income area.
10: Download a movie.
11: Buy an iPhone prototype someone left behind in a bar.
12: Have child porn.
13: Be male and get into an argument with a female.
14: Have drugs in your possession.
15: Organized gambling.
16: Make or sell moonshine.
17: Create or distribute child porn.
18: Steal from the government or a corporation.
19: Steal from rich people.
20: Murder.
that was a Volvo
No, that's from sitting on the copier.
I can open a car in under 5 seconds. faster then most people can with a key. And it isn't obtrusive.
I'm just gonna go ahead and call you out on this right now.
A cop can't do that.
A AAA guy can't do that.
A mechanic can't do that.
A locksmith can't do that.
The car's manufacturer can't do that.
You can't do that.
Your options for getting in are:
Pick the lock. Not quick and easy. Often obtrusive. No matter how much you practice, each time you go to a lock you're feeling your way around blindly. It takes the most skilled of nerds an average of 3 attempts to plug in a USB cable in the back of a host.
Forcing the window down. Not quick and easy. Obtrusive.
Using a coat hanger or slim jim to trip the door latch. Not quick and easy. Obtrusive.
Smashing the window with a rock. Quick and easy. Very obtrusive.
Hacking the remote entry system. Quick and easy once you set it up and test it at home. Unobtrusive.
But please continue to sell us your bullshit about your 1337 skillz.
AMD does really well on multi-threaded performance as well.. I went with the 8-core AMD for my development workstation, as it handles the background services during development (webserver, sql database, no-sql database) etc better... at the same price AMD spanks Intel for my use case, and would have to spend a lot more to get the same level of performance (more expensive MB and CPU).. Of course most people would be happy with any >= $150 CPU combined with enough ram and an SSD these days.
Lately I've suggested people get the cheapest laptop they can find (mostly in the $300-450 range) and max out the RAM and put in an SSD. Generally a better experience than more expensive laptops... unless you need a high end display.
Oh absolutely. Everyone who considers Bulldozer a failure is obviously not doing any heavily-multi threaded work.
We recently bought a new server (ESXi host) and we went with AMD because of the cost and scalability.
We ended up spending the $3000 difference (had we gone with Intel) on SSDs (vs. 15k SCSI drives).
The whole heat spreader design is so stupid. Instead of a thin aluminum (or whatever) cap, why not make it a thick copper block with fins and fan mounting points, and attach that directly to the core right at the factory? You'd get much better results.
Yeah, then you have a larger and less flexible design that OEMs have to deal with. I say fuck em.
It's the same story every generation.
CPUs: AMD wins in the $/performance category but loses in terms of pure performance. For 2 generations AMD won the pure performance crown as well.
Onboard (or on-die) GPUs: Intel's implementation will get you moderate FPS on games released in [PurchaseYear - 1] at a sub-native resolution. AMD's implementation will at least run medium settings around 30 fps at native resolution. AMD wins in the $/performance category AND the pure performance category.
Discrete GPUs: AMD wins in the $/performance category but loses in terms of pure performance. If you want the top of the line, you spend big money on two of Nvidia's top-end cards every year.
CPU performance has been good enough for the vast majority of tasks that it's taking a back seat for me. I still need it for video encoding since the x264 kids don't want to do an OpenCL version.
If the DivX can get their HEVC encoder running on OpenCL (or if the x264 team does the same), then I'll see no reason to go with Intel in the near future. I'd rather spend the $ difference on more SSDs.
I'm not sure where the hell you got any of your numbers from.
It's CajunArson, he's a known fanboi/troll, and he loves to reply to himself with additional info to whore +1 Informative mods.
Dell tried a very similar thing with a "Linux button" on it's windows consumer laptops. The idea was that a very fast booting Linux distribution designed as a media player could be used, instead of completing a full windows boot.
I don't think it was very successful. There are parallels to Metro.
Jason.
It was fucking terrible.
99% of the time you booted into it was by accident, and 60% of the time you would get stuck in that mode. I don't remember the exact procedure to force a regular boot, but it was nearly impossible to relay to someone over the phone. "Press and hold the power button." "No, the other power button." "Yes, you have two power buttons, that's how you got into that piece of shit media player and web browser mode."
Except your DNA contains about 700 MB of personal information...
It better be exactly 700 MB. The last spindle of CD-Rs I bought wouldn't even overburn to 702 MB reliably.
I'm as liberal as they come...and I really don't see the issue here.
I don't know if you've been paying attention for the past 8 or so years or not, but liberals are now all about giving control of their lives (and, as usual, income) to the government. The fact that 3 "liberals" on the supreme court voted for personal rights in this instance isn't some indicator of what a liberal is today, it's an indicator of how old the supreme court justices are.
Now, like fingerprints, once charges are dropped, all such collected evidence should be destroyed.
We've got national databases now. Nothing is ever removed from them. Even if you spend a fortune on fancy lawyers to sue for deletion and win the case, they won't ever actually do it.
Butthurt Bostoner is butthurt.
Wrong, kiddo.
West coast best coast. East coast least coast.
"In order to access our Web site, your Web browser must accept cookies from NYTimes.com"
NYT can suck my 8 inch non-dairy creamer. Anybody have a copy of the article?
I'll summarize it for you:
We're the New York Times and we're trying to remain relevant by sucking our own dicks non-stop! Just like New York City itself!
Just an FYI for everyone reading the terrible summary.
Switchboard was advertised as a "MAGIC OMG FASTER INNERNETS BECUZ POWER OF TEH CLOUD" thing.
What it actually was:
A VPN client that aggregated all internet-connected links you had, split up packets across all your pipes (you have to have multiple ISPs), and then sent them off to some server they leased which has a fatter pipe, reconstructed your packets from the split up packets, and then routed your traffic to its intended destination, and did the reverse for traffic going to you.
WRONG!
The correct form is:
127.0.0.1 slashdot.org www.slashdot.org tech.slashdot.org etc etc etc
0.0.0.0 is faster.
127.0.0.1 negatively impacts performance compared to 0.0.0.0
Irrelevant. If Facebook wants to do business in EU, then Facebook will follow the EU rules. Period. Otherwise, a widespread ban. End Of Story.
facebook.com isn't doing business in the EU, it's simply accessible in the EU.
Oh, you mean those random offices scattered about that aren't really related to Facebook's main operations? Yeah, they can shut those down if they really wanted to. So what? facebook.com is the money maker. The EU couldn't shut that down even if they tried. Period. End Of Story.
They do not need to block Facebook. They will sue Facebook and as Facebook is doing business in their jurisdiction, Facebook will have to pay. There is no option. Or do you think that America will want to waive it's right to sue foreign businesses the to business in America?
They have one satellite office for ads. The best Italy can do is shut that office down.
Operating facebook.com doesn't mean facebook has to abide by Italian law.
In your fantasy world:
Every country where porn is banned could sue every porn site.
Canada could sue every site that doesn't have both an English and a French version.
Shitstain middle eastern countries could sue every site that posts a picture of Mohammad.
The world doesn't operate that way, thankfully.