You lose information in digital because waveforms are approximated. Digital has a lower noise floor, more dynamic range, is cleaner, more reliable and consistent etc etc etc, but it's still an approximation of an analog thing, which is a wave form.
It's not opinion, it's a fact and can be demonstrated visually and with your ears. Whether a given audiophile can actually tell the difference is a whole different story.
Those tiny wiggles in grooves are not an approximation, they carry the full amount of tonal information which, because of the nature of digital, is approximated in a digital recording. It's a very good approximation, so good so as to be able to fool most people's ears, but it is after all an approximation.
The effect can be seen and felt in bass frequencies and transients the most [most being relative, the auditory difference is barely perceptible, if at all]. Analog *is* more accurate, it's also more limited, harder to deal with, more fragile, requires greater expertise, is inconsistent and definitely more expensive. On the flip side, when you clip transients on an analog tape deck, the result is pleasing and musical, when you do that on digital, it's pretty harsh.
I do all of my recording digitally and don't even own a turntable, but I used to do analog and know both intimately.
"every request sent over the microblogging site includes the account holder's username and password"
Retarded design. However this attack could just as easily be used to dump a session id from a well designed site with the same end result. This is bad bad bad... The attacker could, once in the user's session, change their password and email address and hijack the account.
another problem with comments is the functionality changes and nobody updates the comments, so a developer coming in later will get the wrong idea and be even more confused than if the comments weren't there leading to more head-scratching.
>How does one "queue" awkward silence? If you have queued the actions of the actors, the awkward silence could be queued too, but this is only possible in a situation where the entire thing was in a command queue, such as in a film being done with CGI.
In that case you could, in reality, queue the awkward silence likely as a part of a conversation sequence rendering queue between two cgi actors, during a dialog where awkward silence was part of the script.
Other than that, the awkward silence would be cued as you have indicated.
... we should point the finger at the criminals that write viruses and otherwise break computers.
They write viruses to "get around" current virus protection. Now if you have a tool that works, and a criminal circumvents it, how does that make the tool faulty? It wasn't faulty when it was written, what makes it faulty now?
Are the software engineers supposed to be able to predict the future? What constitutes a tool that works?
Why don't we hold police responsible for not predicting murders and fireman fires?
The notion that anyone could could write a perfect tool is a joke.
20 years in jail for writing a virus would be much better virus protection than McAfee.
http://www.safetyforum.com/fordcruisecontrol/ This is the tip of the iceburg. At least software engineers don't burn people's houses down and kill people with a bug then deny it's their fault.
QFT. Every teacher I know (I know 4 of them who are my friends, and my son's teachers) does all of their work at home after school. They should be able to sell what they do for as much as they can get.
More power to them! They work 60+ hours a week and get paid less than a garbage collector. They deserve to be able to make ends meet like everyone else. Take this income stream from them and they'll simply go into teaching PowerPoint [or insert technology here] for adults, which pays $60+ an hour.
IMHO anyone that goes into teaching should get free college tuition as long as they graduate. It's hard enough to make it on that salary without the debt. They are doing society a favor. We shouldn't screw them on this.
Cache control 4tw. A lot of the user perception problems SPDY is trying to solve can be solved by utilizing already-existing protocol features and the farms of cache servers at ISPs for your active content.
The latency differences between a user going all the way to your server and grabbing your content vs. going to ISP's cache server to get it can be huge when you consider a separate connection for each part of the page. When coupled with the decreased response time (checking a cache file and responding with a 304 is a lot easier on your server than pulling your content out of a database, formatting it and sending the entire page) makes a huge end-user perception difference. It also frees resources on your web server faster because you are sending 20-30 bytes instead of x kb. The faster your server can get rid of that connection the better.
Doing this reduces the load on your server(especially connection utilization), your bandwidth utilization, speeds up the download of your page (since it avoids the need to leave the ISP for your content download) and generally makes you a better network citizen.
Of course this requires developers that understand the protocol.
What I want to know is will ISP cache servers will have this implemented?
To lose weight, put the fork down. To get healthier and/or build muscle, work out.
If you are on a 3.5 kcal a day diet, all the working out in the world isn't going to help unless you are Michael Phelps, work out for 6-8 hours a day and burn it all.
Unless you are always a little hungry and eat healthy, you aren't going to lose weight. If you are working out, and not losing weight, you need to eat less. It's a simple equation. You have to burn more calories than you take in.
Not putting the fork down (or overdoing it leading to yo yo dieting) is the part that screws people up. You can lose weight the healthy way and not work out at all if you simply stop eating when you are no longer hungry, instead of vacuuming your plate and getting seconds. You also can't eat a bag of corn chips and a cup of queso dip while watching CSI, then again that falls under the whole put the fork down rule.
Really? They provide an "unlimited" connection to your house and you install your own box. Shouldn't they be controlling the speed you get at their switch? If you don't touch their equipment it's not like you are bypassing their controls. What they should be doing is metering your bandwidth and charging you for what you use...
That way, feel free to mod your box all you want! Just be ready for a big ass bill if you increase your bandwidth use and total download GB. That way the cap is there for the user's own good and them removing it only hurts themselves.
IMHO it's not stealing as much as the cable company's billing model and way of doing business being, well, retarded. They can certainly track your usage but don't. Is that really the user's problem?
Relying on a box the user has in their possession to control their connection is, not to put too fine a point on it, abject stupidity. Physical access > root. Security 101.
If I were the guys lawyer, I'd approach this case from that angle if there's a good legal argument somewhere in there.
The cable company plays itself as a victim but you make your own reality. They could easily fix the problem with economic means. I guarantee you after that first bill came, every one of those modems would have an artificial cap turned back on;-)
Search for Navionics in iTunes under applications. Search by artist. That's for Nautical and they have packs for every waterway. $9.99 a region for the US. Usually they are more expensive. In the US. the map data is subsidized by taxes so it's less expensive.
Skycharts is an Aviation GPS, which you can download regions to so it will work outside of cell tower range.
Use AroundMe to find the nearest McDonalds (or just about anything else)
Jailbreak and use xGPS if you want turn by turn directions.
Would I use an iPhone for like stuff where my life is depending on it, no frikken way.
depends on the GPS app. You can load an entire region into it and it doesn't need a cellular signal to work, only GPS satellites which are reachable from anywhere.
Google maps doesn't do this, but it's not the only GPS application.
That being said, the iPhone has a short battery life and takes forever and a day to lock on to GPS satellites.
Location Services sucks a ton of juice and makes the iPhone get hot. If I were to depend on this, which I wouldn't, I'd have to get a battery case to extend the battery life.
I'd _never_ trust my well being to an iPhone GPS program.
I'd need a industrial strength GPS, along with a real analog compass and map backup to feel confident. Dedicated GPS has a lot going for it over smartphones, at this stage in smartphone evolution, namely battery life, the ability to swap in a fresh set of batteries, being waterproof in some cases and much faster to lock onto satellites.
You can fix the locking time issue with a bluetooth puck, but running bluetooth shortens the battery life even more.
nah they just do a 90 degree turn out of the fast lane to make the exit (I actually saw a woman do this in a 65MPH part of I-95, cutting across 3 lanes)
Or they just come to a dead stop and wait til they can get over (saw one do this too)
Slashdot Mirror
You lose information in digital because waveforms are approximated. Digital has a lower noise floor, more dynamic range, is cleaner, more reliable and consistent etc etc etc, but it's still an approximation of an analog thing, which is a wave form.
It's not opinion, it's a fact and can be demonstrated visually and with your ears. Whether a given audiophile can actually tell the difference is a whole different story.
Those tiny wiggles in grooves are not an approximation, they carry the full amount of tonal information which, because of the nature of digital, is approximated in a digital recording. It's a very good approximation, so good so as to be able to fool most people's ears, but it is after all an approximation.
The effect can be seen and felt in bass frequencies and transients the most [most being relative, the auditory difference is barely perceptible, if at all]. Analog *is* more accurate, it's also more limited, harder to deal with, more fragile, requires greater expertise, is inconsistent and definitely more expensive. On the flip side, when you clip transients on an analog tape deck, the result is pleasing and musical, when you do that on digital, it's pretty harsh.
I do all of my recording digitally and don't even own a turntable, but I used to do analog and know both intimately.
Put it in as an option which you can disable if you want to live dangerously.
"every request sent over the microblogging site includes the account holder's username and password"
Retarded design. However this attack could just as easily be used to dump a session id from a well designed site with the same end result. This is bad bad bad...
The attacker could, once in the user's session, change their password and email address and hijack the account.
another problem with comments is the functionality changes and nobody updates the comments, so a developer coming in later will get the wrong idea and be even more confused than if the comments weren't there leading to more head-scratching.
Sometimes comments are worse than useless.
UNIX is simple, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
LOL so true... Hopefully I won't be around when one of the perfect programmers decides to fix the spelling of this.
If the information is too limited the decision is fallacious.
Hasty generalization...
An inductive generalization can be valid but there has to be enough information for it to be considered so.
>How does one "queue" awkward silence?
If you have queued the actions of the actors, the awkward silence could be queued too, but this is only possible in a situation where the entire thing was in a command queue, such as in a film being done with CGI.
In that case you could, in reality, queue the awkward silence likely as a part of a conversation sequence rendering queue between two cgi actors, during a dialog where awkward silence was part of the script.
Other than that, the awkward silence would be cued as you have indicated.
... we should point the finger at the criminals that write viruses and otherwise break computers.
They write viruses to "get around" current virus protection. Now if you have a tool that works, and a criminal circumvents it, how does that make the tool faulty? It wasn't faulty when it was written, what makes it faulty now?
Are the software engineers supposed to be able to predict the future? What constitutes a tool that works?
Why don't we hold police responsible for not predicting murders and fireman fires?
The notion that anyone could could write a perfect tool is a joke.
20 years in jail for writing a virus would be much better virus protection than McAfee.
You should become an engineer. You sound like you would be a perfect candidate for the job with your quality conscious attitude.
http://www.safetyforum.com/fordcruisecontrol/
This is the tip of the iceburg. At least software engineers don't burn people's houses down and kill people with a bug then deny it's their fault.
I got news for you: nobody's perfect.
QFT. Every teacher I know (I know 4 of them who are my friends, and my son's teachers) does all of their work at home after school. They should be able to sell what they do for as much as they can get.
More power to them! They work 60+ hours a week and get paid less than a garbage collector. They deserve to be able to make ends meet like everyone else. Take this income stream from them and they'll simply go into teaching PowerPoint [or insert technology here] for adults, which pays $60+ an hour.
IMHO anyone that goes into teaching should get free college tuition as long as they graduate. It's hard enough to make it on that salary without the debt. They are doing society a favor. We shouldn't screw them on this.
>You can put the session code in the URL.
I'd also like to add that you can't do this if you want to pass a security audit.
Any security auditing company will report session id on query string as high risk.
I wonder if EU banks are required to pass security audits...
Cache control 4tw. A lot of the user perception problems SPDY is trying to solve can be solved by utilizing already-existing protocol features and the farms of cache servers at ISPs for your active content.
The latency differences between a user going all the way to your server and grabbing your content vs. going to ISP's cache server to get it can be huge when you consider a separate connection for each part of the page. When coupled with the decreased response time (checking a cache file and responding with a 304 is a lot easier on your server than pulling your content out of a database, formatting it and sending the entire page) makes a huge end-user perception difference. It also frees resources on your web server faster because you are sending 20-30 bytes instead of x kb. The faster your server can get rid of that connection the better.
Doing this reduces the load on your server(especially connection utilization), your bandwidth utilization, speeds up the download of your page (since it avoids the need to leave the ISP for your content download) and generally makes you a better network citizen.
Of course this requires developers that understand the protocol.
What I want to know is will ISP cache servers will have this implemented?
NICE! So Cenzic is a FUD machine and it's not even competent FUD at that.
Typical...
you can use telnet client to exploit sql injection. No browser necessary, just a socket connection and some type of terminal connected to port 80
telnet www.host.com 80
and type some request headers ; )
... to smartphones on Verizon. There's a map for that!
To lose weight, put the fork down.
To get healthier and/or build muscle, work out.
If you are on a 3.5 kcal a day diet, all the working out in the world isn't going to help unless you are Michael Phelps, work out for 6-8 hours a day and burn it all.
Unless you are always a little hungry and eat healthy, you aren't going to lose weight. If you are working out, and not losing weight, you need to eat less. It's a simple equation. You have to burn more calories than you take in.
Not putting the fork down (or overdoing it leading to yo yo dieting) is the part that screws people up. You can lose weight the healthy way and not work out at all if you simply stop eating when you are no longer hungry, instead of vacuuming your plate and getting seconds. You also can't eat a bag of corn chips and a cup of queso dip while watching CSI, then again that falls under the whole put the fork down rule.
Really? They provide an "unlimited" connection to your house and you install your own box. Shouldn't they be controlling the speed you get at their switch? If you don't touch their equipment it's not like you are bypassing their controls. What they should be doing is metering your bandwidth and charging you for what you use...
That way, feel free to mod your box all you want! Just be ready for a big ass bill if you increase your bandwidth use and total download GB. That way the cap is there for the user's own good and them removing it only hurts themselves.
IMHO it's not stealing as much as the cable company's billing model and way of doing business being, well, retarded. They can certainly track your usage but don't. Is that really the user's problem?
Relying on a box the user has in their possession to control their connection is, not to put too fine a point on it, abject stupidity. Physical access > root. Security 101.
If I were the guys lawyer, I'd approach this case from that angle if there's a good legal argument somewhere in there.
The cable company plays itself as a victim but you make your own reality. They could easily fix the problem with economic means. I guarantee you after that first bill came, every one of those modems would have an artificial cap turned back on ;-)
As soon as he starts downloadin'
You seem to have missed this part of my post:
"Would I use an iPhone for like stuff where my life is depending on it, no frikken way."
Have a nice day.
Search for Navionics in iTunes under applications. Search by artist. That's for Nautical and they have packs for every waterway. $9.99 a region for the US. Usually they are more expensive. In the US. the map data is subsidized by taxes so it's less expensive.
Skycharts is an Aviation GPS, which you can download regions to so it will work outside of cell tower range.
Use AroundMe to find the nearest McDonalds (or just about anything else)
Jailbreak and use xGPS if you want turn by turn directions.
Would I use an iPhone for like stuff where my life is depending on it, no frikken way.
depends on the GPS app. You can load an entire region into it and it doesn't need a cellular signal to work, only GPS satellites which are reachable from anywhere.
Google maps doesn't do this, but it's not the only GPS application.
That being said, the iPhone has a short battery life and takes forever and a day to lock on to GPS satellites.
Location Services sucks a ton of juice and makes the iPhone get hot. If I were to depend on this, which I wouldn't, I'd have to get a battery case to extend the battery life.
I'd _never_ trust my well being to an iPhone GPS program.
I'd need a industrial strength GPS, along with a real analog compass and map backup to feel confident. Dedicated GPS has a lot going for it over smartphones, at this stage in smartphone evolution, namely battery life, the ability to swap in a fresh set of batteries, being waterproof in some cases and much faster to lock onto satellites.
You can fix the locking time issue with a bluetooth puck, but running bluetooth shortens the battery life even more.
Maybe one day...
nah they just do a 90 degree turn out of the fast lane to make the exit (I actually saw a woman do this in a 65MPH part of I-95, cutting across 3 lanes)
Or they just come to a dead stop and wait til they can get over (saw one do this too)
(FACEPALM)
If they actually did this it would be nice. Problem is they'd use this as an excuse to raise gas taxes then not lower the other taxes proportionally.