Let me know when it's as ubiquitous as bash or csh. As far as I know, it's only pre-installed on Windows Server 2008 or greater.
Okay. It's as ubiquitous as bash or csh. It ships out of the box with Windows Vista, 7, Server 2008 and 2008 R2, and for XP it is included in Windows Update so any computer properly receiving it's updates will have it.
I wouldn't. Like you already implied this tax is redundant on top of the existing gasoline taxes, however taxing by the mile removes the incentive for fuel efficiency. If they're looking for a new way to help pay for road construction and maintenance may I suggest a new tax for heavy trucks. An 18 wheeler does over 100 times as much damage to a road surface as a typical car when it passes over it.
Not to say their working conditions aren't horrible, but I very much dislike how fashionable it is become to cite raw wages like that out of context. Are they paid poorly? Yes, very much so. Is the standard of living on $10 a day in China the same as it is in America? Absolutely not.
If he was a truly a thinking terrorist, he'd have left it unencrypted with a database of thousands of Americans. The aftermath inflicted on those people would be just as bad as anything else he could have done to them.
I checked it out and it sounds really interesting, but at the moment all they seem to have is the idea. Not to say it isn't a very good idea, but I think the main challenge will be making such a language intuitive and human readable whenever they get that far.
The main difference is that I would want the trolls to still see all the legitimate posts as well (or in your case, players) so it is difficult or impossible to tell you've even been flagged. Once trolls know they've been taken out they tend to find another way back on, so the best way to fight them is to make it hard for them to tell they've been silently banned at all.
And actually now that I think about it, you might as well just put all the troll flagged accounts into the same bubble, so they could see each other's posts, but they would all be invisible to everyone else. That would be much more difficult to detect.
They might, but not as fast as they would if the accounts were simply banned. There's probably also a good number of trolls who only bother to create a new account when their current account is banned.
I always thought the most effective way to combat trolls would be to silently flag their account, allowing them to post and continue viewing the forums as normal, but everything they do is completely invisible. The system could also generate fake replies to their replies and threads, also completely invisible.
The CPU was also a 16-bit version of the processor used in the NES at double the clock speed, and additionally the SPC sound system developed by Sony in the SNES was incredibly state of the art hardware at the time. It was actually a complete co-processor, with it's own 64kb of memory and sophisticated DSP chips. Compare some SNES soundtracks to the FM beeps and blips of the Sega Genesis (not to say beeps and blips aren't awesome), but yeah, I suppose if you disregard the substantial CPU improvement, and the revolutionary graphics and sound improvements it's really nothing special.
Actually, it's 2 Gamecubes strapped together. In fact, it's so similar that the best working Wii emulator in existence can also be used to emulate Gamecube games, which I imagined required only subtle modifications.
No, it's mostly because when you're writing software to use DTMF interaction, you don't want to be bothered with the filters and algorithms to extract the data from a audio channel (which is unreliable with noise, echo, feedback, etc.) when it can be given accurately in a very easy to parse form out of band. The transition to inband DTMF and out of band DTMF usually occurs at the PSTN gateway which bridges your VoIP network which can support out of band DTMF to the regular telephone system where all you have is an audio channel.
Of course it doesn't, but then, neither does the codec. Whatever VoIP codec you are using is transcoded along with the out of band DTMF at your PSTN gateway into G.711 with the DTMF put inband, whether your connection to the PSTN happens to be via POTS or PRI.
Disregarding the bandwidth your service provider may or may not provide you, VoIP clients on mobile devices are difficult or impossible to use due to the reliance of even modern VoIP protocols such as SIP on RTP which uses UDP for media transport, and every 3G provider I've ever seen deploys wide scale NATing to all their connected devices. They could make a legitimate argument for a lack of addresses, but there's kind of a conflict of interest there too.
In something like an actual telephone conversation it creates awkward pauses when each person is finished speaking of a length equal to twice the latency. High latency codecs also greatly encumber echo cancellation algorithms and hardware, which is extremely important in VoIP as anyone who has had to deal with it would know.
That's the whole idea behind any lossy codec. You're trading mathematical accuracy for psycho-acoustical accuracy; personally, I don't care if the root mean square error is higher, I just need it to sound like the original.
Anyway, if this really IS an improvement over HE-AAC, which uses some very techniques, I'll be extremely impressed, and quite pleased that it's patent free.
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Let me know when it's as ubiquitous as bash or csh. As far as I know, it's only pre-installed on Windows Server 2008 or greater.
Okay. It's as ubiquitous as bash or csh. It ships out of the box with Windows Vista, 7, Server 2008 and 2008 R2, and for XP it is included in Windows Update so any computer properly receiving it's updates will have it.
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Because that tax already exists; it's called fuel / gas tax, and it happens to be significantly easier to administer.
I wouldn't. Like you already implied this tax is redundant on top of the existing gasoline taxes, however taxing by the mile removes the incentive for fuel efficiency. If they're looking for a new way to help pay for road construction and maintenance may I suggest a new tax for heavy trucks. An 18 wheeler does over 100 times as much damage to a road surface as a typical car when it passes over it.
Not to say their working conditions aren't horrible, but I very much dislike how fashionable it is become to cite raw wages like that out of context. Are they paid poorly? Yes, very much so. Is the standard of living on $10 a day in China the same as it is in America? Absolutely not.
If he was a truly a thinking terrorist, he'd have left it unencrypted with a database of thousands of Americans. The aftermath inflicted on those people would be just as bad as anything else he could have done to them.
I checked it out and it sounds really interesting, but at the moment all they seem to have is the idea. Not to say it isn't a very good idea, but I think the main challenge will be making such a language intuitive and human readable whenever they get that far.
The main difference is that I would want the trolls to still see all the legitimate posts as well (or in your case, players) so it is difficult or impossible to tell you've even been flagged. Once trolls know they've been taken out they tend to find another way back on, so the best way to fight them is to make it hard for them to tell they've been silently banned at all.
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And actually now that I think about it, you might as well just put all the troll flagged accounts into the same bubble, so they could see each other's posts, but they would all be invisible to everyone else. That would be much more difficult to detect.
They might, but not as fast as they would if the accounts were simply banned. There's probably also a good number of trolls who only bother to create a new account when their current account is banned.
I always thought the most effective way to combat trolls would be to silently flag their account, allowing them to post and continue viewing the forums as normal, but everything they do is completely invisible. The system could also generate fake replies to their replies and threads, also completely invisible.
Actually, you don't even need to drown. You can actually just die straight up from drinking too much water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
The CPU was also a 16-bit version of the processor used in the NES at double the clock speed, and additionally the SPC sound system developed by Sony in the SNES was incredibly state of the art hardware at the time. It was actually a complete co-processor, with it's own 64kb of memory and sophisticated DSP chips. Compare some SNES soundtracks to the FM beeps and blips of the Sega Genesis (not to say beeps and blips aren't awesome), but yeah, I suppose if you disregard the substantial CPU improvement, and the revolutionary graphics and sound improvements it's really nothing special.
Actually, it's 2 Gamecubes strapped together. In fact, it's so similar that the best working Wii emulator in existence can also be used to emulate Gamecube games, which I imagined required only subtle modifications.
Any respectable PSTN gateway will do the conversion at the gateway.
No, it's mostly because when you're writing software to use DTMF interaction, you don't want to be bothered with the filters and algorithms to extract the data from a audio channel (which is unreliable with noise, echo, feedback, etc.) when it can be given accurately in a very easy to parse form out of band. The transition to inband DTMF and out of band DTMF usually occurs at the PSTN gateway which bridges your VoIP network which can support out of band DTMF to the regular telephone system where all you have is an audio channel.
Of course it doesn't, but then, neither does the codec. Whatever VoIP codec you are using is transcoded along with the out of band DTMF at your PSTN gateway into G.711 with the DTMF put inband, whether your connection to the PSTN happens to be via POTS or PRI.
Really? All your switches and routers are IPv6 compatible? Does your organization shit money or something?
You do realize that most modern VoIP hardware / software supports out of band DTMF? In fact, the most modern software demands it.
Disregarding the bandwidth your service provider may or may not provide you, VoIP clients on mobile devices are difficult or impossible to use due to the reliance of even modern VoIP protocols such as SIP on RTP which uses UDP for media transport, and every 3G provider I've ever seen deploys wide scale NATing to all their connected devices. They could make a legitimate argument for a lack of addresses, but there's kind of a conflict of interest there too.
In something like an actual telephone conversation it creates awkward pauses when each person is finished speaking of a length equal to twice the latency. High latency codecs also greatly encumber echo cancellation algorithms and hardware, which is extremely important in VoIP as anyone who has had to deal with it would know.
That's the whole idea behind any lossy codec. You're trading mathematical accuracy for psycho-acoustical accuracy; personally, I don't care if the root mean square error is higher, I just need it to sound like the original.
Anyway, if this really IS an improvement over HE-AAC, which uses some very techniques, I'll be extremely impressed, and quite pleased that it's patent free.
That's because Left 4 Dead 2 barely qualifies as an expansion pack by almost any standard.
Titan's Quest and Sim City 4 both crash randomly about once an hour if the game is pirated... it might even be a feature of the retail version too.