Or is it a crippled down version of it? I buy FLACs (preferably ones better than 16bit/44kHz (we don't live in the 70s anymore, guys)) on the Internet. I don't mind paying for them if the music is good. I'm not paying for mp3. It's like paying for mcdonalds. oh, hold on.... Not buying any CDs because the industry itself is retarded. "Let's see who rusts first!"
www.LinnRecords.com:) There, problem solved. up to 192kHz/24bit flacs without drm. I buy stuff from there occasionally. And I know there are several others around.
I refuse to buy CDs. The CD medium itself is from the 70s. The quality (resolution) is limited and so is the length of recording that fits on it. There have been high-quality players and digital alternative formats for many decades. Couple that with a fossilized business model of the industry and you end up with pirating music (hoping that release quality will increase in the future as music comes to better media)
Well the fact that it (the troll) actually found it necessary to post this would mean that it is actually less common than on Windows. You don't see Linux fans posting "If this were Linux" on all Windows bugs. Apart from the fact that if they would; it might actually be even more annoying! Maybe "we" should start doing that. For every critical Windows bug say "If this were any other OS...". Doesn't sound so smart now, does it, zennyboy?
This is all nice and well if you assume that CDs are the only source of income. Now, the record companies like people to think that the artists only income is from CDs and that we should keep buying CDs otherwise the industry will die.
Let's, for a moment, assume that music IS actually a healthy industry (one where there are (runnnig/development) costs and money is to be made legally) then piracy can be seen as a healthy competition, all though illegal in most countries. Record companies have a monopoly on their artists. If you want Michael Jackson, you'd have to pay Sony. You have no choice other than NOT to buy Michael Jackson's music. And as popular artists (the ones the parent claims are "hit the most") get more general interest, they sell more of it and are broadcast on the radio,pre frequently which again boosts sales. Sales to which no competitor can compete, as all Michael Jackson's CDs are from Sony. I'm not going into the theories that record companies force radio stations to play more music from other (more unknown) artists from the record company's repertoire. I do think, judging from their Mafia approach to their competitor (piracy), this is a sound assumption.
One other thing is adjusting your company and strategies to the market. When the NY harbour did not adjust to the new sized containers (because otherwise a big group of people would be out of work, because less employees were needed), they were overtaken by a nearby harbour... why? Because they DID adjust. That's what happens in a moving market. Now the music (and film) industries do not do this. Why not? Because competitors can not start selling their artists without having to go through the record company that also sells the CDs. New artists can do this, but this takes time (and is much less affective). I for one would LOVE to pay for good music. I listen to FLACs because I live in 2009 (soon to be 2010) and not in the eighties anymore. So, where can I buy, high res (again; we're not living in the eighties; enough with the 16/44.1 already!) recordings? Sure there's Linn Records and the like, of which I've bought quite a few albums. But where can I buy my high-res Michael Jackson albums? Oh.... I CAN'T! Because the record companies have frozen the progression of their market for decades! And now everyone's pissed off, technology has advanced to a point the record companies have lost it (quoting Sony: "All the Internet has brought us was bad stuff, like Piracy". Friggin fossils!). So let them go belly-up! Let them, for once, feel what happens if you don't progress. I'd love to lend a hand:)
So, I assume you haven't actually measured the light output, you know, scientifically? After all, looking directly at the bulbs with the human eye is not a very accurate measure.
Nor is comparing it to the regular bulb. For all we know, maybe normal bulbs are brighter when it's cold?
Even more offtopic: Nor is comparing AAC to OGG (with your own ears!) by the way... religions are useless if you don't know it when you see one
There actually is the +/-12h zone that is both +12 and -12, depending on where in within that zone you are. For example, time between Christmasislands and Hawaii are 24 hours from eachother.
See wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line
PS: timelines are not always 1h apart. There are 40 timezones in total.
Okay, so what if they use CGI? It's becoming more and more easy to just pick a CGI model that looks exactly the way you want it to. Do these "photos" have to have this text too? What about changing background etc?
On a whole different note; I fail to see the connection between altered photos of models and anorexia. Usually they don't make these models more skinny. They might smudge out a navel here or there (models are atomically weird), or make a boob a bit bigger (Emma Watson?) but I seriously doubt they're making models even more skinnier.
West Asia == Middle East. Middle east is just a European oriented name for practically the same region. And Turkey is just a country, not a whole continent you know. Turkey is as much WEST Asia as you can get; it's the most western country of those in West Asia. Then there is South Asia (to which India belongs) and East Asia (which is West for Americans).
Then there is Northern, Central, Southwestern and Southeastern Asia to make things even more complicated. Just take a look at this for a nice map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_asia
Now that's interesting! I've been a happy ATI customer for many years and been using Linux for parhaps even more years, but I'd say the exact opposite: "My next video card's going to be an Nvidia most likely". Sure, ATI drivers don't really crash as often as they have been, but for a window to take 4 seconds to resize, is a bit much. So no Nvidia and no ATI... then what's left? Intel? S3? 3D Labs?
Like when Micky J died.... somewhere (I guess it was BBC, not sure though. Maybe someone can help me here) there was a list of n-facts about Michael Jackson. The article said: 750Million albums sold. He made $700Million during his lifetime. Errr.... 750m albums / $700m $1/album. I don't know about you, but I haven't seen albums being that cheap. So where did the rest of the money go? I'm guessing not to the people putting their "sweat and tears" into it.
Maybe that's just weird because "burger building", "Rock Band" and stuff like "Games" are connected to FUN. While Windows is...well.... you catch my drift
Comparing it to Microsoft's Windows is ridiculous at best. Windows is a monopoly while, even though there a sh*tload of iPhones around, the iPhone isn't. Also, Microsoft has the same track record, though maybe not as obvious as the App store. Microsoft has done countless attempts to deal with these competitors and have locked them out on multiple occasions through not opening up all information and pushing their own services to the user (msie or msn anyone?). How is that any different?
If you don't like the services that are available on the iPhone, then don't buy an iPhone and get one of the many other neat smart phones out there. In the case of Windows that's nearly impossible (though becoming more and more easy every day)
That's exactly what I mean. The fact that it looks more like America doesn't mean it's better. Money and power are not always "better", but Americans will probably never understand that. In more recent events; have you been to Iraq lately? My point exactly. Would you say they've really improved since America started poking around (again)?
Well, they have a lot of money to devote to it since they don't have to spend ANY money on defense. If the USA took all of its money from defense and put it into Healthcare or "Green Tech," then yes, we'd be able to claim advances in those areas. [...]
Sure, don't let FACTS get in the way. Like the fact that the USA is making money with their wars (EU buying planes built in the USA, leasing bombs, etc, etc). " protect all of the other countries"? WW2 was the last time the Americans actually did defend (although that too is debatable). All the other wars were the Americans forcing their view on other people. Don't give us your patriotic brainwash crap about America defending the free people.
That's funny; all you can remember of the person complementing you on your Japanese was that she was a woman. You know; belonging to "the group of women". That's what people do; they judge. They always have and always will. People put other people into little boxes with "the others". That's how we humans operate. Saying that judging people on appearance is racism is just plain ignorance. Now using that process to actually hate people or do people harm would obviously be wrong. Simply because of the hate or harm part of the sentence, not because of which box you're using for it.
I'd suggest storing a certain clip from Rick Astley on a DVD:)
Anyhow, to at least have some understanding of what IO we'll have in 16 years, we'd have to look back 16 years. What did we have back then? Floppies were mainstream and CD-ROMs were starting to appear. HDDs obviously, but I wonder if those interfaces are going to be around for much longer. You could question whether USB would be still be available by that time (some examples of ancient IO can be seen above, in someone elses post). My guess is something like Bluray would probably be your best guess. Why? Because there's a huge industry behind it that sees value in keeping that product alife for awhile. USB is a relatively easily discarded interface which is upgraded constantly and there is no proof it will be backwards compatible in 16 years. The Film industry will most likely force already-ancient things like Bluray to be available in 16 to 20 years. If that industry hasn't died by then, that is...
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mp3 == music?
Or is it a crippled down version of it? I buy FLACs (preferably ones better than 16bit/44kHz (we don't live in the 70s anymore, guys)) on the Internet. I don't mind paying for them if the music is good. I'm not paying for mp3. It's like paying for mcdonalds. oh, hold on....
Not buying any CDs because the industry itself is retarded. "Let's see who rusts first!"
www.LinnRecords.com :)
There, problem solved. up to 192kHz/24bit flacs without drm. I buy stuff from there occasionally. And I know there are several others around.
I refuse to buy CDs. The CD medium itself is from the 70s. The quality (resolution) is limited and so is the length of recording that fits on it. There have been high-quality players and digital alternative formats for many decades. Couple that with a fossilized business model of the industry and you end up with pirating music (hoping that release quality will increase in the future as music comes to better media)
Well the fact that it (the troll) actually found it necessary to post this would mean that it is actually less common than on Windows.
You don't see Linux fans posting "If this were Linux" on all Windows bugs. Apart from the fact that if they would; it might actually be even more annoying! Maybe "we" should start doing that. For every critical Windows bug say "If this were any other OS...". Doesn't sound so smart now, does it, zennyboy?
This is all nice and well if you assume that CDs are the only source of income. Now, the record companies like people to think that the artists only income is from CDs and that we should keep buying CDs otherwise the industry will die.
Let's, for a moment, assume that music IS actually a healthy industry (one where there are (runnnig/development) costs and money is to be made legally) then piracy can be seen as a healthy competition, all though illegal in most countries. Record companies have a monopoly on their artists. If you want Michael Jackson, you'd have to pay Sony. You have no choice other than NOT to buy Michael Jackson's music. And as popular artists (the ones the parent claims are "hit the most") get more general interest, they sell more of it and are broadcast on the radio ,pre frequently which again boosts sales. Sales to which no competitor can compete, as all Michael Jackson's CDs are from Sony. I'm not going into the theories that record companies force radio stations to play more music from other (more unknown) artists from the record company's repertoire. I do think, judging from their Mafia approach to their competitor (piracy), this is a sound assumption.
One other thing is adjusting your company and strategies to the market. When the NY harbour did not adjust to the new sized containers (because otherwise a big group of people would be out of work, because less employees were needed), they were overtaken by a nearby harbour... why? Because they DID adjust. That's what happens in a moving market. Now the music (and film) industries do not do this. Why not? Because competitors can not start selling their artists without having to go through the record company that also sells the CDs. New artists can do this, but this takes time (and is much less affective). I for one would LOVE to pay for good music. I listen to FLACs because I live in 2009 (soon to be 2010) and not in the eighties anymore. So, where can I buy, high res (again; we're not living in the eighties; enough with the 16/44.1 already!) recordings? Sure there's Linn Records and the like, of which I've bought quite a few albums. But where can I buy my high-res Michael Jackson albums? Oh.... I CAN'T! Because the record companies have frozen the progression of their market for decades! And now everyone's pissed off, technology has advanced to a point the record companies have lost it (quoting Sony: "All the Internet has brought us was bad stuff, like Piracy". Friggin fossils!). So let them go belly-up! Let them, for once, feel what happens if you don't progress. I'd love to lend a hand :)
FYI: in my Opera it's just www.íçáñn.örg. Exactly the way you wanted it.
So, I assume you haven't actually measured the light output, you know, scientifically? After all, looking directly at the bulbs with the human eye is not a very accurate measure.
Nor is comparing it to the regular bulb. For all we know, maybe normal bulbs are brighter when it's cold?
Even more offtopic: Nor is comparing AAC to OGG (with your own ears!) by the way... religions are useless if you don't know it when you see one
Uhh, a major release of an operating system with 93% of desktop market share dropped today. For some reason there is a lot of press coverage.
Idiot.
There. fixed it for ya.
So m$ admitting to actually listening to users means that they're finally acknowledging competitors again? It's about friggin time :)
Any examples?
(Score:-1, Troll)
There' s one ---^ :)
Yes, exactly like my snake-oil $25000 loudspeaker cables I'm using.... more punch... it feels quicker... less in-your-face...
Where are the actual tests to prove that win7 "feels" quicker?
Unless you add the whole ISO8601 Week or day-number thing to it! You'll end up with YYYY-DDD or YYYY-Www which is a pain to sort.
There actually is the +/-12h zone that is both +12 and -12, depending on where in within that zone you are. For example, time between Christmasislands and Hawaii are 24 hours from eachother.
See wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line
PS: timelines are not always 1h apart. There are 40 timezones in total.
In other news, 1/3 of audiophiles still think vinyl gramophone records sound better than any digital format.
Okay, so what if they use CGI? It's becoming more and more easy to just pick a CGI model that looks exactly the way you want it to. Do these "photos" have to have this text too? What about changing background etc?
On a whole different note; I fail to see the connection between altered photos of models and anorexia. Usually they don't make these models more skinny. They might smudge out a navel here or there (models are atomically weird), or make a boob a bit bigger (Emma Watson?) but I seriously doubt they're making models even more skinnier.
We're nearly there!
West Asia == Middle East. Middle east is just a European oriented name for practically the same region. And Turkey is just a country, not a whole continent you know. Turkey is as much WEST Asia as you can get; it's the most western country of those in West Asia. Then there is South Asia (to which India belongs) and East Asia (which is West for Americans).
Then there is Northern, Central, Southwestern and Southeastern Asia to make things even more complicated.
Just take a look at this for a nice map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_asia
Now that's interesting! I've been a happy ATI customer for many years and been using Linux for parhaps even more years, but I'd say the exact opposite: "My next video card's going to be an Nvidia most likely". Sure, ATI drivers don't really crash as often as they have been, but for a window to take 4 seconds to resize, is a bit much. So no Nvidia and no ATI... then what's left? Intel? S3? 3D Labs?
Like when Micky J died.... somewhere (I guess it was BBC, not sure though. Maybe someone can help me here) there was a list of n-facts about Michael Jackson.
The article said: 750Million albums sold. He made $700Million during his lifetime. Errr.... 750m albums / $700m $1/album. I don't know about you, but I haven't seen albums being that cheap. So where did the rest of the money go? I'm guessing not to the people putting their "sweat and tears" into it.
Did you RTFA? They've rounded up several figures during their calculations. You're using one single point (out of, what, 5?) a straw man fallacy.
Maybe that's just weird because "burger building", "Rock Band" and stuff like "Games" are connected to FUN. While Windows is...well.... you catch my drift
Comparing it to Microsoft's Windows is ridiculous at best. Windows is a monopoly while, even though there a sh*tload of iPhones around, the iPhone isn't. Also, Microsoft has the same track record, though maybe not as obvious as the App store. Microsoft has done countless attempts to deal with these competitors and have locked them out on multiple occasions through not opening up all information and pushing their own services to the user (msie or msn anyone?). How is that any different?
If you don't like the services that are available on the iPhone, then don't buy an iPhone and get one of the many other neat smart phones out there. In the case of Windows that's nearly impossible (though becoming more and more easy every day)
That's exactly what I mean. The fact that it looks more like America doesn't mean it's better. Money and power are not always "better", but Americans will probably never understand that.
In more recent events; have you been to Iraq lately? My point exactly. Would you say they've really improved since America started poking around (again)?
Well, they have a lot of money to devote to it since they don't have to spend ANY money on defense. If the USA took all of its money from defense and put it into Healthcare or "Green Tech," then yes, we'd be able to claim advances in those areas. [...]
Sure, don't let FACTS get in the way. Like the fact that the USA is making money with their wars (EU buying planes built in the USA, leasing bombs, etc, etc).
" protect all of the other countries"? WW2 was the last time the Americans actually did defend (although that too is debatable). All the other wars were the Americans forcing their view on other people. Don't give us your patriotic brainwash crap about America defending the free people.
That's funny; all you can remember of the person complementing you on your Japanese was that she was a woman. You know; belonging to "the group of women". That's what people do; they judge. They always have and always will. People put other people into little boxes with "the others". That's how we humans operate. Saying that judging people on appearance is racism is just plain ignorance.
Now using that process to actually hate people or do people harm would obviously be wrong. Simply because of the hate or harm part of the sentence, not because of which box you're using for it.
I'd suggest storing a certain clip from Rick Astley on a DVD :)
Anyhow, to at least have some understanding of what IO we'll have in 16 years, we'd have to look back 16 years. What did we have back then? Floppies were mainstream and CD-ROMs were starting to appear. HDDs obviously, but I wonder if those interfaces are going to be around for much longer. You could question whether USB would be still be available by that time (some examples of ancient IO can be seen above, in someone elses post). My guess is something like Bluray would probably be your best guess. Why? Because there's a huge industry behind it that sees value in keeping that product alife for awhile. USB is a relatively easily discarded interface which is upgraded constantly and there is no proof it will be backwards compatible in 16 years. The Film industry will most likely force already-ancient things like Bluray to be available in 16 to 20 years. If that industry hasn't died by then, that is...
Now all NICTA needs is an aproved website!
I don't trust authorities that talk about quality and standards while not supporting them themselves.
W3C on their http://nicta.com.au/:
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