Blind A/B tests say you are wrong. You can continue to enjoy your lack of HD space, over sized files, and imaginary perceived quality.
Blind A/B tests say that the majority of people cannot tell the difference for the majority of music. That does not mean that no one can. Audio quality is extremely subjective and removing data through a lossy process can make the audio sound "better" to some people.
music is now available in pretty much any digital format
Sorry, that is just wrong
One of the main reasons I don't buy music online is that there is almost no way to get it (legally) in lossless format. Other than physical CDs, that is.
Of course, the "election promise" wasn't actually mandatory. It required ISPs to offer a "clean feed" to their customers. The ACL are a bunch of moralizing extremists and shouldn't be given any more notice than the guys who believe George Bush is a space alien.
I hate to break it to you, but on Windows, Flash video is also hardware-accelerated.
Yeah, that makes no sense at all.
It also makes "no sense at all" that Windows is the still dominant PC OS. Complaining about it isn't going to change anything.
Unfortunately, Flash is currently pretty much the platform of choice for web video and I don't see that changing too soon, at least until HTML5 is a proper standard, supported by everything including IE
It works great out of the box, but as soon as you want to do much tweaking aside from desktop backgrounds and install some additional software, you will run into headaches. "I can't install X without Y and Z dependencies?" And then it's off to google to find out how to get them...in a way that works with the current version of said dependency on your distro...
Seriously. Have you even used a linux distribution in the last 4 years?
For the most part, as long as you don't go outside your distribution's software repositories, you will run into very few (if any) problems. It's only when you try to install software you donwloaded from some random site that you will have problems
Why can't Naruto just say "Shadow Clone"? In Japanese, things sound nice and short, but it turns out to sound way too stretched out in English.
The main reason is that "Shadow Clone" has fewer syllables than "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" and that doesn't fit with the lipsync, hence the overly long translation.
I completely agree. My experience with fansubs is that the quality and attention to detail is, on average, much higher than in official releases. Not to mention the translators' notes that address cultural differences that are completely absent from the official releases
The first step to fixing the US releases is killing 4Kids with fire.
The prices in Australia for anime DVDs ranges from high to extreme. I mean, 129.95AUD for a 23-episode series borders on insane
Of course it's simply not the case that OpenGL, SDL, OpenAL, etc. aren't good enough (Many windows games use OpenGL and OpenAL). It's that most gamers use Windows. Games are developed to make money. The companies go where the money is.
That was before Conroy changed the list to be only RC. The ACMA blacklist (which contains the anti-abortion site) contains material from MA15+ up, where that material does not have an approved restricted-access system. The anti-abortion site was added because is was judged to be R18+ and not have a restricted-access system.
If you're talking about how the ACMA blacklist leaked, it was leaked by an anonymous individual who extracted it from a PC filter. The government did not leak it
If you read the codex, it explains that the Mako has a small Element Zero core that, while it can't entirely nullify the Mako's mass, reduces it enough to make the descent survivable with just the weak thrusters.
I will say that I'm pissed they took out the elevators.
One of the most amusing moments in ME2 so far was (whilst on the Citadel, Zakera Ward, whilst walking up some stairs) Garrus asking Tali if she missed the long elevator rides and conversations. Her answer: "no"
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Medi-gel still exists. It's used to revive fallen squad members instead of restore lost health. As stated previously, grenades have been replaced by heavy weapons.
In my experience, changing the color depth on one monitor changes the depth on all monitors. Far from ideal if an older gamer changes the color depth to 8-bit.
Also, you're clearly not reading the question
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Blind A/B tests say you are wrong. You can continue to enjoy your lack of HD space, over sized files, and imaginary perceived quality.
Blind A/B tests say that the majority of people cannot tell the difference for the majority of music. That does not mean that no one can. Audio quality is extremely subjective and removing data through a lossy process can make the audio sound "better" to some people.
music is now available in pretty much any digital format
Sorry, that is just wrong
One of the main reasons I don't buy music online is that there is almost no way to get it (legally) in lossless format. Other than physical CDs, that is.
MP3 can go die in a fire. Not worth my money.
And you, sir, lose.
Of course, the "election promise" wasn't actually mandatory. It required ISPs to offer a "clean feed" to their customers. The ACL are a bunch of moralizing extremists and shouldn't be given any more notice than the guys who believe George Bush is a space alien.
I hate to break it to you, but on Windows, Flash video is also hardware-accelerated.
Yeah, that makes no sense at all.
It also makes "no sense at all" that Windows is the still dominant PC OS. Complaining about it isn't going to change anything.
Unfortunately, Flash is currently pretty much the platform of choice for web video and I don't see that changing too soon, at least until HTML5 is a proper standard, supported by everything including IE
It works great out of the box, but as soon as you want to do much tweaking aside from desktop backgrounds and install some additional software, you will run into headaches. "I can't install X without Y and Z dependencies?" And then it's off to google to find out how to get them...in a way that works with the current version of said dependency on your distro...
Seriously. Have you even used a linux distribution in the last 4 years?
For the most part, as long as you don't go outside your distribution's software repositories, you will run into very few (if any) problems. It's only when you try to install software you donwloaded from some random site that you will have problems
Why can't Naruto just say "Shadow Clone"? In Japanese, things sound nice and short, but it turns out to sound way too stretched out in English.
The main reason is that "Shadow Clone" has fewer syllables than "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" and that doesn't fit with the lipsync, hence the overly long translation.
I completely agree. My experience with fansubs is that the quality and attention to detail is, on average, much higher than in official releases. Not to mention the translators' notes that address cultural differences that are completely absent from the official releases
The first step to fixing the US releases is killing 4Kids with fire.
The prices in Australia for anime DVDs ranges from high to extreme. I mean, 129.95AUD for a 23-episode series borders on insane
Of course it's simply not the case that OpenGL, SDL, OpenAL, etc. aren't good enough (Many windows games use OpenGL and OpenAL). It's that most gamers use Windows. Games are developed to make money. The companies go where the money is.
That was before Conroy changed the list to be only RC. The ACMA blacklist (which contains the anti-abortion site) contains material from MA15+ up, where that material does not have an approved restricted-access system. The anti-abortion site was added because is was judged to be R18+ and not have a restricted-access system.
If you're talking about how the ACMA blacklist leaked, it was leaked by an anonymous individual who extracted it from a PC filter. The government did not leak it
Individually bypass the censorship and inform others on how to do it too? Reverse-engineer and publish the blacklist? DoS the filterboxes?
If you read the codex, it explains that the Mako has a small Element Zero core that, while it can't entirely nullify the Mako's mass, reduces it enough to make the descent survivable with just the weak thrusters.
I will say that I'm pissed they took out the elevators.
One of the most amusing moments in ME2 so far was (whilst on the Citadel, Zakera Ward, whilst walking up some stairs) Garrus asking Tali if she missed the long elevator rides and conversations. Her answer: "no"
Medi-gel still exists. It's used to revive fallen squad members instead of restore lost health. As stated previously, grenades have been replaced by heavy weapons.
In my experience, changing the color depth on one monitor changes the depth on all monitors. Far from ideal if an older gamer changes the color depth to 8-bit. Also, you're clearly not reading the question
I'm lead to believe that opera has had tab functionality since its release in the mid 90s.
IIRC, there *is* a (cross-shard) search tool, but it's rubbish, and the filters don't even work properly. Hit 'O' on the keyboard to open it.