Anybody who uses ogg instead of mp3 today when they do not have to is an idiot, but no denying there is a good supply of such idiots.
I'm guessing by your context that you meant that the other way round?
I've found that I can't ABX AoTuv 5.7 (and 6.03) vorbis as far down as -q 3. That's an average bitrate of roughly 115kbps. Not too shabby at all. lets me fit an extra couple dozen albums on my ancient rockbox'd ipod video compared to lame, which I use at -v 4 (~150kbps).
no. this is wrong. you let the fucker hit you. then it is HIS fault, and not yours, when you are pushed into the intersection and involved in an accident. otherwise, if you choose to run the red light, you are at fault.
same consequences, in one instance you are at fault, in the other you are not.
yes, it does suck, but the alternative could also be like our friends north of the border, where there's something like 4 liberal parties and 1 conservative party so the 1 conservative party gets all the conservative votes, which puts them in power even though they're technically a minority, and they then proceed to enact a bunch of shit legislation like banning mp3s and dvrs.
or at least, that's what the facebook status of my canadian friends tell me.
I've long been a proponent of just abolishing the two political parties we've got here, and having a 7-way draft. we can separate along more logical distinctions.
We can have: The tree-hugging hippie party The financial, corporate, and industry party The religious extremist (pardon me, I mean evangelical) party The backwoods-montana survival-oriented libertarian party The inner-city violence and drugs party The suburbia party The illuminati
Every one of those hates every other, and nothing would ever get done since any coalition would dissolve within days. From where I sit, that'd be a better situation than the one we're in now.
no, it isn't. although I've been using Skarecrow/skarecrow77 for so long, about 18 years now, that it is essentially an extra name so associated with me that you can identify things I wrote on the web ages ago using it. it's me.
That aside, in insecure settings where you can't control who sees things you post, and you risk running afoul of juvenile (or juvenile-minded) internet delinquents who want nothing more than to fuck up your day, there is a need for some middle-layer of semi-anonymity. With Google+, on the other hand, so far as I know you have the ability to decide -exactly- who can see anything you post, so presumably you can limit your exposure to the internet delinquents to virtually nil.
There are any number of internet forums where fake people can talk to fake people. Google+ appears to be a place where real people talk to real people. I kind of like having at least one or two outlets like that. People are much more civilized. I can (and do) visit the less restrained corners of the internet when I want to witness the John Gabrial greater internet fuckwad theory at work, but the entire internet doesn't necessarily have to be like that.
The thing I don't understand is, if Google has set the ground rules saying "this is what Google+ is going to be like", why are the people who dislike what google+ is about so eager to join with their fake names?
It's like going to an NRA meeting when you hate guns, and being upset that people there are packing. Why did you want to go in the first place? And if you're really that set on going for some reason, you should at least realize you have to play by their ground rules while at their party.
I'm still 100% perfectly fine with google+ name policy.
Your name almost certainly isn't "Doctor" (well, unless your parents had really really high expectations from you at birth). Stop being pretentious. You paid a lot of money for school, good for you, your name is still Bill or Steve or the like.
If people know you by some name other than your given name... Hey, that's what that "nickname" field is for under account settings.
at least they looked at the devices. If I recall, Germany provided an initial injunction based on a heavily photoshopped picture, provided by apple, showing the ipad vs galaxy tab that had the tab's dimensions grossly distorted and a non-standard home screen manipulated to appear as close to the ipad as possible.
The car equivilent wouldn't be "goes fast" it would be ferrari showing a simple photo of an F40 next to a lamborghini where the lambo's body has been completely removed and replaced with an F40 look-alike, painted with a ferrari factory color, and had ferrari-esque badges slapped on... except the whole lambo conversion was done by ferrari themselves in order to misrepresent the true appearance of the original car.
I don't know where you live, but every market I've lived in in the past decade (which has been 4 of them now) in the US has had the following internet options:
1. Verizon DSL. moderately priced, but slow. Like "what the hell is it 1999?!" slow. 1a. perhaps one or two companies reselling verizon DSL. same product, different company on your monthly bill. what's the point.
2. Comcast or Timewarner or Cox cable. Faster, but prone to both overselling and random packetloss. 9 times out of 10 they don't care about either.
3. Verizon or AT&T promises of FIOS/U-Verse access to your neighborhood "some day". When you poll people you know (who care about such things) you can't find a single person who actually has access to these products, despite the product being nominally "available" in your city.
The best internet access I ever had was when I was younger and under-employed, my wife and I lived in a community full of people who were for the most part too poor to afford the luxury of cable internet (so were we, but being a geeks, we dispensed with things like cable tv and a house phone instead), so we were one of the only people on the node. That was pretty sweet.
here, our telcos sell us devices that we're locked out of by default, with features that are built into the operating system disabled, so that we can pay the telco stupid amounts of money to turn back on.
or we just say "screw the warantee, I own this device, I'm going to do with it what I damn well please" and flash a cleaned-up rooted version of the OS on it.
My company has a branch in another city that I occasionally have to visit. Office is on the 34th floor of a rather new building. reception there is atrocious. I wonder if it's got the same problems you're talking about.
When scouting out a new location for my company's business in this city, one of the first things I test is 3g signal strength for that reason.
android phone + cyanogenmod + grandfathered verizon unlimited data plan = "it may not be perfect, but it gets the job done and it is still way better than the dialup connection I used back in the day."
unless I'm in some building shielded with sandwiched lead sheets or something. in which case, hell, screw it, time to read an ebook.
After reading it, I'm about 99% sure that what they've got there isn't a real racist. What they've got is some/btard or the like who named the router that for amusement value, and succeeded in trolling the public beyond his wildest dreams.
200 pairs of bare hands are proven to work just fine against that obsolete attack, Skaredcrow77. Also, modern locked cockpit doors aren't made out of cardboard; box-cutters are of little use.
Please provide supporting evidence. The only "evidence" I know of was told to us second-hand and the entire plane full of people died anyway.
Mr AC, you and your friends are idiots because you can't bring up a single concrete example of Ron Paul being racist.
The best you're going to bring up is comments in newsletters from the 80s that he didn't write and has disavowed. That's racism by association. By that account, Obama is just as racist as he is thanks to Rev Wright, etc.
Please provide citation to his desire to have restaurants serve whites only. Show your work please.
and people think Ron Paul is the crazy one for wanting America's fingers out of other country's pies.
This sort of thing is going to spark widespread international hatred for the United States. No, not the general dislike that many countries have for us now, but honest-to-god hatred. Look what good things came out of that situation in the mideast.
Those dudes running towards the cockpit with the box-cutters?
I for one would welcome guns on planes again. Nobody had a particular problem with firearms on planes (or anywhere really) until the 1980s. We survived just fine.
Considering the TSA's sterling and unblemished track record of catching -absolutely nobody-, I'd think that in the event of an actual attempted hijacking, I'd rather trust my fate to a couple citizens on the plane with me who thought it prudent to keep their firearms on them than the incompetent agents at the gate on the ground. Not to mention that allowing firearms on planes would likely -prevent- future hijackings. Look at it from a criminal's point of view: The very best place to commit a crime is a place where you're certain that nobody has the means to stop you. Like, say, current airline flights.
Wait wait now, before we dismiss him out of hand, there is one very important question.
Does he have any contacts/spies inside North Korea?
I have it on very good assurance (no less than the former president of NK) that the country had Cold Fusion research in the bag.
So it is possible that this Rossi guy has himself reverse engineered hyper-advanced North Korean technology (which they themselves perhaps stole from santa or the tooth fairy).
no. The supreme court says that you can't continually recount votes until you get a result you like.
Bush won BOTH the original count, and the recount in Flordia. Both counts said he won. Nobody disputed that. What happened is Gore then asked for -another- recount (we're up to count #3 here) and the problem is he asked for a hand-recount, which wouldn't finish by the state-mandated deadline. The florida supreme court said "well we will just extend the deadline then." and the US supreme court said "uh, no, you can't randomly extend deadlines for recounts when we have two legitimate counts already in hand." because if gore had won that one, then Bush would have asked for a recount, or if gore had lost he probably would have asked for another one, and we'd still be waiting for results.
Stop parroting talking points. We're not talking about things that happened 400 years ago. These events happened within recent memory.
I'm with you on the guy who designed the controller being unfairly caught in this, but how do you see "one guy just lost his livelihood to a stupid and unprofessional emotional outburst" as a tragedy?
That is exactly how one loses their livelihood. That's the process of screwing up so badly you get booted from the profession. That's what it entails. When your job is to work with people, and you screw up politeness as royally as that guy did, if you don't lose your job then something is very very wrong with the world. Read all the emails, to both Dave the customer and Gabe at PA, and Paul's "apologies". It's quite clear this guy doesn't give a crap until he's caught. Also this appears not to be the first time he's been called out on this type of exchange with customers. How many do-overs do you expect him to get in his professional life?
He fucked up his job about as badly as one can fuck up their job, by shitting all over the customer, and then shitting all over one of the major PR outlets in the market for the product he was representing.
In any measure of the situation, he deserves to be fired and ostracized from the market in the future for his failure. That isn't tragedy, that is justice. Let him get in the unemployment line and maybe somebody competent, worthy, and sane can step in to fill the role he obviously is not fit to handle.
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Anybody who uses ogg instead of mp3 today when they do not have to is an idiot, but no denying there is a good supply of such idiots.
I'm guessing by your context that you meant that the other way round?
I've found that I can't ABX AoTuv 5.7 (and 6.03) vorbis as far down as -q 3. That's an average bitrate of roughly 115kbps. Not too shabby at all. lets me fit an extra couple dozen albums on my ancient rockbox'd ipod video compared to lame, which I use at -v 4 (~150kbps).
mp4 is a container. not an audio codec.
did you mean AAC?
which AAC, quicktime, faac, nero?
doesn't really matter. aotuv tuned vorbis beats or at worst ties any flavor of aac down to and including 96kbps.
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Listening_Tests#Multiformat_Tests
doesn't truly matter anyway. aside from "killer samples", all modern codecs, including MP3, reach perceptual transparency by about 192kbps or so.
no. this is wrong. you let the fucker hit you. then it is HIS fault, and not yours, when you are pushed into the intersection and involved in an accident. otherwise, if you choose to run the red light, you are at fault.
same consequences, in one instance you are at fault, in the other you are not.
yes, it does suck, but the alternative could also be like our friends north of the border, where there's something like 4 liberal parties and 1 conservative party so the 1 conservative party gets all the conservative votes, which puts them in power even though they're technically a minority, and they then proceed to enact a bunch of shit legislation like banning mp3s and dvrs.
or at least, that's what the facebook status of my canadian friends tell me.
I've long been a proponent of just abolishing the two political parties we've got here, and having a 7-way draft. we can separate along more logical distinctions.
We can have:
The tree-hugging hippie party
The financial, corporate, and industry party
The religious extremist (pardon me, I mean evangelical) party
The backwoods-montana survival-oriented libertarian party
The inner-city violence and drugs party
The suburbia party
The illuminati
Every one of those hates every other, and nothing would ever get done since any coalition would dissolve within days. From where I sit, that'd be a better situation than the one we're in now.
Not Trolling. Not FUD.
Yes, it was idiotic, but it did happen.
http://www.dailytech.com/Report+Apple+Caught+Photoshopping+Galaxy+Tab+101+to+Look+Like+iPad+for+Lawsuit/article22459.htm
http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/apple/apple-could-have-given-faulty-evidence-in-euro-samsung-case/
http://pauloflaherty.com/2011/08/16/was-apple-caught-fudging-the-facts/
http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/15/did-apple-alter-photos-of-the-samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-in-its-inj/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/15/apples-evidence-in-european-galaxy-tab-injunction-was-seriously-misleading-as-in-false/
do you need more?
Bic Pens Inc now claims exclusive distributorship rights for anything created with one of their writing implements.
Not to be outdone, Starbucks now claims exclusive distributorship rights for anything created while under the influence of their beverages.
no, it isn't. although I've been using Skarecrow/skarecrow77 for so long, about 18 years now, that it is essentially an extra name so associated with me that you can identify things I wrote on the web ages ago using it. it's me.
That aside, in insecure settings where you can't control who sees things you post, and you risk running afoul of juvenile (or juvenile-minded) internet delinquents who want nothing more than to fuck up your day, there is a need for some middle-layer of semi-anonymity. With Google+, on the other hand, so far as I know you have the ability to decide -exactly- who can see anything you post, so presumably you can limit your exposure to the internet delinquents to virtually nil.
There are any number of internet forums where fake people can talk to fake people. Google+ appears to be a place where real people talk to real people. I kind of like having at least one or two outlets like that. People are much more civilized. I can (and do) visit the less restrained corners of the internet when I want to witness the John Gabrial greater internet fuckwad theory at work, but the entire internet doesn't necessarily have to be like that.
The thing I don't understand is, if Google has set the ground rules saying "this is what Google+ is going to be like", why are the people who dislike what google+ is about so eager to join with their fake names?
It's like going to an NRA meeting when you hate guns, and being upset that people there are packing. Why did you want to go in the first place? And if you're really that set on going for some reason, you should at least realize you have to play by their ground rules while at their party.
I'm still 100% perfectly fine with google+ name policy.
Your name almost certainly isn't "Doctor" (well, unless your parents had really really high expectations from you at birth). Stop being pretentious. You paid a lot of money for school, good for you, your name is still Bill or Steve or the like.
If people know you by some name other than your given name... Hey, that's what that "nickname" field is for under account settings.
at least they looked at the devices. If I recall, Germany provided an initial injunction based on a heavily photoshopped picture, provided by apple, showing the ipad vs galaxy tab that had the tab's dimensions grossly distorted and a non-standard home screen manipulated to appear as close to the ipad as possible.
The car equivilent wouldn't be "goes fast" it would be ferrari showing a simple photo of an F40 next to a lamborghini where the lambo's body has been completely removed and replaced with an F40 look-alike, painted with a ferrari factory color, and had ferrari-esque badges slapped on... except the whole lambo conversion was done by ferrari themselves in order to misrepresent the true appearance of the original car.
depends on what criteria you're talking about.
If it's internet access, yeah most of europe and a good portion of asia kicks our ass.
if it's access to junk food, guns, or street drugs... hard to beat the USA.
I don't know where you live, but every market I've lived in in the past decade (which has been 4 of them now) in the US has had the following internet options:
1. Verizon DSL. moderately priced, but slow. Like "what the hell is it 1999?!" slow.
1a. perhaps one or two companies reselling verizon DSL. same product, different company on your monthly bill. what's the point.
2. Comcast or Timewarner or Cox cable. Faster, but prone to both overselling and random packetloss. 9 times out of 10 they don't care about either.
3. Verizon or AT&T promises of FIOS/U-Verse access to your neighborhood "some day". When you poll people you know (who care about such things) you can't find a single person who actually has access to these products, despite the product being nominally "available" in your city.
The best internet access I ever had was when I was younger and under-employed, my wife and I lived in a community full of people who were for the most part too poor to afford the luxury of cable internet (so were we, but being a geeks, we dispensed with things like cable tv and a house phone instead), so we were one of the only people on the node. That was pretty sweet.
your country is more awesome than the usa.
here, our telcos sell us devices that we're locked out of by default, with features that are built into the operating system disabled, so that we can pay the telco stupid amounts of money to turn back on.
or we just say "screw the warantee, I own this device, I'm going to do with it what I damn well please" and flash a cleaned-up rooted version of the OS on it.
My company has a branch in another city that I occasionally have to visit. Office is on the 34th floor of a rather new building. reception there is atrocious. I wonder if it's got the same problems you're talking about.
When scouting out a new location for my company's business in this city, one of the first things I test is 3g signal strength for that reason.
android phone + cyanogenmod + grandfathered verizon unlimited data plan = "it may not be perfect, but it gets the job done and it is still way better than the dialup connection I used back in the day."
unless I'm in some building shielded with sandwiched lead sheets or something. in which case, hell, screw it, time to read an ebook.
cheap 3d scanners would make this the next, frightening, landscape in "sexting".
Not content to send each other pictures of their genitals, teens will soon be sending each other schematics for them.
My Neighbor's SSID is "Go Fuck Yourself". I don't think anybody has ever complained. I find it amusing.
Bastard. you actually made me go read TFA.
After reading it, I'm about 99% sure that what they've got there isn't a real racist. What they've got is some /btard or the like who named the router that for amusement value, and succeeded in trolling the public beyond his wildest dreams.
200 pairs of bare hands are proven to work just fine against that obsolete attack, Skaredcrow77. Also, modern locked cockpit doors aren't made out of cardboard; box-cutters are of little use.
Please provide supporting evidence. The only "evidence" I know of was told to us second-hand and the entire plane full of people died anyway.
Mr AC, you and your friends are idiots because you can't bring up a single concrete example of Ron Paul being racist.
The best you're going to bring up is comments in newsletters from the 80s that he didn't write and has disavowed. That's racism by association. By that account, Obama is just as racist as he is thanks to Rev Wright, etc.
Please provide citation to his desire to have restaurants serve whites only. Show your work please.
and people think Ron Paul is the crazy one for wanting America's fingers out of other country's pies.
This sort of thing is going to spark widespread international hatred for the United States. No, not the general dislike that many countries have for us now, but honest-to-god hatred. Look what good things came out of that situation in the mideast.
who are you hunting on a plane?
Those dudes running towards the cockpit with the box-cutters?
I for one would welcome guns on planes again. Nobody had a particular problem with firearms on planes (or anywhere really) until the 1980s. We survived just fine.
Considering the TSA's sterling and unblemished track record of catching -absolutely nobody-, I'd think that in the event of an actual attempted hijacking, I'd rather trust my fate to a couple citizens on the plane with me who thought it prudent to keep their firearms on them than the incompetent agents at the gate on the ground. Not to mention that allowing firearms on planes would likely -prevent- future hijackings. Look at it from a criminal's point of view: The very best place to commit a crime is a place where you're certain that nobody has the means to stop you. Like, say, current airline flights.
Wait wait now, before we dismiss him out of hand, there is one very important question.
Does he have any contacts/spies inside North Korea?
I have it on very good assurance (no less than the former president of NK) that the country had Cold Fusion research in the bag.
So it is possible that this Rossi guy has himself reverse engineered hyper-advanced North Korean technology (which they themselves perhaps stole from santa or the tooth fairy).
until you screw up a decimal place and $305,326.13 ends up in your account in just one weekend.
no. The supreme court says that you can't continually recount votes until you get a result you like.
Bush won BOTH the original count, and the recount in Flordia. Both counts said he won. Nobody disputed that. What happened is Gore then asked for -another- recount (we're up to count #3 here) and the problem is he asked for a hand-recount, which wouldn't finish by the state-mandated deadline. The florida supreme court said "well we will just extend the deadline then." and the US supreme court said "uh, no, you can't randomly extend deadlines for recounts when we have two legitimate counts already in hand." because if gore had won that one, then Bush would have asked for a recount, or if gore had lost he probably would have asked for another one, and we'd still be waiting for results.
Stop parroting talking points. We're not talking about things that happened 400 years ago. These events happened within recent memory.
I'm with you on the guy who designed the controller being unfairly caught in this, but how do you see "one guy just lost his livelihood to a stupid and unprofessional emotional outburst" as a tragedy?
That is exactly how one loses their livelihood. That's the process of screwing up so badly you get booted from the profession. That's what it entails. When your job is to work with people, and you screw up politeness as royally as that guy did, if you don't lose your job then something is very very wrong with the world. Read all the emails, to both Dave the customer and Gabe at PA, and Paul's "apologies". It's quite clear this guy doesn't give a crap until he's caught. Also this appears not to be the first time he's been called out on this type of exchange with customers. How many do-overs do you expect him to get in his professional life?
He fucked up his job about as badly as one can fuck up their job, by shitting all over the customer, and then shitting all over one of the major PR outlets in the market for the product he was representing.
In any measure of the situation, he deserves to be fired and ostracized from the market in the future for his failure. That isn't tragedy, that is justice. Let him get in the unemployment line and maybe somebody competent, worthy, and sane can step in to fill the role he obviously is not fit to handle.