Apple claims that 128kbps AAC encoding provides quality almost indistiguishable from the original, much better than a 128kbps MP3. To my ears it all sounds great
If that were true I would love iTunes, but I just can't bring myself to pay for any of the songs after hearing how poor the quality of AAC is on iTunes previews.
To me MP3 sounds like hell, OGG is barely listenable, and I had assumed (via hype) that ACC was just about CD qulity. Nope, it's almost as bad as MP3.
Is it just me? Listen to some jazz tunes, the ride symbol and hi-hat sound like hell.
I somehow doubt listening to a lecture by Stephen Hawking would hold the masses attention very well
I've been to a Stephen Hawking lecture. It was fantastic. Most of the people had no science background, but everyone hung on his ever word. This after waiting for hours to get in, and running a gauntlet of creationist protestors. (That's right, they picketed a pure-science physicist in a wheelchair).
You speak of truths? Truth is irrelevant, this is a discussion of religion. What matters is wheather a Christian family might be offended. I think there are many that would be.
Imagine if the prayed-for had done significantly better. Later a family finds out their father, who died, was randomnly chosen to not be prayed for.
Imagine if the prayed-for group had done significanly worse. Later a very conservative bible thumping Christian family (this is Duke of course) finds out the hospital had Muslims asking Allah to intervene for their father, who then died.
You can buy screener copies in NYC on Canal street around Broadway. There is always at least 1 table set up selling new movies for around $5. It always amazes me that they aren't arrested. I guess the NYPD has better things to do..
I bought one once, the only difference was every 15 minutes or so a ticker ran across the bottom saying "It's illegal to buy this" or something.
So, did Napster pay to be in this movie (knowing they were coming back), along with Mini, Dell, Pepsi, etc etc?
After a long argument with a friend, I researched and found out Mini did not pay to be in The Italian Job (much to my surprise) They just sacrificed some Minis to be destroyed in the filming.
The linked article is missing the last 3 paragraphs, included in the Washington Post version:
The NigeriaSat-1 was produced by British-based company, Surrey Satellite Technology, with the help of Nigerian technicians trained in Britain, Olaniyi said.
The Russian Kosmos-3M rocket that lifted off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome with NigeriaSat-1 carried five other satellites with it - two from Russia, and one each from Turkey, Britain and South Korea.
A team of 15 Nigerian scientists and engineers will control their country's satellite from a ground station in Abuja during its five to seven year life-span, Olaniyi said.
the mature students in the fast track accelerated second degree program... implementing internet based protocols over a new form of medium - Bongo Drums.
As an employer, I'd rather hire the the students from the slow track that bought a $5 nic at Fry's.
Enter a 10K run. Note that the finish line is 10,000 meters after the start line.
Buy 10 Keys of coke. Note that it consists of 10,000 grams of coke.
Run a 100 Watt bulb for 100 hours. Note that your power bill goes up by 10 Kilowatt hours.
Most of the people buying hard drives are used to this system (10^n, not 2^(10^n)). It'd be a bigger lie to use the 2^(10^n) system that we mysteriously came up with.
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The didn't say 'dead', they said 'finished'. The answer is: No
Java 1.4.x is finished, but they're still working on Java 1.5. It will be finished some time this fall.
You need to change your domain name. Obligatory "Office Space" quote:
Samir: You know, there's nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There WAS nothing wrong with it. Until I was about 12 years old, and that no-talent-ass-clown because famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Why don't you just go by Mike, instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change it? He's the one who sucks.
...Assuming the 'host' always opens one of the remaining doors and the remaining door never has a prize behind it...
A note to all the people writing code to solve this, the key to this problem is that Monty intentionally chooses a door that has no prize behind it. No doubt, some of you are interpreting this problem as, "Monty chooses another door at random, and we're only examining the cases where he chooses the door with no prize". If that is your interpretation, then switching doesn't matter, but the traditional Monty Hall Problem assumes Monty knows what's behind the doors and chooses accordingly.
It seems like a $1,000,000 investment in terrorists bombing isreal could potentially be a good enough reason for someone to bomb isreal.
Pete Rose, is that you?
If you bet that much money on Israel getting bombed, you would be investigated before, and cetrainly after the event. This would not be anonymous trading of course.
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Apple claims that 128kbps AAC encoding provides quality almost indistiguishable from the original, much better than a 128kbps MP3. To my ears it all sounds great
If that were true I would love iTunes, but I just can't bring myself to pay for any of the songs after hearing how poor the quality of AAC is on iTunes previews.
To me MP3 sounds like hell, OGG is barely listenable, and I had assumed (via hype) that ACC was just about CD qulity. Nope, it's almost as bad as MP3.
Is it just me? Listen to some jazz tunes, the ride symbol and hi-hat sound like hell.
I somehow doubt listening to a lecture by Stephen Hawking would hold the masses attention very well
I've been to a Stephen Hawking lecture. It was fantastic. Most of the people had no science background, but everyone hung on his ever word. This after waiting for hours to get in, and running a gauntlet of creationist protestors. (That's right, they picketed a pure-science physicist in a wheelchair).
Way funner than that shitty CSI show.
You speak of truths? Truth is irrelevant, this is a discussion of religion. What matters is wheather a Christian family might be offended. I think there are many that would be.
Imagine if the prayed-for had done significantly better. Later a family finds out their father, who died, was randomnly chosen to not be prayed for.
Imagine if the prayed-for group had done significanly worse. Later a very conservative bible thumping Christian family (this is Duke of course) finds out the hospital had Muslims asking Allah to intervene for their father, who then died.
I think they're very lucky no effect was seen.
Well if they're both consenting adults then I guess they can do whatever they want in the privacy of their own homes.
You can buy screener copies in NYC on Canal street around Broadway. There is always at least 1 table set up selling new movies for around $5. It always amazes me that they aren't arrested. I guess the NYPD has better things to do..
I bought one once, the only difference was every 15 minutes or so a ticker ran across the bottom saying "It's illegal to buy this" or something.
Remember Incubis?, William Shatner's foray into Esperanto language film? No? Me neither.
So, did Napster pay to be in this movie (knowing they were coming back), along with Mini, Dell, Pepsi, etc etc?
After a long argument with a friend, I researched and found out Mini did not pay to be in The Italian Job (much to my surprise) They just sacrificed some Minis to be destroyed in the filming.
Thanks for the links to Google and Yahoo.. How about a Link to the article?
Welcome to the 1960's.
How about Linus? Was he self-educated?
No. Linus has a master's degree.
Stay in school.
The linked article is missing the last 3 paragraphs, included in the Washington Post version:
The NigeriaSat-1 was produced by British-based company, Surrey Satellite Technology, with the help of Nigerian technicians trained in Britain, Olaniyi said.
The Russian Kosmos-3M rocket that lifted off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome with NigeriaSat-1 carried five other satellites with it - two from Russia, and one each from Turkey, Britain and South Korea.
A team of 15 Nigerian scientists and engineers will control their country's satellite from a ground station in Abuja during its five to seven year life-span, Olaniyi said.
the mature students in the fast track accelerated second degree program ... implementing internet based protocols over a new form of medium - Bongo Drums.
As an employer, I'd rather hire the the students from the slow track that bought a $5 nic at Fry's.
So, animals are not indiginous to the americas. I say we remove them all, restoring the land to it's natural state.
In fact, at some point, there were no plants either. I think we should just nuke the whole planet, restoring the natural enviornment.
We'll leave behind a note for any future life that emerges, asking them to do the same if they ever infect the earth.
Oh wait...nevermind.
What am I missing? Where the Fortran story?
Enter a 10K run. Note that the finish line is 10,000 meters after the start line.
Buy 10 Keys of coke. Note that it consists of 10,000 grams of coke.
Run a 100 Watt bulb for 100 hours. Note that your power bill goes up by 10 Kilowatt hours.
Most of the people buying hard drives are used to this system (10^n, not 2^(10^n)). It'd be a bigger lie to use the 2^(10^n) system that we mysteriously came up with.
The didn't say 'dead', they said 'finished'. The answer is: No
Java 1.4.x is finished, but they're still working on Java 1.5. It will be finished some time this fall.
moving sidewalks - already here - in malls, in airports. why aren't they in manhatten? (sic)
They are. They are underground, and we call them 'subways'.
Also, flying cars. We have them. They are called 'airplanes'.
You need to change your domain name. Obligatory "Office Space" quote:
Samir: You know, there's nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There WAS nothing wrong with it. Until I was about 12 years old, and that no-talent-ass-clown because famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Why don't you just go by Mike, instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change it? He's the one who sucks.
mapsize(mp)++;
/* number of empty slots */
looks strange too
ate_utils.h:
#define mapsize(X) X[0].m_size
Am I the only one tempted to pronounce palmone like:
pal-MOH-nee
...Assuming the 'host' always opens one of the remaining doors and the remaining door never has a prize behind it...
A note to all the people writing code to solve this, the key to this problem is that Monty intentionally chooses a door that has no prize behind it. No doubt, some of you are interpreting this problem as, "Monty chooses another door at random, and we're only examining the cases where he chooses the door with no prize". If that is your interpretation, then switching doesn't matter, but the traditional Monty Hall Problem assumes Monty knows what's behind the doors and chooses accordingly.
It seems like a $1,000,000 investment in terrorists bombing isreal could potentially be a good enough reason for someone to bomb isreal.
Pete Rose, is that you?
If you bet that much money on Israel getting bombed, you would be investigated before, and cetrainly after the event. This would not be anonymous trading of course.
Quoth you:
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