Carrier blocks access to *all* VOIP traffic. Carrier has effectively said that we will not carry this type of traffic. Carrier has done nothing illegal.
Carrier blocks access to *competitor's* VOIP service. Carrier is engaging in practices both monopolistic and violating their common carrier status.
The North American Phone System uses 64 kbit/s audio; 8 kHz sampling, 8 bits per sample. VOIP may or may not use it, depending on provider, but your math is totally incorrect.
Oddly, Vonage is using full-rate non-compressed audio, which comes out to around 70-90kbit/s when overhead is accounted for. They also offer a compressed 30kbps channel, though I'm not sure what codec they're using. Packet8 offers G.729, which is a 23kbit/s codec, as well as G711 (64kbit/s).
Of course, if you can tolerate absolute shit voice quality, you could always move to something like the GSM codec, which is around 13 kbit/s. ILBC might also be an option in that range of bandwidth, although I'm not particularly familiar with it, and apparently G723.1 will do 5-6kbit/s operation.
The majority of the cost of an MP3 is the rights fee, not the bandwidth cost. I am assuming, probably correctly although it hasn't yet been tested, that the majority of the cost of an episode of TV will be the rights fee as well. Bandwidth is cheap, and gets cheaper; rights fees aren't, and get more expensive.
Wow, it's nice to be accused of being the stupidest thing ever said on Slashdot. I did choose a word slightly incorrect - I should have used "discrete" rather than digital, although all discrete information can be represented digitally without loss of information and without loss of generality in statements.
That said, you're a jackass. Discrete means that the information is discontinuous. Are you going to argue that film is a perfectly continuous medium? Because film grain is the PROOF that film is an effectively discrete medium. Grains are effectively a irregularly spaced, irregularly sized and shaped pixel pattern.
In other words, film is a DISCRETE (and hence, digital) medium. And I'm right, and you remain an idiot.
Digital does not mean "computer monitor" or "emitted scan lines", whatever you may think. Digital means "discrete information in both time and space". And film is discrete in both time and space.
Shit, man, I am in the *same* situation. I work out near Arlington Heights, live on the blue line. If I knew anyone who was hiring EE in the city, I'd already be working there.
This is almost a true statement on the GP's part; all HDTVs can do either 720p, 1080i, or both. If they aren't capable of displaying the full image at one of those resolutions, they are not an HDTV.
Burb kids get "the city" from me. When I lived in Detroit, burb kids got "the city" from me.
And yes, I would use it with people who didn't live locally too; if you don't live in "the city", whatever my current definition of "the city" is, you're a burb kid.
Some others: Wordsound Records (Spectre I like in particular), Techno Animal (yes, it is hip-hop, despite the name), Mike Ladd, Antipop Consortium, Infesticons, Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, Jeru the Damaja, Kid Koala, Beans, Talib Kweli, Black Star, Mos Def... there's a ton of good hip-hop out there MTV won't touch, just like most of the good rock doesn't get airplay either. I personally think DJ Shadow is a little overrated, but he's not bad.
I don't think I'd really place Amon Tobin into the hip-hop tradition, though. Draws a lot more from drum'n'bass and electronic music. Still good stuff.
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You're wrong, you know.
Yes, Technics 1200s are the standard *turntable*, but there are a surprising number of DJs who add (or use exclusively) CDJ-1000s for mixing CDs and Traktor, on a laptop, for DJing with sound files.
I know several DJs, who make their living doing it, who use CDJs and/or a laptop, instead of, or in addition to, 1200s.
It happens in the real world, too; the main problem is that they just don't know how to use MATLAB (I noticed this disconnect when I went from a systems analysis group to a hardware group; they write a lot of Excel, I write a lot of MATLAB) and therefore stick with what they're comfortable with. Plus, Excel does do a better job of importing data easily; MATLAB still lacks here.
That's cool. I wasn't doubting the veracity of the story; but you have to admit, 'plasmons' sounds like ones of those words made up for bullshit Trek science.
Actually, I can think of a reason - sometimes its hard to find the bullet. Assuming the tag lived, you could do triangulation of the round to find it, which a serial number won't provide for.
This all, of course, assumes it would survive - a probably incorrect assumption.
16 bits per sample per channel, 2 channels, 44.1 kHz. This happens to work out to 1.411 Mbps (176.4 kBps). At which point the CD tacks on a Reed Solomon codec and some other crap for error correction, significantly upping the recorded data bitrate, but the audio bitrate for a Red Book CD is definitely not 320 kbps in any way, shape, or form. 2 channels. 16 bits (2 bytes) per channel per sample. 44,100 samples per second. 176,400 bytes per second. 1,411,200 bits per second.
I'm certain that's what you meant to say. In your pedantic "digital is always lossy" argument. But if you're going to be pedantic, please, please at least get your numbers right.
Actually, most of the mind-rot concerts are all-ages. Good shows tend to be 21+, and most of the venues I've been to will ID everyone, because if you're already paying someone to stand at the door and check ID, you might as well check *everyone's*, just in case.
Cigarettes are lung-rot, sure, but mind-rot? I suggest you rethink your overly puritanical viewpoint.
The government cannot create copyrighted information or works; only contractors to the government can. All works "prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties" are public domain at creation.
My point was more that if you have kids right now, you might be happy to realize there are school districts that will suffice. I'm sorry that your ideals are more important than your kids' educations.
I have my doubts that you'll be paying as much in taxes after you retire as you were before. You might come close, if most of your income is from investments, but most people do not replace their wage income with their retirement income.
Progressive taxation is exactly what it sounds like - the opposite of regressive taxation, things like poll taxes, that fall equally on all regardless of ability to pay. If you seriously assert that the government should be funded equally by all, regardless of ability to pay, then yes, I would like you to get the fuck out of my country.
I carry it because I *might* need ID. And because if some fucking insane Chicago driver hits me, at least they'll be able to figure out who the dead carcass used to belong to. I carry it for convenience; if I want to buy a bottle of beer for when I get home, if I want to use my credit card (all mine say CHECKID - not everyone does, but some do), etc. I carry it on the if-come. If I *knew* I wouldn't need it, I might decide not to carry it, but given that it's half the size of an index card, I usually carry it just in case.
That said, the problem is *not* requiring ID; the problem is that the law/regulation requiring ID is secret. Were the law/regulation out in the open, I wouldn't *like* it, but there would not be fundamental problems. The problem is the secretiveness of the law.
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Carrier blocks access to *all* VOIP traffic. Carrier has effectively said that we will not carry this type of traffic. Carrier has done nothing illegal.
Carrier blocks access to *competitor's* VOIP service. Carrier is engaging in practices both monopolistic and violating their common carrier status.
The North American Phone System uses 64 kbit/s audio; 8 kHz sampling, 8 bits per sample. VOIP may or may not use it, depending on provider, but your math is totally incorrect.
Oddly, Vonage is using full-rate non-compressed audio, which comes out to around 70-90kbit/s when overhead is accounted for. They also offer a compressed 30kbps channel, though I'm not sure what codec they're using. Packet8 offers G.729, which is a 23kbit/s codec, as well as G711 (64kbit/s).
Of course, if you can tolerate absolute shit voice quality, you could always move to something like the GSM codec, which is around 13 kbit/s. ILBC might also be an option in that range of bandwidth, although I'm not particularly familiar with it, and apparently G723.1 will do 5-6kbit/s operation.
The majority of the cost of an MP3 is the rights fee, not the bandwidth cost. I am assuming, probably correctly although it hasn't yet been tested, that the majority of the cost of an episode of TV will be the rights fee as well. Bandwidth is cheap, and gets cheaper; rights fees aren't, and get more expensive.
Wow, it's nice to be accused of being the stupidest thing ever said on Slashdot. I did choose a word slightly incorrect - I should have used "discrete" rather than digital, although all discrete information can be represented digitally without loss of information and without loss of generality in statements.
That said, you're a jackass. Discrete means that the information is discontinuous. Are you going to argue that film is a perfectly continuous medium? Because film grain is the PROOF that film is an effectively discrete medium. Grains are effectively a irregularly spaced, irregularly sized and shaped pixel pattern.
In other words, film is a DISCRETE (and hence, digital) medium. And I'm right, and you remain an idiot.
Digital does not mean "computer monitor" or "emitted scan lines", whatever you may think. Digital means "discrete information in both time and space". And film is discrete in both time and space.
Shit, man, I am in the *same* situation. I work out near Arlington Heights, live on the blue line. If I knew anyone who was hiring EE in the city, I'd already be working there.
This is almost a true statement on the GP's part; all HDTVs can do either 720p, 1080i, or both. If they aren't capable of displaying the full image at one of those resolutions, they are not an HDTV.
CDs cost about 15 bucks, and DVDs cost 15-20; TV DVDs tend to cost more like 10-15 per disc.
Why exactly *shouldn't* the shows cost a buck or two per episode?
Which "TV companies?" Are you referring to broadcasting networks? Given that broadcasted networks do not sell TV programs yet...
Strange. I could swear that these were on broadcast TV.
Film is effectively digital, due to grain. Unlike an analog process, there is a point where increasing the number of lines is completely meaningless.
If it does 1080i (where it is *actually* displaying all 1080 lines) it is an HDTV. 720p is not required for labeling as HD.
I live in Chicago.
Burb kids get "the city" from me. When I lived in Detroit, burb kids got "the city" from me.
And yes, I would use it with people who didn't live locally too; if you don't live in "the city", whatever my current definition of "the city" is, you're a burb kid.
It isn't secure. They're already broken, and there were quite definitely people on campus who can "charge" a card when I was there.
That's why U of M disabled their smartcard system in favor of one that "phones home".
Some others: Wordsound Records (Spectre I like in particular), Techno Animal (yes, it is hip-hop, despite the name), Mike Ladd, Antipop Consortium, Infesticons, Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, Jeru the Damaja, Kid Koala, Beans, Talib Kweli, Black Star, Mos Def... there's a ton of good hip-hop out there MTV won't touch, just like most of the good rock doesn't get airplay either. I personally think DJ Shadow is a little overrated, but he's not bad.
I don't think I'd really place Amon Tobin into the hip-hop tradition, though. Draws a lot more from drum'n'bass and electronic music. Still good stuff.
You're wrong, you know.
Yes, Technics 1200s are the standard *turntable*, but there are a surprising number of DJs who add (or use exclusively) CDJ-1000s for mixing CDs and Traktor, on a laptop, for DJing with sound files.
I know several DJs, who make their living doing it, who use CDJs and/or a laptop, instead of, or in addition to, 1200s.
Doesn't work if you have more than 256 rows as well.
A 1000 point dataset with 300 parameters per data point, for example.
It happens in the real world, too; the main problem is that they just don't know how to use MATLAB (I noticed this disconnect when I went from a systems analysis group to a hardware group; they write a lot of Excel, I write a lot of MATLAB) and therefore stick with what they're comfortable with. Plus, Excel does do a better job of importing data easily; MATLAB still lacks here.
Most Slashdotters mastered that trick *years* ago.
That's cool. I wasn't doubting the veracity of the story; but you have to admit, 'plasmons' sounds like ones of those words made up for bullshit Trek science.
Making something invisible is easy: all you have to do is generate a Somebody Else's Problem field of sufficient size.
(Seriously, am I the only one who looked at this, saw the word 'plasmonic', and thought "Fucking Slashdot editors, its *March 1st*, not *April 1st*"?)
Actually, I can think of a reason - sometimes its hard to find the bullet. Assuming the tag lived, you could do triangulation of the round to find it, which a serial number won't provide for.
This all, of course, assumes it would survive - a probably incorrect assumption.
16 bits per sample per channel, 2 channels, 44.1 kHz. This happens to work out to 1.411 Mbps (176.4 kBps). At which point the CD tacks on a Reed Solomon codec and some other crap for error correction, significantly upping the recorded data bitrate, but the audio bitrate for a Red Book CD is definitely not 320 kbps in any way, shape, or form. 2 channels. 16 bits (2 bytes) per channel per sample. 44,100 samples per second. 176,400 bytes per second. 1,411,200 bits per second.
I'm certain that's what you meant to say. In your pedantic "digital is always lossy" argument. But if you're going to be pedantic, please, please at least get your numbers right.
Actually, most of the mind-rot concerts are all-ages. Good shows tend to be 21+, and most of the venues I've been to will ID everyone, because if you're already paying someone to stand at the door and check ID, you might as well check *everyone's*, just in case.
Cigarettes are lung-rot, sure, but mind-rot? I suggest you rethink your overly puritanical viewpoint.
The government cannot create copyrighted information or works; only contractors to the government can. All works "prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties" are public domain at creation.
My point was more that if you have kids right now, you might be happy to realize there are school districts that will suffice. I'm sorry that your ideals are more important than your kids' educations.
I have my doubts that you'll be paying as much in taxes after you retire as you were before. You might come close, if most of your income is from investments, but most people do not replace their wage income with their retirement income.
Progressive taxation is exactly what it sounds like - the opposite of regressive taxation, things like poll taxes, that fall equally on all regardless of ability to pay. If you seriously assert that the government should be funded equally by all, regardless of ability to pay, then yes, I would like you to get the fuck out of my country.
I carry it because I *might* need ID. And because if some fucking insane Chicago driver hits me, at least they'll be able to figure out who the dead carcass used to belong to. I carry it for convenience; if I want to buy a bottle of beer for when I get home, if I want to use my credit card (all mine say CHECKID - not everyone does, but some do), etc. I carry it on the if-come. If I *knew* I wouldn't need it, I might decide not to carry it, but given that it's half the size of an index card, I usually carry it just in case.
That said, the problem is *not* requiring ID; the problem is that the law/regulation requiring ID is secret. Were the law/regulation out in the open, I wouldn't *like* it, but there would not be fundamental problems. The problem is the secretiveness of the law.