Sure, they'll never sound as good as a pair of similar quality wired headphones
You didn't read through to the end of my post did you? Given constraints on the source material we are going after with a wireless device (mobile phones), a decent quality wireless set of headphones can often sound *better* than their wired counterparts. Mobile phones aren't exactly the pinnacle of our audio reproduction technology. They may not hold up against a high quality DAC+ amplifier combination, but since we're talking about wireless it's safe to assume you're not playing music through that.
The cities attorney was quoted as saying: "Our litigation forced a public court proceeding on climate science, and now these companies can no longer deny it is real and valid."
I actually wonder who he's referring to. BP a major investor in Wind power in the USA, who's CEO is pushing for a price to be put on carbon? Royal Dutch Shell a major investor in electric charging infrastructure? Chevron with their work on Solar power? Conoco Phillips who have published on their homepage: "We recognize that human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels, is contributing to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere that can lead to adverse changes in global climate.". Or maybe Exxon who have published a page dedicated to the very art of not denying climate change is real and valid http://corporate.exxonmobil.co....
Congratulations San Francisco! What a.... errr... win? Now can we please eliminate the San Francisco city attorney who is constantly expelling CO2 while contributing nothing at all of value to society.
So to be clear regardless if you think the judge actually is capable of doing his job, the fact he correctly states that it's the government's job to determine policy makes him in the pocket of an oil company or Russia?
Do you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
One more example of why judges should be required to accept the input of nonlegals like, you know, scientists and software professionals.
So as a matter of interest, the fact that the judge clearly acknowledged the link between global warming and CO2 which is the only nonlegal aspect of this case, what would have changed? Do you think the presence of a scientists telling the judge something he already acknowledged suddenly changes the fundamental way our governments are setup?
I have an idea, maybe you should leave legal decisions to the legals.
CO2 exhalation is a result of a chemical process in our body, and has no relation whatsoever to the amount of whatever we consumed itself consuming CO2.
What is the input to that chemical process? If you guessed glucose that our bodies derive from the food we eat you'd be right.
What I have found in life is that people who believe anything is a "zero-sum game" are the same kind of naive quacks
You've never even taken a highschool science class before have you? There are literally countless closed systems in our environment. I have a better one for you: The entire physical process of the universe that governs everything around you is one large zero sum game. The universe is literally the exact opposite of what you think.
With a word salad like that I'm not surprised it was rejected. That was incredibly hard to read. Summaries and formatting exist for a reason and a Slashdot Sunday shouldn't take up my entire screen.
Seriously, all other consumer grade speakers are stereos that don't properly account for room geometry, the fact that sound disperses differently depending on frequency, nor do they have compensation of non-linear effect.
So what you're saying is you haven't shopped for a sound system in the past 10 years. Gotchya.
Given the audible shortcomings of the very lossy codecs used by wireless headphones today,
Firstly calling modern wireless codecs as "very" lossy doesn't do them justice. They are an order of magnitude better than the MP3s of the past. Apple devices will happily stream 250kbps AAC. Don't get me wrong the Airpods aren't high end but that's because they sound like shit not because they use a poor compression algorithm.
Now outside of the Apple world people are happily using aptxHD over bluetooth and you can tell it apart from being plugged in via cable quite easily. Wait what did I just make a typo? No, get yourself a high-end set of headphones and an aptx HD phone and the headphone+aptxHD+builtinDAC combination will happily blow away anything you can plug into your phone's headphone socket. Not that this is relevant discussing Apple devices for many reasons.
You are misapplying theory here. Look at the mobile case again, image classification can easily be applied cross platforms because the things they are classifying don't change. Just because you have and Android vs an iPhone doesn't make that coffee cup look any different.
However in this case the model that needs to be built is the one based on the computer memory. Each target needs its own model which is precisely why the Spectre and Meltdown attacks are essentially irrelevant outside of very specific scenarios. You need to either have a LOT of inside knowledge, a LOT of unrestricted access to a machine, or a user who will miss malware intensively working for a long time to model the target machine in order to extract desired information.
The only class of systems really affected by this are systems with insider access (employees accessing servers with the ability to execute code), or VMs which by their nature need to give someone the ability to execute code. For mum and dad or even the enterprising geek and his laptop full of secret stuff these exploits are quite irrelevant in the real world.
It's amazing that it is now newsworthy when an app or website gets a feature that the desktop program has had since the very beginning.
Given the ability to measure was one of the reasons why many people used Google Earth in the first place it makes me wonder WTF the app writers were thinking taking so long to implement one of the most basic and standard features their software has always had.
What next, Office 365 gets the ability to change font size?
No it's not. But since you had no real life experience either I was hoping you at least had some relatable experience as to why your comment was silly.
What I do know is that the countries with the largest percentage of the generating base derived from renewables have the highest retail electric costs in the world.
That is what is called observer bias. The countries with the highest percentage of renewables are also countries which had a first mover disadvantage adopting at the time expensive technologies. The countries with the highest percentage of renewables are also countries which have ALWAYS had high electricity costs due to the local peculiarities and infrastructure.
So to borrow your analogy, the data centers and heavy industry powered by electricity rather than coal aren't going to be built because they will be too costly to operate
Great analogy given the number of new data centres and industry specifically turning to renewables to cut costs. I actually worked at a gas power plant for a while. One of the cost cutting projects I put in was to install solar panels on the roofs of the switchrooms to run the airconditioning units because it was cheaper than the wholesale cost of electricity from our own turbines.
Come join us in 2018 when you're ready to discuss power infrastructure and pricing.
Yes it is propaganda... except the two lies are incredibly obvious to the point of comedy. The methods share a lot in common but on John Oliver's show the obvious lies exist to solicit laughs rather than share information.
Err no. People don't get disappeared for using a VPN. Pretty much every Chinese resident and every tourist to boot actually use one. Hell I asked in the office one day how to get access to a website to one person and I got a chorus of 5 different VPN services shouted at me in response. Hell when I bought a SIM card while I was there for a few months the person even told me I will need a VPN to access some of the western stuff I'm used to "like Google Maps", and recommended one too.
In China you get disappeared for actively attacking political figures, or aligning yourself with the wrong group. But the VPN itself has nothing to do with it, other than a tick of proof that you were trying to (unsuccessfully) hide what you're doing.
I think he's great at attacking real men. I'm not aware of any straw man arguments he's made.
Actually it's part of his standard comedy formula. Pretty much every attack on a real man is followed up with a strawman argument. The only problem is that those are obviously and hilariously left field for the purpose of comedy.
People who don't understand this comedic style are inclined to believe that he just bullshits about everything, and people with an agenda are happy to reinforce this view of what he says.
Much like I've said about Microsoft being not a "software" company, but a "Windows" company,
The Microsoft that makes all of it's money through cloud services and office applications? Is that the "windows" company you're talking about? You know at present trends the Xbox division is going to overtake the Windows division in profits before the end of the decade right?
You're on point about Intel though. The entire company there really is based on one product, unless their memory division actually starts delivering on its promises.
The day we post that Windows 10 won't get updates on certain devices because support is suddenly yanked, conflicted minds all over Slashdot will be blown.
You haven't played Sim City have you? Or are you one of those people who don't understand why the buildings aren't being built despite having roads and trains but no power plant?
If your security is dependent on preventing precise time measurements, it is broken anyways.
I want to flip that on it's head: If your exploit is dependent on precise time measurements on a system you haven't characterized, running processes and memory which is not in your control looking for something that may or may not be there, your exploit is broken.
I will wager short of an actual state targeted attack by an inside person, or a hacker breaking out of his virtual machine on someone else's iron which is he currently using, Spectre and Meltdown won't have any practical implications outside of a lab.
"Lets download and run executable automatically from the net! What could go wrong?"
What do you prefer?
A walled garden app store? A system requiring signed executables approved by he who can't break into the phone business? A complete lockdown with only the software your computer came with able to run?
What could go wrong? We could own our computers and have the freedom and power to make them do what WE tell them to. How horrible.
No. The dictionary captures all uses, current, historical, archaic, and does so context free. The fact that you don't realise this speaks volumes.
You can't just pull out of thin air your own definition
That's kind of what I am telling you. Citing some little source because you use a word in a way that no one else does, doesn't make you right.... well actually it does make you right, however it doesn't make you successful at communicating.
So sure, since I happen to be an economist
Given how you clearly haven't ever read an economics text book I see your appeal to authority and give it the middle finger it rightly deserves.
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Sure, they'll never sound as good as a pair of similar quality wired headphones
You didn't read through to the end of my post did you? Given constraints on the source material we are going after with a wireless device (mobile phones), a decent quality wireless set of headphones can often sound *better* than their wired counterparts. Mobile phones aren't exactly the pinnacle of our audio reproduction technology. They may not hold up against a high quality DAC+ amplifier combination, but since we're talking about wireless it's safe to assume you're not playing music through that.
The cities attorney was quoted as saying:
"Our litigation forced a public court proceeding on climate science, and now these companies can no longer deny it is real and valid."
I actually wonder who he's referring to. BP a major investor in Wind power in the USA, who's CEO is pushing for a price to be put on carbon? Royal Dutch Shell a major investor in electric charging infrastructure? Chevron with their work on Solar power? Conoco Phillips who have published on their homepage: "We recognize that human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels, is contributing to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere that can lead to adverse changes in global climate.". Or maybe Exxon who have published a page dedicated to the very art of not denying climate change is real and valid http://corporate.exxonmobil.co....
Congratulations San Francisco! What a .... errr ... win?
Now can we please eliminate the San Francisco city attorney who is constantly expelling CO2 while contributing nothing at all of value to society.
Source:
https://www.ecowatch.com/clima...
So to be clear regardless if you think the judge actually is capable of doing his job, the fact he correctly states that it's the government's job to determine policy makes him in the pocket of an oil company or Russia?
Do you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
One more example of why judges should be required to accept the input of nonlegals like, you know, scientists and software professionals.
So as a matter of interest, the fact that the judge clearly acknowledged the link between global warming and CO2 which is the only nonlegal aspect of this case, what would have changed? Do you think the presence of a scientists telling the judge something he already acknowledged suddenly changes the fundamental way our governments are setup?
I have an idea, maybe you should leave legal decisions to the legals.
CO2 exhalation is a result of a chemical process in our body, and has no relation whatsoever to the amount of whatever we consumed itself consuming CO2.
What is the input to that chemical process? If you guessed glucose that our bodies derive from the food we eat you'd be right.
What I have found in life is that people who believe anything is a "zero-sum game" are the same kind of naive quacks
You've never even taken a highschool science class before have you? There are literally countless closed systems in our environment.
I have a better one for you: The entire physical process of the universe that governs everything around you is one large zero sum game. The universe is literally the exact opposite of what you think.
With a word salad like that I'm not surprised it was rejected. That was incredibly hard to read. Summaries and formatting exist for a reason and a Slashdot Sunday shouldn't take up my entire screen.
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Seriously, all other consumer grade speakers are stereos that don't properly account for room geometry, the fact that sound disperses differently depending on frequency, nor do they have compensation of non-linear effect.
So what you're saying is you haven't shopped for a sound system in the past 10 years. Gotchya.
Given the audible shortcomings of the very lossy codecs used by wireless headphones today,
Firstly calling modern wireless codecs as "very" lossy doesn't do them justice. They are an order of magnitude better than the MP3s of the past. Apple devices will happily stream 250kbps AAC. Don't get me wrong the Airpods aren't high end but that's because they sound like shit not because they use a poor compression algorithm.
Now outside of the Apple world people are happily using aptxHD over bluetooth and you can tell it apart from being plugged in via cable quite easily. Wait what did I just make a typo? No, get yourself a high-end set of headphones and an aptx HD phone and the headphone+aptxHD+builtinDAC combination will happily blow away anything you can plug into your phone's headphone socket. Not that this is relevant discussing Apple devices for many reasons.
Who thought that was a good idea.
Users who were requesting these features by voting with their wallet through vendors that provided them external to the CPU.
You are misapplying theory here. Look at the mobile case again, image classification can easily be applied cross platforms because the things they are classifying don't change. Just because you have and Android vs an iPhone doesn't make that coffee cup look any different.
However in this case the model that needs to be built is the one based on the computer memory. Each target needs its own model which is precisely why the Spectre and Meltdown attacks are essentially irrelevant outside of very specific scenarios. You need to either have a LOT of inside knowledge, a LOT of unrestricted access to a machine, or a user who will miss malware intensively working for a long time to model the target machine in order to extract desired information.
The only class of systems really affected by this are systems with insider access (employees accessing servers with the ability to execute code), or VMs which by their nature need to give someone the ability to execute code. For mum and dad or even the enterprising geek and his laptop full of secret stuff these exploits are quite irrelevant in the real world.
It's amazing that it is now newsworthy when an app or website gets a feature that the desktop program has had since the very beginning.
Given the ability to measure was one of the reasons why many people used Google Earth in the first place it makes me wonder WTF the app writers were thinking taking so long to implement one of the most basic and standard features their software has always had.
What next, Office 365 gets the ability to change font size?
Sim city isn't real life my friend
No it's not. But since you had no real life experience either I was hoping you at least had some relatable experience as to why your comment was silly.
What I do know is that the countries with the largest percentage of the generating base derived from renewables have the highest retail electric costs in the world.
That is what is called observer bias. The countries with the highest percentage of renewables are also countries which had a first mover disadvantage adopting at the time expensive technologies. The countries with the highest percentage of renewables are also countries which have ALWAYS had high electricity costs due to the local peculiarities and infrastructure.
So to borrow your analogy, the data centers and heavy industry powered by electricity rather than coal aren't going to be built because they will be too costly to operate
Great analogy given the number of new data centres and industry specifically turning to renewables to cut costs. I actually worked at a gas power plant for a while. One of the cost cutting projects I put in was to install solar panels on the roofs of the switchrooms to run the airconditioning units because it was cheaper than the wholesale cost of electricity from our own turbines.
Come join us in 2018 when you're ready to discuss power infrastructure and pricing.
Yes it is propaganda ... except the two lies are incredibly obvious to the point of comedy. The methods share a lot in common but on John Oliver's show the obvious lies exist to solicit laughs rather than share information.
Err no. People don't get disappeared for using a VPN. Pretty much every Chinese resident and every tourist to boot actually use one. Hell I asked in the office one day how to get access to a website to one person and I got a chorus of 5 different VPN services shouted at me in response. Hell when I bought a SIM card while I was there for a few months the person even told me I will need a VPN to access some of the western stuff I'm used to "like Google Maps", and recommended one too.
In China you get disappeared for actively attacking political figures, or aligning yourself with the wrong group. But the VPN itself has nothing to do with it, other than a tick of proof that you were trying to (unsuccessfully) hide what you're doing.
I think he's great at attacking real men. I'm not aware of any straw man arguments he's made.
Actually it's part of his standard comedy formula. Pretty much every attack on a real man is followed up with a strawman argument. The only problem is that those are obviously and hilariously left field for the purpose of comedy.
People who don't understand this comedic style are inclined to believe that he just bullshits about everything, and people with an agenda are happy to reinforce this view of what he says.
Much like I've said about Microsoft being not a "software" company, but a "Windows" company,
The Microsoft that makes all of it's money through cloud services and office applications? Is that the "windows" company you're talking about? You know at present trends the Xbox division is going to overtake the Windows division in profits before the end of the decade right?
You're on point about Intel though. The entire company there really is based on one product, unless their memory division actually starts delivering on its promises.
Cool story. Not even remotely related to what is being done here, but cool none the less.
I always thought DOS was the best. Fast, super stable with no extra BS.
I can't for the life of me get it to sync to the cloud and download my high res photos from my phone though.
The day we post that Windows 10 won't get updates on certain devices because support is suddenly yanked, conflicted minds all over Slashdot will be blown.
but it isn't exactly energy nirvana is it?
You're right, it's a silly idea. India is too far gone, there's no point in trying to build powerplants there.
Are we really so detached from reality that praise is given in the present for accomplishing a possible and unlikely future event?
Mexico paying for a wall is what wins elections these days so yes, yes we are.
You haven't played Sim City have you? Or are you one of those people who don't understand why the buildings aren't being built despite having roads and trains but no power plant?
If your security is dependent on preventing precise time measurements, it is broken anyways.
I want to flip that on it's head: If your exploit is dependent on precise time measurements on a system you haven't characterized, running processes and memory which is not in your control looking for something that may or may not be there, your exploit is broken.
I will wager short of an actual state targeted attack by an inside person, or a hacker breaking out of his virtual machine on someone else's iron which is he currently using, Spectre and Meltdown won't have any practical implications outside of a lab.
"Lets download and run executable automatically from the net! What could go wrong?"
What do you prefer?
A walled garden app store?
A system requiring signed executables approved by he who can't break into the phone business?
A complete lockdown with only the software your computer came with able to run?
What could go wrong? We could own our computers and have the freedom and power to make them do what WE tell them to. How horrible.
The dictionary captures the commonly understood
No. The dictionary captures all uses, current, historical, archaic, and does so context free. The fact that you don't realise this speaks volumes.
You can't just pull out of thin air your own definition
That's kind of what I am telling you. Citing some little source because you use a word in a way that no one else does, doesn't make you right.... well actually it does make you right, however it doesn't make you successful at communicating.
So sure, since I happen to be an economist
Given how you clearly haven't ever read an economics text book I see your appeal to authority and give it the middle finger it rightly deserves.