I see you've never left the USA. Minidisc was incredibly widely used not only in Asia but also in the radio industry with lots of commercial MD equipment dedicated to radio studios. Even my car back around 2000 had two options: CD player + MD stacker in the boot, or MD player + CD stacker in the boot, and I bought the latter.
You say stores had a small section devoted to them? I found stores that *only* stocked MDs.
There are use cases but you refuse to look at other needs. Go back and read my original post, HTTP isn't the only way to transfer content.
I think you may not have read my reply if you think for a moment that your post contained a "use case". No your post contained a clunky way of doing something that was never intended to do without any benefit and a load of downsides. That does not a use case make, and you have yet to come up with an actual use case for serving inline HTTP content via FTP.
Not only is there no need for it, EVER, it also is a stupid idea if you sadistically have a *want* for it.
You missed a far more interesting part of that: Australia has *mandated* pin for all transactions on Australian cards for the past 4 years. When you swipe a card in an Australian terminal it will identify Australian credit and debit cards and force a chip+PIN authorisation.
You think that a chip+pin terminal was more expensive than the over sized complex terminals with large displays and touch / stylus which were implemented for chip+signature?
You're saying that if he takes the analog and converts it to digital, he won't be able to tell the difference.
Precisely.
That misses the point that the conversion to digital is where you lose the qualities that make analog desirable
Negative. There are no losses that anyone has able to prove they are capable of hearing. My entire point is the thing you think makes analogue have a desirable sound is entirely due to the mastering process that is specially formulated to suit the medium.
It's equivalent to saying that if you convert the digital files to vinyl that you won't be able to tell the difference in the convenience between the two.
Not at all, vinyl has some major drawbacks as a format. Take a standard CD and convert it to vinyl and it will be noticeably inferior if you're lucky, and the needle may jump the grove if you're unlucky (especially the way modern CDs are recorded).
Well, of course not - you're changed the format so it no longer has the advantage in question - in both cases.
Nope, just in one. There is no inherent quality of vinyl that makes it in any way at all superior in any aspect of a CD.... Other than the size of the album art.
What do you mean these days? We were always proud of being in the big leagues of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the USofA when it comes to CO2 emssions per capita.
Sure we've dropped the ball the last 4 years but we want to retake our place above the USA.
Unfortunately, when Bitcoin implodes, a lot of folks who are "too big to fail" will be affected.
And so the bill will be placed on the taxpayers.
Doubt it. The 2007 crisis revolved around values in the the trillions concentrated on the financial sector of the USA. Bitcoin has a total market cap of $130bn spread across the globe.
If the price was set to zero tomorrow, a few institutional investors may hurt, but it won't be a banks going bankrupt event.
Yes there is. There law requires to pre-fund them, it just doesn't mention 75 years. That number comes from the United States Office of Personnel Management who provide the guidelines for how to financially account for the requirements set out in the PAEA.
and the paid personnel who are attempt to cut benefits to the employees
The EU needs to make this simpler. They need to create a clear set of guidelines for what types of information must be "forgotten" and how a person can invoke their right.
Those two sentences in conjunction made me chuckle. It is right now in its simplest form. Any rules the EU puts in won't stop the need for human review, and won't stop lawsuits. It will just make them more predictable. But you don't need the EU to do that. As you can see the case law is starting to define it already.
Basically you can't make clear guidelines on this without it becoming insanely complicated.
Easy way to boost privacy - Stop using Chrome and google services...
Depends on what you mean by privacy. There are people I trust with my data. There are many more that I don't. Just because I use Chrome and Google Services doesn't mean I don't want a secure method of communicating with people, them specifically.
Are you suggesting that the NTSB has some hidden agenda?
Not at all. What I'm suggesting is that we live in a world of poor quality control. You don't need to have a hidden agenda to produce braindead stupid results, or to do poor science.
I was commenting in a very general case that nothing anyone says can be taken at face value anymore, either through malice, political motivations, or through stupidity. No comment at all on the quality of the investigation at hand. That itself remains to be seen.
If you want a specific case specifically about the NTSB you can look at their notes in the last Tesla investigation which said there was a 40% reduction in crashes thanks to the introduction of autopilot. While I'm sure that autopilot may actually be able to achieve that, and I'm hopeful it does for the sake of human advancement, the number itself was based on quite rubbish reasoning and on poorly filtered data.
And guess what, the media picked up on that number. And so did Tesla.
I resent this penchant for GUI makeovers just for the sake of it.
As I said elsewhere, nothing is just for the sake of it. It's to prevent appearing stale which in turn affects the bottom line. You may not like it but the ultimate fact is that a redesign is required to boost up use in any platform. Piss off a few people in return for new and returning customers is just part of a product technology lifecycle.
Nope. Change for sake of bottom line. No one spends money on changes like this if all it did was create change. The reality is that stale interfaces reflect poorly on the bottom line. Pissing a few people off in the interest of remaining "fresh" actually promotes business... unless you're Snapchat, they fucked that up royally.
It should have been a clear indication that if you search for finance and news on stocks that Yahoo is the first result and Google is the second and always has been. Google... the company that was slapped by the EU regulator for promoting itself, didn't promote its own finance app.
Why these guys casually change the look and feel without worrying about users?
This is the funny one. You assume this isn't driven by the absolutely insane amount of data that Google collects on users.
It's like the people blowing their top everytime their favourite feature in Windows disappears while at the same time complaining about telemetry. Well guess what, if only the dumb people turn on telemetry and only the dumb people use computers in a dumb way, expect your software to be dumber with the next update.
England is covered with cameras but you never hear stories about them doing any good.
That's what you call observer bias. There are plenty of stories of them doing good. Hell nearly 10 years ago they were arresting and charging upwards of 2000 people a year based on CCTV footage alone.
Now whether you believe the stories or not is a different question. And that may be called conspiracy theories.
Did the test all of the problems covered in the patch, on 1,200 different devices? Seems unlikely.
Why? Software performs automated testing. Can be installed on multiple devices at once, run in the background. Not only is this possible, but it could likely be done by a single person.
What? I have a Google Pixel XL and just installed an update today. I'm at 8.1.0 and participate in the beta program. How much better could the update process be?
You mean you don't have the as yet undiscolsed release fixing the as yet unfound bugs? Man are you behind in the times.
*Posted from my Google Pixel running Android Wonkabar.
I'm a fan of Tesla but when I read things like this I lose respect for them.
I don't. What a large company achieves and the image is must keep up are two different things. If you take it all together the only companies you will ever have respect for are those crushed by a corrupt corporate world.
I've been around long enough to know that not everything is as the media says, not everything is as the company press release says, and not everything is as the "independent" investigators says, but all the while knowing that if they don't say what they do they end up crucified for it.
I respect Telsa, I don't respect the corporate world they operate in, and every company when they reach critical mass is forced into this position.
HD-CD was a stillbirth. MiniDisc was HUGE and incredibly popular killed by a completely different and vastly superior medium. SACD is still active, you can still buy equipment, there are new releases in the format etc.
If the source is the CD and it is converted to vinyl then it's a horrible idea. If the source is the original tracks and it is converted to vinyl though this convoluted niche process then it is a great idea as some bumbling studio exec may ignore it and we may end up with a decent result... unlike the CD.
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You have far less slavery than Qatar though, so you've got that going for you. CO2 is the least of Qatar's sins.
You do realise that we are a country where our first police officer was the best behaved convict right?
MiniDisc was never huge.
I see you've never left the USA. Minidisc was incredibly widely used not only in Asia but also in the radio industry with lots of commercial MD equipment dedicated to radio studios. Even my car back around 2000 had two options: CD player + MD stacker in the boot, or MD player + CD stacker in the boot, and I bought the latter.
You say stores had a small section devoted to them? I found stores that *only* stocked MDs.
There are use cases but you refuse to look at other needs. Go back and read my original post, HTTP isn't the only way to transfer content.
I think you may not have read my reply if you think for a moment that your post contained a "use case". No your post contained a clunky way of doing something that was never intended to do without any benefit and a load of downsides. That does not a use case make, and you have yet to come up with an actual use case for serving inline HTTP content via FTP.
Not only is there no need for it, EVER, it also is a stupid idea if you sadistically have a *want* for it.
You missed a far more interesting part of that: Australia has *mandated* pin for all transactions on Australian cards for the past 4 years. When you swipe a card in an Australian terminal it will identify Australian credit and debit cards and force a chip+PIN authorisation.
You think that a chip+pin terminal was more expensive than the over sized complex terminals with large displays and touch / stylus which were implemented for chip+signature?
That is truly incredible.
You're saying that if he takes the analog and converts it to digital, he won't be able to tell the difference.
Precisely.
That misses the point that the conversion to digital is where you lose the qualities that make analog desirable
Negative. There are no losses that anyone has able to prove they are capable of hearing. My entire point is the thing you think makes analogue have a desirable sound is entirely due to the mastering process that is specially formulated to suit the medium.
It's equivalent to saying that if you convert the digital files to vinyl that you won't be able to tell the difference in the convenience between the two.
Not at all, vinyl has some major drawbacks as a format. Take a standard CD and convert it to vinyl and it will be noticeably inferior if you're lucky, and the needle may jump the grove if you're unlucky (especially the way modern CDs are recorded).
Well, of course not - you're changed the format so it no longer has the advantage in question - in both cases.
Nope, just in one. There is no inherent quality of vinyl that makes it in any way at all superior in any aspect of a CD. ... Other than the size of the album art.
Don't forget to convert from 1 bit to 16 bit.
If you just switch from 2.8224 MHz to 44.1 kHz but stay at 1 bit, you're fucked.
You know I'm almost interested in giving that a go, but I'm afraid my ears may bleed :-)
poison the air I breath for this shit
Nope, just the air of her majesty's former criminals. ;-)
What do you mean these days? We were always proud of being in the big leagues of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the USofA when it comes to CO2 emssions per capita.
Sure we've dropped the ball the last 4 years but we want to retake our place above the USA.
Unfortunately, when Bitcoin implodes, a lot of folks who are "too big to fail" will be affected.
And so the bill will be placed on the taxpayers.
Doubt it. The 2007 crisis revolved around values in the the trillions concentrated on the financial sector of the USA. Bitcoin has a total market cap of $130bn spread across the globe.
If the price was set to zero tomorrow, a few institutional investors may hurt, but it won't be a banks going bankrupt event.
There is no requirement to fund for 75 years out.
Yes there is. There law requires to pre-fund them, it just doesn't mention 75 years. That number comes from the United States Office of Personnel Management who provide the guidelines for how to financially account for the requirements set out in the PAEA.
and the paid personnel who are attempt to cut benefits to the employees
You mean unborn employees right?
The EU needs to make this simpler. They need to create a clear set of guidelines for what types of information must be "forgotten" and how a person can invoke their right.
Those two sentences in conjunction made me chuckle. It is right now in its simplest form. Any rules the EU puts in won't stop the need for human review, and won't stop lawsuits. It will just make them more predictable. But you don't need the EU to do that. As you can see the case law is starting to define it already.
Basically you can't make clear guidelines on this without it becoming insanely complicated.
Easy way to boost privacy - Stop using Chrome and google services...
Depends on what you mean by privacy. There are people I trust with my data. There are many more that I don't. Just because I use Chrome and Google Services doesn't mean I don't want a secure method of communicating with people, them specifically.
Are you suggesting that the NTSB has some hidden agenda?
Not at all. What I'm suggesting is that we live in a world of poor quality control. You don't need to have a hidden agenda to produce braindead stupid results, or to do poor science.
I was commenting in a very general case that nothing anyone says can be taken at face value anymore, either through malice, political motivations, or through stupidity. No comment at all on the quality of the investigation at hand. That itself remains to be seen.
If you want a specific case specifically about the NTSB you can look at their notes in the last Tesla investigation which said there was a 40% reduction in crashes thanks to the introduction of autopilot. While I'm sure that autopilot may actually be able to achieve that, and I'm hopeful it does for the sake of human advancement, the number itself was based on quite rubbish reasoning and on poorly filtered data.
And guess what, the media picked up on that number.
And so did Tesla.
Round and round the circle of trust we go.
I resent this penchant for GUI makeovers just for the sake of it.
As I said elsewhere, nothing is just for the sake of it. It's to prevent appearing stale which in turn affects the bottom line. You may not like it but the ultimate fact is that a redesign is required to boost up use in any platform. Piss off a few people in return for new and returning customers is just part of a product technology lifecycle.
Change for the sake of change.
Nope. Change for sake of bottom line. No one spends money on changes like this if all it did was create change. The reality is that stale interfaces reflect poorly on the bottom line. Pissing a few people off in the interest of remaining "fresh" actually promotes business ... unless you're Snapchat, they fucked that up royally.
It should have been a clear indication that if you search for finance and news on stocks that Yahoo is the first result and Google is the second and always has been. Google... the company that was slapped by the EU regulator for promoting itself, didn't promote its own finance app.
WTF is Gmail being re-designed when they don't even understand _basic_ UI ?
Is this a trick question?
Why these guys casually change the look and feel without worrying about users?
This is the funny one. You assume this isn't driven by the absolutely insane amount of data that Google collects on users.
It's like the people blowing their top everytime their favourite feature in Windows disappears while at the same time complaining about telemetry. Well guess what, if only the dumb people turn on telemetry and only the dumb people use computers in a dumb way, expect your software to be dumber with the next update.
England is covered with cameras but you never hear stories about them doing any good.
That's what you call observer bias. There are plenty of stories of them doing good. Hell nearly 10 years ago they were arresting and charging upwards of 2000 people a year based on CCTV footage alone.
Now whether you believe the stories or not is a different question. And that may be called conspiracy theories.
Did the test all of the problems covered in the patch, on 1,200 different devices? Seems unlikely.
Why? Software performs automated testing. Can be installed on multiple devices at once, run in the background. Not only is this possible, but it could likely be done by a single person.
What? I have a Google Pixel XL and just installed an update today. I'm at 8.1.0 and participate in the beta program. How much better could the update process be?
You mean you don't have the as yet undiscolsed release fixing the as yet unfound bugs? Man are you behind in the times.
*Posted from my Google Pixel running Android Wonkabar.
I'm a fan of Tesla but when I read things like this I lose respect for them.
I don't. What a large company achieves and the image is must keep up are two different things. If you take it all together the only companies you will ever have respect for are those crushed by a corrupt corporate world.
I've been around long enough to know that not everything is as the media says, not everything is as the company press release says, and not everything is as the "independent" investigators says, but all the while knowing that if they don't say what they do they end up crucified for it.
I respect Telsa, I don't respect the corporate world they operate in, and every company when they reach critical mass is forced into this position.
HD-CD was a stillbirth. MiniDisc was HUGE and incredibly popular killed by a completely different and vastly superior medium. SACD is still active, you can still buy equipment, there are new releases in the format etc.
The only one here worth comparing to is HD-CD.
Depends on the source material.
If the source is the CD and it is converted to vinyl then it's a horrible idea. ... unlike the CD.
If the source is the original tracks and it is converted to vinyl though this convoluted niche process then it is a great idea as some bumbling studio exec may ignore it and we may end up with a decent result