Not at all. FTP to serve up HTTP content should never be considered a solution at all under any circumstances. There is quite literally no use case for it other than embedding content in a site from a foreign source that was never meant to be embedded in the first place, and that is horrible link breaking practice regardless of what protocol is used.
I'm not spending energy, just using a few braincells and typing really quickly, and if I can convince even one person to not consider going down this incredibly stupid path then it would be energy well spent (and saved, considering all those poor resource constrained servers we were talking about).
Thank the industry. What people ultimately care about is the end product. When that sounds better on a crappy medium due to the pressure the record industry places on the mastering process that ultimately ruins it then fine, we'll gravitate towards the niche medium that gets ignored by the fuckerupers.
The best example of this can probably be seen in the pirated copy of the Metalica Death Magnetic, the highest quality of which is that ripped from the Guitar Hero video game.
Why not? See the thing about vinyl's sound is that it goes through its own mastering process. Part of the reason vinyl sounds good is that its a niche product so the men in suits don't force the sound engineer to completely fuck up the sound during the final master because they are aren't all that interested in this small market segment.
All recording is done digitally now, that doesn't mean the vinyl doesn't often sound very different (and often not in a bad way). Same with SACD. They sound the same whether played in DSD or downmixed to redbook.
Everyone knows that if you want real high quality sound you skip the CD, Vinyl, SACD, and HD-DVD, copies and go straight into playing guitarhero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In case people don't understand this comment I mean that any positive attributes of sound attributed to vinyl has nothing at all to do with vinyl. Studio mastering is a dead art killed by people in suits.
Remember the loud albums which were unplayable without adjusting up the weight of the needle beyond the manufacture spec to prevent it jumping the track when some rocker hit the drums.
So what you're saying is you prefer the way the vinyl was mastered.
Take the output of your record player, pump it into a moderately okay sound card, write the files to a standard CD and then tell us if you can still tell the sound apart. I bet you can't.
By the way this has also fuelled an online piracy campaign that records vinyl in HighDef and then gets shared via FLAC. The medium itself had nothing to do with it.
Similar SACD. The SACD versions of old classics owe their sound to the remastering and sound identical whether you play the DSD bitstream perfectly though a quality DAC or you downsample to 44.1khz
They do do this. Your agurment is completely invalid. Not as soon as the driver releases the handwheel because that would be dangerous and stupid, but after the driver fails to heed the warnings to put their hands on the wheel.
Tesla blames dead driver. Dead driver's family blames Tesla. Who is really at fault here?
I think the four-year-old girl is right: Why not both?
Telsa blames dead driver. Dead driver's family blames Tesla while admitting the driver knew what he was doing could cause an accident even right at that location
That's why not both. We don't hold gun manufacturers accountable for suicide either.
Why not, it works just like autopilot does. It's not like the pilot gets to leave the cockpit and go for a nap either. The solution to fixing stupid people is to educate stupid people. Maybe rather than renaming autopilot to something else we can teach people what pilots actually do.
Consider why that is in the context of what I said. No one cares that the paper made a mistake. It is quite consistent. The media is bad at issuing corrections because the newspaper relies on either facts for subgroups or outrage for the general masses.
the news industry tend to do whatever it can to not correct the record
No they don't. The news papers happily issue corrections when asked to and don't tend to fight it much. But not issuing corrections because it doesn't sell papers is not the same as doing whatever they can not to, and most cases that end up in the legal system as a result are purle because the correction offered didn't get the attention the original accusation did.
If anything the media these days tend to go out of their way not to say anything that needs correcting. You could literally have someone suicide on live TV and the media will print that it "was alleged he did so".
Don't waste the time and effort on shit people don't want to read. If people wanted corrections then they would be provided, and that can be seen in the papers focused on subgroups which are far more likely to issue a correction than the normal media. Again because the sub groups typically are interested more in the details.
Well yes. Darwin awards is most definitely victim blaming.
The car killed him.
Nope, he killed himself using a car. He had every opportunity along with the knoledge of what would happen right in the specific circumstances to prevent a car from killing him. But he did nothing to do so.
The car didn't kill him anymore than a gun kills a person, a gun with a warning label that when the trigger is pulled a bullet will be discharged passing through flesh and killing you if it goes through your head,... and yet a person *choses* to shoot himself in the head anyway.
*choice* matters. He had a choice. Not only did the car not kill him, given the circumstances this can barely be considered an accident.
No these patches cause no noticeable change in speed. What you're thinking of is the meltdown patch that requires kernel page table isolation. That causes a 5-20% hit depending on application with nearly all applications that a normal user can expect falling below the 10% mark.
To be clear the is no patch for any of the spec exec bugs that hits 30% penalties in anything other than synthetic benchmarks on that specific worst off case on very specific subset of CPUs.
You'll be fine, not only with this patch but the other ones too.
Does not sound like something a human PR Professional would write.
Sounds like even PR people are getting sick of appeasing the media who hype up shit to no end. At least the TV news used to split up stories about the world going to hell with a story of a fluffy kitten beating cancer or some shit like that. Even that seems to have stopped now.
EVERYTHING sucks. Be outraged 100% of the time, and above all remember that they are ALWAYS out to get you. News at 9.
Tesla blames driver for using the Autopilot in exactly the way you'd expect 90% of Autopilot users to use it.
Using it in an area the driver knows it tried to steer into a divider in the past, has demonstrated to his wife that it steers into the divider in the past to the point where she said she knew exactly her husband was involved when she heard a car steered into a divider, and then ignoring warnings to put your hand on the wheel because the system could potentially steer the car into a divider?
I know a lot of Tesla drivers, but 90% of them are not suicidal Darwin award hopefuls.
This is sorta-kinda-an-almost-but-not-quite cruise control that works ok most of the time but has failure modes involving death and / or dismemberment.
Well when you list the negative features and ignore the positive you could come up with that. Did you post that on your energy wasting home heating desk box, or on your radiation emitting fragile money wasting glass slab which rings during meetings?
In any other scenario I agree with you, but the single person to blame for the death in this case is the driver. Not only did the driver know it was buggy, he apparently knew that the car steered towards THAT SPECIFIC DIVIDER, and even attempted to demonstrate it to his wife by her own admission.
If I do something that I know is going to get me killed, in a place that is going to get me killed, and ignore warnings telling me that what I'm doing is about to get me killed then there's two possible explainations for that: attempted suicide, or Darwin award.
Also the parent is correct, you can't mix containers with codecs
That is pedantically true, but no one hears "ogg" during a discussion on open source codecs and thinks the person is talking about anything other than Vorbis. By the way I take issue with your:
there is simply no better lossy audio compression at this point
For two reasons: a) the best form of compression is one that is usable. Support for Opus is borderline non-existant, and FLAC is also relegated to special purpose areas. b) you're playing right into the OP's point. Both these codecs effectively failed to get any kind of reasonable traction.
Matroska (.mkv) is very widely used with all sort of proprietary codecs
Widly used sounds like the only thing you download is fan-subs of Japanese anime. MKV is like FLAC in adoption. It has carved a specific niche and is rare outside of it. Even H.265 is rarely seen in the mkv container. The mp4 container is far more common both in use and in software support. So again as the OP said: Royalty free means shit.
There's a few billion people who still have bandwidth issues streaming a single 4K Netflix video.
There were a few billion people who had bandwidth issues with high quality music back then too. My only point is, that this needs more than open and better to get ahead.
For the record they have this. An industry backed by a couple of major players that is slowly fed up with MPEG-LA's shit is what will push this through, but that's it. Royalty Free codecs are dime a dozend. VP9 also is royalty free and offers gains over H.264, also is pretty much a non-player outside of Youtube.
Yea, I should have said that the media aren't covering or admitting to their errors. They're not really doing it justice in comparison to the glowing praise of the female Steve Jobs that they published years ago.
There's an easy answer to that: no one cares. The media deals with the idiot classes or sub groups. The former don't care about the technicalities at all, the latter are only interested in what their sub group is about (e.g. finance media will only detail the finances of the company, who cares about fraud).
This isn't some wild conspiracy, it's just purely what sells papers.
There's a lot of negative things to be said about Google Maps and Waze, but I can't say I've ever had a problem with accuracy that wasn't a half a second blip that was completely irrelevant to the current navigation: e.g. Maps has problems recognising I merged into a tunnel and then blips back onto another road for a second before correction.
Nope, I'm serious. There are many countries which have real-time scanning of license plates for a wide variety of things.
e.g. In China every other intersection you go through may have what looks like a camera flash go off. The ones that don't have been switched to IR so it stops distracting drivers. They are tracking in real time the movement of cars by licenseplate through the city and tracking registrations.
e.g. In the UAE they do the same thing. Netherlands too. They are starting in France, and Belgium too. In Australia so far they only track using speed cameras which now do automatic numberplate recognition. Also the tolling system there also works by numberplates, none of this backwards throwing coins into a machine, just cruise on through as fast as you want.
In all of the above places they use this for automatic registration tracking. No more stupid stickers on windscreens / license plates. And no more selective enforcement or the crapshoot of the past where if you get in an accident there was a 1 in 8 chance that in my previous country the driver didn't have insurance or registration.
Some places do it for environmental zones. If you drive into Rotterdam you will be greeted with the digital sign https://nos.nl/data/image/2016... here it will read your your license plate and if it says "WEL" in green then you're allowed to progress, if it says "NIET" in red and you don't make a u-turn on the other end of the bridge you get a fine in the mail shortly after. In France and Germany you still need to go get a sticker glued to your windscreen.
One day I got a letter from the department of motor vehicles. It said that they have noticed me driving daily down one of the highways during peak hour and they wanted to invite me to peak hour reduction scheme. I registered. I got 120EUR deposited into a dummy account every month. Every time my car was logged in either the morning peak or afternoon peak on one of the major highways they deducted 3EUR. At the end of the month they transferred me anything left. The scheme did wonders for traffic.
As for people's trust in their government? The vast majority of the western world doesn't fear their government. They mostly get along in harmony. Government distrust on a national level is something that is almost unique to the USA in the west.
Slashdot Mirror
Not at all. FTP to serve up HTTP content should never be considered a solution at all under any circumstances. There is quite literally no use case for it other than embedding content in a site from a foreign source that was never meant to be embedded in the first place, and that is horrible link breaking practice regardless of what protocol is used.
I'm not spending energy, just using a few braincells and typing really quickly, and if I can convince even one person to not consider going down this incredibly stupid path then it would be energy well spent (and saved, considering all those poor resource constrained servers we were talking about).
For the record you're also proposing a system that is orders of magnitude more expensive.
Thank the industry. What people ultimately care about is the end product. When that sounds better on a crappy medium due to the pressure the record industry places on the mastering process that ultimately ruins it then fine, we'll gravitate towards the niche medium that gets ignored by the fuckerupers.
The best example of this can probably be seen in the pirated copy of the Metalica Death Magnetic, the highest quality of which is that ripped from the Guitar Hero video game.
Why not? See the thing about vinyl's sound is that it goes through its own mastering process. Part of the reason vinyl sounds good is that its a niche product so the men in suits don't force the sound engineer to completely fuck up the sound during the final master because they are aren't all that interested in this small market segment.
All recording is done digitally now, that doesn't mean the vinyl doesn't often sound very different (and often not in a bad way). Same with SACD. They sound the same whether played in DSD or downmixed to redbook.
Everyone knows that if you want real high quality sound you skip the CD, Vinyl, SACD, and HD-DVD, copies and go straight into playing guitarhero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In case people don't understand this comment I mean that any positive attributes of sound attributed to vinyl has nothing at all to do with vinyl. Studio mastering is a dead art killed by people in suits.
Remember the loud albums which were unplayable without adjusting up the weight of the needle beyond the manufacture spec to prevent it jumping the track when some rocker hit the drums.
So what you're saying is you prefer the way the vinyl was mastered.
Take the output of your record player, pump it into a moderately okay sound card, write the files to a standard CD and then tell us if you can still tell the sound apart. I bet you can't.
By the way this has also fuelled an online piracy campaign that records vinyl in HighDef and then gets shared via FLAC. The medium itself had nothing to do with it.
Similar SACD. The SACD versions of old classics owe their sound to the remastering and sound identical whether you play the DSD bitstream perfectly though a quality DAC or you downsample to 44.1khz
It is also a concept that applies to society's handling of ideas
And doesn't exist in pretty much most of the known world.
There is a bit of a cost difference to mining land than mining the bottom of the ocean.
The fact that they don't do this
They do do this. Your agurment is completely invalid. Not as soon as the driver releases the handwheel because that would be dangerous and stupid, but after the driver fails to heed the warnings to put their hands on the wheel.
that bad luck is something that happens to other people
Reality distortion affects Apple engineers too.
Tesla blames dead driver. Dead driver's family blames Tesla. Who is really at fault here?
I think the four-year-old girl is right: Why not both?
Telsa blames dead driver. Dead driver's family blames Tesla while admitting the driver knew what he was doing could cause an accident even right at that location
That's why not both. We don't hold gun manufacturers accountable for suicide either.
Perhaps they shouldn't call it autopilot?
Why not, it works just like autopilot does. It's not like the pilot gets to leave the cockpit and go for a nap either. The solution to fixing stupid people is to educate stupid people. Maybe rather than renaming autopilot to something else we can teach people what pilots actually do.
the media is really bad at issuing corrections.
Consider why that is in the context of what I said. No one cares that the paper made a mistake. It is quite consistent. The media is bad at issuing corrections because the newspaper relies on either facts for subgroups or outrage for the general masses.
the news industry tend to do whatever it can to not correct the record
No they don't. The news papers happily issue corrections when asked to and don't tend to fight it much. But not issuing corrections because it doesn't sell papers is not the same as doing whatever they can not to, and most cases that end up in the legal system as a result are purle because the correction offered didn't get the attention the original accusation did.
If anything the media these days tend to go out of their way not to say anything that needs correcting. You could literally have someone suicide on live TV and the media will print that it "was alleged he did so".
Don't waste the time and effort on shit people don't want to read. If people wanted corrections then they would be provided, and that can be seen in the papers focused on subgroups which are far more likely to issue a correction than the normal media. Again because the sub groups typically are interested more in the details.
Victim blame much?
Well yes. Darwin awards is most definitely victim blaming.
The car killed him.
Nope, he killed himself using a car. He had every opportunity along with the knoledge of what would happen right in the specific circumstances to prevent a car from killing him. But he did nothing to do so.
The car didn't kill him anymore than a gun kills a person, a gun with a warning label that when the trigger is pulled a bullet will be discharged passing through flesh and killing you if it goes through your head, ... and yet a person *choses* to shoot himself in the head anyway.
*choice* matters. He had a choice. Not only did the car not kill him, given the circumstances this can barely be considered an accident.
No these patches cause no noticeable change in speed. What you're thinking of is the meltdown patch that requires kernel page table isolation. That causes a 5-20% hit depending on application with nearly all applications that a normal user can expect falling below the 10% mark.
To be clear the is no patch for any of the spec exec bugs that hits 30% penalties in anything other than synthetic benchmarks on that specific worst off case on very specific subset of CPUs.
You'll be fine, not only with this patch but the other ones too.
Does not sound like something a human PR Professional would write.
Sounds like even PR people are getting sick of appeasing the media who hype up shit to no end. At least the TV news used to split up stories about the world going to hell with a story of a fluffy kitten beating cancer or some shit like that. Even that seems to have stopped now.
EVERYTHING sucks. Be outraged 100% of the time, and above all remember that they are ALWAYS out to get you. News at 9.
Tesla blames driver for using the Autopilot in exactly the way you'd expect 90% of Autopilot users to use it.
Using it in an area the driver knows it tried to steer into a divider in the past, has demonstrated to his wife that it steers into the divider in the past to the point where she said she knew exactly her husband was involved when she heard a car steered into a divider, and then ignoring warnings to put your hand on the wheel because the system could potentially steer the car into a divider?
I know a lot of Tesla drivers, but 90% of them are not suicidal Darwin award hopefuls.
This is sorta-kinda-an-almost-but-not-quite cruise control that works ok most of the time but has failure modes involving death and / or dismemberment.
Well when you list the negative features and ignore the positive you could come up with that. Did you post that on your energy wasting home heating desk box, or on your radiation emitting fragile money wasting glass slab which rings during meetings?
Why would you own things like that?
In any other scenario I agree with you, but the single person to blame for the death in this case is the driver.
Not only did the driver know it was buggy, he apparently knew that the car steered towards THAT SPECIFIC DIVIDER, and even attempted to demonstrate it to his wife by her own admission.
If I do something that I know is going to get me killed, in a place that is going to get me killed, and ignore warnings telling me that what I'm doing is about to get me killed then there's two possible explainations for that: attempted suicide, or Darwin award.
Also the parent is correct, you can't mix containers with codecs
That is pedantically true, but no one hears "ogg" during a discussion on open source codecs and thinks the person is talking about anything other than Vorbis. By the way I take issue with your:
there is simply no better lossy audio compression at this point
For two reasons: a) the best form of compression is one that is usable. Support for Opus is borderline non-existant, and FLAC is also relegated to special purpose areas. b) you're playing right into the OP's point. Both these codecs effectively failed to get any kind of reasonable traction.
Matroska (.mkv) is very widely used with all sort of proprietary codecs
Widly used sounds like the only thing you download is fan-subs of Japanese anime. MKV is like FLAC in adoption. It has carved a specific niche and is rare outside of it. Even H.265 is rarely seen in the mkv container. The mp4 container is far more common both in use and in software support. So again as the OP said: Royalty free means shit.
There's a few billion people who still have bandwidth issues streaming a single 4K Netflix video.
There were a few billion people who had bandwidth issues with high quality music back then too. My only point is, that this needs more than open and better to get ahead.
For the record they have this. An industry backed by a couple of major players that is slowly fed up with MPEG-LA's shit is what will push this through, but that's it. Royalty Free codecs are dime a dozend. VP9 also is royalty free and offers gains over H.264, also is pretty much a non-player outside of Youtube.
Yea, I should have said that the media aren't covering or admitting to their errors. They're not really doing it justice in comparison to the glowing praise of the female Steve Jobs that they published years ago.
There's an easy answer to that: no one cares. The media deals with the idiot classes or sub groups. The former don't care about the technicalities at all, the latter are only interested in what their sub group is about (e.g. finance media will only detail the finances of the company, who cares about fraud).
This isn't some wild conspiracy, it's just purely what sells papers.
There's a lot of negative things to be said about Google Maps and Waze, but I can't say I've ever had a problem with accuracy that wasn't a half a second blip that was completely irrelevant to the current navigation: e.g. Maps has problems recognising I merged into a tunnel and then blips back onto another road for a second before correction.
Whoop-de-do.
Nope, I'm serious. There are many countries which have real-time scanning of license plates for a wide variety of things.
e.g. In China every other intersection you go through may have what looks like a camera flash go off. The ones that don't have been switched to IR so it stops distracting drivers. They are tracking in real time the movement of cars by licenseplate through the city and tracking registrations.
e.g. In the UAE they do the same thing. Netherlands too. They are starting in France, and Belgium too. In Australia so far they only track using speed cameras which now do automatic numberplate recognition. Also the tolling system there also works by numberplates, none of this backwards throwing coins into a machine, just cruise on through as fast as you want.
In all of the above places they use this for automatic registration tracking. No more stupid stickers on windscreens / license plates. And no more selective enforcement or the crapshoot of the past where if you get in an accident there was a 1 in 8 chance that in my previous country the driver didn't have insurance or registration.
Some places do it for environmental zones. If you drive into Rotterdam you will be greeted with the digital sign https://nos.nl/data/image/2016... here it will read your your license plate and if it says "WEL" in green then you're allowed to progress, if it says "NIET" in red and you don't make a u-turn on the other end of the bridge you get a fine in the mail shortly after. In France and Germany you still need to go get a sticker glued to your windscreen.
One day I got a letter from the department of motor vehicles. It said that they have noticed me driving daily down one of the highways during peak hour and they wanted to invite me to peak hour reduction scheme. I registered. I got 120EUR deposited into a dummy account every month. Every time my car was logged in either the morning peak or afternoon peak on one of the major highways they deducted 3EUR. At the end of the month they transferred me anything left. The scheme did wonders for traffic.
As for people's trust in their government? The vast majority of the western world doesn't fear their government. They mostly get along in harmony. Government distrust on a national level is something that is almost unique to the USA in the west.