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  1. Re:Just Leave on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Leaving an IT Admin Position? · · Score: 2

    Also known in the computer industry as the hit by Bus factor. Never let someone leave the office
    without having at least one person being able to take over his responsibilities.

  2. Re:Well... on The Internet Blueprint Wants You To Crowdsource Digital Laws · · Score: 1

    Plausible enough.

    The problem I see with the site is that it only promotes counter legislature. How would somebody contribute?

    If it's just about a closed pool of contributors it's nothing better if not even more corruptible than the already
    elected lawmakers.

  3. Re:Nokia have always put good cameras in phones on Nokia Puts 41MPixel Camera In a (Symbian) Phone · · Score: 1

    I never really liked Symbian so I was partially happy when Nokia announced they were ditching it. But from that point on
    I think they have been very reluctant to do so. Nokia doesn't seem too sure about the Windows move after all. Still
    I cannot undestand why they would want to push another phone with the unconventional for smartphoneland Symbian.

  4. Re:Kinect? on Play Angry Birds With a USB Slingshot · · Score: 1

    Yep, Kinect is useless for small measuerments (eg: the amount of stretch in the sling or its pitch).
    Also this implementation you can use in your cubicle while goofing off, while Kinect needs an empty
    hangar in order to operate correctly...

  5. Re:Hey, the pirates can help on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1

    I just hope that trend doesn't bring the """Underground""" music scene down as well.

  6. Re:Hey, the pirates can help on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1

    No, it is superior to CD quality as long as your source is as well. I bought a lot of indie music these past years
    that was studio file to FLAC encoding and the pieces are brilliantly detailed; given you have a good enough
    listening room.

    Of course a lot of people use FLAC to encode their CD libraries (I know, I am one of them) so obviously you won't
    get any better results there, but at least you will end up with a fair copy.

  7. Re:Hey, the pirates can help on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1

    Ohh yes...

    I forgot. Apple doesn't want people to exchange the audio files they own, or even move the to a non iToons machine.

  8. Re:Hey, the pirates can help on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1

    ... a substantively changed version (for example, engineered toward smaller drivers with more bass cutover, increasingly popular these days).

    And this is exactly what is wrong with the idea. The only thing you will achieve with engineering a song towards playback device specs is make it sound even worse on high quality equipment. This creates unneeded fragmentation and file versioning and - as if that wasn't bad enough - makes the low end audio hw of iDevices seem better than real audio equipment, introducing more confusion than anybody could ask for.

    The solution is very simple. Give the device decoder a good enough sample an let the device optimise the output. Of course that would mean that anybody could do it and I'm pretty sure apple hates this idea.

  9. Re:How About Frigging Drive Kit Plus on Siri To Power Mercedes-Benz Car Systems · · Score: 2

    The funny part is:
    Mercedes are planning to ditch their own efforts on voice control - a research that has been
    ongoing since the late 90s and has cost them untold billions - in order to replace it with a
    system that has less localization and (and this is the killer really) that needs to be on-line in
    order to actually process speech.

    I really do tend to like the Germans but they sure messed up on this one.

  10. Re:Co-Locate on Suggestions For Music Hosting? · · Score: 4, Funny

    TrafficUnlimited*

    That star doesn't seem too trustworthy...

  11. Re:Profit & Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Your post should be a +5 by now...

    BUT: No, he didn't lie. He didn't mention the review or the review panel at all. I'm not saying that he is a saint I'm just saying that he just posted the usual office politics that calms masses down.

    "It sucks when things don't go right"

    It does. But who went blindly claiming copyrights?

    "I'm around to answer technical questions about how the pieces fit together "

    Well, he waists our time by writing prologue but doesn't actually explain a thing.

    "We're working on resolving the issue with eeplox's video"

    Again: politic speech comes to mind. Again: who went shoot first and why isn't he punished?

    This guy is just there to waste people's time by appearing helpful. PR faggot in other words.

    My 2c? Make false copyright claims of companies a major human rights offense and shift responsibility to the person who published the claim. In the matter of months no IP behemoth's employee will be pushing those buttons.

  12. Re:Profit & Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure.

    Google wants to play nice with the IP behemoths in order to continue to have things like the VEVO network and film trailer channels which provide an awful lot of views to them.

    Google will also refuse to advertise `youtube video downloaders` (like savetu.be) because they accuse them of copyright infringement; which is a false accusation.

  13. Re:Cool! Re: TreeStyleTab for Firefox on Is Hypertext Literature Dead? · · Score: 1

    Brilliant! Mozilla should mainline this.

  14. Re:Careful... on "Open Source" Drug Development Company Launched · · Score: 1

    I wish I could say you weren't so damn on the money with that...

    Truth is an open platform is prone to encourage all kinds of unfair competition against them from the
    established med companies, should they get traction.

    On another hand, I can understand open sourced research. But on a manufacturing and market
    level? Sounds much more difficult...

  15. Re:Glad they found the error on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    Parakalo :-)

  16. Re:Glad they found the error on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    Showoff..
    Schrödinger was an Austrian so he wouldn't have said "expérience
    de pensée" he would use "Gedanken Experiment". :-P

    As for all the rest; I will leave it at that. Wouldn't want to be a "killjoy"...

  17. Re:Glad they found the error on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    yes... I don't usually work well in the early hours... either way early hours...

  18. Re:Glad they found the error on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    wtf?
    shur -> shure
    sub at sub atomic -> at sub atomic

  19. Re:Glad they found the error on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    After sixty years in enclosement I'm pretty shur the cat will be dead.
    Also saying that sub at sub atomic sizes things become indeterminable is very quite bold.

  20. The cable was Italian! on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    polieceman: How fast did you send the pulse, cable?
    cable: A speed limit Sir, e no faster, no faster; promise!

  21. Re:Glad they found the error on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 2

    nature is deterministic, not science.

  22. Re:Why not both? on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    not to worry javascript is worse:
    (( sarten-x.com.constructor == (new CHTTPException(404)).constructor ) ? panic : relax)()

  23. Re:No improvement over the current setup on UN Pushes Plan To Assume Internet Governance Role · · Score: 1

    Well, it is important because you need someone to say: "Fuck off" when some government agency (any government's or any one at all) come through the doors 'demanding' soandso site to be blocked on (unjudged) charges of kiddie porn.

  24. Re:Why not both? on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 5, Funny

    (speed (in some cases), scalability, and flexibility) and disadvantages (speed (in some cases), lack of consistency, less restriction on bad programming).

    You have a background in Lisp right?

  25. Manufacturing .NET reports that U.S. Food and D... on FDA To Review Inhalable Caffeine · · Score: 0

    So Microsoft is now trying to mess up the food busyness as well?