It is one of the really annoying things about bskyb is that often their broadcasts are far too compressed
Yeah I know people who complain that their stations send amazingly high quality feeds to the cable company, but if they tune to it at home it looks like ass because of all the re-compression. Sad.
I dunno. I've heard some pretty terrible sound mixes at live venues. Nothing like using earplugs to bring horribly clipped audio down to a non-painful volume.
My mom, who's a conservatory-trained musician, was able to pick out 256 kbit OGG from WAV 100% of the time (total of 10 tracks), and 320kbit OGG vs. WAV on about half of them.
Unless I'm misinterpreting what you're saying... Getting it right half the time when there are only two options means she did as well as someone flipping a coin, i.e. no better than chance. That's the expected result if she can't hear the difference.
That's why they might want to care, not why I should.
Touché. I guess the only reason it might make you care is that US exports of creative goods bring money into the country, presumably having benefits on taxes and whatnot.
Frankly, I've been of the opinion for the last couple decades that most publishers are no longer employing editors in any meaningful sense. [] I really can't imagine anyone having spent any time proof-reading J. K. Rowling's rather rambling Harry Potter books and coming to the conclusion "this writing is great - no need to tighten any of this up!"
Yeah no kidding. I don't know if you were a trooper through WoT or not, but at some point his editors must have just rubber stamped everything he did. I'm pretty sure there were entire 1000 books there in the middle where people just walked around a bit and complained a lot.
Along those lines, I read a great analysis of RIM a while back that looked at their margins on devices and compared it to Apple's bad period. Great read that supports the revenue != success.
I was responding to a comment on "levels of sales" which is what makes revenue. Nobody mentioned profit?
That said, Apple still has some pretty sweet margins. Their handset margins are almost double that of the sector average, so even a halving their profits wouldn't take them back too far.
IBM fought the cloners tooth and nail, but the fact that they failed in court eventually handed them the market on a platter.
Unfortunately it seems like a modern court would be more likely to find cloning to be a DMCA violation and kill an emerging competitive market at the beginning.
A contract, where one party only has to try their best efforts, with no real hard obligations, while the other must pay in cold, hard cash, on time, every month or else doesn't sound exactly fair to me.
The mail app or OS could run downloaded apps in a sandbox and as a less privileged user. At least that would minimize the damage that could be done, modulo priv-escalation and bugs in the sandboxing code... Might make things a little less bad.
Why not accept PDFs? Every OS can produce them easily, and it's an open ISO standard. Reformatting a resume into plain text is annoying and is probably costing you good candidates.
Back when I was applying for university, the form in Ontario (Canada) asked for a SIN (social insurance number, our equivalent to the SSN) which I declined to provide. It seemingly made no difference to my application, it just meant that when it came to tax form season, I realized why they ask for it.
This seems more like a TLS design flaw than anything else. By default SSL doesn't create perfect forward secrecy, which means that all of our encrypted conversations could be decrypted in the future simply by finding one key. That's ridiculous! If TLS as deployed used a cipher spec with PFS, then even if someone recorded all of our encrypted traffic, knowing these private keys wouldn't be enough to decrypt the sessions. It wouldn't stop the active MITM attack, but it would be an improvement over the current situation.
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It is one of the really annoying things about bskyb is that often their broadcasts are far too compressed
Yeah I know people who complain that their stations send amazingly high quality feeds to the cable company, but if they tune to it at home it looks like ass because of all the re-compression. Sad.
I can only guess sound techs with brutalized ears and concert promoters that keep yelling "louder!"
I dunno. I've heard some pretty terrible sound mixes at live venues. Nothing like using earplugs to bring horribly clipped audio down to a non-painful volume.
My mom, who's a conservatory-trained musician, was able to pick out 256 kbit OGG from WAV 100% of the time (total of 10 tracks), and 320kbit OGG vs. WAV on about half of them.
Unless I'm misinterpreting what you're saying... Getting it right half the time when there are only two options means she did as well as someone flipping a coin, i.e. no better than chance. That's the expected result if she can't hear the difference.
That's why they might want to care, not why I should.
Touché. I guess the only reason it might make you care is that US exports of creative goods bring money into the country, presumably having benefits on taxes and whatnot.
I don't understand why I should care whether or not a foreign country has copyright laws, whether merely on paper or actually in practice.
Because your Hollywood makes bazillions of dollars selling movies internationally and would throw an absolute fit if other countries didn't.
In Firefox 4's full screen, you can mouse to the top and get some chrome back, including tabs. Ctrl-tab still works to cycle through tabs as well.
No kidding. What about Cmd-Down says "execute"?
Frankly, I've been of the opinion for the last couple decades that most publishers are no longer employing editors in any meaningful sense. [] I really can't imagine anyone having spent any time proof-reading J. K. Rowling's rather rambling Harry Potter books and coming to the conclusion "this writing is great - no need to tighten any of this up!"
Yeah no kidding. I don't know if you were a trooper through WoT or not, but at some point his editors must have just rubber stamped everything he did. I'm pretty sure there were entire 1000 books there in the middle where people just walked around a bit and complained a lot.
Why didn't you pick interesting electives, instead of ones that you hated? Seriously, I took a science fiction class for one of mine. It was awesome!
Kind of a dick move, given that cheques have enough info on them for identify theft.
Ah, fair enough.
Along those lines, I read a great analysis of RIM a while back that looked at their margins on devices and compared it to Apple's bad period. Great read that supports the revenue != success.
Revenue != Profit
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I was responding to a comment on "levels of sales" which is what makes revenue. Nobody mentioned profit?
That said, Apple still has some pretty sweet margins. Their handset margins are almost double that of the sector average, so even a halving their profits wouldn't take them back too far.
IBM fought the cloners tooth and nail, but the fact that they failed in court eventually handed them the market on a platter.
Unfortunately it seems like a modern court would be more likely to find cloning to be a DMCA violation and kill an emerging competitive market at the beginning.
Apple does not have to lose 100% of its business to go under, hell it could lose 50% and return to 1990's levels of sales and share price.
Apple had $11billion in revenue in 1995 ($15b in 2009 dollars), and $65 billion in 2010. It'd take more than a halving of business for them to revert.
A contract, where one party only has to try their best efforts, with no real hard obligations, while the other must pay in cold, hard cash, on time, every month or else doesn't sound exactly fair to me.
So you're against pro sports? :)
The mail app or OS could run downloaded apps in a sandbox and as a less privileged user. At least that would minimize the damage that could be done, modulo priv-escalation and bugs in the sandboxing code... Might make things a little less bad.
Why not accept PDFs? Every OS can produce them easily, and it's an open ISO standard. Reformatting a resume into plain text is annoying and is probably costing you good candidates.
Ouch, the curse of having good ears. To me, 112k mp3 sounds terrible but it quickly becomes transparent at higher bitrates.
For me, it's the eyes that are the problem: I'm thankful for the end of CRTs as computer monitors. No more 60hz refresh rates to explode my brain.
Have you ABX-tested 256 kbit AAC against a plain uncompressed rip of a CD?
Back when I was applying for university, the form in Ontario (Canada) asked for a SIN (social insurance number, our equivalent to the SSN) which I declined to provide. It seemingly made no difference to my application, it just meant that when it came to tax form season, I realized why they ask for it.
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Yeah. New rule of thumb: if an MMA ref would have ended the fight, it's police brutality.
This seems more like a TLS design flaw than anything else. By default SSL doesn't create perfect forward secrecy, which means that all of our encrypted conversations could be decrypted in the future simply by finding one key. That's ridiculous! If TLS as deployed used a cipher spec with PFS, then even if someone recorded all of our encrypted traffic, knowing these private keys wouldn't be enough to decrypt the sessions. It wouldn't stop the active MITM attack, but it would be an improvement over the current situation.
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