Unless the species originally evolved on Mars when it was still a wet world, and then was ejected by meteorite impact to this world. Even NASA has postulated the possibility.
>>>produce VHS tapes cheaper than the Betamax tapes, and for marginal videos (*cough* porn movies *cough*) that made all of the difference.
Not sure what you're talking about? There was porn on Betamax. The producers put it on both VHS and Beta, just as they made both Bluray and HD-DVD during the mid-2000s.
What is Apple's codec? You mean that AppleLossless format? They don't even sell music in that format.:-( As for MP3 I look forward to the day it gets replaced with AACplusSBR as standard. That codec sounds so much better even in tight lowbit situations.
I can't help noticing you left-out AACplus or MP3pro in your tests, both of which have SBR (spectral band replication) (aka high frequency content).
I don't have much MP3pro experience but the AACplus can sound like CD as low as 32k, FM radio as low as 16k, and AM radio as low as 8k. I have my doubts Opus can do the same (since it lacks the SBR). Most likely you left-out those two codecs on purpose, similar to how WebM left-out comparison to MPEG4-HC, knowing the codec could not beat it.
>>>Note: in the US, you can take pictures of aircraft or historical buildings, but not restricted areas. The point is to prevent surveillance intended to find weaknesses in security that can be exploited, aka "casing the joint". Pretty standard practice in the military.
In the U.S. the courts have ruled again-and-again that people may not be forbidden from recording that which is in public view. ("Per the first amendment citizens have a right to record the activities of their government officials in public areas." and "There is no expectation of privacy when in public view.") It is why places like Area 51 are surrounded by miles and miles of "buffer zone" so nobody can get close enough to see the place.
>>>photography isn't really a fundamental human right
Sunlight is a gift from Nature to all living things. It belongs to everyone, and the government has no authority to ban the People from using that which nature has given freely. Furthermore: Capturing that sunlight with your eye is another fundamental right given by nature.
It matters not that the recording has evolved from using your brain, or an artistic sketch on paper, to capturing photons on a sensitive film. A photographer has the same right to capture sunlight as the artist or tourist did in the 1800s.
>>>Yup, sure, nobody ever called anything after an animal before Apple released Mac OS X.
Well let me think. There was GEOS 1.0, 1.1, and then 2.0 Atari TOS 1.0 and 2.0 (and possibly a 3.0?). Commodore Workbench 1.0, 1.1., 1.2, 2.0, and 3.0. Microsoft Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, and 95/98. OS/2 and OS/2 Warp. Also System 7/8/9 in the 90s. No I can't say that I recall any major manufacturers using animal names prior OS X. Maybe in the world of linux, but I'm not familiar with it (being a linux newb).
This isn't about actual damages which would be higher than $24. (30 songs times 1000 people downloaded them, and 100 people who would have bought the song if it were not free == $3000 lost sales.) This is about setting an example to scare teenagers from downloading. And it's working.
>>>And when it doesn't work in their favor, they find ways to deregulate or subsidize which ultimately works very, very well for them later.
You mean the politicians find ways to REGULATE to give themselves favorable market and/or make it more difficult for the competition. For example: A requirement that all sellers (even kids with lemonade stands) must have a $10,000 license. The existing large corporation can afford it, but not brand new businesses. So the new business owner just quits before he even starts.
Yeah Apple is the ultimate source of these animal names. Linux decided somewhere around 2006 to copy the idea (just like they copy everything else..... now they're trying to copy Windows Tablet-looking OS). I suppose Apple and Steve thought calling the OS an animal name would be "cute" to go along with their cute orange and pink iMacs.
>>>Amazon is taking a loss on the ebook sell to encourage sales of the Kindle
That's ridiculous. Amazon already takes a loss on the kindle, on the presumption of making profit on the ebooks. They wouldn't take a loss twice. That would be like if Nintendo sold their Wii at a loss AND sold their games at a loss too..... thus making no money and eventually going bankrupt.
The smalltime bookseller is as obsolete as the smalltime shoemaker, tinker, or tailor. Their time has past..... they just haven't realized it yet but electronic distribution of books will be the final nail.
This story is hardly news. "A megacorp acts like an asshat and reveals personal data online via photo watermarking." I've come to expect ALL megacorps act like asshats nowadays. It's a challenge to find one that doesn't.
Yeah but it sounds like he has TOO MANY graphing calculators. Rather than leave them around to grow old & obsolete, I would save one for a "loaner" in class, and sell the rest on amazon or ebay. Then dump the money into the student council treasury so it can benefit the students. (Alternatively if I'm the type of teacher who spends my Own money to buy school supplies, I'd designate the money for that purpose.)
>>>I provided the link, you may debate the veracity of the source, but whether or not you believe he said it, a number of people do
A number of people also believe vaccines cause autism, that the government is seeding the clouds with poison, and the economy is on the brink of another 2008-style crash. Doesn't make any of these 4 things true.
>>>>> I guess I was just all supposed to pretend none of this was happening
Well it'd certainly be the polite thing to do (as long as no one was being physically harmed). Not that I'd expect you to understand anything about being polite.
It's a PUBLIC parking lot. If I hear people yelling at one another, of course I'm going to look to see what the hell is going on. (And you would too.) The guy crossed the line when he came marching up the steps and pounding on my door (thus putting me in fear). But then I guesd you think th't sjust "a-okay" huh? Stupikd erhr fujckign peic eof shit. Burn in hell.
>>>The only benefit for the employee I see is if the candidate is going to have to make a long-distance move to take the job; moving (esp. from out-of-state) incurs significant costs, which can take a while to earn back in paychecks.
Don't companies give moving expenses anymore? I'd do it. I'd get the free room for a week, free food (I'd buy dry good that I can carry home), and money for the miles I drove from Whereever downto Florida (~$1000).
>>>And then you get accused of starting an "edit war", and punish with a week or two of "time out".
False. And you should be modded -1 Wrong not +5 insightful. You only get a week timeoff if you violate the 3RR..... three reverts on a single page. You won't get a timeoff for doing 1 revert.
>>>The Wikimedia Foundation is a common carrier, essentially an internet service provider. They aren't liable for the libel or defamation because they didn't write the information, as a policy they don't even patrol or perform editorial control over the content, and thus Wikipedia is a public forum.
They aren't liable IF THEY TAKEDOWN THE INFRINGING CONTENT. But if they refuse, as in the case of "Beck raped a girl in college" example, or the book author defamation, then they lose their immunity and can be sued directly by the citizen.
>>>It's on the lock screen, which means that like the eInk model, your battery life will be crippled because these ads will be displayed and cycled when in theory your device should be idle
You're a stupid fuck. That's NOT how the eink kindles work at all. My kindle has been displaying the same ad since Friday. It is NOT cycling. It IS sitting idle and NOT burning-up the battery. Stupid stupid fuck.
BTW kindles come with tons of free books as well, which basically pays for your initial outlay. I've downloaded hundreds of classics, and also a few just-released books that were priced at $0.00. And also magazine samplers for free.
>>>>>I wonder why ads bother people so much. >> >>Ads lower the signal-to-noise ratio by saturating the environment with irrelevant misinformation.
Yeah but you can tune-out the ads. With TV when an ad comes-on, I redirect my attention to the web and watch youtube (or if it's taped: fastforward past the ad). With the web you can ignore the pictures at the top or side of the screen. Right now there's an ad on/. and I have no idea what it's about. And on Kindle the ads are merely screen savers. They do not intrude into whatever book you might be reading.
Seriously: You people make a big deal about nothing.
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>>>Nature is not a sentient being
Didn't say it was. But nevertheless nature has given us many things. Such as our bodies. And sunlight.
I don't see AAC*plus* on that chart. I just see straight AAC which is not much better than MP3.
The /. groupthink appears to be that hiring high school students (to help them fulfill their graduation requirements) is a bad thing.
Unless the species originally evolved on Mars when it was still a wet world, and then was ejected by meteorite impact to this world. Even NASA has postulated the possibility.
>>>produce VHS tapes cheaper than the Betamax tapes, and for marginal videos (*cough* porn movies *cough*) that made all of the difference.
Not sure what you're talking about? There was porn on Betamax. The producers put it on both VHS and Beta, just as they made both Bluray and HD-DVD during the mid-2000s.
>>>Ogg? 5 devices.
>>>Apple's codec? 5 devices.
What is Apple's codec? You mean that AppleLossless format? They don't even sell music in that format. :-( As for MP3 I look forward to the day it gets replaced with AACplusSBR as standard. That codec sounds so much better even in tight lowbit situations.
I can't help noticing you left-out AACplus or MP3pro in your tests, both of which have SBR (spectral band replication) (aka high frequency content).
I don't have much MP3pro experience but the AACplus can sound like CD as low as 32k, FM radio as low as 16k, and AM radio as low as 8k. I have my doubts Opus can do the same (since it lacks the SBR). Most likely you left-out those two codecs on purpose, similar to how WebM left-out comparison to MPEG4-HC, knowing the codec could not beat it.
>>>Note: in the US, you can take pictures of aircraft or historical buildings, but not restricted areas. The point is to prevent surveillance intended to find weaknesses in security that can be exploited, aka "casing the joint". Pretty standard practice in the military.
In the U.S. the courts have ruled again-and-again that people may not be forbidden from recording that which is in public view. ("Per the first amendment citizens have a right to record the activities of their government officials in public areas." and "There is no expectation of privacy when in public view.") It is why places like Area 51 are surrounded by miles and miles of "buffer zone" so nobody can get close enough to see the place.
>>>photography isn't really a fundamental human right
Sunlight is a gift from Nature to all living things. It belongs to everyone, and the government has no authority to ban the People from using that which nature has given freely. Furthermore: Capturing that sunlight with your eye is another fundamental right given by nature.
It matters not that the recording has evolved from using your brain, or an artistic sketch on paper, to capturing photons on a sensitive film. A photographer has the same right to capture sunlight as the artist or tourist did in the 1800s.
>>>Yup, sure, nobody ever called anything after an animal before Apple released Mac OS X.
Well let me think. There was GEOS 1.0, 1.1, and then 2.0 Atari TOS 1.0 and 2.0 (and possibly a 3.0?). Commodore Workbench 1.0, 1.1., 1.2, 2.0, and 3.0. Microsoft Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, and 95/98. OS/2 and OS/2 Warp. Also System 7/8/9 in the 90s. No I can't say that I recall any major manufacturers using animal names prior OS X. Maybe in the world of linux, but I'm not familiar with it (being a linux newb).
Oh okay. I am only familiar with Ubuntu which started using names in 2005 or 6. Thanks for the correction.
This isn't about actual damages which would be higher than $24. (30 songs times 1000 people downloaded them, and 100 people who would have bought the song if it were not free == $3000 lost sales.) This is about setting an example to scare teenagers from downloading. And it's working.
>>>And when it doesn't work in their favor, they find ways to deregulate or subsidize which ultimately works very, very well for them later.
You mean the politicians find ways to REGULATE to give themselves favorable market and/or make it more difficult for the competition. For example: A requirement that all sellers (even kids with lemonade stands) must have a $10,000 license. The existing large corporation can afford it, but not brand new businesses. So the new business owner just quits before he even starts.
Yeah Apple is the ultimate source of these animal names. Linux decided somewhere around 2006 to copy the idea (just like they copy everything else..... now they're trying to copy Windows Tablet-looking OS). I suppose Apple and Steve thought calling the OS an animal name would be "cute" to go along with their cute orange and pink iMacs.
>>>Amazon is taking a loss on the ebook sell to encourage sales of the Kindle
That's ridiculous. Amazon already takes a loss on the kindle, on the presumption of making profit on the ebooks. They wouldn't take a loss twice. That would be like if Nintendo sold their Wii at a loss AND sold their games at a loss too..... thus making no money and eventually going bankrupt.
The smalltime bookseller is as obsolete as the smalltime shoemaker, tinker, or tailor. Their time has past..... they just haven't realized it yet but electronic distribution of books will be the final nail.
This story is hardly news. "A megacorp acts like an asshat and reveals personal data online via photo watermarking." I've come to expect ALL megacorps act like asshats nowadays. It's a challenge to find one that doesn't.
Yeah but it sounds like he has TOO MANY graphing calculators. Rather than leave them around to grow old & obsolete, I would save one for a "loaner" in class, and sell the rest on amazon or ebay. Then dump the money into the student council treasury so it can benefit the students. (Alternatively if I'm the type of teacher who spends my Own money to buy school supplies, I'd designate the money for that purpose.)
>>>I provided the link, you may debate the veracity of the source, but whether or not you believe he said it, a number of people do
A number of people also believe vaccines cause autism, that the government is seeding the clouds with poison, and the economy is on the brink of another 2008-style crash. Doesn't make any of these 4 things true.
>>>>>
I guess I was just all supposed to pretend none of this was happening
Well it'd certainly be the polite thing to do (as long as no one was being physically harmed). Not that I'd expect you to understand anything about being polite.
It's a PUBLIC parking lot. If I hear people yelling at one another, of course I'm going to look to see what the hell is going on. (And you would too.) The guy crossed the line when he came marching up the steps and pounding on my door (thus putting me in fear). But then I guesd you think th't sjust "a-okay" huh? Stupikd erhr fujckign peic eof shit. Burn in hell.
>>>The only benefit for the employee I see is if the candidate is going to have to make a long-distance move to take the job; moving (esp. from out-of-state) incurs significant costs, which can take a while to earn back in paychecks.
Don't companies give moving expenses anymore?
I'd do it. I'd get the free room for a week, free food (I'd buy dry good that I can carry home), and money for the miles I drove from Whereever downto Florida (~$1000).
>>>And then you get accused of starting an "edit war", and punish with a week or two of "time out".
False.
And you should be modded -1 Wrong not +5 insightful. You only get a week timeoff if you violate the 3RR..... three reverts on a single page. You won't get a timeoff for doing 1 revert.
>>>The Wikimedia Foundation is a common carrier, essentially an internet service provider. They aren't liable for the libel or defamation because they didn't write the information, as a policy they don't even patrol or perform editorial control over the content, and thus Wikipedia is a public forum.
They aren't liable IF THEY TAKEDOWN THE INFRINGING CONTENT. But if they refuse, as in the case of "Beck raped a girl in college" example, or the book author defamation, then they lose their immunity and can be sued directly by the citizen.
>>>It's on the lock screen, which means that like the eInk model, your battery life will be crippled because these ads will be displayed and cycled when in theory your device should be idle
You're a stupid fuck.
That's NOT how the eink kindles work at all. My kindle has been displaying the same ad since Friday. It is NOT cycling. It IS sitting idle and NOT burning-up the battery.
Stupid stupid fuck.
BTW kindles come with tons of free books as well, which basically pays for your initial outlay. I've downloaded hundreds of classics, and also a few just-released books that were priced at $0.00. And also magazine samplers for free.
>>>>>I wonder why ads bother people so much.
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>>Ads lower the signal-to-noise ratio by saturating the environment with irrelevant misinformation.
Yeah but you can tune-out the ads. With TV when an ad comes-on, I redirect my attention to the web and watch youtube (or if it's taped: fastforward past the ad). With the web you can ignore the pictures at the top or side of the screen. Right now there's an ad on /. and I have no idea what it's about. And on Kindle the ads are merely screen savers. They do not intrude into whatever book you might be reading.
Seriously: You people make a big deal about nothing.