Wav is not a lossless format.It is limited by in it's dynamic range (bits per sample) and sample rate. Compared to analog or a raw sound source, raw wav/pcm data loses a lot of the sound. FLAC and other lossless codecs produce identical byte-to-byte output when compared to wav/pcm.
Lossless has nothing to do with comparing against analog. All it means is that the data out of a medium or format is the same as data in. With your comparison, nothing is lossless because it has to be run through an ADC to get to digital. An analog chain always has losses at every point in the system.
If you want something that's better than mainstream, you are generally going to be paying higher than mainstream prices. I never listen at 100dB, that's ear-damaging, so I could never hear the noise.
The benefit of Democracy is that it saves bandwidth for the producers given that it uses bittorrent. Also, it offers channels via RSS, such as a particular show that you like, so if something new comes down the RSS feed, Democracy can automatically download it and add it to your media library. Once it puts the video file on your computer, you can reencode it to other formats if you like.
Is it really that bad? Firefox and Thunderbird generally consume 50-75MB for me. Memory is pretty cheap now, so if XUL is what is needed to quickly develop powerful and flexible apps, then I'm all for it.
It doesn't sound like a plan with much of a future. If it's only for suborbital, then that's it, you get suborbital, no shot at orbital.
But that's not my only concern. Because of the immense amount of energy needed to do a good suborbital launch, I am skeptical that it would ever be affordable to anyone but the wealthy. Energy isn't getting cheaper.
You do have a point, but I really don't see what the EBS could have done on 9/11. What message could there have been? The message would have only been relevant if you were close enough to hear the collisions/explosions, and if you could hear them, were you going to run to the closest radio/TV? By the time the incident happened, isn't it too late to send a message anyway? There was no precedent for the events, they were the first hijackings of that type before, so no warning would have really been expected.
It took years for businesses to drop Windows 2000. There may still be many still using it. I really don't think any business is going to upgrade to Vista until their replacement cycle is up. Microsoft can't expect any business to push up their computer replacements because they have a new version of Windows, and I don't think they can expect them to just upgrade their operating systems. The best I can say is maybe the IT departments will purchase copies to test against their software inventory so they can keep tabs on incompatibilities.
Did you try to find a repair shop for the brand? How about buying a "for parts" notebook on eBay? I buy upgrades and parts by eBay pretty often, it's not hard, illegal or very risky, and most of my computers are pre-merger Compaq business computers.
Very often, the "box cutters" have a setting that allows only a tiny corner of the blade to protrude. It's actually a pretty safe way to open a package. I put that in quotes because I've used them a lot, but never to cut boxes, unless these plastic things count.
To me, InvSqrt looks like a reasonable and intuitive function name. I really don't understand your point, I would never assume that it would return the square, that's thinking too hard about it.
I think there is some merit in discussions of dropping the hardware biz. For one, the stakes are a lot higher than just making games. They lose money on the hardware in the hopes they will make up for it in licencing fees, which might take several years, assuming they do make that money back. There's quite a lot of price pressure, so production cost reductions might not mean losing less per unit, they may have to reduce the cost of the console first. It's a business model that I don't envy.
When you have an entire industry where pretty much only one company supplies a critical part, the entire industry is dependent on that one company. It would be nice to get away from the single-supplier issue, much like there are two major suppliers for processors, a half-dozen dozen chipset makers and so on.
My understanding ia that most of the G8 has levies on some sort of digital music recording device or digital media. For the US, it is the Audio Home Recording Act.
Or probably not. They have much lower yield rates because their processes are constantly shrinking, often to double the number transistors in a given area every year and a half. I read there's an adage in the DRAM industry that too high of a yield is bad because it means there's capacity potential not being properly exploited. If they didn't keep pushing much faster and much higher capacity products, I think they could do six sigma.
As others have noted, six-sigma has been a failure in business. You get reduced defect rates, but the cost in getting such a low defect rate is generally so exorbitantly expensive that you are better off recycling the rejects than spending the money to eliminate rejects. There's a similar joke about ISO90001 that you get half the defect rate because it cuts your productivity in half, or practically doubles the cost per part because of the beauracracy involved.
Terrorists should be held under a different set of rules. OK. So what does that mean? So far as I've seen, there's no accountability on this matter. A person can be labelled a terrorist, sent to Gitmo and basically left to rot. From what I can tell, there is no means by which anyone can tell that it is a just imprisonment. The information used to determine this is kept locked away. Heck, I'm upset that Congress gave the White House a blank check on what to call torture and not torture, so they can just rewrite the rules as they see fit without any oversight on that either.
It would look cool, but I don't think that would be very practical for supertankers or large cargo ships. For one, they are often designed to maximize how much cargo they can put through a canal or locks, such as Suez or Panama. This often means a length limit, so unless you can also flex an area that has tanks, this can be an issue, otherwise a tail would reduce the space available for cargo.
I think this is one thing that nature has that's still pretty hard to replicate in artificial devices.
I don't know, HD might be an enticement to stick with TV. For one, over the air HDTV is so much nicer than video I see on the Internet. I use a USB HD tuner stick to record HD broadcasts, and it's very nice.
That's what I thought. I think it's funny that PreacherTom can use a fairly obscure word "eponymous" properly couldn't think of "mobile". If one is going to try to show oneself off as a wordsmith, I'd suggest finding some other way.
One thing that the providers here seem to use often is "Wireless", which describes it just fine, except for the few people that somehow think of "Wireless" as only being "WiFi".
(as opposed to, say, 32 bits on a screen - maybe 700 different frequencies)
How do you get 700 light frequencies in a pixel on a screen? The colors are simulated by just mixing three different frequencies. It might appear simulate more frequencies, but it's just three.
Just to add a comment, the vast expense of drug development is normally due to advertising, rather than research itself (a lot of which is funded by Universities).
I have not seen a more ignorant comment in a long time.
Last I saw, drug ads only account for about 12% of of the expenses.
Also, Universities don't just fund the research on their own, they do it with outside money, sometimes private funds, such as through businesses and philanthropy, sometimes through public funds. For university research with promising results, if they don't already own the rights, the drug companies buy the rights to that research from the group that financed the research and refine it. Drug testing also costs a lot and takes a long time too. Not all all drugs make it, I think in the end, only 10% make it to the approval phase, so there's a lot of research and money spent that doesn't directly pay off.
There are a lot of public misconceptions about drug research, and science in general too. I suggest you at least listen to shows like NPR's Science Friday or CBC's Quirks and Quarks.
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Wav is not a lossless format.It is limited by in it's dynamic range (bits per sample) and sample rate. Compared to analog or a raw sound source, raw wav/pcm data loses a lot of the sound. FLAC and other lossless codecs produce identical byte-to-byte output when compared to wav/pcm.
Lossless has nothing to do with comparing against analog. All it means is that the data out of a medium or format is the same as data in. With your comparison, nothing is lossless because it has to be run through an ADC to get to digital. An analog chain always has losses at every point in the system.
If you want something that's better than mainstream, you are generally going to be paying higher than mainstream prices. I never listen at 100dB, that's ear-damaging, so I could never hear the noise.
The benefit of Democracy is that it saves bandwidth for the producers given that it uses bittorrent. Also, it offers channels via RSS, such as a particular show that you like, so if something new comes down the RSS feed, Democracy can automatically download it and add it to your media library. Once it puts the video file on your computer, you can reencode it to other formats if you like.
Is it really that bad? Firefox and Thunderbird generally consume 50-75MB for me. Memory is pretty cheap now, so if XUL is what is needed to quickly develop powerful and flexible apps, then I'm all for it.
It doesn't sound like a plan with much of a future. If it's only for suborbital, then that's it, you get suborbital, no shot at orbital.
But that's not my only concern. Because of the immense amount of energy needed to do a good suborbital launch, I am skeptical that it would ever be affordable to anyone but the wealthy. Energy isn't getting cheaper.
You do have a point, but I really don't see what the EBS could have done on 9/11. What message could there have been? The message would have only been relevant if you were close enough to hear the collisions/explosions, and if you could hear them, were you going to run to the closest radio/TV? By the time the incident happened, isn't it too late to send a message anyway? There was no precedent for the events, they were the first hijackings of that type before, so no warning would have really been expected.
I certainly wouldn't worry about it. I don't even know what that crank AC was reponding to.
It took years for businesses to drop Windows 2000. There may still be many still using it. I really don't think any business is going to upgrade to Vista until their replacement cycle is up. Microsoft can't expect any business to push up their computer replacements because they have a new version of Windows, and I don't think they can expect them to just upgrade their operating systems. The best I can say is maybe the IT departments will purchase copies to test against their software inventory so they can keep tabs on incompatibilities.
Did you try to find a repair shop for the brand? How about buying a "for parts" notebook on eBay? I buy upgrades and parts by eBay pretty often, it's not hard, illegal or very risky, and most of my computers are pre-merger Compaq business computers.
Very often, the "box cutters" have a setting that allows only a tiny corner of the blade to protrude. It's actually a pretty safe way to open a package. I put that in quotes because I've used them a lot, but never to cut boxes, unless these plastic things count.
To me, InvSqrt looks like a reasonable and intuitive function name. I really don't understand your point, I would never assume that it would return the square, that's thinking too hard about it.
I think there is some merit in discussions of dropping the hardware biz. For one, the stakes are a lot higher than just making games. They lose money on the hardware in the hopes they will make up for it in licencing fees, which might take several years, assuming they do make that money back. There's quite a lot of price pressure, so production cost reductions might not mean losing less per unit, they may have to reduce the cost of the console first. It's a business model that I don't envy.
When you have an entire industry where pretty much only one company supplies a critical part, the entire industry is dependent on that one company. It would be nice to get away from the single-supplier issue, much like there are two major suppliers for processors, a half-dozen dozen chipset makers and so on.
My understanding ia that most of the G8 has levies on some sort of digital music recording device or digital media. For the US, it is the Audio Home Recording Act.
It is a bit hard to obtain in a condensed form, you know, without a plant mixed in? I'd like to see someone make a Polonium bead from tobacco plants.
I'm sure Intel or AMD would love to hire you.
Or probably not. They have much lower yield rates because their processes are constantly shrinking, often to double the number transistors in a given area every year and a half. I read there's an adage in the DRAM industry that too high of a yield is bad because it means there's capacity potential not being properly exploited. If they didn't keep pushing much faster and much higher capacity products, I think they could do six sigma.
As others have noted, six-sigma has been a failure in business. You get reduced defect rates, but the cost in getting such a low defect rate is generally so exorbitantly expensive that you are better off recycling the rejects than spending the money to eliminate rejects. There's a similar joke about ISO90001 that you get half the defect rate because it cuts your productivity in half, or practically doubles the cost per part because of the beauracracy involved.
I can't say that I've tried it, but does Google's calendar feature offer collaboration features?
Terrorists should be held under a different set of rules. OK. So what does that mean? So far as I've seen, there's no accountability on this matter. A person can be labelled a terrorist, sent to Gitmo and basically left to rot. From what I can tell, there is no means by which anyone can tell that it is a just imprisonment. The information used to determine this is kept locked away. Heck, I'm upset that Congress gave the White House a blank check on what to call torture and not torture, so they can just rewrite the rules as they see fit without any oversight on that either.
I wouldn't go for it. Most phones I've tried have awful navigation and overly stiff buttons anyway.
It would look cool, but I don't think that would be very practical for supertankers or large cargo ships. For one, they are often designed to maximize how much cargo they can put through a canal or locks, such as Suez or Panama. This often means a length limit, so unless you can also flex an area that has tanks, this can be an issue, otherwise a tail would reduce the space available for cargo.
I think this is one thing that nature has that's still pretty hard to replicate in artificial devices.
I don't know, HD might be an enticement to stick with TV. For one, over the air HDTV is so much nicer than video I see on the Internet. I use a USB HD tuner stick to record HD broadcasts, and it's very nice.
Sam's Club has HDMI cables for $20 each. Monoprice.com has them for cheaper.
But have they tried rainbows and/or fairie dust?
I think that would be fair game for their proposed penis boat.
That's what I thought. I think it's funny that PreacherTom can use a fairly obscure word "eponymous" properly couldn't think of "mobile". If one is going to try to show oneself off as a wordsmith, I'd suggest finding some other way.
One thing that the providers here seem to use often is "Wireless", which describes it just fine, except for the few people that somehow think of "Wireless" as only being "WiFi".
(as opposed to, say, 32 bits on a screen - maybe 700 different frequencies)
How do you get 700 light frequencies in a pixel on a screen? The colors are simulated by just mixing three different frequencies. It might appear simulate more frequencies, but it's just three.
Just to add a comment, the vast expense of drug development is normally due to advertising, rather than research itself (a lot of which is funded by Universities).
I have not seen a more ignorant comment in a long time.
Last I saw, drug ads only account for about 12% of of the expenses.
Also, Universities don't just fund the research on their own, they do it with outside money, sometimes private funds, such as through businesses and philanthropy, sometimes through public funds. For university research with promising results, if they don't already own the rights, the drug companies buy the rights to that research from the group that financed the research and refine it. Drug testing also costs a lot and takes a long time too. Not all all drugs make it, I think in the end, only 10% make it to the approval phase, so there's a lot of research and money spent that doesn't directly pay off.
There are a lot of public misconceptions about drug research, and science in general too. I suggest you at least listen to shows like NPR's Science Friday or CBC's Quirks and Quarks.