Agree. Well, I would like some of them smaller in area, so they fit in a shirt pocket without falling out, but thicker would be no problem, and I'd welcome the battery life!
The Xperia Z1 Compact works pretty well in that it's small and thick with a flat back so it can actually lie flat on a table unlike its successor.
That leads to a weird feeling - what if I'm hearing something like Bohemian Rhapsody in a way that is very different to someone who can pick out all the different sounds that I cannot?
We probably all hear music slightly different. I know that it has changed over the years for me - if I listen to music now that I listened to in my youth, I discover different things than I did then.
One pop music song from my early teens has a quite noticeable master tape stretch which I never heard when I was young, but now it's really grating to hear the slight dip in pitch for every revolution, getting less as the song progresses. That I didn't hear it when young wasn't because it wasn't there, but because pitch wasn't really what I listened for.
As for compression artifacts, what I hear the difference the most on are whisks and high hats. When bad, it sounds like someone is slapping a bag full of crushed glass. Another is the high pitched "walking treble" in Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, which psychoacoustic compression tends to filter away, thinking it unimportant compared to the main sounds. But it sounds really odd when it fades in and out, once you are familiar with the tune as it is uncompressed.
I also don't understand the 'poor quality' sound comments - I had my annual physical a few months ago which includes a hearing test. Absolutely no issues with my hearing whatsoever.
Hearing tests don't measure your ability to discern harmonies or minor sounds lower in volume than the main sound. You may have 20/20 vision in a test and still be unable to distinguish near colors, or see well at night.
Yeah, the lack of a headphone jack probably annoys audiophiles, but if you're really that picky about your audio quality, you're probably using a standalone media player.
No need for that. USB-OTG to a DAC/headphone amp. And wired headphones retrofitted with a balanced plug.
Wireless is useful for when working out, and you don't want to risk snagging any wires. But it sounds like shit, unless your phone and receiver both support AptX-HD (ok) or LDAC (better). Especially AAC, which Apple uses, is max 250 kbps, which is less than most MP3s these days, and unless your file was AAC encoded to start with, full of recompression artifacts. Just don't bother for anything more complex than audio books or third millennium noise. There are AM radio broadcasts with better quality...
That is a stupid question. "What is right" is a good one, and people can judge for themselves, without you telling them.
NOTICED YOU & swillden LIKE DOWNMOD HIDING YOUR FAILS vs. ME TOO
No, that is your paranoia talking. Really, I have only one slashdot account, and cannot downmod or upmod anyone where I post. And no interest in doing so. Others upmod and downmod depending on what they read, and if what they read is crazy talk, chances are probably higher it will be modded down. Really, no one is out to get you. You're not that important. Some seem to like to jerk your chain and see you go off on a tangent, for amusement. But no one really cares enough about YOU to go after you.
And when you say people are hiding or running, what really happens is that people roll their eyes and move on, not wasting more time. Again, you're not that important. What's written is written, and people can judge for themselves. People don't lose anything by simply moving on.
Which I am doing right now. Call it running away or you smashing me or whatever you like - I don't really care, and I have better things to do than worry about you.
what he said "most linux distros now default DNS as default resolver"
What I said was not what you claim I said. Go back and check it. There's a big difference between many and most.
The rationale is that Linux installations are often used in corporate contexts, where there may both be dynamic host name resolution, split horizons, wildcard processing and internal security blocking or monitoring access. Administrators often do not want the individual hosts to override what's in the corporate name server, but do want to be able to add entries for what the name server returns no results for.
My post was attempting to be helpful, pointing out that if the host uses dns before files, a change is needed for your host list to have any effect. Note the if. This isn't saying that hosts entries doesn't work - it just points out a configuration change that may have to be made in some circumstances. Testing for that at installation time and throwing up a warning should be easy, and won't do any harm.
I can't speak for any of the upmodders, but would like to venture a guess that it's due to an attempt at being helpful and friendly, using reasonable articulation instead of coming across as a lunatic.
I used to feel sorry for you, apk. I really did. Your universe clearly only partially overlaps the one the rest of us live in, which cannot make life easy. But the stalking behavior, following people to attack them is just not excusable.
for only 100K (they are only going to pay 1 person, not *every* person that does it)
It's even worse. They are going to offer just one person a chance to win up to $100,000. First, you have to "win" a competition to become that one by sending a tweet and instagram outlining how that year would be. They will pick the "best" from all the entries (but they still retain the right to refuse you, should you be less than ideal for marketing purposes).
Good thing vi works just fine for single line editing.
That said, no scrolling doesn't really preclude multi-line displays. I remember consoles that operated in page mode, blanking and starting at the top when a page was full.
It's a science fiction device that acts with at least rudimentary intelligence as it facilitates your verbal communication.
A smartphone, on the other hand, is a device for extracting the maximum amount of money from people looking at pictures of each others' cats and dinners, and broadcasting ill-written but thankfully short text messages.
Newegg isn't what it was. After they went from private to public, they've gone downhill as far as customer experience and service is concerned. They're now as much a store front for other vendors as they are for themselves, and mislabeled and miscategorized products.
Also keep in mind that the Concorde was still a plane, without passengers having to wait for launch control or go through free-fall training. The actual travel time isn't just the air time, and i can't see it go down to Concorde times for Virgin Galactic any time soon.
The firm's SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship reached a height of 82.7km, beyond the altitude at which space is said to begin.
"Is said to" depends on who says it. The mesosphere extends to around 85 km. The FAI considers anything below 100 km (the Karman line) to be aeronautics, not astronautics.
You might not be aware that the main meaning of savant is not savant syndrome (previously "idiot savant"), but someone who is an accomplished scholar or learned person. Einstein was definitely savant.
1 botnet used IP address ONLY (unusual as ICANN sinkholes those fast & I've seen an 'uptick' in it lately - perhaps hosts IS making a 'dent' in 'badguys': For that - you need a firewall block rule OR wait out ICANN).
No, you can easily block individual addresses through the routing table. ip route add prohibit N.N.N.N This works with networks too, like: ip route add prohibit 185.224.136.0/23
If you have all of the nasties in a file, you can do something like this at startup, in an rc.local file or similar: xargs -r -n1 </etc/ipblocklist ip route add prohibit
Also, while I have you here, many modern distros default to prefer DNS over/etc/hosts and only use/etc/hosts as a fallback, in which case your/etc/hosts list will not have any effect unless/etc/nsswitch.conf is modified.
Example line in/etc/nsswitch.conf that will not work: hosts: dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files Example line in/etc/nsswitch.conf that will work: hosts: files dns
You're one of those idiots who thinks Alaska spends half of the year in darkness, aren't you?
You're one of the idiots who think that it's feasible to drive solar panels whenever there's daylight, no matter how low the sun is in the sky, aren't you?
When you agree with it, it's a good thing for one state to dictate to the rest of the nation such as how California required DVD players to use less than a certain amount of power which forced it on the whole nation.
Somehow, I don't think requiring solar panels on all houses will be such a great benefit for Alaska.
Add to that I have never seen an input field allow for that, in the case of IPv4
People who design input fields are often idiots. Most email address fields, for example, will reject many legal and working e-mail addresses, because the designers never consulted the actual RFCs. To say nothing about names and addresses. (My "last name" is two words, no hyphen. And I used to live at an address that had no street.)
But using x, x.y and x.y.z forms for IP addresses really works. Try it in a web browser - if you have a local web server, http://127.1/ will work, as it should, and so will http://0/
Of course if a million people charge the ER demanding an ECG because of a false positive, we're going to have a deadly problem.
Or the opposite - they choose to not go see health services because the watch didn't find anything wrong, and then keel over dead a few weeks later due to a condition a cardiologist would have found.
That's the problem - if it's only to be used when you suspect a problem, why use it at all instead of seeing a doctor? And if it's not instead, what good does it do?
The new function is available when translating words from English into French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish and Spanish.
So four Romance languages with only two genders, plus Turkish which doesn't have a grammatical gender. No Germanic languages, where it would arguably be far more useful due to multiple genders and gender pronouns.
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Agree. Well, I would like some of them smaller in area, so they fit in a shirt pocket without falling out, but thicker would be no problem, and I'd welcome the battery life!
The Xperia Z1 Compact works pretty well in that it's small and thick with a flat back so it can actually lie flat on a table unlike its successor.
That leads to a weird feeling - what if I'm hearing something like Bohemian Rhapsody in a way that is very different to someone who can pick out all the different sounds that I cannot?
We probably all hear music slightly different. I know that it has changed over the years for me - if I listen to music now that I listened to in my youth, I discover different things than I did then.
One pop music song from my early teens has a quite noticeable master tape stretch which I never heard when I was young, but now it's really grating to hear the slight dip in pitch for every revolution, getting less as the song progresses. That I didn't hear it when young wasn't because it wasn't there, but because pitch wasn't really what I listened for.
As for compression artifacts, what I hear the difference the most on are whisks and high hats. When bad, it sounds like someone is slapping a bag full of crushed glass. Another is the high pitched "walking treble" in Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, which psychoacoustic compression tends to filter away, thinking it unimportant compared to the main sounds. But it sounds really odd when it fades in and out, once you are familiar with the tune as it is uncompressed.
And an extra 1 or 2mm of Lithium doesn't weigh much, either.
The Lithium in Li-Ion batteries is just a tiny part of the overall mass; the cobalt, oxygen, carbon and electrolyte is what makes up the most of it.
I also don't understand the 'poor quality' sound comments - I had my annual physical a few months ago which includes a hearing test. Absolutely no issues with my hearing whatsoever.
Hearing tests don't measure your ability to discern harmonies or minor sounds lower in volume than the main sound.
You may have 20/20 vision in a test and still be unable to distinguish near colors, or see well at night.
Yeah, the lack of a headphone jack probably annoys audiophiles, but if you're really that picky about your audio quality, you're probably using a standalone media player.
No need for that. USB-OTG to a DAC/headphone amp. And wired headphones retrofitted with a balanced plug.
Wireless is useful for when working out, and you don't want to risk snagging any wires. But it sounds like shit, unless your phone and receiver both support AptX-HD (ok) or LDAC (better). Especially AAC, which Apple uses, is max 250 kbps, which is less than most MP3s these days, and unless your file was AAC encoded to start with, full of recompression artifacts. Just don't bother for anything more complex than audio books or third millennium noise. There are AM radio broadcasts with better quality...
Who's right here,
That is a stupid question. "What is right" is a good one, and people can judge for themselves, without you telling them.
NOTICED YOU & swillden LIKE DOWNMOD HIDING YOUR FAILS vs. ME TOO
No, that is your paranoia talking. Really, I have only one slashdot account, and cannot downmod or upmod anyone where I post. And no interest in doing so.
Others upmod and downmod depending on what they read, and if what they read is crazy talk, chances are probably higher it will be modded down.
Really, no one is out to get you. You're not that important.
Some seem to like to jerk your chain and see you go off on a tangent, for amusement. But no one really cares enough about YOU to go after you.
And when you say people are hiding or running, what really happens is that people roll their eyes and move on, not wasting more time. Again, you're not that important.
What's written is written, and people can judge for themselves. People don't lose anything by simply moving on.
Which I am doing right now. Call it running away or you smashing me or whatever you like - I don't really care, and I have better things to do than worry about you.
what he said "most linux distros now default DNS as default resolver"
What I said was not what you claim I said. Go back and check it.
There's a big difference between many and most.
The rationale is that Linux installations are often used in corporate contexts, where there may both be dynamic host name resolution, split horizons, wildcard processing and internal security blocking or monitoring access. Administrators often do not want the individual hosts to override what's in the corporate name server, but do want to be able to add entries for what the name server returns no results for.
My post was attempting to be helpful, pointing out that if the host uses dns before files, a change is needed for your host list to have any effect. Note the if. This isn't saying that hosts entries doesn't work - it just points out a configuration change that may have to be made in some circumstances. Testing for that at installation time and throwing up a warning should be easy, and won't do any harm.
See subject: #1 = how you got a +5
I can't speak for any of the upmodders, but would like to venture a guess that it's due to an attempt at being helpful and friendly, using reasonable articulation instead of coming across as a lunatic.
I used to feel sorry for you, apk. I really did. Your universe clearly only partially overlaps the one the rest of us live in, which cannot make life easy. But the stalking behavior, following people to attack them is just not excusable.
for only 100K (they are only going to pay 1 person, not *every* person that does it)
It's even worse. They are going to offer just one person a chance to win up to $100,000.
First, you have to "win" a competition to become that one by sending a tweet and instagram outlining how that year would be. They will pick the "best" from all the entries (but they still retain the right to refuse you, should you be less than ideal for marketing purposes).
So nothing with a multi-line display?
Good thing vi works just fine for single line editing.
That said, no scrolling doesn't really preclude multi-line displays. I remember consoles that operated in page mode, blanking and starting at the top when a page was full.
What is the classification of a smart phone?
It's a science fiction device that acts with at least rudimentary intelligence as it facilitates your verbal communication.
A smartphone, on the other hand, is a device for extracting the maximum amount of money from people looking at pictures of each others' cats and dinners, and broadcasting ill-written but thankfully short text messages.
Call me crazy, but for $100,000, I'd drink tea for a year.
Hi, crazy. The question is would you drink only Vitaminwater for a year?
I think that would me much harder, and quite possibly less healthy too.
Planes must be armored against a 5 kilogram drone impact at landing and takeoff speeds.
They are. They are hardened against birds, which they hit quite a bit more frequently than drones. Some can be quite a bit larger than 5 kg.
Newegg isn't what it was. After they went from private to public, they've gone downhill as far as customer experience and service is concerned. They're now as much a store front for other vendors as they are for themselves, and mislabeled and miscategorized products.
Indeed. The US likes to hand out "astronaut" medals and ribbons like they were Special Olympics medals.
Also keep in mind that the Concorde was still a plane, without passengers having to wait for launch control or go through free-fall training. The actual travel time isn't just the air time, and i can't see it go down to Concorde times for Virgin Galactic any time soon.
The firm's SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship reached a height of 82.7km, beyond the altitude at which space is said to begin.
"Is said to" depends on who says it. The mesosphere extends to around 85 km.
The FAI considers anything below 100 km (the Karman line) to be aeronautics, not astronautics.
You might not be aware that the main meaning of savant is not savant syndrome (previously "idiot savant"), but someone who is an accomplished scholar or learned person. Einstein was definitely savant.
Whenever you see the words "up to", substitute "less than", which means the same, but conveys the truth better.
I want to know what the worst case numbers are, not the best case. Because worst case is what will be what causes grief, not best case.
1 botnet used IP address ONLY (unusual as ICANN sinkholes those fast & I've seen an 'uptick' in it lately - perhaps hosts IS making a 'dent' in 'badguys': For that - you need a firewall block rule OR wait out ICANN).
No, you can easily block individual addresses through the routing table.
ip route add prohibit N.N.N.N
This works with networks too, like:
ip route add prohibit 185.224.136.0/23
If you have all of the nasties in a file, you can do something like this at startup, in an rc.local file or similar:
xargs -r -n1 </etc/ipblocklist ip route add prohibit
Also, while I have you here, many modern distros default to prefer DNS over /etc/hosts and only use /etc/hosts as a fallback, in which case your /etc/hosts list will not have any effect unless /etc/nsswitch.conf is modified.
Example line in /etc/nsswitch.conf that will not work: /etc/nsswitch.conf that will work:
hosts: dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files
Example line in
hosts: files dns
You're one of those idiots who thinks Alaska spends half of the year in darkness, aren't you?
You're one of the idiots who think that it's feasible to drive solar panels whenever there's daylight, no matter how low the sun is in the sky, aren't you?
When you agree with it, it's a good thing for one state to dictate to the rest of the nation such as how California required DVD players to use less than a certain amount of power which forced it on the whole nation.
Somehow, I don't think requiring solar panels on all houses will be such a great benefit for Alaska.
Add to that I have never seen an input field allow for that, in the case of IPv4
People who design input fields are often idiots.
Most email address fields, for example, will reject many legal and working e-mail addresses, because the designers never consulted the actual RFCs.
To say nothing about names and addresses. (My "last name" is two words, no hyphen. And I used to live at an address that had no street.)
But using x, x.y and x.y.z forms for IP addresses really works. Try it in a web browser - if you have a local web server, http://127.1/ will work, as it should, and so will http://0/
Of course if a million people charge the ER demanding an ECG because of a false positive, we're going to have a deadly problem.
Or the opposite - they choose to not go see health services because the watch didn't find anything wrong, and then keel over dead a few weeks later due to a condition a cardiologist would have found.
That's the problem - if it's only to be used when you suspect a problem, why use it at all instead of seeing a doctor? And if it's not instead, what good does it do?
The new function is available when translating words from English into French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish and Spanish.
So four Romance languages with only two genders, plus Turkish which doesn't have a grammatical gender.
No Germanic languages, where it would arguably be far more useful due to multiple genders and gender pronouns.