I didn't say "file" compression, I said "effectively compressed". CDs are 16 bit. They don't (currently) use all 16 of those bits, more like 12 or 13. The effect for the listener is that they don't get to hear the 16 bits of audio range that they might expect. So I guess you'd better get down there and suck my troll dick, while humming the tune to Starky and Hutch.
How would you promote the progress of science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?
United States Constitution, Article 1: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
So I guess the correct response would be to enact legislation:
Prohibiting "work for hire" contracts, to ensure that the exclusive rights are secured for the author. According to the Holy Constitution, all authors should be freelance, not toiling on Massa Mickey's content plantation.
Setting up a body to make subjective value judgements about whether an artwork is "useful" or not, as the Constitution mandates, with an assumption that it is not (otherwise why would the Unquestionable Constitution specify "useful" at all?).
Repeal the Mickey Mouse Protection Act and "limit" the duration of copyright in order to promote "progress", rather than eternal milking of the same work.
I think that about covers it. Any more that I missed?
Dynamic range compression and file size compression are two different things.
And in what way is never using 3 bits out of 16 not "effectively" compressing? If you can find a CD made in the last six months (you know, one that might actually be on sale in a disks-and-mortar shop) that uses the full dynamic range, then we can talk. Until then, it'll just be you and your gold plated unidirectional cables arguing over theory.
I'm sure the people who designed this feature were bright enough to consider how it might be used, and when.
Hello. I work for and with "those people". And no, they're not bright enough. I mean the people who actually make the decisions really, really aren't. They may ask their lawyers whether they're more likely to be sued for not doing it than for doing it, but they won't take you or my best interests into consideration for one second. Really, they won't.
ask anyone who supported these record stores for years
and they'll say "WHAT? SPEAK UP, WHIPPERSNAPPER. DOWN-LORDIE EMM PEE WHAT? Y'ALL FROM THE FUTURE?"
Buying hard copies at retail is a geezer's activity. Once you can store your entire collection on a fingernail-sized iPod clone, and get new tracks within seconds using weekend-daddy's credit card, why on earth would you want to go out and buy a huge bit of plastic to store a copy of the two tracks you want plus eight that you don't in a medium that you'll never listen to?
Physical distribution of CDs is dead in the water. It's an inefficient, unnecessary and expensive holdover from the ancient past. You might as well give away a free buggy whip with each 'album' (another dying concept) to try and boost sales.
Lest you retort with the stale old "There will always be a market for uncompressed music", fie on that. CDs are effectively compressed. Audiophiles already need to get their fix elsewhere, and their sad devotion to their ancient religion demonstrably isn't enough to keep disks-and-mortar stores open.
CDs are dead as a retail proposition. It's time to put down the buggy whip, and move on.
I saw it, I just didn't want to make you feel inadequate by pointing out that your "period" had better be under a year, unless your definition of "valuable" is rather broader than mine.
Yawn. If you go back and read what you wrote, you may notice that you actually advocated increasing calorific intake in order to support the muscle mass that requires it. It's nice the way you phrase it as "mood stabilzation" (sic), but like most addicts, you're really just seeking ways to frame your endorphin addiction as a good thing.
Well, gee whiz, Sparky, I guess your one personal anecdote completely disproves his theory.
I have also experienced the same effect, but unlike you, I can draw a distinction between very extended bouts of exercise that take up almost entire days and leave little time for eating, and the regular light exercise that quacks recommend.
Mmm, this is just a storm in a teacup. The politicians have to pretend to be outraged every so often, but the entire economy is predicated on passing bribes. If they really stopped taking bribes, then their salaries would have to rise sharply in order to support the lifestyles of their families and mistresses, and I don't see South Korean taxpayers being too happy about that either.
$5000 is about right. It's easy to spend, it's not too big to make the recipient nervous about how much is expected, and it's not too small to insult them. Unless they're on an anti-bribery crusade, of course, which I assume is just a political ploy to get into higher office and therefore receive real bribes.
It's all filed under 'hospitality', and accepted as such. You shouldn't assume that auditors follow the same standards globally.
Given that you didn't bother to say what your country is, I'm going to assume that it's the United States of America. Apparently cultural ignorance and arrogance is hard-coded into your genome, as you've just demonstrated.
Can you name one game that has not been hacked or cheats made for it?
I can name you a competitive multiplayer game that has a client/server design that's so robust that cheating has a negligible effect on competitiveness, due to the information hiding, request/react and interactivity model used. That's not quite what you asked, but then your question wasn't particularly relevant to my point either. "Never been done before" is an argument made by defeatists.
Oh FFS. Open "about:blank" repeatedly and watch the memory footprint rise and rise. The issue was never with reporting, but with memory "sure we allocate it and never release it but that's not technically a leak, we just don't know what happened to it" leaks being bottom of every developer's priority list.
The strength of open source is that many people want to contribute. The weakness is that they only contribute what they want to contribute
You HATAH! Firefox doesn't 'consume' that memory, it just allocates it and stops anything else using it. That's totally different, from all valid points of view (excluding users', and what do they know?) and only a paid Microsoft shill would claim otherwise.
It's only impossible if you believe it to be so. Don't make me get Yoda upside your head.
By the way, everything after "data center" actually supports what I just wrote. Latency and responsiveness is an issue; in fact, it's the only issue. And Blizzard make a conscious decision to err on the side of playability, and to trust the client to send state changes. I disagree with that decision, or at least I disagree with their decision to not have server interject a "On no you did-unt" (sassy head shake) and correct the client's position.
Unpossible, you say? OK, here's one way of doing it. The server keeps delta positions for clients. When a client appears to be travelling too fast - which could be a result of a speed hack, or just a bursty network catching up - the server tells it to slow down a bit. If it obeys (i.e. it's a real client), then real players aren't overly burdened; they just get a little slower for a little while while the world state balances itself. No harm, no foul, and everybody is in the same boat. If they're ZOMG HAXXORZING!!1!!! then they'll keep pushing too hard. The server can tell them to slow down more, and eventually trigger a "No you did-unt" which starts making and sending corrections to their positions. That will introduce disjoints in genuine clients, but the thresholds can be tailed to ensure that this rarely happens to real players. Eventually, the server can just say "I don't think so" and either lock them in place for a while, or just kick them straight off the server and flag their account for investigation.
The storage and processing for that isn't massively onerous. Yes, it will cost a little, in storage, CPU and bandwidth. But how much does Blizzard spend on Warden (and its public relations consequences), and on employing GMs to catch hackers post facto?
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I didn't say "file" compression, I said "effectively compressed". CDs are 16 bit. They don't (currently) use all 16 of those bits, more like 12 or 13. The effect for the listener is that they don't get to hear the 16 bits of audio range that they might expect. So I guess you'd better get down there and suck my troll dick, while humming the tune to Starky and Hutch.
You have a monitor to turn on? Pwwwp, noob. I don't even have a keyboard; I'm writing this by shorting a PCB with paperclips.
United States Constitution, Article 1: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
So I guess the correct response would be to enact legislation:
I think that about covers it. Any more that I missed?
Are you Amish allowed to listen to music now? I guess maybe a free buggy whip with every album might actually be an incentive.
And in what way is never using 3 bits out of 16 not "effectively" compressing? If you can find a CD made in the last six months (you know, one that might actually be on sale in a disks-and-mortar shop) that uses the full dynamic range, then we can talk. Until then, it'll just be you and your gold plated unidirectional cables arguing over theory.
Hello. I work for and with "those people". And no, they're not bright enough. I mean the people who actually make the decisions really, really aren't. They may ask their lawyers whether they're more likely to be sued for not doing it than for doing it, but they won't take you or my best interests into consideration for one second. Really, they won't.
and they'll say "WHAT? SPEAK UP, WHIPPERSNAPPER. DOWN-LORDIE EMM PEE WHAT? Y'ALL FROM THE FUTURE?"
Buying hard copies at retail is a geezer's activity. Once you can store your entire collection on a fingernail-sized iPod clone, and get new tracks within seconds using weekend-daddy's credit card, why on earth would you want to go out and buy a huge bit of plastic to store a copy of the two tracks you want plus eight that you don't in a medium that you'll never listen to?
Physical distribution of CDs is dead in the water. It's an inefficient, unnecessary and expensive holdover from the ancient past. You might as well give away a free buggy whip with each 'album' (another dying concept) to try and boost sales.
Lest you retort with the stale old "There will always be a market for uncompressed music", fie on that. CDs are effectively compressed. Audiophiles already need to get their fix elsewhere, and their sad devotion to their ancient religion demonstrably isn't enough to keep disks-and-mortar stores open.
CDs are dead as a retail proposition. It's time to put down the buggy whip, and move on.
As the number of sales increase, the probability of buying a Nazi or Hitler influenced track approaches one?
I saw it, I just didn't want to make you feel inadequate by pointing out that your "period" had better be under a year, unless your definition of "valuable" is rather broader than mine.
And what's more, it's 100% reliable, until it's not. I get your point.
Is that one of those magic boxes that stops the disk from degrading within a couple of years?
I assume that you meant a RAID 1 array, but if you can't get the terminology straight, you may want to hold off with the advice.
If your maiden aunt asked you what a good cheap commuter car would be, you'd recommend a Porche, wouldn't you?
Yawn. If you go back and read what you wrote, you may notice that you actually advocated increasing calorific intake in order to support the muscle mass that requires it. It's nice the way you phrase it as "mood stabilzation" (sic), but like most addicts, you're really just seeking ways to frame your endorphin addiction as a good thing.
Well, gee whiz, Sparky, I guess your one personal anecdote completely disproves his theory.
I have also experienced the same effect, but unlike you, I can draw a distinction between very extended bouts of exercise that take up almost entire days and leave little time for eating, and the regular light exercise that quacks recommend.
Congratulations, you won the Retard Olympics.
Mmm, this is just a storm in a teacup. The politicians have to pretend to be outraged every so often, but the entire economy is predicated on passing bribes. If they really stopped taking bribes, then their salaries would have to rise sharply in order to support the lifestyles of their families and mistresses, and I don't see South Korean taxpayers being too happy about that either.
In Korea, "stupid" is not offering a bribe.
$5000 is about right. It's easy to spend, it's not too big to make the recipient nervous about how much is expected, and it's not too small to insult them. Unless they're on an anti-bribery crusade, of course, which I assume is just a political ploy to get into higher office and therefore receive real bribes.
It's all filed under 'hospitality', and accepted as such. You shouldn't assume that auditors follow the same standards globally.
Given that you didn't bother to say what your country is, I'm going to assume that it's the United States of America. Apparently cultural ignorance and arrogance is hard-coded into your genome, as you've just demonstrated.
I can name you a competitive multiplayer game that has a client/server design that's so robust that cheating has a negligible effect on competitiveness, due to the information hiding, request/react and interactivity model used. That's not quite what you asked, but then your question wasn't particularly relevant to my point either. "Never been done before" is an argument made by defeatists.
Oh FFS. Open "about:blank" repeatedly and watch the memory footprint rise and rise. The issue was never with reporting, but with memory "sure we allocate it and never release it but that's not technically a leak, we just don't know what happened to it" leaks being bottom of every developer's priority list.
The strength of open source is that many people want to contribute. The weakness is that they only contribute what they want to contribute
You HATAH! Firefox doesn't 'consume' that memory, it just allocates it and stops anything else using it. That's totally different, from all valid points of view (excluding users', and what do they know?) and only a paid Microsoft shill would claim otherwise.
Is it that you don't know the answer to the question, or that you don't like the answer?
It's only impossible if you believe it to be so. Don't make me get Yoda upside your head.
By the way, everything after "data center" actually supports what I just wrote. Latency and responsiveness is an issue; in fact, it's the only issue. And Blizzard make a conscious decision to err on the side of playability, and to trust the client to send state changes. I disagree with that decision, or at least I disagree with their decision to not have server interject a "On no you did-unt" (sassy head shake) and correct the client's position.
Unpossible, you say? OK, here's one way of doing it. The server keeps delta positions for clients. When a client appears to be travelling too fast - which could be a result of a speed hack, or just a bursty network catching up - the server tells it to slow down a bit. If it obeys (i.e. it's a real client), then real players aren't overly burdened; they just get a little slower for a little while while the world state balances itself. No harm, no foul, and everybody is in the same boat. If they're ZOMG HAXXORZING!!1!!! then they'll keep pushing too hard. The server can tell them to slow down more, and eventually trigger a "No you did-unt" which starts making and sending corrections to their positions. That will introduce disjoints in genuine clients, but the thresholds can be tailed to ensure that this rarely happens to real players. Eventually, the server can just say "I don't think so" and either lock them in place for a while, or just kick them straight off the server and flag their account for investigation.
The storage and processing for that isn't massively onerous. Yes, it will cost a little, in storage, CPU and bandwidth. But how much does Blizzard spend on Warden (and its public relations consequences), and on employing GMs to catch hackers post facto?