FLAC is certainly not as popular as mp3, but that's hardly a fair comparison. It is, by far, the most popular lossless audio codec.
Sorry, at this point, I must point out that wav would be the "most popular" lossless audio codec.
A simple search on any torrent site will show that.
Sorry, that only proves that it's the most popular amongst geeks who download from torrent sites.
Talk to average users, and ask them "what is a flac file?", and "what is a wav file?", then ask them "which one would you use to record audio?". 99.999% would say "wav".
We're talking about private entities cutting off users of their services, not about the government doing so.
So if the government tells an ISP to cut someone off (by passing one of those, you know, law thingies), and the ISP does it (because it's the law), then you're claiming that it's not really the government doing it?
SCO had the lead in Unix on x86 hardware and apparently were used widely in certain sectors.
No, they most certainly did not.
Santa Cruz Operation had the lead in Unix on x86 hardware.
"The SCO Group", which is the company we're talking about, was a failed Linux vendor who called itself "SCO" after they decided to file baseless lawsuits.
Toner is either carbon based, or far more commonly a polymer. A fine powder of plastic if you will. Take one giant slab of coloured plastic, grind it up in to a very fine powder, add some creative marketing and an astronomical price tag.
Oh come on. Carbon, I would believe (so would you if you'd ever had an engine apart) but plastic??!?!
Plastic and carbon are completely different things! Carbon is black and hard, and plastic is soft and shiny. Sheesh, I thought/. was supposed to be full of smart people!
Next thing you're gonna start talking nonsense about bacon and pork being from the same animal!
Establish a separate enterprise fund for communications service and shall use this fund to separately account for revenues, expenses, property, and source of investment dollars associated with the provision of communications service.
Is a telco or cable company required to keep separate accounts for their internet service? Why are they not required to keep their internet and other services separate? Why is a cable company allowed to leverage it's existing monopoly by subsidizing it's internet service (like it might do to drive it's internet competition out of business), but a city isn't?
If it was *REALLY* about "leveling" the playing field, I would assume that the bill would say that *ALL* internet providers would be subject to these rules, not just cities.
The only thing that will give some sense to the death of their daughter is if it deters other young men and women from doing the same mistake.
The problem is that it won't.
These shock campaigns do *zero* to prevent young people from repeating the mistakes. Most youth believe they are invincible, and act accordingly. Showing them stuff like this just makes them say "oh, gross" as they repeat the mistakes, believing that it will never happen to them.
The vast majority of my electricity usage is not from light bulbs
I'm willing to bet that 100% of the electricity used to light your house is from light bulbs, however.
Which, unless you're going to argue that your lighting-related power is mathematically zero (or perhaps that you have a CF refrigerator), means that you're not really staying on-topic.
IIRC Acer's VP said that returns of their Linux netbooks are 30% higher than the Windows versions, however ASUS's CEO says that return rates for EeePcs are the same for Linux models as for Windows
This probably reflects a difference between Acer and ASUS. Acer netbooks are sold as small notebooks, while the Eee aren't really sold as notebook replacements, but rather as their own, separate type of computer. Basically, people expect the Eee to be different than their Windows notebook or desktop, and so aren't immediately put off by the interface, whereas Acer customers are sold a "tiny laptop computer", buy the Linux version, and get upset when it's not exactly like what they're used to.
No. But considering the following, it's quite obvious that you are:
Teachers should need to get warrants to stop children dealing drugs in school?
Please show where the child was dealing drugs. You'll note that she wasn't. She was accused of carrying prescription drugs, which (A) is not illegal, (B) is not "dealing", and (C) NEVER HAPPENED.
But it's great that you can skip the whole "proof" and "investigation" thing and guilty right to "guilty".
So this is "sexual abuse" now?
You'd better fucking believe it.
They didn't even make her take all her clothes off
Ahh, so you're saying that it can't be sexual assault unless she was naked? This attorney disagrees with you. Just because she wasn't completely naked doesn't mean it wasn't sexual assault. Or do you also believe that a rapist should be aquitted solely because he let his victims keep their clothes on?
and the search was done by women
So you're saying it's impossible for a woman to commit sexual assault?
The question at hand is whether the court is going to let the perps get away with molesting a child just because they were state employees.
No, I don't think so.
If they do get away with sexual abuse of a minor, it opens the floodgate for *EVERY* pedophile and ephebophile who works for in a school to molest and abuse with impunity.
Imagine this exchange:
"You molested my daughter!"
"No, we had a report she was carrying drugs. Our actions were strictly in-line with our zero-tolerance policy"
"Who told you she had drugs?"
"We can't divulge that information, as it might prevent other reports in the future."
"I'll sue you, you pervert."
"As per the Supreme Court ruling of 2009, my actions are perfectly legal."
My information may be out of date, but at one time Scientologists were told they needed to have scientology-approved censorware on their computers, and one of the things that the banned words was "xenu" (apparently to protect the scientologists from encountering a website that would kill them.)
It would have been hilarious if ever website that contained a reference to the space station would have been blocked.
And this is your problem. You shouldn't believe in it, you should understand it. That's what sets it apart from creationism - it doesn't require belief.
Here's why belief in evolution can get you into trouble:
There are no 'experiments' in evolution that can prove evolution is outright false. [...] However, from a wrong point of view, whenever evidence pops up that challenges a prediction evolution made, it never challenges evolution itself [...] the theory of evolution was effectively just abandoned and replaced with a new and subtly improved version.
Do you not see the flaw in your argument? You start at "nothing can prove it false", and end up at "evolution has been abandonded". Both of those statements cannot be true.
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Actually, that percentage of your 'average users' [...] I would not touch that statistic with a bleach-soaked 10 foot pole
Considering you did, I can only assume that you know I'm right, but don't want to admit it.
Thanks though.
FLAC is certainly not as popular as mp3, but that's hardly a fair comparison. It is, by far, the most popular lossless audio codec.
Sorry, at this point, I must point out that wav would be the "most popular" lossless audio codec.
A simple search on any torrent site will show that.
Sorry, that only proves that it's the most popular amongst geeks who download from torrent sites.
Talk to average users, and ask them "what is a flac file?", and "what is a wav file?", then ask them "which one would you use to record audio?". 99.999% would say "wav".
We're talking about private entities cutting off users of their services, not about the government doing so.
So if the government tells an ISP to cut someone off (by passing one of those, you know, law thingies), and the ISP does it (because it's the law), then you're claiming that it's not really the government doing it?
What colour is the sky in your world?
I'm not surprised that the project's been forked after reading this bug. Not only was he wrong, but he was adamantly wrong.
Wow. Looks like he went to the Theo DeRaadt School of Social Graces.
SCO had the lead in Unix on x86 hardware and apparently were used widely in certain sectors.
No, they most certainly did not.
Santa Cruz Operation had the lead in Unix on x86 hardware.
"The SCO Group", which is the company we're talking about, was a failed Linux vendor who called itself "SCO" after they decided to file baseless lawsuits.
Toner is either carbon based, or far more commonly a polymer. A fine powder of plastic if you will. Take one giant slab of coloured plastic, grind it up in to a very fine powder, add some creative marketing and an astronomical price tag.
Oh come on. Carbon, I would believe (so would you if you'd ever had an engine apart) but plastic??!?!
Plastic and carbon are completely different things! Carbon is black and hard, and plastic is soft and shiny. Sheesh, I thought /. was supposed to be full of smart people!
Next thing you're gonna start talking nonsense about bacon and pork being from the same animal!
How much of the revenue would be going to the people who produce the videos?
I don't see how this bill is unfair at all.
I guess you missed this bit:
Establish a separate enterprise fund for communications service and shall
use this fund to separately account for revenues, expenses, property, and
source of investment dollars associated with the provision of
communications service.
Is a telco or cable company required to keep separate accounts for their internet service? Why are they not required to keep their internet and other services separate? Why is a cable company allowed to leverage it's existing monopoly by subsidizing it's internet service (like it might do to drive it's internet competition out of business), but a city isn't?
If it was *REALLY* about "leveling" the playing field, I would assume that the bill would say that *ALL* internet providers would be subject to these rules, not just cities.
The only thing that will give some sense to the death of their daughter is if it deters other young men and women from doing the same mistake.
The problem is that it won't.
These shock campaigns do *zero* to prevent young people from repeating the mistakes. Most youth believe they are invincible, and act accordingly. Showing them stuff like this just makes them say "oh, gross" as they repeat the mistakes, believing that it will never happen to them.
Maybe my dreams to see mysql erased from earth will come to true
That's a horrible thing to say.
If MySQL were to go away, what would you ridicule? :)
pre 10am
Whoa, woah, woah...
Since when was there a 10AM?!?!?!
I need to head to the closest butchers shop!
First, you might want to make sure that zoophilia isn't illegal in your state. :)
The vast majority of my electricity usage is not from light bulbs
I'm willing to bet that 100% of the electricity used to light your house is from light bulbs, however.
Which, unless you're going to argue that your lighting-related power is mathematically zero (or perhaps that you have a CF refrigerator), means that you're not really staying on-topic.
another scapegoat that you can blame stuff on too
Ah, Tibor, how many times have you saved my butt?
IIRC Acer's VP said that returns of their Linux netbooks are 30% higher than the Windows versions, however ASUS's CEO says that return rates for EeePcs are the same for Linux models as for Windows
This probably reflects a difference between Acer and ASUS. Acer netbooks are sold as small notebooks, while the Eee aren't really sold as notebook replacements, but rather as their own, separate type of computer. Basically, people expect the Eee to be different than their Windows notebook or desktop, and so aren't immediately put off by the interface, whereas Acer customers are sold a "tiny laptop computer", buy the Linux version, and get upset when it's not exactly like what they're used to.
And it speaks volumes about *your* culture that you believe that freedom of expression is something that *doesn't* need to be protected.
When something is offensive (like your post), sometimes insults are appropriate, fuckwad.
Gun control stops crime.
Yes, it also increases the number of accidental deaths due to guns.
Could someone explain what they're doing in a bit more of layman's terms?
The big company is changing stuff. They think that they're hiding the stuff when they're not.
what the point of doing all of that is?
The big company doesn't want other companies to see their stuff, but they do want people to see it.
The big company doesn't understand there is no way to do what they want.
The ability to select across databases. The ability to select from a variety of DB Engines.
In other words "because you don't know what you're doing"?
So you're saying that the best way to deal with bullies is to give in to them?
Are you completely insane?
No. But considering the following, it's quite obvious that you are:
Teachers should need to get warrants to stop children dealing drugs in school?
Please show where the child was dealing drugs. You'll note that she wasn't. She was accused of carrying prescription drugs, which (A) is not illegal, (B) is not "dealing", and (C) NEVER HAPPENED.
But it's great that you can skip the whole "proof" and "investigation" thing and guilty right to "guilty".
So this is "sexual abuse" now?
You'd better fucking believe it.
They didn't even make her take all her clothes off
Ahh, so you're saying that it can't be sexual assault unless she was naked? This attorney disagrees with you. Just because she wasn't completely naked doesn't mean it wasn't sexual assault. Or do you also believe that a rapist should be aquitted solely because he let his victims keep their clothes on?
and the search was done by women
So you're saying it's impossible for a woman to commit sexual assault?
What colour is the sky in your world?
The question at hand is whether the court is going to let the perps get away with molesting a child just because they were state employees.
No, I don't think so.
If they do get away with sexual abuse of a minor, it opens the floodgate for *EVERY* pedophile and ephebophile who works for in a school to molest and abuse with impunity.
Imagine this exchange:
"You molested my daughter!"
"No, we had a report she was carrying drugs. Our actions were strictly in-line with our zero-tolerance policy"
"Who told you she had drugs?"
"We can't divulge that information, as it might prevent other reports in the future."
"I'll sue you, you pervert."
"As per the Supreme Court ruling of 2009, my actions are perfectly legal."
If so, they should get a fucking warrant.
There is absolutely *NO* excuse for school officials sexually abusing a 13-year-old.
That's too bad..
My information may be out of date, but at one time Scientologists were told they needed to have scientology-approved censorware on their computers, and one of the things that the banned words was "xenu" (apparently to protect the scientologists from encountering a website that would kill them.)
It would have been hilarious if ever website that contained a reference to the space station would have been blocked.
I believe in evolution 100%.
And this is your problem. You shouldn't believe in it, you should understand it. That's what sets it apart from creationism - it doesn't require belief.
Here's why belief in evolution can get you into trouble:
There are no 'experiments' in evolution that can prove evolution is outright false. [...] However, from a wrong point of view, whenever evidence pops up that challenges a prediction evolution made, it never challenges evolution itself [...] the theory of evolution was effectively just abandoned and replaced with a new and subtly improved version.
Do you not see the flaw in your argument? You start at "nothing can prove it false", and end up at "evolution has been abandonded". Both of those statements cannot be true.