It's a user problem. I've been running windows 2000 for over 3 years without ever re-installing or getting a single piece of spyware or adware. Don't underestimate the ability of cluesless users to fuck up any operating system. There is no security system than can protect against the stupidity of the home user who *intentionally* downloads a "browser enhancement". Clueless users will not go out of their way to use a certain operating system. Thus they use the one that comes on the computer they bought from circuit city. This is windows. If it were linux, you can be damned sure 80% of linux installations would by horribly spyware infested and virus-ridden.
Now, I am really at a loss to understand why you need even more, especially 20+... Put on a pair of stereo headphones and pick any location, 360 degrees, and I'll make it sound like a noise is comming from that exact spot. So what can 20+ channels do for you?
No, I doubt you will. Assuming you're just planning to crossfade between the right and left channel. When sound enters the human ear, the amplitudes of various frequencies are affected by the direction the sound came from. For example (and this is an example, because i'm not sure if it's true) you might hear more high frequencies in a vacuum cleaner when it's in front of you compared to behind you.
I've heard of people experimenting with various sound sources and a physical model of a human ear with a microphone embedded in it to try to make a numerical model, and i know progress has been made, but it still doesn't work as well as just using more speakers.
If you already knew this and took it into account, then my apologies.
Are you saying students have to buy D/A and A/D converters to become journalists?
You mean like the sound card the student is using that gives him the ability to listen in the first place? To be more clear, if the student didn't have a D/A converter, he wouldn't have been able to even hear anything in the first place. Speakers are analog.
I'm sorry, but did you say the artist gets 35% of the purchase price of the music. I will admit I have no facts to back this up, but neither do you. There is no way this can be true. 35% of the purchase price is huge! I think they'd be rather lucky to get 10% after production expenses.
I see someone already mentioned Audacity, but I also wanted to mention that Exact Audio Copy will do exactly what you want, despite primarily being a cd ripping tool.
Tell that to my boss who had to automate some things with.bat files... somethings have to be changed (like progra~1 for "program files").
Can I also tell your boss that the only reason he had to use that naming style is because "program files" has a space in it? And can i tell him that putting quotes around filenames allows you to use any long filename in a batch file, such as:
I watch what they play and I decide what they play. I don't think it should be up to the lawmakers to decide, it should be up to the parents.
It should be up to the parents? Is that right? Well then, it's pretty hilarious that you're complaining when that's exactly what's going on. A parent can choose exactly what their kids should be exposed to. If it weren't for this ban, the kid could go buy something the parent wouldn't want. This is one of the most non-sensical arguments I can recall seeing.
Yes they would be. No operating system security can stop a user from being an admin and installing unintentionally (but intentionally from the perspective of the OS) malware.
No, it's only neccesary that the art or music appears to display a degree of emotion. There is no reason this can't be simulated (at least in some half-assed way) by a computer. And eventually I think it could fool the judges too. Why not?
Furthermore, what do you mean by emotions anyway? Chemicals in your brain? I believe that eventually, computers will achieve something that fits most reasonable definitions of emotion. (i.e. not defined as "a feeling a human gets)
Having some one pay monthly is the most horrible thing a company can do...
i mean why Go out and spend 80$ on a game and pay an aditional cost on top of that.. i understand its to maintain servers but its stuppid..
Horrible? No, quite the opposite in fact. Genius. Going out and spending money on a game plus a monthly fee isn't a bad thing for the company. It may be bad for the consumer, but it's only bad for the company if the prices prevent people from spending, and that's obviously not the case. If game companies followed the model you suggest, they'd make much less, if any money. So how again, exactly, is it a horrible model? (other than you think it is, because you the consumer want everything free or cheap, and it isn't, so you look for someone to blame)
The entire point of the image was that it couldn't be read by machines, by providing alt text you've just removed that restriction and the image's usefulness along with it.
The poster knew this. It was either a joke or a troll, or both.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but your sound card probably can't even produce >16bit sound. Similarly the AAC is 44.1kHz, so it doesn't matter if it's from the CD or the master, because at some point it has to be converted to 44.1kHz
If they sound better than your ripped mp3s it's probably saying more about your encoder than the source.
Oh, come off it. In order for the sound quality to be better than cd, you have to have thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, whereas with a cd, i can listen using a $50 discman and hear high-quality audio. (assuming decent headphones, which can be had for under $100)
Well, there are still people that prefer vinyl, but that does not help the fact that vinyl is nearly extinct.
I'm assuming you have no information to back that up because it's false.:) On the contrary, vinyl records are a growing market.
For your information, there are at least seven stores (yes, brick and mortar) within walking distance trhat sell vinyl records, and the number is growing.
The key difference here is that you paid for your PC and no advertiser, whether a spammer or a pop-up advertiser, has a right to steal your bandwidth or storage.
You may have paid for your computer, but if it's running a service which is intended to accept messages and display them as Windows dialogs, then whose problem is it really? If you don't want messages, why do you have a device that behaves this way? My point is, no on is stealing anything. Imagine a switch on the street corner which controls the lights in your house. If a passerby switches the light on, is he stealing your electricity? No, because you provided the switch in a publicly accessible way. If you don't want people controlling your lights, don't have a switch to control them in a public area. Similarly, if you don't want windows messenger dialogs popping up, why are you running a service that provides that functionality.
It is the responsibility of the car makers to make cars safe, should it not be the responsibility of operating system makers to make desktops safe?
Maybe so, but there is no way a car could possibly be safe without the help of the operator of the car. The manufacturer can't reasonably be expected to stop the operator from doing something stupid, like leaving all the doors open in a crime-ridden neighborhood. That's the responsibility of the operator, not to mention common sense. My point is, without the cooperation of the user, none of the manufacturer's efforts matter much. The manufacturer can provide the ability to be secure, but it is still up to the operator to follow through.
True, but I dont think a case has been in court where an Primate has asked for protection under the court.
In what language? English? Why in the name of Walmart would an animal speak in a human language? How do you know what animals are attempting to communicate?
couldnt google just simply cut off their service with france?
Brilliant fucking strategy! Why hasn't anyone else thought of this? I'm with HR for Google, and I'd like to hire you immediately. Can you start this afternoon?
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It's a user problem. I've been running windows 2000 for over 3 years without ever re-installing or getting a single piece of spyware or adware. Don't underestimate the ability of cluesless users to fuck up any operating system. There is no security system than can protect against the stupidity of the home user who *intentionally* downloads a "browser enhancement". Clueless users will not go out of their way to use a certain operating system. Thus they use the one that comes on the computer they bought from circuit city. This is windows. If it were linux, you can be damned sure 80% of linux installations would by horribly spyware infested and virus-ridden.
Now, I am really at a loss to understand why you need even more, especially 20+... Put on a pair of stereo headphones and pick any location, 360 degrees, and I'll make it sound like a noise is comming from that exact spot. So what can 20+ channels do for you?
No, I doubt you will. Assuming you're just planning to crossfade between the right and left channel. When sound enters the human ear, the amplitudes of various frequencies are affected by the direction the sound came from. For example (and this is an example, because i'm not sure if it's true) you might hear more high frequencies in a vacuum cleaner when it's in front of you compared to behind you.
I've heard of people experimenting with various sound sources and a physical model of a human ear with a microphone embedded in it to try to make a numerical model, and i know progress has been made, but it still doesn't work as well as just using more speakers.
If you already knew this and took it into account, then my apologies.
You might also have to loosen the requirement about realistic looks too.
To clarify: still shots from the movie might look ok, but the movement of the cg characters looked totally absurd to me.
Are you saying students have to buy D/A and A/D converters to become journalists?
You mean like the sound card the student is using that gives him the ability to listen in the first place? To be more clear, if the student didn't have a D/A converter, he wouldn't have been able to even hear anything in the first place. Speakers are analog.
And that's only if the cracker knows what pattern you're using. How would he know that?
Just so you know, that's the same argument used to support security through obscurity.
Yes. This is true. The passangers heroically rescued the White House from blah blah blah. The plane most certainly *was not* shot down.
I'm sorry, but did you say the artist gets 35% of the purchase price of the music. I will admit I have no facts to back this up, but neither do you. There is no way this can be true. 35% of the purchase price is huge! I think they'd be rather lucky to get 10% after production expenses.
I see someone already mentioned Audacity, but I also wanted to mention that Exact Audio Copy will do exactly what you want, despite primarily being a cd ripping tool.
Can I also tell your boss that the only reason he had to use that naming style is because "program files" has a space in it? And can i tell him that putting quotes around filenames allows you to use any long filename in a batch file, such as:
cd "\program files"
It should be up to the parents? Is that right? Well then, it's pretty hilarious that you're complaining when that's exactly what's going on. A parent can choose exactly what their kids should be exposed to. If it weren't for this ban, the kid could go buy something the parent wouldn't want. This is one of the most non-sensical arguments I can recall seeing.
Yes they would be. No operating system security can stop a user from being an admin and installing unintentionally (but intentionally from the perspective of the OS) malware.
No, it's only neccesary that the art or music appears to display a degree of emotion. There is no reason this can't be simulated (at least in some half-assed way) by a computer. And eventually I think it could fool the judges too. Why not?
Furthermore, what do you mean by emotions anyway? Chemicals in your brain? I believe that eventually, computers will achieve something that fits most reasonable definitions of emotion. (i.e. not defined as "a feeling a human gets)
Having some one pay monthly is the most horrible thing a company can do ...
i mean why Go out and spend 80$ on a game and pay an aditional cost on top of that.. i understand its to maintain servers but its stuppid..
Horrible? No, quite the opposite in fact. Genius. Going out and spending money on a game plus a monthly fee isn't a bad thing for the company. It may be bad for the consumer, but it's only bad for the company if the prices prevent people from spending, and that's obviously not the case. If game companies followed the model you suggest, they'd make much less, if any money. So how again, exactly, is it a horrible model? (other than you think it is, because you the consumer want everything free or cheap, and it isn't, so you look for someone to blame)
The entire point of the image was that it couldn't be read by machines, by providing alt text you've just removed that restriction and the image's usefulness along with it.
The poster knew this. It was either a joke or a troll, or both.
absolutely unreadable? try reloading. i haven't found one yet that was remotely challenging.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but your sound card probably can't even produce >16bit sound. Similarly the AAC is 44.1kHz, so it doesn't matter if it's from the CD or the master, because at some point it has to be converted to 44.1kHz
If they sound better than your ripped mp3s it's probably saying more about your encoder than the source.
The sound quality is better
Oh, come off it. In order for the sound quality to be better than cd, you have to have thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, whereas with a cd, i can listen using a $50 discman and hear high-quality audio. (assuming decent headphones, which can be had for under $100)
I'm assuming you have no information to back that up because it's false.
For your information, there are at least seven stores (yes, brick and mortar) within walking distance trhat sell vinyl records, and the number is growing.
You may have paid for your computer, but if it's running a service which is intended to accept messages and display them as Windows dialogs, then whose problem is it really? If you don't want messages, why do you have a device that behaves this way? My point is, no on is stealing anything. Imagine a switch on the street corner which controls the lights in your house. If a passerby switches the light on, is he stealing your electricity? No, because you provided the switch in a publicly accessible way. If you don't want people controlling your lights, don't have a switch to control them in a public area. Similarly, if you don't want windows messenger dialogs popping up, why are you running a service that provides that functionality.
Maybe so, but there is no way a car could possibly be safe without the help of the operator of the car. The manufacturer can't reasonably be expected to stop the operator from doing something stupid, like leaving all the doors open in a crime-ridden neighborhood. That's the responsibility of the operator, not to mention common sense. My point is, without the cooperation of the user, none of the manufacturer's efforts matter much. The manufacturer can provide the ability to be secure, but it is still up to the operator to follow through.
On either being a great troll,
Or a stupendous idiot.
But that's not stressing the video card any more. That's stressing the cpu and memeory.
I'm on 56k, you insensitive clod!
So? 5 seconds of speech, well compressed would probably be smaller than the graphic anyway.
True, but I dont think a case has been in court where an Primate has asked for protection under the court.
In what language?
English?
Why in the name of Walmart would an animal speak in a human language?
How do you know what animals are attempting to communicate?
couldnt google just simply cut off their service with france?
Brilliant fucking strategy! Why hasn't anyone else thought of this? I'm with HR for Google, and I'd like to hire you immediately. Can you start this afternoon?