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  1. Just ask that cheater... on U.S. Army to d00dz - We're Coming for You · · Score: 1

    from Fallujah.

  2. Re:So... on MacWorld Expo Traffic Analysis · · Score: 1

    Maybe because there is neither a reason why the Expo site would have anyway near the traffic of the Apple sites, nor why it should still be down.

  3. Re:What's the point? on Breakthrough In JPEG Compression · · Score: 1

    Don't think of archiving pictures, think of archiving a bunch of files, e.g. a web-site. Compared to 7-Zip 3.13 you waste about 4-6 seconds per image, but save >20% in total archive size.

  4. Re:Bandwidth is the point on Breakthrough In JPEG Compression · · Score: 1

    Because recompressing JPEG pics in JPEG2000 still leaves you with blocks and adds the blurring.

  5. Re:$3BN on Business Under Fire · · Score: 1

    I thought I would have to pay for it, but no, here I get it for free: A neo-con trumpeting the benefits of the state giving money to selected businesses to "create jobs".

  6. Re:What reason? on Business Under Fire · · Score: 1
    P.S. Egypt currently isn't using its armed forces to murder people between its borders, so the amount of aid we give them is moot.

    Well, they get the money for not attacking a certain neighbour. So the amount should be counted as money spend for Israel.

  7. Re:$3BN on Business Under Fire · · Score: 1

    Well, Apartheid South Africa was also a Democracy - and it is no coincidence that Israel was their only friend.

  8. Re:What is the min delay for vaporware? on Wired's 2004 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 1

    Well, apart from merely existing, it should also do something resembling what was promised, shouldn't it?

  9. Re:why? on Apple Nixes Live Webcast, Satellite Feed · · Score: 1

    Even with the huge Akamai magic-behind-the-curtain, the Apple live webcasts always had too many damn dropped frames, because there are too many users at one time. Whcih is why this is not the first not to be webcast live. They all end up here anyway.

  10. Me, I'm still waiting on Gigabit Transfer Rates Over Power Lines? · · Score: 2, Funny

    for high voltage over Ethernet.

  11. Re:No, you can't. on iTunes User Sues Apple Over Lock-In · · Score: 1

    BTW, WMA isn't WMD (aka DRMed WMA)

  12. Re:It's still true... on iTunes User Sues Apple Over Lock-In · · Score: 1
    Okay, so the guy you replied to didn't really know his stuff, but it's quite true nevertheless. Transcoding does cause extra quality loss.

    Sure. The question is: Will you notice? And to repeat my question: got any studies?

  13. Re:No, you can't. on iTunes User Sues Apple Over Lock-In · · Score: 1

    You mean I can't use the iPod with ITMS either?

  14. Re:Bogus on iTunes User Sues Apple Over Lock-In · · Score: 1

    Green marker. for normal CDs, yellow for those with MP3s ;-)

  15. Re:No, you can't. on iTunes User Sues Apple Over Lock-In · · Score: 1

    So how is it Apple's fault that the other music stores don't use MP3?

  16. Re:Bogus on iTunes User Sues Apple Over Lock-In · · Score: 1
    Okay, this is (at least) the second time that you claimed that playing an ITMS song (or infact any other compressed music) will sound better than putting that song on a CD.

    Did you try painting the circumference of the CD with a yellow marker? It should work for you.

  17. Re:Bogus on iTunes User Sues Apple Over Lock-In · · Score: 2, Informative
    Encoding twice causes the MP3 you create to be _much_ lower quality.

    Ahh yes, common wisdom. IOW prejudice without any proof. I'm sure you can point me to any study actualy supporting that claim.

    AAC and MP3 both work by removing information from the sound stream that you can't hear; if that information has already been removed by an AAC encoder, the MP3 encoder's job becomes much harder, and so to fit the song into the desired bitrate it has to take more information away from the song. You will hear a lot more compression artifacts on songs that have been compressed twice.

    See, there is your problem. A decoder doesn't just drop the information the encoder leaves out, it puts back something close enough that most won't tell the difference.

  18. Previously on Slashdot on German Court Sets Copyright Tax on New PCs · · Score: 2, Informative
  19. Re:Sounds like a bargain! on German Court Sets Copyright Tax on New PCs · · Score: 1
    You pay car tax and you're legally allowed to drive a car

    ... but not to run over people.

    You pay tobacco tax and you're legally allowed to smoke it

    ... but not any other non-taxed tobacco.

    So if you pay a "digital copying tax" on a computer, you must be allowed to do digital copying on it, surely?

    It pays for fair use copying, not illegal copying.

  20. Re:such a waste... on Interview of the Windows XP SP2 Dev Team · · Score: 1

    AFAIK Microsoft had little if anything to do with the x86 emmulation on the Alpha.

  21. Re:Site getting sluggish already on Bayesian Tail · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Now I know what to do with the source I can't get from the site.

  22. Re:Not even in 2037 on 2004 MN4 Probably Won't Kill Us · · Score: 1
    And there goes Mr. Bayes and kicks you in the nuts.

    P(A|B) = P(A&B) / P(B)
    With A = somebody but you has a bomb & B = one (you) have a bomb
    P(somebody but you has a bomb if you have a bomb) = P(two have bomb)/P(one has a bomb) = 1,000,000 / 25,000,000,000 = 1 in 2,500.

    Unless you made up your numbers ;-)

  23. Re:OFFTOPIC:Re:C&T Calendar? Why not Shire Rec on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    Err, more like 20 seconds.

  24. Re:Sounds like a nut. on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    Just wait for part two of his plan, where he declares the world flat, and thus gets rid of your problem.

  25. Re:Is it worth it? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1
    Um. You're very confused. The UN Security Council, in the person of permanent member France, told us to fuck off, not the other way around.

    Just like the UNSC, in the person of permanent member USA, has told others to fuck off a couple of hundred times. How many of those did then invade a country just because?

    And yes, we invaded on our own terms. That's the only way an invasion happens. You don't invade on anybody else's terms.

    I guess that's what Iraq thought when they invaded Kuwait. And when they attacked Iran and the Kurds in Iraq - and the US was still cheering.

    Typical wrong-headed thinking. We go invading other countries to prevent problems at home.

    Yeah, like dwindeling popularity of the president.