- not many people have 5.1 listening equipment where they listen to music - it's likely that audio engineers for music don't have 5.1 in their workspaces either unless they regularly work on film too, which usually means in a studio big enough to house an orchestra
But it's an interesting point. I'd quite like to have a few 5.1 mixes, where do you get them from?
Let us not forget that double blind doesn't mean telling apart (they may both sound different) but actually telling which source is which while listening to a sample that is randomly selected so that you don't know which one it is beforehand and neither does the test observer (hence double blind).
MP3s encoded properly from a proper CD rip (Exact Audio Copy comes to mind) at >192kbps for all passages and VBR is practically transparent even on reasonably good equipment. Very well mastered CDs may sound different (depends on how good you notice these things) but double blind tests consistently show transparent results above 192kbps.
Shitty 128kbps mp3s (typically the median bitrate) are not transparent. Never have been.
Very nice low power setup. Running complex stuff too. The Sheeva plug looks a good candidate for a NAS / media server without the pain of big optimisation, and would save me $$$ compared to running PC tower configs to mostly copy files to my box under the TV.
Can't help but think that the main thing holding back BlackBerry in non-users is that it isn't as glitzy and has very little "wow" factor compared to Windows phone 7, iPhone and Android. For personal use - photos, video, checking personal email quickly (but not replying, which is a pain even with predictive text) and surfing casually. Add contacts to Outlook and they're straight on your phone. Email includes a your local addresses and can query the enterprise contact DB. SSH is possible via BlackBerry and can be inside the local network for access to server admin.
BlackBerry is great for email & scheduling, allows you to reply to email comfortably, and the touch version adds some of the other advantages that currently belong to Apple, Microsoft and Google.
Sounds to me like a lot of people are confusing not checking the default OS font size, or not setting your own (changeable) font size. Most of the comments I've seen about this type of bug also happen if you change default OS fonts - nothing to do with DPI... mrchaotica summarises it well
That being said, dependency hell is the main reason Linux cannot get ahead of Windows or Mac for the masses - the abstraction layer may not be as optimisable as on Linux, but you can distribute small binaries and be _sure_ they work out of the box with no issues.
The state of course intervenes against the overall interest of pure profit, that is what it is there for. The level of state intervention is a matter of politics, and indeed you need but look at Copenhagen to see that overall business competitiveness is the cornerstone of any negotiation on absolute emissions reduction.
So there is a balance and nobody ever gets it right, they sway from overprotective "socialist state" and hard right "private enterprise and free market economy rules" according to geography, political will and geostrategy.
Euro & Japanese manufacturers are less influenced by the US fuel lobby. Explain why petrol costs way less in the US : (the answer is taxation in Europe). The taxation strategy indirectly subsidises (it's not quite a subsidy, of course, but to the end user making one fuel cheaper than the other is akin to subsidy even if the difference is the level of taxation)
Agree in part with behaviour patterns in Europe, but I've seen roads from Fort Worth & surroundings to Dallas clogged with large vehicles mostly used for a less than 20 mile daily commute...
Various theories hint at the interests of the oil lobby to continue four-stroke dominance (just look at the low mpg of most american manufacturers in general) and perceived customer comfort being the most widely used trump. High fuel efficiency does not usually provide sporty acceleration, low engine noise, and high torque at low revs.
That being said, no doubt many consumers don't care as much about that as the marketing departments of the automotive industry. In reality, noisy diesels have sold well in Europe (thanks in part to diesel fuel subsidies) and customers have bought poor performing, smaller cars for everyday use. They just don't make big margins on cars that sell for less than €8000 new. So once again striking a balance between shareholder interest (increasing profits) and global economic / ecological interest (decreasing emissions and oil reliance both by better fuel efficiency and better combustion of cleaner, more varied fuel) is an impossible mission.
Until oil prices go up, don't expect any good technology to prevail. The four stroke petrol engine will die, but not before oil costs increase.
Very good post indeed; however it's totally off on a tangent compared to the topic.
Nonetheless it's refreshing to see such an involved post, especially given that it's a deconstruction of tautology - more specifically RAS Syndrome. Funny that two examples given on that page are PIN and ATM:)
Language is generally redundant, as I have learned while bringing up my son as a bilingual. I live in France and his main language input is French - at nursery school (kindergarten), on television, with friends. I speak to him exclusively in English, and find that it is necessary to repeat the same concepts using different vocabulary since his command of English is limited. Indeed, he only speaks French but will shows his comprehension of English by replying correctly (in French) to questions posed in English. Increasingly of late, he will stop me and ask what an English word means. I do not wish to tell him it means the same as a known French word, so repetition and expansion of the concept is the only way for me to respond to him.
Only improved via HDMI and other digital interfaces... SCART is the only standard RGB and/or YC and/or composite with stereo audio and a couple of spare pins. It's pretty much still standard even on the latest greatest flat panels too.
Until HDMI sorts out issues with possible DRM and other compatibility issues, RGB analog with one SCART is way easier than five RCA/cinch plugs...
As I think you know, one single solution isn't going to cut it. Probably it's best to trial web scans, other products and specificially targetted spyware / trojan detectors alongside specific products, and to watch the market carefully.
You also can't tell (unless of course you ran a full scan with AVG) whether the user proactively scanned using the product, or just failed to understand that on-access scanning is one link in the chain of security.
As for link scanner, I totally agree. An utter crock of shit.
Yahoo works for me. pop.mail.yahoo.fr on port 995 - SSL. It's free, but the Yahoo site seems to suggest it's a premium service. Maybe it's just because I've had my account for so long...
I have POP3 access to my Yahoo mail for free. Now, I signed up for it about 7 or 8 years ago so maybe it's a privilege for "old" accounts... but they definitely don't force me to pay anything at all.
Fair point Peter, but a chipset that's integrated onboard on any major brand laptop should be supported in Linux in *theory*, but some are perhaps not too auto-detectable & auto-configurable.
1. Your WiFi chipset isn't supported in Linux, for some reason like no available documentation & chipset being rare or something
2. You're not asking the question in the right way. I reckon you can probably get most WiFi working, or you can buy an inexpensive USB wifi dongle (say $20) that does work in Linux.
Which is worth more, your time to get support for a particular piece of hardware, or a quick trip to an ecommerce shop to drop $20 on known good hardware?
It was tongue in cheek remark. But anyway, of course you can control outbound links, but I'm talking about people spending more time (on certain sites) varying their outbound links. If all you do is link to Wikipedia all the time, then your posts aren't as interesting as if you spend time researching little niche articles. Those niche articles will have lower rankings and probably benefit more from your link than Wikipedia.
I wasn't talking about it as an SEO tactic (for your own site) at all.
Tin = Sn = Atomic number 50 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin]
Google directly replies with 50 if you ask "what is the atomic number of tin"
Chickens = 300 eggs/year = 5.77 a week [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken]
Second result in Google for "how many eggs does a chicken lay in a week" contains the answer in the summary.
So, you can just ask Google these questions in natural language and it's not bad at all, quicker than scanning the Wikipedia article (esp. for Chicken)
Wikipedia is the first result for chicken and for tin.
Britannica is "full text for subscribers only" so you can understand just why Wikipedia is linked to so much. You don't have to write a paragraph to explain something any more, you just link to Wikipedia. That's why it's so highly ranked for many terms.
The worry of course is that high ranked sources of encyclopedic information are self sustaining. Why link anywhere else... do you have time to find anywhere better when you've got a post or article to write?
Maybe sometimes we should think more about our outgoing links, spreading the juice around more evenly... but then we should all drive more economically and eat better too;-).
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If you really are director of studies at a major uni, given your language and style, I'd like some of what you're smoking at night please.
- not many people have 5.1 listening equipment where they listen to music
- it's likely that audio engineers for music don't have 5.1 in their workspaces either unless they regularly work on film too, which usually means in a studio big enough to house an orchestra
But it's an interesting point. I'd quite like to have a few 5.1 mixes, where do you get them from?
Let us not forget that double blind doesn't mean telling apart (they may both sound different) but actually telling which source is which while listening to a sample that is randomly selected so that you don't know which one it is beforehand and neither does the test observer (hence double blind).
MP3s encoded properly from a proper CD rip (Exact Audio Copy comes to mind) at >192kbps for all passages and VBR is practically transparent even on reasonably good equipment. Very well mastered CDs may sound different (depends on how good you notice these things) but double blind tests consistently show transparent results above 192kbps.
Shitty 128kbps mp3s (typically the median bitrate) are not transparent. Never have been.
Very nice low power setup. Running complex stuff too. The Sheeva plug looks a good candidate for a NAS / media server without the pain of big optimisation, and would save me $$$ compared to running PC tower configs to mostly copy files to my box under the TV.
Can't help but think that the main thing holding back BlackBerry in non-users is that it isn't as glitzy and has very little "wow" factor compared to Windows phone 7, iPhone and Android. For personal use - photos, video, checking personal email quickly (but not replying, which is a pain even with predictive text) and surfing casually. Add contacts to Outlook and they're straight on your phone. Email includes a your local addresses and can query the enterprise contact DB. SSH is possible via BlackBerry and can be inside the local network for access to server admin.
BlackBerry is great for email & scheduling, allows you to reply to email comfortably, and the touch version adds some of the other advantages that currently belong to Apple, Microsoft and Google.
Sounds to me like a lot of people are confusing not checking the default OS font size, or not setting your own (changeable) font size. Most of the comments I've seen about this type of bug also happen if you change default OS fonts - nothing to do with DPI... mrchaotica summarises it well
It's been done before, depends what you need from the library : http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/, http://www.uclibc.org/, etc (but these are clearly targetted at embedded systems).
That being said, dependency hell is the main reason Linux cannot get ahead of Windows or Mac for the masses - the abstraction layer may not be as optimisable as on Linux, but you can distribute small binaries and be _sure_ they work out of the box with no issues.
The state of course intervenes against the overall interest of pure profit, that is what it is there for. The level of state intervention is a matter of politics, and indeed you need but look at Copenhagen to see that overall business competitiveness is the cornerstone of any negotiation on absolute emissions reduction.
So there is a balance and nobody ever gets it right, they sway from overprotective "socialist state" and hard right "private enterprise and free market economy rules" according to geography, political will and geostrategy.
Euro & Japanese manufacturers are less influenced by the US fuel lobby. Explain why petrol costs way less in the US : (the answer is taxation in Europe). The taxation strategy indirectly subsidises (it's not quite a subsidy, of course, but to the end user making one fuel cheaper than the other is akin to subsidy even if the difference is the level of taxation)
Agree in part with behaviour patterns in Europe, but I've seen roads from Fort Worth & surroundings to Dallas clogged with large vehicles mostly used for a less than 20 mile daily commute...
Indirect subsidies of course, based on the fact that levels of taxation vary according to fuel type.
Diesel costs more per gallon in the UK compared to unleaded, but less per gallon in France. However you explain it, it's a subsidy of sorts.
Various theories hint at the interests of the oil lobby to continue four-stroke dominance (just look at the low mpg of most american manufacturers in general) and perceived customer comfort being the most widely used trump. High fuel efficiency does not usually provide sporty acceleration, low engine noise, and high torque at low revs.
That being said, no doubt many consumers don't care as much about that as the marketing departments of the automotive industry. In reality, noisy diesels have sold well in Europe (thanks in part to diesel fuel subsidies) and customers have bought poor performing, smaller cars for everyday use. They just don't make big margins on cars that sell for less than €8000 new. So once again striking a balance between shareholder interest (increasing profits) and global economic / ecological interest (decreasing emissions and oil reliance both by better fuel efficiency and better combustion of cleaner, more varied fuel) is an impossible mission.
Until oil prices go up, don't expect any good technology to prevail. The four stroke petrol engine will die, but not before oil costs increase.
Very good post indeed; however it's totally off on a tangent compared to the topic.
Nonetheless it's refreshing to see such an involved post, especially given that it's a deconstruction of tautology - more specifically RAS Syndrome. Funny that two examples given on that page are PIN and ATM :)
Language is generally redundant, as I have learned while bringing up my son as a bilingual. I live in France and his main language input is French - at nursery school (kindergarten), on television, with friends. I speak to him exclusively in English, and find that it is necessary to repeat the same concepts using different vocabulary since his command of English is limited. Indeed, he only speaks French but will shows his comprehension of English by replying correctly (in French) to questions posed in English. Increasingly of late, he will stop me and ask what an English word means. I do not wish to tell him it means the same as a known French word, so repetition and expansion of the concept is the only way for me to respond to him.
http://lastminutelabs.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/android-app-nru-launches-in-the-usa => an Android app that uses Compass, GPS and location services to point you to bars, restaurants, hotels...
Only improved via HDMI and other digital interfaces... SCART is the only standard RGB and/or YC and/or composite with stereo audio and a couple of spare pins. It's pretty much still standard even on the latest greatest flat panels too.
Until HDMI sorts out issues with possible DRM and other compatibility issues, RGB analog with one SCART is way easier than five RCA/cinch plugs...
Thanks for your reply.
As I think you know, one single solution isn't going to cut it. Probably it's best to trial web scans, other products and specificially targetted spyware / trojan detectors alongside specific products, and to watch the market carefully.
You also can't tell (unless of course you ran a full scan with AVG) whether the user proactively scanned using the product, or just failed to understand that on-access scanning is one link in the chain of security.
As for link scanner, I totally agree. An utter crock of shit.
I've read a lot of reviews (Gizmo freeware, for example) : http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-anti-virus-software.htm which don't support this view.
Kaspersky seems to not have won out too well recently too.
Can you post a link to back up your argument?
Yahoo works for me. pop.mail.yahoo.fr on port 995 - SSL. It's free, but the Yahoo site seems to suggest it's a premium service. Maybe it's just because I've had my account for so long...
I have POP3 access to my Yahoo mail for free. Now, I signed up for it about 7 or 8 years ago so maybe it's a privilege for "old" accounts... but they definitely don't force me to pay anything at all.
Fair point Peter, but a chipset that's integrated onboard on any major brand laptop should be supported in Linux in *theory*, but some are perhaps not too auto-detectable & auto-configurable.
There are two possibilities
1. Your WiFi chipset isn't supported in Linux, for some reason like no available documentation & chipset being rare or something
2. You're not asking the question in the right way. I reckon you can probably get most WiFi working, or you can buy an inexpensive USB wifi dongle (say $20) that does work in Linux.
Which is worth more, your time to get support for a particular piece of hardware, or a quick trip to an ecommerce shop to drop $20 on known good hardware?
It was tongue in cheek remark. But anyway, of course you can control outbound links, but I'm talking about people spending more time (on certain sites) varying their outbound links. If all you do is link to Wikipedia all the time, then your posts aren't as interesting as if you spend time researching little niche articles. Those niche articles will have lower rankings and probably benefit more from your link than Wikipedia.
I wasn't talking about it as an SEO tactic (for your own site) at all.
You can get the answers by asking slashdot too.
Tin = Sn = Atomic number 50 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin]
Google directly replies with 50 if you ask "what is the atomic number of tin"
Chickens = 300 eggs/year = 5.77 a week [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken]
Second result in Google for "how many eggs does a chicken lay in a week" contains the answer in the summary.
So, you can just ask Google these questions in natural language and it's not bad at all, quicker than scanning the Wikipedia article (esp. for Chicken)
Wikipedia is the first result for chicken and for tin.
Britannica is "full text for subscribers only" so you can understand just why Wikipedia is linked to so much. You don't have to write a paragraph to explain something any more, you just link to Wikipedia. That's why it's so highly ranked for many terms.
The worry of course is that high ranked sources of encyclopedic information are self sustaining. Why link anywhere else... do you have time to find anywhere better when you've got a post or article to write?
Maybe sometimes we should think more about our outgoing links, spreading the juice around more evenly... but then we should all drive more economically and eat better too ;-).
Makes sense, and explains why I didn't have too many issues with it either, cheers