when criticising liberals, you should always start by using as many of the following as possible: lefty, pinko, hippy, commie, socialist, godhating, and touchy-feely. This will render any subsequent arguments more effective. And despite what you might think, this will NOT make you sound like a rabid dog.
While MP3 is an archaic format, the LAME encoder is had so much fine tuning to it recently, while Vorbis has more or less stagnated (with the exception of some 3rd party branches like AoTuV that perform well.
At bitrates around 128, i'd say yes; Vorbis sounds better. But at transparent bitrates (around 190 kbit/s) the codecs are more or less tied (with LAME possibly having the upper hand). Check out the most recent listening tests at www.hydrogenaudio.org.
I wish the Xiph team would restart development, and at least integrate the fantastic AoTuV tuning, and Blacksword's speed optimizations (multi-threading and assembly-level tuning) into the standard codebase.
But MP4 is a common container for AAC audio, and AVI files contain lots of different stuff. Both are quite popular, and reasonably technical people understand that AVI files can contain different types of data.
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Read more carefully, please. Zune is a consumer app, and Vista was released to CONSUMERS last week.
Equilibrium is when the exponential birth rate is countered by an equivalent starvation rate. You might be looking forward to equilibrium, but I'm hoping we find a more humane solution to overpopulation.
Not necessarily, Object oriented code is in a sense more complex, but also easier to understand (so the programmer makes fewer mistakes).
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How is this +5 interesting?? Zune (a consumer app, not a corporate one) worked with Vista on the consumer release date. The reason we've had public pre-releases of Vista for some 9 months now is so developers could have their shit together BY THE RELEASE DATE. Mission accomplished, Microsoft. Apple and nVidia get thumbs down from me on this one.
The average Canadian actor makes $12,000 a year. I'm not sure what your counterparts down there make, but I doubt it is millions, on average. A very, very select few make that kind of money.
Ever heard the term "starving artist"? It applies to actors.
Thanks for backing me up. If I'm a hippy, I'm a weird looking one... I have short hair, an office job, and I wear a suit to work.
Don't get me wrong; I DO like the fact that I'm being environmentally friendly, but I certainly don't feel like I'm suffering for the cause, like our trollish grandparent would suggest. Quite the contrary.
I work in the IS dept at a major oil and gas company. We skipped XP altogether... this company is pretty tight with the IT budget. Everyone still has 2000 boxes on the desktops, and we just upgraded to exchange 2003 from 5.1 last summer.
We're internally evaluating Vista machines right now, and it looks like it will probably happen in the next 12 months or so. There's some nice group policy stuff in there.
I take cabs or even transit sometimes when necessary.
As for exercise, I actually attend the gym now (also on my walk home) and I'm well aware that walking only goes so far. But an hour of walking a day does very much make a difference for an otherwise sedentary individual, and most people won't go to the gym 3 times a week like you and I.
What's with the tone of your response? Sounds like you disagree with my decision for some reason.
I just moved out of the suburbs into a community that is a 30 minute walk from my workplace downtown. I also sold my car (partly so I could afford to live down there). My quality of life has improved tenfold. I have more spending money, more free time after/before work, and I've lost about 10 lbs. walking.
Well, though there are obvious exceptions to any rule (your wife apparently claims to be one) there is a lot of evolutionary theory and observational data to support this position. I'd recommend reading The Naked Ape for a good introduction, but basically it comes down to a few things:
a) female humans are primarily concerned with identifying mates that will provide for them, given the extremely high amount of parental investment our species has (it takes a lot to raise a kid vs. a puppy, for example). Men care less (or not at all) about a mate's abilities as a mother, because sperm cost us practically nothing. Quantity of mates is more important than quality. So women judge men primarily based on their social rank and ability to perform tasks. Men don't really judge too much at all, but when they do its just a skin-deep analysis (this women is hot, and thus worth 5 minutes and 100 calories, essentially).
b) Women are traditionally more social in their interactions with others and the environment. Men, from a hunting/gathering standpoint, use sensory (particularly visual) cues to interpret their environment.
Experimentally:
It has been shown over and over that women perform less well in visually-oriented aptitude tests, but are able to multi-task and perform socially at a higher level.
Anecdotally:
Men love porn. Girls don't. Both enjoy sex.
(please don't make me dig up papers to support this... i'm a primatologist/evolutionary biologist by education, if that holds any weight around here).
There isn't nearly as much though, simply because women are not the visual creatures that men are. They sure love their romance novels and dirty girl-talk, though.
I remember 2.4 was a disaster, actually... the whole VM system got turfed and replaced somewhere around 2.4.8 because it was broken by design, and something drastic had to be done.
This is just from memory, someone with a better memory could probably be more specific. But anyhow, the 2.6 releases have been pretty smooth.
Totally, and I'm still skeptical that the hardware is actually better. I mean, it probably is, but I still remember how overhyped the PS2 hardware was. We haven't seen any actual examples of the PS3 blowing away the 360 yet.
I bought the 360 before Christmas because I could get a machine for the same price that came with 5 (!) free games, a universal remote, component cables, and a free HD-DVD movie. But yeah... enjoy your spec sheet.
Seeing that my representative is a conservative, I figure'd I'd be as uninflamatory as possible (I didn't want him to know, for instance, that I'm a card-carrying NDP member). You however phrased my feelings more accurately:)
Obviously you're an American. The comment "they're the 51st state" would only be made by an American. I don't know a single Canadian who thinks that way - we're all pretty proudly NOT Americans up here.
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I remember thinking the different logos were cool when I got my PSX back in '96... but yeah they're a little tiring now.
I think at least some of the unskippable ones though are actually just to mask the loading happening in the background.
when criticising liberals, you should always start by using as many of the following as possible: lefty, pinko, hippy, commie, socialist, godhating, and touchy-feely. This will render any subsequent arguments more effective. And despite what you might think, this will NOT make you sound like a rabid dog.
While MP3 is an archaic format, the LAME encoder is had so much fine tuning to it recently, while Vorbis has more or less stagnated (with the exception of some 3rd party branches like AoTuV that perform well.
At bitrates around 128, i'd say yes; Vorbis sounds better. But at transparent bitrates (around 190 kbit/s) the codecs are more or less tied (with LAME possibly having the upper hand). Check out the most recent listening tests at www.hydrogenaudio.org.
I wish the Xiph team would restart development, and at least integrate the fantastic AoTuV tuning, and Blacksword's speed optimizations (multi-threading and assembly-level tuning) into the standard codebase.
But MP4 is a common container for AAC audio, and AVI files contain lots of different stuff. Both are quite popular, and reasonably technical people understand that AVI files can contain different types of data.
Read more carefully, please. Zune is a consumer app, and Vista was released to CONSUMERS last week.
or you can put /home on a separate partition, and mount it with the noexec option.
Equilibrium is when the exponential birth rate is countered by an equivalent starvation rate. You might be looking forward to equilibrium, but I'm hoping we find a more humane solution to overpopulation.
Not necessarily, Object oriented code is in a sense more complex, but also easier to understand (so the programmer makes fewer mistakes).
How is this +5 interesting?? Zune (a consumer app, not a corporate one) worked with Vista on the consumer release date. The reason we've had public pre-releases of Vista for some 9 months now is so developers could have their shit together BY THE RELEASE DATE. Mission accomplished, Microsoft. Apple and nVidia get thumbs down from me on this one.
I expect the grandparent is the sort of person who gets sex and demeaning physical labour mixed up quite often.
The average Canadian actor makes $12,000 a year. I'm not sure what your counterparts down there make, but I doubt it is millions, on average. A very, very select few make that kind of money.
Ever heard the term "starving artist"? It applies to actors.
Well, at least those DVDs will play in the next-gen players, often with upsampling.
I still have a VCR hooked up, for Just in Case scenarios. The DVD player has been turfed though, and replaced by a 360 w/HD-DVD add-on.
Thanks for backing me up. If I'm a hippy, I'm a weird looking one... I have short hair, an office job, and I wear a suit to work.
Don't get me wrong; I DO like the fact that I'm being environmentally friendly, but I certainly don't feel like I'm suffering for the cause, like our trollish grandparent would suggest. Quite the contrary.
I work in the IS dept at a major oil and gas company. We skipped XP altogether... this company is pretty tight with the IT budget. Everyone still has 2000 boxes on the desktops, and we just upgraded to exchange 2003 from 5.1 last summer.
We're internally evaluating Vista machines right now, and it looks like it will probably happen in the next 12 months or so. There's some nice group policy stuff in there.
I take cabs or even transit sometimes when necessary.
As for exercise, I actually attend the gym now (also on my walk home) and I'm well aware that walking only goes so far. But an hour of walking a day does very much make a difference for an otherwise sedentary individual, and most people won't go to the gym 3 times a week like you and I.
What's with the tone of your response? Sounds like you disagree with my decision for some reason.
I just moved out of the suburbs into a community that is a 30 minute walk from my workplace downtown. I also sold my car (partly so I could afford to live down there). My quality of life has improved tenfold. I have more spending money, more free time after/before work, and I've lost about 10 lbs. walking.
Life is good.
Well, though there are obvious exceptions to any rule (your wife apparently claims to be one) there is a lot of evolutionary theory and observational data to support this position. I'd recommend reading The Naked Ape for a good introduction, but basically it comes down to a few things:
a) female humans are primarily concerned with identifying mates that will provide for them, given the extremely high amount of parental investment our species has (it takes a lot to raise a kid vs. a puppy, for example). Men care less (or not at all) about a mate's abilities as a mother, because sperm cost us practically nothing. Quantity of mates is more important than quality. So women judge men primarily based on their social rank and ability to perform tasks. Men don't really judge too much at all, but when they do its just a skin-deep analysis (this women is hot, and thus worth 5 minutes and 100 calories, essentially).
b) Women are traditionally more social in their interactions with others and the environment. Men, from a hunting/gathering standpoint, use sensory (particularly visual) cues to interpret their environment.
Experimentally:
It has been shown over and over that women perform less well in visually-oriented aptitude tests, but are able to multi-task and perform socially at a higher level.
Anecdotally:
Men love porn. Girls don't. Both enjoy sex.
(please don't make me dig up papers to support this... i'm a primatologist/evolutionary biologist by education, if that holds any weight around here).
There isn't nearly as much though, simply because women are not the visual creatures that men are. They sure love their romance novels and dirty girl-talk, though.
It has fewer features, but it's more stable.
I remember 2.4 was a disaster, actually... the whole VM system got turfed and replaced somewhere around 2.4.8 because it was broken by design, and something drastic had to be done.
This is just from memory, someone with a better memory could probably be more specific. But anyhow, the 2.6 releases have been pretty smooth.
Totally, and I'm still skeptical that the hardware is actually better. I mean, it probably is, but I still remember how overhyped the PS2 hardware was. We haven't seen any actual examples of the PS3 blowing away the 360 yet.
I bought the 360 before Christmas because I could get a machine for the same price that came with 5 (!) free games, a universal remote, component cables, and a free HD-DVD movie. But yeah... enjoy your spec sheet.
Thats how I feel too, 'cept I went 360 w/ the HD-DVD add-on. Go HD-DVD!!! :)
Everyone gets their turn. Now you know how I feel every time a discussion on evolution comes up.
Seeing that my representative is a conservative, I figure'd I'd be as uninflamatory as possible (I didn't want him to know, for instance, that I'm a card-carrying NDP member). You however phrased my feelings more accurately :)
Obviously you're an American. The comment "they're the 51st state" would only be made by an American. I don't know a single Canadian who thinks that way - we're all pretty proudly NOT Americans up here.