moving to higher sample rates and bit depths allows easier filtering of nyquist noise. the highest audible frequencies are damn close to the nyquist limit of 44100hz making it difficult to filter the aliasing without losing high frequency information. higher frequencies also benefit from additional samples.
1. what missing functionality? the article doesn't say.
2. define 'usability.' is this another "it's not windows" whine fest? osx isn't windows either but you don't see many complaining about that. that's right, end users can't install that latest trojaned screensaver or other useless app that, of course, they 'must' have...or maybe they can't play their mp3s, but that's not linux' fault, that's a policy issue. of course, with windows, it's easier for the average worker bee to get around such things.
3. interoperability with what exactly? just about any enterprise level printer and scanner will work with any os. I can't believe it's 2011 and we're still dealing with 'winmodem' style 'hardware'. Even on windows most of that hardware performs poorly. It's junk. Stop buying it.
this attitude is probably why so many guis today are boated and slow as hell on microwave frequency clocked hardware. more 'expressive' and abstract languages tend to run in VMs and/or interpreters (which are often coded in c++ anyway) which makes the execution speed orders of magnitude slower than they need to be..
pff.. physical abuse is just another weapon, like this gps. a weapon that'll get misused. that's why corporal punishment was banned in the first place: misuse.
Raw fish and 3rd graders? are you kidding? most kids' palettes are sensitive and the fish smell is a big turn off to a lot of them... this goes for just about all seafood. sure they might like it when they get a bit older but you've got to be kidding me about suggesting sushi. many ADULTS have trouble with the smell. I think an attempt to make the status quo healthier would be a better way to go, like a subway like menu with quality cuts of meat and fresh vegetables.
disregarding irresponsible and/or hypocritical authority is what defends liberty. yes, blind ignorance of wise leadership leads to chaos, but blind submission to any sort of leadership leads to a reductionist society where no one is allowed to do much of anything. I find it interesting that youth mostly finds a reason to disregard authority and most older people (like yourself judging by your low id number) find excuses to defend it, no matter what the actual situation is and what the solution to it might be. IMO both sides' wish to mislead and/or manipulate the rules to stick it to the other places both on an equal moral plane and thus equally responsible for any conflicts. You've got no room to preach. Many school systems are corrupt and full of insecure opportunistic bullies that try to pass themselves off as teachers/administrators. The 'handbooks' at most schools read like the rules for a prison cell block. I grew up going to such a school system and it was quite unpleasant, despite being in a wealthy area as a well-behaved student. This is one situation where the faculty has overstepped their bounds because the students aren't their responsibility once school lets out and they are sending the wrong message to them (all of them, not just those who are tracked). Yes, this is school and the students aren't adults, but we don't want them growing up with the idea that such invasive and ubiquitous tracking is morally acceptable for ANY reason, nor do we want parents thinking that the school system will do their parenting for them.
Send your kids to private school, or home school them;
women do the same kind of thing, just with things men don't tend to care about. Want examples? Flip on the tv and watch some soaps like 'desperate housewives' and 'jersey shore.' Women get off on that shit, that's why there's so much of it.
statstically more men are drawn to math/science/technology than women. Big surprise there. that's why most people who post to wiki are male. However, I am sure there are articles written by women on subjects they're interested in. Does anyone here even wonder about the gender of the author when they're looking something up? I highly doubt it. Why? Because gender in this case is an irrelevant attribute. The article is sound or it is not.. Another example of 'initiatives' like this is when colleges fall over themselves to get women into their male dominated programs, not because they're intellectually superior, but just because they're women. That's straight up discrimination, period.
Why does it have to be 50/50 across EVERY demographic dichotomy everywhere? seriously, just because one grouping is under/over represented doesn't mean it's due to malicious intent. A lot of this is natural self-selection. It doesn't need fixing. Of course, that doesn't stop insecure individuals from those demographics from forming 'political action committees' just so they can cry victim when they're culled from the herd in some context. In the case of women's rights, the situation has gotten so biased that it's impossible for any organization to avoid catering to feminist gynocentricism which usually boils down to: "you are not complete without us women, and women have special needs yet we are 'equal,' and, no, we don't hate men, in fact, we love them, so long as they act/think like women." In any context, individuals who don't fit the norm are ostracized sometimes, yes, and that should be dealt with on a per-individual basis, but only when they were judged based on irrelevant attributes (add/delete the article because it rules/sucks, not because of the gender of the author).
His wife won't tolerate the mod or hack that bricks a $5000 investment in home theater hardware on Super Bowl Sunday. His kids won't take well to being cut off from on their online gaming and social networking accounts.
He should quit being a wuss, especially if he's paying the bills. Sexist gynocentrism be damned. If he's really a geek, the hack won't brick anything at all.
The PS3 supports a webcam and printer. The Internet "app" can be built into any piece of hardware. The Denon receiver that supports digital broadcast and satellite radio. The Samsung Blu-Ray player.
When sally asks for the $150 webcam and printer addons for her ps3, daddy geek says "we already have a printer for the computer. Use that."
Content protection - "rights management?" No problem. Flash animation? No problem. The licensed HVEC decoder that delievers 1080p video or better and multichannel theater sound at half the bit rate of H.264 or WebM? No problem.
When wifey asks/demands that he get her favorite show onto some non-aligned device made by a company that doesn't have an 'agreement' with the publisher, hubby geek says "That's why I told you to buy the disk and not the streaming 'service.' Tough shit bitch."
The geek can fret and fume but he has no say.
The day he has no say, is the day his family also has no electronic freedom.
I don't. Left of our left enters socialism pretty quickly. Socialists are far too interested in peoples' personal business. Without any resistance, they'd legislate every little detail and/or use taxes as behavior modifiers. It's reprehensible...not that the right is any better, it's just that their blacklist targets would be different. Until we can find a better way of reliably retaining wiser leadership, minimizing government power is the way to go.
Privately funded, the services are built to benefit those who built them, and thus the customers who use them also become pawns in this. Publicly funded, they become subject to the whims of those in power, most of whom are myopic crusaders for some issue who have no concept of liberty, privacy, or decency (only their definitions of the latter count).
Cracking the two party system is only part of the solution. We need a government that doesn't listen solely to well-funded social and economic lobby groups. Good luck figuring that one out.
My point was that the more extreme the ideology, the more authoritarian it becomes. The more authoritarian it becomes, the more it becomes like other extreme ideologies. The differences only matter within the scope citizens have to direct their own lives. It's been awhile since I've read 1984 so I've forgotten most of the details, but iirc, socialism was not depicted as a utopia for contrast. I'll have to read it again.
1. government directed economy: check 2. centralized identification and tracking policies for citizens: check 3. newspeak style propaganda: check
This admittedly short list could describes and forms the pragmatic and operational basis of both the nazis and soviets (and america, too, more and more unfortunately). really, what is the difference? just about ALL governments claim to be for liberty and justice. very few (if any) actually get there. The grandeur of power damages all but the most wise of leadership. A modern fictional example would be the movie 'gladiator' which I'm sure was based off previous works. It's a classic story that describes the concept that, given sufficent time, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Those that should lead are the ones who can truly do it out of duty without getting off on it. These people are vanishingly rare.
Our democrat party is quite left enough for us, thank you very much. You imply that your definition of left is the only one, or rather that your scope of what constitutes left and right is the only one that counts, then you apply that to the rest of the world as a fallacy. To the average american, your definition of 'left' is practically indistinguishable from 'communist.' Your definition is not objective. Neither is mine. Americans value individuality much more than most other nations, so I don't see a problem with it. I DO see plenty of problems with right-left dichotomy being used as a model to solve problems though. It's very simple-minded.
1. the shading and rounded corners on the text boxes and buttons are ugly. 2. the grey border around the outside is pointless. What's with this new trend of wasting desktop real estate with all this white space that has minimal functionality? This disease exists everywhere now.. I like compact windows with dense functionality. 3. The stuff on the right takes too much white space.. 4. One positive thing is that this seems much faster.
To an american, process-oriented means that the way something is done is more important than the result, not whether long-term or short-term results matter more. As an american, it doesn't make a lot of sense. The results matter. The process doesn't, unless the results are insufficient.
1) An excessive and irrational fixation on "being yourself"
So, what are we supposed to be, great leader? Automatically submit to authority no matter what just so we can earn its favor and maybe some cash too?
The irony is that Americans end up conforming themselves to pre-defined pigeon holes anyway way worse that I've seen in other countries.
Of course, because in other countries, the kids are told what they're going to be, and if they don't measure up, they commit suicide working in some factory. See, I can stereotype too. Conformist attitudes (like yours for ex) are common to the species. Now there's some irony for you.
2) A fixation on pleasure.
As opposed to? A fixation on thankless wage-slave servitude? What would make anyone wake up and want to go to work in the morning except the threat of starvation? What a shitty life that would be. I don't do extreme sports or go anywhere near the club scene so I guess I'm safe from your wrath for now.. Talk about stereotyping. Sounds like you're watching too much TV. You must have too much free time, please get another job, lazy person.
3) A crap work ethic.
So anything less than a chinese slave-wage laborer is laziness? Your argument is a false dichotomy: there is middle ground between 'special little snowflake' and 'thankless cog.' work-life balance is what's supposed to separate free countries from the rest. Without that, there's nothing to live for. All that would be left is the details of how people are enslaved. In china, you're told what you're going to be by family/government, in the states, you get one chance to succeed at what you select, but if you fail, you're destitute for the rest of your life because the school debt has to be paid by a low wage alternative. Thanks to modern computers, more often than not, everyone (potential employers, law enforcement, friends) knows your personal history whether it is desired or not, and it's people with your attitude that usually want this information so they know what resumes to skip in the pile. Meanwhile, these same attitudinally-challenged douchebags bitch about how there are so many 'lazy' people out there who aren't working. Those who are 'lucky' enough to work for said employers end up being overworked, underpaid, and given zero respect. People aren't robots, but maybe there is something to the asian stereotypes about behaving that way. Sorry, but I have no desire to live that way.
But the fact is that by and large hard work is still valued. Parents instill the importance of education and hardwork in their kids. They engage them in activities they're convinced will ensure academic success. They aren't fixated on raising athletes, celebrities or kids who are socially popular. And people tend choose careers based on what will provide the best living, not what will make them happiest. And they work their asses off, putting in long hours on a regular basis.
Best living? What is best living without being content? making the most money? Is that all there is to life? Sadly, it's the semi-rich (six figure income) people who suffer from this the most: they have all that wealth yet have no time to enjoy it. They're ALWAYS working. Where's the success in that? No, I am not advocating that prima-donning kids is a good idea.
Too many Americans have an awful work ethic. They do just enough to get by but somehow think they're entitled to that job. Far too often I seen people rationalize that mentality by arguing that they deserve better, that they could do what management does. Maybe they can, but given that they can barely do their own jobs right, I wouldn't bet on it. There's too much self-righteousness going around.
Usually, it's management who can't do the job, so they hire people who can in the form of 'consultants' and *gasp* employees who know what they're doing! When the
Then the owners and stockholders should be branded traitors and shot for their attacks on civil liberty..after all, they go after consumers and service providers... Extreme positions invite extreme reprisals...right? Apparently, if one has enough money to bribe...
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moving to higher sample rates and bit depths allows easier filtering of nyquist noise. the highest audible frequencies are damn close to the nyquist limit of 44100hz making it difficult to filter the aliasing without losing high frequency information. higher frequencies also benefit from additional samples.
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1. what missing functionality? the article doesn't say.
2. define 'usability.' is this another "it's not windows" whine fest? osx isn't windows either but you don't see many complaining about that. that's right, end users can't install that latest trojaned screensaver or other useless app that, of course, they 'must' have...or maybe they can't play their mp3s, but that's not linux' fault, that's a policy issue. of course, with windows, it's easier for the average worker bee to get around such things.
3. interoperability with what exactly? just about any enterprise level printer and scanner will work with any os. I can't believe it's 2011 and we're still dealing with 'winmodem' style 'hardware'. Even on windows most of that hardware performs poorly. It's junk. Stop buying it.
this attitude is probably why so many guis today are boated and slow as hell on microwave frequency clocked hardware. more 'expressive' and abstract languages tend to run in VMs and/or interpreters (which are often coded in c++ anyway) which makes the execution speed orders of magnitude slower than they need to be..
pff.. physical abuse is just another weapon, like this gps. a weapon that'll get misused. that's why corporal punishment was banned in the first place: misuse.
Raw fish and 3rd graders? are you kidding? most kids' palettes are sensitive and the fish smell is a big turn off to a lot of them... this goes for just about all seafood. sure they might like it when they get a bit older but you've got to be kidding me about suggesting sushi. many ADULTS have trouble with the smell. I think an attempt to make the status quo healthier would be a better way to go, like a subway like menu with quality cuts of meat and fresh vegetables.
fine the parents because the school system loses money based on the rules the government setup in the first place?? talk about twisted justice.
wat? You forget that these kids will grow up into adults who will see no problem with taking the rights away from the rest of us too.
disregarding irresponsible and/or hypocritical authority is what defends liberty. yes, blind ignorance of wise leadership leads to chaos, but blind submission to any sort of leadership leads to a reductionist society where no one is allowed to do much of anything. I find it interesting that youth mostly finds a reason to disregard authority and most older people (like yourself judging by your low id number) find excuses to defend it, no matter what the actual situation is and what the solution to it might be. IMO both sides' wish to mislead and/or manipulate the rules to stick it to the other places both on an equal moral plane and thus equally responsible for any conflicts. You've got no room to preach. Many school systems are corrupt and full of insecure opportunistic bullies that try to pass themselves off as teachers/administrators. The 'handbooks' at most schools read like the rules for a prison cell block. I grew up going to such a school system and it was quite unpleasant, despite being in a wealthy area as a well-behaved student. This is one situation where the faculty has overstepped their bounds because the students aren't their responsibility once school lets out and they are sending the wrong message to them (all of them, not just those who are tracked). Yes, this is school and the students aren't adults, but we don't want them growing up with the idea that such invasive and ubiquitous tracking is morally acceptable for ANY reason, nor do we want parents thinking that the school system will do their parenting for them.
Send your kids to private school, or home school them;
Both options cost money that most cannot afford.
women do the same kind of thing, just with things men don't tend to care about. Want examples? Flip on the tv and watch some soaps like 'desperate housewives' and 'jersey shore.' Women get off on that shit, that's why there's so much of it.
statstically more men are drawn to math/science/technology than women. Big surprise there. that's why most people who post to wiki are male. However, I am sure there are articles written by women on subjects they're interested in. Does anyone here even wonder about the gender of the author when they're looking something up? I highly doubt it. Why? Because gender in this case is an irrelevant attribute. The article is sound or it is not.. Another example of 'initiatives' like this is when colleges fall over themselves to get women into their male dominated programs, not because they're intellectually superior, but just because they're women. That's straight up discrimination, period.
Why does it have to be 50/50 across EVERY demographic dichotomy everywhere? seriously, just because one grouping is under/over represented doesn't mean it's due to malicious intent. A lot of this is natural self-selection. It doesn't need fixing. Of course, that doesn't stop insecure individuals from those demographics from forming 'political action committees' just so they can cry victim when they're culled from the herd in some context. In the case of women's rights, the situation has gotten so biased that it's impossible for any organization to avoid catering to feminist gynocentricism which usually boils down to: "you are not complete without us women, and women have special needs yet we are 'equal,' and, no, we don't hate men, in fact, we love them, so long as they act/think like women." In any context, individuals who don't fit the norm are ostracized sometimes, yes, and that should be dealt with on a per-individual basis, but only when they were judged based on irrelevant attributes (add/delete the article because it rules/sucks, not because of the gender of the author).
His wife won't tolerate the mod or hack that bricks a $5000 investment in home theater hardware on Super Bowl Sunday. His kids won't take well to being cut off from on their online gaming and social networking accounts.
He should quit being a wuss, especially if he's paying the bills. Sexist gynocentrism be damned. If he's really a geek, the hack won't brick anything at all.
The PS3 supports a webcam and printer. The Internet "app" can be built into any piece of hardware. The Denon receiver that supports digital broadcast and satellite radio. The Samsung Blu-Ray player.
When sally asks for the $150 webcam and printer addons for her ps3, daddy geek says "we already have a printer for the computer. Use that."
Content protection - "rights management?" No problem. Flash animation? No problem. The licensed HVEC decoder that delievers 1080p video or better and multichannel theater sound at half the bit rate of H.264 or WebM? No problem.
When wifey asks/demands that he get her favorite show onto some non-aligned device made by a company that doesn't have an 'agreement' with the publisher, hubby geek says "That's why I told you to buy the disk and not the streaming 'service.' Tough shit bitch."
The geek can fret and fume but he has no say.
The day he has no say, is the day his family also has no electronic freedom.
I don't. Left of our left enters socialism pretty quickly. Socialists are far too interested in peoples' personal business. Without any resistance, they'd legislate every little detail and/or use taxes as behavior modifiers. It's reprehensible...not that the right is any better, it's just that their blacklist targets would be different. Until we can find a better way of reliably retaining wiser leadership, minimizing government power is the way to go.
Privately funded, the services are built to benefit those who built them, and thus the customers who use them also become pawns in this. Publicly funded, they become subject to the whims of those in power, most of whom are myopic crusaders for some issue who have no concept of liberty, privacy, or decency (only their definitions of the latter count).
Cracking the two party system is only part of the solution. We need a government that doesn't listen solely to well-funded social and economic lobby groups. Good luck figuring that one out.
My point was that the more extreme the ideology, the more authoritarian it becomes. The more authoritarian it becomes, the more it becomes like other extreme ideologies. The differences only matter within the scope citizens have to direct their own lives. It's been awhile since I've read 1984 so I've forgotten most of the details, but iirc, socialism was not depicted as a utopia for contrast. I'll have to read it again.
Single dimensional dichotomies are about all that most people can handle when it comes to analysis, which is unfortunate.
1. government directed economy: check
2. centralized identification and tracking policies for citizens: check
3. newspeak style propaganda: check
This admittedly short list could describes and forms the pragmatic and operational basis of both the nazis and soviets (and america, too, more and more unfortunately). really, what is the difference? just about ALL governments claim to be for liberty and justice. very few (if any) actually get there. The grandeur of power damages all but the most wise of leadership. A modern fictional example would be the movie 'gladiator' which I'm sure was based off previous works. It's a classic story that describes the concept that, given sufficent time, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Those that should lead are the ones who can truly do it out of duty without getting off on it. These people are vanishingly rare.
Our democrat party is quite left enough for us, thank you very much. You imply that your definition of left is the only one, or rather that your scope of what constitutes left and right is the only one that counts, then you apply that to the rest of the world as a fallacy. To the average american, your definition of 'left' is practically indistinguishable from 'communist.' Your definition is not objective. Neither is mine. Americans value individuality much more than most other nations, so I don't see a problem with it. I DO see plenty of problems with right-left dichotomy being used as a model to solve problems though. It's very simple-minded.
Did it start with google, or with apple, or somewhere else? Talk about a powerful force, even ms suffers from it now.
well four things! oops..
1. the shading and rounded corners on the text boxes and buttons are ugly.
2. the grey border around the outside is pointless. What's with this new trend of wasting desktop real estate with all this white space that has minimal functionality? This disease exists everywhere now.. I like compact windows with dense functionality.
3. The stuff on the right takes too much white space..
4. One positive thing is that this seems much faster.
To an american, process-oriented means that the way something is done is more important than the result, not whether long-term or short-term results matter more. As an american, it doesn't make a lot of sense. The results matter. The process doesn't, unless the results are insufficient.
1) An excessive and irrational fixation on "being yourself"
So, what are we supposed to be, great leader? Automatically submit to authority no matter what just so we can earn its favor and maybe some cash too?
The irony is that Americans end up conforming themselves to pre-defined pigeon holes anyway way worse that I've seen in other countries.
Of course, because in other countries, the kids are told what they're going to be, and if they don't measure up, they commit suicide working in some factory. See, I can stereotype too. Conformist attitudes (like yours for ex) are common to the species. Now there's some irony for you.
2) A fixation on pleasure.
As opposed to? A fixation on thankless wage-slave servitude? What would make anyone wake up and want to go to work in the morning except the threat of starvation? What a shitty life that would be. I don't do extreme sports or go anywhere near the club scene so I guess I'm safe from your wrath for now.. Talk about stereotyping. Sounds like you're watching too much TV. You must have too much free time, please get another job, lazy person.
3) A crap work ethic.
So anything less than a chinese slave-wage laborer is laziness? Your argument is a false dichotomy: there is middle ground between 'special little snowflake' and 'thankless cog.' work-life balance is what's supposed to separate free countries from the rest. Without that, there's nothing to live for. All that would be left is the details of how people are enslaved. In china, you're told what you're going to be by family/government, in the states, you get one chance to succeed at what you select, but if you fail, you're destitute for the rest of your life because the school debt has to be paid by a low wage alternative. Thanks to modern computers, more often than not, everyone (potential employers, law enforcement, friends) knows your personal history whether it is desired or not, and it's people with your attitude that usually want this information so they know what resumes to skip in the pile. Meanwhile, these same attitudinally-challenged douchebags bitch about how there are so many 'lazy' people out there who aren't working. Those who are 'lucky' enough to work for said employers end up being overworked, underpaid, and given zero respect. People aren't robots, but maybe there is something to the asian stereotypes about behaving that way. Sorry, but I have no desire to live that way.
But the fact is that by and large hard work is still valued. Parents instill the importance of education and hardwork in their kids. They engage them in activities they're convinced will ensure academic success. They aren't fixated on raising athletes, celebrities or kids who are socially popular. And people tend choose careers based on what will provide the best living, not what will make them happiest. And they work their asses off, putting in long hours on a regular basis.
Best living? What is best living without being content? making the most money? Is that all there is to life? Sadly, it's the semi-rich (six figure income) people who suffer from this the most: they have all that wealth yet have no time to enjoy it. They're ALWAYS working. Where's the success in that? No, I am not advocating that prima-donning kids is a good idea.
Too many Americans have an awful work ethic. They do just enough to get by but somehow think they're entitled to that job. Far too often I seen people rationalize that mentality by arguing that they deserve better, that they could do what management does. Maybe they can, but given that they can barely do their own jobs right, I wouldn't bet on it. There's too much self-righteousness going around.
Usually, it's management who can't do the job, so they hire people who can in the form of 'consultants' and *gasp* employees who know what they're doing! When the
Power plants reduce property values.
property values drop BECAUSE of nimby luddites who think fission reactor = chernobyl.
THAT is why they support internet censorship.
Then the owners and stockholders should be branded traitors and shot for their attacks on civil liberty..after all, they go after consumers and service providers... Extreme positions invite extreme reprisals...right? Apparently, if one has enough money to bribe...
I didn't know the costuming business had such a large impact on the economy...
and the communists will build the gallows.....
ideologues of all types always justify taking freedom from everyone else under the guise of defending it.