I have a decent mid-range receiver & set of speakers*. I had a friend of mine administer a blind listening test on me. I could pick out the FLAC encode vs. the Ogg "higher quality" (I think it was -q7 or -q8) encode about 75% of the time.
Just curious, what ogg encoder/decoder software were you using? Was it recent?
I also wonder if lossless formats will dominate in the future, because if you take away the 16bit 44.1kHz rule, Ogg/Vorbis can deliver a LOT more audio information than FLAC at the same bit rate.* (Wouldn't a 24bit 96kHz Ogg/Vorbis trump a "perfect" 16bit 44.1kHz FLAC and still be smaller?)
I don't normally mess with trolls, but did you ever think that the reason Kerry lost is because he scared the average middle of the road voter? He's a pathological liar, he's undermined US support at every turn, and he's one of the most liberal politicians in the whole country. The Republicans ran a middle of the road candidate while the Dems went straight to the outer fringe. The unsurprising result: Republican victory. The Dems ran to the center with Bill Clinton and got the same result. Gay marriage might have changed some votes, but it didn't change the election. BTW, a lot of people who are opposed to gay marriage really don't care, except that they think the Left is trying to create a new federally protected ( and subsidized ) minority group.
Sorry, but you're trolling. Just what is the difference between the US Republican Party and the USSR Communist Party? Nothing. They're both about undiluted power.
Smaller government, states rights, lower taxes, free trade: sounds like a quest for undiluted power to me.
Reasonable- as long as they choose a very strong password and you have MAC filtering in your SSH to prevent other computers from logging in.
ssh postgres@target Access denied for MAC 12:34:56:78:90:ab >ip link set eth0 address ba:09:87:65:43:21 >ssh postgres@target Access allowed for MAC ba:09:87:65:43:21 Password> ********* Ta Da!
Say the average guy makes $10/hour. The price of a song is about a $1 off the internet. That means Average Joe has to work 6 minutes to be able to hear a song (unless he has one these new high-tech FM "radios" which are clearly beyond the reach of common men.) If the average song is 3 minutes, Average Joe will have a 3 minute deficit for every song he purchases unless he's really into Purple Rain which would be a five minute surplus. Therefore all non-Prince fans should be allowed to download music for free. Anyone who doesn't see the logic in this must be a corprate stooge.
Just one problem. As computers get bigger they can check more keys. But a MUCH smaller match in computer power can make the keys so much bigger. Compare a 40bit key vs 80bit key. Bob and Alice's computer has to do twice as much work at 80bits. Eve-the-evesdropper's computer has to do 2^40 times as much work. (I know this is not techincally correct but it's the same idea.)
People have been trying to factor large numbers for a long time, and it's a difficult problem.
Merry Christmas! (or as they say at the NSA: qp93eywufaldksvnh)
Are you saying that throwing AOL CD's and feces are equivalent? That's really unfair. Feces are much easier to remove.
Does anyone know how to uninstall AOL from your VCR? I was watching TechTV and hit the wrong button. Now I have an AOL icon on the screen no matter what movie I watch.
It doesn't. Inquiry hits lower your score when you're applying for different types of credit more than a couple of hits from say shopping mortgage rates. ( The idea is that if you're shopping for a house, a car, and a credit card your debt load is going up. ) Even then the amount this affects your score is trivial compared to slow payment, collections, bankruptcy, judgements, new debt, etc.
(The banks do want a fair system, because that makes them more profit.)
Why do a proof of concept that's more difficult than the real thing? Building on Earth is a lot easier than building on the moon. The very slow rotation of the moon would make the tether very long.
To paraphrase again...
"In the land of the X eyed, the X+1 eyed man is king."
I believe in most cultures it would be more like
"In the land of the X eyed, the X+1 eyed man is a freak".
Or perhaps
"In the land of the X eyed, the X+1 eyed man is king where x = 0"
Isn't this the start of the old joke about do you pick the girl with X eyes, (X+1) eyes, or (X-1) eyes, and the answer is the one with the biggest tits?
Yes. Because idiots like you will wait until missiles are raining down before they act. Do you really think that the President just wanted a war for no reason?
And on a related note, by your logic, I can't help one person if I can't help all of them. How far would the current administration get pushing for military action in Sudan?? Let the French or the Germans dust off there guns and go help out. What about the African Union?
The aluminum tubes were just one element of the case against Saddam. He would have tried to get WMD's as soon as the international heat was off, maybe sooner.
As for Clinton, nobody really cared if he was boning his interns. That was just a way to get at him. He was accepting millions of dollars from Chinese and other Asian donors and making any policy they saw fit. Another point is that he was being paid to look out for the United States and he was completely AWOL. Madeline Albright admitted she and the Clinton adm. knew the North Koreans were cheating on the nuclear deal and they didn't do anything about it! US foreign policy then was more about propping up Tyson Foods than anything, else.
If you did have the master key for your chip, then would you be able to "do your own thing," in a practical manner? Suppose I don't care about DRM issues too much, but I still want to be able to install Linux or some non-MS-approved software. Would the Palladium chip prevent me from using it even if I had the master key?
How would you feel if the (huge) amount of money spent on controlling CO2 emissions ended up as wasted money? What if those trillions of wasted dollars could have provided safe water to all the developing nations, or saved millions of people from AIDS, or fed half the people in the world? If you're that worried about carbon go plant a tree, wait, chop it down, bury it, repeat.
Slashdot needs at least one conservative opinion. If you want a dose of reality to go with the hysteria go get your hands on The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg.
But say you draw a cable from earth to the counterweight and have a load nearing the geostationary altitude. The cable must be slightly bent to be able to provide the lateral acceleration. You can do the math but at that point wouldn't about half the force be from the counterweight and half from Earth? You can say that momentum will keep the counterweight straight out, but in space there's no air to dampen the swinging of the counterweight, so you'd have to burn a LOT of fuel to keep things in place. Also, how do you keep a 62000 mile tether from bouncing?
This is really only good a proof of concept. Linux installed in carcasses will only be mainstream when it can be done on commodity varmits like possums or even deer (if you need more expansion capability.)
Badgers are difficult to handle premortem, especially if they think you might plans for them postmortem.
In short, "Badgers...Badgers...We don't need no stinking badgers!!"
Ogg/Vorbis is just pretty good?! If you're not happy with Ogg at quality 6 you won't be happy with CD quality either, not to mention speakers and amplifiers that cost less than your house. Even with encoded quality set to negative one people can't tell the original from the compressed file. ( If you are alarmed by this statement, go try it right now. )
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Just curious, what ogg encoder/decoder software were you using? Was it recent?
I also wonder if lossless formats will dominate in the future, because if you take away the 16bit 44.1kHz rule, Ogg/Vorbis can deliver a LOT more audio information than FLAC at the same bit rate.* (Wouldn't a 24bit 96kHz Ogg/Vorbis trump a "perfect" 16bit 44.1kHz FLAC and still be smaller?)
* This statement has not been verified by NASA.
Does the iPod have digital audio out? If not is the analog out good enought to justify using lossless formats over compressed?
I don't normally mess with trolls, but did you ever think that the reason Kerry lost is because he scared the average middle of the road voter? He's a pathological liar, he's undermined US support at every turn, and he's one of the most liberal politicians in the whole country. The Republicans ran a middle of the road candidate while the Dems went straight to the outer fringe. The unsurprising result: Republican victory. The Dems ran to the center with Bill Clinton and got the same result. Gay marriage might have changed some votes, but it didn't change the election. BTW, a lot of people who are opposed to gay marriage really don't care, except that they think the Left is trying to create a new federally protected ( and subsidized ) minority group.
WIFI, baby.
Smaller government, states rights, lower taxes, free trade: sounds like a quest for undiluted power to me.
Reasonable- as long as they choose a very strong password and you have MAC filtering in your SSH to prevent other computers from logging in.
ssh postgres@target
Access denied for MAC 12:34:56:78:90:ab
>ip link set eth0 address ba:09:87:65:43:21
>ssh postgres@target
Access allowed for MAC ba:09:87:65:43:21
Password> *********
Ta Da!
Say the average guy makes $10/hour. The price of a song is about a $1 off the internet. That means Average Joe has to work 6 minutes to be able to hear a song (unless he has one these new high-tech FM "radios" which are clearly beyond the reach of common men.) If the average song is 3 minutes, Average Joe will have a 3 minute deficit for every song he purchases unless he's really into Purple Rain which would be a five minute surplus. Therefore all non-Prince fans should be allowed to download music for free. Anyone who doesn't see the logic in this must be a corprate stooge.
People have been trying to factor large numbers for a long time, and it's a difficult problem.
Merry Christmas! (or as they say at the NSA: qp93eywufaldksvnh)
easier to remove.
Does anyone know how to uninstall AOL from your VCR? I was watching TechTV and hit the wrong button. Now I have an AOL icon on the screen no matter what movie I watch.
But think of the convenience!. Everything's right next door, eventually.
It doesn't. Inquiry hits lower your score when you're applying for different types of credit more than a couple of hits from say shopping mortgage rates. ( The idea is that if you're shopping for a house, a car, and a credit card your debt load is going up. ) Even then the amount this affects your score is trivial compared to slow payment, collections, bankruptcy, judgements, new debt, etc. (The banks do want a fair system, because that makes them more profit.)
Why do a proof of concept that's more difficult than the real thing? Building on Earth is a lot easier than building on the moon. The very slow rotation of the moon would make the tether very long.
I believe in most cultures it would be more like "In the land of the X eyed, the X+1 eyed man is a freak".
Or perhaps "In the land of the X eyed, the X+1 eyed man is king where x = 0"
Isn't this the start of the old joke about do you pick the girl with X eyes, (X+1) eyes, or (X-1) eyes, and the answer is the one with the biggest tits?
And on a related note, by your logic, I can't help one person if I can't help all of them. How far would the current administration get pushing for military action in Sudan?? Let the French or the Germans dust off there guns and go help out. What about the African Union?
As for Clinton, nobody really cared if he was boning his interns. That was just a way to get at him. He was accepting millions of dollars from Chinese and other Asian donors and making any policy they saw fit. Another point is that he was being paid to look out for the United States and he was completely AWOL. Madeline Albright admitted she and the Clinton adm. knew the North Koreans were cheating on the nuclear deal and they didn't do anything about it! US foreign policy then was more about propping up Tyson Foods than anything, else.
If you did have the master key for your chip, then would you be able to "do your own thing," in a practical manner? Suppose I don't care about DRM issues too much, but I still want to be able to install Linux or some non-MS-approved software. Would the Palladium chip prevent me from using it even if I had the master key?
Democrats like John Kerry drive a geo metro and live in a 950 sq ft house with no air conditioning. (And his jet is towed by reindeer.)
How would you feel if the (huge) amount of money spent on controlling CO2 emissions ended up as wasted money? What if those trillions of wasted dollars could have provided safe water to all the developing nations, or saved millions of people from AIDS, or fed half the people in the world? If you're that worried about carbon go plant a tree, wait, chop it down, bury it, repeat.
Slashdot needs at least one conservative opinion. If you want a dose of reality to go with the hysteria go get your hands on The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg.
Sure he wants nuclear power. Just not outside of Iran.
It's about time. I bet everyone was tired of saying "hey you." BTW, what did they name her? I always thought Julie was a good name.
But say you draw a cable from earth to the counterweight and have a load nearing the geostationary altitude. The cable must be slightly bent to be able to provide the lateral acceleration. You can do the math but at that point wouldn't about half the force be from the counterweight and half from Earth? You can say that momentum will keep the counterweight straight out, but in space there's no air to dampen the swinging of the counterweight, so you'd have to burn a LOT of fuel to keep things in place. Also, how do you keep a 62000 mile tether from bouncing?
How many have a choice anymore? All the Ford corporate websites require Internet Explorer. Although sometimes you can get by with browser spoofing.
can be done on commodity varmits like possums or even deer (if you need more expansion capability.)
Badgers are difficult to handle premortem, especially if they think you might plans for them postmortem.
In short, "Badgers...Badgers...We don't need no stinking badgers!!"
Ogg/Vorbis is just pretty good?! If you're not happy with Ogg at quality 6 you won't be happy with CD quality either, not to mention speakers and amplifiers that cost less than your house. Even with encoded quality set to negative one people can't tell the original from the compressed file. ( If you are alarmed by this statement, go try it right now. )