considering it's still approximately 11 to 1, like MP3
I guess it doesn't matter if you listen to it via $10 Skull Candy earphones or something. To get anything reasonable, I get a maximum 4:1 compression ratio comparing lossless to lossy, 11:1 would be like listening to a concert through a cellular connection. I take it back, even those $10 earphones would allow you to hear the difference likely even while riding a dirt bike.
There's a number of free batch converters. However, as lossy MP3s suck royally, I re-ripped all mine into lossless a long time ago. I wouldn't bother with converting lossy formats into anything else, even lossless, unless you just literally have no other choice (like your rare vinyl bootleg copy of the Rolling Stones cracked after you recorded it last)
Second or third update served through WU. That was a long time ago, so I could be off by a couple of updates as I don't keep records of the number of times MS screwed me anymore.
WSUS servers weren't even available at one time.:) As for 5 licenses, no, most won't have a running WSUS. Maybe at 50 or 100, when they decide they actually need an IT service or person and that person goes "Hey, for a mere 5K (license and hardware) you can manage all this with minimal fuss" and then still have issues as stuff gets pushed. But, as for Win10, that doesn't make any difference either because everything will get pushed within 9 or 12 months, whatever the latest arbitrary deadline is.
Home user's were not doing all of that. They would just (stupidly) turn off WU and never install a single update. Those idiots are why we now cannot turn off automatic updates in Win 10.
Home users had just as many reasons to turn off WU as businesses did. In fact, they more likely would be affected by an update screwing up their system and would be less likely to be able to fix it. That they did not know enough to intelligently apply security fixes over time isn't really their fault. The fault still lies with MS for not breaking up "updates" into mandatory "security patches" and optional everything else and then not abusing that system with crap like the "Upgrade to Windows 10" program. MS is still the root of the problem, and always will be. Facts are facts.
For comparison, look at Apple's update program which also has a mandatory update process. It's only been used once or twice AFAIK to push actual fixes down. For the most part, their updates don't screw up their systems, although there's been upgrades that have caused some issues. Then again, they upgrade once a year, sometimes more, across multiple devices and OSes. And yet they have yet to have a single screw up as big as any of the reported ones by MS just in the last year. Linux I've always carefully managed, mainly because I like to know what my server configurations are.
Playing devil's advocate, here...
By disabling automatic updates in earlier versions, before Microsoft played these games,
I believe they started playing those games with the second or third update. I can't tell you exactly which update it was, but it was way way early in the game and they fubarred lots of systems. Something about an internal MS driver updating and overriding third party drivers IIRC. They also have always pushed new features in "updates".
You can still "thank" MS. They are the reason people turned off auto-update, all the way back when XP SP2 or whatever it was first came out. The standard practice for a MS OS install: Create install image, disable and remove wusa, install selected updates, use that image to install systems and manage "updates" as necessary for fixes. MS has this nasty habit of including all sorts of crap in their updates which coupled with their terrible non-modular architecture regularly resulted in overwriting non-MS drivers and support files and generally shitting on systems that might dare to run something non-MS. Managing that kind of infrastructure for more than 2 or 3 machine configurations requires a decent team, and most that have teams are not up to the job.
How about your company's team (with the prod. servers) does their job, then? And tests and Rolls out the updates BEFORE Windows update automatically installs it.
How about MS actually doesn't screw its customers over and only sends security patches down the pike? New/changed features should be optional downloads selected by the users, never forced.
Considering my tastes, I can honestly tell you I had no clue who this was. I want to say I've heard of the Dresden Dolls, but I'd be lying. Goo Goo Dolls, certainly, After clicking your oh so helpful link, I can say I understand why, I'd rather be rickrolled.
The only reason I even looked into this topic was because I was curious why someone I'd never even heard an inkling of was generating a front-page story. I guess we know who David likes.
The theory is that if you press the laptop up against the fuselage in the passenger cabin, you can bust a big enough hole to bring the airplane down; if it's in the hold, there's no opportunity to do that.
So you're stating that all that scanning, "nude" photographing and feeling up crap that makes you arrive at the airport 2 hours early is completely ineffective?
Back in the day, flying was one of the few times the traveling businessman got to him(her)self. No computer to work on, no phone calls to make or receive. Then came laptops making it possible to do work on the plane, then in-flight phone calls, and now wireless Internet on flights.
Have you tried to work on a laptop in a plane? Unless you're in first class or well under 6ft and near anorexic individual, forget it.
Nothing to do but take some time off work, kick back, relax, and catch a movie or two.
And what movie would that be? The in flight entertainment (where available, not guaranteed, etc)
I think a better effort would be to make sure that people get a way to confirm their comments actually were submitted and reflect their actual comments.
Try out the site - it does send you a confirmation. Nice thing is, once you confirm this, you'll have commented instead of whining aimlessly on a site that the FCC probably doesn't even know exists. (Not that that denigrates/. at all, I'm sure the current FCC doesn't realize anything exists other than fox.com, paramount.com, disney.com, etc....)
If it's fabricated, there should be no need for concern, every party involved has its propaganda, people will choose who they choose regardless of opponent propaganda.
And this is the crux of the matter, because research has shown that a significant subset of people are easily influenced by something as minor as name order on a ballot, skewing to the first name. Propaganda is much more influential, and has been shown to mislead entire populations. Look at North Korea for an extreme example. Its citizens literally believe that all other countries outside of NK are out to murder all NK citizens.
Now, as the Devil's Advocate, my argument is that if these researchers can beat browser fingerprinting, it's only a matter of time before a well-funded advertiser does the same, possibly in secrecy. By making their research openly accessible, the people who make spoofing plugins get a chance to harden their software before this next-gen fingerprinting tech becomes common among advertisers.
That's not a Devil's Advocate argument. That's reality. Ideally, with randomized headers and a 2 or 3 hop Tor base implementation, all advertiser tracking could end tomorrow. (3 letters could obviously still easily track a 2 or 3 hop Tor implementation)
Obtaining the non-mobile version of a webpage should be as easy as clicking a nice friendly "I want the non-mobile version" button (or vice-versa on a desktop machine... no, wait, that literally never happens because mobile versions invariably suck).
Except for cnn.com. The mobile site is inherently better because it's actually clean compared to the full site. That doesn't mean the mobile site is great or anything, just that the mobile site sucks less.
Honestly, the whole Jigsaw thing, while interesting, didn't require all the internal replumbing they're doing. As for J9EE not running on Jigsaw, great! Does anyone still use EE for anything new? Pieces of it, sure, but EE as a whole? Who'd want that?
To be honest, simplifying the Java system into a solid core is great, but Jigsaw seems to break far too many things.
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At this point, who doesn't support AAC?
considering it's still approximately 11 to 1, like MP3
I guess it doesn't matter if you listen to it via $10 Skull Candy earphones or something. To get anything reasonable, I get a maximum 4:1 compression ratio comparing lossless to lossy, 11:1 would be like listening to a concert through a cellular connection. I take it back, even those $10 earphones would allow you to hear the difference likely even while riding a dirt bike.
I abandoned MP3s in favor of lossless formats long ago. Funny thing, all of mine are DRM free.
There's a number of free batch converters. However, as lossy MP3s suck royally, I re-ripped all mine into lossless a long time ago. I wouldn't bother with converting lossy formats into anything else, even lossless, unless you just literally have no other choice (like your rare vinyl bootleg copy of the Rolling Stones cracked after you recorded it last)
Second or third update served through WU. That was a long time ago, so I could be off by a couple of updates as I don't keep records of the number of times MS screwed me anymore.
WSUS servers weren't even available at one time. :) As for 5 licenses, no, most won't have a running WSUS. Maybe at 50 or 100, when they decide they actually need an IT service or person and that person goes "Hey, for a mere 5K (license and hardware) you can manage all this with minimal fuss" and then still have issues as stuff gets pushed. But, as for Win10, that doesn't make any difference either because everything will get pushed within 9 or 12 months, whatever the latest arbitrary deadline is.
Home user's were not doing all of that. They would just (stupidly) turn off WU and never install a single update. Those idiots are why we now cannot turn off automatic updates in Win 10.
Home users had just as many reasons to turn off WU as businesses did. In fact, they more likely would be affected by an update screwing up their system and would be less likely to be able to fix it. That they did not know enough to intelligently apply security fixes over time isn't really their fault. The fault still lies with MS for not breaking up "updates" into mandatory "security patches" and optional everything else and then not abusing that system with crap like the "Upgrade to Windows 10" program. MS is still the root of the problem, and always will be. Facts are facts.
For comparison, look at Apple's update program which also has a mandatory update process. It's only been used once or twice AFAIK to push actual fixes down. For the most part, their updates don't screw up their systems, although there's been upgrades that have caused some issues. Then again, they upgrade once a year, sometimes more, across multiple devices and OSes. And yet they have yet to have a single screw up as big as any of the reported ones by MS just in the last year. Linux I've always carefully managed, mainly because I like to know what my server configurations are.
Playing devil's advocate, here... By disabling automatic updates in earlier versions, before Microsoft played these games,
I believe they started playing those games with the second or third update. I can't tell you exactly which update it was, but it was way way early in the game and they fubarred lots of systems. Something about an internal MS driver updating and overriding third party drivers IIRC. They also have always pushed new features in "updates".
I'm curious as to the license change.
Thanks, assholes. And I don't mean Microsoft.
You can still "thank" MS. They are the reason people turned off auto-update, all the way back when XP SP2 or whatever it was first came out. The standard practice for a MS OS install: Create install image, disable and remove wusa, install selected updates, use that image to install systems and manage "updates" as necessary for fixes. MS has this nasty habit of including all sorts of crap in their updates which coupled with their terrible non-modular architecture regularly resulted in overwriting non-MS drivers and support files and generally shitting on systems that might dare to run something non-MS. Managing that kind of infrastructure for more than 2 or 3 machine configurations requires a decent team, and most that have teams are not up to the job.
How about your company's team (with the prod. servers) does their job, then? And tests and Rolls out the updates BEFORE Windows update automatically installs it.
How about MS actually doesn't screw its customers over and only sends security patches down the pike? New/changed features should be optional downloads selected by the users, never forced.
Parallels.
A muslim is someone that adheres to Islam.
Considering my tastes, I can honestly tell you I had no clue who this was. I want to say I've heard of the Dresden Dolls, but I'd be lying. Goo Goo Dolls, certainly, After clicking your oh so helpful link, I can say I understand why, I'd rather be rickrolled.
The only reason I even looked into this topic was because I was curious why someone I'd never even heard an inkling of was generating a front-page story. I guess we know who David likes.
Just make the last mile a public utility already.
Or, ban those owning the last mile from working in any other business. That also solves the problem.
Or, leave the last mile monopoly in place and ensure that monopoly only owns and works on the last mile.
The theory is that if you press the laptop up against the fuselage in the passenger cabin, you can bust a big enough hole to bring the airplane down; if it's in the hold, there's no opportunity to do that.
So you're stating that all that scanning, "nude" photographing and feeling up crap that makes you arrive at the airport 2 hours early is completely ineffective?
Back in the day, flying was one of the few times the traveling businessman got to him(her)self. No computer to work on, no phone calls to make or receive. Then came laptops making it possible to do work on the plane, then in-flight phone calls, and now wireless Internet on flights.
Have you tried to work on a laptop in a plane? Unless you're in first class or well under 6ft and near anorexic individual, forget it.
Nothing to do but take some time off work, kick back, relax, and catch a movie or two.
And what movie would that be? The in flight entertainment (where available, not guaranteed, etc)
There is absolutely a tradeoff, we could have 60mpg internal combustion cars if safety and emissions requirements did not exist.
We have 60mpg cars with the safety and emissions requirements currently in place. So removing them won't magically change anything.
I think a better effort would be to make sure that people get a way to confirm their comments actually were submitted and reflect their actual comments.
Try out the site - it does send you a confirmation. Nice thing is, once you confirm this, you'll have commented instead of whining aimlessly on a site that the FCC probably doesn't even know exists. (Not that that denigrates /. at all, I'm sure the current FCC doesn't realize anything exists other than fox.com, paramount.com, disney.com, etc....)
Indonesia or Pakistan's blasphemy laws, for starters. Check on Ahok being jailed for 2 years because of mobocracy.
If it's fabricated, there should be no need for concern, every party involved has its propaganda, people will choose who they choose regardless of opponent propaganda.
And this is the crux of the matter, because research has shown that a significant subset of people are easily influenced by something as minor as name order on a ballot, skewing to the first name. Propaganda is much more influential, and has been shown to mislead entire populations. Look at North Korea for an extreme example. Its citizens literally believe that all other countries outside of NK are out to murder all NK citizens.
It is the content producer's right to display their content in the manner in which they intend
It is, and if they wish to control display, then publicly served HTML is not the way to go.
Now, as the Devil's Advocate, my argument is that if these researchers can beat browser fingerprinting, it's only a matter of time before a well-funded advertiser does the same, possibly in secrecy. By making their research openly accessible, the people who make spoofing plugins get a chance to harden their software before this next-gen fingerprinting tech becomes common among advertisers.
That's not a Devil's Advocate argument. That's reality. Ideally, with randomized headers and a 2 or 3 hop Tor base implementation, all advertiser tracking could end tomorrow. (3 letters could obviously still easily track a 2 or 3 hop Tor implementation)
Obtaining the non-mobile version of a webpage should be as easy as clicking a nice friendly "I want the non-mobile version" button (or vice-versa on a desktop machine... no, wait, that literally never happens because mobile versions invariably suck).
Except for cnn.com. The mobile site is inherently better because it's actually clean compared to the full site. That doesn't mean the mobile site is great or anything, just that the mobile site sucks less.
Honestly, the whole Jigsaw thing, while interesting, didn't require all the internal replumbing they're doing. As for J9EE not running on Jigsaw, great! Does anyone still use EE for anything new? Pieces of it, sure, but EE as a whole? Who'd want that?
To be honest, simplifying the Java system into a solid core is great, but Jigsaw seems to break far too many things.