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.. Is to buy my own domain to host email off of. I'm not dependent on any providers whims or fancies. I still don't understand why people don't do it. Host your email anywhere you wish but get your own domain. It means you never have to worry about changing providers since all your contacts and services can still use the same address.
If i understand the article correctly it's not just going round in a circle like a planet but "jumping" around specific point around the circle like a clock hand. it appears from one point to the other without being in between. But rest of your point still applies.
Yes I do understand about the sampling theory, I didn't say I hear it smoother, I meant effectively it would be equal to having a 'smoother' waveform in much the same way a picture would get smoother as the DPI goes up. my explanation was a very simple way of looking at it, and perfectly adequate for the purpose of what I was trying to say.
I did not claim that I could hear better sound from 192khz sampling rate, Infact what I meant to say was exactly the opposite of that. I can see how you could interpret it the other way though. Seeing as english isnt my primary language my grammer may or may not be correct there:).
Seeing as most others appear to have understood what I was saying I think it was good enough.
I agree with all of what you say, But my point is who knows what the future can bring. Maybe there will be some kind of way in which the extra detail is used to enhance audio into some kind of pseudo 3d or something we haven't thought of. The point I make is it's quite possible, that some future researcher will figure out a novel way of using that extra bits of information to do something AND it doesn't cost me anything at the moment (at least nothing i notice) to store those files. On a practical level 192, 128, 96 all have the same cost for me, So if possible I keep 192. I don't go looking for it, nor do I pay high bucks for it. But if its there I'll keep it.
96KHz isn't the audio frequency. It doesn't mean that the audio contains a 90Khz tone. It's the sampling rate. The higher the sampling rate smoother the signal.
Human perception wise a audio signal recorded at 96KHz sampling rate might well be indistinguishable from one sampled at 192Khz, but so is the file size between these files for practical purposes. I don't deceive my self thinking that I'm hearing better sound from a 192Khz file, specially considering that I'm using a basic pair of headphones on a my basic phone to listen to them. But my thinking is that future technologies might let you do interesting things with the extra bit of data which is useless to us right now. So given the choice I opt to get the higher sampled versions. Kind of like with digital pictures which are too noisy or blurred, but which might be cleaned up with future algorithms to give us a slightly more useful picture.
Re:That's why I like the basic Kindle
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One advantage I find with a 6 inch e-ink reader is that you can read them standing up on the bus.
True enough.
Unfortunately my daily commute is usually so crowded, it wouldnt allow me to read a book in any form. Fortunately it's a short journey in anycase. Most of my reading is done at leasure and usually on my desk or bed so I have a wider set of choices. Regardless I find reading books in electronic form much easier than printed 'legacy' variety:).
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The best reader for me is my computer, Desktop or Laptop. I find both much easier to read than any other device or even dead book format. Maybe it's just me, but I don't get distracted when I'm reading unless I want to be distracted (i.e. boring book). I can easily read a book on a PC for a couple of hours, and in some cases I have downloaded a copy off the internet, after having bought the physical book because it's just more convenient to read on a PC.
The problem for me is reading ebooks are the lousy eBook reader software. What I do is decrypt the books and extract the HTML, then read them through the browser. I have a couple of bookmarklets which does some nice formatting to the text. Gives a very nice format with my preferred fonts in my preferred size hence no eyestrain.
If you think about it almost everyone is already doing most of the reading on the PC when browsing the net, and yet they find it difficult to read a book on it. I think this is more of a psychological barrier than a physical barrier. In my mind whenever I read a physical book I try to press Ctrl+F to find stuff and groans when I realize 'yeah it's a deadtree format'.
Only special case for having a printed book is useful is for something like a datasheet where you need to keep referring to a page while having other stuff open in both your monitors. But then this is only due to limited monitor count/space.
10 might take more disk space. But it is far supieror in memory usage.
I keep the browser open for weeks with multiple tabs open and i've quite often seen it hit 1GB+ of memory use, but around version 8-9 that it went down. while it's still one of the more memory hungry it's memory usage doesn't seem to be stacking up as much.
The only reason that I can see for holding back from the latest version would be, because of potential compatibility with existing sites. But this is mainly for corporates with intranet sites which might still have legacy html. I've personally not run into any such issues. For personal use I see no reason not to update to the latest version. In my experiance while in some version there have been regressions, it's generally been faster and more memory efficient.
I think mozilla messed royally up with this fast update cycle. Had they slowed it down just a tad bit and not publically said anything about a fast updating and version numbers, most people would just update to the latest version without so much anxiety.
Why should the trackball faze her any more than any other object in the house. They are all new items as far as she is concerned. Whether they were invented 1 month ago or a 1000 years ago are irrelevant. Everything is new. She'd just learn using a trackball just like learning to use a cup or even walk.
I like to think of the brain as a sponge and knowledge to be water. In kids it's like a dry sponge it has plenty of space and will absorb things quickly. We on the other hand have quite a lot of our spongie brain filled already for better or for worse.
My nephew who is also 4 years old navigates youtube for his cartoon fix. And knows how to start any installed games. He also knows how navigate to flash game sites from history and knows not to click on ads:).
Generally yes. But remember that anything running on the VM is behind your routers firewall and might be in a more permissive network. So it can be used as a platform to execute a exploit to gain access to other machines on the network, the host machine or maybe even compromise the router/firewall (defualt passwords anyone?).
I use VMs when I test applications if I'm not sure about its origin, but you should always be carefull about how it's network access and such.
Indeed the config is a bit of a mess. Although most distributions have made it much more modular and easier to maintain, the psuedo html doesnt really work that well. It feels inconsistent and verbose.
If it's something that can be exploited then it's a bug. Any security/privacy feature of the browser should be in the control of the user not at the mercy of the http server.
If it was something like a buffer overflow would microsoft still complain how that bad guys should stop sending invalid data packets to the browser?
I don't like googles extensive tracking either, but complaining that it's not using some unpopular protocol is just silly. If you are going to implement privacy control then make it work regardless of the information that the site may send or just don't bother.
Remember the deported British twitters from America? They too thought that their information was no value to anyone and that it wasn't important. Well the Homeland security proved them wrong. How little you think about your details are irrelevant. Its what others think about them that matters. You might be absolutely innocent but if your browsing habits or facbook posts indicate to a possible power (goverment or otherwise) that you are a suspect then you'll have a hard time proving your innocence. You might be able to do that but is the hassle worth a couple of hundred dollars?
People like flashy stylish objects as proved by Apple product line.
The problem with Bing is it's a flash useless object.
If they make it flashy and give excellent search results then people will start using it.
I didn't start using google because it was "cool". I started using it because it actually let you find what you were looking for. If another search engine comes along which give better results than google i'd start using that instead. But Bing so far atleast is not it.
Google created a great search engine. Matching those features is not enough you need to surpass it.
-use something like paper disk [http://www.paperdisk.com/] to print the data on paper made with a plastic. or maybe laminate it ordinary paper. -Write the decoding algorithm using a very basic language like c and leave a printout of the code along with the encoded data. Even a hundred years into the future, people will be able to find C manuals. Even if no one uses it they will be able to either write a new C compiler or translate it to their language of choice. -Your biggest problem would probably be about the data itself. once the extract the bitstream how do they decode it to information. Hopefully people will still be able to decode jpegs, mp3s, and text documents. if not you will need to give them algorithms to those as well. (but for 25 years i think this should not be a problem)
these are exploits for a local user on system, anyone who puts a machine on the internet and lets people log into actual Unix accounts deserves what they get. Unless of course they did it because they live in the real world and actually practical requirement needing that to be done.
While we're disabling any form of shell access for any reason whatsoever, why not stop all those HTTP servers as well and the SMTP, DNS and all that crap as well. After all anybody who dares expose such a system on the internet when history tells us that there will be new vulnerabilities found in those software is obliviously an idiot.
unless because he went to the site by accident by typo error like www.goggle.com. i don't know but you but i've made plenty of typos while typing web addresses.
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.. Is to buy my own domain to host email off of. I'm not dependent on any providers whims or fancies. I still don't understand why people don't do it. Host your email anywhere you wish but get your own domain. It means you never have to worry about changing providers since all your contacts and services can still use the same address.
Ahh. I forgot about him, makes more sense now.
Susans grandfather can't directly interfere (See hogfather) so it's susan we need.
OMG the auditors are back at it. Somebody find Susan.
If i understand the article correctly it's not just going round in a circle like a planet but "jumping" around specific point around the circle like a clock hand. it appears from one point to the other without being in between. But rest of your point still applies.
Yes I do understand about the sampling theory, I didn't say I hear it smoother, I meant effectively it would be equal to having a 'smoother' waveform in much the same way a picture would get smoother as the DPI goes up. my explanation was a very simple way of looking at it, and perfectly adequate for the purpose of what I was trying to say.
I did not claim that I could hear better sound from 192khz sampling rate, Infact what I meant to say was exactly the opposite of that. I can see how you could interpret it the other way though. Seeing as english isnt my primary language my grammer may or may not be correct there :).
Seeing as most others appear to have understood what I was saying I think it was good enough.
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/batsounds.shtml :)
I agree with all of what you say, But my point is who knows what the future can bring. Maybe there will be some kind of way in which the extra detail is used to enhance audio into some kind of pseudo 3d or something we haven't thought of. The point I make is it's quite possible, that some future researcher will figure out a novel way of using that extra bits of information to do something AND it doesn't cost me anything at the moment (at least nothing i notice) to store those files. On a practical level 192, 128, 96 all have the same cost for me, So if possible I keep 192. I don't go looking for it, nor do I pay high bucks for it. But if its there I'll keep it.
96KHz isn't the audio frequency. It doesn't mean that the audio contains a 90Khz tone. It's the sampling rate. The higher the sampling rate smoother the signal.
Human perception wise a audio signal recorded at 96KHz sampling rate might well be indistinguishable from one sampled at 192Khz, but so is the file size between these files for practical purposes. I don't deceive my self thinking that I'm hearing better sound from a 192Khz file, specially considering that I'm using a basic pair of headphones on a my basic phone to listen to them. But my thinking is that future technologies might let you do interesting things with the extra bit of data which is useless to us right now. So given the choice I opt to get the higher sampled versions. Kind of like with digital pictures which are too noisy or blurred, but which might be cleaned up with future algorithms to give us a slightly more useful picture.
One advantage I find with a 6 inch e-ink reader is that you can read them standing up on the bus.
True enough.
Unfortunately my daily commute is usually so crowded, it wouldnt allow me to read a book in any form. Fortunately it's a short journey in anycase. Most of my reading is done at leasure and usually on my desk or bed so I have a wider set of choices. Regardless I find reading books in electronic form much easier than printed 'legacy' variety :).
The best reader for me is my computer, Desktop or Laptop. I find both much easier to read than any other device or even dead book format. Maybe it's just me, but I don't get distracted when I'm reading unless I want to be distracted (i.e. boring book). I can easily read a book on a PC for a couple of hours, and in some cases I have downloaded a copy off the internet, after having bought the physical book because it's just more convenient to read on a PC.
The problem for me is reading ebooks are the lousy eBook reader software. What I do is decrypt the books and extract the HTML, then read them through the browser. I have a couple of bookmarklets which does some nice formatting to the text. Gives a very nice format with my preferred fonts in my preferred size hence no eyestrain.
If you think about it almost everyone is already doing most of the reading on the PC when browsing the net, and yet they find it difficult to read a book on it. I think this is more of a psychological barrier than a physical barrier. In my mind whenever I read a physical book I try to press Ctrl+F to find stuff and groans when I realize 'yeah it's a deadtree format'.
Only special case for having a printed book is useful is for something like a datasheet where you need to keep referring to a page while having other stuff open in both your monitors. But then this is only due to limited monitor count/space.
But maybe that's just me.
10 might take more disk space. But it is far supieror in memory usage.
I keep the browser open for weeks with multiple tabs open and i've quite often seen it hit 1GB+ of memory use, but around version 8-9 that it went down. while it's still one of the more memory hungry it's memory usage doesn't seem to be stacking up as much.
The only reason that I can see for holding back from the latest version would be, because of potential compatibility with existing sites. But this is mainly for corporates with intranet sites which might still have legacy html. I've personally not run into any such issues. For personal use I see no reason not to update to the latest version. In my experiance while in some version there have been regressions, it's generally been faster and more memory efficient.
I think mozilla messed royally up with this fast update cycle. Had they slowed it down just a tad bit and not publically said anything about a fast updating and version numbers, most people would just update to the latest version without so much anxiety.
Why should the trackball faze her any more than any other object in the house. They are all new items as far as she is concerned. Whether they were invented 1 month ago or a 1000 years ago are irrelevant. Everything is new. She'd just learn using a trackball just like learning to use a cup or even walk.
I like to think of the brain as a sponge and knowledge to be water. In kids it's like a dry sponge it has plenty of space and will absorb things quickly. We on the other hand have quite a lot of our spongie brain filled already for better or for worse.
My nephew who is also 4 years old navigates youtube for his cartoon fix. And knows how to start any installed games. He also knows how navigate to flash game sites from history and knows not to click on ads :).
Generally yes. But remember that anything running on the VM is behind your routers firewall and might be in a more permissive network. So it can be used as a platform to execute a exploit to gain access to other machines on the network, the host machine or maybe even compromise the router/firewall (defualt passwords anyone?).
I use VMs when I test applications if I'm not sure about its origin, but you should always be carefull about how it's network access and such.
Indeed the config is a bit of a mess. Although most distributions have made it much more modular and easier to maintain, the psuedo html doesnt really work that well. It feels inconsistent and verbose.
If it's something that can be exploited then it's a bug. Any security/privacy feature of the browser should be in the control of the user not at the mercy of the http server.
If it was something like a buffer overflow would microsoft still complain how that bad guys should stop sending invalid data packets to the browser?
I don't like googles extensive tracking either, but complaining that it's not using some unpopular protocol is just silly. If you are going to implement privacy control then make it work regardless of the information that the site may send or just don't bother.
Indeed! it used to be great. Before they went all out commercial.
Remember the deported British twitters from America? They too thought that their information was no value to anyone and that it wasn't important. Well the Homeland security proved them wrong. How little you think about your details are irrelevant. Its what others think about them that matters. You might be absolutely innocent but if your browsing habits or facbook posts indicate to a possible power (goverment or otherwise) that you are a suspect then you'll have a hard time proving your innocence. You might be able to do that but is the hassle worth a couple of hundred dollars?
Better yet point the thing at a picture of goatse ;)
before we get to the g-spot, could someone tell me what this vagina you all keep talking about is?
People like flashy stylish objects as proved by Apple product line.
The problem with Bing is it's a flash useless object.
If they make it flashy and give excellent search results then people will start using it.
I didn't start using google because it was "cool". I started using it because it actually let you find what you were looking for. If another search engine comes along which give better results than google i'd start using that instead. But Bing so far atleast is not it.
Google created a great search engine. Matching those features is not enough you need to surpass it.
-use something like paper disk [http://www.paperdisk.com/] to print the data on paper made with a plastic. or maybe laminate it ordinary paper.
-Write the decoding algorithm using a very basic language like c and leave a printout of the code along with the encoded data. Even a hundred years into the future, people will be able to find C manuals. Even if no one uses it they will be able to either write a new C compiler or translate it to their language of choice.
-Your biggest problem would probably be about the data itself. once the extract the bitstream how do they decode it to information. Hopefully people will still be able to decode jpegs, mp3s, and text documents. if not you will need to give them algorithms to those as well. (but for 25 years i think this should not be a problem)
... for president bush to be of use i think.
While we're disabling any form of shell access for any reason whatsoever, why not stop all those HTTP servers as well and the SMTP, DNS and all that crap as well. After all anybody who dares expose such a system on the internet when history tells us that there will be new vulnerabilities found in those software is obliviously an idiot.
unless because he went to the site by accident by typo error like www.goggle.com. i don't know but you but i've made plenty of typos while typing web addresses.