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  1. Based on the summary... on The New Series of Doctor Who: Fleeing From Format? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So little to say, so many words to say it.

  2. Re:Bug fix required - click to play on The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project · · Score: 1

    What's the problem, according to the summary, this is all about open Single White Females?

    Not even the link, or the document linked from the link, seems to know what "SWF" means.

  3. Re:What's all this "purity of vinyl" crap? on Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) · · Score: 1

    "So my point was, there is useful acoustic content well above 16,744 Hz, up to 20k Hz"

    nope. That's not what you said. Specifically, you said "From 16384 to 32768 Hz," which goes well beyond the range of (normal) human audibility. It simply doesn't matter. And, if you're over 30 years old, I'd bet one could roll off everything over 15K, and you wouldn't be able to hear the difference. Put your instruments away and listen for a change.

  4. Re:What's all this "purity of vinyl" crap? on Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) · · Score: 0

    nope

  5. Re:What's all this "purity of vinyl" crap? on Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's not so much better filters, but that all (?) professional production is digitized at much higher rates (88.2 KHz +), so more gentle filters can be used for digitizing. From there, everything is done in the digital domain.

  6. Re:What's all this "purity of vinyl" crap? on Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) · · Score: 2

    it only records frequencies up to 22.05 KHz which drop most all 3rd/4th order harmonics from many instruments

    The highest note on a piano, C8, is 4186.01 Hz (piccolo is the same). 4th harmonic would be 16,744.04 Hz. Most instruments are lower than that. What are you talking about?

    Most people can't hear above 20 KHz, so it simply doesn't matter.

    Finally, if you're in the very small minority who can hear higher frequencies, DVD audio supports up to 192 KHz sampling.

  7. Re:What's all this "purity of vinyl" crap? on Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) · · Score: 2, Informative

    DDD audio CDs are the purist [sic] sound because there's no possible tape hiss or snap/crackle/degradation of needle on vinyl.

    And here I always thought the purest sound was live music.

  8. Re:Why is the comparision made against the iPhone on Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone · · Score: 2

    He's saying he "feels for no one," because that's who fits his description.

  9. Just... on Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    send Microsoft your monthly Internet bill, so they can pay for the bandwidth those ads use.

  10. Re:Taking a break from all your worries on Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs · · Score: 2

    Where you see a walled garden, I see a prison.

    Where you see a prison, I see an zombie-proof enclave.

    And it does a fine job keeping those zombies inside.

  11. ...and don't forget... on Ask Slashdot: Extreme Cable Management? · · Score: 3, Funny

    cover all your cables with this stuff.

  12. Re:Greengrocers apostrophe? on Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm · · Score: 1
    Zappa for $200, Alex.

    The crux of the biscuit.

    What's a postrophe?

  13. Re:Before somebody asks . . . on A Piezoelectric Pacemaker That Is Powered By Your Heartbeat · · Score: 1

    No. You're confusing inputs and outputs. A server doesn't generate power to charge the UPS.

  14. Microsoft would have great economies... on Microsoft-Built Smartphone Could Irritate Hardware Partners, Harm Nokia · · Score: 4, Funny

    they wouldn't have to pay for full color RGB displays, since a blue screen would be good enough.

  15. Re:Before somebody asks . . . on A Piezoelectric Pacemaker That Is Powered By Your Heartbeat · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, that's not the reason. A UPS has to be able to replace the full power provided by the main when in use. A pacemaker only needs to provide a small trigger signal, which is much smaller than the output of the heart itself.

  16. Re:The Founding Fathers exempted Congress on Presidential Campaigns Leak Supporters' Info To Tracking Firms · · Score: 1

    "Without a political call exemption, the law would have been thrown out under the First Amendment of the Constitution."

    Somehow, I think you really believe that. "Free speech" includes freedom _from_ speech, The DNCL is a voluntary, opt-in system. No one has any Constitutional right to contact me via a service for which I'm paying. It's not clear why you think political speech has special dispensation - there's nothing in the Constitution about what types of speech are covered.

  17. Re:There oughtta be a law... on Presidential Campaigns Leak Supporters' Info To Tracking Firms · · Score: 2

    I want someone in office who's so incompetent they can't get anything done. Less government is better government.

  18. Re:Bad faith on To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee · · Score: 1

    GP: "Surely any court will look at Apple's demands as unreasonable"

    You:"it would be glaringly obvious that GP was indeed referring to Motorola."

    You're simply an idiot.

  19. Re:VMs on Ask Slashdot: Little Boxes Around the Edge of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    Good luck putting ntp on a VM (a host, maybe, but interrupt latency will kill you).

  20. Re:Little boxes on Ask Slashdot: Little Boxes Around the Edge of the Data Center? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Are you sure about that?

  21. There oughtta be a law... on Presidential Campaigns Leak Supporters' Info To Tracking Firms · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but, considering that congresscritters exempted themselves from the Do Not Call phone list, it will never happen. We don't have a representative government, but one made of people who think they're better than those they supposedly represent.

  22. Re:Bad faith on To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee · · Score: 2

    "why post a comment when you can't even be bothered to read the summary?"

    Those are Motorola's demands. The parent was asking what are Apple's demands, which is clear if you read the GP. Apple is also demanding license fees for patents it claims Android is infringing. Those fees are not mentioned in the article, yet alone the summary. But they can be found here.

    To answer the question, Apple thinks $30 per unit is reasonable to cover some questionable, non-essential, utility patents.

    Why post a snarky answer to a question when you can't even bother to understand the question?

  23. Although... on FTC Whacks "Rachel From Card Holder Services" · · Score: 4, Informative

    perhaps there's some vigilante justice out there.

    According the the complaint, one of the companies was run by Christopher L Miano and Dana M Miano, and operated as A+ Financial, out of 10258 S US Highway 1, Port Saint Lucie, FL. The other companies were created and run by Willy Plancher and Valbona Toska, and was in the Longwood/Winter Park/Altamonte Springs, Florida area. Their last known address was 383 Emerson Plaza, Suite 416, Altamonte Springs, FL.

  24. Re:Super Duper on Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads · · Score: 1

    Please don't insult the Turks.

  25. Re:Super Duper on Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to give timothy a break. It's obvious that he can't read, and has simply been trained to click a button for food.