But causality violation wouldn't be the only, isolated effect. It would also likely bring not following the laws of thermodynamics, direction of entropy, energy appearing out of nowhere.
And such process would possibly even dominate the entire universe "quickly", indeed (leading "always" to your second scenario)
"None that we noticed"? (EN isn't my 1st language, not sure if that's what you wanted to say or not)
Well, considering that such events would look exceptionally weird (with violation of causality and time travel) I'd guess saying that FTL is probably impossible in our universe is justifiable.
Sure, it might "kill" PC gaming if all that matters for "true PC gamers" is bling...
Though I wonder how that correlates with the fact that most PCs sold have integrated GFX. And that most popular PC games are Solitaire, Minesweeper, Peggle, flash games, etc.
Well, the "problem" is those are not really ports anymore; often practically the same engine.
Which kinda sucks, coming from both worlds, enjoying both kinds of games - now that Microsoft made targeting both platforms from the start of development "sensible", most games are hybrids; not exploiting the strengths of either platform.
Adding to other answers: adblock is built-in, using basically the same list... http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ (and from what my buddy who used FF for a long time says, "empty field hider" works slightly better in Opera) Plus you can add manually through GUI element blocker whatever comes through...but that doesn't happen to me, so it's probably quite rare...
And no, not everybody will have an arbitrary different list of extensions. Yes, there are some specialized ones used by sizable number of people. But majority (90+ % from what I see...) use only a few common extensions, with their functionality built into Opera for a long time.
Of course it doesn't. But trust me, it offers all the functionality that some 90+ % (from my experience) of FF users want and "can only have in FF extension" (yes, not in the same GUI...why would FF copy things from Opera in exactly the same way?;) )
Regarding your examples - Opera has full keyboard navigation for a long time (well, it's not like in Vim...why should it be? Though I don't know if you can make it behave like Vim, I don't use it; it's certainly configurable), DownThemAll is built in since..."forever", DownloadHelper is a case of simple UserJS/Greasemonkey script or bookmarklet. I wouldn't know about DBus generally, perhaps only about specific usage scenario if I knew what you want to do with that info.
Uhm, saying only that you don't use it because it's not FLOSS would be fine (BTW, I wonder - certainly you never use Nvidia GFX drivers, or proprietary firmware/bios?). But you've said more, that Opera "could and should be" FLOSS. Which simply doesn't fit their business model, at which they are quite successful.
Google is worth around $150 billion right now, apparently. Assuming they have around 1 billion users, that could indeed mean one Google user is worth around $150.
Of course it doesn't follow from this that Google would be willing to finance netbooks for all of them... However not all Google users are worth the same amount. Some markets are worth much more than others. Yeah, again only US would get some nice deal.
Fair enough. But that's beyond the scope of typical claims regarding "why you should buy expensive audio gear". Certainly doesn't have anything to do with quantifiable audio quality that we were talking about (yes, ending your post with "but at least it's quantifiable" is a going a bit too far...)
BTW, there's no need for TV. Using iPhone or iPod Touch as a remote for iTunes (hey, there's Apple Lossless) is marvelously convenient.
So you're saying one set of zeros and ones is better than other? Right...
Note that I'm not talking about some POS CD player, I'm talking about a good quality HTPC which ends up at least at half the price, while offering more features and possibly better quality. Certainly timing errors in digital audio range won't be much an issue if the computer is able to remain stable at all...
That can be solved with a magic little key called F11, and Vimperator and/or Mouse Gestures to control the browser. Besides, you can fully configure the bars, to the smallest detail (it's all CSS).
I think you realize F11 goes a little too far in any browser; CSS goes too far when it comes to vast majority of users. As for full keyboard navigation or mouse gestures - it's nice to have it nativelly implemented instead of the browser being possibly bog down with another extension...
At the same time? Sure. But I don't usually do that. Using the browser with 75+ tabs open is smooth, though.
Sure you can't...not on comparable hardware at least (I'm doing much more on ancient Athlon XP 1467MHz + 768MB that I have lying around here...). And you don't really have a way to navigate those tabs in default FF GUI (so again...more extensions). In Opera not only tab buttons resize their width by default and have more "spatial" behavior when opening/closing, but also: a) "tab menu list" actually allows you to see all tabs (uses Windows Start menu - like "revealing" instead of scrolling through one column) b) there's also a tree view with all the tabs in all windows, with text search c) "hold RMB & scroll" is handy too...
"A lot" paints a bit false image. Yes, there is certainly sizable number of people who use addons/functionality that are only available in a form of FF extension.
However...you are a very small minority of FF users. Which doesn't mean that vast majority of its users don't use extensions! It just means that, using the example of Opera in this discussion, all of the features that most people boast about with few popular FF extensions, are available out-of-the-box in Opera or easily added.
Well, admittedly I can't know the full extent of your mental states. I can better now when you painted it in more details and can actually sympathise...for example I suspect I don't think in learned language strictly as often as would be considered "usual". Though I still don't really agree that painting it (this time) in "spectrum" chanes the crux of the matter, espeecially when talking about the domain of this discussion; when you speak about it as "mental gifts" and characterise as inpaired. That's why it's semantics...
The thing that you spoke in your first post in audophile terms didn't help. I still can't agree with it - sure, the digital is discrete, but you get continuos, interpolated analogue wave from it at the output, at least at the frequencies that our ears are physically capable of hearing. And which has more "details" than vinyl (this one might introduce at most some random noise that is beyond the limits of CD, but your ears can't physically hear that)
And I couldn't tell about grammar and syntax, English being my 2nd or 3rd (not sure at this point) language...
PS. Regarding days of the month - using knuckles of your fist is an effective memorisation method.
But, again, ABX doesn't concern itself with "right"/"wrong"/"better"/"worse"; it only asks "is there a difference?"
They can then say that both sound the same, but they sound wrong, and you know that the compression caused the same artifact or noise, and that they'd have been able to tell them apart otherwise.
I have the impression that you still want to include both encoded samples in one test. That is preciselly the wrong methodology in ABX (which I mentioned in previous post). Since, as I wrote, ABX concerns itself only about "is there a difference?" it is absolutelly unsuitable (and not used generally...) in comparing two encoded samples. Sure, you can do that, but you can't draw any conclusions from it other "yes/no, there is/isn't a difference". ABX is best for comparing one encoding and the original. You can do the test again with another encoded sample, but that will be separate test. Only then you can draw some conclusions about "which one is better?" when looking at the results of both ABX tests. The answer is only about the encodings, since the original is assumed to be the best.
And overall, training people to hear the difference before ABX test is logically unsound. Research in social sciences often tries to hide from the subjects the true purpose of the test. You can't do it in this case, but why compromise what you have... (you want to test the hearing of humans; why would you train them to change their hearing?...)
PS. I have an impression that you want something that ABX isn't, to more directly allow attaching "scores" to samples. But that wouldn't be ABX anymore. And, well...software used typically in Hydrogenaudio tests does just that. And it's not just pure ABX, it's more ABX + A/B I suppose... (uses ABX to make sure that the quality scores you assing have some value)
Evolution started with whatever are the first ancestors of current bacteria or archaea. Perhaps semi-free floating chunks of RNA or RNA-like being plus other compounds it interacted with.
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But causality violation wouldn't be the only, isolated effect. It would also likely bring not following the laws of thermodynamics, direction of entropy, energy appearing out of nowhere.
And such process would possibly even dominate the entire universe "quickly", indeed (leading "always" to your second scenario)
"None that we noticed"? (EN isn't my 1st language, not sure if that's what you wanted to say or not)
Well, considering that such events would look exceptionally weird (with violation of causality and time travel) I'd guess saying that FTL is probably impossible in our universe is justifiable.
...but we also haven't observed those "things" that you talk about, AFAIK.
I don't think we've ever stumbled upon a phenomena that suggests FTL in our universe. I'd say that's a good hint...
Sure, it might "kill" PC gaming if all that matters for "true PC gamers" is bling...
Though I wonder how that correlates with the fact that most PCs sold have integrated GFX. And that most popular PC games are Solitaire, Minesweeper, Peggle, flash games, etc.
Uhmm...aren't current LCD monitors pretty much locked to 60 fps anyway?
Not always. Not when both kinds of platforms weren't homogenized to such a degree...
Well, the "problem" is those are not really ports anymore; often practically the same engine.
Which kinda sucks, coming from both worlds, enjoying both kinds of games - now that Microsoft made targeting both platforms from the start of development "sensible", most games are hybrids; not exploiting the strengths of either platform.
Yes, toggle for plugins is in the same places as for js.
Adding to other answers: adblock is built-in, using basically the same list...
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/
(and from what my buddy who used FF for a long time says, "empty field hider" works slightly better in Opera)
Plus you can add manually through GUI element blocker whatever comes through...but that doesn't happen to me, so it's probably quite rare...
And no, not everybody will have an arbitrary different list of extensions. Yes, there are some specialized ones used by sizable number of people. But majority (90+ % from what I see...) use only a few common extensions, with their functionality built into Opera for a long time.
Of course it doesn't. But trust me, it offers all the functionality that some 90+ % (from my experience) of FF users want and "can only have in FF extension" (yes, not in the same GUI...why would FF copy things from Opera in exactly the same way? ;) )
Regarding your examples - Opera has full keyboard navigation for a long time (well, it's not like in Vim...why should it be? Though I don't know if you can make it behave like Vim, I don't use it; it's certainly configurable), DownThemAll is built in since..."forever", DownloadHelper is a case of simple UserJS/Greasemonkey script or bookmarklet. I wouldn't know about DBus generally, perhaps only about specific usage scenario if I knew what you want to do with that info.
Uhm, saying only that you don't use it because it's not FLOSS would be fine (BTW, I wonder - certainly you never use Nvidia GFX drivers, or proprietary firmware/bios?). But you've said more, that Opera "could and should be" FLOSS. Which simply doesn't fit their business model, at which they are quite successful.
Google is worth around $150 billion right now, apparently. Assuming they have around 1 billion users, that could indeed mean one Google user is worth around $150.
Of course it doesn't follow from this that Google would be willing to finance netbooks for all of them... However not all Google users are worth the same amount. Some markets are worth much more than others. Yeah, again only US would get some nice deal.
Fair enough. But that's beyond the scope of typical claims regarding "why you should buy expensive audio gear". Certainly doesn't have anything to do with quantifiable audio quality that we were talking about (yes, ending your post with "but at least it's quantifiable" is a going a bit too far...)
BTW, there's no need for TV. Using iPhone or iPod Touch as a remote for iTunes (hey, there's Apple Lossless) is marvelously convenient.
So you're saying one set of zeros and ones is better than other? Right...
Note that I'm not talking about some POS CD player, I'm talking about a good quality HTPC which ends up at least at half the price, while offering more features and possibly better quality. Certainly timing errors in digital audio range won't be much an issue if the computer is able to remain stable at all...
...Opera (on the desktop; excluding former Soviet block) and Linux (on the desktop)...
Fixed that for you.
That can be solved with a magic little key called F11, and Vimperator and/or Mouse Gestures to control the browser. Besides, you can fully configure the bars, to the smallest detail (it's all CSS).
I think you realize F11 goes a little too far in any browser; CSS goes too far when it comes to vast majority of users. As for full keyboard navigation or mouse gestures - it's nice to have it nativelly implemented instead of the browser being possibly bog down with another extension...
At the same time? Sure. But I don't usually do that. Using the browser with 75+ tabs open is smooth, though.
Sure you can't...not on comparable hardware at least (I'm doing much more on ancient Athlon XP 1467MHz + 768MB that I have lying around here...). And you don't really have a way to navigate those tabs in default FF GUI (so again...more extensions). In Opera not only tab buttons resize their width by default and have more "spatial" behavior when opening/closing, but also:
a) "tab menu list" actually allows you to see all tabs (uses Windows Start menu - like "revealing" instead of scrolling through one column)
b) there's also a tree view with all the tabs in all windows, with text search
c) "hold RMB & scroll" is handy too...
"A lot" paints a bit false image. Yes, there is certainly sizable number of people who use addons/functionality that are only available in a form of FF extension.
However...you are a very small minority of FF users. Which doesn't mean that vast majority of its users don't use extensions! It just means that, using the example of Opera in this discussion, all of the features that most people boast about with few popular FF extensions, are available out-of-the-box in Opera or easily added.
http://intranet.cs.man.ac.uk/apt/projects/SpiNNaker/
It seems that for quite a lot of folks toying with topology and interconnects is a promising approach.
Quiz linked on that site gives me 87%, so yeah, pretty sure...
Well, admittedly I can't know the full extent of your mental states. I can better now when you painted it in more details and can actually sympathise...for example I suspect I don't think in learned language strictly as often as would be considered "usual". Though I still don't really agree that painting it (this time) in "spectrum" chanes the crux of the matter, espeecially when talking about the domain of this discussion; when you speak about it as "mental gifts" and characterise as inpaired. That's why it's semantics...
The thing that you spoke in your first post in audophile terms didn't help. I still can't agree with it - sure, the digital is discrete, but you get continuos, interpolated analogue wave from it at the output, at least at the frequencies that our ears are physically capable of hearing. And which has more "details" than vinyl (this one might introduce at most some random noise that is beyond the limits of CD, but your ears can't physically hear that)
And I couldn't tell about grammar and syntax, English being my 2nd or 3rd (not sure at this point) language...
PS. Regarding days of the month - using knuckles of your fist is an effective memorisation method.
But, again, ABX doesn't concern itself with "right"/"wrong"/"better"/"worse"; it only asks "is there a difference?"
They can then say that both sound the same, but they sound wrong, and you know that the compression caused the same artifact or noise, and that they'd have been able to tell them apart otherwise.
I have the impression that you still want to include both encoded samples in one test. That is preciselly the wrong methodology in ABX (which I mentioned in previous post). Since, as I wrote, ABX concerns itself only about "is there a difference?" it is absolutelly unsuitable (and not used generally...) in comparing two encoded samples. Sure, you can do that, but you can't draw any conclusions from it other "yes/no, there is/isn't a difference". ABX is best for comparing one encoding and the original. You can do the test again with another encoded sample, but that will be separate test. Only then you can draw some conclusions about "which one is better?" when looking at the results of both ABX tests. The answer is only about the encodings, since the original is assumed to be the best.
And overall, training people to hear the difference before ABX test is logically unsound. Research in social sciences often tries to hide from the subjects the true purpose of the test. You can't do it in this case, but why compromise what you have... (you want to test the hearing of humans; why would you train them to change their hearing?...)
PS. I have an impression that you want something that ABX isn't, to more directly allow attaching "scores" to samples. But that wouldn't be ABX anymore. And, well...software used typically in Hydrogenaudio tests does just that. And it's not just pure ABX, it's more ABX + A/B I suppose... (uses ABX to make sure that the quality scores you assing have some value)
Evolution started with whatever are the first ancestors of current bacteria or archaea. Perhaps semi-free floating chunks of RNA or RNA-like being plus other compounds it interacted with.
But that developed from the nose.
Well, and "classic" limbs developed from fins.
Your point?
Dogs love us. Hamsters universally run away. But when simulating a cat...you activelly get to know how to deal with an artificial mind that hates you.
That will get handy at the Skynet stage.