missed the point. It's not the difference between bargain bin and average equipment(high end stuff is generally NOT worth it sense they claim audio fidelity beyond what you can possibly hear.). nor it is about the different quality settings on the individual 'lossy' encoding schemes. a 96kbps or lower mp3,ogg,aac will always sound worse then a higher kbps one since the lower the rate the more the algorithmic equation cuts, the more people end up above & bellow the thresholds. It's about encoding in a 'lossy' codec vs a 'loss-less' the difference that makes flacc basically worthless is this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_range all non-losses compression algorithms omit everything above and bellow what is realistically possible for the human auditory system to even detect. Admittedly they do this by using a average which means some very very very rare person will have hearing that falls above or bellow this range. but in general unless your not a human you won't ever hear any of it.
as a response to the person who pointed out that humans are very good at detecting stereo separation. This is true because it is useful for determining the origin of a sound. Our early ancestors without this were easy prey on the Savannah's.
then your hearing must be well above average. everyone i have played the same song to encoded into a mp3(cd quality or above) and a flac could not tell the difference. In case you did not know mp3's, ogg's, and aac encoding schemes only remove sounds above and bellow the biologically possible auditory sensory range of human ears. so if you 'claim' to hear the difference your either one of the 1/10th of 1 percent of people who have higher or lower then normal hearing. Or your lying to yourself to justify all the money you wasted on gold tipped super shielded audio cables and the like.
Yes. they are also selling 'premium' ones which they will promise to get out in two weeks if you pay them $500 now. Of course they offer it to pre-orders minus the cost of your pre-order.
compared to the pre-order wait for the pandora hand held. Not to mention you have to deal with the fact that they might be skipping pre-orders to earn a profit as not all the people who have pre-ordered have gotten theirs yet while at the same time they are claiming they are nearly done with the 3k pre-orders and are starting the batch two run.
That's why when you get pulled over by a cop the first thing is not to reach for you license and registration but to shut off your engine, roll up your windows and prepare to get out of your car with your license and registration. once out you lock your car. The police can't break and enter your car but if you have the windows open they are are allowed to make shit up to stick their head in the car or search. leagaly speaking if your stopped by the cops and have your window open you have forfeited your right to demand a search warrant can be more easily seen or searched. same with being asked to open the trunk of your car, you need to ask them if they have a warrant first.
from what i understand the business standard on this is the end of the month surprise. A few company's provide a website to check your usage, which going to to check also adds to your usage.
The don't play them. By buying them and playing them you support them treating you like this. So your stuck with two rather undesirable but legal choices. 1. play the 'crippled' console version. 2. don't buy the game. spend your money elsewhere.
To anyone who buys a drm infected game and then complains about it later. There is ample information now before a game is ever released on if it will have drm and what kind. So if you don't like drm buy games that don't have it like many independent ones, or don't buy them at all. IF you MUST have it and seem to have the disposable income of a high end gamer just buy a console and that version of the game if you don't want the drm on your computer.
It has only worked in the lab in this current design, and it's not even near able at the moment to even power a normal bicycle with a person on it let alone a car. While it's a interesting development and re-discovery of a older tech, It's a/bit/ premature to automatically assume it is ready to replace any existing engine. In a decade to a decade and a half if things hold together then maybe you will see it out doing a normal engine, frankly i doubt things will hold together long enough for that to happen.
But as a reader of history myself i can't help but draw parallels to other states in the past that have gone from less authoritarian regimes that are for the majority of the country to more authoritarian regimes that only benefit a select few at the expense of everyone else. Specifically the days and years before a state goes from a superficial multi-party state to a authoritarian dictatorship backed by a official party that outlawed all others. I am avoiding naming examples because if you take away the inflammatory names and the associated propaganda taught as fact about them you will realize underneath they both are the same.
I hazard a guess that if nothing external to the united states acts to change the situation. wither it be economical or geological or a combination of both, that in the next decade to decade to decade and a half the united states will shed what ever thin dressing of democracy that the current state of the democratic republic has in favor of a more authoritarian rule by a single party who seems organized to that very goal in mind. Frankly I view this as a fatal flaw in democracy in general, It seems to tolerate the existence of the very forces that seek it's destruction and then promotes that as a virtue worthy of praise like a smoker downing a pack a day and proud of it because it's their choice. It also brings into focus that the historical democracy's, even though they share the name only between them, were themselves temporary and led to the exact same ending. It's like the old saying, the best government is a good king, and the worst government is a bad king.
Last minute addition: to RogueWarrior65. Scroll down to the bottom of the guy's blog post. He has a section with the word 'bibliography' in the title. Everything listed under it is where he got the information in his post.
Two of those anime's don't belong on that list. Both bleach and dbz have ended. the anime's that have not ended yet and most likely will not are pokemon and one piece.
I have played a song that was encoded into a flac file then played the same song encoded from the same source in a mp3 format with the same speakers and sound card to several people. NO ONE absolutely NO ONE i did this with could tell the difference. Of course thats because all audio compression formats do the same thing. they eliminate from the recording the sound spectrum that 99% of the human population cannot hear because their ears can't pick up the sound.
farmvile and mmo's are not games. They were not developed as games. They are made as addiction programs to simply drain you of cash like a slot machine.
Yup and Egypt will still have a united states backed dictator, all be it with a new thin coat of a democratic regime. Just because they have a canal that most of the oil tankers that transport oil to the united states and a pipeline too that carries the stuff we won't support a actual Egyptian run democracy. Because Deity forbid they grow a backbone and use it to help their own people rather then be exploited so less then 5% of the world's population can continue to consume 25% or more of the world's resources ignorant of what hell that causes other human beings.
correction, free for now. there is no telling if the oss devs are just using the open source community to just fix bugs for them like they did with the older version. thats reason 1 that they are not allowed in the kernel. reason 2 is the code has some nasty floating point code in it that they refuse to fix which can easily crash the whole system. alsa on the other hand has not had the problems you mentioned for years. the only time i run into problems with muxing is when i run a application that has not properly implemented the alsa api or has just ignored the alsa api and made the alsa sound output just plain grab the/dev/dsp dev file. *looks at zsnes*
most of the ati horror story's are just that story's. i thought they were real too till i took the plunge with the radeon 57xx series in linux. if i had any problem, which i have had very few, more then likely it would be the same with nvidia drivers too. xv tearing etc. there was a time though about 7 to 8 or so years ago when they were pretty damn bad. not anymore.
the reason xbl is so central is the games are purposefully crippled to need it to either access unlock codes for content made when the game was made and then locked out by a executive decision later. or to download content made when the game was made but cut out of the master disc to force those who get the game to use xbl to get it while spending a additional 10 to 15 bucks to get it on top of the 50+ dollar game.
well to be honest if it wasn't for what he did the site would of been ignored like cryptome. in which case just getting the leaked documents would of done nothing if the site they were leaked too was ignored and derided as fake if actually brought up as cryptome often is. he became both the figurehead and the pr man for wikileaks not only approaching normal newspapers with the information to give them good story's but saying to other people who know of wrong doing and don't know where to leak the information, you can give it to me.
actually it would be better if you served in any public office to be baned from working anywhere near it once your short one or two term stint is up. otherwise we get the revolving door system we have now where a public official caters to a private company that deals with the government over the people who elected him simply because he has worked there in the past and will work there again once his term is up.
to be realistic though nothing like that will ever happen till the current system dies, to many invested interests to keep this system going despite the massive good it would do.
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missed the point. It's not the difference between bargain bin and average equipment(high end stuff is generally NOT worth it sense they claim audio fidelity beyond what you can possibly hear.). nor it is about the different quality settings on the individual 'lossy' encoding schemes. a 96kbps or lower mp3,ogg,aac will always sound worse then a higher kbps one since the lower the rate the more the algorithmic equation cuts, the more people end up above & bellow the thresholds. It's about encoding in a 'lossy' codec vs a 'loss-less'
the difference that makes flacc basically worthless is this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_range
all non-losses compression algorithms omit everything above and bellow what is realistically possible for the human auditory system to even detect. Admittedly they do this by using a average which means some very very very rare person will have hearing that falls above or bellow this range. but in general unless your not a human you won't ever hear any of it.
as a response to the person who pointed out that humans are very good at detecting stereo separation. This is true because it is useful for determining the origin of a sound. Our early ancestors without this were easy prey on the Savannah's.
then your hearing must be well above average. everyone i have played the same song to encoded into a mp3(cd quality or above) and a flac could not tell the difference. In case you did not know mp3's, ogg's, and aac encoding schemes only remove sounds above and bellow the biologically possible auditory sensory range of human ears. so if you 'claim' to hear the difference your either one of the 1/10th of 1 percent of people who have higher or lower then normal hearing. Or your lying to yourself to justify all the money you wasted on gold tipped super shielded audio cables and the like.
Your forgetting the various single core atom cpu's they made too.
I have to say i agree with you. other then the name, shape, of the monsters etc. it looks like it plays like halo or similar..
god mode will be enabled by default, this should add new dimensions to play...
Yes. they are also selling 'premium' ones which they will promise to get out in two weeks if you pay them $500 now. Of course they offer it to pre-orders minus the cost of your pre-order.
compared to the pre-order wait for the pandora hand held. Not to mention you have to deal with the fact that they might be skipping pre-orders to earn a profit as not all the people who have pre-ordered have gotten theirs yet while at the same time they are claiming they are nearly done with the 3k pre-orders and are starting the batch two run.
That's why when you get pulled over by a cop the first thing is not to reach for you license and registration but to shut off your engine, roll up your windows and prepare to get out of your car with your license and registration. once out you lock your car. The police can't break and enter your car but if you have the windows open they are are allowed to make shit up to stick their head in the car or search. leagaly speaking if your stopped by the cops and have your window open you have forfeited your right to demand a search warrant can be more easily seen or searched. same with being asked to open the trunk of your car, you need to ask them if they have a warrant first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMjMPlXzdA&feature=related
from what i understand the business standard on this is the end of the month surprise. A few company's provide a website to check your usage, which going to to check also adds to your usage.
The don't play them. By buying them and playing them you support them treating you like this. So your stuck with two rather undesirable but legal choices.
1. play the 'crippled' console version.
2. don't buy the game. spend your money elsewhere.
To anyone who buys a drm infected game and then complains about it later. There is ample information now before a game is ever released on if it will have drm and what kind. So if you don't like drm buy games that don't have it like many independent ones, or don't buy them at all. IF you MUST have it and seem to have the disposable income of a high end gamer just buy a console and that version of the game if you don't want the drm on your computer.
It has only worked in the lab in this current design, and it's not even near able at the moment to even power a normal bicycle with a person on it let alone a car. /bit/ premature to automatically assume it is ready to replace any existing engine. In a decade to a decade and a half if things hold together then maybe you will see it out doing a normal engine, frankly i doubt things will hold together long enough for that to happen.
While it's a interesting development and re-discovery of a older tech, It's a
But as a reader of history myself i can't help but draw parallels to other states in the past that have gone from less authoritarian regimes that are for the majority of the country to more authoritarian regimes that only benefit a select few at the expense of everyone else. Specifically the days and years before a state goes from a superficial multi-party state to a authoritarian dictatorship backed by a official party that outlawed all others. I am avoiding naming examples because if you take away the inflammatory names and the associated propaganda taught as fact about them you will realize underneath they both are the same.
I hazard a guess that if nothing external to the united states acts to change the situation. wither it be economical or geological or a combination of both, that in the next decade to decade to decade and a half the united states will shed what ever thin dressing of democracy that the current state of the democratic republic has in favor of a more authoritarian rule by a single party who seems organized to that very goal in mind. Frankly I view this as a fatal flaw in democracy in general, It seems to tolerate the existence of the very forces that seek it's destruction and then promotes that as a virtue worthy of praise like a smoker downing a pack a day and proud of it because it's their choice. It also brings into focus that the historical democracy's, even though they share the name only between them, were themselves temporary and led to the exact same ending. It's like the old saying, the best government is a good king, and the worst government is a bad king.
Last minute addition:
to RogueWarrior65. Scroll down to the bottom of the guy's blog post. He has a section with the word 'bibliography' in the title. Everything listed under it is where he got the information in his post.
Two of those anime's don't belong on that list. Both bleach and dbz have ended. the anime's that have not ended yet and most likely will not are pokemon and one piece.
and wonder if he read the recent research on how neurons can use weak rf like signals to communicate with nearby but not directly connected neurons.
I have played a song that was encoded into a flac file then played the same song encoded from the same source in a mp3 format with the same speakers and sound card to several people. NO ONE absolutely NO ONE i did this with could tell the difference. Of course thats because all audio compression formats do the same thing. they eliminate from the recording the sound spectrum that 99% of the human population cannot hear because their ears can't pick up the sound.
A lot of things in real life are copies without original's. from works of art to so called terrorists..
farmvile and mmo's are not games. They were not developed as games. They are made as addiction programs to simply drain you of cash like a slot machine.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html
Yup and Egypt will still have a united states backed dictator, all be it with a new thin coat of a democratic regime. Just because they have a canal that most of the oil tankers that transport oil to the united states and a pipeline too that carries the stuff we won't support a actual Egyptian run democracy. Because Deity forbid they grow a backbone and use it to help their own people rather then be exploited so less then 5% of the world's population can continue to consume 25% or more of the world's resources ignorant of what hell that causes other human beings.
correction, free for now. there is no telling if the oss devs are just using the open source community to just fix bugs for them like they did with the older version. thats reason 1 that they are not allowed in the kernel. reason 2 is the code has some nasty floating point code in it that they refuse to fix which can easily crash the whole system. /dev/dsp dev file. *looks at zsnes*
alsa on the other hand has not had the problems you mentioned for years. the only time i run into problems with muxing is when i run a application that has not properly implemented the alsa api or has just ignored the alsa api and made the alsa sound output just plain grab the
most of the ati horror story's are just that story's. i thought they were real too till i took the plunge with the radeon 57xx series in linux. if i had any problem, which i have had very few, more then likely it would be the same with nvidia drivers too. xv tearing etc. there was a time though about 7 to 8 or so years ago when they were pretty damn bad. not anymore.
the reason xbl is so central is the games are purposefully crippled to need it to either access unlock codes for content made when the game was made and then locked out by a executive decision later. or to download content made when the game was made but cut out of the master disc to force those who get the game to use xbl to get it while spending a additional 10 to 15 bucks to get it on top of the 50+ dollar game.
i think you missed the earlier slashfot article about ibm patenting the process of filing and then protecting a patent.
well to be honest if it wasn't for what he did the site would of been ignored like cryptome. in which case just getting the leaked documents would of done nothing if the site they were leaked too was ignored and derided as fake if actually brought up as cryptome often is. he became both the figurehead and the pr man for wikileaks not only approaching normal newspapers with the information to give them good story's but saying to other people who know of wrong doing and don't know where to leak the information, you can give it to me.
actually it would be better if you served in any public office to be baned from working anywhere near it once your short one or two term stint is up. otherwise we get the revolving door system we have now where a public official caters to a private company that deals with the government over the people who elected him simply because he has worked there in the past and will work there again once his term is up.
to be realistic though nothing like that will ever happen till the current system dies, to many invested interests to keep this system going despite the massive good it would do.