You're joking, right. Cell phone calls are the easiest of all to intercept - you just need a radio receiver. Use land-line phones, or if you're paranoid, encrypted VoIP.
The article is misleading. First of all, a lot of people read aggregator sites like FARK, Slashdot, Metafilter, etc. I don't know if those count as blogs.
But when they say "people are reading blogs", what does that really mean? I would never read a personal blog of someone I didn't know. But my friends? Yeah, I mean, I have a reasonable interest in the lives of my friends, so I would check out their blogs from time to time. I honestly think most blog-reading is just friends reading each others' xanga or livejournal. Most people don't really care about the lives of people they don't know unless they have something interesting to say, and that is a very very small minority.
Yes, I've read that article. And I DO use LaTeX (not LyX, I prefer editing source directly) and like it. I'm just saying this paradigm will remain a niche market.
The only reason anybody uses ogg at all is because it is excellent technically and beats all other audio codecs by a longshot.
Not by a longshot at all. Used to be a little better than the others (excluding MP3), now it's a little worse. Basically because there are lots of people working full-time on AAC (Nero and Apple), WMA, etc. (even MP3 still gets lots of tweaks.) Whereas Vorbis has maybe one full-time developer and two guys who give tweaks that get absorbed into the main branch maybe once a year.
Hydrogenaudio is where all the audio codec freaks hang out, and while they like open-source as much as the next guy the sad truth is that MPC (also open-source) and AAC are better than Vorbis across the board.
That used to be true but is not anymore. Check out Hydrogenaudio.
The sad truth is that MPC beats Vorbis at higher bitrates and AAC (even mp3pro, WMA) beats Vorbis at lower bitrates. AAC is undergoing active development while vorbis is pretty much stuck where it is, there have been some tweaks but not much. The only thing ogg has got going for it is that it's open-source. But MPC now is open-source too. The other codecs beat ogg in terms of support in portables. I love ogg but unless they can get more developers working on it it's just going be irrelevant.
Hopefully Apple will take a look at projects like LyX ( http://www.lyx.org ), the ``What You See Is What You Mean'' document processor.
Uh, what? LyX is a frontend for LaTeX. LaTex is wonderful but is completely antithetical to the modern word processor. The dominant paradigm for word processors is the Word model of editing page layout and content at the same time. LaTeX is for publishers and authors, mathematicians and scientists. No average Joe is going to embrace the LaTeX paradigm over Word, because Word is much more intuitive. LaTeX has its purposes but it's not for everyday word processing.
And, yes, those stairs, rain and especially faces ARE blurred in real life.
What, you have glaucoma? Are you near-sighted? Go buy some glasses.
The original picture WAS crisp, and there's no reason why the encoded version shouldn't be. We get most of our information from visual sources and so our demand for high-quality visuals will never go down. Normal people take time even distinguishing 64k AAC clips from the original sometimes. But with visuals it's easy to spot artifacts.
divx is watchable and a good size/quality compromise.
Yes, and maybe 64k MP3 is good enough for you. It's not for most people. Be happy, you have what you want. Let the developers develop for the rest of the human population who care.
You can get a 90 minute film onto a cd, for instance.
Yes and as development continues that same 90-minute film on the CD will look closer and closer to the original.
If, in the future, you can encode a 90 minute hdtv into 700mb with no quality loss
This is impossible to do losslessly - that's why we're developing lossy codecs. There will always be a tradeoff between quality and file-size, but it will continue to improve, barring people like you who claim everything is fine, fine. The point of technology is progress. If you're happy with your LPs and your black and white TV, fine, but don't go ruining it for the rest of us.
hardware needed to decode and render the film will probably not use cds.
I see. Well I guess at my school they teach it very rigorously - the texts I saw on it were 90% proofs and theories, and I couldn't even understand the definitions on the first page. And I do know vector calc and linear. So I suppose it's just the level you teach it at.
Er... all calling cards do that. It's how they remain competitive, how do you think they can afford to charge such low prices? I don't know of any cheapass long-distance service that doesn't have terms like expiration. You should avoid the monthly fees or connecting fees, though.
I'm sure you're a smart guy, but I'm just saying differential geometry is ridiculously difficult for most people, math/physics undergrads included. Analysis or topology is pretty much a requirement for learning differential geometry, isn't it?
I'm a third-year undergrad physics major at a top-ranked (according to US News at least) liberal arts college in the US. We have juniors taking differential geometry and general relativity, but only a few, and they're pretty much geniuses. Yes MIT offers GR as an undergrad course but that's MIT. Our math department doesn't even offer differential geometry because it's a grad-level topic.
I've looked at Thirring and it's incomprehensible to me. I suppose I'll have to take some analysis and such.
You think? Yahoo opens itself to a lot of legal liability this way. And there's no way to know if the son really wanted his parents to go poking around in his email. If I died, I wouldn't want my family reading MY email. There's too much personal, sensitive stuff. They can read the emails I've sent to them. What more do they want?
Wow. Home address, phone number, and social security number? I know two of those for most of my friends, and it shouldn't take too much to find the third. Yay, now I can call up ISPs that have idiots like you at the phone and break into anyone's email!
Give me a break. You couldn't help your "conscience"? That's what scammers use all the time to screw with people like you.
I think the authors make the point that they want to hold themselves to the standards of hand-engraved scores, NOT computer generated scores. They specifically point out that they don't like most computer-generated prints.
The scientific community has generally concluded, after years of study, that cell-phone networks, wireless networks, radiation from power lines, radio waves, etc. do not cause any health problems. There simply isn't enough energy in those waves to cause any damage. You're more likely to get hurt sitting in front of your monitor.
and innate?? give me a BREAK!!! I have NO desire to tup another guys arse, or him mine, or suck a schlong, or him mine.... but getting pegged by my girlfriend, that's different!
Great argument. You've shown that you're heterosexual, congratualations.
Could you maybe use that tiny mind of yours to imagine that maybe some other people think the reverse?
If you read the article, you would see that the homosexuality is not just a "display of dominance", but also just pure recreational sex.
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Is this true? Can you link to a source?
Upgrade your damn cell plan and use that.
You're joking, right. Cell phone calls are the easiest of all to intercept - you just need a radio receiver. Use land-line phones, or if you're paranoid, encrypted VoIP.
Heh. Most people don't know how email works at all - they somehow think their password protects people from snooping in.
Speaking of which, GnuPG is at 1.4.0 now. For Windows users, GPGShell is a good (closed-source) frontend for it.
The article is misleading. First of all, a lot of people read aggregator sites like FARK, Slashdot, Metafilter, etc. I don't know if those count as blogs.
But when they say "people are reading blogs", what does that really mean? I would never read a personal blog of someone I didn't know. But my friends? Yeah, I mean, I have a reasonable interest in the lives of my friends, so I would check out their blogs from time to time. I honestly think most blog-reading is just friends reading each others' xanga or livejournal. Most people don't really care about the lives of people they don't know unless they have something interesting to say, and that is a very very small minority.
Yes, I've read that article. And I DO use LaTeX (not LyX, I prefer editing source directly) and like it. I'm just saying this paradigm will remain a niche market.
Not by a longshot at all. Used to be a little better than the others (excluding MP3), now it's a little worse. Basically because there are lots of people working full-time on AAC (Nero and Apple), WMA, etc. (even MP3 still gets lots of tweaks.) Whereas Vorbis has maybe one full-time developer and two guys who give tweaks that get absorbed into the main branch maybe once a year.
Hydrogenaudio is where all the audio codec freaks hang out, and while they like open-source as much as the next guy the sad truth is that MPC (also open-source) and AAC are better than Vorbis across the board.
Rarewares says:
Which encoder/format is the best?
Hmm. mp3pro and AAC beat vorbis at 64k
Vorbis behind AAC, mp3pro, real, WMA, qdesign in 32k
MPC and AAC a little ahead of Vorbis at 128k
That used to be true but is not anymore. Check out Hydrogenaudio.
The sad truth is that MPC beats Vorbis at higher bitrates and AAC (even mp3pro, WMA) beats Vorbis at lower bitrates. AAC is undergoing active development while vorbis is pretty much stuck where it is, there have been some tweaks but not much. The only thing ogg has got going for it is that it's open-source. But MPC now is open-source too. The other codecs beat ogg in terms of support in portables. I love ogg but unless they can get more developers working on it it's just going be irrelevant.
Hopefully Apple will take a look at projects like LyX ( http://www.lyx.org ), the ``What You See Is What You Mean'' document processor.
Uh, what? LyX is a frontend for LaTeX. LaTex is wonderful but is completely antithetical to the modern word processor. The dominant paradigm for word processors is the Word model of editing page layout and content at the same time. LaTeX is for publishers and authors, mathematicians and scientists. No average Joe is going to embrace the LaTeX paradigm over Word, because Word is much more intuitive. LaTeX has its purposes but it's not for everyday word processing.
And, yes, those stairs, rain and especially faces ARE blurred in real life.
What, you have glaucoma? Are you near-sighted? Go buy some glasses.
The original picture WAS crisp, and there's no reason why the encoded version shouldn't be. We get most of our information from visual sources and so our demand for high-quality visuals will never go down. Normal people take time even distinguishing 64k AAC clips from the original sometimes. But with visuals it's easy to spot artifacts.
divx is watchable and a good size/quality compromise.
Yes, and maybe 64k MP3 is good enough for you. It's not for most people. Be happy, you have what you want. Let the developers develop for the rest of the human population who care.
You can get a 90 minute film onto a cd, for instance.
Yes and as development continues that same 90-minute film on the CD will look closer and closer to the original.
If, in the future, you can encode a 90 minute hdtv into 700mb with no quality loss
This is impossible to do losslessly - that's why we're developing lossy codecs. There will always be a tradeoff between quality and file-size, but it will continue to improve, barring people like you who claim everything is fine, fine. The point of technology is progress. If you're happy with your LPs and your black and white TV, fine, but don't go ruining it for the rest of us.
hardware needed to decode and render the film will probably not use cds.
Uh, what?
I see. Well I guess at my school they teach it very rigorously - the texts I saw on it were 90% proofs and theories, and I couldn't even understand the definitions on the first page. And I do know vector calc and linear. So I suppose it's just the level you teach it at.
I use Onesuite. Expiration is 6 months :)
Er... all calling cards do that. It's how they remain competitive, how do you think they can afford to charge such low prices? I don't know of any cheapass long-distance service that doesn't have terms like expiration. You should avoid the monthly fees or connecting fees, though.
I'm sure you're a smart guy, but I'm just saying differential geometry is ridiculously difficult for most people, math/physics undergrads included. Analysis or topology is pretty much a requirement for learning differential geometry, isn't it?
It's a myth. He was certainly good at math, not the best but good enough to be a physicist, which is quite a bit ;)
You are fucking kidding me.
I'm a third-year undergrad physics major at a top-ranked (according to US News at least) liberal arts college in the US. We have juniors taking differential geometry and general relativity, but only a few, and they're pretty much geniuses. Yes MIT offers GR as an undergrad course but that's MIT. Our math department doesn't even offer differential geometry because it's a grad-level topic.
I've looked at Thirring and it's incomprehensible to me. I suppose I'll have to take some analysis and such.
He could be a theoretical physicist - he didn't say.
You think? Yahoo opens itself to a lot of legal liability this way. And there's no way to know if the son really wanted his parents to go poking around in his email. If I died, I wouldn't want my family reading MY email. There's too much personal, sensitive stuff. They can read the emails I've sent to them. What more do they want?
Wow. Home address, phone number, and social security number? I know two of those for most of my friends, and it shouldn't take too much to find the third. Yay, now I can call up ISPs that have idiots like you at the phone and break into anyone's email!
Give me a break. You couldn't help your "conscience"? That's what scammers use all the time to screw with people like you.
I think the authors make the point that they want to hold themselves to the standards of hand-engraved scores, NOT computer generated scores. They specifically point out that they don't like most computer-generated prints.
The puzzle can be played here.
I've been married for six and a half years, and I've got a fantastic 10-month old daughter.
And you post on Slashdot.
Wow, get those tinfoil hats ready.
The scientific community has generally concluded, after years of study, that cell-phone networks, wireless networks, radiation from power lines, radio waves, etc. do not cause any health problems. There simply isn't enough energy in those waves to cause any damage. You're more likely to get hurt sitting in front of your monitor.
What is this a reference to?
and innate?? give me a BREAK!!! I have NO desire to tup another guys arse, or him mine, or suck a schlong, or him mine .... but getting pegged by my girlfriend, that's different!
Great argument. You've shown that you're heterosexual, congratualations.
Could you maybe use that tiny mind of yours to imagine that maybe some other people think the reverse?
If you read the article, you would see that the homosexuality is not just a "display of dominance", but also just pure recreational sex.