I wonder if the source of this "3 years worth of email" doesn't come from the government of Colombia itself? Then it should contains evidences that Hugo Chaves is the Antichrist himself.
I guess they are trying to compensate for the huge differences between recording quality in the videos people submit. Some are loud enough, others are very low and you have to turn the level way up to understand what people are saying.
They could simply normalise the level, but if you have a speech with very low level and the guy drops the microphone in the middle, that one peak is so loud that will make the normalisation process useless.
But compression is such a complex and subjective issue that it should be performed by hand. I guess they have an automated process for that, and it doesn't have any intelligence, just steamrolls all the audio it finds, whether it's speech, music, or anything else.
What? Do you want to give cheap energy to everyone? Oh, the horror! Next time you will want everyone to eat everyday and have a decent house to live in. What are you, some terrible communist?
I stopped using voicemail long time ago, simply because people are too stupid to use it effectively.
After a meeting or something I would have 10 empty messages in my voicemail. Since I had no way to know they were empty I had to listen to and delete every single one of them.
Everytime I left a message in someone's voicemail the person would either not listen to it or, even worse, listen and ignore. This, even for important/urgent matters.
Many times I have proposed buying tools and I always get a "No, we have a Microsoft partnership, use Visual Studio!". Even an Eclipse plugin costing a few tens of euros is not allowed. So I have to waste my time jumping through hoops to get my work done. This because the M$ sales guy convinces the bosses that VS has all they will ever need.
The same for training. The PHB will most likely frown at the idea of spending 1000 euros in a training course. He prefers to have people working for a month to learn some new thing, and still using it poorly.
Considering how many millions of Spanish-speaking people there are in the US, and rising, you'd better learn Spanish. It may become the second official language in the future. And Spanish is cool. Adios, amigo!
Take it out of the Internet. A grown-up woman tormented a 13 year old child until she committed suicide. Shouldn't this be severely punished?
MySpace was the means for it, nothing else. The bottom line is simply what was done and the consequences. This whole case shouldn't be judged with focus on the Internet but on the case itself.
As a computer engineer and part-time musician allow me to say that automation won't replace both of the jobs anytime soon.
I play with professional guys that have studied music for many years, can read scores and play perfectly at first-sight. Almost all of them have several bands and also teach music. They never know if they will have work next week and they barely make money to survive.
I'm very glad I took a degree on computers and not music. I would definitely recommend computer engineering to my kids. I want them to eat every day.
In my country (Portugal, EU), the power supplier has the option of a bi-hourly tariff. You pay more for the power during the day but less during the night.
I bought a bunch of timers for my heaters so they only work at night and only turn on dishwasher and clothes washer machines at night, before going to sleep.
This is a relief to the supplier because it flattens the power usage around the clock and it's good for me because I pay less for electricity.
I've been using Eclipse for a bunch of years and now I have to use M$VS for C++ and I'm not satisfied. I hope they finish the Eclipse CDT integration with the M$ compiler so I can go back to Eclipse again.
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I wonder if the source of this "3 years worth of email" doesn't come from the government of Colombia itself? Then it should contains evidences that Hugo Chaves is the Antichrist himself.
Here in the EU, with gasoil at 1,40 per litre, Prius sell like hot cakes. Suddenly, the macho truck doesn't seem so manly anymore.
they could have the volume knob (optionally) adjust to the appropriate volume for a given video.
They do, it's called compression.
I guess they are trying to compensate for the huge differences between recording quality in the videos people submit. Some are loud enough, others are very low and you have to turn the level way up to understand what people are saying.
They could simply normalise the level, but if you have a speech with very low level and the guy drops the microphone in the middle, that one peak is so loud that will make the normalisation process useless.
But compression is such a complex and subjective issue that it should be performed by hand. I guess they have an automated process for that, and it doesn't have any intelligence, just steamrolls all the audio it finds, whether it's speech, music, or anything else.
mhz == millihertz?
Good luck with that. People still believe this nonsense?
Learn Mandarin!
What? Do you want to give cheap energy to everyone? Oh, the horror! Next time you will want everyone to eat everyday and have a decent house to live in. What are you, some terrible communist?
I stopped using voicemail long time ago, simply because people are too stupid to use it effectively.
What a tragedy! Here in the EU it costs almost 9 USD/gallon.
Many times I have proposed buying tools and I always get a "No, we have a Microsoft partnership, use Visual Studio!". Even an Eclipse plugin costing a few tens of euros is not allowed. So I have to waste my time jumping through hoops to get my work done. This because the M$ sales guy convinces the bosses that VS has all they will ever need.
The same for training. The PHB will most likely frown at the idea of spending 1000 euros in a training course. He prefers to have people working for a month to learn some new thing, and still using it poorly.
Great Britian = England + Scotland + Wales.
It's that big island on the east side of Ireland.
Considering how many millions of Spanish-speaking people there are in the US, and rising, you'd better learn Spanish. It may become the second official language in the future. And Spanish is cool. Adios, amigo!
Estonia has nothing to do with the Balkans. It's one of the Baltic states and it was part of the Soviet Union itself. And it's not poor, either.
Take it out of the Internet. A grown-up woman tormented a 13 year old child until she committed suicide. Shouldn't this be severely punished?
MySpace was the means for it, nothing else. The bottom line is simply what was done and the consequences. This whole case shouldn't be judged with focus on the Internet but on the case itself.
Easy. Just blame China.
As a computer engineer and part-time musician allow me to say that automation won't replace both of the jobs anytime soon.
I play with professional guys that have studied music for many years, can read scores and play perfectly at first-sight. Almost all of them have several bands and also teach music. They never know if they will have work next week and they barely make money to survive.
I'm very glad I took a degree on computers and not music. I would definitely recommend computer engineering to my kids. I want them to eat every day.
In my country (Portugal, EU), the power supplier has the option of a bi-hourly tariff. You pay more for the power during the day but less during the night.
I bought a bunch of timers for my heaters so they only work at night and only turn on dishwasher and clothes washer machines at night, before going to sleep.
This is a relief to the supplier because it flattens the power usage around the clock and it's good for me because I pay less for electricity.
Great! Can I move in?
I've been using Eclipse for a bunch of years and now I have to use M$VS for C++ and I'm not satisfied. I hope they finish the Eclipse CDT integration with the M$ compiler so I can go back to Eclipse again.
Humans are cheap (and fun) to manufacture but the maintenance fee is a nightmare.
No way! The cold sound of a superconductor cable cannot be compared to that warm, round sound of a vintage copper cable.
Cool, I hope there are also restaurants banning inhuman dudes like you, so I can go there. Children bother you? Stay in your basement!
You are wrong.
You're an astoturfer, and lying.