I'm confused... I thought AAC was a lossless format, so when produced from the copying of a digital medium (like ripping a CD) wouldn't there theoretically be NO difference between the two? I mean, it's all just bits on a disk one way or the other, isn't it?
I've been specifically using this format to rip all of my CDs to my iPod to appease my audiophile friends who have to suffer through my playlists on any given occassion, so I hope I'm right.
They pay a nice little one time bonus to non-smokers, and have a bunch of little health programs that pay off to your flexible spending if you complete them. These programs include things like participating in diet monitoring and improvement programs as well as passing little health tests and the like.
I think this is a great idea on the part of my company as it probably helps them cut insurance costs in the long run, as well as supporting the general wellness of employees through the positive reinforcement of free money:)
When Spike did it in Cowboy Bebop it was pretty funny. He takes a big gulp of air before doing it, so he's flying through space with puffed out cheeks.
When I first read through this I was baffled. I thought maybe MySpace or Facebook had switched over to some scrutinizing application for membership, or something. As they stand these communities are open to anyone willing to, as the article points out, put something back in (i.e. a name, picture, etc., etc.), which is the WHOLE POINT of these web 2.0 social networks anyway!
Well said, my friend. Well said. I'd mod you up if I had the points:)
Ahh yes, the stereotype has long existed, but it took research and dedicated scientists to come up with actual data to support the fact that us/.types don't get much action. The jump from allegorical to empirical has solidified our loserishness.
Hrmm... It's all kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy isn't it...;)
While I like to hope I am one of those "luddite-like"/.ers that you mention, and totally agree that this seems like a worthless provision to have installed at a beach, and also that paying to get on a beach is rather crazy... More over than anything else, I can't help but point out the lunacy of anyone who may consider OC, NJ a "majestic natural experience of ocean and land.":P
Oh, and before I get bashed for some semantic reason, I know Linux isn't a "developemt platform." What I mean to say is I was writing lots of C code and using the gcc compilers that were running on Linux boxes. I was wrting the actual code in an Emacs editor, usually... Sometimes Vi. When telneting in, I couldn't use the slightly more convenient XEmacs editor (err... I could use it, but rather, it would afford me nothing working in a terminal emulator), so I had to write my own little scripts to do things like use the backspace key and arrow keys, etc.
Bah! What's the point of defending myself. I'm going to get bashed anyway.
Actually, I throughout most of college I was using Linux exclusively as my development platform for any of my classes. If I wasn't at a lab workstation running Linux directly, I was at home telneting (yes, telneting) into the schools servers and using Linux that way. Additionally, the particular frustration I vent here (the hours upon hours of make commands) has to do with a class in operating systems where we were asked to make modifications to the kernal for various projects.
See, this is why I stay out of the discussions most of time. The second you say one bad thing about Linux and/or one positive thing about MS you get labeled an idiot. THERE ARE OTHER POINTS OF VIEW!!!
Oh, and I don't think you're a dick or anything, and even if you were I wouldn't take offense to anything expressed to me on/. Especially by an AC:P
You know, I'm glad someone could say it. I've avoided contributing to these discussions for simple fear of being declared a flamebaiter since bashing MS is the number one favorite thing of many/.ers
The last time I ever had Windows crash on me was back with 95! I felt that even 98 felt pretty sturdy installed over an NTFS partition (the fat32 was something else, and I'll admit that). Overall, though, I've never really had any issue at all with MS OSs and I've definitely been running my systems through their paces.
Now, and this is totally IMHO and not meant to be mean/annoying/whatever, when you can spend hours upon hours (most of it just spent waiting for make commands to finish running), hacking around the Linux kernal, only to get a seg fault, you realize that *Nix is not an OS, it's a hobby. All well in good for the user that LIKES to get into the nitty gritty of their OSs all the time, but not for the user that is happy just clicking along 75%+ of the time, but isn't quite ready to adopt the ultra-pretty OSX environment.
See, I never got statements and claims like this one. Physics (even the highly theoretical kind) is just a practical application of math. How can someone like Einstein not be a brilliant mathematician? I think I read somewhere once that maybe he did poorly in grade school math, but I can see that being more out of boredom with the drudge of arithmatic than failure to comprehend. You need a solid foundation in calculus before you can even begin to truly understand the most basic physics, so I'm sure Einstein had his math skills up to par to be doing the type of stuff he was doing.
"Faulty math" here has more to do with the inconsistency in theoretical models that deal with things at the quantum level as compared to everything else we currently "understand." It's not like Einstein factored a polynomial wrong, or dropped a remainder, or forgot to carry or something:)
Personally I feel like those episodes were frequently poorly done
I really hope you're not counting the "Squeeze" episode and it's follow up. Those were classics! And what about "Ghost in the Machine"??? Or "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"??? Or "Home"???
Agreed, the conspiracy arc was great, but the stand alones are just as memorable. I think this movie will be a disappointment to anyone who wants more answers or closure to the series. Actually, I bet they even write this up as a prequal of sorts that takes place before Mulder took a break from the show.
They should be careful with this thing. I heard that if you go inside it, it will give you the ability to manifest your thoughts into reality! Usually situations like that just end up with giant squids attacking your underwater science labs.
I've contributed to a bunch of forums in the past where settings were available to have the system "eat" posts that remained inactive for X amount of time.
I remember learning about this managerial style from George Bluth who constantly shot down his son's business ideas in order to keep him constantly striving to gain his approval. I'm still waiting to read the Slashdot post about BillG burning his hands on a cornballer:)
I think they just want it to look more Vista-y. "Fluence", the new toolbar interface for Office 2007, looks way different than previous gens in that they got rid of the menu bar. I guess they figured they wanted IE7 to mesh more. Ever notice how the new back and forward buttons look like the new Vista "Pearl."
Residents of Boston should take care to note what kind of light displays they're putting up. I hear the anti-terrorism laws are really strict against Mooninites;)
I'm not familiar with the books, but I have seen the movies (if that counts for anything), and it always felt that magic in world of Harry Potter was treated as a branch of science. The kids go to school for it, there's an experimental element to most of the things they learn, they seem to follow a "scientific" process in that they seem to make hypothesis and then test them, and the subjects have scienc-y sound names that end in -ology:)
Perhaps the classification of Harry Potter as sci-fi has to do with the fact that they treat magic more as a science than a mystical force (???). I totally get the point you're trying to make, though, and it is valid.
Personally, I more willing to call Harry Potter sci-fi than I am Star Wars (which I feel is actually closer to fantasy than anything else), but that's just IMHO.
Bill Gates makes a lot of proclamations, and personally I refuse to take anything he says seriously until I get that $100 dollars he promised to give me for sending out that Email to ten of my friends...:P
I used to have a professor who insisted that lotteries were just a tax that the government levied on the mathematically ignorant. Kind of tough to argue with, no?
Physical contact is irrelevant, really. As soon as broadcasts can be produced to potentially find any ETs, the possibility for communication opens up, no? And isn't that really the true purpose of all this anyway? To communicate. I mean, sure, meeting an alien might be cool, but what's there to gain from that that can't be gained from a cool high-powered radio network set-up?
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I'm confused... I thought AAC was a lossless format, so when produced from the copying of a digital medium (like ripping a CD) wouldn't there theoretically be NO difference between the two? I mean, it's all just bits on a disk one way or the other, isn't it?
I've been specifically using this format to rip all of my CDs to my iPod to appease my audiophile friends who have to suffer through my playlists on any given occassion, so I hope I'm right.
They pay a nice little one time bonus to non-smokers, and have a bunch of little health programs that pay off to your flexible spending if you complete them. These programs include things like participating in diet monitoring and improvement programs as well as passing little health tests and the like.
:)
I think this is a great idea on the part of my company as it probably helps them cut insurance costs in the long run, as well as supporting the general wellness of employees through the positive reinforcement of free money
When Spike did it in Cowboy Bebop it was pretty funny. He takes a big gulp of air before doing it, so he's flying through space with puffed out cheeks.
Agreed!
:)
When I first read through this I was baffled. I thought maybe MySpace or Facebook had switched over to some scrutinizing application for membership, or something. As they stand these communities are open to anyone willing to, as the article points out, put something back in (i.e. a name, picture, etc., etc.), which is the WHOLE POINT of these web 2.0 social networks anyway!
Well said, my friend. Well said. I'd mod you up if I had the points
Ahh yes, the stereotype has long existed, but it took research and dedicated scientists to come up with actual data to support the fact that us /.types don't get much action. The jump from allegorical to empirical has solidified our loserishness.
;)
Hrmm... It's all kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy isn't it...
While I like to hope I am one of those "luddite-like" /.ers that you mention, and totally agree that this seems like a worthless provision to have installed at a beach, and also that paying to get on a beach is rather crazy... More over than anything else, I can't help but point out the lunacy of anyone who may consider OC, NJ a "majestic natural experience of ocean and land." :P
Yeah, I mistyped. I meant 2k. Sorry, it was a case of missing my morning coffee... In the middle of the day :)
Oh, and before I get bashed for some semantic reason, I know Linux isn't a "developemt platform." What I mean to say is I was writing lots of C code and using the gcc compilers that were running on Linux boxes. I was wrting the actual code in an Emacs editor, usually... Sometimes Vi. When telneting in, I couldn't use the slightly more convenient XEmacs editor (err... I could use it, but rather, it would afford me nothing working in a terminal emulator), so I had to write my own little scripts to do things like use the backspace key and arrow keys, etc.
Bah! What's the point of defending myself. I'm going to get bashed anyway.
Actually, I throughout most of college I was using Linux exclusively as my development platform for any of my classes. If I wasn't at a lab workstation running Linux directly, I was at home telneting (yes, telneting) into the schools servers and using Linux that way. Additionally, the particular frustration I vent here (the hours upon hours of make commands) has to do with a class in operating systems where we were asked to make modifications to the kernal for various projects. See, this is why I stay out of the discussions most of time. The second you say one bad thing about Linux and/or one positive thing about MS you get labeled an idiot. THERE ARE OTHER POINTS OF VIEW!!! Oh, and I don't think you're a dick or anything, and even if you were I wouldn't take offense to anything expressed to me on /. Especially by an AC :P
My mistake. I did mean 2k. Oops.
You know, I'm glad someone could say it. I've avoided contributing to these discussions for simple fear of being declared a flamebaiter since bashing MS is the number one favorite thing of many /.ers
The last time I ever had Windows crash on me was back with 95! I felt that even 98 felt pretty sturdy installed over an NTFS partition (the fat32 was something else, and I'll admit that). Overall, though, I've never really had any issue at all with MS OSs and I've definitely been running my systems through their paces.
Now, and this is totally IMHO and not meant to be mean/annoying/whatever, when you can spend hours upon hours (most of it just spent waiting for make commands to finish running), hacking around the Linux kernal, only to get a seg fault, you realize that *Nix is not an OS, it's a hobby. All well in good for the user that LIKES to get into the nitty gritty of their OSs all the time, but not for the user that is happy just clicking along 75%+ of the time, but isn't quite ready to adopt the ultra-pretty OSX environment.
Hey, they've got the Internet on computers now!
brilliant physicist, but a C student in math.
:)
See, I never got statements and claims like this one. Physics (even the highly theoretical kind) is just a practical application of math. How can someone like Einstein not be a brilliant mathematician? I think I read somewhere once that maybe he did poorly in grade school math, but I can see that being more out of boredom with the drudge of arithmatic than failure to comprehend. You need a solid foundation in calculus before you can even begin to truly understand the most basic physics, so I'm sure Einstein had his math skills up to par to be doing the type of stuff he was doing.
"Faulty math" here has more to do with the inconsistency in theoretical models that deal with things at the quantum level as compared to everything else we currently "understand." It's not like Einstein factored a polynomial wrong, or dropped a remainder, or forgot to carry or something
Personally I feel like those episodes were frequently poorly done
I really hope you're not counting the "Squeeze" episode and it's follow up. Those were classics! And what about "Ghost in the Machine"??? Or "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"??? Or "Home"???
Agreed, the conspiracy arc was great, but the stand alones are just as memorable. I think this movie will be a disappointment to anyone who wants more answers or closure to the series. Actually, I bet they even write this up as a prequal of sorts that takes place before Mulder took a break from the show.
They should be careful with this thing. I heard that if you go inside it, it will give you the ability to manifest your thoughts into reality! Usually situations like that just end up with giant squids attacking your underwater science labs.
I've contributed to a bunch of forums in the past where settings were available to have the system "eat" posts that remained inactive for X amount of time.
I remember learning about this managerial style from George Bluth who constantly shot down his son's business ideas in order to keep him constantly striving to gain his approval. I'm still waiting to read the Slashdot post about BillG burning his hands on a cornballer :)
I think they just want it to look more Vista-y. "Fluence", the new toolbar interface for Office 2007, looks way different than previous gens in that they got rid of the menu bar. I guess they figured they wanted IE7 to mesh more. Ever notice how the new back and forward buttons look like the new Vista "Pearl."
Residents of Boston should take care to note what kind of light displays they're putting up. I hear the anti-terrorism laws are really strict against Mooninites ;)
I'm not familiar with the books, but I have seen the movies (if that counts for anything), and it always felt that magic in world of Harry Potter was treated as a branch of science. The kids go to school for it, there's an experimental element to most of the things they learn, they seem to follow a "scientific" process in that they seem to make hypothesis and then test them, and the subjects have scienc-y sound names that end in -ology :)
Perhaps the classification of Harry Potter as sci-fi has to do with the fact that they treat magic more as a science than a mystical force (???). I totally get the point you're trying to make, though, and it is valid.
Personally, I more willing to call Harry Potter sci-fi than I am Star Wars (which I feel is actually closer to fantasy than anything else), but that's just IMHO.
Bill Gates makes a lot of proclamations, and personally I refuse to take anything he says seriously until I get that $100 dollars he promised to give me for sending out that Email to ten of my friends... :P
I used to have a professor who insisted that lotteries were just a tax that the government levied on the mathematically ignorant. Kind of tough to argue with, no?
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Physical contact is irrelevant, really. As soon as broadcasts can be produced to potentially find any ETs, the possibility for communication opens up, no? And isn't that really the true purpose of all this anyway? To communicate. I mean, sure, meeting an alien might be cool, but what's there to gain from that that can't be gained from a cool high-powered radio network set-up?
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