Care to tell me how compression artifacts in a 2-channel MP3 file would show up only when upmixed to 4 or 5 channels, or if they do why that would be the MP3's fault?
Oh, for Christ's sake. You, cibyr, can't tell the difference between a high-bitrate MP3 and a FLAC, and you sure as HELL can't tell the difference between 44.1kHz and 96kHz. Even if you could, would it really enhance your enjoyment of the music that much? If it would, you're doing something wrong.
You don't need to do any signal processing, actually - in such a device, assuming the window's movements are smaller than the wavelength of the laser, the reflection's intensity is a direct representation of the sound wave. All you need's a laser and a photocell attached to an amplifier and a recorder.
Yes, it does. I care much more about being able to buy ramen than I do about your dinner not being interrupted, or your email inox having a few viagra ads in it. I fully expect other people to have the same priorities.
Why shouldn't it be proper to say something is a brick if it can't do anything better unless it's fixed?
Because a brick can't be fixed to do anything better. The term as originally used is wonderfully descriptive - I think I first heard it used about the PSPBrick trojan, which really turns the PSP into a BRICK. Like, you can't do anything with it anymore. There isn't a thing in the world that you can do with your PSP, ever again, except keep a table from wobbling. I like having a term for that sort of hardware-disabling software problem, and I can't imaging there's anything as evocative as "brick" for the purpose.
The whole point of calling something a "brick" is that's how useful it is - it can't be made to do anything better, ever again. If you can plug a cable into something, and run a program on your computer that makes it able to store data or play MP3s or whatever, it's CLEARLY more useful than a brick.
unless I missed something or made a terrible error in thinking.
Yep, that's the one. Frequencies should be thought of logarithmically. You can use the musical concept of octaves in this case. 1-18 GHz is about 4.17 octaves, whereas 400-750 THz is about 0.9 octaves.
I could see it being the opposite, actually - if "making available" isn't accepted as a legal argument, which seems to be more likely lately if I recall correctly, then having the file shared from your computer with your email address would serve to verify that "making available" is all that's happened. Sharing a file with someone else's email address would provide evidence (though unreliable) that some distribution had actually taken place.
The fact that you can't remember an individual fact or Bible verse isn't a sign that your 11 years of Catholic education were wasted. The fact that you couldn't take 30 seconds to look it up in a Biblical concordance or even Wikipedia before posting to Slashdot about it is.
That plane contained Americans, who acted like Free people. Every one of them should be a National Hero.
The other planes contained Sheep, who believed that the government acts in their best interests, knows what they are doing, and protects the population.
The difference between Flight 93 and the other three hijacked planes is that the passengers on Flight 93 communicated sufficiently with the outside world to know that other planes had been hijacked and subsequently flown into buildings. They weren't better people, they weren't unusually brave "National Heroes", and the passengers in the other planes weren't sheep.
And you're an idiot, for thinking so strongly enough to apparently never even attempt to find out the real reason.
Next time you want to find information, you should read a book instead of making it up out of thin air. In this case, I might particularly recommend the 9/11 Commission Report, as you apparently think yourself capable of commenting on those events.
Don't buy it. Do you REALLY think Paul Fucking McCartney, of all people, needs or even particularly wants your 9 sad dollars? Buy some chocolates for your girlfriend or a cheap copy of Oscar Wilde's works instead.
Dr. King's dream is dead. Have you ever listened to the speech? "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." The ENTIRE NATION is judging this man by the color of his skin.
Current politicians are voting for much more than what gets them reelected. For every bill you read about in the news, they vote on a thousand more that you never hear about. It's a full-time job for an entire staff of workers, and it's ludicrous to think the entire American public could do it at once.
As to my sig, aren't those people the same ones who tend to praise Dr. King for wanting his four little children to live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character? Those kids are what, 45 or 50 now? It's a damned shame the very people their father was trying to help are taking away his dream.
I would say that a broad consensus, across a wide and diverse group of people, varied in terms of income, geography, race, gender, rural vs. urban, etc., should be a necessary but NOT sufficient condition for the passage of any law.
No no nonononononononono. No. People are dumb. They don't know what's good for them even when they know what's going on, which they rarely do. There's a good goddamn reason the US isn't a direct democracy.
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Care to tell me how compression artifacts in a 2-channel MP3 file would show up only when upmixed to 4 or 5 channels, or if they do why that would be the MP3's fault?
Oh, for Christ's sake. You, cibyr, can't tell the difference between a high-bitrate MP3 and a FLAC, and you sure as HELL can't tell the difference between 44.1kHz and 96kHz. Even if you could, would it really enhance your enjoyment of the music that much? If it would, you're doing something wrong.
That's slow. Anyone who wants to trade unreleased live music by mail, send your trade list to residntgeek@gmail.com. I do audio and video trades.
You don't need to do any signal processing, actually - in such a device, assuming the window's movements are smaller than the wavelength of the laser, the reflection's intensity is a direct representation of the sound wave. All you need's a laser and a photocell attached to an amplifier and a recorder.
It's even easier to not be a critic when you have no other skills, though.
Yes, it does. I care much more about being able to buy ramen than I do about your dinner not being interrupted, or your email inox having a few viagra ads in it. I fully expect other people to have the same priorities.
Haw haw! You had to look up "FAH" from the post above, about the PS3!
You also make poor use of your window manager's workspaces.
Because a brick can't be fixed to do anything better. The term as originally used is wonderfully descriptive - I think I first heard it used about the PSPBrick trojan, which really turns the PSP into a BRICK. Like, you can't do anything with it anymore. There isn't a thing in the world that you can do with your PSP, ever again, except keep a table from wobbling. I like having a term for that sort of hardware-disabling software problem, and I can't imaging there's anything as evocative as "brick" for the purpose.
The whole point of calling something a "brick" is that's how useful it is - it can't be made to do anything better, ever again. If you can plug a cable into something, and run a program on your computer that makes it able to store data or play MP3s or whatever, it's CLEARLY more useful than a brick.
Yep, that's the one. Frequencies should be thought of logarithmically. You can use the musical concept of octaves in this case. 1-18 GHz is about 4.17 octaves, whereas 400-750 THz is about 0.9 octaves.
I could see it being the opposite, actually - if "making available" isn't accepted as a legal argument, which seems to be more likely lately if I recall correctly, then having the file shared from your computer with your email address would serve to verify that "making available" is all that's happened. Sharing a file with someone else's email address would provide evidence (though unreliable) that some distribution had actually taken place.
The fact that you can't remember an individual fact or Bible verse isn't a sign that your 11 years of Catholic education were wasted. The fact that you couldn't take 30 seconds to look it up in a Biblical concordance or even Wikipedia before posting to Slashdot about it is.
The difference between Flight 93 and the other three hijacked planes is that the passengers on Flight 93 communicated sufficiently with the outside world to know that other planes had been hijacked and subsequently flown into buildings. They weren't better people, they weren't unusually brave "National Heroes", and the passengers in the other planes weren't sheep.
And you're an idiot, for thinking so strongly enough to apparently never even attempt to find out the real reason.
Next time you want to find information, you should read a book instead of making it up out of thin air. In this case, I might particularly recommend the 9/11 Commission Report, as you apparently think yourself capable of commenting on those events.
You're an idiot.
Don't buy it. Do you REALLY think Paul Fucking McCartney, of all people, needs or even particularly wants your 9 sad dollars? Buy some chocolates for your girlfriend or a cheap copy of Oscar Wilde's works instead.
Maybe the blogger was using "this" to mean his own post. He was using cryptology to figure out what was going on in the picture.
The prefixication is fine - it's the reprefixication and rereprefixication that are problems.
Hey, guys, look at me! I'm guruevi! I make fun of basic facets of human nature to act like I'm better than human, aren't I so cool? Lol sheeple lol!
Dr. King's dream is dead. Have you ever listened to the speech? "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." The ENTIRE NATION is judging this man by the color of his skin.
"Fulfilled" indeed, you stupid fucks.
A toll-free phone sex line? I don't believe you.
How's this for informative: a link to the paper was already posted at 17:39.
What? The fuck you mean, "some people think"? Have you found a part of the human body that wasn't made of molecules?
So the people who "know best" can run the country. Which does involve keeping people in line, yes. Are you in middle school or something?
Current politicians are voting for much more than what gets them reelected. For every bill you read about in the news, they vote on a thousand more that you never hear about. It's a full-time job for an entire staff of workers, and it's ludicrous to think the entire American public could do it at once.
As to my sig, aren't those people the same ones who tend to praise Dr. King for wanting his four little children to live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character? Those kids are what, 45 or 50 now? It's a damned shame the very people their father was trying to help are taking away his dream.
No no nonononononononono. No. People are dumb. They don't know what's good for them even when they know what's going on, which they rarely do. There's a good goddamn reason the US isn't a direct democracy.