USPS doesn't have a monopoly; many people actively use (or have at least heard of or used before) UPS, FedEx, and DHL (I don't know of any other postal services).
Well, they can all take PDFs whether they say it or not. If they say they can't open the files (and they're valid PDFs), they're probably not worth working for (HR is bad enough at its best).
Okay, if Microsoft shipped shrink-wrapped boxes of horse shit labelled as as Windows® HorseShit® Professional 2007 (with Workgroups), they'd still dominate.
With some music, you can use a recent version of LAME, specify an average bitrate of 128k, and end up with a pretty damn good file on all but the high-end equipment (and sometimes even on that).
I did a few tests and verified that I could not distinguish between WAV and FLAC...
That's because when you decode the FLAC files, they're the same exact thing as the WAV files. You could probably do an md5sum and find they're the same (I haven't tested this, but I'm pretty sure this is accurate). FLAC is to audio as Zip is to general files; no data is actually discarded.
Now that you mention it, I wonder what CDDA sounds like to a dog for instance. Since their range of hearing is well above 22 kHz, I wonder if they get the same annoying feeling I get when I hear 128k MP3 on $5000 speakers for instance.
I'm listening to Hard Attack (Sirius 27) right now, and I'd have to say that they're using 192k MP3 minimum. Heavy metal is one of those genres where audio quality is important due to the large range of dynamics, so it's pretty easy to hear artifacts. Although, it's possible they're using Dolby AC3 (part of MPEG-2) or AAC (also part of MPEG-2) which could explain why it sounds good and might also be 128k.
Just take a song from a CD, transcode it to FLAC, MP3 128k, MP3 192k, and LAME --preset standard. Try to guess which one is which and see if you're right (play the songs randomly without your prior knowledge on which is which).
They could do that with their own custom version of Firefox. It'd save them a lot of money by just patching Firefox a bit than having to maintain their own web browser.
Since when does 96% of the world use IE? Firefox (Gecko), Opera, and Safari (WebKit/KHTML) are all available for Mac OS X, so you get to test out your site in all the common HTML renderring engines. IE is the only thing not available, and Mac web developers can use Parallels to run Windows with IE.
By not spending billions on marketing? I'm pretty sure pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing (e.g. getting your doctors to recommend their new pill/injection/vaccine/cream) than R&D, but don't quote me on that.
The Xbox360 is a "trusted computing" environment where all executables are cryptographically signed and whatnot. Windows runs on a normal PC, so they don't have that sort of control over the computer right now.
I know this might not seem as easy as clicking next a few times, but installing Quake 4 (for example) was as easy as copying a few files from the CDs and running the latest patch from id Software to fill in the rest of the files.
Casually typing "nigger" would have caused me to mod you down if I had mod points.
A subtle reference to GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America), not to black people... You must be new here (especially new since they've been trolling a lot lately).
Last time I went to the arcade (a few months ago as a matter of fact), I saw that anything with motion-sensitive controllers of any kind (usually guns) were done via infrared sensors. Wii uses gyroscopes, and in my experience, it's quite more accurate.
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Won't cops get paid the same regardless of how many traffic tickets they give out? Or is that quota thing true?
It's called a Jake brake. Some roads don't allow the use of them (they're loud), though.
USPS doesn't have a monopoly; many people actively use (or have at least heard of or used before) UPS, FedEx, and DHL (I don't know of any other postal services).
Well, they can all take PDFs whether they say it or not. If they say they can't open the files (and they're valid PDFs), they're probably not worth working for (HR is bad enough at its best).
Okay, if Microsoft shipped shrink-wrapped boxes of horse shit labelled as as Windows® HorseShit® Professional 2007 (with Workgroups), they'd still dominate.
With some music, you can use a recent version of LAME, specify an average bitrate of 128k, and end up with a pretty damn good file on all but the high-end equipment (and sometimes even on that).
Now that you mention it, I wonder what CDDA sounds like to a dog for instance. Since their range of hearing is well above 22 kHz, I wonder if they get the same annoying feeling I get when I hear 128k MP3 on $5000 speakers for instance.
I'm listening to Hard Attack (Sirius 27) right now, and I'd have to say that they're using 192k MP3 minimum. Heavy metal is one of those genres where audio quality is important due to the large range of dynamics, so it's pretty easy to hear artifacts. Although, it's possible they're using Dolby AC3 (part of MPEG-2) or AAC (also part of MPEG-2) which could explain why it sounds good and might also be 128k.
Just take a song from a CD, transcode it to FLAC, MP3 128k, MP3 192k, and LAME --preset standard. Try to guess which one is which and see if you're right (play the songs randomly without your prior knowledge on which is which).
Apple is not a monopoly. They do not have a monopoly on desktop computers like Microsoft does. Different rules apply to monopolies.
I'm doing my part as a Commonwealth American. :P
Knowing the typical geek, I'd be surprised if many /.ers weigh over 60 kg.
They could do that with their own custom version of Firefox. It'd save them a lot of money by just patching Firefox a bit than having to maintain their own web browser.
Since when does 96% of the world use IE? Firefox (Gecko), Opera, and Safari (WebKit/KHTML) are all available for Mac OS X, so you get to test out your site in all the common HTML renderring engines. IE is the only thing not available, and Mac web developers can use Parallels to run Windows with IE.
By not spending billions on marketing? I'm pretty sure pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing (e.g. getting your doctors to recommend their new pill/injection/vaccine/cream) than R&D, but don't quote me on that.
The Xbox360 is a "trusted computing" environment where all executables are cryptographically signed and whatnot. Windows runs on a normal PC, so they don't have that sort of control over the computer right now.
I know this might not seem as easy as clicking next a few times, but installing Quake 4 (for example) was as easy as copying a few files from the CDs and running the latest patch from id Software to fill in the rest of the files.
Bash? And all the other tools that are present in a normal Unix installation.
You gotta check their comment histories to see if they're shills.
Opera Mini uses Opera as a proxy, and they reformat the pages to work better on mobile devices (e.g. compression, getting rid of useless shit).
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Last time I went to the arcade (a few months ago as a matter of fact), I saw that anything with motion-sensitive controllers of any kind (usually guns) were done via infrared sensors. Wii uses gyroscopes, and in my experience, it's quite more accurate.