Agreed. Exact Audio Copy has better error correction than anything else out there, but CDex is just so much simpler to use. I reserve EAC for damaged CDs.
Hee hee, I'm sorry, I stopped reading at this point because I was laughing so hard. I know, it's late at night and I'm a little bit tipsy, but it really is funny, mainly because you sound like you mean it.
Forget about svg support, I'd be happy to see correct formatting of text using font substitution and correct handling of combining diacritics. Yes, I've posted bugs. Yes, I'm bitter and twisted.
But also yes, I use OpenOffice daily. It's just better.
So that's consistently less than a third of the marketshare of Windows ME.
Whoops... I should have checked the data again. Windows ME did drop below 1.4% in April, and then below 1.3% in July. The 1.1% August figure may or may not be an outlier. Anyway, according to Net Applications, Linux has still well below half the marketshare of WinME. For those that are interested in such things.
No: if you look into marketshare's figures in more detail, Linux was consistently hovering between 0.3% and 0.4% for most of the last year, until the last three or four months, when it has been ranging from 0.3% to 0.5%. So that's consistently less than a third of the marketshare of Windows ME.
Whether or not your dislike of these data automatically makes the metrics "sloppy" is another question.
I've just put together the complete figures, based on their stats, incorporating both "Mac OS" and "Macintel", since December last year. Mac OS overall is down from a high of 4.49% in April, but consistently up from a low of 4.28% in June.
It's more a matter of the left hand not knowing what the right hand doth. The larger an organisation, the greater the capacity for miscommunication and pushmepullyou syndrome.
Your comment about file formats is mysterious, unless you're thinking solely of MS Office formats -- there are way more mp3's and aac's in the world than wma's, and way more avi's and mov's than wmv's. I can't imagine what you're thinking of if not Office.
Ah, beg pardon. So I guess the only tricky bit is getting the tools for decrypting the DVD, is that right? You basically have to do write your own, and do all of the reverse engineering yourself, unless I've completely misunderstood.
... though mainly only for Tintin, the Smurfs, Asterix, and Lucky Luke... we don't get to see much of anything else in other countries. (It's worth it just for Tintin, though.)
Well... you could even use Acrobat. Or Acrobat Reader. Or Adobe Reader. Or whatever they're calling it now. If that's against your religion, then oh well, ignore me.
FUD, or at least tendentious. AllOfMP3's legal status in Russia has been tested and has not been found to be illegal.
Concerning the use of their service by people in other countries, many allegations have been made (though only some of these deserve to be taken seriously), but the international legal status of AllofMP3 has not been tested, though proceedings are currently under way in the UK and Denmark. (At any rate it is hardly likely that any judgment coming from those proceedings will be legally binding on Russian soil.)
If you feel they are doing something immoral, that is another matter, and in that case you will doubtless need to re-evaluate how you spend your money on pain of failing to live up to your own moral standards.
On a related note, if the sibling post has any grounds for the allegation of involvement with the Russian mafia, I'd be interested to hear them.
Interestingly, I wasn't able to hear the difference between lossless, 192 MP3 and 128 AAC.
At that point it basically depends on the quality of the reproduction equipment. The people who claim that they can tell the difference between 128 kb/s AAC and 160 kb/s AAC either have unusually good quality speakers/headphones, or are deceiving themselves. I use some fairly nice Sennheiser headphones with my portable audio player and I only very rarely notice deficiencies with Ogg at quality 4.25 (about 135 kb/s).
Consider: eight years ago, standard reproduction equipment wasn't as good, so an MP3 at 128 kb/s really did sound as good as the original CD. Nowadays MP3s at that bit rate are a little bit painful -- not because the standards of our ears have risen, but because the standard of the equipment has risen. Someday, who knows? maybe the standard of equipment will get good enough so that everyone can easily hear the deficiencies in 44.1 kHz sampling.
Fear not: the title (replicated from TFA) is glaringly inaccurate in an attempt to sensationalise and induce general panic.
As even the blurb above states quite clearly, these are not vulnerabilities in PDF, a file format, they're vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, an application (and one which most OS X users have no need for, thanks to Preview).
In fact, TFA seems to indicate moreover that the attacks are specific to Windows.
Nothing to see here.... unless you use Adobe Reader in Windows.
Thanks for that, I wasn't aware of it. That may be very useful, since I don't have the necessary skills to set up Moodle by myself. In my efforts to boycott Blackboard I had been planning to use open-access WWW pages, supplemented by other facilities, for my coming summer courses; but I'll take a close look at this (Incidentally, they call themselves Nfomedia, not "Available". Is that an old name?)
They do say it's currently available only to 104 universities, mostly in the USA and a few in the UK, but it doesn't look like there should be much difficulty in adding universities to that list. I have a minor concern about privacy -- no institution located in the USA can guarantee anyone's privacy these days -- but, really, in that respect it's certainly no worse than Blackboard as administered by a university IT department.:-)
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You are a marketer's dream come true. (Even so, I'm happy for you if you're happy.)
Yup, pretty much.
Well, it's morning now, and while it's not as funny now, it's still silly. Maybe it's more obvious if you omit the fourth word of the sentence.
Agreed. Exact Audio Copy has better error correction than anything else out there, but CDex is just so much simpler to use. I reserve EAC for damaged CDs.
Hee hee, I'm sorry, I stopped reading at this point because I was laughing so hard. I know, it's late at night and I'm a little bit tipsy, but it really is funny, mainly because you sound like you mean it.
Forget about svg support, I'd be happy to see correct formatting of text using font substitution and correct handling of combining diacritics. Yes, I've posted bugs. Yes, I'm bitter and twisted.
But also yes, I use OpenOffice daily. It's just better.
Thanks for an excellent laugh just before bedtime :-)
When surrounded by Mac fans, it's hard to tell ...
Whoops ... I should have checked the data again. Windows ME did drop below 1.4% in April, and then below 1.3% in July. The 1.1% August figure may or may not be an outlier. Anyway, according to Net Applications, Linux has still well below half the marketshare of WinME. For those that are interested in such things.
No: if you look into marketshare's figures in more detail, Linux was consistently hovering between 0.3% and 0.4% for most of the last year, until the last three or four months, when it has been ranging from 0.3% to 0.5%. So that's consistently less than a third of the marketshare of Windows ME.
Whether or not your dislike of these data automatically makes the metrics "sloppy" is another question.
I've just put together the complete figures, based on their stats, incorporating both "Mac OS" and "Macintel", since December last year. Mac OS overall is down from a high of 4.49% in April, but consistently up from a low of 4.28% in June.
(Bit of a job getting that to look right and get it past the lameness filter!)
It's more a matter of the left hand not knowing what the right hand doth. The larger an organisation, the greater the capacity for miscommunication and pushmepullyou syndrome.
Your comment about file formats is mysterious, unless you're thinking solely of MS Office formats -- there are way more mp3's and aac's in the world than wma's, and way more avi's and mov's than wmv's. I can't imagine what you're thinking of if not Office.
Tch. I remember playing a popular FPS "capture the flag" back in 1983. (Well, OK, not FPS, but certainly FP.)
Ah, beg pardon. So I guess the only tricky bit is getting the tools for decrypting the DVD, is that right? You basically have to do write your own, and do all of the reverse engineering yourself, unless I've completely misunderstood.
Oddly enough, a lot of the time when people name ten famous USAians off the top of their heads, anywhere up to half of them turn out to be Canadian :-)
Nah, retaliating is lawful (well, maybe depending on how you do it). Google is neutral good. As compared to, say, Wikipedia, which is chaotic neutral.
... though mainly only for Tintin, the Smurfs, Asterix, and Lucky Luke ... we don't get to see much of anything else in other countries. (It's worth it just for Tintin, though.)
Well ... you could even use Acrobat. Or Acrobat Reader. Or Adobe Reader. Or whatever they're calling it now. If that's against your religion, then oh well, ignore me.
Then you're in violation of the DMCA and may well be arrested. Have you been asleep for the last six years?
FUD, or at least tendentious. AllOfMP3's legal status in Russia has been tested and has not been found to be illegal.
Concerning the use of their service by people in other countries, many allegations have been made (though only some of these deserve to be taken seriously), but the international legal status of AllofMP3 has not been tested, though proceedings are currently under way in the UK and Denmark. (At any rate it is hardly likely that any judgment coming from those proceedings will be legally binding on Russian soil.)
If you feel they are doing something immoral, that is another matter, and in that case you will doubtless need to re-evaluate how you spend your money on pain of failing to live up to your own moral standards.
On a related note, if the sibling post has any grounds for the allegation of involvement with the Russian mafia, I'd be interested to hear them.
At that point it basically depends on the quality of the reproduction equipment. The people who claim that they can tell the difference between 128 kb/s AAC and 160 kb/s AAC either have unusually good quality speakers/headphones, or are deceiving themselves. I use some fairly nice Sennheiser headphones with my portable audio player and I only very rarely notice deficiencies with Ogg at quality 4.25 (about 135 kb/s).
Consider: eight years ago, standard reproduction equipment wasn't as good, so an MP3 at 128 kb/s really did sound as good as the original CD. Nowadays MP3s at that bit rate are a little bit painful -- not because the standards of our ears have risen, but because the standard of the equipment has risen. Someday, who knows? maybe the standard of equipment will get good enough so that everyone can easily hear the deficiencies in 44.1 kHz sampling.
Shame that Slashdot only allows the one alphabet (Roman), eh?
Anyway, FWIW, it would look very approximately like this: XPHWTOW (but rotate the W's +1.57 radians).
Fear not: the title (replicated from TFA) is glaringly inaccurate in an attempt to sensationalise and induce general panic.
As even the blurb above states quite clearly, these are not vulnerabilities in PDF, a file format, they're vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, an application (and one which most OS X users have no need for, thanks to Preview).
In fact, TFA seems to indicate moreover that the attacks are specific to Windows.
Nothing to see here .... unless you use Adobe Reader in Windows.
Thanks for that, I wasn't aware of it. That may be very useful, since I don't have the necessary skills to set up Moodle by myself. In my efforts to boycott Blackboard I had been planning to use open-access WWW pages, supplemented by other facilities, for my coming summer courses; but I'll take a close look at this (Incidentally, they call themselves Nfomedia, not "Available". Is that an old name?)
They do say it's currently available only to 104 universities, mostly in the USA and a few in the UK, but it doesn't look like there should be much difficulty in adding universities to that list. I have a minor concern about privacy -- no institution located in the USA can guarantee anyone's privacy these days -- but, really, in that respect it's certainly no worse than Blackboard as administered by a university IT department. :-)
You're welcome! Personally I find it helps, but of course there are no easy and simple solutions. Best wishes and good luck to you.