An alarm clock that I really liked now needs to be reset twice a year. Ahead an hour when DST starts early, and then back again when it tries to set itself a month later. That alone is enough to make me wine.
"Can anyone confirm, is 256kbps enough for an AAC file to be indistinguishable from a CD in a true double blind listening test?"
Actually 128 is for all but about three people on HydrogenAudio.:D I see 256 as a bit of a waste.
You've got to be kidding, right? AAC is an open spec. It's more efficient then MP3, uses less power to decode (important for portable devices), and isn't saddled with 14 different, incompatible tagging schemes. It's also the format that Apple customers expect. Not only that, but just about every player that can handle MP3 can also handle LC AAC.
That's fine that you've got some MP3 player from the nineties, but stop trying to find things to complain about and drop 80 bucks on something that can handle the newer format. Technology does become obsolete, you know.
Apple isn't OSX. Apple is their software and their hardware. Apple is iTunes, Pages, iPhoto, EFI, FireWire, iPods, slim laptops, little minis and quad-core desktops. When I was younger and had more time I didn't mind building my own machines. I didn't mind wondering if I was using USB 1 or 2, or messing with drivers all day to get the DVI out of my video card to work right or WPA-PSK to work with my network card. I love OSX, but I think a lot of the magic would be gone if the vertical integration was removed. I still have an old box I built a couple years ago, and it runs Ubuntu, which is OSX for home-built boxes as far as I'm concerned.
Are there other companies that make cyclone vacuums? I don't really care if it leaves a few specs of dirt compared to some other model. If that other model makes me clean out 4 filters ever month or buy bags I won't use it.
You don't think Apple is going to come up with a non-phone iPod? You think their strategy is to completely abandon their entire market of people who are happy with their current phone and service and not sell any portable music player for under $500 and with a 2-year contract? There is a market for a $500 kick-ass iPhone, but it's probably not the people who currently own $79 shuffles.
So, at first telnet is not enabled, but when a request comes in on port 23 it's turned on? "Turned on by default" doesn't seem any different then having it on to begin with.
Damn, what are you doing to those cars? My gf has an 89 Accord with 250,000 miles on it and my 2001 Civic has about 110,000. I expect to get another 100,000 out of it at least.
"To be fair, most of the memory issues in Firefox are because of the way it keeps previously visited pages stored so they can be quickly opened again."
Then it must keep them forever, because after a couple days, Firefox is using over half a gig of memory on my machine.
Does that sound like a bit big of a tank to anyone else? That's a cube with nearly 15-foot sides...
Or do they mean that's how much air is there after it expands? In which case, it doesn't seem like nearly enough.
If it runs on compressed air, it creates no pollution. Stop splitting hairs. My toaster may use electricity generated from coal, but I don't see you getting all winy about it's bagels-per-gallon numbers.
I've given up on using Linux as a desktop. I like tweaking and all, but damn, your whole life will go down a Linux black whole if you try to use Linux as your main desktop. I don't mind paying Apple a premium (and it's not that bad anymore) for allowing me to get a computer that works great out of the box and can be configured to play nice with my Linux server. Setting up OS X as a server is a pain, and setting up Linux as a desktop is a pain. My life is a lot better with both.
The article says there's a $538 fine for admitting that you were distracted while driving. That probably doesn't lend itself to accurate data collection.
The only reason Bush rambled on about hydrogen is because he knows damn well it's a dead end. If he really gave a crap about getting us off oil he would be talking about far better energy storage systems, like batteries.
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What's really annoying is that the whole server just went down because every page-load has to serve up about 40 megs of flash ads.
You know what I call unused memory? Wasted.
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An alarm clock that I really liked now needs to be reset twice a year. Ahead an hour when DST starts early, and then back again when it tries to set itself a month later. That alone is enough to make me wine.
I shouldn't let this bother me. I'm on /. now. It's my job to be repetitive. My job. My job. Repetitiveness is my job.
Hmm... it didn't seem to have any issues last year:
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http://www.rjamorim.com/test/aac128test/results.h
"Can anyone confirm, is 256kbps enough for an AAC file to be indistinguishable from a CD in a true double blind listening test?" Actually 128 is for all but about three people on HydrogenAudio. :D I see 256 as a bit of a waste.
You've got to be kidding, right? AAC is an open spec. It's more efficient then MP3, uses less power to decode (important for portable devices), and isn't saddled with 14 different, incompatible tagging schemes. It's also the format that Apple customers expect. Not only that, but just about every player that can handle MP3 can also handle LC AAC.
That's fine that you've got some MP3 player from the nineties, but stop trying to find things to complain about and drop 80 bucks on something that can handle the newer format. Technology does become obsolete, you know.
Will I be able to still buy them at 128 if I choose? 256 is quite a waste of bits for a guy who can barely hear over 16 kilohertz. :D
Apple isn't OSX. Apple is their software and their hardware. Apple is iTunes, Pages, iPhoto, EFI, FireWire, iPods, slim laptops, little minis and quad-core desktops. When I was younger and had more time I didn't mind building my own machines. I didn't mind wondering if I was using USB 1 or 2, or messing with drivers all day to get the DVI out of my video card to work right or WPA-PSK to work with my network card. I love OSX, but I think a lot of the magic would be gone if the vertical integration was removed. I still have an old box I built a couple years ago, and it runs Ubuntu, which is OSX for home-built boxes as far as I'm concerned.
Are there other companies that make cyclone vacuums? I don't really care if it leaves a few specs of dirt compared to some other model. If that other model makes me clean out 4 filters ever month or buy bags I won't use it.
You don't think Apple is going to come up with a non-phone iPod? You think their strategy is to completely abandon their entire market of people who are happy with their current phone and service and not sell any portable music player for under $500 and with a 2-year contract? There is a market for a $500 kick-ass iPhone, but it's probably not the people who currently own $79 shuffles.
So, at first telnet is not enabled, but when a request comes in on port 23 it's turned on? "Turned on by default" doesn't seem any different then having it on to begin with.
I used to think Ubuntu sucked too. Then I bought a new power supply.
"They almost never saw 4k rpm"
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Yeah, I've heard that lagging an engine can be pretty bad for it.
Damn, what are you doing to those cars? My gf has an 89 Accord with 250,000 miles on it and my 2001 Civic has about 110,000. I expect to get another 100,000 out of it at least.
"To be fair, most of the memory issues in Firefox are because of the way it keeps previously visited pages stored so they can be quickly opened again." Then it must keep them forever, because after a couple days, Firefox is using over half a gig of memory on my machine.
What? Who is modding this up? It's the same old tired argument against any kind of innovation. Come on people, value your mod points. http://teslamotors.com/display_data/21stCentElectr icCar.pdf
Does that sound like a bit big of a tank to anyone else? That's a cube with nearly 15-foot sides... Or do they mean that's how much air is there after it expands? In which case, it doesn't seem like nearly enough.
If it runs on compressed air, it creates no pollution. Stop splitting hairs. My toaster may use electricity generated from coal, but I don't see you getting all winy about it's bagels-per-gallon numbers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_ imply_causation
I've given up on using Linux as a desktop. I like tweaking and all, but damn, your whole life will go down a Linux black whole if you try to use Linux as your main desktop. I don't mind paying Apple a premium (and it's not that bad anymore) for allowing me to get a computer that works great out of the box and can be configured to play nice with my Linux server. Setting up OS X as a server is a pain, and setting up Linux as a desktop is a pain. My life is a lot better with both.
How is adding a refresh meta tag to HTML "AJAX"?
The article says there's a $538 fine for admitting that you were distracted while driving. That probably doesn't lend itself to accurate data collection.
The only reason Bush rambled on about hydrogen is because he knows damn well it's a dead end. If he really gave a crap about getting us off oil he would be talking about far better energy storage systems, like batteries.