Have you ever HEARD chinese pop music? It's even worse than western pop music!
Seriously, if you're ever in need of a good laugh then get yourself down to a chinese shop and look at their music shelves. I'd never thought that there could be a second-rate version of Westlife, but it seems I was wrong! There are many!
I don't quite get your jibe about pop and rock. One of the most obvious bunch of artifacts from MP3 encoding tends, to my ears, to appear around sharp attacking tones with high-pitched overtones like snare drums or almost any cymbal sound. Compress a pop song down to 64kbps and you'll hear it - that punchy "pop/rock" drum sound is one of the major victims of lossy encoding.
So I would suggest that classical music is no more affected by the quality loss, and judging by the average listener base of stations like Classic FM in the UK there's not exactly a more sophisticated listening base either!
Let's just agree that lossy encoding sucks and that we'll wait for the proper formats, regardless of style?
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Oh, be quiet. I use Gentoo, but there's no sensible reason to think that Average Joe Gentoo is going to know more about linux security than Average Redhat Employee.
Gentoo is not more secure, it just gives you the ability not to build stuff you don't want. That's entirely possible with other systems too, and the difference is that some of those (Fedora, for example) will set up a nice firewall etc before you get around to doing it yourself.
IIS running a website reading "Haha, you've been 0wned by the Romanian Hackers" or words to that effect at a previous employer of mine tend to support them, however.
I used to work with somebody who came from the paper industry - he had some interesting points on the subject. For example:
Because of the farmed nature of the trees, it's very hard for production to scale upwards rapidly if new markets open up. If China had anything like the same voracity for paper products that America had, the paper industry internationally simply wouldn't be able to cope with it. You can't just grow a tree in a couple of months - it takes years.
Made me think. The Chinese are getting more and more industrialised and tech-savvy, so increases in per-capital paper usage is certainly not out of the question. Essentially the whole paper business is one of bet-hedging how much people are going to want in a couple of years time.
... so, that should read "I'm not for encryption at all!"? How are you "All for encryption" if you think that having the technology available is a bad thing?
As for "There's no good excuse... doing so wastes the time of others"... which others? Sorry, but I do have problems with the possibility of an automated censor reading everybody's mail, and if having some crypto there wastes their time then that's fine by me. If you're talking about wasting the time of my family and friends, well, that's another matter. The ones that care for it will use it. The ones that don't, won't.
And... err... PHP? Do you mean PGP? Sure, it might be interpreted and a little weird on the syntax front ("->" ?!?!?), but I don't think it's a major threat to national security. Unless you're talking about SQL injection attacks, of course.
If it's sufficiently structurally complete to present as a workable communication structure, I'd say it's worth counting. The article suggests he's planning to present it academically, give him the benefit of the doubt for now, eh? After all, Perl gets counted as a programming language... what's the difference between THAT and gibberish?
"may be different those those attuned to earthquakes (prior to which I believe even cats and dogs have been shown to get agitated)"
I can confirm that. We had a medium-sized earthquake down in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand when I was a kid (big enough that it was mildly frightening, not big enough to break anything major) and about thirty seconds before the first shock hit our cat went apeshit trying to get out of the house. It got outside, bolted off down the driveway and found itself a bit open space to run around in. We all went outside to watch, and then the first shock hit.
1) At some point in history prior to the invention of the internal combustion engine, a rock once rolled down a hill and collided with a tree. 2) Trees are a bit like telephone poles 3) I am standing in front of a flattened telephone pole in my residential neighbourhood 4) As a similar event occurred before the invention of cars, there is no reason to believe this telephone pole was flattened by a car. It was probably a rock rolling down from somewhere.
And your post makes no sense. This study was a "results check" on those models you hate so. They're making accurate predictions of real world data, while the alternative you're suggesting does not seem to be able to predict the facts.
You shock me sir, that's actually somehow got this from "All the Irish do is make bombs and drinks" to something vaguely relating to the topic at hand.
Guiness is great, I was just being sarcastic. It's kind of like the beer equivilent of Starbucks - half beverage, half ashtray. Oh, there I go again... Go on, mod me offtopic:)
Whatdayamean? We're not restricted to CAR bombs you know. Also, your artificial separation of drinks and bombs is misleading - many Irish drinks can serve both purposes, either as explosives or as chemical warfare agents, depending on whether you're talking about Guinness or not...
While I do like that concept, every time I have the wherewithall to consider it the offender is usually driving an early 1980s Mitsubishi hatchback with the bumper hanging off or something similar. Since insurance is not mandatory for vehicles on the roads here I don't particularly fancy the concept of having to pay my $750 excess or take the other driver to court if they're not insured....
Now, next time somebody does it in a $60,000 BMW I might just give it a shot. But knowing my luck, they'd probably be a judge or something.
"People who run red lights or are speeding between lights on limited access roads? Not A Problem. Maybe once every few years I'll nearly get clobbered by some moron who goes through an intersection at high speed long after the light changed, but that's reckless driving, not merely running a red light. The latter should remain illegal, but a low enforcement priority unless it's an ongoing serious problem at a specific location."
Red light running is potentially lethal, moreso than tailgating in many situations. I get tailgated on a daily basis and have yet to be rear-ended (although it's a major annoyance), but the two times I've had somebody run a light as I was pulling out into an intersection where the approach for the other road wasn't visible has nearly killed me. Seriously, having somebody rocket past the front of your car at 90kph as you pull across the intersection is fucking terrifying. You can avoid it a little if you can actually see the road both ways from your position at the intersection, but there's a few around here where the crossing road is blind in the direction that traffic comes from - in one case, it's an off-ramp for a motorway where dumb drivers come off at 100kph then ACCELLERATE DOWNHILL in an attempt to make the lights. Needless to say there's a lot of accidents there due to retards armed with a drivers licence.
Long live red light cameras. If the light is green, I have a reasonable expectation that nobody is going to ram into the side of me. If you can mechanically fine the crap out of anybody who is regularly violating that one then go for it.
Tailgaiting is an admittedly associated problem though, as it's hard to stop a car abruptly at an orange light when there's some dickhead 50cm from your back bumper. But over here at least, if you can present a photograph showing somebody that far from the back of your car when you get snapped then you stand a good chance of disputing any fines by writing into the police and stating your case.
Having worked for such an organisation elsewhere in the world, I think that would be very unwise.
Their whole rationale in life works like this: Cars are good. Therefore anything you do in your car must also be good. If a motorist is forced to pay a fine for something they do in their car, it must be evil government revenue-hoarding, unless somebody dies. In which case they're just one individual driving badly. I've seen some of the people who work for those associations drive, they're no better than anybody else. They speed, they tailgate. But for some reason they feel that they have a right to be self-rightous when the law objects to bad driving.
Having "Association" in your name doesn't make you any less of an ass - arguably more of one, judging by the hilariously named "Taiwanese In NZ Ass." down the road from me.
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Have you ever HEARD chinese pop music? It's even worse than western pop music!
Seriously, if you're ever in need of a good laugh then get yourself down to a chinese shop and look at their music shelves. I'd never thought that there could be a second-rate version of Westlife, but it seems I was wrong! There are many!
I don't quite get your jibe about pop and rock. One of the most obvious bunch of artifacts from MP3 encoding tends, to my ears, to appear around sharp attacking tones with high-pitched overtones like snare drums or almost any cymbal sound. Compress a pop song down to 64kbps and you'll hear it - that punchy "pop/rock" drum sound is one of the major victims of lossy encoding.
So I would suggest that classical music is no more affected by the quality loss, and judging by the average listener base of stations like Classic FM in the UK there's not exactly a more sophisticated listening base either!
Let's just agree that lossy encoding sucks and that we'll wait for the proper formats, regardless of style?
Oh, be quiet. I use Gentoo, but there's no sensible reason to think that Average Joe Gentoo is going to know more about linux security than Average Redhat Employee.
Gentoo is not more secure, it just gives you the ability not to build stuff you don't want. That's entirely possible with other systems too, and the difference is that some of those (Fedora, for example) will set up a nice firewall etc before you get around to doing it yourself.
IIS running a website reading "Haha, you've been 0wned by the Romanian Hackers" or words to that effect at a previous employer of mine tend to support them, however.
That's not the scary part. THIS is the scary part.
From TFA:
"After being shot, the victim can pass the dart over his or her reader (although invariable this is a guy's thing), and see the file on the screen."
The reader is a guy's "thing"!? I'm not having no goddamn RFID reader implanted in my thing just so people can fire darts at me!
Good lord, some poor fool actually modded this "informative" :)
Isn't that a mode?
Yeah, those BASTARDS, selling Americans what they WANT! That's HIDEOUS!
I used to work with somebody who came from the paper industry - he had some interesting points on the subject. For example:
Because of the farmed nature of the trees, it's very hard for production to scale upwards rapidly if new markets open up. If China had anything like the same voracity for paper products that America had, the paper industry internationally simply wouldn't be able to cope with it. You can't just grow a tree in a couple of months - it takes years.
Made me think. The Chinese are getting more and more industrialised and tech-savvy, so increases in per-capital paper usage is certainly not out of the question. Essentially the whole paper business is one of bet-hedging how much people are going to want in a couple of years time.
Aha. Ahahaha. You're funny. No really, you are. You can keep telling yourself that...
It's NEARLY as good as that, but I wouldn't say better...
(Kidding, it's OK)
... so, that should read "I'm not for encryption at all!"? How are you "All for encryption" if you think that having the technology available is a bad thing?
As for "There's no good excuse... doing so wastes the time of others"... which others? Sorry, but I do have problems with the possibility of an automated censor reading everybody's mail, and if having some crypto there wastes their time then that's fine by me. If you're talking about wasting the time of my family and friends, well, that's another matter. The ones that care for it will use it. The ones that don't, won't.
And... err... PHP? Do you mean PGP? Sure, it might be interpreted and a little weird on the syntax front ("->" ?!?!?), but I don't think it's a major threat to national security. Unless you're talking about SQL injection attacks, of course.
If it's sufficiently structurally complete to present as a workable communication structure, I'd say it's worth counting. The article suggests he's planning to present it academically, give him the benefit of the doubt for now, eh? After all, Perl gets counted as a programming language... what's the difference between THAT and gibberish?
"may be different those those attuned to earthquakes (prior to which I believe even cats and dogs have been shown to get agitated)"
I can confirm that. We had a medium-sized earthquake down in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand when I was a kid (big enough that it was mildly frightening, not big enough to break anything major) and about thirty seconds before the first shock hit our cat went apeshit trying to get out of the house. It got outside, bolted off down the driveway and found itself a bit open space to run around in. We all went outside to watch, and then the first shock hit.
Quite interesting.
That's sort of like arguing the following:
1) At some point in history prior to the invention of the internal combustion engine, a rock once rolled down a hill and collided with a tree.
2) Trees are a bit like telephone poles
3) I am standing in front of a flattened telephone pole in my residential neighbourhood
4) As a similar event occurred before the invention of cars, there is no reason to believe this telephone pole was flattened by a car. It was probably a rock rolling down from somewhere.
And your post makes no sense. This study was a "results check" on those models you hate so. They're making accurate predictions of real world data, while the alternative you're suggesting does not seem to be able to predict the facts.
You shock me sir, that's actually somehow got this from "All the Irish do is make bombs and drinks" to something vaguely relating to the topic at hand.
Are you sure you're on the right website?
I think my dad had the other four.
Guiness is great, I was just being sarcastic. It's kind of like the beer equivilent of Starbucks - half beverage, half ashtray. Oh, there I go again... Go on, mod me offtopic :)
Whatdayamean? We're not restricted to CAR bombs you know. Also, your artificial separation of drinks and bombs is misleading - many Irish drinks can serve both purposes, either as explosives or as chemical warfare agents, depending on whether you're talking about Guinness or not...
Just make sure you pack the right trousers and have a close shave before liftoff?
While I do like that concept, every time I have the wherewithall to consider it the offender is usually driving an early 1980s Mitsubishi hatchback with the bumper hanging off or something similar. Since insurance is not mandatory for vehicles on the roads here I don't particularly fancy the concept of having to pay my $750 excess or take the other driver to court if they're not insured....
Now, next time somebody does it in a $60,000 BMW I might just give it a shot. But knowing my luck, they'd probably be a judge or something.
Is that what you get when a Turing machine wins a 5-night stay in Hawaii?
"People who run red lights or are speeding between lights on limited access roads? Not A Problem. Maybe once every few years I'll nearly get clobbered by some moron who goes through an intersection at high speed long after the light changed, but that's reckless driving, not merely running a red light. The latter should remain illegal, but a low enforcement priority unless it's an ongoing serious problem at a specific location."
Red light running is potentially lethal, moreso than tailgating in many situations. I get tailgated on a daily basis and have yet to be rear-ended (although it's a major annoyance), but the two times I've had somebody run a light as I was pulling out into an intersection where the approach for the other road wasn't visible has nearly killed me. Seriously, having somebody rocket past the front of your car at 90kph as you pull across the intersection is fucking terrifying. You can avoid it a little if you can actually see the road both ways from your position at the intersection, but there's a few around here where the crossing road is blind in the direction that traffic comes from - in one case, it's an off-ramp for a motorway where dumb drivers come off at 100kph then ACCELLERATE DOWNHILL in an attempt to make the lights. Needless to say there's a lot of accidents there due to retards armed with a drivers licence.
Long live red light cameras. If the light is green, I have a reasonable expectation that nobody is going to ram into the side of me. If you can mechanically fine the crap out of anybody who is regularly violating that one then go for it.
Tailgaiting is an admittedly associated problem though, as it's hard to stop a car abruptly at an orange light when there's some dickhead 50cm from your back bumper. But over here at least, if you can present a photograph showing somebody that far from the back of your car when you get snapped then you stand a good chance of disputing any fines by writing into the police and stating your case.
Having worked for such an organisation elsewhere in the world, I think that would be very unwise.
Their whole rationale in life works like this: Cars are good. Therefore anything you do in your car must also be good. If a motorist is forced to pay a fine for something they do in their car, it must be evil government revenue-hoarding, unless somebody dies. In which case they're just one individual driving badly. I've seen some of the people who work for those associations drive, they're no better than anybody else. They speed, they tailgate. But for some reason they feel that they have a right to be self-rightous when the law objects to bad driving.
Having "Association" in your name doesn't make you any less of an ass - arguably more of one, judging by the hilariously named "Taiwanese In NZ Ass." down the road from me.
Yeah, but we don't like 44.1khz or 16-bit audio either - so unless there's a 192khz, 32-bit alternative waiting in the wings.... :)