Your preference for 24/96 audio as a listener is entirely due to the placebo effect.
Well, in all fairness, listeners may actually hear perceptible differences between 24/96 and 16/44.1 audio sources due to different mastering, but of course that says nothing about whether they can actually tell the difference between the two bitrates when everything else is equal.
This article is a pretty good explanation of why 16/44.1 is as good as anyone needs for playback.
So, you want to execute most, if not every, American head of state over the last 50 years*.
Well, you should note his original post also said "Allowing our leaders to get away with war crimes only ensures future war crimes." So it can be reasonably argued that as soon as we tolerated one President's war crimes, it would be expected that his successors would be emboldened to (and perhaps even be *expected* to) commit further war crimes.
If you want to argue that Hatta's definition of "war crimes" is flawed, fine. But if you do accept the actions he cites as war crimes, and that execution is the just punishment for said crimes, then to try to paint the idea that most recent Presidents would so qualify as ipso facto absurd is merely genuflecting to authority, nothing more.
All due respect...but even as a developer, to say it's not the JRE but the JRE's installer that bundles the toolbar, is pretty pedantic. I really just wanted to point out this comes with standard install of Java itself, not the browser plugin.
No, I mean the JRE itself. (Remember, I'm talking about Windows here.) Granted, this is not the SDK I'm talking about, just the standard JRE installed in Windows, not the browser, but I just updated it on this machine, and I had to uncheck the option to install the Ask toolbar. (link is not my blog, btw.)
I'm fully aware of the distinctions between Java, the browser plugins, Javascript, etc., and I realize that the toolbar is not part of the install on 'real' OSs. But the Windows installer is what most users see of Java.
As an FYI, it's not the browser plugin that has the opt-out toolbar installation, it's the JVM itself. Do I think it's truly a sign of Java's strength/weakness as a platform? No, but as you say, it's horrible marketing.
For people who apparently pride themselves being 'above marketing', developers somehow fell victims to various marketing around Java and didn't bother to check for themselves what the hell all this is about.
As a developer who never had many reasons to do very much with (actual) Java, I have to say I lost of respect for the platform when Oracle started bundling the runtime with the Ask toolbar on Windows. Because nothing says "serious computing platform" like having to make sure it doesn't install a toolbar on every update./rant
There is absolutely no way NYT would have touched Manning's cable archives. They would have feigned interest and then shopped him. Bill Keller knows this.
The OP is the biggest piece of self-serving balderdash I've read in weeks. It's nauseating, and teeming with distortions and outright lies about Manning and Wikileaks.
Lest we forget...Bill Keller was the executive editor of the NYT from 2003 to 2011, and perhaps the most telling decision of his tenure was to delay the story on NSA wiretapping for over a year, until well after the 2004 election. (OK, we don't know the timing for sure, because Keller has refused to any questions about it.)
Advertisers need support too. Seems like you're stretching to make a rather asinine point.
And it seems to me you are stretching to completely miss the point. Who said advertisers don't need support? All I'm saying that the users of free-in-exchange-for-your-data services like Twitter et al. are not "customers" and are not afforded any of the rights of customers. In the face of these mounting privacy breaches, I don't think it's asinine to point that out, especially when people are so dense that they interpret that as meaning I'm somehow speaking out against third party support services.
More like companies like Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest outsourced their customer support to Zendesk. Basically, they pay Zendesk to provide support services.
Assuming by "they" you mean Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest, then that was my presumption; that those services are paying for the user support, not the users themselves.
In which case, I stand by my original statement...if Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest users have had their data compromised, then it is wrong to refer to them as "customers" of either Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest or Zendesk. Zendesk's customers are Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest, and those services' customers are their advertisers.
Um, the users are the customers. It's a paid service.
Paid by whom? Looking at the Zendesk website, it looks pretty clear that their marketing target is "organizations", so I'm presuming that Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest are outsourcing user support to Zendesk. I don't use Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, so I don't know...do you have to pay for support? And does anyone actually do that?
Were these email addresses of their actual customers (i.e., their advertisers) or their users (i.e., their product)? Remember, if you don't pay for the service, you're not their customer.
Some of you have probably heard about this already, but there is this fun game... With your buddy, you both open a random article in Wikipedia. Then you decide some common article that you both try to reach by clicking only Wikipedia article highlighted words. The one who reaches that article first, wins.
I once proposed a similar game...called "Six Clicks to Britney's Snizz". The rules are pretty much self-explanatory, I think.
Slashdot Mirror
Your preference for 24/96 audio as a listener is entirely due to the placebo effect.
Well, in all fairness, listeners may actually hear perceptible differences between 24/96 and 16/44.1 audio sources due to different mastering, but of course that says nothing about whether they can actually tell the difference between the two bitrates when everything else is equal.
This article is a pretty good explanation of why 16/44.1 is as good as anyone needs for playback.
All these financial instruments must be regulated and monitored for our safety.
Yes, I remember the paralyzing fear and chaos of the days of a primarily cash economy, too. /sarcasm
RMS, is that you?
So, you want to execute most, if not every, American head of state over the last 50 years*.
Well, you should note his original post also said "Allowing our leaders to get away with war crimes only ensures future war crimes." So it can be reasonably argued that as soon as we tolerated one President's war crimes, it would be expected that his successors would be emboldened to (and perhaps even be *expected* to) commit further war crimes.
If you want to argue that Hatta's definition of "war crimes" is flawed, fine. But if you do accept the actions he cites as war crimes, and that execution is the just punishment for said crimes, then to try to paint the idea that most recent Presidents would so qualify as ipso facto absurd is merely genuflecting to authority, nothing more.
All due respect...but even as a developer, to say it's not the JRE but the JRE's installer that bundles the toolbar, is pretty pedantic. I really just wanted to point out this comes with standard install of Java itself, not the browser plugin.
No, I mean the JRE itself. (Remember, I'm talking about Windows here.) Granted, this is not the SDK I'm talking about, just the standard JRE installed in Windows, not the browser, but I just updated it on this machine, and I had to uncheck the option to install the Ask toolbar. (link is not my blog, btw.)
I'm fully aware of the distinctions between Java, the browser plugins, Javascript, etc., and I realize that the toolbar is not part of the install on 'real' OSs. But the Windows installer is what most users see of Java.
Agreed, but the OP's point was about Java suffering from bad marketing, and IMHO, the opt-out toolbar is a prime example.
As an FYI, it's not the browser plugin that has the opt-out toolbar installation, it's the JVM itself. Do I think it's truly a sign of Java's strength/weakness as a platform? No, but as you say, it's horrible marketing.
For people who apparently pride themselves being 'above marketing', developers somehow fell victims to various marketing around Java and didn't bother to check for themselves what the hell all this is about.
As a developer who never had many reasons to do very much with (actual) Java, I have to say I lost of respect for the platform when Oracle started bundling the runtime with the Ask toolbar on Windows. Because nothing says "serious computing platform" like having to make sure it doesn't install a toolbar on every update. /rant
There is absolutely no way NYT would have touched Manning's cable archives. They would have feigned interest and then shopped him. Bill Keller knows this.
The OP is the biggest piece of self-serving balderdash I've read in weeks. It's nauseating, and teeming with distortions and outright lies about Manning and Wikileaks.
Lest we forget...Bill Keller was the executive editor of the NYT from 2003 to 2011, and perhaps the most telling decision of his tenure was to delay the story on NSA wiretapping for over a year, until well after the 2004 election. (OK, we don't know the timing for sure, because Keller has refused to any questions about it.)
IMHO, the man is a tool, pure and simple.
Wouldn't the "highest intelligence indicator" be applied to those who don't "do" facebook, twitter, etc?
Or did I just miss something flying over my head?
It was the new FaceDrone, remotely piloted by Zuckerberg himself, screaming "Let's see you opt out now, motherfucker!!"
Seconded...I just tried googling to see if I could find a study of that nature and came up empty.
Possibly a British-ism. Tit is a common slang word for a breast LIke boob, jubblie, nork, funbag, chesticle or Bulgarian Airbag.
It's not even a British-ism. A common British-ism for something dying or going awry is to go "tits up", also "arse over tits" for "head over heels".
Advertisers need support too. Seems like you're stretching to make a rather asinine point.
And it seems to me you are stretching to completely miss the point. Who said advertisers don't need support? All I'm saying that the users of free-in-exchange-for-your-data services like Twitter et al. are not "customers" and are not afforded any of the rights of customers. In the face of these mounting privacy breaches, I don't think it's asinine to point that out, especially when people are so dense that they interpret that as meaning I'm somehow speaking out against third party support services.
More like companies like Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest outsourced their customer support to Zendesk. Basically, they pay Zendesk to provide support services.
Assuming by "they" you mean Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest, then that was my presumption; that those services are paying for the user support, not the users themselves.
In which case, I stand by my original statement...if Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest users have had their data compromised, then it is wrong to refer to them as "customers" of either Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest or Zendesk. Zendesk's customers are Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest, and those services' customers are their advertisers.
Um, the users are the customers. It's a paid service.
Paid by whom? Looking at the Zendesk website, it looks pretty clear that their marketing target is "organizations", so I'm presuming that Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest are outsourcing user support to Zendesk. I don't use Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, so I don't know...do you have to pay for support? And does anyone actually do that?
Were these email addresses of their actual customers (i.e., their advertisers) or their users (i.e., their product)? Remember, if you don't pay for the service, you're not their customer.
Some of you have probably heard about this already, but there is this fun game... With your buddy, you both open a random article in Wikipedia. Then you decide some common article that you both try to reach by clicking only Wikipedia article highlighted words. The one who reaches that article first, wins.
I once proposed a similar game...called "Six Clicks to Britney's Snizz". The rules are pretty much self-explanatory, I think.
{Windows Blue]... screen?
I hear it more as Microsoft's epitaph:
Here lies Microsoft (1975-20??).
Windows blew.
Noscript and Adblock are not a zillion extensions.
What, did you think he meant a literal zillion?
3. what important plugins are you missing from Chrome?
For me, the big one is NoScript. There appear to be similar plugins for Chrome, but none seem to widely used or well rated by users.
FWIW, I use both Firefox and Chrome regularly, but for anything other than websites I trust, it's Firefox because of NoScript.
To put it as nicely as I can: A "wigger" is a fair-skinned fan of hip-hop culture.
I think this clip from The Wire accurately illustrates that particular social phenomenon.
But did they try the Brown Note?
(My second obligatory South Park reference on /. today.)
Then wouldn't it get harder as it gets lower?
The lower the bar gets, the harder it is to get a good ROI from a college education.
Time to call in James Cameron.
Does that quote imply Doug Stanhope believes in God and free will?
No to God...you'd have to ask him about free will.