Actually, there is a dialect of C++ called CC++. I remember stumbling across it on the web 10 years ago or so...looks like it hasn't gone too far since then.
What would be nice is a losslessly compresses 24/96 5.1/7.1 channel audio format to be their choice.
I can't speak for Apple's ALAC, but FLAC "can handle any PCM bit resolution from 4 to 32 bits per sample, any sampling rate from 1 Hz to 1,048,570 Hz in 1 Hz increments, and any number of channels from 1 to 8. Channels can be grouped in cases like stereo and 5.1 channel surround to take advantage of interchannel correlations to increase compression."
Well, all of the 3 major religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam consider it wrong to charge interest on loans.
Why would Judaism, with circa 14 million adherents, be considered one of "the 3 major religions" while excluding Hinduism with circa 900 million adherents as a major religion?
[Newark] is also home to one of the finest institutions in the world (Rutgers).
While Rutgers has a large campus in Newark, the "home" of Rutgers is New Brunswick. Newark is no more "home" to Rutgers than Camden is, which also has a Rutgers campus; both of which were acquired after WWII. The New Brunswick-Piscataway campus goes back to before the American Revolution.
No, you see, *that* was good as far as an argument against the OP's claim of "straw man". You actually made an argument as to why the article is not making a straw man argument, with evidence to back it up, though it is extacly the same one the the first response from 'faloi'. Great, so far I agree with that, and I said as much.
But that was not *my* argument. My argument was that you can't simply deny any claim of "straw man" based solely upon your perception that it is often misused, which is where you started. And appropriately enough, that makes your last response to me......a "straw man" argument! To which I can only respond...refer to my previous post.
Actually, yes, I can. If you can't determine the actual truth value of an individual argument and instead have to broadly lump what could be a valid argument into the domain of the "straw people", then maybe you should, with all due respect, shut the fuck up.
Perhaps you should google on logical fallacies. All that saying "straw man" means is that someone is making an argument against a claim that was never made. If Microsoft never claimed SP1 would improve performance, than it would truly be a "straw man" criticism to berate them because SP1 does not improve performance, and thus the "straw man" defense is valid. However, if MS *did* tout SP1 as improving performance, then the "straw man" accusation is invalid as the article would have a valid point in pointing out that performance gains appear to be dismal.
The guy who posted that MS *did* claim performance improvement makes an actual argument that the OP's "straw man" claim *is* invalid, which is perfectly fine. However, you are simply implying that *any* claim of "straw man" is a "diversion tactic", which is not.
Is it just me, or is there something a bit weird about naming a product for reading books with a word which means "to set on fire"? Now, maybe as a name for Dell laptop...
He is talking about links that are on the web itself, where there is ZERO need to make a url short. Your browser doesn't care how long the url is in the link you click on and for the poster there is an extra step involved in creating the short url so why bother?
Though most of your criticism is certainly valid, I do remember when TinyURL first appeared, and why people found it useful.
At that time I was active on several bulletin board type forums, mostly the NY Times now-defunct forums as well as several others. In the beginning, most such forums supported using anchor tags so you could put in any URL as a normal link. Then people began abusing these capabilities and at one point (I'm going to say around 1998-9) most of these forums started banning anchor tags in posts, hence no more clickable links. You could paste a URL as regular text, but the particularly long and cryptic URLs would either get split or truncated (making it difficult to copy & paste into the address window), or would totally bork the page formatting. When TinyURL came around, it was a solution to that problem, if an inelegant and not very far-sighted one.
In the following years, it seems most of the instances where TinyURL would have been useful have been solved by better means, and at this point I am hard-pressed to think of a current situation where TinyUrl would be useful (save for mischief like camoflaging goatse links). So I agree with your assessment, but just wanted to point out that at one time it did fulfill a particular purpose.
FLAC is designed for low-power decoding...from what I've seen it is comparable to mp3 in terms of processing for decoding. It also entirely integer-based, a feature touted as superior for both portability and performance.
There is another aspect implicit in this that doesn't get noted as much.
As IT technology matures, decision makers are more and more forced into the position of actually having to justify the money they spend. And as the experience of businesses in upgrading software has accumulated, one thing become clearer...the cost of major software upgrades to the customer are increasingly external to the software itself...that is, while MS might get $100-200 per seat of added revenue from your business's upgrade, the cost to you may be 10 times that after compatability testing, fixing bugs, figuring workarounds, etc. And it's not just Microsoft...many software vendors, especially industry-specific enterprise software, are very agressive about forcing customers to upgrade so that they can both keep their revenue streams flowing and reduce their development costs by not supporting so many old versions.
However, IT shops seem to be discovering that this model does not serve them nearly as well as it does the vendor. I've seen multiple cases where agressively pushed or mandated upgrades for which the customer had no
pressing business need were implemented, and between buggy code and unforeseen issues these ill-advised upgrades disrupted other pertinent business for months...hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by a customer in order to justify a few thousand to the vendor.
And that is why Vista does not need to necessarily "suck" in order to fail...it just needs to prove itself to have enough issues to make the external costs high enough that most shops don't bother. I've heard from quite a few colleagues that Win32 software that was originally developed in NT4, and had either minor or zero issues when migrating to 2K and then XP, are having major issues with Vista. You could argue that many of these problems are related to assuming admin access (as I would tend to assume) and Vista is forcing these developers to use better coding practices, but that also has to balance against "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" especially when there may be no good business case for doing so.
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Actually, there is a dialect of C++ called CC++. I remember stumbling across it on the web 10 years ago or so...looks like it hasn't gone too far since then.
I can't speak for Apple's ALAC, but FLAC "can handle any PCM bit resolution from 4 to 32 bits per sample, any sampling rate from 1 Hz to 1,048,570 Hz in 1 Hz increments, and any number of channels from 1 to 8. Channels can be grouped in cases like stereo and 5.1 channel surround to take advantage of interchannel correlations to increase compression."
You'll get my model XQJ-37 Nuclear Powered Pan-Sexual Roto-Plooker when you pry it from my cold, dead...errrr...hands.
Yes, they run a little-known custom Ubuntu release...Fluorescent Feline.
2011: shitcock
Why would Judaism, with circa 14 million adherents, be considered one of "the 3 major religions" while excluding Hinduism with circa 900 million adherents as a major religion?
While Rutgers has a large campus in Newark, the "home" of Rutgers is New Brunswick. Newark is no more "home" to Rutgers than Camden is, which also has a Rutgers campus; both of which were acquired after WWII. The New Brunswick-Piscataway campus goes back to before the American Revolution.
Fortunately, no. FLAC is released under the banner of Xiph.Org, as is Ogg Vorbis, and is fully free, open source, and royalty free.
If you check the link, it also says that it supports 5.1 as well.
I believe that's known as "Shitcock's Razor".
That's Straw Chewbacca to you...
No, you see, *that* was good as far as an argument against the OP's claim of "straw man". You actually made an argument as to why the article is not making a straw man argument, with evidence to back it up, though it is extacly the same one the the first response from 'faloi'. Great, so far I agree with that, and I said as much.
But that was not *my* argument. My argument was that you can't simply deny any claim of "straw man" based solely upon your perception that it is often misused, which is where you started. And appropriately enough, that makes your last response to me......a "straw man" argument! To which I can only respond...refer to my previous post.
Actually, yes, I can. If you can't determine the actual truth value of an individual argument and instead have to broadly lump what could be a valid argument into the domain of the "straw people", then maybe you should, with all due respect, shut the fuck up.
Perhaps you should google on logical fallacies. All that saying "straw man" means is that someone is making an argument against a claim that was never made. If Microsoft never claimed SP1 would improve performance, than it would truly be a "straw man" criticism to berate them because SP1 does not improve performance, and thus the "straw man" defense is valid. However, if MS *did* tout SP1 as improving performance, then the "straw man" accusation is invalid as the article would have a valid point in pointing out that performance gains appear to be dismal.
The guy who posted that MS *did* claim performance improvement makes an actual argument that the OP's "straw man" claim *is* invalid, which is perfectly fine. However, you are simply implying that *any* claim of "straw man" is a "diversion tactic", which is not.
Is it just me, or is there something a bit weird about naming a product for reading books with a word which means "to set on fire"? Now, maybe as a name for Dell laptop...
Unfortunately, that 0.0001% of the population doesn't have that much influence.
Though most of your criticism is certainly valid, I do remember when TinyURL first appeared, and why people found it useful.
At that time I was active on several bulletin board type forums, mostly the NY Times now-defunct forums as well as several others. In the beginning, most such forums supported using anchor tags so you could put in any URL as a normal link. Then people began abusing these capabilities and at one point (I'm going to say around 1998-9) most of these forums started banning anchor tags in posts, hence no more clickable links. You could paste a URL as regular text, but the particularly long and cryptic URLs would either get split or truncated (making it difficult to copy & paste into the address window), or would totally bork the page formatting. When TinyURL came around, it was a solution to that problem, if an inelegant and not very far-sighted one.
In the following years, it seems most of the instances where TinyURL would have been useful have been solved by better means, and at this point I am hard-pressed to think of a current situation where TinyUrl would be useful (save for mischief like camoflaging goatse links). So I agree with your assessment, but just wanted to point out that at one time it did fulfill a particular purpose.
FLAC is designed for low-power decoding...from what I've seen it is comparable to mp3 in terms of processing for decoding. It also entirely integer-based, a feature touted as superior for both portability and performance.
Well said.
There is another aspect implicit in this that doesn't get noted as much.
As IT technology matures, decision makers are more and more forced into the position of actually having to justify the money they spend. And as the experience of businesses in upgrading software has accumulated, one thing become clearer...the cost of major software upgrades to the customer are increasingly external to the software itself...that is, while MS might get $100-200 per seat of added revenue from your business's upgrade, the cost to you may be 10 times that after compatability testing, fixing bugs, figuring workarounds, etc. And it's not just Microsoft...many software vendors, especially industry-specific enterprise software, are very agressive about forcing customers to upgrade so that they can both keep their revenue streams flowing and reduce their development costs by not supporting so many old versions.
However, IT shops seem to be discovering that this model does not serve them nearly as well as it does the vendor. I've seen multiple cases where agressively pushed or mandated upgrades for which the customer had no pressing business need were implemented, and between buggy code and unforeseen issues these ill-advised upgrades disrupted other pertinent business for months...hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by a customer in order to justify a few thousand to the vendor.
And that is why Vista does not need to necessarily "suck" in order to fail...it just needs to prove itself to have enough issues to make the external costs high enough that most shops don't bother. I've heard from quite a few colleagues that Win32 software that was originally developed in NT4, and had either minor or zero issues when migrating to 2K and then XP, are having major issues with Vista. You could argue that many of these problems are related to assuming admin access (as I would tend to assume) and Vista is forcing these developers to use better coding practices, but that also has to balance against "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" especially when there may be no good business case for doing so.
Have you looked at a calendar recently?
The premise was that he couldn't speak, not that he was blind and totally numb. Good philosophical question, though.
I can see it going something like this...
Researcher: "The machine translates his electrical pulses as 'I'd really enjoy a blowjob from your assistant, Ms. Jenkins.' Ms. Jenkins, do you mind?"
Ms. Jenkins: "Anything in the name of science!!"
Researcher: "Well, that ear-to-ear smile is conclusive proof that he is in fact enjoying it. Eureka, it works!!!"
Reminds of the reason why I'll never own an AM radio...what good is a radio that won't work after noon?
to begin a post with a sentence fragment which is a continuation of the subject line.
My first thought was...
"That's not a gloryhole, that's a Republican US Senator!!"
Then I thought...what's the difference?
...what was deluxe becomes debris, I never questioned royalties,
But this dead end demolishes the dream of an open information highway...
Dig me...but dont...steal from me