re 1: If you've a captive audience, for physical or inconvenience reasons, that has no choice but to hear every word you say (in a train/bus/restaurant for instance), then yes you indeed are impinging on their consciousness.
re 1 again but separately: We are louder, it's neither a secret nor an insult. We're also more willing to become violent over a matter of principle (excepting football matters of course). Because of that, it's very important over on this side of the pond to have a finer appreciation of politeness than you find in most of Europe; it's a survival trait. This could very well be why you don't find things rude that we do.
re 2: Hyperbole. It's a useful language skill. If you need more information on it, see wikipedia or any politician.
Nah, I'm one of the assholes they date. You obviously aren't though or you'd know that the annoying asshole is not the kind of asshole that attracts women.
You'd lose at least half of the driving population at large if you required them to actually know how to drive worth a damn. Probably two thirds of college students and virtually all teenagers would be gone too. This would do very interesting things to our economy. I'd almost be willing to go as far as dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.
Trains, buses or restaurants are perfectly OK so long as you're discreet about it
No. They aren't. Unless a close family member is simultaneously in labor, in a burning building, and being attacked by rabid monkeys you look at your silently vibrating phone to see who it is on caller id and call them back when we don't have to listen to you.
That seems fair to ensure that nobody's encroaching on someone else's speeds
I can see where it might, but I am a network engineer and it most certainly isn't. It's extremely easy to keep the tubes full but make sure important packets like http/voip/fps games/etc... get to skip ahead in line and get through faster. That gives Quality of Service to what's important without slowing down all the less time critical traffic any more than absolutely necessary. It's actually harder to do it the way you suggest and serves no purpose but to keep Virgin Media (or whoever) from having to build up infrastructure to keep up with demand.
Yeah, um... how's telling people how they should use their computer working out for you? You should apply for a job at Apple, that's the kind of thinking that Steve loves.
Also, no modern move is distributed in AVI anymore.
You're talking official channels? Must be because that's patently false for anything else.
And if you look on EZTV, all HD shows are also usually uploaded as MKV.
Just went and did a quick count on EZTV's front page. I show about 3-4:1 AVI:MKV. Maybe you're using some kind of math I'm unfamiliar with. Or maybe you're only counting the 720p episodes, in which case they're far less downloaded and seeded than their lower res counterparts as well as being less common.
It’s the standard now.
Says you. End of debunking.
I'm not an AVI champion here. I honestly don't care about moving to mkv/mp4/etc... or not. I simply get annoyed by people vehemently saying things that are demonstrably false.
obsolete -adjective
no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
Guess it was ignorance of the meaning of the word then. Like it or not, AVI is still widely used. Until it isn't, it will not be obsolete. You need a new word. Might I suggest one of the following: anachronous, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the times, dated, old-hat, out, outdated, outmoded, passé, unfashionable
Judging from the vehemence of your response though, I'd probably go with unfashionable. You clearly have an emotional stake in video container formats for some reason, so that would be the most honest.
But AVI is an obsolete container (which is why Microsoft stopped using it).
Given that AVI is still the most widely used video container, either you don't understand the meaning of the word obsolete or you're engaging in some I reject your reality and substitute my own behavior as a disciple of Adam Savage.
I really don't know why I bother. Chalk it up to a slow news day but I'll go ahead and educate you.
For starters, keep track of who you're arguing with. I haven't stated anything besides my opinion that you're likely an idiot. Now on with the education.
Money is an abstraction of a person's time/effort/property's value to society at large or in part. Usually, though not always, it has very little value in and of itself and is instead used as a method of storing one's time/effort/property for later use or trade. It need not even exist physically, such as with electronic records banks keep. This is fine as it is an abstraction to begin with.
It's really very simple. If I put forth effort on something, say a bit of coding, I expect to be rewarded for said effort. If I decide to take a nap instead, I expect to get a nice nap as reward rather than pay or ownership of the code I wrote. If I decide to take a year's worth of naps I expect to be in serious trouble. This is as it should be. It is fair and just.
Being compensated as if I worked hard when I was taking a nap is absurd and would most assuredly lead to me taking more naps. On a global scale that would lead to an immediate and massive collapse of society as a whole.
Being forced to work rather than take a nap would be worse though. We call that slavery and it's fairly widely regarded as a very bad thing.
Now me, I also contribute some of the code I've written to society at large because I understand the economics of scarce goods vs infinite goods, because I see the value to myself in advancing society as a whole, and because I'm just that kind of nice guy.
Now on to my sig... I really don't care what you think of it. If you're too much of an imbecile to understand how a little green piece of paper being traded for goods or services works, it's probably too much to expect you to grasp the humor value of something being absurd and true at the same time.
If you're waiting for people like me to die, might I suggest holding your breath. We make up almost the entire population of the planet and that isn't likely to ever change. While you're waiting though, feel free to exchange goods and labor for your comforts rather than dealing with filthy money. It will even work slightly better on a personal scale than it would on a national or global scale. I'd say let us know how it works out but your ISP likely doesn't have far too much pot lying around that they need someone to smoke up for them, so you won't be talking with us again if you do.
Hmm? Oh, no... I've given it quite a little bit of thought and decided you're taking a position that is at best ignorant and at worst utterly vile and reprehensible.
I'm fairly certain you don't even understand what money is and absolutely certain that you haven't thought through all the ramifications of this fruitloop idea.
You had crack that good and didn't share? Bastard!
The economy being what it is lately, employees are worth next to nothing to a company unless they have extremely difficult to replace skills. As to social value, companies tend to not give a happy damn about social value; they mostly prefer actual value. Stop smoking the union pole and look at things from management's perspective once in a while, you'll sound like less of a tool.
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Don't you mean OS/2?
re 1: If you've a captive audience, for physical or inconvenience reasons, that has no choice but to hear every word you say (in a train/bus/restaurant for instance), then yes you indeed are impinging on their consciousness.
re 1 again but separately: We are louder, it's neither a secret nor an insult. We're also more willing to become violent over a matter of principle (excepting football matters of course). Because of that, it's very important over on this side of the pond to have a finer appreciation of politeness than you find in most of Europe; it's a survival trait. This could very well be why you don't find things rude that we do.
re 2: Hyperbole. It's a useful language skill. If you need more information on it, see wikipedia or any politician.
Nah, I'm one of the assholes they date. You obviously aren't though or you'd know that the annoying asshole is not the kind of asshole that attracts women.
So my ancient ATI card isn't "really" pushing pixels to twin 26" displays?
Nope, that's the pixel fairy.
Good in theory, bad in practice.
You'd lose at least half of the driving population at large if you required them to actually know how to drive worth a damn. Probably two thirds of college students and virtually all teenagers would be gone too. This would do very interesting things to our economy. I'd almost be willing to go as far as dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.
Shoot people in the head when we take their license, because honestly it's better than letting them starve to death?
You'd be my new hero if it weren't for the sarcasm.
Trains, buses or restaurants are perfectly OK so long as you're discreet about it
No. They aren't. Unless a close family member is simultaneously in labor, in a burning building, and being attacked by rabid monkeys you look at your silently vibrating phone to see who it is on caller id and call them back when we don't have to listen to you.
That seems fair to ensure that nobody's encroaching on someone else's speeds
I can see where it might, but I am a network engineer and it most certainly isn't. It's extremely easy to keep the tubes full but make sure important packets like http/voip/fps games/etc... get to skip ahead in line and get through faster. That gives Quality of Service to what's important without slowing down all the less time critical traffic any more than absolutely necessary. It's actually harder to do it the way you suggest and serves no purpose but to keep Virgin Media (or whoever) from having to build up infrastructure to keep up with demand.
Yup, I was letting someone else say it to share the karma around though.
In fact the AVI cancer should have died long ago!
Yeah, um... how's telling people how they should use their computer working out for you? You should apply for a job at Apple, that's the kind of thinking that Steve loves.
Also, no modern move is distributed in AVI anymore.
You're talking official channels? Must be because that's patently false for anything else.
And if you look on EZTV, all HD shows are also usually uploaded as MKV.
Just went and did a quick count on EZTV's front page. I show about 3-4:1 AVI:MKV. Maybe you're using some kind of math I'm unfamiliar with. Or maybe you're only counting the 720p episodes, in which case they're far less downloaded and seeded than their lower res counterparts as well as being less common.
It’s the standard now.
Says you. End of debunking.
I'm not an AVI champion here. I honestly don't care about moving to mkv/mp4/etc... or not. I simply get annoyed by people vehemently saying things that are demonstrably false.
Bingo. Well deserving of all the Informative mods you got.
obsolete -adjective
no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
Guess it was ignorance of the meaning of the word then. Like it or not, AVI is still widely used. Until it isn't, it will not be obsolete. You need a new word. Might I suggest one of the following: anachronous, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the times, dated, old-hat, out, outdated, outmoded, passé, unfashionable
Judging from the vehemence of your response though, I'd probably go with unfashionable. You clearly have an emotional stake in video container formats for some reason, so that would be the most honest.
But AVI is an obsolete container (which is why Microsoft stopped using it).
Given that AVI is still the most widely used video container, either you don't understand the meaning of the word obsolete or you're engaging in some I reject your reality and substitute my own behavior as a disciple of Adam Savage.
Yeah, that would have been because children are self-centered idiots and it's barely worth listening to them if they're yelling fire.
Who cares if it helps other people? This could finally lead to me being able to use the local tapwater to make a non-vile pot of coffee!
Yet again, the Internet proves itself to be humor's kryptonite.
Yeah but wouldn't it be nice if we could bomb/shoot/waterboard virus writers?
Pffft, sure if you want to be all logical and stuff. But will your microsd card be shaped like Darth Vader?
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pneumatic tube shuttle full of thumbdrives.
I really don't know why I bother. Chalk it up to a slow news day but I'll go ahead and educate you.
For starters, keep track of who you're arguing with. I haven't stated anything besides my opinion that you're likely an idiot. Now on with the education.
Money is an abstraction of a person's time/effort/property's value to society at large or in part. Usually, though not always, it has very little value in and of itself and is instead used as a method of storing one's time/effort/property for later use or trade. It need not even exist physically, such as with electronic records banks keep. This is fine as it is an abstraction to begin with.
It's really very simple. If I put forth effort on something, say a bit of coding, I expect to be rewarded for said effort. If I decide to take a nap instead, I expect to get a nice nap as reward rather than pay or ownership of the code I wrote. If I decide to take a year's worth of naps I expect to be in serious trouble. This is as it should be. It is fair and just.
Being compensated as if I worked hard when I was taking a nap is absurd and would most assuredly lead to me taking more naps. On a global scale that would lead to an immediate and massive collapse of society as a whole.
Being forced to work rather than take a nap would be worse though. We call that slavery and it's fairly widely regarded as a very bad thing.
Now me, I also contribute some of the code I've written to society at large because I understand the economics of scarce goods vs infinite goods, because I see the value to myself in advancing society as a whole, and because I'm just that kind of nice guy.
Now on to my sig... I really don't care what you think of it. If you're too much of an imbecile to understand how a little green piece of paper being traded for goods or services works, it's probably too much to expect you to grasp the humor value of something being absurd and true at the same time.
If you're waiting for people like me to die, might I suggest holding your breath. We make up almost the entire population of the planet and that isn't likely to ever change. While you're waiting though, feel free to exchange goods and labor for your comforts rather than dealing with filthy money. It will even work slightly better on a personal scale than it would on a national or global scale. I'd say let us know how it works out but your ISP likely doesn't have far too much pot lying around that they need someone to smoke up for them, so you won't be talking with us again if you do.
In closing, take a bath, hippie.
Hmm? Oh, no... I've given it quite a little bit of thought and decided you're taking a position that is at best ignorant and at worst utterly vile and reprehensible.
I'm fairly certain you don't even understand what money is and absolutely certain that you haven't thought through all the ramifications of this fruitloop idea.
Wow, you managed to keep from sounding like a complete nutter right up until your last paragraph.
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5) Profit!
You had crack that good and didn't share? Bastard!
The economy being what it is lately, employees are worth next to nothing to a company unless they have extremely difficult to replace skills. As to social value, companies tend to not give a happy damn about social value; they mostly prefer actual value. Stop smoking the union pole and look at things from management's perspective once in a while, you'll sound like less of a tool.
Original question: Take the headphones off until you have a good argument to present for reinstating them.
I dunno... he is a /. reader.