I still use ABP because I rely on the Adblock Plus Pop-up addon. This allows for site specific handling of pop-up windows. It is useful on certain contaminated sites. Couldn't find a replacement for this until now. (NoScript requires too much re-enabling of scripts on too many sites in my experience, which makes it useless for me.)
I don't agree with the negativity of the first comments. Personally, I would gladly redirect a significant part of my taxes to an endeavour like this, instead of sinking money into less forward thinking bottomless pits the politicians created.
A one-way trip to Mars means sacrifice, and I applaud them - if they really mean it and won't chicken out the day of lauch. It would be an incredible exciting exploration and proof of concept.
The populations of your examples were poor, naive, badly educated, living in restricted militarized societies, with very few news sources which were easily manipulated for propaganda purposes.
Compare them to the people of today living in relative luxury, with free speech and history education, thousands of news sources and a dozen media alternatives.
Well, the mainstream media won't help with spreading the news on this one. Currently, as you can see, they are busy drumming up the new batch of Al Qaeda warnings, and take care to repeatedly state that it is the NSA saving the world here.
As expected, the two countries deepest into the US' digestive body parts - UK and Ger - already help with the security theatre effort by closing embassies. It all plays out like in a bad spy movie.
Exactly. Of all data there is, audio and video for private consumption is probably were bit rot doesn't matter at all. The rare cases it happens you won't even hear or see the wrong bit. In fact, using lossy compression and then worry about bit rot is illogical.
Good analysis. The mentioned wealth inequity, the poverty, crime, lack of education, and corruption result in a vicious, almost unbreakable circle. It's like a real life experiment and illustrates why 3rd world countries mainly stay the way they are.
Eternal September sure changed things, but you had ways to avoid the derp. The real problem is what I call the "Cult of Mediocrity", which got born through "Web 2.0".
Before that, people would have hobbies, having fun with them, and get inspired by professionals.
Today, everyone is a writer, photographer, musician, etc., posts online and gets cheered upon by other wannabies, celebrating their mediocre hobbyist results as the ultimate achievement. Consequences of this are rampant narcissism and arrogance on the one hand, and a society which focuses on equality instead of talent.
If one compares test levels for university entry between then and now, one can see an example of where we're heading.
This cooperation between MS and the NSA maybe explains why MS got away in most cases of monopolistic abuses during so many years: it's easier to infiltrate computers worldwide if they all use the same OS.
The opinions of "the masses" are entirely based upon second hand information, i.e. whatever media outlet they believe. Those media outlets don't even have expert teams like the politicians should have and listen to, so this won't really make for better policies.
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I still use ABP because I rely on the Adblock Plus Pop-up addon. This allows for site specific handling of pop-up windows. It is useful on certain contaminated sites. Couldn't find a replacement for this until now. (NoScript requires too much re-enabling of scripts on too many sites in my experience, which makes it useless for me.)
Maybe you could make a deal with Matrox by offering them your experience as a customer success story.
The planet works best when is reinstalled every 60-70 millon years, you know, cruft gets accumulated.
FTFY. Because the planet surely doesn't want to boot up with the same virus (=human) infested crap again.
Wait a minute. You are saying you have an "area right next to the rightmost tab"? How do you do that?
Despite this, I'd still like to see the images of a 30m lunar orbit space telescope.
Metal manipulation by Goldman Sach is why metals cost so much.
This is offtopic, but the source article is a longish, but really good read:
A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold
Banks: not only too big to fail, but also too big to be controlled, and the main reason for all large scale economic troubles.
I don't agree with the negativity of the first comments. Personally, I would gladly redirect a significant part of my taxes to an endeavour like this, instead of sinking money into less forward thinking bottomless pits the politicians created.
A one-way trip to Mars means sacrifice, and I applaud them - if they really mean it and won't chicken out the day of lauch. It would be an incredible exciting exploration and proof of concept.
The populations of your examples were poor, naive, badly educated, living in restricted militarized societies, with very few news sources which were easily manipulated for propaganda purposes.
Compare them to the people of today living in relative luxury, with free speech and history education, thousands of news sources and a dozen media alternatives.
It can't happen again. Or can it?
I haven't seen this make the mainstream news yet
Well, the mainstream media won't help with spreading the news on this one. Currently, as you can see, they are busy drumming up the new batch of Al Qaeda warnings, and take care to repeatedly state that it is the NSA saving the world here.
As expected, the two countries deepest into the US' digestive body parts - UK and Ger - already help with the security theatre effort by closing embassies. It all plays out like in a bad spy movie.
I use a bicycle, you insensitive clod!
pr0n looks for YOU!
All this caring about what foreigners think sounds Unamerican to me.
I agree, bring back Arnie!
Oh wait...
Nope. DOS games. Xbox might have a backdoor.
Exactly. Of all data there is, audio and video for private consumption is probably were bit rot doesn't matter at all. The rare cases it happens you won't even hear or see the wrong bit. In fact, using lossy compression and then worry about bit rot is illogical.
Finally a well worded insightful post, a rare occurrence on this site. The link to the newsletter subscription is missing though.
No, that's what the sharks are for.
Good analysis. The mentioned wealth inequity, the poverty, crime, lack of education, and corruption result in a vicious, almost unbreakable circle. It's like a real life experiment and illustrates why 3rd world countries mainly stay the way they are.
It coud've been worse. At least it wasn't 'Kansas' and 'REO Speedwagon'.
Speaking of 80's rock, even worse would be a moon named 'Europe'. Oh wait...!
Eternal September sure changed things, but you had ways to avoid the derp. The real problem is what I call the "Cult of Mediocrity", which got born through "Web 2.0".
Before that, people would have hobbies, having fun with them, and get inspired by professionals.
Today, everyone is a writer, photographer, musician, etc., posts online and gets cheered upon by other wannabies, celebrating their mediocre hobbyist results as the ultimate achievement. Consequences of this are rampant narcissism and arrogance on the one hand, and a society which focuses on equality instead of talent.
If one compares test levels for university entry between then and now, one can see an example of where we're heading.
The uncertainty principle is the same as taking a Fourier transform of a sound pulse.
Which explains why one can't be sure if MP3's are music or not.
This cooperation between MS and the NSA maybe explains why MS got away in most cases of monopolistic abuses during so many years: it's easier to infiltrate computers worldwide if they all use the same OS.
I have an uneasy feeling with this.
OK, maybe I just read/watched too much bad Science Fiction.
Nevertheless, the message I'll send will be:
"Nothing to see here, move along!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1#Quality
Not sure why this was modded down, but that link is insightful.
It also shows why MP3 @ 320 kb/s doesn't make sense. For the best lossy compression, MP2 at that bitrate would be better.
IMHO, FLAC for home listening, and MP3 @ ~192 kb/s ("lame -V2") for mobile is the way to go.
Same old shit as always (DNRTFA).
I'm tainting my pure and virgin kernels since about 10 years with the evil corporate drivers from Nvidia, because it works and performs. Sorry Gnu!
the real people's publicly-stated opinions
The opinions of "the masses" are entirely based upon second hand information, i.e. whatever media outlet they believe. Those media outlets don't even have expert teams like the politicians should have and listen to, so this won't really make for better policies.