Not having to pontificate about audio formats that hardly anyone actually uses?
That's just wrong. AAC is everywhere: DVB. 3GPP. YouTube and Flash player in general. The PS3, PSP, Xbox360, Wii, and for that matter, most standalone media players all support AAC. It's ubiquitous.
At the present time, I'd guess that AAC format audio is more common than MP3, except at music sites other than iTMS.
What are you talking about? AAC is used everywhere! DVB for instance. 3GPP, YouTube and the Flash player in general. The PS3. All the major music players support it. I'd wager it is more widely used at present than MP3.
djbdns does lack EDNS, which means you're already screwed if you don't want to fall back to TCP for large responses, e.g., that contain IPv6 glue.
Don't be silly. dnscache and axfr-dns fully support large responses via TCP. That's ancient stuff that's been a part of DNS long before Bernstein released a byte of code.
As opposed to "crooked" AAC with better aural quality at lower bitrates, and no DRM? You know AAC is the modern industry standard for audio encoding, don't you? There's nothing about AAC audio files on iTunes that is any more or less encumbered than MP3 audio files from Lala.
And you people who are moderating the parent up are just as bad as he is. Didn't read the article before adding your two cents.
What was parent saying about the contribution of Slashdot moderators to the quality of its "fora?"
...but Slashdot stands out from the crowds by making interesting and well-worded messages visible amid the quagmire of nonsense, insults, spam, and other noise people are bound to post to public fora.
The author of the parent is one of the same people he complains about, and so are the mods who rated him up.
Did you read the Time article linked in the article summary? The language you complain about in the summary came directly from the Time article, or is a paraphrase of it. And that's just the beginning.
The CRS-3, a network routing system, is able to stream every film ever made, from Hollywood to Bombay, in under four minutes.
Cisco's superrouter is expected to turn what is now the equivalent of a country road into an eight-late superhighway for Internet data traffic, including 3-D video, university lectures and feature films such as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
This would allow consumers to complete a PC download of a Hollywood blockbuster like Avatar in about 72 seconds.
The ability to download albums and films in a matter of seconds is a harbinger of deep trouble for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which would prefer to turn the clock back, way back.
Consider that the MPAA, whose members include Disney and Universal, attacked the VCR in congressional hearings in the 1980s with a Darth Vader-like zeal, predicting box-office receipts would collapse if consumers were allowed to freely share and copy VHS tapes of Hollywood movies.
Today the film and recording industries maintain an iron grip over distribution of their intellectual property through megaplexes and national retailers such as Best Buy, Tower Records and Walmart.
The hard fact is that the latest developments at Cisco, Google and elsewhere may do more than kill the DVD and CD and further upset entertainment-business models that have changed little since the Mesozoic Era.
The upshot is that the high castle walls built over the past 100 years by the film industry to establish privilege and protect monopolistic profits may soon come tumbling down, just as they have for the music industry.
Your problem is not with/. editors, it's with Time Magazine.
I'm sure everyone that hated Bush is OK with Obama doing this.
Fuck you, partisan shithead. We're not OK with it. Why would you use this as an opportunity to attack your peers instead of the Administration? This is what listening to AM radio does to you: turns you against the ones that should be your allies.
It isn't that hard to understand why a court might not be fans of a website whose content is at least 95% links to stuff that is illegal!
The only things found on torrent servers that is illegal are things like child pornography. Movies aren't illegal. Songs aren't illegal. I doubt PirateBay links to anything actually illegal to watch or listen to.
With or without PirateBay the torrents themselves are still legal to access.
Why go to all the trouble to render in 3D a creature that has essentially only one dimension? Also, do we really need another overly long 3D extravaganza about whitey going native?
So even if your resolver DNS already has the answer cached, it's supposed to transmit the request again so the authoritative server can see the requesting client's IP network, and possibly return a different answer. Is it supposed to cache that, or not? Is a resolver supposed to use this extension for all queries, or only load-balanced ones? The draft includes no mechanism for specifying whether a particular query should or should not use the extension. I assume then that a resolver patched with this extension would use it for all queries, which would completly negate the benefits of caching.
So Google thinks obsoleting the DNS cache will help speed up web browsing? Really?
In the time-honored traditions of the US of A, greatest nation on earth, corporations will simply pass onto us the costs of their campaign advertisements. We will get to fund advocacy whether or not we think it is in our interest.
If you don't like it, you can always just stop buying things.
He proposed not just blocking content, but actually banning certain content.
No, he didn't.
In particular, he proposed banning "conspiracy theories".
No, he didn't. What has happened here, is that you've been Punk'd by WorldNetDaily. Yep. You might wish it was Ashton Kutcher instead. I am not sure which should be more embarrassing.
No one has any right to change what my mouse does. Not right-click, not select, nothing. Period, end of story, this is not up for debate: You, personally, are doing evil.
I removed the Gmail gadget for iGoogle from my iGoogle homepage, because despite the iGoogle being loaded via HTTPS, the Gmail gadget would use plain HTTP.
Have they changed the Gmail Gadget to also use HTTPS? I couldn't find anything about it.
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Not having to pontificate about audio formats that hardly anyone actually uses?
That's just wrong. AAC is everywhere: DVB. 3GPP. YouTube and Flash player in general. The PS3, PSP, Xbox360, Wii, and for that matter, most standalone media players all support AAC. It's ubiquitous.
At the present time, I'd guess that AAC format audio is more common than MP3, except at music sites other than iTMS.
What are you talking about? AAC is used everywhere! DVB for instance. 3GPP, YouTube and the Flash player in general. The PS3. All the major music players support it. I'd wager it is more widely used at present than MP3.
Any idea what they mean?
I forsee a large sneakernet in your future.
djbdns does lack EDNS, which means you're already screwed if you don't want to fall back to TCP for large responses, e.g., that contain IPv6 glue.
Don't be silly. dnscache and axfr-dns fully support large responses via TCP. That's ancient stuff that's been a part of DNS long before Bernstein released a byte of code.
As opposed to "crooked" AAC with better aural quality at lower bitrates, and no DRM? You know AAC is the modern industry standard for audio encoding, don't you? There's nothing about AAC audio files on iTunes that is any more or less encumbered than MP3 audio files from Lala.
Get a grip.
That's exactly what everybody else in the software biz means when they use that word.
The Location API in the iPhone andiPod touch has been using this data since the devices were introduced. In Apple's case, they use the Skyhook API.
XPS leverages Wi-Fi access point information to accurately determine location information in dense urban areas or indoor environments.
Google Earth on the iPhone/iPod uses this API to determine location. In the case of the iPod, Skyhook is all the location info available.
Google is no doubt doing the same project themselves for their own location API for Android.
Nothing new here, just a politician making hay. Move along.
They don't value workers rights, free speech, or even a fair marketplace.
Yeah, but which one are you talking about, the communists or the capitalists?
And you people who are moderating the parent up are just as bad as he is. Didn't read the article before adding your two cents.
What was parent saying about the contribution of Slashdot moderators to the quality of its "fora?"
The author of the parent is one of the same people he complains about, and so are the mods who rated him up.
Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
Did you read the Time article linked in the article summary? The language you complain about in the summary came directly from the Time article, or is a paraphrase of it. And that's just the beginning.
Your problem is not with /. editors, it's with Time Magazine.
Chisels?! Lucky!
I notice you still have not offered any criticism either. Just had to take the red meat bait, didn't you? Limbaugh has you conditioned perfectly.
Snap out of it.
I'm sure everyone that hated Bush is OK with Obama doing this.
Fuck you, partisan shithead. We're not OK with it. Why would you use this as an opportunity to attack your peers instead of the Administration? This is what listening to AM radio does to you: turns you against the ones that should be your allies.
It isn't that hard to understand why a court might not be fans of a website whose content is at least 95% links to stuff that is illegal!
The only things found on torrent servers that is illegal are things like child pornography. Movies aren't illegal. Songs aren't illegal. I doubt PirateBay links to anything actually illegal to watch or listen to.
With or without PirateBay the torrents themselves are still legal to access.
Why go to all the trouble to render in 3D a creature that has essentially only one dimension? Also, do we really need another overly long 3D extravaganza about whitey going native?
Or Childhood's End. LOL.
So even if your resolver DNS already has the answer cached, it's supposed to transmit the request again so the authoritative server can see the requesting client's IP network, and possibly return a different answer. Is it supposed to cache that, or not? Is a resolver supposed to use this extension for all queries, or only load-balanced ones? The draft includes no mechanism for specifying whether a particular query should or should not use the extension. I assume then that a resolver patched with this extension would use it for all queries, which would completly negate the benefits of caching.
So Google thinks obsoleting the DNS cache will help speed up web browsing? Really?
Check it out.
In the time-honored traditions of the US of A, greatest nation on earth, corporations will simply pass onto us the costs of their campaign advertisements. We will get to fund advocacy whether or not we think it is in our interest.
If you don't like it, you can always just stop buying things.
I haven't read the decision and the dissent yet
Then you must be an evangelical Christian Republican. Only one of those would proudly proclaim their ignorance as if it were a virtue.
Well then you can say goodbye to alot of creative endeavors.
Goodbye American Idol.
Goodbye John and Kate Plus Eight.
Goodbye I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
Goodbye and good riddance.
He proposed not just blocking content, but actually banning certain content.
No, he didn't.
In particular, he proposed banning "conspiracy theories".
No, he didn't. What has happened here, is that you've been Punk'd by WorldNetDaily. Yep. You might wish it was Ashton Kutcher instead. I am not sure which should be more embarrassing.
No one has any right to change what my mouse does. Not right-click, not select, nothing. Period, end of story, this is not up for debate: You, personally, are doing evil.
u cannot mix http and https content in a page,
<Kyle's Mom>Wha-wha-wha?</Kyle's Mom>
Sure 'u' can.
I removed the Gmail gadget for iGoogle from my iGoogle homepage, because despite the iGoogle being loaded via HTTPS, the Gmail gadget would use plain HTTP.
Have they changed the Gmail Gadget to also use HTTPS? I couldn't find anything about it.