Seriously? You're posting this here without telling me how I can get this job? From the sounds of it, I could do it in the background while at my real job.
Isn't it a part of Google's platform that their bots search through emails in your inbox? I could be wrong, but, as memory serves, it is the case that they do this to refine their ads. As such, why would it be surprising when their filters find nothing but stuff that they refuse to use for ads that a red flag would come up? This is not a still that would be in any movie considered acceptable (from my understanding from the summery) in America , nor in most civilized countries. As such, your Saw analogy is kind of a failure.
If a 15 minute open refund period produced "obvious and intuitive consumer benefits" just think about what an hour could do.
Uhyou misread that. "15-minute open purchase window produced 'obvious and intuitive consumer benefits'" I doubt the FTC would be opposed to an open refund period...
And Apple Stores ran the card AGAINST their cardholder agreement (which states you cannot run a card for a declined charge again on the same business day, even though everyone does it), so Apple is out $300k.
I'm kind of lost on your choice of numbering. I would say that even versions suck and odd versions are great, but I don't know which one your referencing with each number. In my eyes, it's safe to say that every other major one
I guess I've always been confused about the numbering. Considering Windows 3, then there was 95, 98, 98SE (Second Edition, which was rock solid IMHO), ME (which was so awful I can't blame them for trying to forget it ever happened), XP, Vista, then we have seven. Even if you discount 95-98SE as 1 version of Windows, that gives us, 4 (95-98SE), 5 (ME), 6 (XP), 7 (Vista), then Windows 7Guess I'm kinda lost. Or are we supposed to treat 95-ME as all one version? That'd be kinda idiotic considering ME was definitely way different (ME took real DOS away for the first time, in case you're unaware), and even in 9x Windows versions there were some serious differences.
define sold out, they're fairly wealthy, adding another distribution channel isn't really selling out...
No, but taking away distribution channels for money is. You could, as of last check, watch all the episodes online on southparkstudios.com. Now you will only have select episodes and new episodes. That sounds like selling out to me.
If Google is really just trying to show how flawed this is. After all, if you search him (I popped over to google.co.uk as I'm in the US) that blog certainly does not come up, but about the entire first page of hits (especially if you throw bbc in as well) is about how that page will not come up because of this ruling...
> (I've seen vinyl rips in FLAC where each track is upwards of 350MB)
That's a stretch.
192Khz * 24-bit = 576KB/s = ~35MB/min
350MB would be 10 minutes long uncompressed
That's for one track, not stereo. It would actually be about 69.12 MB/min or 4.14 GB/hr uncompressed, so, using conservative estimates, 3.105GB/hr FLAC.
Most people are wise enough not to bother with 192KHz, although some could argue for 96KHz, which still puts you at about half of the figures I stated above for a stereo track. 350MB is a 35 minute album done in 44.1KHz/16 bit at uncompressed or likely 44.1KHz and 24 bit done in FLAC or with really good FLAC compression, 48 KHz/24 bit.
This brings up a quick question for the GP, Joe, with the size of hard drives/solid state these days, why should you be so worried about file size? Audio quality makes a big difference in both perception and experience. 350MB for a high quality (audio quality not necessarily musical) album is a better way to enjoy a good (musical) album than a crummy 256 kbps MP3.
Or someone pays for a license for speech to text implementations. Just because it's Linux, doesn't mean there can't be commercial software on it, commercial licenses available, etc. The kernel should not have non-open source code in it (although, there's ways around this ala nVidia drivers), but other than that, why would it matter that Linux doesn't have open sourced speech to text and patents aren't in the public domain?
Not only is it NOT A MOTORCYCLE! the person talking about it has never ridden a motorcycle.
which is easier on the driver's legs than putting a foot down the way you do while riding most motorcycles.
First all motorcycles. Not most. Second. Who the hell ever pulled up to a stop while riding and thought "Fuck. I have to put my feet down again!"?
Not all. Like it or not "trikes" are considered and labelled motorcycles. As such, your statement is not accurate.
Second, I know a number of people who dislike it due to weaker legs/ankle injuries/etc (and thus, are attracted moreso to the trikes, which, for the record, I HATE).
I would love a breakdown of where ALL current taxes go, but it's not going to happen. In general, they likely go into a broad fund, from where it gets spent and becomes difficult to track specific funds. As much as I'd like to see everything earmarked appropriately...I'm not holding my breath.
So if you're using my server without my permission and I tell you to stop right away, you're going to be extremely distrustful of me in any attempts of "amicable negotiation" later? Shouldn't I be the one distrustful of you?! (Or, in the non-analogous format, shouldn't IKEA be distrustful of someone using their property without permission?!)
Yes, that's the wrong way. Allowing lawyers to run free and wild without any thought towards what it's going to look like when you're major fan base starts hating you.
No, that's the ONLY way in the US from my understanding (IANAL). They have a legal requirement to use and defend their trademark or they will lose it.
If the customer issues a chargeback, Chang's doesn't have a leg to stand on.
If the bank doesn't side with the merchant -- photographic evidence is sufficient for any court...
Bullshit. I'm in sales, my company's lost chargebacks with "photographic evidence" plenty of times. The bank sides with their client, the customer almost all the time.
Minimum purchase requirements are against the agreement the organization has with the credit card company* (in the US) which is why you can pay for a pack of gum with a credit card.
*Mind you, you'll still see plenty of smaller stores putting a minimum on purchases with CCs. They pay a larger transaction fee than big chains typically.
You're thinking trademark. Pretty sure patents do not have a "must defend" clause. In trademark, it will be invalidated if you don't stay on it and pursue anyone misusing it (Kleenex will come down on any magazine/newspaper they see that doesn't put after their trademark because if they don't, they can lose that trademark).
Buddy of mine fought 3 or 4 different tickets (all at the same time, one was a legit ticket, doing 60 in a 45) in Cook County recently. The tickets were going to run him somewhere above 350. In the end he left the courthouse writing a check for something just under 200 (the speeding was something like $95 from my understanding) so the court fees have gone up, but not too much.
Nintendo has always been very controlling of it's property.
Oh, really? The games don't belong to Nintendo. That's like saying Photoshop belongs to Intel, Apple or Microsoft just because it runs on Windows or OSX platforms.
Many developers have previously stated their intention to allow YouTube users to upload videos relating to their games, without any kind of charge, express permission or revenue-sharing deal.
No, this is like saying Photoshop belongs to Adobe. Nintendo owns the rights to all the games that I've heard of them doing this to, therefore, Nintendo being controlling of its property is a fitting statement.
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Seriously? You're posting this here without telling me how I can get this job? From the sounds of it, I could do it in the background while at my real job.
If you use a 1 kHz ADC to measure a 1.1 kHz signal, what do you measure at 900 Hz?
450Hz. Just like, in your example of 1.1kHz measured by a 1kHz ADC, your measurement would be .650kHz or 650Hz.
Isn't it a part of Google's platform that their bots search through emails in your inbox? I could be wrong, but, as memory serves, it is the case that they do this to refine their ads. As such, why would it be surprising when their filters find nothing but stuff that they refuse to use for ads that a red flag would come up? This is not a still that would be in any movie considered acceptable (from my understanding from the summery) in America , nor in most civilized countries. As such, your Saw analogy is kind of a failure.
Aside from these small points, I agree with you.
If a 15 minute open refund period produced "obvious and intuitive consumer benefits" just think about what an hour could do.
Uhyou misread that. "15-minute open purchase window produced 'obvious and intuitive consumer benefits'" I doubt the FTC would be opposed to an open refund period...
And Apple Stores ran the card AGAINST their cardholder agreement (which states you cannot run a card for a declined charge again on the same business day, even though everyone does it), so Apple is out $300k.
The acronyms are fairly common and the terms make perfect sense if you've ever admined (and even if not for many purposes) a Linux system.
Or renaming themselves into AT&T...
You mean like Bell South and Southwest Bell and Bell Atlantic, etc?
Stupid me, should read "...every other major one is terrible."
I'm kind of lost on your choice of numbering. I would say that even versions suck and odd versions are great, but I don't know which one your referencing with each number. In my eyes, it's safe to say that every other major one
I guess I've always been confused about the numbering. Considering Windows 3, then there was 95, 98, 98SE (Second Edition, which was rock solid IMHO), ME (which was so awful I can't blame them for trying to forget it ever happened), XP, Vista, then we have seven. Even if you discount 95-98SE as 1 version of Windows, that gives us, 4 (95-98SE), 5 (ME), 6 (XP), 7 (Vista), then Windows 7Guess I'm kinda lost. Or are we supposed to treat 95-ME as all one version? That'd be kinda idiotic considering ME was definitely way different (ME took real DOS away for the first time, in case you're unaware), and even in 9x Windows versions there were some serious differences.
define sold out, they're fairly wealthy, adding another distribution channel isn't really selling out...
No, but taking away distribution channels for money is. You could, as of last check, watch all the episodes online on southparkstudios.com. Now you will only have select episodes and new episodes. That sounds like selling out to me.
If Google is really just trying to show how flawed this is. After all, if you search him (I popped over to google.co.uk as I'm in the US) that blog certainly does not come up, but about the entire first page of hits (especially if you throw bbc in as well) is about how that page will not come up because of this ruling...
> (I've seen vinyl rips in FLAC where each track is upwards of 350MB)
That's a stretch.
192Khz * 24-bit = 576KB/s = ~35MB/min
350MB would be 10 minutes long uncompressed
That's for one track, not stereo. It would actually be about 69.12 MB/min or 4.14 GB/hr uncompressed, so, using conservative estimates, 3.105GB/hr FLAC.
Most people are wise enough not to bother with 192KHz, although some could argue for 96KHz, which still puts you at about half of the figures I stated above for a stereo track. 350MB is a 35 minute album done in 44.1KHz/16 bit at uncompressed or likely 44.1KHz and 24 bit done in FLAC or with really good FLAC compression, 48 KHz/24 bit.
This brings up a quick question for the GP, Joe, with the size of hard drives/solid state these days, why should you be so worried about file size? Audio quality makes a big difference in both perception and experience. 350MB for a high quality (audio quality not necessarily musical) album is a better way to enjoy a good (musical) album than a crummy 256 kbps MP3.
Or someone pays for a license for speech to text implementations. Just because it's Linux, doesn't mean there can't be commercial software on it, commercial licenses available, etc. The kernel should not have non-open source code in it (although, there's ways around this ala nVidia drivers), but other than that, why would it matter that Linux doesn't have open sourced speech to text and patents aren't in the public domain?
Not only is it NOT A MOTORCYCLE! the person talking about it has never ridden a motorcycle.
which is easier on the driver's legs than putting a foot down the way you do while riding most motorcycles.
First all motorcycles. Not most. Second. Who the hell ever pulled up to a stop while riding and thought "Fuck. I have to put my feet down again!"?
Not all. Like it or not "trikes" are considered and labelled motorcycles. As such, your statement is not accurate.
Second, I know a number of people who dislike it due to weaker legs/ankle injuries/etc (and thus, are attracted moreso to the trikes, which, for the record, I HATE).
I would love a breakdown of where ALL current taxes go, but it's not going to happen. In general, they likely go into a broad fund, from where it gets spent and becomes difficult to track specific funds. As much as I'd like to see everything earmarked appropriately...I'm not holding my breath.
So if you're using my server without my permission and I tell you to stop right away, you're going to be extremely distrustful of me in any attempts of "amicable negotiation" later? Shouldn't I be the one distrustful of you?! (Or, in the non-analogous format, shouldn't IKEA be distrustful of someone using their property without permission?!)
Yes, that's the wrong way. Allowing lawyers to run free and wild without any thought towards what it's going to look like when you're major fan base starts hating you.
No, that's the ONLY way in the US from my understanding (IANAL). They have a legal requirement to use and defend their trademark or they will lose it.
If the customer issues a chargeback, Chang's doesn't have a leg to stand on.
If the bank doesn't side with the merchant -- photographic evidence is sufficient for any court...
Bullshit. I'm in sales, my company's lost chargebacks with "photographic evidence" plenty of times. The bank sides with their client, the customer almost all the time.
Minimum purchase requirements are against the agreement the organization has with the credit card company* (in the US) which is why you can pay for a pack of gum with a credit card.
*Mind you, you'll still see plenty of smaller stores putting a minimum on purchases with CCs. They pay a larger transaction fee than big chains typically.
Doesn't matter to the bank. If the customer issues a chargeback, Chang's doesn't have a leg to stand on.
You're thinking trademark. Pretty sure patents do not have a "must defend" clause. In trademark, it will be invalidated if you don't stay on it and pursue anyone misusing it (Kleenex will come down on any magazine/newspaper they see that doesn't put after their trademark because if they don't, they can lose that trademark).
Buddy of mine fought 3 or 4 different tickets (all at the same time, one was a legit ticket, doing 60 in a 45) in Cook County recently. The tickets were going to run him somewhere above 350. In the end he left the courthouse writing a check for something just under 200 (the speeding was something like $95 from my understanding) so the court fees have gone up, but not too much.
Oh, really? The games don't belong to Nintendo. That's like saying Photoshop belongs to Intel, Apple or Microsoft just because it runs on Windows or OSX platforms.
No, this is like saying Photoshop belongs to Adobe. Nintendo owns the rights to all the games that I've heard of them doing this to, therefore, Nintendo being controlling of its property is a fitting statement.