A little tip: for italics it's <i> give out when people talk about crime going up, but the numbers are definitely down. And if you go, "The numbers are down", they go, "Ahh, but the *fear* of crime is rising." Well, so fucking what? Zombies are at an all-time low level, but the fear of zombies could be incredibly high. It doesn't mean you have to have government policies to deal with the fear of zombies</i>
Reducing crime levels should not be the goal. The goal should be to make communities feel safer.
Yet it seems that they're constantly trying to make us feel less safe, getting us terrified of "dangers" that really are insignifigant, like brain cancer from cell phones (what a joke) and terrorists.
And "petty" non-violent crimes aren't so petty when you're the victim. My house was burglarized last year, let me tell you that's worse than being punched in the face.
Of course I know we're talking about the RIAA here, and they act as if the law doesn't apply to them in their dealing
Are you kidding? If the law applied to them they'd have been put in prison for stealing from their artists, for extortion, and for dozens of other crimes years ago.
If the law applied to them, somebody from Sony-BMG would have gone to prison for XCP.
The law does not apply to corporations. If it did, the operators of that mine that exploded in Virginia and killed two dozen men last year would be in prison for negligent manslaughter.
Drinkin' beer in hot sun I fought the law and I won I fought the law and I won
I needed sex and I got some I fought the law and I won I fought the law and I won
I BLEW GEORGE'S FUCKING BRAINS OUT
The Dead Kennedys' music is illegal! How about some Dead Milkmen?
Bitchin' Camaro! Bitchin' Camaro! I ran over my neighbor! And I didn't get arrested because my dad's the mayor Bitchin' Camaro! Bitchin' Camaro! Donuts on your lawn!
I've been trying to find out exactly how FLAC (and SHN) actually work, but my googlefu has been weak. But it does seem from what little information I've found that you're right about loss of floating point precision with FLAC.
I had an idea for a lossless scheme ten years ago that uses no floating point arithmetic, and kind of assumed it was how lossless worked so I didn't pursue it -- but it apparently isn't. Here's the idea (and prior art, for the patent trolls, in the unlikely event that nobody's thought of it before).
WAV stores absolute values of the samples, but it seems to me that it would be far more efficient to store the difference between two adjoining samples, rather than the absolute value, so you could store a 16 bit sample in a single byte, or even less; look at any sampled waveform and there isn't much difference between one sample and the following sample. Rather than storing a 237 and 242, where the 242 would be would be a 5, only three bits (four counting the flag that shows whether it's a positive or negative value). When the waveform is descending, you would store a negative value. With this scheme, the higher the sampling rate, the greater the compression would be, since the higher the sampling rate the closer the two adjoining samples' values would be.
What do you guys think? Am I missing something here?
I have my doubts about this. They've had "smellovision" at Disney's EPCOT for decades, and I wasn't impressed. None of the scents smelled natural; does grape koolaid taste like grape juice to you? Same with the smellovision. But I could see this comong back in 1985 when I first rode the rides that had it.
The addition of smell didn't really add anything (or much of anything) to the enjoyment of the show, so I can't see paying for this. If it did take off, it would garner a fortune on the consumables; printer ink all over again. But I predict it will flop badly.
A lot of small businesses are started up with an individual's money on an individual's property. At what point does that stop being a private affair and become open to regulation?
If his nuclear reactor threatens the neighborhood or releases pollution, it ceases to be a private affair. I seem to be in complete agreement with you.
You young guys are lucky. But the young guys when you're a geezer will be even luckier, we can't imagine the innovations that will come about in the next 30-40 years. Nobody could have forseen the internet, email, or cell phones, let alone variable focus eye implants, hip and knee implants, cochlear implants, and the other medical advances. All we had was landline phones and snail mail. God but it was primitive. In forty years you'll look back and say "god but it was primitive when I was in college."
Ah, legos. Loved playing with my kids and their legos when they were kids, I'd bought buckets and buckets of them. Of course, I had lots of fun playing whiffleball and so on with them, too.
I miss the days when they were about five or so, they made me feel like I was five again. I wish one of them would make me a grandpa before I get too old to enjoy grandkids. I guess I shouldn't have waited until I was 33 to have kids...
If you'll notice, most women are butt-ugly whether nerds or not. So are most men, for that matter. I'd say the ratio of fugly to ok I see on the street is about ten to one. Especially hags my age.
The reason men my age usually need viagra is because they can't get it up for their fat ugly old wrinkled wives. The reason woman want less sex after menopause is because of their fat ugly old wrinkled husbands.
The fact is, few measure up to the "standards" pushed by the media. Also, there are a whole lot more grossly obese people of both sexes than there used to be -- but restaraunt portions have gotten huge. The Big Mac used to be the biggest hamburger there was, now you have 1/3 pound behemoths (I think Burger King has a half pounder, don't thsy?). They used to have large, medium, and small sodas, now they have large, medium, and humungous sodas. What used to be a large soda is now a small soda. Coke machines used to have 9 oz bottles and 12 oz bottles and cans, and you could get 16 oz bottles at the grocery, that was the biggest size. Now you can't get 9 oz bottles at all, and 12 oz cans are becoming rare -- a 1 litre bottle, more than a quart, is the standard these days. No wonder so many people are so fat; and fat never was attractive to anyone.
Wow, I'm impressed! You came to a nerd site, called an Xbox a "fuckwad gadget", and got modded up! Nice troll, son!
I'll have to call my daughter, Patty, and ask her how many females buy xboxes, she's assistant manager of a Gamestop. Do you have any citations or personal experience selling "fuckwad gadgets" for your insight, or is that just an opinion based on nothing?
Patty doesn't have a DVD player, but she has an Xbox. My other daughter has an Xbox, too -- but they could well be the exception; I was heavily into PC gaming when they were growing up; we had loads of fun playing Quake and Quake II and Road Rash on my home network.
I think you hit the nail square om the head there. You didn't have any of that sexist bullshit in Quake (except from the players themselves), and from the mail I got in response to my (long defunct) Quake website I'd say about half of the people playing Quake were women. However, as they told me, they would generally keep their gender secret from other players because of the juvenile sexist bullshit, so folks had the impression that there were few female gamers.
Both of my daughters are avid gamers, the youngest is assistant manager of a Gamestop store.
Some of my fondest memories are playing Quake on my home network with my daughters when they were teenagers. Once my youngest mentioned my site to an online friend, and he was gibbering all over himself that he had "met" my daughter. She came to me wide eyed and said "Dad, did you know you're famous?" I told her "only among nerds".
Who "ware" clothes? I hope English is a second language for you, because if you're a native speaker you're quite illiterate. Dew knot truss yore spill chucker.
That's why the population of female FPS players appear so low -- they don't want the men to know they're women. I'm clicking the "no bonus" boxes because this is a tad redundant (modding myself down so to speak), but I had a populat Quake site and got a lot of mail because of it. I'd say roughly half of my respondants were women, and a LOT of them expressed that to me.
Remember the Blue's News parody called Yello There? Kneel Harriot's real name was Janet.
It's true that programming is male dominated, but I can't fathom why it is. The world's very first programmer, Lady Lovelace, was a woman. The first compiler was written by a woman.
How many cooperative board games or card games are there? Games are about competetion -- all games, whether football, baseball, tennis, or Monopoly. If it isn't competetitive, it's not a game, it's a puzzle. The only games that are cooperative are team games, and even those are competetive.
You'd be surprised at how many of the "guys" playing Quake were women. I ran a popular Quake site, and I got a lot of email, and I'd say half of it was from women. Lots (maybe most) of them kept their gender secret to avoid the juvenile sexual innuendo and harrassment.
Both of my daughters were avid Quake players. I doubt the ratio of men to women has changed much.
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A little tip: for italics it's <i> give out when people talk about crime going up, but the numbers are definitely down. And if you go, "The numbers are down", they go, "Ahh, but the *fear* of crime is rising." Well, so fucking what? Zombies are at an all-time low level, but the fear of zombies could be incredibly high. It doesn't mean you have to have government policies to deal with the fear of zombies</i>
Worse than Spy Hard where his head explodes at the end?
Reducing crime levels should not be the goal. The goal should be to make communities feel safer.
Yet it seems that they're constantly trying to make us feel less safe, getting us terrified of "dangers" that really are insignifigant, like brain cancer from cell phones (what a joke) and terrorists.
And "petty" non-violent crimes aren't so petty when you're the victim. My house was burglarized last year, let me tell you that's worse than being punched in the face.
No, I'm not. That's why I asked.
The RIAA isn't going to land on him unless he shares them, in which case it won't matter if he has physical copies or not.
Of course I know we're talking about the RIAA here, and they act as if the law doesn't apply to them in their dealing
Are you kidding? If the law applied to them they'd have been put in prison for stealing from their artists, for extortion, and for dozens of other crimes years ago.
If the law applied to them, somebody from Sony-BMG would have gone to prison for XCP.
The law does not apply to corporations. If it did, the operators of that mine that exploded in Virginia and killed two dozen men last year would be in prison for negligent manslaughter.
Drinkin' beer in hot sun
I fought the law and I won
I fought the law and I won
I needed sex and I got some
I fought the law and I won
I fought the law and I won
I BLEW GEORGE'S FUCKING BRAINS OUT
The Dead Kennedys' music is illegal! How about some Dead Milkmen?
Bitchin' Camaro! Bitchin' Camaro! I ran over my neighbor!
And I didn't get arrested because my dad's the mayor
Bitchin' Camaro! Bitchin' Camaro! Donuts on your lawn!
Well, you wouuldn't get that wooshing noise with good equipment.
(ducks)
Krakhed Linux runs on Free Local Alternating Current, you should try that distro...
I've been trying to find out exactly how FLAC (and SHN) actually work, but my googlefu has been weak. But it does seem from what little information I've found that you're right about loss of floating point precision with FLAC.
I had an idea for a lossless scheme ten years ago that uses no floating point arithmetic, and kind of assumed it was how lossless worked so I didn't pursue it -- but it apparently isn't. Here's the idea (and prior art, for the patent trolls, in the unlikely event that nobody's thought of it before).
WAV stores absolute values of the samples, but it seems to me that it would be far more efficient to store the difference between two adjoining samples, rather than the absolute value, so you could store a 16 bit sample in a single byte, or even less; look at any sampled waveform and there isn't much difference between one sample and the following sample. Rather than storing a 237 and 242, where the 242 would be would be a 5, only three bits (four counting the flag that shows whether it's a positive or negative value). When the waveform is descending, you would store a negative value. With this scheme, the higher the sampling rate, the greater the compression would be, since the higher the sampling rate the closer the two adjoining samples' values would be.
What do you guys think? Am I missing something here?
I have my doubts about this. They've had "smellovision" at Disney's EPCOT for decades, and I wasn't impressed. None of the scents smelled natural; does grape koolaid taste like grape juice to you? Same with the smellovision. But I could see this comong back in 1985 when I first rode the rides that had it.
The addition of smell didn't really add anything (or much of anything) to the enjoyment of the show, so I can't see paying for this. If it did take off, it would garner a fortune on the consumables; printer ink all over again. But I predict it will flop badly.
If he was, it was the wrong noun to verb, because it obfuscated what he was trying to communicate.
A lot of small businesses are started up with an individual's money on an individual's property. At what point does that stop being a private affair and become open to regulation?
If his nuclear reactor threatens the neighborhood or releases pollution, it ceases to be a private affair. I seem to be in complete agreement with you.
You young guys are lucky. But the young guys when you're a geezer will be even luckier, we can't imagine the innovations that will come about in the next 30-40 years. Nobody could have forseen the internet, email, or cell phones, let alone variable focus eye implants, hip and knee implants, cochlear implants, and the other medical advances. All we had was landline phones and snail mail. God but it was primitive. In forty years you'll look back and say "god but it was primitive when I was in college."
Ah, legos. Loved playing with my kids and their legos when they were kids, I'd bought buckets and buckets of them. Of course, I had lots of fun playing whiffleball and so on with them, too.
I miss the days when they were about five or so, they made me feel like I was five again. I wish one of them would make me a grandpa before I get too old to enjoy grandkids. I guess I shouldn't have waited until I was 33 to have kids...
If you'll notice, most women are butt-ugly whether nerds or not. So are most men, for that matter. I'd say the ratio of fugly to ok I see on the street is about ten to one. Especially hags my age.
The reason men my age usually need viagra is because they can't get it up for their fat ugly old wrinkled wives. The reason woman want less sex after menopause is because of their fat ugly old wrinkled husbands.
The fact is, few measure up to the "standards" pushed by the media. Also, there are a whole lot more grossly obese people of both sexes than there used to be -- but restaraunt portions have gotten huge. The Big Mac used to be the biggest hamburger there was, now you have 1/3 pound behemoths (I think Burger King has a half pounder, don't thsy?). They used to have large, medium, and small sodas, now they have large, medium, and humungous sodas. What used to be a large soda is now a small soda. Coke machines used to have 9 oz bottles and 12 oz bottles and cans, and you could get 16 oz bottles at the grocery, that was the biggest size. Now you can't get 9 oz bottles at all, and 12 oz cans are becoming rare -- a 1 litre bottle, more than a quart, is the standard these days. No wonder so many people are so fat; and fat never was attractive to anyone.
Wow, I'm impressed! You came to a nerd site, called an Xbox a "fuckwad gadget", and got modded up! Nice troll, son!
I'll have to call my daughter, Patty, and ask her how many females buy xboxes, she's assistant manager of a Gamestop. Do you have any citations or personal experience selling "fuckwad gadgets" for your insight, or is that just an opinion based on nothing?
Patty doesn't have a DVD player, but she has an Xbox. My other daughter has an Xbox, too -- but they could well be the exception; I was heavily into PC gaming when they were growing up; we had loads of fun playing Quake and Quake II and Road Rash on my home network.
I think you hit the nail square om the head there. You didn't have any of that sexist bullshit in Quake (except from the players themselves), and from the mail I got in response to my (long defunct) Quake website I'd say about half of the people playing Quake were women. However, as they told me, they would generally keep their gender secret from other players because of the juvenile sexist bullshit, so folks had the impression that there were few female gamers.
Both of my daughters are avid gamers, the youngest is assistant manager of a Gamestop store.
Some of my fondest memories are playing Quake on my home network with my daughters when they were teenagers. Once my youngest mentioned my site to an online friend, and he was gibbering all over himself that he had "met" my daughter. She came to me wide eyed and said "Dad, did you know you're famous?" I told her "only among nerds".
Yes, I agree completely with that; my daughters loved the Barbie game. But they liked "Carmen Sandiego" and "Magic School Bus" too.
Who "ware" clothes? I hope English is a second language for you, because if you're a native speaker you're quite illiterate. Dew knot truss yore spill chucker.
That's why the population of female FPS players appear so low -- they don't want the men to know they're women. I'm clicking the "no bonus" boxes because this is a tad redundant (modding myself down so to speak), but I had a populat Quake site and got a lot of mail because of it. I'd say roughly half of my respondants were women, and a LOT of them expressed that to me.
Remember the Blue's News parody called Yello There? Kneel Harriot's real name was Janet.
It's true that programming is male dominated, but I can't fathom why it is. The world's very first programmer, Lady Lovelace, was a woman. The first compiler was written by a woman.
How many cooperative board games or card games are there? Games are about competetion -- all games, whether football, baseball, tennis, or Monopoly. If it isn't competetitive, it's not a game, it's a puzzle. The only games that are cooperative are team games, and even those are competetive.
You'd be surprised at how many of the "guys" playing Quake were women. I ran a popular Quake site, and I got a lot of email, and I'd say half of it was from women. Lots (maybe most) of them kept their gender secret to avoid the juvenile sexual innuendo and harrassment.
Both of my daughters were avid Quake players. I doubt the ratio of men to women has changed much.