From what I heard tho, it wasn't all about pure R&D. They also had caught soviet planes that they were hoping to keep secret there, during the cold war, mainly Mig-21's I think.
Dude, we can see them very clearly. Actually, that nuclear impact field is quite impressive. You can find it a little south west of Area 51. Most notably there's a big impressive crater that you can see in 3D with an extraordinary depth and shape.
You just have to download Google Earth, and your curiosity will be fully satisfied. Area 51 is a bit disappointing tho, besides the very long runaways, there's ain't much to it
The fact that they are books. Although I got a huge spare time, I got no time to read books, i started reading Animal Far last summer i'm still at the half of it. Plus I still prefer a book rather than an eBook. Plus I usually read Animal Farm while I'm reinstalling Windows, so unless I'd buy an eBook device...
That the grand-parent poster is a republican and that according to him all liberals (or at least liberal teachers) are ignorant. Only explanation I can think of.
Yeah actually I agree with you. Now that I think about it I can hear artifacts in songs sometimes, although I haven't heard a non-MP3 song in a long time. Oh well, I'm fine with that tho, that's the price of having music for free.
Oh yeah, my bad, you're right. I was just plain wrong. That's actually pretty much like re-encoding in JPEG many times. Thanks for teaching me something:-)
"Lossy compression does much more than cut frequencies above 16 kHz"
I know, I mentionned other things as well, but thx.
"So the compression algo will do different computations when fed a file that is already compressed (even if uncompressed again of course) than if fed the original format - because the bitstream is now different, it will make different "choices" (ever heard the difference between the original and a 128 kbps AAC file extracted as a separate "tune"? it's quite a lot of lost sound info in there). So it will be again next round."
Well, I'd really like to hear the result after a few iterations of compressions. until I do, i'm staying sceptical. Plus, you're not saying alot, i mean, nothing precise.
"Think of it as several rounds with hard jpeg recompression on same image"
I don't think it's a valid comparison.
"And the iTunes 128 kbps format have already lost to much IMHO, so I would hate to loose more."
Well you'd need to try to tell. Btw, how come you can tell it has lost since blind listening tests tell at such a rate you can't tell the difference with a non-compressed sound?
"Even if you go to WAV or CD Audio, if you ever want to rip it back into some compressed format, you're going to lose quality."
I don't agree. If you turn a MP3 into a PCM WAV, and back into MP3, and over and over again, even if you do it a dozen times, i'm pretty sure you wouldn't notice the difference with the original MP3.
Why? Well, if you think about where's the loss about such compressions as MP3, such as ignoring frequencies above 16 kHz, ignoring the faint sounds that's mixed with louder sounds, the loss of hardness of the enveloppe due to the frame size, etc, you'll understand that the harm is done the first time the file is turned into a MP3, and that turning it into a PCM format and re-encode into a MP3 won't do much harm, due to the fact that pretty much every info that had to be lost has been lost the first time, and that what's left is just what the MP3 format keeps, and thus that it won't lose any more.
But that's the theory, one would have to turn a MP3 to a PCM WAV and back into a MP3 over and over again in order to tell.
$525, you call that, an ultimate budget box??? Ever heard of the "$200 Mac". That's something people at osx86project used to like to do a few months back.
You try to put together a PC for $200 than can run Mac OS X, which means that it have a SSE2 CPU, which is already something that few people really need, people rather need something like a 500 MHz Celeron.
"The worst problem I see is more people will rely on KAD, increasing the server load..."
Yeah man, as someone pointed out, you got that just wrong. The only problem with kad, compared to eD2k, is the overhead. Back when I was using a 56k, I looked at the overhead for Kad and it was making 74% of the overhead. So I decided to turn it off, but since I got broadband i turned it back on.
The only other problem with kad is that you don't really know when you search is over, and also you hardly can use search arguments of less than 3 characters, which can be annoying. Other than that, it's just perfect, and improving.
"All things that a kid could use, all avaluable (with proper setup) without the internet at all."
As a kid what do you need anyways? Drawing apps and games. Did I forget something?. Actually you can make a kid just happy with an early color computer.
"This is a major victory in our fight to cut off the supply of illegal materials being circulated on the Internet via peer-to-peer networks," said Motion Picture Association (MPA) Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman. "By shaving the illegal traffic of copyrighted works facilitated by Razorback2, we are depleting other illegal networks of their ability to supply Internet pirates with copyrighted works which is a positive step in our international effort to fight piracy."
Ever heard about Kad? You can shut down every single eDonkey server, eMule users will still have Kad to make their business as usual. Shutting down some server might hurt a little, but shutting down the network is impossible, because *we* are the network (evil laughter)
"I'd like people to say Google changed the world less for its search engine than for the way in which it changed philanthropy to make the world a better place."
Funny, sure reminds you of Bill Gates, except that they skipped the im-a-bad-rich-guy-who-wants-the-monopoly-and-with- a-dozen-anti-trust-cases-on-the-back step and went directly to please-remember-me-for-my-good-actions step.
"Apple's recent embrace of Intel processors, for one, is something Mr. Wozniak says he never imagined.
"It's like consorting with the enemy.""
Intel? The enemy? Wait... weren't PowerPC's made by IBM? For those who seen Pirates of the Silicon Valley, didn't the two Steves consider IBM as their enemy? You know, the stuck-up guys in black suits who did their stuff the same way they did in the 1950's, wasn't it IBM their enemy?
I thought that Steve Jobs would gladly go away from IBM, I recall that Apple has switched from Motorola CPU's to IBM while he was gone, and now he's changing to Intel, seems to make sence to me, since he hates IBM.
But Steve Wozniak's reaction, I really don't understand it, if anyone can explain me.
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From what I heard tho, it wasn't all about pure R&D. They also had caught soviet planes that they were hoping to keep secret there, during the cold war, mainly Mig-21's I think.
You just have to download Google Earth, and your curiosity will be fully satisfied. Area 51 is a bit disappointing tho, besides the very long runaways, there's ain't much to it
The fact that they are books. Although I got a huge spare time, I got no time to read books, i started reading Animal Far last summer i'm still at the half of it. Plus I still prefer a book rather than an eBook. Plus I usually read Animal Farm while I'm reinstalling Windows, so unless I'd buy an eBook device...
Dupe articles are fine, but dupe comments, that's a no-no
As Eric Cartman would say, nothing but hippie movies about gay cowboys eating pudding.
That the grand-parent poster is a republican and that according to him all liberals (or at least liberal teachers) are ignorant. Only explanation I can think of.
Yeah actually I agree with you. Now that I think about it I can hear artifacts in songs sometimes, although I haven't heard a non-MP3 song in a long time. Oh well, I'm fine with that tho, that's the price of having music for free.
Oh yeah, my bad, you're right. I was just plain wrong. That's actually pretty much like re-encoding in JPEG many times. Thanks for teaching me something :-)
I know, I mentionned other things as well, but thx.
"So the compression algo will do different computations when fed a file that is already compressed (even if uncompressed again of course) than if fed the original format - because the bitstream is now different, it will make different "choices" (ever heard the difference between the original and a 128 kbps AAC file extracted as a separate "tune"? it's quite a lot of lost sound info in there). So it will be again next round."
Well, I'd really like to hear the result after a few iterations of compressions. until I do, i'm staying sceptical. Plus, you're not saying alot, i mean, nothing precise.
"Think of it as several rounds with hard jpeg recompression on same image"
I don't think it's a valid comparison.
"And the iTunes 128 kbps format have already lost to much IMHO, so I would hate to loose more."
Well you'd need to try to tell. Btw, how come you can tell it has lost since blind listening tests tell at such a rate you can't tell the difference with a non-compressed sound?
I agree with you on that one! I play video games all the time, and I'm skinny as fuck!
Well yeah, I don't eat alot. If you don't eat alot and play video games all day you won't get any bigger.
Yeah, it's the food you eat that makes you fat, not the video games you play, you stupid muthafuckas!!!
-Have you been living under a rock or something?
-No I'm from Utah
-Oh sorry...
I absolutly disagree, my explanation for that is in this comment http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178493&c id=14799139 but if you've tried that and actually noticed a loss at every AAC encoding, I wanna hear that.
I don't agree. If you turn a MP3 into a PCM WAV, and back into MP3, and over and over again, even if you do it a dozen times, i'm pretty sure you wouldn't notice the difference with the original MP3.
Why? Well, if you think about where's the loss about such compressions as MP3, such as ignoring frequencies above 16 kHz, ignoring the faint sounds that's mixed with louder sounds, the loss of hardness of the enveloppe due to the frame size, etc, you'll understand that the harm is done the first time the file is turned into a MP3, and that turning it into a PCM format and re-encode into a MP3 won't do much harm, due to the fact that pretty much every info that had to be lost has been lost the first time, and that what's left is just what the MP3 format keeps, and thus that it won't lose any more.
But that's the theory, one would have to turn a MP3 to a PCM WAV and back into a MP3 over and over again in order to tell.
You try to put together a PC for $200 than can run Mac OS X, which means that it have a SSE2 CPU, which is already something that few people really need, people rather need something like a 500 MHz Celeron.
http://osx86project.org/?option=com_cont ent&task=view&id=27&Itemid=2
Haha thanks for the hints I got it now.
That's right! But I would have thought that IBM was a bigger enemy to Apple than Intel.
Offtopic? Come on! MacBook Internal Photos == porn what's so offtopic about it.. ok nevermind.
p0rn!
huh? is the lack of sense of your comment intentional? :-?
I only hope it means you could have Geyes on your Palm. Geyes is the only reason why I use Linux, well among others.
Yeah man, as someone pointed out, you got that just wrong. The only problem with kad, compared to eD2k, is the overhead. Back when I was using a 56k, I looked at the overhead for Kad and it was making 74% of the overhead. So I decided to turn it off, but since I got broadband i turned it back on.
The only other problem with kad is that you don't really know when you search is over, and also you hardly can use search arguments of less than 3 characters, which can be annoying. Other than that, it's just perfect, and improving.
As a kid what do you need anyways? Drawing apps and games. Did I forget something?. Actually you can make a kid just happy with an early color computer.
Ever heard about Kad? You can shut down every single eDonkey server, eMule users will still have Kad to make their business as usual. Shutting down some server might hurt a little, but shutting down the network is impossible, because *we* are the network (evil laughter)
Funny, sure reminds you of Bill Gates, except that they skipped the im-a-bad-rich-guy-who-wants-the-monopoly-and-with- a-dozen-anti-trust-cases-on-the-back step and went directly to please-remember-me-for-my-good-actions step.
Can't blame them for that!
"It's like consorting with the enemy.""
Intel? The enemy? Wait... weren't PowerPC's made by IBM? For those who seen Pirates of the Silicon Valley, didn't the two Steves consider IBM as their enemy? You know, the stuck-up guys in black suits who did their stuff the same way they did in the 1950's, wasn't it IBM their enemy?
I thought that Steve Jobs would gladly go away from IBM, I recall that Apple has switched from Motorola CPU's to IBM while he was gone, and now he's changing to Intel, seems to make sence to me, since he hates IBM.
But Steve Wozniak's reaction, I really don't understand it, if anyone can explain me.