I thought that the sound suffered some loss when digitized to a CD. Did I miss any chapter of all this?
Anyway, 128kbps MP3 is sufficient for my untrained ears. Specially when you are in a noisy subway wearing earbuds.
This probes could also be DRM-compliant, so they could stop us from retain any copyrighted material.
Leaving from the movie theater:
Dude 1: did you like the movie?
Dude 2: what movie?
Forgive me for the rudeness of the comparison, but would you have sex only every two months to be statistically less exposed to STD or wearing a condon and having sex at least 5 times a week? I would go for the second option.
Why would the publishers down the prices of the books because of they wouldn't have paper? Paper isn't that expensive (of course one could say it's not just the paper, but also stocking and distribution). Anyway, I believe the publishers would keep the prices as they are and consider the move as a "costs reduction", and either improve their profits or convert this in small discounts. I believe the greatest actual advantage this could bring is the reduction of the weight you will carry in your backpack.
I was going to say that here in Europe we could be wasting copper with 1, 2 and 5 cents coins, but I just found out they are made of steel with a copper cover. Anyway, if we are spared of this copper-shortage-that-could-end-the-world-as-we-kno w, we will have to thank also to Finland and The Netherlands that decided to round cash transactions to the nearest 5-cent amount, therefore having no use for 1 and 2 cents coins.
Seriously, guys... after 4 or 5 people say it's a dupe, there is no reason to keep repeating it. I love/. more because of the comments than because of the posts themselves. But when the reading community post like 50 comments that only say "good lord, that's a dupe!", the main purpose of the comment system is not being fulfilled.
This is not necessarely true all the time (or for all people): as a spanish citizen who has an "old-model" passport, I would have to either 1) get a visa to enter in the USA or 2) get a new passport, regardless my current one is valid until 2015. Then in my case, I need to get a new passport if I want to have the benefit of the visa waiver agreement between Spain and the USA. By the way, the spanish passport issuing offices have posters saying something like "If you want to go to the USA, you probably need to get a new passport".
This is no news for people here in Spain. A local mobile phone company uses a green pig in their TV ads. It doesn't glow in the dark, but it speaks!
Ok, that was idiot of me...
Me too. Specially because it's not hard to find common examples of this happening with no strange situation. Take Earth, for an instance. If you look it from the south pole, it's spinning clockwise, while if you look it from the north pole, it's spinning counterclockwise. At the same time. I'm sure my example is fallacious, but that proves that this simple explanation of "spinning clockwise and counterclockwise simultaneously" is incomplete, and therefore, confusing.
I helped developing a operating system kernel back in my university years and we also had this limit and that's because of the 386 memory management. We had to remap all the memory twice, one half to be accessed by programs and the other half to be accessed by the operating system in a root level (sorry, it was over 10 years ago, I don't really remember the details of why it was really needed). Since the 386 can address up to 4Gb of memory, half of this is 2Gb. Don't blame Bill Gates this time, blame Intel. (By the way, is there anyone there who knows Linux well enough to tell us if it also has this limit or something like that?)
What is warm for you? 50 C (122 F) may be too hot for you to stand, but that could be freezing for the bacteria which lives in a volcano. Don't forget that Mars is further from the Sun than Earth. Maybe 20 C over there is way darn hot!
All is a matter of point of view.
Even better... it could come in cassette tapes. How long would it take to load?
My first computer was a MSX and while I couldn't afford a disk drive, I would use cassette tapes to save my programs and load some games. It took 2:15 minutes to load a 16 KBytes data block. Gosh, I wish I had today the pacience and the free time I had in those days!
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I thought that the sound suffered some loss when digitized to a CD. Did I miss any chapter of all this? Anyway, 128kbps MP3 is sufficient for my untrained ears. Specially when you are in a noisy subway wearing earbuds.
This probes could also be DRM-compliant, so they could stop us from retain any copyrighted material. Leaving from the movie theater: Dude 1: did you like the movie? Dude 2: what movie?
Still steepy for a "toy".
Are games worth buying being released in every other month (in average)? I don't think so, but that's only my opinion...
Zipped or unzipped?
Forgive me for the rudeness of the comparison, but would you have sex only every two months to be statistically less exposed to STD or wearing a condon and having sex at least 5 times a week? I would go for the second option.
Why would the publishers down the prices of the books because of they wouldn't have paper? Paper isn't that expensive (of course one could say it's not just the paper, but also stocking and distribution). Anyway, I believe the publishers would keep the prices as they are and consider the move as a "costs reduction", and either improve their profits or convert this in small discounts. I believe the greatest actual advantage this could bring is the reduction of the weight you will carry in your backpack.
I was going to say that here in Europe we could be wasting copper with 1, 2 and 5 cents coins, but I just found out they are made of steel with a copper cover. Anyway, if we are spared of this copper-shortage-that-could-end-the-world-as-we-kno w, we will have to thank also to Finland and The Netherlands that decided to round cash transactions to the nearest 5-cent amount, therefore having no use for 1 and 2 cents coins.
You think signing language could be hard to learn? Imagine blind people trying to learn japanese in Braille!!
This robot could be used by deaf dogs, which (I'm not sure it's a myth or not) can't see flat images.
Seriously, guys... after 4 or 5 people say it's a dupe, there is no reason to keep repeating it. I love /. more because of the comments than because of the posts themselves. But when the reading community post like 50 comments that only say "good lord, that's a dupe!", the main purpose of the comment system is not being fulfilled.
This is not necessarely true all the time (or for all people): as a spanish citizen who has an "old-model" passport, I would have to either 1) get a visa to enter in the USA or 2) get a new passport, regardless my current one is valid until 2015. Then in my case, I need to get a new passport if I want to have the benefit of the visa waiver agreement between Spain and the USA. By the way, the spanish passport issuing offices have posters saying something like "If you want to go to the USA, you probably need to get a new passport".
This is no news for people here in Spain. A local mobile phone company uses a green pig in their TV ads. It doesn't glow in the dark, but it speaks! Ok, that was idiot of me...
RIAA should push vinyl LP's back. Who can rip an LP into an iPod without having so much job to make it worth it?
Me too. Specially because it's not hard to find common examples of this happening with no strange situation. Take Earth, for an instance. If you look it from the south pole, it's spinning clockwise, while if you look it from the north pole, it's spinning counterclockwise. At the same time. I'm sure my example is fallacious, but that proves that this simple explanation of "spinning clockwise and counterclockwise simultaneously" is incomplete, and therefore, confusing.
I helped developing a operating system kernel back in my university years and we also had this limit and that's because of the 386 memory management. We had to remap all the memory twice, one half to be accessed by programs and the other half to be accessed by the operating system in a root level (sorry, it was over 10 years ago, I don't really remember the details of why it was really needed). Since the 386 can address up to 4Gb of memory, half of this is 2Gb. Don't blame Bill Gates this time, blame Intel. (By the way, is there anyone there who knows Linux well enough to tell us if it also has this limit or something like that?)
What is warm for you? 50 C (122 F) may be too hot for you to stand, but that could be freezing for the bacteria which lives in a volcano. Don't forget that Mars is further from the Sun than Earth. Maybe 20 C over there is way darn hot! All is a matter of point of view.
I've never chosen the language to write a program by it "hypeness". Should I?
Even better... it could come in cassette tapes. How long would it take to load? My first computer was a MSX and while I couldn't afford a disk drive, I would use cassette tapes to save my programs and load some games. It took 2:15 minutes to load a 16 KBytes data block. Gosh, I wish I had today the pacience and the free time I had in those days!
I'm lost with this one... is Sony evil or not this time?