MP3 is a affront to audio quality. Even 320k sampling is sad. I would prefer ATRAC, or Ogg, but the war is over.
Arguing for sound quality over BT is ignoring the reality that what your BT chip gets is already compressed, limited, downsampled, and normalized. Sort of like most FM radio. But Top 40 isn't really about the music any more anyways, just the sexualized or thug lyrics, so nothing of value is lost.
Me? I keep reverting to 60s-70s heavy metal, British Invasion, and 90s-on female singer-songwriters, oh and electronica when it was being inventive. I'm less into dance/trance/garage/speed than ever, but if I get a bicycle that changes. The desert is flat (:
This is the schizophrenia that leaves me wondering if you realize you could use one or the other, and be happy.
Mind you, with the near-demise of manual shift in cars, wired headphones are tolerable, but aside from not hearing horns or the clank of an engine destroying itself, headphones in the car for a driver are a really, really bad idea. And wired phones with a manual shift is a SNL skit come to life.
In fact, ESPN seems to be doing this already - in NFL news their regional, conference, and team news spews regularly take on the same flavor, for instance, a topic of 'Top Five Special Teamers' or something similarly predictable and generic will pop up, especially in the off-season when there is, in fact, a lack of 24 hour cycle news.
Blah. The spew is already robotic. Just dispense with the meat robots.
The one that kills the robot. Figure it out. Implement. Watch the bots carefully, like you do your troops.
Is this so hard to do? Or do we not trust our military-industrial complex to do the right thing? Or our government?
Well, yeah, actually we don't, If we can see geofencing for commercial drones working, we can surely do that for military assault bots. And if not, then we need new leadership.
Cyberwarfare uses weapons launched from anywhere. Untraceable. Unattributable. The cost is much lower than the value of the target(s), and the weapon can be reused.
In fact, multiple weapons capable of different attacks are being used. And some are unknown to us yet .
Defenses against these are at best reactionary. That's ineffective. But some effort needs to be made, if only to mitigate damage.
But we are already at war, military and cyber, assymetrical, with a variety of opponents. Some are opportunists, seeking to exploit weaknesses exposed and fill power vacuums. Some seek outright victory. Others only seek our and others defeats.
Some merely want to cause damage. They will be useful pawns, thinking they are independent.
In the real world, we should be settling disagreements with states diplomatically, to focus on the less obvious threats, and always probe for those threats and prepare as best we can.
Exposing cyber threats does little good. All are deniable.
Downtown offices include not just legal, government, and services, but corporate as well. The same needs, food, parking, shopping, these are needed by all.
Most (actually all) large downtown corporate offices provision parking for virtually all their employees. It's inefficient to not do so. It's the small offices and service employees that scramble for parking.
Everything you declare a benefit of those non - corporate offices is only in greater amount when corporate offices are included. Except for the demand for land.
You were making a joke, right? Downtowns are often also where service industries located, such as courts, lawyers, accountants, etc. Many focused the corporate offices into those so desirable downtown spaces.
Since daytime parking was left empty at night, restaurants around theaters and galleries made sense. Those restaurants that chose to stay open past lunch for the office throngs, that is.
Shopping served the office lemmings well, and could encourage some to linger after work, buy, catch a bite, and commute home after the rush.
Then there are the megacities, which have their own population, and serve it 24x7.
"If they want support from Democrats, they need to pay for it like everyone else. Don't go pretending it has anything to do with ethics or beliefs."
Sure. Where do I send my check? The DNC isn't interested, they claim to oppose gun ownership for a variety of reasons, and pay-to-play isn't at the top of the list, by their own reckoning.
And despite all this discussion, they intend to subvert the Second Amendment, and are talking like they would also subvert the First Amendment. Which make sense if you're a dedicated statist and socialist (not entirely redundant).
You may be guessing I'm opposed to such dimishment of these constitutional rights. Yup. When these are gone, all the others are easily denied. More to the point, however, claims that Twitter is enabling terrorists with tools and functions that permit communication could be lodged against any pre-paid cell phone carrier, payphone carrier, newspaper (classifieds), the list goes on. This is unfortunate, but unavoidable unless you grant the State the permission to intercept all your communications.
I'm not yet ready to do that. The State has shown itself untrustworthy, and my private communications will only be saved for future use if gathered ever. They will not surrender them, never delete them, and share as they wish, with any state or agency. At best. More likely they will lose them to the inevitable hax0r who finally digs in and gets it. Or the whistleblower whose outrage gets the better of them and carries it out the door.
R/W or even write-once CDs and DVDs have been known to have finite shelf lives for decades now. Yes.
One solution is to rewrite them every few years, but that's time consuming, and unless you have a really compelling reason to do so, the investment needed to make this practical, with autoloaders, labelers, and such is prohibitive. At work, the old mainframe reel tape libraries were converted to robotics 30 years ago, then converted to cartridges, and and finally about 12 years ago to a virtualized tape environment - all the requests still refer to carts and such, as if the arms are still running around grabbing plastic, but it's in a SAN and that's properly backed up and virtualized, at least so far as we can tell. Hopefully it's secured better than the storage on the Z series that went tits up this spring. I only lost around 20 VMs, but one had around 100 million customer reports that were lost, and the application software, and the server OS and all other software. About 7000 or so VMs were lost, some irretrievably since the owners didn't have offline copies. If Infoworld still published on paper, this would have worthy of the back page.
The best practice is probably to replicate that and copy optical media to something more durable, replicate it, and keep the originals if you must in a cooler environment, as heat seems to be a factor. Some brands have had worse longevity than others, but that's a crap shoot.
Now ask me about my cassette tape archives, or the 10" reel tapes I would have to buy a machine to use... Sentimental value now, I'm sure they would need go go back to 3M to be recovered.
Data archiving is a pain. I've given in to archiving everything, rather than wring my hands over what 10% of it I really don't need.
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MP3 is a affront to audio quality. Even 320k sampling is sad. I would prefer ATRAC, or Ogg, but the war is over.
Arguing for sound quality over BT is ignoring the reality that what your BT chip gets is already compressed, limited, downsampled, and normalized. Sort of like most FM radio. But Top 40 isn't really about the music any more anyways, just the sexualized or thug lyrics, so nothing of value is lost.
Me? I keep reverting to 60s-70s heavy metal, British Invasion, and 90s-on female singer-songwriters, oh and electronica when it was being inventive. I'm less into dance/trance/garage/speed than ever, but if I get a bicycle that changes. The desert is flat (:
'I use wired'
'I use BT in the car.'
This is the schizophrenia that leaves me wondering if you realize you could use one or the other, and be happy.
Mind you, with the near-demise of manual shift in cars, wired headphones are tolerable, but aside from not hearing horns or the clank of an engine destroying itself, headphones in the car for a driver are a really, really bad idea. And wired phones with a manual shift is a SNL skit come to life.
Lightning cable manufacturers rarely tout their water resistance. And Lightning is a compelling case of lock-in.
Not that micro-USB isn't also abuse of consumers. USB has always been expensive. Standardization, apparently, is either costly or profitable.
Or both.
And it doesn't seem worse than any other method.
In fact, ESPN seems to be doing this already - in NFL news their regional, conference, and team news spews regularly take on the same flavor, for instance, a topic of 'Top Five Special Teamers' or something similarly predictable and generic will pop up, especially in the off-season when there is, in fact, a lack of 24 hour cycle news.
Blah. The spew is already robotic. Just dispense with the meat robots.
Three - law safe.
Which is the end of combat robots.
The one that kills the robot. Figure it out. Implement. Watch the bots carefully, like you do your troops.
Is this so hard to do? Or do we not trust our military-industrial complex to do the right thing? Or our government?
Well, yeah, actually we don't, If we can see geofencing for commercial drones working, we can surely do that for military assault bots. And if not, then we need new leadership.
That may be coming. May.
Obvious that you are not.
*whoosh*
Doh.
The 70s called, they said to "follow the money".
Hillary isn't going to start a hot war with Russia. She has more important work to do.
Stop with the naive act. You don't misunderstand what Trump said and meant, you're just desperately trying to convince others that he's loony.
But those he's talking to understand him perfectly. And so do you.
Cyberwarfare uses weapons launched from anywhere. Untraceable. Unattributable. The cost is much lower than the value of the target(s), and the weapon can be reused.
In fact, multiple weapons capable of different attacks are being used. And some are unknown to us yet .
Defenses against these are at best reactionary. That's ineffective. But some effort needs to be made, if only to mitigate damage.
But we are already at war, military and cyber, assymetrical, with a variety of opponents. Some are opportunists, seeking to exploit weaknesses exposed and fill power vacuums. Some seek outright victory. Others only seek our and others defeats.
Some merely want to cause damage. They will be useful pawns, thinking they are independent.
In the real world, we should be settling disagreements with states diplomatically, to focus on the less obvious threats, and always probe for those threats and prepare as best we can.
Exposing cyber threats does little good. All are deniable.
Downtown offices include not just legal, government, and services, but corporate as well. The same needs, food, parking, shopping, these are needed by all.
Most (actually all) large downtown corporate offices provision parking for virtually all their employees. It's inefficient to not do so. It's the small offices and service employees that scramble for parking.
Everything you declare a benefit of those non - corporate offices is only in greater amount when corporate offices are included. Except for the demand for land.
You were making a joke, right? Downtowns are often also where service industries located, such as courts, lawyers, accountants, etc. Many focused the corporate offices into those so desirable downtown spaces.
Since daytime parking was left empty at night, restaurants around theaters and galleries made sense. Those restaurants that chose to stay open past lunch for the office throngs, that is.
Shopping served the office lemmings well, and could encourage some to linger after work, buy, catch a bite, and commute home after the rush.
Then there are the megacities, which have their own population, and serve it 24x7.
They are also too close to one anther, geographically, which is turning downtown into a monoculture.
Of course, this proximity enables 'stealing' employees and using the culture as a revolving door for talent. And salary.
To the money.
"If they want support from Democrats, they need to pay for it like everyone else. Don't go pretending it has anything to do with ethics or beliefs."
Sure. Where do I send my check? The DNC isn't interested, they claim to oppose gun ownership for a variety of reasons, and pay-to-play isn't at the top of the list, by their own reckoning.
And despite all this discussion, they intend to subvert the Second Amendment, and are talking like they would also subvert the First Amendment. Which make sense if you're a dedicated statist and socialist (not entirely redundant).
You may be guessing I'm opposed to such dimishment of these constitutional rights. Yup. When these are gone, all the others are easily denied. More to the point, however, claims that Twitter is enabling terrorists with tools and functions that permit communication could be lodged against any pre-paid cell phone carrier, payphone carrier, newspaper (classifieds), the list goes on. This is unfortunate, but unavoidable unless you grant the State the permission to intercept all your communications.
I'm not yet ready to do that. The State has shown itself untrustworthy, and my private communications will only be saved for future use if gathered ever. They will not surrender them, never delete them, and share as they wish, with any state or agency. At best. More likely they will lose them to the inevitable hax0r who finally digs in and gets it. Or the whistleblower whose outrage gets the better of them and carries it out the door.
Twitter is not the problem.
And so far intend to stay that way.
I don't get throttled. Ever.
I don't get rate limited. I get HD video all I want, so far.
I've only gone over 13GB/month once, but no impacts.
I need to add a line soon, but it won't be these. I'm not ready to sacrifice functionality (video quality) for cost, at least not this formula.
And that AC has...
The election is tomorrow. It's doubtful you can mail a ballot today and get it in on time.
You're gonna have to carry it to your pollng place then .
R/W or even write-once CDs and DVDs have been known to have finite shelf lives for decades now. Yes.
One solution is to rewrite them every few years, but that's time consuming, and unless you have a really compelling reason to do so, the investment needed to make this practical, with autoloaders, labelers, and such is prohibitive. At work, the old mainframe reel tape libraries were converted to robotics 30 years ago, then converted to cartridges, and and finally about 12 years ago to a virtualized tape environment - all the requests still refer to carts and such, as if the arms are still running around grabbing plastic, but it's in a SAN and that's properly backed up and virtualized, at least so far as we can tell. Hopefully it's secured better than the storage on the Z series that went tits up this spring. I only lost around 20 VMs, but one had around 100 million customer reports that were lost, and the application software, and the server OS and all other software. About 7000 or so VMs were lost, some irretrievably since the owners didn't have offline copies. If Infoworld still published on paper, this would have worthy of the back page.
The best practice is probably to replicate that and copy optical media to something more durable, replicate it, and keep the originals if you must in a cooler environment, as heat seems to be a factor. Some brands have had worse longevity than others, but that's a crap shoot.
Now ask me about my cassette tape archives, or the 10" reel tapes I would have to buy a machine to use... Sentimental value now, I'm sure they would need go go back to 3M to be recovered.
Data archiving is a pain. I've given in to archiving everything, rather than wring my hands over what 10% of it I really don't need.
I buy a lot of older CDs at yard sales to fill in my collections, though others are figuring this out.
- CHEAP.
- No DRM, subscriptions, licensing. These are MINE, all MINE! Bahahahahah!
- Rip them to my music services.
- Save them to both my archives.
- Long-term storage of the discs.
- And it's a cheap way to buy old music. Oh, I mentioned that.
And she's a lot more likely to come to America and work than you are to go to India and work.