But apparently not experienced enough to know the quality of the optics are as important as the sensor size & far more important than the ability to dump raw (unless you're planning on spending a lot of time on post-processing)
I believe they actually acquired the respective rights to all the photos.
Apple obtained permission from the photographer to use a copyrighted image, not permission from Gandhi's family to use his likeness to sell a product that he most likely would have been opposed to.
The one-minute commercial featured black-and-white footage of 17 iconic 20th century personalities. In order of appearance they were: Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso.
Typical Apple, talking the talk, without walking the walk. Again.
So if I'm a paranoid nut job, I'm supposed to trust a Chinese Lemote notebook not to spy on me?
Perhaps not, but you're likely going to trust it more than every other notebook. (which are all also built in China, and in addition contain non-free bioses, require non-free binary blobs running in kernel mode, etc, etc.)
Note also that Stallman may choose the yerloong notebook, so he is free to modify & improve drivers / bios / etc, rather than (or as well as) because he's paranoid about it spying on him.
For fucks sake - this is getting ridiculous. Just how many sock puppet accounts do you have?
Anyway, to drag my comment back on topic, you (plural) are misrepresenting Stallman's POV, perhaps out of ignorance, but more likely to troll. As a prime example:
Stallman absolutely is paranoid about everything. He doesn't use web browsers, for crying out loud,
You make it sound like Stallman doesn't use browsers out of paranoia, but Stallman himself says:
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have no net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
1) Actually, in written English, when space is not constrained you should write the word percent.
2) Perhaps the submitter is a non-native English speaker & the convention for their native language is to place the symbol before the number (Some middle eastern countries do this).
get a brain morans
You're criticizing a minor style error, when you can't capitalize or spell?
WoT is a short little series you should be able to finish on the flight.
Back when I was a teenager, a 'friend' of mine gave me the first three books of WoT.
"Read this," sez he, "It's a great trilogy, I love the way it wraps up so quickly in the last book, so much better than other fantasies that don't really finish the story"
restraining orders usually cover things like physical distance and direct communication. writing about her doesn't seem like a problem unless it was specified in the restraining order. he should be in the clear if he isn't slandering.
From TFA:
On December 22, Arlotta consented to entry of a six-month HRO that prohibited him from (1) committing any acts “intended to adversely affect [Johnson's] safety, security, or privacy,” [emph mine]
He started the blog the day after.
it wouldn't shock me if this judge was some neo-feminist windbag. a lot of them are.
It wouldn't shock me if you were a fucking idiot. A lot of anons are.
If you shop around, you can find bricks for less than a dollar each.
Yes, but as the article* pointed out, this tower is not made of 99c bricks, but prefabricated polystyrene foam modules. Which could be cheap, but most probably are one-offs that are reasonably expensive to manufacture in the quantities required.
You need to revisit your cost-benefit ratio if you're basing it around 99c bricks.
* I know its not fashionable to read the article here on slashdot, but it mentions this right in the summary.
Better known? Did you try comparing to (ALAC or "Apple Lossless")? I'll grant however that FLAC going by one name all the time without synonyms gives it an SEO boost.
Yes, I did. FLAC has more results (by an order of magnitude) than ALAC & Apple Lossless combined. (Do you really think companies who stick to a single name for their product are doing it for a SEO boost?)
It doesn't matter much what the vendors use if the vast majority of digital music devices are made by Apple.
The vast majority of portable, dedicated digital music devices are made by Apple, but plenty of people use their phone or Media PC connected to a stereo to listen to music on.
But honestly, all of this is irrelevant compared to how well flac / alac fit into the rest of your ecosystem. If you're using itunes (gag) / ipods, use alac. If not, use flac.
f we're free to convert between the two now, what advantage is there in using FLAC instead of ALAC?
There are no differences between the two in terms of music quality, but FLAC:
* Supports replaygain * Has better tagging support (subjective) * Is better known * Contains better (any!) error detection (able to batch-verify downloaded files) * Is preferred lossless codec for vast majority of digital music vendors.
But honestly, all of this is irrelevant compared to how well flac / alac fit into the rest of your ecosystem. If you're using itunes (gag) / ipods, use alac. If not, use flac. If you're technically proficient & want to have lossless files that you reecnode for your portable device, I'd probably go flac for that too.
For an outfit like Google or Microsoft, retail is just something they think they should do because Apple did it.
While it's cute that you're trying to make some sort of joke/point of conflating Google & MS as Apple-competitors, this statement is totally wrong for Google.
Google had a real problem trying to get people to look at the Nexus One, I suspect they're having the same problem with early chromebooks. This problem is not quite as dire for Google as it was for Apple (as selling retail product is not central to Google's business model), but there's little doubt they'd shift more product in dedicated stores.
They don't have the same sort of margins as Apple however, so it may not be profitable enough to be worthwhile. Hard to say without looking at the numbers.
So, is accent monitoring and neutralization a civil right violation, as the U.S. Depts. of Justice and Education suggest, or is it an 'innovation', as IBM argues?"
Does theodp not realise that there is a difference between a government department and a private international organisation?
Or that perhaps voice training in Bangalore is not covered by US civil rights legislation?
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It took only six years for the greatest mobilization in world history to defeat the Axis.
Yes, well this time you don't have Russians doing the bulk of the dirty work for you.
I'm an experienced photographer.
But apparently not experienced enough to know the quality of the optics are as important as the sensor size & far more important than the ability to dump raw (unless you're planning on spending a lot of time on post-processing)
I believe they actually acquired the respective rights to all the photos.
Apple obtained permission from the photographer to use a copyrighted image, not permission from Gandhi's family to use his likeness to sell a product that he most likely would have been opposed to.
Hypocrisy. Again.
Hypocrisy.
Apple is guilty of the far more serious crime of having dead celebrities endorse their products in TV commercials.
Typical Apple, talking the talk, without walking the walk. Again.
So if I'm a paranoid nut job, I'm supposed to trust a Chinese Lemote notebook not to spy on me?
Perhaps not, but you're likely going to trust it more than every other notebook. (which are all also built in China, and in addition contain non-free bioses, require non-free binary blobs running in kernel mode, etc, etc.)
Note also that Stallman may choose the yerloong notebook, so he is free to modify & improve drivers / bios / etc, rather than (or as well as) because he's paranoid about it spying on him.
For fucks sake - this is getting ridiculous. Just how many sock puppet accounts do you have?
Anyway, to drag my comment back on topic, you (plural) are misrepresenting Stallman's POV, perhaps out of ignorance, but more likely to troll. As a prime example:
Stallman absolutely is paranoid about everything. He doesn't use web browsers, for crying out loud,
You make it sound like Stallman doesn't use browsers out of paranoia, but Stallman himself says:
Wow! Check out the number of really stupid grammatical & punctuation mistakes WMF made here.
What a fucking idiot (or perhaps still under the influence of various NYE delights)
Ives may have listed Rams as an influence, but Rams never ever put for before function.
I'ves did (or was pressured to)
I find the patent activities Apple is engaging in absurd and evil....snip....the solution is not to boycott Apple
The ghost of the reality distortion is stronger in this one than any I have seen.
BEHOLD! We have found a host for or lord. The time for revivification is upon us.
BOW DOWN UNBELIEVERS AMONGST YOU. OUR DARK LORD RISES SOON.
no matter what the food, if it's good for you it's expensive, bad for you if it's cheap.
There are few foods as expensive (or healthy) as a sack of beans & a sack of brown rice.
The real trouble is all fast and convenient healthy options are expensive.
Goddamnit. Too many memes.
Thank you, you helpful swedish anon.
its 54%, not %54
1) Actually, in written English, when space is not constrained you should write the word percent.
2) Perhaps the submitter is a non-native English speaker & the convention for their native language is to place the symbol before the number (Some middle eastern countries do this).
get a brain morans
You're criticizing a minor style error, when you can't capitalize or spell?
China now top patent DEfiler
I think the country with the highest number of patent trolls deserves that particular title don't you?
(take a guess which country that is)
WoT is a short little series you should be able to finish on the flight.
Back when I was a teenager, a 'friend' of mine gave me the first three books of WoT.
"Read this," sez he, "It's a great trilogy, I love the way it wraps up so quickly in the last book, so much better than other fantasies that don't really finish the story"
Prick.
restraining orders usually cover things like physical distance and direct communication. writing about her doesn't seem like a problem unless it was specified in the restraining order. he should be in the clear if he isn't slandering.
From TFA:
On December 22, Arlotta consented to entry of a six-month HRO that prohibited him from (1) committing any acts “intended to adversely affect [Johnson's] safety, security, or privacy,” [emph mine]
He started the blog the day after.
it wouldn't shock me if this judge was some neo-feminist windbag. a lot of them are.
It wouldn't shock me if you were a fucking idiot. A lot of anons are.
"Ripping Off"? Making a similar product to a competitor is not illegal.
Get specific about exactly how (trademarks, copyright? patents?) you think Samsung has behaved illegaly & we might start listening to you.
(are you really a SK sock-puppet?)
If you shop around, you can find bricks for less than a dollar each.
Yes, but as the article* pointed out, this tower is not made of 99c bricks, but prefabricated polystyrene foam modules. Which could be cheap, but most probably are one-offs that are reasonably expensive to manufacture in the quantities required.
You need to revisit your cost-benefit ratio if you're basing it around 99c bricks.
* I know its not fashionable to read the article here on slashdot, but it mentions this right in the summary.
Better known? Did you try comparing to (ALAC or "Apple Lossless")? I'll grant however that FLAC going by one name all the time without synonyms gives it an SEO boost.
Yes, I did. FLAC has more results (by an order of magnitude) than ALAC & Apple Lossless combined. (Do you really think companies who stick to a single name for their product are doing it for a SEO boost?)
It doesn't matter much what the vendors use if the vast majority of digital music devices are made by Apple.
The vast majority of portable, dedicated digital music devices are made by Apple, but plenty of people use their phone or Media PC connected to a stereo to listen to music on.
But honestly, all of this is irrelevant compared to how well flac / alac fit into the rest of your ecosystem. If you're using itunes (gag) / ipods, use alac. If not, use flac.
f we're free to convert between the two now, what advantage is there in using FLAC instead of ALAC?
There are no differences between the two in terms of music quality, but FLAC:
* Supports replaygain
* Has better tagging support (subjective)
* Is better known
* Contains better (any!) error detection (able to batch-verify downloaded files)
* Is preferred lossless codec for vast majority of digital music vendors.
But honestly, all of this is irrelevant compared to how well flac / alac fit into the rest of your ecosystem. If you're using itunes (gag) / ipods, use alac. If not, use flac. If you're technically proficient & want to have lossless files that you reecnode for your portable device, I'd probably go flac for that too.
I believe he needs my username
For an outfit like Google or Microsoft, retail is just something they think they should do because Apple did it.
While it's cute that you're trying to make some sort of joke/point of conflating Google & MS as Apple-competitors, this statement is totally wrong for Google.
Google had a real problem trying to get people to look at the Nexus One, I suspect they're having the same problem with early chromebooks. This problem is not quite as dire for Google as it was for Apple (as selling retail product is not central to Google's business model), but there's little doubt they'd shift more product in dedicated stores.
They don't have the same sort of margins as Apple however, so it may not be profitable enough to be worthwhile. Hard to say without looking at the numbers.
So, is accent monitoring and neutralization a civil right violation, as the U.S. Depts. of Justice and Education suggest, or is it an 'innovation', as IBM argues?"
Does theodp not realise that there is a difference between a government department and a private international organisation?
Or that perhaps voice training in Bangalore is not covered by US civil rights legislation?
Mod this submission -1 flamebait please.
Yes some stuff works offline but it's not long before you hit a wall.
Well done for not repeating the 'does not work at all without teh internets' meme.
Chrome OS laptop that literally does not function at all without a network connection.
According to many sources, handily compiled in the Chrome Wikipedia page, you can edit docs, view pics, and playback media offline.
I have no idea why people keep repeating the 'does not work at all without teh internets' meme
So, for once, Sony actually listens to what people want... and you're STILL complaining?
You think listening to someone else's idea & patenting that idea are the same thing?