I can certainly tell the difference between a FLAC 24bit sample and a MP3 320kbps with my theater setup, however that seems more of a comparison of 16 bit to 24bit mastered audio when using quality speakers and a good amplifier with a DSP supporting 24bit audio. Using a phone, I typically can't tell the difference between something streamed from Spotify and a FLAC 24bit, although that's probably speaking more to the DSP In the phone. Quality equipment and you can tell the difference in terms of recovery from extremes of different types of sound, maintaining amplitude in those recoveries, and not having "artifacts" from a master obviously intended for earbuds that simply aren't present in a 24bit master. Sort of like looking for macro blocking in an overly compressed 1080p video stream to point out which is the lower bitrate.
In the case of Deputy Andrew Wood striking Milton Olin Jr with his patrol vehicle while texting his wife, yeah... He did blame the victim, and deny the texting, that he was speeding, and made further false statements, and attempted to destroy evidence. And no repercussions came his way. Eye witnessed and telemetry data from his vehicle even show that he was entirely at fault and drove directly into Mr. Olin when the road curved. That incident is from end of August, not 2007.
By inverse, if *anyone else* did these acts, including but not limited to the destruction of property, harassment, assault and unlawful detainment, that person would be facing severe felony charges on multiple counts. The fact that the person has a badge and training... they should be held to a similar standard at least. They weren't carrying out their duties at the time of this incident, they freaked the fuck out and decided to harass someone because they could and knew that there would be no repercussions.
Considering your comments, would you too side with the cops who run people over in their cars while texting on their personal cell phones and then blame the victim for throwing themselves in front of their cars, all the while perjuring themselves as has also happened recently?
Local storage on a phone - devices that are small, visible, portable and valuable have a considerable market and as such lead to thefts - is a single point of failure where you can lose everything. Further, the industry average is to replace these devices every 18 months. There are mitigating strategies such as backup and resync approaches, but these create additional steps and introduce the likelihood of users losing their data. Hence why the idea of server side storage exists, as a means of making these device replacements easier and more transparent to users.
Does that come with potential privacy issues? Of course it does, but largely the market decided that they would rather the convenience of a "dumb terminal" that can be replaced and immediately behave just like their old one than the security of a fully local model. Until there are massive security breaches that hit *most* people, where these approaches to cloud data storage is shown directly at fault (and not those visible to most, but largely affecting celebrities only as was the case with Fappening or other similar events) then this type of thinking will continue and new services introduced that are more and more Internet-centric for tasks that ultimately don't need to be.
The NIH mentality and largely the spirit behind what open source is. Can some other tool do it with a new api or plugin and do 99.9% of what Hack, Go or Swift does? Probably. Does this concept of a new forked language or an entirely new solution prevent changes from going back upstream? Absolutely. But it enables those involved to take risks and to experiment with things that they may not have otherwise been willing to consider, and to spur ideas and innovation from others; maybe even helping to advance our state of technology a bit.
The the further sake of argument, let's say that there was a desire for colonization. Civilizations here on Earth have historically expanded when there was an economic or strategic need to do so. They didn't simply find the most distant location and set up a new colony just because they felt like it. The new location would provide some key resource, be it food, water, land, access to trade, differing agriculture, minerals, tools, etc.
Further, space is quite vast. Even in our own galaxy, the distances are immense and the number of choices nearby that could prove interesting are themselves very large. If models regarding civilization growth and expansion could be inferred from our history as a base, it seems unreasonable to assume that a highly advanced civilization intent in colonization would invest the economic resources and risk the political or social resources to do so very distant to their own world when much closer, viable options are a possibility. Only when those options are exhausted and further growth is necessary to support a civilization's way of life would growth of one's boundaries become a consideration. This has held true through many societies regardless of cultural heritage, political systems or value systems, be it various Native American groups, the Inca Empire, the Roman Empire, the Huns, various Middle Eastern Groups and what can be inferred of the Homo Erectis lineage.
As such, is it really that unreasonable to assume that if faster than light travel were possible, it's use would be anything different than jet travel today and come with economic implications that themselves still require considerations even though the world itself became a "smaller" place thanks to their invention, and the domains afforded of travel simply became more time efficient and practical?
And opposite the Nuke-leer hippies would be the group of Nuke-ular hippies standing off against each other, preparing for violence and devising ever more elaborate means of defense against their adversaries.
Yes, because making new marketing materials, distributing updated business cards and getting everyone involved to stop using the old number and separate the old number from the company is *such* an easy task and can happen overnight!
The phone number of a presumably reputable business that parties would likely recognize for their Caller ID number is a social engineering trick to get around one of the roadblocks and make people subconsciously overcome one of their answers to why this is a scam. Any act at this point is damaging the brand of the business, whether they capitulate and change their number, or whether the scamming entity continues to portray themselves as the company in question.
Let's change this a little bit and put a name to these calls... What if instead of "unnamed company", it was "Google" that had someone using their corporate phone number to do these calls? What about "Amazon", or "Microsoft", or "Apple", or "Cisco", or the "FBI"? Would your opinion about "just change your phone number" be the same?
This is actually a very reasonable idea, considering that in many jurisdictions the last mile deployments have been subsidized via government grants or guaranteed loans and bonds. The justification for these companies to apply for such money is that without the support of government, it would not be economically practical to provide service to various localities. By taking all last-mile deployments out of government hands, many of which simply have been ignored outside of big cities anyways, then individual cities could utilize funds from property taxes to provide the actual termination to each residence and business. Then, there can be the immediate possibility of competition of middle mile providers within these localities for those customers without such significant expense to them, effectively lowering costs for their customers.
Although on the flip side, we know full well that costs won't go down, even as responsibilities are split... It'll just be that everyone realizes "Oh, this is the biggest number that the vast majority of people are willing to pay today, so that is what we charge!" to which the market will naturally settle on a tacit understanding of multilateral screwing despite the new appearance of choice.
That is ultimately the problem. Once things get to the point where the courts are involved, much like scientific debates depicted on television, they are reduced to 1 person for, and 1 person against, and are largely not representative of the consensus of the scientific community as a whole. The format combined with subject matter that most people choose not to attempt to understand creates the illusion that there is still cause for discussion on the matter and that one crackpot saying "I can predict big earthquakes, and so can you! Look at this data, there was all of these events going on for months, so why wouldn't they think that there was something going on in a seismically active region?" versus the 99 others saying "Here are 500 other instances where in this very city, these same conditions were present and absolutely nothing happened. If we alerted everyone, everywhere every time that there was a minor event based off of the potential that something *could* happen, there would be no credibility when at some point in the future we have adequate technology and understanding to predict these events!" And that is ultimately the problem, out of an emphasis of "fairness", both sides are given equal time and their information presented is gauged based off of which is more plausible for a layman to understand and are most compatible with their social biases and prejudices. It ceases to be about which side is right but rather which side is more likable and most compatible with the political and social viewpoints of the community.
The multiple microphone array is to allow the device to perform beam forming, thereby performing noise suppression as well as analyzing the location of the sound relative to the device.
So, you're complaining that using a Legacy OS in conjunction with devices that typically did not include GPS support and where touchscreen capabilities largely didn't exist doesn't have the application support that you'd want, namely up-to-date, finger friendly apps for you to use on your capacitive screen Windows Tablet?
That's like the argument that people use for why they don't have Photoshop or XYZ Product for Linux... I have it and it is of tremendous value to me, but I can't use it to it's potential because I don't have all the tools that I need it to do.
Handheld, finger friendly touchscreen devices running Windows are receiving support now because people are buying them, and the mere fact that there is a viable market where a developer *can* make money and thereby will be able to feed themselves means that they are likely to build said products and support those users as there is a segment of the market that *actually has* those products. And I say that as a long time Tablet PC User, back to the Compaq TC1000 and various models of the Fujitsu Stylistic slates over the years. Until Windows 8, they *were* a hobby! Great for Journal until OneNote came on the scene, and then OneNote was where it was at, and now with Windows 8 they're largely useful for everything. However, in terms of devices with GPSes and thereby helping with your use case, that is still the extreme minority and typically relegated to a USB or Bluetooth Accessory versus built in to *every* Android or iOS Tablet made, hence the disparity in what's available for each platform that also meets your functional requirements.
Banks are happy because there is biometric auth for the transaction, meaning they can go in and say "oh, you're saying that there was fraud on your account, but this transaction came from your iPhone and was authenticated by your thumbprint... So, can you please explain how this is possible before we move forward with reversing this charge for you?" That's incredibly valuable for banks, hence the lower rates for transactions!
Than opening wallet, removing card and swiping it, entering a pin / signing a signature, returning it to your wallet versus just touching a device to a reader and having your device authenticate via your fingerprint / continuous biometrics?
Yeah, that is so much easier. Plus, there's the general liability concern with the transaction being biometric secured versus someone stealing your card. There's obviously some interest in why banks are interested in this detail for sure, hence why they even implemented single transaction card numbers.
Further, the "wage" payments were just the differences between their dollar and change an hour rate and minimum wage for technical work that would require a skilled employee. So, even that is a slap on the wrist. And there was no concept of "time and a half" or whatever else for the mandatory 120hr week slave conditions for these employees. As such, the lesson taught was very much a "just don't get caught next time" one.
Not necessarily. There is the very limited section of the market for which a fitness tracker is an ideal device, and for them a device which has the capabilities like the Apple Watch actually looks like it could be pretty nice. There are even verticals such as those with diabetes where continual optical monitoring of blood glucose levels or heart arrhythmia through infrared pulses can be extremely positive. These considerations are things that have not yet been incorporated into a device like FitBit or Up, despite it being great functionality that could work very well in those areas! Frankly, the current state of assistive devices for those with legitimate medical conditions is a joke and largely has stalled in technological advancement since the late 90's. Smart watches and similar form factor devices can be immensely useful for improving the quality of lives for people who suffer with legitimate medical conditions who the market largely ignores due to existing technologies that are declared "good enough" by their respective research and development teams.
However, yes, as a communications device, a 1 inch screen is not a very practical form factor and as long as a device whether it be from Apple, Motorola, LG, Samsung, or any of the other companies for that matter that are releasing Smart Watches to the market continue to fall into that mindset of "this let's us sell people an 9" smartphone next year through overcoming the difficulty of removing it from one's pocket to see 'why did my phone just buzz'?" then these devices will continue to be largely ignored in the marketplace.
Except, there have been screen (or rather the lenses with digitizers) produced that were tested via optical spectroscopy and validated to be comprised of sapphire, and of the dimensions of the iPhone 6 displays. Those didn't just appear out of thin air, they were manufactured by *someone*, and as such it is reasonable make the leap that when Apple paid GTAT $578M upfront to ramp up large scale sapphire production through the addition of enough furnaces that it could produce enough sapphire that would enable the production of roughly 110M iPhone class displays per year by volume that GTAT would be the party *producing* said displays instead of *some unknown other party*, or that the speculation regarding the part in-hand was simply wrong.
More plausible explanations are that GTAT was either behind schedule and would have risked Apple pushing back their iPhone release date, or that the quality of the product offered was not of the level that had been promised, including the durability concerns / shatter resistances of Sapphire Crystal versus a more traditional silica glass.
Don't be daft. Everyone has at least a loose association with a government official, and that's what's being asserted here. A friend of a friend was a Russian Government official, thereby the whole thing must be their fault! Couldn't possibly be that it was "because we could", or "because it looked like easy money", or "because they were acting in a criminal syndicate"... Nope, we need a new enemy and ISIS isn't scary enough and China owns too much of our debt, so Russia it is!
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I can certainly tell the difference between a FLAC 24bit sample and a MP3 320kbps with my theater setup, however that seems more of a comparison of 16 bit to 24bit mastered audio when using quality speakers and a good amplifier with a DSP supporting 24bit audio. Using a phone, I typically can't tell the difference between something streamed from Spotify and a FLAC 24bit, although that's probably speaking more to the DSP In the phone. Quality equipment and you can tell the difference in terms of recovery from extremes of different types of sound, maintaining amplitude in those recoveries, and not having "artifacts" from a master obviously intended for earbuds that simply aren't present in a 24bit master. Sort of like looking for macro blocking in an overly compressed 1080p video stream to point out which is the lower bitrate.
In the case of Deputy Andrew Wood striking Milton Olin Jr with his patrol vehicle while texting his wife, yeah... He did blame the victim, and deny the texting, that he was speeding, and made further false statements, and attempted to destroy evidence. And no repercussions came his way. Eye witnessed and telemetry data from his vehicle even show that he was entirely at fault and drove directly into Mr. Olin when the road curved. That incident is from end of August, not 2007.
By inverse, if *anyone else* did these acts, including but not limited to the destruction of property, harassment, assault and unlawful detainment, that person would be facing severe felony charges on multiple counts. The fact that the person has a badge and training... they should be held to a similar standard at least. They weren't carrying out their duties at the time of this incident, they freaked the fuck out and decided to harass someone because they could and knew that there would be no repercussions.
Considering your comments, would you too side with the cops who run people over in their cars while texting on their personal cell phones and then blame the victim for throwing themselves in front of their cars, all the while perjuring themselves as has also happened recently?
You're gonna miss me by my taco.
Local storage on a phone - devices that are small, visible, portable and valuable have a considerable market and as such lead to thefts - is a single point of failure where you can lose everything. Further, the industry average is to replace these devices every 18 months. There are mitigating strategies such as backup and resync approaches, but these create additional steps and introduce the likelihood of users losing their data. Hence why the idea of server side storage exists, as a means of making these device replacements easier and more transparent to users.
Does that come with potential privacy issues? Of course it does, but largely the market decided that they would rather the convenience of a "dumb terminal" that can be replaced and immediately behave just like their old one than the security of a fully local model. Until there are massive security breaches that hit *most* people, where these approaches to cloud data storage is shown directly at fault (and not those visible to most, but largely affecting celebrities only as was the case with Fappening or other similar events) then this type of thinking will continue and new services introduced that are more and more Internet-centric for tasks that ultimately don't need to be.
The NIH mentality and largely the spirit behind what open source is. Can some other tool do it with a new api or plugin and do 99.9% of what Hack, Go or Swift does? Probably. Does this concept of a new forked language or an entirely new solution prevent changes from going back upstream? Absolutely. But it enables those involved to take risks and to experiment with things that they may not have otherwise been willing to consider, and to spur ideas and innovation from others; maybe even helping to advance our state of technology a bit.
3 decimal places is pretty damn ridiculous! Best joke I've heard all week.
The the further sake of argument, let's say that there was a desire for colonization. Civilizations here on Earth have historically expanded when there was an economic or strategic need to do so. They didn't simply find the most distant location and set up a new colony just because they felt like it. The new location would provide some key resource, be it food, water, land, access to trade, differing agriculture, minerals, tools, etc.
Further, space is quite vast. Even in our own galaxy, the distances are immense and the number of choices nearby that could prove interesting are themselves very large. If models regarding civilization growth and expansion could be inferred from our history as a base, it seems unreasonable to assume that a highly advanced civilization intent in colonization would invest the economic resources and risk the political or social resources to do so very distant to their own world when much closer, viable options are a possibility. Only when those options are exhausted and further growth is necessary to support a civilization's way of life would growth of one's boundaries become a consideration. This has held true through many societies regardless of cultural heritage, political systems or value systems, be it various Native American groups, the Inca Empire, the Roman Empire, the Huns, various Middle Eastern Groups and what can be inferred of the Homo Erectis lineage.
As such, is it really that unreasonable to assume that if faster than light travel were possible, it's use would be anything different than jet travel today and come with economic implications that themselves still require considerations even though the world itself became a "smaller" place thanks to their invention, and the domains afforded of travel simply became more time efficient and practical?
Because a girl has __never__ done anything obscene when given free reign over a public forum. ;)
/me grabs popcorn and waits for Morse Code messages, or pictures that can only be seen from particular angles or with long exposures.
And opposite the Nuke-leer hippies would be the group of Nuke-ular hippies standing off against each other, preparing for violence and devising ever more elaborate means of defense against their adversaries.
Somehow, I doubt that the poster meant "Creato" in the italian sense, being the past tense of for Cresco, or to "produce, create, bring forth"...
Yes, because making new marketing materials, distributing updated business cards and getting everyone involved to stop using the old number and separate the old number from the company is *such* an easy task and can happen overnight!
The phone number of a presumably reputable business that parties would likely recognize for their Caller ID number is a social engineering trick to get around one of the roadblocks and make people subconsciously overcome one of their answers to why this is a scam. Any act at this point is damaging the brand of the business, whether they capitulate and change their number, or whether the scamming entity continues to portray themselves as the company in question.
Let's change this a little bit and put a name to these calls... What if instead of "unnamed company", it was "Google" that had someone using their corporate phone number to do these calls? What about "Amazon", or "Microsoft", or "Apple", or "Cisco", or the "FBI"? Would your opinion about "just change your phone number" be the same?
This is actually a very reasonable idea, considering that in many jurisdictions the last mile deployments have been subsidized via government grants or guaranteed loans and bonds. The justification for these companies to apply for such money is that without the support of government, it would not be economically practical to provide service to various localities. By taking all last-mile deployments out of government hands, many of which simply have been ignored outside of big cities anyways, then individual cities could utilize funds from property taxes to provide the actual termination to each residence and business. Then, there can be the immediate possibility of competition of middle mile providers within these localities for those customers without such significant expense to them, effectively lowering costs for their customers.
Although on the flip side, we know full well that costs won't go down, even as responsibilities are split... It'll just be that everyone realizes "Oh, this is the biggest number that the vast majority of people are willing to pay today, so that is what we charge!" to which the market will naturally settle on a tacit understanding of multilateral screwing despite the new appearance of choice.
That is ultimately the problem. Once things get to the point where the courts are involved, much like scientific debates depicted on television, they are reduced to 1 person for, and 1 person against, and are largely not representative of the consensus of the scientific community as a whole. The format combined with subject matter that most people choose not to attempt to understand creates the illusion that there is still cause for discussion on the matter and that one crackpot saying "I can predict big earthquakes, and so can you! Look at this data, there was all of these events going on for months, so why wouldn't they think that there was something going on in a seismically active region?" versus the 99 others saying "Here are 500 other instances where in this very city, these same conditions were present and absolutely nothing happened. If we alerted everyone, everywhere every time that there was a minor event based off of the potential that something *could* happen, there would be no credibility when at some point in the future we have adequate technology and understanding to predict these events!" And that is ultimately the problem, out of an emphasis of "fairness", both sides are given equal time and their information presented is gauged based off of which is more plausible for a layman to understand and are most compatible with their social biases and prejudices. It ceases to be about which side is right but rather which side is more likable and most compatible with the political and social viewpoints of the community.
There's your problem!
You're adding your wrongs when you should have been multiplying them!
See? Now all is right with the world!
There are however these thingamajigs called stamps that are required when sending a physical letter to someone.
The multiple microphone array is to allow the device to perform beam forming, thereby performing noise suppression as well as analyzing the location of the sound relative to the device.
So, you're complaining that using a Legacy OS in conjunction with devices that typically did not include GPS support and where touchscreen capabilities largely didn't exist doesn't have the application support that you'd want, namely up-to-date, finger friendly apps for you to use on your capacitive screen Windows Tablet?
That's like the argument that people use for why they don't have Photoshop or XYZ Product for Linux... I have it and it is of tremendous value to me, but I can't use it to it's potential because I don't have all the tools that I need it to do.
Handheld, finger friendly touchscreen devices running Windows are receiving support now because people are buying them, and the mere fact that there is a viable market where a developer *can* make money and thereby will be able to feed themselves means that they are likely to build said products and support those users as there is a segment of the market that *actually has* those products. And I say that as a long time Tablet PC User, back to the Compaq TC1000 and various models of the Fujitsu Stylistic slates over the years. Until Windows 8, they *were* a hobby! Great for Journal until OneNote came on the scene, and then OneNote was where it was at, and now with Windows 8 they're largely useful for everything. However, in terms of devices with GPSes and thereby helping with your use case, that is still the extreme minority and typically relegated to a USB or Bluetooth Accessory versus built in to *every* Android or iOS Tablet made, hence the disparity in what's available for each platform that also meets your functional requirements.
Banks are happy because there is biometric auth for the transaction, meaning they can go in and say "oh, you're saying that there was fraud on your account, but this transaction came from your iPhone and was authenticated by your thumbprint... So, can you please explain how this is possible before we move forward with reversing this charge for you?" That's incredibly valuable for banks, hence the lower rates for transactions!
Than opening wallet, removing card and swiping it, entering a pin / signing a signature, returning it to your wallet versus just touching a device to a reader and having your device authenticate via your fingerprint / continuous biometrics?
Yeah, that is so much easier. Plus, there's the general liability concern with the transaction being biometric secured versus someone stealing your card. There's obviously some interest in why banks are interested in this detail for sure, hence why they even implemented single transaction card numbers.
Further, the "wage" payments were just the differences between their dollar and change an hour rate and minimum wage for technical work that would require a skilled employee. So, even that is a slap on the wrist. And there was no concept of "time and a half" or whatever else for the mandatory 120hr week slave conditions for these employees. As such, the lesson taught was very much a "just don't get caught next time" one.
Oh, good. My slow-clap processor made it into this thing. So we have that.
Not necessarily. There is the very limited section of the market for which a fitness tracker is an ideal device, and for them a device which has the capabilities like the Apple Watch actually looks like it could be pretty nice. There are even verticals such as those with diabetes where continual optical monitoring of blood glucose levels or heart arrhythmia through infrared pulses can be extremely positive. These considerations are things that have not yet been incorporated into a device like FitBit or Up, despite it being great functionality that could work very well in those areas! Frankly, the current state of assistive devices for those with legitimate medical conditions is a joke and largely has stalled in technological advancement since the late 90's. Smart watches and similar form factor devices can be immensely useful for improving the quality of lives for people who suffer with legitimate medical conditions who the market largely ignores due to existing technologies that are declared "good enough" by their respective research and development teams.
However, yes, as a communications device, a 1 inch screen is not a very practical form factor and as long as a device whether it be from Apple, Motorola, LG, Samsung, or any of the other companies for that matter that are releasing Smart Watches to the market continue to fall into that mindset of "this let's us sell people an 9" smartphone next year through overcoming the difficulty of removing it from one's pocket to see 'why did my phone just buzz'?" then these devices will continue to be largely ignored in the marketplace.
Except, there have been screen (or rather the lenses with digitizers) produced that were tested via optical spectroscopy and validated to be comprised of sapphire, and of the dimensions of the iPhone 6 displays. Those didn't just appear out of thin air, they were manufactured by *someone*, and as such it is reasonable make the leap that when Apple paid GTAT $578M upfront to ramp up large scale sapphire production through the addition of enough furnaces that it could produce enough sapphire that would enable the production of roughly 110M iPhone class displays per year by volume that GTAT would be the party *producing* said displays instead of *some unknown other party*, or that the speculation regarding the part in-hand was simply wrong.
More plausible explanations are that GTAT was either behind schedule and would have risked Apple pushing back their iPhone release date, or that the quality of the product offered was not of the level that had been promised, including the durability concerns / shatter resistances of Sapphire Crystal versus a more traditional silica glass.
Don't be daft. Everyone has at least a loose association with a government official, and that's what's being asserted here. A friend of a friend was a Russian Government official, thereby the whole thing must be their fault! Couldn't possibly be that it was "because we could", or "because it looked like easy money", or "because they were acting in a criminal syndicate"... Nope, we need a new enemy and ISIS isn't scary enough and China owns too much of our debt, so Russia it is!