Same here. I haven't had any mod points for 6 months, whereas I used to get them all the time. As far as I know, I have never abused the system - probably someone disagreed with the opinions I had moderated up.
Silverlight won't work in the plug-in free Metro IE either. What's the relevance of bringing that up? This isn't Microsoft's attempt to replace Flash with Silverlight.
Why not try the blind test and find out for yourself? If it's too tiring for you, you can always break it into separate sessions. There's no reason for your ears or your temporal lobe to get tired after listening to music samples for 5 minutes.
By the way, your friend's MP3 player could well have been playing Xin-encoded 128kbps MP3s - that's not what we are talking about here. Try comparing a decent lossy encode to the equivalent FLAC.
Unless of course, you want to carry on with the self-delusion that you are capable of hearing a percepitble difference where countless others have tried and failed. That's fine, kid yourself if it makes you feel better, but there's no need to come on here and spout ill-informed nonsense.
People, this could be massive ^^
Could have been, but turns out as usual they were just posting silly images and indulging in short-lived DDOS attacks. If only they would use their talents for good.
It makes the web unusable. I don't want to spend half my browsing time clicking on popups to decide if I want to allow every innocuous minor action by a pirce of sandboxed javascript code
Yep. These stories are always shill plants by PR firms. Shame a reputable news organization like CNN doesn't do some fact-checking to figure out this story is bogus
You can only get the latest version of Xcode 3 with the free developer account. For a 4.x version you need the $99 developer account or to pay $4.99 from the mac app store
It's dealing with a much lower resolution, and therefore requires much less processing power to get equivalent performance on a smaller scale. It's perfectly cromulent.
presumably because the uriminzokkiriLike rapidly got trolled to hell. The news page is a private profile, you can read the posts made by the author but you can't write anything on his wall.
The benefit is: If it crashes, you can do something about it.
Sure. And how often have you re-written and recompiled an open source graphics driver? In fact, how often have you even bothered to look at the source?
For the vast majority of users, a driver that just works is preferable to a an open-source mess of a driver that has awful performance
"James Randi offered US$ 1 million to anyone who can prove that a pair of $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables is any better than ordinary (and also overpriced) Monster Cables. Pointing out the absurd review by audiophile Dave Clark, who called the cables 'danceable,' Randi called it 'hilarious and preposterous.' He added that if the cables could do what their makers claimed, 'they would be paranormal.'
It would have been trivially easily to protect the game's online elements without resorting to any kind of DRM. Just have a simple CD-key - no unique CD-key, no access to the server. If they didn't do this it was their loss.
Why massively overpay for the hardware if you are going to be running Windows anyway? I thought the main reason people were willing to pay the 50-100% premium for Apple products compared to generic PC/laptop competitors with the same components was the fact that you can run OSX.
Apps like Photoshop might seem impossible to displace in the professional industry, but it can happen. With apps like Aperture (and Lightroom) taking the place of Photoshop for some tasks
You do realize Lightroom is an Adobe product too, right? In fact its full title is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It's a complementary product to photoshop, not a competitor or viable replacement.
There's nothing that comes close to Photoshop for professionals, if Adobe stops releasing it on the Mac the will simply switch to PCs. Brand loyalty means nothing when there are $$$ concerned.
From Isohunt's twitter feed:
@arstechnica, @wired on us "Ordered to Remove Infringing Content". There's no order, only PROPOSED order & I'd appreciate better reporting
Except the Wii is trivially easy to hack and pirated games are widely available from all the usual torrent sites. And guess which console is the most successful?
Well the corporate bullies have struck again, they are threatening to delete this page and shutdown my website too if their ridiculous demands are not met by 7pm GMT this evening. They demand I remove all references to "FB Purity" and also even more bizarrely "F*** B*** Purity" from both myfan page and my website
Those demands don't seem so ridiculous to me. Just rename the damn script to something that isn't so close to facebook's trademark, and move on with your life.
They aren't making him remove the script. The summary (and the script's author's site) are misleading.
This is purely a trademark issue. Initially the guy called his script Facebook Purity, a clear violation of FB's trademark. He changed the name to Fluff Buster Purity but also still markets it as F***B*** Purity, which is again a violation of Facebook's trademark, albeit a little more tenous.
If he just changes the name to something else there will be no issue. Noone is forcing him to take down his script, he just has to rename it to something that doesn't violate Facebook's trademark. Facebook are being no more evil than the Mozilla corporation who tightly control the Firefox trademark, even though the software itself is open source (hence Iceweasel etc and other silly names for adaptations of the software).
If it's anything like the streaming video of BBC iPlayer's Wii app, it's going to be very disappointing quality. The Wii simply isn't powerful enough to process high-bitrate content (even for standard-def) so the iPlayer app uses low bitrate streams that are blocky and barely watchable on a big TV screen.
The headline states "Chavez to limit internet freedom" as if he has just instituted a Great Firewall of Venezuela. He has done nothing of the sort. All he has done is make a public call for more regulation of the internet to prevent false and defamatory information. Clueless politicians across the globe make similar calls allthetime, even in the land of the free.
Much more worrying is the planned Australian censorship of the internet.
The PS3 has much higher resolution graphics; it is never going to match the price point of the Wii.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. The PS3 has been steadily dropping in price since release, while Nintendo have stubbornly refused to cut the RRP for the Wii, just as they did with the Gamecube. It's likely the PS3 will end up costing less than the Wii late in its lifespan, just like you can pick up a PS2 for $99 from Best Buy these days.
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Same here. I haven't had any mod points for 6 months, whereas I used to get them all the time. As far as I know, I have never abused the system - probably someone disagreed with the opinions I had moderated up.
Silverlight won't work in the plug-in free Metro IE either. What's the relevance of bringing that up? This isn't Microsoft's attempt to replace Flash with Silverlight.
Why not try the blind test and find out for yourself? If it's too tiring for you, you can always break it into separate sessions. There's no reason for your ears or your temporal lobe to get tired after listening to music samples for 5 minutes. By the way, your friend's MP3 player could well have been playing Xin-encoded 128kbps MP3s - that's not what we are talking about here. Try comparing a decent lossy encode to the equivalent FLAC. Unless of course, you want to carry on with the self-delusion that you are capable of hearing a percepitble difference where countless others have tried and failed. That's fine, kid yourself if it makes you feel better, but there's no need to come on here and spout ill-informed nonsense.
People, this could be massive ^^
Could have been, but turns out as usual they were just posting silly images and indulging in short-lived DDOS attacks. If only they would use their talents for good.
It makes the web unusable. I don't want to spend half my browsing time clicking on popups to decide if I want to allow every innocuous minor action by a pirce of sandboxed javascript code
Yep. These stories are always shill plants by PR firms. Shame a reputable news organization like CNN doesn't do some fact-checking to figure out this story is bogus
How did this get modded Insightful??? If you read TFA you'd see the model of phone was mentioned (HTC Evo).
You can only get the latest version of Xcode 3 with the free developer account. For a 4.x version you need the $99 developer account or to pay $4.99 from the mac app store
It's dealing with a much lower resolution, and therefore requires much less processing power to get equivalent performance on a smaller scale. It's perfectly cromulent.
The new Facebook page (as listed on the official uriminizokkiri site) is now
http://www.facebook.com/uriminzok
presumably because the uriminzokkiriLike rapidly got trolled to hell. The news page is a private profile, you can read the posts made by the author but you can't write anything on his wall.
But I have a different show-stopper for Samsung Galaxy S: its $600 price tag (source: Google Product Search), compared to $200 for an iPod touch.
Dude, you're comparing a smartphone to an MP3 player. Apples and oranges, so to speak.
The benefit is: If it crashes, you can do something about it.
Sure. And how often have you re-written and recompiled an open source graphics driver? In fact, how often have you even bothered to look at the source?
For the vast majority of users, a driver that just works is preferable to a an open-source mess of a driver that has awful performance
James Rani's $1million speaker cable prize was never awarded...
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/04/1354224
"James Randi offered US$ 1 million to anyone who can prove that a pair of $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables is any better than ordinary (and also overpriced) Monster Cables. Pointing out the absurd review by audiophile Dave Clark, who called the cables 'danceable,' Randi called it 'hilarious and preposterous.' He added that if the cables could do what their makers claimed, 'they would be paranormal.'
It would have been trivially easily to protect the game's online elements without resorting to any kind of DRM. Just have a simple CD-key - no unique CD-key, no access to the server. If they didn't do this it was their loss.
The i5 platform contains better integrated graphics (Intel HD) which perform mugh higher than the crappy nVidia 320M included in the mac mini.
Why massively overpay for the hardware if you are going to be running Windows anyway? I thought the main reason people were willing to pay the 50-100% premium for Apple products compared to generic PC/laptop competitors with the same components was the fact that you can run OSX.
Apps like Photoshop might seem impossible to displace in the professional industry, but it can happen. With apps like Aperture (and Lightroom) taking the place of Photoshop for some tasks
You do realize Lightroom is an Adobe product too, right? In fact its full title is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It's a complementary product to photoshop, not a competitor or viable replacement.
There's nothing that comes close to Photoshop for professionals, if Adobe stops releasing it on the Mac the will simply switch to PCs. Brand loyalty means nothing when there are $$$ concerned.
From Isohunt's twitter feed: @arstechnica, @wired on us "Ordered to Remove Infringing Content". There's no order, only PROPOSED order & I'd appreciate better reporting
Except the Wii is trivially easy to hack and pirated games are widely available from all the usual torrent sites. And guess which console is the most successful?
Those demands don't seem so ridiculous to me. Just rename the damn script to something that isn't so close to facebook's trademark, and move on with your life.
They aren't making him remove the script. The summary (and the script's author's site) are misleading.
This is purely a trademark issue. Initially the guy called his script Facebook Purity, a clear violation of FB's trademark. He changed the name to Fluff Buster Purity but also still markets it as F***B*** Purity, which is again a violation of Facebook's trademark, albeit a little more tenous.
If he just changes the name to something else there will be no issue. Noone is forcing him to take down his script, he just has to rename it to something that doesn't violate Facebook's trademark. Facebook are being no more evil than the Mozilla corporation who tightly control the Firefox trademark, even though the software itself is open source (hence Iceweasel etc and other silly names for adaptations of the software).
If it's anything like the streaming video of BBC iPlayer's Wii app, it's going to be very disappointing quality. The Wii simply isn't powerful enough to process high-bitrate content (even for standard-def) so the iPlayer app uses low bitrate streams that are blocky and barely watchable on a big TV screen.
The headline states "Chavez to limit internet freedom" as if he has just instituted a Great Firewall of Venezuela. He has done nothing of the sort. All he has done is make a public call for more regulation of the internet to prevent false and defamatory information. Clueless politicians across the globe make similar calls all the time, even in the land of the free. Much more worrying is the planned Australian censorship of the internet.
Windows Media Player only? Screw that.
The PS3 has much higher resolution graphics; it is never going to match the price point of the Wii.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. The PS3 has been steadily dropping in price since release, while Nintendo have stubbornly refused to cut the RRP for the Wii, just as they did with the Gamecube. It's likely the PS3 will end up costing less than the Wii late in its lifespan, just like you can pick up a PS2 for $99 from Best Buy these days.