A 256Kbps AAC is objectively equal to CD sound quality, as confirmed by double-blind test after test. Furthermore, a huge portion of listeners will be hearing your angel's choir over cheap-ass ear buds or crap laptop speakers. Maybe you have a golden ear and can tell the difference between a CD and a FLAC file (are those good enough for you, or do they lack the sharp ones and smooth zeros of the digital masters?). Maybe you're not actually a delusional once-great who has lousy hearing and permanent tinnitus after years of playing rock concerts, and, well, being almost 70. Maybe your home hi-fi (do you still call it that?) was hand-wired by a wizened master of recording engineering fame. Maybe you have your own private anechoic chamber so you're not exposed to anything but the pure and sweet sounds of your own singing. But the rest of us listen to normal-person music with a dynamic range that's been shot to hell in the loudness wars, via normal-person audio formats, through normal-person digital-to-analog converters, into normal-person speakers, in a normal-person environment with kids playing and horns honking and dogs barking and coworkers chattering.

Your music, pristine to the heavens though it may be, sounds no better than Miley Cyrus when piping out of my MacBook. You've become a crotchety old curmudgeon trying to remain relevant to those kids who won't stay off your lawn, and maybe it's time to sit down with a hot cup of keep your yap shut and enjoy a nice book.

Good day, sir.

Or it could be this.
"Poitras has been subject to monitoring by the U.S. Government, which she speculates is because of a wire transfer she sent in 2006 to Iraqi doctor Riyadh al-Adhadh, a suspected Sunni insurgent"

The AS400 and System 38 before it used an "ideal" ISA that the computer then translates when you load the program on to the system. Think of it as an install time compiler.
It would be great if Linux had the same concept built in. You could do it the first time you run the program if need by.
Maybe pick the IBM zseries as the ISA so that you do not tick off Intel, AMD, or ARM.

I never got into Redit. Everytime I tried kept stumbling into the nasty parts.
Shame because every once in a while I find some really good posts that link to Redit subredits.

I do not know about the rarely used part but MUMPS has been around for a very long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... VistA can use MUMPS for the backend so it is probably still in pretty wide use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

" Ultraviolet is classified into near, medium and far UV according to energy, where near and medium ultraviolet are technically non-ionizing, but where all UV wavelengths can cause photochemical reactions that to some extent mimic ionization (including DNA damage and carcinogenesis)"
Far UV is ionizing and near and medium are close enough to cause the same kind of damage as ionizing radiation so you can treat it as ionizing.
Plus you have a really odd cell phone if it emits UV.

I used a Windows Phone for a while and it is actually a good product. It was fast and stable and did what I wanted it to do. The UI was actually pretty nice. The one thing that made me go back to Android was the lack of apps and the quality of some of them. I really missed the Google apps that I was used to using. Google is no more of a villain for doing that than Microsoft is for not producing Office or Exchange for Linux, or Apple not producing iTunes for WindowsPhone or Android but Windows Phone with gmail, youtube, and google maps would have been really nice.
BTW yes I know about bing maps and using imap for gmail and the third party youtube apps but I liked google better.
In the end I really wish that WP did better than it looks like it will do. Now what Microsoft is doing to Nokia is shameful.

I guess it makes sense for a startup that wants access to hardware. Still seems like a large waste of money.

" UV isn't ionizing at least the far UV bands are, the lower bands are close enough in energy to cause photochemical reactions that break bonds so they are treated as ionizing radiation"
So yes it is.

With EM non-ionizing radiation in the RF bands the only concern is tissue heating. Even with the standard inverse square law at the standard transmission power of a phone the difference in the heating effect between a belt clip and a phone in your pocket would not be significant.

Depends where in Georgia and Texas and they could be using Wind for renewable power in those locations.
Frankly the place that I would think is logical is in Tennessee using all those TVA dams for power and the lakes for cooling.
What I do not get is why the heck is anyone building one in "silicon valley". The costs of power, land, and cooling would seem to be very high.

Pocket or clip we are talking about non-ionizing em radiation.

I would have given the credit to QT myself. I believe that some Symbian developers also used QT so they could move the Symbian apps over to Linux pretty quickly.