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Comment Re:Would a standard for loudness help? (Score 1) 294

First, your entire discussion of "dB" is meaningless without an additional "unit". dB, by and of itself, is a baseless unit. It's dBSPL, or dBm, or even the cheat-of-all-cheats, dBu. But NEVER just dB.

You're just plain wrong. In audio plain-jane decibels are useful as a relative measurement of levels. I'm a sound designer and my colleagues and I use them regularly. Even if 1dB and 120dB weren't already defined in an human aural context (which they are, look it up) -- he provides the dynamic range as -90 to 0. All of the sudden the unit-less dB is useful as a comparison of levels in reference to the stated range.

Comment Re:No rage, just a lost customer. (Score 2) 722

Frankly, I am surprised that so many of my fellow geeks who are presumably my age or even younger are throwing such a fit over fucking DVDs in 2011.

Clue up buddy. That's probably because many people find the streaming selection to be anemic. Also note the constant swapping of available streaming content (not adding to, but swapping). Netflix knows many people will be split between an instantly available (but crappy selection) stream and slow to arrive (but great selection) dvds. They're betting on more than half keeping both services so that Netflix at least breaks even, I'm sure the goal is that more than half will keep both services.

Myself, I'm quitting NF, partially because of the money, but mostly because they blatently lied when they announced the fee hikes. Fuck that, we've got enough to deal with in life without adding more liars to the mix.

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Submission + - Plant a Garden? Go to jail! (geekmom.com) 4

timothy writes: Oak Park, Michigan, apparently frowns on vegetable gardens visible from the street. 93 days in jail's worth! I would like to see pictures (with visible mailbox numbers, please) of all the local bigwigs who thought this was a smart fight to get into.
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Submission + - 25% of car accidents are because of gadgets (winbeta.org) 1

BogenDorpher writes: "In a recent study by the Governors Highway Safety Association, driving distractions such as cell phones and other electronic devices, cause as much as 25% of all US car accidents. It is common knowledge that driving while distracted is not a safe thing to do, but now we have some scientific data that goes in-depth on the topic."

Comment Re:Steam-punk appeal (Score 1) 505

If you know how to use them they just may give you a smoother shave than a 5 bladed modern disposable, they do for me (though I've recently switched to a safety razor to save time on upkeep.) Straight razors also cut down on razor-burn and shaving related skin reactions; the single blade doesn't tend to aggravate sensitive skin the way 4, 5, 6 or 7 do. They're also cheaper than disposables in (savings become apparent relatively soon.) Also, they may inspire a manly "screw the corporate-pig-dogs" sort of feeling.

Comment Re:GUI and CLUI: Two Great Tastes ... (Score 1) 317

Agreed. I've been wanting this for a while; sort of like an autocad cli interface for the os (which is imho one of the most efficient interfaces ever). Unfortunately, my programming skills are limited to scripting languages, basic C and lisp. I have very little idea where to start to implement a true system like this. And that's just at the system level, it doesn't even get into making this interface work with other applications. The best I can think is to hack a macro system that sends keypresses to the application in question, but having to change focus back and forth would be a pain. And the most beneficial aspects of this system (specifying specific values for certain commands) would be impractical to send to the application. Add to that many application commands and tools don't have shortcut key equivalents. If anyone else has other thoughts, please let them be known.

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