Congressmen/women have to go thru the scan. Everyone has to go thru the scan.
Not all of them do. Those high enough up the ranks can bypass security when flying commercial.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/no-security-pat-downs-for-boehner/
Before the collective wrath of Slashdot falls upon an innocent* cyber squatter, bear in mind that the URL listed in the text of the email wasn't actually the URL that the href linked to (text claimed to point to one spot, actual href tag pointed some place completely different). It didn't link to a PDF either but an executable with the
*Presumed innocent in the context of this malware, not in the grander scheme of effing up the domain registry system for the rest of us...
1) You usually listen in your car, and road-noise alone will destroy your ability to discern slight volume changes and perception of frequencies anywhere near 12khz and above
Actually, I usually have talk radio on in the car...
2) If you don't listen in a car, you often use your cheap speakers on your laptop
Can't say I do that either. Sure, sometimes I'll use the lower fidelity of headphones/earbuds hooked up to my iPhone, but that's not where most of my listening takes place...
3) Most headphones people use are either cheap (under $50), or they are biased on the lower-end, and most are not equalized correctly, or not equalized to your ear physiology (different sizes ear canals can cause resonance/standing waves that cause a different perception in frequency for different people -- each set must be tuned individually if you are a true audiophile).
Well, the headphone/earbuds I usually use fall in the ~$70-100 range, even though I'm not an "audiophile" since I refuse to pay $400 for magic ethernet cables...
4) If you're older than 21, you probably can't hear above 16Khz at all
Well, my ears aren't as good as they were ten years ago, but I've tried to avoid the normal things that cause hearing loss and damage (such as, I dunno, obscenely loud music?)
5) Your ears are not perfect (many people's frequency response is different from one ear to the other)
of course.
6) Your player is not perfect
of course...
7) Your speakers are not perfect, and you most likely haven't calibrated them with an RTA for the room they sit in or for where people are actually positioned.
of course......
8) The humidity, temperature, air pressure, and even the air pressure on the other side of your ear-drum changes frequently causing a difference in frequency response.
well, yes...
And if I'm completely wrong on points 1-8, then you are now in the
Though I never said I was the target audience for "mass produced mp3's", your post really comes across as a snotty "audiophile"... I've pretty much stopped listening to the Mp3 format. The music on my iPhone is mostly 256kbit AAC with a sprinkling of Apple Lossless. One of the reasons I often buy CD's over downloaded is because I know I have them in the most lossless and unencrypted format available to me. There are a few high-end sites (such as Linn Records UK) that sell lossless FLAC format music not only in standard CD 16bit/44.1khz but also in higher resolution "Studio" quality formats 24bit/88.2/96khz, some tracks are even available in 192khz. The "modern" pop/rock/etc. stuff isn't as much of a big deal but when dealing with stuff that is a lot more about the acoustics then you better believe the audio fidelity makes a difference.
Of course music that is produced with the intent of distribution at the higher resolutions often has higher production values anyway since they are targeting a different audience that cares about such things as the dynamic range and who are more likely to pick up on subtle issues whereas many "joe listeners" prefer the sound of the lossy compressions since that's what they have been raised listening to... sad really.
Sure, I don't have $10k speakers or a $20k receiver, but I can hear subtle differences, even if some of it may be attributable to placebo effect. I do have equipment that can handle some of the higher resolutions both on my primary stereo system as well as my primary desktop system. It find is much easier to down-sample a 24-bit/88.2khz track for whatever my listening environment may be then to do the inverse for when I wish to really "enjoy" and "experience" the music.
you can also get kidnapped by one of those pirates gangs and spend months while someone put (a lot of) money on the table to take you back.
See, that's exactly why Sony includes DRM on the movies, to prevent exactly this sort of piracy.....
Republicans on the other hand, want the government completely out of their lives
"You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means..."
You seem to have "Republicans" confused with "Conservatives" and "Libertarians". Nowadays, the difference between "Republicans" and "Democrats" (at least among those actually in power) mostly tends to be in WHICH ways to expand Government.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3184
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/19/big-government-gets-bigger/
Well, the last time I checked, salt is a vital element to our survival (It regulates water content, not enough and we'd all die of dehydration regardless of how much water we drank). So by removing it from public sources, are they thereby impacting at least some people's ability to get salt (IE those that do not eat much at home) and hence endangering them? Sure, excessive salt can be dangerous, but not nearly as dangerous as not enough... This sounds to me like a "That sounds bad, we should do something about it!" snap decision... Sigh...
The follow-up bill will ban that terrible menace, dihydrogen monoxide! New York cares enough to ensure that the public is kept safe from such dangerous chemical compounds!
Looks like ipv6.comcast.net has both A (IPv4) and AAAA (IPv6) records.
$ host ipv6.comcast.net
ipv6.comcast.net has address 69.252.76.96
ipv6.comcast.net has address 68.87.64.59
ipv6.comcast.net has IPv6 address 2001:558:1002:5:68:87:64:59
ipv6.comcast.net has IPv6 address 2001:558:1004:9:69:252:76:96
Exactly. NTFS-3G has been solid for quite a while now. I've been using it for years on both my Macs and Linux boxes without issue. All of my large capacity external drives are formatted NTFS nowadays and they easily talk to all of the systems I care about.
I stopped getting compressed classical (and some jazz) tracks
Depends on the compression. I agree with you about classical music that uses lossy compression, however there are plenty of places where you can get it in a lossless format such as FLAC. Most of them often offer not only CD quality (16-bit, 44/48khz, but also high definition 24-bit 88/96khz for many tracks) FLAC. And Linn records has recently started selling 24-bit 192khz tracks (at not much more then the 88/96khz tracks).
http://www.linnrecords.com/index.aspx
https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php
I always grab the highest definition (24-bit 88, 96, or 192khz) offered and resample when I transcode it to other formats (such as mp3 or AAC for portable players which don't benefit from the higher fidelity).
I have been trying to get one of my IPs unblocked by Slashdot for several months now and have seem to have hit a black hole, emails go in never to be seen again...
Starring Will Smith - Will's alright. He just needs a better script to work with.
I am reminded of a quote from Wil Wheaton's Memories of the Future (or a comment on his blog about it and the podcast he's doing for it) about Patrick Stewart and how he really helped carry ST:TNG through the first couple horrible seasons.
Basically, it said that he (Stewart) could take the crappiest of lines and deliver it with the passion and intensity to make it really believable, but that they needed to "stop encouraging him", and actually give him GOOD dialog to see what he could do with *THAT*.
That is a special class which includes actors such as Sean Connery and Tom Hanks, that can take almost anything handed to them and believably deliver it to the audience where no one else could have.
I'm fairly sure we all can cite off the tops of our heads several dozen shows from the past few years with potential but fell into one or more of these categories... (and possibly were still enjoyable in spite of it)
In fact, just about EVERY show from the past few years...
And of course there's always examples like the the later seasons of BSG when it turned into Soap Opera in space (Galactica 90210?)...
Because we all know what the frack they're saying and since it's a fracking cable network why the frack don't they just say what they fracking mean to say...
Da-shiong bao-jah-shr duh la-doo-tze!
The Kindle DX will natively display PDF's. I have one and LOVE it. it has ~3.5G of storage space, but sadly no expansion capability. Amazon's eBooks are in the MobiPocket format with a derivative of it's DRM. There are tools that will strip the DRM from Mobipocket files, both Amazon and non-Amazon, and software that will convert between formats including PDF, eBook, MobiPocket, etc. such as Calibre.
Which is something that I try to point out when various Vehicular GPS' refuse to accept input while the vehicle is moving. My Dad has to go through a convoluted routine to put the integrated GPS into a service mode every time he starts his car so that it is willing to accept input while in motion, such as from the passenger...
I see it as another example of "Nanny State" thinking where they feel necessary (or in some cases may be mandated by law) to protect us from the very possibility of our own stupidity.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
