Trying to use PGP in this instance is a lost cause. You risk missing a deadline, you risk that your file doesn't reach the right recipient, you risk that you will be frowned upon, etc. If they encouraged encrypted submissions, they would probably make their public key accessible. Since they don't make the key available (I assume you've done your research), still to what's conventional in the business. Either email unencrypted or send via snail mail (using a courier service).

The cost of the "middle-man" app is tiny. In fact, it may be cheaper to use an app as opposed to having real people answering phone calls. I guess you're right in the sense that taxi companies wouldn't wanna share revenues with another party. But this doesn't make the app intrinsically useless. In fact, taxi companies may well respond with an app of their own (that's what happened in Germany).

can't seem to edit my previous post. antialiasing has nothing to do with resolution.

You'll always need anti-aliasing. Even if we had 1000 dpi monitors.

Globalization has strongly increased interdependencies. IT is far from the most important sector traded with China. Arguably, the lack of Lenovo laptops is not such big a deal if it came to war. Btw, no need to use the Nazi term "total war."

It seems like a bit of a break with their philosophy. About Ubuntu says "The vision for Ubuntu is part social and part economic: free software, available free of charge to everybody on the same terms." Sure, they're talking about software there but a not exactly affordable phone for $600-810 still feels a bit odd.

AAC is one of the very best lossy codecs out there, doing quite well in double-blind listening tests. ogg is better than mp3, too, but probably not better than AAC. What's missing in iOS is good out-of-the-box FLAC support. yes, for smartphones, lossy audio is more interesting due to storage/bandwidth contraints. yet, you should support at least one lossless codec and FLAC would be more desirable than ALAC. not because it achieves better compression (it usually does) but because it's waay more widely adopted than ALAC.

(1.) It may be hard to securely erase an SSD. Due to things such as wear leveling, the relationship between sector addresses and physical flash cells isn't transparent to the OS. And ATA Secure Erase isn't implemented or isn't implemented correctly on all SSDs. (2.) SSDs are hard to recover. That's because they may start erasing some blocks containing data (and not just the entry in the file allocation table) shortly after you delete a file in the file system. Again, this happens due to things such as wear leveling and isn't transparent to the OS. Contrast this to a hard drive where, following a file delete, only the entry in the allocation table is deleted but no actual data. I don't see anything contradictory or confusing here

Of course, 24/96 is standard. Even bedroomers produce at higher than 16/44.1. Thus, the issue mentioned in the parent is of no relevance. On the other hand, abuse of compression and dithering plugins during the mixdown (by bedroomers as well as professional mastering engineers!) is a very real issue.

A lot of wrong stuff here. First of all, EUR 30 in the mid-80s is equivalent to roughly EUR 55 today due to the effects of inflation (these are approximate numbers for countries like Germany and the Netherlands). Inflation was slightly higher in the US, so a larger increase in dollar prices was necessary over there to compensate producers for rising input prices. Second, I don't think MSX games are really representative for what OP is referring to. MSX was never really mainstream in the US and Europe. Third, production cost have risen tremendously, yes. But a good chunk of the cost of producing a video game is fixed. And since the market for video games has grown tremendously over the last three decades, those fixed cost are distributed over a much larger number of games sold, therefore facilitating lower video game prices (in real terms).

why the fuck is this question even accepted by /.? Do your research before submitting, there are dozens of solutions: HTPCs, a bunch of the latest Blu-Ray players and TVs, media streamers (a couple of which have been mentioned above), and 7th gen video consoles. hell, even some recently-announced tablets will be able to grab content from SMB (or DLNA) and output it to your screen via HDMI (gotta look closely, though, not all do 1080p)