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Comment January 4th news posted on /. on the 14th (Score 1) 155

by m0rbidini on Friday January 14, 2022 @07:22AM (#62171984) Attached to: Tesla Removes 2022 Production Date From Cybertruck Website

This came out on Jan 4th. https://insideevs.com/news/558... It's not really news right now... Even the original The Verge article was from 2 days ago. /.: news that were, stuff that mattered.

Websites That Don't Need to Be Made Anymore 161

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 20, 2010 @01:47PM from the do-not-want dept.

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but there is a finite number of social networking or selling websites that the world needs. Here is a collection of the eight kinds of websites that absolutely don't need to be made anymore. I'd add dating sites and anybody who uses pop-up ads myself, but I think that would eliminate half the Web.

Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @07:07PM from the snack-is-going-to-be-on-the-floor-today dept.

Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."

Comment Re:This is useless. (Score 5, Insightful) 346

by m0rbidini on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @07:32PM (#27321677) Attached to: New Lossless MP3 Format Explained

No really. It is useless and a lousy hack. It's just a way for Thomson and FhG to further milk the mp3 buzzword, one more time.

Useless format:
* The lossless part is stored in ID3v2 tags.
* Size of ID3v2 tags is limited to 256MB by specifications; as a result, lossless part of an mp3hd file can't be larger than 256MB.

Addendum:
Current tagging software isn't prepared to deal with this kind of situation, so you're going to see various disturbing behaviors such as:
* Very slow tag updates (near-full-file-rewrite with each edit).
* Heavy memory usage of tag editors.
* Retagging stripping correction data.
* Tag editing or even reading failures when approaching the 256MB limit because software will try to put each ID3v2 frame in a single memory block and allocating a single block of such size is likely to fail in 32-bit address space because of fragmentation issues.

From: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=70548

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