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Comment Re:Why use Ogg and FLAC when we have Opus? (Score 1) 90

And Opus use which container format? Hint: It starts with an O and ends in gg.

The Ogg performance improvements will speed up Opus decoding too (and save battery life when playing Opus on your mobile device).

And FLAC is lossless while Opus is not. So FLAC is the better choice for archival.

Comment Never used SSDs? (Score 1) 403

Whoever wrote that article has probably never used an SSD in real life.

Use a regular HDD for everyday work for half a year. Install and remove apps, edit and archive photos, organize your music library. After half a year it will take forever to start recently installed or updated apps and the whole system will feel so slooooowww...

SSD speed also degrades over time (though due to other reasons), but not as heavy as regular HDDs. In real life, I didn't notice any slowdown after half a year of using my SSD now. A difference like black and white compared to regular HDDs.

Feed 'Fair Use' Bill Returns, Gutted (wired.com)

Reps. Boucher and Doolittle try for a third time to tone down the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but a key revision takes the teeth out of the measure. In Listening Post.


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Submission + - Microsoft: Google Was `wake-Up Call'

wooha writes: Watching Google Inc. rake in advertising revenue was a wake-up call within Microsoft," the company's top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said Tuesday. But he said Microsoft plans to do more than simply mimic Google by rolling out Web-based versions of desktop programs or following its particular search and advertising model. Ozzie, who has only made a handful of appearances since his promotion last June to replace Bill Gates as chief software architect, told analysts and investors at a Goldman Sachs conference in Las Vegas that he has been laying the groundwork for programmers across the company to build Internet-based software.

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