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True | curien | null | >You have also compressed it to store 100% more data
That requires more assumptions on your part (that there is space for more data, that there is more data to store, etc). It also completely flies in the face of normal usage.
>They used a ratio and labeled it with a % sign. That's improper usage, and invites c... | null | 0 | 1319829133 | False | 0 | c2v8mwv | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8mwv | t1_c2v88gt | null | 1427796693 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fix-my-grammar-plz | null |
It works fabulously well in Opera Mobile on my Android smartphone.
When I click 'options' in Google Chrome (Windows), the menu fades in and then disappears except for the bottom bit. I see that in Opera Mobile the pink stuff stops moving when the menu shows. On the other hand, it continues jiggling itself in Google C... | null | 0 | 1319829135 | False | 0 | c2v8mx9 | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v8mx9 | t3_ls4uq | null | 1427796693 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | faustoc4 | null | Tor2web lets you access tor hidden services (.onion) without tor and without anonymity | null | 0 | 1319829143 | False | 0 | c2v8myk | t3_lrkko | null | t1_c2v8myk | t1_c2v1igt | null | 1427796693 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | glassFractals | null | Looks good, but the issue wasn't converting on OS X. I've used [Max](http://sbooth.org/Max/) for a long time to do that (as well as rip CDs with error correction).
The issue was converting ALAC around on non-OS X operating systems. Sure, I could go ALAC to WAV in iTunes, and then WAV to FLAC through some other progr... | null | 0 | 1319829250 | False | 0 | c2v8nkj | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8nkj | t1_c2v374e | null | 1427796701 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | faustoc4 | null | Websites should provide a way to act as a proxy to any website using tor. | null | 0 | 1319829310 | False | 0 | c2v8nwx | t3_lrkko | null | t1_c2v8nwx | t1_c2v1awl | null | 1427796705 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theICEBear_dk | null | Not publicly. I am planning to use CppCMS on a personal project on an ARM board for the internal webserver as the rest of my project needs something quick and low-level.
I really like the template mechanism as I've noted elsewhere. | null | 0 | 1319829382 | True | 0 | c2v8oat | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v8oat | t1_c2v5o0c | null | 1427796711 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | narwhalman218 | null | I'm in highschool learning java and i want to know how this works, all we do in APCS is prepare for the ap test, we don't actually learn anything cool or interesting. I always try to do more than im asked because it's more fun, but it is really hard to learn this kind of thing. Please if anyone out there can explain th... | null | 0 | 1319829468 | False | 0 | c2v8osk | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v8osk | t3_ls4uq | null | 1427796716 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nixcamic | null | dbPowerAmp does ALAC to pretty much anything and vice versa on Windows, or on Linux with WINE. Although I'm pretty sure there are other native options for Linux.
EDIT: You should check out XLD, its like Max but actually updated still. | null | 0 | 1319829485 | False | 0 | c2v8ovp | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8ovp | t1_c2v8nkj | null | 1427796725 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shade00a00 | null | Agreed. For private archiving, though, it's great. When TAK was initially developped (back when it was still YALAC), some changes from the algorithm were rolled into the FLAC standard and increased compression speed in -8 by 30%. | null | 0 | 1319829519 | False | 0 | c2v8p2e | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8p2e | t1_c2v8fhz | null | 1427796730 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NeverSpeaks | null | You are ignoring the largest advantage of the web, distribution. Everyone can view this demo with a click of a button. | null | 0 | 1319829532 | False | 0 | c2v8p4v | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v8p4v | t1_c2v75uq | null | 1427796730 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theICEBear_dk | null | Not really the factor here, the structures and database stuff was almost entirely the same, the algorithms are not too different, the interfacing was done in C++ and using that stuff. I more than doubt I could squeeze the same out of Java (and I am a much better at Java programming than I am at C++). | null | 0 | 1319829581 | False | 0 | c2v8pdt | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v8pdt | t1_c2v3j11 | null | 1427796727 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319829598 | False | 0 | c2v8pgy | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8pgy | t1_c2v7b2u | null | 1427796729 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theICEBear_dk | null | Cool. I've only used epoll through intermediaries like ZeroMQ and different event loop libraries like Boost.ASIO and libev. I wonder how quirky it is. | null | 0 | 1319829657 | False | 0 | c2v8pse | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v8pse | t1_c2v2d1b | null | 1427796732 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | [The Apache license accounts for that.](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0#patent) | null | 0 | 1319829664 | True | 0 | c2v8pu6 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8pu6 | t1_c2v5fw7 | null | 1427796732 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wiiaboo | null | ffmpeg -i friday.wav -c aflac friday.m4a
What's so painful to work with, here?
This works with foobar2000 too, btw:
Parameters: -i - -c alac %d | null | 0 | 1319829678 | False | 0 | c2v8pwm | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8pwm | t1_c2v6fcq | null | 1427796732 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | As stated elsewhere, depends on the version of FF! Fennec nightlies innards are built from the same code as Firefox, if I understand things correctly. | null | 0 | 1319829693 | False | 0 | c2v8pz8 | t3_ls1wi | null | t1_c2v8pz8 | t1_c2v7jcz | null | 1427796733 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | ... Because... he open-sourced a codec no one used to begin with? | null | 0 | 1319829695 | False | 0 | c2v8pzs | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8pzs | t1_c2v7ldd | null | 1427796734 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theICEBear_dk | null | Can't say on the money front. But we have more C/C++ guys than Java guys in the organization. | null | 0 | 1319829728 | True | 0 | c2v8q6b | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v8q6b | t1_c2v0x3b | null | 1427796734 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319829731 | False | 0 | c2v8q72 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8q72 | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427796734 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xcallmejudasx | null | >These notes were removed from the manufacturing process prior to delivery to the Federal Reserve System and have not been monetized
Dammit. Just when I thought I'd found a way to pay for college.
| null | 0 | 1319829734 | False | 0 | c2v8q7r | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v8q7r | t1_c2v4brz | null | 1427796734 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | glassFractals | null | Well honestly, MP3 is pretty shitty. If you have an okay set of ears and a good pair of headphones or speakers, the quality is usually pretty evident even at 320 kb/s.
I will say it's much harder to tell with AAC. VBR AAC at 320 kb/s sounds damn good. Most people probably won't be able to discern it from lossless, ... | null | 0 | 1319829761 | True | 0 | c2v8qdg | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8qdg | t1_c2v5u9e | null | 1427796736 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theICEBear_dk | null | It is a tricky calculation, but if you have a big webapp running already say if you were google or facebook or one of the smaller players beneath them it would for sure be something I would consider. But it is definitely something to approach pragmatically. | null | 0 | 1319829805 | False | 0 | c2v8qmp | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v8qmp | t1_c2uzp5i | null | 1427796740 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319829817 | False | 0 | c2v8qoj | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8qoj | t1_c2v3i4k | null | 1427796740 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | louieanderson | null | It does if their competitors products don't support it. | null | 0 | 1319829817 | False | 0 | c2v8qok | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8qok | t1_c2v4wtn | null | 1427796740 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | The algorithm is very similar to FLAC. It might've been worth considering if it were more equitable to WavPack or TAK -- two lossless formats that have something up on FLAC -- since Apple putting their weight behind it would ensure a much greater amount of software/hardware support than they get currently, but, as it s... | null | 0 | 1319829856 | False | 0 | c2v8qw2 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8qw2 | t1_c2v8bwl | null | 1427796743 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | montibbalt | null | Flash is also web distribution and it probably would have run faster. Of course that leaves out iPhone people so it's bad.. right? | null | 0 | 1319829866 | False | 0 | c2v8qy5 | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v8qy5 | t1_c2v8p4v | null | 1427796744 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theICEBear_dk | null | I know Wt well. The GUI on the Web thing doesn't work for me so much (ASP.NET reminders maybe I dunno). Although the AJAX integration can be nice (I've had a lot of difficulty getting that to run in the different C++ web things I've tried). | null | 0 | 1319829882 | True | 0 | c2v8r1o | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v8r1o | t1_c2uz9pn | null | 1427796746 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | If you are stuck arguing literal interpretations of what someone said, and ignoring what they actually meant, you are basically just wasting everybody's time. Just stop it. | null | 0 | 1319829945 | False | 0 | c2v8rej | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8rej | t1_c2v6mzz | null | 1427796750 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | It's released under the Apache license. What more would you want from them to make it "free"? | null | 0 | 1319829962 | False | 0 | c2v8ri9 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8ri9 | t1_c2v85i8 | null | 1427796753 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | watawasteof20letters | null | Wow, it's actually much faster and more functional on my iphone than computer/ | null | 0 | 1319829999 | False | 0 | c2v8rp9 | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v8rp9 | t1_c2v6220 | null | 1427796754 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | quotability | null | >On August 26, 2010 "MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio
License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as
“Internet Broadcast AVC Video”) during the entire life of this License."
http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/2... | null | 0 | 1319830017 | False | 0 | c2v8rsi | t3_ls1wi | null | t1_c2v8rsi | t1_c2v564y | null | 1427796755 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | glassFractals | null | I'll check it out, thanks. | null | 0 | 1319830042 | False | 0 | c2v8rx1 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8rx1 | t1_c2v8ovp | null | 1427796756 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | If that's the case he is doing a piss poor job of making his argument. | null | 0 | 1319830177 | False | 0 | c2v8smi | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v8smi | t1_c2v8lpi | null | 1427796773 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | Each one works a bit differently. Here's Hydrogenaudio's general overview page for lossless audio and FLAC's comprehensive format overview:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless
http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_format_overview.html | null | 0 | 1319830212 | False | 0 | c2v8stq | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8stq | t1_c2v62a4 | null | 1427796770 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wobblebonk | null | I have a sansa clip+, as someone else said. Also, a cowon mp3 player that does flac. Even my random ass chinese T51 does flac, but not ALAC. I'm pretty sure Archos players do flac also. I am not counting my rockboxed devices, can you name a single non iProduct that supports ALAC?
Regardless there are a number of... | null | 0 | 1319830271 | True | 0 | c2v8t4q | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8t4q | t1_c2v64nd | null | 1427796783 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319830274 | False | 0 | c2v8t5b | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8t5b | t1_c2v6h9q | null | 1427796783 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gonemad16 | null | you obviously never did any development with the av libraries or ffmpeg. 99% of the documentation available online is for the command line.. its quite hard to find good info on the actual libraries | null | 0 | 1319830278 | False | 0 | c2v8t5q | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8t5q | t1_c2v8pwm | null | 1427796774 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | A gentleman who writes C++ compilers for a living would like to disagree with you.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/TOOL-835T | null | 0 | 1319830280 | False | 0 | c2v8t62 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v8t62 | t1_c2v8maa | null | 1427796774 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | Well, first of all, MP3 is lossy; ALAC is lossless:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless
Even so, MP3 is the one of the worst lossy codecs. If its usage weren't so ubiquitous, Vorbis and Musepack would have long since replaced it. | null | 0 | 1319830389 | False | 0 | c2v8tra | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8tra | t1_c2v5jxf | null | 1427796782 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gonemad16 | null | you still have to pay royalties.. ffmpeg and lame are free to use technically but still are subject to the patents. http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/
edit: they typically do not go after open source players however.... which is why ffmpeg has not be sued | null | 0 | 1319830453 | False | 0 | c2v8u67 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8u67 | t1_c2v8t5b | null | 1427796787 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | beej71 | null | If that were true, there wouldn't be so many tutorials about monads. Edit: and from my perspective, no one has yet pulled the sword from the stone. | null | 0 | 1319830490 | True | 0 | c2v8udz | t3_ls1zz | null | t1_c2v8udz | t1_c2v7d7u | null | 1427796790 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nixcamic | null | [Old statistics from 2004](http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/iPod_Claims_82_HD-Based_Retail_Market_Share_42_All_Players_UPDATE/) Apple with 82% and Creative in 2nd place with 3.7%
[2007 Statistics](http://www.mydigitallife.us/2007/04/the_week_of_apr_2.html) Apple at 72 percent and Sandisk in second with 9%, Yes s... | null | 0 | 1319830493 | False | 0 | c2v8uel | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8uel | t1_c2v8ldq | null | 1427796790 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Take that, Flash. | null | 0 | 1319830537 | False | 0 | c2v8unm | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v8unm | t3_ls4uq | null | 1427796793 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | It's not *entirely* worthless; it's not a *bad* format, it's simply pointless in comparison to FLAC. It might even end up being a [good thing](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lrp9c/apple_lossless_audio_codec_alac_now_open_source/c2v3u2b). | null | 0 | 1319830546 | False | 0 | c2v8up8 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8up8 | t1_c2v538c | null | 1427796794 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | summerteeth | null | Yeah I forget where I heard / read it but there was an open source advocate that worked for Apple that said this is why they didn't have support for Vorbis and Flac in iTunes.
And it's not so much that the patent are questionable, it's just the patent system is screwed up and people get sued over ridiculous stuff. Fla... | null | 0 | 1319830576 | True | 0 | c2v8uvq | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8uvq | t1_c2v553e | null | 1427796796 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0#patent | null | 0 | 1319830631 | False | 0 | c2v8v6q | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8v6q | t1_c2v7pro | null | 1427796799 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | quotability | null | Whoopte do? Why all the upvotes on this? FLAC | null | 0 | 1319830653 | False | 0 | c2v8vak | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8vak | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427796801 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RazputinOleander | null | I've seen a few of these threads now, where systems developers don't fully understand how to use "cloud" services like AWS, throw up their hands in frustration because it's not working like the dedicated servers they know, then switch back to the systems they know, thinking they made a better technical choice than the ... | null | 0 | 1319830797 | False | 0 | c2v8w1g | t3_lrnvt | null | t1_c2v8w1g | t3_lrnvt | null | 1427796812 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | > Does FLAC even allow you to use DRM or is it against their licence?
You're allowed to.
> [DRM. There is no intention to add any copy prevention methods. Of course, we can't stop someone from encrypting a FLAC stream in another container \(e.g. the way Apple encrypts AAC in MP4 with FairPlay\), that is the cho... | null | 0 | 1319830889 | False | 0 | c2v8wji | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8wji | t1_c2v8bfy | null | 1427796817 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | applejak | null | The first thing I did was look at the source too; disappointed. | null | 0 | 1319830912 | False | 0 | c2v8wnm | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v8wnm | t1_c2v889g | null | 1427796825 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kalobkalob | null | I see, so instead of adjusting speed of stuff, they speed up the timer. | null | 0 | 1319831100 | False | 0 | c2v8xoc | t3_lqb73 | null | t1_c2v8xoc | t1_c2v4foc | null | 1427796833 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | \#OccupyApple for giving something away! | null | 0 | 1319831122 | False | 0 | c2v8xta | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8xta | t1_c2v8qoj | null | 1428185406 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | davbryn | null | Yeah, I got that bit. I was hoping he could show me that he could write the code to do as he said rather than just put down the coding efforts of someone who shared something interesting. He'll be saying he rotoscoped plasma balls inside a realtime mandelbrot renderer on c64 better than this soon, but won't produce cod... | null | 0 | 1319831223 | False | 0 | c2v8ycn | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v8ycn | t1_c2v8bqy | null | 1427796842 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vagif | null | Two words: prohibitively expensive.
| null | 0 | 1319831247 | False | 0 | c2v8yh4 | t3_lrnvt | null | t1_c2v8yh4 | t1_c2v6o40 | null | 1427796853 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | Cowon seems to come highly recommended in this thread. | null | 0 | 1319831380 | False | 0 | c2v8z6i | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8z6i | t1_c2v6zm5 | null | 1427796862 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319831454 | False | 0 | c2v8zlz | t3_lr1eo | null | t1_c2v8zlz | t1_c2uzppx | null | 1427796860 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319831477 | False | 0 | c2v8zqf | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v8zqf | t1_c2v8xta | null | 1427796861 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | that's four words | null | 0 | 1319831486 | False | 0 | c2v8zsi | t3_lrnvt | null | t1_c2v8zsi | t1_c2v8yh4 | null | 1427796863 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | schwiz | null | I'm more curious how it runs in a webview that i can add to an app, not how it runs on fennec | null | 0 | 1319831524 | False | 0 | c2v8zzm | t3_ls1wi | null | t1_c2v8zzm | t1_c2v8pz8 | null | 1427796864 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | makemeking706 | null | Obviously there are ways around it. You could pirate all of your music, and never have to worry about buying any of it. The point is, Apple wants you to buy your music through iTunes. | null | 0 | 1319831559 | False | 0 | c2v905m | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v905m | t1_c2v83v1 | null | 1427796865 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daned | null | THANK YOU CAPTAIN INTERNET | null | 0 | 1319831590 | False | 0 | c2v90c0 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v90c0 | t1_c2v8rej | null | 1427796868 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | We're requesting support for it natively. They can decode FLAC just fine with Rockbox, but that's third-party. | null | 0 | 1319831698 | False | 0 | c2v90x2 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v90x2 | t1_c2v7bm1 | null | 1427796875 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | > Good! Part of the point is precisely that none of this suffers from the claimed complexity. It's just unfamiliar at first, like any new application of a discipline.
The claimed complexity is in the system and its usage as a whole. You're going from "the theorems proved are simple" to "the system as a whole is sim... | null | 0 | 1319831699 | False | 0 | c2v90x3 | t3_lirke | null | t1_c2v90x3 | t1_c2v63j6 | null | 1427796875 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | makemeking706 | null | Apple doesn't sell their music in their own lossless format? | null | 0 | 1319831870 | False | 0 | c2v91wp | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v91wp | t1_c2v7rgd | null | 1427796888 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cogman10 | null | My thoughts exactly. Making a codec opensource means nothing if the company is going to later turn around and sue you into the ground. With Apple being as litigious as they are, I would be VERY cautious about using this in any sort of application. | null | 0 | 1319832034 | False | 0 | c2v92u2 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v92u2 | t1_c2v4guy | null | 1427796900 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x86_64Ubuntu | null | I've met Isaac, he's kind of a douche. | null | 0 | 1319832046 | False | 0 | c2v92wh | t3_lsce5 | null | t1_c2v92wh | t3_lsce5 | null | 1427796902 | -14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | The guy who invented the language would like to disagree with *you*: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html
See the point "Why use exceptions?", namely the last counter-objection.
> > *but throwing an exception from a constructor invoked by new causes a memory leak!*
>
> Nonsense! That's an old-wiv... | null | 0 | 1319832083 | True | 0 | c2v933v | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v933v | t1_c2v8t62 | null | 1427796905 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NruJaC | null | Yea, exactly. Learn You a Haskell For Great Good does a great job covering this, and I don't really understand why much else gets linked to for explanations. Maybe because its long? | null | 0 | 1319832085 | False | 0 | c2v9349 | t3_ls1zz | null | t1_c2v9349 | t1_c2v6ymr | null | 1427796905 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rojaro | null | The german "Frauenhofer Institut" actually started working on that problem in 2003 and solved it about 4 years ago by writing a software that is currently in use to reconstruct shredded Stasi-Documents.
The Stasi ("Staatssicherheit") was a secret police in the GDR that was tasked with spying on GDR citizen to ensure t... | null | 0 | 1319832109 | False | 0 | c2v937o | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v937o | t3_lrr7h | null | 1427796907 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bpmf | null | HAHA! DoD will someday regret that decision. | null | 0 | 1319832121 | False | 0 | c2v93ai | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v93ai | t3_lrr7h | null | 1427796908 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319832175 | False | 0 | c2v93kv | t3_lr0m5 | null | t1_c2v93kv | t1_c2uyrkg | null | 1427796912 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sgtsaughter | null | I was in IE9 about 30 seconds in before it disappeared. I thought I had won! | null | 0 | 1319832298 | False | 0 | c2v9482 | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v9482 | t1_c2v71rj | null | 1427796918 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sushisource | null | S t y l e
STYLE | null | 0 | 1319832324 | False | 0 | c2v94cr | t3_lrg7f | null | t1_c2v94cr | t1_c2v57dl | null | 1427796920 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319832373 | True | 0 | c2v94l2 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v94l2 | t1_c2v8u67 | null | 1427796923 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | calsaverini | null | Cool! It works in the android browser and in Opera mobile. And it loads light as a feather in my cell phone. HTML 5 rocks. | null | 0 | 1319832479 | False | 0 | c2v954h | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v954h | t3_ls4uq | null | 1427796930 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cafedude | null | What C -> JS compiler did you use? | null | 0 | 1319832647 | False | 0 | c2v960x | t3_ls1wi | null | t1_c2v960x | t1_c2v7znw | null | 1427796941 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cogman10 | null | Yeah. the MPEG group is actually one of the better groups to work with when it comes to patents. They pretty much allow all non-commercial products to do what they want with the standard and charge commercial software somewhere on the order of $0.20 per sold copy of the software.
Here are their actual pricing terms.
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True | [deleted] | null | THOSE BASTARDS! | null | 0 | 1319832786 | False | 0 | c2v96s7 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v96s7 | t1_c2v905m | null | 1427796951 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319832858 | False | 0 | c2v976b | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v976b | t3_lrr7h | null | 1427796956 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wobblebonk | null | Because they are hoping to get other hardware vendors to support ALAC so a certain segment of the uhh market for media players that cares about such things will buy music from iTunes and they can expand it into the enthusiast market a bit more. I would be one of those people who would have never used ALAC because it's... | null | 0 | 1319832903 | False | 0 | c2v97f6 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v97f6 | t1_c2v3i4k | null | 1427796959 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Tim Cook: "We should open source the ALAC codec."
Steve Jobs: "Over my dead body!" | null | 0 | 1319833007 | False | 0 | c2v97zj | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v97zj | t1_c2v74ly | null | 1427797038 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RobinVP | null | Thanks man :)
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True | UndercoverFratBoy | null | So we've learned that firefox sucks at in browser rendering (not sure about the word usage there). And this is new information? I thought it was pretty common knowledge that firefox was horrid with javascript rendering and it sort of makes sense it would continue on with HTML5. | null | 0 | 1319833060 | False | 0 | c2v989j | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v989j | t1_c2v8ki1 | null | 1427797041 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gonemad16 | null | amazon owns a license
http://www.mp3licensing.com/licensees/index.asp
they also tend to go after hardware/software audio players that include an mp3 decoder/encoder, not people/companies who encode music into mp3. Why do you think most games use ogg or another format for the music in game? They dont want to pay the ... | null | 0 | 1319833210 | False | 0 | c2v990g | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v990g | t1_c2v94l2 | null | 1427797048 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UndercoverFratBoy | null | >Of course that leaves out iPhone people so it's bad.. right?
No, that's not why it's bad. It requires downloading something OTHER than a web browser to run. Something that runs closed, proprietary code and requires an expensive editor to make things like this. Where this demo only requires your browser and demonst... | null | 0 | 1319833308 | False | 0 | c2v99fq | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v99fq | t1_c2v8qy5 | null | 1427797053 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Many package managers actually explicitly split the 'git-svn' command out from the regular 'git-core' package etc. On my ubuntu (oneric) machine the package is seperated and is called 'git-svn' so you may just need to install that.
(AFAIK, the reasoning is because git-svn in and of itself is a rather large perl script... | null | 0 | 1319833364 | False | 0 | c2v99oj | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v99oj | t1_c2v6og6 | null | 1427797056 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xcbsmith | null | I don't mean fork. I mean contribute the improvements to FLAC. I guess conceivably that would require a fork if the project was hostile to the contributions, but EVEN THEN, you would do the fork. You don't build something from scratch which is algorithmically inferior. That's just bizarre. | null | 0 | 1319833431 | True | 0 | c2v9a0g | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v9a0g | t1_c2v4xz0 | null | 1427797060 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I've been able to play Apple lossless on Ubuntu for years, so I have no idea what you're talking about. | null | 0 | 1319833448 | False | 0 | c2v9a2z | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v9a2z | t1_c2v97f6 | null | 1427797061 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | infoaddicted | null | I was one of those kids who took stuff apart with a screwdriver to look inside. Since it would take far too long to really explain this in a post, here's a tip. Your screwdriver is in firefox. [Get Firebug](http://getfirebug.com/). I think there's something similar for Chrome. Anyway, get digging and see what's un... | null | 0 | 1319833535 | False | 0 | c2v9aja | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v9aja | t1_c2v8osk | null | 1427797068 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | That is not the issue I was refering to. The problem is in ensuring that the successfully created object is deallocated if there is an exception elsewhere in the code. Had you watched the video you would have seen the alternatives that don't rely on messy clean up code. | null | 0 | 1319833645 | True | 0 | c2v9b2w | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v9b2w | t1_c2v933v | null | 1427797076 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xcbsmith | null | It is conceivable that this was just to make things work more smoothly on ASIC's, but it is unusual (though not impossible) for things that run efficiently on a CPU to not also be efficient with a custom ASIC. Either way, you have to question whether the ASIC problem was really so huge that you needed to build a whole ... | null | 0 | 1319833757 | False | 0 | c2v9bnm | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v9bnm | t1_c2v4mom | null | 1427797082 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Unckmania | null | Reminds me of Linux windows... | null | 0 | 1319833808 | False | 0 | c2v9bwr | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2v9bwr | t3_ls4uq | null | 1427797085 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xcbsmith | null | > Why then why did Android which is based completely on the whole open theme not include FLAC until this year?
Because it wasn't a priority. # of mp3 music files out there vs. # of FLAC files really kind of makes it a no brainer to put it off. | null | 0 | 1319833863 | False | 0 | c2v9c71 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v9c71 | t1_c2v8e3y | null | 1427797088 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shaver | null | Unfortunately, that's not the case. The license uses the term "sale", which leads to this common misconception, but it defines "sale" to be any distribution to another party. (I can't quote the language from my phone.)
Free for 10K units is nice of them, but doesn't really change the general issue. For free software i... | null | 0 | 1319833875 | False | 0 | c2v9c9e | t3_ls1wi | null | t1_c2v9c9e | t1_c2v964f | null | 1427797089 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | artic5693 | null | Nope. Apple sells music in 256kbps AAC, formerly known as iTunes Plus before all songs were sold in 256kbps rather than the original 128kbps the iTunes Store launched with. | null | 0 | 1319834055 | False | 0 | c2v9d7q | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v9d7q | t1_c2v91wp | null | 1427797103 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MachinTrucChose | null | I'm using the latest Qt Creator, latest Qt, etc., on Windows 7 64bit, but I can't get it to work.
I get it to open and ask me for the Qt process to attach to, but then it just closes. What is supposed to happen here exactly?
For people using Windows and mingw, there's a bug building qmldebugcontrol, you have to remov... | null | 0 | 1319834240 | False | 0 | c2v9e6t | t3_lsa74 | null | t1_c2v9e6t | t3_lsa74 | null | 1427797115 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xcbsmith | null | From the get go, FLAC's decode has been incredibly lightweight. It only uses fixed-point arithmetic, which makes it ideal for embedded systems, which is why it has been so easily ported to so many embedded devices. It's bloody hard to find a decoder that is lighter weight, and it is WAY lighter weight than an mp3 decod... | null | 0 | 1319834309 | False | 0 | c2v9ejd | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v9ejd | t1_c2v4xsh | null | 1427797120 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | RAII solves that problem. But you are completely right, the implementation of `new` in C++ fails to properly support RAII (i.e., it's always possible to get a raw pointer to an object when `new` is used).
Also, no, I don't have >1h to spend on you, sorry. ;) | null | 0 | 1319834382 | False | 0 | c2v9ex7 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v9ex7 | t1_c2v9b2w | null | 1427797125 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RazputinOleander | null | This looks super awesome!
[edit] I just scanned the license quickly. It appears (on the surface) to conform to the standards put forth by the Free Software Foundation, so that's cool.
http://www.cecill.info/licences.en.html
(It uses CeCill v2)
[edit 2] Unfortunately, the OS sources aren't online yet. See my comme... | null | 0 | 1319834405 | True | 0 | c2v9f1b | t3_lsce5 | null | t1_c2v9f1b | t3_lsce5 | null | 1427797126 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phunphun | null | Then use ffmpeg through gst-plugins-ffmpeg. GStreamer has detailed, proper, documentation, and works very well as a wrapper. | null | 0 | 1319834448 | False | 0 | c2v9f9t | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v9f9t | t1_c2v8t5q | null | 1427797138 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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