danbee

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by danbee 14y ago
Upscaling from 720p to 1080p will not lose any information if it's done properly. Similarly, upscaling from 16-bit to 24-bit will not either, and running the audio output at 24-bit has the advantage that quantization noise from volume scali
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by danbee 14y ago
Actually it seems many software volume sliders do[1]. Although you're right that an ideal volume control should be logarithmic. My main point still stands that at half the amplitude or half the energy (perceptually half the volume) you're
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by danbee 14y ago
It depends on what kind of curve the volume control uses but assuming 50% volume is half the amplitude (-6dB) you will only lose 1-bit of resolution. To lose half the bit depth you'd have to turn it down by 48dB! It's worth noting that perc
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by danbee 14y ago
From the judgement text: "The following notice shall be posted and displayed upon the Defendant's Websites currently at..." Doesn't specifically say homepage. The text is 14px, which arguably isn't 14pt at anything other than 72 dpi.
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by danbee 14y ago
Boxee Box? I love mine.
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by danbee 14y ago
It is a bit ambiguous, but I found it by searching for "the magazine geeks".
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by danbee 14y ago
Sounds more like you're being redirected to crappy mobile sites than shown responsive designs.
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by danbee 14y ago
Check out the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive. I put one in my MacBook Pro and it's a screamer. Almost as fast as a standalone SSD.
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by danbee 14y ago
Actually it can. If you have 16 people to move and 1 car that seats 4 it will take 4 round trips. 4 cars will do it in 1 one way trip. People = threads and cars = cores.
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by danbee 14y ago
OStatus is the protocol behind status.net and identi.ca.
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by danbee 14y ago
Your scheme reminds me of CGA colour palettes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter
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by danbee 14y ago
It's Gordon Freeman, the main protagonist from the Half Life series.
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by danbee 14y ago
Thoughtbot dotfiles ( https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles ) works something like that. I've branched it for myself and extended it.
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by danbee 14y ago
Correct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Ever_Change_(House)
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by danbee 14y ago
The danger is that once everyone knows this they will all mark their emails as urgent.
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by danbee 14y ago
Seriously? You just clicked on "Buy" without even confirming the price?
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by danbee 14y ago
Your eye sight must be terrible. The retina iPad is a vast improvement over the iPad 2 for me.
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by danbee 14y ago
Couldn't you just run VirtualBox on your MacBook Pro?
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by danbee 14y ago
It's installed by default on Mac OS. It's not necessarily there on other *nix's though.
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by danbee 14y ago
$ whois
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by danbee 14y ago
Shits and giggles?
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by danbee 14y ago
I find iStat Menus much more useful.
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by danbee 14y ago
Star Wars?
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by danbee 14y ago
The ZFS on Linux release candidates are pretty solid, http://zfsonlinux.org/
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by danbee 14y ago
How do you self host dropbox?
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by danbee 14y ago
You're thinking of FTPS.
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The Retina MacBook Pro Is Cheaper Than the Regular MacBook Pro(danbarber.me)
2 points by danbee 14y ago|0 comments
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by danbee 14y ago
This totally depends on the network card chipset. A fresh Windows 7 install on my PC requires external NIC drivers before I get on the net.
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by danbee 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that "faster and smoother" isn't all you get.
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by danbee 14y ago
It manages memory ok, but it is rather greedy. If you've got less than 8GB of RAM you should upgrade.

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