Ogg may indeed be less than ideal, but that article exaggerates it's problems.
Which begs the question: why not use the free/open Matroska container instead? It can hold almost any media stream, including Theora, and supports multiple selectable sound and subtitle streams for a video stream. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska
If you want to protect your ideas, keep them to yourself as secrets. That way, nobody else can use them. Copyright is not about protecting ideas.
The purpose of copyright is to encourage sharing of ideas, so that the whole community can use them. To encourage such sharing, a limited period of exclusive control over use was created by copyright law (it does not exist as a natural right). When that period is over, everyone can use them.
In many jurisdictions, the creator has a perpetual moral right to be identified as the creator. This is why we refer still to Dante's Inferno, even though it is not protected by copyright - nobody else can claim to be creator of that particular work. This right might be considered a natural right, and is distinct from copyright.
The presentation was short and simple enough that almost anyone should be able to follow its instructions. If motivated to do so, even the technologically ignorant could have a good chance of bypassing the blocklist.
I suggest we drop by the house of everyone that doesn't understand IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DON'T WATCH/READ/LISTEN TO IT, and slap them in the side of the head.
This is the best presentation of an argument I've heard in weeks.
True enough when it comes to copyright and patent debates on slashdot...
I can't imagine why you've never run for public office.
It would be far too exhausting. Can you imagine how many voters would need their heads slapped during the campaign?
Seidenberg talks about how the FCC's broadband access studies are wrong (and the US is definitely 'number one, not even close')
I think he meant to say "definitely not number one, not even close" as that would be true. What he actually said is malformed rubbish.
The US is well behind countries such as Japan and Korea, which have widespread high speed access, either uncapped or with caps far higher than levels in the US. The Nordic countries also generally have uncapped high speed services. If you pay for bandwidth, it's there without any monthly capacity limits. I have 100/10 fiber to the house in rural Finland, and there are no caps. On bandwidth tests, I get the speed I'm paying for - all the time.
Sorry: just wanted to add that petrol is £1.20 a litre in the UK right now which would be $1.82 a litre or 6.84 dollars a us gallon or 8.21 dollars per real gallon.
And about eur 1.42 per liter in Finland, equivalent to US$1.91 per liter, or US$7.19 per US gallon or US$8.64 per imperial gallon.
Speaking as someone who lives near an area with a fair number of seagulls, I can assure you that (a) they are definitely *not* songbirds and (b) having frequently to shut my window due to the noise of those fuckers, I can assure you that it's the *last* thing that would help you sleep at night.
Agreed in full. If it does not get fully dark at night - as in northern summers - the cacophany can continue all night. Where I grew up, we referred to them as "shithawks". It was illegal to kill the bastards, and even cats rarely helped.
Just checked my iTunes/Mac and it has 122MB resident, not doing anything. Clicked a bit around, it's now 156MB. I have less songs than you have.
Although that's not likely to strain a new-ish system, it's still a lot of RAM in absolute terms. Rhythmbox on Ubuntu 9.10 uses just under 41MiB of resident memory with a 25GiB library of 5300+ music files loaded. This includes a number of plugins enabled, such as for cover art and support of various external players.
try "The Road to Reality" by Roger Penrose. Highly recommended; it's more of a physicist's summary of physics. The first third is just introductory mathematics, required for understanding the physics outlined in the rest of its 1000+ pages.
FB does have an "Only Me" privacy setting available if you'd like to tighten that account up a bit more. You have to select the "Customise" option on most of the privacy settings to actually see it.
Yep, did that too, everywhere the option existed. But for some items, Facebook does not give an "Only me" option, so "Only friends" is the best available. If you also delete all your friends, then there is no real difference between the two options:)
Facebook needs more zombies!!!
The iPad is somewhat deficient in this area, unless you get a docking unit for it. And since the docking unit provides only one USB port, maybe a USB hub would also be useful. Even if you're willing to lug them around together, it's a bit inconvenient.
I deleted all of my friends. At least from my Facebook account.
Then I made all information on FB visible to friends only, and nothing accessible to applications, advertisers, etc. Then I deleted all photos, personal data, posts, and so forth. It takes a while, as Facebook has settings links for different things in several places. The account remains active, but is utterly devoid of content (even my birth date has "typographical errors"). That must make me a Facebook zombie, of sorts.
FTFY.
Or do you also think that the prefix milli- should mean 1/1024 instead of 1/1000? [/sarcasm]
The k prefix, as an abbreviation for kilo-, was defined as meaning 1000 long before it was improperly hijacked into the recent computerese misdefinition. That's why kN means 1000 newtons, kPa means 1000 pascals, kg means 1000 grams, and so forth. The definitions for mega- and giga- were also standardized as powers of 1000 long before computers existed. The IEC prefixes kibi-, mebi, gibi-, and their respective abbreviations Ki, Mi, Gi have been defined to cater to the powers of 1024. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix Ubuntu is merely making itself consistent with international standards; it's long overdue for computerese in general, too.
But his outlet that's doing that is The Sun (circ. ~2.9 million), not The Times (circ. ~600 thousand). You will note that he's not messing with his best-selling daily title, he's messing with his worst-selling daily title.
And if they were to try charging for www.page3.com (showcase of The Sun's page 3 tit shots, NSFW in the US), there would be an uproar.
What are the orders of geekhood and who ordains them? and which is the highest?
The Order of the Circular Slide Rule. I take it you haven't even got a straight one.
Unkempt facial hair and dodgy personal hygiene just don't confer the same authority.
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Ogg may indeed be less than ideal, but that article exaggerates it's problems.
Which begs the question: why not use the free/open Matroska container instead? It can hold almost any media stream, including Theora, and supports multiple selectable sound and subtitle streams for a video stream. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska
Copyright to me is about protecting my ideas
If you want to protect your ideas, keep them to yourself as secrets. That way, nobody else can use them. Copyright is not about protecting ideas.
The purpose of copyright is to encourage sharing of ideas, so that the whole community can use them. To encourage such sharing, a limited period of exclusive control over use was created by copyright law (it does not exist as a natural right). When that period is over, everyone can use them.
In many jurisdictions, the creator has a perpetual moral right to be identified as the creator. This is why we refer still to Dante's Inferno, even though it is not protected by copyright - nobody else can claim to be creator of that particular work. This right might be considered a natural right, and is distinct from copyright.
The presentation was short and simple enough that almost anyone should be able to follow its instructions. If motivated to do so, even the technologically ignorant could have a good chance of bypassing the blocklist.
I suggest we drop by the house of everyone that doesn't understand IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DON'T WATCH/READ/LISTEN TO IT, and slap them in the side of the head.
This is the best presentation of an argument I've heard in weeks.
True enough when it comes to copyright and patent debates on slashdot...
I can't imagine why you've never run for public office.
It would be far too exhausting. Can you imagine how many voters would need their heads slapped during the campaign?
Seidenberg talks about how the FCC's broadband access studies are wrong (and the US is definitely 'number one, not even close')
I think he meant to say "definitely not number one, not even close" as that would be true. What he actually said is malformed rubbish.
The US is well behind countries such as Japan and Korea, which have widespread high speed access, either uncapped or with caps far higher than levels in the US. The Nordic countries also generally have uncapped high speed services. If you pay for bandwidth, it's there without any monthly capacity limits. I have 100/10 fiber to the house in rural Finland, and there are no caps. On bandwidth tests, I get the speed I'm paying for - all the time.
Hey, don't freak out, man. It's like, always the right time.
Where did I fail as a father?
Taking your son to CompUSA...or a whorehouse.
Taking your son to a lousy CompUSA... instead of to a good whorehouse. The boy should learn useful skills, not just tech stuff.
Sorry: just wanted to add that petrol is £1.20 a litre in the UK right now which would be $1.82 a litre or 6.84 dollars a us gallon or 8.21 dollars per real gallon.
And about eur 1.42 per liter in Finland, equivalent to US$1.91 per liter, or US$7.19 per US gallon or US$8.64 per imperial gallon.
Speaking as someone who lives near an area with a fair number of seagulls, I can assure you that (a) they are definitely *not* songbirds and (b) having frequently to shut my window due to the noise of those fuckers, I can assure you that it's the *last* thing that would help you sleep at night.
Agreed in full. If it does not get fully dark at night - as in northern summers - the cacophany can continue all night. Where I grew up, we referred to them as "shithawks". It was illegal to kill the bastards, and even cats rarely helped.
Even if she looked perfect, the fact that she'd trip and fall over any unexpected bump in the floor ... will make the valley very very deep.
Hmmm. Sounds like you know which way around she'll land after that fall!
Just checked my iTunes/Mac and it has 122MB resident, not doing anything. Clicked a bit around, it's now 156MB. I have less songs than you have.
Although that's not likely to strain a new-ish system, it's still a lot of RAM in absolute terms. Rhythmbox on Ubuntu 9.10 uses just under 41MiB of resident memory with a 25GiB library of 5300+ music files loaded. This includes a number of plugins enabled, such as for cover art and support of various external players.
... who had previously built a robot copy of himself, has now created a new android and it's a 'she.'
It's only a matter of time http://xkcd.com/600/
I'm surprised they aren't summarily castrating people without proof these days. After all, won't someone think of the children...
With that policy, there soon won't be any children to think of!!
Problem solved, then. Let the snipping begin!
1. The software may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Human user: please define the term "human being"
Guardian AI: an AI product from Microsoft
that they won't be monitoring the mygoatse site, where we all expose our, uh, management potential...
try "The Road to Reality" by Roger Penrose. Highly recommended; it's more of a physicist's summary of physics. The first third is just introductory mathematics, required for understanding the physics outlined in the rest of its 1000+ pages.
Since the biggest Toyota runaway story has turned out to be a problem exists between seat and pedals situation..
Ignorant alien between seat and pedals. Toyotas were designed for humans to drive. 'nuff said.
What if that little UI glitch gives remote root?
Then you're an idiot who didn't separate your software properly into layers and should learn, or get out.
"You talkin' to me?" - Gates and/or Ballmer, or perhaps their legions of minions.
FB does have an "Only Me" privacy setting available if you'd like to tighten that account up a bit more. You have to select the "Customise" option on most of the privacy settings to actually see it.
Yep, did that too, everywhere the option existed. But for some items, Facebook does not give an "Only me" option, so "Only friends" is the best available. If you also delete all your friends, then there is no real difference between the two options :)
Facebook needs more zombies!!!
So what's the purpose of the account?
Facebook needs more zombies! Haven't you heard?
The more USB ports, the better.
The iPad is somewhat deficient in this area, unless you get a docking unit for it. And since the docking unit provides only one USB port, maybe a USB hub would also be useful. Even if you're willing to lug them around together, it's a bit inconvenient.
That's ok, you don't have any friends.
I deleted all of my friends. At least from my Facebook account.
Then I made all information on FB visible to friends only, and nothing accessible to applications, advertisers, etc. Then I deleted all photos, personal data, posts, and so forth. It takes a while, as Facebook has settings links for different things in several places. The account remains active, but is utterly devoid of content (even my birth date has "typographical errors"). That must make me a Facebook zombie, of sorts.
1kb was 1024 byte. it was misdefined like that.
FTFY.
Or do you also think that the prefix milli- should mean 1/1024 instead of 1/1000? [/sarcasm]
The k prefix, as an abbreviation for kilo-, was defined as meaning 1000 long before it was improperly hijacked into the recent computerese misdefinition. That's why kN means 1000 newtons, kPa means 1000 pascals, kg means 1000 grams, and so forth. The definitions for mega- and giga- were also standardized as powers of 1000 long before computers existed. The IEC prefixes kibi-, mebi, gibi-, and their respective abbreviations Ki, Mi, Gi have been defined to cater to the powers of 1024. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix Ubuntu is merely making itself consistent with international standards; it's long overdue for computerese in general, too.
But his outlet that's doing that is The Sun (circ. ~2.9 million), not The Times (circ. ~600 thousand). You will note that he's not messing with his best-selling daily title, he's messing with his worst-selling daily title.
And if they were to try charging for www.page3.com (showcase of The Sun's page 3 tit shots, NSFW in the US), there would be an uproar.
What are the orders of geekhood and who ordains them? and which is the highest?
The Order of the Circular Slide Rule. I take it you haven't even got a straight one.
Unkempt facial hair and dodgy personal hygiene just don't confer the same authority.