For WMA this is true but for AAC you pay only an upfront fee ($15000) but no royalties
Well, that's totally wrong. With AAC, there is a royalty on encoders and decoders. Generally, almost all AAC fees are higher than WMA fees.
And yes, I realize this is redundant, but there are some people who like to moderate as "troll" anything that corrects pro-Apple FUD, so a little redundancy is useful to make it harder on them.:-)
What can you do with Photoshop that you can't do with the Gimp? Gimp now has the CMYK color scheme, so the only real pro-Photoshop argument has faded
RTFA. They say that the new CMYK handling is "far behind" that of the commercial programs.
The other area that Photoshop is currently way ahead is interface. It remains to be seen how much of that gap will be closed by the new version of the Gimp.
Interface is important because a good interface directly leads to higher productivity. For professional use, this is important. For example, a mere 10% loss of productivity in a department of 10 graphics artists means you need to hire on more person. The cost of one more person is WAY more than the cost of 10 Photoshop licenses.
Does this sound like a good way to DoS someone? Send a bunch of mail "from their server" and when all the other servers check to see if it's really them... no more Internet
It's still an improvement over the current situation, where instead of all those other servers merely asking for a cacheable public key or something like that from your DNS server, instead bounce the spam back to you.
i am skeptical of this study because a friend of mine who works in biomagnetics assures me that the effects of high B-fields on human tissue were carefully invesigated prior to the approval of MRI macines for use in biomedical imaging
I wouldn't rely on the approval of MRI machines for evidence that high fields are safe. X-Ray machines are approved, too, after all--because the risk from them is worth it for the information they give.
All you can be reasonably sure of from MRI's approval is that they decided the risk was low enough compared to the risk from not having the information the machines provide.
Uhm...let me see if I understand this. They sue people for whom they basically have an open and shut case, and then offer to settle for much less, and she is upset?
Would she be happier if they withdraw the settlement offers, and sue her and each and every other defendent into bankruptcy?
How the fuck was that a troll? Go to Apple's site, and Cakewalk's site, and read the god damn descriptions of both programs. Their feature sets are about 90% the same.
Owning one of these would be kind of cool if that supercomputer has actually done important real work, but did they ever reach that stage, or are they still in testing and tuning mode?
I keep reading all these articles on GarageBand, and not one of them answers the obvious question: how does it compare to Cakewalk Music Creator 2003? Looking at the feature lists for both, GarageBand appears to basically be a CMC clone, ahead in a couple areas (e.g., the guitar amp stuff) and behind in a couple areas (I don't see anything about score editing on Apple's site).
Surely all this hype cannot be merely because Mac users finally have a low cost music creation program comparable to what PC users have had for a long time (CMC is about $30).
But he is talking about CRT rear projection sets. RP sets run the CRTs at a very high brightness, and do have burn in issues if you want to use them for games.
How is that off-topic? Every (male) geek wants one of those for valentines day
This is 2004, not 1904. If they've been dating for three months, he's already getting blowjobs, or better. A Valentines gift should be something special.
First thing that comes to mind after the blowjob suggestion gets us stuck on thinking of things involving genitals is to do something in the bedroom that you wouldn't normally do because it is too much effort. For instance, he's a gamer...so how about some cosplay? Dress up as some kind of young Japanese girl, anime style, and let him have his perverted way.:-)
Maxima's history is interesting. It is based on the source code (Lisp!) of the Macsyma system developed at MIT circa 1970-1980. Mathematica is essentially a rewrite of Macsyma with very slightly different syntax. You know what they say about imitation
Mathematica is much more of a rewrite of SMP, which was the symbolic math program Wolfram and Chris Cole wrote at Caltech, because Macsyma was too limited for the physics problems they were working on.
To call Mathematica essentially a rewrite of Macsyma is like saying that Java is essentially a rewrite of Altair Basic.
Wolfram is indeed a genius.He is up there with the likes of Stephen Hawking, just in a different field
In a different field now, but much of his pre-Mathematica work was in cosmology.
A bunch more was in particle physics. From 1975 to 1983, Wolfram published a LOT of papers on those subjects.
His diversion into mathematical software came about because the existing systems could not handle the scale of problems he was working on, and so he and Chris Cole developed SMP ("Symbolic Mathematics Program").
Wolfram's willingness to go his own way, despite the conventional wisdom, can be seem in the development of SMP. Wolfram and Cole checked with the experts before starting SMP, and were told that such a system had to be written in LISP. C was not suited to that kind of programming, and if they tried it, they would fail. Wolfram and Cole realized that this was bullshit, wrote in C, and SMP completely blew away all the other symbolic mathematics programs of the day.
The point is the understanding of the workings of the machine
Well...to understand the workings of past machines. Modern machines are RISC. Even x86 is RISC, with a microcode layer that translates the x86 instructions into the "real" code for the processor.
I don't know if this affects the educational value or not.
I'd guess it is probably because most, if not all, of those consultants that will take $5k to get you a high spot on Google are just guessing or are even scammers.
$5k to get a number one spot would indeed be cheap. $5k to get told to make a bunch of annoying changes to your site that end up not doing anything other than waste your time is expensive.
Google's business model depends on them being a really good search engine, and being a really good search engine depends on making it so those $5k site tuneups don't work. The Google people seem really smart, so I'd be very reluctant to fork over a bunch of money to some consultant who says he has a way to outsmart them.
Approximately 30 of the novellas, novelettes, and short stories on the list were published in Asimov's, approximately 20 were published in F&SF, and only one was published in Analog.
Yet, of those three magazines, Analog is the only one I find consistently good enough to subscribe to.
I wish they would publish a list of things they they recommend against reading...I suspect that would fit better with my tastes.:-)
When I play online games, the bandwidth is just plain insane. I did an estimate once with some network monitoring tool and it came to some 1 to 3 gigs worth of transfer over a 12 hr period
Upgrade that Pentium.
3 gig in 12 hours is about 500 kbit/second. That's about 2 orders of magnitude more than online games use.
The latest Windows worm, which relied entirely upon stupidity of end-users to propogate, shows that we are outsourcing the wrong end of things. We should be outsourcing the end-users to India, not the programmers.
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Well, that's totally wrong. With AAC, there is a royalty on encoders and decoders. Generally, almost all AAC fees are higher than WMA fees.
And yes, I realize this is redundant, but there are some people who like to moderate as "troll" anything that corrects pro-Apple FUD, so a little redundancy is useful to make it harder on them. :-)
RTFA. They say that the new CMYK handling is "far behind" that of the commercial programs.
The other area that Photoshop is currently way ahead is interface. It remains to be seen how much of that gap will be closed by the new version of the Gimp.
Interface is important because a good interface directly leads to higher productivity. For professional use, this is important. For example, a mere 10% loss of productivity in a department of 10 graphics artists means you need to hire on more person. The cost of one more person is WAY more than the cost of 10 Photoshop licenses.
It's still an improvement over the current situation, where instead of all those other servers merely asking for a cacheable public key or something like that from your DNS server, instead bounce the spam back to you.
Is this that awful music on the iPod commercials?
It could be worse--they've used one of my employer's domains, and we were getting 10000 bouncers/day.
I wouldn't rely on the approval of MRI machines for evidence that high fields are safe. X-Ray machines are approved, too, after all--because the risk from them is worth it for the information they give.
All you can be reasonably sure of from MRI's approval is that they decided the risk was low enough compared to the risk from not having the information the machines provide.
Would she be happier if they withdraw the settlement offers, and sue her and each and every other defendent into bankruptcy?
How the fuck was that a troll? Go to Apple's site, and Cakewalk's site, and read the god damn descriptions of both programs. Their feature sets are about 90% the same.
Owning one of these would be kind of cool if that supercomputer has actually done important real work, but did they ever reach that stage, or are they still in testing and tuning mode?
Surely all this hype cannot be merely because Mac users finally have a low cost music creation program comparable to what PC users have had for a long time (CMC is about $30).
This may be one of the first OFFICIAL brand tie ins, but people have made unofficial brand tie in laptops before, such as this Hello Kitty laptop.
But he is talking about CRT rear projection sets. RP sets run the CRTs at a very high brightness, and do have burn in issues if you want to use them for games.
My suggestion for a three-month relationship: give him the high order 32 bits of the prime factors of the modulus of your RSA private key.
Give 96 mores bits at your 1 year anniversery. 64 more bits at your engagement, and 192 bits at your wedding.
This is 2004, not 1904. If they've been dating for three months, he's already getting blowjobs, or better. A Valentines gift should be something special.
First thing that comes to mind after the blowjob suggestion gets us stuck on thinking of things involving genitals is to do something in the bedroom that you wouldn't normally do because it is too much effort. For instance, he's a gamer...so how about some cosplay? Dress up as some kind of young Japanese girl, anime style, and let him have his perverted way. :-)
Mathematica is much more of a rewrite of SMP, which was the symbolic math program Wolfram and Chris Cole wrote at Caltech, because Macsyma was too limited for the physics problems they were working on.
To call Mathematica essentially a rewrite of Macsyma is like saying that Java is essentially a rewrite of Altair Basic.
In a different field now, but much of his pre-Mathematica work was in cosmology. A bunch more was in particle physics. From 1975 to 1983, Wolfram published a LOT of papers on those subjects.
His diversion into mathematical software came about because the existing systems could not handle the scale of problems he was working on, and so he and Chris Cole developed SMP ("Symbolic Mathematics Program").
Wolfram's willingness to go his own way, despite the conventional wisdom, can be seem in the development of SMP. Wolfram and Cole checked with the experts before starting SMP, and were told that such a system had to be written in LISP. C was not suited to that kind of programming, and if they tried it, they would fail. Wolfram and Cole realized that this was bullshit, wrote in C, and SMP completely blew away all the other symbolic mathematics programs of the day.
Well...to understand the workings of past machines. Modern machines are RISC. Even x86 is RISC, with a microcode layer that translates the x86 instructions into the "real" code for the processor.
I don't know if this affects the educational value or not.
I'd guess it is probably because most, if not all, of those consultants that will take $5k to get you a high spot on Google are just guessing or are even scammers.
$5k to get a number one spot would indeed be cheap. $5k to get told to make a bunch of annoying changes to your site that end up not doing anything other than waste your time is expensive.
Google's business model depends on them being a really good search engine, and being a really good search engine depends on making it so those $5k site tuneups don't work. The Google people seem really smart, so I'd be very reluctant to fork over a bunch of money to some consultant who says he has a way to outsmart them.
Yet, of those three magazines, Analog is the only one I find consistently good enough to subscribe to.
I wish they would publish a list of things they they recommend against reading...I suspect that would fit better with my tastes. :-)
Some rather respected people in the field of object-oriented programming disagree with you.
Uhm...evidently you've missed the last 30 years of work in cryptography. This sort of thing is *trivial* to enforce.
The 40 gig iPod has better price/performace than the Dell (assuming performance means capacity).
Upgrade that Pentium.
3 gig in 12 hours is about 500 kbit/second. That's about 2 orders of magnitude more than online games use.
Buying Google keywords doesn't redirect searches. It just determines what sponsered links show up.
The latest Windows worm, which relied entirely upon stupidity of end-users to propogate, shows that we are outsourcing the wrong end of things. We should be outsourcing the end-users to India, not the programmers.