Ironically, the word "cybernetic", the original use of the cyber- prefix in English, comes from the Greek ÎÏ...ÎÎÏνÎÏÎÎÏOEÏ (kybernetikos) meaning "skilled in governing".
...that has violated the GPL, it's anyone who has _redistributed_ Emacs. The original distributors (FSF, I assume) have presumably had the source available and could have given it to anyone who asked for it, which is what the GPL requires. They just forgot to put it in the tarball.
But people who have redistributed the Emacs package, like for example GNU mirrors or every desktop Linux distribution in the world, could not have made the source available upon request, since they never had it.
Much of "the west" don't need to have carbon credits forced upon it, they already have it. And I don't see their industry crumbling, definitely not more so than in the US.
Why is it that policies that seem to work fine elsewhere are always assumed to wreak havoc if they were to be applied to the US?
How is anti-aliasing performed on the rendered image comparable to supersampling? When you supersample, you produce more pixel data which you then use to produce a reduced resolution image. When you post-process you don't get more pixel data, you just filter what you already have. Wouldn't supersampling always give better results for the same final resolution?
"Burger King" are obviously royalists who aim to overthrow the US republic and replace it with a monarchy. You can clearly see it in their name. Really, what's their defence?
(4) The resampler/dmix semantics are dumb given that many soundcards can run at any of the popular sampling rates up to 96K. A smarter way to do the mixing is: when no other sound is playing and an application asks for audio, set the card to run at the same rate as the source to be played. No resampling required. If and only if a second sound source wants to come in while sound is currently being played; and if this second source asks for a rate different than the one currectly being used, then and only then the resampler is started and used to match the second sound's rate to the first.
This would require reconfiguring the hardware, which would almost certainly cause an audible glitch.
JACK is designed for low-latency realtime audio, and as such it demands that the audio callbacks in every program using it is realtime safe - it must not block, and it must not take an unusually long time to finish. This is not a problem for people writing serious music software or sound editors since they have to care about things like that anyway, but it is for your average media player or game programmer who typically doesn't. If your JACK callback doesn't finish quickly enough (e.g. if it decides to wait for a disk thread which is blocked by some other disk operation), you will get a glitch in your audio. And "quickly enough" is usually rather quickly indeed since JACK is meant to be a low-latency system.
This can be solved with internal buffering and one more thread in every program but that's not really a nice solution. And let's face it, someone who writes a basic MP3 player isn't going to care about that just to be nice to people writing hard realtime audio software.
I'm not a fan of the current implementation of PulseAudio - I've stopped using it on my system since it kept dying at random times - but there is one nice thing about it and that is the ability to switch backend while you're playing. It means that JACK, when it starts, can tell PulseAudio to get off the soundcard and use a dummy backend instead so that JACK can get exclusive access to the hardware. Now when I'm using raw ALSA instead of PulseAudio for "consumer" type programs I have to make sure myself that nothing else is using the soundcard before I can start JACK.
I think the idea of PulseAudio is sound (haha!) but the persistent bugs has put me off using it. I might try again in a couple of months.
The GPL has never ever said anything about what you can install or not install or limited how you can use the software on your own computer in any way. It covers distribution and only distribution.
Why would the UK need that particular frequency band for broadband when countries with much larger distances and much higher broadband availability (e.g. Sweden or Finland) never did?
Maybe the solution is to just not care about it? Are the movie producers really gaining anything by chasing filesharers and buying parliamentarians? And aren't they still making loads of money, even with today's massive filesharing?
This is probably exactly what will happen. Remember the SWIFT treaty, about transferring bank transaction data from the EU to the US? The European parliament rejected it because of privacy concerns. Then, after a few months of arm-twisting from national governments and visits by Joe Biden among others, the Commission presented a new treaty with some cosmetic changes which was passed in the parliament with a large majority.
EUs stricter privacy laws are there in spite of its politicians, not because of them, and they are being hacked away at bit by bit.
Like the 37 Annex I countries of the Kyoto protocol have distroyed their economies?
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Don't all of those use secret protocols and non-free software? That means that there is only ever going to be the one client, which probably would hamper popularity quite a bit. Not to mention that they won't be used by anyone who cares about free software.
In the free world there's Freenet and GNUnet, which are both theoretically very sexy but still very slow. Probably very, very hard to track though.
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Ironically, the word "cybernetic", the original use of the cyber- prefix in English, comes from the Greek ÎÏ...ÎÎÏνÎÏÎÎÏOEÏ (kybernetikos) meaning "skilled in governing".
...that has violated the GPL, it's anyone who has _redistributed_ Emacs. The original distributors (FSF, I assume) have presumably had the source available and could have given it to anyone who asked for it, which is what the GPL requires. They just forgot to put it in the tarball.
But people who have redistributed the Emacs package, like for example GNU mirrors or every desktop Linux distribution in the world, could not have made the source available upon request, since they never had it.
I'm getting a vision of a solid block of cement with clear windows glued on to the outside.
Much of "the west" don't need to have carbon credits forced upon it, they already have it. And I don't see their industry crumbling, definitely not more so than in the US.
Why is it that policies that seem to work fine elsewhere are always assumed to wreak havoc if they were to be applied to the US?
If you encrypt the whole disk (except the boot partition) as a LUKS volume, having to also login manually is just a nuisance.
How is anti-aliasing performed on the rendered image comparable to supersampling? When you supersample, you produce more pixel data which you then use to produce a reduced resolution image. When you post-process you don't get more pixel data, you just filter what you already have. Wouldn't supersampling always give better results for the same final resolution?
Or at least there was, a couple of billion years after the big bang.
Or just don't start any.
How does that make it "theft"?
Did he take it? No, it's still there.
"Burger King" are obviously royalists who aim to overthrow the US republic and replace it with a monarchy. You can clearly see it in their name. Really, what's their defence?
This would require reconfiguring the hardware, which would almost certainly cause an audible glitch.
JACK is designed for low-latency realtime audio, and as such it demands that the audio callbacks in every program using it is realtime safe - it must not block, and it must not take an unusually long time to finish. This is not a problem for people writing serious music software or sound editors since they have to care about things like that anyway, but it is for your average media player or game programmer who typically doesn't. If your JACK callback doesn't finish quickly enough (e.g. if it decides to wait for a disk thread which is blocked by some other disk operation), you will get a glitch in your audio. And "quickly enough" is usually rather quickly indeed since JACK is meant to be a low-latency system.
This can be solved with internal buffering and one more thread in every program but that's not really a nice solution. And let's face it, someone who writes a basic MP3 player isn't going to care about that just to be nice to people writing hard realtime audio software.
I'm not a fan of the current implementation of PulseAudio - I've stopped using it on my system since it kept dying at random times - but there is one nice thing about it and that is the ability to switch backend while you're playing. It means that JACK, when it starts, can tell PulseAudio to get off the soundcard and use a dummy backend instead so that JACK can get exclusive access to the hardware. Now when I'm using raw ALSA instead of PulseAudio for "consumer" type programs I have to make sure myself that nothing else is using the soundcard before I can start JACK.
I think the idea of PulseAudio is sound (haha!) but the persistent bugs has put me off using it. I might try again in a couple of months.
We obviously need to be more clear. I'm making my browser send the X-Do-Not-Fucking-Track-Me-Motherfucker header.
The GPL has never ever said anything about what you can install or not install or limited how you can use the software on your own computer in any way. It covers distribution and only distribution.
It's just one step below "good enough", which is as good as it ever gets with "web" based tools.
If it doesn't cost anything, why aren't everyone allowed to wear hats on ID photos?
Not if your adversary just copies the data and decrypts it elsewhere.
It means that you are definitely not secure from your bank, should they decide to try and screw you.
Why would the UK need that particular frequency band for broadband when countries with much larger distances and much higher broadband availability (e.g. Sweden or Finland) never did?
Screw the economic incentive. Learn chinese because it's a completely diferent language (if you are a germanic or romance speaker, anyway). It's fun.
Maybe the solution is to just not care about it? Are the movie producers really gaining anything by chasing filesharers and buying parliamentarians? And aren't they still making loads of money, even with today's massive filesharing?
This is probably exactly what will happen. Remember the SWIFT treaty, about transferring bank transaction data from the EU to the US? The European parliament rejected it because of privacy concerns. Then, after a few months of arm-twisting from national governments and visits by Joe Biden among others, the Commission presented a new treaty with some cosmetic changes which was passed in the parliament with a large majority.
EUs stricter privacy laws are there in spite of its politicians, not because of them, and they are being hacked away at bit by bit.
Like the 37 Annex I countries of the Kyoto protocol have distroyed their economies?
Don't all of those use secret protocols and non-free software? That means that there is only ever going to be the one client, which probably would hamper popularity quite a bit. Not to mention that they won't be used by anyone who cares about free software.
In the free world there's Freenet and GNUnet, which are both theoretically very sexy but still very slow. Probably very, very hard to track though.