If the shuttle won't fly for another year, how are we going to get people down from the space station? I wondered that for a moment, did a Google search, found NASA's ISS web site, and learned that the ISS missions continue because in former Soviet Russia, Soyuz launches YOU...
You'll also hear some people claim that the World Wide Web belongs to the Beast, making reference to WWW == VI VI VI == 6 6 6. But actually, the number of the beast is not the vector [6 6 6] but rather the scalar 600+60+6.
Now, proving that there can be no algorithm that produces conforming bit stream sounds like a pretty challenging theoretical CS problem to me
Actually, it might be a lot harder. There exists an algorithm that produces a conforming LZW bitstream yet produces larger output than the uncompressed input. Likewise, it might be possible to make an unquantized MPEG file out of I-frames without infringing any patent, but it's not useful, given a definition of "useful" in terms of SNR for a given data rate.
However, if somebody does manage to prove that there exists a useful compressor algorithm that does not infringe the purported essential MPEG patents, Kleene's realizability interpretation along with the Curry-Howard isomorphism allow anybody with access to the proof to convert it into the algorithm.
There's plenty of independent artists who create excellent music and offer their music on very reasonable terms. Some even give their music away for free.
Given the pessimistic estimate of a full-page bitmap with no compression, it would take 600*600*8.5*11 = 33,660,000 bits to describe a US Letter size page sent to a 600 dpi monochrome laser printer. This comes out to about three pages per second. Yes, that remains impressive.
Three notes of a musical work was deemed a violation. Three. Out of the standard twelve. Which by convention you cannot even arrange in an arbitrary manner.
Actually, Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs (the "My Sweet Lord" case you refer to) covered a correspondence of at least nine notes (specifically,... s_ m_ r__ s l d' l d'_ d'...). However, within the context of pentatonic scale melodies such as that of "MSL," combinatorics still guarantee a significant probability of a random match.
It has been impossible to affirmatively avoid copying a musical work since before radio existed I think.
I just use radio as an example that makes the "access" requirement in a copyright infringement case moot.
What solution do you suggest for a programmer and former songwriter who just wants to put music in his video game? (The "former" came about when I learned of Bright Tunes.)
Open Office doesn't quite meet requirements either since it doesn't have a DB component. (Or does it? From what I can tell it has DB access components and a GUI to use them, but no actual DB backend.)
MySQL is available for at least Linux, *BSD, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Do the typical applications of Microsoft Access and its Jet engine really need true ACID guarantees, which MySQL is historically poor at? If so, SAP DB runs on Linux and Windows as well. PostgreSQL runs on Linux and *BSD, and the team is working on a Windows backend.
even those companies have to do buisness with companies that send them PowerPoint presentations detailing important information or information sent as spreadsheets that contain important macros.
My copy of OpenOffice.org suite read a PowerPoint document perfectly.
Until Star Office can flawlessly import every Microsoft Office document ever created (and yes, not even Microsoft Office can do that), no buisness is going to switch - they stand to lose too much existing work.
Once Microsoft EOLs old versions of MS Office, corporate customers will look for a replacement. As you admit, MS Office can't always import previous versions' documents perfectly, and Word takes a lot of formatting cues from the default printer rather than from the document, so if StarOffice does it just as well, it'll win on price.
So you know what "moving S90kdm to S21kdm" means? I'm very happy for you, but I don't, and I don't want to have to care about that sort of thing.
Then run a GUI tool that reads/etc/rc.d/rc5.d and lets the user drag daemons across a timeline to start earlier or later. I don't know if such a tool exists, but creating it would be a good starting point.
And when used with a good pager, they'll work with the vi command set
The w3m pager/WWW browser has both Emacs-style and vi-style key bindings.
I think info was an attempt to force book-sized documentation into a man-like interface.
True, the structure of a manpage limits the amount of detail in documentation, and Mr. Stallman was tired of having the system's detailed documentation tied up in expensive printed material. Info solves this problem by providing book-length electronic documentation with chapters and hypertext links.
Once the information threshhold of a man page is surpassed, the timesavings of info over other documentation methods is debatable.
Though HTML and DocBook now solve the same problem as Info, they weren't widespread when the GNU team designed Info. The Texinfo system can now generate HTML if you prefer to read your manuals in w3m.
According to a section from the GNU Coding Standards, the GNU system is supposed to be a BSD clone: "With occasional exceptions, utility programs and libraries for GNU should be upward compatible with those in Berkeley Unix" in preference to System V. So now that *BSD is free, has the GNU OS project (apart from GCC, which *BSD uses) lost much of its reason for being?
Web hosting costs money. I haven't looked into SourceForge.net lately because SourceForge.net does all file transfers with SCP, and three and a half years ago (when I last tried SCP), there wasn't a mature graphical SCP client for Windows OS. (Yes, I'm one of those graphical-first-script-it-later people, having been brought up on Macintosh computers.)
I'm guessing that in order for a download over I2 to work, both ends of the connection have to be on I2. Not all schools are on I2. Do sourceforge.net and savannah.nongnu.org have a mirror on I2?
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I hope you're not implying a suggestion that people emigrate from countries whose corrupt legislators have allowed national patent offices to grant overly-broad patents on algorithmic inventions.
speech is something that humans do, not companies. "commercial speech" is a contradiction.
Not necessarily. Some people are self-employed. Thus, an individual can produce "commercial speech" without going through a partnership or corporation.
Aside from the fact that unsolicited commerical email is content based discrimination (being commerical -- unless you think it should be illegal for there to be ANY unsolicited mailing, such a friend mailing you without being invited to)
How about banning unsolicited bulk e-mail? Would this be considered content-based or content-blind?
Except residence and tuition are "tied" in the antitrust sense of the word. Those who buy tuition at many schools (including most students at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) are forced to buy residence as a non-negotiable part of the contract.
What is apparent, however, is that the sound of an executable file is not music; it is noise.
Many executable files contain arrays of preinitialized data such as images and lookup tables of precalculated functions. A multidimensional array will have correlations at fixed lags, which are interpreted by the human auditory system as either pitch or rhythm depending on the frequency.
Even so, it's nearly double what it was less than 20 years ago.
Wages have increased since then, so in terms of what an hour of work can buy, it's just about the same. Compare $10 vinyl LP records of 1983 with $18 CDs of 2003, and you'll find that the real price of an album has stayed roughly the same because the value of a U.S. dollar has decreased vs. the value of labor.
Ooh, you wrote MS with a dollar sign instead of an S
I can tell you probably didn't grow up programming an 8-bit home computer. Most 8-bit home computers came with an interpreter for the Basic programming language, and the names of all string variables in these early Basic dialects ended with a dollar sign.
10 LET M$ = "Microsoft" 20 PRINT "Hello ";M$
The modern use of M$ for Microsoft is in part a homage to Microsoft's roots as a provider of Basic interpreters for micros.
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Now, proving that there can be no algorithm that produces conforming bit stream sounds like a pretty challenging theoretical CS problem to me
Actually, it might be a lot harder. There exists an algorithm that produces a conforming LZW bitstream yet produces larger output than the uncompressed input. Likewise, it might be possible to make an unquantized MPEG file out of I-frames without infringing any patent, but it's not useful, given a definition of "useful" in terms of SNR for a given data rate.
However, if somebody does manage to prove that there exists a useful compressor algorithm that does not infringe the purported essential MPEG patents, Kleene's realizability interpretation along with the Curry-Howard isomorphism allow anybody with access to the proof to convert it into the algorithm.
There's plenty of independent artists who create excellent music and offer their music on very reasonable terms. Some even give their music away for free.
I wonder how these independent artists avoid getting sued by major music publishers.
Most importantly, I don't like the language they use EVERYWHERE. It's uncomfortable. Forced. Fake. Overstated. Glossed.
In some cultures, language that is uncomfortable, forced, fake, overstated, and glossed is expected.
Given the pessimistic estimate of a full-page bitmap with no compression, it would take 600*600*8.5*11 = 33,660,000 bits to describe a US Letter size page sent to a 600 dpi monochrome laser printer. This comes out to about three pages per second. Yes, that remains impressive.
"There" is a location.
"There" can be a district, which makes the grammar marginally more correct.
Im personally surprised the DMCA hasnt been challenged just on those grounds.
The DMCA is being challenged as several ISPs aren't giving in to the labels' imitation subpoenas.
Three notes of a musical work was deemed a violation. Three. Out of the standard twelve. Which by convention you cannot even arrange in an arbitrary manner.
Actually, Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs (the "My Sweet Lord" case you refer to) covered a correspondence of at least nine notes (specifically, ... s_ m_ r__ s l d' l d'_ d'...). However, within the context of pentatonic scale melodies such as that of "MSL," combinatorics still guarantee a significant probability of a random match.
It has been impossible to affirmatively avoid copying a musical work since before radio existed I think.
I just use radio as an example that makes the "access" requirement in a copyright infringement case moot.
What solution do you suggest for a programmer and former songwriter who just wants to put music in his video game? (The "former" came about when I learned of Bright Tunes.)
AOL and Time Warner Telecom lease Internet access. Doesn't that count as "network infrastructure"?
Open Office doesn't quite meet requirements either since it doesn't have a DB component. (Or does it? From what I can tell it has DB access components and a GUI to use them, but no actual DB backend.)
MySQL is available for at least Linux, *BSD, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Do the typical applications of Microsoft Access and its Jet engine really need true ACID guarantees, which MySQL is historically poor at? If so, SAP DB runs on Linux and Windows as well. PostgreSQL runs on Linux and *BSD, and the team is working on a Windows backend.
even those companies have to do buisness with companies that send them PowerPoint presentations detailing important information or information sent as spreadsheets that contain important macros.
My copy of OpenOffice.org suite read a PowerPoint document perfectly.
Until Star Office can flawlessly import every Microsoft Office document ever created (and yes, not even Microsoft Office can do that), no buisness is going to switch - they stand to lose too much existing work.
Once Microsoft EOLs old versions of MS Office, corporate customers will look for a replacement. As you admit, MS Office can't always import previous versions' documents perfectly, and Word takes a lot of formatting cues from the default printer rather than from the document, so if StarOffice does it just as well, it'll win on price.
So you know what "moving S90kdm to S21kdm" means? I'm very happy for you, but I don't, and I don't want to have to care about that sort of thing.
Then run a GUI tool that reads /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and lets the user drag daemons across a timeline to start earlier or later. I don't know if such a tool exists, but creating it would be a good starting point.
And when used with a good pager, they'll work with the vi command set
The w3m pager/WWW browser has both Emacs-style and vi-style key bindings.
I think info was an attempt to force book-sized documentation into a man-like interface.
True, the structure of a manpage limits the amount of detail in documentation, and Mr. Stallman was tired of having the system's detailed documentation tied up in expensive printed material. Info solves this problem by providing book-length electronic documentation with chapters and hypertext links.
Once the information threshhold of a man page is surpassed, the timesavings of info over other documentation methods is debatable.
Though HTML and DocBook now solve the same problem as Info, they weren't widespread when the GNU team designed Info. The Texinfo system can now generate HTML if you prefer to read your manuals in w3m.
According to a section from the GNU Coding Standards, the GNU system is supposed to be a BSD clone: "With occasional exceptions, utility programs and libraries for GNU should be upward compatible with those in Berkeley Unix" in preference to System V. So now that *BSD is free, has the GNU OS project (apart from GCC, which *BSD uses) lost much of its reason for being?
I don't know about U of Florida, but Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology had a gun club during the four years I went there.
Web hosting costs money. I haven't looked into SourceForge.net lately because SourceForge.net does all file transfers with SCP, and three and a half years ago (when I last tried SCP), there wasn't a mature graphical SCP client for Windows OS. (Yes, I'm one of those graphical-first-script-it-later people, having been brought up on Macintosh computers.)
I'm guessing that in order for a download over I2 to work, both ends of the connection have to be on I2. Not all schools are on I2. Do sourceforge.net and savannah.nongnu.org have a mirror on I2?
I hope you're not implying a suggestion that people emigrate from countries whose corrupt legislators have allowed national patent offices to grant overly-broad patents on algorithmic inventions.
There may exist patented algorithms for MPEG encoding/decoding
What if the patent's claims are broad enough to cover any algorithm that results in a conforming bitstream?
speech is something that humans do, not companies. "commercial speech" is a contradiction.
Not necessarily. Some people are self-employed. Thus, an individual can produce "commercial speech" without going through a partnership or corporation.
Aside from the fact that unsolicited commerical email is content based discrimination (being commerical -- unless you think it should be illegal for there to be ANY unsolicited mailing, such a friend mailing you without being invited to)
How about banning unsolicited bulk e-mail? Would this be considered content-based or content-blind?
Except residence and tuition are "tied" in the antitrust sense of the word. Those who buy tuition at many schools (including most students at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) are forced to buy residence as a non-negotiable part of the contract.
Should this discovery check out, I wonder who will get the patents on inventions that arise from this discovery.
What is apparent, however, is that the sound of an executable file is not music; it is noise.
Many executable files contain arrays of preinitialized data such as images and lookup tables of precalculated functions. A multidimensional array will have correlations at fixed lags, which are interpreted by the human auditory system as either pitch or rhythm depending on the frequency.
Even so, it's nearly double what it was less than 20 years ago.
Wages have increased since then, so in terms of what an hour of work can buy, it's just about the same. Compare $10 vinyl LP records of 1983 with $18 CDs of 2003, and you'll find that the real price of an album has stayed roughly the same because the value of a U.S. dollar has decreased vs. the value of labor.
Ooh, you wrote MS with a dollar sign instead of an S
I can tell you probably didn't grow up programming an 8-bit home computer. Most 8-bit home computers came with an interpreter for the Basic programming language, and the names of all string variables in these early Basic dialects ended with a dollar sign.
The modern use of M$ for Microsoft is in part a homage to Microsoft's roots as a provider of Basic interpreters for micros.