Is it one of these schemes where an ultrasonic component is added to the sound that confuses MP3 encoders
I've seen LOTS of rips that include significant energy at 15,734 Hz, the horizontal scanning frequency of NTSC and PAL60 television (60000/1001 fields per second times 262.5 scanlines per field). The worst offenders are TV soundtracks such as "Schoolhouse Rock," but I've seen it on all sorts of discs. I deal with it by first using the 15.7 kHz signal as a clock to remove wow and flutter and then using a simple antiresonant notch filter to remove the clock signal. (Because the signal is close to a sawtooth wave, containing both odd and even harmonics falling off at 6 dB/octave, you also need notches at 31,468 Hz and 47,203 Hz if you're sampling at 96 kHz.)
filter it with a low-pass analog filter of some sort
Why, when a digital Butterworth bandpass at 10 Hz - 17 kHz works just as well and introduces less noise? Avoid phase distortion like this: reverse, filter, reverse, filter. (The bidirectional filter corrects for the inherent phase problems in IIR filters.)
kind of like a watermarked JPEG that's blurred, sized down a little, then resized up, to remove the watermark
Or just notch filtered to remove the specific spatial frequencies that contain the watermark.
How about something that starts up quickly, allows me to browse all the images in a directory at the same time
In Windows ME, Explorer.exe can already view thumbnails of images in a folder. From the View menu, choose Thumbnails. (On some Windows versions, you may have to enable thumbnail views.)
and doesn't leak memory?
In that case, forget I even mentioned Explorer. Once, on my Windows 98 laptop, it ate 400 MB of RAM.
you can just as easily as the developer of the program to release a binary with some different feature
It's hard to get a proprietary software publisher to even release an out-of-print title, let alone improve it. With free software, you can fork it and pay a developer to add your feature.
You've already commited "the sin" of using Windows
Is there a way to get a workstation with the quality of a national brand at a reasonable price without committing such sin? Can you use an NVIDIA video card at all without committing the "sin" of installing proprietary drivers? Non-proprietary hardware is quickly becoming too expensive for consumers to afford.
so why not get the best tools that run on Windows
Because GIMP is $100 cheaper than JASC's Paint Shop Pro, its approximate equal. (Photoshop costs so much more because most of what you pay goes toward licensing the PANTONE technology for the Print... command.)
There is no precedent for being able to make additional digital copies of something because you own a single copy.
Wrong. The USA's The Audio Home Recording Act (along with the Betamax interpretation of 17 USC 107) and foreign counterparts allow recording onto digital audio recording media on which a tax is levied, payable to the recording industry. In the United States, 17 USC 1004 specifies that the tax is 2% of wholesale on hardware and 3% on media. Why the spindles of "Music" CD-R media cost twice as much as "Data" CD-R media is beyond me.
Oh, by the way, I discovered a loophole in DMCA: 17 USC 112(a)(2); you simply have to get a work broadcasted and then archived.
Disclaimer: Nothing you read on Slashdot is legal advice; only a licensed attorney can give you that.
We live in a democratic society. Whether you like it, the laws are set and enforced by the representatives elected by the will of the majority of the people
And our representatives will do anything to get re-elected, including taking campaign contributions from Di$neyCo in exchange from passing oppressive copyright laws, such as the Sonny Bono Act and the DMCA, using the anonymous voice vote to hide from accountability to constituents.
Then what is "a variety of often complex human tasks on command" other than tasks that require artificial intelligence?
You'll probably say next: I said "AI," not "things that mean exactly AI."
Buzzword compliance and trademark compliance can be Almost Worthless(tm); for instance, FreeBSD and GNU/Linux do not carry the UNIX trademark but are drop-in replacements for a UNIX system.
I've never even had an opportunity to touch a Macintosh computer with anything past OS 8.5. My own Mac runs 8.1 because that's what runs best on a 75 MHz PPC 603 based machine with only 16 MB of RAM.
They're also impractical for use in moving automobiles or around small children.
Because a CD has only 16 bits of dynamic, music is overcompressed.
Each bit of linear PCM after the first provides about 6 dB of dynamic range, giving CDs approximately 90 dB of range. If you turn up the volume so as to hear the sound at 0 dB (threshold of hearing at 1-4 kHz), the sound at 90 dB may damage your hearing. Even THX movie soundtracks are mixed at 75 dB for dialogue, and most home theater setups run things 6 to 10 dB lower than that. Heck
Vinyl records sold in the 1970s have more punch than CDs sold today not because of limitations of the CD format but because of limitations of FM radio. According to the Myths section at r3mix (which uses JavaShit to prevent deep linking), the real cause for modern CDs' lack of dynamic range is the application of heavy dynamic compression to get the music to sound louder on the radio.
I'll stick with my winamp, thanks.. although I'm forced to use [WiMP] for video files
The VidAmp plugin for Winamp can play avi, mpg, and mov formats. The developer couldn't add support for the RealPlayer formats because RealPlayer's EULA makes it not embeddable.
currently, movies are at 24 fps, so thats 3.7GB per second of uncompressed video
The eye itself spatio-temporally compresses data as it is sent to the eye, apparently using a wavelet multiresolution. The eye and brain also can't see as much detail on a moving object as on a stationary one.
What needs to be done in the world of virtual publishing is some way to provide a "thumbing" function that allows you to thumb through a virtual book as if it was the real thing
Mozilla 0.9.1 and later can thumb through a long HTML document. Edit > Preferences... > Advanced > Mouse Wheel and bind the wheel to page up and down. It can also thumb through lots of small documents in the browser history.
Most of those artists post their work on a public web site such as MP3.com that has a much bigger pipe to the public Internet than somebody's 128 kbps capped cable or DSL upstream connection. (Most bands on RIAA labels place marketing over substance and deliver inferior product.) I can see NO real reason for Napster to exist.
It is dumb to think (and perhaps you don't), that all of these changes came about because of some Machiavellian instinct among our politicians to stay in power. Each one of these bans has a compelling social justification. I guess some people don't agree.
What's the social justification for (say) perpetually banning the free use of all works created in the time period 1923 to 1925? And doing it by anonymous voice vote when the news media are looking other way during Kosovo and Lewinsky? I'm pretty sure it was campaign contributions from DisneyCo and TimeWarner.
It might give people confidence with Linux to know that it runs right on their box, not just their mb/gpu/soundcard/modem/USB controller, etc. We all know that if they build it, Linux will come.
Unless the system's BIOS requires the operating system's kernel to be cryptographically signed by the system manufacturer, and the system manufacturer is under contract not to sign any operating system but Microsoft Windows XP or its successors.
Just wait till cable starts carrying digital signals
It's called digital cable. It's also called a cable modem. Comcast (for example) offers both services.
I'm sure there will be a device to write the digital data directly to the hard drive
No. Any company with the financial resources to build a device that decrypts digital cable potentially opens itself up to a big lawsuit (DMCA in the US, contributory copyright infringement elsewhere). Few hardware manufacturers have the legal funds to fight the MPAA studios on a level playing field, except for manufacturers such as Sony that are themselves MPAA studios.
Registration by phone line, you'd think most people are/will be still stuck doing this.
Caller ID, plus a reverse phone number lookup and what more do you need to know?
That I'm activating my notebook computer's copy of Windows XP from a pay phone. This is the real reason the Amish don't own phones: because they value their privacy.
RedHat costs about 3 hours of downloading if you have good bandwidth
Red Hat Linux 7.1 is on 4 CDs. That's 2.6 GB. Divide by 3 hours and get 0.25 megabyte/s. That's faster than even T1, which runs at about the speed of a 1X CD-ROM. Who has the money for that kind of bandwidth in a private residence? And who has the money to move house to an area with broadband whose hardware, software, and TOS are compatible with your Free OS of choice?
such a crap VM that can only swap to files, not partitions
If that's how you feel, make a dedicated FAT partition for swap and throw your Windows swap file on that partition. Much of the slowness of Windows 9x swapping is due to a swap file on a fragmented disk; the thrashing you get one minute after you leave the input devices alone is the kernel's attempt to compact the swap file.
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Is it one of these schemes where an ultrasonic component is added to the sound that confuses MP3 encoders
I've seen LOTS of rips that include significant energy at 15,734 Hz, the horizontal scanning frequency of NTSC and PAL60 television (60000/1001 fields per second times 262.5 scanlines per field). The worst offenders are TV soundtracks such as "Schoolhouse Rock," but I've seen it on all sorts of discs. I deal with it by first using the 15.7 kHz signal as a clock to remove wow and flutter and then using a simple antiresonant notch filter to remove the clock signal. (Because the signal is close to a sawtooth wave, containing both odd and even harmonics falling off at 6 dB/octave, you also need notches at 31,468 Hz and 47,203 Hz if you're sampling at 96 kHz.)
filter it with a low-pass analog filter of some sort
Why, when a digital Butterworth bandpass at 10 Hz - 17 kHz works just as well and introduces less noise? Avoid phase distortion like this: reverse, filter, reverse, filter. (The bidirectional filter corrects for the inherent phase problems in IIR filters.)
kind of like a watermarked JPEG that's blurred, sized down a little, then resized up, to remove the watermark
Or just notch filtered to remove the specific spatial frequencies that contain the watermark.
How about something that starts up quickly, allows me to browse all the images in a directory at the same time
In Windows ME, Explorer.exe can already view thumbnails of images in a folder. From the View menu, choose Thumbnails. (On some Windows versions, you may have to enable thumbnail views.)
and doesn't leak memory?
In that case, forget I even mentioned Explorer. Once, on my Windows 98 laptop, it ate 400 MB of RAM.
you can just as easily as the developer of the program to release a binary with some different feature
It's hard to get a proprietary software publisher to even release an out-of-print title, let alone improve it. With free software, you can fork it and pay a developer to add your feature.
You've already commited "the sin" of using Windows
Is there a way to get a workstation with the quality of a national brand at a reasonable price without committing such sin? Can you use an NVIDIA video card at all without committing the "sin" of installing proprietary drivers? Non-proprietary hardware is quickly becoming too expensive for consumers to afford.
so why not get the best tools that run on Windows
Because GIMP is $100 cheaper than JASC's Paint Shop Pro, its approximate equal. (Photoshop costs so much more because most of what you pay goes toward licensing the PANTONE technology for the Print... command.)
There is no precedent for being able to make additional digital copies of something because you own a single copy.
Wrong. The USA's The Audio Home Recording Act (along with the Betamax interpretation of 17 USC 107) and foreign counterparts allow recording onto digital audio recording media on which a tax is levied, payable to the recording industry. In the United States, 17 USC 1004 specifies that the tax is 2% of wholesale on hardware and 3% on media. Why the spindles of "Music" CD-R media cost twice as much as "Data" CD-R media is beyond me.
Oh, by the way, I discovered a loophole in DMCA: 17 USC 112(a)(2); you simply have to get a work broadcasted and then archived.
Disclaimer: Nothing you read on Slashdot is legal advice; only a licensed attorney can give you that.We live in a democratic society. Whether you like it, the laws are set and enforced by the representatives elected by the will of the majority of the people
And our representatives will do anything to get re-elected, including taking campaign contributions from Di$neyCo in exchange from passing oppressive copyright laws, such as the Sonny Bono Act and the DMCA, using the anonymous voice vote to hide from accountability to constituents.
I don't see the term "AI" anywhere in there
Then what is "a variety of often complex human tasks on command" other than tasks that require artificial intelligence?
You'll probably say next: I said "AI," not "things that mean exactly AI."
Buzzword compliance and trademark compliance can be Almost Worthless(tm); for instance, FreeBSD and GNU/Linux do not carry the UNIX trademark but are drop-in replacements for a UNIX system.
I'm sure I could write a mission critical application using the Atari 2600
You'd better learn to put the squeeze on, as Atari 2600 has only 128 bytes of RAM.
Step 1, invent time machine
Except time travel is impossible, no matter what some notorious "scientific" crackpots would have you think. Time is simply the reciprocal of change; motion in a four-dimensional spacetime is impossible.
sig fodder:"Time travel might be possible, but if that is the case why haven't we been overrun by tourists from the future?" -- Stephen Hawking
regarding your .sig: have you used OS X?
I've never even had an opportunity to touch a Macintosh computer with anything past OS 8.5. My own Mac runs 8.1 because that's what runs best on a 75 MHz PPC 603 based machine with only 16 MB of RAM.
12" vinyl records have much dynamic. More punch.
They're also impractical for use in moving automobiles or around small children.
Because a CD has only 16 bits of dynamic, music is overcompressed.
Each bit of linear PCM after the first provides about 6 dB of dynamic range, giving CDs approximately 90 dB of range. If you turn up the volume so as to hear the sound at 0 dB (threshold of hearing at 1-4 kHz), the sound at 90 dB may damage your hearing. Even THX movie soundtracks are mixed at 75 dB for dialogue, and most home theater setups run things 6 to 10 dB lower than that. Heck
Vinyl records sold in the 1970s have more punch than CDs sold today not because of limitations of the CD format but because of limitations of FM radio. According to the Myths section at r3mix (which uses JavaShit to prevent deep linking), the real cause for modern CDs' lack of dynamic range is the application of heavy dynamic compression to get the music to sound louder on the radio.
I'll stick with my winamp, thanks.. although I'm forced to use [WiMP] for video files
The VidAmp plugin for Winamp can play avi, mpg, and mov formats. The developer couldn't add support for the RealPlayer formats because RealPlayer's EULA makes it not embeddable.
Actually, I still use FTP exclusively, and find it to be far superior to any type of peer-to-peer program that has been written thus far.
How do you search thousands of FTP sites? Peer-to-peer media exchange apps have a decentralized search function.
currently, movies are at 24 fps, so thats 3.7GB per second of uncompressed video
The eye itself spatio-temporally compresses data as it is sent to the eye, apparently using a wavelet multiresolution. The eye and brain also can't see as much detail on a moving object as on a stationary one.
What needs to be done in the world of virtual publishing is some way to provide a "thumbing" function that allows you to thumb through a virtual book as if it was the real thing
Mozilla 0.9.1 and later can thumb through a long HTML document. Edit > Preferences... > Advanced > Mouse Wheel and bind the wheel to page up and down. It can also thumb through lots of small documents in the browser history.
Also, I read dead trees faster than a CRT. I'm not sure why.
Dead trees tend to have narrower columns, making it easier to scan the book.
some artists do in fact give music away for free.
Most of those artists post their work on a public web site such as MP3.com that has a much bigger pipe to the public Internet than somebody's 128 kbps capped cable or DSL upstream connection. (Most bands on RIAA labels place marketing over substance and deliver inferior product.) I can see NO real reason for Napster to exist.
It is dumb to think (and perhaps you don't), that all of these changes came about because of some Machiavellian instinct among our politicians to stay in power. Each one of these bans has a compelling social justification. I guess some people don't agree.
What's the social justification for (say) perpetually banning the free use of all works created in the time period 1923 to 1925? And doing it by anonymous voice vote when the news media are looking other way during Kosovo and Lewinsky? I'm pretty sure it was campaign contributions from DisneyCo and TimeWarner.
It might give people confidence with Linux to know that it runs right on their box, not just their mb/gpu/soundcard/modem/USB controller, etc. We all know that if they build it, Linux will come.
Unless the system's BIOS requires the operating system's kernel to be cryptographically signed by the system manufacturer, and the system manufacturer is under contract not to sign any operating system but Microsoft Windows XP or its successors.
Just wait till cable starts carrying digital signals
It's called digital cable. It's also called a cable modem. Comcast (for example) offers both services.
I'm sure there will be a device to write the digital data directly to the hard drive
No. Any company with the financial resources to build a device that decrypts digital cable potentially opens itself up to a big lawsuit (DMCA in the US, contributory copyright infringement elsewhere). Few hardware manufacturers have the legal funds to fight the MPAA studios on a level playing field, except for manufacturers such as Sony that are themselves MPAA studios.
I had to install win98 on my girlfriend's machine and stop having her use Debian because she kept complaining she couldn't play Sims under Linux
The Sims is being ported to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance handheld, which is infinitely more stable than Wintendo9x.
Registration by phone line, you'd think most people are/will be still stuck doing this. Caller ID, plus a reverse phone number lookup and what more do you need to know?
That I'm activating my notebook computer's copy of Windows XP from a pay phone. This is the real reason the Amish don't own phones: because they value their privacy.
RedHat costs about 3 hours of downloading if you have good bandwidth
Red Hat Linux 7.1 is on 4 CDs. That's 2.6 GB. Divide by 3 hours and get 0.25 megabyte/s. That's faster than even T1, which runs at about the speed of a 1X CD-ROM. Who has the money for that kind of bandwidth in a private residence? And who has the money to move house to an area with broadband whose hardware, software, and TOS are compatible with your Free OS of choice?
Dockable computers are treated differently from desktops.
What prevents clone makers from making dockable desktop computers to circumvent product activation?
M$ has free viewers for most of their file formats
This is the page parent is talking about, with freely redistributable Office document viewers. Too bad they don't have viewers for any OS but Windows.
such a crap VM that can only swap to files, not partitions
If that's how you feel, make a dedicated FAT partition for swap and throw your Windows swap file on that partition. Much of the slowness of Windows 9x swapping is due to a swap file on a fragmented disk; the thrashing you get one minute after you leave the input devices alone is the kernel's attempt to compact the swap file.
For about $6,000 (less if you already have "old" computers), you can set-up a lab with e-mail, browsers, office suites, image programs...
But, as another poster mentioned, can K12LTSP run Reader Rabbit? It's not listed in the educational games section of the WINE compatibility database.