There is no law that states a company HAS to license a patent to someone.
Two words: Hostile takeover. Provided the patent holder is a publicly held corporation, there is a maximum price for any patent: the market capitalization of the patent holder.
Country in the 2000s is just American pop sung by somebody with a "country" accent. Disco has become house, which could form part of the "electronic mix".
But will PAC be included in the next phase of the competition, which compares the best AAC encoder with at least the best MP3 encoder, the best Ogg encoder, and the best WMA encoder?
And the TVGUIDE code is still, and will always be crap, the DCT2000 has a 20Mhz 68020 in it, which is approximately the power that a MAc or a PC had back to 1990, and we had some decent GUIs even back then.
Heck, even the Game Boy Advance (CPU: 16.8 MHz ARM7TDMI) responds twenty times faster than many digital cable boxes do, and that's with slow RAM and slow ROM.
I'm not going to be using any digitial music service until they offer my a lossless version
MP3 is a data reduction method that loses some fidelity. So are WMA, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis. Downsampling from a 32-bit 192 kHz studio master to a 16-bit 44.1 kHz CD is also a data reduction method that loses some fidelity. So is amplifying the signal above 0 dBFS and intentionally clipping it. The term "CD quality" has been abused.
of the song.
If you just want a lossless version of the song, buy sheet music. You get all the notes, all the rhythms, all the lyrics, losslessly encoded in Western Common Practice Notation.
The proper term for what you're trying to say is "a version of the recording with equivalent fidelity to a well-mastered CD." Tests confirm that Ogg Vorbis is transparent to trained ears at 192 kbps. If you're worried about fitting more recordings on a portable player, the Vorbis specification includes a (not yet implemented) "bitrate peeling" feature that allows transcoding from a hi-fi file to a lo-fi file by operating entirely in the transform domain, which incurs less noise than decoding, re-modeling, and re-encoding.
I use a similar technique to hide textual watermarks in recordings. The watermarks are somewhat hard to hear (because they hide in the wideband noise of the hi-hats), but they show up clearly in Cool Edit's spectral display. As long as you keep any action below 14000 Hz, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis will preserve the gist of the watermark. If you want a copy of my C program that generates a.wav file containing the text you type, send an e-mail to tepples (a) spamcop (o) net.
Then it will play silence. Windows Media Player's digital restrictions management infrastructure requires sound card drivers to turn off digital outputs when playing WMA files that demand analog output only.
What if I dig up some gold? I didn't make it, I found it
So how, before you try to sell the gold, will you know that the gold you have found is not already somebody else's property? Songwriters have this problem.
What we really need is open API's for the hardware
Not gonna happen. National laws limit radio frequency emissions, and in order to get the regulators to approve devices, the manufacturers have to place interlocks in the devices that limit their power. It's much cheaper to make a software interlock than to make a hardware interlock that can adapt to regulations in each country.
I was going for a Funny moderation. I don't sincerely believe that the President is a terrorist. I wanted only to show that there exist people who don't have a mustache or beard and who are regarded by at least one organization as a terrorist. Mod me to heck with your other account if you want.
To combat this, I'm sure you'll say the owner should shell out for a console-compatible keyboard and mouse too.
Don't the PS2 and Xbox have USB ports?
25%? Feh.
A disproportionate amount of that 25 percent of Wine-compatible or otherwise Linux-compatible games are the top sellers, such as every recent id Software game.
Why take the risk of buying new games when you're not sure the free platform will handle it
Many of the most popular Windows games either have native Linux ports or have effort spent on emulating them. Check the appdb before spending money. Or are you receiving lots of PC games as gifts from family?
AND you have a valid license for the platform that will?
Because technically, you don't have a valid license for the retail version but rather for the restore version that comes on that hidden partition, and because Microsoft's lawyers can get away with "technically" because Microsoft has more money than you will likely ever have.
Right, and miss out on the huge library of games already available for the PC.
And there's not a huge collection of Linux games, PS2 games, or GameCube games? Linux can play at least 25% of Windows games through WINE, the PS2 can play 99% of PS1 games, and the GameCube can play 99% of Game Boy and GBA games.
shoddy collection of dross available on the Xbox.
For one thing, I suggested GameCube as an alternative. Or s/an Xbox/a PS2/g in grandparent.
Can the newer machines from Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Toshiba, etc. boot from a USB storage device? If so, put the boot loader and kernel on a USB flash drive and start the machine that way. A USB flash drive isn't that much bigger than your car keys; think of it as putting the key in to start your computer.
Whats more the vendors do make it clear what your getting if you know where to look.
I looked on the major notebook computer vendors' web sites for a laptop computer designed to run GNU/Linux, and I failed it. I guess I don't know where to look. Can anybody else help me?
At Best Buy, a Windows XP Professional license ($300) costs more than an Xbox console ($180) and a TV tuner card ($50). Even the home edition ($200) is no cheaper than a GameCube console with Game Boy Player ($150) and a TV tuner card.
most true gamers own consoles now. The PC gaming market is shrinking.
Unlike Wintel PC and Mac games, console games do not support user-developed modifications. The GameCube, GBA, and stock PS2 lack a writable storage medium that's big enough, and the Xbox is in last place worldwide among the four. Furthermore, the console makers tend to believe that user-developed mods promote unlawful copying of their copyrighted games.
Unlike consoles, Wintel PCs and Macs ship with the proper input devices for first-person shooters, real-time tactical simulations, and online role-playing games.
There's a possiblity that DVDs will replace CDs as the de facto medium (see videogame industry).
Somebody at Best Buy reassured me that it's not likely that SACD and DVD Audio will replace Compact Disc Digital Audio in the near future. Feel free to contradict this once you see a car stereo that plays DVD Audio or a Sony Discman SACD player.
SMIL will also be required if anybody wants to synchronize sound with SVG animation. This is necessary if SVG wants to compete with Flash. How long will it be before a web browser supports both SVG and SMIL well?
Then they repeat some bizarre form of the concept back, using airy words like "warmth" and "crispiness"
I've learned to see relatively precise meanings for those audiophile masturbation terms. "Warmth" is a pleasing harmonic distortion, and "crispness" refers to a phase response that's close to linear, so that the low, middle, and high parts of an attack come through the speaker at the same time, and there are no excess resonances within the system.
My response to suspected audiomorons: "What you want it to sound like can probably be achieved with a decent hi-fi system and a digital effects processor. There are programs that approximate the characteristic sounds of vinyl records and tube amplifiers." From there, the conversation can go one of two ways: either the other person sounds interested and wants to learn more about how the effects processor does it, or he spouts more bull****. Based on this, I quickly make my decision, friend or foe.
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There is no law that states a company HAS to license a patent to someone.
Two words: Hostile takeover. Provided the patent holder is a publicly held corporation, there is a maximum price for any patent: the market capitalization of the patent holder.
where's country and disco?
Country in the 2000s is just American pop sung by somebody with a "country" accent. Disco has become house, which could form part of the "electronic mix".
But will PAC be included in the next phase of the competition, which compares the best AAC encoder with at least the best MP3 encoder, the best Ogg encoder, and the best WMA encoder?
(If you don't lend me ten bucks, I can't go see "Finding Nemo")
Then you probably don't really want the ten bucks.
And the TVGUIDE code is still, and will always be crap, the DCT2000 has a 20Mhz 68020 in it, which is approximately the power that a MAc or a PC had back to 1990, and we had some decent GUIs even back then.
Heck, even the Game Boy Advance (CPU: 16.8 MHz ARM7TDMI) responds twenty times faster than many digital cable boxes do, and that's with slow RAM and slow ROM.
I'm not going to be using any digitial music service until they offer my a lossless version
MP3 is a data reduction method that loses some fidelity. So are WMA, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis. Downsampling from a 32-bit 192 kHz studio master to a 16-bit 44.1 kHz CD is also a data reduction method that loses some fidelity. So is amplifying the signal above 0 dBFS and intentionally clipping it. The term "CD quality" has been abused.
of the song.
If you just want a lossless version of the song, buy sheet music. You get all the notes, all the rhythms, all the lyrics, losslessly encoded in Western Common Practice Notation.
The proper term for what you're trying to say is "a version of the recording with equivalent fidelity to a well-mastered CD." Tests confirm that Ogg Vorbis is transparent to trained ears at 192 kbps. If you're worried about fitting more recordings on a portable player, the Vorbis specification includes a (not yet implemented) "bitrate peeling" feature that allows transcoding from a hi-fi file to a lo-fi file by operating entirely in the transform domain, which incurs less noise than decoding, re-modeling, and re-encoding.
I tried MP3 at 64 kbps mono, and it preserved the face on the Aphex Twin CD.
I use a similar technique to hide textual watermarks in recordings. The watermarks are somewhat hard to hear (because they hide in the wideband noise of the hi-hats), but they show up clearly in Cool Edit's spectral display. As long as you keep any action below 14000 Hz, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis will preserve the gist of the watermark. If you want a copy of my C program that generates a .wav file containing the text you type, send an e-mail to tepples (a) spamcop (o) net.
If your sound card has S/PDIF out and in
Then it will play silence. Windows Media Player's digital restrictions management infrastructure requires sound card drivers to turn off digital outputs when playing WMA files that demand analog output only.
What if I dig up some gold? I didn't make it, I found it
So how, before you try to sell the gold, will you know that the gold you have found is not already somebody else's property? Songwriters have this problem.
the movies studios own most of the TV networks
Then do NBC (owned by General Electric) and MSNBC (owned by General Electric and Microsoft) refuse to run anti-consumption ads?
ad featuring an artist explaining that he/she is starving because of the "take it or leave it" standard industry contract
I imagine that one of those self-serve labels such as CD Baby will put up a commercial similar to what you describe.
Sure it is, when you consider the fact that you already have the equipment. Who does not have a PC mothballed?
I have a PC mothballed, but it's an older PC with ISA slots. Who makes an appropriate WiFi card for ISA?
I have a PC mothballed, but I don't have the power company gift certificates mothballed. An 802.11* access point uses less electric power than a PC.
What we really need is open API's for the hardware
Not gonna happen. National laws limit radio frequency emissions, and in order to get the regulators to approve devices, the manufacturers have to place interlocks in the devices that limit their power. It's much cheaper to make a software interlock than to make a hardware interlock that can adapt to regulations in each country.
I was going for a Funny moderation. I don't sincerely believe that the President is a terrorist. I wanted only to show that there exist people who don't have a mustache or beard and who are regarded by at least one organization as a terrorist. Mod me to heck with your other account if you want.
Or just switch to *BSD. If SCO wins and manages to declare some core Linux component as infringing, guess what will be thriving instead of dying.
To combat this, I'm sure you'll say the owner should shell out for a console-compatible keyboard and mouse too.
Don't the PS2 and Xbox have USB ports?
25%? Feh.
A disproportionate amount of that 25 percent of Wine-compatible or otherwise Linux-compatible games are the top sellers, such as every recent id Software game.
Why take the risk of buying new games when you're not sure the free platform will handle it
Many of the most popular Windows games either have native Linux ports or have effort spent on emulating them. Check the appdb before spending money. Or are you receiving lots of PC games as gifts from family?
AND you have a valid license for the platform that will?
Because technically, you don't have a valid license for the retail version but rather for the restore version that comes on that hidden partition, and because Microsoft's lawyers can get away with "technically" because Microsoft has more money than you will likely ever have.
Right, and miss out on the huge library of games already available for the PC.
And there's not a huge collection of Linux games, PS2 games, or GameCube games? Linux can play at least 25% of Windows games through WINE, the PS2 can play 99% of PS1 games, and the GameCube can play 99% of Game Boy and GBA games.
shoddy collection of dross available on the Xbox.
For one thing, I suggested GameCube as an alternative. Or s/an Xbox/a PS2/g in grandparent.
Can the newer machines from Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Toshiba, etc. boot from a USB storage device? If so, put the boot loader and kernel on a USB flash drive and start the machine that way. A USB flash drive isn't that much bigger than your car keys; think of it as putting the key in to start your computer.
Whats more the vendors do make it clear what your getting if you know where to look.
I looked on the major notebook computer vendors' web sites for a laptop computer designed to run GNU/Linux, and I failed it. I guess I don't know where to look. Can anybody else help me?
Besides, all it's good for is playing games...
At Best Buy, a Windows XP Professional license ($300) costs more than an Xbox console ($180) and a TV tuner card ($50). Even the home edition ($200) is no cheaper than a GameCube console with Game Boy Player ($150) and a TV tuner card.
most true gamers own consoles now. The PC gaming market is shrinking.
Unlike Wintel PC and Mac games, console games do not support user-developed modifications. The GameCube, GBA, and stock PS2 lack a writable storage medium that's big enough, and the Xbox is in last place worldwide among the four. Furthermore, the console makers tend to believe that user-developed mods promote unlawful copying of their copyrighted games.
Unlike consoles, Wintel PCs and Macs ship with the proper input devices for first-person shooters, real-time tactical simulations, and online role-playing games.
Yes, I have seen a clean-shaven terrorist. Here's a big picture of him.
There's a possiblity that DVDs will replace CDs as the de facto medium (see videogame industry).
Somebody at Best Buy reassured me that it's not likely that SACD and DVD Audio will replace Compact Disc Digital Audio in the near future. Feel free to contradict this once you see a car stereo that plays DVD Audio or a Sony Discman SACD player.
Another possibility is SMIL.
SMIL will also be required if anybody wants to synchronize sound with SVG animation. This is necessary if SVG wants to compete with Flash. How long will it be before a web browser supports both SVG and SMIL well?
Then they repeat some bizarre form of the concept back, using airy words like "warmth" and "crispiness"
I've learned to see relatively precise meanings for those audiophile masturbation terms. "Warmth" is a pleasing harmonic distortion, and "crispness" refers to a phase response that's close to linear, so that the low, middle, and high parts of an attack come through the speaker at the same time, and there are no excess resonances within the system.
My response to suspected audiomorons: "What you want it to sound like can probably be achieved with a decent hi-fi system and a digital effects processor. There are programs that approximate the characteristic sounds of vinyl records and tube amplifiers." From there, the conversation can go one of two ways: either the other person sounds interested and wants to learn more about how the effects processor does it, or he spouts more bull****. Based on this, I quickly make my decision, friend or foe.