For me vari-bitrate is where its at. Its a decent compromise on most factors.
I agree, which is why I encode my CDs in VBR except for 96 kbps mono MP3 transcodes for my portable player.
I cant understand why more people dont use this.
One reason: many MP3 decoders in embedded devices such as many DVD players and portable players do not support VBR well. For instance, my Apex AD-1200 chokes on the first five seconds of a VBR MP3.
High quality (-q 10, ~ 500kbs) ogg files only achieve about a 50-60% size reduction. high quality (256kbps) mp3s are only 15-20% in size.
Does anybody actually use -q 10 with oggenc? You're confusing the maximum data rate that a given encoder can output with the minimum data rate needed for total transparency to a "good" (+1 sigma) ear. For MP3, this typically comes in the 192-256 kbps range depending on the source material and the encoder. For Ogg Vorbis, it's probably a little bit lower; use -q 7 (nominal data rate 224 kbps) if you're worried.
but we're not that other heartless monopolistic company who doesn't like open source.
Microsoft uses open-source software in its Services For UNIX product. Many of its userland network programs (ping, ftp, etc) are based on those from BSD. But then again, Microsoft put a provision into the license for its C library banning linking with copylefted code, even where the copylefted code's license would otherwise allow it (e.g. "operating system" exception in the GNU GPL), so I guess you're right.
We at Disney love open source.
Then why hasn't Disney released Mickey Mouse as open source? Nine out of ten copyright scholars agree that it's time for the company to move on to a new cash cow.
The "psthumous" is a typo for "posthumous" (PAHS ch@ m@s), which indeed comes from Latin meaning "after burial". It most often refers to works published after the author's death or an award granted to a person after his death.
Before personal computers evolved from 8-bit microcomputers ("micros" for short) to the VAX clones we know and love, Microsoft was making software for micros.
What if they are using i.e. and have java-script disabled, or whatever.
Then check the form data's consistency at the server too. The client-side checks are just there to cut down on perceived latency in an interactive form.
Copyright term and ownership differences like this are exactly what the DVD Forum designed the region lockout system on DVD Video titles to enforce. If I make a movie based on Peter Pan, I have to pay royalties to GOSH on any copies that could potentially be sold in the UK. In order to prevent having to pay royalties on every single copy sold anywhere, wouldn't I have to design my product such that it is unlikely that non-UK-cleared copies are sold in the UK?
See Project Gutenberg for a more detailed explanation.
"For the present, this edition of Peter Pan is restricted to the United States, and is not to be for use or included in any storage or retrieval system in any country, other than the United States of America." Do Gutenberg mirrors have to block all IP addresses within.uk from accessing Peter Pan?
Understand that anything written into a language standard must be implemented by everybody
Then create a multiple part standard: C++ Core, C++ Streams, C++ STL, C++ Bounds Checking Extensions, and what have you. Most compilers would include Core, Streams, and STL at a minimum because C++98 defined them.
It's the government at fault here, not private companies.
So how are voters supposed to stop it? Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party has added a plank to balance copyright between authors and consumers, and no other U.S. political party has a snowball's chance of gaining even a plurality in Congress.
If I sing a song I uniquely composed and wrote once in public, I have copyright on that song and that performance.
Not if you have ever listened to the radio. Copyright law states that if you copy a substantial amount from an existing copyrighted song, you infringe the copyright in the song. Precedents state that access + substantial similarity = copying. Access includes having heard a song even once on the radio, even if you forget that you have heard it by the time you write your own song (Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs). Substantial similarity has been found with as few as six notes of one song matching another song's main motive, which statistically is all but certain to happen. So if you hear a song even once on the radio, and you unwittingly compose a similar song years later, you break the law.
although given the current term, you'd be long dead, also throwing a wrench into your ability to stop such later use
Ever heard of a "last will and testament"? It's how Gershwin bans not-100%-African-descent people from performing songs from Porgy and Bess in public, even after he is long gone.
Eh? Willard Gaylin wrote in On Being and Becoming Human (ISBN: 0670826014) that Disney's Pinocchio was quite different in plot and theme from the original novel by Collodi and possibly closer to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. In fact, the film was different enough from the novel that a few minor changes in character names and setting would have erased all claims of substantial similarity even if Disney had published the film several years prior. (Disney published Pinocchio as soon as the copyright in Collodi's novel had expired in the States and Europe.) It is rumoured (but officially denied) that Enid Blyton followed a similar process to create the Noddy stories.
J.M Barrie
Eh? Peter Pan is under a statutory perpetual copyright in the United Kingdom, a country without even a paper "limited Times" restriction on copyright.
According to the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by the body in charge of interpreting the Constitution, nobody except the author('s estate) is entitled to any work first published on or after January 1, 1923.
I don't know if J. Breyer will still be on the bench then, and it was he who really understood why Congress shouldn't be able to do what they did.
Even once Justice Breyer has left the bench, his dissent in Eldred v. Ashcroft is still on record. Even the opinion of the Court conditions its upholding of the Bono Act on the fact that it has not recognized an unconstitutional pattern in the term extensions; if Congress enacts a hypothetical third major extension, the Supreme Court might find evidence of such a pattern.
Just because some anime inspired Final Fantasy game
Squaresoft is not the only Japanese developer of popular console games. Ever heard of Konami? Capcom? Nintendo?
I am content with being a US citizen buying games for a US Xbox.
If you only get US games, you're missing out because apparently, the Japanese designers tend to know how to create fun for all ages without gratuitous gore.
Spending half the transistors on an instruction decoder is atypical of CPU architectures. A simpler architecture would use a smaller decoder that eats less electricity and produces less heat.
And when are they switching to GB (their ISO country code), which is what the standards call for them to use?
Probably when Belfast starts answering to Dublin rather than to London. "UK" is officially short for "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
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For me vari-bitrate is where its at. Its a decent compromise on most factors.
I agree, which is why I encode my CDs in VBR except for 96 kbps mono MP3 transcodes for my portable player.
I cant understand why more people dont use this.
One reason: many MP3 decoders in embedded devices such as many DVD players and portable players do not support VBR well. For instance, my Apex AD-1200 chokes on the first five seconds of a VBR MP3.
High quality (-q 10, ~ 500kbs) ogg files only achieve about a 50-60% size reduction. high quality (256kbps) mp3s are only 15-20% in size.
Does anybody actually use -q 10 with oggenc? You're confusing the maximum data rate that a given encoder can output with the minimum data rate needed for total transparency to a "good" (+1 sigma) ear. For MP3, this typically comes in the 192-256 kbps range depending on the source material and the encoder. For Ogg Vorbis, it's probably a little bit lower; use -q 7 (nominal data rate 224 kbps) if you're worried.
If TRON is more deployed than *BSD, then TRON has less of a chance of dying.
Yes we may be a heartless, monopolistic company
Tell me about it.
but we're not that other heartless monopolistic company who doesn't like open source.
Microsoft uses open-source software in its Services For UNIX product. Many of its userland network programs (ping, ftp, etc) are based on those from BSD. But then again, Microsoft put a provision into the license for its C library banning linking with copylefted code, even where the copylefted code's license would otherwise allow it (e.g. "operating system" exception in the GNU GPL), so I guess you're right.
We at Disney love open source.
Then why hasn't Disney released Mickey Mouse as open source? Nine out of ten copyright scholars agree that it's time for the company to move on to a new cash cow.
The "psthumous" is a typo for "posthumous" (PAHS ch@ m@s), which indeed comes from Latin meaning "after burial". It most often refers to works published after the author's death or an award granted to a person after his death.
they're not about to come back unless Yahoo can offer search results that are comparable to Google.
Overture has AltaVista and AllTheWeb. Some have compared AllTheWeb's results to those of Google.
Is Microsoft's software in any way "micro"?
Before personal computers evolved from 8-bit microcomputers ("micros" for short) to the VAX clones we know and love, Microsoft was making software for micros.
Exactly. It's like the iTunes Music Store: Apple beta-tested it on the Mac platform before starting the PC version.
What if they are using i.e. and have java-script disabled, or whatever.
Then check the form data's consistency at the server too. The client-side checks are just there to cut down on perceived latency in an interactive form.
W.r.t. the second, unless you're an enemy combatant I'd say you don't have much to worry about ^^
Didn't the PATRIOT act, or something else passed around the same time, greatly broaden the definition of an "enemy combatant"?
But only in the UK.
Copyright term and ownership differences like this are exactly what the DVD Forum designed the region lockout system on DVD Video titles to enforce. If I make a movie based on Peter Pan, I have to pay royalties to GOSH on any copies that could potentially be sold in the UK. In order to prevent having to pay royalties on every single copy sold anywhere, wouldn't I have to design my product such that it is unlikely that non-UK-cleared copies are sold in the UK?
See Project Gutenberg for a more detailed explanation.
"For the present, this edition of Peter Pan is restricted to the United States, and is not to be for use or included in any storage or retrieval system in any country, other than the United States of America." Do Gutenberg mirrors have to block all IP addresses within .uk from accessing Peter Pan?
Understand that anything written into a language standard must be implemented by everybody
Then create a multiple part standard: C++ Core, C++ Streams, C++ STL, C++ Bounds Checking Extensions, and what have you. Most compilers would include Core, Streams, and STL at a minimum because C++98 defined them.
all they have to do is get the EU to extend again, since harmonization seems to be a valid reason for extensions.
Would the Supreme Court still find harmonization a valid reason even if the EU enacts a statutory perpetual copyright?
It's the government at fault here, not private companies.
So how are voters supposed to stop it? Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party has added a plank to balance copyright between authors and consumers, and no other U.S. political party has a snowball's chance of gaining even a plurality in Congress.
If I sing a song I uniquely composed and wrote once in public, I have copyright on that song and that performance.
Not if you have ever listened to the radio. Copyright law states that if you copy a substantial amount from an existing copyrighted song, you infringe the copyright in the song. Precedents state that access + substantial similarity = copying. Access includes having heard a song even once on the radio, even if you forget that you have heard it by the time you write your own song ( Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs ). Substantial similarity has been found with as few as six notes of one song matching another song's main motive, which statistically is all but certain to happen. So if you hear a song even once on the radio, and you unwittingly compose a similar song years later, you break the law.
Details in my journal.
although given the current term, you'd be long dead, also throwing a wrench into your ability to stop such later use
Ever heard of a "last will and testament"? It's how Gershwin bans not-100%-African-descent people from performing songs from Porgy and Bess in public, even after he is long gone.
Carlo Collodi
Eh? Willard Gaylin wrote in On Being and Becoming Human (ISBN: 0670826014) that Disney's Pinocchio was quite different in plot and theme from the original novel by Collodi and possibly closer to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. In fact, the film was different enough from the novel that a few minor changes in character names and setting would have erased all claims of substantial similarity even if Disney had published the film several years prior. (Disney published Pinocchio as soon as the copyright in Collodi's novel had expired in the States and Europe.) It is rumoured (but officially denied) that Enid Blyton followed a similar process to create the Noddy stories.
J.M Barrie
Eh? Peter Pan is under a statutory perpetual copyright in the United Kingdom, a country without even a paper "limited Times" restriction on copyright.
According to the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by the body in charge of interpreting the Constitution, nobody except the author('s estate) is entitled to any work first published on or after January 1, 1923.
I don't know if J. Breyer will still be on the bench then, and it was he who really understood why Congress shouldn't be able to do what they did.
Even once Justice Breyer has left the bench, his dissent in Eldred v. Ashcroft is still on record. Even the opinion of the Court conditions its upholding of the Bono Act on the fact that it has not recognized an unconstitutional pattern in the term extensions; if Congress enacts a hypothetical third major extension, the Supreme Court might find evidence of such a pattern.
or whether C followed B because it was the next letter in BCPL (in which case C++ would have been P).
P is for "Plus". C++ is pronounced "C Plus Plus".
Or perhaps you simply still think of C++ as "C with more type checking, and those // comments."
No, that's "gcc -Wall".
to the tune of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
No. Michael Eisner's copyright lawyers would kick their a**es in a court of law.
Just because some anime inspired Final Fantasy game
Squaresoft is not the only Japanese developer of popular console games. Ever heard of Konami? Capcom? Nintendo?
I am content with being a US citizen buying games for a US Xbox.
If you only get US games, you're missing out because apparently, the Japanese designers tend to know how to create fun for all ages without gratuitous gore.
Spending half the transistors on an instruction decoder is atypical of CPU architectures. A simpler architecture would use a smaller decoder that eats less electricity and produces less heat.
Unlike copyrights, patents expire.
And when are they switching to GB (their ISO country code), which is what the standards call for them to use?
Probably when Belfast starts answering to Dublin rather than to London. "UK" is officially short for "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".