I think one can assume english is spoken if you're reading an english web site.
I knew this was going to come up sometime in this discussion.
Some people can read English well enough to get the gist of Slashdot but can't write English fluently. Such users include Anonymous Coward and anybody else who posts at 0 or lower.
name one unix like system that doesnt have a world writable/tmp
As far as I know, Knoppix puts/tmp in RAM, and it disappears when you shut down the machine. The POSIX specification permits the contents of/tmp to disappear on shutdown.
it makes a perfect recording, why should i screw around with a patch cable.
Creative's What-U-Hear feature also turns itself off when you play a DRM'd file through the Secure Audio Path in Windows Media Player. It has to; otherwise the driver wouldn't get signed by Microsoft and wouldn't be allowed to play music through the Secure Audio Path.
Or, if you don't have any third party recording recording software, you can use Windows Sound Recorder which comes with all versions of Windows.
Last time I checked, sndrec32 recorded to RAM and had a limit of 60 seconds. That's not good for recording a 60-minute album. Has it changed since then?
Besides, how are you going to do step 6 without third-party proprietary software? Free software such as Audacity just doesn't come with enough filters.
No PC that can run Pro Tools Free is sold new in 2003 because Pro Tools Free does not run on Windows 2000 or Windows XP. It's for Windows 98 and Windows ME only.
trying to sell stuff which you can find from p2p already.
Does p2p have consistent high-quality encodes free of pops, clicks, or accidental deletions? Fast servers? Ability to go through even the most restrictive firewall?
i guess people without constant internet connections are going to be a little screwed, since, afaik, all microsoft's drm techiniques involve some sort of online interaction with a remote server. that kinda alienates half the population right there...
Most computers come with dial-up modems. Microsoft could use playing crippled files as an excuse to sell the Butterfly to listeners.
If theyre putting the same tracks in for computer with drm that logically means the extra space needed has to come from somewhere.... lower quality cd audio tracks??
No. It merely means that the CD can't fill 80 minutes. It'd be easy to fit 60 minutes of audio in both slightly nonconforming Red Book format and WMA format.
I assume that like 90+% of the population, you're using Microsoft Windows, so I'll give instructions that apply to Windows 98 and Windows 2000.
Step 1: Open the mixer. If there is a little speaker icon in your tray (the tray is the part of the taskbar next to the clock), double-click it. Otherwise, go to Start > Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Volume Control.
Step 2: Show the mixer's recording panel. Options > Properties and then Adjust playback for > Recording. Click OK.
Step 3: Choose the line input. Normally, the check box under "Mic Volume" is selected. Select the check box under "Line In". (Microsoft made a user interface design faux pas here by drawing the input selections as square checkboxes, which normally represent individual on/off settings, rather than as round radio buttons, which represent choose one of many.)
Step 4: Set levels. Open your recording program, record a relatively loud segment of the analog source, and tweak the levels so that the peaks don't make a harsh digital clipping noise on playback.
Step 5: Record. For this, you should use a program that records to disk such as Cool Edit or Sound Forge. Read the fine manual.
Step 6: Cleanup. Here, you are remastering the audio back into a digital format. Apply noise reduction and equalization filters until the audio in your computer sounds just as good as or better than the CD does.
Step 7: Compress. For MP3, use lame --alt-preset standard. For Ogg Vorbis, put the quality setting at 5 or 6.
If you _really_ want to change things, get the word out to Joe Sixpack who only reads CNN
If CNN and CNN Headline News are Joe Sixpack's sole source of information, then getting people not to buy Warner products will be an impossible task. CNN is owned by the same parent company as Warner Bros.
I think breaking the DMCA, in a number of forms (other than fair use) is theivery.
But almost any "DMCA violation" that has shown up on Slashdot is a fair use[1] issue; otherwise, Slashdot's house style would consider it a "copyright violation" rather than a "DMCA violation".
[1] Fair use taken in the more general sense of any use of a copyrighted work that, notwithstanding 17 USC chapter 12, does not require permission of the copyright owner, especially those uses listed in 17 USC sections 107 to 122.
Civil Disobediance, (and this is IMHO only) is when you are doing it to make a point
Even though pricewatch.com shows $120 for a pair of 512 MB DDR SDRAM sticks, there are still issues left. Not only is Joe Sixpack afraid to open his machine's case and add RAM, but not all older machines' motherboards support 1 GB of RAM, and not all motherboards (especially in laptops) can be replaced.
and 12 MB downloads in no time at all using my cheap dsl connection.
A setup fee including $200,000 to relocate the family to a serviced area is not cheap.
Removing/leaving out features to keep a handful of poorly equiped users happy
Handful? Eighty percent of all Internet-connected households in America are behind a dial-up connection.
First, you have to be able to reference a student by its id, so you use a hashtable. Next you either have to require that student data comes first, or you have an update phase where you update each of your class objects.
XHTML, a common application of XML, chooses what I think you're calling the the "update phase" method, through URIs in src and href attributes of elements. For example:
they should be used in combination with HumanInput -> XML generation programs.
Then how did you format the comment you just wrote? You wrote HTML, which in its modern form is an application of XML. Do you claim that only programs like Dreamweaver should be used to generate XHTML in practice?
And if my ISP tells me I can't use my wireless router, they'll simply lose my business.
And if both the local DSL monopoly and the local cable monopoly include such a restriction in their acceptable use policies, your Internet connection will become ten times slower.
Because at load time the buffer overflow hasn't happened yet, and the code hasn't been overwritten.
The Java virtual machine enforces mandatory bounds checking on arrays, and I'm pretty sure the.NET virtual machine does so as well. Remember that managed code does not use pointers.
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BitTorrent ... is really great, and I can't imagine why it hasn't caught on outside of the Anime world.
Probably because everybody else is using eMule, which does roughly the same thing, perhaps? Case in point: comment 5627345.
I think one can assume english is spoken if you're reading an english web site.
I knew this was going to come up sometime in this discussion.
Some people can read English well enough to get the gist of Slashdot but can't write English fluently. Such users include Anonymous Coward and anybody else who posts at 0 or lower.
USB memory stick-something like one of these
That's not a Memory Stick. It's a USB flash drive. Sony controls trademarks and patents related to Memory Stick technology.
name one unix like system that doesnt have a world writable /tmp
As far as I know, Knoppix puts /tmp in RAM, and it disappears when you shut down the machine. The POSIX specification permits the contents of /tmp to disappear on shutdown.
it makes a perfect recording, why should i screw around with a patch cable.
Creative's What-U-Hear feature also turns itself off when you play a DRM'd file through the Secure Audio Path in Windows Media Player. It has to; otherwise the driver wouldn't get signed by Microsoft and wouldn't be allowed to play music through the Secure Audio Path.
it DOES boot from cd
As far as I know, "Agent Under Fire" is a DVD, not a CD.
I couldn't find any references to Ninnle Linux anywhere but Slashdot. URL?
Or, if you don't have any third party recording recording software, you can use Windows Sound Recorder which comes with all versions of Windows.
Last time I checked, sndrec32 recorded to RAM and had a limit of 60 seconds. That's not good for recording a 60-minute album. Has it changed since then?
Besides, how are you going to do step 6 without third-party proprietary software? Free software such as Audacity just doesn't come with enough filters.
PRO TOOLS FREE!
No PC that can run Pro Tools Free is sold new in 2003 because Pro Tools Free does not run on Windows 2000 or Windows XP. It's for Windows 98 and Windows ME only.
trying to sell stuff which you can find from p2p already.
Does p2p have consistent high-quality encodes free of pops, clicks, or accidental deletions? Fast servers? Ability to go through even the most restrictive firewall?
but it is still a pain for us who like live music.
Perhaps etree is more your style.
i guess people without constant internet connections are going to be a little screwed, since, afaik, all microsoft's drm techiniques involve some sort of online interaction with a remote server. that kinda alienates half the population right there...
Most computers come with dial-up modems. Microsoft could use playing crippled files as an excuse to sell the Butterfly to listeners.
If theyre putting the same tracks in for computer with drm that logically means the extra space needed has to come from somewhere.... lower quality cd audio tracks??
No. It merely means that the CD can't fill 80 minutes. It'd be easy to fit 60 minutes of audio in both slightly nonconforming Red Book format and WMA format.
How do you record the AUX IN port?
I assume that like 90+% of the population, you're using Microsoft Windows, so I'll give instructions that apply to Windows 98 and Windows 2000.
Step 1: Open the mixer. If there is a little speaker icon in your tray (the tray is the part of the taskbar next to the clock), double-click it. Otherwise, go to Start > Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Volume Control.
Step 2: Show the mixer's recording panel. Options > Properties and then Adjust playback for > Recording. Click OK.
Step 3: Choose the line input. Normally, the check box under "Mic Volume" is selected. Select the check box under "Line In". (Microsoft made a user interface design faux pas here by drawing the input selections as square checkboxes, which normally represent individual on/off settings, rather than as round radio buttons, which represent choose one of many.)
Step 4: Set levels. Open your recording program, record a relatively loud segment of the analog source, and tweak the levels so that the peaks don't make a harsh digital clipping noise on playback.
Step 5: Record. For this, you should use a program that records to disk such as Cool Edit or Sound Forge. Read the fine manual.
Step 6: Cleanup. Here, you are remastering the audio back into a digital format. Apply noise reduction and equalization filters until the audio in your computer sounds just as good as or better than the CD does.
Step 7: Compress. For MP3, use lame --alt-preset standard. For Ogg Vorbis, put the quality setting at 5 or 6.
Sell me MP3s online and I'll pay
Does $15 per month sound like a bargain?
Stress tests are something relatively few people do.
"Relatively few"? Please. Have you seen how American drivers on the roads treat their cars nowadays?
If you _really_ want to change things, get the word out to Joe Sixpack who only reads CNN
If CNN and CNN Headline News are Joe Sixpack's sole source of information, then getting people not to buy Warner products will be an impossible task. CNN is owned by the same parent company as Warner Bros.
Most right wingers [...] are not in favor of chilling or ending free speach [sic].
Then who was in favor of the USAPATRIOT act?
I think breaking the DMCA, in a number of forms (other than fair use) is theivery.
But almost any "DMCA violation" that has shown up on Slashdot is a fair use[1] issue; otherwise, Slashdot's house style would consider it a "copyright violation" rather than a "DMCA violation".
[1] Fair use taken in the more general sense of any use of a copyrighted work that, notwithstanding 17 USC chapter 12, does not require permission of the copyright owner, especially those uses listed in 17 USC sections 107 to 122.
Civil Disobediance, (and this is IMHO only) is when you are doing it to make a point
Would this count?
I have 1 GB of low cost memory in my machine
Even though pricewatch.com shows $120 for a pair of 512 MB DDR SDRAM sticks, there are still issues left. Not only is Joe Sixpack afraid to open his machine's case and add RAM, but not all older machines' motherboards support 1 GB of RAM, and not all motherboards (especially in laptops) can be replaced.
and 12 MB downloads in no time at all using my cheap dsl connection.
A setup fee including $200,000 to relocate the family to a serviced area is not cheap.
Removing/leaving out features to keep a handful of poorly equiped users happy
Handful? Eighty percent of all Internet-connected households in America are behind a dial-up connection.
First, you have to be able to reference a student by its id, so you use a hashtable. Next you either have to require that student data comes first, or you have an update phase where you update each of your class objects.
XHTML, a common application of XML, chooses what I think you're calling the the "update phase" method, through URIs in src and href attributes of elements. For example:
Here, "foo.png" and "bar.png" are relative URIs to image documents.
Charging by the kilocharacter?! What decade is this?
The 2000s. And in the 2000s, ISPs continue to bill by the KB. A British ISP caps transfer to a single account at 30,000,000 KB per month. Worse, some other ISPs outside North America allocate only 3,000,000 KB to each customer per month.
But can't gzip reduce the size of an XML stream?
they should be used in combination with HumanInput -> XML generation programs.
Then how did you format the comment you just wrote? You wrote HTML, which in its modern form is an application of XML. Do you claim that only programs like Dreamweaver should be used to generate XHTML in practice?
And if my ISP tells me I can't use my wireless router, they'll simply lose my business.
And if both the local DSL monopoly and the local cable monopoly include such a restriction in their acceptable use policies, your Internet connection will become ten times slower.
Because at load time the buffer overflow hasn't happened yet, and the code hasn't been overwritten.
The Java virtual machine enforces mandatory bounds checking on arrays, and I'm pretty sure the .NET virtual machine does so as well. Remember that managed code does not use pointers.