Well, for me KDE (or the way how KDE interfaces with xrandr) mostly fails even with two displays. Might be a problem with ATI's fglrx but it used to work with Gnome 2.x and it worls with with IceWM.
I have been playing bass and guitars in a lot of bands for 25 years now. I never wore earplugs, safety belts or diapers when playing. My practicing amp has 400W. I should be stone deaf but still my "low-pass" kicks in at no less than 21kHz. I remember a recent field study by AES (or REA?) that basically says that retired musicians' or recording engineers' ears are a lot better than average.
What makes people deaf seems to be passive exposure to monotonous, permanent noise. Watching TV at way too loud levels while reading, for example, is a safe way to ruin your ears. Obviously the ear adapts and protects itself when actively listening.
...which doesn't show anything but the agenda to me. So at least they have voted. I wonder how anyone else got to view the video - all I get is an empty RTSP stream.
While actually everone jumps on the train and covers this story it still seems to be almost completely unverified. The linked article links to a single blog post that does not contain a single link to anything. No protocol. Not even any source that would mention that said vote has happened at all.
It's really easy to understand: You take the full range of temperature where liquid water "exists" (in liquid state, at sea level, simply: water) and divide it by 10 sets of fingers to count. 0C Ice. Damn cold. 100C steam. Way too hot. 30C: one third of the way from ice to steam, pleasantly warm. 20 room temperature. Any child can guess what 60C, 10C or 25C will feel like.
Now, if someone came up with a similarly easy way to represent the "degree" sign as HTML. Not even unicode seems to work for me...
Well, some way it does. For pre-built machines at least. They could hardly be sold as "PCs" without CPU or memory. I think, however, "inclusive" might be the better term than "free".
Oh come on. It might be a pretty visualization tool, but I don't see how this is going to "revolutionize research" even the slightest bit. Compared to the pathos of the LA sarkasm level is rather moderate - and the idea of a nice historians toy presented to a bunch of more-stupid-than-creationist ignorants has quite some comedian potential.
Well, duh. Unlike Sony, Apple doesn't have a label or movie studio, therefore they have no incentive to do evil shit to protect profits related to them.
No, but with iTunes Apple have found an even more effective way to monopolize content distribution.
You mean "the fact that I have missed to write some working update/deployment script is annoying"?
Come on - it's not that hard. Just rsync anything but wp-content. Make sure they all have the same plugins installed but not necessarily activated and sync the plugins folder, too. That's for starters. The elegant way involves delivering images and "uploads" from a CDN and simply unpacking the new versions over the old ones by rsync, ftp or wget...
That's it. Exactly. You won't hear any difference between 48kHz and 192kHz directly. But even for hobby DJs use 96kHz make sense, as the signal can be manipulated for beat matching and FX at high rates and then dithered down to 48kHz. The difference of "inaudible" 48kHz will be used to even out artifacts from sound processing, So releasing at 96kHz at least makes some sense. 24bit definitely makes sense anyway as it provides a massive impact on dynamics at the cost of slightly bigger files.
Not into the public domain, but they must release them. SONY, however, bought the tracks after Jacksons death only to keep them locked in order to maximize their profit. They really had it coming. (Disclaimer: I am an artist, not a lawyer. I look at things from an artist's point of view. Which is, of course, the right one.)
Michael Jackson is dead - so he is not going to finish or republish anything
Jackson -if you liked him or not- had massive influence on pop music during his creative phase
SONY kept unpublished works as "property" and locked away from the public
they had no right to do so
They might be legally entitled to do so but this only shows how screwed up IP is as a concept. You can not seriously keep unpublished works of an artist locked away after his death, as they are of common interest. History of culture and especially contemporary music would be plain incomplete and partially wrong if noone can find out which pieces a major artist did not publish and for what reasons. In fine arts and literature this is considered obvious, in music it always has been - before major labels and their absurd ideas about "owning" works arose.
No need to mention that creative works are not solitary, isolated entities but results and part of their cultural context. To lock this context away, means to cripple culture itself. It doesn't matter if you agree. Progress won't matter. It will just happen elsewhere.
Apples and oranges. Unlike the internet the real world was not designed for the only purpose of "crime" - which is a brain dead thing to relate to "real world objects", by the way.
Whenever you do _anything_ on the net you send a request for data. In 99% of all cases some server will get a file from storage and send it to your browser as a response. If you don't want people to exchange data, you can't let them connect to a network.
A very similar system called BTX ran in Germany from the 1980s until it got obsoleted by the internet - or by generally available internet access, to be more precise. In France there was Minitel which IIRC got turned off three years ago and was very much the same thing, as far as I understood it. BTX which was based completely on dumb terminals (later mainly client software on PCs but the terminals were available quite long) and phone lines even had a rather wide user base, though it was pretty boring and not exactly cheap. No idea if it was financially successful as the telephone and data networks were run by Deutsche Bundepost (say: the state) then and they always had plenty of money to waste without ever giving a shit about "economics" or "efficiency"...
No doubt, that there will be negotiations for the Protect Our Privacy in Europe Law (POPEL) behind everyones backs and rogue states such as former colonies bullied into ratifying them...
I happen to be able to hear frequencies up to a bit more than 21 kHz. That's so good that noone believed me at first when our physics teacher demonstrated a frequency generator at school and I still said "audible" when no one else could hear anything. So we ran the test again with my face turned to the back of the room and it still was 21 and a few kHz. I also hear the terrible overtones some VSTi plugins tend to produce at certain circumstances as I found out when my co-producer didn't notice there was something wrong while I felt my head explode.
So "normal", adult people hear up to 20kHz at max. 21 kHz is audible for cats, kids and weirdos only. CD is 24kHz maximum and the best HiFi speakers will cut off at about 22kHz. Mastering high-cut filters will usually erase anything over 20kHz. So there is no actual benefit with higher sampling rates at mastered products (in the mastering chain, you'll need some headroom for resampling and dithering).
I am not completely sure about that. AFAIK you can not patent anything involving only "pidgeons and labor" - as it would be quite the same thing as patenting a plain algorythm. What I know fr sure is that there needs to be an implementation in form of a machine or device which can then be patented. I think that's actually what the smartphone are considered in this case.
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Well, for me KDE (or the way how KDE interfaces with xrandr) mostly fails even with two displays. Might be a problem with ATI's fglrx but it used to work with Gnome 2.x and it worls with with IceWM.
It should have been illegal for a long time to switch tenses within a sentence.
I have been playing bass and guitars in a lot of bands for 25 years now. I never wore earplugs, safety belts or diapers when playing. My practicing amp has 400W. I should be stone deaf but still my "low-pass" kicks in at no less than 21kHz. I remember a recent field study by AES (or REA?) that basically says that retired musicians' or recording engineers' ears are a lot better than average. What makes people deaf seems to be passive exposure to monotonous, permanent noise. Watching TV at way too loud levels while reading, for example, is a safe way to ruin your ears. Obviously the ear adapts and protects itself when actively listening.
...which doesn't show anything but the agenda to me. So at least they have voted. I wonder how anyone else got to view the video - all I get is an empty RTSP stream.
While actually everone jumps on the train and covers this story it still seems to be almost completely unverified. The linked article links to a single blog post that does not contain a single link to anything. No protocol. Not even any source that would mention that said vote has happened at all.
It's really easy to understand: You take the full range of temperature where liquid water "exists" (in liquid state, at sea level, simply: water) and divide it by 10 sets of fingers to count. 0C Ice. Damn cold. 100C steam. Way too hot. 30C: one third of the way from ice to steam, pleasantly warm. 20 room temperature. Any child can guess what 60C, 10C or 25C will feel like.
Now, if someone came up with a similarly easy way to represent the "degree" sign as HTML. Not even unicode seems to work for me...
...when I was Lord of Flies
Well, some way it does. For pre-built machines at least. They could hardly be sold as "PCs" without CPU or memory. I think, however, "inclusive" might be the better term than "free".
Oh come on. It might be a pretty visualization tool, but I don't see how this is going to "revolutionize research" even the slightest bit. Compared to the pathos of the LA sarkasm level is rather moderate - and the idea of a nice historians toy presented to a bunch of more-stupid-than-creationist ignorants has quite some comedian potential.
Yes, but people stashing 750 pounds of meth usually don't sell such small quantities. Especially not in exchange for stolen goods.
No, but with iTunes Apple have found an even more effective way to monopolize content distribution.
...Bay!
Yes. And two bodies. One for work and one with a spine.
You mean "the fact that I have missed to write some working update/deployment script is annoying"? Come on - it's not that hard. Just rsync anything but wp-content. Make sure they all have the same plugins installed but not necessarily activated and sync the plugins folder, too. That's for starters. The elegant way involves delivering images and "uploads" from a CDN and simply unpacking the new versions over the old ones by rsync, ftp or wget...
That's it. Exactly. You won't hear any difference between 48kHz and 192kHz directly. But even for hobby DJs use 96kHz make sense, as the signal can be manipulated for beat matching and FX at high rates and then dithered down to 48kHz. The difference of "inaudible" 48kHz will be used to even out artifacts from sound processing, So releasing at 96kHz at least makes some sense. 24bit definitely makes sense anyway as it provides a massive impact on dynamics at the cost of slightly bigger files.
Not into the public domain, but they must release them. SONY, however, bought the tracks after Jacksons death only to keep them locked in order to maximize their profit. They really had it coming. (Disclaimer: I am an artist, not a lawyer. I look at things from an artist's point of view. Which is, of course, the right one.)
They might be legally entitled to do so but this only shows how screwed up IP is as a concept. You can not seriously keep unpublished works of an artist locked away after his death, as they are of common interest. History of culture and especially contemporary music would be plain incomplete and partially wrong if noone can find out which pieces a major artist did not publish and for what reasons. In fine arts and literature this is considered obvious, in music it always has been - before major labels and their absurd ideas about "owning" works arose. No need to mention that creative works are not solitary, isolated entities but results and part of their cultural context. To lock this context away, means to cripple culture itself. It doesn't matter if you agree. Progress won't matter. It will just happen elsewhere.
Apples and oranges. Unlike the internet the real world was not designed for the only purpose of "crime" - which is a brain dead thing to relate to "real world objects", by the way. Whenever you do _anything_ on the net you send a request for data. In 99% of all cases some server will get a file from storage and send it to your browser as a response. If you don't want people to exchange data, you can't let them connect to a network.
A very similar system called BTX ran in Germany from the 1980s until it got obsoleted by the internet - or by generally available internet access, to be more precise. In France there was Minitel which IIRC got turned off three years ago and was very much the same thing, as far as I understood it. BTX which was based completely on dumb terminals (later mainly client software on PCs but the terminals were available quite long) and phone lines even had a rather wide user base, though it was pretty boring and not exactly cheap. No idea if it was financially successful as the telephone and data networks were run by Deutsche Bundepost (say: the state) then and they always had plenty of money to waste without ever giving a shit about "economics" or "efficiency"...
No doubt, that there will be negotiations for the Protect Our Privacy in Europe Law (POPEL) behind everyones backs and rogue states such as former colonies bullied into ratifying them...
I happen to be able to hear frequencies up to a bit more than 21 kHz. That's so good that noone believed me at first when our physics teacher demonstrated a frequency generator at school and I still said "audible" when no one else could hear anything. So we ran the test again with my face turned to the back of the room and it still was 21 and a few kHz. I also hear the terrible overtones some VSTi plugins tend to produce at certain circumstances as I found out when my co-producer didn't notice there was something wrong while I felt my head explode. So "normal", adult people hear up to 20kHz at max. 21 kHz is audible for cats, kids and weirdos only. CD is 24kHz maximum and the best HiFi speakers will cut off at about 22kHz. Mastering high-cut filters will usually erase anything over 20kHz. So there is no actual benefit with higher sampling rates at mastered products (in the mastering chain, you'll need some headroom for resampling and dithering).
Buy a set of cheap headphones. It does very much the same job as vinyl did. Even the crackling, if the cables are flaky enough.
"Mastered for iTunes" is indeed optimized for iTunes: it's optimized for separating the gullible from their money.
I got rid of Tee-Vee eight years ago and I'll happily brick-interface with any TV set someone brings to my place.
I am not completely sure about that. AFAIK you can not patent anything involving only "pidgeons and labor" - as it would be quite the same thing as patenting a plain algorythm. What I know fr sure is that there needs to be an implementation in form of a machine or device which can then be patented. I think that's actually what the smartphone are considered in this case.