Bull. He is opposed to the legal restrictions of copyright. The restrictions of the GPL are there to undo the restrictions of copyright law, nothing else.
The GPL protects rights, by only outlawing the outlawing of sharing and modifying more.
Restricting a "freedom" to restrict freedom is not restricting freedom - it is protecting it.
As for public domain, someone could modify it and without copyleft, make the new work unfree.
How about something that will always be public domain? Not possible, because modifications would be "protected" (outlawed if the author says so) by copyright. The GPL comes close though.
Umm, no, since resolving a.uk name causes the DNS client to ask what the server for.uk is and then to continue from there.
It doesn't know what site is going to be ultimately asked for.
They'd need to block.uk totally to stop access to a.uk domain. I don't think that'll happen - and even if it did, people around the world would use alternate root servers.
Yup the FCC forcing technologies down the public's throat. DTV takes TV from the poor. (No) Thanks, Michael Powell.
And HD radio, gets you more quality (signal quality, not content quality alas, the current signals sound fine, except the music is sorry), but if they hadn't approved it, and allowed more stations, we'd have more choice.
Tuners couldn't handle stations less that 3 slots apart. If 97.1 is a station, 97.3 and 97.5 couldn't be and 97.7 would be the next open one. Then it was down to 2 slots. 97.1 and 97.5 are both stations serving Vegas (97.5's transmitter is in Mesquite, but it obviously targets the Vegas market - their callsign is KVEG - you'd only know they are in Mesquite by the full station IDs on the hour). We could get it down to every slot and have a 97.3 FM. But with HD radio using the bandwidth, that'll never happen.
I'd rather have double the stations than double the bandwidth. As would most everyone except hard-core audiophiles who probably still have tube radios.:)
Ha ha. Linux uptime rolls over at 497 days. Or at least it did with any kernel over 497 days old or more, so you still won't see anything over 497 days in an uptime.
32 bit jiffies at 100 Hz -> 497 days. 1000 Hz would be only 49.7 days like Windows.
Just tried it again on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 and it worked fine. sleep followed by a non-negative integer does just what you'd expect. sleep 0 works right (as a NOP).
the idea that you can tear something apart at the molecular level and send it somewhere in a "beam" is absurd.
One could have said back in the day: "the idea that you can take the human voice and turn it into electricity and send it over a wire somewhere is absurd."
If everyone thought like that we wouldn't have telephones.
This is the very point that Einstein tried so hard to prove back in 1927, and the one so throughly disputed by the evil Niels Bohr. Unfortunately, Bohr won the argument for some reason, perhaps just out of stubbornness, and the present unsightly state of the science of physics resulted. Perhaps now the quantum heretics can be brought back to the one true faith of objective reality!
Einstein is always right, Niels Bohr is evil (?!) and your talking about one true faith of objective reality?
Are you ON something? Your Special K ain't the breakfast cereal?
LZW ain't enough. The gzip compression likely ain't enough. The bzip2 compression, might work. Getting IBM's permission to add arithmetic coding (like bzip version 1) would help more. Adding bzip2 (or bzip) to PNG would be nice.
A third option: Use a lossy encoder, like Vorbis or MP3. You can easily achieve 80% compression, meaning you can start by sampling at 220,500 Hz.
With the Nyquist theorem, that means you can reproduce sounds up to 110,250 Hz. That is even above dog's hearing.
Do you have any bats in your house you are playing the music to??
P.S. It would be better to use 32 bits instead of 16. (96 db dynamic range instead of 48 db is actually worth it, even then one could afford more range, since you can hear as low as 0 db and might want to go up to 110 or 120 or so). 48 bits would give you 144 db which hopefully is enough.
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You mean _couldn't_ care less.
They pulled the plug on the project once Dvorak found out that it was merely a painted cinderblock.
:)
More useful than a Mac.
Of course, even zero usefulness is better than negative usefulness.
Everybody shops at Wal*Mart.
Bull. He is opposed to the legal restrictions of copyright. The restrictions of the GPL are there to undo the restrictions of copyright law, nothing else.
The GPL protects rights, by only outlawing the outlawing of sharing and modifying more.
Restricting a "freedom" to restrict freedom is not restricting freedom - it is protecting it.
As for public domain, someone could modify it and without copyleft, make the new work unfree.
How about something that will always be public domain? Not possible, because modifications would be "protected" (outlawed if the author says so) by copyright. The GPL comes close though.
Umm, no, since resolving a .uk name causes the DNS client to ask what the server for .uk is and then to continue from there.
.uk totally to stop access to a .uk domain. I don't think that'll happen - and even if it did, people around the world would use alternate root servers.
It doesn't know what site is going to be ultimately asked for.
They'd need to block
Yup the FCC forcing technologies down the public's throat. DTV takes TV from the poor. (No) Thanks, Michael Powell.
:)
And HD radio, gets you more quality (signal quality, not content quality alas, the current signals sound fine, except the music is sorry), but if they hadn't approved it, and allowed more stations, we'd have more choice.
Tuners couldn't handle stations less that 3 slots apart. If 97.1 is a station, 97.3 and 97.5 couldn't be and 97.7 would be the next open one. Then it was down to 2 slots. 97.1 and 97.5 are both stations serving Vegas (97.5's transmitter is in Mesquite, but it obviously targets the Vegas market - their callsign is KVEG - you'd only know they are in Mesquite by the full station IDs on the hour). We could get it down to every slot and have a 97.3 FM. But with HD radio using the bandwidth, that'll never happen.
I'd rather have double the stations than double the bandwidth. As would most everyone except hard-core audiophiles who probably still have tube radios.
Ha ha. Linux uptime rolls over at 497 days. Or at least it did with any kernel over 497 days old or more, so you still won't see anything over 497 days in an uptime.
32 bit jiffies at 100 Hz -> 497 days. 1000 Hz would be only 49.7 days like Windows.
Just tried it again on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 and it worked fine. sleep followed by a non-negative integer does just what you'd expect. sleep 0 works right (as a NOP).
You need to upgrade your Windows!
Support?!
I submitted 3 Apache bugs (39940, 40146, and 40301) and they haven't even been assigned to anyone or commented on by anyone, never mind fixed!
Umm, Windows has a sleep command
the idea that you can tear something apart at the molecular level and send it somewhere in a "beam" is absurd.
One could have said back in the day: "the idea that you can take the human voice and turn it into electricity and send it over a wire somewhere is absurd."
If everyone thought like that we wouldn't have telephones.
This is the very point that Einstein tried so hard to prove back in 1927, and the one so throughly disputed by the evil Niels Bohr. Unfortunately, Bohr won the argument for some reason, perhaps just out of stubbornness, and the present unsightly state of the science of physics resulted. Perhaps now the quantum heretics can be brought back to the one true faith of objective reality!
Einstein is always right, Niels Bohr is evil (?!) and your talking about one true faith of objective reality?
Are you ON something? Your Special K ain't the breakfast cereal?
The Department of Homeland Security has a plan to get AI which will actually be USEFUL for something?!
:)
If they pull that off, they'd deserve a Turing award, since no one else has been able to.
And it has been looking like AI might be a undevelopable field for quite a while. Even the Japanese haven't done much with their fuzzy logic projects.
Heck AI has been around for longer than the GNU Hurd, and it is about as far along.
I know I'll get flamed for this... Every DHS-hater, AI researcher (all 3 of them) and Hurd supporter (all 4 of them).
LZW ain't enough.
.gz anymore, they use .bz2
The gzip compression likely ain't enough.
The bzip2 compression, might work. Getting IBM's permission to add arithmetic coding (like bzip version 1) would help more.
Adding bzip2 (or bzip) to PNG would be nice.
No one in the know uses
Next year's DARPA challenge is in an urban environment with the requirement of obeying traffic laws.
:)
That's something even human drivers can't do!
Just come to Nevada, you'll see what I mean.
We've got Cold Fusion now.
You failed to check the return value of printf!
Because it is always good to switch from a company which supports EULAs and lawsuits and DRM and proprietary lock-in to one which...
Oh wait, no real difference there.
Some audiophiles say they prefer vacuum tubes to anything digital or even solid-state analog. I am NOT kidding.
I just made a 13kHz tone, didn't sound very musical (an ultra-high pitched squeal is more like it). Many people wouldn't hear it at all.
A third option: Use a lossy encoder, like Vorbis or MP3. You can easily achieve 80% compression, meaning you can start by sampling at 220,500 Hz.
With the Nyquist theorem, that means you can reproduce sounds up to 110,250 Hz. That is even above dog's hearing.
Do you have any bats in your house you are playing the music to??
P.S. It would be better to use 32 bits instead of 16. (96 db dynamic range instead of 48 db is actually worth it, even then one could afford more range, since you can hear as low as 0 db and might want to go up to 110 or 120 or so). 48 bits would give you 144 db which hopefully is enough.
FLAC. It's lossless, it's unencumbered by patents, it's open source, and it compresses well,
Compresses well?
50% compression is good?!
You're right on the other points tho.
Want an open-source, un-patented compression that actually compresses well, look at OGG. Not lossless but I've heard you can't tell the difference.
You just THINK you've never paid for a Windows license.
Or did you buy all your computers a part at a time?
You do realize that BOTH of those URLs work just fine, I hope.
Even at $1K an hour, $1M will take a long time.
Look at the RIAA and MPAA they don't spend that much.
And as far as I know the FTC has NEVER, EVER, won a court judgement for any monetary damages for a COPPA violation. Not one penny.
All the payments have been settlements, every last one. Even Hersheys and Misses Fields.
Plus even if they spend over $1M being able to do business without interference would make them more money in the future.